Due to many requests, we decided to
extend the submission
deadline to ** 2006-08-14 **
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CALL FOR PAPERS (XHPC'06)
Workshop on XEN in High-Performance
Cluster and Grid Computing
Environments as part of:
The Fourth International Symposium on
Parallel and Distributed
Processing and Applications (ISPA'2006).
Sorrento, Italy
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Date: 1-4 December 2006
ISPA'2006:
http://www.ispa-conference.org/2006/
Workshop URL:
http://xhpc.ai.wu-wien.ac.at/ws/
** NEW DUE DATE: August 14 **
Scope:
The Xen virtual machine monitor is
reaching wide-spread adoption
in a variety of operating systems as
well as scientific educational
and operational usage areas. With its
low overhead, Xen allows for
concurrently running large numbers of
virtual machines, providing
each encapsulation, isolation and network-wide
CPU migratability.
Xen offers a network-wide abstraction
layer of individual machine
resources to OS environments, thereby
opening whole new cluster-and
grid high-performance computing (HPC)
architectures and HPC services
options. With Xen finding applications
in HPC environments, this
workshop aims to bring together
researchers and practitioners active
on Xen in high-performance cluster and
grid computing environments.
The workshop will be one day in length,
composed of 20 min paper
presentations, each followed by 10 min
discussion sections.
Presentations may be accompanied with
interactive demonstrations.
The workshop will end with a 30 min
panel discussion by presenters.
TOPICS
Topics include, but are not limited to,
the following subject matters:
- Xen in cluster and grid
environments
- Workload
characterizations for Xen-based clusters
- Xen cluster and grid
architectures
- Cluster reliability,
fault-tolerance, and security
- Compute job entry and
scheduling
- Compute workload load
levelling
- Cluster and grid
filesystems for Xen
- Research and education
use cases
- VM cluster distribution
algorithms
- MPI, PVM on virtual
machines
- System sizing
- High-speed interconnects
in Xen
- Xen extensions and
utilities for cluster and grid computing
- Network architectures for
Xen clusters
- Xen on large SMP machines
- Measuring performance
- Performance tuning of Xen
domains
- Xen performance tuning on
various load types
- Xen cluster/grid tools
- Management of Xen
clusters
PAPER SUBMISSION
Papers submitted to each workshop will
be reviewed by at least three
members of the program committee and
external reviewers. Submissions
should include abstract, key words, the
e-mail address of the
corresponding author, and must not
exceed 15 pages, including tables
and figures, and preferably be in LaTeX
or FrameMaker, although
submissions in the LNCS Word format will
be accepted as well.
Electronic submission through the submission
website is strongly
encouraged. Hardcopies will be accepted
only if electronic submission
is not possible. Submission of a paper
should be regarded as a
commitment that, should the paper be
accepted, at least one of the
authors will register and attend the
conference to present the work.
An award for best student paper will be
given.
https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=4945&submit=0
Format should be according to the
Springer LNCS Style
http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html
It is expected that the proceedings of
the workshop programs will
be published by Springer's LNCS series
or IEEE CS.
IMPORTANT DATES
July 17, 2006 - Abstract submissions due
Paper submission due: August 14, 2006
Acceptance notification: September 1,
2006
Camera-ready due: September 20, 2006
Conference: December 1-4, 2006
CHAIR
Michael Alexander (chair), WU Vienna,
Austria
Geyong Min (co-chair), University of
Bradford, UK
Gudula Ruenger (co-chair), Chemnitz
University of Technology, Germany
PROGRAM COMMITTEE
Franck Cappello, INRIA, France
Stephen Childs, Trinity College, Ireland
Claudia Eckert, Fraunhofer-Institute,
Germany
Rob Gardner, HP Labs, USA
William Gardner, University of Guelph,
Canada
Marcus Hardt, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany
Sverre Jarp, CERN, Switzerland
Thomas Lange, University of Cologne,
Germany
Ronald Luijten, IBM Research Laboratory,
Zurich, Switzerland
Klaus Ita, WU Vienna, Austria
Franco Travostino, Nortel CTO Office,
USA
Andreas Unterkircher, CERN, Switzerland
GENERAL INFORMATION
This workshop will be held as part of
ISPA 2006 in Sorrento, Italy -
http://www.sorrentoinfo.com/sorrento/sorrento_italy.asp
Pre-conference trip to the ESA ESRIN
facility in Frascati on Nov. 30.
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