Summer School on Parallel Computers, Padova June 96 (ASCII)
Andrea Pietracaprina
CALL for PARTICIPATION
Esprit Project GEPPCOM
Foundations of GEneral Purpose Parallel COMputing
SUMMER SCHOOL
on
Architectures and Programming Paradigms for Parallel Computers
Padova, Italy, June 17-21, 1996
TOPICS and LECTURERS: Advanced material will be presented on the
following subjects.
-- Shared Memory Architectures: Foundations.
K. Herley (Cork U.), A. Pietracaprina (U. Padova), G. Pucci (U. Padova)
-- Shared Memory Architectures: Realizations.
R. Bisiani (U. Milano), M. Maresca (U. Padova),
W. Paul (U. Saarbrucken), W. Tichy (U. Karlsruhe)
-- Universal Routing and Architectures.
G. Bilardi (U. Padova & UIC), C. Kaklamanis (CTI, Patras),
B. Maggs (CMU), G. Resta (IMC-CNR, Pisa), P. Spirakis (CTI, Patras)
-- Message Passing.
C. Guerra (U. Padova & Purdue U.)
-- Bulk Synchronous Parallel Computing.
Q. Miller (Oxford U.)
-- The Cilk Multithreaded Programming System.
M. Frigo (MIT), C. Leiserson (MIT)
-- Data Parallelism.
G. Blelloch (CMU)
-- The Application Perspective.
R. Bru (U. Valencia), B. Codenotti (IMC-CNR, Pisa)
PARTICIPATION: The school is targeted to graduate students and young
researchers. There are no fees. Scholarships will be awarded to
outstanding participants, covering part or all of local expenses
(meals and lodging). To apply for participation, send a short resume
and a cover letter. To be considered for a scholarship, arrange for
two letters of recommendation to be sent directly, and indicate this
in your cover letter. Address all material to:
GIANFRANCO BILARDI
Dipartimento di Elettronica e Informatica
Via Gradenigo 6/A, 35131 Padova, Italy
Phone +39 49 827-7819. Fax +39 49 827-7699
E-mail: bil...@artemide.dei.unipd.it
Applications should be received by May 20, 1996. Notification of a
decision will be sent by May 25.
LOGISTICS: The school will be held at the ``Centro Innovazione in
Padova (20 miles west of Venice). Full board is estimated to cost
Lit. 100,000 (approx. USD 65) per day, based on double occupancy.
SPONSORHIP: The school is funded by the EUROPEAN COMMISSION, through
ESPRIT Basic Research Project 9072-GEPPCOM, a joint effort of Computer
Technology Institute (Patras, Greece), Consorzio Padova Ricerche
(Padova, Italy), Istituto di Matematica Computazionale del CNR (Pisa,
Italy), Oxford University (Oxford, England), University College Cork
(Cork, Ireland), Universidad Politecnica de Valencia (Valencia,
Spain). Additional generous support has been provided by:
Camera di Commercio, Industria, Artigianato e Agricoltura di Padova
International Bussiness Machine Corporation
Servizi Elettrocontabili Banche Popolari Padova
Universit`a di Padova
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: G. Bilardi, A. Capitanio, A. Pietracaprina,
M. Pines, and G. Pucci.
SPAA'96: The 8th ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and Architectures
will be held in Padova, June 24-26.