Message from the program chair

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Welcome to the proceedings of the 10th International Conference on High Performance Computing, HiPC 2003. This year, we were delighted to have 164 papers submitted to this conference from 20 different countries, including countries in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East. Of these, 48 papers from 11 different countries were accepted for presentation at the conference and publication in the conference proceedings. Less than 30% of the submitted papers were accepted this year, with each paper receiving a minimum of three reviews. Although the selection process was quite competitive, we were pleased to accomodate 10 (parallel) technical sessions of high-quality contributed papers. In addition to the contributed paper sessions, this year’s conference also featured a poster session, an industrial track session, five keynote addresses, five tutorials and seven workshops. It was a pleasure putting this program together with the help of five excellent Program Vice-Chairs and the 65-person Program Committee. Although the hard work of all the program committee members is deeply appreciated, I especially wish to acknowledge the dedicated effort made by the Vice-Chairs: Rajiv Gupta (Architecture), Jose Moreira (System Software), Stephan Olariu (Communication Networks), Yuanyuan Yang (Algorithms), and Xiaodong Zhang (Applications). Without their help and timely work, the quality of the program would not have been as high nor would the process have run so smoothly. I also wish to thank the other members of the supporting cast who helped in putting together this program, including those who organized the keynotes, tutorials, workshops, poster session, and industrial track session, and those who performed the administrative functions that were essential to the success of this conference. The work of Sushil Prasad in putting together the conference proceedings is also acknowledged, as well as the support provided by Jeonghee Shin in maintaining the CyberChair on-line paper submission and evaluation software. Last, but certainly not least, I express heartfelt thanks to our General Co-chair, Viktor Prasanna, for all his useful advice and for giving me the opportunity to serve as the program chair of this conference. This truly was a very rewarding experience for me. I trust you find this proceedings volume to be as informative and stimulating as we endeavored to make it. If you attended HiPC 2003, I hope you found time to enjoy the rich cultural experience provided by this interesting city of Hyderabad, India!