On behalf of the ICS'02 Organizing Committee, we are pleased to welcome you to New York City for the 16th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing. Over the years, ICS has built a tradition of bringing you the very best in research and experience in the exciting area of high-performance computing.This year is no exception. We have an excellent technical program consisting of 31 papers selected from 144 submissions; the technical areas represented by these papers range from applications all the way to low-power architectures. Three outstanding speakers have kindly consented to give keynote addresses: Tetsuya Sato (Director-General, Earth Simulator Center, Japan), Alfred Z. Spector (Vice President, Services and Software, IBM Research), and David Kuck (Intel Fellow, Director, KAI Software Lab). Rounding off the technical program are three panel discussions, five tutorials, and four workshops on exciting current topics in the field of high-performance computing, such as self-healing, and adaptive system.
Can the earth simulator change the way humans think?
The Earth Simulator (ES) is a parallel-vector supercomputer that was developed for making precise and sound predictions of global climate and tectonic changes, and for contributing to the security and welfare of human beings. The research and ...
Challenges and opportunities in autonomic computing
Significant advances are required to make systems more adaptive to the growing range of impulses affecting them and to reduce their total cost of management. Progress seems to require significant innovation in adaptive techniques, systems architecture, ...
Clustered approaches to HPC via commodity HW + highly evolved SW
Building HPC systems from small, cost/effective production nodes has been a favored engineering approach for many years. Technology has driven a variety of solutions over time. Today, commodity SMP nodes and interconnection networks, together with ...