In 1996, its fourth year, IOPADS graduated from an informal workshop held in conjunction with IPPS, to a format more like a symposium co-located with many others at FCRC '96. The thrust of IOPADS has always been to bring together researchers in all aspects of parallel I/O, which we broadly place into five categories: architecture, algorithms, applications, file and operating systems, and compilers and runtime systems. It is our opinion that the problems of parallel I/O are most effectively addressed by investigating all these areas rather than working in each area in isolation. Although I/O-related papers appear in many other conferences, the value of IOPADS is in gathering interested researchers from all these areas of computer science, encouraging cross-disciplinary interaction, rather than working in each area in isolation.
IOPADS published a formal proceedings, which was provided to all registrants. You may order a copy of the proceedings from ACM Press.
We are starting to plan for IOPADS '97.
Last modified: Sat Dec 7 16:58:40 EST 1996