[comp.arch] ACM ICS'90-LAST CALL FOR REGISTR.

harryw@uicsrd.csrd.uiuc.edu (05/02/90)

          1990 ACM  International Conference on Supercomputing
                June 11-15, Amsterdam, the Netherlands  
        Vrije Universiteit and Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica
                        Sponsored by  ACM SIGARCH
          in association with ACM-SIGNUM, AICA, BCS-PPG, CTI, CSRD, 
                  CWI, GI, INRIA, IPSJ, SBMAC, and SIAM-SIAG

                     CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRMEN 
                Ahmed Sameh, University of Illinois, USA 
                            and 
        Henk van der Vorst, Delft University of Technology CWI, the Netherlands

                	Program Director
        John R. Sopka, Digital Equipment Corporation, USA

                       Program Committees
     AMERICA: E. Gallopoulos (Chair), F. Darema, E. Davidson, G. Fox, 
     D. Gannon, M. Heath, J. Hennessy, E. Houstis, J. McGraw, Y. Patt, 
     C. Polychronopoulos, J. Rice, Y. Saad, J. E. Smith, H. Wijshoff.
     EUROPE-AFRICA J. R. Gurd (Chair), I. S. Duff, W. K. Giloi, F. Hossfeld, 
     W. Jalby, P. Leca, T. S. Papatheodorou, R. H. Perrot, P. Sguazerro, 
     H. v. d. Vorst, J. v. Leeuwen, M. Vanneschi.
     JAPAN-FAR EAST Y. Muraoka (Chair), K. Asai, S. Ono, M. Ishii,
     T. Kamimura, M. Koike, S. Nagashima, T. Shimada, H. Tanaka, H. Terada.
     ORGANIZING COMMITTEE D. DeGroot, H. te Riele, 
     M. Louter-Nool, F. Snijders, L. Verdonk.

INVITED LECTURES:

        Burton Smith, "The Tera Computer System"
        Tony Chan, "Parallel Multilevel Algorithms for PDE's"
        William Wulf, "The Collaboratory: A Larger Context for Support
        of Computational Science"
        Wolfgang Fichtner, "Iterative Methods and Supercomputers for
        VLSI Device Simulation"
        Toshitsugu Yuba, "Dataflow Computer Development in Japan"
        Ahmed Noor, "Strategies for Large-Scale Structural Problems on
        High Performance Computers"
        Piet van der Houwen, "Parallel ODE Solvers"
        Anthony Hey, "Supercomputing with transputers-past, present and future"

This is the fourth year of the ACM International Conference on Supercomputing.
The conference will be held at Vrije Universiteit. Conference Proceedings 
will be published by ACM.  In addition to the invited and contributed papers, 
there will also be demonstrations of projects on Software Environments 
for Scientific Computing, accompanied by panel discussions, and vendor exhibits.
The conference will also host the award of the first annual
Bell-Perfect Prize for high performance scientific computing.

SOCIAL EVENTS:

        Sunday, 10 June: Reception and informal get together. Admission
        free for participants.
        Tuesday, 12 June: Conference banquet, to be served during a
        boat trip through the Amsterdam canals and on the river Zaan to the
        Zaanse Schans. Costs: Dfl. 80.-- per person.
        Wednesday, 13 June: Excursion to either the Kroller-Muller Museum,
        where part (i.e. the drawings) of the great Van Gogh 1990 exhibition
        can be admired or to the Delta works.
        Costs: Dfl. 60.-- per person.
        Thursday, 14 June: Reception in a typically Dutch museum. Admission
        free for participants.
        Friday, 15 June: (A limited number of) Tickets are available for the
        other part of the great Van Gogh 1990 exhibition (the Van Gogh
        paintings) in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Price per ticket:
        Dfl. 20.--.


                              PROGRAM

                        SUNDAY, JUNE 10
                        Evening

18.00 - 20.00 Registration in Altea Hotel/Euromotel
19.00 - 20.00 Reception and informal get together in Altea Hotel/Euromotel

                        MONDAY, JUNE 11
                        Morning

 9.00 - 18.00 Registration

10.00 - 10.15 Welcome: Conference Chairmen

10.15 - 11.00 Opening: 
              W. C. Nieuwpoort (Chairman of the Working Committee on
              Supercomputers, Ministry of Education and Science,
              The Netherlands)
              Universities and Supercomputers: Do they need each other?

11.00 - 11.30 Break

11.30 - 12.15 Invited Lecture:
              William Wulf (U. S. National Science Foundation)
              The Collaboratory: A Larger Context for Support of 
              Computational Science

12.15 - 13.00 Invited Lecture:
              Wolfgang Fichtner (ETH, Zurich)
              Iterative Methods and Supercomputers for VLSI Device Simulation
                        
                        MONDAY, JUNE 11
                        afternoon

13.00 - 14.00           LUNCH

14.00 - 14.45 Invited Lecture:
              Burton Smith (TERA Computer Company)
              The Tera Computer System

14.45 - 15.00 Break

15.00 - 17.45 SESSION: HARDWARE AND ARCHITECTURE

15.00 - 15.30 Kai Hwang, Hemraj Nair, D. K. Panda and Santosh Rao
              (Dept. of Electrical Engineering-Systems, Univ. Southern
              California)
              Architectural Design of The USC Orthogonal Multiprocessor

15.30 - 16.00 K. Dai and W. K. Giloi (GMD-FIRST, Berlin, W. Germany)
              A basic architecture supporting the LGDG computation
                        
16.00 - 16.15 Break

16.15 - 16.45 Sang Lyul Min (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center), Jean-Loup Baer
              (Dept. Computer Science and Engineering, Univ. of Washington,
              Seattle) and Hyoung-Joo Kim (School of Information and Computer 
              Science, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta)
              An efficient caching support for critical sections in 
              large-scale shared-memory multi-processors

16.45 - 17.15 H. Itoh (Hitachi Ltd.), U. Nagashima and F. Nishimoto
              (Institute for Molecular Science)
              An improvement of I/O function for auxiliary storage: 
              Parallel I/O for large-scale supercomputing

17.15 - 17.45 Nian-Feng Tzeng (The Center for Advanced Computer Studies,
              Univ. of Southwestern Louisiana)
              Analysis of a Variant Hypercube Technology

15.00 - 17.45 DEMONSTRATION SESSION:
              PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS FOR SUPERCOMPUTING AND PARALLEL COMPUTING

                        TUESDAY, JUNE 12
                        Morning

 9.00 -  9.45 Invited Lecture:
              Piet van der Houwen (Centre for Mathematics and Computer Science
              - CWI, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
              Parallel Ordinary Differential Equation Solvers
 
 9.45 - 10.00 Break
        
10.00 - 13.00 SESSION: ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS 1

10.00 - 10.30 M. J. Dayde and Iain Duff (CERFACS, Toulouse)
              Use of level 3 BLAS in LU factorization in a multiprocessor
              environment on three vector multiprocessors, the Alliant FX/80,
              the Cray-2 and the IBM 3090 VF

10.30 - 11.00 Elias N. Houstis, J.R. Rice, N.P. Chrisochoides,
              H.C. Karathanasis, P.N. Papachiou, M.K. Samartzis,
              E.A. Vavalis and Ko Yang Wang
              (Dept. of Computer Science, Purdue Univ.)
              //ELLPACK: a numerical simulation programming environment
              for parallel MIMD machines

11.00 - 11.30 Christina Christara (Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto)
              Schur complement preconditioned conjugate gradient methods
              for spline collocation equations

11.30 - 12.00 Break

12.00 - 12.30 K.-L. Chung, F.-L. Lin and  W.-C. Chen
              (Dept. of Computer Science and Information Engineering, National
              Taiwan Univ.)
              Cost-optimal parallel B-spline interpolations

12.30 - 13.00 Z. Zlatev (National Environmental Research Institute, Denmark)
              and Ahmed Sameh (Center for Supercomputing Research and
              Development)
              Solving general sparse linear systems using CG-type methods

10.00 - 13.00 DEMONSTRATION SESSION:
              PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS FOR SUPERCOMPUTING AND PARALLEL COMPUTING
                
10.00 - 13.00 SESSION: TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS BY MANUFACTURERS

                       TUESDAY, JUNE 12
                       afternoon

13.00 - 14.00          LUNCH 

14.00 - 14.45 Invited Lecture:
              Toshitsugu Yuba, (Electrotechnical Laboratory - ETL,
              Tsukuba, Japan)
              Dataflow Supercomputer Development in Japan
                        
14.45 - 15.00 Break
                
15.00 - 17.45 SESSION: COMPILERS AND SYSTEMS 1

15.00 - 15.30 Vivek Sarkar and David Cann (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center)
              POSC - a partitioning and optimizing SISAL compiler

15.30 - 16.00 Francois Bodin and Francois Charot (Univ. of Rennes/IRISA)
              Machine modeling and loop optimization for horizontal
              microcoded machines
                
16.00 - 16.15 Break

16.15 - 16.45 Pen-Chung Yew, Peiyi Tang and Chuan-Qi Zhu
              (Center for Supercomputing Research and Development)
              Compiler techniques for data synchronization in nested
              parallel loops

16.45 - 17.15 Santosh G. Abraham and David E. Hudak
              (Dept. of EE/CS, Univ. of Michigan)
              Compiler techniques for data partitioning of sequentially 
              iterated parallel loops

17.15 - 17.45 David Klappholz, Kleanthis Psarris and Xiangyun Kong
              (Dept. of EE/CS, Stevens Institute of Technology)
              On the perfect accuracy of an approximate subscript analysis test
                
15.00 - 17.45 DEMONSTRATION SESSION:
              PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS FOR SUPERCOMPUTING AND PARALLEL COMPUTING

15.00 - 17.45 SESSION: TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS BY MANUFACTURERS

                         TUESDAY, JUNE 12
                         Evening

18.00 - 19.00 PANEL SESSION:
              PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS FOR SUPERCOMPUTING AND PARALLEL COMPUTING
              - DESIGNER AND USER POINT OF VIEW

19.15         Bus leave for Conference Dinner
19.45 - ?     Conference Banquet
              The Conference Banquet will be served during a boat trip 
              through the Amsterdam canals and on the river Zaan to the
              Zaanse Schans.

                       WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13
                       Morning

 9.00 -  9.45 Invited Lecture:
              Anthony Hey (Electronics and Computer Science Div., Southampton
              University)
              Supercomputing with transputers - past, present and future
 
 9.45 - 10.00 Break

10.00 - 12.30 SESSION: PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT

10.00 - 10.30 Allen D. Malony (Center for Supercomputing Research and
              Development) and Daniel A. Reed (Dept. Computer Science,
              Univ. of Illinois)
              A hardware-based monitor for the Intel iPSC/2 multiprocessor

10.30 - 11.00 Robert Dimpsey and R.K. Iyer (Computer Systems Group,
              Univ. of Illinois)
              Performance degradation due to multiprogramming and system
              overheads in real workloads: case study on a shared memory
              multiprocessor

11.00 - 11.30 Youcef Saad (NASA, RIACS) and Harry Wijshoff
              (Center for Supercomputing Research and Development)
              SPARK: a benchmark package for sparse computations

11.30 - 12.00 Break

12.00 - 12.30 George Cybenko, Lyle Kipp, Lynn Pointer and David Kuck
              (Center for Supercomputing Research and Development)
              Supercomputer performance evaluation and the Perfect Benchmarks

10.00 - 12.30 DEMONSTRATION SESSION:
              PROGRAMMING ENVIRONMENTS FOR SUPERCOMPUTING AND PARALLEL COMPUTING

12.30 - 12.45 BELL PERFECT AWARDS

                        WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13
                        Afternoon

13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH (for those not attending the afternoon excursions)

13.00         Bus leave for the excursions (with packed lunch)
              Excursion to either the Kroller-Muller Museum, where part
              (i.e. the drawings) of the great Van Gogh 1990 exhibition
              can be admired, or to the Delta works

                        THURSDAY, JUNE 14
                        Morning

 9.00 -  9.45 Invited Lecture: 
              Ahmed Noor (JIAFS - NASA Langley Research Center)
              Strategies for Large-Scale Structural Problems on High-Performance
              Computers

 9.45 - 10.00 Break

10.00 - 13.00 SESSION: ALGORITHMS AND APPLICATIONS 2

10.00 - 10.30 V. Zecca and A. Kamel (IBM, Rome)
              Elastodynamics on clustered vector processors

10.30 - 11.00 Roy Williams (Concurrent Supercomputing Facility,
              California Institute of Technology) 
              Performance of a distributed unstructured-mesh code for
              transonic flow

11.00 - 11.30 V. Eijkhout (Dept. of Mathematics, Catholic Univ., Nijmegen,
              The Netherlands)
              Implementation of 5-point/9-point multi-level methods on hypercube
              architectures

11.30 - 12.00 Break

12.00 - 12.30 Philip C. Chen (Jet Propulsion Laboratory)
              Supercomputer-based visualization systems for analyzing output
              data for a numerical weather prediction model

12.30 - 13.00 Y. Takahashi and S. Sasaki (Dept. of Information Science and
              Intelligent Systems, Faculty of Engineering, Tokushima Univ.,
              Japan)
              Parallel automated wire routing with a number of competing
              processors
                      
                       THURSDAY, JUNE 14
                       Afternoon

13.00 - 14.00 LUNCH

14.00 - 14.45 Invited Lecture:
              Tony Chan (Dept. of Mathematics, Univ. of California, Los Angeles)
              Parallel Multi-Level Algorithms for Partial Differential Equations

14.45 - 15.00 Break

15.00 - 17.45 SESSION: COMPILERS AND SYSTEMS 2

15.00 - 15.30 Kevin Smith, Bill Appelbe and Kurt Stirewalt
              (School of Information and Computer Science, Georgia Institute of
              Technology)
              Incremental dependence analysis for interactive parallelization

15.30 - 16.00 R. Ruehl and M. Annaratone (Institut fuer Integrierte Systeme,
              ETH-Zentrum, Zurich, Switzerland)
              Parallelization of FORTRAN code
              on distributed memory parallel processors

16.00 - 16.15 Break

16.15 - 16.45 Alexander V. Veidenbaum  and Edward H. Gornish
              (Center for Supercomputing Research and Development)
              Compile time analysis for data prefetching in multiprocessor
              memory hierarchies

16.45 - 17.15 Guang R. Gao, Herbert H.J. Hum and Yue-Bong Wong
              (School of Computer Science, McGill Univ., Montreal, Canada)
              Towards efficient fine-grain software pipelining

17.17 - 17.45 F. Andre, J-L. Pazat and H. Thomas,
              (IRISA, Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu, France)
              Pandore: A system to manage data distribution.
                
                        THURSDAY, JUNBE 14
                        Evening

18.00         Bus leave for Conference Reception
18.30 - 20.00 Conference Reception, to be held in the Dutch Maritime museum
                
                        FRIDAY, JUNE 15
                        Morning

 8.30 - 10.30 SESSION: ARCHITECTURE PERFORMANCE EVALUATION AND MODELING

 8.30 -  9.00 Rod A. Fatoohi (NASA Ames Research Center)
              Vector performance analysis of the NEC SX-2

 9.00 -  9.30 William Jalby, Daniel Windheiser (INRIA, Paris), Francois
              Bodin (Univ. of Rennes/IRISA), Dennis Gannon, Daya Atapattu, 
              and Mannho Lee (Computer Science Dept., Indiana Univ.)
              Performance evaluation and prediction
              for parallel algorithms on the BBN GP1000

 9.30 - 10.00 L. Brochard and A. Freau (IBM France, Marketing Scientifique,
              Paris)
              Designing algorithms on hierarchical memory multiprocessors

10.00 - 10.30 Donald A. Calahan (Dept. of Electrical Engineering and Computer 
              Science, Univ. of Michigan) and Ingrid Y. Bucher (Computer
              Research Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory)
              Access contention in multiprocessor memories

10.30 - 11.00 Break
                
11.00 - 13.00 SESSION: RUN TIME SYSTEM SUPPORT

11.00 - 11.30 E. Luque, A. Ripoli, P. Hernandez and T. Margalef
              (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, Departament d'Informatica,
              Spain)
              Impact of task duplication on static-scheduling performance on
              multiprocessor systems with variable execution time

11.30 - 12.00 Apostolos Gerasoulis, Sesh Venugopal and Tao Yang
              (Dept. of Computer Science, Rutgers Univ.)
              Clustering task graphs for message passing architectures

12.00 - 12.30 A. J. van Gemund, E. M. Paalvast and H. J. Sips
              (TNO Institute of Applied Computer Science, Delft,
              The Netherlands)
              To be announced

12.30 - 13.00 M. A. Tsoukarellas and T. S. Papatheodorou
              (Computer Technology Institute-CTI, Patras, Greece)
              A run time support system for multiprocessor machines

13.00 - 13.05 CONFERENCE ADJOURNS

                        FRIDAY, JUNE 15
                        Afternoon

14.30         Bus leave for the Van Gogh Museum
              (A limited number of) Tickets are available for the
              other part of the great Van Gogh 1990 exhibition (the Van Gogh
              paintings) in the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam

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HOTEL RESERVATIONS:

        Reservations can be made in the following hotels:

                                single room     twin bedded room

        Novotel Amsterdam       Dfl. 195.--     Dfl. 240.--
        Hotel Casa 400          Dfl. 122.--     Dfl. 180.--
        Hotel Altea/Euromotel   Dfl.  90.--     Dfl. 150.--

        Reservation costs: Dfl. 15.--
        Each reservation requires a deposit of Dfl. 250.--

REGISTRATION:

        Complete the registration form below and send it to:

                Frans Snijders
                CWI
                P.O. Box 4079
                1009 AB Amsterdam
                The Netherlands

        Registration fee's:

        Advance Registration Fee (Postmarked by May 15th, 1990):
        ACM Member  Dfl. 650,- (approx. US $ 350)
        Non-member  Dfl. 750,-
        Student     Dfl. 300,-

        Registration Fee (Postmarked after May 15th, 1990):
        ACM Member  Dfl. 750,-
        Non-member  Dfl. 850,-
        Student     Dfl. 400,-

PAYMENTS:

        All payments are to be made in Dutch guilders and are to be
        addressed to: Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam,
        mentioning ICS'90. They can be made by either
        a) banker's draft, or
        b) money transfer to bankaccount nr. 43.60.53.705.

        Personal and company cheques cannot be accepted.


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REGISTRATION FORM FOR ICS'90:

Name: ___________________________________________________________________

Affiliation: ____________________________________________________________

Address: ________________________________________________________________

Postal code: _______________________________ City: ______________________

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Accompanying Person's:___________________________________________________

(  ) Registration fee                                      DFL. ____

(  ) Conference banquet, DFL. 80.-- x ( )                  DFL. ____

(  ) Excursion to Kroller-Muller Museum, DFL. 60.-- x ( )  DFL. ____

(  ) Excursion to Delta works, DFL. 60.-- x ( )            DFL. ____

(  ) Ticket for Van Gogh Museum, DFL. 20.-- x ( )          DFL. ____

(  ) Extra lunch tickets, DFL. 20.-- x ( )                 DFL. ____

(  ) Extra reception tickets, DFL. 20.-- x ( )             DFL. ____

HOTEL RESERVATION:
Please indicate order of preference:
single/twin bedded room in:
                                ( ) Novotel
                                ( ) Hotel Casa 400
                                ( ) Altea Hotel/Euromotel

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Authorized signature:__________________________

Send this form to: Mr. Frans Snijders
                   CWI
                   P.O. Box 4079, Kruislaan 413
                   1009 AB Amsterdam, The Netherlands

More information can be obtained from Frans Snijders at the above
address or at fax. +31-20-5924199 or email franss@cwi.nl
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