Conference Proceedings

Scope:

The Scalable Coherent Interface (SCI, IEEE standard 1596-1992) is achieving increasing use and popularity currently as a way of interconnecting multiple processing nodes. Its flexibility stems mainly from its communication protocol: in contrast to many other interconnects, SCI is not restricted to either message-based or shared-memory programming models; SCI combines both.

It is up to the computer architect to choose from a broad range of execution models, including efficient message passing architectures as well as shared memory models that can feature both of its NUMA or CC-NUMA variants. In contrast to the Stanford FLASH and MIT Alewife Distributed Shared Memory architectures, SCI's distributed directory based cache coherence protocol provides scalability.

Based on SCI adapter cards and switches manufactured in Europe, the SCI community in Europe has done and is doing significant developments and state-of-the-art research on this important interconnect.

The Euro-PAR conferences are dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel computing, including hardware, software, algorithms, and applications. Multiple processor systems with SCI as an interconnect are being used for an increasing number of parallel computing tasks. The objective of the SCI Europe'99 Conference Stream of Euro-PAR'99 is to bring together researchers actively involved in the development and the various applications of SCI technology.

Through presentations and open discussions, we aim to exchange experiences, to review successes and setbacks, to identify promising research avenues and application domains, to foster new collaborations.

Program Chair:

Geir Horn	SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics
Wolfgang Karl	Technische Universität München

Program Committee:

Andre Bogaerts	CERN
Michel Gueguen	Thomson-CSF
Hermann Hellwagner	University of Klagenfurt
Volker Lindenstruth	University of Heidelberg
Kåre Løchsen	Dolphin Interconnect Solutions
Francisco Jose Mora Mas	Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
Alexander Reinefeld	Konrad Zuse Zentrum für Informationstechnik, Berlin
Fred Wickens	Rutherford Appleton Laboratory

Organisational Committee:

Geir Horn	SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics
Wolfgang Karl	Technische Universität München
Francisco Jose Mora Mas	Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
Martin Schulz	Technische Universität München

This event is supported by:

	This work is supported by the European Commission in the Fourth Framework Programme under ESPRIT Project EP22582 (Working Group for Developments on the Scalable Coherent Interface - SCIWG) .
	This work is supported by the European Commission in the Fourth Framework Programme under ESPRIT Project SCI-Europe .