CALL FOR PAPERS
SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 31, 2006
EURO-PAR 2006
August 29 - September 1, 2006
Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany
Web site: http://www.europar2006.de/
Email: euro...@zih.tu-dresden.de
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MISSION STATEMENT - EURO-PAR
Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to
the promotion and advancement of parallel computing. The major themes
can be
divided into the broad categories of hardware, software, algorithms, and
applications for parallel computing. The objective of Euro-Par is to
provide a
forum within which to promote the development of parallel computing as an
industrial technique and as an academic discipline, extending the
frontier of
both the state of the art and the state of the practice.
Besides, the planned Grid Village provides an opportunity to showcase
the latest developments in Grid technology with demonstrations and hands
on experiences.
SCIENTIFIC PROGRAM AND WORKSHOPS
The following topics will be covered by regular Euro-Par 2006 sessions:
1. Support Tools and Environments
2. Performance Prediction and Evaluation
3. Scheduling and Load Balancing
4. Compilers for High Performance
5. Parallel and Distributed Databases, Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery
6. Grid and Cluster Computing: Models, Middleware and Architectures
7. Parallel Computer Architecture and Instruction Level Parallelism
8. Distributed Systems and Algorithms
9. Parallel Programming: Models, Methods, and Languages
10. Parallel Numerical Algorithms
11. Distributed and High-Performance Multimedia
12. Theory and Algorithms for Parallel Computation
13. Routing and Communication in Interconnection Networks
14. Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing
15. Peer-to-Peer and Web Computing
16. Applications of High-Performance and Grid Computing
17. High-Performance Bioinformatics
18. Embedded Parallel Systems
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SUBMISSION
Papers are invited to be submitted for the Euro-Par 2006 conference.
Papers must be committed to one of the specific topics listed. Authors
may specify a secondary topic, if applicable. Details on topics,
including descriptions and chairs, are available on the conference
website. Original contributions regarding the theory and practice of
parallel and distributed computing not submitted for publication
elsewhere will be considered.
Paper submission must be performed electronically via the conference
website
http://www.europar2006.de/index.php?page=1
As indicated there, papers must not exceed 10 pages in the LNCS style.
Accepted paper formats are PDF and Postscript. All accepted papers will
be included in the conference proceedings, which will be published by
Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.
Online submission will be open before the end of December 2005.
ADDITIONAL CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS
In addition to extending the list of topics for regular sessions,
Euro-Par 2006 will be the first conference in this series featuring
workshops running in parallel with the conference's main sessions.
Proposals for workshops covering a specific theme and lasting between
half a day and two days are encouraged and solicited until the end of
December 2005.
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KEY DATES
December 31, 2005: Workshop proposals due
January 31, 2006: Full papers due
May 2, 2006: Notification of acceptance
May 30, 2006: Camera-ready papers and author registration due
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CONFERENCE COMMITTEE
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang E. Nagel (a)
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang V. Walter (b)
Prof. Dr.-Ing. Wolfgang Lehner (c)
(a) Center for Information Services and High Performance Computing (ZIH),
and Dept. of Computer Science, Inst. of Computer Engineering, TU
Dresden
(b) Dept. of Mathematics, Inst. of Scientific Computing, TU Dresden
(c) Dept. of Computer Science, Inst. of System Architecture, TU Dresden
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VENUE
Technische Universitaet Dresden is one of the oldest technical
universities in Germany and has a long tradition of designing and
building measuring instruments, mechanical calculators, and pioneering
computers. Currently, it is installing one of the largest high
performance computing facilities for data intensive computing in Germany.
The city of Dresden will celebrate its 800th anniversary in 2006.
Furthermore, Dresden has been elected "City of Science" in Germany for
the year 2006.
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Euro-Par 2006 - Organization
Dresden University of Technology
Center for Information Services
and High Performance Computing (ZIH)
D-01062 Dresden
Germany
Phone: (+49) 351/463-35450
Fax: (+49) 351/463-37773
e-mail: t...@europar2006.de
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
Friday, January 20, 2006
Grid's Top Six in 2006 by Greg Nawrocki
Greg Nawrocki wrote an article titled Grid's Top Six in 2006 in Grid Today lists down top 6 rid areas and some 6 interesting vendors to watch out for in the coming year. The vendors are the same as the author wrote in his earlier blog.
The top 6 areas include:
http://news.taborcommunications.com/msgget.jsp?mid=540387&xsl=story.xsl
The top 6 areas include:
- Data Virtualization and Grid Computing Directions
- Securing the Grid
- Network Intelligence Increasing the Grid's IQ
- The Linux/Grid Relationship
- Grid Licensing Issues
- Virtual Workspaces
- Platform Computing
- Univa Corp.
- EMC Corp.
- Cisco Systems
- Network Appliance
- Microsoft Corp.
http://news.taborcommunications.com/msgget.jsp?mid=540387&xsl=story.xsl
Thursday, January 19, 2006
CBR-Oracle Grid Survey
According to CBR's latest survey into attitudes towards grid computing, understanding of the concepts and technologies is growing, while the problems that grid computing can help solve are getting worse. The survey of IT decision makers also says that the problems associated with maintaining enterprise applications infrastructure have got worse in the last two years.
The survey is concluded with the following noteworthy remarks:
http://www.cbronline.com/oracle4.asp
The survey is concluded with the following noteworthy remarks:
CBR's latest grid survey indicates that knowledge of grid computing has increased by a significant margin in the last two years. That knowledge is slowly being turned into increased understanding of concepts and technologies and then into pilot projects and live implementations. With good levels of interest and adoption for some of the underlying technologies, it appears that grid computing is on the cusp of a new level of deployment. For many users the advantages of grid computing cannot come too soon. As the pain points associated with managing, upgrading and supporting enterprise applications continue to rise, and utilisation rates remain low, many more businesses are likely to follow up their growing understanding of grid computing to investigate the potential business benefits.The complete report is avaiable at:
http://www.cbronline.com/oracle4.asp
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Digipede Network and Digipede framework SDK review
Digipede Technologies has received a 4-star rating from Software Development magazine for its Digipede Network™, an affordable distributed computing solution built entirely on Microsoft .NET.
The review concludes:
http://www.acumeninfo.com/eprints/6338digipede.html?clientId=erights
Press release by Digipede:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/1/prweb330903.htm
The review concludes:
Overall, I was quite impressed with both the Network product and the Framework SDK. If you have a bunch of Windows boxes sitting on desktops or feel like ordering a pallet-load or two from some discount vendor, I can’t think of an easier way to set up cost-effective compute farms. I did find the Workbench application somewhat confusing at first; nontechnical users would likely squeal “Argh!” when confronted with their first job template, but persistence and a bit of delving in the docs will either get them up to speed or let you create a cheat-sheet for them. And the documentation is quite clear and reasonably complete; the Framework SDK material is especially good.
In my admittedly small-scale testing, I often saw near-linear speedups when submitting jobs to the Network. Your mileage may vary, especially if you’re squirting gigabytes of data back and forth.
However, as I seem to say in just about every review, this isn’t magic fairy dust. You may have noticed me waving my hands rapidly over the Worker class (“computation happens here”), but none of this infrastructure attacks the hard problem of parallelizing your algorithms in the first place. Rather, think of this as a way to make the management and deployment of the programs you do eventually develop as painless as possible—at least until we get those quantum computers.
Actual article at:
http://www.acumeninfo.com/eprints/6338digipede.html?clientId=erights
Press release by Digipede:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/1/prweb330903.htm
Analysts See Big Year for Grid
In a grid computing planet article, Paul Shread quotes a report by 451 group that 2006 is going to be an important year for grid computing.
The report predicts that grids will be deployed in enterprises and Emerging Open Standards, Open Source Stacks and GGF-EGA merger will be helpful.
See cmplete story at:
http://www.gridcomputingplanet.com/news/article.php/3577831
The report predicts that grids will be deployed in enterprises and Emerging Open Standards, Open Source Stacks and GGF-EGA merger will be helpful.
See cmplete story at:
http://www.gridcomputingplanet.com/news/article.php/3577831
Monday, January 16, 2006
E-Science 2005 Conference Report
Some days earlier, I have got the following conference report on a grid computing mailing list which I found worth sharing with everyone.
Slides of keynote and tutorials presentations can be downloaded from:
http://www.gridbus.org/escience/escience2005/escience2005schedule.html
The conference proceedings is published by the IEEE CS Press and it should
appears in their Digital Library and IEEE Xplore soon.
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E-Science 2005 Conference Report
By Ron Perrott and Rajkumar Buyya, e-Science 2005 co-chairs
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The first International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (e-Science 2005) was held December 5-8, 2005 at the Langham Hotel in Melbourne, Australia. The conference provided a forum for all e-science and grid researchers, developers and users to discuss and discover recent
progress in e-science.
This first in a series of e-Science conferences was held jointly with the second International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2005). The combined conferences attracted more than 350 participants from more than 30 countries. The e-Science conference alone received over 175 contributions from Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas.
"The interest the conference generated worldwide was impressive, as was the high quality of the papers submitted from the international community," said conference organizer Ron Perrott. "The keynote speakers really set the scene by presenting vision, opportunity and progress in the e-science area. The breadth and depth of the conference presentations emphasised the widespread developments taking place in grid computing and e-science."
The e-Science 2005 conference was sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee for Scalable Computing and organized by the University of Melbourne in cooperation with various research organizations. Financial support was received from the State of Victoria, AMD, Intel, Alexander Technologies, Dell, EMC, WASP, MMSN and NICTA.
The conference program included keynote speeches, peer-reviewed research paper presentations, workshops, an industry track, tutorials and a poster session. Mark Sargent, Chairman of the Australian National e-Research Coordination Committee, kicked off the conference. Keynote speakers included Ian Foster, one of the creators of the grid, from Argonne National Laboratory in the U.S., Carole Goble of the e-Science North West Centre at The University of Manchester in the UK, and Professor Hideo Matsuda from the Department of Bioinformatic Engineering at Osaka University in Japan. The keynote addresses set the tone of
the conference and provided the delegates with a great insight into service-oriented architectures, data integration and Web semantics.
The conference hosted three workshops: Innovative and Collaborative Problem Solving Environment in Distributed Resources; Deploying Production Grids—Beyond the Hype; and Scientific Instruments and Sensors on the Grid. Tutorials on three different middleware implementations were also offered: the Gridbus Toolkit, delivered by researchers from the GRIDS Lab, University of Melbourne; the Globus Toolkit delivered by Ian Foster; and Nimrod-G, from researchers at Monash University in Australia.
Presentation slides of some of these tutorials are available for download from the conference Web site: The first International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (e-Science 2005) was held December 5-8, 2005 at the Langham Hotel in Melbourne, Australia. The conference provided a forum for all e-science and grid researchers, developers and users to discuss and discover recent progress in e-science.
This first in a series of e-Science conferences was held jointly with the second International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2005). The combined conferences attracted more than 350 participants from more than 30 countries. The e-Science conference alone received over 175 contributions from Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas.
"The interest the conference generated worldwide was impressive, as was the high quality of the papers submitted from the international community," said conference organizer Ron Perrott. "The keynote speakers really set the scene by presenting vision, opportunity and progress in the e-science area. The breadth and depth of the conference presentations emphasised the widespread developments taking place in grid computing and e-science."
The e-Science 2005 conference was sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee for Scalable Computing and organized by the University of Melbourne in cooperation with various research organizations. Financial support was received from the State of Victoria, AMD, Intel, Alexander Technologies, Dell, EMC, WASP, MMSN and NICTA.
The conference program included keynote speeches, peer-reviewed research paper presentations, workshops, an industry track, tutorials and a poster session. Mark Sargent, Chairman of the Australian National e-Research Coordination Committee, kicked off the conference. Keynote speakers included Ian Foster, one of the creators of the grid, from Argonne National Laboratory in the U.S., Carole Goble of the e-Science North West Centre at The University of Manchester in the UK, and Professor Hideo Matsuda from the Department of Bioinformatic Engineering at Osaka University in Japan. The keynote addresses set the tone of
the conference and provided the delegates with a great insight into service-oriented architectures, data integration and Web semantics.
The conference hosted three workshops: Innovative and Collaborative Problem Solving Environment in Distributed Resources; Deploying Production Grids—Beyond the Hype; and Scientific Instruments and Sensors on the Grid. Tutorials on three different middleware implementations were also offered: the Gridbus Toolkit, delivered by researchers from the GRIDS Lab, University of Melbourne; the Globus Toolkit delivered by Ian Foster; and Nimrod-G, from researchers at Monash University in Australia.
Presentation slides of some of these tutorials are available for download from the conference Web site. More details about e-Science 2006, which will take place December 4-6 in Amsterdam, can be found at:
http://www.gridbus.org/escience/escience2005/
More details about e-Science 2006, which will take place December 4-6 in
Amsterdam, can be found at: http://www.gridbus.org/escience/.
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Slides of keynote and tutorials presentations can be downloaded from:
http://www.gridbus.org/escience/escience2005/escience2005schedule.html
The conference proceedings is published by the IEEE CS Press and it should
appears in their Digital Library and IEEE Xplore soon.
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E-Science 2005 Conference Report
By Ron Perrott and Rajkumar Buyya, e-Science 2005 co-chairs
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The first International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (e-Science 2005) was held December 5-8, 2005 at the Langham Hotel in Melbourne, Australia. The conference provided a forum for all e-science and grid researchers, developers and users to discuss and discover recent
progress in e-science.
This first in a series of e-Science conferences was held jointly with the second International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2005). The combined conferences attracted more than 350 participants from more than 30 countries. The e-Science conference alone received over 175 contributions from Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas.
"The interest the conference generated worldwide was impressive, as was the high quality of the papers submitted from the international community," said conference organizer Ron Perrott. "The keynote speakers really set the scene by presenting vision, opportunity and progress in the e-science area. The breadth and depth of the conference presentations emphasised the widespread developments taking place in grid computing and e-science."
The e-Science 2005 conference was sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee for Scalable Computing and organized by the University of Melbourne in cooperation with various research organizations. Financial support was received from the State of Victoria, AMD, Intel, Alexander Technologies, Dell, EMC, WASP, MMSN and NICTA.
The conference program included keynote speeches, peer-reviewed research paper presentations, workshops, an industry track, tutorials and a poster session. Mark Sargent, Chairman of the Australian National e-Research Coordination Committee, kicked off the conference. Keynote speakers included Ian Foster, one of the creators of the grid, from Argonne National Laboratory in the U.S., Carole Goble of the e-Science North West Centre at The University of Manchester in the UK, and Professor Hideo Matsuda from the Department of Bioinformatic Engineering at Osaka University in Japan. The keynote addresses set the tone of
the conference and provided the delegates with a great insight into service-oriented architectures, data integration and Web semantics.
The conference hosted three workshops: Innovative and Collaborative Problem Solving Environment in Distributed Resources; Deploying Production Grids—Beyond the Hype; and Scientific Instruments and Sensors on the Grid. Tutorials on three different middleware implementations were also offered: the Gridbus Toolkit, delivered by researchers from the GRIDS Lab, University of Melbourne; the Globus Toolkit delivered by Ian Foster; and Nimrod-G, from researchers at Monash University in Australia.
Presentation slides of some of these tutorials are available for download from the conference Web site: The first International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing (e-Science 2005) was held December 5-8, 2005 at the Langham Hotel in Melbourne, Australia. The conference provided a forum for all e-science and grid researchers, developers and users to discuss and discover recent progress in e-science.
This first in a series of e-Science conferences was held jointly with the second International Conference on Intelligent Sensors, Sensor Networks and Information Processing (ISSNIP 2005). The combined conferences attracted more than 350 participants from more than 30 countries. The e-Science conference alone received over 175 contributions from Asia, Australia, Europe and the Americas.
"The interest the conference generated worldwide was impressive, as was the high quality of the papers submitted from the international community," said conference organizer Ron Perrott. "The keynote speakers really set the scene by presenting vision, opportunity and progress in the e-science area. The breadth and depth of the conference presentations emphasised the widespread developments taking place in grid computing and e-science."
The e-Science 2005 conference was sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee for Scalable Computing and organized by the University of Melbourne in cooperation with various research organizations. Financial support was received from the State of Victoria, AMD, Intel, Alexander Technologies, Dell, EMC, WASP, MMSN and NICTA.
The conference program included keynote speeches, peer-reviewed research paper presentations, workshops, an industry track, tutorials and a poster session. Mark Sargent, Chairman of the Australian National e-Research Coordination Committee, kicked off the conference. Keynote speakers included Ian Foster, one of the creators of the grid, from Argonne National Laboratory in the U.S., Carole Goble of the e-Science North West Centre at The University of Manchester in the UK, and Professor Hideo Matsuda from the Department of Bioinformatic Engineering at Osaka University in Japan. The keynote addresses set the tone of
the conference and provided the delegates with a great insight into service-oriented architectures, data integration and Web semantics.
The conference hosted three workshops: Innovative and Collaborative Problem Solving Environment in Distributed Resources; Deploying Production Grids—Beyond the Hype; and Scientific Instruments and Sensors on the Grid. Tutorials on three different middleware implementations were also offered: the Gridbus Toolkit, delivered by researchers from the GRIDS Lab, University of Melbourne; the Globus Toolkit delivered by Ian Foster; and Nimrod-G, from researchers at Monash University in Australia.
Presentation slides of some of these tutorials are available for download from the conference Web site. More details about e-Science 2006, which will take place December 4-6 in Amsterdam, can be found at:
http://www.gridbus.org/escience/escience2005/
More details about e-Science 2006, which will take place December 4-6 in
Amsterdam, can be found at: http://www.gridbus.org/escience/.
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Microsoft and Grid Computing
According to various people in the industry, microsoft is set to make an entry into grid computing. This will be sometime in the second quarter when the Windows Compute Cluster Server 2003 ships.
MS has already been seen partnering with Platform Computing and accolades to Digipede. We might as well see MS taking over some grid computing companies :)
MS has already been seen partnering with Platform Computing and accolades to Digipede. We might as well see MS taking over some grid computing companies :)
While we are on the subject, below is a quote from a grid meter article:And you might already know that Tony Hey and Fabrizio Gagliardi both joined Microsoft last year. Tony Hey is an internationally recognized leader in parallel computing and has been a key driver in Web Services standards, especially as they relate to Grid computing. Fabrizio is taking leave from CERN where he served as Project Director for EGEE.
Many questions still remain, and admittedly the above are a fairly disjoint collection of observations with no real central theme. So how does this warrant a position on a 2006 watch list? Five hundred pound gorilla jokes aside, Microsoft obviously has something brewing in the area of Grid computing, and they have a history of proving they can't be ignored. - http://weblog.infoworld.com/gridmeter/archives/2006/01/ whats_microsoft.html
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
Largest known prime
Sharon Gaudin reports that researchers at Central Missouri State University discovered the largest known prime number using a grid of about 70,000 computers. The number is 2 to the 30,402,457th power minus 1 and has about 9.1 million digits.
read complete story at: http://www.gridcomputingplanet.com/news/article.php/3573946
read complete story at: http://www.gridcomputingplanet.com/news/article.php/3573946
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