ISPDC Visual Diary

17 | 18 | 19 | 20 July 2002

First day: 17 July

• Opening session - official speakers
  (A hot day for a hot event)

• Welcome message of Dan Grigoraş
  (Hopes for a successful symposium)

• Dan Grigoraş is introducing the first ISPDC paper: Frédéric Suter
  (Parallel predictions for a better weather?)

• Eddy Truyen
  (It's hard to take in account multiple distributed threads...)

• Pros and cons of agent technology
  with Marcin Paprzycki
  (Who needs software agents?
  The whole world (aka Internet), perharps...)

• Marcin Paprzycki - in the end
  (A brilliant and colourful agent in disguise?)

• Coffee-breaks as moments for scientific (?!) discussions
  (Distributed memory. Multiple communication channels.
  One goal. To be continued...)

• About multi-agent systems: Sînică Alboaie
  (Between software and audience,
  it's hard to discover the truth)

• <remark>Phillip Healy is trying to distribute all markups...</remark>
  (When XML is enough for anything and anybody)

• Sabin Tăbîrcă about convergence, proofs, workloads and many others
  (To loop or not to loop mathematics?)

Second day: 18 July

• Lotzi Bölöni
  (About proteines and computational power)

• With Hanny Ammar about load balancing strategies
  (Don't fool me!)

• Wolfgang Hoschek about database applications
  (Distributed content, unique paper...)

• Wojciech Walendziuk
  (I'm happy, as usual!)

• Peer-to-peer Systems - Georges Da Costa
  (Free[net] as a bird...)

• Utpal Banerjee takes a second look to ISPDC...
  (About trace scheduling...)

• Another coffee-break?
  (With John Morrison and Wolfgang Hoschek)

• Yes, indeed!
  (Other different relaxed scientific discussions)

• Keith Power Metacomputing with Compeer
  (No comments)

• Discover another face of Marek Tudruj
  (Into the Internet room)

Third day: 19 July

• Instruction Level Parallelism Talk of Alex Nicolau
  (Or different timing trade-offs?)

• Omer Rana and The Grid
  (Nothing is more interesting like this...)

• ISPDC Public
  (Applauses, ovations... etc. etc.)

• Ruginoasa Residence of Alexandru Ioan Cuza
  (From present to past)

• Still at Ruginoasa
  (From past to present)

• Neamt Monastery - entrance
  (Enter into another world...)

• Neamţ Monastery: inside panorama, main church,
  take a round, walls and people, be one with nature,
  enter the church, lights and shadows

• To the Bicaz lake
  (Forward to the boat)

• "Welcome" said the Captain/Boss
  (Dan Grigoras takes his role seriously...)

• Another side of our boat...
  (Or how to watch ISPDC people)

• Cheers!
  (Wishes for actual and next editions of ISPDC)

• Enjoy your meal and drink!
  (Ignore me, please...)

• Valerie Fiolet and Philip Healy
  (Another sort of air - table duo)

• The end?...
  (...of our trip, of course; the lake remains the same)

Fourth day: 20 July

• Omer Rana is discussing about semantic grid services
  (There are many things to do)

• Dana Petcu - parallel numerical methods
  (To discover a method for speeding-up the last day ISPDC presentations)

• Some of the ISPDC organizing team
  (Cristian Puşcaşu, Ştefan Tanasă, Cristina Nistor,
  and Mihaela Brut)

• After WebCom: Brian Clayton
  (Exhausted activity, indeed)

• Valerie Fiolet and her notes
  (It's no time to stay relaxed...)

• Innocent graph scheduler: Claude Tadonki
  (Finally, after a glorious travel to Iaşi)

• The "traditional" ISPDC spoon of wood
  (Dan Grigoraşi and Marcin Paprzycki)

• The next ISPDC host and actual organizers
  (See you in Poland, Marcin! Under another umbrella, perharps...)

• Thanks for your participation! (We are still serious)
  (From local organizing committee: Cristian Puşcaşu,
  Ştefan and Loredana Tanasă, Ionuţ Popescu, Sabin Buraga, Cristina Nistor, and Mihaela Brut)