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BALTIMORE, MD -- Program submissions are now being accepted for SC2002, the annual conference of high performance networking and computing. This year's conference, with the theme "From Terabytes to Insights," will include seven days of technical programs, technological demonstrations and exhibits, and educational outreach. The conference convenes Nov. 16-22 in the Baltimore Convention Center. SC program submissions will be accepted via the Web for panels, posters, technical papers (extended abstracts), and tutorials. The submissions pages can be accessed from the SC2002 Technical Program Web page: . Click on your area of interest to access the appropriate submission form. The submission deadline for papers, panels and tutorials is Friday, April 26. April 26 is also the deadline for submitting research exhibit requests, and for applications to participate in the SC2002 Education Program. The deadline for poster submissions is July 29. In addition, technical papers will be entered in the Gordon Bell Award competition if they are identified as a Gordon Bell Award entry. Each paper must also identify the prize category for which it is to be considered. For more on the Gordon Bell Awards, see the Awards section of the SC2002 website. "The SC conference has a tradition of presenting the best technical program content in the field," said Conference Chair Roscoe Giles of Boston University. "This year, we expect that leaders and experts from the nation and the world will contribute to making this the most impressive technical program to date." Key deadlines: April 26: technical papers, tutorials, panels, research exhibit space requests, Gordon Bell Award nominations, Education Program applications due May 27: HPC Challenge submissions due July 29: Birds of a Feather, posters, Exhibitor Forum, student volunteer applications, research exhibit abstracts due SC2002, the annual high performance networking and computing conference, brings together scientists, engineers, systems administrators, programmers, and managers to share ideas and glimpse the future of high performance networking and computing, data analysis and management, visualization, and computational modeling. This year, SC will highlight how we can use our evolving cyberinfrastructure to tap into terabytes of data to gain insight into creating a world that is safer, healthier and better educated. SC2002 is sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Computer Society and by the Association for Computing Machinery's Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture. For more, see http://www.sc-conference.org/sc2002