ISC2004, the International Supercomputer Conference now in its 19th year, has issued a call for papers in three HPC areas, with the selected authors to be awarded the first-ever ISC Award sponsored by AMD. The deadline for submissions is Monday, Feb. 16, 2004. “ISC has historically presented a program of well-known invited speakers and we are looking forward to expanding our program with this call for papers,” said Conference Chairman Prof. Hans Werner Meuer of the University of Mannheim. “With the addition of the ISC Award, we believe that what was already a very compelling international conference will provide even more valuable insight for our attendees.” The ISC Award was established by AMD, ISC2004's main sponsor, to promote and reward innovative supercomputing researchers who have distinguished themselves through state-of-the-art projects in any of the following three fields of high performance computing: • Requirements for HPC Systems Software, specifically including contributions to parallel file systems and operating systems for HPC. • Innovative Supercomputer Architectures, specifically contributions about successful application of such innovative architectures, and • Integrated Data and Information Management. All three winners will be awarded a two-way rack mountable system, fully configured as a building block for a cluster, built with state-of-the-art technology from AMD in June 2004. Travel (round-trip economy class airfare) expenses will be covered for the three winners, who will present their paper as part of the technical program of ISC2004. Winners will also be invited to attend the conference’s social events. The deadline for submitted extended abstracts, written in English, is Monday, Feb. 16, 2004. Extended abstracts of not less than four pages should be submitted in electronic form to Award Committee Chairman Michael Resch, of HLRS, Germany, at resch@hlrs.de). Formats can be either Acrobat .pdf or Word .doc. Abstracts must indicate the topic area of submission and should clearly describe the contents of the author’s HPC contribution. The relevance and originality of the contribution must be stated and important references included. The Award Committee will referee all submissions and choose one contribution in each topic area for an award. Award Committee members are Arndt Bode, Technical University, Munich, Germany; Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee-Knoxville, USA; Pierre Leca, Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), France; Thomas Ludwig, University of Heidelberg, Germany; Ron Perrott, University of Belfast, UK; Michael Resch, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany (chairman); Satoshi Sekiguchi, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan; Horst Simon, National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), USA; and Fred Weber, AMD, USA. The ISC, the leading event in supercomputing in Europe, is a premier venue for gaining an international perspective on the field of HPC. Combining a strong lineup of technical experts with exhibits from leading supercomputing centers, as well as hardware and software vendors, ISC presents state-of-the-art applications, architectures and trends in supercomputing. As a result, this HPC event has created a unique atmosphere of collaboration and cooperation. The conference program is conducted in English. The annual conference is held in Heidelberg, the home of Germany’s oldest university as well as a thriving modern research community. For more information about the conference, go to http://www.isc2004.org/home.php.