From: csricky@cs.ust.hk (Ricky Y. K. Kwok) Newsgroups: comp.parallel Subject: CFP: PDPTA'99 Special Session on Scheduling and Load Balancing Date: 20 Mar 1999 06:44:56 GMT Organization: The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Approved: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu Message-Id: <7cvg58$eni$1@goldenapple.srv.cs.cmu.edu> Originator: bigrigg@ux6.sp.cs.cmu.edu Xref: ukc comp.parallel:15460 Upon requests, submission deadline has been extended to MARCH 22 (final!). My apologies if you have received multiple copies of this message. Thanks. ____________________________________________________________________ *** Deadline extended to March 22 *** Deadline extended to March 22 *** ###### ###### ###### ####### # ### ##### ##### # # # # # # # # # ### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ###### # # ###### # # # # ###### ###### # # # # # ####### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ###### # # # # ##### ##### C A L L F O R P A P E R S ============================= SPECIAL SESSION on ********************************************** * SCHEDULING AND LOAD BALANCING FOR CLUSTERS * ********************************************** "http://www.eee.hku.hk/~ykwok/pdpta99-clustersch.html" The 1999 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'99) June 28 - July 1, 1999 Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA A special session on SCHEDULING AND LOAD BALANCING FOR CLUSTERS is being organized at PDPTA'99, which will be held in Las Vegas, Nevada, June 28 - July 1, 1999. SESSION THEME: Clusters of workstations and/or PCs connected by a high-speed network are becoming a viable platform for running computation intensive parallel applications. In order to enable the execution of high-performance applications on such systems, proper task scheduling and load balancing algorithms are needed to partition, allocate, monitor, and migrate (if necessary) the application tasks on the cluster. Papers reporting novel techniques and/or new results on scheduling and load balancing for clusters are solicited to be presented in this special session. The purpose of the session is to provide a forum for researchers in the field to exchange ideas and research results related to resource management techniques in a cluster computing environment. SESSION SCOPE: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: * Scheduling/Load Balancing * Experimental Software Tools Algorithms for Scheduling/Load Balancing * Task Migration Approaches * Fault-tolerance * Scheduling Benchmarks * Novel Application Modeling Techniques * Compiler Support * Run-time Tasks Management Systems * Data Distribution Methods * Performance Considerations SUBMISSION OF PAPERS: To submit a paper to the special session, please do the following: (1) Prepare a manuscript in PostScript/PDF format of maximum 20 pages: 12-point double-spaced, single-column, US-Letter/A4 size, with title, authors, affiliations, e-mail addresses, and a 100-word abstract on the first page. (2) Send an ascii-text e-mail with the paper title and the corresponding author's name, mailing address, e-mail address, and telephone/fax numbers. (3) E-mail the above two to the following session chair. If electronic submission is not possible, please send 4 hardcopies of the manuscript to the following address. Yu-Kwong Kwok Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road Hong Kong, China Tel: +852-2859-8059 Fax: +852-2559-8738 Email: ykwok@eee.hku.hk WWW: http://www.eee.hku.hk/~ykwok (4) Important Dates: Submission Deadline: March 22, 1999 Paper Notification: April 15, 1999 Camera-Ready papers: May 1, 1999 Pre-Registration: May 1, 1999 PDPTA'99 Conference: June 28-July 1, 1999 (5) All submissions will be peer reviewed. Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. Pre-registration at the conference is a must for all accepted papers to be published in the proceedings. All accepted papers must be presented at PDPTA'99, Las Vegas, USA. (6) Authors who would like to submit papers for consideration in other technical sessions (or for consideration in more general sessions) should mail their draft papers to Hamid R. Arabnia at the following address: Hamid R. Arabnia 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: hra@cs.uga.edu PUBLICATION: The conference proceedings will be published by CSREA Press (ISBN). It will be a multivolume set. The proceedings will be available at the conference. All accepted papers will also be considered for journal publication (soon after the conference). ORGANIZERS/SPONSORS: A number of university faculty members and their staff in cooperation with the Monte Carlo Resort (Conference Division, Las Vegas ), will be organizing the conference. The conference is sponsored by the Computer Science Research, Education, and Applications Press (CSREA: USA Federal EIN # 58-2171953) in cooperation with the National Supercomputing Center for Energy and the Environment (Department of Energy, USA), The International Association for Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (IMACS), The International Technology Institute (ITI), The Java High Performance Computing research group (JHPC; www.jhpc.org), the Computer Vision Research and Applications Tech. (CVRA), developers of high-performance machines and systems (pending) and other related computer associations (pending.) LOCATION OF CONFERENCE: The conference will be held in the Monte Carlo Resort hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. This is a mega hotel with excellent conference facilities and over 3000 rooms. The hotel is minutes from the Las Vegas airport with free shuttles to and from the airport. This hotel has many vacation and recreational attractions, including: waterfalls, casino, spa, pools & kiddie pools, sunning decks, Easy River water ride, wave pool with cascades, lighted tennis courts, health spa (with workout equipment, whirlpool, sauna, ...), arcade virtual reality game rooms, nightly shows, snack bars, a number of restaurants, shopping area, bars, ... Many of these attractions are open 24 hours a day and most are suitable for families and children. The negotiated hotel's room rate for conference attendees is very reasonable ($79 + tax) per night (no extra charge for double occupancy) for the duration of the conference. The hotel is within walking distance from most other Las Vegas attractions (major shopping areas, recreational destinations, fine dining and night clubs, free street shows, ...). For the benefit of our international colleagues: the state of Nevada neighbors with the states of California, Oregon, Idaho, Utah, and Arizona. Las Vegas is only a few driving hours away from other major cities, including: Los Angeles, San Diego, Phoenix, Grand Canyon, ... EXHIBITION: An exhibition is planned for the duration of the conference. We have reserved 20+ exhibit spaces. Interested parties should contact H. R. Arabnia (address is given below). All exhibitors will be considered to be the co-sponsors of the conference. Each exhibitor will have the opportunity to include a two-page description of their latest products in the conference proceedings (if submitted by May 1, 1999). SESSION CHAIRS/ORGANIZERS: Address: Yu-Kwong Kwok Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering The University of Hong Kong Pokfulam Road Hong Kong, China E-mail: ykwok@eee.hku.hk Tel. : +852-2859-8059 Fax : +852-2559-8738 URL : http://www.eee.hku.hk/~ykwok Address: Ishfaq Ahmad Department of Computer Science The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology Clear Water Bay, Kowloon Hong Kong, China E-mail: iahmad@cs.ust.hk Tel. : +852-2358-6980 Fax : +852-2358-1477 URL : http://www.cs.ust.hk/faculty/iahmad/bio.html MEMBERS OF PROGRAM & ORGANIZING COMMITTEES: The Program Committee is currently being formed. Those interested in joining the Program Committee should email H. R. Arabnia (hra@cs.uga.edu) the following information: Name, affiliation and position, complete mailing address, email address, tel/fax numbers, a short biography together with research interests. CONFERENCE CONTACT: Hamid R. Arabnia 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: hra@cs.uga.edu (A link for pdpta99 will soon be created at http://www.jhpc.org/pdpta, http://www.cps.udayton.edu/~pan/pdpta, and http://fukuda.aist-nara.ac.jp/pdpta99.) -- Articles to bigrigg+parallel@cs.cmu.edu (Admin: bigrigg@cs.cmu.edu) Archive: http://www.hensa.ac.uk/parallel/internet/usenet/comp.parallel