From: Tevfik Kosar [mailto:kosar@cct.lsu.edu]
Sent: maandag 13 oktober 2008 20:03
To: Tevfik Kosar
Subject: CFP: Cluster 2009

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Tevfik Kosar

Cluster 2009 Publicity Co-Chair

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                         Call for Papers

    2009 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing
                        (Cluster 2009)

http://www.cluster2009.org/

                  29 August - 4 September 2009

                  New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

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Cluster 2009 welcomes paper and poster submissions on innovative work from
researchers in academia, industry, and government, describing original research
in the field of cluster computing. Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:

• Cluster Architecture and Hardware Systems
◦ Node architectures
◦ Packaging, Power, and Cooling
• Cluster Software and Middleware
◦ Software Environments and Tools
◦ Single -System Image Services
◦ Parallel File Systems and I/O Libraries
◦ Standard Software for Clusters
◦ Virtualization
• Cluster Networking
◦ High-Speed Interconnects
◦ High Performance Message Passing Libraries
◦ Lightweight Communication Protocols
• Implications of Multicore and Clouds on Clusters
◦ Hardware Architecture
◦ Software and Tools
◦ Networking
◦ Management
◦ Applications
• Applications
◦ Application Methods and Algorithms
◦ Adaptation to Multicore
◦ Data Distribution, Load Balancing & Scaling
◦ MPI/OpenMP Hybrid Computing
◦ Visualization
• Performance Analysis and Evaluation
◦ Benchmarking & Profiling Tools
◦ Performance Prediction & Modeling
• Cluster Management
◦ Security and Reliability
◦ High Availability Solutions
◦ Resource and Job Management

For submitting and formatting instructions, see the conference
web site: http://www.cluster2009.org/

Important Dates:

  Workshop proposal deadline: 26 November 2008
  Workshop notification: 22 December 2008
  Tutorial proposal deadline: 31 March 2009
  Technical paper submissions: 14 April 2009
  Tutorial notification: 31 May 2009
  Technical paper notification: 5 June 2009
  Poster submissions: 12 June 2009
  Poster notification: 17 July 2009
  Poster camera ready deadline: 31 July 2009
  Paper camera ready deadline: 31 July 2009

Conference Organizing Chairs and Committees:

General Chair
  Daniel S. Katz, Louisiana State University, USA
General Vice Chair
  Mark Baker, University of Reading, UK
Program Chair
  Thomas Sterling, Louisiana State University, USA
Program Vice Chairs
  Pete Beckman, Argonne National Lab, USA
  William Camp, Intel, USA
  Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA
  William Gropp, University of Illinois, USA
  Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
  Bart Miller, Univ. of Wisconsin, USA
Poster Co-Chairs
  Sushil Prasad, Georgia State University, USA
  Eric Aubanel, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Workshops Chair
  Wu Feng, Virginia Tech, USA
Tutorials Co-Chairs
  Robert Ferraro, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
  Bryan Biegel, NASA Ames, USA
Proceedings Chair
  Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Publicity Co-Chairs
  Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
  Feilong Tang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
  Tevfik Kosar, Louisiana State University, USA
Finance Chair
  Box Leangsuksun, Louisiana Tech University, USA
Sponsor and Exhibitors Co-Chairs
  George Jones, Data Direct Networks, USA
  Charlie McMahon, Louisiana State University, USA
Local Arrangements Chair
  Karen Jones, Louisiana State University, USA
PR/Graphics Chair
  Kristen Sunde, Louisiana State University, USA