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DAILY NEWS AND INFORMATION
FOR THE GLOBAL GRID COMMUNITY / SEPTEMBER 29, 2003: VOL. 2 NO. 39
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General:
4th International Symposium On
Cluster Computing And The Grid
In the 20 years from 1970 to 1990, the Internet and the UNIX operating
systems
became ubiquitous in computer science laboratories and universities. During
the 10 years from 1990 to 2000, the Internet emerged as a global information
utility, commodity microprocessors fueled the establishment of clusters as
computing platforms and open source Linux became a mainstream operating
system. Metacomputers, the concept of combining networked resources into
distributed virtual computers, grew into the concept of The Grid with the
vision that those distributed resources would be as straightforward to build
and use as the ubiquitous electrical power grid.
Today, we are seeing a convergence of extremes: terascale computers created
from Open Source Linux commodity clusters, multi-gigabit/second wide area
networks, and the Open Grid Services Architecture, combining Web services
designed to scale to millions of endpoints with High Performance Grid concepts
designed to scale to TeraFlop endpoints. Together, they are facilitating a new
wave of computer science research and development.
CCGrid2004, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society (final approval
pending),
is designed to bring together international leaders who are pioneering
researchers, developers, and users of extreme clusters, networks, and Grid
architectures and applications. The symposium will also serve as a forum to
present the latest work, and highlight related activities from around the
world.
CCCGrid 2004 is scheduled for April 19-22, 2004, in Chicago. For more
information, see the Web site at www.mcs.anl.gov/ccgrid2004.
CCGrid2004 is interested in topics including, but not limited to:
- Hardware and software (based on PCs, Workstations, SMPs or
Supercomputers)
- Middleware for clusters and Grids
- Dynamic optical network architectures for Grid computing
- Parallel file systems, including wide area file systems, and Parallel
I/O
- Scheduling and load balancing
- Programming models, tools, and environments
- Performance evaluation and modeling
- Resource management and scheduling
- Computational, data, and information Grid architectures and systems
- Grid economies, service architectures, and resource exchange
architectures
- Grid-based problem solving environments
- Scientific, engineering, and commercial grid applications
- Portal computing/science portals
- Paper Submission
Authors are invited to submit papers of not more than eight pages of double
column text using single spaced 10 point size type on 8.5 x 11-inch pages, as
per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines, see www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm.
Authors should submit a PostScript (level 2) or PDF file that will print on a
PostScript printer. Paper submission instructions will be placed online at
www.mcs.anl.gov/ccgrid2004/.
It is expected that the proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer
Society Press.
Special Events -- Workshops
Those wishing to organize workshops, present tutorials on emerging topics or
participate in the industry track are invited to send the following
information to special-event-ccgrid2004@ggf.org:
- Event Type: Workshop / Tutorial / Industry Track
- Workshop Title:
- Workshop Chairs:
- Short Description of the Field:
- Scope:
- Prospective Reviewers/Program Committee:
- Plans for publicising the workshop:
Chairs & Committees
Conference General Chairs:
- Charlie Catlett (Argonne National Lab and Global Grid Forum)
- Pete Beckman (Argonne National Lab)
Honorary Chair:
- Ian Foster (Argonne National Lab and University of Chicago)
Program Committee Chair:
- Pete Beckman (Argonne National Lab)
Program Committee Vice-Chairs:
- David Abramson (Monash University, Australia)
- Sameer Shende (University of Oregon)
Important Dates
- Nov. 10 -- Papers Due
- Dec. 1 -- Workshop/Tutorial/Exhibit Proposals Due
- Dec.20 -- Notification of Paper Acceptance
- Jan. 19, 2004 -- Camera Ready Papers Due
CCGrid 2004 Program Committee Members
- David Abramson (Monash University, Australia)
- Greg Astfalk (Hewlett-Packard)
- Ruth Aydt (NCSA)
- Henri Bal (Vrije University, The Netherlands)
- Pete Beckman (ANL)
- Taisuke Boku (University of Tsukuba, Japan)
- Ron Brightwell (Sandia National Laboratory)
- Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia)
- Charlie Catlett (ANL)
- Giovanni Chiola (Universit di Genova, Italy)
- Susan Coghlan (ANL)
- Steve Crumb (GGF)
- Andreas Dilger (Cluster File Systems, Canada)
- Ian Foster (ANL & University of Chicago)
- Dennis Gannon (Indiana University)
- Andrew S. Grimshaw (University of Virginia)
- Jon "maddog" Hall (Linux International)
- Tony Hey (EPSRC, Great Britain)
- Marty Humphrey (University of Virginia)
- Satoshi Itoh (AIST, Japan)
- William Johnston (NASA/LBL)
- Thilo Kielmann (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
- Barbara Kucera (University of Kentucky)
- Domenico Laforenza (ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy)
- Craig A. Lee (The Aerospace Corp)
- Timothy Mattson (Intel Co)
- Satoshi Matsuoka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan)
- Andre Merzky (ZIB, Germany)
- Bernd Mohr (FZJ, Germany)
- Bill Nitzberg (Veridian Co)
- Joerg Nolte (Fraunhofer FIRST, Germany)
- Philip Papadopoulos (SDSC)
- Rob Pennington (NCSA)
- Ira Pramanick (Sun Microsystems)
- Thierry Priol (IRISA, Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu, France)
- Alexander Reinefeld (Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany)
- Paul Roe (Queensland University of Tech., Australia)
- Joel Saltz (Ohio State University)
- Jenny Schopf (ANL)
- Sameer Shende (University of Oregon)
- Derek Simmel (PSC)
- Osamu Tatebe (AIST, Japan)
- Kenjiro Taura (University of Tokyo, Japan)
- Putchong Uthayopas (Kasetsart University, Thailand)
- Richard M. Wolski (UCSB)
CCGrid Steering Committee:
- Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth, UK
- Henri Bal, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam,The Netherlands
- Rajkumar Buyya (coordinator/chair), University of Melbourne, Australia
- Franck Capello, University of Paris-Sud, Paris, France
- Charlie Catlett, Argonne National Laboratory and Global Grid Forum
- Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee (UTK) and ORNL, Knoxville, Tenn.
- Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago
- Wolfgang Gentzsch, Sun Microsystems, Palo Alto, Calif.
- Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
- Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles
- Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, Lyon, France
- Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
- Alexander Reinefeld, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum, Berlin, Germany
- Satoshi Sekiguchi, AIST, Tsukuba, Japan
- David Walker, University of Wales Cardiff, UK
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