Scientific Sessions

Chair – Scientific Session 1

Prof. Dr. Michael M. Resch, Director, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), Germany

Chair – Scientific Session 2

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang E. Nagel, Director of the Center for Information Services & High Performance Computing (ZIH), Technische Universität Dresden, Germany

Chair – Scientific Session 3

Dr. Werner Hansmann, Senior Scientist, University of Hamburg, Germany

The Scientific Sessions on Tuesday, June 23, 2009, are first-class open forums for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present and discuss issues, trends and results that will shape the future of high performance computing and networking. We encourage submission of high-quality papers reporting original work in theoretical, experimental and industrial research and development in the following areas:

Applications

• Large-scale applications of science and engineering modeling, simulation and design
• Computation workflows for life-sciences
• Data-intensive and massive I/O computing

System Architecture

• Multicore/Manycore and GPU-based architectures
• High performance I/O systems
• High-speed networks for large computer system architectures

Large-Scale System Organization

• Cloud computing
• Grid computing

General Interest

• Performance analysis and tuning on massively parallel systems
• Energy efficiency

Proceedings

The accepted papers selected via a call-for-papers procedure will be published in a special edition of Springer’s journal “Computer Science – Research and Development”, available at ISC’09 from June 23 on. For details on the journal, see: http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/450.

ISC Awards

The ISC’09 Award Committee will choose two papers for the ISC Awards, which will be presented to the winners during the ISC’09 Opening Session. Intel and Sun Microsystems will each sponsor one of the ISC’09 Awards.

PRACE Award

It will be the second time the PRACE Award will be presented at the ISC Opening Session. PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, will award a prize to the best scientific paper by a European student or young scientist in one of the following areas:

• Algorithms or implementations that can expose scalability on many thousands of processors
• A breakthrough in science achieved with massively parallel high performance computing resources
• Novel approaches to evaluate the performance of applications on massively parallel architectures

The winner chosen by the ISC’09 Award Committee will receive a PRACE sponsorship for the participation in a training event or a conference relevant to petascale computing. The authors of the ISC and PRACE Award winning papers will have the opportunity to give a keynote talk on their work during the Scientific Sessions on Tuesday, June 23.

ISC’09 Scientific Program Committee

• Galen Gisler, University of Oslo, Norway
• Lutz Gross, University of Queensland, Australia
• Werner Hansmann, University of Hamburg, Germany
• Wolfgang Hiller, AWI for Polar & Marine Research, Germany
• Sverre Jarp, CERN, Switzerland
• Karl Kaiser, University of Hamburg, Germany
• Fang-Pang Lin, NCHC, Taiwan
• Thomas Ludwig, University of Heidelberg, Germany (Chair)
• Allen D. Malony, University of Oregon, USA
• Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
• Federico Massaioli, CASPUR, Italy
• Wolfgang E. Nagel, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
• Michael M. Resch, HLRS Stuttgart, Germany
• Erich Strohmaier, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
• Andrew B. White Jr., Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

ISC’09 Local Organizing Committee

• Werner Hansmann, University of Hamburg, Germany
• Karl Kaiser, University of Hamburg, Germany
• Peer Stelldinger, University of Hamburg, Germany

ISC’09 Award Committee

• Arndt Bode, Technical University Munich, Germany
• Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA
• Terry Hewitt, EDS, UK
• Thomas Ludwig, University of Heidelberg, Germany
• Wolfgang E. Nagel, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
• Michael M. Resch, HLRS, Germany (Chair)
• François Robin, CEA, France
• Satoshi Sekiguchi, AIST, Japan
• Horst Simon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA