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The international conference Parallel Computing 93 was held September 7-10, 1993, in Grenoble, France. Approximately 200 researchers from 24 countries attended the conference which was organized by the lnstitut d'Informatique et de Math~matiques Appliqu~es de Grenoble (IMAG). This conference was the fifth in the series of biannual Parallel Computing Conferences [1-4] since 1983 covering the research areas: 9 parallel algorithms and applications, 9 models for parallel computing, 9 parallel architectures, 9 tools for parallel programming, and 9 performance of parallel algorithms.
The programme consisted of four plenary sessions during which invited papers were read, three parallel streams of sessions for 57 oral presentations, two sessions for 97 poster presentations, an industrial session together with an exhibition, and a bookshop offering an excellent selection of the relevant literature. As is appropriate for a conference on parallel computing, the programme committee had provided sufficient synchronization points to allow the audience to change between the parallel streams of oral presentations. Regrettably, approximately one third of the authors whose papers were accepted for the poster sessions did not turn out to present their paper at the conference.
While the reader who is interested in details has to wait for the proceedings of the conference, here is a summary of the invited talks. The first invited paper was read by Robert Hiromoto, a computational physicist formerly of Los Alamos National Laboratory now of the University of Texas at San Antonio. His talk entitled Are we expecting too much from parallelism? raised the point that ideal scalability alone does not make an efficient parallel algorithm. He exemplified his thesis with Monte Carlo solution methods to elliptic partial differential equations
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