From - Fri Dec 18 11:35:44 1998 Return-Path: Received: from mailer.siam.org by aspen.cs.unr.edu (8.8.8/1.34-UNR-sd-ptp-1.00) id GAA27339; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 06:36:28 -0700 (PDT) From: hannan@siam.org Received: from venn.siam.org (gateway.siam.org [192.108.225.116]) by mailer.siam.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA09623; Wed, 21 Oct 1998 09:36:24 -0400 (EDT) Received: from ccMail by venn.siam.org (ccMail Link to SMTP R8.00.00) id AA908976980; Wed, 21 Oct 98 09:36:24 -0500 Message-Id: <9810219089.AA908976980@venn.siam.org> X-Mailer: ccMail Link to SMTP R8.00.00 Date: Wed, 21 Oct 98 09:36:18 -0500 To: Cc: , Subject: 1999 SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mozilla-Status: 8003 Status: O Dear Dr. Harris, We are pleased to inform you that the conference organizing committee has considered your submission for a lecture format, but has accepted it for a poster presentation at the Ninth SIAM Conference on Parallel Processing for Scientific Computing. The committee made its decision based upon a discussion of the submitted paper, which is not necessarily reflected in the written reviews. Appended are the reviews. As a poster presenter, you are encouraged to contribute a two-page paper to the CD-ROM proceedings, which will be available at the conference. Your PostScript file and hard copy of your 2-page paper must reach the SIAM office by December 22, 1998 to be included in the CD-ROM. The guidelines and instructions for preparing your paper can be accessed at http://www.siam.org/tex/parallel/instruct.htm. The poster session will be two hours long. It will take place on Monday, March 22, 1999, 6:30 PM-8:30 PM. There will be a light reception during the poster session. The conference organizing committee will award a cash prize to the best poster presentations. For more information on how to prepare your poster displays, please refer to SIAM Guidelines for Meeting Participants on the Web at www.siam.org/meetings/guidhome.htm. The conference will take place on March 22-24, 1999 at the Adam's Mark San Antonio-Riverwalk Hotel, San Antonio, Texas. The conference program, with the advance registration and hotel reservation forms will be on the Web in mid-November 1998. Registration, hotel, and transportation information will also appear in the December 1998 issue of SIAM News and will be mailed to conference participants and attendees in early December. See you in San Antonio! Sincerely, Bruce Hendrickson and Kathy Yelick Chairs, Organizing Committee, PP99 Conference Attachment: Reviews Paper No: 115 Title: Parallelization of non-equilibrium radition transport code Authors: I. Golovkin, R. C. Mancini, F. C. Harris, Jr. Reasons for score (may be sent to authors): Primary innovation not in the parallel processing. Use of Lambda (integral) operator makes application compute-intensive. * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * Paper No: 115 Title: Parallelization of Non-Equilibrium Radiation Transport Code Authors: Igor Golovkin, Roberto C. Mancini and Frederick C. Harris, Jr. Reasons for score (may be sent to authors): This paper describes an application in which radiation and particles interact. They sketch a numerical formulation of this problem which leads to a particular set of computational challenges. Specifically, there is an expensive matrix construction and then a linear solver. The authors skim over the parallelization of the solver decreeing it to be easy because the matrix is nonsingular. They then describe the parallelization of the matrix construction which seems to be embarrassingly parallel. Results are only offered on 8 processors. The application might be interesting, but the parallelization isn't.