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Cluster 2004
The 2004 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing
September 20-23, 2004
Town and Country Hotel, San Diego, California, USA

http://grail.sdsc.edu/cluster2004/

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In less than a decade, commodity clusters have become mainstream
and cost-effective computing platforms for executing a wide range of
computation-, data-, and transaction-oriented parallel applications. In
spite of countless deployed platforms and resounding application
successes, many research and development challenges remain for achieving
higher performance, scalability, and usability. The IEEE TFCC Cluster
2004 conference, to be held in beautiful San Diego, provides an open forum
for researchers, practitioners, and users to present and discuss issues,
directions, and results that will shape the future of cluster computing.

SCOPE
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Cluster 2004 welcomes paper and poster submissions from engineers and
scientists in academia and industry describing original research work in
all areas of cluster computing. In addition, Cluster 2004 will welcome
proposals for tutorials and workshops to be held concurrently with the
conference. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Cluster Middleware:
- Single-System Image Services         - Software Environments and Tools
- Standard Software for Clusters       - I/O Libraries, File Systems,
and Distributed RAID

Cluster Networking:
- High-Speed System Interconnects      - Lightweight Communication Protocols
- Fast Message Passing Libraries

Cluster Management and Maintenance:
- Cluster Security and Reliability     - Tools for Managing Clusters
- Cluster Job and Resource Management  - High-Availability Cluster Solutions

Applications:
- Scientific and E-Commerce Apps       - Data
Distribution and Load Balancing
- Scheduling and Parallel Algorithms   - Innovative Cluster Applications
- Tools and Environments

Performance Analysis and Evaluation:
- Benchmarking and Profiling Tools     - Performance Prediction and Modeling
- Analysis and Visualization

Grid Computing and Clusters:
- Grid / Clusters Integration          - Network-Based Distributed Computing
- Mobile Agents and Java for
Clusters/Grids

TECHNICAL PAPERS
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Paper Format: Not to exceed 25 double-spaced, numbered pages (including
title, author affiliations, abstract, keywords, figures, tables and
bibliographical references) using 12 point font on 8.5x11-inch pages
with 1-inch margins all around.

Submission: An on-line submission page will be activated on the
conference web site two weeks before the submission
deadline. Authors should submit a PostScript (level 2) or PDF
file. Hard copy submissions will not be accepted.

POSTERS
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Augmenting direct submissions will be technical paper submissions that were
not accepted but are recommended by the committee for poster presentation.
(The latter of course requires authorization by the author(s).)

Abstract Format: 1 page PDF including Title, Authors with their
affiliations, and a 200 word, single-spaced abstract.

Submission: via email to Richard Barrett (rbarrett@lanl.gov)

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
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Authors of the best papers from the conference will be invited to submit an
expanded version of their papers for possible publication in a special issue
of the International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking
(IJHPCN), which will appear in 2005.

IMPORTANT DATES
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- Workshop Proposals Due                March 6, 2004
- Paper Submissions Due                 April 16, 2004
- Tutorial Proposals Due                May 14, 2004
- Paper Acceptance Notification         June 8, 2004
- Poster Submissions Due                June 8, 2004
- Exhibition Proposal Due               June 18, 2004
- Poster Acceptance Notification        June 22, 2004
- Camera-Ready Paper Manuscripts Due    July 2, 2004
- Camera-Ready Poster Abstracts Due     July 2, 2004

- Cut-off for group hotel rates         August 30, 2004
- Pre-Conference Tutorials              September 20, 2004
- Conference                            September 21-22-23, 2004

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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* General Co-Chairs:
- Henri Casanova, University of California, San Diego, USA
- Daniel S. Katz, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, USA

* General Vice Chair:
- Bernard Tourancheau, Sun Microsystems, France

* Program Chair:
- Philip Papadopoulos, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA

* Deputy Program Chair:
- R�my Evard, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

* Program Vice Chairs
- Middleware: Carl Kesselman, Information Sciences Institute &
University of Southern California, USA
- Hardware: Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
- Applications: David Walker, Cardiff University, UK

* Tutorials Chair:
- Jennifer M. Schopf, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

* Workshops Chair:
- Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia

* Exhibits/Sponsors Co-Chairs:
- Jim Ang Sandia National Laboratories, USA
- Kurt Keville, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

* Posters Chair:
- Richard Barrett, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA

* Publications Chair:
- Joseph C. Jacob, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, USA

* Publicity Chair:
- Bertil Schmidt, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

* Finance/Registration Chair:
- Vana Kalogeraki, University of California, Riverside, USA

* Local Arrangements:
- Chair Greg Bruno, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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David Abramson, Monash University, Australia
Gustavo Alonso, ETH, Zurich, Switzerland
Artur Andrzejak, Zuse Institut Berlin, Germany
Gabriel Antoniu, IRISA/ENS Cachan, Rennes, France
Amy Apon, University of Arkansas, USA
David Bader, University of New Mexico, USA
Mark Baker, Univ. of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
Kim Baldridge, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Taisuke-Arai Boku, University of Tskuba, Japan
Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Randy Butler, National Center For Supercomputing Applications, USA
Giovanni Chiola, Universita' di Genova, Italy
Toni Cortes, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
Narayan Desai, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Peter Dinda, Northwestern University, USA
Markus Fischer, Myricom, Inc., Germany
Al Geist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Patrick Geoffray, Myricom, Inc., USA
Bill Gropp, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Johannes Gutleber, CERN, Switzerland
James Heath, Massey University, New Zealand
Yutaka Ishikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Dave Jackson, University of Utah, USA
Carl Kesselman, Information Sciences Institute - USC, USA
Mason Katz, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA
Chung-Ta King, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Mario Lauria, The Ohio State University, USA
David Lifka, Cornell Theory Center, USA
Jason Leigh, University of Illinois, Chicago, USA
Chokchai (Box) Leangsuksun, Louisiana Technical University, USA
Walt Ligon, Clemson University, USA
Fang-Pang Lin, National Center for High Performance Computing, Taiwan
Ewing Lusk, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
Barney McCabe, University of New Mexico, USA
Phillip Merkey, Michigan Tech. University, USA
Ron Minnich, Los Alamos National Lab, USA
Luc Moreau, Southampton University, UK
Matt Mutka, Michigan State University, USA
Kai Nan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Charles Norton, Caltech and NASA JPL, USA
D.K. Panda, The Ohio State University, USA
Elizabeth Post, Lincoln University, New Zealand
Ira Pramanick, Sun Microsystems, USA
Neil Pundit, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
Thomas Rauber, Universitaet Bayreuth, Germany
Wolfgang Rehm, Technische Universitaet Chemnitz, Germany
Paul Roe, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia   Australia
Gudula Ruenger, Technische Universitaet Chemnitz, Germany
Fengen Rungsawang, Kasetsart University, Thailand
Mitsuhisa Sato, University of Tskuba, Japan
Dave Semeraro, National Center For Supercomputing Applications, USA
Shinji Sumimoto, Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan
Xian-He Sun, Illinois Insitute of Technology, USA
Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK
Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Putchong Uthayopas, Kasetsart University, Thailand
David Walker, Uni. Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom
Cho-Li Wang, Hong Kong University, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR
Xiaodong Zhang, National Science Foundation and College of William and Mary, USA

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