Newsgroups: comp.parallel
From: tony@aurora.cs.msstate.edu (Tony Skjellum)
Subject: GORDON CONFERENCE CFP
Organization: Mississippi State University
Date: 29 May 1995 15:32:43 GMT
Message-ID: <3qcper$23c@usenet.srv.cis.pitt.edu>

Please note the upcoming deadline for registration

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       GORDON RESEARCH CONFERENCE ADVANCE PROGRAM and REGISTRATION

			  CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

	**** NOTE: YOU MUST REGISTER BY MAY 31 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 short, this is *NOT* your typical conference; it's
closer in spirit to a retreat.  

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

An updated version of this program can always be found at

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

Network and Processor Technology:  Evolution or Revolution?
Monday, July 17, 9:00am to 12:15pm 
Discussion Leader: Andrew Chien, University of Illinois

    David Patterson, UC-Berkeley 
    ``Networks of Workstations''

    Anant Agarwal, MIT 
    ``Scalable Workstations, or Why Distance Makes the Data Wander''

    Chuck Seitz, 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
    ``Finding Useful Information Through the Internet''

High-Performance Input/Output</b>
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''

    David Kotz, Dartmouth College 
    ``A New Structure for Parallel File-System Design''

    Garth Gibson, Carnegie-Mellon University
    ``Network Attached Disks'' (tentative title)

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''

    Henry Sowizral, Boeing Computer Services 
    ``VR and High-Performance Computing''

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 

    TBD, ``TBD''

    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 

    Dan Reed, University of Illinois 
    ``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 Programing in HPC and NII Research''

    Joel Saltz, University of Maryland
    ``The Application Programmers Dilemma: Great GUIs on Pentiums Versus
      Dumb Terminals on Teraflop Machines''

    Jill Mesirov, Boston University (formerly with Thinking Machines)
    ``TBD''



--
Anthony Skjellum, Asst. Professor, MSU/CS/ERC, Ph: (601)325-8435; FAX: (601)325-8997.
Mosaic: http://www.erc.msstate.edu/~tony; e-mail: tony@cs.msstate.edu
Maxim:  "There is no lifeguard at the gene pool." - C. H. Baldwin
	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.      .      .
Mosaic info on applying to MSU: see http://msuinfo.ur.msstate.edu/prospect.htm (not html)
	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.      .      .

