CASS 2011 - The 1st Workshop on Communication Architecture for Scalable Systems

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Category CASS 2011

Deadline: December 20, 2010 | Date: May 16, 2011

Venue/Country: Anchorage, U.S.A

Updated: 2010-10-07 11:16:28 (GMT+9)

Call For Papers - CFP

Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 16 May 2011

http://www.ccs3.lanl.gov/cass2011/

To be held in conjunction with the International Parallel and

Distributed Symposium (IPDPS 2011). CASS represents the evolution of

the successful series of CAC workshops held over the past ten years.

| A special issue of Elsevier’s Journal of Parallel and |

| Distributed Processing (JPDC) will be linked with the |

| workshop. Accepted papers will be invited for an |

| extended version. |

THEME

High-speed communication is critical to all parts of an HPC

system. On-chip networks for emerging many-core processors;

point-to-point interconnects, which have replaced the system bus for

intra-node communication; and system-wide networks, which form the

backbone of any large-scale parallel system, all contribute to the

construction of the world’s fastest computers. Numerous research

groups in academia, industry, and government are currently

investigating the issues involved in improving the speed, reliability,

power consumption, and other characteristics of communication

subsystems and seeking new ways to advance the state of the art in

cluster communication.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on

improving communication at every level of the network hierarchy

(on-chip, intra-node, and cross-cluster), thereby enabling the sharing

and adaptation of ideas from what have traditionally been separate

communities.

All researchers and practitioners working in the area of communication

architectures for scalable systems are encouraged to submit a paper to

the workshop.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

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

following:

* Hardware and software issues related to router/switch

organization, flow control, collective communication, congestion

control, routing and deadlock handling, network topology, load

balancing, reliability, QoS support, topology discovery, dynamic

reconfiguration, energy efficiency, and clustered storage and

fileserver. Research at any level of the network hierarchy

(on-chip, intra-node, and cross-cluster) is welcome.

* Architectural and run-time system support for messaging, PGAS,

shared memory, and other programming models.

* Design and implementation of standard or custom software

communication layers for any or all parts of the network

hierarchy.

Papers covering more than one of on-chip, intra-node, and cluster-wide

communication networks are especially sought. Results of both

theoretical and practical significance will be considered. Note,

however, that papers on topics that are too far removed from scalable

communication in HPC systems (e.g., mobile networks, intrusion

detection, peer-to-peer networks, Grid/cloud computing) will be

rejected without review.

PROCEEDINGS

The proceedings of this workshop will be published together with the

proceedings of other IPDPS 2011 workshops by the IEEE Computer Society

Press.

Authors of accepted papers at the CASS workshop will be invited to

submit an extended version of their paper to contribute to a special

issue of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing journal

(JPDC, impact factor 1.135). The contribution in that case should add

significant novelty with respect to the paper published in CASS.

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.

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

paper, go to https://edas.info/N9575 and follow the instructions.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: 20 December 2010

Notification of acceptance: 25 January 2011

Camera-ready papers due: 1 February 2011

Workshop date: 16 May 2011

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

(cf. http://wirelessman.org/aoe.html), except the camera-ready due

date, which IPDPS sets as midnight PST (GMT?08:00).

WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION

Co-chairs

* José Flich (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)

* Scott Pakin (Los Alamos National Lab, USA)

* Craig Stunkel (IBM Research, USA)

Publicity Chair:

* Gaspar Mora (Intel, USA)

Program Committee:

* Dennis Abts (Google, USA)

* Ahmad Afsahi (Queen’s University, Canada)

* Gheorghe Almasi (IBM Research, USA)

* Pavan Balaji (Argonne National Lab, USA)

* Davide Bertozzi (University of Ferrara, Italy)

* Taisuke Boku (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

* Darius Buntinas (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)

* Marcello Coppola (ST Microelectronics, France)

* Natalie Enright (University of Toronto, Ca-nada)

* Holger Froning (Heildeberg University, Germany)

* Ada Gavrilovska (Georgia Tech, USA)

* Torsten Hoefler (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, USA)

* John Kim (KAIST, Korea)

* Jesper Larsson (University of Vienna, Austria)

* Raymond Namyst (University of Bordeaux & INRIA, France)

* José Luis Sánchez (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

* Federico Silla (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)

* Tor Skeie (Simula Research Lab, Norway)

* Gregory Thorson (SGI, USA)

* Keith Underwood (Intel, USA)

* Eitan Zahavi (Mellanox Technologies, Israel)

Steering Committee:

* D. K. Panda (Ohio State University, USA)

* José Duato (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

For more information on CASS 2011 or if you have any questions please

contact the workshop organizers at cass2011gap.upv.es.