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[hamdi@cs.ust.hk (Dr. Mounir Hamdi)]

ADVANCE PROGRAM

Int. Workshop on High-Speed Network Computing
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In Conjunction with IPPS '95, April 25, 1995
Red Lion Resort, Santa Barbara, California


Workshop Chairs
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H. M. Alnuweiri (CoChair)
Dept. Electrical Engineering 
University of  British Columbia	 

M. Hamdi (CoChair)
Dept. Computer Science 
Hong Kong University 
of Science and Technology 


Program Committee
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S. Chanson		Univ. Science and Technology 
D. H. C. Du		University of Minnesota 
S. Hariri		Syracuse University 
R. Jain			Ohio State Univeristy 
A. Jajszczyk		Franco-Polish School 
T. V. Lakshman		Bell Communications Research 
W. T. O'Connell		AT\&T Bell Laboratories 
D. K. Panda		Ohio State Univeristy 
C. S. Raghavendra 	Washington State University 
T. Szymanski		McGill University 



Session 1: Introduction (8:30 - 9:30 AM)

Welcoming Remarks

Keynote Address

Giga Bits/Second Networks Are Here - Now!  
Nanette J. Boden


Session 2: High-Speed Networking (10:00 - 12:00 AM)
Chair: Patrick Dowd

High-Speed Networking for Distributed Multimedia Communication
Arif Ghafoor, Zafar Ali, Miae Woo, and M. F. Khan

Can Shared Access Networks Adequately Support High-Performance Computing? 
Re-visiting MAC Protocols
William T. O'Connell

Issues in ATM Support of High Performance Geographically Distributed
Computing
P. W. Dowd, S. M. Srinidhi, E. Blade, and R. Claus

DQLAN - A DQRAP Based LAN Protocol
Chien-Ting Wu and Graham Campbell


Session 3: Systems for High-Speed Computing (1:30 - 3:30 PM)
Chair: Jean-Noel Colin

Enhanced PVM Communications Over a High-Speed Local Area Network
Sheue-Ling Chang and David H. C. Du

Dynamic Load Balancing in A Message Passing Virtual Parallel Machine
Bu-Sung Lee, Wentong Cai, and Alfred Heng

Improving PVM Performance Using ATOMIC User-Level Protocol
Hong Xu and Tom W. Fisher

Evaluating PVM and Express on Various Network Clusters
Ka-Cheong Leung and Mounir Hamdi

Faster Message Passing in PVM
Honbo Zhou and Al Geist


Session 4: Partitioning and Performance (4:00 - 6:30 PM)
Chair: David H. C. Du

Partitioning Strategies for Multiplying Large Dense Matrices on
Workstation Networks
Venkatesh Krishnamoorthy, Putchong Uthayopas, and Kemal Efe

DTMS: A Framework for Multigrain Distributed Programming
Jean-Noel Colin

A High Speed Document Retrieval Machine for Large Databases
Gautam Garai 

Converting Multiple OC-3c ATM Streams to HIPPI to Drive 
an HDTV Frame Buffer from a Workstation Cluster
Donald E. Tolmie, Arlo G. Dornhoff, and Andrew J. DuBois

The LANL Cross Bar Interface: Functions and Performance
Richard Thomsen and Craig Idler


Session 5: Discussion (6:30 - 7:30)
Moderator: Hussein Alnuweiri