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From: tff@vis.toronto.edu (Tom Fairgrieve)
Subject: Scientific Computation on Workstations: Current and Future Environments
Date: 8 Sep 92 17:05:30 GMT



``Scientific Computation on Workstations: Current and Future Environments'' 


    A symposium on ``Scientific Computation on Workstations: Current and Future
Environments'' will be held in Toronto on September 17, 1992, to be followed by
open sessions of the IFIP Working Group 2.5 (Numerical Software) on September 18
and the morning of September 19.

    Recent hardware and software developments have led to powerful low-cost
workstations which are fast enough and have sufficient memory and disk space to
permit the effective solution of many significant problems that arise in 
scientific and engineering applications.  Problem solving environments, that 
exploit the advantages such workstations offer, are being developed to allow 
practitioners to solve their problems without requiring them to be systems or 
programming experts.  In the symposium an overview will be presented of some of
these environments and of how they are likely to evolve in the next few years.
Feature presentations by Tom Aird (IMSL), Charles Dyer (Univ. of Toronto),
Wayne Enright (Univ. of Toronto), Eugene Fiume (Univ. of Toronto),
Brian Ford (NAG) and Keith Geddes (Univ. of Waterloo) will be presented
on September 17th (see attached schedule for tentative titles).

    The open sessions of the Working Group will consist of contributed
presentations (including several by members of the group) on the symposium
topic as well as on other aspects of current work on numerical software --
including such topics as programming language facilities, benchmarks and
performance, Fortran90 and mathematical methods. Details of these sessions
have now been worked out and a draft schedule is attached to this 
notice.

    The meetings on September 17 and 18 will be held at the Delta Chelsea Inn.
Room rates will be $76 single and $91 double.  Hotel reservations should be made
directly with the hotel: 

    Delta Chelsea Inn, 33 Gerrard Street West, Toronto, M5G 1Z4, Canada
    Phone: (416) 595-1975, Fax: (416) 585-4362, Group Code (or 'Q-name'): GFRORE.

Reservations should be made as soon as possible as only a limited number of 
rooms are available at this special rate. The morning session on Saturday will
be held at the University of Toronto (room and map will be provided).

    The registration fee for the symposium is $25 and advance registration is 
encouraged to ensure that space is available.  To register please send name, 
address, email address and a cheque for $25.00 (payable to the University
of Toronto) to one of the organizers, W.H. Enright or T.E. Hull, at:

        Department of Computer Science
        University of Toronto
        Toronto M5S 1A4 
        Canada 
    
        email: enright@na.utoronto.ca
               tehull@na.utoronto.ca


    The symposium will be supported jointly by WG 2.5, the Information
Technology Research Centre of Ontario, and the Natural Sciences and Engineering
Research Council of Canada.


      Scientific Computation on Workstations:
        Current and Future Environments

        Thursday, September 17th, 1992

       All talks will be held in the ROSETTI ABC room.


 8:50 -  9:00        Opening Remarks

 9:00 -  9:50        Keith Geddes
              'Hybrid symbolic-numeric algorithms for scientific
                       computation environments'


 9:50 - 10:20        Tom Aird
              'IMSL/IDL An interactive data analysis language'


10:20 - 11:00        COFFEE

11:00 - 11:50        Eugene Fiume
              'Computer graphics hardware and software architectures
                       for scientific visualisation'

11:50 -  1:30         LUNCH

 1:30 -  2:20        Charles Dyer
              'Extensions of symbolic mathematics systems for specific applications
                       in the mathematical and physical sciences'

 2:20 -  3:10        Wayne Enright
              'DE solvers viewed as black-boxes from a high-level environment'


 3:10 -  3:40        COFFEE

 3:40 -  4:30        Brian Ford
              'Problem solving environments --- AXIOM'


 5:30 -  7:00        WINE and CHEESE - (TBA)






 Draft Agenda for the Open Session of the 19th Meeting of IFIP WG 2.5

                       Toronto 17-19 September, 1992


1. Technical Session I. (Friday 18th September 1992, 8.30-9.45).

Opening of the 19th Meeting of IFIP WG 2.5 (Fosdick)

%	B. Ford, "On Fortran 90" (15 min)
%	J. Reid, "On Fortran 90" (15 min)
%	Bo Einarsson, "Fortran 90 Experiences" (15 min)
%	J. Reid, "Parallel Computing in Fortran" (30 min)

Break

2. Technical Session II. (Friday 18th September 1992, 10.05-12.05).

%	R. Hanson, "A Design of High-Performance Fortran 90 Libraries" (30 min)
%	R. Agarwal and F. Gustavson, "High Performance ESSL Algorithms for the IBM RS/6000
                                      Workstations" (30 min)
%	E. Houstis,  "Parallel ELLPACK" (30 min)
%       I. Gladwell,  "Design of FORTRAN 90 subprograms for Functional Equations" (30 min)

Lunch

3. Technical Session III. (Friday 18th September 1992, 13.30-15.00).

%       S. Zhou, "System Support for Parallel Computing in Workstation Clusters" (30 min)
%	B. Simpson "Distributed Delaunay Triangulation Experiments via PVM" (30 min)
%	L. Fosdick, "Teaching high performance computing" (30 min)

Break

4. Technical Session IV. (Friday 18th September 1992, 15.30-17.30).
Presentations have about 30 minutes each

%	G. Kozlovsky, "Software Tools for Developing PDE Solvers on Adaptive
                       Grids" (30 min)
%	T. J. Dekker, W. Hoffmann, K. Potma.  "Enright's method to solve linear
                        systems with a Parallel ODE solver" (30 min)
%	K. Stewart, "There's more to SPEC than a SPECmark" (30 min)
%	T. Hull, "Implementing complex elementary functions" (30 min)

5. Technical Session V. (Saturday 19th September 1992, 8.30-10.00).
Presentations have about 30 minutes each

%	T. Hull, "Testing polynomial zerofinders" (30 min)
%	J. Reid, "On Language Compatible Arithmetic Standard" (15 min)
%       J. Cody, "On Language Compatible Arithmetic Standard" (15 min)
%	L. Fosdick "Performance benchmarks" (30 min)