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                  PROGRAM AND CALL FOR REGISTRATION

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           HUG'98: The 2nd Annual HPF User Group meeting 
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                          25 - 26 June 1998 
                           Porto, Portugal 

                (Held in conjunction with VECPAR'98)

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           NOTE:  EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE IS 31 MAY
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Please find below the program for the High Performance Fortran User 
Group meeting, HUG'98, to be held in Porto, Portugal, on June 25 and 26,
after the VECPAR conference.  There will also be an HPF tutorial
held as part of the VECPAR tutorial program at the same location on
June 20.  It is possible to register for just one or other of these events.

More information and registration forms are available on the Web at:
  
        www.vcpc.univie.ac.at/activities/news/HUG98/

Please note that the deadline for reduced-rate early registration is 
at the end of May.

             Best regards,

                      Barbara Chapman and John Merlin.

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                         HUG'98 Draft Program 
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Wednesday 24 June 1998
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19.00 - 22.00: Registration and Welcome Reception hosted by PGI

Thursday 25 June 1998
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8.30 - 9.20: Welcome and keynote address

  Welcome address
	 Barbara Chapman (VCPC, Austria)
  HPF: Achievements, Problems and Prospects
	 Ken Kennedy (Rice U.)

9.20 - 10.35: Session 1: Porting Experiences

  HPF for Regular, Block-structured, and Irregular Grid-based Applications
	Eric de Sturler and Damian Loher (SCSC, ETH Zurich)

  Design Studies of Wind Turbine Rotor Blades Using Full 3D Navier-Stokes 
  Modelling and Parallel Computers
	Jorgen Moth (The Danish Computing Centre for Research and Education)

  Porting a 2D Acoustic Wave Modeling Application to HPF: Issues and Problems
	Julien Zory (Ecole des Mines de Paris, France)

10.35 - 11.05: BREAK 

11.05 - 12.45: Session 2: Integrating HPF with other models 

  OpenMP and HPF: Integrating Two Paradigms
	Barbara Chapman (VCPC, Austria), Piyush Mehrotra (ICASE, USA)

  Using KeLP-HPF for Dynamic Block-Structured Applications
	John Merlin (VCPC, U. Vienna), Scott Baden (U. California at San Diego)

  HPF Libraries and Services for Numerical Simulations in Computational Science
	K.A. Hawick and P.D. Coddington (U. Adelaide)

  CMSSL Libraries for HPF
	Lennart Johnsson (U. Houston)

12.45 - 14.00: LUNCH 

14.00 - 15.40: Session 3: The PHAROS project 

  Overview of the PHAROS project
	 Karl Solchenbach (Pallas GmbH, Germany)

  SEMC3D code port to HPF
	 Henri Luzet (Semcap SA, France)

  Porting to HPF: Experiences with DBETSY3D within PHAROS
	 Thomas Brandes (GMD, Germany), Kadri Krause (debis Systemhaus, Germany)

  Aerolog code port to HPF
	 Christian Borel (MATRA BAe Dynamics, France)

15.40 - 17.00: COFFEE BREAK and POSTER SESSION 

17.00 - 18.00:  Panel discussion 

Evening: Conference dinner at Circulo Universitario da Universidade do Porto 

Friday 26 June 
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8.30 -  9.10: Invited presentation

  HPF/JA: HPF Extensions for Real-World Parallel Applications
	Yoshiki Seo (NEC Corp), Hidetoshi Iwashita (Fujitsu Ltd.),
	Hiroshi Ohta (Hitachi Ltd.), Hitoshi Sakagami (Himeji Inst. Tech.),
	Shun Takahashi (Hitachi Ltd.)

9.10 - 10.25: Session 4: HPF extensions and optimisations  

  Contact-Impact Kernels in HPF+
	G. Lonsdale, A. Petitet, F. Zimmermann (NEC Europe Ltd), 
	J. Clinckemaillie, S. Meliciani (ESI France)

  Propositions for Handling Irregular Problems with HPF-2
	Frederic Bregier, Marie Christine Counilh, Jean Roman
	(U. Bordeaux, France), Thomas Brandes (GMD, Germany)

  Advanced Optimization Techniques for HPF
	Vikram Adve, Rob Fowler, Guohua Jin, Ken Kennedy, John Mellor-Crummey
	(Rice U.)

10.25 - 10.55: BREAK 

10.55 - 13.00: Session 5: Porting experiences & methodology 

  A Comparison of PETSc Library and HPF Implementations for a 
  Structured-grid PDE Computation
	M. Ehtesham Hayder (Rice U.), David E. Keyes (Old Dominion U. 
	and ICASE), Piyush Mehrotra (ICASE)

  Performance of Explicit Ocean Models on Shared and Distributed Memory 
  Computers Using HPF
	Steve Piacsek (Stennis Space Center, USA.), Michael Young 
	(Naval Research Lab, Washington, D.C), Douglas Miles (PGI Inc)

  A Methodology for Converting Applications to HPF
	Will Denissen, Vincent Korstanje, Peter Maarleveld (TPD-TNO, Delft), 
	Henk J. Sips (Delft U. of Technology)

  The Real Benefits and Costs to Industry of the Ownership of HPF Codes
	Tim Cooper (PAC, UK), Mike Delves (N.A. Software, UK)

  HPF and OpenMP
	Arild Dyrseth and Tor Sorevik (Parallab, U. Bergen)

13.00 - 14.15: LUNCH 

14.15 - 15.45: Session 6: HPF Compilers and Tools 

  On the Development of HPF Tools as Part of the Aurora Project
	T. Fahringer, P. Brezany, B. DiMartino, M. Pantano, A. Pozgaj, 
	K. Sowa, B. Wender (U. Vienna)

  Vendor presentations: 

  The PGHPF HPF Compiler: Status and Future Directions
	Douglas Miles, Vincent Schuster, Mark Young (PGI Inc)

  DEEP: A Development Environment for HPF Programs
	David J. McNamara, Brian Q. Brode, James J. Bonang, Chris R. Warber
	(Pacific-Sierra Research Corp)

  Also NAS, Pallas, and others to be announced.

15.45 - 16.15: BREAK 

16.15 - 18.00: Final discussion and close of meeting 

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