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From: "HPDC '95" <hpdc95@server.cs.virginia.edu>
Subject: High performance distributed computing conference
Organization: University of Virginia Computer Science Department
Date: Mon, 10 Jul 1995 15:47:43 GMT
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                  HPDC-4 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

See our web page at http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~hpdc95/ for more 
information including many paper abstracts.
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              FOURTH IEEE INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON
                HIGH PERFORMANCE DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING (HPDC-4)
 
               Ritz Carlton Hotel, Pentagon City, Virginia
                            August 1-4, 1995
SPONSORS:
 
    - IEEE Computer Society
        - Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University
 
IN COOPERATION WITH:
 
        - ACM SIGCOMM
        - Rome Laboratory
 
The IEEE International Symposium on High Performance
Distributed Computing (HPDC) provides a forum for presenting the latest
research findings that unify parallel and distributed computing.
In HPDC environments, parallel or distributed computing techniques
are applied to the solution of computationally intensive applications
across networks of computers.  This symposium follows three successful
earlier conferences held in Syracuse, NY, Spokane, WA, San Francisco, CA
in 1992, 1993, and 1994, respectively.
 
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                        PRE-SYMPOSIUM TUTORIALS
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Tuesday, August 1
 
8:30am --5:30pm
Concurrent Sessions
 
Tutorial 1 (All Day):
Interactive Web based HPDC Technologies for Distance Education
G.C. Fox, W. Furmanaski and M. Podgorny, Syracuse University
 
8:30 AM -- 12 NOON     Concurrent Sessions
 
Tutorial 2: Introduction to Message Passing and Programming with PVM
      D. N. Jayasimha, The Ohio State University
 
Tutorial 3: Affordable High-Performance Computing via ATM
          Patrick Dowd, State University of New York at Buffalo, and
     Saragur M. Srinidhi, NASA Lewis Research Center
 
2:00 PM -- 5:30 PM     Concurrent Sessions
 
Tutorial 4: CORBA/HPC
          Dennis Gannon, Kate Ksiazek, University of Indiana
 
Tutorial 5: Parallel-I/O Issues for High-Performance Distributed Computing
            David Kotz and Tom Cormen, Dartmouth College
 
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         Wednesday, August 2
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8:00 AM - 10:00 AM  Registration
 
8:30 AM - 10:00 AM  Plenary Session
 
 Keynote Speech:
        Lionel Skipwith ("Skip") Johns
        Associate Director for Technology in the Office of Science and
        Technology Policy within the Executive Office of the President
 
10:30 AM - 12:00 NOON  Single Track Session
 
               SESSION 1: INVITED PAPERS
               Chair: Dick Metzger, Rome Laboratory
 
NOWs, MMPs, and Scalable Parallel Systems
Jameshed Mirza, IBM
 
Distributed Computing on Clusters of Shared-Memory Multiprocessors to Simulate
Unsteady Turbulent Flows
Paul Woodward, University of Minnesota
 
12:00 NOON - 1:30 PM  LUNCH
 
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM   Concurrent Sessions
 
               SESSION 2A: APPLICATIONS
               Chair: Ira Pramanick, IBM
 
Parallel Simulation of Subsonic Fluid Dynamics on a Cluster of Workstations
Panayotis Skordos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 
A Portable Distributed Implementation of the Parallel Multipole Tree Algorithm
William T. Rankin, John A. Board, Jr, Duke University
 
Communication Overhead for Space Science Applications on the Beowulf
Parallel Workstation
Thomas Sterling, Daniel Saverese, Bruce Fryxell, Kevin Olson,
Donald J. Becker, CESDIS
 
               SESSION 2B: DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY
               Chair: C. S. Raghavendra, Washington State University
 
A Proposal for a DSM Architecture suitable for a Widely Distributed
Environment and its Evaluation
Masato Oguchi, Hitoshi Aida, Tadao Saito, Saito-Aida Laboratory, Japan
 
Hybrid Media Access Protocols for a DSM System Based on Optical WDM Networks
Krishna M. Sivalingam, University of North Carolina-Greensboro
 
Network Shared Memory: A New Approach for Clustering Workstations
for Parallel Processing
Ranga S. Ramanujan, Jordan C. Bonney, Kenneth J. Thurber, Architecture
Technology Corporation
 
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM   Concurrent Sessions
 
              SESSION 3A: TOOLS AND THEORY
              Chair: Satish K. Tripathi, University of Maryland
 
A Spanning Tree Based Recursive Refinement Algorithm for Fast Task Mapping
Soo-Young Lee, Joseph C. Jacob, Cornell University
 
The Performance Impact of Scheduling for Cache Affinity
in Parallel Network Processing
James D. Salehi, James F. Kurose, Don Towsley, University of Massachusetts
 
Loop Scheduling for Heterogeneity
Michal Cierniak, Wei Li, Mohammed Javeed Zaki, University of Rochester
 
              SESSION 3B: COMMUNICATION AND PRACTICE I
              Chair: T. V. Lakshman, Bell Core
 
TCP/ATM Experiences in the MAGIC Testbed
Benjamin J. Ewy, Joseph B. Evans, Victor S. Frost, Gary J. Minden,
The University of Kansas
 
A High Speed Implementation of Adaptive Shaping for Dynamic
Bandwidth Allocations
Cameron Braun, Vinai Sirkay, Hugo Uriona, Srini Seetharam, Esmaell Yousefi,
David Petr, Douglas Niebaus, Victor Frost, Joseph Evans, Gary Minden,
The University of Kansas
 
The Limited Applicability of Block Decomposition in Cluster Computing
Phyllis E. Crandall, University of Illinois-Urbana
 
7:00-10pm: Reception and HPDC Demonstrations
 
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         Thursday, August 3
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9:00 AM - 10:00 AM   Keynote Speech:
       Walter Johnston,
              Vice President, NYNEX Science and Technology Inc.
 
10:30 AM - 12:00 NOON    Concurrent Sessions
 
             SESSION 4A: TOOLS AND PRACTICE
             Chair: Michael J. Quinn, Oregon State University
 
Nimrod: A Tool for Performing Parametised Simulations
using Distributed Workstations
D. Abramson, R. Sosic, J. Giddy, B. Hall, Griffith University, Australia
 
CALYPSO: A Novel Software System for Fault-Tolerant Parallel Processing
on Distributed Platforms
Arash Baratloo, Partha Dasgupta, Zvi M. Kedem, New York University
 
Indigo: User-level Support for Building Distributed Shared Abstractions
Prince Kohli, Mustaque Ahamad, Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology
 
             SESSION 4B: COMMUNICATION AND THEORY
             Chair: Daniel McAuliffe, Rome Laboratory
 
Overview of the MAGIC Project: Challenges and Accomplishments
Ira Richer, MITRE
 
Efficient Causally Ordered Communications for Multimedia Real-Time Applications
Roberto Baldoni, Achour Mostefaoui, Michel Raynal, Institute de Recherche
en Informatique, France
 
A Versatile Packet Multiplexer for Quality-of-Service Networks
Jorg Liebeherr, Dallas E. Wrege, University of Virginia
 
12:00 NOON - 1:30 PM  LUNCH, Sponsored by IBM Corporation
 Speaker: R.M. Greenberg
 Vice President-Development
 POWER Parallel Division, IBM
 
1:30 PM - 3:00 PM   Plenary Session
 
             SESSION 5: HPDC DEMONSTRATIONS
             Chair: Stuart Elby, NYNEX Science and Technology Inc.
 
3:30 PM - 5:00 PM   Panel
 
 Concordance or Discordance between Parallel, Distributed
 Computing and Web Technologies
 
 Chair: G. C. Fox, Syracuse University
 Panelists:
  Dan Dias, IBM
  Vaidy Sunderam, Emory University
  Andrew Grimshaw, University of Virginia
  Marina Chen, Boston University
 
 
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         Friday, August 4
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9:00 AM - 10:00 AM  Concurrent Sessions
 
             SESSION 5A: High Performance I/O Systems
             Chair: Martin Davis, Systran
 
Disk-directed I/O for an Out-of-core Computation
David Kotz, Dartmouth College
 
A Performance Comparison of RAID-5 and Log-Structured Arrays
Jai Menon, IBM Almaden Research Center
 
             SESSION 5B: Multi-Media and Recovery Protocols
             Chair: Salim Hariri, Syracuse University
 
Multimedia Intra-Group Communication Protocol
Takayuki Tachikawa, Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
 
Portable Checkpointing and Recovery
Luis M. Silva, Joao G. Silva, Universidad de Coimbra, Portugal
Simon Chapple, Lyndon Clarke, University of Edinburgh
 
10:30 AM - 12:00 NOON    Concurrent Sessions
 
             SESSION 6A: TOOLS AND PRACTICE II
             Chair: Nita Sharma, nCube
 
Performance Benefits of Optimistic: A Measure of HOPE
Crispin Cowan, Hanan L. Lutfiyya, Michael A. Bauer, Oregon Graduate Institute
 
Network-Specific Performance for PVM
Gregory Davies, Norman Matloff, University of California-Davis
 
TPVM: Distributed Concurrent Computing with Lighweight Processes
Adam Ferrari, University of Virginia; V. S. Sunderam, Emory University
 
             SESSION 6B: COMMUNICATION AND PRACTICE II
             Chair: Abdelaziz Chihoub, Siemens
 
LIGHTNING: A Scalable Dynamically Reconfigurable Hierarchical WDM Network
for High-Performance Clustering
P W. Dowd, J. A. Perreault, J. C. Chu, D. C. Hoffmeister, State University
of New York-Buffalo
 
An ATM-based Multimedia Integrated Manufacturing System
Jean-Francois Guillaud, Max R. Pokam, Gerard Michel,
Laboratoir de Genie Informatique, France
 
A Multithreaded Message Passing Environment for ATM LAN/WAN
Rajesh Yadav, Rajashekar Reddy, Salim Hariri, Geoffrey Fox, Syracuse University
 
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   KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
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Wednesday Keynote Speech:
 Lionel Skipwith ("Skip") Johns
 Associate Director of the Office of Science and Technology
 with the Executive Office of the President
 
Mr. Lionel Johns is the Associate Director for Technology in the Office of
Science and Technology (OSTP) within the Executive Office of the President.
He reports to Dr. John Gibbons, Director of OSTP and Assistant to the
President for Science and Technology. At OSTP, Mr. Johns is responsible for
Technology R&D policy coordination between Federal agencies. These activities,
coordinated through the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC), include
space and aeronautics, industrial R&D, defense conversion, information and
communications (including "the information superhighway"), and education and
training technologies. He serves as White House Co-Chair of three NSTC
committees: Information and Communication R&D, Civilian Industrial Technology
R&D, and Transportation R&D.
 
Prior to joining OSTP, Mr. Johns served as Assistant Director of the Office
of Technology Assessment (OTA), which was created in the Legislative Branch
to provide the U.S. Congress with objective non-partisan analysis of major
public issues related to the development and use of Technology. Mr. Johns'
Division at OTA was responsible for the analysis of industrial competitiveness,
quality of the work force, energy, materials, national security, space, and
international technology transfer and trade.
 
Mr. Johns has 16 years in management in high technology industries. He gained
them at Ocean Science and Engineering, Inc. Hazeltine Corporation, the
Magnavox Company, and General Instrument Corporation. He worked on projects
involving the design, development, and production of radars, communications,
sonar, and command and control systems, Marine experience included management
and sales of ship design, ship operations, mineral exploration, and ocean
engineering systems. Mr. Johns also spent several years in corporate finance
at Alex Brown & Sons.
 
Immediately upon earning his Bachelor os Science degree from the University
of Virginia, he served as an officer in the United States Navy as
a carrier-based naval aviator.
 
He has participated in numerous international meetings in Asia, Europe, and
Africa on arms control, energy, trade, and third world development. Mr. Johns
is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Serves on the Critical
Technologies Subcouncil of the Competitiveness Policy Council. He was elected
a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
 
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Thursday Keynote Speech:
 Walter Johnston
 Vice President, NYNEX Science and Technology
 
Walter Johnston is vice president of services development for NYNEX
Science and Technology In. with responsibility for the planning and
development of new services. His responsibilities encompass multimedia
services, intelligent network services, operator services, and introduction
of voice and speech technologies within the network. Mr. Johnston joined
NYNEX in 1984, taking responsibility for future network planning. In 1986,
Mr Johnston assumed the role of director, prototype services development in
the newly created NYNEX Advanced Technology Development organization.
In 1991, Mr. Johnston's business unit was recognized as Science and Technology
Inc. As executive director, Information and Data Services, he was responsible
for product development in the area of data and information services and for
the development of NYNEX's program for the deployment of broadband systems
in both the residence and business environment. Prior to his tenure at
NYNEX, Mr. Johnston worked for both Bell Laboratories and AT&T. He holds
both an M.S., C.S., and a B.S., E.E. from the Polytechnic Institute of
Brooklyn.
 
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   TUTORIAL DESCRIPTIONS
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Tutorial 1: Interactive Web-Based HPDC Technologies for Distance Education
     G.C. Fox, W. Furmanski, M. Podgorny, Syracuse University
 
This tutorial will provide a broad and comprehensive coverage of the
emergent interactive Web technologies, including recent scripted languages
and communication protocols such as VRML and Java/HotJava, and their
integration with HPDC from the perspective of applications for education.
We will outline our vision of the Virtual University for modern education
and we will discuss interactive Web, HPDC backends, and agents based
communication as three critical enabling technologies in this framework.
We will illustrate these concepts in terms of a series of
demonstrations of Web spaces and courses developed at Syracuse University
such as KidsWeb, Science for the 21st Century, Living Textbook and
Computational Science for the Information Age.
We will then explain in more detail component technologies such as
WebTools and parallel database, video, and computational servers.
We will demonstrate current capabilities of WebTools in the area of HTML
authoring, Web server management and collaborative email, and we will
summarize the ongoing work on WebTools based CASE tools for interactive
Web software engineering and content authoring. Finally, we will discuss
our concept of WebWindows as an emergent, collectively developed integration
framework for the Web-based NII, and we will present early demonstrations
of the use of Java/HotJava and VRML for building interactive educational
modules in this paradigm. All material presented during the tutorial will be
available on-line, and lectures will be taught using the interactive Web pages
as viewgraphs.
 
SPEAKERS:
G. C. Fox is an internationally recognized expert in the
use of parallel architectures and the development of concurrent
algorithms.  He leads major projects such as Parallel Compiler Runtime
Consortium and a HPCC technology transfer program, InfoMall. He is also
a leading proponent for the development of computational science as
an academic discipline and a scientific method, and leads the development
of new K-12 applications of HPCC technologies.
 
Wojtek Furmanski is Research Professor of Physics and Associate Director
of NPAC. He is currently working on interactive CGI-based extensions of the
Web-server technology - WebTools - and its integration with HPDC technologies.
 
Marek Podgorny is Associate Director at NPAC where he leads parallel
database projects and video on demand projects. He is also responsible for
the overall system engineering and integration of NPAC facilities.
 
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TUTORIAL 2: INTRODUCTION TO MESSAGE PASSING AND PROGRAMMING WITH PVM
     (Morning)
     D.N. Jayasimha, The Ohio State University
 
PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) is a portable message passing library
which runs on a variety of computing platforms including
NOWs (networks of workstations), massively parallel processors, and
heterogeneous computers.  With the increasing  popularity of NOWs for
viable and cost-effective parallel computing, the use of PVM has become
widespread.  This proposal offers a half day tutorial on the
message passing paradigm and programming with PVM.
The first part of the lecture will be a brief introduction to parallel
architectures, the shared memory and message passing programming
models, and the data parallel, control parallel, and SPMD styles of
programming.  The main part of the lecture will describe the message passing
programming paradigm and will discuss the use of PVM to write programs
using this paradigm. The last part of the lecture will detail how the
virtual machine can be specified, how the PVM environment can be managed
through specific commands, and what PVM does not provide (this part might
also include a discussion on MPI depending on the level of maturity
of the audience).  In addition, there will be discussion on guidelines
for writing efficient parallel programs and simple mapping issues.
The tutorial is intended for scientists and engineers (including
graduate students) who wish to learn message passing programming
to parallelize their applications.  The tutorial assumes knowledge
of FORTRAN or C, some programming experience, and rudimentary
knowledge of Unix.
 
SPEAKER: D. N. Jayasimha obtained his Ph.D. from the Center for Supercomputing
Research and Development, University of Illinois in 1988.  He has
been on the faculty at The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio
since then.  During 1993-94, he was a Visiting Senior Research Associate
at the NASA Lewis Research Center, Cleveland, OH where he worked on
parallelizing applications using PVM and other message passing libraries.
He has offered tutorials on message passing and PVM at the Ohio Aerospace
Institute and NASA, and at 1994 International Workshop on Parallel Processing.
His research interests are in the areas of communication and synchronization
in parallel computation, parallel architectures, and parallel applications.
 
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Tutorial 3: Affordable High-Performance Computing via ATM
     (Morning)
     Patrick W. Dowd, State University of New York at Buffalo
     Saragur M. Srinidhi, NASA Lewis Research Center
 
ATM and cluster-based computing provide a possible solution to the need for
supercomputing power without the economic implications. If a fraction of the
idle CPU cycles of workstations could be harnessed together, it would be
a very valuable resource. Cluster-computing is becoming increasingly
important as evidenced by the number of large corporations who have recently
replaced supercomputers with clusters. This tutorial begins with a description
of ATM and proceeds to an introduction of distributed computing, including
the software environment, such as message-passing libraries and other
required-system level software. Specific examples are examined, and the
advantages and disadvantages for both local cluster-based platforms
and geographically distributed systems are quantified.
 
Speakers:
Patrick W. Dowd received a B.S.E.E. from the State University of New York at
Buffalo, and the M.S. and Ph.D degrees in electrical engineering from
Syracuse University. He was with the IBM Corporation as a staff engineer with
System Design at the IBM Glendale Processor Development Laboratory. His main
effort was in the area of processor communication subsystem design for future
systems. Dowd joined the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
at SUNY-Buffalo as an assistant professor in 1989. He is on the editorial
board of the International Journal on Computer Simulation. He is a member
of IEEE, ACM, and SPIE, with research interests in optical interconnects,
distributed and parallel computer architectures, and computer communication.
 
Saragur M. Srinidhi received a B.E. in electronics and communications
engineering from Bangalore University in India and M.S. and Ph.D degrees
in electrical engineering from Cleveland State University. He is a former
systems engineer in the Networks Group at HCL India, New Delhi, and was
a telecommunication analyst with BP America. He joined Sterling Software's
Scientific Systems Division in 1992 where he is a senior consulting
engineer with the High-Performance Networks group at NASA Lewis Research
Center in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a principle investigator for NASA's ACTS ATM
experiments and is involved in prototyping wide-area ATM networking in support
of dispersed computing. His research interests are in performance modeling,
congestion control, and transport level issues in ATM. Srindhi is a member of
the Graduate Faculty at Cleveland State University and a member of the IEEE
and ACM.
 
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Tutorial 4: CORBA/HPC (Afternoon)
     Dennis Gannon, Kate Ksiazek, University of Indiana
 
The Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA), as defined by
the Object Management Group (OMG), is a new standard for distributed
object systems. CORBA is a very general and powerful tool for building
distributed applications. Not only does it provide a foundation for a new
generation of desktop software such as the proposed Opendoc standard, it
also holds great promise as an infrastructure for high performance
distributed computing. In particular, a key concept in the CORBA design is
inter-operability. This is achieved by using Interface Definition
Language (IDL) to separate the implementation of an object from the
specification of its interface. In addition, the CORBA design provides
a wide variety of ways for client programs to learn about and contact server
objects that are registered with a network object request broker and the
associated repositories.
This tutorial will focus on using CORBA in scientific and technical
applications in a distributed environment. The tutorial will be from
an application programmer's perspective, using examples to illustrate
the ways in which CORBA can be used. A background in C++ programming will
be assumed.
 
Speakers:
Dennis Gannon is a professor of computer science at Indian University
in Bloomington, Indiana. He received his Ph.D in mathematics from the
University of California-Davis in 1976 and a Ph.D in computer science
from the University of Illinois in 1980. His research is in the area of
programming techniques and tools for parallel and distributed systems.
 
Kate Ksiazek is a Ph.D candidate in computer science at Indiana University.
Her research area is in the design and application of CORBA-based technology
for massively parallel computer systems.
 
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Tutorial 5: Parallel-I/O Issues for High-Performance Distributed Computing
     (Afternoon)
            David Kotz and Tom Cormen, Dartmouth College
 
In both multiprocessors and distributed systems, it has become
increasingly obvious that the performance of many parallel applications is
limited by their ability to move data between main memory and disk.  This
limitation arises when reading large input data sets, writing checkpoint
and output data sets, and manipulating data sets too large to fit in main
memory.  The ultimate solutions to this problem require a coordinated
effort at all levels, including architecture, algorithms, compilers,
run-time libraries, and operating systems.  This tutorial presents a broad
overview of the issues and early results in this burgeoning field of
research, with a focus on techniques designed for parallel scientific
applications.  It features a look toward the future, including a discussion
of open research problems and new twists like multimedia servers.
The tutorial is aimed primarily at researchers beginning their study of
parallel I/O and those interested in an overview of this expanding field of
research.  It will focus on research issues in parallel I/O rather than on
programming specifics.  Although participants should have a basic
understanding of parallel algorithms and parallel and distributed systems,
no prior knowledge of parallel-I/O issues is assumed.
 
Speakers:
David Kotz is an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Dartmouth
College.  He has been actively involved in parallel file-systems research
for nearly eight years, and maintains a well-used bibliography, web site,
and mailing list about parallel I/O.  His primary expertise involves
parallel file systems, run-time systems, and architectures.  He obtained
his A.B. at Dartmouth College in 1986, and his Ph.D at Duke University in
1991.
 
Thomas H. Cormen received the B.S.E. degree in electrical and computer
science from Princeton University in 1978 and the S.M. and Ph.D. degrees
in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts
Institute of Technology in 1986 and 1993, respectively. He has been
an assistant professor in the Dartmouth College Department of Computer
Science since 1992. Professor Cormen is coauthor of the textbook
Introduction to Algorithms, which he wrote with Charles E. Leiserson
and Ronald L. Rivest. His research interests are focused on two aspects of
parallel-I/O: developing I/O-efficient algorithms for out-of-core problems,
and applying the technology of parallel-I/O algorithms to design virtual
memory systems for data-parallel computing.
 
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   CONFERENCE LOCATION
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HPDC-4 will be held at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel just outside the downtown
Washington, D.C., area in Pentagon City, Virginia. The Ritz-Carlton is
located on the Metrorail line, 10 minutes from the Smithsonian Museums and
downtown business area. The 150-store Fashion Centre Mall adjoins the hotel.
National Airport is five minutes away. Visitors can enjoy the ethnic
neighborhoods, countless sightseeing opportunities, and excellent entertainment
available in Washington. Almost every country in the world is represented here,
creating an interesting mix of language and traditions. Plan to spend some
extra time to take advantage of this exciting city.
 
Weather: Summer weather in Washington is warm and humid. Conference rooms are
air-conditioned. You will want to bring clothes for both conditions.
 
Transportation: The hotel is two stops from National Airport via the blue
Metrorail line and five minutes by taxi. International participants may arrive
at Dulles Airport, 26 miles west of the city, where taxi service is available.
The hotel is 15 minutes from Amtrak's Union Station and is also convenient by
car. Parking is $17 per day in the hotel's garage.
 
Social Event: Monuments by Moonlight
On Thursday evening HPDC participants will board specially chartered trolleys
for a tour of the Capitol buildings and monuments by moonlight. You will
enjoy an effortless visit to several hard-to-reach sites, including the
Lincoln, Jefferson, and Vietnam Veterans memorials. See Capitol
Washington from the roof of the Kennedy Center. Finish with a get-together
reception at trendy Union Station before returning to our hotel.
 
Email service will be provided to attendees at the hotel.
 
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   HOTEL ACCOMMODATIONS
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Please contact the Ritz-Carlton Hotel, Pentagon City, Virginia, directly
at 703-415-5000 for room reservations. The HPDC-4 rate is $115 single/double
accommodation. Reservation cut-off date is Tuesday, July 11, 1995; reservations
made after this date will be on a space-available basis only. In order to
receive our special rates be sure to tell the Ritz Carlton that you are
a participant in the HPDC-4 Symposium
 
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   REGISTRATION FORM
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Register by mail through July 27 using the form below. E-mail is available
also through July 27; you must use a credit card number. On-site registration
at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel starts Tuesday, August 2. You are strongly
encouraged to pre-register. Please MAIL this completed form to:
 
  SU Conference Planning,
  HPDC-4 Symposium, P.O.Box 4709
  Syracuse, NY 13221-4709
      OR
  FAX it to 315-443-1168, CALL 315-443-3333
      OR
  You may register by E-mail using your credit card.
  Send to: ceadams@suadmin.syr.edu
 
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REGISTRATION FOR PRE-SYMPOSIUM TUTORIALS, August 2
You may select the all-day tutorial or one tutorial from the morning session
and one from the afternoon session. Each tutorial registration fee includes
attendance at one tutorial session, materials, and coffee break. There are
no student fees for the tutorials. Cancellations of tutorial registrations
made after July 24 will be subject to the total fee. We reserve the right
to cancel the tutorials due to insufficient participation or other unforseeable
problems, in which case fees will be refunded.
 
Tutorial 1 (all day):
                         Advance Registration         Regular Registration
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PLEASE REGISTER ME FOR THE FOLLOWING TUTORIALS:
 
All Day
[ ] 1 Interactive Web-based HPDC Technologies for Distance Education
 
Morning (select one)
[ ] 2 Introduction to Message Passing and Programming with PVM
[ ] 3 Affordable High-Performance Computing via ATM
 
Afternoon (select one)
[ ] 4 CORBA/HPC
[ ] 5 Parallel-I/O Issue for HPDC
 
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                        CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
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SYMPOSIUM GENERAL CHAIR: Geoffrey Fox, NPAC, Syracuse University,
 
SYMPOSIUM STEERING COMMITTEE:
 
- Salim Hariri, Syracuse University (Chair)
- Tilak Agerwala, IBM
- Andrew Grimshaw, University of Virginia
- H. T. Kung, Harvard University
- Daniel McAuliffe, Rome Laboratory
- C. S. Raghavendra, Washington State University
PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR: A. S. Grimshaw, University of Virginia
 
PUBLICITY CHAIRS:
 
   North America: T. V. Lakshman, Bell Communications Research
   Europe: Walid Dabbous, INRIA, France
   Asia: Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
 
TUTORIAL CHAIR:  Vaidy Sunderam, Emory University
 
EXHIBITS CHAIR: C. S. Raghavendra, Washington State University
 
REGISTRATION AND LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS:
     Peggy Van Arnam, Syracuse University
 
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
 
- - Dharma Agrawal, North Carolina State University
- - Prathima Agrawal, AT&T Bell Labs
- - Ishfaq Ahmad, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
- - Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Tech
- - Marco Annaratone, DEC
- - Abhaya Asthana AT&T Bell Labs
- - Ken Birman, Cornell University
- - Suresh Chalasani, University of Wisconsin, Madison
- - Monsong Chen, IBM Research
- - Roger Chen, Syracuse University
- - Abdelaziz Chihoub, Siemens Corporate Research
- - Jon Crowcroft, University College London
- - Walid Dabbous, INRIA, France
- - Patrick Dowd, SUNY Buffalo
- - Dennis Duke, SCRI/Florida State University
- - Stuart Elby, NYNEX Science and Technology
- - Richard Freund, NRaD
- - J.J. Garcia-Luna, University of California, Santa Cruz
- - Andrew Grimshaw, University of Virginia
- - Salim Hariri, Syracuse University
- - S. H. Hosseini, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
- - T. V. Lakshman, Bell Communications Research
- - C. R. Mechoso, UCLA
- - Paul Messina, Caltech
- - Dick Metzger, Rome Laboratory
- - Paul Mockapetris, USC/ISI
- - John Morrison, Los Alamos National Laboratory
- - John Nicholas, Battelle Pacific Northwest Lab
- - James C. Patterson, Boeing Co.
- - Ira Pramanick, IBM
- - Michael Quinn, Oregon State University
- - C. S. Raghavendra, Washington State University
- - Paul Rupert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
- - Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology
- - Nita Sharma, Ncube Inc.
- - Vaidy Sunderam, Emory University
- - Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan
- - Alexander Thomasian, IBM Research
- - Satish Tripathi, University of Maryland
- - Pen-Chung Yew, University of Illinois

