SGI'2000 - First Announcement (fwd)

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FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT

                         SGI'2000

        The First Worldwide SGI Users' Conference

                    October 11-14, 2000
                      Krakow, Poland

              http://www.cyf-kr.edu.pl/sgi2k/

Important dates
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      02 June 2000 - deadline for submission of contributed papers
      30 June 2000 - notification of acceptance of papers
      28 July 2000 - deadline for registration with reduced fee and
                        submission of accepted papers in their final form
      11 October 2000 - SGI'2000 Conference

Main topics of the Conference
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The Conference will be a forum for SGI users, independent software vendors,
applications developers, research and industry scientists, as well as for
decision makers.

The following topics of high performance computing and visualization on SGI
platforms will be covered by the Conference:
- experience with SGI products for high performance computing,
- large scale simulations,
- applications in science, engineering and industry,
- visualization, graphics and multimedia,
- system management, resource management and batch systems,
- tools and programming environments,
- data storage.

The Conference will include
- tutorials,
- invited talks,
- contributed presentations from the SGI users community,
- presentations of new SGI products,
- round table discussions,
- social events.

Contributed papers
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We invite participants with experience in computing on SGI systems
to submit papers for SGI'2000. A reduction of the registration fee
will be offered to one of the authors of each accepted contributed paper.

Papers, 6 to 10 A4 pages, should be sent via email to the Organizing
Committee before June 02, 2000. Papers will be reviewed taking into
account originality, significance of presented results, relevance to
SGI'2000, accuracy and way of presentation.
For a detailed submission procedure see http://www.cyf-kr.edu.pl/sgi2k/.

Accepted papers will be included in the Conference program as oral
or poster presentations, and they will be printed in a Proceedings
volume which will be distributed to participants at the beginning
of the Conference.

It will be also possible to present virtual posters which may accompany
an invited lecture, a contributed oral presentation as well as a classical
poster.

All participants who intend to present virtual posters are requested to
prepare posters at their own WWW sites and email http address, author(s)
name and title of a poster to the Organizing Committee not later than
September 30, 2000. Then, links will be done from the Conference WWW page
to virtual posters.

Organizing Institutions
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The Conference is organized by:

  Academic Computer Centre CYFRONET AGH, Krakow, Poland

                in cooperation with

                - SGI
                      - ATM S.A. (SGI representative in Poland)
                          - CCNS Ltd.

Registration Fee
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The registration fee covers admission to tutorials, all Conference sessions,
one copy of the Conference Proceedings, lunches and social events.

Regular fee:

- early registration (before July 28, 2000): 350 Euro
- late registration (after July 28, 2000): 500 Euro

Reduction of the fee for the author presenting a contributed paper - 100 Euro.

Location & Accommodation
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The Conference will take place at

 Continental Hotel
 al. Armii Krajowej 11
 30-150 Kraków, Poland

In order to facilitate attendance at the Conference, accommodations have
been reserved for participants at the hotel at preferential rates.

Social Program
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- welcome party,
- excursion and dinner at the Salt Mine in Wieliczka,
- reception at the Pieskowa Skala Castle.

Honorary Chairperson
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Ms Malgorzata Kozlowska, Under-Secretary of State
in the Polish State Committee for Scientific Research
  

Program Committee Chair
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Prof. Jacek Moscinski, Institute of Computer Science AGH, Krakow, Poland

Organizing Committee Chair
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Prof. Marian Noga, ACC CYFRONET AGH, Krakow, Poland

Further Information
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For more information about SGI'2000 please contact:

Web: http://www.cyf-kr.edu.pl/sgi2k/

Email: sgi2k@cyf-kr.edu.pl

Prof. Jacek Moscinski
SGI'2000
ACC CYFRONET AGH
P.O.Box 386
ul. Nawojki 11
30-950 Krakow 61, POLAND

Phone: (48 12) 634 17 66
Fax: (48 12) 634 10 84; 633 80 54

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Received on Tue Nov 30 09:08:26 1999