Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: eugen@research.nj.nec.com (Eugen Schenfeld)
Subject: CFP: MASSIVELY PARALLEL PROCESSING USING OPTICAL INTERCONNECTIONS (MPPOI)
Keywords: parallel interconnections, optical network, MPP, communication
Organization: NEC Research Institute
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 1995 12:43:35 GMT
Message-ID: <3g1ba8$l37@juliet.nj.nec.com>





                          Call for Papers
                 The Second International Conference on 
    MASSIVELY PARALLEL PROCESSING USING OPTICAL INTERCONNECTIONS (MPPOI)

                           October 23-24, 1995
                           San  Antonio, Texas 

                             Sponsored by:
           ACM Special Interest Group on Architecture (SIGARCH)
                   The Optical Society of America (OSA)
      Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE - pending) 
                NSF - National Science Foundation (pending) 

The second annual conference on Massively Parallel Processing
Architectures using Optical Interconnections (MPPOI'95) will be held on 
Oct. 23-24, 1995 in San-Antonio, Texas. The Conference will focus on
the potential for using optical interconnections in massively parallel 
processing systems, and their effect on system and algorithm design. 
Optics offer many benefits for interconnecting large numbers of processing 
elements, but may require us to rethink how we build parallel computer systems 
and communication networks, and how we write applications.  Fully exploring 
the capabilities of optical interconnection networks requires an 
interdisciplinary effort.  It is critical that researchers in all areas of the 
field are aware of each other's work and results. The intent of MPPOI is to 
assemble the leading researchers and to build towards a synergetic approach to 
MPP architectures, optical interconnections, operating systems, and software 
development.

The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following:
      Optical interconnections
      Reconfigurable Architectures
      Embedding and mapping of applications and algorithms
      Packaging and layout of optical interconnections
      Electro-optical, and opto-electronic components 
      Relative merits of optical technologies (free-space, fibers, wave guides)
      Passive optical elements 
      Algorithms and applications exploiting MPP-OI
      Data distribution and partitioning 
      Characterizing parallel applications exploiting MPP-OI
      Cost/performance studies

The conference will feature invited speakers, followed by several sessions of
submitted papers, and will conclude with a panel discussion. 
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts which demonstrate original
unpublished research in areas of computer architecture and optical
interconnections. Papers submitted must not be under considerations for
another conference. 

SUBMITTING PAPERS:  All papers will be reviewed by at least 2 members of
the program committee.  Send eight (8) copies of the complete paper 
(not to exceed 15 single spaced, single sided pages) to:

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DEADLINE: Papers must be sent so that they arrive on or before April 1, 1995
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Dr. Eugen Schenfeld
MPPOI'95 Conference Chair
NEC Research Institute
4 Independence Way
Princeton, NJ 08540
USA
(voice) (609)951-2742
(fax)   (609)951-2482
email:  MPPOI@RESEARCH.NJ.NEC.COM


Manuscripts must be received by April  1st, 1995.  Due to the 
large number of anticipated submissions manuscripts arriving later than
the above date risk rejection. Notification of review decisions will 
be mailed by July 1st, 1995.  Camera ready papers are due 
August 1st, 1995.  Fax or electronic submissions will not be
considered. Proceedings will be published by the IEEE CS Press and will 
be available at the symposium.


FOR MORE INFORMATION: Please write (email) to the Conference Chair.
Dr. Eugen Schenfeld
MPPOI'95 Conference Chair
NEC Research Institute
4 Independence Way
Princeton, NJ 08540
USA
(voice) (609)951-2742
(fax)   (609)951-2482
email:  MPPOI@RESEARCH.NJ.NEC.COM


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Karsten Decker, Swiss Scientific Computing Center, Manno, Switzerland
Jack Dennis, Lab. of CS, MIT, Boston, MA
Patrick Dowd, Dept. of ECE, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY
Mary Eshaghian, Dept. of CS, NJIT, Newark, NJ
John Feo, Comp. Res. Grp., Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., Livermore, CA
Michael Flynn, Department of EE, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Edward Frietman, Faculty of Applied Physics, Delft U., Delft, The Netherlands
Asher Friesem, Dept. of Electronics, Weizmann Inst., Israel
Kanad Ghose, Dept. of CS, SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton NY
Allan Gottlieb, Dept. of CS, New-York University, New-York, NY
Joe Goodman, Department of EE, Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Alan Huang, Computer Systems Research Lab., Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ
Yoshiki Ichioka, Dept. of Applied Physics, Osaka U., Osaka, Japan
Leah Jamieson, School of EE, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN
Lennart Johnsson, Div. of Applied Science, Harvard U. and TMC, Cambridge, MA
Ahmed Louri, Dept. of ECE, U. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Kenichi Kasahara, Opto-Electronics Basic Res. Lab., NEC Corporation, Japan
Israel Koren, Dept. of ECS, U. of Mass, Amherst, MA
Raymond Kostuk, Dept. of ECE, U. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
Philippe Lalanne, Inst. D'Optique, Orsay, France
Sing Lee, Dept. of EE, UCSD, La Jolla, CA
Steve Levitan, Department of EE, U. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
Adolf Lohmann, Institute of Physics, U. of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany
Miroslaw Malek, Dept. of ECE, U. of Texas at Austin, Austin TX
Rami Melhem, Dept. of CS, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
J. R. Moulic, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY
Miles Murdocca, Department of CS, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
John Neff, Opto-elec. Comp. Sys., U. of Colorado, Boulder, CO
Paul Prucnal, Department of EE, Princeton U., Princeton, NJ
Donna Quammen, Dept of CS, George Mason University, USA
John Reif, Department of CS, Duke University, Durham, NC
Anthonie Ruighaver, Dept. of CS, U. of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
A. A. Sawchuk, Dept. of EE, USC, Los-Angeles, CA
Eugen Schenfeld, NEC Research Institute, Princeton, NJ
Pearl Wang, Dept. of CS, George Mason University, USA
Les Valiant, Div. of Applied Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Albert Zomaya, Dept. of EAEE, U. of Western Australia, Western Australia

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