PARCON'94 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 _________________________________________________________________________ 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 and available seating will be allotted in the order of receipt of registration forms. To register, please 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.