Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: vigourou@cri.ens-lyon.fr (Xavier-Francois Vigouroux)
Subject: EuroPVM'95 Call For Paper
Organization: Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France
Date: 3 Mar 1995 15:29:12 GMT
Message-ID: <3ja72v$cs1@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

			  CALL  FOR  PAPERS

				Second

		  European PVM Users' Group Meeting

			     Lyon, France

       September 19-21, 1995, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon

			     Sponsored by

		   Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon

		 GDR-PRC Parallelisme Reseaux Systeme

				 ...

			    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
   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 (September 19)
   o Panel session on future directions and trends of PVM and MPI

                                 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 submitted   in uuencoded compressed  postscript  form
(named   lastname.firstname.ps.Z or  lastname.firstname.ps.gz)  of the
interface author with  an  e-mail to  europvm@lip.ens-lyon.fr.  Please
follow  strictly   the  following  guidelines in  order  to  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 postcript (TM) format using the following 
     command:

              dvips -o <mypaper>.dvi

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

       -compress,gzip" <mypaper>.ps
       uuencode <mypaper>.ps.-Z,gz" lastname.firstname.ps.-Z,gz" > mail.uue
       mail europvm@lip.ens-lyon.fr < mail.uue

   o valid submissions will be acknowledged by email automatically.


