*********************************************************** * * + SECOND ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL for PAPERS + * * * HiPer'97 * * ========= * * * * High Performance Computing on Hewlett-Packard Systems * * * * Krakow, Poland, November 5 - 8, 1997 * * * * http://www.cyf-kr.edu.pl/hiper97/ * * * *********************************************************** The Conference will be held immediately after the Fourth EuroPVM-MPI'97 Meeting, Krakow, 3 - 5 November, 1997 Organizing institutions ======================= The Conference is organized jointly by - State Committee for Scientific Research, Poland, - Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET - KRAKOW, - Institute of Computer Science AGH, Krakow, - Committee for Informatics of the Polish Academy of Sciences, - CCNS Ltd., Krakow. Sponsored by ============ - Hewlett-Packard, USA, - Ministry of National Education, Poland, - State Committee for Scientific Research, Poland, - University of Mining and Metallurgy, Krakow, Poland, - Hewlett-Packard Polska, - CCNS Ltd., Krakow, Poland. Important dates =============== 1 June 1997 - deadline for receipt of contributed papers, 23 June 1997 - notification of acceptance of papers, 1 September 1997 - deadline for registration with reduced fee and for reservation of hotel rooms at preferential rates, 5 November 1997 - HiPer'97 Conference. Location ======== HiPer'97 Conference will take place at Continental Hotel al. Armii Krajowej 11 30-150 Krakow, Poland Main topics of the Conference ============================= This Conference will be an exchange forum for users, independent software vendors, applications developers, research and industry scientists, HP products users and developers as well as for decision makers. We invite especially the participants of previous CONVEX Users' Conferences. The following topics of high performance computing and high performance storage systems on Hewlett-Packard platforms will be covered by the Conference - applications in science, - engineering and industrial applications, - file servers, - visualization and graphics, - programming paradigms, - tools and programming environments, - performance evaluation, - experience with HP/Convex Exemplar SPP systems, - experience with HP hierarchical storage systems, - new HP products. The Conference will include - invited talks, - contributed presentations from the HP users community, - presentations of new HP products for high performance computing and storage, - round table discussions, - conference dinner and other social events. Invited lectures (provisional list) ----------------- 1. Greg Astfalk, HP/Convex, Richardson, USA Programming Multi-Processor Machines 2. Frank Baetke, Hewlett-Packard Europe, Germany to be announced 3. Peter Brezany, University of Vienna, Austria A Software Environment for High Performance Input/Output 4. Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee and ORNL, USA Problem Solving Environments and NetSolve: A Network Server for Solving Computational Science Problems 5. Giacomo Polosa, Independent Consultant in HPC, Rome, Italy Supercomputers: Dynosaurs or Evolving Species? 6. Paco Romero, HP/Convex, Richardson, USA Message-Passing Interface on HP Exemplar Systems - tutorial 7. Juergen Schlanke, Hewlett-Packard, Boeblingen, Germany HP's Enterprise File System Strategy - any file, any client, anywhere 8. Steve Wallach, HP/Convex, Richardson, USA to be announced The up-to-date list of invited speakers is on the HiPer'97 www page. Time schedule of HiPer'97 --------------------------- 5 Nov (Wednesday) 17.00 - Excursion to Wieliczka Salt Mine and Conference dinner 6 Nov (Thursday) 8.30 - 10.30 Tutorial T1 10.30 - 11.00 Coffee 11.00 - 13.00 Tutorial T2 13.00 - 14.00 Lunch 14.00 - 14.30 Opening ceremony and technical remarks 14.30 - 16.00 Invited lectures I1 16.00 - 16.30 Coffee 16.30 - 18.10 Parallel sessions O1, O2 19.00 - 21.00 Opening reception 7 Nov (Friday) 8.30 - 10.45 Invited lectures I2 10.45 - 11.20 Coffee 11.20 - 13.00 Parallel sessions O3, O4 13.00 - 14.20 Lunch 14.20 - 16.00 Parallel sessions O5, O6 16.00 - 16.30 Coffee 16.30 - 18.10 Parallel sessions O7, O8 19.00 - Reception at the Wawel Castle 8 Nov (Saturday) 8.30 - 10.45 Invited lectures I3 10.45 - 11.20 Coffee 11.20 - 13.00 Round table discussion 13.00 - 13.15 Closing ceremony 13.00 - 14.20 Lunch Posters will be on display from Thursday afternoon. The final programme of the Conference will be prepared by September 1997 and will be sent out to all registered participants. Contributed papers ================== We invite participants with experiences in high performance computing and/or storage on HP systems to submit papers for HiPer'97. Papers will be reviewed (taking into account: relevance for HiPer'97, significance of results, originality, technical accuracy and language of the paper) and authors will be notified of their acceptance by June 23, 1997. Accepted papers will be included in the Conference program as oral or poster presentations, and they will be printed in a Proceedings volume that will be distributed to participants at the beginning of the Conference. All participants who intend to present virtual posters are requested to prepare posters at their own WWW sites and email http address, author(s) name and title of a poster to the Organizing Committee as soon as possible but not later than October 1, 1997. Then, links will be done from the Conference WWW page to virtual posters. A virtual poster may accompany an invited lecture, a contributed oral presentation and a "classical" poster. Formatting ---------- 1. Guidelines for LaTeX users (strongly recommended!): - download 'hip97.sty' from the Conference www or ftp from directory 'format', - prepare paper with \documentstyle[hip97]{article}; please do not redefine margin sizes, text width, etc. 2. Guidelines for non-LaTeX users: - prepare paper according to guidelines on the Conference www or in the file 'form.guide' from directory 'format' on the Conference ftp. 3. Papers will be printed as received, color figures are not acceptable. How to submit a paper --------------------- - convert your paper to PostScript format, i.e. create file "paper.ps", - compress file (please use only compress or gzip): $ compress paper.ps - uuencode compressed paper: $ uuencode paper.ps.Z ..ps.Z > paper.uue - send "paper.uue" via email: $ mail -s "PAPER" hiper97@cyf-kr.edu.pl < paper.uue Submissions will be acknowledged automatically. If you have any difficulties to follow the suggested procedure, please contact hiper97@cyf-kr.edu.pl for advice. Detailed guidelines for authors of invited and contributed papers are available at the Conference www page http://www.cyf-kr.edu.pl/hiper97/. Registration Fee ================= The registration fee covers admission to all Conference sessions, one copy of the Conference Proceedings, lunches, the excursion to Wieliczka Salt Mine and the Conference dinner, the opening reception, the reception at the Wawel Castle. Additional payment is required for tutorials. Regular fee: - early registration (before September 1, 1997) - 350 DEM - late registration (after September 1, 1997) - 450 DEM For students: - early registration (before September 1, 1997) - 180 DEM - late registration (after September 1, 1997) - 300 DEM Tutorial - 30 DEM each One day fee - 80 DEM (covers admission to sessions, coffee, lunch) Additional copy of the Conference Proceedings - 120 DEM Please notice that the early registration fees apply to participants who register and transfer their payments before September 1, 1997. Payment ======= The registration fee together with hotel deposit should be a) transferred to the Conference bank account: --------------------------------------------- Bank: PeKaO S.A. Rynek Gl. 31 31-042 Krakow, Poland Number: 12401431 - 7033991 - 3000 - 411112 - 001 Name: HiPer'97 Please mention clearly your name on the payment order. b) or paid by cheque to ------------------------ HiPer'97 Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET - KRAKOW P.O.Box 386 Nawojki 11 30-950 Krakow 61 POLAND When paying the fee and the hotel deposit by cheque please add 5% for bank costs. Cheque should be mailed with the registration form to the HiPer'97 Organizing Committee. Accommodation ============= In order to facilitate your attendance at the HiPer'97 accommodations have been reserved for participants at Continental Hotel al. Armii Krajowej 11 30-150 Krakow, Poland Phone: (48 - 12) 375 044 Fax: (48 - 12) 232 750; 375 938 at preferential rates: - single room - 75 DEM - double room - 90 DEM - double room (shared) - 45 DEM Prices indicated are per room, per night and include buffet breakfast. In order to take advantage of the preferential rates at the Continental Hotel, please transfer one night hotel room price together with the fee to the Conference bank account before September 1, 1997. The rest of the hotel payments will be made directly at the Continental Hotel by cash or credit card (Visa, Eurocard, MasterCard, American Express, Diners Club). Accompanying persons ===================== Accompanying persons are welcome to join social events; prices are indicated below - excursion and dinner at the Salt Mine in Wieliczka - 60 DEM - HiPer'97 opening reception - 30 DEM - reception at the Wawel Castle - 40 DEM - lunch - 30 DEM An additional program for accompanying persons and post-conference tours may be arranged by the Conference Organizing Committee. More information will be available at the Conference Registration Desk. The Programme Committee ======================= Jacek Moscinski Institute of Computer Science AGH, Krakow, Poland - chairman Marian Bubak Institute of Computer Science AGH, Krakow, Poland - secretary Frank Baetke Hewlett-Packard Europe, Germany Paul Bemis Hewlett-Packard, USA Jack Dongarra University of Tennessee and ORNL, USA Claus-Dieter Kirst Hewlett-Packard, Vienna, Austria Jacek Kitowski ACC CYFRONET - KRAKOW, Poland Horst Krenzke Hewlett-Packard Europe, Germany Zofia Mosurska ACC CYFRONET - KRAKOW, Poland Helmut Muehl-Kuehner HMK Computer Technologies, Germany Marian Noga ACC CYFRONET - KRAKOW, Poland Dorota Ohnsorge Hewlett-Packard Polska Pako Romero HP/Convex, Richardson, USA Juergen Schlanke Hewlett-Packard, Boeblingen, Germany Piotr Wyrostek ACC CYFRONET - KRAKOW, Poland Jerzy Zaczek CCNS Ltd., Krakow, Poland Local Organizing Committee ========================== Jacek Moscinski Institute of Computer Science AGH, Krakow Elzbieta Alda Computer Center AGH, Krakow Marian Bubak Institute of Computer Science AGH, Krakow Jerzy Koltun ACC CYFRONET - KRAKOW Marek Ksiezyk ACC CYFRONET - KRAKOW Zofia Mosurska ACC CYFRONET - KRAKOW Marian Noga ACC CYFRONET - KRAKOW Teresa Ozga ACC CYFRONET - KRAKOW Mieczyslaw Pilipczuk ACC CYFRONET - KRAKOW Stanislaw Polak Institute of Computer Science AGH, Krakow Maria Stawiarska ACC CYFRONET - KRAKOW Milena Zajac ACC CYFRONET - KRAKOW Further Information =================== For more information about HiPer'97 please contact: email: hiper97@cyf-kr.edu.pl http://www.cyf-kr.edu.pl/hiper97/ ftp://ftp.cyf-kr.edu.pl/hiper97/ Prof. Jacek Moscinski HiPer'97 Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET - KRAKOW P.O.Box 386 ul. Nawojki 11 30-950 Krakow 61 POLAND Phone: (48 12) 341 766; 173 964 Fax: (48 12) 341 084; 338 054 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ KRAKOW ======= Krakow, a city with about 800,000 inhabitants, located in the southern part of Poland, on the Wisla River, belongs traditionally to the leading scientific and cultural centres of the country. Today there are 12 university level institutions with about 10,000 scientists and 51,000 students. Legend says that the city was founded by the mythical ruler Krak on Wawel Hill, above a cave occupied by a ravenous dragon. The first historical records are of Slavic people settling along the banks of the Wisla River here in the 8th century. By the end of the 10th century Krakow was a major market centre and it had been incorporated into the Polish state ruled by the Piast dynasty. In the middle of the 11th century Krakow became the capital of Poland. Destroyed two hundred years later by the Tartar invasion it was rebuilt in the form basically unaltered until our times. The period of Krakow's greatest splendour began with the reign of King Kazimierz the Great who founded here a university in 1364 - the oldest in central Europe after Prague. The growth continued during the reign of the Jagiellonian dynasty as manifested by the great works of the Renaissance art and architecture created at that time. After the transfer of the capital to Warszawa in 1596, Krakow began to decline which was accelerated by the pillage of the city during the Swedish invasion. Following the partitions of Poland between three neighbouring countries at the end of the 18th century, Krakow was incorporated into Austria. During the World War I Legions led by Jozef Pilsudski set out from Krakow to fight for the liberation of Poland. In September 1939 the Nazis entered the city. Fortunately Krakow escaped destruction during World War II and it is now flourishing again. In 1978 UNESCO distinguished Krakow by entering its name in the list of world cultural heritage centers. Among hundreds of historic buildings the following are of the special interest: the Royal Castle and Cathedral on Wawel Hill, the medieval Old Town with one of Europe's most beautiful squares, Market Square (200 by 200 meters), dozens of old churches and museums, the 14th century Jagiellonian University as well as Kazimierz - historical centre of Krakow's Jewish religious and social life. Krakow is a convenient starting point of excursions to the Salt Mine in Wieliczka, to the Tatra mountains, to Czestochowa , to the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz in Oswiecim and to the Ojcow National Park. Over three centuries ago Krakow acquired the honourable title "totius Poloniae urbs celeberrima" which well reflected the unique character of the town, the old capital of Poland, the city of Nicolaus Copernicus and Pope John Paul II. Come, see and enjoy. ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ ------------------------ cut here -------------------------------------- HiPer'97 (Krakow, Poland, November 5 - 8, 1997) REGISTRATION FORM Please fill in BLOCK CAPITALS, mark X where appropriate and send to the organizers before September 1, 1997 PARTICIPANT Surname: ___________________________ First name: ______________________ Prof/Dr/Mr/Ms _______________________ Position: ________________________ Institution (as to appear on badge): ___________________________________ Institution (full name): _______________________________________________ Address: _______________________________________________________________ ______________________________________ Country: _______________________ Email: _________________________________________________________________ Phone: _______________________________ Fax: ___________________________ ACCOMPANYING PERSON Surname: _____________________________ First name: ____________________ PRESENTATION Author(s): _____________________________________________________________ Title: _________________________________________________________________ _________________________________________________________________ I am going to attend TUTORIALS: T1 ______ T2 ______ HOTEL RESERVATION (the Continental Hotel) Arrival date: __________________ at ____________ Departure date: ________________ at ____________ Number of nights: ___ Room required: ___ single room (75 DEM) ___ double room (90 DEM) ___ double room to be shared with _______________________(45 DM/person) Prices indicated are per room, per night (buffet breakfast and VAT included). In order to confirm your room reservation please send one night's accommodation (hotel deposit) together with the conference fee to the HiPer'97 account before September 1, 1997. The rest of the hotel payments will be made directly at the Continental Hotel by cash or credit card (American Express, Diners Club, Eurocard, MasterCard, Visa). In case of cancellation of the hotel reservation after September 1, 1997, the Hotel may charge the first night. REGISTRATION FEE, HOTEL DEPOSIT and ADDITIONAL PAYMENTS Early registration fee - Regular/Student (350/180 DEM) _______ DEM (received by September 1, 1997) Late registration fee - Regular/Student (450/300 DEM) _______ DEM (received after September 1, 1997) Hotel deposit (75/90/45 DEM) _______ DEM Tutorial(s) (30 DEM each) _______ DEM Fee for n days (n x 80 DEM) _______ DEM Additional copy of Proceedings (120 DEM) _______ DEM Social events for accompanying person (60, 30, 40 DEM) _______ DEM (please sum) Lunch(es) for accompanying person (30 DEM each) _______ DEM TOTAL PAYMENT _______ DEM PAYMENT METHOD The TOTAL PAYMENT is ___ transferred to the Conference bank account: Bank PeKaO S.A. o/Krakow, Rynek Gl. 31, 31-042 Krakow, Poland No: 12401431 - 7033991 - 3000 - 411112 - 001 HiPer'97 Please mention clearly YOUR NAME on the payment order. ___ or paid by cheque to the HiPer'97 Organizing Committee. If paid by cheque please add 5% for bank costs to the TOTAL PAYMENT and mail the cheque to the address below. Date: __________________ Signature: _____________________ Please return this form to: HiPer'97 ACC CYFRONET-KRAKOW P.O.Box 386 ul. Nawojki 11 30-950 Krakow 61 Poland or email to hiper97@cyf-kr.edu.pl or fax to (+48 12) 341 084; 338 054 ========================================================================