Newsgroups: comp.sys.super,comp.arch.storage,comp.parallel.mpi,comp.arch,comp.databases,comp.multimedia
From: thakur@abacus.mcs.anl.gov (Rajeev Thakur)
Subject: IOPADS '99 Call for Papers
Organization: Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, Illinois
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 1998 22:51:8 GMT
Message-ID: <9027894682324@abacus.mcs.anl.gov>


                               CALL FOR PAPERS

           Sixth Workshop on I/O in Parallel and Distributed Systems
                                 (IOPADS '99)

                     http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/iopads

			in conjunction with FCRC '99
              ACM 1999 Federated Computing Research Conference
                             Atlanta, Georgia
                                May 5, 1999

Sponsors: ACM SIGACT, SIGARCH, SIGMETRICS, and SIGOPS 
          and in cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN

IOPADS is a venue for researchers investigating all aspects of storage-related
I/O in parallel and distributed systems, including algorithms, applications,
architecture, and system software.  Although I/O-related papers appear in
many conferences, IOPADS gathers interested I/O researchers from all areas
of computer science, encouraging cross-disciplinary interaction.

IOPADS solicits research papers that focus on storage-related I/O in
high-performance parallel and distributed systems, emphasizing parallel or
distributed applications.  Relevant topics include:

Experimental I/O characterization 
Design and analysis of I/O-intensive applications
Parallel file system design and analysis
Real-time and multimedia I/O
Theory and implementation of parallel I/O algorithms
I/O architecture design and evaluation
Storage device design and analysis
Language and compiler support
Run-time libraries
Database and information systems
Data security and authentication

Papers submitted to IOPADS must be unpublished and must not be submitted 
for publication elsewhere.  The manuscript should be written in English,
at most twelve pages long (including figures, tables, and excluding 
references), single- or double-spaced, using an 11-point font. Electronic
submission of Postscript is required; detailed submission instructions are
on the WWW site. All submissions must arrive by 6 PM Central Time on
October 16, 1998. Decisions will be announced by January 8, 1999. Accepted
papers will appear in the IOPADS proceedings, to be published by ACM.

General Chairs
==============

Thomas H. Cormen
Department of Computer Science
Dartmouth College
6211 Sudikoff Laboratory
Hanover, NH 03755, USA
(603) 646-2417
thc@cs.uiuc.edu

Rajeev Thakur
Mathematics and Computer Science Division
Argonne National Laboratory
9700 South Cass Avenue
Argonne, IL 60439, USA
(630) 252-1682
thakur@mcs.anl.gov

Program Chair
=============

Dan Reed
Department of Computer Science
University of Illinois
1304 West Springfield Avenue
Urbana, IL 61801, USA
(217) 333-3807
reed@cs.uiuc.edu

Program Committee
=================

Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory
John Hartman, University of Arizona 
Tara Madhyastha, Carnegie Mellon University 
John May, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Reagan Moore, San Diego Supercomputer Center 
Richard Muntz, University of California, Los Angeles
Dan Reed, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Joel Saltz, University of Maryland, College Park
Elizabeth Shriver, Bell Laboratories
Randy Wang, Princeton University