Announcing the twelfth annual meeting of ScicomP
                         http://www.spscicomp.org/
                   the IBM Scientific System User Group
                          July 18 to 21, 2006
                 National Center for Atmospheric Research
                         Boulder, Colorado, USA

IMPORTANT DATES:

   28 April 2006 (Friday)    - Deadline for Abstracts
     10 May 2006 (Wednesday) - Author Notification
    30 June 2006 (Friday)    - Early Registration Closes
    18 July 2006 (Tuesday)   - ScicomP Tutorial(s)
 19-21 July 2006 (Wed-Fri)   - ScicomP Meeting

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS:

   We seek original presentations by HPC application and software
   infrastructure developers about recent discoveries, experiences,
   and lessons learned on IBM HPC products.  Speakers will be chosen
   based on 1-page abstracts submitted to the ScicomP12 website
   (<URL:http://www.cisl.ucar.edu/info/scicomp/abstracts.html>)
   by 28 April.

ABOUT SCICOMP:

   ScicomP meetings target computational scientists and engineers
   interested in achieving maximum performance and scalability on
   all of IBM's HPC platforms.  This meeting will span the new and
   exciting range of IBM technologies including POWER architecture,
   Federation switch, BlueGene/L, and beyond.  Presentations will
   be a balance of HPC users and the IBM R&D staff that produce
   and maintain them.  User presentations focus on real world
   experiences in porting, maintaining, and running codes on large
   scale IBM systems.  Issues may include (but are not limited to)
   code migration, scalable algorithms, hybrid programming models,
   exploiting system architectures, and scheduling and execution
   frameworks.  IBM staff presentations include hardware and software
   roadmaps for large systems; application development support software
   tools; performance programming, measurement, analysis, and tuning
   techniques.

ABOUT SP-XXL:

   NCAR will also host the SP-XXL (<URL:http://www.spxxl.org>) as a
   co-located meeting. The SP-XXL is a membership-based organization
   with systems-oriented interests in large-scale scientific technical
   computing on IBM hardware.

ABOUT NCAR and BOULDER:

   NCAR is a federally funded research and development center in
   Boulder, Colorado, that was established in 1960. Together with our
   partners at universities and research centers, we are dedicated to
   exploring and understanding the Earth's atmosphere and its
   interactions with the Sun, the oceans, the biosphere, and human
   society.
   
   Boulder is proud to be one of Colorado's foremost havens of
   commerce, education, research and recreation. Cresting over the hill
   on highway 36 into Boulder, it's easy to see why this intriguing town
   has been dubbed "the city nestled between the mountains and reality."
   At 5,430 feet above sea level, acres of vast open space roll into
   Boulder's quaint cityscape tucked into the foothills of the Rocky
   Mountains.  Located 35 miles northwest of downtown Denver, Boulder
   is a captivating mountain community enriched with natural beauty,
   hip urban culture and a vibrant love of the outdoors. 


Bernd Mohr
ScicomP Secretary