Newsgroups: comp.parallel,comp.lang.fortran
From: Mary E Zosel <zosel@phoenix.ocf.llnl.gov>
Subject: HPFF 95 Conference Announcement
Organization: Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Date: Fri, 6 Jan 1995 15:16:47 GMT
Message-ID: <3ehcja$aui@lll-winken.llnl.gov>


                   HIGH PERFORMANCE FORTRAN FORUM 1995
                          Meeting Announcement

                          January 30-31, 1995
            Doubletree Hotel Houston at Intercontinental Airport
                            Houston, Texas
                

The High Performance Fortran Forum (HPFF) has conducted meetings since 
1992 to define High Performance Fortran, an extension to Fortran 90
providing support for portable data-parallel programming.  The annual
HPFF meeting in January serves as a forum to discuss recent developments
in HPF, to propose new directions for the language, and encourage the use
of the language.  You are invited to attend this meeting.

This year, in addition to implementation and user experience reports,
the program includes talks on HPF environments, benchmark collections,
and proposals for language changes.  Details of the meeting agenda,
local arrangements, and a registration form follow. Please note that the
hotel cut-off date for the reserved block of rooms is January 9.

We hope to see you in Houston.

                      Ken Kennedy,   Chairman, HPFF
                      Chuck Koelbel, Past Executive Director, HPFF
                      Mary Zosel,    Executive Director, HPFF

                       TECHNICAL PROGRAM

Sunday Jan 29 - Reception 7:00pm - 9:30pm

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Monday Jan 30 - 8:30am - 5:30pm  (Continental breakfast: 8:00)
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Session 1 (1.5 hrs) Introduction and Implementor Reports
   Introduction - Ken Kennedy
   Digital Report, David Loveman, Digital
   IBM Report, Henry Zongaro, IBM
   APR's High Performance Fortran Compilation System, John Levesque  APR
   NASoftware HPF -> F90 code mapper,  Adam Marshall, U. Liverpool
   ANDF for Distributed Memory MIMD Targets, Michael Weiss, OSF

Session 2 (1.5 hours) - Environments
   Toward an Open HPF Tool Framework, Larry Meadows, PGI
   The PREPARE HPF environment, Henk Sips, TU Delft
    Prototype HPF Compiler Implementation and its Preliminary
        Benchmarking Results on Cenju-3, Yoshiki Seo,C&C Rsh Labs, NEC

Conference Lunch

Session 3 (1.5 hours) - Implementations and Proposals
   PDDP, A Data Parallel Programming Model,  Karen Warren, NERSC/LLNL
   Scalable Runtime Support for HPF,  Sanjay Ranka, Syracuse
   An HPF-2 Infrastructure:  Establishing the boundary between
        compiler and run-time support in HPF-2, Scott Baden, UCSD

Session 4 (2 hours) - Proposals
   An Overview of I/O requirements, Alok Choudhary,  Syracuse
   Experience in out-of-core algorithm design and a proposal for
        supporting parallel I/O in HPF,  Chua-Huang Huang, Ohio  St. U
   Vienna Fortran language features for HPF-2,  Barbara Chapman, U. Vienna
   Task parallelism in an HPF environment, Jaspal Subhlok, CMU
   A Kernel HPF2 for 1995 - Rob Schreiber, Ian Foster

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Tuesday Jan 31 - 8:30am - 12:00   (Continental breakfast: 8:00)
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Session 5 (2 hours) - Benchmarks and User Experience
   HPF Benchmarks and Motivating Applications - Paul Havlak/Ken Hawick
   HPF Benchmark Report, John Levesque, APR
   Experiences of HPF Compilers on NAS Supercomputers, Subhash Saini
   Supporting Irregular DoAcross Loops in HPF, P. Sadayappan, Ohio St
   Converting some applications to HPF David Presburg,  Cornell
   Experiences on Data-parallel Programming, Terry Clark,TCAMC/UH 

Session 6 (1 hour) - HPFF Business Meeting, Ken Kennedy


                       LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS

The 1995 annual HPFF meeting will be held at the Doubletree Hotel Houston
at Intercontinental Airport on January 30-31, 1995.   There will  be a
reception on the evening of January 29.  The  Doubletree Hotel is near
Houston Intercontinental Airport (IAH), about 1  hour from Houston Hobby
Airport (IAH), about 1  hour from Houston Hobby Airport (HOU). 

The meeting will begin at  8:30am on January 30 with technical
presentations on the 30th and 31st.  It will conclude with an
HPFF95 business planning meeting, finishing about noon on January 31 to
allow for mid/late afternoon flights.

Hotel Reservations
Doubletree Hotel Houston at Intercontinental Airport
Room reservations should be made directly with the hotel by calling
(800) 810-8001 or (713) 442-8000.   Reservations should be made by
January 9, 1995.   The room rate is $69.00. Please refer to the
HPFF meeting when making your reservation.  There is a large convention
meeting in Houston during this same time, so we recommend making
reservations as soon as possible.

Transportation
The Doubletree Hotel Houston at Intercontinental Airport
provides complimentary transportation to and from
Intercontinental Airport.  The shuttle is in the ground
transportation area near the baggage claim.  There is a
Doubletree phone in the area.  The hotel is 2-3 miles from
the airport.  For returning to the airport, the shuttle bus
departs the hotel every half hour, from 5:30 a.m. until
midnight.

Registration
The registration cost will be $80.00, and will include the reception
January 29, continental breakfast Jan. 30 and 31, lunch Jan. 30, all
coffee breaks, and copies of the speakers' slides.

Please use the form following to pre-register. 

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High Performance Fortran Forum 1995
Registration Form

Annual Meeting
January 30-31, 1995
Doubletree Hotel  (at Intercontinental Airport)
Houston, Texas

Please return this form to
        Theresa Chatman
        Rice University
    CRPC - MS 41
    6100 South Main Street
    Houston, Texas 77005

    phone: 713-285-5180;  
    fax: 713-285-5136;  
    email:  tlc@rice.edu

Name:
Organization:
Street address:
City:
State:
Zip code (postal code if outside US):
Country:
E-mail:
Phone:
Fax:
Dietary restrictions (vegetarian, Kosher, etc.):

____ I will attend the reception on Sunday night, 1/29/95
____ I will not attend the reception on Sunday night, 1/29/95

Please enclose \$80.00 check or money order payable to Rice 
University.


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From: skill@qucis.queensu.ca (David Skillicorn)
Newsgroups: comp.arch,comp.parallel
Subject: Hypermedia course on computer architecture
Date: 5 Jan 1995 17:13:21 GMT
Organization: Computing & Information Science, Queen's University
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I'm about to start teaching a course on advanced computer architecture to
fourth year students using hypermedia. The course assumes the basics of
uniprocessors and covers pipelined, SIMD, MIMD, and multithreaded 
architectures, as well as programming approaches, models and languages. 
The goal is to give students a framework to understand the technology 
out there and an appreciation of the details of some part of it 
(selected by them).

The hypermedia system is Hyper-G, a client/server second-generation hypermedia
system that includes access controls, links independent of objects, annotation
etc. (ftp://iicm.tu-graz.ac.at/pub/Hyper-G).

The course offering is very experimental. I am trying to see what works both
for students and instructor. I'd like to get some off-site people involved
to learn something of the distance-learning aspects, and would also like to
get feedback from others who teach similar courses. So this is a request for
volunteer

   - students
   - instructors of similar courses
   - vendors

to participate.

I'd like to get one or two students taking the course remotely so that I can
find out from them what that experience is like. The risk and bureaucracy are
probably both too large to make it possible to give formal credit for the course.
Internet access is required.

I'd like to get one or two people who've taught similar courses, and are
interested in on-line teaching, to get involved, both in giving me feedback
on course materials, and commenting on student involvement in the course.

Finally, if there are vendors who have on-line video, audio or images that 
would be useful and that they can make available I'd be delighted to add 
them to the course material. I already have links to WWW pages of 
most vendors/manufacturers, but I'm short on non-textual material 
that might increase the interest and involvement level of students.

If you're interested, drop me a line by email (skill@qucis.queensu.ca).
And if you're already doing this kind of thing, I'd be glad to here about
your experiences.


                           -David Skillicorn


