VISUALIZATION

SC2003 will continue the tradition of offering a high-quality tutorial program providing attendees with the opportunity to learn from and interact with internationally recognized experts in all areas of high performance computing and networking. Please consider submitting a proposal for a tutorial session. Who attends? Multinational and multicultural, SC is the premier venue for communicating the latest wave of technology, scalable architectures, networks, computational science, programming tools, scientific data management, visualization, and high performance computing. The SC tutorials program is one of the highlights of the SC Conference series and it is one of the largest tutorial programs at any computing-related conference. The SC conference organizing committees constantly strive to improve the quality of the tutorials program and an important means of doing this is the survey of tutorial attendees. Some interesting and important profiles emerged from the survey conducted at SC2002 and you might want to be aware of this information, shown below, if you submit a proposal for SC2003. *70% of survey respondents attended tutorials that were directly related to their job; 30% attended to learn something new; *40% of survey respondents considered themselves beginners in the tutorial topic, 39% were intermediates, and 11% were advanced. *33% of survey respondents are employed by government labs, 30% by universities, 19% by companies (16% didn't answer the question.) *Many attendees suggested that tutorial presenters provide a CD containing software and/or other tutorial information. If you intend to do this, please note this in your proposal. Note that attendees really want something they can take home with them - both figuratively and literally - not just "sermons." Scope. Tutorials are intended to cover a wide range of topics, some as surveys, others as in-depth treatments of a particular area. Both developing research and mature areas may be appropriate. However, we would like to encourage tutorials with broad applicability, rather than those focusing solely on the tutorial presenter's own personal research. Proposals for the following areas (as well as others) are appropriate: *High performance computer architecture *Embedded- and/or reconfigurable systems *Clusters and distributed systems *High performance I/O, storage, and filesystems *High performance networking technology *Performance evaluation and/or optimization *Large systems administration and/or resource management *Computer and network security *Fault-tolerance, reliability, maintainability, and adaptability *Application frameworks *Parallel programming methods and languages *Software engineering for portable performance and scalability *Software Tools *Algorithms, numerical methods, and libraries *Scientific and information visualization *Large databases and data mining *Grid computing *Collaboration and immersive technologies *Applications: biology, chemistry, numerical weather/climate prediction, CFD, national security, others. At SC2003 we would like to encourage more "hands-on" tutorials - those that give attendees the chance to try pre-prepared demos or exercises during the tutorial. Tutorials focused on software development and/or performance analysis tools are particularly appropriate for hands-on demos, but others may be as well. Note that if you propose a demo- or exercise-based tutorial you must include an extra page in your tutorial proposal to convince the tutorials committee that your demo and/or exercises have been thoroughly tested and debugged in a variety of settings to ensure completely smooth operation at the conference. Unfortunately, if you require specific hardware for your demos/exercises, such as workstations or a server, you must arrange to provide these yourself. However, the organizing committee may be able to help; please don't hesitate to contact us at tutorials03@sc-conference.org. Be sure to send your questions well in advance of the April 25 deadline for submitting tutorial proposals. Review Process. Tutorial submissions will be reviewed by the SC2003 tutorials committee, which will consider, among other factors, appropriateness for the SC2003 audience, appropriateness for a tutorial, timeliness of the topic, audience appeal, clarity, completeness, and cohesiveness of the proposal, and presentation history and teaching/speaking experience of the presenters. Above all, in addition to tutorials reflecting the SC2003 conference themes, we are searching for tutorials providing clear utility to attendee-practitioners so a proposal should clearly stress how you will provide this. In your detailed description make sure you spend plenty of time discussing your tutorial, not just the field of which your tutorial pertains. Make sure you include the goals of your tutorial in terms of how the audience will benefit. Competition for the 28 SC2003 tutorial slots is expected to be strong (there were more than 80 submissions for the 30 slots at SC2002), so you are urged to take great care in preparing your proposal. Make sure you state in your detailed description who your tutorial is targeted toward and specifically what you expect attendees to gain. Also, if your tutorial proposal is a "joint" effort between presenters from more than one institution, make certain that you include "proof" in your description that the tutorial will be cohesive and not just a disparate set of talks Your proposed "detailed course outline" will be a most critical part of your submission. Note: tutorial submissions may be conditionally accepted, pending certain modifications recommended by the committee. A Note on the Notes. If your tutorial proposal is accepted you will be required to supply copies of your viewgraphs no later than Wednesday, September 17, 2003. Please note: the visual quality of the both the screen and paper versions of the handouts continues to be a concern for tutorial attendees. You are urged to submit samples of your visual aids with your tutorial proposal, either via a file upload or via a URL. How to submit. Tutorials may be proposed for either a full-day (six hours) or a half-day (three hours). Full-day proposals may include up to four presenters, half-day proposals may include one or two presenters. Tutorials must be submitted electronically at http://www.sc-submissions.org/sc2003/ using a combination of web form and file upload. Some of your information must be in both the web form and in the file upload. The file you upload should contain the following sections, each beginning on a separate page: 1. A 200-word (maximum) abstract in text format; 2. A detailed description of the proposed tutorial. This must be 2 pages maximum (note the page reduction from SC'02) containing: - tutorial goals - specifically how attendees will benefit; - targeted audience; - content level (% beginner, % intermediate, % advanced) - audience prerequisites; - why the topic is relevant to SC2003 attendees; - general description of tutorial content; - if your presenters are from different institutions, how you will ensure cohesive tutorial content; and - if your tutorial has been presented previously how you will update it for SC2003. 3. A description of your demo or exercises for hands-on tutorials (1 page maximum) if applicable. Include description of any hardware needed and how you will provide it. 4. Detailed outline of the tutorial (1 page maximum in outline form). 5. Resume or Curriculum Vitae for each presenter (4 presenters maximum, 2-pages maximum each). Make sure this includes a list of short courses the presenter has taught Although not required, you are strongly urged to submit samples of your visual aids. You may upload these in PDF format separately or as an addendum to your detailed proposal, or you may supply a URL at which the samples may be found. If your proposal is accepted. For each full-day tutorial, a $2,000 honorarium will be shared among presenters; for each half-day tutorial the (shared) honorarium is $1,000. Tutorial presenters will be reimbursed for a portion of their travel expenses. Note that this is a departure from previous SCxy programs, which offered reimbursement for all (reasonable) travel expenses. SC2003 full-day tutorial presenters (up to a maximum of four per tutorial) will be paid a maximum two days per diem for meals and hotel expenses, and reimbursed airfare expense less than or equal to 14-day advance-purchase coach fare, limited to $600 for domestic travel and $1,000 for international travel, and ground transportation. Half-day tutorial presenters (up to a maximum of two per tutorial) will be paid a maximum one day per diem and reimbursed a limited amount of airfare, not to exceed $600 for domestic travel and $1,000 for international travel, and ground transportation. The per diem is $42 for meals and $199, plus taxes, for lodging; compensation for ground transportation is fixed at $40. Important SC2003 Information: Location: Phoenix Civic Plaza Convention Center, Phoenix, AZ Information: http://www.sc-conference.org/sc2003 Web Submissions: http://www.sc-submissions.org/sc2003/ Email Contacts: tutorials03@sc-conference.org Important Dates: Web Submissions Open: Monday, April 7 Submission Deadline: Friday, April 25 Notification: Friday, June 27 Tutorials Notes Deadline: Monday, September 15 Conference Dates: November 15-21 Tutorials Dates: Sunday and Monday, November 16-17 SC2003 Tutorials Committee: Harvey Wasserman, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Chair Mary Kay Bunde, Etnus, Inc., Vice Chair Randy Bramley, Indiana University Kei Hiraki, University of Tokyo Elizabeth Jurrus, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Dan Katz, Jet Propulsion Laboratory Ricky Kendall, Ames Laboratory Bruce Loftis, National Center for Supercomputing Applications Craig Lund, Mercury Computers, Inc. Tara Madhyastha, University of California, Santa Cruz Bertrand Meltz, CEA, France Rod Oldehoeft, Los Alamos National Laboratory Kyung Ryu, Arizona State University Joel Saltz, Ohio State University Jennifer Schopf, Argonne National Laboratory Stephen Schraml, U.S. Army Research Laboratory Lauren Smith, National Security Agency Timothy Toole, Sandia National Laboratories John Turner, Los Alamos National Laboratory Patrick Worley, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Peter Wyckoff, Ohio Supercomputer Center Xiaodong Zhang, National Science Foundation