Welcome to ICS'97

The ACM International Conference on Supercomputing is a forum for engineers and scientists throughout the world to exchange ideas and research results relating to high performance supercomputing systems. The 11th conference in the series is being held in Vienna, Austria, from July 7th through July 11th, 1997. Vienna is the site of one of the oldest universities in the world, which was the home of the Vienna Circle and Kurt Gödel and, in recent years, became a European Center for high performance parallel computing.

The conference program includes

five keynote addresses by top-level researchers,
40 contributed papers,
three workshops, all of which will take place on July 7th,
two panel sessions,
an exhibit, and
an industrial session.

The social events include a reception by the Mayor of the City of Vienna, a formal Conference Dinner at an 18th-century Palais, and an informal evening at a typical Viennese wine restaurant.

I would like to take this opportunity to express my appreciation for the many individuals and institutions who contributed to this conference. Special thanks are due to the Program Chair, Steve Wallach, the Vice Program Chairs, Harry Wijshoff, Nikolay Mirenkov and Jim Smith, the other members of the Conference Committee, and the Program Committee.

I welcome you at ICS'97!

Hans Zima

General Chair

Page last modified: July 2, 1997 (Bernd Wender)