Main topics of the Conference

We invite especially participants of the previous CONVEX Users' Conferences.

The following topics of high performance computing and high performance storage systems on Hewlett-Packard platforms will be covered by the Conference:

• experience with HP S-, X- and V-Class Servers
• experience with Convex C-Series, plans for the migration
• applications in science, engineering and industry
• migration from SPP-UX to HP-UX
• system management, resource management and batch systems
• file servers, data management and hierarchical storage systems
• visualization, graphics and multimedia
• programming paradigms
• tools and programming environments (especially for parallel programs)
• performance evaluation
• new HP products for high performance computing

• tutorials ("Advanced Optimisation for PA-8000 Processors" and "Parallelisation by Compiler Directives")
• invited talks
• contributed presentations from the HP users community
• presentations of new HP products for high performance computing and storage
• round table discussions
• conference dinner and other social events