######################################################################## # # # ### ### #### ##### ### #### #### ### ### ## # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ## #### # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # # ### ### #### # # ### #### ##### ### ### ### # # # ######################################################################## First ACM/IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing & the Grid (CCGrid 2001) http://www.ccgrid.org | www.ccgrid2001.qut.edu.au 15-18 May 2001, Rydges Hotel, South Bank, Brisbane, Australia CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ---------------------- *** Early bird registration 31 March *** Keynotes ******** * The Anatomy of the Grid: Enabling Scalable Virtual Organizations Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory and the University of Chicago, USA * Making Parallel Processing on Clusters Efficient, Transparent and Easy for Programmers Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia * Programming High Performance Applications in Grid Environments Domenico Laforenza, CNUCE-Institute of the Italian National Research Council, Italy * Global Internet Content Delivery Bruce Maggs, Carnegie Mellon University and Akamai Technologies, Inc., USA. * Grid RPC meets Data Grid: Network Enabled Services for Data Farming on the Grid Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan * The Promise of InfiniBand for Cluster Computing Greg Pfister, IBM Server Technology & Architecture, Austin, USA Invited Plenary Talks ********************* * The World Wide Computer: Prospects for Parallel and Distributed Computing on the Web Gul A. Agha, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (UIUC), USA * Terraforming Cyberspace Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, University of West Florida, USA Industry Plenary Talks ********************** * High Performance Computing at Intel: The OSCAR software solution stack for cluster computing Tim Mattson, Intel Corporation, USA * MPI/FT: Architecture and Taxonomies for Fault-Tolerant, Massage-Passing Middleware for Performance-Portable Parallel Computing Tony Skjellum, MPISoft Technology, USA * Effective Internet Grid Computing for Industrial Users Ming Xu, Platform Corporation, Canada * Sun Grid Engine: Towards Creating a Compute Power Grid Wolfgang Gentzsch, Sun Microsystems, USA FREE Tutorials ************** * The Globus Toolkit for Grid Computing Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * An Introduction to OpenMP Tim Mattson, Intel Corporation, USA Panel ***** * The Grid: Moving it to Prime Time Moderator: David Abramson, Monash University, Australia. Symposium Mainstream Sessions ***************************** (Features 45 papers selected out of 126 submissions by peer review) * Component and Agent Approaches * Distributed Shared Memory * Grid Computing * Input/Output and Databases * Message Passing and Communication * Performance Evaluation * Scheduling and Load balancing * Tools for Management, Monitoring and Debugging Workshops ********* (Features 37 peer-reviewed papers selected by workshop organisers) * Agent based Cluster and Grid Computing * Cluster Computing Education * Distributed Shared Memory on Clusters * Global Computing on Personal Devices * Internet QoS for Global Computing * Object & Component Technologies for Cluster Computing * Scheduling and Load Balancing on Clusters Important Dates *************** * Early bird registration 31 March (register online, check out web site) * Tutorials & workshops 15 May * Symposium main stream & workshops 16-18 May Call for Poster/Research Exhibits: ********************************** Those interested in exhibiting poster papers, please contact Poster Chair Hai Jin (hjin@hust.edu.cn) or browse the conference website for details. Sponsors ******** * IEEE Computer Society (www.computer.org) * IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing (www.ieeetfcc.org) * Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and SIGARCH (www.acm.org) * IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) * Queensland Uni. of Technology (QUT), Australia (www.qut.edu.au) * Platform Computing, Canada (www.platform.com) * Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC) (www.apac.edu.au) * Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM, USA) (www.siam.org) * MPI Software Technology Inc., USA (www.mpi-softtech.com) * International Business Machines (IBM) (www.ibm.com) * Akamai Technologies, Inc., USA (www.akamai.com) * Sun Microsystems, USA (www.sun.com) * Intel Corporation, USA (www.intel.com) Further Information ******************* Please browse the symposium web site: http://www.ccgrid.org | www.ccgrid2001.qut.edu.au For specific clarifications, please contact one of the following: Conference Chairs: R. Buyya (rajkumar@buyya.com) or G. Mohay (mohay@fit.qut.edu.au) PC Chair: Paul Roe (ccgrid2001@qut.edu.au) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------