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Hotel Information Registration Information Transportation Information This is a visible and important international meeting for parallel scientific computing and parallel numerical algorithms. The conference provides a forum for communication among the applied mathematics and scientific computing communities and researchers in other disciplines, such as computer science and geoscience. For this ninth conference, we have chosen to emphasize the interaction with application scientists who have large scale computation, data, and storage needs which lead to the use of parallel machines.The conference will be held jointly with the Fifth SIAM Conference on Geosciences, with overlap sessions planned to encourage interaction among participants of both meetings. In addition, some of the invited speakers will be talking about parallel computing opportunities in novel application domains. How to Contribute Minisymposium The organizing committee invites proposals for minisymposia in areas related to the conference themes. A minisymposium consists of four related talks of 30 minutes each (including time for discussion). Prospective minisymposium organizers are asked to submit a proposal consisting of a title, a description (not exceeding 100 words), and a list of speakers and titles of their presentations. Each minisymposium speaker should submit a 75-word abstract and a 2-page extended abstract in LaTeX format to [email protected]. To obtain a minisymposium proposal form, please complete and submit the request for information reply form, or e-mail your request to [email protected]. The form is also available at www.siam.org/meetings/miniform.htm. Presentations in Lecture or Poster Format Contributions in lecture or poster format are invited in all areas of parallel processing and scientific computing consistent with the conference themes. Each contributor must submit a 75-word abstract and a 2-page extended abstract in LaTeX format to [email protected]. Submissions must include a title, author(s) names and affiliations, and the postal address, e-mail, telephone number, and fax of the submitting author. Accepted papers will be assigned by the organizing committee to either a lecture presentation or a poster. Contributors should indicate which format they prefer. A poster presentation consists of the use of visual aids, such as 8.5" x 11" sheets for mounting on a 4' x 6' poster board and will be presented in an informal setting that allows presenters to discuss their research with individual attendees. A poster board will be available at the conference for each poster presenter. The Organizing Committee reserves the right to limit the number of contributed presentations an individual speaker may present. Electronic Submission Every presenter of either a minisymposium or contributed or poster presentation must submit both a 75-word abstract and a two-page extended abstract to be considered for presentation and enclosure in the proceedings. Submissions must be sent electronically to [email protected] by using the LaTeX macro for both brief and extended abstracts available at archive.siam.org/tex/confs/conftex.htm. The extended abstracts will be reviewed by the organizing committee. If accepted, the authors will be notified to prepare their papers for the proceedings. The brief abstracts will appear in the final program. Dates to Remember These are all firm dates. August 3 Deadline for submission of minisymposium proposals. September 1 Deadline for submission of minisymposium speakers 75-word and 2-page extended abstracts. September 1 Deadline for submission of 75-word and 2-page extended abstracts for either a contributed lecture or poster format. December 22 Deadline for papers from accepted authors for inclusion in proceedings. Notice of Acceptance or Rejection Authors will be notified as to whether or not their 2-page extended abstracts have been accepted by October 16, 1998. Registration The conference program, registration, hotel, and transportation information will be available on the Web in November 1998. Tell us what you think? Use our electronic suggestion box to submit your comments. Questions? E-mail [email protected]   SIAM Conferences

Ninth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing March 22-24, 1999 Adam's Mark San Antonio-Riverwalk Hotel San Antonio, Texas Sponsored by SIAM Activity Group on Supercomputing Held jointly for the first time with the Fifth SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences And immediately preceding the Parallel Processing conference on Sunday, March 21, 1999 Short Course on PETSc Short Course on MPI-2 Short Course on OpenMP Conference Themes The principal themes include, but are not limited to: Scalable Algorithms and Implementations Large-Scale Parallel Applications Software Tools and Libraries Parallel I/O Data Mining Parallel Visualization and Image Processing Multidisciplinary Simulation and Optimization Object-Oriented Parallel Systems Clusters of Shared Memory Machines Wide Area Parallel Computing Parallel Processing in the Geosciences Parallel Processing in Mathematics Invited Presentations Meeting the ASCI Challenge: Terascale Scientific Simulation Steven F. Ashby, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory PARASOL, A Parallel Library for Large Sparse Linear Systems Petter E. Bjørstad, University of Bergen, Norway Merging Advanced Microscopy with Advanced Computing Mark Ellisman, University of California, San Diego Realistic Climate Modeling on US-Made High-End Parallel Computers: Formulations, Machine Considerations, and Results Albert J. Semtner, Naval Postgraduate School and National Center for Atmospheric Research Synthetic Environments for Modeling Subsurface and Surface Flows Mary F. Wheeler, University of Texas, Austin Organizing Committee Bruce Hendrickson, Co-chair Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque Katherine A. Yelick, Co-chair University of California, Berkeley Christian H. Bischof Argonne National Laboratory Iain S. Duff Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, United Kingdom & CERFACS, France Alan S. Edelman Massachusetts Institute of Technology George A. Geist Oak Ridge National Laboratory Michael T. Heath University of Illinois, Urbana Michael A. Heroux Cray Research/Silicon Graphics Inc. Chuck Koelbel Rice University Robert S. Schreiber Hewlett Packard Laboratories Richard F. Sincovec University of Texas, San Antonio Mary F. Wheeler University of Texas, Austin Short Courses Three tutorials will be conducted on Sunday, March 21, prior to the conference. The first will be an all-day tutorial on PETSc, a system for writing large-scale scientific applications modeled by partial differential equations. The other two will each be half-day tutorials. One will be on the MPI-2 message passing interface and the other on the new OpenMP parallel programming interface. Short Course on PETSc Organizers and Lecturers: Satish Balay, Bill Gropp, Lois Curfman McInnes and Barry Smith, Argonne National Laboratory Short Course on MPI-2 Organizers and Lecturers: Purushotham Bangalore and Tony Skjellum, Mississippi State University Short Course on OpenMP Organizer and Lecturer: Chuck Koelbel, Rice University Conference Proceedings The proceedings will be available at the conference in CD-ROM format only. It will be included in the registration fee. Authors whose abstracts are accepted will be notified by October 16, 1998. Instructions for preparing your paper in a postscript format will be sent at the same time. Your PostScript file and hard copy of your paper must reach the SIAM office by December 22, 1998 to be included in the proceedings. This is a firm deadline. Papers received after December 22 will not be included.