Subject: CFP: Cluster Computing session.

From: Rajkumar Buyya <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 13:25:14 +1100 (EST)

TECHNICAL SESSION
   Cluster Computing Technologies, Environments, and Applications (CC-TEA)
              URL: http://www.bigfoot.com/~buyya/cctea.html
                                  in

                     1999 International Conference on
 Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'99)
                        http://www.jhpc.org/pdpta

                              June 28 - July 1, 1999
                   Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

                             Call for Papers

In recent years, the availability of high-speed networks and
high-performance microprocessors is making networks of computers an
appealing vehicle for cost-effective parallel computing. Clusters/networks
of computers (workstations/PCs/SMPs) built using commodity hardware and
software are playing a major role in redefining the concept of  
supercomputing. As a whole, clusters are becoming an alternative to MPPs
and supercomputers in many areas of application. The focus of this special
session will be on both hardware and software aspects of computing on
clusters. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

     Cluster Hardware (Cluster of PCs, Workstations, or SMPs)
     High Perormance Communication Networks and Interfaces
     Light Weight Communication Protocols
     Cluster Middleware
         Single System Image Infrastructure
         System Availabilty 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

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. Please submit full paper not exceeding 5 (or 7) single spaced pages
in file of the paper (preferably viewable by ghostview); 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.

All papers selected for this session will be published in the PDPTA'99
conference proceedings. Please send full paper for consideration to this
technical session to:

Session Organizer and Chair:

Rajkumar Buyya
School of Computing Science and Software Engineering 
Monash University 
Room No. 130, Bld No. 63, Clayton Campus 
Melbourne, Vic. 3168, Australia 
Office phone: +61-3-9905 1502 
Office fax: +61-3-9905 3574 
Email: [email-masked] / [email-masked] 
WWW: http:www.dgs.monash.edu.au/~rajkumar /
http://www.bigfoot.com/~buyya 

Important Dates:

 Draft Papers due on:        March 15, 1999
 Notification of Acceptance: April  5, 1999
 Camera Ready Papers and
 Preregistration due on:     May 1, 1999
 PDPTA'99 Conference:        June 28 - July 1, 1999

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For information regarding the PDPTA'99 Conference, contact:
      Prof. Hamid R. Arabnia
      General Chair, PDPTA'99
      The University of Georgia
      Department of Computer Science
      415 Graduate Studies Research Center
      Athens, Georgia 30602-7404, USA
      Tel: (706) 542-3480
      Fax: (706) 542-2966
      email: [email-masked]

Authors who would like to submit papers to be considered for other technical
sessions should mail their papers to Hamid R. Arabnia by March 1, 1999.