Newsgroups: comp.parallel.pvm From: pgraham@nickel.cs.umanitoba.ca (Peter C.J. Graham) Subject: Final CFP for HPCS'97 Organization: Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada Date: 18 Feb 1997 22:10:35 GMT Message-ID: <5ed9cr$s56$1@canopus.cc.umanitoba.ca> This is the FINAL call for papers for HPCS'97 (the 11th Annual International Symposium on High Performance Computing Systems). Included below is information on the three confirmed invited speakers as well as information about the expected costs of conference registration and accomodations. Remember the final date for RECEIPT of manuscripts is February 28th, 1997. We hope to see you all at HPCS'97 this summer. INVITED SPEAKERS Arvind is the Johnson Professor and Head of the Computation Structures Group at the Laboratory for Computer Science, Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology . His research interests span all areas of parallel computation as well as declarative programming. He is also one of the creators of the Dynamic Dataflow paradigm for fine granularity parallel computation. Dr. Arvind serves on the editorial boards of numerous journals and is an active consultant to industry. He has over 50 recent publications in parallel computing, is an IEEE Fellow and last year received the IEEE's "Charles Babbage Outstanding Scientist" award. Geoffrey C. Fox is Professor of Computer Science and Professor of Physics at Syracuse University as well as Director of the Northeastern Parallel Architecture Center (NPAC). His research interests include many aspects of parallel computation, theoretical physics, and applications of parallel processing to large scale scientific problems. Dr. Fox serves on the editorial board of six journals, has edited two books, and has organized eight conferences. He has also authored four books and several hundred research papers on parallel computation and particle physics. Christian Lengauer is Professor of Computer Science at the University of Passau in Germany and an honorary fellow of the Computer Science Department at the University of Edinburgh. His research is in the area of the application of formal methods in parallel programming and parallelization as well as object orientation in parallel systems. He is editor of "Parallel Processing Letters", "Science of Computer Programming", and "Discrete Math and Theoretical Computer Science". Dr. Lenguaer also serves on the steering committee of the Euro-Par conference and is program chair for Euro-Par'97 held this year in Passau. He has over a dozen research papers focusing on parallel processing in the last three years. ESTIMATED CONFERENCE REGISTRATION AND HOTEL RATES While the final price of conference registration is yet to be determined, we estimate a cost of less than $400 CDN (approx. $300 US). There will be an approximate 15% discount for early registration and at least a 30% discount for student attendees. These prices will include both hardcopy and CD-ROM proceedings, admission to all technical sessions and vendor exhibits, conference banquet and reception as well as daily refreshments. Estimated room rates at the Crowne Plaza Hotel (the conferene venue) are as indicated in the following table. This represents a special conference rate for HPCS'97. Room Type Price --------- ----- Single $ 85.00 CDN (approx. $63.50 US) Double $ 95.00 CDN (approx. $73.00 US) Executive Suite $115.00 CDN (approx. $88.50 US) MORE INFORMATION As this is the final Call For Papers, you will be unable to receive additional information about HPCS'97 from this forum. Please see the web page http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~hpcs97 for additional and constantly updated information about the conference. A Call for Participation will appear here together with a list of accepted papers in a little over two month's time. THE CFP * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Final Announcement and Call for Papers * * * * The 11th Annual International Symposium on High * * Performance Computing Systems * * * * HPCS'97 * * * * * * Crowne Plaza Hotel, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada * * * * July 10th - 12th, 1997 * * * * www: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~hpcs97 * * e-mail: hpcs97@cs.umanitoba.ca * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * The 11th Annual International symposium on High Performance Computing Systems (HPCS'97) will be held July 10th to 12th, 1997 at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in downtown Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. HPCS'97 is hosted by the Department of Computer Science at the University of Manitoba with the assistance of the sponsoring organization Super*Can. The international symposium covers all aspects of high performance computing; both applied as well as theoretical. Topic areas of interest include architecture, enabling technologies, software systems, algorithms, and applications for parallel, distributed, or vector systems. However, papers addressing all aspects of high performance computing are also welcome. The symposium will be fully refereed and submissions are expected to represent exceptional work. The symposium will include presentations of accepted technical papers, presentations by invited distinguished speakers, and vendor exhibits in an atmosphere which promotes conversation and collaboration. Both national and international participation is encouraged. As well, historically, a number of organizational meetings have also been organized to coincide with this symposium. The symposium proceedings will be published in paper format (which will be available at the symposium) and possibly also in CD-ROM format with full text indexing. A small selection of `best papers' will be determined after the conference and all participants will be advised of such. The possibility of re-publishing these papers in a special journal issue is currently being considered. TOPICS The following topics are suggested as particular examples of interest to the symposium, however, submissions are not limited to these topics. All submissions will be reviewed in context of their relevance to high performance computing systems. * High Performance Applications (e.g. scientific, commercial, etc.) * Distributed Systems and Advanced Applications (e.g. multimedia, cooperative systems) * Scaleable and Interoperable Systems and Associated Standards * Software Systems (e.g. operating system support, middleware, development environments, tools, distributed objects) * Architecture (e.g. VLSI, SIMD, MIMD, parallel, vector, special-purpose) * Interconnection Networks (e.g. ATM based, bus-based, optical) * Communications (e.g. routing algorithms, switching techniques, wireless, mobile) * Visualization (e.g. scientific visualization, debugging and load balancing tools) * Photonics and Optical Computing * Performance Issues (e.g. benchmarks, performance measurement, evaluation and prediction) * Modeling and Simulation of High Performance Systems * Advanced Compilation Techniques (e.g. parallelizing compilers) * Programming Languages for Parallel and other High Performance Computing Environments * Parallel/Distributed/Vector Algorithms * Reliability and Fault Tolerance * Embedded and Real Time Systems * Digital Signal Processing * Neural Computing, Genetic Algorithms and their applications * Systolic and Cellular Automaton (CA) Techniques * Issues in High Performance Computing (e.g. evolving paradigms such as NOW/COW, PIM Systems as well as grand challenge problems) ORGANIZATION General Chair: Dr. Brian d'Auriol Dept. of Computer Science University of Manitoba E-mail: bdauriol@cs.umanitoba.ca Program Chair: Dr. Peter Graham Dept. of Computer Science University of Manitoba E-mail: pgraham@cs.umanitoba.ca Advisory Chair: Dr. Virendra Bhavsar Faculty of Computer Science University of New Brunswick E-mail: bhavsar@unb.ca Proceedings Chair: Dr. Ken Barker Dept. of Computer Science University of Manitoba E-mail: barker@cs.umanitoba.ca Local Arrangements: Ms. Lynne Romuld Dept. of Computer Science University of Manitoba E-mail: hpcs97@cs.umanitoba.ca INTERNATIONAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ali E. Abdallah, University of Reading, U.K. Tarek S. Abdelrahman, University of Toronto, Canada Hamid S. Arabnia, University of Georgia, USA Luc Bauwens, University of Calgary, Canada Virendra Bhavsar, University of New Brunswick, Canada Moreshwar R. Bhujade, Indian Institute of Technology, India David Blight, University of Manitoba, Canada Alan L. Cox, Rice University, USA Frank Dehne, Carleton University, Canada Derek Eager, University of Saskatchewan, Canada Edward Frietman, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Qian-Ping Gu, University of Aizu, Japan Weijia Jia, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Kequin Li, State University of New York, New Paltz, USA Piyush Maheshwari, University of New South Wales, Australia Yi Pan, University of Dayton, USA Alexander Reinefeld, Paderborn Center for Parallel Computing, Germany Hong Shen, Griffith University, Australia Ajit Singh, University of Waterloo, Canada Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Hugo Thienpont, Vrije University, Belgium Ronald Unrau, University of Alberta, Canada Ramachandran Vaidyanathan, Louisiana State University, USA Vincent Van Dongen, Centre de Recherche Informatique de Montreal, Canada Irina Veretennicoff, Vrije University, Belgium Alan S. Wagner, University of British Columbia, Canada Rod Wittig, University of Calgary, Canada Cui Zhang, California State University Sacramento Weimin Zheng, Tsinghua University, China SUBMISSION OF PAPERS Submit papers of ten or less pages to the program chair by February 28th, 1997. Papers are to be numbered starting from page one, be single spaced with minimum of 11pt font and are to include an abstract of 250 words or less together with up to eight keywords describing the paper's content. Electronic submission of papers in structured PostScript format via e-mail directly to the program chair are acceptable and encouraged for the review process. If not submitting an electronic version, please submit four hardcopy originals to the program chair at the address below. A final preparation format will be available upon notification of acceptance. Be advised that page charges may be assessed for those accepted papers exceeding the page limit. Submitted papers greatly exceeding the page limit or otherwise deviating significantly from the requested format may be rejected without review. All papers will be fully refereed by a minimum of two reviewers with background in the areas of the reported work. All authors will receive referees' comments. Such comments will be divided into two categories: required and optional changes. All required changes will need to be incorporated prior to final acceptance in the symposium proceedings. EVALUATION PROCESS All papers submitted will be evaluated based on the following criteria: * contribution to the area of research, * novelty of the approach, * soundness of results, * relevance to high performance computing systems, and * clarity of presentation. IMPORTANT DATES February 28th, 1997 Manuscripts must be received by the program chair by this date April 15th, 1997 Author's receive notification of acceptance May 20th, 1997 Final, camera-ready copy must be received by this date (both hardcopy and electronic versions will be required) July 10th - 12th,1997 HPCS'97 Symposium Authors of accepted papers will be requested to submit their conference registration materials (including 50% of their registration fee) by May 20th, 1997. This will allow the organizers to cover the publications costs ahead of time. Conference registration rates will be available shortly (see the web page for information updates). GENERAL CHAIR'S ADDRESS Please direct all correspondence to: Dr. Brian J. d'Auriol (Assistant Professor of Computer Science) General Chair, HPCS'97 Department of Computer Science 545 Machray Hall University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada R3T 2N2 phone: (204) 474-8831 (direct line) (204) 474-8313 (office) fax: (204) 269-9178 e-mail: bdauriol@cs.umanitoba.ca WWW: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~bdauriol/ PROGRAM CHAIR'S ADDRESS Please direct all submissions or questions concerning the submission, evaluation, or selection process to: Dr. Peter Graham (Assistant Professor of Computer Science) Program Chair, HPCS'97 Department of Computer Science 545 Machray Hall University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada R3T 2N2 phone: (204) 474-8837 (direct line/voice mail) fax: (204) 269-9178 e-mail: pgraham@cs.umanitoba.ca WWW: http://www.cs.umanitoba.ca/~pgraham/ LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS Ms. Lynne Romuld (Administrative Assistant) Local Arrangements Chair, HPCS'97 Department of Computer Science 545 Machray Hall University of Manitoba Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada R3T 2N2 phone: (204) 474-8669 (direct line/messages) fax: (204) 269-9178 e-mail: hpcs97@cs.umanitoba.ca -- Dr. Peter C.J. Graham or Assistant Professor Computer Science Phone: +1 (204) 474-8837 University of Manitoba, Winnipeg MB Fax: +1 (204) 269-9178