CANPC '98 Final Program (Las Vegas, 1/31/98)

  Workshop on Communication, Architecture, and Applications for Network-based
                                                          Parallel Computing


                                                                  CANPC '98


        to be held in conjunction with Fourth International Symposium on High
                                  Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA-4)


            Orlean's Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, January 31 - February 1, 1998


                                  Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society


                                    http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~canpc98


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      * Final Program
      * Registration and Hotel Information
      * Ordering copies of the proceedings


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                                                              Final Program


January 31 (Saturday)


  9:00 - 12:00 Registration


12:00 - 12:10 Opening


12:10 - 1:15 Keynote Speech


          Bob Horst, Tandem Computers
          Key Issues in Designing System Area Networks


  1:15 - 1:30 Break


          Each session involves presentation by the authors as well as group
                                                      discussion at the end.


  1:30 - 3:30 Session I


          Network Interface and Communication Protocol
          Session Chair: Kourosh Gharachorloo, DEC WRL


                * The Remote Enqueue Operation on Networks of Workstations, E.
                    P. Markatos, M. G. H. Katevenis, and P. Vatsolaki, Institute
                    of Computer Science, FORTH, Greece
                * The HAL Interconnect PCI Card, J. Larson, HAL Computer
                    Systems
                * Implementing Protected Multi-User Communication for Myrinet,
                    S. Nagar, D. Seed, and A. Sivasubramaniam, The Pennsylvania
                    State University
                * ECOLE: A Configurable Environment for a Local Optical Network
                    of Workstations, G. Brebner and R. Pooley, Univ. of
                    Edinburgh, Scotland


  3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break


  4:00 - 6:00 Session II


          Systems, Application and Application Support
          Session Chair: Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Ohio State University


                * The Design of a Parallel Programming System for a Network of
                    Workstations: An Object-Oriented Approach, C. W. Ming, S.
                    Chanson, and M. Hamdi, The Hong Kong University of Science
                    and Technology
                * Remote Subpaging Across a Fast Network, by M. Bangalore and
                    A. Sivasubramaniam, The Pennsylvania State University
                * Improved Functional Imaging through Network Based Parallel
                    Processing, F. Munz, T. Stephan, U. Maier, T. Ludwig, A.
                    Bode, S. Ziegler, S. Nekolla, P. Bartenstein, and M.
                    Schwaiger, Technische Universitat Munchen (TUM), Germany
                * AutoMap and AutoLink: Tools for Communicating Complex and
                    Dynamic Data-structures Using MPI, D. S. Goujon (Telecom
                    INT), M. Michel (RESEDAS), J. Peeters (Univ. of Twente), and
                    J. E. Devaney (NIST)


February 1 (Sunday)


  8:00 - 8:30 Registration


  8:30 - 10:00 Session III


          Communication and Synchronization
          Session Chair: Jose Duato, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia


                * Analysis of a Programmed Backoff Method for Parallel
                    Processing on Ethernets, N. Matloff, University of California
                    at Davis
                * Improving Dynamic Token-Based Distributed Synchronization
                    Performance via Optimistic Broadcasting, A. I-C. Lai and
                    C.-L. Lei, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
                * Fast Barrier Synchronization on Shared Fast Ethernet, G.
                    Chiola and G. Ciaccio, Universita di Genova, Italy


10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break


10:30 - 12:00 Session IV


          Routing and Flow-control
          Session Chair: Manolis Katevenis, FORTH and Univ. of Crete, Greece


                * Parallel Routing Table Computation for Scalable IP Routers,
                    X. Xiao and L. M. Ni, Michigan State University
                * A Tool for the Analysis of Reconfiguration and Routing
                    Algorithms in Irregular Networks, R. Casado, M. B. Caminero,
                    P. Cuenca, F. J. Quiles, A. Garrido (Universidad de Castilla
                    - La Mancha), and J. Duato (Universidad Politecnica de
                    Valencia)
                * Real-Time Traffic Management on Optical Networks using
                    Dynamic Control of Cycle Duration, C.-C. Yu and S.
                    Bhattacharya, Arizona State University


12:00 - 2:00 Lunch Break


  2:00 - 4:00 Session V


          Communication Patterns and Performance Evaluation
          Session Chair: Craig Stunkel, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center


                * A Comparative Characterization of Communication Patterns in
                    Applications using MPI and Shared Memory on an IBM SP2, S.
                    Karlsson and M. Brorsson, Lund University, Sweden
                * Characterization of Communication Patterns in Message-Passing
                    Parallel Scientific Application Programs, J. Kim and D. J.
                    Lilja, University of Minnesota
                * Cross-platform Analysis of Fast Messages for Myrinet, G.
                    Iannello, M. Lauria, and S. Mercolino, Universita di Napoli
                    Federico II, Italy
                * Performance of a Cluster of PCI Based UltraSparc Workstations
                    Interconnected with SCI, K. Omang (University of Oslo)


  4:00 - 4:30 Coffee Break


  4:30 - 6:00 Panel Session


          Strategies for NOW Performance Scaling: Shared-nothing or
          Shared-something?


          Moderator: Greg Pfister, IBM


          Tentative Panelists:


          Jean-Loup Baer, University of Washington
          Jose Duato, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
          Michel Dubois, University of Southern California
          Bob Horst, Tandem Computers
          Jaswinder Pal Singh, Princeton University
          Per Stenstrom, Chalmers University, Sweden


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                                          Registration and Hotel information


Workshop registration is handled by the HPCA-4 conference registration form.
The workshop registration fees are as follows. The registration fee includes
a copy of the CANPC '98 proceedings, published by Springer-Verlag. Sign up
by January 15th for lowest rates. You can sign up for just the CANPC '98
workshop, or a combination of HPCA-4 and CANPC '98.


                                                                                              CANPC'98 Workshop


                                                                                    Advance On-site


  IEEE Members $90 $110


  Non-members $110 $135


  Full-time Students $60 $70


For hotel reservation information, see the HPCA-4 information page. Sign up
by January 15th to receive the lowest rates and to guarantee room
availability. The conference rate for Friday and Saturday (both nights
together) arrival is $89/night and for Sun-Tue (if you are attending HPCA-4)
is $39/night . Reservation can be made by directly calling the Orlean's
Hotel at (800) 675-3267.
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Ordering copies of the CANPC '98 Proceedings:


The proceedings of CANPC '98 are published as volume 1362 of
Springer-Verlag's ``Lecture Notes in Computer Science'' (LNCS) series. Each
registrant will receive one copy of this volume. The list price is DM 66.00.


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complete mailing address) or by mail to Springer-Verlag, Vertrieb, Postfach
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(of the list price) directly from Springer-Verlag. At current exchange rates
and including the discount, this book costs about US$20, an attractive
price.
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