Call for Abstracts

             Announcing the 14th annual meeting of ScicomP
                         http://www.spscicomp.org/
                  the IBM Scientific System User Group

                                 AND

                  The Summer 2008 Meeting of SP-XXL
                        http://www.spxxl.org/

                         May 19 to 23, 2008
                            Poughkeepsie
                         Hudsuon Valley, NY
         Meeting web site: http://www.spscicomp.org/ScicomP14/


IMPORTANT DATES (SP-XXL attendees refer to the SP-XXL web site):

  20 March 2008 (Thursday)    - Early Deadline for ScicomP Abstracts;
			        Afterward, Abstracts Accepted if Space Available
  25 March 2008 (Tuesday)     - Early ScicomP Author Notification
  4 April 2008 (Tuesday)      - Registration Opens
  30 April 2008 (Wednesday)   - Early Registration Closes
  19-23 May 2008 (Mon-Fri)    - ScicomP Tutorial(s) and Meeting

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:

  We seek original presentations by HPC application and software
  infrastructure developers about recent discoveries, experiences,
  and lessons learned on IBM HPC products.  Speakers will be chosen
  based on 1-page abstracts submitted to the ScicomP14 website
  (URL:http://www.spscicomp.org/ScicomP14/) by 20 March. After 20 March,
  abstracts will be accepted on a space-available basis.

ABOUT SCICOMP:

  ScicomP meetings target computational scientists and engineers interested
  in achieving maximum performance and scalability on all IBM HPC platforms,
  including the POWER, Linux, BlueGene, and Cell platforms. Presentations
  will be given by both HPC users and IBM staff. The focus of user
  presentations is on real world experiences in porting, tuning, and running
  codes on large-scale IBM systems. Topics may include (but are not limited
  to) code migration, scalable algorithms, hybrid programming models,
  exploiting system architectures, and scheduling and execution frameworks.
  IBM staff presentations include hardware and software road maps for large
  systems; application development support software tools; performance
  programming, measurement, analysis, and tuning techniques.

ABOUT SP-XXL:

  The ScicomP meeting will be co-located with SP-XXl. SP-XXL is an
  organization with systems-oriented interests in large-scale scientific
  technical computing on IBM hardware. Information about the SP-XXL meeting
  will be available on the private SP-XXL web site.

ABOUT Poughkeepsie
  Poughkeepsie serves as the county seat of Dutchess County, located in the
  Hudson River Valley midway between New York City and Albany. The name derives
  from a Native American word (roughly U-puku-ipi-sing), meaning "the reed
  covered lodge by the little-water place," referring to a spring or stream
  feeding into the Hudson River, south of the present downtown area.
  Poughkeepsie is known as "The Queen City of the Hudson."

  The nearest major airport to Poughkeepsie is Stewart International Airport
  about 25 miles (40 km) south in Newburgh, with the three major metropolitan
  airports for New York City - John F. Kennedy International approximately 85
  miles (137 km) south, Newark Liberty International approximately 105 miles
  (169 km) south, and LaGuardia Airport approximately 75 miles (121 km) south,
  and Albany International Airport approximately 90 miles (145 km) north.