PROCEEDINGS
Proceedings of the 1995 ACM/IEEE Supercomputing Conference
San Diego, California, USA
December 3 through 8, 1995
The SC'95 Proceedings
Welcome to the
Proceedings of the 1995
ACM/IEEE
Supercomputing Conference
Several indices into the SC'95 Proceedings are available:
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A listing of invited speakers, papers, panels, and workshops by conference session
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An alphabetical listing by author or presentor
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An index by keywords to all technical and education papers
To facilitate your navigation through the SC'95 Proceedings,
the buttons that appear above also appear across the top of each
technical paper and in each invited speaker, panel, or workshop write-up.
Virtual Environments and Distributed Computing at SC'95
The document Virtual Environments and
Distributed Computing at SC'95
HPC Challenge Applications on the I-WAY, a catalog of
GII testbed and HPC challenge applications on the I-WAY, is also
available on this CD-ROM.
Credit where credit is due...
SC'95 was made possible only through the work of many volunteers,
including the members of the various
SC'95 committees.
The committees wish to thank the
reviewers
for the part they played in ensuring the quality of the technical program.
Supercomputing'96 Call for Participation
The SC'96 committees solicit your participation in
Supercomputing'96
at the David Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh.
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The entire contents of this Proceedings is
copyrighted 1995 by the
Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. (ACM).
Introduction to the SC'95 Proceedings
A Welcome from the Conference Chair
It is my pleasure to present this collection of papers from Supercomputing
'95 (SC'95), the eighth annual conference and exhibition on High
Performance Computing and Communications. Since 1988, volunteers from
academia, government, and industry have been working together to advance
the application of computing and communications technologies by organizing
this conference. SC'95 is sponsored by the Association for Computing
Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH)
and the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committees on Supercomputing
Applications and Computer Architecture. This year's conference in San
Diego, California, is an unqualified success, with a strong technical
program of presentations, workshops, and roundtable discussions, and a
fascinating exposition of vendor and research exhibits (most with
interactive and WWW-based presentations) on new research, applications, and
services of interest to the HPCC community. The conference is significantly
enhanced by participation in the Information Wide Area Year (I-WAY), an
experimental, high performance network linking dozens of the nation's
fastest computers, advanced visualization environments, and national
research networks, and by the High Performance Computing Challenge to
commandeer the largest number of processors in the race toward achieving a
teraflop of performance.
This year the conference strongly solicited papers on supercomputing
applications, and 40 were submitted. Papers at this year's conference cover
scientific applications in biochemistry, biology, engineering, fluid
dynamics, ocean and atmospheric modeling, and physics. The technical
program includes topics in data mining, performance, parallel technology,
networking, and computer architectures. As with previous Supercomputing
conferences, the largest percentage of papers was received in the fields of
software development: compilers, tools, and debuggers. The overall
acceptance rate for technical papers was 29%. A breakdown of the papers by
discipline shows the well-rounded nature of the presentations:
Discipline Submitted Accepted % Accepted
Networking and Distributed Computing 34 9 26
Algorithms 28 7 25
Data Mining 12 3 25
Performance 29 7 24
Software Tools and Compilers 71 18 25
Architecture 18 3 17
Applications 40 18 45
Education 8 3 38
Security 1 1 100
The Technical Papers Committee had a strong commitment to quality. You will
note that for some of the technical sessions only two speakers were
selected from refereed papers; for cases in which a third acceptable paper
was not available, lead-in speakers added their perspectives to the
sessions and laid the groundwork for the subsequent presentations. These
lead-in speakers were selected by the committee based on their expertise
and reputations among their colleagues in the field.
This year all proceedings from the conference will be available only in
electronic format, in keeping with the goals of the conference to explore
and endorse new technologies. In addition to producing a CD-ROM, we also
have made the proceedings available on the World Wide Web, at
http://www.supercomp.org/sc95/proceedings/. We expect that these papers
will be of great interest to researchers and developers of supercomputing
stems and applications.
Sid Karin
Chair, Supercomputing '95
Director, San Diego Supercomputer Center
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