Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

Parallel Architecture and Networking
-High performance computing architecture
-Automated routing and switching for distributed systems and grids
-Data and computational grids and heterogeneous system architectures
-Parallel I/O
-High-speed optical and wireless networking

Software Systems
-Operating systems
-Parallel languages and parallelizing compilers
-Parallel programming paradigms
-Security
-Tools and environment for software development
-Modeling and simulation
-Virtual machines
-Performance evaluation and measurements

Parallel Algorithms
-Parallel and distributed algorithms
-Data grids
-Genetic algorithms
-Load sharing and balancing
-Resource allocation and management
-Task mapping and job scheduling

Applications
-Fluid Dynamics
-Computational astrophysics, biology, and chemistry
-Bioinformatics
-Geophysics
-HPC using World Wide Web
-Seismic processing
-Signal and image processing
-Visualisation