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Distributed and High Performance Scientific Computing Workshop

A 2 Day Workshop on distributed and high performance computing,
sponsored by the Advanced Computational Modelling Centre (ACMC ) at The
University of Queensland.

Principal Speaker: Professor Jack Dongarra,
University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratories, USA. Jack
Dongarra is a leading authority in distributed and high performance
computing, and is a pivotal figure in the development of BLAS,
SCaLAPACK,
PVM and MPI.

Date: 23 and 24 July 9am - 5pm

Venue: The Visualisation and Advanced Computational Laboratory (ViSAC)
located in room G64 of the Parnell Building, The University of
Queensland,
St Lucia

Equipment: 20 Visualisation Indy workstations, connected to The
University of Queensland's Silicon Graphics Power Challenge
Supercomputer

Who should attend:

   * systems managers
   * researchers and scientists
   * application programmers
   * modellers

What you will get:

   * knowledge of state-of-the-art issues in advanced computing
   * programming experience on distributed systems and supercomputers
   * information on scientific visualisation.

Advanced Computational Modelling Centre

23 - 24 July 1996

Brisbane

Sessions: Morning seminars by Professor Dongarra will concentrate on :

   * architectures
   * distributed programming
   * performance measures
   * portability
   * quality aspects of software libraries

as well as lectures by the ACMC staff on:

   * trends in scientific computing
   * programming a supercomputer
   * visualisation tools and management of large datasets

In addition, Professor David Abramson (Griffith University) will present
a seminar and demonstration using NIMROD on a supercomputer

Afternoon Sessions will be devoted to practical work involving case
studies, porting of code to distributed systems on the university
supercomputer.

Registrations: Can be made by fax or electronically by 19 July to:

Janet Applegate
ACMC
The University of Queensland, 4072
Ph (07) 3365-1200
Fax (07) 3365-1477
email: janet@maths.uq.oz.au

Costs:

$600 Industry Attendees
$300 University Staff
$100 Postgraduate Students

Costs will cover seminar material and morning and afternoon teas.

Further information is available on: http://www.acmc.uq.edu.au

Workshop attendance will be limited to 40 attendees