HPC Asia 2001 provides a forum for researchers, developers and users throughout the world to exchange ideas, experiences and research results related to high-performance computing and communications.

HPC Asia 2001 will include keynote addresses, invited and plenary speeches, contributed papers, panel discussions, an education forum, tutorials, workshops, 'birds-of-a-feather' sessions and exhibits. Relevant topics for contributed pages include the following:

System Architecture and Models

• Processor and system architectures
• Interconnection and System-Area Networks
• Cache/Memory Coherency and Consistency
• Latency Hiding Techniques
• High-Performance Storage and I/O Technology
• Embedded and Special-Purpose HPC Systems
• Parallel, Network, Mobile and Meta-Computing Systems
• Emerging Paradigms (e.g., biological/quantum computing)
• Semantic, Programming and Performance Models

System Software

• Parallel, Distributed and Cluster Operating Systems
• Availability, Checkpoint and Process Migration
• Manageability and System Administration
• Usability and User Interfaces
• Workload Management and Resource Scheduling
• Languages, Compilers, Libraries, Debuggers and Monitors
• Distributed Objects and Software Components
• Distributed and Grid Computing
• Distributed and Information Access

Algorithms and Tools

• Software Engineering for HPC
• Algorithms for Regular and Irregular Problems
• Signal, Image and Graphic Processing
• Pattern Recognition and Artificial Intelligence
• Database, OLTP, OLAP, Data Warehousing and Data Mining
• Interactive Visualisation and Virtual Environments
• Web Systems and Interfaces
• Distributed Collaborative Working
• Multicast Tools and Shared Environments

Applications

• Computational Biology
• Bioinformatics
• Computational Chemistry
• Computational Physics
• Oceanographic and Atmospheric Modelling
• Environmental Modelling
• Computational Mathematics
• Geosciences and Water Resources Modelling
• Computational Engineering
• Multimedia Applications and Film Production
• Computational Finance

The categories are merely examples - you may suggest others.