HUG'98: The 2nd Annual HPF User Group meeting Held in conjunction with VECPAR'98 Fundação Dr. António Cupertino de Miranda, Porto, Portugal 25 - 26 June 1998

HUG'98 Announcement - Committees - Hotels - Meeting Summary - Participants - Program - Registration - Sponsors - Tourist Info - Tutorial - Venue - Archive - VECPAR'98

The Second Annual High Performance Fortran User Group (HUG) meeting will be held on 25-26 June 1998 at the Fundação Dr. António Cupertino de Miranda in Porto, Portugal. This successor meeting to the 1997 HUG meeting in Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, provides an opportunity for users of HPF to meet each other, share ideas and experiences, and obtain up-to-date information on current HPF implementations and future plans.

This meeting will be held in conjunction with VECPAR'98 , an interdisciplinary conference covering a range of topics in parallel and distributed computing, which will take place on 21 - 23 June at the same location. An HPF tutorial will be offered on 20 June as part of the VECPAR tutorial program. On the day between the VECPAR and HUG meetings, 24 June, Porto holds its annual festival, and attendees will be free to participate in the festivities.

The HUG'98 program will include:

• sessions on:
  • HPF porting experiences and methodology;
  • integrating HPF with other programming models;
  • HPF extensions and optimisations;
  • HPF compilers and tools, including vendor presentations;
  • results of the Esprit PHAROS project, which has ported 4 industrial Fortran 77 codes to HPF;
• a poster session;
• a panel discussion.

Registration

Fees are in Austrian Schillings (ATS). The conference fee includes a welcome reception (on 24 June), conference dinner (on 25 June) and morning and afternoon refreshments. Extra conference dinner tickets are available at 400 ATS each. Delegates may register for only the HPF tutorial or only HUG'98 conference if desired.

The REGISTRATION FORM must be submitted by 31 May to qualify for the early registration fee. No refund will be made for cancellations after 5 June 1998.

Further Information

Porto is an attractive city in northern Portugal. It is particulary renowned for its historic centre, recently classified by UNESCO as a world heritage. 24 June is the date of Porto's annual festival, and attendees are encouraged to come in time to take part in the festivities. EXPO '98 is also being held in Lisbon, Portugal, during the time frame of this event.

The organising committee may be contacted at:

HUG'98 Conference,
VCPC,
Liechtensteinstrasse 22,
1090 Vienna,
Austria.

Tel: +43 - 1 - 310 939614
Fax: +43 - 1 - 310 939613
Email: hug98@vcpc.univie.ac.at.

HUG'98 Announcement - Committees - Hotels - Meeting Summary - Participants - Program - Registration - Sponsors - Tourist Info - Tutorial - Venue - Archive - VECPAR'98

Organised by the Esprit EuroTools project HPF SIG.
Supported by the Esprit ATTN project.