From: craig@puma.cat.syr.edu (Gary L. Craig)
Newsgroups: news.announce.conferences
Subject: Advance Program HPDC-1 (Syracuse NY 9/9-11)
Date: 28 Jul 92 00:01:11 GMT
Expires: Fri, 11 Sep 1992 07:00:00 GMT
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                     First International Symposium on
                  High Performance Distributed Computing

             Wednesday September 9 - Friday September 11, 1992
                              Syracuse, New York

Location:  Sheraton University Inn & Conference Center, 801
           University Avenue, P.O. Box 801, Syracuse, NY
	         13210-0801  Tel: (315) 475-3000

SPONSORS:
     IEEE Computer Society

     The New York State Center for Advanced Technology in
        Computer Applications and Software Engineering (CASE)
        at Syracuse University

     Northeast Parallel Architectures Center (NPAC) at Syracuse	University

     IN COOPERATION WITH: ACM SIGCOMM

The theme of this symposium is to investigate software techniques and
architectural support for application of parallel and distributed
computing for solving computationally intensive applications across a
network of high-performance computers.  The papers to be presented
address all aspects of achieving parallel and distributed computing
across a high speed network of computers.  Exhibits, prototypes,
software tools and applications will also be shown and presented
during the symposium.

SYMPOSIUM CHAIR: Geoffrey Fox, NPAC, Syracuse University,
	(315) 443-4741, hpdc@nova.npac.syr.edu

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR: Salim Hariri, Syracuse University,
	(315)443-4282, hariri@cat.syr.edu

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

- Dharma Agrawal, North Carolina State University
- Ken-ichi Aihara, NTT Telecommunication Networks Labs, Japan
- Alok Choudhary, Syracuse University
- Dennis Duke, SCRI/Florida State University
- Arif Ghafoor, Purdue University
- Jose Joaquin Garcia-Luna, SRI International
- Andrew Grimshaw, University of Virginia
- Kai Hwang, University of Southern California
- Carl Kesselman, Caltech
- Paul Mockapetris, DARPA
- C. S. Raghavendra, Washington State University
- Anthony Reeves, Cornell University
- Vaidy Sunderam, Emory University
- Muharrem Uyar, AT&T
- Jon Valente, Rome Labs
- Anujan Varma, Univ. California, Santa Cruz
- Benjamin W. Wah, University of Illinois
- Gregory F. Wetzel, AT&T
- Gordon Wright, IBM

PUBLICITY: Anujan Varma, University of California, Santa Cruz,
           (408) 459-3505, varma@cse.ucsc.edu

FINANCE and EXHIBITS CHAIR: A. Gaber Mohamed, NPAC,
	   Syracuse University, (315)443-1722, agm@nova.npac.syr.edu

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS: Gary Craig, Syracuse University,
           (315) 443-4389, craig@cat.syr.edu
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		    Preliminary Program

		Wednesday, September 9, 1992

7:00-10:00  am Registration
9:00-9:15   am      Welcome Address
9:15-10:15  am      Keynote Speech: H. T. Kung, High-Performance Computing
                                    over a Network Backplane

10:15-10:30 am       Break

10:30-Noon     SESSION 1: Invited Papers
		Chair: Jose Joaquin Garcia-Luna, SRI International

   "Issues in Networking and Data Management of Distributed Multimedia
    Systems" by P. B. Berra, C-Y.R. Chen, Syracuse University, A. Ghafoor,
    Purdue University, and T.D.C. Little, Boston University

   "Distributing Climate Models over Gigabit Networks" by C. Roberto Mechoso,
    University of California at Los Angeles


Noon-1:30   pm      Lunch

1:30-3:30 SESSION 2: Tools and Programming Paradigm
	  Chair: Carl Kesselman, Caltech

   "Data-Parallel Programming on a Network of Heterogeneous Workstations"
    by M. Quinn, N. Nedelijkovic, Oregon State University

   "MOVIE Model for Open Systems based High Performance
    Distributed Computing" by C. Faigle, W. Furmanski,
    T. Haupt, J. Niemiec, M. Podgorny, D. Simoni, NPAC, SU

   "No Pain and Gain - Experiences with Mentat on a Biological
    Application" by A. Grimshaw, E. West, W. Pearson, University
    of Virginia, Charlottesville

   "Experiences in High Performance Computing with Pleiades and
    ESP" by L. Wilson, M. Gonzalez, M. Cruess, University of Texas
    at Austin


1:30-3:30 SESSION 3: High Speed Networks and Protocols
	  Chair: Dennis Duke, SCRI/Florida State University

   "Parallel Networking and Visualization on the Connection
    Machine CM-5" by Gary Oberbrunner, Thinking Machines Corp

   "A Scalable Packet Switch for Distributed Computing"
    by A. Guha, M. Agrawal, Honeywell

   "Performance Comparison of Reservation and Preallocation
    Protocols for Star-Coupled WDM Photonic Networks" by P. Dowd,
    K. Bogineni, SUNY Buffalo

   "Determining Update Latency Bounds in Galactica Net" by
    S. Clayton, R. Duckworth, W. Michalson, A. Wilson,
    Worcester Polytechnic Institute


3:30-4:00   pm      Break

4:00-5:30   pm  SESSION 4: Applications I
                Chair: Richard Freund, Naval Ocean Systems Center

   "Harmonizing a Distributed Operating System with Parallel
    and Distributed Applications" by Y. Sinjo, Y. Kiyoki,
    University of Tsukuba, Japan

   "A Radiative Heat Transfer Simulation on a SPARCStation Farm" by
    R. Minnich, D. Pryor, Supercomputing Research Center

   "Particle Simulation on Heterogeneous Distributed
    Supercomputers" by J. Becker, University of California, Davis
    and L. Dagum, NASA Ames Research Center


4:00-5:30   pm  SESSION 5: Requirement Analysis and Architectural
                           Support for HPDC

         	Chair: Gurudatta Parulkar, Washington University

   "Requirement Analysis for High Performance Distributed
    Computing over LAN's" by Manish Parashar, S. Hariri,
    G. Mohammad, G. Fox, NPAC, Syracuse University

   "High Performance Computing on a Cluster of Workstations" by
    A. Cheung , A. Reeves, Cornell University

   "High Performance PDU Processing for Application Layer" by
    B. Sarikaya, Bilkent University, Turkey and M. Bilgic,
    Concordia University, Canada

6:00-8:00 pm  BUFFET, Demonstrations, and Bird-of-a-Feather

            - The activities will be held at Syracuse University
              campus, a walking distance from the Sheraton Hotel.


		Thursday, September 10, 1992

9:00-10:00      Keynote Speech, TBA

10:00-10:30 am       Break

10:30-noon     SESSION 6: Multimedia

	       Chair: Kamal Jabbour, Syracuse University

   "A Flexible and Adaptive Transport System Architecture to
    Support Multimedia Applications on High-Speed Networks"
    by D. Schmidt, D. Box, T. Suda, University of California, Irvine

   "FDDI Support for Multimedia Traffic" by F. Schaffa, B. Patel,
    M. Willebeek-LeMair, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

   "On Flow Control in Multimedia Networks" by P. Varshney
    and S. Dey, Syracuse University

10:30-noon     SESSION 7: Load Balancing

               Chair: C.S. Raghavendra, Washington State University

   "Physical-Level Synthetic Workload Generation for Load
    Balancing Experiments" by P. Mehra, B. Wah,
    University of Illinois

   "Performance Comparison of Active-Sender and Active-Receiver
    Policies for Distributed Caching" by C. Pu, D. Florissi,
    P. Soares, K.L. Wu, P.S. Yu, Columbia University,
    IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

   "Load Distribution on Hypercube Systems Supporting
    Applications with Dynamic Structures" by I. Ahmad, G. Fox,
    Syracuse University, A. Ghafoor, Purdue University

Noon-1:30  pm      Lunch

1:30-3:00  pm  SESSION 8: Panel Session: "Requirements and Directions
                            for High Performance Distributed Computing"

	        Chair: Malvin H. Kalos, Cornell University
                Panelists:
                              1. Dick Metzger, Rome Labs
                              2. B. Gopinath, Rutgers University
                              3. Tilak Agerwalla, IBM Austin
                              4. Justin Rattner, Intel Corp,
                              5. Marco Annaratone, Digital Corp.

3:00-3:20  pm      Break

3:20-4:20  pm   SESSION 9: Applications II

		Chair: Jim Gordon, IBM - Cornell Theory Center

   "Lattice Boltzmann Method on a Cluster of IBM RISC
    System/6000" by G. Betello, G. Richelli, S. Succi,
    IBM ECSEC, F. Ruello, University of Catania

   "Computing Radiosity on a High Performance Workstation LAN" by
    G. Singh, F. Westervelt, Wayne State University, S. Abraham,
    University of Michigan

3:20-4:20   pm SESSION 10: Distributed System Issues
	       Chair: John Peterson, JPL

   "Maintaining Good Performance In Disk Arrays During Failure
    via Uniform Parity Group Distribution" by S. Ng, R. Mattson,
    IBM Almaden

   "A Distributed Scheduling Simulation" by D. Baker, K. Wika,
    R. Haddleton, University of Virginia


	Friday, September 11, 1992: Post Symposium Tutorials

     Time: 9:00am 5:00pm

		     Tutorial I: (full day)
	Paradigms and Tools for Heterogeneous Network Computing

         Vaidy Sunderam, Emory University

	This tutorial will cover issues, methodologies, and strategies
	for concurrent computing on heterogeneous networks of independent
	computer systems. We will begin with an overview of software
	systems and tools that are available to support network-based
	computing. A descriptive outline of several production applications
	in a variety of disciplines will be presented to demonstrate the
	effectiveness and viability of network computing.
	The remainder of the course will be devoted to understanding
	PVM and HeNCE -- software systems that enable concurrent computing
	on heterogeneous collections of multiprocessors, supercomputers,
	scalar machines, and workstations. PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine)
	is the software infrastructure that allows heterogeneous groups
	of machines to be used as a general-purpose concurrent computing
	resource. The tutorial will focus on developing concurrent
	applications for PVM, using several models of parallelism.
	HeNCE is a graphical toolkit and methodology that significantly
	eases the task of application development for PVM.
	Developers specify applications using such a graph, and associate
	predefined program modules with different points in the graph.
	The HeNCE toolkit then executes the graph on a user-configured
	virtual machine (under PVM).

BIO: Vaidy Sunderam received a PhD in Computer Science from the
University of Kent, England, and is a faculty member in the department
of Math & Computer Science at Emory University, Atlanta, USA.  His
research interests are in parallel and distributed processing,
particularly high-performance concurrent computing in heterogeneous
networked environments.  Sunderam's recent research has focused on
heterogeneous concurrent computing on general purpose networks. He is
the principal architect of the PVM system for concurrent heterogeneous
computing, which is in widespread use and is emerging as a de-facto
standard for network-based heterogeneous systems. He is the recipient
of the 1990 IBM supercomputing first prize award for his work on
high-performance, network concurrent computing.  His other recent
research includes high-speed protocols for distributed systems
support, graphical tools for parallel program development, concurrent
stochastic simulation, and algorithms for efficient implementation of
concurrency primitives.


		Tutorial II: (half day)

	Time: 2:00pm - 5:00pm

 	Multimedia Information Systems

	P. Bruce Berra - CASE Center, Syracuse University

	Multimedia information systems are receiving increased attention in
	business, industry, and government. These systems integrate the use of
	such diverse data types as voice, text, numeric, image, graphic and
	video. While this field is still in its infancy, limited commercial
	products are beginning to appear and there is considerable interest in
	the research issues that need to be addressed before fully integrated
	systems can become a reality. In this tutorial we will discuss many of
	the multimedia issues in the following contexts: a)Multimedia
	background - types, issues, etc.; b) Applications - medical, office
	automation, entertainment, manufacturing, user interface systems; c)
	Data modeling and management - query languages, multimedia data
	integration and synchronization, object oriented approaches; d) Data
	storage and access - storage of images and video, data compression,
	multimedia access; e) Networks and distributed systems - network
	requirements, concurrency control, multidatabase issues; f) Future
	research and development issues and areas.

BIO: P. Bruce Berra is currently professor of Electrical and Computer
Engineering and a member of the faculty of the Computers and
Information Science at Syracuse University. He is director of the New
York State Center for Advanced Technology in Computer Applications and
Software Engineering (CASE).  He is also president of PBB systems, an
AI/database consulting firm.  His research interests include
multimedia information systems, parallel processing for very large
data and knowledge bases and optical database machines. Prof. Berra
received the BS and MS degress from the University of Michigan and the
PH.D. from Purdue University. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.

			Tutorial III: (half day)

	Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm

	Distributed Shared Memory Systems

	Prof. Larry Wittie - Computer Science, SUNY Stony Brook

	Distributed Shared Memory (DSM) mechanisms provide the parallel
	programming convenience of globally shared memory, without the
	hardware costs and scaling limits of traditional shared memory
	multiprocessors.  They let computers in a network share selected
	portions of data to solve a single application problem rapidly, in
	parallel.  Invisible DSM messages share needed data consistently among
	processor caches or memories.  DSM systems have been implemented both
	in software (IVY, Munin) for user convenience and development of
	ideas, and in hardware (DASH, SCI, Sesame) for high-performance
	parallel computing on networks.  DSM mechanisms range in a spectrum
	from on-demand fetch to eager sharing.  Most coherent cache
	multicomputers (Multicube, DASH) and software DSM systems use demand
	fetch, which does not run most single programs efficiently ("scale")
	on more than a few hundred processors simultaneously.  Eager sharing
	hardware (Sesame) hides most network communication delays during data
	sharing and provides efficient parallel execution upon thousands of
	processors.  This tutorial will cover DSM data consistency, latency
	hiding, and other critical implementation issues; summarize
	representative systems; and compare effective execution rates on huge
	networks.  Latency-hiding DSM mechanisms will be incorporated within
	cache coherence protocols for future massively parallel,
	high-performance computing systems.  DSM will simplify teraflops
	computing for many applications.

BIO: Larry Wittie is a professor of Computer Science at the State University
of New York at Stony Brook and previously taught at Purdue and at SUNY/Buffalo.
He received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from the University of
Wisconsin at Madison in 1973.  He is an editor for IEEE Transactions on
Parallel and Distributed Systems and a member of IEEE, ACM, the Society
for Neuroscience, and Sigma Xi.  He currently is working on reliable eagerly
shared distributed memory interfaces, including gigabit network hardware,
reliable ordered multicast protocols, and software tools for parallel
programming.  He is interested in the organization of large distributed
systems, including interconnections, operating systems, and debugging for
large multicomputers.  His long term interests lie in efficient ways to build
and control networks of millions of computers.  Prof. Wittie's addresses are
lw@sbcs.sunysb.edu and Department of Computer Science, State University of
New York, Stony Brook, NY USA  11794-4400.




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main campus of Syracuse University and close to downtown Syracuse.

Directions: The Conference Center is located 8 miles from Syracuse
Airport, and can be reached by taxi, rental car and shuttle service.
>From the airport, take I-81 South to the Harrison Street exit (stay
left following signs to Syracuse University -- on Almond Street).
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