From Matt_Oberdorfer at engineeredintelligence.com Wed Feb 5 17:22:01 2003 From: Matt_Oberdorfer at engineeredintelligence.com (Matt Oberdorfer) Date: Tue Nov 9 01:14:20 2010 Subject: [Beowulf-announce] CFP: GRIDWARS - Battle Program Contest Message-ID: <000601c2cb43$9c54dd90$8001a8c0@FILOUX> CALL FOR PARTICIPATION: GRIDWARS - Battle Program Contest GRIDWARS, a parallel programming challenge where competing battle programs written in a parallel programming language fight for survival of the fittest in a grid of processors. GRIDWARS was created to amplify interest and enthusiasm in parallel programming and cluster computing. The participating battle programs are written in the parallel programming language CxC ("C by C"), which was designed to simplify the modeling and simulation of a large number of interdependent elements, their parallel dynamics and interactions. GRIDWARS is a so-called CELLULAR AUTOMATA. Hewlett-Packard is sponsoring the GRIDWARS parallel programming challenge with prizes and systems. In GRIDWARS participating developers submit CxC battle programs that will fight against each other for control of parallel processors. The GRID WARS Championship takes place in February on an HP Intel? Itanium? 2 cluster computing system running Linux. The battle programs are developed under Windows. The HP-sponsored prizes include an iPAQ Pocket PC, photosmart digital camera, and all-in-one printer. The deadline for submissions is the February 14th. http://www.gridwars.com GRIDWARS was created by Engineered Intelligence Corporation to amplify interest and enthusiasm in parallel programming using CxC. The basis for Grid Wars is a two-dimensional grid of fully functional virtual parallel processors. Each processor is connected to its eight surrounding neighbors and all processors run concurrently. In the beginning, competitors' battle programs (written in the parallel programming language CxC) are each placed on one randomly-selected processor in the grid. Based on simple rules for winning "battles" for control of the processors, each battle program can spread across the grid onto an increasing number of processors. Each occupied processor runs the battle program in parallel. Every time a competing program takes over a new processor, its power increases. When encountering an enemy, battle programs fight against each other to finally take over the opponent's processor. The program that conquers all processors in the grid is the winner of the round. From ciaccio at disi.unige.it Wed Feb 5 17:31:36 2003 From: ciaccio at disi.unige.it (Giuseppe Ciaccio) Date: Tue Nov 9 01:14:20 2010 Subject: [Beowulf-announce] Call for Papers: workshop PCMAA Message-ID: The CfP below might be of interest for people in this mailing list. With apologies for multiple copies... Regards Giuseppe Giuseppe Ciaccio http://www.disi.unige.it/person/CiaccioG/ DISI - Universita' di Genova via Dodecaneso 35 16146 Genova, Italy phone +39 10 353 6638 fax +39 010 3536699 ciaccio@disi.unige.it ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call For Papers Performance in Clusters: Measurement, Analysis and Achievements (PCMAA) PCMAA is a session organized on the 7th World Multi Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics And Informatics (SCI 2003). July 27 - 30, 2003. Orlando, Florida, USA Sheraton World http://www.iiisci.org/sci2003/ PCMAA focuses on performance measurement, analysis and achievements in cluster computing. All kind of clusters, commodity/beowulf, high performance and large Internet/Grid oriented clusters, are of interest. Each cluster category matches some application requirement and need particular investigation about how to achieve the best performance. Among factors that can influence cluster performance there are broadband networ ks, network protocols, message passing systems, fitting algorithms, parallel and distributed programming techniques, parallel I/O techniques, management tools, performance measurement tools and many others. We would like to encourage participation of both researchers and practitioners working on these problems. Topics of interest are: * Impact of networks and network protocols on cluster performance * High-performance I/O design for cluster computing * Impact of cluster management tools on cluster performance * Performance instrumentation on clusters * Application benchmark tests on clusters A panel will end this session, talking about efficient cluster design, programming and management. PCMAA is organized by: Amelia De Vivo Dipartimento di Informatica e Applicazioni "R. Capocelli" Universita' di Salerno Via S. Allende 84081 Baronissi (SA) Italy tel: +39-089-965416 fax: +39-089-965272 amedev@unisa.it Stephane Vialle Ecole Superieure d'Electricite' (Supelec) 2 rue Edouard Belin 57070 Metz France tel: +33-3-87-76-47-20 fax: +33-3-87-76-47-00 Stephane.Vialle@supelec.fr Contributions, which should not exceed six single-spaced typed pages, can be sent via e- mail to the following addresses: amedev@unisa.it Stephane.Vialle@supelec.fr DEADLINES : March 15, 2003: Submission of papers April 1, 2003: Acceptance Notification April 7, 2003: Final version of papers All information about paper format, conference fee, hotel, proceedings, etc. can be found on the official SCI site, http://www.iiisci.org/sci2003/. Please note that the only audiovisual equipment provided for presentation will be an overhead projector and a screen. Video projection or any other equipment, if needed, will have to be supplied by the presenter. For any question, do not hesitate to contact us. From becker at scyld.com Wed Feb 12 14:03:01 2003 From: becker at scyld.com (Donald Becker) Date: Tue Nov 9 01:14:20 2010 Subject: [Beowulf-announce] ClusterWorld Conference and Expo (CWCE), and Call for Papers Message-ID: Final Call for Papers and Presentations Submission deadline is February 24, 2003 The Linux Clusters Institute's Fourth International Conference on Linux Clusters: the HPC Revolution 2003 has merged with ClusterWorld Conference and Expo ClusterWorld Conference and Expo June 24 - 26, 2003 June 23, 2003 Tutorials San Jose Convention Center San Jose, CA, USA http://www.linuxclustersinstitute.org/Linux-HPC-Revolution/ From ciaccio at disi.unige.it Thu Feb 27 07:32:38 2003 From: ciaccio at disi.unige.it (Giuseppe Ciaccio) Date: Tue Nov 9 01:14:20 2010 Subject: [Beowulf-announce] Call for Papers: workshop HSLN, at LCN 2003 (Bonn, Germany) Message-ID: The CfP below might be of interest for people in the list. Sorry for possible duplicates... Feel free to circulate this CfP among interested people. Giuseppe Ciaccio http://www.disi.unige.it/person/CiaccioG/ DISI - Universita' di Genova via Dodecaneso 35 16146 Genova, Italy phone +39 10 353 6638 fax +39 010 3536699 ciaccio@disi.unige.it ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on High-Speed Local Networks (HSLN) as part of the IEEE LCN conference http://www.hcs.ufl.edu/hsln http://www.ieeelcn.org October 21, 2003 Bonn/Konigswinter, Germany Important dates and contact: ---------------------------- Paper submission: May 23, 2003 Notification of acceptance: June 27, 2003 Camera-ready copy due: July 25, 2003 Workshop Chairs: Bernd Heinrichs (bheinric@cisco.com) Alan D. George (george@hcs.ufl.edu) General Information: -------------------- The High-Speed Local Networks (HSLN) workshop, within the 28th IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks (LCN), focuses on the design, analysis, implementation, and exploitation of new concepts, techno- logies, and applications related to high-performance networks on a local scale. This workshop will bring together networking researchers, engineers, and practitioners from across the spectrum of high-speed local networks, with participants from industry, academia, and government. Original papers that present research results, case studies, technology development or deployment experience, work in progress, etc. are solicited, as are survey articles. Specific areas of interest include (but are not limited to): - High-speed LANs (e.g. Gigabit Ethernet, 10 Gigabit Ethernet) - System-area networks (e.g. SCI, Myrinet, ServerNet) - Storage-area networks (e.g. Fibre Channel) and I/O interconnects - High-speed networks in embedded systems (e.g. avionics, space systems) - Protocols, services, and topologies for high-speed local networks - Routing and switch architectures for high-speed local networks - Quality of Service (QoS) in high-speed local networks - Performance analysis of high-speed local networks and systems - Modeling and simulation of high-speed local networks - Middleware for high-speed local network communication - Applications for high-speed local networks (e.g. video on demand) Paper Submission Instructions: ------------------------------ Authors are invited to submit papers of up to ten camera-ready pages, in PDF or Postscript format, for presentation at the workshop and publication in the conference proceedings. Papers should be submitted by email to the workshop at hsln@hcs.ufl.edu on or before May 23, 2003. Workshop Committee: ------------------- Workshop Chair: Bernd Heinrichs Cisco Systems bheinric@cisco.com Workshop Co-Chair: A.D. George ECE Department University of Florida george@hcs.ufl.edu Program Chair: K.J. Christensen CSE Department University of South Florida christen@csee.usf.edu Program Committee: ------------------ Jay Bragg (awbragg@yahoo.com) MCNC, USA Torsten Braun (braun@iam.unibe.ch) University of Bern, Switzerland Ron Brightwell (bright@cs.sandia.gov) Sandia National Labs, USA Helen Chen (hycsw@california.sandia.gov) Sandia National Labs, USA Giuseppe Ciaccio (ciaccio@disi.unige.it) Universita' di Genova, Italy Cynthia S. Hood (hood@iit.edu) Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Anestis Karasaridis (karasaridis@att.com) AT&T Labs, USA Jack Meier (jlmeier@rockwellcollins.com) Rockwell Collins, USA Sarp Oral (oral@hcs.ufl.edu) University of Florida, USA D. K. Panda (panda@cis.ohio-state.edu) Ohio State University, USA Bettina Schnor (schnor@cs.uni-potsdam.de) Universitaet Potsdam, Germany Norm Strole (ncstrole@us.ibm.com) IBM/RTP, USA Rollins Turner (rturner@paradyne.com) Paradyne Corporation, USA William White (wwhite@siue.edu) Southern Illinois University, USA Gil Utard (utard@laria.u-picardie.fr) INRIA, LIP cole Normale Suprieure de Lyon, France Larry Xue (xue@asu.edu) Arizona State University, USA ---