Note: Most papers from IOPADS93 appeared in
  ACM Computer Architecture News 21(5), December 1993.


    Seventh International Parallel Processing Symposium

       Workshop on I/O in Parallel Computer Systems

                 (in cooperation with the
     IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing)



SYMPOSIUM:  The seventh annual International Parallel
Processing Symposium (IPPS '93) will be held April 13-16,
1993 at the Newport Beach Marriott Hotel and Tennis Club,
Newport Beach, California.  The symposium is sponsored by
IEEE Computer Society and will be held in cooperation with
ACM SIGARCH.  IPPS '93 is a forum for engineers and
scientists from around the world to present the latest
research findings in all aspects of parallel and
distributed processing.


WORKSHOP: The workshop will be held on the first day of the
symposium (April 13, 1993).  The workshop will focus on the
I/O bottleneck facing parallel computer systems for
many important applications such as multimedia information
systems and volume visualization.  Recognition of the
importance of this problem has been growing steadily, and
proposed solutions include approaches based upon new
hardware, architecture, systems software and algorithms.
The workshop will bring together researchers in order to
encourage further theoretical as well as experimental study
to compare and integrate these approaches into
comprehensive systems solutions.

Papers are invited demonstrating original unpublished
research.  Topics of interest include, but are not limited
to:

    High-speed storage and channels
    I/O interconnection architectures
    Concurrent file systems
    Compiler support for parallel I/O
    Scheduling algorithms and heuristics
    Data and resource allocation
    Application profiling and benchmarking
    Performance modeling of I/O subsystems
    Experimental measurement and evaluation


SUBMITTING PAPERS: All papers will be reviewed.  The first
page must include a 100-word abstract and the name,
address, telephone number and electronic mail address of
the author to whom correspondence is to be sent.  The
manuscript should be at most 20 pages long (including
figures and references).  Papers will be collected into a
proceedings and distributed at the workshop.  The schedule
for submissions is:

    Complete paper due:          Jan 31, 1993
    Authors notified:            Mar 8, 1993
    Camera-ready papers due:     Mar 29, 1993

Five copies of the paper should be sent to one of
the two addresses below:

    Ravi Jain                John Werth
    Bellcore                 Dept of Computer Sciences
    MRE 2P342                Taylor Hall Room 2.124
    445 South Street         Univ. of Texas at Austin
    Morristown, NJ 07962     Austin, TX 78712

For enquiries by electronic mail: 

    ippsio@thumper.bellcore.com


TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Ravi Jain, Bellcore
                   John Werth, Univ. of Texas at Austin
                   J. C. Browne, Univ. of Texas at Austin