Papers Sought for CAC '04

released September 23, 2003

A Workshop on Communication Architecture for Clusters (CAC '04) will be held in conjunction with the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS '04) in Santa Fe, New Mexico, April 26-30, 2004.

The goal of CAC '04 is to bring together researchers and practitioners in the areas of communication, I/O, and architecture to discuss state-of-the-art solutions as well as future trends for designing scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective communication and I/O architectures for clusters.

Papers are being solicited for CAC '04 on topics including:

• Router/switch, network, and network-interface architecture for supporting efficient point-to-point communication, collective communication, and I/O at intra-cluster and inter-cluster levels
• Design, development, and implementation of low-level communication and I/O protocols (GM, TCP/IP, VAPI, SDP, DAPL, SRP, iSCSI, RDMA over IP, etc.) on different networking and interconnect technologies (such as Myrinet, 10Gigabit Ethernet, InfiniBand, Quadrics, TCP Offload Engine, etc.)
• High-performance implementation of different programming layers (Message Passing Interface (MPI), Distributed Shared Memory such as TreadMarks, Get/Put, Global Arrays, sockets, etc.) and File Systems (such as PVFS and DAFS)
• Communication and architectural issues related to switch organization, flow control, congestion control, routing and deadlock-handling, load balancing, reliability, and QoS support
• Strategies, algorithms, and protocols for management of communication resources, including topology discovery, hot update/replacement of components, dynamic reconfigurations, etc.
• Performance evaluation and tools for different application areas, including interprocessor communication and I/O, etc.

Results of both theoretical and practical significance will be considered.

Papers should be submitted in PDF format and should not exceed 10 single-spaced pages, including abstract. The title and abstract of the paper should be submitted by Oct. 30, and the full paper must be received by Nov. 3. Further details of the online submission process will be available soon. See http://www.cis.ohio-state.edu/~cac/ for more information, or send email messages to cac@cis.ohio-state.edu.

 

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