Parallel Computing Technologies (PaCT-97)

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

Welcome

The Computing Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Academgorodok, Novosibirsk) and the State University of Yaroslavl are jointly organizing the Fourth International Conference on PARALLEL COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES (PaCT-97). This conference will be held in Yaroslavl, September 8-12, 1997. Three previous conferences have been held in Novosibirsk (1991), Obninsk (1993) and St.-Petersburg (1995).

The aim of PaCT-97 is to give an overview of new developments, applications, and trends in parallel computing technologies. We sincerely hope this conference will help to deepen our understanding of parallel computing technologies by providing a forum for an exchange of views between scientists and specialists from over the world. We welcome your active participation.

Main Topics

All aspects of the applications of parallel computer systems

General methods and tools for the solution of large problems

Languages,environments and software tools supporting parallel processing

Operating systems, scheduling, mapping, load balancing

General architecture concepts, enabling technologies

Performance measurement and analysis

Teaching parallel processing.

Important Dates

Submission of the extended abstract: January 20, 1997

Notification of acceptance: March 15, 1997

Camera-ready version of paper: May 20, 1997

Call For Papers

Original manuscripts are solicited for the Conference. An extended abstract (about 5-7 pages) should be submitted to the conference address (see below) by January 20, 1997. Only electronic submission of manuscripts will be accepted. The manuscript may be typed in plain ASCII, LaTeX format, Microsoft Word or postscript.

The first page should include (but not be limited to) the following information: title, the author's full names, affiliation, position, addresses, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address. To gain a better understanding of your abstract, we also request that you include the following information: a short review of related papers, formulation of the problem, objectives, a description of results, main ideas, and a list of references.

All papers will be internationally reviewed. Authors will be notified of acceptance by March 15, 1997. We will require camera-ready copy of the accepted paper by May 20, 1997. We will be unable to include in the Proceedings papers that arrive after the deadline.

Technical Details

We request that you prepare your extended abstract in plain ASCII, or standard LaTeX (using the 'article' or LNCS style) or Microsoft Word. The resulting text file may be submitted to us via e-mail. To facilitate the printing of your abstract on our equipment, please use only standard LaTeX and simple LaTeX constructions.

Proceedings

The Conference Proceedings will be published as the volume of Springer Verlag LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) series and distributed at the Conference.

Language

The official language of the Conference is English.

Demonstration

We plan to organize for the participants the demonstration and teaching of new parallel computing technologies and tools developed by the Universities and the other non profit institutions. All the participants will get the copy of tools free for noncommercial usage.

The demonstartions of the following tools are already planned:

• Concurrent Verification and Simulation tool (COVERS)
• Animating Language Tools (ALT)
• High-Accuracy Computations with Dynamically Changed Length of Operands (SPARTH)

For more information please visit our PaCT-97 Demonstration Page.

Social Activities

A Cultural program is planned for participants and accompanying persons. Yaroslavl contains one of the greatest architectural ensemble of ancient Russia. At present it houses the historical museum with more than two hundred thousand exhibits-icons, ancient manuscripts, miniatures, books, archaeological and numismatic finds.

Founded by Prince Yaroslav the Wise at the juncture of the upper Volga and Kotorosl rivers at the beginning of the 11-th century, Yaroslavl approaches its 1000-th anniversary as one of the great traditional centers of trade, culture and statecraft in the Russian heartland. As a stronghold of resistance against Mongol invasion, a temporary national capital during the 17-th century Time of Trouble, the site of an outstanding ensemble of early Russian church and secular architecture, the birthplace of Russian Theatre and the home of early Russia's first great historical literature monument "The Lay of Igor's Host". Nowadays, Yaroslavl presents unique opportunity to explore many aspects of rich history of Russia. More information...

Preliminary cultural programme

Day 1

• Non-official dinner-party.

Day 2

• Concert of chamber/classical music (the concert of world-known musical group "Barocco").
• The concert of symphonic orchestra with the famous Murad Annamomedov as a conductor.

Day 3

• Tour of Yaroslavl - the ancient historical and cultural Russian centre of one of the towns of the famous Russian Golden Ring. The tour will include excursions to SpasoPreobrazhensky Monastery and several monuments of ancient church archtecture.

Day 4

• Visit to Togsky Monastery and dinner in its refectory with Mother Varvara.

Accommodation

Here we bring to your notice the information on the Yaroslavl' hotels and prices of boarding.

Yubileynaya Hotel

One or two beds de luxe apartment	$100 - $120 per night
Two beds room	$30 per night

YUta Hotel

De luxe apartment (of 3 rooms)	$80 per night
De luxe apartment (one bed)	$40 per night
Double beds shared room	$30 per night

Preliminary prices of boarding (to be improved)

Breakfast	$5
Lunch	$15
Evening tea	$7

All the above are located in the center of Yaroslavl.

We think that the YUta hotel shall be the most convenient for participants since we have agreement with the hotel administration about special pricing for the Conference participants.

See also

Preliminary Registration

Program Committee

• V. Malyshkin Chairman (Russian Academy of Sciences)
• O. Bandman (Russian Academy of Sciences)
• H. Burkhart (University of Basel, Switzerland)
• P. Ciancarini (University of Bologna, Italy)
• M. Cosnard (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France)
• S. Das (University of North Texas, USA)
• J. Dongarra (University of Tennessee, USA)
• W. Gentzsch (GENIAS Software GmbH, Germany)
• W. Haendler (Erlangen-Nurnberg University, Germany)
• V. Ivannikov (Russian Academy of Sciences)
• Ph. Jorrand (LEIBNIZ laboratory, IMAG, France)
• V. Kotov (HP, USA)
• B. Lecussan (ONERA/CERT, France)
• V. Levin (Kvant, Russia)
• G. Mauri (University of Milano, Italy)
• N. Mirenkov (The University of Aizu, Japan)
• E. Ozkarahan (Dokuz Eylul University, Turkey)
• J. E. Pin (LITP, Institut Blaise Pascal, France)
• I. Pottosin (Russian Academy of Sciences)
• B. Roux (Institut de Mecanique des Fluides de Marseilles, France)
• E. Shurina (State Technical University of Novosibirsk, Russia)
• G. Silberman (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA)
• J. Smith (Drexel University, USA)
• L.-E. Thorelli (Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden)

Organising Committee

• V. Malyshkin Co-chairman
• V. Sokolov Co-chairman

• A. Ailamazyan
• N. Badin Financial Director
• Yu. Bryukhanov
• Yu. Mamatov
• V. Markova Secretariat (Novosibirsk)
• G. Mironov
• A. Korotkin Vice-chairman
• V. Kurchidis
• N. Kuchin
• O. Repin
• E. Rubtsova Secretariat (Yaroslavl)
• A. Rusakov
• A. Vazhenin Publications
• N. Voronin

Contact Information

Novosibirsk (Supercomputer Software Department, Computing Center, Russian Academy of Sciences)
PaCT-97 Organising Committee Supercomputer Software Department Computing Center Lavrentiev pr., 6 Novosibirsk 630090, RUSSIA	Phone (+7) 3832-350-994 Fax (+7) 3832-324-259 E-mail pact97@ssd.sscc.ru Web http://ssd.sscc.ru/pact97/
Yaroslavl (Computer Science Department, State University of Yaroslavl)
Valery Sokolov Yaroslavl State University Sovetskaya street, 14 Yaroslavl 150000, RUSSIA	Phone (+7) 0852-222-086 Fax (+7) 0852-225-232 E-mail sokolov@univ.uniyar.ac.ru Web http://www.yars.free.net/shortcuts/Sokolov.html