CAC 2010 - CAC2010 10th Workshop on Communication Architecture for Clusters

The Workshop on Communication Architecture for Clusters

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To be held in Conjunction with the
International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2010)
Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 19, 2010

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Theme
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Many of the world's largest and fastest computer systems are workstation
or server clusters. Numerous research groups in academia, industry, and
government are currently engaged in cluster research, seeking new ways
to advance the state of the art of cluster communication. The goal of
the CAC workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners
working in the areas of communication hardware and software to discuss
their latest findings as well as future trends in the design of
scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective communication
architectures for clusters.


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

* low-level communication protocols (e.g., VAPI, Tports, GM, and IP)
and higher-level communication layers (e.g., MPI, sockets, put/get,
and distributed shared memory)

* communication and architectural issues related to router/switch
organization, flow control, congestion control, routing and deadlock
handling, load balancing, reliability, QoS support, topology
discovery, dynamic reconfiguration, and clustered storage and
fileservers

* novel network-interface and switch architectures for supporting
efficient point-to-point and collective communication

* performance measurements, analysis, and early-user experience
reports of pre-release and recently released network interfaces,
network protocols/emerging standards, and routers/switches

Results of both theoretical and practical significance will be
considered. Note, however, that papers on topics that are too far
removed from cluster communication (e.g., mobile networks, intrusion
detection, peer-to-peer networks) will be rejected without review.


Proceedings
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The proceedings of this workshop will be published together with the
proceedings of other IPDPS 2010 workshops by the IEEE Computer Society
Press.


Paper Submissions
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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.

CAC manuscript submissions are being handled by EDAS. To submit a
paper, go to https://edas.info/N8343 and follow the instructions.


Important Dates
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Paper submission: 7 December 2009 [EXTENDED to 14 DECEMBER 2009]
Author notification: 22 January 2010
Camera-ready due: 1 February 2010
Workshop date: 19 April 2010

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


Additional Information
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For more information on CAC 2010 or if you have any questions please
e-mail the workshop organizers at the following address:

cac2010 at gap.upv.es

A single-page PDF version of this CFP is available from the CAC 2010 Web
site:

http://www.ccs3.lanl.gov/cac2010/


Workshop Organization
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Co-chairs

* Scott Pakin (LANL)
* Craig Stunkel (IBM)
* Jos?Flich (UPV)