IP: Visual Supercomputing Institute(VSCI)

[Dave Farber <farber () central cis upenn edu>]

Date: Mon, 20 May 1996 14:50:22 -0600
To: farber () central cis upenn edu
From: Ken Sartain <sartain () ncsa uiuc edu>




Announcement - Visual Supercomputing Institute at NCSA, June 17-28, 1996
(Attendance is limited)


This is a preliminary announcement of a Visual Supercomputing Institute to
be held at NCSA, on the Urbana-Champaign campus of the University of
Illinois, from the evening of June 17 through June 28, 1996.  This institute
will concentrate on the integration of High Performance Computing and
Visualization.  It is jointly sponsored by NCSA and Silicon Graphics, Inc.
This will be the first of a continuing series of institutes and attendance
will be limited.  Please reply ASAP if you are interested in sending
representative(s) to this institute.  We anticipate that space for the lab
sessions will fill quickly.  We shall reply to those who express interest
with hotel and schedule information.


This is a working institute.  Attendees will have ample opportunity and
assistance in developing and working on applications of their own using the
systems at NCSA. (Space is limited!) Registrants may have advance copies of
the CAVE tools in order to become familiar with them before the institute.


The first VS-Institute will concentrate and integrate efforts in:


  Virtual Reality and Visualization
  HPC Applications
  HPC Systems 


The goal is to bring specialists in these areas together in a collaborative
effort to build more successes in Visual Supercomputing, and to strengthen
the foundation for the growth of VS.


Participants may attend sessions on:
  Programming for the CAVE, I-WALL, and Immersadesk
  Designing applications for VR environments
  Graphics/VR programming
  Distributed computing
  Performance optimization
  Programming strategies and styles
  Integrating HPC and VR
  Building and managing HPC arrays
  Intersite Integration
   
Attendees will experience Visual Supercomputing examples in various fields.


Invited speakers include:


-Silicon Graphics staff, on Visualization, High-Performance Computing, and
Sysadmin
-Bill Sherman and the staff of the Virtual Environments Group, NCSA, on VR
systems
-Dan Reed and staff, Computer Science, Univ. of Illinois, on system
performance tools
-Chris Johnson, Univ. of Utah, on SCIRUN
-Bob Wilhelmson, Univ. of Illinois, on Atmospheric Research applications
-Colleen Bushell, NCSA, Information Design
-Charbel Farhat, Univ. of Colorado, on Computational Mechanics applications
-Gerry Labedz, Motorola, Inc., on an industrial application of Visual
Supercomputing
and many other examples of the coupling of HPC and Visualization.


Due to the short time frame and limited space, we must have your response as
soon as possible.  Please reply to:


svinson () ncsa uiuc edu 


Thank you, and we hope to see you at the Visual Supercomputing Institute.