Topics

• Parallel applications and algorithms
• Resource management for massively parallel computing, languages for highly parallel systems and meta-computing, system software and tools for HPC, scalable I/O and mass storage
• Very high performance system architectures: MIMD, SIMD, systolic, dataflow, multi-threaded systems, special-purpose and domain-specific, and latency management techniques
• Evaluation of system/applications scaling and performance
• Alternative device technologies: optics, superconductors, advanced semiconductors

Description

The spectrum of fields addressed by the Frontiers conferences includes applications and algorithms, system software and languages, component technologies, and system architectures. A central theme of Frontiers'96 is research related to the exploitation of massive parallelism, and any aspects of the design, analysis, development, and/or use of massively parallel computers. The realm of computing considered includes general purpose, domain specific, and special purpose systems and techniques.

Topics illustrating both near-term practical results and those having long-term implications will be addressed. This dynamic forum will provide a stimulating and exciting environment for scientists, industry representatives, and government policy planners to present ideas, findings, product capabilities, and future directions through a series of sessions, panels, and workshops. The Conference sessions will be held Tuesday through Friday; the Workshops will be conducted Sunday afternoon and all day Monday.