[Beowulf] VECPAR2006 - Announcement and Last Call for Papers

[Renato S. Silva]

Dear colleague,

The VECPAR2006 organizing committee would appreciate your assistance
in distributing the appended announcement and call for papers.

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     VECPAR2006
        7th International Meeting on
            High Performance Computing for Computational Science

     Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) e
     Instituto Nacional de Matemática Pura e Aplicada (IMPA)
     Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

     July, 10-12, 2006

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     Deadline for submissions:       October 28th, 2005
     Proposals for tutorials due:    October 28th, 2005
     Author's notification:           January 6th, 2005
     Tutorials:                          July 9th, 2006
     Workshops:                         July 13th, 2006

     Organization: vecpar2006 at fe.up.pt
     Web site:     http://vecpar.fe.up.pt/2006/
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TOPICS OF INTEREST
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     * Cluster and Grid Computing
     * Computing in Biosciences
     * Concurrent Engineering
     * Data Processing
     * Educational Issues in Computational Science and Engineering
     * Large Scale Simulations in all areas of Engineering and Science
       (e.g. Computational fluid dynamics, Crash and structural
analysis)
     * Numerical Methods (PDE, linear and non-linear algebra, etc.)
     * Parallel and Distributed Computing
     * Problem Solving Environments
     * Scientific Visualization


INVITED SPEAKERS
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  * Omar Ghattas (Carnegie Mellon University, USA)
    "HPC Applications"

  * Bruce Hendrickson (Sandia National Laboratory, USA)
    "Combinatorial Scientific Computing"

  * Christopher R. Johnson (University of Utah, USA)
    "Scientific Visualization"

  * Kenichi Miura (National Institute of Informatics, Japan)
    "Grid Computing"

  * Djalma Soares (CENPES (Petrobras), Brazil)
    "Seismic Processing"


SUBMISSIONS (Deadline, October 28th, 2005)
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For submission of papers and tutorials, please see
http://vecpar.fe.up.pt/2006/


WORKSHOPS (July 13th, 2006)
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As part of the conference programme 2 workshops will be held, after the
conference,

   WCGC'2006 - Workshop on Computational Grids and Clusters: Models,
 Middlewares, Testbeds, Architectures, User feedback, ...
   http://vecpar.fe.up.pt/2006/WCGC.html

   HPDGrid 2006 - International Workshop on High-Performance Data
 Management in Grid Environments
    http://vecpar.fe.up.pt/2006/HPDGrid.html


PROCEEDINGS
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A book will be published by Springer (Lecture Notes in Computer
Science) and distributed after the conference, with the invited talks
and a set of selected papers.

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