-------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: TCSE Approval Date: Sun, 13 Jun 2004 09:05:18 -0700 From: Yervant Zorian Organization: Virage Logic To: "David A. Bader" CC: raj@students.cs.mu.OZ.AU, Daniel.S.Katz@jpl.nasa.gov, mark.baker@computer.org, raj@cs.mu.OZ.AU, marcin@cs.okstate.edu, fsommers@autospaces.com, tcpp-exec@ece.unm.edu, "Chita R. Das" , Jean.Bacon@cl.cam.ac.uk, Pen-Chung Yew , John Daniel , Yervant Zorian Dear All, I am pleased to inform you that, I presented to the CS Board of Governors the TAB decision to create the new TC on Scalable Computing. This decision was well received and its confirmation was unanimously voted on. Thanks to all who contributed in the process of creating this new TC. David's proposal below to establish a TSC on Parallel and Distributing Computing is very good. I encourage you to start working on it. I will be happy to help you achieve this, if my support is needed. Thanks and best regards, Yervant Zorian "David A. Bader" wrote: > Dear Raj, > > It was good seeing you (and other friends Dan, Marcin) at the IEEE > TAB meeting last week. I am pleased that there was strong support for > creating a new TC on Scalable Computing (a merger of the > TC-Supercomputing Applications and the Task Force on Cluster > Computing). While we have complicated overlaps in parallel and > distributed processing topics covered by TC Parallel Processing, TC > Distributed Processing, and the new TC Scalable Computing, I believe > we can work together to manage these issues; and I look forward to > good coordination between our TC's. > > The brand new IEEE Computer Society Technical Activity construct > that Yervant has proposed, a "Technical Steering Committee", should be > a goal for us to bring together our communities. From my understanding > of this new type of organization, a TSC needs yearly approval from at > least four entities to continue each year, and would cut across a > market for the purpose of coordination and finding unique ways to > promote the IEEE activities. For instance, in our case, we could begin > with: > - TC Distributed Processing > - TC Parallel Processing > - TC Scalable Computing > - IEEE Trans. Parallel and Distributed Systems > - IEEE DSOnline Magazine > > Note that the members of the TSC are the organizations that run the > activities, and not the members of or the conferences owned by the > TC's. In fact, the TSC may be "invisible" to the membership depending > on how we wish to proceed. > > Let us discuss this concept with our memberships, and if we decide to > pursue a TSC, plan to present this at the November 5th TAB OpComm > meeting. > > Best regards, > -david > > > > Envelope-to: dbader@eece.unm.edu > > Delivery-date: Fri, 11 Jun 2004 14:50:09 -0600 > > Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 05:11:36 +1000 (EST) > > From: Rajkumar BUYYA > > X-X-Sender: raj@queeg.cs.mu.OZ.AU > > cc: Mark Baker , Rajkumar Buyya , > > Marcin Paprzycki , fsommers@autospaces.com > > > > Dear David, > > > > I would like to formally Thank you for your support for a new merged TCSC > > (TC on Scalable Computing) (that brings together activities of TFCC and > > TCSA) during the TAB meeting. As per our discussion, it will be excellent > > to cooperate on various activities including conferences and educational > > programs. Right now TCPP co-sponsors ClusterXY conference with TFCC. I am > > sure we can do similar things with other events and activities. For > > example, so far CCGrid is sponsored by 90% by TFCC and 10% by ACMSIGARCH. > > Since I am coordinating CCGrid Steering Committee for the past 4-5 years, > > I am more than happy to requst our current organisers--ccgrid 2005--to > > request for TCPP cooperation. I am sure we can do similar things with > > other activities. > > > > Thanks again for your support and I am sure we all work together to > > benefit each other. > > > > Cheers > > Raj > > PS: in case your needs slides presented, pls let us know. > > > > -- > David A. Bader Office: 505-277-6724 > Associate Professor and Regents' Lecturer FAX: 505-277-1439 > Electrical and Computer Engineering Department > University of New Mexico dbader@ece.unm.edu > Albuquerque, NM 87131 http://www.ece.unm.edu/~dbader --