Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 07:35:29 GMT
From: PaCT-99 Conference <pact99@ssd2.sscc.ru>
Subject: PaCT-99 Conference
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Parallel Computing Technologies
(PaCT-99)
Fifth International Conference
September 6-10, 1999
St.-Petersburg, Russia
Sponsored by
Russian Academy of Sciences
Russian Fund for Basic Research
Ministry of Higher Education
WELCOME
The Computing Center of the Russian Academy of Sciences
(Academgorodok, Novosibirsk) and the State Elctrotechnical University of
St.-Petersburg are jointly organizing the Fifth International Conference on
PARALLEL COMPUTING TECHNOLOGIES (PaCT-99).
The conference will be held in St.-Petersburg, September 6-10, 1999.
Four previous conferences have been held in Novosibirsk (1991), Obninsk
(1993),
St.-Petersburg (1995) and Yaroslavl (1997).
The aim of PaCT-99 is to give an overview of new developments,
applications, and trends in parallel computing technologies. We sincerely
hope this conference will help to deepen our understanding of
parallel computing technologies by providing a forum for an exchange of
views between scientists and specialists from over the world.
We welcome your active participation.
MAIN TOPICS
* All aspects of the applications of parallel computer systems
* General methods and tools for the solution of big size problems
* Languages, environment and software tools supporting parallel
processing
* Operating systems, scheduling, mapping, load balancing
* General architecture concepts, enabling technologies
* Performance measurement and analysis
* Teaching parallel processing.
CALL FOR PAPERS
Original manuscripts are solicited for the Conference. An
extended abstract (about 5-7 pages) should be submitted to the
conference address in Novosibirsk (see below) by January 20, 1999.
Only electronic submission of manuscripts will be accepted.
The first page should include (but not be limited to) the
following information: title, the author's full names, affiliation,
addresses, telephone and fax numbers, e-mail address.
To gain the better understanding of your abstract, we also
request that you include the following information: a short review
of related papers, formulation of the problem, objectives, a
description of results, main ideas, and the list of references.
All papers will be internationally reviewed. Authors will be
notified of acceptance by March 15, 1999. We will require
camera-ready copy of the accepted paper by May 20, 1999. We will
be unable to include in the Proceedings papers that arrive after
the deadline.
The organizers expect that the authors of selected papers will
present their paper in St.-Petersburg.
TECHNICAL DETAILS
We request that you prepare your extended abstract in
plain ASCII, or standard LaTeX (using the 'article' or LNCS
style) or Microsoft Word or PostScript.
PROCEEDINGS
The Conference Proceedings is planned to be published as the volume of
Springer Verlag LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) series and
distributed at the Conference.
LANGUAGE
The official language of the Conference is English.
SOCIAL ACTIVITIES
Cultural program is planned for the participants and accompanying
persons. St.-Petersburg is one of the most famous scientific and
cultural centers of Russia. If you would like to feel a soul of
the city, to visit the parks surrounding it, the Hermitage and
the Russian Museum, Peter and Paul Fortress, the imperial
palaces, we'll suggest you the cultural program. The list of the
excursions may include "The City-orientation Tour", "The Time of
Peter the Great", "Heart of the City", "Emeralds of the City
Environs" and many others.
IMPORTANT DATES
* Submission of the extended abstract: January 20, 1999
* Notification of acceptance: March 15, 1999
* Camera-ready version of paper: May 20, 1999
PRELIMINARY REGISTRATION
There are two ways to be registered:
1. to visit our Web site at the URL
www.PaCT.sscc.ru/conference/pact99/
and to fill in the Preliminary Registration form online.
We prefer this way.
2. to send the requested information below to the Organizing
Committee, preferably by e-mail (pact99@ssd.sscc.ru).
Family name:
Given name:
Organization:
Address:
2nd line, if necessary:
City:
State:
Zip:
Country:
Phone:
Fax:
E-mail:
Copy to e-mail:
Please mark any desirable lines with 'Y'/'N'
1. I want to receive information concerning the Conference:
all news concerning PaCT-97 - Y
all news concerning further PaCTs - Y
2. I plan to attend the Conference - Y
3. I intend to submit a paper - Y
Paper title:
CONTACT INFORMATION
NOVOSIBIRSK
PaCT-99 Organizing Committee
Supercomputer Software Department
Computing Centre RAS
Lavrentiev pr., 6
Novosibirsk 630090, RUSSIA
Phone: (+7) 3832-343-994
Fax: (+7) 3832-324-259
E-mail: pact99@ssd.sscc.ru, malysh@ssd.sscc.ru
Web: www.PaCT.sscc.ru/conference/pact99/
ST.-PETERSBURG
Dmitry Puzankov
State Elctrotechnical University
Ul. Popova 5
St.-Petersburg, RUSSIA
Phone: (+7) 812 234 44 65
Fax: (+7) 812 346 27 58
E-mail: puzankov@svr.etu.spb.ru
Information on PaCT conferences series can be found at the URL
www.ssd.sscc.ru/PaCT/conference/
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
V. Malyshkin (Russian Academy of Sciences) chairman
O. Bandman (Russian Academy of Sciences)
A. Bode (State Technical University of Munich, Germany)
H. Burkhart (Universitaet Basel,Institut fuer Informatik, Switzerland)
P. Ciancarini (State University of Bologna, Italy)
M. Cosnard (Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France)
P. Degano (State University of Pisa, Italy)
A. Doroshenko (Academy of Sciences, Ukraina)
D. Etiemble (University Paris-Sud, France)
A. Hurson (Pennsylvania State University, USA)
V. Ivannikov (Russian Academy of Sciences)
P. Jorrand (LEIBNIZ laboratory, IMAG, France)
Y. Karpov (State Technical University, St.-Petersburg)
V. Kotov (HP, USA)
B. Lecussan (State University of Toulouse, France)
C. Lengauer (State University of Passau, Germany)
T. Ludwig (State Technical University of Munich, Germany)
G. Mauri (University of Milano, Italy)
N. Mirenkov (University of of Aizu, Japan)
I. Pottosin (Russian Academy of Sciences)
G. Silberman (IBM, Canada)
B. Roux (IRPHE, France)
J. Smith (Drexel University, USA)
D. Walker (University of Wales Cardiff, UK)
A. Wendelborn (University of Adelaide, Australia)