CCGrid 2001: cfp (March 31, early bird deadline)!

Rajkumar Buyya rajkumar at csse.monash.edu.au
Sun Mar 25 04:01:37 PST 2001


Dear Friends,

Please find enclosed advance program and call for participation for the: 
 CCGrid 2001: First ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing & the Grid
to be held in Brisbane, Australia (15-18 May 2001). 

The program consists of
   - 6 Keynote Speakers (leading international experts in cluster and grid computing)
   - 2 Invited Talks
   - 1 Panel session
   - 4 Industry/State-of-the-art talks 
   - 82 technical papers
   - 7 workshops
   - 3 tutorials (open to all and FREE i.e., no extra fee)

The conference also hosts poster and research exhibition sessions and the submissions 
for such poster papers is still open. 

We are expecting a large attendance. Please plan to participate and register early 
to take advantage of low registration fee.

*** The deadline for early registration (highly discounted fee) is: 31 March, 2001. *** 

We are looking forward to welcome and see you in Brisbane!

Thank you very much.

Sincerely Yours,

CCGrid 2001 Team
http://www.ccgrid.org
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 First ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing & the Grid
                         (CCGrid 2001)

           http://www.ccgrid.org | www.ccgrid2001.qut.edu.au

      15-18 May 2001, Rydges Hotel, South Bank, Brisbane, Australia

                   
                    CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
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             *** Early bird registration 31 March ***


Keynotes
********

  * The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations
    Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, USA

  * Making Parallel Processing on Clusters Efficient, Transparent and Easy for Programmers
    Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia

  * Programming High Performance Applications in Grid Environments
    Domenico Laforenza, CNUCE-Institute of the Italian National Research Council, Italy

  * Global Internet Content Delivery
    Bruce Maggs, Carnegie Mellon University and Akamai Technologies, Inc., USA.

  * Grid RPC meets Data Grid: Network Enabled Services for Data Farming on the Grid
    Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan

  * The Promise of InfiniBand for Cluster Computing
    Greg Pfister, IBM Server Technology & Architecture, Austin, USA

Invited Plenary Talks
*********************

  * The World Wide Computer: Prospects for Parallel and Distributed Computing on the Web
    Gul A. Agha, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA

  * Terraforming Cyberspace
    Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, University of West Florida, USA

Industry Plenary Talks
**********************

  * High Performance Computing at Intel: The OSCAR software solution stack for cluster computing
    Tim Mattson, Intel Corporation, USA

  * MPI/FT: Architecture and Taxonomies for Fault-Tolerant, Massage-Passing Middleware for
    Performance-Portable Parallel Computing
    Tony Skjellum, MPI Software Technology, Inc., USA

  * Effective Internet Grid Computing for Industrial Users    
    Ming Xu, Platform Corporation, Canada

  * Sun Grid Engine: Towards Creating a Compute Power Grid
    Wolfgang Gentzsch, Sun Microsystems, USA

FREE Tutorials  
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  * The Globus Toolkit for Grid Computing
    Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

  * An Introduction to OpenMP
    Tim Mattson, Intel Corporation, USA

  * Three Tools to Help with Cluster and Grid Computing: ATLAS, PAPI, and NetSolve
    University of Tennessee and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA

Panel
*****

  * The Grid: Moving it to Prime Time
    Moderator: David Abramson, Monash University, Australia.

Symposium Mainstream Sessions
*****************************
(Features 45 papers selected out of 126 submissions by peer review)

  * Component and Agent Approaches
  * Distributed Shared Memory
  * Grid Computing
  * Input/Output and Databases
  * Message Passing and Communication
  * Performance Evaluation
  * Scheduling and Load balancing
  * Tools for Management, Monitoring and Debugging

Workshops
*********
(Features 37 peer-reviewed papers selected by workshop organisers)

  * Agent based Cluster and Grid Computing
  * Cluster Computing Education
  * Distributed Shared Memory on Clusters
  * Global Computing on Personal Devices
  * Internet QoS for Global Computing
  * Object & Component Technologies for Cluster Computing
  * Scheduling and Load Balancing on Clusters

Important Dates
***************

  * Early bird registration            31 March
    (register online, check out web site)
  * Tutorials & workshops              15 May
  * Symposium main stream & workshops  16-18 May

Call for Poster/Research Exhibits:
**********************************

Those interested in exhibiting poster papers, please contact Poster Chair
Hai Jin (hjin at hust.edu.cn) or browse conference website for details.

Sponsors
********

  * IEEE Computer Society (www.computer.org)
  * IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing (www.ieeetfcc.org)
  * Association for Computing Machinery  (ACM) and SIGARCH (www.acm.org)
  * IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP)
  * Queensland Uni. of Technology (QUT), Australia (www.qut.edu.au)
  * Platform Computing, Canada (www.platform.com)
  * Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC) (www.apac.edu.au)
  * Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM, USA) (www.siam.org)
  * MPI Software Technology Inc., USA (www.mpi-softtech.com)
  * International Business Machines (IBM) (www.ibm.com)
  * Akamai Technologies, Inc., USA (www.akamai.com)
  * Sun Microsystems, USA (www.sun.com)
  * Intel Corporation, USA (www.intel.com)

Further Information
*******************

Please browse the symposium web site:
  http://www.ccgrid.org | www.ccgrid2001.qut.edu.au

For specific clarifications, please contact one of the following:
 Conference Chairs: R. Buyya (rajkumar at buyya.com) or G. Mohay (mohay at fit.qut.edu.au)
 PC Chair: Paul Roe (ccgrid2001 at qut.edu.au)
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