PARCON'94, Program and Registration
Symposium on New Directions in Parallel and Concurrent Computing
New York City, October 28, 1994
Dedicated to 35 years of Michael O. Rabin's contributions to Computing
- 9:30
- "Welcome and Opening Remarks", Richard J. Cole, Department of
Computer Science, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
- 9:45
- "Convergence Architectures: Efficient Support for Shared Memory
and Message Passing", John L. Hennessy, Departments of Computer
Science and Electrical Engineering, Stanford University
- 10:30
- Coffee Break
- 11:00
- "Modeling Parallel Communication", Richard M. Karp,
International Computer Science Institute and University of
California at Berkeley
- 11:45
- "Optimization of Communication in High Performance Fortran
Compilers", Ken Kennedy, Center for Research on Parallel
Computation, and Department of Computer Science Rice University
- 12:30
- Break
- 2:15
- "The BSP Approach to Transportable Parallel Software", Leslie
G. Valiant, Division of Applied Sciences, Harvard University
- 3:00
- "Communication Bottleneck in Parallel Systems: Myth, Hardware
Problem, or Software Problem", Panel discussion led by
Marc Snir, IBM Research Division. Panelists: David Culler,
University of California at Berkeley; Tom Knight, Massachusetts
Institute of Technology; Tom Lawrence, Rome Laboratory; Yechiam
Yemini, Columbia University
- 4:30
- Reception
Sponsors:
The symposium is sponsored by the Army Research Office, the
National Science Foundation, the Courant Institute of Mathematical
Sciences and the Academic Computing Facility of New York University
Program Co-Chairs:
Zvi M. Kedem and Krishna V. Palem Courant Institute
of Mathematical Sciences.
Registration
by October 14 is required, there is no registration fee.
Available seating will be allotted in the order of receipt of
registration forms. To register, contact parcon@cs.nyu.edu.
The symposium will be held in the
Great Hall
Dagostino Hall
New York University
108 West 3rd Street
New York City