bokg@cs.umu.se (Bo K}gstr|m) (04/12/90)
First announcement of The Nordic Workshop on Visualization and Analysis of Scientific and Technical Computations on High-Performance Computers ------------------------------------------------------- Organizers etc -------------- The first Nordic Workshop on Visualization in Scientific Computing is going to take place in Umeaa between the 25th and the 28th of September, 1990. The workshop is organized by Umea University and the SuperComputer Center North (SDCN) and is financed by the Nordic Council of Ministers. SIAM Nordic section supports the workshop. Topics etc ---------- The workshop will cover areas like basic research in visualization, graphics tools in scientific computing, and the state-of-the-art use of visualization in Physics, Chemistry, Biotechnology, Medicine, Civil engineering etc. The following areas will be covered * Workstation-driven use of Supercomputers * Graphics-oriented programming environments * Interactive steering of simulations and calculations * Vectorized and parallelized algorithms for graphics and image processing * High performance architectures for graphics and visualization The workshop will include invited talks, contributed talks, poster sessions, demonstrations and some hands-on exercises. There will also be demonstrations of hardware and software from different vendors. The official language of the workskop is English. Invited speakers ---------------- So far thefollowing invited speakers have accepted our invitation: Martin Berggren Cornell National Supercomputer Facility, Center for Theory and Simulation in Science and Engineering Cornell University, Ithaca, USA Brian Collins IBM UK Scientific Centre, Winchester, UK Pirjo-Leena Forsstrom Center for Scientific Computing, CSC, Helsinki, Finland Robert Haber National Center for Supercomputer Applications (NCSA), Univ of Illinois, USA Per Kraulis Biomedical Center, Univ of Uppsala, Sweden Joergen Moth The Danish Computing Centre for Research and Education, UNI*C, Lyngby, Denmark Ake Nordlund Observatory of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark We have also invited speakers from CERN, Regnecentret - NTH/SINTEF Trondheim, Centre National Sud de Calcul CNUSC Montpellier and Arizona State University, Phoenix USA. Invitation for contributed talks and poster presentations --------------------------------------------------------- We invite you to submit an extended abstract for a con- tributed talk or a poster presentation. The abstract should summarize recent results in research in e.g. Tools and Methods for Computer Graphics and Visualization in Scientific Computing or Graphics Computing and Visualization in Scientific Computing with an emphasis on applications from Biology, Biotechnology, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Medicine etc. Abstracts must be recieved by the 15-th of May 1990. Send the abstract by email or fax (see adresses below). We would like to know what kind of equipment is needed - overhead-projector, slide-projector, video/data-projector, workstation etc ? We have Sun 3-80, Sun Sparc-station 1, Apollo and IBM 6150 at the university. We are connected to a IBM 3090-600 J/VF-system via a 2Mb-link and we have on the university an Intel iPSC/2 hypercube with 64 nodes (16 with vector facility) and are about to aquire a shared-memory multi- processor system with advanced graphics and visualization facilities. Further information ------------------- The registration fee of 150 US$ is due September 1, 1990. This fee includes conference reception, conference dinner, lunches and coffee and a special social event. Accomodations are not covered by this fee. If you plan to attend the workshop and submit a paper for presentation please contact professor Bo Kagstrom (see below). If you plan to attend but will not submit a paper please contact Torbjoern Johansson (see below). Hotel rooms are preliminary booked for the workshop. There are regular flights from Stockholm to Umeaa every 70 minute. The final program of the workshop will be published later. Contact persons for the workshop -------------------------------- Torbjoern Johansson SDCN Umeaa University S-901 87 Umea Phone: +46-90166585 Email:tojo@biovax.umdc.umu.se Bo Kagstrom Dept of Computing Science Umeaa University S-901 87 Umea Phone: +46-90165419 Fax: +46-90166126 Email: bokg@biovax.umdc.umu.se