HiPC 2000 from Dec. 17

By Our Science Correspondent

BANGALORE, DEC. 14. The four-day International Conference on High Performance Computing, the HiPC 2000, starts in Bangalore on Sunday (December 17).

One of its highlights will be the special session on Tuesday devoted to future processors. Among the speakers will be Prof. James E. Smith, recipient of the prestigious Eckert-Mauchly Award for lifetime achievement. Prof. Smith's major professional contributions include his work on branch prediction and decoupled architectures.

Dr. Bob Rau of the Hewlett-Packard Labs will also be presenting a paper at the special session. Dr. Rau had primary responsibility for the joint HP-Intel EPIC (Explicitly Parallel Instruction Set Computer) architecture. Intel's 64-bit Merced processor will be based on this architecture.

Other speakers at the session include Dr. Trevor Mudge, whose group at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, demonstrated a prototype gallium-arsenide based processor, and Dr. Gurindar Sohi of the University of Wisconsin, Madison, recipient of the 1998 Maurice Wilkes Award for Young Achievers.

All these papers are to be included in a special issue of IEEE Computer, which will come out in April 2001.

Tuesday will also be "Industry Day." Mr. Anant Agarwal, Vice- President of Sun Microsystems, and Mr. Frank Baetke of Hewlett Packard, Germany, will be delivering keynote addresses. Mr. N.R.Narayana Murthy, Chairman of Infosys, will be the banquet speaker.

Sunday will see eight half-day tutorials on topics such as "Voice over IP", "Web mining," Mobile networks, "Internet security," "Server-side Java," "Network based computing" and "Computational biology". For the first time, it will be possible to register for the tutorials alone.

The annual HiPC conferences not only has a strong technical programme but also provides a suitable opportunity for professionals in India to interact with those abroad, according to Dr. Viktor Prasanna of the University of Southern California, who started the conference.

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