Participation

The goal of IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC 2006) is to establish an international forum for engineers and scientists to present their excellent ideas and experiences in all system fields of network and parallel computing. NPC 2006, hosted by the University of Tokyo, will be held in Tokyo, Japan.

Time	October 2 – 4.
Place	Sanjo Conference Hall, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan 7-3-1, Hongo, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, Japan 113-0033
Registration Detail
Registration fee	non-student	45,000 Yen
	student	20,000 Yen

Keynote Talks

The Metamorphosis of Computing beyond Petaflops

Thomas SterlingProfessor, Department of Computer Science, Center of Computation and Technology, Louisiana State University
Faculty Associate, Center for Advance Computation Research, California Institute of Technology

Distinguished Visiting Scientist
Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Dependable Computing: From Processor Architecture to Network Applications

Shuichi Sakai+, Masahiro Goshima+, Hidetsugu Irie+, Yutaka Sugawara+, Kenji Kono* and Shigeru Chiba$+ The University of Tokyo
* Keio University
$ Tokyo Institute of Technology

Organization

General Chairs

Kei Hiraki: University of Tokyo, Japan
Jack Dongarra: University of Tennessee, USA

Steering Committee Chair

Kemal Ebcioglu: Global Supercomputing Corporation, USA

Steering Committee Members

Jack Dongarra: University of Tennessee, USA
Guangrong Gao: University of Delaware, USA
Jean-Luc Gaudiot: University of California, Irvine, USA
Hai Jin: Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Guojie Li: Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China
Yoichi Muraoka: Waseda University, Japan
Daniel Reed: University of North Carolina, USA
Zhiwei Xu: Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China

Program Chair

Yoichi Muraoka: Waseda University, Japan (E-mail: muraoka@waseda.jp)

Program Committee Members

Sayaka Akioka: The Pennsylvania State University, USA
Gianfranco Bilardi: IBM, USA/University of Padua, Italy
Nikitas Dimopoulos: University of Victoria, Canada
Skevos Evripidou: University of Cyprus, Cyprus
Jose Fortes: University of Florida, USA
Stratis Gallopoulos: University of Patras, Greece
Michael Gerndt: Technical University of Munich, Germany
Milind Girkar: Intel, USA
Guang Gao: University of Delaware, USA
Mitsuo Ishii: Hiroshima University, Japan
Kazuaki Ishizaki: IBM, Japan
William Jalby: University of Versailles, France
Hai Jin: Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Kazuki Joe: Nara Women’s University, Japan
Keiji Kimura: Waseda University, Japan
Samuel Midkiff: Purdue University, USA
Umpei Nagashima: AIST, Japan
Hironori Nakajo: Tokyo University of Agriculture and Technology, Japan
Toshiyuki Nakata: NEC, Japan
Alex Nicolau: University of California, Irvine, USA
Keshav Pingali: Cornell University, USA
Constantine Polychronopoulos: UIUC, USA
Markus Pueschel: CMU, USA
Shiro Sakata: Chiba University, Japan
Mitsuhisa Sato: University of Tsukuba, Japan
Tomonori Shirakawa: University of Tsukuba, Japan
Kazuyuki Shudo: Utagoe, Japan
H. J. Siegel: Colorado State University, USA
Shinji Shimojo: Osaka University, Japan
Leonel Sousa: Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal
Toshiharu Sugawara: NTT, Japan
Jarmo Takala: Tampere University of Technology, Finland
Tetsutaro Uehara: Kyoto University, Japan
Mateo Valero: UPC-BSC, Spain
Harry Wijshoff: Leiden University, Netherlands
Hayato Yamana: Waseda University, Japan
Albert Zomaya: The University of Sydney, Australia

Publicity Chair

Mary Inaba: University of Tokyo, Japan

Local Arrangement

Masahiro Goshima: University of Tokyo, Japan

NPC Conference 2006