ISC '07: Final Call for Participation

There is still time to register the 2007 International Supercomputing Conference (ISC '07), and this year's event promises to be larger and more comprehensive than any previous conference. ISC '07, the premier supercomputing conference in Europe, convenes June 26 – 29 at the Congress Center in Dresden. Participants can still register before the conference by going to its Web site. Visitor passes also can be purchased from the registration site. The conference offers two different visitor passes, each costing 125 Euros. Visitor Pass 1 provides access to events on Tuesday, June 26 and Wednesday, June 27, including the Exhibition Opening Party, the exhibition hall, poster sessions and the Wednesday evening "Get Together Party." Visitor Pass 2 provides access to Thursday, June 28, events, including the Exhibitor Forum, poster sessions, the "Hot Seat" sessions and the Microsoft Saxon Night at Castle Albrechtsberg. Now in its 22nd year, ISC has seem tremendous growth in the last two years and expects about 1,000 participants and 80 exhibitors this year from industry, universities and research centers in Europe, Asia, and North America. All conference proceedings are conducted in English. "ISC '07 offers everything from formal presentations by leaders in research and industry to informal networking opportunities to a chance to view new products and research results on the exhibit floor," said ISC '07 Chairman Prof. Hans Meuer of the University of Mannheim. "We pack a lot of information into four days and we manage to throw in some fun and the chance to experience the historic city of Dresden." Highlights of ISC '07 include:

• New Automotive Day and Scientific Day Sessions on Tuesday, June 26. Automotive Day will focus on the role of HPC in a wide range of automotive production processes, including computer-aided vehicle design, crash simulation, component fatigue analysis, and computational fluid dynamics analyses. Scientific Day will provide an open forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to present and discuss issues, directions, and results that will shape the future of high performance computing and networking. Sixteen papers will be presented and two will receive the ISC Award.
• An opening keynote session by Dr. Burton J. Smith, Microsoft Technical Fellow and former Cray Chief Scientist. Smith will speak on "Reinventing Computing," and the challenge that multi-core processing poses for software developers as well as for the business and research communities.
• Additional keynote addresses by Dr. Tsugio Makimoto, a former corporate advisor with Sony and now head of the consulting firm TechnoVision, and by Prof. Dr. José Duato, Technical University, Valencia Spain. Makimoto will examine the progress expected in chip technology over the next decade and Duato will analyze the impact of commodity components in the design of high-performance computing clusters.
• Approximately 80 exhibits that will showcase massively parallel and cluster computing systems, high-density blade systems, server and storage architectures, networking and interconnect solutions and more. Research centers and universities will demonstrate the use of high performance computing and visualization in fields as varied as racecar design and the life sciences.
• "Hot Seat" Sessions, a series of short, to-the-point presentations by industry powerhouses and supercomputing centers in Europe, Asia and North America. Each speaker will have 10 minutes to present their organization's newest strategy, product or research development. A panel of expert "inquisitors" then will ask each speaker two in-depth follow-up questions.
• Social events in the conference center and at Castle Albrechtsberg that will allow conference participants to network informally with their peers while experiencing the culture and cuisine of Dresden and Saxony.

For more information on ISC '07, visit the conference website at www.isc07.org.