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%% Call for papers %%
%% PC-NOW 2000 %%
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Third International Workshop on Personal Computers based
Networks Of Workstations
(in conjunction with IPDPS 2000)
Cancun, Mexico
May 5, 1999
Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Cluster Computing
URL http://www.dgs.monash.edu.au/~rajkumar/tfcc/ (Australia) or
http://www.dcs.port.ac.uk/~mab/tfcc (UK)
Clusters composed of fast personal computers are becoming more and more
attractive as cheap and efficient platforms for distributed and parallel
applications. One of the main drawbacks of a standard Cluster is the
poor performance of the standard inter-process communication mechanisms.
Such standard communication mechanisms perform poorly for several
interesting applications.
Several prototypes and research projects have proved that optimizing
the implementation of the communication layer of a standard operating
system kernel, a low cost hardware platform composed of only commodity
components can scale up to many processing nodes and deliver performance
exceeding the one delivered by the conventional high-cost parallel
platforms.
Despite the importance of this break-through, that allows the use of
inexpensive hardware platforms for efficient support of large/medium
grain parallel computation in a Cluster environment, few papers
describing their design and implementation still appear in the
literature. Multiprogramming and co-scheduling of communicating
processes so that "real applications" can be efficiently parallelized
in Cluster environments are still open research issues as well.
This workshop provides a forum to discuss issues, results, and ideas
related to the design of efficient Clusters based on commodity
hardware and public domain operating systems as compared to custom
hardware devices and/or proprietary operating systems.
The program will consist of key-note speaches, and of contributed
presentations selected by the Program Committee.
SUBMISSIONS:
Authors are invited to send full papers in English, up to 20 pages
double-space, A4 format, including figures and references.
Only original contributions not previously published will be considered.
Simultaneous submission to other conferences or journals must be clearly
indicated in the submission letter.
Electronic submission of compressed PostScript(TM) files via e-mail is
the standard. A single MIME GZIPed attachment accompanied by a 100 word,
ASCII plain text summary should be sent to the following address:
chiola@disi.unige.it
PAPERS REVIEW:
Contributed papers will be thoroughly reviewed by at least 3 Anonymous
Referees appointed by the Program Committee in order to identify their
originality as well as their scientific and practical contribution
to the state of the art.
The identification of a high-quality scientific program is the primary
objective of the PC-NOW workshop. Special care will be devoted to
implement a fair and rigorous selection of submitted papers based on
technical merit, significance of contribution, practical applicability
of the results, and innovation. In particular, the reports produced
by the Anonymous Referees will be communicated to the Authors before
the Program Committee meeting. The Authors will have the opportunity
to send a short "answer" to the questions possibly raised by the
Anonymous Referees, and the Authors' replies will be taken into account
for the final acceptance/rejection decision.
PUBLICATION:
The proceedings will be published by the IPDPS 2000 organization
both in paper form as part of a Springer Verlag LNCS booklet and in
CD-ROM form. Extended versions of papers identified by the program
committee as particularly interesting, innovative, and well written,
will be recommended for inclusion in a special issue of an archival
journal in the field.
WWW Home Page:
http://www.disi.unige.it/person/ChiolaG/pcnow00/
WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS:
Giovanni Chiola Gianni Conte
DISI, University of Genoa CE, University of Parma
Italy Italy
Email: chiola@disi.unige.it Email: conte@ce.unipr.it
Luigi V. Mancini
DSI, University of Rome "La Sapienza"
Italy
Email: lv.mancini@dsi.uniroma1.it
TOPICS OF INTEREST:
including but not limited to:
- Experience with low-cost, high-performance NOW
- Low-cost communication hardware for personal computers
- Performance and benchmarks
- Porting of significant applications on low-cost NOW
- Efficient implementation of message passing libraries for NOW
- Parallel application environment for NOW
- Communication architectures
- Communication paradigms
- Standardization versus optimization
- Industrial relevance
IMPORTANT DATES
Deadline for abstract submission: October 1, 1999
Deadline for full paper submissions: October 15, 1999
First evaluation by anonymous Referees: November 15, 1999
Authors' reply to anonymous Referees: November 22, 1999
Notification of acceptance/rejection: December 13, 1999
Camera-ready version due: January 10, 2000
PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
- C. Anglano (DSTA, U. Piemonte Orientale, I)
- M. Baker (CSM, U. Portsmouth, UK)
- L. Bouge' (LIP, ENS Lyon, F)
- G. Chiola (chair) (DISI, U. Genoa, I)
- G. Ciaccio (DISI, U. Genoa, I)
- G. Conte (CE, U. Parma, I)
- H.G. Dietz (EE, U. of Kentucky, USA)
- W. Gentzsch (GENIAS Software GmbH, D)
- G. Iannello (DIS, U. Napoli, I)
- Y. Ishikawa (Par. Distr. Sys. Perf. Lab, RWCP, J)
- K. Li (CS, Princeton U., USA)
- L.V. Mancini (DSI, U. Roma 1, I)
- T.G. Mattson (Intel Corp., Par. Alg. Lab., USA)
- W. Rehm (Informatik, T.U. Chemnitz, D)
- P. Roe (Queensland U. of Tech., AUS)
- P. Rossi (ENEA-HPCN, Bologna, I)
- D.B. Skillicorn (CIS Dept., Queen's U. at Kingston, CAN)
- D. Tavangarian (Informatik, U. Rostock, D)
- B. Tourancheau (RHDAC, U. Claude Bernard, Lyon, F)
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