From: Rajkumar Buyya Newsgroups: comp.parallel.mpi Subject: CFP--IEEE International Workshop on Cluster Computing Date: Sat, 12 Jun 1999 22:15:01 +1000 Organization: Monash Uni Distribution: world Message-Id: <37624F44.E9209356@dgs.monash.edu.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Xref: ukc comp.parallel.mpi:5184 Call for Papers 1st IEEE International Workshop on Cluster Computing (IWCC'99) http://www.dgs.monash.edu.au/~rajkumar/tfcc/IWCC99/ Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 2 , 1999 (In conjunction with PART '99 - Nov. 29 - Dec. 1, 1999) Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, through the Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC) Co-sponsored by: MPI Software Technology, Inc., USA Asian Technology Information Program (ATIP), Japan Genias Software, Germany Sun Microsystems, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call For Participation The International Workshop on Cluster Computing (IWCC'99) will be held in Melbourne, Australia on Dec. 2, 1999. IWCC'99 is associated with the PART '99, The 6th Autralasian Conference on Parallel and Real-Time Systems. IWCC'99 is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, through the Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC). The availability of high-speed networks and increasingly powerful commodity microprocessors are making the usage of clusters, or networks, of computers an appealing vehicle for cost effective parallel computing. Clusters, built using commodity-of-the-shelf (COTS) hardware components as well as free, or commonly used, software, are playing a major role in redefining the concept of supercomputing. Cluster computing systems range from diverse elements within a single computer to co-ordinated, geographically distributed machines with different architectures. A cluster computing system provides a variety of capabilities that can be orchestrated to execute multiple tasks with varied computational requirements. Applications in these environments achieve performance by exploiting the affinity of different tasks to different computational platforms or paradigms, while considering the overhead of inter-task communication and the co-ordination of distinct data sources and/or administrative domains. IWCC is an international meeting on Cluster Computing and will serve as a forum to present the latest work by international researchers and developers as well as highlight activities in this area around Asia Pacific rim. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to, are: * Cluster Hardware (Cluster of PCs, Workstations, or SMPs) * High Performance communication networks and interfaces * Light Weight Communication Protocols * Cluster Middleware/Underware o Single System Image Infrastructure o System Availability Infrastructure * Issues in Building Scalable Services * File Systems and Parallel I/O * Job and Resource Management * Data Distribution and Load Balancing * Programming Paradigms/Environment for Clusters * Message Passing Systems such as MPI and PVM for Clusters * Problem Solving Environments for Clusters * Tools for Operating and Managing Clusters * Java for High Performance Computing * Algorithms for Solving Problems on Clusters * Scientific, Engineering, and Commercial Applications on Clusters It is planned that workshop papers will be published through the IEEE Computer Society Press. The proceedings will also be available on the Web. See http://www.dcs.port.ac.uk/~mab/tfcc/IWCC99/ or http://www.dgs.monash.edu.au/~rajkumar/tfcc/IWCC99/ for the latest information concerning the workshop. Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit papers consisting of original unpublished research in all areas of cluster computing to the Programme Chair. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee and outside international referees. Papers should not exceed ten (10) single-spaced pages of text using 12 point size type on A4 pages. References, figures, tables, etc. may be included in addition to the ten pages of text. The paper should include an abstract of approximately 100 words. Authors must submit their papers electronically through the link at http://dhpc.adelaide.edu.au/conferences/IWCC99/ Authors should submit a PostScript (level 2) file and make sure that it will print on a PostScript printer that uses A4 sized paper. Manuscripts must be received by on or before the deadline for submission. General/Organising Chairs: * Mark Baker (Portsmouth University, UK) * Rajkumar Buyya (Monash University, Australia) Program Chair: * Ken Hawick (Adelaide University, Australia) Program Committee: * David Abramson (Monash University, Melbourne, Australia) * Hamid Arabnia (University of Georgia, USA) * David Bader (University of New Mexico, USA) * Mark Baker (Portsmouth University, UK) * Ricardo Bianchini (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil) * Suchendra Bhandarkar (University of Georgia, USA) * Luc Bouge (LIP, ENS Lyon, France) * Marian Bubak (Institute of Computer Science, Poland) * Rajkumar Buyya (Monash University, Australia) * Giovanni Chiola (University of Genoa, Italy) * Paul Coddington (University of Adelaide, Australia) * Toni Cortes (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain) * Dave DeRoure (University of Southampton, UK) * Joao Gabriel Silva (Coimbra University, Portugal) * Al Geist (Oakridge National Lab. USA) * Andrezj Goscinski (Deakin University, Australia) * Wolfgang Gentzsch (Genias GmbH, Germany) * Bill Gropp (Argonne National Lab., USA) * Salim Hariri (Arizona University, USA) * Dan Hyde (Bucknell University, USA) * Yutaka Ishikawa (Real World Computing Partnership, Japan) * Heath James (University of Adelaide, Australia) * Hai Jin (University of Hong Kong, China) * Daniel S. Katz (Jet Propulsion Lab., California Institute of Technology, USA) * Chung-Ta King (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan) * Kevin Maciunas (University of Adelaide, Australia) * Piyush Maheshwari (University of New South Wales, Sydney) * Chris McDonald (University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia) * John Morris (University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia) * Marcin Paprzycki (University of Southern Mississippi, USA) * Robert Pennington (NCSA, USA) * Ira Pramanick (Sun Microsystems, USA) * Radharamanan Radhakrishnan (University of Cincinnati, USA) * Rajeev Raje (Purdue University, USA) * Mohan Ram (Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, India) * Wolfgang Rehm (TU Chemnitz, Germany) * Paul Roe (Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane) * Harjinder Sandhu (York University, Toronto, Canada) * Danial Saverese (California Institute of Technology, USA) * Hong Shen (Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia) * R. K. Shyamasundar (Tata Institute of Fundamental Research, India) * Tony Skjellum (MPI Software Technology, USA) * Thomas Sterling (California Institute of Technology, USA) * Peter Strazdins (Australian National University, Canberra) * Chengzheng Sun (Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia) * Yong-Meng Teo ( National University of Singapore, Singapore) * Putchong Uthayopas (Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand) * David W Walker (Cardiff University, UK) * Barry Wilkinson (University of North Carolina, USA) * Albert Zomaya (University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia) Publicity Chairs: * David Bader (University of New Mexico, USA) * Albert Zomaya (University of Western Australia) Finance and Local Arrangements Chair: * Mahbub Hassan (Monash University, Australia) Registration Chair: * Jahan Hassan (Monash University, Australia) Important Dates: Call For Papers : May 5, 1999 Paper Submission : August 5, 1999 Notification of Acceptance : August 25, 1999 Camera Ready Papers and Pre-registration due on : September 17, 1999 IWCC'99 Workshop : December 2, 1999 --------------------------------------------------------------------------