Provide a major forum for exploring the technical issues that define the outer boundaries of effective high-performance computing. This decade long series of symposia is one of the principal meetings for scientists to present new and original research results extending the threshold of computational capability through advances in hardware, software, methods, and technology.
Develop the organizational structure to support Frontiers '96 as well as a World Wide Web (WWW)-based symposium information site that focuses on research related to systems scalable to many hundreds of processors. The on-line reference for Frontiers '96 is used to provide a forum for information regarding the conference, descriptions of the fields and topics addressed, and short abstracts of relevant material.
The Frontiers '96 WWW page has been established, and resources have been applied to maintain it. Thomas Sterling is the General Chair of the Symposium, and Peter Kogge of Notre Dame University is the Program Chair. The Program Vice Chairs are: Architecture: Ken Batcher, Kent State University; Applications and Algorithms: Rick Stevens, Argonne National Laboratory; and Systems Software: Geoffrey Fox, Syracuse University. Conference information is provided using the PETA WWW site, as the petaFLOPS community has embraced PETA as an important tool in furthering the advance of this emerging discipline.
Frontiers '96 features two workshops in areas of rapidly growing interest to the high-performance computing community: 1) The Petaflops Frontier and 2) Domain Specific Systems. The conference will also include original research papers surrounding the central theme of research related to the exploitation of massive parallelism and any aspects of the design, analysis, development, and/or use of massively parallel computers.
The workshops are organized to provide a forum for presenting the most recent advances across a broad range of related topics within interdisciplinary fields. Mixed with the presentations will be open discussions on key topics from emerging technologies that may impact future directions to the policies establishing those objectives.
Thomas Sterling
Jet Propulsion Laboratory
tron@cacr.caltech.edu
818-354-1793
Michele O'Connell
Boeing Information Services, Inc.
Michele.OConnell@hq.nasa.gov
202-651-8516
Lawrence Picha
Boeing Information Services, Inc.
Larry.Picha@hq.nasa.gov
202-651-8530
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