Keynote Speaker

The Supercomputing '94 keynote address will be given by Ed McCracken, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Silicon Graphics, Inc.

Plenary Sessions

Supercomputing '94 will have three plenary sessions, which are intended to provide a multidisciplinary discussion of large-scale computational science projects, representing the three applications themes of the conference. The plenary speakers will be:

Biology and Medicine

Large Scale Computational Problems in Medicine: Modeling, Computation, and Visualization

Chris Johnson, University of Utah

Environment

Realizing the Benefits of High Performance Computing for Solving Environmental and Other Problems: What Do We Need Beyond Faster Hardware?

Gregory McRae, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Manufacturing and Design

Integration of Numerical and Experimental Wind Tunnels (IofNEWT)

Michael George, NASA Ames Research Center

Technical Program

The technical program will include panels, roundtables, tutorials, posters, research exhibits, and approximately 80 contributed papers. Panels provide a group of speakers the opportunity to discuss differing viewpoints on a subject of interest. Roundtables will be organized to discuss broad or difficult issues among participants with common interests. Tutorial details are included in this flyer to facilitate early registration. There is still time to meet the August submission deadlines for posters, research exhibits, the heterogeneous computing challenge, and SuperViz '94. Each of these is described in the call for participation. The advance program, available in September, will provide a detailed schedule of all technical program activities.

Education Program

The education program at Supercomputing '94 will give both educators and administrators an introduction to High Performance Computing (HPC) and the National Information Infrastructure (NII). A three-day special program for precollege (K-12) educators will offer hands-on computational science and Internet instruction along with technical introductions to current computational methods and issues. Technical papers and panels for undergraduate and graduate educators will be highlighted. Opportunities for hands-on experience with computational science, HPC, and NII systems will be provided for education administrators.

Electronic Proceedings

Supercomputing '94 plans to offer an electronic version of the conference proceedings in cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society, in addition to the traditional hard copy proceedings. More details will be provided in the Advance Program, and access to the electronic proceedings over the Internet will be demonstrated at the conference. Attendees are encouraged to forego the hard copy to reduce printing costs and lessen the impact on the environment.

Special Events

On Monday evening, November 14, the conference will open with a social event. This event will take place on the exhibit floor at the Washington Convention Center and will provide an opportunity for attendees to informally meet exhibitors and view developments in high performance computing technology at the Industry Exhibits. On Thursday evening, November 17, the conference reception will be held at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum - the most visited museum in Washington, D.C. The museum will be open exclusively to SC '94 attendees, and the evening will include several screenings of the museum's latest IMAX film, "Destiny In Space." The SC '94 awards ceremony will take place at this reception.