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From: Martin Aichhorn <martin.aichhorn@vcpc.univie.ac.at>
Subject: CFP: HUG'98 -- 2nd HPF User Group workshop
Organization: Vienna University, Austria
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 16:45:01 +0100
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Reminder:  Deadline for submissions to the 2nd HPF User Group meeting
           is 16 March.
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                         CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS

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           HUG'98: The 2nd Annual HPF User Group meeting 
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                          25 - 26 June 1998 
                           Porto, Portugal 

                (Held in conjunction with VECPAR'98)

        http://www.vcpc.univie.ac.at/activities/news/HUG98/


The Second Annual High Performance Fortran User Group (`HUG') meeting 
will be held on 25 - 26 June 1998 at the Fundacao Dr. Antonio Cupertino 
de Miranda in Porto, Portugal.  This successor meeting to the 1997 HUG 
meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, provides an opportunity for users 
of HPF to meet each other, share ideas and experiences, and obtain 
up-to-date information on current HPF implementations and future plans. 

This meeting will be held in conjunction with VECPAR'98, a
multidisciplinary conference covering a range of topics in parallel 
and distributed computing, which will take place on 21 - 23 June at 
the same venue.  An HPF tutorial will be offered on 20 June as part
of the VECPAR tutorial program.  On the day between the VECPAR and HUG 
meetings, 24 June, Porto holds its annual festival, and attendees will 
be free to participate in the festivities. 

The HUG meeting will include:

    * contributed talks
    * presentation of the results of the Esprit PHAROS project
           (migration of industrial F77 codes to HPF)
    * invited presentations by HPF users & technology providers
    * a panel discussion

There may also be a poster session and demonstrations.

Call for submissions
--------------------

We invite abstracts for presentations from all those working on topics 
of relevance for High Performance Fortran. Relevant subject areas 
include, but are not limited to:

    * applications in HPF

    * HPF software, e.g.:
        -- compilers
        -- HPF programming support tools
        -- libraries

    * HPF features, e.g.:
        -- HPF evaluations
        -- extensions and improvements to HPF
        -- interoperability of HPF with other languages
	 
Abstracts may contain up to 300 words, plus the title and authors'
names and addresses.  They should be in standard HTML 2.0 format and 
may contain links to relevant further information or documentation if 
this is available.  Alternatively, and less desirably, abstracts may
be submitted in plain text, in which case we will convert the selected 
ones to HTML.

Abstracts must be submitted electronically by **16 March 1998** to:

	hug98@vcpc.univie.ac.at  

Authors will be notified of acceptance by 31 March 1998.  The selected 
abstracts will be posted on the Web prior to the conference.

Important dates
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  16 March:  deadline for submission of abstracts
  31 March:  notification of acceptance.

Registration fees
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  HUG'98 conference  (25-26 June):  2500 ATS (early);   3000 ATS (late)
  HPF tutorial  (20 June):           700 ATS (early);   1000 ATS (late)

Fees are in Austrian Schillings (ATS).  The conference fee includes a 
welcome reception, conference dinner and morning and afternoon 
refreshments.  Extra conference dinner tickets are available at 400 ATS 
each.  Delegates may register for only the HPF tutorial or only the 
HUG'98 conference if desired.  

The registration form can be downloaded from the HUG'98 Web page or
will be sent by email on request.  It must be submitted by 31 May to 
qualify for the early registration fee.

Program committee
-----------------

  Barbara Chapman    VCPC, University of Vienna, Austria  (chair)
  Jean-Yves Berthou  Electricite de France
  Bob Boland         Los Alamos National Laboratory
  Ken Kennedy        Rice University
  Chuck Koelbel      Rice University
  John Merlin        VCPC, University of Vienna, Austria
  Henk Sips          Delft University of Technology, Netherlands

Further Information 
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Porto is an attractive city in northern Portugal. It is particularly 
renowned for its historic centre, recently classified by UNESCO as a 
world heritage.  24 June is the date of Porto's annual festival, and 
attendees are encouraged to come in time to take part in the
festivities. 
EXPO '98 is also being held in Lisbon, Portugal, during the time frame 
of this event. 

Further information about this event will appear on the HUG'98 Web page
at:
       http://www.vcpc.univie.ac.at/activities/news/HUG98/

Enquiries may be sent to  hug98@vcpc.univie.ac.at.

