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		  SC2002: From Terabytes to Insights
    IEEE/ACM High Performance Networking and Computing Conference
			 Baltimore, Maryland
			 November 16-22, 2002
			   www.sc-2002.org

		 HPC Challenge: Call for Submissions

		Submission Deadline: September 1, 2002

SC2002 solicits entries for the High Performance Computing Challenge
Award. The HPC Challenge awards will honor participants in three
categories for innovative uses of high performance computing
resources. This will provide opportunities for contestants to showcase
important applications and platforms. The categories are as follows:

Most Innovative Data-Intensive Application: As processor power
increases and sensor networks become ubiquitous, it is increasingly
information and its location that is important. The award will be
presented to the entry that is most innovative with respect to data
mining, visualization, or combinations thereof. Examples of such
projects would include multidisciplinary teams to mine, visualize, and
interpret data.

Most Geographically Distributed Application: The Grid has made it
possible to link computers around the world to solve
computationally-intense problems, leveraging the strengths of
different architectures in a simple application. The award will be
presented to the team with the most geographically distributed
application that solves a non-trivial problem.

Most Heterogeneous Set of Platforms: Similar to above, we pose a
challenge to combine the most diverse set of architectures to solve a
single, non-trivial application.

There are three award levels: Platinum ($1500 honorarium), Gold
($1000), and Silver ($500).

Contestants will demonstrate their entries in front of an audience on
Wednesday afternoon. Judges will make decisions at that time, and
awards will be presented at the Awards Session on Thursday.

Entries should contain the names and contact information for all
participants, an abstract describing the challenge, and any special
requirements for high performance computing resources, data storage or
demonstrating the technology. Submit your entry electronically at
http://ben-nevis.cs.dartmouth.edu/~sc2002/hpc/

For more information, contact tara@cse.ucsc.edu or radha@ncsa.uiuc.edu.

About SC2002: 

SC2002 is the premier venue for the latest wave of technology,
scalable architectures, networks, computational science, programming
tools, vast data sets, visualization, and high performance computing
education.  This year the conference is being held at the Baltimore
Convention Center, within close walking distance to all the Conference
Hotels and to restaurants, pubs, shopping centers, and other
entertainment.