U.S.- Israel Workshop on HPCC and GII

30 Sept -- 8 Oct 1994

Ramat Rachael, Jerusalem

Purpose:

To establish links between leading HPCC and NII researchers in the US and Israel to encourage further collaborations
To examine directions in HPCC and NII which will lead to new scientific capabilities.

Welcome (9:00 - 9:30)

Opening

Zvi Yanai - Director General, Ministry of Science and the Arts

Ralph Roskies - Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Larry Rudolph - Hebrew University

Session I - Parallel Systems -- Architectures (9:30 - 12:45)

9:30-9:50

Steve Nelson (Cray Research, Inc.): "High Performance Computing Architectures Trends"

9:55-10:15

Jacob Katzenelson (Technion): "Supercomputer Toolkit"

10:20-10:40

Marc Snir (IBM, TJ Watson): "Can Network of Workstations do Parallel Computing"

* break ***** (10:40-11:00)

11:00-11:20

Larry Rudolph (Hebrew University): "Future Parallel Supercomputer Architectures"

11:25-11:45

Ray Cline (Sandia National Lab): "Workstation Farms"

11:50-12:10

Danny Dolev (Hebrew University): "Highly Available Services"

12:15-12:45

Panel Discussion ---- Architectures

* * * * * * L U N C H B R E A K * * * * * (12:45-14:00)

Session II - Using HPCC and GII (14:00--15:00)

14:00-14:20

Adam Beguelin (Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center): "Models of Parallel Computation -- PVM, Hence"

14:25-14:45

Leniod Stilman (Tel Aviv University): "Distributed Computing of Large Scale Simulations -- Experience and Perspectives"

14:50-15:10

Michael Levine (Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center): "Models of Parallel Computation -- Heterogeneous Computing"

* break ***** (15:15-15:30)

15:30-15:50

Ehud Shapiro (Weizmann): "Using Virtual Places to Provide On-Line Service Over the Internet"

15:55-16:15

George Brett II (MCNC): "Networked Information, Discovery, and Retrieval Tools: The Next Generation"

16:20-16:40

Abe Peled (Elron): "Electronic Presence -- The Key to Industrial Competitiveness"

Session III (Tuesday night)

18:00

Dinner

19:00

Panel

"Overview of HPCC and GII" -- Moderator: Zeev Barzilai

US
Israel Mel Ciment Danny Dolev Steve Squires Abe Peled

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