CAC 2010 - CAC2010 10th Workshop on Communication Architecture for Clusters

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Category CAC 2010

Deadline: December 14, 2009 | Date: April 19, 2010

Venue/Country: Atlanta, U.S.A

Updated: 2010-06-04 19:32:22 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

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To be held in Conjunction with the

International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2010)

Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 19, 2010

Theme

Many of the world's largest and fastest computer systems are workstation

or server clusters. Numerous research groups in academia, industry, and

government are currently engaged in cluster research, seeking new ways

to advance the state of the art of cluster communication. The goal of

the CAC workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners

working in the areas of communication hardware and software to discuss

their latest findings as well as future trends in the design of

scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective communication

architectures for clusters.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to the

following:

* low-level communication protocols (e.g., VAPI, Tports, GM, and IP)

and higher-level communication layers (e.g., MPI, sockets, put/get,

and distributed shared memory)

* communication and architectural issues related to router/switch

organization, flow control, congestion control, routing and deadlock

handling, load balancing, reliability, QoS support, topology

discovery, dynamic reconfiguration, and clustered storage and

fileservers

* novel network-interface and switch architectures for supporting

efficient point-to-point and collective communication

* performance measurements, analysis, and early-user experience

reports of pre-release and recently released network interfaces,

network protocols/emerging standards, and routers/switches

Results of both theoretical and practical significance will be

considered. Note, however, that papers on topics that are too far

removed from cluster communication (e.g., mobile networks, intrusion

detection, peer-to-peer networks) will be rejected without review.

Proceedings

The proceedings of this workshop will be published together with the

proceedings of other IPDPS 2010 workshops by the IEEE Computer Society

Press.

Paper Submissions

Submitted manuscripts may not exceed eight single-spaced pages using a

12-point font on 8.5x11-inch pages, everything included (figures,

tables, references, etc.). Manuscripts must be submitted electronically

and in either PostScript or PDF format. Submissions will be judged on

correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of

presentation, and interest and relevance to the workshop attendees.

Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for

another workshop, conference, or journal.

CAC manuscript submissions are being handled by EDAS. To submit a

paper, go to https://edas.info/N8343 and follow the instructions.

Important Dates

Paper submission: 7 December 2009 [EXTENDED to 14 DECEMBER 2009]

Author notification: 22 January 2010

Camera-ready due: 1 February 2010

Workshop date: 19 April 2010

All deadlines are set at 11:59 pm anywhere on Earth.

Additional Information

For more information on CAC 2010 or if you have any questions please

e-mail the workshop organizers at the following address:

cac2010 at gap.upv.es

A single-page PDF version of this CFP is available from the CAC 2010 Web

site:

http://www.ccs3.lanl.gov/cac2010/

Workshop Organization

Co-chairs

* Scott Pakin (LANL)

* Craig Stunkel (IBM)

* Jos?Flich (UPV)