Date:   Sat, 25 Sep 1999 16:30:30 +1000
From:   Rajkumar Buyya <rajkumar@dgs.monash.edu.au>
Subject: CFP: Asia-Pacific Symposium on Cluster Computing (APSCC'2000)
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                              Call for Papers

          Asia-Pacific Symposium on Cluster Computing (APSCC'2000)

            URL: http://ceng.usc.edu/~hjin/apscc2000/index.html

      URL: http://www.dgs.monash.edu.au/~rajkumar/apscc2000/index.html

                            In conjunction with

             The Fourth International Conference/Exhibition on
      High Performance Computing in Asia-Pacific Region (HPCAsia2000)

                              May 14-17, 2000
                              Beijing, China


      Incorporation with IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC)



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In recent years, the availability of powerful
microprocessors and high-speed networks as commodity
components is making networks of computers an appealing vehicle for
cost-effective high performance and high availability computing. Cluster
computing has become a hot topic research among academic and industry
community including  system designers, network developers, language
designers, standardising forums, algorithm developers, graduate students
and faculties. The use of clusters as computing platform is not just
limited to scientific and engineering applications; there are many business
applications that can benefit from the use of clusters.

Scope

APSCC'2000 is an international meeting that brings together international
cluster computing researchers, developers, and users; and also serve as a
forum to present the latest work by them as well as highlight activities in
this area around Asia Pacific rim. The topics of interest include, but are
not limited to,

   * Cluster Hardware Topology and Configurations (based on PCs,
     Workstations, or SMPs)
   * Cluster Interconnects and  Network Interfaces
   * Light Weight Communication Protocols
   * Operating System Enhancements for Multicomputers
   * Single System Image
   * Cluster Middleware
   * High Availability Computing Issues
   * File Systems and Parallel I/O
   * Data Distribution and Load Balancing
   * Job and Resource Management Systems
   * Programming Paradigms/Environments for Clusters
   * Message Passing Systems such as MPI and PVM for Clusters
   * Problem Solving Environments for Clusters
   * Data Structures Algorithms for Solving Problems
   * Software Engineering
   * System Management and Administration
   * Java for High Performance Computing
   * Scientific, Engineering, and Commercial Applications
   * Clusters of Clusters (Wide-area Computing/Grid-Computing)
   * Performance Evaluation
   * Novel Hardware and Software Architectures for Computing in the next
     Millennium

Paper Submission

The paper should not exceed 15 single-spaced pages of text using 12 point
size type on 8.5 x 11 inch pages. Electronic submissions by email are
encouraged. Authors should submit a PostScript (level 2) file that will
print on a PostScript printer using 8.5 x 11 inch size (letter size) paper.
To facilitate processing, each submission should also enclose the following
information in ASCII format: paper title, author name, abstract, up to five
keywords, as well as the contacting information of the responsible author
(postal address, e-mail address, phone/fax numbers). The results presented
in the paper must be original. Submission implies the willingness of at
least one of the authors to register and present the paper. Hard copies
should be sent only if electronic submission is not possible. Please send
full paper for consideration to this symposium to Co-Chair: Hai Jin
<hjin@ceng.usc.edu> by email, and copy the email to Chair: Rajkumar Buyya
<rajkumar@ieee.org>.

Proceedings

All papers selected as per reviewers recommendations for this symposium
will appear in the HPCAsia2000 conference proceedings, published through
IEEE Computer Society Press, USA.

Symposium Organizers and Co-Chairs:

Chair:   Rajkumar Buyya
Co-Chair, IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing
School of Computing Science and Software Engineering
Monash University
Room No. 130, Bld No. 63, Clayton Campus
Melbourne, Vic. 3168, Australia
Phone: +61-3-9905 1502
Fax: +61-3-9905 3574
Email: rajkumar@dgs.monash.edu.au / rajkumar@ieee.org

Co-Chair:  Hai Jin
Internet and Cluster Computing Lab.
Department of EE-System, EEB-104
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, California, 90089, USA
Tel: 213-740-6433
Email: hjin@ceng.usc.edu

Program Committee:

   * Hamid Arabnia (University of Georgia, USA)     
   * Mark Baker (Portsmouth University, UK)     
   * Rajkumar Buyya (Monash University, Australia)      
   * Toni Cortes (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain)       
   * Khaled Day (Sultan Qaboos University, Oman)    
   * Sourav Dutta (Jadavpur University, India)     
   * Dror Feitelson (The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel)      
   * Markus Fischer (University of Mannheim, Germany)      
   * Kai Hwang (University of Southern California, USA)       
   * Yutaka Ishikawa (Real World Computing Partnership, Japan)      
   * Hai Jin  (University of Southern California, USA)      
   * Chung-Ta King  (National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan)        
   * Nikolay V. Kuchin (Russian Academy of Sciences, Russia)       
   * Paul Lu (University of Alberta, Canada)    
   * Peter Luksch (TU Munich, Germany)     
   * Teo Yong Meng (National University of Singapore, Singapore)       
   * Mohamed Othman (University Putra Malaysia, Malaysia)       
   * Sung-Soon Park (Anyang University, Korea)      
   * Lalit M. Patnaik (Indian Institute of Science, India)      
   * Ira Pramanick (Sun Microsystems, USA)    
   * Radharamanan Radhakrishnan (University of Cincinnati, USA)    
   * C. P. Ravikumar (Indian Institute of Technology, India)     
   * Wolfgang Rehm (TU Chemnitz, Germany)       
   * H.S.Shahhoseini (Iran University of Science & Technology, Iran)       
   * Zhimin Tang (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China)       
   * Andrei Tchernykh (CICESE Research Center, Mexico)      
   * Bernard Tourancheau (Universite Claude Bernard de Lyon, France)     
   * Cho-Li Wang (The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong)      
   * Philip A. Wilsey (University of Cincinnati, USA) 
   * Xiaodong Zhang (The College of William and Mary, USA)
   * Weimin Zheng  (Tsinghua University, China)
   * Albert Zomaya  (University of Western Australia)


Important Dates:

 Contributed Papers Due:                 October 25, 1999
 Notification of Acceptance:             December 20, 1999
 Camera Ready Papers Due:                January 24, 2000
 Advanced Registration:                  March 6, 2000
 HPCAsia2000 Conference:                 May 14-17, 2000

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