Please note, the confirmed rate for hotel reservations
has been extended to September 12, 2003.

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
PACT 2003
September 27 - October 1, 2003
Chateau Sonesta Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
http://www.pactconf.org

Early Registration for PACT 2003: September 12, 2003
Hotel deadline (confirmed rate): September 12, 2003

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--- CALL FOR PARTICIPATION -- PACT 2003 -- http://www.pactconf.org ---

               The Twelfth International Conference on
          Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques

                   September 27 - October 1, 2003
          Chateau Sonesta Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

   EARLY REGISTRATION ENDS on 12 Sep midnight PDT (13 Sep 07:00 UTC)
NEW!!NEW!!NEW!! Conference room rate guaranteed until September 12.
NEW!!NEW!!NEW!!

PACT is a multi-disciplinary conference on hardware and software approaches
to parallelism ranging across instruction-level parallelism, thread-level
parallelism, multiprocessor parallelism and distributed systems.

There are 24 papers in the main program, selected from 144, and keynotes by:

- Monica Lam, Stanford University
 "Challenges and New Approaches  to Program Analysis"

- Guri Sohi, University of Wisconsin, Madison
 "Single-Chip Multiprocessors: The Rebirth of Parallel Computing"

- Chris Johnson, University of Utah
 "Biomedical Computing and Visualization"

  For the complete program visit http://www.ccs.neu.edu/pact03/program.html

There will be a Work in Progress session and:

Workshops

* Adaptive Grid Middleware

* MEmory performance: DEaling with Applications, systems and architectures

* Compilers and Operating Systems for Low Power

* Storage Network Architecture and Parallel I/Os

* Hardware/Software Support for Parallel and Distributed
  Scientific and Engineering Computing

Tutorials

* Architectures, Languages, and Compilers for the Streaming Domain
  Saman Amarasinghe (MIT), Bill Thies (MIT)

* UPC: Unified Parallel C
  T. El-Ghazawi (George Washington Univ.), W. Carlson (IDA Ctr for CS)

* Architecture and Compiler Support for Speculative Precomputation
  Donald Yeung (UMCP), Dean Tullsen (UCSD), and  Steve Shih-wei Liao (Intel)

* OpenMP Implementation and Performance Issues
  Mats Brorsson, and Sven Karlsson, (KTH Sweden)

* Understanding Your Results:  Statistical Tools for Computer
  Performance Measurement and Simulation
  David J. Lilja (University of Minnesota)


PACT 2003 is being held in New Orleans, LA, a vibrant city rich in
culture and tradition.  The conference banquet will be held at the
Cabildo Museum, site of the signing of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803.

PACT 2003 is sponsored by IFIP WG 10.3, IEEE TCCA, IEEE TCPP,
and ACM SIGARCH.  Student travel grants are available.

For more information and online registration, visit http://www.pactconf.org.