VISUALIZATION

The 13th annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2006) will be held in Bangalore, India, during December 18-21, 2006. It will serve as a forum to present the current work by researchers from around the world, and act as a venue to provide stimulating discussions and highlight high performance computing (HPC) activities in Asia. The conference has a history of attracting participation from reputed researchers from all over the world. In addition to technical sessions consisting of contributed papers, the conference will include invited presentations, a poster session, tutorials, and vendor presentations. Further information about HiPC 2006 and the HiPC series of meetings is available on the conference website. HiPC 2006 will focus on all aspects of high performance computing. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Parallel and Distributed Algorithms * Languages and Programming Environments * Load Balancing, Scheduling and Resource Management * Fault-Tolerant Algorithms and Systems * Scientific/Engineering/Commercial Applications and Workloads * Cluster and Grid Computing * Peer-to-peer Algorithms and Networks * Heterogeneous Computing * Wireless and Mobile Computing * Communication/Sensor Networks and Embedded Applications * Emerging Computer Architectures * Scalable Servers and Systems * Power-Efficient and Reconfigurable Architectures * Compiler Technologies for High-Performance Computing * Operating Systems for Scalable High-Performance Computing * Performance Evaluation and Analysis Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of high performance computing. The proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, and will be available at the conference. Best paper awards, sponsored by Infosys, will be given for outstanding contributed papers in two areas: (a) Algorithms and Applications, and (b) Systems. Further details about the call for posters, workshops, tutorials, and exhibits as well as submission guidelines will be available at http://www.hipc.org. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- CO-SPONSORED BY * IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) * ACM SIGARCH * European Association for Theoretical Computer Science * IFIP Working Group on Concurrent Systems * National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) * Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT) HELD IN COOPERATION WITH * Indian Institutes of Technology * Institute of Technology, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi * Software Technology Parks of India * Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- VENUE AND MEETING INFORMATION Bangalore, a bustling metropolis, is the fifth largest city in India and the capital of the state of Karnataka. It is the main center of the Information Technology (IT) industry in India; almost every Indian and multi-national IT company has a presence here. Bangalore is home to the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), a premier research institute, and many other aerospace and high technology industries including the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). Karnataka is the home to many ancient Indian architectural marvels, wildlife sanctuaries, rain forests (the Western Ghats), pristine beaches, and rich cultural traditions. The advance program will be available in July 2006. Check the conference website at http://www.hipc.org for updated information. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES April 05, 2006 Paper Submission Begins May 05, 2006 Paper Submission Ends May 12, 2006 Workshop Proposals Due May 19, 2006 Tutorial Proposals Due July 14, 2006 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection August 18, 2006 Camera-Ready Paper Submission October 06, 2006 Poster/Presentation Summary Due October 25, 2006 Notification to Authors for Posters November 07, 2006 Last Day for Advance Registration ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES Manuscript submission will start on April 5, 2006. Submission procedures will then be available over the Web at http://www.hipc.org. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 15 double-spaced pages of text using 12 point size font on 8.5 x 11 inch pages with margins of at least 1 inch on each of the four sides. References, figures, tables, etc. may be included in addition to the fifteen pages of text. The official language of the meeting is English. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. Authors should submit a correct PDF file of their paper to be considered and make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses 8.5 x 11 inch size (letter size) paper. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another conference or a journal. Manuscripts must be received by May 5, 2006. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may not be considered. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Notification of review decisions will be mailed by July 14, 2006. Camera-ready papers are due by August 18, 2006. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. Program Chair: Professor Yves Robert Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon (ENS Lyon), France Email: Yves.Robert@ens-lyon.fr ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOPS Proposals are solicited for workshops to be held in conjunction with the main conference. Interested individuals should submit a proposal by May 12, 2006 to the Workshops Chair. Additional details and submission guidelines will be available at http://www.hipc.org. Workshops Chair: Manimaran Govindarasu Iowa State University, USA Email: gmani@iastate.edu ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- POSTER/PRESENTATION SESSION In addition to the contributed papers session, a plenary poster/presentation session emphasizing novel applications of high performance computing is planned. It will offer brief presentation time for each poster and will be followed by a "walk-up and talk" setting. To be considered, send a 5 page summary of your work to the Poster/Presentation Chair by October 06, 2006. For additional details, contact the Poster/Presentation Chair. Poster/Presentation Chair: Rajeev Thakur Argonne National Laboratory, USA Email: thakur@mcs.anl.gov ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- TUTORIALS Proposals are solicited for tutorials to be held at the meeting. Interested individuals/groups should submit a proposal by May 19, 2006 to the Tutorials Chair. The proposal should include a brief description of the intended audience, a lecture outline, and a vita for each lecturer. For additional details, contact the Tutorials Chair. Tutorials Chair: Rama K. Govindaraju IBM, USA Email: ramag@us.ibm.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- EXHIBITS/VENDOR PRESENTATIONS Companies and R&D laboratories are encouraged to present their exhibits at the meeting. Additionally, a full day of vendor presentations is planned. Further details can be obtained at http://www.hipc.org or by contacting the Industry Liaison co-chairs. Industry Liaison Co-Chairs: Vijay Mann Raghuram Tupuri IBM India Research Lab, India Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), India Email: vijamann@in.ibm.com Email: raghuram.tupuri@amd.com ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS FOR STUDENTS FROM INDIA HiPC 2006 will be awarding travel scholarships to students from Indian Engineering Colleges to encourage them to attend the conference. This merit-based scholarship will cover their travel and accommodation expenses. The last date of application is October 31, 2006. For further details, contact the Scholarships Co-Chairs. Scholarships Co-Chairs: Anu G. Bourgeois Animesh Pathak Georgia State University, USA University of Southern California, USA Email: scholchair@hipc.org ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ================================ HiPC 2006 ORGANIZATION ================================ GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Ramamurthy Badrinath, HP, India VICE GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Rajendra V. Boppana, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Rajeev Muralidhar, Intel, India PROGRAM CHAIR Yves Robert, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon (ENS Lyon), France PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS Algorithms: Srinivas Aluru, Iowa State University, USA Applications: John Morrison, University College, Cork, Ireland Architecture: Bradley Kuszmaul, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Communication Networks: Yuanyuan Yang, State University of New York at Stony Brook, USA Mobile and Sensor Computing: Stephane Ubeda, Institut National des Sciences Appliquees de Lyon (INSA Lyon), France Systems Software: Sanjay Rajopadhye, Colorado State University, USA STEERING CHAIR Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA WORKSHOPS CHAIR Manimaran Govindarasu, Iowa State University, USA POSTER/PRESENTATION CHAIR Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory, USA TUTORIALS CHAIR Rama K. Govindaraju, IBM, USA INDUSTRY LIAISON CO-CHAIRS Vijay Mann, IBM India Research Lab, India Raghuram Tupuri, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), India CYBER CO-CHAIRS Sumir Chandra, Rutgers University, USA Viraj Bhat, Rutgers University, USA FINANCE CO-CHAIRS Ajay Gupta, Western Michigan University, USA B. V. Ramachandran, Software Technology Park, Bangalore, India LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR Ch. Kalyana Krishna, Dell Product Group, India PUBLICATIONS CHAIR Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University, USA PUBLICITY CO-CHAIRS Rajeev R. Raje, Indiana University Purdue University, USA Bo Hong, Drexel University, USA Manisha Dhanke, IBM India Software Labs, India REGISTRATION CHAIR Susamma Barua, California State University, Fullerton, USA SCHOLARSHIPS CO-CHAIRS Anu G. Bourgeois, Georgia State University, USA Animesh Pathak, University of Southern California, USA STEERING COMMITTEE David A. Bader, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Ramamurthy Badrinath, HP, India Frank Baetke, HP, USA R. Govindarajan, Indian Institute of Science, India Harish Grama, IBM, India Vittal Kini, Intel, India N. S. Nagaraj, Infosys, India Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA (Chair) Venkat Ramana, Cray-Hinditron, India Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA Dheeraj Sanghi, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India V. Sridhar, Satyam Computer Services Ltd., India Steering Committee 2006 membership also includes the general co-chairs, program chairs and vice general co-chairs from 2005, 2006 and 2007. PROGRAM COMMITTEE Algorithms: Mikhail Atallah, Purdue University, USA David A. Bader, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Robert Germain, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Ananth Grama, Purdue University, USA Phalguni Gupta, Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, India Bruce Hendrickson, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Alex Pothen, Old Dominion University, USA Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, University of Connecticut, USA Abhiram Ranade, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India Andrew Rau-Chaplin, University of Dalhousie, Canada Oliver Sinnen, University of Auckland, New Zealand Pavlos Spirakis, University of Patras, Greece Srikanta Tirthapura, Iowa State University, USA Denis Trystram, Informatique et Distribution (ID)-IMAG Grenoble, France Applications: Brian Coghlan, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Simon Dobson, University College, Dublin, Ireland James Doherty, University College, Cork, Ireland Bernd Freisleben, University of Marburg, Germany George Gravvanis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, USA Alexey Lastovetsky, University College, Dublin, Ireland Hyunyoung Lee, University of Denver, USA Ami Marowka, Shenkar College of Engineering and Design, Israel Esmond G. Ng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Marcin Paprzycki, Oklahoma State University, Tulsa, USA Adarsh Patil, University College Cork, Ireland Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Joel Saltz, Ohio State University, USA Matthew Smith, University of Marburg, Germany Marek Tudruj, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland Architecture: Srini Devadas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Sandhya Dwarkadas, University of Rochester, USA Kanad Ghose, State University of New York Binghamton, USA Andy Glew, Intel, USA Sebastien Hily, Intel, USA Mahmut Kandemir, Pennsylvania State University, USA Christos Kozyrakis, Stanford University, USA Sanjeev Kumar, Intel, USA Milo Martin, University of Pennsylvania, USA Pierre Michaud, Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Aystemes Aleatoires (IRISA), France Yanos Sazeides, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Hans Vandierendonck, University of Ghent, Belgium Craig Zilles, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Communication Networks: Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China Kartik Gopalan, Florida State University, USA Lisandro Granville, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Qianping Gu, Simon Fraser University, Canada Mathieu Latapy, LIAFA Paris, France Xing Li, Tsinghua University, China Bin Liu, Tsinghua University, China Olav Lysne, Simula Research Laboratory, University of Oslo, Norway Yavuz Oruc, University of Maryland at College Park, USA Mohamed Ould-Khaoua, University of Glasgow, UK Andrzej Pelc, Universite du Quebec en Outaouais, Canada Congduc Pham, Universite de Pau, France Greg Plaxton, University of Texas at Austin, USA Jang-Ping Sheu, National Central University, Taiwan Jingyuan Zhang, University of Alabama, USA Mobile and Sensor Computing: Demet Aksoy, University of California at Davis, USA Sajal K. Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA Marcelo Dias de Amorim, Laboratoire informatique de Paris 6 (LIP6), France Erol Gelembe, Imperial College, London, UK Sandeep K. S. Gupta, Arizona State University, USA Fredrik Manne, University of Bergen, Norway Rajeev Muralidhar, Intel, India Michael Neufeld, BBN Technologies, USA Sotiris Nikoletseas, Computer Technology Institute, Patras, Greece Thomas Noel, Universite de Strasbourg, France Stephan Olariu, Old Dominion University, USA Christian Prehofer, DoCoMo Euro-Labs, Munich, Germany Pedro Ruiz, University of Murcia, Spain Stefan Weber, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Yang Yu, Motorola Research Laboratory, USA Systems Software: Rumen Andonov, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique (INRIA), France Eduard Ayguade, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain Scott Baden, University of California at San Diego, USA Pedro Diniz, University of Southern California, Information Sciences Institute (ISI), Marina Del Rey, USA Ramaswamy Govindarajan, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore, India Manish Gupta, IBM Yorktown Heights, USA Ben Juurlink, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Uday Khedker, Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai, India Mitsuhisa Sato, Tsukuba University, Japan Siang Wun Song, Sao Paolo University, Brazil Michelle Strout, Colorado State University, USA Chau-Wen Tseng, University of Maryland at College Park, USA Frederic Vivien, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique (INRIA) and Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon (ENS Lyon), France Cho-Li Wang, Hong Kong University, China Jingling Xue, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia