Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 01:45:57 -0700 To: beowulf@beowulf.gsfc.nasa.gov, extreme-linux@acl.lanl.gov, From: Pete Beckman <beckman@acl.lanl.gov> Subject: LESS THAN A MONTH LEFT! Call For Papers: Extreme Linux Tell you friends, get those papers submitted! Plan now to attend the festivities. Let's make this event even more exciting and more fun than last year. Extreme Linux Workshop/Conference #3 Last year, at the Extreme Linux Workshop #2 (www.extremelinux.org/activities/usenix99), which was held as a special workshop track at the annual USENIX conference, we had to turn away attendees when we reached our room capacity. This year we are expanding from being a workshop to being a full track at the newly expanded Linux Showcase & Conference. We hope to provide a forum for the publication of rigourous research aimed at enabling more powerful, more useable, more scalable, more Extreme Linux clusters. We will also continue to have talks about current clustering activities and about research areas ripe for further investigation. Of course, conversations in the halls and over meals will still be an essential component of the meeting. Venue EL2000 will be held in conjunction with the 4th Annual Linux Showcase & Conference on October 12-14, 2000 in Atlanta, GA (www.linuxshowcase.org). In addition to the Extreme Linux track there will be two other refereed tracks: Hack Linux and Use Linux. There will also be vendor exhibits, tutorials, birds of feather sessions, and work in progress sessions. Attendees of the Extreme Linux workshop will be full attendees of the conference and able to attend any sessions they want. Call for Papers Critical dates: The date for submission of papers will be April 17, 2000. Authors will be informed of acceptance or rejection by June 16, 2000 and will be expected to complete editorial revisions by July 23, 2000 and prepare camera ready copy by Aug. 24, 2000. Scope: Papers describing original work in all areas of large-scale Linux cluster computing are sought. While the attendees may be expected to be interested in clustering of all types, the Extreme Linux series is devoted to clusters using Linux which are intended to scale to 100s or 1000s of processors. Comparisons with other systems are of interest but papers should directly address issues of Linux and scale. Topics include, but are not limited to: Applications experiences: real codes run on real clusters, issues in performance, programmability, scaling, etc. Architectures: ways to build and organize large clusters Benchmarking: micro and macro, specific uses of and advances in the construction thereof Heterogeneity: processors, boards, networks, generations, etc. File Systems: distributed, parallel, huge, etc. Languages and Programming models: advances in MPI, PVM, UPC, Co-array Fortran, distributed shared memory, etc. Network connectivity: experience with gigabit NICs, VIA, switches, etc. Resource allocation and scheduling: batch systems, task migration, description of required resources Scaling: numbers of nodes, users, types of applications, etc. System administration: quantification of costs, strategies for reduced cost and increased flexibility, etc. As at all USENIX conferences, papers that analyze problem areas, draw important conclusions from practical experience, and make freely available the techniques and tools developed in the course of the work are especially welcome. Provisions to archive codes used in presentations such as benchmarks, modules, kernel patches at the extreme linux site can be made at the request of the authors. Guide to submission of extended abstracts for Extreme Linux Track at ALS 2000: All submissions for the Extreme Linux track of ALS 2000 will be electronic, in PostScript or PDF. A web form will be available here in February 2000. Authors will be notified of receipt of submission via e-mail. If you do not receive notification, contact: extremelinuxchairs@usenix.org. Extended abstracts, up to 10 pages in length, are preferred, but full papers can also be submitted. Papers should be 8 to 12 single-spaced 8.5 x 11 inch pages (about 4000-6000 words), not counting figures and references. Papers longer than 14 pages will not be reviewed. It is imperative that you follow the instructions for submitting a quality paper. A good paper will clearly demonstrate that the authors: * are attacking a significant problem, * are familiar with the literature, * have devised an original or clever solution, * if appropriate, have implemented the solution and characterized its performance using reasonable experimental techniques, and * have drawn appropriate conclusions from their work. In order to facilitate the submission of current work the Extreme Linux Track will use the "shepherded paper" model. The program committee will notify authors of the acceptance or rejection of their paper by June 16, 2000. A program committee member will help the authors to produce a second version of the paper which may include updated results by July 23, 2000. Final, camera ready, versions will need to be submitted by August 24, 2000 in order to be including in the printed proceedings. Note: the ALS Extreme Linux Track, like most conferences and journals, requires that papers not be submitted simultaneously to more than one conference or publication, and that submitted papers not be previously or subsequently published elsewhere. Papers submitted to this conference that are under review elsewhere will not be reviewed. Papers accompanied by non-disclosure agreement forms can not be accepted, and will not be reviewed. All submissions are held in the highest confidentiality prior to publication in the Proceedings, both as a matter of policy and in accord with the U.S. Copyright Act of 1976. If you would like to use a predefined template when formatting your submission, please look at these samples: StarWriter 5.0, Troff, LaTeX and style file, Framemaker. Conference Organizers: Executive Committee: Pete Beckman, Los Alamos National Laboratory, co-chair David Greenberg, Center for Computing Sciences, co-chair Jon "Maddog" Hall, Linux International Bill Nitzberg, NASA Program Committee in addition to the Executive Committee: David Bader, University of New Mexico Don Becker, Scyld Computing Corporation and USRA-CESDIS Peter J. Braam, Stelias Computing Inc & Carnegie Mellon University Remy Evard, Argonne National Laboratories David Halstead, Ames Laboratory Yutaka Ishikawa, RWCP Walter Ligon, Clemson University Greg Lindahl, HPTi Bill Saphir, LBL/NERSC Matt Welsh, Berkeley Rajkumar Buyya, Monash University --- ======================================================================== | Peter H. Beckman | Advanced Computing Laboratory | | Los Alamos National Laboratory | Phone: 505-665-0800 | | CIC/ACL MS-B287 | Fax: 505-665-4939 | | Los Alamos, NM 87545 | email: beckman@acl.lanl.gov | ========================================================================