Organizing

The 2011 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation

(HPCS 2011)

July 4 – 8, 2011

Bahcesehir University

Istanbul, Turkey

http://hpcs11.cisedu.info/ or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs11

Organizing Committee

Honorary General Chair:

Geoffrey C. Fox, Indiana University, Indiana, USA

General Co-Chairs:

Wolfgang Gentzsch, DEISA and Open Grid Forum, Germany

Mads Nygard, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway

Cem Saraç, TUBITAK - Turkish Academic Network and Information Center (ULAKBIM), Turkey

Program Chair:

Waleed W. Smari, University of Dayton, Ohio, USA

Tutorials Co-Chairs:

Claudia Fohry, University of Kassel, Germany

Francesco Quaglia, Sapienza Università di Roma, Italy

Special Sessions & Workshops Co-Chairs:

Carsten Maple, University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

Carsten Trinitis, Technische Universität München, Germany

Posters Co-Chairs:

Gaetan Hains, LACL - Université Paris-12, France

Raphael Kunis, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

Tim Stitt, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, USA

Demos & Exhibits Co-Chairs:

Sandro Fiore, Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Climate Change, Lecce, Italy

Oguz Gulseren, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

Neil Chue Hong, EPCC - University of Edinburgh, Scotland, U.K.

Sami Sözüer, Izmir Institute of Technology, Izmir, Turkey

Panels Co-Chairs:

Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

Yun (Helen) He, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA

Sangho Yi, INRIA - Rhone-Alpes Grenoble, France

Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium Co-Chairs:

Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center and CSIC, Barcelona, Spain

David Hill, Blaise Pascal University, France

Can Özturan, Bogaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey

Publications Co-Chairs:

Yudith Cardinale, Universidad Simón Bolívar, Caracas, Venezuela

Rasit Murat Uysal, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey

Assistant Editor:

John McIntire, Air Force Research Laboratory, Ohio, USA

Registration Co-Chairs:

Lindsey K. McIntire, Air Force Research Laboratory, WPAFB, Ohio, USA

Christophe Rosenberger, GREYC-ENSI de CAEN, Normandy, France

Ahmet Yucel, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey

Publicity Co-Chairs:

Maode Ma, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

Sabu M. Thampi, Rajagiri School of Engineering and Technology, India

Fatih Ugurdag, Ozyegin University, Istanbul, Turkey

Ali Yazici, Atilim University, Ankara, Turkey

Awards Co-Chairs:

Hesham Ali, University of Nebraska – Omaha, Nebraska, USA

Salvatore Orlando, University of Venice, Italy

Thierry Priol, IRISA/INRIA, Rennes, France

Sponsorships Co-Chairs:

Tawfik Rahal-Arabi, Intel Corp., Hillsboro, Oregon, USA

Sezer Uğurdağ, Yeditepe University, Istanbul, Turkey

Industry Liaisons:

Maged M. Ghoneima, Nvidia Corp., Santa Clara, California, USA

Levent Gürel, Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey

Cevat Sener, Middle East Technical University, Ankara, Turkey

F. Erdogan Sevilgen, Gebze Institute of Technology, Kocaeli, Turkey

Local Arrangements Co-Chairs:

Hasan U. Akay, Atilim University, Turkey

Ercan Erturk, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey

Orhan Gökçöl, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey

Social Events Co-Chairs:

Nizamettin Aydin, Yildiz Technical University, Istanbul, Turkey

Yalcin Cekic, Bahcesehir University, Istanbul, Turkey

Accounting & Finances:

Shelley L. Denney, SLD, Inc., Ohio, USA

Conference Software Systems Manager & Web Master:

Abdul Habra, Technology Exponent LLC, Ohio, USA

Committee Members at Large and International Liaisons:

Serdar Celebi, National Center for High Performance Computing, ITU, Istanbul, Turkey

Susumu Date, Osaka University, Japan

Rodrigo Fernandes de Mello, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand

Teo Yong Meng, National University of Singapore, Singapore

Victor Malyshkin, Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia

Al-Sakib Khan Pathan, International Islamic University Malaysia (IIUM), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Sattar B. Sadkhan, University of Babylon, Iraq

Nam Thoai, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam

Eero Vainikko, University of Tartu, Estonia