TCSC Newsletter Volume 8, No.2, 2006

Announcements about TCSC Activities and Achievements

TCSC Young Researcher Forum has been established for young PhD students and other student researchers to share valuable information and pointers that help in creating valuable research contributions. It is being coordinated by Markus Lorch (Virginia Tech, USA) and Srikumar Venugopal (Univ. of Melbourne, Australia). More information is available at http://www.ieeetcsc.org/young

TCSC Doctoral Symposium to be held at CCGrid 2007. The IEEE TCSC Doctoral Symposium will provide a forum for students in the area of Scalable Computing to obtain feedback on their dissertation topics and advice on initiating a research career. More information is available at http://www.ieeetcsc.org/young/doctoral

Call for Participation in Upcoming Conferences

7th ACM/IFIP/USENIX International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2006) is a forum for the discussion of important innovations and recent advances in the design and construction of middleware - distributed-systems software that resides between the applications and the underlying operating systems, network protocol stacks, and hardware.

November 27-December 1, 2006, Grant Hyatt - Melbourne, Australia
URL: http://2006.middleware-conference.org/

Workshop on XEN in High-Performance Cluster and Grid Computing Environments (XHPC 2006) held as part of ISPA 2006 will provide researchers-operators of HPC installations a unique forum for exploring virtual machines in a HPC context. In addition to the paper presentations, participants will find many interaction opportunities

          December 4 2006, Sorrento, Italy
          URL: http://xhpc.ai.wu-wien.ac.at/ws/
          ISPA 2006 URL: http://www.ispa-conference.org/2006/

13th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2006) is a forum for presenting current work by researchers from around the world as well as to highlight activities in Asia, in the area of high performance computing

          December 18-21, 2006 Bangalore, India
          URL: http://www.hipc.org
          Advance Program: http://www.hipc.org/hipc2006/programs.html

The 19th Open Grid Forum (OGF19). OGF is comprised of a number of "communities of interest" who either are users of grids in their domain or develop innovative approaches to perceived roadblocks to the adoption of grids or grid research. TheOGF19 Program seeks to build new and strengthen existing communities of interest in OGF including eScience and enterprise. The OGF19 Program will offer a series of 30-90 minute talks and panels emphasizing the applications and operations of grids in research and commercial contexts. It will also consist of half and full-day research workshops of standards-based implementations of grid software.

January 29-February 2, 2007, Chapel Hill, NC USA
URL: http://www.ogf.org

ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2007) provides a forum for papers about the foundations of parallel programming, tools and techniques for parallel programming, and experiences applying parallel programming in practice. Parallel Programming includes the development of software for concurrent, multi-threaded, multi-core, multiprocessor, cluster, or distributed systems.

March 14-17, 2007, San Jose, California, USA
URL: http://www.ppopp.org

Fourth High-Performance Grid Computing Workshop in conjunction with IPDPS 2007 is a forum for presenting research results on most aspects of grid computing, with a focus on performance, in the following traditional areas: Applications, Benchmarking, Infrastructure, Management and Scheduling, Partitioning and Load Balancing, Programming Models and also in the emerging area of multi-core processors as grid components.

March 26, 2007, Long Beach, California, USA
URL: http://www.cs.unb.ca/profs/aubanel/hpgc/

21st IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2007) serves as a forum for engineers and scientists from around the world to present their latest research findings in the fields of parallel processing and distributed computing.

March 26-30, 2007, Long Beach, California, USA
URL: http:// www.ipdps.org

Call for Papers - Conferences

Seventh IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2007) Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

URL: http://ccgrid07.lncc.br/
Submission Deadline: November 26, 2006

Second International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing (GPC 2007) Paris, France

URL: http://www-lipn.univ-paris13.fr/~cerin/GPC2007
Submission Deadline: November 30, 2006

First International Workshop on Context-Awareness and Mobility in Grid Computing co-located with CCGrid 2007 Rio de Janeiro Brazil

URL: http://wcamg2007.inf.puc-rio.br/
Submission Deadline: December 10, 2006

Seventh International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM 2007) Gdansk, Poland

URL: http://ppam.pcz.pl
Submission Deadline: April 30, 2007

Special Issues in Journals

Practical Aspects of High-Level Parallel Programming in Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience (SCPE) VOLUME 7 NUMBER 3, September 2006.

Guest Editor: Frederic Loulergue, Editors:Richard Olejnik, Marek Tudruj
http://www.scpe.org/index.php?vol=7&no=3

Book Announcements

Engineering The Grid: Status and Perspective
http://www.aspbs.com/grid.html

Edited by
            Beniamino DiMartino, University of Napoli,Italy
            Jack Dongarra,University of Tennessee,USA
            Adolfy Hoisie,Los Alamos National Laboratory,USA
            Laurence T.Yang, St.Francis XavierUniversity, Canada
            Hans Zima,California Institute of Technology,USA
            January 2006, 600 pages, Hardcover