Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm
From: rbarrett@ranger.lanl.gov (Richard Barrett)
Subject: CFP: PVM User Group Meeting '96 (USA)
Organization: Los Alamos National Laboratory
Date: 8 Jan 1996 15:15:09 GMT
Message-ID: <4crcdt$8rv@newshost.lanl.gov>

Call for Participation: 1996 PVM Users' Group Meeting 
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The Fourth U.S. PVM Users' Group Meeting will be held February 25 to 27, 1996,
at the Eldorado Hotel in Santa Fe, New Mexico. The meeting will
provide an opportunity for users of PVM to meet each other, share ideas
and experiences, and meet some members of the PVM Team.

(Please note that the POOMA conference follows 28 Feb - 1 March:

     http://www.acl.lanl.gov/Pooma96          )

The conference will include:
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 o Tutorials:
      Introduction to PVM Tutorial (February 25)
      Advanced PVM Tutorial (February 25; topics TBA)

 o Invited Talks by PVM Developers and Advanced Users

 o Contributed Talks from the PVM User Community

 o Social Activities

Conference attendees are encouraged to submit abstracts for presentations 
at the meeting. 

Call For Presentations
======================

We invite everyone with PVM ideas or experiences to submit abstracts of
papers and posters for 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: 
      Numerical Kernels
      Scheduling and Load Balancing
      Benchmarking and Pseudo-Applications
 o Real-world Parallel Applications: 
      CFD
      Image Processing
      Structural Analysis
      Chemistry
      Aerodynamics

Submitting an abstract 
----------------------

Authors are requested to submit a 300 word abstract before January 22,
1996. Abstracts will be reviewed and authors notified of their
acceptance by January 29. Submit abstracts to pvm96@lanl.gov.

Any special equipment required for the talk should also be indicated in
the abstract.

Important Dates:
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   January  22: Abstract submission deadline 
   January  29: Speaker notification
   February  1: Registration deadline for meeting and tutorials 
             (to avoid late fee)

Additional Information can be retrieved on the World Wide Web at:
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   http://www-c8.lanl.gov/pvmug96

or via email to pvm96@lanl.gov.

Richard Barrett
rbarrett@lanl.gov

