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TCSC Newsletters Volume 2 No.2

Announcements about TFCC Activities and Achievements


  • Annual Report of the Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC) for year 2000 is available at http://www.ieeetfcc.org/tab-report2000/tfcc2000.pdf

  • Official TFCC Membership
    We strongly urge everyone interested in Cluster Computing to register as a Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC) member with the IEEE Computer Society. Membership is free and you do not have to be an IEEE Computer Society member. There are two easy ways to sign up:


    When you are an official member, we can serve you better. And the IEEE Computer Society knows that the Task Force is strong and healthy. Therefore, we strongly encourage you to "vote with your feet" and register!


  • TFCC has an on-line discussion group of over 450 individuals interested in cluster computing. Click to see how to subscribe. Contributions sent to the list are automatically archived.
    Anyone can browse the past discussion messages at the TFCC-L
    discussion Archive    .


  • TFCC has new registered Internet Domain Name
    http://www.ieeetfcc.org/


  • TFCC has released its Whitepaper on Cluster Computing
    http://www.dcs.port.ac.uk/~mab/tfcc/WhitePaper/


  • The TFCC report on "Cluster Computing R&D in Australia" by M. Baker, R. Buyya, K. Hawick, H. James, and H. Jin,
    published as part of the Asian Technology Information Program (ATIP), Japan/USA, April, 2000 is now public and freely available. The report emerged as an outcome of the first annual cluster computing meeting of the
    IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing held in Melbourne,
    Australia, Dec. 1999.

    URL: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~rajkumar/papers/ClusterComputingAU.pdf


  • The IEEE Computer Society's Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC) initiated a project that lists the World's TOP Clusters much like the TOP500 Supercomputers' web page. We request you submit data on your cluster to http://www.topclusters.org. Please visit to see the latest rankings.


  • "Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing" research papers repository at on-line Computing Research Repository (CoRR). More information available at http://www.ieeetfcc.org/ClusterArchive.html. To browse, search, subscribe or submit, please click on CoRR's Website/URL: http://arXiv.org/archive/cs/intro.html. CoRR is available to all members of the community free of charge.


  • BOF Session on high speed interconnects organized at SC2000, Dallas Texas by TFCC member Markus Fischer. Tuesday November 7, 2000 at 5:30 PM in Room D263-265. Updates and slides at http://www.markus-fischer.de


  • BOF Session on Cluster Computing and the IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing organized at SC2000, Dallas, Texas by TFCC member Tim Mattson. Wednesday November 8, 2000 at 5:30 - 7:00 PM in
    room D 271-273.

  • Our Second IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER 2000) is at Technische Universität Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany, November 28 - December 2, 2000
    URL: http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/informatik/RA/cluster2000/index.htm


  • Our Third IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (CLUSTER 2001) will be at Sutton Place Hotel, Newport Beach,
    California, USA, October 8-11, 2001
    URL: http://andy.usc.edu/cluster2001/


  • The TFCC sponsored IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid2001) will be 16-18 May 2001 in Brisbane, Australia

    URL: http://www.ccgrid2001.qut.edu.au


  • Two members of TFCC Dan Hyde and Barry Wilkinson have organized the first International Workshop on Cluster Computing Education as part of IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid2001) May 16-18, 2001
    Brisbane, Australia
    URL: http://www.cs.uncc.edu/~abw/CLUSTER-EDU_2001/



Conference Announcements




Call for Papers - Conferences



  • 6th International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models
    and Supportive Environments (HIPS 2001)     (in conjunction with IPDPS 2001)
    April 23, 2001, San Francisco, California, USA.
    URL: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~mueller/hips01/
    Submission deadline: 13 November 2000


  • IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
    (CCGrid2001)     16-18 May 2001 in Brisbane, Australia
    URL: http://www.ccgrid2001.qut.edu.au
    Papers Due: 4 November 2000


  • Global Computing on Personal Devices session organized at the IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid2001) Brisbane, Australia, May 16-18, 2001
    URL: http://www.ics.forth.gr/~lalis/gcpd.html

    Submission deadline: 27 November 2000


  • First International Workshop on Internet Computing and E-Commerce (ICEC'01) in conjunction with IPDPS'01, April 27, 2000,
    San Francisco, California, USA
    URL: http://andy.usc.edu/icec2001/
    Submission deadline: 23 October 2000


  • High Performance Computing and Networking Europe 2001 (HPCN Europe 2001)
    Amsterdam, Netherlands, June 25-27, 2001 (NOTE Date Change!)

    URL: http://www.wins.uva.nl/events/HPCN2001/
    Submission deadline: 2 January 2001


  • Thirteenth Annual ACM Symposium on Parallel Algorithms and
    Architectures (SPAA)     Crete Island, Greece, July 4-6, 2001
    URL: http://www.spaa-conference.org
    Submission deadline: 27 January 2001


  • Workshop in Massively Parallel Processing (WMPP) in conjunction with International Parallel & Distributed Processing
    Symposium (IPDPS 2001) San Francisco, California, USA, April 23-27, 2001

    URL: http://www.mcs.kent.edu/~parallel/workshops/ipdps01-mpp/
    Submission deadline: 1 November 2000


  • Ninth International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS 2001) in conjunction with the International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2001,
    San Francisco, California, USA, April 23-24, 2001
    URL: http://csce.uark.edu/~aapon/wpdrts2001/
    Submission deadline: 20 November 2000


  • 2001 International Workshop on Distributed Shared Memory on
    Clusters (DSM 2001)     organized as part of IEEE International
    Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'2001), May 16 - 18, 2001, Brisbane, Australia
    URL: http://resam.univ-lyon1.fr/~llefevre/dsm2001/index.html
    Submission deadline: 27 November 2000


  • Second International Conference on Parallel and Distributed
    Computing, Applications, and Techniques (PDCAT 2001)     National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, July 9-11, 2001
    For more information please contact the program chair Yen-Chun Lin at yclin@et.ntust.edu.tw

    Submission deadline: 1 January 2001


  • 2001 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications
    (PDPTA2001)    , Las Vegas, Nevada, USA; June 25-28, 2001
    URL: http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences/pdpta/
    Submission deadline: 1 March 2001


  • 2001 International Conference on Computational Science San
    Francisco, California, USA, May 28 - 30, 2001
    URL: http://www.ucalgary.ca/iccs
    Submission deadline: 8 December 2000


  • Third IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing
    (CLUSTER2001)     Sutton Place Hotel, Newport Beach, California, USA
    Oct. 8-11, 2001
    URL: http://andy.usc.edu/cluster2001/
    Submission deadline: 12 March 2001


  • Cluster Computing-Internals and Usage (CCIU-2001) session at
    2001 International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2001) May
    28 - 30, San Francisco, California, USA, May 28 - 30, 2001

    URL: http://www.ac.upc.es/homes/toni/CCIU/index.html
    Submission deadline: 19 January 2001


  • 2nd Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing with Applications (PDSECA-01) in conjunction with 15th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS-2001) San Francisco, California, USA April 23-27, 2001
    URL: http://www.stfx.ca/people/lyang/activities/ipdps01-pdseca.html
    Submission deadline: 15 November 2000


  • Multimedia on Clusters of Workstations (MCW-2001) held at
    5th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics,
    Orlando, Florida, USA, July 22-25, 2001

    URL: http://arcos.inf.uc3m.es/~mcw2001
    Submission deadline: 15 January 2001



Call for Papers - Journals




Journal Announcements



  • The IEEE Computer Society has started a new on-line magazine "Distributed Systems-Online". There is a Grid and Cluster Computing section in the magazine. We encourage you to read as well as contribute to this new electronic service.
    URL: http://computer.org/dsonline/



Special Issues on Cluster Computing in Journals



  • Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems in Parallel
    and Distributed Computing Practices Journal     (PDCP) VOLUME 2 NUMBER
    1, March 1999.
    Edited by Jan Van Katwijk and Janusz Zalewski
    URL: http://orca.st.usm.edu/pdcp


  • Cluster Computing in Parallel
    and Distributed Computing Practices Journal     (PDCP) VOLUME 2 NUMBER 2, June 1999.
    Edited by Rajkumar Buyya and Clemens Szyperski
    URL: http://orca.st.usm.edu/pdcp



Workshops/Sessions



  • International Workshop on Grid Computing part of 7th
    International Conference on High Performance Computing
    (HiPC'2000) December 17-20, 2000, Bangalore, India
    URL: http://www.dgs.monash.edu.au/~rajkumar/Grid2000/


  • 6th International Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models
    and Supportive Environments (HIPS 2001)     (in conjunction with IPDPS 2001)
    April 23, 2001, San Francisco, California, USA.

    URL: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~mueller/hips01/


  • 2001 International Workshop on Cluster Infrastructure for Web
    Server and E-Commerce (CISC2001)     organized as part of
    IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
    (CCGrid'2001) May 16 - 18, 2001, Brisbane, Australia
    URL: http://ceng.usc.edu/~hjin/cisca2001/


  • 2nd Workshop on Distributed Computing (WDC 2000) Dec 28-30, 2000
    Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Jadavpur University, Calcutta 700 032, India

    Contact Chandan Mazumdar, Department of Computer Sci. & Engg.,
    Jadavpur University, chandanm@vsnl.com

  • Sixth International Workshop on
    High-Level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments (HIPS'01)
    as part of IPDPS2001, San Francisco, California, USA, April 23,
    2001
    URL: http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~mueller/hips01


  • 2001 International Workshop on Cluster Computing Education
    as part of IEEE International
    Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid2001) May 16-18, 2001 Brisbane, Australia

    URL: http://www.cs.uncc.edu/~abw/CLUSTER-EDU_2001/


  • 2001 International Workshop on Parallel I/O on Clusters (PIC 2001) part of IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid2001) Brisbane, Australia, May 16-18, 2001
    URL: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~thakur/pic2001


  • Global Computing on Personal Devices session organized at the IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid2001) Brisbane, Australia, May 16-18, 2001

    URL: http://www.ics.forth.gr/~lalis/gcpd.html


  • First International Workshop on Internet Computing and E-Commerce (ICEC'01) in conjunction with IPDPS'01, April 27, 2001,San Francisco, California, USA
    URL: http://andy.usc.edu/icec2001/


  • 15th Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Simulation (PADS 2001) May 15-18, 2001, Lake Arrowhead, California, USA

    URL: http://www.ececs.uc.edu/~paw/pads2001


  • Data Models and Databases on Clusters and the Grid session at IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid 16 - 18 May 2001, Brisbane, Australia URL: http://cern.ch/hst/ccgrid/


  • 8th Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop (RAW 2001) in conjunction with International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2001) San Francisco, California USA, April 23, 2001

    URL: http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~raw/


  • Wild and Crazy Ideas session at International Symposium on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (ASPLOS-IX), Royal Sonesta Hotel, Cambridge, MA, USA November 14, 2000.
    URL: http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~kubitron/asplos00/


  • Workshop in Massively Parallel Processing (WMPP) in conjunction with International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2001) San Francisco, California, USA, April 23-27, 2001

    URL: http://www.mcs.kent.edu/~parallel/workshops/ipdps01-mpp/


  • Ninth International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems (WPDRTS 2001) in conjunction with the International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, IPDPS 2001, San Francisco, California, USA, April 23-24, 2001
    URL: http://csce.uark.edu/~aapon/wpdrts2001/


  • 2001 International Workshop on Distributed Shared Memory on Clusters (DSM 2001) organized as part of IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid'2001), May 16 - 18, 2001, Brisbane, Australia

    URL: http://resam.univ-lyon1.fr/~llefevre/dsm2001/index.html


  • Cluster Computing: Internals and Usage sesssion at 2001 International Conference on Computational Science, 28-30 May 2001 in San Francisco, California, USA
    URL: http://www.ac.upc.es/homes/toni/CCIU/index.html


  • 2nd Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing with Applications (PDSECA-01) in conjunction with 15th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
    (IPDPS-2001) San Francisco, California, USA April 23-27, 2001

    URL: http://www.stfx.ca/people/lyang/activities/ipdps01-pdseca.html


  • Multimedia on Clusters of Workstations (MCW-2001) held at
    5th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics,
    Orlando, Florida, USA, July 22-25, 2001
    URL: http://arcos.inf.uc3m.es/~mcw2001


Tutorials


  • Current and Emerging Trends in Cluster Computing tutorial
    by Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth; Rajkumar Buyya, Monash
    University; and Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee at SC 2000, Dallas, Texas, November 6, 2000
    URL: http://www.sc2000.org/tutorial/index.htm#M9


New Web Sites on Cluster Computing





Short Article - Cluster Computing in the Undergraduate CurriculumBy Dan Hyde, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, USA


The IEEE Computer Society and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) have a Joint Task Force on Computing Curricula to develop curricular guidelines for undergraduate programs in computing. Their web site is at http://computer.org/education/cc2001/report/index.html

Traditionally this effort is done every ten years. The previous effort resulted in the report "IEEE/ACM Computing Curricula 1991."The Joint Task Force is heavily involved in developing a new report entitled "IEEE/ACM Computing Curricula 2001" to be published next year.

TFCC members Barry Wilkinson and Dan Hyde have been asked to write and submit as part of the report a course description for an upper-level undergraduate course in Cluster Computing.

Barry and Dan invite you to forward your ideas and suggestions on such a course. We have our own ideas but would like to solicit ideas and opinions from the much wider audience. If you know of a paper on a Cluster Computing Course that we should read, send us the URL or the reference.

If you are interested in contributing, look at the web page http://computer.org/education/cc2001/report/curriculum.html and especially at the Net-Centric Computing (NC) and
Computational Science (CN) links.

This is a great opportunity to influence the undergraduate curricula in the USA and around the world for the next decade. Please send your suggestions to Dan Hyde by December 10th.