cass 2011 - The 1st Workshop on Communication Architecture for Scalable Systems

The 1st Workshop on Communication Architecture for Scalable Systems
Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 16 May 2011
http://www.ccs3.lanl.gov/cass2011/

To be held in conjunction with the International Parallel and
Distributed Symposium (IPDPS 2011). CASS represents the evolution of
the successful series of CAC workshops held over the past ten years.

| A special issue of Elsevier’s Journal of Parallel and |

| Distributed Processing (JPDC) will be linked with the |

| workshop. Accepted papers will be invited for an |

| extended version. |

THEME

High-speed communication is critical to all parts of an HPC
system. On-chip networks for emerging many-core processors;
point-to-point interconnects, which have replaced the system bus for
intra-node communication; and system-wide networks, which form the
backbone of any large-scale parallel system, all contribute to the
construction of the world’s fastest computers. Numerous research
groups in academia, industry, and government are currently
investigating the issues involved in improving the speed, reliability,
power consumption, and other characteristics of communication
subsystems and seeking new ways to advance the state of the art in
cluster communication.

The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers working on
improving communication at every level of the network hierarchy
(on-chip, intra-node, and cross-cluster), thereby enabling the sharing
and adaptation of ideas from what have traditionally been separate
communities.

All researchers and practitioners working in the area of communication
architectures for scalable systems are encouraged to submit a paper to
the workshop.

TOPICS OF INTEREST

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

* Hardware and software issues related to router/switch

organization, flow control, collective communication, congestion

control, routing and deadlock handling, network topology, load

balancing, reliability, QoS support, topology discovery, dynamic

reconfiguration, energy efficiency, and clustered storage and

fileserver. Research at any level of the network hierarchy

(on-chip, intra-node, and cross-cluster) is welcome.

* Architectural and run-time system support for messaging, PGAS,

shared memory, and other programming models.

* Design and implementation of standard or custom software

communication layers for any or all parts of the network

hierarchy.

Papers covering more than one of on-chip, intra-node, and cluster-wide
communication networks are especially sought. Results of both
theoretical and practical significance will be considered. Note,
however, that papers on topics that are too far removed from scalable
communication in HPC systems (e.g., mobile networks, intrusion
detection, peer-to-peer networks, Grid/cloud computing) will be
rejected without review.

PROCEEDINGS

The proceedings of this workshop will be published together with the
proceedings of other IPDPS 2011 workshops by the IEEE Computer Society
Press.

Authors of accepted papers at the CASS workshop will be invited to
submit an extended version of their paper to contribute to a special
issue of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing journal
(JPDC, impact factor 1.135). The contribution in that case should add
significant novelty with respect to the paper published in CASS.

PAPER SUBMISSIONS

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.

CASS manuscript submissions are being handled by EDAS. To submit a
paper, go to https://edas.info/N9575 and follow the instructions.

IMPORTANT DATES

Paper submission: 20 December 2010
Notification of acceptance: 25 January 2011
Camera-ready papers due: 1 February 2011
Workshop date: 16 May 2011

All deadlines are set at 11:59 p.m. anywhere on Earth
(cf. http://wirelessman.org/aoe.html), except the camera-ready due
date, which IPDPS sets as midnight PST (GMT?08:00).

WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION

Co-chairs

* José Flich (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)

* Scott Pakin (Los Alamos National Lab, USA)

* Craig Stunkel (IBM Research, USA)

Publicity Chair:

* Gaspar Mora (Intel, USA)

Program Committee:

* Dennis Abts (Google, USA)

* Ahmad Afsahi (Queen’s University, Canada)

* Gheorghe Almasi (IBM Research, USA)

* Pavan Balaji (Argonne National Lab, USA)

* Davide Bertozzi (University of Ferrara, Italy)

* Taisuke Boku (University of Tsukuba, Japan)

* Darius Buntinas (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)

* Marcello Coppola (ST Microelectronics, France)

* Natalie Enright (University of Toronto, Ca-nada)

* Holger Froning (Heildeberg University, Germany)

* Ada Gavrilovska (Georgia Tech, USA)

* Torsten Hoefler (National Center for Supercomputing Applications, USA)

* John Kim (KAIST, Korea)

* Jesper Larsson (University of Vienna, Austria)

* Raymond Namyst (University of Bordeaux & INRIA, France)

* José Luis Sánchez (University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain)

* Federico Silla (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)

* Tor Skeie (Simula Research Lab, Norway)

* Gregory Thorson (SGI, USA)

* Keith Underwood (Intel, USA)

* Eitan Zahavi (Mellanox Technologies, Israel)

Steering Committee:

* D. K. Panda (Ohio State University, USA)

* José Duato (Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

For more information on CASS 2011 or if you have any questions please
contact the workshop organizers at cass2011-AT-gap.upv.es.