HiPC '97: New Deadline for Paper Submission is 04/20

***NOTE***: New deadline for submission of papers: APRIL 20th 1997.


                                                    CALL FOR PAPERS


                    4th International Conference on High Performance Computing
                                                                  (HiPC '97)
                                                        http://www.hipc.org


                                                        December 18-21, 1997
                                                            Bangalore, India


                                                              Cosponsored by:


              IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing
                                                                ACM SIGARCH


                                                    Held in Cooperation with:


                          Supercomputer Education and Research Centre, India
                  Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC), India
        CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation, India
                              Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India
                                            Indian Institutes of Technology


This is the fourth annual international meeting on high performance
computing to be organized in India. It will serve as a forum to
present current work by researchers from around the world as well as
highlight activities in Asia in the high performance computing area.


The meeting will emphasize both design and analysis of high
performance computing systems and their scientific, engineering, and
commercial applications. In addition to technical sessions of
contributed paper presentations, the conference will offer invited
presentations, a poster/presentation session, tutorials, vendor
presentations, and exhibits.


                                                          GENERAL CO-CHAIRS


Viktor K. Prasanna N. Balakrishnan
University of Southern California Supercomputer Education and Research Centre
EEB 244 Indian Institute of Science
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2562, USA Bangalore 560012, India
Fax: +1 (213) 740 4418 Fax: +91 (80) 334 6638
prasanna@ganges.usc.edu balki@serc.iisc.ernet.in


                                                          VICE GENERAL CHAIR


                                                            D. N. Jayasimha
                                                          Intel Corporation
                                                  djayasim@mipos2.intel.com


                                                              ADVISORY CHAIR


                                                            Vijay P. Bhatkar
                          Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, India


                                          INVITED SPEAKER/PANEL COORDINATOR


                                                                    Arvind
                                                                        MIT


STEERING COMMITTEE


Arvind, MIT
Vijay P. Bhatkar, C-DAC, India
Wen-Tsuen Chen, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Yoo Kun Cho, Seoul National University, Korea
Michel Cosnard, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France
Jose Duato, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory
Anoop Gupta, Stanford University
Louis Hertzberger, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Chris Jesshope, Massey University, New Zealand
David Kahaner, Asian Technology Information Program, Japan
Guojie Li, National Research Center for Intelligent Computing Systems, China
Miroslaw Malek, Institut fur Informatik, Germany
Lionel Ni, Michigan State University
S. S. Oberoi, Department of Electronics, Government of India
Lalit M. Patnaik, Indian Institute of Science
Viktor K. Prasanna, USC, Chair
Jose Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida
Vaidy Sunderam, Emory University
Satish Tripathi, University of Maryland
David Walker, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
K. S. Yajnik, CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and Computer Simulation
Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Western Australia


NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE


N. Balakrishnan, Supercomputer Education and Research Centre, Bangalore
Ashok Desai, Silicon Graphics Systems (India) Private Ltd.
H. K. Kaura, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre
Hans H. Krafka, Siemens Communication Software Ltd.
Ashish Mahadwar, Microland Ltd.
Pradeep Marwaha, Cray Research International Inc.
Susanta Misra, Motorola India Electronics Ltd.
Som Mittal, Digital Equipment (India) Ltd.
B. V. Naidu, Software Technology Park
N. R. Narayana Murthy, Infosys Technologies Ltd.
S. V. Raghavan, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
V. Rajaraman, Jawaharlal Nehru Centre for Advanced Scientific Research
S. Ramadorai, Tata Consultancy Services, Bombay
S. Ramani, National Centre for Software Technology, Bombay
Uday Shukla, Tata Information Systems Ltd., Bangalore
U. N. Sinha, NAL, Bangalore
G. Vijayaraghavan, Technopark, Trivandrum


FINANCE CO-CHAIRS


A. K. P. Nambiar Ajay Gupta
C-DAC, Bangalore Western Michigan University


PUBLICITY CHAIR


Kalluri Eswar
Informix Software, Inc.
eswar@informix.com


                                                                TUTORIALS


Proposals are solicited for tutorials to be held at the meeting.
Interested individuals should submit a proposal by June 3, 1997 to the
Vice General Chair. It should include a brief description of the
intended audience, a lecture outline and vita for the lecturer(s).


                                            EXHIBITS/VENDOR PRESENTATIONS


Companies and R & D laboratories are encouraged to present their
exhibits at the meeting. In addition, a full day of vendor
presentations is planned. For details, companies are encouraged to
contact the Exhibits Chair by August 31, 1997.


EXHIBITS CHAIR


S. K. Nandy
Supercomputer Education and Research Centre
Indian Institute of Science
Bangalore 560012, India
Fax: +91 (80) 334 6648
Vox: +91 (80) 334 1811
nandy@serc.iisc.ernet.in


                                                    AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS


Several awards will be presented at the meeting. These are sponsored
by companies operating in India:


Distinguished Speaker Awards:
      These awards, sponsored by ITL Infosys Technologies, Sun Microsystems,
      and United Business Machines, will be presented to keynote speakers.


Best Paper Awards:
      These awards, sponsored by Digital Equipment (India), will be awarded to
      outstanding contributed papers in the Systems, Algorithms, and
      Applications areas.


Student Fellowships:
      Silicon Graphics Systems (India) is sponsoring these fellowships to
      students at academic institutions within India to participate in the
      meeting. For details, contact the Fellowships Chair.


FELLOWSHIPS CHAIR


C. P. Ravikumar
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
rkumar@ee.iitd.ernet.in


                                                          CALL FOR PAPERS


                          ********** Deadline: April 20, 1997 ***********
                  **** Electronic submissions to: hipc97@cis.ufl.edu ****


Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that
demonstrate current research in all areas of high performance
computing including design and analysis of parallel and distributed
systems and their applications in scientific, engineering, and
commercial areas. Topics of interest include but are not limited to:


* Parallel Algorithms * Scientific Computation
* Parallel Architectures * Visualization
* Parallel Languages & Compilers * Network-based Computing
* Distributed Systems * Signal & Image Processing Systems
* Programming Environments * Supercomputing Applications
* Memory Systems * Internet and WWW-based Computing


To submit a paper, send a summary of your work (not to exceed ten
double spaced pages including figures, tables, and references) to the
Program Chair. Electronic form of submission (PostScript format) is
preferred. Electronic submissions should be sent to
hipc97@cis.ufl.edu. Mail/Fax submissions will also be considered.
Hard copy (five copies) and fax (one copy) submissions should be sent
to the Program Chair at the address/fax number given below.


In addition to the summary, please include a cover page listing your
postal address, e-mail address, telephone and fax numbers, and the
name and address of the person who will present the work, if accepted.
All manuscripts will be reviewed.


To be considered, the summary and the cover page must be received by
April 10, 1997. Notification of accept/reject decisions will be
mailed by June 30, 1997. Camera-ready papers are due August 1, 1997.
Proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and will
also be available on the Web.


PROGRAM CHAIR


Sartaj Sahni
CISE Department, CSE 301
PO Box 116120
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611, USA
Fax: +1 (352) 392 1220
sahni@cis.ufl.edu


PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS


Kai Hwang, University of Hong Kong
Mary Jane Irwin, Pennsylvania State University
Jose D. P. Rolim, University of Geneva
Bhabani Sinha, Indian Statistical Institute
Albert Zomaya, The University of Western Australia


PROGRAM COMMITTEE


Mikhail J. Atallah, Purdue University
Cevdet Aykanat, Bilkent University, Turkey
Raminder S. Bajwa, Semiconductor Research Laboratory, Hitachi America Ltd.
Silvano P. V. Barros, University of London, United Kingdom
Bhargab B. Bhattacharya, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta, India
Moreshwar R. Bhujade, Indian Institute of Technology, Powai Mumbai, India
Chita R. Das, Pennsylvania State University
Sajal Das, University of North Texas
Eliezer Dekel, IBM Haifa Research Lab, Israel
                              Matam Advanced Technology Center, Israel
Hossam ElGindy, University of Newcastle, Australia
Fikret Ercal, University of Missouri, Rolla
Afonso Ferreira, Technical University of Nova Scotia, Canada
Pierre Fraigniaud, Laboratoire de l'Informatique du Parallelisme, France
Kanad Ghose, State University of New York, Binghamton
R. K. Ghosh, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India
Mounir Hamdi, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong
Oscar Ibarra, University of California, Santa Barbara
S. Sitharama Iyengar, Louisiana State University
Chris Jesshope, Massey University, New Zealand
Anand Kumar, CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modelling and
                          Computer Simulation, India
C. P. Ravi Kumar, Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi, India
J. Mohan Kumar, Curtin University of Technology, Australia
Alberto Marchetti-Spaccamela, University of Rome, Italy
Graham M. Megson, University of Reading, United Kingdom
Krishnendu Mukhopadhyaya, Jadavpur University, India
Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University
A. Yavuz Oruc, University of Maryland at College Park
David Padua, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
C. Pandu Rangan, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India
Murray Pearson, University of Waikato, New Zealand
Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, University of Florida
N. Ranganathan, University of South Florida
Sanjay Ranka, University of Florida
Arnold L. Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts
Catherine Roucairol, University of Versailles, France
Assaf Schuster, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
R. K. Shyamasundar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, Bombay, India
Ramesh Sitaraman, University of Massachusetts
Gurindar Sohi, University of Wisconsin
Pat Teller, University of Texas at El Paso
Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory
Marian Vajtersic, University of Salzburg, Austria
                                    Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovakia
Mateo Valero, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Toshitsugu Yuba, University of Electro-Communications, Japan
Chung-Kwong Yuen, National University of Singapore, Singapore
Emilio L. Zapata, University of Malaga, Spain


                                                POSTER/PRESENTATION SESSION


In addition to parallel sessions of contributed papers, a plenary
poster/presentation session emphasizing novel applications of high
performance computing is planned. This session will be held
concurrently with a reception followed by a dinner. It will offer a
brief presentation time slot for each poster and will be followed by a
walk-up and talk setting. For details, contact the
Poster/Presentation Chair.


POSTER/PRESENTATION CHAIR


Prith Banerjee
Northwestern University
banerjee@eecs.nwu.edu


                                                        MEETING INFORMATION


The advance program will be available in July 1997.
Check the URL http://www.hipc.org for updated information.


                                                          IMPORTANT DATES


April 10, 1997 Conference Paper Due
June 3, 1997 Tutorial Proposal Due
June 30, 1997 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
August 1, 1997 Camera-Ready Paper Due
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