CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION
4th International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2004) Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society (final approval pending ) 19-22 April, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Web site: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/ccgrid2004
SCOPE
In 20 years from 1970 to 1990 the Internet and the UNIX operating system 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.
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 8 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: http://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 on: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/ccgrid2004/.
It is expected that the proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA.
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.
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CHAIRS & COMMITTEES
Conference General Chairs Charlie Catlett (Argonne Nat'l Lab, USA and Global Grid Forum) Pete Beckman (Argonne Nat'l Lab, USA)
Honorary Chair Ian Foster (Argonne Nat'l Lab and University of Chicago, USA)
Program Committee Chair Pete Beckman (Argonne Nat'l Lab, USA)
Program Committee Vice-Chairs David Abramson (Monash University, Australia) Sameer Shende (Univ Oregon, USA)
IMPORTANT DATES
10 Nov 2003 Papers Due 1 Dec 2003 Workshop/Tutorial/Exhibit Proposals Due 20 Dec 2003 Notification of Paper Acceptance 19 Jan 2004 Camera Ready Papers Due
CCGRID 2004 PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS
* David Abramson, Monash University, Australia * Greg Astfalk, Hewlett-Packard, USA * Ruth Aydt, NCSA, USA * Henri Bal, Vrije University, The Netherlands * Taisuke Boku, University of Tsukuba, Japan * Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratory, USA * Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia * Charlie Catlett, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Giovanni Chiola, Universit di Genova, Italy * Susan Coghlan, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Steve Crumb, Global Grid Forum, USA * Andreas Dilger, Cluster File Systems, Canada * Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, USA * Andrew S. Grimshaw, University of Virginia, USA * Jon "Maddog" Hall, Linux International, USA * Tony Hey, EPSRC, Great Britain * Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia, USA * Satoshi Itoh, AIST, Japan * William Johnston, NASA/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA * Thilo Kielmann, Vrije University, The Netherlands * Barbara Kucera, University of Kentucky, USA * Domenico Laforenza, ISTI-CNR, Italy * Craig A. Lee, The Aerospace Corporation, USA * Timothy Mattson, Intel Corporation, USA * Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan * Andre Merzky, ZIB, Germany * Bill Nitzberg, Veridian, USA * Joerg Nolte, Fraunhofer FIRST, Germany * Philip Papadopoulos, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA * Rob Pennington, NCSA, USA * Ira Pramanick, Sun Microsystems, USA * Thierry Priol, IRISA, Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu, France * Alexander Reinefeld, Zuse Institute, Germany * Paul Roe, Queensland University of Technology, Australia * Joel Saltz, Ohio State University, USA * Jenny Schopf, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Sameer Shende, University of Oregon, USA * Derek Simmel, Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center, USA * Osamu Tatebe, AIST, Japan * Kenjiro Taura, University of Tokyo, Japan * Putchong Uthayopas, Kasetsart, University, Thailand * Richard M. Wolski, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
Tutorials Chair
* Steve Crumb, Global Grid Forum, USA
Publications Chair
* Stacey Bruno, Global Grid Forum, USA
Publicity Chair
* Clare Spartz, Global Grid Forum, USA
Finance Chair
* Tom Morgan, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Exhibits Chair
* Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation, USA
Registration Chair
* Ann Collins, Global Grid Forum, USA
Local Arrangements Chair
* Angel Murakami, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Steering Committee
* Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom * Henri Bal, Vrije University, The Netherlands * Rajkuma Buyya, University of Melbourn, Australia (Chair) * Franck Capello, University of Paris-Sud, France * Charlie Catlett, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee & Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA * Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Wolfgang Gentzsch, Sun Microsystems, USA * Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China * Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation, USA * Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France * Satoshi Matsuoaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan * Alexander Reinefeld, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum, Germany * Satoshi Sekiguchi, AIST, Japan * David Walker, University of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom -----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------