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Announcements about TFCC Activities and Achievements


  • An invited talk by TFCC Co-Chair Mark Baker at the PC-NOW'99 Workshop (part of the IPPS/SPDP'99 Symposium, held in San Juan, Puerto Rico, April 16th 1999) will introduce the new IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing. This will represent the first opportunity for people interested in the activity of the Task Force to meet. You can view his 46 slides at http://www.dcs.port.ac.uk/~mab/Talks/Puerto-Rico/PC-NOW/
    URL:http://www.disi.unige.it/person/ChiolaG/pc-now99/program.html


  • TFCC Co-Chair Rajkumar Buyya writes
    "As you know one of TFCC's goals is to promote: Cluster Computing Education around the world. We are working on building a cluster computing education web site providing pointers to information related to:

    - Cluster books

    - Cluster journals

    - Cluster computing related papers

    - Cluster Resources

    - Cluster Projects

    TFCC-Education Coordinator, Professor Barry Wilkinson, Department of Computer Science, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, has done a great job with his TFCC Technical Area Education web site recently. Take a look!"

  • TFCC Co-Chair Rajkumar Buyya also announced the TFCC-Education Promotion Program -- Book Donation

    Prentice Hall has agreed to donate books worth $2600 (US) to TFCC. That is, they are donating 25 copies each of the following to TFCC!


    • High Performance Cluster Computing: Architectures and Systems,
      Vol.1, Prentice Hall PTR, NJ, USA, 1999. (to be released soon)

    • High Performance Cluster Computing: Programming and Applications,
      Vol.2, Prentice Hall PTR, NJ, USA, 1999. (to be released soon)

    To see if you qualify, visit Raj's Announcement or Barry Wilkinson's TFCC Education Site.

  • 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.

  • We have decided to archive key dialogs that appear on our open Task Force on Cluster Computing listserver (TFCC-L) by placing them in the Dialogs Section of the TFCC Newsletter. The first discussion deals with the definition of a Cluster.


Conference Announcements



  • IPPS/SPDP'99

    NOTE: Change of Hotel - now CONDADO PLAZA Hotel & Casino. See URL below.

    13th International Parallel Processing Symposium and 10th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing
    April 12-16, 1999, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
    Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing, in cooperation with ACM SIGARCH, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Architecture, and IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing.

    Contact David A. Bader, dbader@eece.unm.edu
    URL: http://www.ippsxx.org


  • PDPTA'99

    The 1999 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications
    June 28 - July 1, 1999
    Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
    URL: http://www.jhpc.org/pdpta


  • PCS'99
    2nd International Conference on Parallel Computing Systems
    August 16-20, 1999
    Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico
    URL: http://www.cicese.mx/~pcs99/


  • Seventh ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP'99)
    Atlanta, Georgia, May 4-6, 1999.

    (Part of Federated Computing Research Conference FCRC'99)
    URL: http://www-csag.ucsd.edu/ppopp/


Call for Papers - Conferences


  • Eleventh IASTED International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing and Systems (PDCS'99)

    Cambridge, MA, USA, November 3-6, 1999


    Sponsor: The International Association of Science and Technology for Development (IASTED)


    IMPORTANT DATES

    Manuscripts due: May 15, 1999

    Author notification: July 15, 1999

    Camera-ready manuscripts and pre-registration: September 1, 1999

    Web site: http://www.iasted.com/conferences/1999/boston/pdcs.htm


  • PCS'99
    2nd International Conference on Parallel Computing Systems

    August 16-20, 1999

    Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico

    URL: http://www.cicese.mx/~pcs99/

    Important Dates

    Manuscript must be received by April 20, 1999

    Notification of review decisions will be mailed by May 20, 1999

    Camera-ready papers are due June 31, 1999.


  • Applications and Enabling Technologies for Cluster Computing

    Call for papers in Special Session at 6th International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC'99)

    December 17-20, 1999, Calcutta, India

    Cosponsored by: IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing ACM SIGARCH, Indian Statistical Institute, Calcutta

    Manuscript must be received by April 19, 1999.

    URL: http://www.hipc.org/hipc99/clustercfp.txt


Call for Papers - Journals


Journal Announcements


Special Issues on Cluster Computing in Journals



Workshops



Tutorials


Book Announcements


  • High Performance Cluster Computing


    In the recent years, high speed network and improved microprocessor performance are making network of workstations an appealing vehicle for parallel computing. Cluster/network of workstations built using commodity hardware or software is playing a major role in redefining the concept of Supercomputing.

    There are many independent efforts in progress in the industry and research labs for developing supercomputers based on the cluster concept. Currently, there are no books available which can act as a reference for researchers(in the industry and academy) and students at the post graduate level.

    To fill this gap a book on "Cluster Computing" has been written. The book appears in two volumes:

    Vol. 1 -- High Performance Cluster Computing: Architectures and  Systems, 
    Prentice Hall PTR, NJ, USA, March 1999

    Vol. 2 -- High Performance Cluster Computing: Programming and  Applications, Prentice Hall PTR, NJ,USA, March 1999.


    For more information please feel free to contact the book Editor:

    Rajkumar Buyya


  • Annual Review of Scalable Computing, Volume 1, 1999

    Published jointly by World Scientific Publishing Co. and Singapore University Press.

    Editorial Board:

    Chung-Kwong Yuen, National University of Singapore: Editor in Chief

    Kai Hwang, University of Southern California: Co Editor in Chief

    Amnon Barak, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

    Willy Zwaenepoel, Rice University

    Jack Dennis, MIT


    Proposals to provide articles for forthcoming issues of Annual Review of Scalable Computing should be sent to

    C K Yuen

    School of Computing

    National University of Singapore

    Kent Ridge, Singapore 119260

    email - yuenck@comp.nus.edu.sg


    For the Year 2000 volume, draft versions should be sent by August 1999;
    final electronic versions (in prescribed LaTex format) by November 1999.


    Preface of 1999 Edition

    The purpose of the Annual Review of Scalable Computing is to provide a forum for researchers in the area to publish extended-length articles on significant new developments. The articles may cover comprehensive results from a major project, review recent work in a sub-domain, or exposit new ideas in a detailed, tutorial fashion, at a length which most journals and conference proceedings could not accommodate.

    I am pleased to say that the five articles included in this inaugural volume give an excellent illustration of the different types of material that require such extensive treatment, and should serve well to encourage future authors with similar ideas to consider publishing in the Annual Review.


    It takes considerable individual efforts and editorial coordination to bring this kind of multi-author volumes into being in a speedy fashion. I give my thanks to all the authors for their timely contributions, and to the joint publishers for their enthusiastic support. I look forward to again working with them and the Editorial Board on the continuation of this Series.


    Chung-Kwong Yuen
    January 1999


    Table of Contents



    • C. K. Yuen, "Active objects: A software structure for cluster-based systems," page 1.
    • Y. M. Teo and S. C. Tay, "Scalable optimistic parallel simulation," page 35.
    • S. Benkner. "High Performance Fortran for advanced applications", page 75.
    • O La'adan and A Barak, "Inter process communication optimization in a scalable computing cluster," page 121.
    • Z. Xu and K. Hwang, "Designing superservers with clusters and commodity components," page 181.


New Web Sites on Cluster Computing


  • Wolfgang Gentzsch of GENIAS Software in Germany maintains an on-line newsletter for Distributed and Parallel Computing (DPC) at www.geniasoft.com/dpcnews/. He has a long list of DPC conferences, books, web pages, projects, benchmarks, and employment opportunities.