[TCPP-announce] Cfp-CAC'04 (deadline extended to Nov. 10)-Workshop on Communication Architecture for Clusters (held with IPDPS'04)

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Call For Papers

Workshop on Communication Architecture for Clusters (CAC '04)

To be held in Conjunction with
Int'l Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS '04)

Santa Fe, New Mexico Eldorado Hotel, April 26-30, 2004

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Due to multiple requests, the paper submission deadline has been
extended to Nov. 10, 2003. The perspective authors are requested
to submit an abstract, title, and author information by Nov. 7, 2003.
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THEME:

The availability of commodity PCs/workstations and high-speed networks
(Local Area Networks and System Area Networks) at low prices enabled the
development of low-cost clusters. These clusters are being targeted for
support of traditional high-end computing applications as well as
emerging applications, especially those requiring high-performance
servers. Designing high-performance and scalable clusters for these
emerging applications requires design and development of
high-performance communication and I/O subsystems, low-overhead
programming environment support and support for Quality of Service
(QoS). New standards such as InfiniBand Architecture (IBA) and PCI
Express AS, and availability of high-speed networking products (Myrinet,
Quadrics, IBA 4X, and 10GigEthernet) are providing exciting ways to
design high-performance communication and I/O architectures for clusters.

A large number of research groups from academia, industry, and research
labs are currently engaged in the above research directions. The goal of
this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working
in the areas of communication, I/O, and architecture to discuss
state-of-the-art solutions as well as future trends for designing
scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective communication and I/O
architectures for clusters.

The first three workshops in this series (CAC '01, CAC '02, and CAC
'03) were held in conjunction with IPDPS conferences, and they were very
successful. The CAC '04 workshop plans to continue this tradition.

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

Topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to:

1. Router/switch, network, and network-interface architecture for
supporting efficient point-to-point communication, collective
communication, and I/O at intra-cluster and inter-cluster levels.

2. Design, development, and implementation of low-level communication
and I/O protocols (GM, TCP/IP, VAPI, SDP, DAPL, SRP, iSCSI, RDMA
over IP, etc) on different networking and interconnect technologies
(such as Myrinet, 10Gigabit Ethernet, InfiniBand, Quadrics, TCP
Offload Engine, etc.).

3. High-performance implementation of different programming layers
(Message Passing Interface (MPI), Distributed Shared Memory such
as TreadMarks, Get/Put, Global Arrays, sockets, etc.) and File
Systems (such as PVFS and DAFS).

4. Communication and architectural issues related to switch
organization, flow control, congestion control, routing and
deadlock-handling, load balancing, reliability, and QoS support.

5. Strategies, algorithms, and protocols for management of communication
resources, including topology discovery, hot update/replacement of
components, dynamic reconfigurations, etc.

6. Performance evaluation and tools for different application areas,
including interprocessor communication and I/O, etc.

Results of both theoretical and practical significance will be considered.

PROCEEDINGS:

The proceedings of this workshop will be published together with the
proceedings of other IPDPS '04 workshops by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

PAPER SUBMISSIONS:

We are planning a purely web submission and review process. Authors are
requested to submit papers (in PDF format) not exceeding 10
single-spaced pages, including abstract, five key words, contact
address, figures, and references. Detailed instructions on web
submissions will be available soon.

Note: the PDF file must be viewable using the ``acroread'' tool. It is
also important, when creating your PDF file, to use a page size of
8.5x11 inches (LETTER sized output not A4), since an A4 sized page may
be truncated on a LETTER sized printer.

SCHEDULE:

Abstract submission: October 30, 2003 (extended to Nov. 7, 2003)
Paper submission: November 3, 2003 (extended to Nov. 10, 2003)
Notification of acceptance: December 19, 2003
Camera-ready due: January 23, 2004

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS:

Dhabaleswar K. Panda (Ohio State),
Jose Duato (Tech. Univ. of Valencia, Spain), and
Craig Stunkel (IBM TJ Watson Research Center)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Bulent Abali (IBM TJ Watson)
Mohammad Banikazemi (IBM TJ Watson)
Angelos Bilas (Univ. of Toronto, Canada)
Alan Benner (IBM)
Ron Brightwell (Sandia National Lab)
Darius Buntinas (Argonne National Lab)
Toni Cortes (UPC, Spain)
Wu-Chun Feng (Los Alamos National Lab)
Jose Flich (Tech. Univ. of Valencia, Spain)
Mitchell Gusat (IBM, Zurich)
Mark Heinrich (Cornell Univ.)
Manolis G.H. Katevenis (FORTH and Univ. of Crete, Greece)
Nectarios G. Koziris (National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece)
Mario Lauria (Ohio State)
Olav Lysne (Univ. of Oslo, Norway)
Arthur (Barney) Mccabe (Univ. of New Mexico)
Pankaj Mehra (HP)
Shubu Mukherjee (Intel)
Jarek Nieplocha (Pacific Northwest National Lab)
Scott Pakin (Los Alamos National Lab)
Fabrizio Petrini (Los Alamos National Lab)
Greg Pfister (IBM)
Timothy Pinkston (Univ. of Southern California)
Wolfgang Rehm (Tech. Univ. of Chemnitz, Germany)
Antonio Robles (UPV, Spain)
Tom Rokicki (Instantis)
Reza Rooholamini (Dell)
Evan Speight (Cornell)
Thomas M. Stricker (ETH, Zurich)
Peter Varman (Rice Univ. and NSF)
Pete Wyckoff (Ohio Supercomputer Center)
Mazin Yousif (Intel)

PUBLICITY COORDINATORS:

Darius Buntinas (Argonne National Lab)
Nectarios G. Koziris (National Technical Univ. of Athens, Greece)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

On the World Wide Web, see http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~cac for the
latest information about this workshop. Alternatively, you can send
e-mail to c...@cis.ohio-state.edu.