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TCSC Education Promotion Program: Book Donation

One of the key goals of TCSC, which is inherited from TFCC, is to promote: Scalable Computing Education through out the world. We are working on building a TCSC education web site providing pointers to various online educational resources. The TCSC Education Resources Web site, which is maintained at TCSC-Education web site includes the following:TCSC Book Donation Program

  • Cluster Books
  • Cluster journals
  • Cluster computing related papers
  • Direct Link to CC Software (Public Domain mainly)
  • Cluster Projects

TFCC will also conduct Tutorials in IEEE Chapters/Sections worldwide or conferences for Free to IEEE CS members. Industries can also request for conducting tutorials in their organization. For more details, please see IEEE CS Chapter Tutorials Program web site. Our new program towards this direction is provide FREE books to faculty members around world teaching courses on cluster computing or encourage them to introduce cluster computing in their curriculum. To achieve the above, we need to request book publishers to donate books to TCSC, which we then distribute to faculties teaching (or plans to teach) cluster computing. Publishers will agree/happy to donate when we assure/ensure that books donated by them are used in developing the course (at least some percent). If you have authored/coauthored book related to cluster computing, please request the publisher to donate books to TCSC!

Past/Current Donations

March 25, 99: TFCC is happy to inform that Prentice Hall has agreed to donate 50 copies of the following books:  (nomination closed!, already donated)

April 18, 99: Prentice Hall has agreed to donate 25 copies of the book: (nomination closed!, already donated)

April 24,99: Prentice Hall (thanks to Greg Doench) has agreed to donate 25 copies of the book: (nomination closed!, already donated)

May 10, 99:  Elsevier Publisher agreed to donate 50 copies of the FGCS Special Issue on Metacomputing and this special issue will appear in October, this year, and contains a collection of 23 contributions about metacomputing architectures, building blocks and applications.  Please contact Monika Grobecker (mgro@geniasoft.com) if you wish to receive a copy of this special issue. (nomination closed!, already donated)

May 13, 99: Morgan Kaufmann Publishers would provide related books that may be of interest to the community of faculties (TFCC members) involved in teaching cluster computing. Please select book(s) of your interest from: http://www.mkp.com/books_catalog/areas/arallel_distributed.asp and then fill the form located at:  http://www.mkp.com/orders/exam_form.htm

September 14, 99: Baltzer Science Publishers agreed to donate up to  40 copies of the Cluster Computing Journal. Please contact Monika Grobecker (mgro@geniasoft.com) if you wish to receive a copy of this special issue. (nomination closed!, already donated)

September 15, 99: TFCC members get a highly subsidised price (low-cost) for online subscription to the Cluster Computing Journal. Baltzer Science Publishers offer each one of the TFCC members an online subscription to the journal at $40.  These would be persona subscriptions.  Links to libraries may not be made. Subscriptions must be paid from personal accounts and paid directly to Baltzer (not through subscription agents).  Members can fill in the order form (http://www.baltzer.nl/cluster/cluster.order.html) mentioning being "TFCC member" and have access to the Cluster Computing Journal at low-cost.

November 25, 99: ESRPIT Network of Excellence, Working Group 22582 (SCIWG) announced the donation of 50 copies of the book to TFCC members. Thanks to Wolfgang Karl, TUM, for making the donation possible.

This book will be available to only to TFCC members and preference will be given to those who have not yet benefited from our earlier donations. Faculty members are requested to contact Monika Grobecker (mgro@geniasoft.com) if you wish to receive a copy of the book for use in your course. (nomination closed!, already donated)

Jan. 5, 2000: With the generous contributions from MPI Software Technology, Inc., (thanks to Anthony Skjellum) TFCC would like to announce the donation of 50 copies of the following books: (nomination closed!, already donated)

  • Using Mpi: Portable Parallel Programming With the MPI", Vol.1, 2nd edition, by W. Gropp, E. Lusk, A. Skjellum, MIT Press.
  • Proceedings of MPIDC'99 -- MPI and High-Performance Clusters Developer's and User's Conference.

Jan. 5, 2001: With the generous contributions from GRID 2000 organising committee, TFCC would like to announce the donation of 50 copies of the following book:)(nomination closed!, already donated)

  • Grid Computing: Proceedings of First IEEE/ACM International Workshop (GRID 2000), R. Buyya & M. Baker (editors), Springer Verlag, Germany.

May 22, 2001: With the generous contributions from CCGrid 2001 organising committee, TFCC would like to announce the donation of 50 copies of the following book:)(nomination closed!, already donated)

  • Cluster Computing and the Grid: Proceedings of First IEEE/ACM International Symposium (CCGrid 2001), R. Buyya, G. Mohay, P. Roe (editors), IEEE Press, USA.

April 5, 2002: Courtesy of Elsevier Science, a free access to the online version of FGCS specical issue (Guest editors: C. Lee, P. Roe, and R. Buyya):

June 11, 2002: With the generous contributions from Cluster 2001 organising committee, TFCC would like to announce the donation of 50 copies of the following book: (nomination closed!, already donated)

  • Cluster Computing: Proceedings of 3rd IEEE International Conference (Cluster 2001), D. Katz, T. Sterling, M. Baker, L. Bergman, M. Paprzycki, and R. Buyya (editors), IEEE Computer Society Press, USA.

July 15, 2002: With the generous contributions from CCGrid 2002 organising committee, TFCC would like to announce the donation of 30 copies of the following book:(nomination closed!, already donated)

  • Cluster Computing and the Grid: Proceedings of 2nd IEEE/ACM International Symposium (CCGrid 2002), H. Bal, A. Reinefeld, and P. Lohr (editors), IEEE Press, USA.

Oct. 25, 2002: With the generous contributions from CLUSTER 2002 organising committee, TFCC would like to announce the donation of 130 copies of the following book: (nomination closed!, already donated)

March 10, 2003: Ten copies following special issue are distributed via this program: (nomination closed!, already donated)

  • Cluster Computing Special Issue, R. Buyya, H. Jin, T. Cortes (Guest editors), Future Generation Computer Systems, Vol. 18, No. 3, Elsevier, Jan 2002.

Oct 14, 2003:With the generous contributions from Sams Publishing, TFCC would like to announce the donation of 50 copies of the following book: (nomination closed!, already donated)

March 27, 2004: Courtesy of Barry Wilkinson, TFCC is pleased to announce the donation of 30 copies of the book book: (nomination closed!, already donated)

  • Parallel Programming: Techniques and Applications Using Networked Workstations and Parallel Computers, 2nd Edition, Barry Wilkinson and Michael Allen (auth.), Prentice Hall, 2004.

Nov 17, 2004: Courtesy of Dan Katz, TFCC is pleased to announce the donation of 100 copies of the book (nomination closed!, already donated):

  • Proceedings of the 6th Intl. Conference on Cluster Computing - Cluster 2004 (CD Version, IEEE CS Press).

Nov 17, 2004: Courtesy of Dan Katz, TFCC is pleased to announce the donation of 30 copies of the book: (nomination closed!, already donated)

  • Proceedings of the 5th Intl. Workshop on Grid Computing - Grid 2004 (IEEE CS Press).

April 18, 2006: Courtesy of Raj Buyya, TCSC is pleased to announce the donation of 40 copies of the book: (nomination closed!, already donated)

  • Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on E-Science and Grid Computing (IEEE CS Press).

Dec. 13, 2007: Courtesy of Bindu Madhav (Organising Chair of E-Science 2007), TCSC is pleased to announce the donation of 30 copies of the book:

  • Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on E-Science and Grid Computing (IEEE CS Press).

Feb. 13, 2008: Courtesy of Daniel S. Katz (General Chair of Conference), TCSC is pleased to announce the donation of 35 copies of the CD:

  • Proceedings of the Mardi Gras Conference 2008 for Distributed Applications (ACM Press).

These books are available primarily to TCSC members and preference will be given to those who have not yet benefited from our earlier donations. We will also give preference to faculty members working in developing countries.

Request to Book Authors/Publishers

If you have authored/coauthored book(s) related to cluster computing, please request your publisher to donate books to TCSC! towards education promotion program.

We request publishers to donate books to TCSC for promoting cluster computing education. Your support to TCSC will be appreciate and acknowledged.

If you are interested in donating books via TCSC program, please contact:

Rajkumar Buyya,

Coordinator of Advisory Board, IEEE Technical Committee for Scalable Computing

Secretariat (please request a book currently under donation)

Faculties who are teaching subjects like "high performance distributed computing", "parallel computing", "cluster computing", "scalable systems and applications", "grid computing", "supercomputing", etc., please email your request for a copy of book with full postal address including phone no., and postal code. Note, your request will be considered based on the availability of book and TCSC reserves around 50% donation to faculties teaching in developing/underdeveloped regions of the world. The faculty members must be TCSC members and preference will be given to those who have not benefited from our earlier donations.

New Secretary:

Andreas Boklund 
Division of Computer Science 
Dept. of Technology, Mathematics and Computer Science 
University West, Sweden 
Tel:   +46(0)520-22 32 57 Mob: +46(0)707-29 44 01 
http://www.datavet.htu.se/personal/ABK/ 
Email: andreas.boklund@hv.se

Former Secretary:

Ms. Nickyla Britton 
MCNC-GCNS 3021 Cornwallis Road 
P. O. Box 12889 
Research Triangle Park, 
N.C.  27707 
nbritton@mcnc.org 
(919) 248-1920 - Telephone (919) 248-1101 - Fax
Mrs. Faye Ellis,  faye@mcnc.org MCNC Grid Computing and Networking Services 3021 Cornwallis Road  Research Triangle Park, NC 27709, USA

Former Secretary:
Ms. Monika Grobecker
Sun GridEngine Team
Sun Microsystems GmbH Dr.-Leo-Ritter-Strasse 7 D-93049
Regensburg, Germany
Phone: +49 941 3075-100 Fax: + 49 941 3075-222
Email: monika.grobecker@germany.sun.com