Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: tony@aurora.cs.msstate.edu (Tony Skjellum)
Subject: Gordon Research Conference CFP
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: 2 Mar 1995 00:40:52 GMT
Message-ID: <3j4pcn$rl2@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

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       GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE ADVANCE PROGRAM and REGISTRATION

			  CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

	Note: You must register in advance to attend.

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		  1995 Gordon Research Conference

                   High-Performance Computing
                                and
               National Information Infrastructure

Dates: July 16-21, 1995

Place: Plymouth State College
       Plymouth, New Hampshire

Additional
Information:  http://www-pablo.cs.uiuc.edu/Gordon.html

The World Wide Web (WWW) site named above will have continuously
updated information on the conference.  Check it regularly for
new announcements and details.
                        
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OVERVIEW

The Gordon conferences are a group of meetings intended to bring
together a group of leading researchers in a specific scientific
discipline to discuss cutting edge issues.  As such, they are a bit
different than the traditional conference. In particular, there are no
published proceedings, and the goal is free-wheeling, ``blue sky''
discussion of open problems.  Our goal is to discuss the state of
High-Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC) and the National
Information Infrastructure (NII) --- the technical issues, the politics,
and the funding.  

In keeping with the spirit of blue sky discussion and open-ended debate,
the conferences are held on a college campus, with attendee lodging in
a college dormitory; this year's meeting is at Plymouth State College.
There are morning and evening sessions, with the afternoons free for
open-ended discussion.
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REGISTRATION

All attendees MUST preregister SIX WEEKS prior to the conference.  We
realize that this is a bit unusual, but we don't make the rules in this
case --- the Gordon conference folks do.  The registration form is
available electronically from the World Wide Web (WWW) at

	http://www-pablo.cs.uiuc.edu/Gordon/application.ps.Z

The completed registration form must be sent directly to the Gordon
conference management, not to the conference organizers.
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POSTER SESSION

On Thursday afternoon of the conference agenda a poster session is
scheduled from 4:30 to 6:00pm. If you would like to submit a poster,
please contact either of the conference organizers.  This is an
excellent opportunity to present an early work in progress. 

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QUESTIONS AND INFORMATION

For more information, for general questions, or if you are unable to
retrieve the postscript copy of the registration form, contact the
conference organizers.

		 Dan Reed (conference chair)
		 Department of Computer Science
		 University of Illinois
		 1304 West Springfield Avenue
		 Urbana, Illinois  61801

		 Email: reed@cs.uiuc.edu
		 Telephone: (217) 333-3807
		 FAX: (217) 333-3501


		 Tony Skjellum (conference vice-chair)
		 Department of Computer Science
		 Bulter Hall, Room 300
		 Mississippi State University
 		 MS State, Mississippi 39762

		 Email: tony@Aurora.CS.MsState.Edu
		 Telephone: (601) 325-8435
		 FAX: (601) 325-8997
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DRAFT PROGRAM

Network and Processor Technology: Evolution or Revolution? 
Monday, July 17, 9:00am to 12:15pm 
Discussion Leader: TBD 

   David Patterson , UC-Berkeley (tentative)
   ``TBD'' 

   Anant Agarwal , MIT 
   ``TBD'' 

   Danny Cohen , Myricom 
   ``MsgWay: Internetting MPPs and Clusters,'' 

Exploiting the Information Superhighway 
Monday, July 17, 7:30pm to 10:00pm 
Discussion Leader: Rick Stevens , Argonne National Laboratory 

   Charlie Catlett, NCSA 
   ``Metacomputers, Cyberspace, and other Hackneyed Terms,'' 

   Udi Manber University of Arizona 
   ``TBD'' 

High-Performance Input/Output 
Tuesday, July 18, 9:00am to 12:15pm 
Discussion Leader: Joel Saltz University of Maryland 

   Bill Gropp , Argonne National Laboratory 
   ``Connecting Parallel Files to the Outside World'' 
   ``A New Structure for Parallel File-System Design,'' 

   David Kotz , Dartmouth College 

   speaker to be determined 
   ``TBD'' 

Virtual Reality and High-Performance Computing 
Tuesday, July 18, 7:30pm to 10:00pm 
Discussion Leader: Dan Reed , University of Illinois 

   Rick Stevens , Argonne National Laboratory 
   ``Integration of High-End Virtual Environments with MPP Systems'' 

   other speaker to be determined 
   ``TBD'' 

Poster Session 
Tuesday, July 18, 4:30pm to 6:00pm 

The Future of Languages and Compilers for High-Performance Computing
Wednesday, July 19, 9:00am to 12:15pm 
Discussion Leader: Carl Kesselman , Caltech 

   Ian Foster Argonne National Laboratory 
   ``Integrating HPC into NII Environments: How Can Languages, Compilers,
   and Libraries Help?'' 

   Dennis Gannon Indiana University 
   ``Programming Tools for Integrating Supercomputing Applications with the
   NII'' 

   Marina Chen, Boston University 
   ``World Wide Computer: Hybrid Models of Computation and Programming
   Language Issues'' 

The Future of Libraries and Reusable Software 
Wednesday, July 19, 7:30pm to 10:00pm 
Discussion Leader: Bill Gropp , Argonne National Laboratory 

   Jack Dongarra , University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory 
   ``Software Standards and Tools for Concurrent Computing'' 

   Tony Skjellum , Mississippi State University 
   ``The Future of Reusable Libraries: Poly-Algorithms, Scalability,
    Classes and Meta-Code Representations'' 

Performance/Algorithm Visualization Tools 
Thursday, July 20, 9:00am to 12:15pm 
Discussion Leader: Mike Heath , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 

   Dan Reed , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
   ``Learning and Real-time Control'' 

   Bart Miller University of Wisconsin 
   ``Performance Tuning as Experiment Management'' 

   Rusty Lusk , Argonne National Laboratory 
   ``Performance Analysis of MPI Programs on Multiple Architectures'' 

Gordon Research Conference Business Meeting 
Thursday, July 20, 7:30pm to 9:00pm (times approximate after banquet) 

   Election of vice-chair for 1996 conference 
   1995 vice-chair becomes 1996 chair 

Milestones, Economics, and Technology 
Friday, July 21, 9:00am to 11:45am 
Discussion Leader: Al Geist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory 

   Jim McGraw, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory 
   ``Measuring Progress in HPC and NII Applications'' 

   Joel Saltz , University of Maryland 
   ``TBD'' 

   other speaker to be determined 
   ``TBD'' 



