Call for Papers The Second International Conference on MASSIVELY PARALLEL PROCESSING USING OPTICAL INTERCONNECTIONS (MPPOI) October 23-24, 1995 San Antonio, Texas Sponsored by: ACM Special Interest Group on Architecture (SIGARCH) The Optical Society of America (OSA) Institute for Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE - pending) NSF - National Science Foundation (pending) The second annual conference on Massively Parallel Processing Architectures using Optical Interconnections (MPPOI'95) will be held on Oct. 23-24, 1995 in San-Antonio, Texas. The Conference will focus on the potential for using optical interconnections in massively parallel processing systems, and their effect on system and algorithm design. Optics offer many benefits for interconnecting large numbers of processing elements, but may require us to rethink how we build parallel computer systems and communication networks, and how we write applications. Fully exploring the capabilities of optical interconnection networks requires an interdisciplinary effort. It is critical that researchers in all areas of the field are aware of each other's work and results. The intent of MPPOI is to assemble the leading researchers and to build towards a synergetic approach to MPP architectures, optical interconnections, operating systems, and software development. The topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Optical interconnections Reconfigurable Architectures Embedding and mapping of applications and algorithms Packaging and layout of optical interconnections Electro-optical, and opto-electronic components Relative merits of optical technologies (free-space, fibers, wave guides) Passive optical elements Algorithms and applications exploiting MPP-OI Data distribution and partitioning Characterizing parallel applications exploiting MPP-OI Cost/performance studies The conference will feature invited speakers, followed by several sessions of submitted papers, and will conclude with a panel discussion. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts which demonstrate original unpublished research in areas of computer architecture and optical interconnections. Papers submitted must not be under considerations for another conference. SUBMITTING PAPERS: All papers will be reviewed by at least 2 members of the program committee. Send eight (8) copies of the complete paper (not to exceed 15 single spaced, single sided pages) to: ============================================================================ DEADLINE: Papers must be sent so that they arrive on or before April 1, 1995 ============================================================================ Dr. Eugen Schenfeld MPPOI'95 Conference Chair NEC Research Institute 4 Independence Way Princeton, NJ 08540 USA (voice) (609)951-2742 (fax) (609)951-2482 email: MPPOI@RESEARCH.NJ.NEC.COM Manuscripts must be received by April 1st, 1995. Due to the large number of anticipated submissions manuscripts arriving later than the above date risk rejection. Notification of review decisions will be mailed by July 1st, 1995. Camera ready papers are due August 1st, 1995. Fax or electronic submissions will not be considered. Proceedings will be published by the IEEE CS Press and will be available at the symposium. FOR MORE INFORMATION: Please write (email) to the Conference Chair. Dr. Eugen Schenfeld MPPOI'95 Conference Chair NEC Research Institute 4 Independence Way Princeton, NJ 08540 USA (voice) (609)951-2742 (fax) (609)951-2482 email: MPPOI@RESEARCH.NJ.NEC.COM PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Karsten Decker, Swiss Scientific Computing Center, Manno, Switzerland Jack Dennis, Lab. of CS, MIT, Boston, MA Patrick Dowd, Dept. of ECE, SUNY at Buffalo, Buffalo, NY Mary Eshaghian, Dept. of CS, NJIT, Newark, NJ John Feo, Comp. Res. Grp., Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab., Livermore, CA Michael Flynn, Department of EE, Stanford University, Stanford, CA Edward Frietman, Faculty of Applied Physics, Delft U., Delft, The Netherlands Asher Friesem, Dept. of Electronics, Weizmann Inst., Israel Kanad Ghose, Dept. of CS, SUNY at Binghamton, Binghamton NY Allan Gottlieb, Dept. of CS, New-York University, New-York, NY Joe Goodman, Department of EE, Stanford University, Stanford, CA Alan Huang, Computer Systems Research Lab., Bell Labs., Holmdel, NJ Yoshiki Ichioka, Dept. of Applied Physics, Osaka U., Osaka, Japan Leah Jamieson, School of EE, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Lennart Johnsson, Div. of Applied Science, Harvard U. and TMC, Cambridge, MA Ahmed Louri, Dept. of ECE, U. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Kenichi Kasahara, Opto-Electronics Basic Res. Lab., NEC Corporation, Japan Israel Koren, Dept. of ECS, U. of Mass, Amherst, MA Raymond Kostuk, Dept. of ECE, U. of Arizona, Tucson, AZ Philippe Lalanne, Inst. D'Optique, Orsay, France Sing Lee, Dept. of EE, UCSD, La Jolla, CA Steve Levitan, Department of EE, U. of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA Adolf Lohmann, Institute of Physics, U. of Erlangen, Erlangen, Germany Miroslaw Malek, Dept. of ECE, U. of Texas at Austin, Austin TX Rami Melhem, Dept. of CS, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA J. R. Moulic, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY Miles Murdocca, Department of CS, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ John Neff, Opto-elec. Comp. Sys., U. of Colorado, Boulder, CO Paul Prucnal, Department of EE, Princeton U., Princeton, NJ Donna Quammen, Dept of CS, George Mason University, USA John Reif, Department of CS, Duke University, Durham, NC Anthonie Ruighaver, Dept. of CS, U. of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia A. A. Sawchuk, Dept. of EE, USC, Los-Angeles, CA Eugen Schenfeld, NEC Research Institute, Princeton, NJ Pearl Wang, Dept. of CS, George Mason University, USA Les Valiant, Div. of Applied Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Albert Zomaya, Dept. of EAEE, U. of Western Australia, Western Australia ===========================================================