Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: vigourou@ens-lyon.fr (Xavier-Francois Vigouroux)
Subject: cfp 2nd EuroPVM Users' Group Meeting
Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France
Date: 27 Mar 1995 08:37:18 GMT

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|           E u r o   P V M   u s e r s '   G r o u p                |
|                         M e e t i n g                              |
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|                Ecole normale superieure de Lyon                    |
|                     September, 19-21, 1995                         |
|                    europvm@lip.ens-lyon.fr                         |
|               http://www.ens-lyon.fr/~vigourou                     |
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			  CALL  FOR  PAPERS

	       Second European PVM Users' Group Meeting
			     Lyon, France
       September 19-21, 1995, Ecole normale sup'erieure de Lyon

			    Sponsored_by_
				 IBM
			  Matra Cap Systems
	       GDR-PRC Parall'elisme R'eseaux Syst`eme
		  Ecole normale sup'erieure de Lyon
				 ...

			   Program_Chair:_
	Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee and ORNL, USA)
		 Marc Gengler (LIP, ENS-Lyon, France)
	     Bernard Tourancheau (LIP, ENS-Lyon, France)

			 Organization_Chair:_
	       Xavier Vigouroux (LIP, ENS-Lyon, France)

The first  European PVM Users Group  Meeting was held  in 1994, at the
University of Rome, Italy.      The second European PVM Users    Group
Meeting will provide an opportunity for  European users of PVM to meet
each other in 1995, share ideas and experiences, and  meet some of the
members of the PVM Team.


The conference will include:

   o Invited talks by:
     | Al Geist          (ORNL, USA)            PVM Developments
     | Yves Escaig       (INSA-Rouen, France)   Numerical Applications on PVM
     | G. Berger-Sabbatel(IMAG, France)         PVM on ATM network
     | Thomas Brandes    (TU-M"unchen, Germany) HPF to PVM compilers

   o Contributed papers from the PVM users community,
   o Technical presentations by the developers of PVM,
   o Vendor presentations on supported PVM products,
   o Social activities,
   o Tutorial Session on PVM (September 19),
   o Round tables on future directions and trends of PVM,
   o Round tables on future standard between PVM and MPI,

1    Program Committee
======================

Filomena Dias d'Almeida  (University of Porto, Portugal),
Adam Beguelin            (CMU, USA),
Arie de Bruin            (Erasmus University of Rotterdam, Netherlands),
Marian Bubak             (Institute of Computer Science, AGH, Poland),
Jens Clausen             (Diku, Univ. of Copenhagen, Danemark),
Jeremy Cook              (Parallab, Norway),
Frederic Desprez         (LaBRI, France),
Claude G. Diderich       (EPFL, Switzerland),
Iaakov Exman             (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel),
Al Geist                 (Oak Ridge National Labs, USA),
Thomas Ludwig            (Munich University of Technology, Germany),
Pierre Manneback         (Facult'e Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium),
G. A. Manson             (University of Sheffield, UK),
Ludek Matyska            (Masaryk University),
Giorgio Richelli         (ECSEC-IBM, Italy),
Wolfgang Schreiner       (RISC, University of Linz, Austria)
Vaidy Sunderam           (EMory University, USA),
Ondrej Sykora            (Institute for Informatics, Slovakia)
Pavel Tvrdik             (Faculty of Elec. Eng., CTU),
Stephane Ubeda           (TSI, France),
Mateo Valero             (UPC, Spain)
Vincent Van Dongen       (CRIM, Canada),
...


2    Call For Papers
====================


We invite everyone with PVM ideas or  experiences to submit papers for
a  possible presentation at  the Users' Group  meeting. List of topics
includes (but is not limited to):

   o The PVM system: Tools, Libraries, Extensions and Improvements,
     Vendors Implementations, Programming Environments, ...


   o Algorithms using PVM: Numerical Kernels, Scheduling and Load
     Balancing, Benchmarking and Pseudo-Applications, Irregular
     Structures and Algorithms,..


   o Real-world Parallel Applications with PVM: CFD, Image Processing,
     Structural Analysis, Chemistry, Aerodynamics, ...

Authors are requested to  submit a 4  to 6 pages  paper before June 2,
1995. Papers will be reviewed and authors notified of their acceptance
by July 28. Any special equipment required for the talk should also be
indicated on a separated letter.

Papers should be   sent by    e-mail to europvm@lip.ens-lyon.fr     in
uuencoded  compressed   postscript  form. Please  follow  strictly the
following guidelines   in order  for  your  contribution to  enter the
review process (no exception allowed):

   o all submissions must come from a LaTeX source using the following
     styles:
     
     "documentstyle[11pt,twocolumn,fullpage,a4]-article"

     and be transcripted in postscript (TM) format using the following
     command:

     dvips <mypaper> -o

   o all submissions must BE SENT BY EMAIL using the following
     commands:

     compress <mypaper>.ps
     uuencode <mypaper>.ps.Z <last name>.<first name>.ps.Z > mypaper.uue
     mail europvm@lip.ens-lyon.fr < mypaper.uue

   o valid submissions will be acknowledged by email automatically.

3    Schedule
=============


   o September 19
     |  8:00-9:00  Tutorial registrations
     |  9:00-9:15  Openning
     |  9:15-10:30 Parallel Sessions (Expert and Beginner)
     | 11:00-17:00 Lectures and Experimentations
     | 17:00-18:00 Registration

   o September 20
     |  8:00-9:00  Regitrations
     |  9:00-10:00 Invited Talks
     |  9:30-11:30 Parallel Sessions I
     | 11:30-13:00 Posters Session and Lunch
     | 13:00-14:30 Parallel Sessions II
     | 15:00-16:30 Parallel Sessions III
     | 16:30-17:30 Standardisation, PVM vs. MPI
     | 17:30-19:00 Vendor Session

   o September 21
     |  8:00-9:00  Invited talks
     |  9:30-11:30 Parallel Sessions I
     | 11:30-13:00 Posters Session and Lunch
     | 13:00-14:30 Parallel Sessions II
     | 15:00-16:00 Future of PVM
     | 16:00-17:00 Conclusions

4    Important Dates
====================
                 __________________________________________________
                 | June 2, 1995        Due date for papers        |
                 |                                                |
                 | July 28             Notification of acceptance |
                 |                                                |
                 | September 11        Camera ready papers due    |
                 |________________________________________________|



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|                          S e c o n d                               |
|           E u r o   P V M   u s e r s '   G r o u p                |
|                         M e e t i n g                              |
|                                                                    |
|                Ecole normale superieure de Lyon                    |
|                     September, 19-21, 1995                         |
|                    europvm@lip.ens-lyon.fr                         |
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