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SCICOMP  3, THE THIRD MEETING OF IBM SP SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING USER
GROUP, TO BE HELD IN BARCELONA MAY 8-11, 2001.
 
SCICOMP is the International User Group for IBM SP Scientific and
Technical Users
 
Contact:
Bronis de Supinski, LLNL, bronis@llnl.gov, 925-422-1062
 
LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY, Livermore, California --
SCICOMP 3, the third meeting of the IBM SP Scientific Computing User
Group (SCICOMP), will be hosted by the European Center for Parallelism
of Barcelona (CEPBA), at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (UPC),
in Barcelona, Spain, from May 8-11, 2001. The early registration
deadline is April 9.
 
The SCICOMP meeting series enables computational scientists and
engineers to learn about tools and techniques for developing
applications that achieve maximum performance and scalability on IBM
SP systems. Technical presentations will highlight recent results and
advanced techniques and will provide the kind of information,
expertise, and experience that scientific and technical applications
developers need but cannot easily find elsewhere.
 
The user-oriented meeting will feature presentations from both IBM
staff and experienced SP users. Topics will include: SP systems
roadmap; IBM applications development software; programming tools;
scalable algorithms; programming models; performance programming
techniques; performance analysis and code optimization; MPI+OpenMP
programming; and migrating codes from other systems. Tutorials by IBM
staff and users will be held on the first day of the meeting.
 
SCICOMP grew out of a workshop for SP users held at the San Diego
Supercomputer Center (SDSC), in March of 1999. The formal user group
was established at that end of that workshop, and the first official
SCICOMP meeting was hosted by IBM's Advanced Computing Technology
Center (ACTC), in October 1999. At a past ACTC-sponsored workshop
in Paris, attendees from Europe and the Middle East voted to become
part of SCICOMP, making it the first international user group for
IBM SP scientific and technical users.
 
"We expect the first SCICOMP meeting in Europe to be very
successful. We already have an excellent slate of IBM speakers,
both from the U.S. and Europe. We anticipate the same high quality 
of user talks from both sides of the Atlantic as we have had at 
past meetings in the U.S.," said Bronis de Supinski, current 
President of SCICOMP. "Best of all, our meetings offer excellent 
opportunities for one-on-one discussions with IBM's top technical staff."
 
Users are encouraged to register for SCICOMP early and to make
presentations at the meeting. More details, including information on
registration and presentations, is available at the SCICOMP Web site:
http://www.spscicomp.org/. For questions regarding technical
presentations, contact Bronis de Supinski at bronis@llnl.gov. For
questions on registration and local accommodations contact Judit
Gimenez at scicomp@cepba.upc.es.
 
The Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya (Technical University of
Catalonia, or UPC) is a public institution of higher education and
technology, with 35,000 students. The Centro Europeo de Paralelismo de
Barcelona (European Center for Parallelism of Barcelona, or CEPBA) is
a University institute for research, development and innovation,
focusing on efficient computing technologies for academia and industry.
CEPBA activities include applied research on parallel computing
(application kernels, system software and tools), training and
transfer of parallel computing technology into its academic and
industrial environment. The CEPBA-IBM Research Institute is an
agreement between UPC and IBM Spain with the objective of promoting
research cooperation between CEPBA and IBM Research and providing
support to local researchers on other areas of science. The University
and CEPBA web sites are
         http://www.upc.es/english/hp_n.htm
 and
         http://www.cepba.upc.es/
For additional information about CEPBA and the CEPBA-IBM Research
Institute, contact Judit Gimenez at judit@cepba.upc.es or +34-93-4017178.

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