Special Track on Distributed Systems and Grid Computing
Aim:
A special track on Distributed Systems and Grid Computing (DSGC) will be held at
SAC2006 in Dijon, France. The proposed track aims to be a forum for scientists,
engineers and practitioners, in academia, industry and research institutes to share
technical ideas, experiences and results, and to present their latest findings in any
aspects of distributed systems and Grid computing. The Track will emphasize the
design, architecture, algorithms, middleware, software, and applications of parallel
computing, distributed systems, and Grid computing.
Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate current research
in all areas of distributed systems and Grid computing. The track solicits novel papers
on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to:
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Software environments, middleware, compilers, and programming language
support for distributed systems and Grid computing
Parallel and distributed architectures
Parallel and distributed algorithms
Optimizing compilers for high-performance computing
High performance Java
Load sharing and balancing
Task mapping and job scheduling
Resource allocation and management
Architecture and operating system support for parallel systems
Supercomputing applications
Scalable servers
Application studies using distributed systems and Grid computing
Clusters
Data Grids
Peer to Peer (desktop PC Grids)
High performance I/O and file systems
Security, reliability, configuration, policy, and management issues in Grids
Performance analysis, modeling, simulation, and prediction
Design or use of commercial Grid systems
The call for papers will be sent to several groups in the domain of high performance
computing and Grid computing, from hardware and software architects, researchers to
application developers. There will be a post in major newsgroups and lists such as
ACM SIGARCH and IEEE TCPP. To ensure high quality of the accepted papers,
each paper will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. Authors will be notified about
the review results and authors of accepted papers will be expected to prepare the final
camera-ready manuscript, incorporating the comments from the reviewers. The track
organizers will review the final camera-ready manuscripts to make sure that the
authors complied with the suggestions of the reviewers.
Important dates:
Paper Due:
Author Notification:
Camera-Ready Paper Due:
September 6, 2005
October 18, 2005
November 8, 2005
Track Organizers:
Robert van Engelen
Associate Professor
Department of Computer Science
Florida State University
Tallahassee, FL 32306
engelen@cs.fsu.edu
http://www.cs.fsu.edu/~engelen
Madhusudhan Govindaraju
Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Science
Binghamton University
Binghamton, NY 13902
mgovinda@cs.binghamton.edu
http://www.cs.binghamton.edu/Faculty/mgovinda.html
Nectarios Koziris
Assistant Professor
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
National Technical University of Athens
Zographou, 15773
Athens, GREECE
nkoziris@cslab.ece.ntua.gr
http://www.cslab.ece.ntua.gr/~nkoziris
Kleanthis Psarris
Professor and Chair
Department of Computer Science
The University of Texas at San Antonio
San Antonio, TX 78249
psarris@cs.utsa.edu
http://www.cs.utsa.edu/~psarris
Short Vitae:
Robert van Engelen received his M.Sc. degree in Computer Science and
Mathematics from Utrecht University, the Netherlands, in 1994. He received his
Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from Leiden University, the Netherlands, in 1998.
He is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the
Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. He joined the Computer Science
Department in 1998. His research interests include Restructuring Compilers, Parallel
and Distributed Computing, Grid and Cluster Computing, Problem-Solving
Environments for Scientific Computing, and Probabilistic Networks. He received a
DOE Early Career grant award and four National Science Foundation grants and has
over 45 refereed publications in conference proceedings and journals such as IEEE
Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence, Real-Time Systems
Journal, and IEEE Journal of Computational Science and Engineering. He has served
as track co-chair for the SAC 2003, SAC 2004, and SAC 3005 conferences and as the
registration chair for the ACM International Conference on Supercomputing 2003. He
has served on NSF grant proposal review panels and has served as a reviewer for
several international conferences and journals. He is an a member of IEEE Computer
Society, member of ACM, and member of IMACS.
Madhusudhan Govindaraju received his Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) in
Computer Science from Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, India, in 1996. He
completed his M.S. in Computer Science from Indiana University in 1998 and
received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from Indiana University in 2002. He worked
as a Postdoctoral Fellow in Indiana University for a year, before joining Binghamton
University as an Assistant Professor in 2003. His research interests include Grid
Computing, Distributed Object Systems, High Performance RMI, Web Services,
Component Based Technologies, and Problem Solving Environments. He has
published over 15 papers in various journals and conferences including Journal of
Computing and Informatics, Special Issue of Journal of Scientific Computing, Special
Issue of Journal of Cluster Computing, IEEE/ACM International Symposium on
Cluster Computing and the Grid, Supercomputing Conference and International
Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC). He was the
Program Vice-Chair of HPDC-2002 and a Program Committee member of HPDC2003. He is currently a Program Committee member for 5th IEEE/ACM International
Workshop on Grid Computing.
Nectarios Koziris received his Diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National
Technical University of Athens and his Ph.D. in Computer Engineering from NTUA
(1997). He joined the Computer Science Division, Department of Electrical and
Computer Engineering at the National Technical University of Athens in 1998, where
he currently serves as an Assistant Professor. His research interests include Parallel
Processing, Parallel Architectures (OS and Compiler Support), Distributed Systems,
Communication Architectures for Network and Cluster Computing, and Computer
Architecture. He has published more than 50 research papers in international refereed
journals, and in the proceedings of international conferences and workshops. He has
also published two Greek textbooks "Mapping Algorithms into Parallel Processing
Architectures", and "Computer Architecture and Operating Systems". Nectarios
Koziris is a recipient of the IEEE-IPDPS01 best paper award for the paper
"Minimising Completion Time for Loop Tiling with Computation and
Communication Overlapping". He serves as a reviewer in several International
Parallel Processing Journals and Conferences. He conducted research in several EU
and national Research Programmes. He served as a Program Committee member in
ΗiPC-2002 and CAC03 (with IPDPS03) conferences. He was Track co-Chair for the
ACM Symposium on Applied Computing in 2003. He is a member of IEEE
Computer Society, member of TCPP (Technical Committee on Parallel ProcessingIEEE CS), and ACM, and organized the Greek IEEE Chapter Computer Society.
Kleanthis Psarris received his B.S. degree in Mathematics from the National
University of Athens, Greece in 1984. He received his M.S. degree in Computer
Science in 1987, his M.Eng. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1989 and his Ph.D.
degree in Computer Science in 1991, all from Stevens Institute of Technology. He is
currently a Professor and Chair of the Department of Computer Science at The
University of Texas at San Antonio. His research interests are in the areas of Parallel
and Distributed Systems, Compilers and Programming Languages. His research has
been published in journals such as the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed
Systems, Parallel Computing, and the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing.
His research has also been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Air
Force Office of Scientific Research. He is an Associate Editor of the Parallel
Computing journal. He has served on the Program Committees of several
international conferences including the ACM International Conference on
Supercomputing in 1995 and 2000 and he served as a Track Chair of the ACM
Symposium on Applied Computing in 2003, 2004 and 2005. He is a member of ACM
and a Senior Member of IEEE.