CFP: HiPC98, India, 12/98

   CALL FOR PARTICIPATION


5th International Conference on High Performance Computing


                                 December 17-20, 1998
                                     Chennai (Madras), India


Cosponsored by:


IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing
ACM SIGARCH




Held in Cooperation with:


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


This is the fifth 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
University of Southern California
EEB 200C
Los Angeles, CA 90089-2562, USA
Fax: +1 (213) 740 4418
Internet: prasanna@ganges.usc.edu


S. V. Raghavan
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
Indian Institute of Technology,
Chennai 600036, India
Tel: +91 44 235 1365 Ext 3500
Internet: svr@cs.iitm.ernet.in




VICE GENERAL CHAIR


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


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


STEERING COMMITTEE
Arvind, MIT
Vijay Bhatkar, C-DAC
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 Labs.
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 Centre for Intelligent Computing Systems, China
Miroslaw Malek, Humboldt University, Germany
Lionel Ni, Michigan State University
Lalit M. Patnaik, Indian Institute of Science
Viktor K. Prasanna, USC, Chair
Jose Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland
Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida
Assaf Schuster, Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
Vaidy Sunderam, Emory University
Satish Tripathi, University of Maryland
David Walker, Oak Ridge National Labs.
K.S. Yajnik, CSIR Centre for Mathematical Modeling and Computer Simulation
Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Western Australia


NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE


N. Balakrishnan
Supercomputer Education and Research Centre,
Indian Institute of Science, 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-IBM Ltd., Bangalore.
U. N. Sinha
NAL, Bangalore.
G. Vijayaraghavan
XXX Trivandrum


INVITED SPEAKER/PANEL COORDINATOR
Arvind
MIT


FINANCE CO-CHAIRS
A.K.P. Nambiar
Software Technology Park, Bangalore


Ajay Gupta
Western Michigan University


PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS


Sandeep Gupta
Colorado State University
Internet: gupta@cs.colostate.edu


R. Govindarajan
Indian Institute of Science




TUTORIALS


Proposals are solicited for tutorials to be held at the meeting. Interested
individuals should submit a proposal by June 3, 1998 to Vice
General Chair.
It should include a brief description of the intended audience, a lecture
outline and vita for 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, 1998:


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
Internet: nandy@serc.iisc.ernet.in


AWARDS


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 and Sun Microsystems,
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 and 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 Student Awards Chair.


Student Scholarships:
Tata-IBM is sponsoring these scholarships to
students at academic institutions within India to participate in the
meeting. For details contact the Student Awards Chair.


STUDENT AWARDS CHAIR
C.P. Ravikumar
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi
(rkumar@ee.iitd.ernet.in)




CALL FOR PAPERS


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
* Multimedia and High Speed Networks


To submit an original research paper, send your complete manuscript (not to
exceed 15 single-spaced pages of text using 12 point size type on 8.5 x 11
inch pages) to the Program Chair. References, figures, tables, etc. may be
included in addition to the fifteen pages of text. Electronic submissions
are encouraged and should be sent to hipc98@cs.ucsb.edu.
Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable postscript file
containing the following header information in ASCII form: title, author
name(s), abstract, postal address, e-mail address, and telephone and fax
numbers. The header (in ASCII) should be followed by the postscript version
of the complete manuscript (including title, author's name, affiliation, and
abstract).


Authors should submit a correct PostScript (level 2) file of their paper to
be considered and make sure that the PostScript file will print on a
PostScript printer that uses 8.5 x 11 inch size (letter size) paper.


All manuscripts will be reviewed.
Manuscripts must be received by April 10, 1998.
Submissions received after the due date or exceeding the length
limit may not be considered. Notification of review decisions will be mailed
by June 30, 1998. Camera-ready papers are due August 1, 1998.
Proceedings will be available at the Conference. Fax submissions will not be
considered. Hard copy submissions are also permitted and, like electronic
submissions, must be received by April 10, 1998. Send six copies of the
manuscript to:


PROGRAM CHAIR


Oscar H. Ibarra
Department of Computer Science
University of California
Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Fax: +1 (805) 893-8553 Internet: ibarra@cs.ucsb.edu


Electronic submissions should be sent to hipc98@cs.ucsb.edu.




PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS


Mikhail Atallah
Purdue University


Jose Duato
Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain


Michel Dubois
University of Southern California


Chris Jesshope
Massey University, New Zealand


Vipin Kumar
University of Minnesota


C.P. Ravikumar
Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi


PROGRAM COMMITTEE




    Gul Agha, University of Illinois
    Ishfaq Ahmad, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
    Eliezer Albacea, University of the Philippines
    P.C.P. Bhatt, Kochi University of Technology, Japan
    Bhargab Bhattacharya, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta
    Laxmi Bhuyan, Texas A&M University
    John Bruno, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Walter Burkhard, University of California, San Diego
    Alok Choudhary, Northwestern University
    Michel Cosnard, LORIA - INRIA, France
    Jack Dongarra, University of Tennesee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory
    Hossam ElGindy, University of Newcastle, Australia
    Sharad Gavali, NASA
    Ananth Grama, Purdue University
    Tsan-sheng Hsu, Academia Sinica, Taiwan
    Joseph Jaja, University of Maryland
    Zvi Kedem, New York University
    Ashfaq Khokhar, University of Delaware
    Myung Kim, Ewha Womans University, Korea
    Zhiyuan Li, Purdue University
    Burkhard Monien, University of Paderborn, Germany
    C. Siva Ram Murthy, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras
    Michael Palis, Rutgers University
    Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State University
    Behrooz Parhami, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Murray Pearson, University of Waikato, New Zealand
    Keshav Pingali, Cornell University
    Constantine Polychronopoulos, University of Illinois
    C.S. Raghavendra, Aerospace Corporation
    Sanjay Ranka, University of Florida
    Catherine Roucairol, University of Versailles-Saint-Quentin, France
    Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida
    Joel Saltz, University of Maryland
    Sanjeev Saxena, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur
    Assaf Schuster, Technion, Israel
    Ambuj Singh, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Y.N. Srikant, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
    Per Stenstrom, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
    Pavel Tvrdik, Czech Technical University
    Mateo Valero, Universidad Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
    Biing-Feng Wang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
    Tao Yang, University of California, Santa Barbara
    Pen Yew, University of Minnesota
    Chung-Kwong Yuen, National University of Singapore
    Hans Zima, University of Vienna


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 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 Univeristy
Internet:banerjee@eecs.nwu.edu


HiPC '98 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE


GENERAL CO-CHAIRS


Viktor K. Prasanna
University of Southern California


S. V. Raghavan
Indian Institute of Technology, Madras


VICE GENERAL CHAIR


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


PROGRAM CHAIR


Oscar H. Ibarra
University of California, Santa Barbara


EXHIBITS CHAIR


S.K. Nandy
Indian Institute of Science


MEETING INFORMATION


The advance program will be available in July 1998.
Check www.hipc.org for updated information.


IMPORTANT DATES:


April 10, 1998 Conference Paper Due
June 3, 1998 Tutorial Proposal Due
June 30, 1998 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection
August 1, 1998 Camera-Ready Paper Due
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