CALL FOR PARTICIPATION:


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CALL FOR PARTICIPATION (HPCAsia2004)
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The 7th International Conference on High Performance Computing and
Grid in Asia Pacific Region

Omiya Sonic City, Tokyo, Japan
July 20-22, 2004

http://www.hpcc.jp/HPCAsia2004

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IMPORTANT DATES
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Advance Registration  : June 20, 2004

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SCOPE
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HPCAsia is an international conference series held every 18 months on
an Asia-Pacific regional site. It provides a forum for HPC researchers,
developers, and users throughout the world to exchange ideas, case
studies, and research results related to all issues of high
performance computing.  The seventh conference, HPCAsia 2004, will be
held in Omiya Sonic City, Saitama in Tokyo area, Japan on July 20-22,
2004, and will include a keynote talk, invited talks, 47 technical
paper presentations, several workshops, and an exhibition related to
all issues of high performance computing..

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PROGRAM
*** Please see the officail Web site for the detail program ***
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Tuesday, July 20
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*KEYNOTE TALK
Lessons Learned from the Development of Supercomputers
Tadashi Watanabe (NEC Corp., Japan)

*INVITED TALKS
Impact of Future Technology on Deep Computing and HPC
Tilak Agerwala(IBM Research Lab., USA)

Cray's Computing Vision: Current products and Future Directions
Brian Koblenz(CRAY Inc., USA)

To survive as a Supercomputer Center in 21st Century ? Complementary
Alliance of Supercomputer Centers with characteristic Computer?
Ryutaro Himeno (RIKEN, Japan)

Enhancing Productivity and Collaboration in High Performance Computing
Stephen Perrenod(Sun Microsystems, Inc., USA)

K*Grid: Status Report (tentative)
Jysoo Lee(KISTI, KOREA)

*PANEL
From HPC to e-Science, How to promote e-Science (tentative)
Moderator: Satoshi Matsuoka(Titech, Japan)

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Wednesday, July 21
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*TECHNICAL PROGRAM
Grid, Grid Portal, Grid Tools, P2P & Gird, Communication Layer, MPI,
Numerical Algorithm, and HPC Application

*WORKSHOPS
BioGrid
National Research Grid Initiative of Japan (NAREGI)
Reconfigurable Systems for HPC
CFD and CM for the New Century

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Thursday, July 22
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*TECHNICAL PROGRAM
HPC Application, Visualization, Scheduling, and Grid Application

*PANEL
Moderator: David K. Kahaner (ATIP, USA) 

*WORKSHOPS
Simulation Results on the Earth Simulator
Asia Grid Workshop
Myrinet Users Group: Special Interest of PC Cluster Advanced
Technologies and Experiences

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EXHIBITS:  July 21-22
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(Industry Exhibits) 
Altair Engineering, Bestsystems, Cray, Fujitsu, Hamamatsu Metrix,
Hitachi, IBM, Intel, Linux Networx, Myricom/SSE, NEC, SUN, TEL, TEL
Devices, and Visual Technology

(Research Exhibits)
AIST, JST-CREST, JAXA, KISTI, NAREGI, NCHC, and RIKEN


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ORGANIZATION
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GENERAL CHAIR
 Yoshio Oyanagi (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
 Toshikazu Ebisuzaki (RIKEN)       Atsuhiro Gotoh (NTT ISPLab.)
 Naoki Hirose (JAXA)               Mitsuru Ikei (Intel Corp.)
 Sumio Kikuchi (Hitachi, Ltd.)     Tatsuya Kinoshita (HP Japan, Ltd.)
 Kazunori Konishi (KDDI Lab.)      Kazunori Mikami (Cray Japan, Inc.)
 Ken Miura (NII)                   Kimio Miyazawa (Fujitsu Lab. Ltd.)
 Yoichi Muraoka (Waseda Univ.)     Katsuya Nishi (Bestsystems, Inc.)
 Kazuhito Ohmaki (AIST)            Tetsuya Sato (JAMSTEC)
 Masaaki Shimasaki (Kyoto Univ.)   Eietsu Tamura (IBM Japan, Ltd.)
 Hidehiko Tanaka (Univ. of Tokyo)  Takaaki Tasaka (SGI Japan, Ltd.)
 Shinji Tomita (Kyoto Univ.)       Makoto Tsukakoshi (Sun Microsystems)
 Keiichiro Uchida (Kanagawa Univ.) Akira Ukawa (Univ. of Tsukuba)
 Tadashi Watanabe (NEC Corp.)      Genki Yagawa (Univ. of Tokyo)
 Hayato Yamana (Waseda Univ.)      Syunsuke Yoshizawa (AMD Japan, Inc.)
 Toshitsugu Yuba (Univ. of EC) 

INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
 David Kahaner (ATIP, USA)
INTERNATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE
 Raymond H. Chan (CUHK, Hong Kong)  Royol Chitradon (NECTEC, Thailand)
 Heow Pueh Lee (IHPC, Singapore)    Sangsan Lee (KISTI, Korea)
 John O'Callaghan (APAC, Australia) Yoshio Oyanagi (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
 Sharad Purohit (CDAC, India)       Rafael P. Saldana (CSP, Philippines)
 Danny Shieh (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)   Suryadi Slamet (UI, Indonesia)
 Nguyen Son (HCMUT, Vietnam)         Michael J. Uddstrom (NIWA, New Zealand)
 Zhiwei Xu (CAS, Chaina)

STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR
 Satoshi Sekiguchi (AIST, Japan)
STEERING COMMITTEE
 Kento Aida (TITECH)                Taisuke Boku (Univ. of Tsukuba)
 Naoko Kokubo (ICS, Inc.)           Yuko Oshima (AIST)
 Mitsuhisa Sato (Univ. of Tsukuba)  Yoko Sato (AIST)
 Reiji Suda (Univ. of Tokyo)        Daisuke Takahashi (Univ. of Tsukuba)
 Hayato Yamana (Waseda Univ.)       Mitsuo Yokokawa (AIST)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR
 Mitsuhisa Sato (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE VICE CHAIRS
 Yutaka Ishikawa (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
 Satoshi Matsuoka (TITECH, Japan)
WORKSHOP CHAIR
 Taisuke Boku (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
 David Abramson (Monash Univ., Australia)  Hideharu Amano (Keio Univ., Japan)
 Tokuro Anzaki (Hitachi Ltd., Japan)   Takayuki Aoki (TITECH, Japan)
 Mutsumi Aoyagi (Kyushu Univ., Japan)  Bill Appelbe (VPAC, Australia)
 Peter Arzberger (UCSD, USA)           Malcolm Atkinson (NESC, UK)
 Jit Biswas (Inst.for Infocomm Research, Singapore)
 Jaeyoung Choi  (Soongsil Univ., Korea)  Jack Dongarra (Univ. of Tennessee, UK)
 Jianping Fan (ICT, China)             Dennis Gannon (Indiana Univ., USA)
 Bob A. Gingold (ANU, Australia)       Kenichi Hayashi (Sun Microsystems,Japan)
 Gatot F. Hertono (Univ. of Indonesia, Indonesia)
 Ryutaro Himeno (RIKEN, Japan)         Kei Hiraki  (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
 Naoki Hirose (JAXA, Japan)            Terence Hung (IHPC, Singapore)
 Sigeo Ihara (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)   Ken'ichi Itakura (JAMSTEC, Japan)
 Hai Jin (HUST, China)                 Hideo Kaburaki (JAERI, Japan)
 Hironori Kasahara (Waseda Univ., Japan)  Jysoo Lee  (KISTI, Korea)
 Sunggu Lee  (POSTECH, Korea)          Teo Yong Meng (Univ. of Singapore, Singapore)
 Matthias Mueller (HLRS, Germany)      Kazuaki Murakami (Kyushu Univ., Japan)
 Takashi Nakamura(JAXA, Japan)         Hiroshi Okuda (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)
 Takashi Ohta (IBM Japan, Ltd., Japan) 
 Bernard A. Pailthorpe (Univ. of Queensland, Australia)
 Yoshiki Seo (NEC Corp., Japan)        Shinji Shimojo (Osaka Univ., Japan)
 Reiji Suda (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan)    Shinji Sumimoto (Fujitsu Lab., Japan)
 Toshikazu Takada (NEC Corp., Japan)   Daisuke Takahashi (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan)
 Yoshio Tanaka (AIST, Japan)           David Taniar (Monash Univ.,Australia)
 Kenjiro Taura (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan) Ping-Kun Teng (Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
 Whey-Fone Tsai (NCHC, Taiwan)  
 Putchong Uthayopas (Kasetsart Univ., Tailand)
 Cai Wentong (NTU, Singapore)

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SPONSORS
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- SIGHPC/Information Processing Society of Japan
- IEEE CS Japan Chapter

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SUPPORTING ORGANIZATONS
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- IBM, Ltd.
- Intel Corp.
- NEC Corp.
- Bestsystems, Inc.
- Cray, Inc.
- Fujitsu Ltd.
- Hitachi, Ltd.
- Visual Technology
- Myricom/SSE

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COOPORATIONS
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- Grid Consortium Japan
- Japan Society for Simulation Technology
- Japan Society of Fluid Mechanics
- SIGARC/Information Processing Society of Japan
- The Japan Society for Computational Engineering and Science
- The Japan Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- The Physical Society of Japan

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