PC'96

CONFERENCE PROGRAM



Sunday, September 8, 1996
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13.00 -        Registration

               TUTORIALS  - chairperson: Marian Bubak (Room A)
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14.00 - 15.00  Ann Sinap, IBM STSS Europe
               Message passing with  MPI

15.00 - 16.00  Michael Resch, Stuttgart University, Germany
               High Performance FORTRAN

16.00 - 16.20  Coffee

16.20 - 17.20  Arnold Krommer, NAG Ltd, England
               NAG Numerical PVM library

17.20 - 18.20  Richard Reuter, IBM ST&E Europe, Germany
               IBM parallel ESSL library
               

19.00 - 21.00  Opening reception
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21.00 - 22.00  SUP'EUR Steering Committee Meeting
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Monday, September 9, 1996
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 8.00 -        Registration
  
               Session  1   - chairperson: Jacek Moscinski (Room A+B)
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 8.30 -  9.15  Opening
               opening ceremony                             (10')
               talk of Minister Malgorzata Kozlowska (KBN)  (20')
               about SUP'EUR activity     - J. Moscinski    (10')
               practical information                        ( 5')

 9.15 - 10.00  Keynote lecture
               Jacek Kitowski, Institute of Computer Science AGH
                               and ACC CYFRONET, Krakow, Poland
               High performance computing in Poland and SP2 systems

10.00 - 10.45  Ulrich Trottenberg, GMD, Germany
               Europort: survey and results

10.45 - 11.15  Coffee


               Session  2   - chairperson: Dietmar Wierzimok (Room A+B)
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11.15 - 12.00  Joanne Martin / Bob Greenberg, IBM RS/6000 Division, USA
               RS/6000 SP product update

12.00 - 12.45  David Turek, IBM POWERParallel Development, USA
               RS/6000 SP  software update

12.45 - 14.00  Lunch


               Session  3.1  - chairperson: Wojciech Wojcik (Room A)
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14.00 - 14.45  Philippe Angot, IRPHE, Marseille, France
               Parallel and distributed multi-domain methods
               for numerical fluid dynamics

14.45 - 15.30  Werner Krotz - Vogel, PALLAS GmbH, Germany
               The PALLAS parallel programming environment 
               for the IBM RS/6000 SP
               
15.30 - 15.50  Coffee
  

               
16.35 - 17.20 

               Session  3.2 (Industrial): New Technology and Solutions
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               - chairperson: Filippo Ligresti (Room B)
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14.00 - 14.45  Friedhelm Schuerg
               Data protection in a high performance computing 
               environment with ADSM

14.45 - 15.30  Steve Furniss, IBM Storage Division
               Exploit the value of data with IBM storage solutions
               
15.30 - 15.50  Coffee

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15.50 - 16.35  Murray Campbell and Joseph Hoane, IBM Watson Research
               Deep Blue: The IBM chess system
               
               
16.35 - 17.20  SUP'EUR Meeting  - chairperson: Jacek Moscinski 
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20.00 - 21.30  Reception in the Town Hall
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Tuesday, September 10, 1996
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 8.00 -        Registration 
  

               Session 4.1   - chairperson: Felix Garcia-Merayo (Room A)
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 8.30 -  9.15  Manish Gupta, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center,
               Yorktown Heights, USA
               An HPF compiler for the IBM RS/6000 SP

 9.15 - 10.00  Bjarne Stig Andersen, UNI-C, Lyngby, Denmark
               UNI-C experience with SP2

10.00 - 10.45  Matthias Brehm, LRZ Munich, Germany
               Experiences with vector and parallel computing
               in a university computing center

10.45 - 11.15  Coffee

               Session 4.2 (Industrial) 
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               - chairperson: Filippo Ligresti (Room B)
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 9.15 - 10.00  Ron Bell, IBM UK
               Parallel ABAQUS Experience and Future Plans
               on the IBM SP

10.00 - 10.45  Steve MacDonald, ADAPCO   
               STAR-CD 
               

10.45 - 11.15  Coffee

              
               Session  5   - chairperson: Anne-Marie De Meyer (Room A+B)
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11.15 - 12.00  Giacomo Polosa, Independent Consultant, Rome , Italy
               Towards 25 years of high performance computing
               in Europe: hopes and realities

12.00 - 12.45  Sup'Prize ceremony                         (10')
               Sup'Prize lecture (author to be announced) (35')
               
12.45 - 14.00  Lunch


               Session  6.1  - chairperson:  Ad Emmen (Room A)
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14.00 - 14.45  Anton Prenneis, IBM POWERparallel Development, USA
               LoadLeveler: workload management for parallel
               and distributed computing environments
               
14.45 - 15.30  Jerry Gerner, Cornell Theory Center, USA
               Parallel I/O experiences: HPSS, PIOFS

15.30 - 15.50  Coffee
               
15.50 - 16.35  David J. Klepacki, IBM RISC System / 6000 Division, USA
               Application performance and benchmarking experience
               on the SP using MPI, HPF, and VSM

16.35 - 17.20  Craig Gotsman, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, Israel
               Progressive Ray-Tracing for Visualization on
               the IBM SP/2

  

               Session  6.2 (Industrial): Technology of Parallel Databases
               -----------------------------------------------------------
               - chairperson: Filippo Ligresti (Room B)
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14:00 - 14:45  Paul Couhault, Oracle Europe
               Oracle
               
14.45 - 15.30  Elie Kanaan,  Sybase Europe 
               Sybase

15.30 - 15.50  Coffee
               
15:50 - 16:35  Krzysztof Malawski, Informix Software Sp. z o.o., Warszawa
               Informix
               
16:35 - 17.20  Jim Stittle, IBM Toronto
               DB2 PE

17.20 - 18.00  Session  7 -   Poster session (contributed papers)
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               Posters will be on display from Monday morning;
               presenting authors are kindly requested to be
               during this time slot near their posters ready 
               to answer questions concerning their contributions. 
               

18.30 - 23.00  Excursion to Wieliczka, Conference dinner

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Wednesday, September 11, 1996
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               Session  8   - chairperson: Marian Bubak (Room A+B)
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 8.30 -  9.15  John S. Sobolewski, UNM/CIRT, USA
               Maui HPCC - configuration, operation and leading
               edge applications

 9.15 - 10.00  Boleslaw K. Szymanski, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute,
               Troy, USA
               Parallel  Scientific   Computing  on  SP2  at  SCOREC -
               Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
               
10.00 - 10.45  Wojciech Wojcik, CCIN2P3, France
               Experience with Parallel File System at CCIN2P3
               

10.45 - 11.15  Coffee

               Session  9   - chairperson: Steve O'Connell (Room A+B)
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11.15 - 12.00  Bob Greenberg, IBM RS/6000 Division , USA
               IBM trends and directions
  

12.00 - 12.45  Bob Greenberg and David Turek,
               IBM POWERParallel Development, USA
               Open Forum - Q/A

12.45 - 13.00  Closing ceremony

13.00 - 14.15  Lunch


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List of Contributed papers
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 1. A.G. Alexandrakis, A.V. Gerbessiotis, D.S. Lecomber, 
    C.J. Siniolakis, Oxford University, UK
    Bandwidth, Space and Computation Efficient PRAM 
    Programming: The BSP Approach

 2. A.G. Alexandrakis, A.V. Gerbessiotis, C.J. Siniolakis
    Oxford University, UK
    Portable and Scalable Algorithm Design on the IBM SP2:  
    The Bulk-Synchronous Parallel Paradigm
    
 3. M. Bubak, W. Funika, J. Moscinski
    Institute of Computer Science AGH, Krakow, Poland
    Performance Analysis of PVM Applications Running on Networked
    IBM RS/6000 Workstations
        
 4. E. deDoncker, A. Gupta,  Western Michigan University, USA
    Experience with the Yeremin Algorithm on IBM-SPx

 5. A. Esposito(1), L. Tarricone(2), 
    (1) C.A.S.I., Perugia, Italy
    (2) Instituto di Elettronica, Perugia, Italy
    Bandwidth Reduction of Sparse Matrices in Electromagnetic 
    Problems with Parallel Computing:  experiences with IBM SP2 
    and Cray T3D

 6. A.M. Goscinski, D.J.V. Evans, Deakin University, Australia
    Towards a Parallelising Compiler in Support of Parallel 
    Execution on Distributed Systems

 7. R. Hofestaedt(1,2), X. Huang(1)
    (1) University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany
    (2) University of Leipzig, Germany
    An Automaton-Based Approach to Load Balancing on High 
    Performance Networks

 8. W.L. Johnson(1), M. Osinski(1), W. Nakwaski(2), 
    (1) University of New Mexico, USA
    (2) Technical University of Lodz, Poland
    Parallelization Strategy in Modeling of Two-Dimensional 
    Arrays of Semiconductor Lasers on an IBM SP2 Supercomputer
    
 9. M. Kotulski, Technical University of Wroclaw, Poland
    Simulation of asymptotic behavior for continuous-time
    random walk on IBM SP2

10. W. Krotz-Vogel, H-Ch. Hoppe, PALLAS GmbH, Germany
    PALLAS Portable Parallel Programming for IBM SP2

11. P. Misiak, Wroclaw Centre of Networking and Supercomputing, Poland
    Academic IBM SP Supercomputer in Wroclaw
    
12. J. Navratil, O. Plachy, P. Kolman, P. Bures
    The Computing Centre of the CTU in Prague, Czech Republic
    The First Experiences with IBM SP2
    
13. W. Owczarz(1), Jerzy Wasniewski(1),  Zahari Zlatev(2)
    (1) UNI-C,Lyngby, Denmark
    (2) National Environmental Research Institute, Roskilde, Denmark  
    PVM Implementation of Advection-Chemistry Modules of Air Polution
    Models

14. O. Plachy, The Computing Centre of the CTU in Prague, Czech Republic
    Case Study of Applicability of Automatic and Hand 
    Parallelization to the Gaussian Elimination Algorithms

15. P. Saloun, Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic
    Object Based Binary Reduction Tree Simulation

16. M. Schuetz, R. Lindh, University of Lund, Sweden
    An Integral Direct, Distributed-Data, Parallel MP2 Algorithm

17. M. Soch, P. Tvrdik, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic
    Performance Evaluation of Message Passing Libraries 
    on IBM SP-2

18. D. Thevenin, S. Candel, CNRS and Ecole Centrale Paris, France
    Optimization Procedure of a Parallel Direct Simulation 
    Code to Investigate Reactive Flows


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The Sup'Prize contest

Sup'Prize is a contest (sponsored by IBM) in the development of parallel applications on IBM platforms. The result of the Sup'Prize contest will be presented at the SUP'EUR 96 Conference. You can find more about the Sup'Prize contest in the attached information (The SUP'Prize contest). We encourage all Sup'Prize contestants to submit their papers also to the SUP'EUR 96 Conference.