Call for participation: 29th Speedup Workshop, March 22/23, 2001, Bern
The SPEEDUP Society is an independent Swiss non-profit organization
organizing interdisciplinary workshops on topics in computational sciences
and high-end computing. The 29th SPEEDUP Workshop will be held at the
University of Bern, Switzerland on March 22 - 23, 2001. The topic of this
year's workshop is on "Distributed Computing and High-Speed Networks".
The workshop will address several issues on high-speed networks and
communications, distributed systems and applications, as well as latest
trends in distributed high-performance computing. It is intended to bring
together members of academic institutions, private enterprises and
government who are interested in obtaining an overview of the
state-of-the-art of these areas.
The confirmed speakers/talks are:
- Walter Dey (Cisco): 10G-Ethernet,
WDM, MPLS, Traffic Engineering
- Simon Leinen (SWITCH): Next Generation
Research Networks
- Burkhard Stiller (ETH Zürich): Charging and
Accounting in High-Speed Networks
- Richard Gold (GMD FOKUS):
Programmable Networks
- Thomas Stricker (ETH Zürich): Gigabit Interfaces
for Parallel and Distributed Systems
- Christine Vanoirbeek (EPF
Lausanne): Web-Based Learning Systems
- Martin Guggisberg (Uni Basel):
Nanoworld: The Cooperative Learning Environment on Nanoscience
- Nadia
Thalmann (Uni Geneva): Distributed Virtual Reality Systems
- Gustavo
Alonso (ETH Zürich): BioOpera, cluster computing in Bioinformatics
-
Djordje Maric (CSCS Manno): The Swiss Grid project
- Wolfgang Gentzsch
(SUN Microsystems): Grid Computing: The Internet is the Computer
For further information please see http://www.iam.unibe.ch/~rvs/events/speedup/workshop2001.html.
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