Newsgroups: comp.parallel From: kjc@csc.liv.ac.uk (Kenneth Chan) Subject: EuroPVM/MPI98 Conference Announcement Organization: Computer Science, Liverpool University Date: 29 Jan 1998 20:53:22 GMT Message-ID: <6aqq82$850$1@encore.ece.cmu.edu> EuroPVM/MPI98 Liverpool, UK September 7th-9th, 1998 First Call for Papers IMPORTANT DEADLINES: 1st April 1998 Final Date for Submissions 15th May 1998 Notification for Acceptance 1st July 1998 Final Copy and Author Registration (Electronic Submission) 15th July 1998 Early Registration Deadline 1st August 1998 Late Registration Deadline EuroPVM/MPI is an International Conference focused on the latest developments of PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) and MPI (Message Passing Interface) and their applications. This is the Fifth EuroPVM/MPI meeting of the series, previous ones being held at University of Rome - Italy (1994), ENS Lyon - France (1995), TU Munchen, Germany (1996) and Institute of Computer Science & ACC CYFRONET in Krakow - Poland (1997). The meeting is dedicated to the latest advances in PVM and MPI and the Main Topics of the Meeting are: - algorithms using PVM and MPI; - applications in science and engineering based on the message-passing paradigm; - latest extensions and improvements to PVM and MPI; - performance and evaluation of PVM and MPI; - tools for PVM and MPI; - interfaces for PVM and MPI; - HPF/MPI extensions; - implementation issues. The main participants and audience (based on the experience of previous meetings) for EuroPVM/MPI are researchers from academic and government research institutions and industry. The meetings usually attract 150-200 participants. ORGANIZING CHAIRS: Vassil Alexandrov University of Liverpool, UK Jack Dongarra University of Tennessee and ORNL, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE: (To be announced shortly) CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS: All Invited and Accepted papers will be published in the "Lecture Notes in Computer Science" Springer series. From this year Springer will also provide an electronic version of the Proceedings. The information from the publisher about Latex file formats will be available shortly. REGISTRATION FEE: Regular Fee 150 pounds sterling (before 15th July 1998) Late Registration 200 pounds sterling (after 15th July 1998) Students Registration 80 pounds sterling Registration forms will be available shortly on this Web site. The meeting starts after the Euro-Par '98 Conference (1-4 September, 1998) in Southampton, UK, so that will be easier for some of the delegates to attend both meetings. CONFERENCE VENUE and HOTELS: Will be announced shortly. LOCAL ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Vassil Alexandrov University of Liverpool, UK Ken Chan University of Liverpool, UK Thelma Williams University of Liverpool, UK Trina Houghton University of Liverpool, UK Department of Computer Science The University of Liverpool Chadwick Building Peach Street Liverpool L69 7ZF UK Phone: +44 151 794 3681 FAX: +44 151 794 3715 Emails: pvmmpi98@csc.liv.ac.uk, vassil@csc.liv.ac.uk (This document generated on Thu Jan 15 1998.) For more information please look at the URL http://www.csc.liv.ac.uk/~pvmmpi98/ -- Articles to parallel@ctc.com (Administrative: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu) Archive: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/internet/usenet/comp.parallel