CALL FOR PAPERS

                         Second Annual
         WORKSHOP ON I/O IN PARALLEL COMPUTER SYSTEMS 
         April 26, 1994, Hotel Regina, Cancun, Mexico


sponsored by:                      to be held in conjunction with:
IEEE Technical Committee on        International Parallel Processing 
Parallel Processing                Symposium (IPPS '94)
in cooperation with: ACM SIGARCH


SYMPOSIUM:  The 8th annual International Parallel Processing
Symposium (IPPS '94) is sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and held
in cooperation with ACM SIGARCH.  At IPPS '94 engineers and
scientists from around the world will present latest research on all
aspects of parallel and distributed computing.

WORKSHOP:  The workshop will be held on the first day of the
symposium (April 26, 1994).  The workshop will focus on the
increasingly important I/O bottleneck facing parallel and distributed
computer systems.  Applications affected by this bottleneck include
Grand Challenge problems as well as newer application areas such as
multimedia information systems and visualization.  Comprehensive
solutions to the parallel I/O bottleneck will include not only
innovative hardware and architectural designs, but also new
theoretical, operating systems, compilers and applications
approaches.  As for the first workshop held in 1993, this workshop
will aim to bring together researchers in order to compare and
integrate theoretical and experimental approaches and solutions.

Papers are invited demonstrating original unpublished research.
Topics of interest include:

    I/O-intensive applications
    Theory of I/O complexity         
    I/O subsystem architecture        
    Compiler support for parallel I/O     
    Operating system support for parallel I/O         
    Scheduling and resource allocation
    Concurrent and parallel file systems
    Performance modeling and evaluation

REGISTRATION: The workshop is free with registration for IPPS '94.
Contact: ipps94@halcyon.usc.edu

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.

Send six copies of the paper to:
    John Werth
    Dept of Computer Sciences
    Univ of Texas at Austin
    Taylor Hall Rm. 2.124
    Austin, TX 78712
    Phone: (512)-471-9583
    Fax:   (512)-471-5888

For enquiries by e-mail: 
    ippsio@thumper.bellcore.com    

SCHEDULE:

    COMPLETE PAPER DUE:        Jan 31, 1994
    Authors notified:          Mar 15, 1994
    Camera-ready copy due:     Apr  7, 1994

PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:                        
    Ravi Jain, Bellcore                
    John Werth, U. Texas, Austin    
    J. C. Browne, U. of Texas, Austin    
                                
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:                            
    Peter Chen, Univ. of Michigan            
    Peter Corbett, IBM Watson             
    Tom Cormen, Dartmouth            
    David DeWitt, Univ. of Wisconsin        
    Sam Fineberg, NASA Ames                
    S. Ghandeharizadeh, USC            
    Paul Messina, Caltech
    Wayne Roiger, Cray Research