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The HPC/NII Gordon Conference Speakers

Sunday: Impact of Evolving Hardware on Applications
Session Chair: Robert George
Danny Cohen, Myricom Talk Title: Clustering techniques for multicomputers Andrew Chien, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Talk Title: A perspective on software communication overhead
Schedule
2pm Registration 6pm Dinner 7:30-9:30pm Meeting Reception following meeting
Monday: Real-Time
Morning Speakers Session Chair: Arkady Kanevsky	Evening Speakers Session Chair: Ashok Agrawala
Ashok K. Agrawala, University of Maryland Talk Title: Role of Time in Systems Arkady Kanevsky, MITRE Talk Title: The issues for software, hardware, and networks to enable technology to support real-time system of systems	Jean-Dominique Decotignie Talk Title: Event driven vs. time driven real-time systems Kirstie Bellman, DARPA Talk Title: real-time, virtual time, and behavioral time Chris Landauer, The Aerospace Corporation Talk Title: What if we take time seriously
Schedule
7:30-8:30am Breakfast 9:00am Meeting 9:45am Group Photograph 10:00am Coffee 10:15am-11:15am Meeting 11:15am-12:15pm Open discussion + impromptu talks	12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch 1:30pm-4:30pm Open for discussion (hiking, etc.) 4:30pm-6:00pm Poster Session 6:00pm-7pm Dinner 7:30pm-9:30pm Meeting
Tuesday: Petaflops/Futureflops
Morning Speakers Session Chair: Anthony Skjellum	Evening Speakers Session Chair: Peter Kogge
David Greenberg, Sandia National Laboratories Talk Title: Letting MPPs out of the box Don Heller, Ames Laboratory Talk Title: Statistical variations in performance measurement Anthony Skjellum, Mississippi State University Talk Title: Many Level Multicomputers, Active Networks, and Bumps in Wires	Peter Kogge, University of Notre Dame Talk Title: Processing memory: chips to petaflops (and deep space too) Informal Panel: Petaflops/Futureflops Panelists TBD
Schedule
7:30-8:30am Breakfast 9:00am Meeting 10:00am Coffee 10:15am-12:15am Meeting 12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch	1:30pm-4:30pm Open for discussion (hiking, etc.) 4:30pm-6:00pm Poster Session 6:00pm-7pm Dinner 7:30pm-9:30pm Meeting
Wednesday: Applications Day Business meeting after Evening Panel
Morning Speakers Session Chair: Edward Luke	Evening Session: Session Chair: Pat Worley
Olaf M. Lubeck, Los Alamos National Laboratory Talk Title: Scalability issues in large scale technical computing from the ASCI program Thomas H. Cormen, Dartmouth College Talk Title: The spin on parallel disks: They may be a RAID to you, but they're just a bunch of disks to me Paul Plassman, Argonne National Laboratory Talk Title: The impact of evolving architectures on unstructured mesh calculations	Paul Woodward, University of Minnesota Talk Title: Programming techniques to exploit advantages of SMP clusters and DSM Panel: The impact of evolving architectures on applications Thomas H. Cormen Olaf M. Lubeck Edward Luke Paul Plassman Paul Woodward Pat Worley
Schedule
7:30-8:30am Breakfast 9:00am Meeting 10:00am Coffee 10:15am - 12:15am Meeting 12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch	1:30pm-6pm Open for discussion (hiking, etc.) 6:00pm-7pm Dinner 7:30pm Business Meeting 8:00pm Paul Woodward 9:00pm Panel
Thursday: Abstract vs. Performance in Software
Morning Speakers Session Chair: Anthony Skjellum	Evening Speakers Session Chair: Andrew Lumsdaine
Andrew Lumsdaine, University of Notre Dame Talk Title: Must abstraction of barriers be barriers to performance Lenore Mullins, SUNY - Albany Talk Title: The psi calculus and seeing the world in arrays: unifying the specification and efficient implementation of array-based computation or can F90 ever perform as well as F77 and what HPF? William Gropp, Argonne National Laboratory Talk Title: Do we need memory abstractions?	Bob Numrich, Cray Research - SGI Talk Title: The F-- Extension to Fortran 90: An Alternative Model for Parallel Programming Jim Browne, University of Texas Talk Title: Intelligent agent implementation of dynamic computations on metacomputers?
Schedule
7:30-8:30am Breakfast 9:00am Meeting 10:00am Coffee 10:15am-12:15am Meeting	12:30pm-1:30pm Lunch 1:30pm-6pm Open for discussion (hiking, etc.) 6:00pm-7pm Dinner 7:30pm-9:30pm Meeting

Last Change: 29 June 1997 / george@erc.msstate.edu