Submitted to:
IEEE Computer Society Technical Activities Board (TAB)
Prepared by Rajkumar Buyya (TCSC Chair)
The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) was created as a result of the merger of the Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC) and the Technical Committee on Supercomputing Applications (TCSA) in June 2004. The first year of operation was managed by an interim committee, which primarily focused on activities related to conferences. The first TCSC election for the position of Chair was held during Sept. 2005 when TCSC members elected Dr. Raj Buyya as Chair in Oct 2005. Since the first election for Chair, the TCSC has actively initiated several new/reactivated programs and launched them with support from volunteers around the world. The activities include:
• TCSC Technical Areas
• TCSC Regional Forums
• TCSC Web and Online Forums
• TCSC Young Researchers Forum
• TCSC Education and Book Donation Program
• TCSC Newsletter
These activities are pursued along with active sponsorship and support for continued organization of existing conferences and promotion of new conferences in emerging topics within broader Scalable Computing field. Two new events initiated are:
• IEEE International Conference on E-Science and Grid Computing
• TCSC Doctoral Symposium These programs are coordinated and managed by active volunteers who have contributed their time and energy.
Each program/initiative has its own website that acts as a resource centre, providing useful information for TCSC members and the general community. As a result we are able to actively expand our volunteers’ base and membership and positively impact the community. We are pleased to present our annual reports that highlights TCSC activities so far:
Submitted to:
IEEE Computer Society Technical Activities Board (TAB)
Prepared by Rajkumar Buyya and Mark Baker (TFCC Co-Chairs)
The IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC) has been in existence since early in February 1999 (approved in Dec. 1998). In its short life the TFCC has started to have an impact on the cluster computing research and development community in both academia and industry. Some evidence of this can be seen by the numbers influential people willing to get involved in the TFCC activities. Furthermore, the number of TFCC-based events and numbers of willing volunteers prepared to promote our activities all provide ample evidence that the TFCC is not only being successful, but also having an impact on the community. We are pleased to present our annual reports that highlights TFCC activities so far:
- TFCC 1st Annual Report - 1999, IEEE CS TAB Meeting, Nov. 16-17, 2001, Portland, Oregon, USA.
- TFCC 2nd Annual Report - 2000, IEEE CS TAB Meeting, Nov. 3-4, 2001, Dallas, Texas, USA.
- TFCC 3rd Annual Report - 2001, IEEE CS TAB Meeting, Nov. 7-8, Denver, Colorado, USA.
- TFCC 4th Annual Report - 2002, IEEE CS TAB Meeting, USA.
- TFCC Highlights in 2003 Report to the TAB Chair
- Proposal for TC Status: Technical Committee on Clusters and Grids, IEEE CS TAB Meeting, USA. (PDF version)
- TFCC 5th Annual Report, IEEE CS TAB Meeting, USA.
- TFCC and TCSA Merger and Proposal for Creating a New TC on Scalable Computing (TCSC), IEEE CS TAB Meeting, June 10-11, 2004, Los Angles, USA. (PDF version)
- TCSC Approval Message from TAB Chair
