PROGRAM
IPPS/SPDP'99 SCHEDULE
In San Juan, we will follow the customary schedule for the week, that is, workshops &
tutorials on Monday and Friday and all other events on the 3 days between. To take full
advantage of the Caribbean resort/casino setting, on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, the
day will start at a leisurely 9am, and there will be a longer lunch break (12:30-2:00pm)
as well as an hour-long refreshment break between sessions in the late afternoon. All
events will end by 7pm leaving the evening free to enjoy the on-site amusements and fresh
sea breeze.
CONTRIBUTED PAPERS
The IPPS/SPDP'99 Program Committee has selected 113 papers representing broad
international participation to be presented in 21 technical sessions.
KEYNOTE PRESENTATIONS
On Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, the daily starting event will be a keynote
presentation by the following invited speakers:
• K. Mani Chandy, California Institute of Technology
The Changing Nature of Concurrent Computing Research
• Burton Smith, Tera Computer Company
The Evolution of Multithreaded Architecture
• Barbara Liskov, MIT
Safe Yet Efficient Data Sharing in Wide-Area Distributed Systems
PANEL DISCUSSIONS
Two panels have been assembled, and they will be held immediately after lunch on Wednesday
and Thursday. Topics and moderators are:
• Prospects for High Performance Computing with Java and Middleware
Moderator: Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
• Information Power Grid: The New Frontier in Parallel Computing?
Moderator: Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota
WORKSHOPS
There will be 15 workshops; the first 7 will be held on Monday and the other 8 on Friday.
Open to all registrants, workshops are an opportunity to explore special topics. Schedules
and formats may vary. For details, see descriptions for each workshop in pages that
follow. Note that contact information is given for each workshop.
1. Heterogeneous Computing Workshop
2. Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments
3. Workshop on Biologically Inspired Solutions to Parallel Processing Problems
4. Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems
5. Workshop on Run-Time Systems for Parallel Programming
6. Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop
7. Workshop on Java for Parallel and Distributed Computing
8. Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing
9. Workshop on Optics & Computer Science
10. Workshop on Solving Irregularly Structured Problems in Parallel
11. Workshop on Personal Computer based Networks of Workstations
12. Workshop on Formal Methods for Parallel Programming: Theory & Applications
13. Workshop on Embedded HPC Systems and Applications
14. Workshop on Fault-Tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems
15. Workshop on High Performance Data Mining
TUTORIALS
There will be three tutorials, as described in the pages that follow. Each tutorial is a
half-day in length and will be held consecutively on Monday morning, Monday afternoon, and
Friday morning.
1. Mobile Agents in Distributed Computing
2. A Tutorial on High Performance Data Mining
3. Engineering Web Enabled Systems
INDUSTRIAL TRACK & COMMERCIAL
EXHIBITS
Held on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, the Industrial Track & Commercial Exhibits
are an integral part of IPPS/SPDP. They are designed to give manufacturers of commercial
products the opportunity to both explain and demonstrate their wares. The Industrial Track
consists of original technical papers authored and presented by representatives from the
participating organizations, and the papers are included in the symposium proceedings. The
Commercial Exhibits complement presentations by providing an informal "walk-up and
talk" setting where symposium participants may also take refreshment breaks between
keynote presentations, technical sessions, and panel discussions.
IPPS/SPDP'99 PROCEEDINGS
The proceedings will be published by the IEEE computer Society Press in both book
and CD-ROM form and will be available to all registrants at the symposium. Students
receive CD-ROM only - no hard copy. Extra copies and proceedings from previous symposia
(including CD-ROMs) may be obtained by contacting the IEEE Computer Society. Note that
IPPS/SPDP has selected to maintain a low fee structure for students, dictating the
decision to provide hard copies at an extra cost. Students will have the opportunity to
purchase hard copies on site.
WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS
Proceedings for workshops will be published as one volume by Springer-Verlag in hard copy
and on the CD-ROM containing the symposium proceedings. The hard copy will be available to
all non-student registrants at the symposium. Students will receive workshop proceedings
in CD-ROM form - no hard copy. Any other workshop publications will be distributed by the
workshops - not as part of the symposium registration.
FOR MORE INFORMATION
To learn more about the location, see the back of the Advance Program. For both symposium
and hotel registration information, see the tear out forms in the middle. You may register
for the symposium on-line by going to our Web site (using URL http://www.ippsxx.org) and linking to the IEEE Computer
Society. Note that unless a credit card is used, the hotel requires an advance payment for
one day. On-line registration is not available, so fax or phone contact is recommended.