Several special sessions are planned for HiPC 2000:

Invited-papers Session:

• Future General Purpose and Embedded Processors. Organizers: Sriram Vajapeyam (IISc), Mateo Valero (UPC)

Invited papers by:
• Trevor Mudge (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
• Bob Rau (HP Labs)
• Jim Smith (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
• Guri Sohi (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Contributed Papers Sessions:

• Applied Parallel Processing. Organizers: Partha Dasgupta and Sethuraman Panchanathan (Arizona State University, USA).
• Compilation Techniques for Embedded Systems. Organizer: Bhagirath Narahari (The George Washington University, Washington DC, USA).
• High Performance Middleware. Organizers: Shikharesh Majumdar (Carleton University, Canada) and Gabriel Kotsis (University of Vienna, Austria).
• Large-scale Data Mining. Organizers: Gautam Das (Microsoft Research, USA) and Mohammad Zaki (Rennselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA).
• Modeling and Analysis of Mobile Telecommunication Networks. Organizer: Azzedine Boukerche (University of North Texas, Denton, USA).
• Cluster Computing and its Applications. Organizer: Hee Yong Youn (Information & Communication University, South Korea).