To: grimshaw@elf.cs.virginia.edu cc: hariri@cat.syr.edu Subject: Re: HPDC-4 In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 18 Apr 95 16:28:51 EDT." <9504182028.AA22056@elf.cs.Virginia.EDU> Date: Tue, 18 Apr 95 19:23:05 -0400 From: gcf Well Seitz dislikes me and I left Caltech for reasons which followed from this. Thus I consider it in bad taste and embarassing to Chuck to invite him or his staff. I would be happy to step down from general chair position -- get Wulf to be general chair for this conference! Then you could ask Chuck directly without embarassement that he might discover later my seeming (but not in practice) major role! BTW I do agree Myrinet is fine and appropriate subject! > > > Geoffrey, > I just called. I'll call you back on Friday afternoon, after 2:00. > > The HPDC-4 state is: > > The program committee met last week. Of the 57 papers we accepted > 26 papers. The consensus of the program committee was that while > there were fewer papers than last year there were fewer weak > ones. As a result, we accepted 16 papers in the first round of > picking "clear winners". > > As for keynotes. Anita is working on Jack Gibbons, and Salim has > suggested Walter Johnson in a big way. My understanding is that > Salim has invited Johnson. > > Invited papers. There is a bit of confusion here that I am trying > to clear up. Two are nailed down, Cherri Pancake on evaluating > tools and Paul Woodward on his mega-sgi application. They've been > invited, but I have not yet heard back. > > The confusion is that Salim sent email saying that he'd asked > Messina to ask Ira Richter. I'm not sure how far that got. > > Several members of the committee (myself included) felt we should > invite Chuck Seitz to give a paper on myrinet. I know that you have > objections to this, and that you do not feel that he would accept > anyway. Do your objections extend to myrinet as a whole, or to > him only? The thing is we'd like to get a talk on myrinet, it is > one of the hot new networks. This is something I'd like to talk > to you about on Friday. > > We scheduled a slot for the panel that you and Vaidy talked about. > > Tutorials are still a bit unclear, but Vaidy is working on it. > > The rest of the program is essentially done except for choosing > the session chairs. Below I've enclosed a copy of our working > document. > > > Till Friday > > > Andrew > > ************************************************************************** > HPDC-4 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION > ************************************************************************** > > > > FOURTH INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON > HIGH PERFORMANCE DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING (HPDC-4) > > > Ritz Carlton Hotel, Pentagon City, Virginia > August 2-4, 1994 > > SPONSORS: > > - IEEE Computer Society > - Northeast Parallel Architectures Center at Syracuse University > > IN COOPERATION WITH: > > - ACM SIGCOMM > - Rome Laboratory > > The International Symposium on High Performance > Distributed Computing provides a forum for presenting the latest > research findings that unify parallel and distributed computing. > In HPDC environments, parallel or distributed computing techniques > are applied to the solution of computationally intensive applications > across networks of computers. > This symposium follows three successful earlier conferences > held in Syracuse, NY, Spokane, WA, San Francisco, CA in 1992, 1993, > and 1994, respectively. > > > ======================= > Pre-Symposium Tutorials > ======================= > > Tuesday, August 1 > > 8:30 AM -- 12 NOON Concurrent Sessions > > Tutorial 1A: > <author><where_from> > > Tutorial 1B: > > 2:00 PM -- 5:30 PM Concurrent Sessions > > Tutorial 2A: > Tutorial 2B: > > ====================================== > Wednesday, August 2 > ====================================== > > 8:00 AM - 10:00 AM Registration > > 8:30 AM - 10:00 AM Plenary Session > > Keynote Speech > <who> > > 10:30 AM - 12:00 NOON > > > SESSION 1: INVITED PAPERS > Chair: <who> > > 12:00 NOON - 1:30 PM LUNCH > sponsored by <who> > Speaker: <?> > > > 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Concurrent Sessions > > SESSION 2A: APPLICATIONS > Chair: <who> > > Parallel Simulation of Subsonic Fluid Dynamics on a Cluster of Workstations > Panayotis Skordos > > A Portable Distributed Implementation of the Parallel Multipole Tree Algorithm > William T. Rankin, John A. Board, Jr. > > Communication Overhead for Space Science Applications on the Beowulf Parallel > Thomas Sterling, Daniel Saverese, Bruce Fryxell, Kevin Olson, Donald J. Becker > > SESSION 2B: DISTRIBUTED SHARED MEMORY > Chair: > > A Proposal for a DSM Architecture suitable for a Widely Distributed > Environment and its Evaluation > Masato Oguchi, Hitoshi Aida, Tadao Saito > > Hybrid Media Access Protocols for a DSM System Based on Optical WDM Networks > Krishna M. Sivalingam > > Network Shared Memory: A New Approach for Clustering Workstations > for Parallel Processing > Ranga S. Ramanujan, Jordan C. Bonney, Kenneth J. Thurber > > > 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Concurrent Sessions > > > SESSION 3A: TOOLS & THEORY > Chair: > A Spanning Tree Based Recursive Refinement Algorithm for Fast Task Mapping > Soo-Young Lee, Joseph C. Jacob > > The Performance Impact of Scheduling for Cache Affinity > in Parallel Network Processing > James D. Salehi, James F. Kurose, Don Towsley > > Loop Scheduling for Heterogeneity > Michal Cierniak, Wei Li, Mohammed Javeed Zaki > > SESSION 3B: COMMUNICATION & PRACTICE I > Chair: > > TCP/ATM Experiences in the MAGIC Testbed > Benjamin J. Ewy, Joseph B. Evans, Victor S. Frost, Gary J. Minden > > A High Speed Implementatin of Adaptive Shaping for Dynamic Bandwidth Allocations > Cameron Braun, Vinai Sirkay, Hugo Uriona, Srini Seetharam, Esmaell Yousefi, > David Petr, Douglas Niebaus, Victor Frost, Joseph Evans, Gary Minden > > The Limited Applicability of Block Decomposition in Cluster Computing > Phyllis E. Crandall > > ====================================== > Thursday, August 3 > ====================================== > > 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM Keynote Speech: <title> > <author> > > 10:30 AM - 12:00 NOON Concurrent Sessions > > SESSION 4A: TOOLS AND PRACTICE > Chair: > > Nimrod: A Tool for Performing Parametised Simulations > using Distributed Workstations > D. Abramson, R. Sosic, J. Giddy, B. Hall > > CALYPSO: A Novel Software System for Fault-Tolerant Parallel Processing > on Distributed Platforms > Arash Baratloo, Partha Dasgupta, Zvi M. Kedem > > Indigo: User-level Support for Building Distributed Shared Abstractions > Prince Kohli, Mustaque Ahamad, Karsten Schwan > > SESSION 4B: COMMUNICATION AND THEORY > Chair: > > Efficient Causally Ordered Communications for Multimedia Real-Time Applications > Roberto Baldoni, Achour Mostefaoui, Michel Raynal > > Multimedia Intra-Group Communication Protocol > Takayuki Tachikawa, Makoto Takizawa > > A Versatile Packet Multiplexer for Quality-of-Service Networks > Jorg Liebeherr, Dallas E. Wrege > > > 12:00 NOON - 1:30 PM LUNCH > > 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM Demos > > 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Panel > > > ====================================== > Friday, August 4 > ====================================== > > 9:00 AM - 10:00 AM > > SESSION 6A: > Chair: > > Disk-directed I/O for an Out-of-core Computation > David Kotz > > A Performance Comparison of RAID-5 and Log-Structured Arrays > Jai Menon > > 10:30 AM - 12:00 NOON Concurrent Sessions > > SESSION 7A: TOOLS AND PRACTICE II > Chair: > > Performance Benefits of Optimistic: A Measure of HOPE > Crispin Cowan, Hanan L. Lutfiyya, Michael A. Bauer > > Network-Specific Performance for PVM > Gregory Davies, Norman Matloff > > TPVM: Distributed Concurrent Computing with Lighweight Processes > Adam Ferrari, V. S. Sunderam > > SESSION 7B: COMMUNICATION AND PRACTICE II > Chair: > > LIGHTNING: A Scalable Dynamically Reconfigurable Hierarchical WDM Network > for High-Performance Clustering > P W. Dowd, J. A. Perreault, J. C. Chu, D. C. Hoffmeister > > An ATM-based Multimedia Integrated Manufacturing System > Jean-Francois Guillaud, Max R. Pokam, Gerard Michel > > A Multithreaded Message Passing Environment for ATM LAN/WAN > Rajesh Yadav, Rajashekar Reddy, Salim Hariri, Geoffrey Fox > > ______________________________________________________________ > > KEYNOTE SPEAKERS > > <tba speaker 1> > > <tba speaker 2> > > ********************************************************************** > > DESCRIPTIONS OF TUTORIALS > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Tutorial 1A > > <tutorial title> > <who> > Overview: <description tutorial> > SPEAKER: <description speaker> > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > CONFERENCE LOCATION > > HPDC-4 will be held at the Ritz Carlton Hotel in Pentagon City, Virginia. > <blurb about Washington DC, proximity to metro and restaurants here> > > Weather: > > Transportation: > > Rental Cars: > > Social Event: > > E-mail service will be available at the hotel to the attendees. > > ************************************************************************** > > REGISTRATION INFORMATION > > Advance registration is available using the form below through July > 8th. E-mail registration is available only through July 27th, and must > use a credit card number. On-site registration at the Ritz Carlton > Hotel will be available starting Tuesday, August 2nd, and > every day of the conference starting at 8 AM. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > HPDC-4 > Registration Form > > Please send this form and a check, credit card information, > or money order (no purchase orders) to the address below. > Make checks payable to SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY. > Registrations accepted via postal mail, FAX, or email only. > > SU Conference Planning > HPDC-4 Conference > P.O. Box 4709 > Syracuse, NY 13221-4709 > > Phone: (315) 443-3333 > Fax: (315) 443-1168 > e-mail: hpdc@nova.npac.syr.edu > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Symposium Registration (select one): > > Advance Registration Regular Registration > (Received by July 8, 1994) (Received after July 8, 1994) > --------------------- ------------------- > IEEE/ACM SIGCOMM Member [ ] $325 [ ] $395 > Non-Member [ ] $405 [ ] $485 > Full-time student [ ] $180 [ ] $180 > > Symposium registration fee includes a copy of the proceedings, > sponsored lunches, coffee breaks, and the Bay cruise. > Student registration does not include proceedings or the Bay cruise. > Extra copies of the proceedings may be purchased on-site. > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Extra Dinner/Cruise Tickets ___ @ $55 each > > > ----------------------------------------------------------- > Tutorials (check the box for each tutorial attending) > > Note: You may select at most one tutorial from the morning session > and one from the afternoon session. > > _____ > 1A: Software Systems and Tools for High Performance | | > Distributed Computing...............................|___| > > _____ > 1B: Interfacing to High Speed Networks..................| | > |___| > > _____ > 2A: Message Passing Using MPI...........................| | > |___| > > > _____ > 2B: High Performance Distributed Computing | | > in a Supercomputing Environment.....................|___| > > Enter total number of tutorials at the appropriate rate > (rates are per tutorial). > > Advance Registration Regular Registration > (Received by July 8, 1994) (Received after July 8, 1994) > --------------------- ------------------- > IEEE/ACM SIGCOMM Member ___ @ $165 ___ @ $195 > Non-Member ___ @ $205 ___ @ $245 > > Total Tutorial Fee: $________US > > Each Tutorial registration fee includes attendance at one > tutorial session, notes, and coffee breaks. 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You will be contacted to discuss your needs. |____| > > Vegetarian Meals: ___ YES / ___ NO > > Cancellation Policy: All requests for refunds must be received > in writing on or before July 22, 1994. No refunds will be made > on cancellations made after this date. > > > ************************************************************************** > > HOTEL REGISTRATION > > Please contact the Ritz Carlton Hotel directly for > accommodations. > > The Ritz Carlton > <address & phone #> > > Special conference rates have been arranged for attendees of > HPDC-4. The rates are as follows: > > <update this information> > Type of Room Main Building Towers > Single Double Single Double > Standard $120 $120 - - > Medium $135 $135 - - > Deluxe $150 $150 $170 $170 > > Reservation cut-off date is Friday, July 1, 1994; > Reservations made after this date will be on a space-available basis only. > In order to receive our special rates you must identify > yourself as a participant in the HPDC-4 Conference. > ************************************************************************** > CONFERENCE COMMITTEES > ************************************************************************** > > SYMPOSIUM GENERAL CHAIR: Geoffrey Fox, NPAC, Syracuse University > > SYMPOSIUM STEERING COMMITTEE: > > - Salim Hariri, Syracuse University (Chair) > - Tilak Agerwala, IBM > - Andrew Grimshaw, University of Virginia > - H. T. Kung, Harvard University > - T. V. Lakshman, Bell Communications Research > - Daniel McAuliffe, Rome Laboratory > - C. S. Raghavendra, Washington State University > > PROGRAM CHAIR: Anujan Varma, University of California, Santa Cruz > > PUBLICITY CHAIRS: > > North America: T. V. Lakshman, Bell Communications Research > Europe: Walid Dabbous, INRIA, France > Asia: Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan > > TUTORIALS CHAIR: Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Tech > > EXHIBITS: C. S. Raghavendra, Washington State University > > REGISTRATION AND LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: Peggy Van Arnam, Syracuse University > > PROGRAM COMMITTEE > > - Dharma Agrawal, North Carolina State University > - Prathima Agrawal, AT&T Bell Labs > - Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Tech > - Marco Annaratone, DEC > - Ken Birman, Cornell University > - Suresh Chalasani, University of Wisconsin, Madison > - Monsong Chen, IBM Research > - Roger Chen, Syracuse University > - Abdelaziz Chihoub, Siemens Corporate Research > - Jon Crowcroft, University College London > - Walid Dabbous, INRIA, France > - Patrick Dowd, SUNY Buffalo > - Dennis Duke, SCRI/Florida State University > - Stuart Elby, NYNEX Science and Technology > - Richard Freund, NRaD > - J.J. Garcia-Luna, University of California, Santa Cruz > - Arif Ghafoor, Purdue University > - Andrew Grimshaw, University of Virginia > - Salim Hariri, Syracuse University > - S. H. Hosseini, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee > - T. V. Lakshman, Bell Communications Research > - C. R. Mechoso, UCLA > - Paul Messina, Caltech > - Richard C. Metzger, Rome Laboratory > - Paul Mockapetris, USC/ISI > - John Morrison, Los Alamos National Laboratory > - John Nicholas, Battelle Pacific Northwest Lab > - James C. Patterson, Boeing Co. > - Ira Pramanick, IBM > - Michael Quinn, Oregon State University > - C. S. Raghavendra, Washington State University > - Paul Rupert, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory > - Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology > - Nita Sharma, Ncube Inc. > - Vaidy Sunderam, Emory University > - Makoto Takizawa, Tokyo Denki University, Japan > - Alexander Thomasian, IBM Research > - Satish Tripathi, University of Maryland > - Larry Wittie, SUNY Stony Brook > - Pen-Chung Yew, University of Illinois Reply by Geoffrey Fox gcf@npac.syr.edu, http://www.npac.syr.edu, Phone 3154432163(3154431723 npac central) Fax:3154434741