3rd International Conference
on SCI-based Technology and Research

held in conjunction with

Euro-Par 2000
The European Conference on Parallel Computing

Technische Universität München
Munich, Germany, August 29th-30th, 2000

On-Line proceedings of SCI-Europe 2000

This event is sponsored by:

	.	Dolphin Interconnect Solutions
	.	Fujitsu Siemens Computers

Also please take a look at the

SCI Summer School October 2nd - 4th, 2000 Trinity College Dublin, Ireland

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 2000 Conference Stream of Euro-Par 2000 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.

Topics of interest:

Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to:
• SCI related hardware developments
• Commercial SCI based systems
• Comparison to other SAN/LAN technologies
• SCI drivers and low level APIs
• Parallel communication libraries for SCI (MPI, PVM, ...)
• Support of shared memory environments (distributed threads, OpenMP, ...)
• Performance evaluation, monitoring, and benchmarking
• Protocols, routing, and topologies
• Configuration and management of large SCI clusters
• SCI based clustering for high availability and fault-tolerance
• Support for parallel I/O
• Large scale industrial applications
• Commercial workloads for SCI clusters (databases, data mining, data warehousing, ...)

Schedule:

Papers due:	March, 27th, 2000
Author notification:	around June, 1st, 2000
Early registration deadline for Euro-Par:	June, 30th, 2000
Camera-ready final papers due:	July, 17th, 2000
SCI-Europe 2000:	August 29th - August 30th, 2000

Registration:

All participants of SCI-Europe 2000 must be registered for Euro-Par 2000, however there is no extra charge for SCI-Europe beyond that. Please remember that the early registration deadline for Euro-Par is June 30th.

For the registration for Euro-Par 2000, please follow the Euro-Par 2000 link from the Euro-Par homepage.

Please don't forget to indicate that you are planning to participate in SCI-Europe, so that we can get a good estimate on how many people to expect.

Proceedings:

The proceedings of SCI-Europe 2000 will be distributed at the conference and will also be available afterwards electronically at this site.

Program:

Committees:

Workshop Chairs

Geir Horn	SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics
Wolfgang Karl	Technische Universität München, Germany

Steering Committee

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

Program Committee

Andre Bogerts	CERN, Switzerland
Brian Coghlan	Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Michel Gueguen	Thomson-CSF Detexis, France
Hermann Hellwagner	Universität Klagenfurt, Austria
Geir Horn	SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics, Norway
Wolfgang Karl	Technische Universität München, Germany
Povl Koch	University of Copenhagen
Volker Lindenstruth	University of Heidelberg, Germany
Kåre Løchsen	Dolphin Interconnect Solutions, Norway
Robin Middleton	CLRC Rurherford Appleton Laboratory, UK
Francisco Jose Mora Mas	Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain
Jim Peek	SUN Microsystems, USA
Thierry Priol	IRISA, France
Wolfgang Rehm	Technische Universität Chemnitz, Germany
Alexander Reinefeld	Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum für Informationstechnik Berlin, Germany
Einar Rustad	SCALI AS, Norway
Enrique Sanchis	University of Valencia, Spain
Martin Schulz	Technische Universität München, Germany
Junzo Tamada	Northern Lights, Japan

This event is organized by:

	.	SINTEF Electronics and Cybernetics
	.	Lehrstuhl für Rechnertechnik und Rechnerorganisation at TU-München, Department of Computer Science