The School of Engineering and Natural Sciences of the
University of Iceland are hosting the conference
Para 2010: State of the Art in Scientific and Parallel Computing
in Reykjavík on June 6-9, 2010

Topics The topics of the conference will include (but are not restricted to) software, hardware, algorithms, tools, environments, as well as applications of scientific and high performance computing.

Short history This will be the 10th Para conference and it will uphold the traditions built up with these. The conferences have all been held in the Nordic countries, but with sizeable participation from other countries. The first three were held annually 1994–1996 in Copenhagen, but since then every two years, in Umeå, Bergen, Helsinki, Copenhagen, Umeå, and the ninth in Trondheim 2008.

Conference schedule

In addition a reception is planned in the evening of Saturday June 5.

Conference organization  As in previous Para conferences the workshop sessions will consist of key lectures as well as topical minisymposia and contributed papers in approximately 6 or 7 parallel streams. The list of minisymposia has not been finished yet, but we expect minisymposia in the topic areas listed above (software, hardware, algorithms, tools, environments) as well as on themes such as cluster computing, grid computing and cloud computing, and application areas such as meteorology, chemistry, physics, engineering, bioinformatics and biology. Volunteers for organizing minisymposia are welcome. About 250 participants are expected. Registration will open by late January 2010.

Conference fee

Incl. welcome reception, lunches, conference tour and conference dinner. 

Conference proceedings Abstracts of invited and contributed talks will be handed out at the conference. After the conference, original papers will be reviewed for publication in the conference proceedings. As for earlier Para meetings these will be be published in the Springer series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS).

Dates

Venue Para 2010 will take place at the School of Education of the University of Iceland, located centrally in Reykjavík.

Principal members of organizing and steering committees
Jack Dongarra, USA, honorary chair <dongarra-at-cs.utk.edu>
Jerzy Wasniewski, Denmark, chair <jw-at-imm.dtu.dk>
Kristjan Jonasson, chair <jonasson-at-hi.is>
Olafur Rognvaldsson, financial manager <or-at-belgingur.is>

Web site photographer
Olafia Larusdottir

Travel and lodging There are direct flights to Iceland from most countries in Western Europe as well as USA and Canada. The major airlines are Icelandair, Iceland Express, and SAS. Travel is sometimes less expensive if the stay includes night between Saturday and Sunday (and this is the main reason why the conference is scheduled to begin on a Sunday). Several rooms in the price range 60–170 euros per night have been reserved in guesthouses and hotels close to the conference venue.