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Tutorials
Tuesday, May 20, 1997
Duncan Hall, Lecture Hall 1064
8:45 AM Bus leaves Houston Plaza Hilton for Rice University
9:00 AM Continental Breakfast
9:15 AM A (Parallel) Optimization Primer (Abstract) Virginia Torczon,
Michael Lewis
10:45 AM Break
11:00 AM Resume Tutorial
12:30 PM Lunch in Duncan Hall, Room 3092
1:45 PM Domain Decomposition for Differential Equations (Abstract - Slides)
 Mary Wheeler, H. Carter Edwards,
Clint Dawson, Mónica Martínez
Ivan Yotov
3:15 PM Break
3:30 PM Resume Tutorial
5:00 PM End Tutorials; Bus leaves Rice University for Houston Plaza Hilton
8:00 PM NHSE Executive Committee Dinner Meeting at the Houston Plaza Hilton, Room 905
Technical Sessions
Wednesday, May 21, 1997
Duncan Hall Auditorium, Room 1064
7:45 AM Bus leaves Houston Plaza Hilton for Rice University
8:00 AM Continental Breakfast
 Parallel Paradigm Integration
8:30 AM Overview (Slides) Mani Chandy
9:00 AM Metacomputing (Slides) Carl Kesselman
9:20 AM Object Oriented Software Technology
and Scientific Computing (Abstract - Slides)		 Dennis Gannon,
John Reynders
9:40 AM Panel Discussion: Carl Kesselman (Leader), Geoffrey Fox, and Joel Saltz
10:00 AM Break
 Optimization and Automatic Differentiation
10:30 AM Overview (Slides) John Dennis
11:00 AM Automatic Differentation: Beyond ADIFOR (Slides) Chris Bischof, Alan Carle
11:20 AM Solving Traveling Salesman Problems in Parallel (Slides) David Applegate
11:40 AM Panel Discussion: Jorge Moré (Leader), Bruce Char, and Jack Dongarra
12:00 PM Lunch in Martel Hall, the main hall of Duncan Hall;
CRPC Facilities Committee Lunch Meeting begins in Duncan Hall, Room 1049
Parallel Algorithms for Physical Simulations
1:30 PM Overview (Slides) Michael Holst, Mary Wheeler
2:00 PM Adaptive High-Order Methods
and Other Challenges in CFD (Slides)		 Ronald D. Henderson
2:20 PM Mortar Finite Difference/Finite Volume Methods
for Multiphase Flow in Multiblock Reservoirs (Slides)		 Ivan Yotov
2:40 PM Panel Discussion: Clint Dawson (Leader), Mani Chandy, and Joel Saltz
3:00 PM Break
 Applications
3:30 PM Overview illustrated by use of HPCC technologies in
Binary Black Hole NSF Grand Challenge
(Abstract - Slides - Web Site)		 Geoffrey Fox
3:50 PM The Role of MPPs at NASA and
in the Aerospace Industry (Slides)		 Manny Salas
4:10 PM Panel Discussion: Paul Messina (Leader), Mary Wheeler, and Andrew White
 Poster Presentations and Computer Demonstrations
4:40 PM Poster & Computer Demo Descriptions:
Posters, computer demos, and reception
will immediately follow in Duncan Hall,
Rooms 1024 and 1019		 Danny Sorensen
6:30 PM Bus leaves Rice University for Houston Plaza Hilton
7:30 PM Reception ends; Bus leaves Rice University for Houston Plaza Hilton
8:00 PM CRPC Executive Committee Dinner Meeting at the Houston Plaza Hilton, Room Travis A
Technical Sessions Continue, VETL Tour
Thursday, May 22, 1997
Duncan Hall Auditorium, Room 1064
7:45 AM Bus leaves Houston Plaza Hilton for Rice University
8:00 AM Continental Breakfast
 Fortran Parallel Programming Systems
8:30 AM Overview: HPF Language, Compiler, and Environments (Slides) Ken Kennedy
9:00 AM The dHPF Compiler Project:
Towards High Performance HPF (Slides)		 John Mellor-Crummey
9:20 AM HPF: Performance Tuning and Visualization (Slides) Luiz DeRose
9:40 AM Panel Discussion: Chuck Koelbel (Leader), Christian Bischof, and Padma Raghavan
10:00 AM Break
 Linear Algebra
10:30 AM Overview (Slides) Jack Dongarra
11:00 AM New Approaches to Large Scale Eigenanalysis
(Slides 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5)		 Danny Sorensen
11:20 AM Iterative Determination of Vibrational Energy
Levels of Four-Atom Molecules (Slides)		 Rich Lehoucq
11:40 AM Panel Discussion: Danny Sorensen (Leader), Richard Tapia, Todd Arbogast, and Dennis Gannon
12:00 PM  Technical Sessions End; Bus leaves Rice University for Houston Plaza Hilton

CRPC Technical Steering Committee (TSC) Lunch Meeting
Duncan Hall, Room 3092

TSC, EAC, and Corporate Sponsors only

Topic: CRPC Future Plans

1:00 PM TSC Meeting continues with Plenary Session, Ken Kennedy, Chair
4:30 PM TSC Plenary Session resumes in Duncan Hall, Room 3092, with Ken Kennedy, Chair
5:30 PM Technical Steering Committee Meeting Ends;
Bus leaves Rice University for Houston Plaza Hilton
6:30 PM CRPC Executive Committee Dinner Meeting at the Houston Plaza Hilton, Room Travis A

Houston Plaza Hilton's bus leaves the Hilton for Virtual Environment Technology Laboratory (VETL) Tour at the University of Houston. Advance registration is required
(see VETL Info Sheet).

EAC/EC Meetings
Friday, May 23, 1997
8:30 AM Bus leaves Houston Plaza Hilton for Rice University
8:45 AM Continental Breakfast
9:00 AM EAC/EC Meeting begins, Duncan Hall, Room 1049
12:00 PM Lunch (EAC remains in Room 1049; EC moves to Duncan Hall, Room 3076)
1:00 PM EAC/EC Meeting resumes in Room 1049
2:00 PM EAC Meeting Ends;
EC Meeting continues in Duncan Hall, Room 1049
3:00 PM Executive Committee Meeting Ends