Call for Participation

SYMPOSIUM on PARALLEL COMPUTING for SOLVING LARGE SCALE
and IRREGULAR APPLICATIONS

organized by
the GdR PRS CNRS French teams who took part in the MESR Stratagème project

local organization
Laboratoire d'informatique signaux et systèmes de Sophia-Antipolis ,
and
Institut national de recherche en informatique et automatique Sophia-Antipolis

Sophia-Antipolis, France, July 8-10 1996.

• Objective of the Symposium
• Conference Organizers
• Final Program
• Contact Point
• Registration Fees
• Registration Form

Objective of the Symposium

Most practical large scale applications involve the generation and manipulation of irregular data structures (IDS). These data structures are complex because the information is contained not only in the individual data elements but in the structure in which they are organized through various steps of computation: lists, dictionaries, priority queues, graphs. They are often created dynamically in the course of the algorithm which is not known at the outset and therefore their structure changes dynamically as the algorithm computation progresses. Their irregularity (sparse matrices, unbalanced trees) is a major difficulty in a parallel processing environment.

On the one hand, the automatic parallelization approach is not always able to tackle this characteristic. Compilers which generate parallel code operate on programs whose data structures are regular and moreover have been partitioned by the user. So, the fact that the automated approach is usually not possible for programs whose data are irregular, shows that IDS must be separately studied. On the other hand, the design or choice of a parallel IDS will be, like in a sequential algorithm, at the heart of the parallel algorithm.
These problems can be found in different applications like those in Scientific Computation, Images Processing and Optimization domains.

The objective of the Symposium on parallel computing for solving large scale and irregular applications is to bring together researchers actively involved in the development of parallel computing methodologies of irregular applications. Through presentations and open discussions, we aim to exchange experiences, to review successes and setbacks, to identify promising research avenues and application domains, to foster new collaborations concerning:

1. the design and analysis of parallel algorithms,
2. the theorical as well as applications oriented recent advances in handling irregular or non structural problems.

Organization

The symposium will take place at INRIA Sophia Antipolis from July 8 to 10, 1996. Sophia-Antipolis is located on the French Riviera, in the south of France, between Cannes and Nice.

July 9 1996 afternoon will be reserved for an excursion to the Iles de Lerins off Cannes, followed by the conference banquet at Juan-les-Pins. (this planning is still subject to modification).

Conference Organizers

Contact Point

Dany SERGEANT
Stratagem'96
INRIA - Relations Extérieures
2004, route des Lucioles
B.P. 93
06902 Sophia-Antipolis Cedex France
phone: (+33) 93 65 77 05
fax: (+33) 93 65 79 55
email: ds@sophia.inria.fr
email: baude@unice.fr

Registration Fees

Please take care that the total number of participants is limited to 70. Late registration (after June 28th) fees are indicated in parantheses.

• Academics: 1200FF (1500 FF)
• Students: 600FF (800 FF) (A copy of the student certificate is required)
• Industrials: 1700FF (2000 FF)
• Accompaning person: excursion 100 FF, conference banquet 250 FF

Registration fees cover the acts, the 3 lunches, the excursion and the conference banquet, and are VAT (20,6 %) included..