Below this are a number of CFPs associated with the IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing
(Cluster 2009) conference, to be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, 31 August - 4 September 2009.
Specifically, included below are the CFPs for:
Papers for the conference itself.
Posters for the conference
Papers for Workshop on Interfaces and Architectures for Scientific Data Storage (IASDS09)
Papers for Workshop: The impact and influence of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Services and Applications
Papers for Workshop on High Performance Interconnects for Distributed Computing (HPI-DC’09)
Papers for Workshop: Parallel Programming on Accelerator Clusters
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Call for Papers
2009 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing
(Cluster 2009)
29 August - 4 September 2009
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
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Cluster 2009 welcomes paper and poster submissions on innovative work from
researchers in academia, industry, and government, describing original research
in the field of cluster computing. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:
- Cluster Architecture and Hardware Systems
- Node architectures
- Packaging, Power, and Cooling
- Cluster Software and Middleware
- Software Environments and Tools
- Single-System Image Services
- Parallel File Systems and I/O Libraries
- Standard Software for Clusters
- Virtualization
- Cluster Networking
- High-Speed Interconnects
- High Performance Message Passing Libraries
- Lightweight Communication Protocols
- Implications of Multicore and Clouds on Clusters
- Hardware Architecture
- Software and Tools
- Networking
- Management
- Applications
- Applications
- Application Methods and Algorithms
- Adaptation to Multicore
- Data Distribution, Load Balancing & Scaling
- MPI/OpenMP Hybrid Computing
- Visualization
- Performance Analysis and Evaluation
- Benchmarking & Profiling Tools
- Performance Prediction & Modeling
- Cluster Management
- Security and Reliability
- High Availability Solutions
- Resource and Job Management
For submitting and formatting instructions, see the conference
Important Dates:
Tutorial proposal deadline: 31 March 2009
Technical paper submissions: 14 April 2009
Tutorial notification: 31 May 2009
Technical paper notification: 5 June 2009
Poster submissions: 12 June 2009
Poster notification: 17 July 2009
Poster camera ready deadline: 31 July 2009
Paper camera ready deadline: 31 July 2009
Conference Organizing Chairs and Committees:
General Chair
Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago, USA
General Vice Chair
Mark Baker, University of Reading, UK
Program Chair
Thomas Sterling, Louisiana State University, USA
Program Vice Chairs
Pete Beckman, Argonne National Lab, USA
William Camp, Intel, USA
Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA
William Gropp, University of Illinois, USA
Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Bart Miller, Univ. of Wisconsin, USA
Poster Co-Chairs
Sushil Prasad, Georgia State University, USA
Eric Aubanel, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Workshops Chair
Wu Feng, Virginia Tech, USA
Tutorials Co-Chairs
Robert Ferraro, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
Bryan Biegel, NASA Ames, USA
Proceedings Chair
Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Publicity Co-Chairs
Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
Feilong Tang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
Tevfik Kosar, Louisiana State University, USA
Finance Chair
Box Leangsuksun, Louisiana Tech University, USA
Sponsor and Exhibitors Co-Chairs
George Jones, Data Direct Networks, USA
Charlie McMahon, Tulane University, USA
Ali Butt, Virginia Tech, USA
Local Arrangements Chair
Karen Jones, Louisiana State University, USA
PR/Graphics Chair
Kristen Sunde, Louisiana State University, USA
IEEE Cluster 2009 Call for Posters
Scope:
The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2009) will
be held in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA, from August 29 to September 4, 2009.
Authors are invited to present their on-going or recently finished work related to
cluster computing in the poster session of Cluster 2009. All accepted
poster papers will be included in the Cluster 2009 proceedings.
Topics include, but are not limited to the following;
- Novel Architectures
- multicore CPUs
- GPUs
- FPGA accelerators
- Cluster Software and Middleware
- System Tools for "Green" Computing
- Software Environments and Tools
- Single-System Image Services
- Parallel File Systems and I/O Libraries
- Standard Software for Clusters
- Cluster Networking
- High-Speed Interconnects
- High Performance Message Passing Libraries
- Lightweight Communication Protocols
- Applications
- Application Methods and Algorithms
- Adaptation to Multi-Core
- Data Distribution, Load Balancing & Scaling
- MPI/OpenMP Hybrid Computing
- Visualization
- Performance Analysis and Evaluation
- Benchmarking & Profiling Tools
- Performance Prediction & Modeling
- Cluster Management
- Virtualization Technology
- Security and Reliability
- High Availability Solutions
- Resource and Job Management
- Administration and Maintenance Tools
Submission, Format, Publication:
Consideration for a Cluster 2009 Poster will be based on the submission
of a paper (maximum 4 pages). It must follow the same format as the
technical papers (see the Call for Papers announcement).
Submissions must be made via the Poster Submission link at
All accepted poster papers will be included in the Cluster 2009 proceedings.
Important dates:
Submission: June 12 2009
Acceptance notification: July 17 2009
Contact address:
Please contact the Poster co-chairs for further information:
Workshop on Interfaces and Architectures for Scientific Data Storage (IASDS09)
Held in conjunction with IEEE Cluster 2009
Friday September 4, 2009
New Orleans, LA, USA
Call for Papers
High-performance computing simulations and large scientific experiments such
as those in high energy physics generate tens of terabytes of data, and these
data sizes grow each year. Existing systems for storing, managing, and
analyzing data are being pushed to their limits by these applications, and new
techniques are necessary to enable efficient data processing for future
simulations and experiments.
The purpose of this workshop is to provide a forum for engineers and
scientists to present and discuss their most recent work related to the
storage, management, and analysis of data for scientific workloads. Emphasis
is placed on forward-looking approaches to tackle the challenges of
storage at extreme scale or to provide better abstractions for use in
scientific workloads.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- parallel file systems
- scientific databases
- active storage
- scientific I/O middleware
- extreme scale storage
Registration fee for the workshop will be included as part of the Cluster 2009
conference registration fee.
Paper Submission:
Papers must be submitted via our EasyChair web site in PDF format:
Workshop papers will be peer-reviewed and will appear as part of the IEEE
Cluster 2009 proceedings. Submissions must follow the Cluster 2009 format:
Since the camera-ready version of accepted papers must be compliant with the
IEEE Xplore format for publication, submitted papers must conform to the
following Xplore layout, page limit, and font size. This will insure a size
consistency and a uniform layout for the reviewers. (With minimal changes,
accepted document can be styled for publication according to Xplore
requirements explained in the Xplore formatting guide, which is also in Xplore
format).
- Maximum 10 pages
- Single-spaced
- 8.5x11-inch, Two-column numbered pages in IEEE Xplore format
- Format instructions are available at:
- IEEE Paper LaTeX Template (ZIP file)
- IEEE Paper Word Template (ZIP file)
In the event of problems with paper submission, please contact Robert Ross
Important Dates
Paper Submission Deadline June 12, 2009 (firm deadline)
Author Notification July 10, 2009
Final Manuscript July 31, 2009
Workshop September 4, 2009
Program Committee
Robert Ross, Argonne National Laboratory
Jacek Becla, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory
Evan Felix, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Quincey Koziol, The HDF Group
Wei-Keng Liao, Northwestern University
Carlos Maltzahn, University of California Santa Cruz
Doron Rotem, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Lee Ward, Sandia National Laboratories
Kesheng Wu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Workshop: The impact and influence of Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Services and Applications
IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2009)
Friday 4th September 2009, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Call for papers
The number of Web 2.0 services and applications, widely used by Internet users,
academics, industry and enterprise, are growing rapidly, which demonstrates its
solid foundations. These technologies and services are based on the open standards
that underpin the Internet and Web, and are used in many forms, e.g. blogs, wikis,
mashups, social websites, podcasting and content tagging. This field is having a
significant impact on distributed infrastructure and applications, and on the way users
and developers interact. It is important to understand the influence of this theme
because Web 2.0 is providing endless opportunities in academia; the general public,
which in turn is driving the business agenda in enterprises and industry, is increasingly
using it. This workshop aims to deliver a greater understanding of the influence and
changes to be expected regarding e-Research infrastructure, applications and the way
users and developers interact.
Topics of Interest:
- Infrastructure and Services
- The use of Cloud-based services,
- Using RESTful services,
- The applications of mash-ups and using other Web 2.0 technologies,
- Web 2.0 security versus existing security,
- Using virtualisation technologies,
- Compare and contrast existing services with emerging Web 2.0 technologies,
- Combining the Semantic Web with Web 2.0.
- Applications
- Using data and services mash-ups,
- The development and use of gadgets with applications,
- Adapting applications to more usable and user friendly,
- Collaboration, joint development and the integration of social web sites,
- Using blogs, wikis and other Web 2.0 technologies with applications,
- Using Web 2.0 technologies with applications.
Paper submission:
Paper Format: Since the camera-ready version of accepted papers must be
compliant with the IEEE Xplore format for publication, submitted papers must
conform to the following Xplore layout, page limit, and font size. This will
insure a size consistency and a uniform layout for the reviewers. (With minimal
changes, accepted document can be styled for publication according to Xplore
requirements explained in the Xplore formatting guide, which is also in Xplore format).
- PDF files only.
- Maximum 10 pages
- Single-spaced
- 8.5x11-inch, Two-column numbered pages in IEEE Xplore format
- Format instructions are available at:
- IEEE Paper LaTeX Template (ZIP file)
- IEEE Paper Word Template (ZIP file)
Important Dates:
- Workshop paper submissions: 12 June 2009
- Workshop paper notification: 15 July 2009
- Workshop paper camera ready deadline: 31 July 2009
Workshop papers should be submitted via EasyChair
If you have any problems with paper submission,
please contact Mark DOT Baker AT Computer DOT Org.
Programme Committee:
- Mark Baker, University of Reading, UK
- Dave de Roure, University of Southampton, UK
- Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK
- Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago, USA
- Paul Watson, Newcastle University, UK
- Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
- Rob Allan, Daresbury Laboratory, UK
- Dirk Neumann, Albert-Ludwigs-Universitat Freiburg, Germany
- Richard Sinnott, University of Glasgow, UK
- Andy Turner, University of Leeds, UK
- Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria
- Jon Blower, University of Reading, UK
- Jeremy Frey, University of Southampton, UK
- Stuart Dunn, King College London, UK
- Claire Warwick, UCL Department of Information Studies, UK
Workshop on High Performance Interconnects for Distributed Computing (HPI-DC’09)
in conjunction with Cluster 2009
August 31, 2009
New Orleans, Louisiana
Call for Papers
The emergence of 10.0 GigE and above, InfiniBand and other high-performance
interconnection technologies, programmable NICs and networking platforms, and
protocols like DDP and RDMA over IP, make it possible to create tightly linked
systems across physical distances that exceed those of traditional single cluster or
server systems. These technologies can deliver communication capabilities that
achieve the performance levels needed by high end applications in enterprise
systems and like those produced by the high performance computing community.
Furthermore, the manycore nature of next generation platforms and the creation of
distributed cloud computing infrastructure will greatly increase the demand for high
performance communication capabilities over wide area distances.
The purpose of this workshop is to explore the confluence of distributed
computing and communications technologies with high performance interconnects,
as applicable or applied to realistic high end applications. The intent is to create a
venue that will act as a bridge between researchers developing tools and platforms
for high-performance distributed computing, end user applications seeking high
performance solutions, and technology providers aiming to improve interconnect and
networking technologies for future systems. The hope is to foster knowledge creation
and intellectual interchanges between HPC and Cloud computing end users and
technology developers, in the specific domain of high performance distributed
interconnects.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
- Hardware/software architectures for communication infrastructures for HPC
and Cloud Computing
- Data and control protocols for interactive and large data volume applications
- Novel devices and technologies to enhance interconnect properties
- Interconnect-level issues when extending high performance beyond single
machines, including architecture, protocols, services, QoS, and security
- Remote storage (like iSCSI), remote databases, and datacenters, etc.
- Development tools, programming environments and models (like PGAS,
OpenShmem, Hadoop, etc.), ranging from programming language support to
simulation environments.
IMPORTANT DATES
Paper submission: June 5th, 2009
Notification: July 10th, 2009
Final manuscript: July 29th, 2009
Workshop date: Aug. 31st, 2009
ORGANIZATION
General Chair: Steve Poole, Oak Ridge National Lab
Program Co-Chairs: Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Lab
Ada Gavrilovska, Georgia Institute of Technology
Workshop: Parallel Programming on Accelerator Clusters
Workshop held in conjunction with IEEE Cluster 2009
August 31, 2009, New Orleans
CALL FOR PAPERS
Accelerator-based parallel architectures, heterogeneous multi-core processors, FPGAs
and GPUs, are rapidly becoming mainstream components for cluster computing. While the
potential of accelerators for addressing problems such as memory latency and bandwidth
has long been recognized, accelerators present several challenges to programmers and
cluster systems designers. The PPAC workshop will bring together researchers from
academia and industry to discuss the latest developments in parallel programming
models, languages, tools, system software and application development for clusters based
on accelerators. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
- Programming models for accelerator-based clusters, including systems using GPUs,
heterogeneous multi-core processors and FPGAs.
- Compiler and runtime support for accelerator-based clusters, including support for
scheduling, communication and memory management.
- Operating systems and virtualization support for accelerator-based clusters.
- Performance evaluation of accelerator-based clusters, in particular with relation to
conventional homogeneous clusters.
- Performance analysis, profiling and debugging tools.
- Application studies on accelerator-based clusters.
- Power and energy-efficiency of accelerator-based clusters.
Submissions
Papers due: June 15, 2009
Author notification: July 15, 2009
Final papers due: July 31, 2009
Submitted manuscripts (8 pages max) should be formatted according to IEEE Cluster
proceedings guidelines. See workshop homepage for further details.
Organizers
Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Virginia Tech
Calvin Ribbens, Virginia Tech
Program Committee
Kevin Barker, Los Alamos National Lab
Filip Blagojevic, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
Mike Heroux, Sandia National Lab
Sven Karlsson, Technical Univ. Denmark
Jakub Kurzak, University of Tennesse
Jeffrey Vetter, Oak Ridge National Lab