From: canpc99@cse.psu.edu ( canpc99)
Newsgroups: comp.parallel
Subject: CANPC'99 CFP
Date: 3 Sep 1998 20:01:02 GMT
Organization: Penn State University
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                            Call For Papers

      Workshop on Communication, Architecture, and Applications for
                  Network-based Parallel Computing
                              CANPC '99
                   to be held in conjunction with  
  Fifth International Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture 
                              (HPCA-5)
                Orlando, Florida, January 9-12, 1999 

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THEME:

Clusters of workstations/PCs connected by off-the-shelf networks have
become popular as a platform for cost-effective parallel computing.
Hardware and software technological advances have made this network-based
parallel computing platform feasible. A large number of research groups 
from academia and industry are working to enhance the capabilities of 
such a platform, thereby improving its cost-effectiveness and usability.
These developments are facilitating the migration of many existing 
applications as well as the development of new applications on this platform.
Continuing in the tradition of the two previously successful CANPC workshops,
this workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners working in 
architecture, system software, applications and performance evaluation to 
discuss state-of-the-art solutions for network-based parallel computing 
systems.

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

Within the domain of network-based parallel computing, topics of interest 
include, but are not limited to: architectural support for fast communication 
and synchronization; implementation of efficient messaging layers;
collective communication; global and shared memory environments; network and 
network interface design; scheduling and global resource management; I/O and 
file systems support; programming environments and compiler/runtime support;
scientific and non-scientific (such as databases, multimedia) application 
development; interplay between application and underlying system; performance 
evaluation and benchmarking; checkpointing, process migration and 
fault-tolerance. Results of both theoretical and practical significance 
will be considered.

PROCEEDINGS:
A formal proceedings will be published as one issue of Springer-Verlag's 
``Lecture Notes in Computer Science'' (LNCS) series soon after the workshop.  
An informal proceedings will be handed out at the workshop.

PAPER SUBMISSIONS:

We are planning a purely electronic submission and review process.
Authors are requested to submit extended abstracts not exceeding 10
postscript pages, including abstract, five key words, contact address,
figures, and references.  E-mail your manuscripts to: canpc99@cse.psu.edu.

Note: the postscript file must be viewable using the ``ghostview'' tool.
It is also important, when creating your postscript 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:

Paper submission:                 October 2nd 
Notification of acceptance:       November 9th 
Workshop version due:             November 23rd 
Camera-ready version due:         February 1st 
 
WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS:
Anand Sivasubramaniam (Penn State)
Mario Lauria (UC San Diego)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Henri Bal, Vrije University
Alok Choudhary, Northwestern
Ann Chervenak, Georgia Tech
Robert Clay, Sandia
Jose Duato, Univ. Politecnica de Valencia
Sandhya Dwarkadas, Rochester
Tom Fahringer, Univ. of Vienna
Babak Falsafi, Purdue
Liviu Iftode, Rutgers
Vijay Karamcheti, NYU
Leonidas Kontothanasis, DEC CRL
Ken Mackenzie, Georgia Tech
Evangelos Markatos, FORTH and Univ. of Crete
Ashwini Nanda, IBM TJ Watson
Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State
Philip Papadopoulos, ORNL
Joel Saltz, Maryland
Klaus E. Schauser, UC Santa Barbara
Craig Stunkel, IBM TJ Watson

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

On the World Wide Web, see http://www.cse.psu.edu/~canpc99 for the latest 
information about this workshop.  Alternatively, you can send e-mail to 
canpc99@cse.psu.edu.

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