Conference Chair: Paul Messina
Caltech Program Chair: Thomas Sterling, Caltech/JPL
Steering Committee Chair: Paul H. Smith, DOE
Sponsors: DARPA, NASA, NSF, DOE, NSA
The 2nd Conference on Enabling Technologies for Peta(fl)ops Computing is the first major open forum to treat the diversity of technical issues, opportunities, and challenges related to the achievement of petaflops scale computing systems. This conference follows a series of in-depth workshops and sponsored studies conducted to explore the factors that will determine the ultimate path to realizing such capability and the means of effectively using it. The purpose of the conference is to establish a community-wide consensus on the state and understanding of Petaflops scale computing approaches and determine directions for future research leading to practical Petaflops performance systems. The four day conference will involve experts from a broad interdisciplinary community to provide in-depth coverage of a wide range of issues and foster detailed discussion across conventional discipline boundaries. The conference will engage the interests and talents of participants through a series of invited and submitted papers, posters, panels, and discussion sessions. Relevant topic areas associated with petaflops scale computing and beyond include but are not limited to:
Advanced device technologies Ultra-scale system architecture Scalable system software Parallel and latency-tolerant algorithms Large-scale applications Exotic methodologies (e.g. quantum, nano, molecular technologies)
Extended Abstracts of approximately five pages are to be submitted to pflops2@cacr.caltech.edu in postscript no later than November 20, 1998. One page abstracts describing proposed poster presentations are to be submitted to pflops2@cacr.caltech.edu in text format by December 15, 1998. Full presentations may also be represented as posters. Notification of acceptance will be provided by email on January 5, 1999. A proceedings of the extended abstracts will be published. All questions related to conference participation or paper submission may be directed to pflops2@cacr.caltech.edu.