K3MI@UNB.CA (05/28/91)
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SUPERCOMPUTING SYMPOSIUM '91
Fredericton Inn, Fredericton, N.B. Canada
June 3-5, 1991
ORGANIZERS:
Virendra C. Bhavsar General Chair bhavsar@unb.ca
Uday G. Gujar Program Chair uday@unb.ca
Kirby M. Keyser Exibition Chair kmk@unb.ca
John M. DeDourek Registration Chair dedourek@unb.ca
Faculty of Computer Science
University of New Brunswick
Fredericton, N.B.
Canada, E3B 5A3
phone: (506) 453-4566 fax: (506) 453-3566
PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
REGISTRATION/INFORMATION
Sunday, June 2, 1991 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
Monday, June 3, 1991 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Tuesday, June 4, 1991 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Wednesday, June 5, 1991 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
ENTERTAINMENT
Sunday, June 2, 1991, 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.
- Early Bird Reception
Monday June 3, 1991, 7:00 p.m. - 9:30 p.m.
- "Characters Inc.", at Playhouse (downtown)
- Partially sponsored by IBM Canada
- Please pickup a complementary ticket from the Information Desk
- Additional tickets are available, $10.00 ea.
Tuesday, June 4, 1991,
- 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. - Cash Bar, Live entertainment by LNR Trio
- 7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. - Banquet, Live entertainment by LNR Trio,
followed by Peter Pacey
-Partially Sponsored by Canstar
EXHIBITION
Exhibitors:
- Alliant Computer Systems Corporation
- Convex Computer Corporation Inc.
- Cray Canada
- FPS Computing
- Fujitsu Canada
- IBM Canada
- HNSX Superomputers
- Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Monday, June 3, 1991 10:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Tuesday, June 4, 1991 10:00 a.m. - 6:30 p.m.
Wednesday, June 5, 1991 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
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* TECHNICAL PROGRAM *
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MONDAY, June 3, 1991
8:45 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Welcome
Invited Talk 1: "High Performance Computing Directions", by Louise D. Neilsen,
Director, High Performance Computing Solutions, IBM, Kingston, USA
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. NUTRITION BREAK
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Parallel Sessions 1
Session 1A: Applications I
"3-D Gravity Modelling and Discrete FFT Performance on a Pipelined Vector
Supercomputer with Interleaved Memory" by Dezso Nagy, Geological Survey of
Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada, and A.J. Stacey, Ontario Centre for Large Scale
Computation, Toronto, ON, Canada
"Statistical Analysis of a Genetic Selection Experiment Using a Cray
Supercomputer", by R.I. Cue, McGill University, Ste Anne de Bellevue, Quebec,
PQ, Canada and N. Chepurniy, Cray Research, Dorval, PQ, Canada
"Electronic Excited States of H2CS, an Ab Initio MRD-CI Study", by Michel
Hachey and Friedrich Grein, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB,
Canada
Session 1B: Numerical Algorithms I
"Use of Finite Difference Patterns to Achieve High Performance on the CM2",
by Kirk E. Jordan, Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA, USA
"Multicolour Orderings and Iterative Methods for Elliptic Equations", by
Christina C. Christara, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
"An Algorithm for Locating a Set of Consecutive Eigenvalues" by L. E. Garey
and K. A. Gilmore, University of New Brunswick, Saint John, NB, Canada
Session 1C: System Software I
"The Current Status of Computer-aided Software Engineering for Science and
Engineering", by B. McNamara, Leabrook Computing Limited, Oxford, UK; K.J.M.
Moriarty and G. Murdeshwar, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
"A CASE Environment for Supercomputing", by Ping Cheng, K.J.M. Moriarty and
Marc O'Brien, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
"The Design of a CASE Package: Scotia Programming Environment and Facility",
by K.J.M. Moriarty, Ganesh Murdeshwar, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
and B. McNamara, Leabrook Computing Limited, Oxford, UK
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. LUNCH BREAK
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Invited Talk 2: "Imaging Hydrodynamic Complexity with
Supercomputers", by Richard Peltier, Department of Physics, University of
Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. NUTRITION BREAK
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Parallel Sessions 2
Session 2A: Visualization
"Scientific Visualization at the Ontario Centre for Large Scale
Computation", by David R. Blythe and John W. Ross, Univeristy of Toronto,
Toronto, ON, Canada
"Sansar: A System for Visualization of Algebraic Fractals", by Uday G.Gujar,
Virendra C. Bhavsar and Nagarjuna Vangala, University of New Brunswick,
Fredericton, NB, Canada
Session 2B: Non-numerical Algorithms I
"An Efficient Tabu Search Algorithm for m-way Graph Partition", by L. Tao,
Y.C. Zhao, J. Guo, K. Thulasiraman and M.N.S. Swamy, Concordia University,
Montreal, PQ, Canada
"Computing Local Sequence Similarities on a Supercomputer", by Ningning Han,
Michigan Technological University, Houghton, MI, USA
Session 2C: Application II
"PRAS: Parallel Alignment of Sequences Package", by R.V. Kulkarni, Shashank
Date, Center for Development for Advanced Computing, Pune, India; Bhavana
Kulkarni, Urmila Kulkarni and A.S. Kolaskar, University of Poona, Pune, India
"Investigating the Problem of Sorting for Transputer Systems", by K.V.
Dinesha and Deepak D. Barve, National Institute of Bank Management, Pune, India
4:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. STRETCH BREAK
4:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. Parallel Sessions 3
Session 3A: Applications III
"Finite-difference Seismic Modeling at 14 Gigaflops on the Connection
Machine", by Jacek Myczkowski, Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge, MA,
USA
"An Analysis of the Topology of the Flow Around an Oscillating Airfoil", by
Maryse Page, Robert Dickinson, Andri Garon and Dominique Pelletier, Icole
Polytechnique de Montrial, Montrial, PQ, Canada
Session 3B: Design I
"Analysis of the Augmented Data Manipulator Network", by Karim Harzallah and
Kenneth C. Sevcik, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
"Performance Evaluation of Circuit Switched Multistage Interconnection
Networks", by Shuo-Hsien Hsio and C. Y. Roger Chen, Syracuse University,
Syracuse, MA, USA
Session 3C: Non-numerical Algorithms II
"A Parallel Merging Algorithm for Message Passing Multicomputers", by Pankaj
Kumar, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Bangalore, India
"Superquicksort: A new sorting alorithm for transputer based message passing
multiprocessors", by S. Chandra, M. Jain, A. Basu and P.S. Kumar, Centre for
Development of Advanced Computing, Bangalore, India
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TUESDAY, June 4, 1991
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Invited Talk 3: "Progress in Quantum Optical
Computing", by H. John Caulfield, The University of Alabama in Huntsville,
Huntsville, AL, USA
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. NUTRITION BREAK
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Parallel Sessions 4
Session 4A: General
"Supercomputing on an Integrated Scalar+Vector+Highly-Parallel System", by
Shahin Khan, FPS Computing, Berkshire, UK
"Statewide Supercomputing in North Carolina: From Zero to A Gigaflop in Two
Days", by James A. Brooking, North Carolina Supercomputing Center, Research
Triangle Park, NC, USA
"Acquiring the World's Fastest Supercomputer", by Bruce Attfield, iai
Consulting, Nepean, ON, Canada
Session 4B: Applications IV
"Systolic Array Implementations for Reconfigurable Learning Machines on
Transputers", by Brain J. d'Auriol, Virendra C. Bhavsar, and Lev Goldfarb,
University of New Brusnwick, Fredericton, NB, Canada
"An Iterative Eigenvalue Algorithm to Find Lowest Eigenvalues Using Data
Parallellism on Transputer Network", by Akshara Bhoite, D.G. Kanhere and M.
Arjunwadkar, University of Poona, Pune, India
"Molecular Dynamics Simulation of Semiconductor Surfaces on a Transputer
Array - A Performance Analysis", by R. Viswanathan, Jayashree Seshadri, Swati
Joshi and S.B. Ogale, University of Poona, Pune, India; Virendra C. Bhavsar,
University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada, and A. Madhukar,
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
12:00 - 1:30 p.m. LUNCH BREAK
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Invited Talk 4: "A New Parallel Architecture for Sparse
Matrix Computation Based on Finite Projective Geometries", by Narendra
Karmarkar, AT & T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA and Indian Institute
of Technology, Bombay, India
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. NUTRITION BREAK
3:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Parallel Sessions 5
Session 5A: System Software II
"An Overview of the Compilation Process for a New Parallel Architecture", by
Inderjit S. Dhillon, Narendra K. Karmarkar, AT & T Bell Laboratories, Murray
Hill, NJ, USA; Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, Indi;, and K.G.
Ramakrishnan, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ, USA
"Efficient Process Partition and Balancing with Simulated Annealing", by
Y.C. Zhao, L. Tao, K. Thulasiraman, and M.N.S. Swamy, Concordia University,
Montreal, PQ, Canada
Session 5B: Numerical Algorithms II
"Implicit Numerical Solution of Euler Equations Using a Direct Sovler", by
D. Ait-Ali-Yahia, J.-Y. Tripanier and M. Reggio, Icole Polytechnique de
Montrial, Montrial, PQ, Canada
"Row Projection on the IBM ES-9000: From Finite Differences to Finite
Elements", by D. Pelletier, N. Tounsi, Icole Polytechnique de Montrial,
Montrial, Canada, and R. Bramley, University of Illinois at Urbana, Urbana,IL,
USA
Session 5C: System Software III
"MK: A High Level Interface for Message Passing", by U. Nagaraj and U.S.
Shukla, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Bangalore, India
"Implementation Issues of an Efficient Dependence Analysis Component for
Parallelizing Compilers", by Abdel-Elah Al-Ayyoub, Tuncay Terizioglu and
Marifi Guler, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkiye
4:00 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. STRETCH BREAK
4:15 p.m - 5:15 p.m. Parallel Sessions 6
Session 6A: Applications V
"Concurrent Stochastic Simulations Experiments with Unification", by Vernon
Rego, Ling-Yu Chuang and Aditya P. Mathur, Purdue University, West Lafayette,
USA
"Monte Carlo Solutions of Linear Equations Using Weighted Sampling", by
Riyanarto Sarno, Virendra C. Bhavsar and Esam M.A. Hussein, University of New
Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada
Session 6B: Application VI
"The Use of a High Level CFD Code in Engineering Education", by J.E.S.
Venart, P. Lemieux, A.C.M. Sousa and D. Tatchell, University of New Brunswick,
Fredericton, NB, Canada
"Predicted and Measured Temperatures and Flows in Multi-Compartment Fires",
by J.E.S. Venart, G. Hadjisophocieous, A.C.M. Sousa, University of New
Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada and D. Tatchell Flowmerics Ltd., Kingston
Upon Thames, UK
Session 6C: Design II
"Two-Level Scheme for Distributed Termination Detection", by Beerud Sheth
and D.M. Dhamdhere, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India
"Single Algorithm Multiple Data Parallel Computer", by S. Ashok Kumar, M.
Periasamy and M.V. Pitke, Centre for Development of Telematics, Bangalore,
India
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WEDNESDAY, June 5, 1991
9:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Invited Talk 5: "Some Aspects of Computational
Physics", by K.J.M. Moriarty, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada
10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. NUTRITION BREAK
10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. Parallel Sessions 7
Session 7A: Design III
"Parallel Algorithm for PLAs Test Generation in Cray-YMP", by A. Cross,
University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA; and D.B. Sarma, Rutgers
University, Camdem, NJ, USA
"High Speed Peripheral and Computer Networking Using Fibre Channel", by
Kumar Malavalli, CANSTAR, North York, ON, Canada
Session 7B: Networks
"Topological Properties of Directed Hypercube", by S. Bhattacharya, C.T.
Liang and W.T. Tsai, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
"Bidirectional, Two Dimensional Regular Data Flow Architecture", by Jalal
Almhana, University of Moncton, Moncton, NB, Canada
"Cubical Bus Connected Columns: An Alternative to Hypercube", by S.
Bhattacharya, C.T. Liang and W.T. Tsai, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis,
MN, USA
Session 7C: System Software IV
"A New Approach to Handle Structured Data in Dataflow Computers", by Rajiv
Jain, Anshul Kumar and B.B. Madan, Indian Institute of Technology, New Deli,
India
"Parallel Attribute Evaluation", by N. Viswanathan and Y.N. Srikant, Indian
Institute of Science, Bangalore, India
"Performance of Vectorization Techniques for Monte Carlo Paticle Transport
codes on IBM 3090-180VF", by Virendra C. Bhavsar, Uday G. Gujar, Vincent Woo
and Esam M.A. Hussein, University of New Brunswick, Fredericton, NB, Canada
12:00 p.m. - 1:30 p.m. LUNCH BREAK
1:30 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. Invited Talk 6: "A Status Report on CORC and its
Follow-up", by A.K. Bjerring, University of Western Ontario, London, ON,
Canada, and P. Ahluwalia, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council,
Ottawa, ON, Canada
2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. NUTRITION BREAK
3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Closing Remarks
3:15 p.m. - 4:15 p.m. SUPERCAN General Body Meeting