CFP : Commercial Applications for High Performance Computing IT401, Part of SPIEs International Symposium on the Convergence of Information Technologies and Communications ITCOM

CFP : Commercial Applications for High Performance Computing IT401, Part of SPIEs International Symposium on the Convergence of Information Technologies and Communications ITCOM
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Call for Papers and Announcement Commercial Applications for High-Performance Computing (IT401) Part of SPIE's International Symposium on The Convergence of Information Technologies and Communications (ITCOM) 20-24 August 2001 Colorado Convention Center Denver, Colorado USA Conference Chair: Howard Jay Siegel, Purdue Univ. (beginning Aug. 2001, Colorado State Univ.) Program Committee: Ishfaq Ahmad, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology (Hong Kong); John K. Antonio, Univ. of Oklahoma; Hamid R. Arabnia, Univ. of Georgia; Kenneth E. Batcher, Kent State Univ.; Willem A. Bohm, Colorado State Univ.; Thomas L. Casavant, Univ. of Iowa; Henry G. Dietz, Univ. of Kentucky; Jack Dongarra, Univ. of Tennessee; Rudolf Eigenmann, Purdue Univ.; Salim A. Hariri, Univ. of Arizona; Paul C. Messina, California Institute of Technology; Rodney Oldehoeft, Los Alamos National Lab.; Yale N. Patt, Univ. of Texas/Austin; Viktor K. Prasanna, Univ. of Southern California; Daniel A. Reed, Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign; Mitchell D. Theys, Univ. of Illinois/Chicago; Albert Y. Zomaya, Univ. of Western Australia (Australia) The rapid increases in the capabilities of computers and their associated communication systems are opening up wonderful new opportunities for information technology to serve humanity, from health care to entertainment to complex product design to disaster prediction. The focus of this conference is current and future ways in which high-performance computing can be used in the support of commercial applications. The power of "high- performance" computing continues to increase with time. High- performance computing systems may be based on multiprocessor systems, clusters or farms of machines, parallel computers, special-purpose architectures, computational grids, distributed computing, etc. The set of computers that comprise the system may be heterogeneous or homogeneous. For this conference, a single processor general purpose standard machine is not considered a high-performance system. Our working definition of "commercial applications" in the context of this conference is loosely defined as applications that are of interest to the general public and can be profitable for a company to undertake, as opposed to one-of-a-kind applications whose development would be funded by a federal government agency for its purposes only. Furthermore, to be appropriate for this conference, these applications must require the use of a high-performance computing system, typically because of the computational complexity of the task, extremely large data sets that must be processed, the need for a response in relevant time, or some combination of these. The parent symposium concerns the convergence of information technology and communication technologies. The topics we expect to cover in this conference will involve this convergence in one or more of the following ways: (1) the computers that comprise the high-performance system will be interconnected by high-speed communications; (2) the application being executed is gathering its inputs remotely over a communications network; or (3) the high-performance system executing the application is remotely accessed by its users through a communications network. Possible general topics for current and future applications of interest include, but are not limited to: - aircraft design - airline industry reservation system - airline scheduling problem - automobile design - bioinformatics and genomics - business decision support - chemical process optimization - computational finance - data mining and knowledge discovery - data visualization and animation - drug discovery - e-business and e-commerce support - entertainment - geophysical exploration (including oil) - global climate modeling and prediction - ground and air traffic control - image and speech understanding - integrated circuit chip design - mobility management for computing and communications - molecular engineering - multimedia support - natural disaster forecasting and mitigation - satellite imaging - stock market modeling and prediction - telemedicine and health care - virtual reality - web search engines Technical questions about this conference may be sent to the Conference Chair at hj@purdue.edu A special issue of "The Journal of Supercomputing" will be devoted to this conference; authors of accepted papers will be asked if they want their full papers reviewed for this issue. Abstract Due Date: 19 February 2001 Manuscript Due Date: 28 May 2001 Full manuscript proceedings of this conference will be published and available at the meeting. The Abstract and Manuscript due dates must be strictly observed. Submissions imply the intent of at least one author to register, attend the symposium, and present the paper. Your abstract must include all of the following: 1. SUBMIT TO: IT401, SIEGEL 2. CONFERENCE TITLE: Commercial Applications for High-Performance Computing (please submit each abstract to one conference only) 3. ABSTRACT TITLE 4. AUTHOR LISTING (principal author first) For all authors: First (given) name (initials not acceptable), Last (family) name, Affiliation, Mailing address, Telephone, Fax, and E-mail address. 5. ABSTRACT TEXT Approximately 250 words. 6. KEYWORDS List a maximum of five keywords. 7. BRIEF BIOGRAPHY (presenting author) Approximately 50 words. Conditions of Acceptance - Authors are expected to secure registration fees and travel and accommodation funding, independent of SPIE, through their sponsoring organizations before submitting abstracts. - Only original material should be submitted. - Papers with no research/development content and papers where supporting data or a technical description cannot be given for proprietary reasons will not be accepted for presentation in this symposium. - Abstracts should contain enough detail to clearly convey the approach and the results of the research. - Government and company clearance to present and publish should be final at the time of submittal. - Applicants will be notified of acceptance/rejection by mail no later than 30 April 2001. Early notification of acceptance will be placed on the SPIE Web site the week of 23 April 2001 at www.spie.org/info/itcom/ Paper Review To ensure a high-quality conference, all abstracts and Proceedings of SPIE papers will be reviewed by the Conference Chair and Program Committee for technical merit and content. Instructions for Submitting Abstracts All authors are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED to submit their abstracts by the due date using the Web form located at URL: www.spie.org/info/itcom/ - If World Wide Web access is not available, please choose only one of the following options: E-MAIL each abstract separately to: abstracts@spie.org in ASCII text (not encoded) format. IMPORTANT: to ensure receipt and proper processing of your abstract, the Subject line must include only the following: SUBJECT: IT401, SIEGEL or MAIL three copies of your abstract to: THE CONVERGENCE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AND COMMUNICATION SPIE, P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, WA 98227-0010 USA Shipping Address: 1000 20th St., Bellingham, WA 98225 USA or FAX one copy to SPIE at 360/647-1445 (send each abstract separately). Publishing Policy Manuscript due dates must be strictly observed. Late manuscripts run the risk of not being published in the Proceedings of SPIE. The objective of this policy is to better serve the conference participants and the technical community at large. Your cooperation is appreciated by all. Proceedings of SPIE These conferences will result in full-manuscript editor-reviewed volumes published in the Proceedings of SPIE that can be ordered through the Advance Technical Program. Camera-ready manuscripts are required of all accepted applicants and must be submitted in English by 28 May 2001. Copyright to the manuscript is expected to be released for publication in the Proceedings of SPIE. Papers published are indexed in leading scientific databases including INSPEC, Compendex Plus, Physics Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts, International Aerospace Abstracts, and Index to Scientific and Technical Proceedings. Participant Registration Fee Authors and coauthors are accorded a reduced symposium registration fee. Participants who attend the symposium and pay the full Author registration fee may also apply for a complimentary six-month, nonvoting membership in SPIE if never before a member (membership includes OE Magazine and choice of SPIE's journals). This offer does not apply to student Authors. Details are available at the on-site registration desk or by contacting SPIE Member Services at membership@spie.org; or call 360/676-3290.

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Call for Papers and Announcement
Commercial Applications for High-Performance Computing (IT401)

Part of SPIE's International Symposium on The Convergence of
Information Technologies and Communications (ITCOM)

20-24 August 2001
Colorado Convention Center
Denver, Colorado USA

Conference Chair: Howard Jay Siegel, Purdue Univ.
(beginning Aug. 2001, Colorado State Univ.)

Program Committee:
Ishfaq Ahmad, Hong Kong Univ. of Science and Technology (Hong Kong);
John K. Antonio, Univ. of Oklahoma;
Hamid R. Arabnia, Univ. of Georgia;
Kenneth E. Batcher, Kent State Univ.;
Willem A. Bohm, Colorado State Univ.;
Thomas L. Casavant, Univ. of Iowa;
Henry G. Dietz, Univ. of Kentucky;
Jack Dongarra, Univ. of Tennessee;
Rudolf Eigenmann, Purdue Univ.;
Salim A. Hariri, Univ. of Arizona;
Paul C. Messina, California Institute of Technology;
Rodney Oldehoeft, Los Alamos National Lab.;
Yale N. Patt, Univ. of Texas/Austin;
Viktor K. Prasanna, Univ. of  Southern California;
Daniel A. Reed, Univ. of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign;
Mitchell D. Theys, Univ. of Illinois/Chicago;
Albert Y. Zomaya, Univ. of Western Australia (Australia)

The rapid increases in the capabilities of computers and their
associated communication systems are opening up wonderful new
opportunities for information technology to serve humanity, from
health care to entertainment to complex product design to
disaster prediction. The focus of this conference is current and
future ways in which high-performance computing can be used in
the support of commercial applications. The power of "high-
performance" computing continues to increase with time. High-
performance computing systems may be based on multiprocessor
systems, clusters or farms of machines, parallel computers,
special-purpose architectures, computational grids, distributed
computing, etc. The set of computers that comprise the system may
be heterogeneous or homogeneous. For this conference, a single
processor general purpose standard machine is not considered a
high-performance system. Our working definition of "commercial
applications" in the context of this conference is loosely
defined as applications that are of interest to the general
public and can be profitable for a company to undertake, as
opposed to one-of-a-kind applications whose development would be
funded by a federal government agency for its purposes only.
Furthermore, to be appropriate for this conference, these
applications must require the use of a high-performance computing
system, typically because of the computational complexity of the
task, extremely large data sets that must be processed, the need
for a response in relevant time, or some combination of these.

The parent symposium concerns the convergence of information
technology and communication technologies. The topics we expect
to cover in this conference will involve this convergence in one
or more of the following ways: (1) the computers that comprise
the high-performance system will be interconnected by high-speed
communications; (2) the application being executed is gathering
its inputs remotely over a communications network; or (3) the
high-performance system executing the application is remotely
accessed by its users through a communications network. Possible
general topics for current and future applications of interest
include, but are not limited to:

- aircraft design
- airline industry reservation system
- airline scheduling problem
- automobile design
- bioinformatics and genomics
- business decision support
- chemical process optimization
- computational finance
- data mining and knowledge discovery
- data visualization and animation
- drug discovery
- e-business and e-commerce support
- entertainment
- geophysical exploration (including oil)
- global climate modeling and prediction
- ground and air traffic control
- image and speech understanding
- integrated circuit chip design
- mobility management for computing and communications
- molecular engineering
- multimedia support
- natural disaster forecasting and mitigation
- satellite imaging
- stock market modeling and prediction
- telemedicine and health care
- virtual reality
- web search engines

Technical questions about this conference may be sent to the
Conference Chair at hj@purdue.edu

A special issue of "The Journal of Supercomputing" will be devoted to
this conference; authors of accepted papers will be asked if they want
their full papers reviewed for this issue.

Abstract Due Date: 19 February 2001
Manuscript Due Date: 28 May 2001

Full manuscript proceedings of this conference will be published and
available at the meeting.

The Abstract and Manuscript due dates must be strictly observed.

Submissions imply the intent of at least one author to register,
attend the symposium, and present the paper.

Your abstract must include all of the following:
1.   SUBMIT TO: IT401,  SIEGEL
2.   CONFERENCE TITLE: Commercial Applications for High-Performance Computing
     (please submit each abstract to one conference only)
3.   ABSTRACT TITLE
4.   AUTHOR LISTING (principal author first)
     For all authors: First (given) name (initials not acceptable),
     Last (family) name, Affiliation, Mailing address, Telephone,
     Fax, and E-mail address.
5.   ABSTRACT TEXT  
     Approximately 250 words.
6.   KEYWORDS
     List a maximum of five keywords.
7.   BRIEF BIOGRAPHY (presenting author)
     Approximately 50 words. 



*Conditions of Acceptance

- Authors are expected to secure registration fees and travel and
accommodation funding, independent of SPIE, through their
sponsoring organizations before submitting abstracts.

- Only original material should be submitted.

- Papers with no research/development content and papers where
supporting data or a technical description cannot be given for
proprietary reasons will not be accepted for presentation in this
symposium.

- Abstracts should contain enough detail to clearly convey the
approach and the results of the research.

- Government and company clearance to present and publish should
be final at the time of submittal.

- Applicants will be notified of acceptance/rejection by mail no later
than 30 April 2001. Early notification of acceptance will be placed on
the SPIE Web site the week of 23 April 2001 at www.spie.org/info/itcom/

*Paper Review
To ensure a high-quality conference, all abstracts and
Proceedings of SPIE papers will be reviewed by the Conference
Chair and Program Committee for technical merit and content.

*Instructions for Submitting Abstracts
All authors are STRONGLY ENCOURAGED to submit their
abstracts by the due date using the Web form located at
URL: www.spie.org/info/itcom/

- If World Wide Web access is not available, please choose only
one of the following options:

E-MAIL each abstract separately to: abstracts@spie.org in
ASCII text (not encoded) format. IMPORTANT: to ensure receipt and
proper processing of your abstract, the Subject line must include only
the following: SUBJECT: IT401,  SIEGEL

or MAIL three copies of your abstract to:
THE CONVERGENCE OF INFORMATION  TECHNOLOGIES
AND COMMUNICATION
SPIE, P.O. Box 10, Bellingham, WA  98227-0010 USA
Shipping Address: 1000 20th St., Bellingham, WA 98225 USA

or FAX one copy to SPIE at 360/647-1445 (send each abstract
separately).

*Publishing Policy
Manuscript due dates must be strictly observed. Late manuscripts
run the risk of not being published in the Proceedings of SPIE.
The objective of this policy is to better serve the conference
participants and the technical community at large. Your
cooperation is appreciated by all.

*Proceedings of SPIE
These conferences will result in full-manuscript editor-reviewed
volumes published in the Proceedings of SPIE that can be ordered
through the Advance Technical Program. Camera-ready manuscripts
are required of all accepted applicants and must be submitted in
English by 28 May 2001.  Copyright to the manuscript is expected
to be released for publication in the Proceedings of SPIE. Papers
published are indexed in leading scientific databases including
INSPEC, Compendex Plus, Physics Abstracts, Chemical Abstracts,
International Aerospace Abstracts, and Index to Scientific and
Technical Proceedings.

*Participant Registration Fee
Authors and coauthors are accorded a reduced symposium
registration fee.  Participants who attend the symposium and pay
the full Author registration fee may also apply for a
complimentary six-month, nonvoting membership in SPIE if never
before a member (membership includes OE Magazine and choice of
SPIE's journals). This offer does not apply to student Authors.
Details are available at the on-site registration desk or by
contacting SPIE Member Services at membership@spie.org; or call
360/676-3290.