From: matiquzz@engr.udayton.edu (Mohammed Atiquzzaman)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: CFP: Parallel Computing on Clusters of Workstations
Date: 21 Aug 1998 18:46:44 GMT
Organization: The University of Dayton School of Engineering
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                     Call for Papers

            Special issue of Parallel Computing

        Parallel Computing on Clusters of Workstations


There has been an increasing interest in the use of clusters of work-
stations connected together by high speed networks for solving large
computation-intensive problems. The trend is mainly driven by the
cost-effectiveness of such systems as compared to large multipro-
cessor systems with tightly-coupled processors and memories. Par-
allel computing on a cluster of workstations connected together by
high speed networks has given rise to a range of hardware and net-
work related issues on any given platform.  This special issue is
planned to bring together the present state of the art in hardware
and network requirements for running parallel applications in a net-
work of workstations connected together by high speed networks,
as well as to explore future directions of research and development.
Topics include (but are not limited to):


    o Network architectures and topologies to connect a network
      of workstations for parallel computing.
    o Network requirements to support parallel applications.
    o Traffic management and quality of service support from the
      network.
    o Characterization of communication and synchronization traffic.
    o Protocols and network capabilities for carrying out high speed
      parallel computing.
    o System Design: Resource constraints and performance analysis
      and tuning.
    o Case Studies - success as well as failure stories.

Papers should report innovative ideas and practical results in real-
life applications; they should include evaluations through analy-
sis, simulation and experiments possibly on different parallel plat-
forms. Please submit electronically a postscript copy of your full
paper to one of the guest editors by August 31, 1998. Hard copies
should be sent only if electronic submission is not possible 
(six copies of the hardcopy should be mailed).


Mohammed Atiquzzaman                 Pradip K. Srimani
Dept. of Elect. & Computer Eng.      Department of Computer Science
University of Dayton                 Colorado State University
Dayton, Ohio 45469-0226              Ft. Collins, CO 80523
Voice: 937 229 3183                  Tel: (970) 491-7097
Fax: 937 229 4529                    Fax: (970) 491-2466
Email: atiq@engr.udayton.edu         Email: srimani@CS.ColoState.Edu

Instructions for submitting papers: Papers should not exceed 30
double spaced pages. Papers should not have been previously pub-
lished, nor currently submitted elsewhere for publication. Papers
should include a title page containing title, authors' names and af-
filiations, postal and email addresses, telephone numbers and Fax
numbers. Papers should include a 300-word abstract and 5-10 key-
words and be written in general in Parallel Computing style. [Note:
If you are willing to referee papers for this special issue,
please send a note with research interest to Professor 
Atiquzzaman or Professor Srimani.]

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