U.S.- Israel Workshop on HPCC and GII

4 -- 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.

Session V       Parallel Support  (Thursday  9:00--13:00)
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 9:00-9:20      Amir Averbuch (Tel Aviv)
                "Massive Parallel Implementation of PDEs"

 9:25-9:45      Ron Pinter (IBM Israel)
                "Compiler Technology in Support of Parallelism --
                Status and Prospects"

 9:50-10:10     Avi Mendelson (Technion)
                "Mapping Dynamic Programs to Parallel Architectures -- 
                                A Template Based approach."


10:15-10:35     Eli Upfal (Weizmann)
                "The Role of Randomness in Network Design"

10:40-11:00  ******   Break   *******

11:00-11:20  
                Paul Messina  (CalTech)
                "Scalable I/O for MPPs"

11:25-11:45 
                Shafi Goldwasser
                "Security Challenges and Solutions for Information 
                Infrastructure"

11:50-12:10
                Bernie O'Lear  (NCAR)
                "Dismantling the Technological Barriers to the Data Quest"

12:15-12:45     Panel Discussion


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



Session VI     Organizing for Information Infrastructure  
(Thursday 14:00--18:30)
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14:00-14:20
               Aharon Agranat (Hebrew University)
               "What Optical Computing Has To Offer HPCC and GII" 

14:25-14:45
               Roger Taylor   (National Science Foundation)
               "NSFNet: An Overview and a Look to the Future"


14:50-15:10
               Richard Mandelbaum (Polytechnic University)
               "Wide Area Networks in Support of the Information Infrastructure"


15:15-15:30     ********* break  *************

15:30-15:50
               Glee Cady     (Netcom)

15:50-16:10
               Yitzhak Birk  (Technion)
               "Disk-Based Video-On-Demand Storage Seervers:
               Requirements, Challenges, and Solutions"

16:15-16:45   Panel Discussion  -- GII


        D i n n e r




Session VII      (Thursday  20:00--22:00)
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             Panel Discussion on 
             "How Supercomputing Centers meet HPCC Users' Needs"

                       US               Israel

                Jay Blaire              Saul Abarbanel
                Mal Kalos               Avi Cohen
                Michael Levine          Eytan Domany
                Paul Messina            Reuven Granot
                Ralph Roskies

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