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The 13th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2006), to be held in Bangalore, India, during December 18-21, 2006, will serve as a forum for presenting current work by researchers from around the world as well as to highlight activities in Asia, in the area of high performance computing. Guest of Honor at Inauguration * TBA - to be announced Keynotes * Navigability of Small World Networks Pierre Fraigniaud, Research Director, CNRS and University Paris Sud, France * Opportunities and Challenges for Future Generation Grid Research Dennis Gannon, Professor, Indiana University, Bloomington, USA * Software Challenges for Multicore Computing Kenneth Kennedy, John and Ann Doerr University Professor, Rice University, USA * Imaging-Based System Biology Gene Myers, Group Leader, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Janelia Farms, USA * Advanced Scientific Computing: An Extraordinary Tool for Extraordinary Science Jeffrey Wadsworth, Director, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA * High-Performance Computing for the Masses Zhiwei Xu, Deputy Director, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China Banquet Speech * Conquering Complexity in Information Systems Harrick Vin, Vice President, TRDDC, Tata Consultancy Services, Pune, India Contributed Papers The technical program will consist of 52 contributed papers chosen from 335 submissions from 40 countries. The papers will be presented in 10 sessions. Poster/Presentation Session A plenary poster session will emphasize novel aspects of high performance computing, presented in a "walk-up and talk" setting. For further details, contact the Poster/Presentation Chair at thakur@mcs.anl.gov. Workshops * Workshop on New Horizons in Compilers * Workshops on Many Core Computing * Workshop on High Speed DSP Architectures * Workshop on Cutting Edge Computing * Workshop on Bioinformatics and Computational Biology * Workshop on Next Generation Wireless Networks Tutorials * Getting Going with the Grid and its Applications - Dr. Mark Baker, University of Reading, UK * MPI - Portable, Scalable Programming for High Performance Computing - Dr. Ewing Lusk, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Cluster and Parallel File Systems - Dr. Gautam Shah, IBM Corporation, USA Mini Symposium on High Performance Computing Technologies, Applications and Experience The mini symposium will bring together providers and users of HPC to provide a forum for presenting the state-of-the-art in HPC platforms and technologies, for discussing best practices and for exchanging experiences. HPC applications and the experiences of application developers will be of special interest to this mini symposium. The mini symposium will consist of invited as well as contributed talks by leading experts from industry, research laboratories and universities, as well as panels and open discussions. For further details, contact the General Co-Chair at ramamurthy.badrinath@hp.com. Industry/Research Exhibits The exhibition session will consist of exhibits/presentations from vendor companies and R&D laboratories. For further details, contact the Industry Liaison Co-Chairs at vijamann@in.ibm.com or raghuram.tupuri@amd.com. HiPC Student Challenge The HiPC 2006 Student Challenge will consist of student teams from Indian institutions competing to design and develop a scalable and resilient distributed IT infrastructure that enables seamless and opportunistic (and secure) access to and aggregation of key IT assets, including computing, data, information, instruments, communication, models and experts, to respond to and effectively manage national emergencies. Student teams will demonstrate the operation and effectiveness of the proposed IT architecture using a mock crisis scenario involving an avian flu epidemic. Conference Registration The conference registration includes attendance to all HiPC 2006 workshops and technical sessions and a copy of the HiPC proceedings. Separate registration for tutorials is required. Visit the conference website http://www.hipc.org for further details. Information for India Based Participants Registration at reduced rates is made possible for India based faculty, students, and researchers through sponsorships from India based industries and organizations. Travel scholarships for India based students are available on a merit basis to promote HPC research in India. For further details, contact the Scholarships Co-Chairs at scholchair@hipc.org. Sponsorship Opportunities The HiPC conference is annually sponsored by several Indian and international organizations, institutions, and companies. For sponsorship opportunities, contact the General Co-Chair at sponsor@hipc.org. For further details of the meeting, visit http://www.hipc.org.