Subject: Call for Paper to special session at PDPTA98

From: [email-masked] (RajKumar)
Date: Mon, 24 Nov 1997 15:25:52 -0500

Special Session on

                   High Performance Computing on Clusters

               URL: http://cdacb.ernet.in/~raj/cluster.html
             URL: http://members.tripod.com/~buyya/cluster.html

                      1998 International Conference on
 Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'98)

                  July 13th - 16th, 1998, Las Vegas, USA
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In the recent years, high speed network and improved microprocessor
performance are making network of workstations an appealing vehicle for
parallel computing. Cluster/network of workstations built using commodity
hardware or software is playing a major role in redefining the concept of
Supercomputing. As a whole, Clusters are becomming compromising solution to
MPPs and Supercomputers. The focus of this special session will be on
software and hardware issues of computing on clusters. Topics of interest
include, but are not limited to:

   * Cluster Hardware (Cluster of Workstations or PCs)
   * Active Messages and Light Weight Protocols
   * Cluster Operating System
   * Single System Image
   * Network Capabilities for Fast Communication
   * Message Passing Systems such as MPI and PVM for Clusters
   * Characterization of Communication and Synchronization Traffic
   * Operating Environments
   * Data Distribution and Load Balancing
   * Programming Paradigms/Environment for Clusters
   * HPCC Models for Graphics and Multimedia
   * Problem Solving Environment for Clusters
   * Tools for Operating and Managing Clusters
   * Parallel and Distributed Computing/HPC in Java
   * Algorithms for Solving Problems on Clusters
   * Building Applications on Clusters
   * Large Scale System Administration
   * Issues in Building Scalable Services
   * Fault Tolerance Issues for Clusters

Submission should include authors names, affiliations, addresses, fax and
phone numbers, email addresses, on the cover page. Submission implies the
willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the
paper, if accepted. Please submit full paper (not exceeding 10 single
spaced pages in length) to the session organizer electronically . Email
postscript file of the paper (preferably viewable by ghostview) by email;
also send a separate email with authors' names, addresses, title and
abstract of the paper. Hard copies should be sent only if electronic
submission is not possible.

Conference Proceedings will be available for participants. Please send
abstract or full paper for consideration to this special session to:

Session Organizer and Chair:

RAJKUMAR
HPCC System Software Development Group
Centre for Development of Advanced Computing
2/1, Ramanashree Plaza, Brunton Road, Bangalore,
Karnataka, India. PIN - 560 025
Phone: +91-080-5584271/5584982/5584143
Fax: +91-080-5584893
Email: [email-masked] / [email-masked] / [email-masked]
URL: http://members.tripod.com/~buyya or http://cdacb.ernet.in/~raj

Important Dates:

 Draft Papers due on:                     15th March, 1998
 Notification of acceptance:              3rd April, 1998
 Camera ready papers and Preregistration  22nd May, 1998
 due on:                                  

Conference Contact:

Professor Hamid R. Arabnia
(PDPTA General Chair)
The University of Georgia
Department of Computer Science
415 Graduate Studies Research Center
Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, U.S.A.
Tel: (706) 542-3480
Fax: (706) 542-2966
E-mail: [email-masked]

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