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               High-Performance Functional Computing Conference

                              April 9 - 11, 1995
                               Denver, Colorado


Preliminary Program
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Sunday, April 9, 1995

 3:00 -  5:00 PM  Registration

 6:00 -  9:00 PM  Conference Reception


Monday, April 10, 1995

 8:00 -  8:30 AM  Continental Breakfast

 8:30 - 10:00 AM  Welcome - John Feo
                  Keynote Speech - Guy Steele, Sun Microsystems

10:00 - 10:30 AM  Break

10:30 - 12:00 AM  First Session (Rex Page)

     "Integrating Imperative and Functional Programming in Real-World
      Applications"
      by T. DeBoni, J. Feo and D. Peters

     "Application of a Para-Functional Language to Problems in Computer
      Algebra"
      by Wolfgang Schreiner

     "NAS parallel benchmark integer sort (IS) performance on Monsoon"
      by Sumit Sur and Wim Bohm

12:00 -  1:30 PM  Lunch

 1:30 -  3:00 PM  Second Session (Guang Gao)

     "Sisal90"
      by John T. Feo, Patrick J. Miller, Stephen Skedzielewski,
      Scott Denton and Cindy Solomon

     "UFO: Language Evolution and Implementation Consequences of State"
      by John Sargeant and Steve Hooton

     "Functional Implementations of the Jacobi Eigen-Solver"
      by A.P.W. Bohm and R.E. Hiromoto

 3:00 -  3:30 PM  Break

 3:30 -  5:00 PM  Third Session (Wim Bohm)

     "An overview of the Adl language project"
      by Brad Alexander, Dean Engelhardt and Andrew Wendelborn

     "Caml Flight: a Portable SPMD Extension of ML for Distributed
      Memory Multiprocessors"
      by Christian Foisy and Emmanuel Chailloux

     "Digit-Index Permutation Algorithms: An Applicative Approach"
      by Jaime Seguel, Dorothy Bollman and John Feo

 7:30 -  9:00 PM  Panel Discussion (Jack Dennis)

   "How should nondeterminacy be introduced into functional programming"


Tuesday, April 11, 1995

 8:00 -  8:30 AM  Continental Breakfast

 8:30 - 10:00 AM  Fourth Session (John Feo)

     "Update-in-place Analysis for True Multidimensional Arrays"
      by Steven M. Fitzgerald

     "The impact of laziness on parallelism and the limits of
      strictness analysis"
      by G. Tremblay and G.R. Gao

     "Extracting Characteristics from Functional Programs for Mapping
      to Massively Parallel Machines"
      by A.C. Sodan and Heiko Bock

10:00 - 10:30 AM  Break

10:30 - 12:00 AM  Fifth Session (Pat Miller)

     "Static Mapping of Functional Programs: An Example in Signal
      Processing"
      by Jack B. Dennis

     "fsc: A SISAL Compiler for Both Distributed- and Shared Memory
      Machines"
      by Vincent W. Freeh and Gregory R. Andrews

     "Compiler Enforced Cache Coherence Using a Functional Language"
      by Richard Wolski and David Cann

12:00 -  1:30 PM  Lunch

 1:30 -  3:00 PM  Sixth Session (Lennart Augustson)

     "Constructing Skeletons in Clean"
      by Marco Kesseler

     "Exploiting Locality in a Stateless Data-Flow Architecture"
      by David F. Snelling

     "Visualising Granularity in Parallel Programs: A Graphical
      Winnowing System for Haskell"
      by Kevin Hammond, Hans Wolfgang Loidl and Andrew Partridge

     "Profiling Large-Scale Lazy Functional Programs"
      by R.G. Morgan and S. A. Jarvis

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                               Registration Form

               High-Performance Functional Computing Conference

                              Executive Tower Inn
                               Denver, Colorado




________________________________________________________________
Last Name                     First Name                    M.I.



________________________________________________________________
Organization


________________________________________________________________
Mailing Address


________________________________________________________________
City                  State/Province   Postal/Zip Code   Country


________________________________________________________________
Telephone            FAX                 Electronic Mail Address


________________________________________________________________
Name as it will appear on badge   Spouse/Accompanying Guest Name



Conference Registration Fees

All fees in U.S. dollars and drawn on US Banks (sorry no credit cards)

Make checks payable to Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Registration fees include: conference fee, panel discussion, conference
proceedings, reception and two lunches

Pre-registration deadline is March 9, 1995



                           Before March 9     After March 9         Fees


Full Registration              $250               $275          $__________


Student Registration            $ 90              $ 90          $__________
(you must enclose a copy of current student I.D. card)


Guest Meals (Reception $40; Lunch $20)

Reception 4/9 ___     Lunch 4/10 ___    Lunch 4/11 ___          $__________


                                          TOTAL FEES ENCLOSED   $__________


Special Dietary Requirements (Please Specify) _____________________________


Refund policy: Prepaid fees will be refunded, less a $50.00 processing fee,
if notification is received in writing by March 17, 1995. Cancellations post-
marked after March 17, 1995 can not be refunded; however, a substitute regis-
trant may be accepted.

Mail registration form and fees to:

Judy Michels                              Telephone: 510-422-4236
LLNL, L-306                               FAX      : 510-423-8520
P.O. Box 808                              Email    : judy@diego.llnl.gov
Livermore, CA  94551

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                                 Housing Form

               High-Performance Functional Computing Conference


Please make reservations for me as follows:


Name    __________________________________________________


Address __________________________________________________


Firm    __________________________________________________


Group   _Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory___________


Dates   _April 9 - April 11, 1995_________________________


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Accomodations Requested

Single ___     ($68 plus tax per night)

Double ___     ($78 plus tax per night)

Date of Arrival   ________________________

Time of Arrival ________________________

Date of Departure ________________________

Check-out time is 12:00 P.M.

Guaranteed Arrival ____  or Arrival by 6:00 P.M. ____

Should you wish to guarantee your reservation for arrival after 6:00 P.M.,
please include one night's deposit or credit card number _________________

Please mail housing form to:

Executive Tower Inn
1405 Curtis Street
Denver, CO  80202

Telephone: 800-525-6651 
FAX      : 303-825-4301

