Subject: Cluster 2005 Paper Final Deadline May 28

From: Cluster 2005 <debug (a) MIT.EDU>
Date: Sat, 21 May 2005 14:38:33 -0400

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**                               CALL FOR 
PAPERS                              **
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                                   Cluster 2005
               The 2005 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing
                               September 27-30, 2005
               Burlington Marriott Boston, Burlington, Massachusetts, USA
                                http://cluster2005.org
                                 info (a) cluster2005.org

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  In less than a decade, clusters of commodity PCs have become the most
  cost-effective computing platforms for executing a wide range of
  high performance applications from molecular biology simulations to
  search and indexing on the Internet.

  In spite of countless deployed platforms and resounding application
  successes, many research and development challenges remain for achieving
  better performance, scalability, and usability. The IEEE TFCC Cluster
  2005 conference 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.

  As cluster architecture is becoming a more mature field of
  application it remains particularly important to maintain an event
  that links the academic interests and new ideas to the experience
  reports of practitioners and application developers.

See the upcoming Call for Participation for more details.

SCOPE
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  Cluster 2005 welcomes paper and poster submissions from engineers and
  scientists in academia and industry describing original research work
  in all areas of cluster computing. Topics of interest include, but
  are not limited to:

    Cluster Architecture and Networking:
     - High-Speed System Interconnects   - Lightweight Communication Protocols
     - Fast Message Passing Libraries    - Networking Cost/Performance

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

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

    Cluster Software and Middleware:
     - Single-System Image Services      - Software Environments and Tools
     - Standard Software for Clusters      for Application Building

    Cluster Storage and Cluster I/O Subsystems:
     - I/O Libraries                     - Realtime I/O (e.g in Physics)
     - Distributed File Systems and RAIDs

    Applications:
     - Scientific Applications           - Data Distribution and Load Balancing
     - Algorithms for Distributed Apps.  - Innovative Cluster Applications
     - Scalable Internet Services on Clusters

    Grid Computing and Clusters:
     - Cluster Integration in Grids
     - Network-Based Distributed Computing
     - Cluster-Based Grid Services

TECHNICAL PAPERS
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Format for submission: Full paper drafts, not to exceed 25 double-spaced, 
numbered pages
(including title, author affiliations, abstract, keywords, figures, tables and
bibliographic references) using 12 point font on 8.5x11-inch pages with 
1-inch margins
all around. A web based submission mechanisms 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 can not be accepted.

POSTERS
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Format for submission: 1 page abstract in PDF including names of authors, 
their affiliation
and a 200 word abstract sent as an e-mail attachment to the poster chair, 
Shawn Houston
<poster (a) cluster2005.org>. Poster presentations will also be offered to the 
authors of
technical papers that were not accepted for oral presentation but are 
recommended by the
committee for this form of publication.

  IMPORTANT DATES
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      - Paper Submissions Due                  May 21, 2005
        EXTENDED TO                        Sat May 28, 2005, 12:00 GMT 
(Zulu Time)
      - Tutorials Submissions Due              May 21, 2005
        EXTENDED TO                        Sat May 28, 2005, 12:00 GMT 
(Zulu Time)
      - Paper Acceptance Notification         June 30, 2005
      - Poster Submissions Due                June 30, 2005
      - Exhibition Proposal Due               June 30, 2005
      - Poster Acceptance Notification        June 30, 2005
      - Camera-Ready Paper Manuscripts Due    July 16, 2005
      - Camera-Ready Poster Abstracts Due     July 16, 2005
      - Cut-off for group hotel rates         September 5, 2005
      - Conference                            September 27-30, 2005
      - Post-Conference Workshops             September 30, 2005

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
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     * General Chair:
       - Dimiter Avresky, Northeastern University, Boston, USA

     * General Vice Chair:
       - Daniel S. Katz, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Caltech, USA

     * Program Chair:
       - Thomas Stricker, Google European Engineering Centre, Switzerland

     * Workshops Chair:
       - Rajkumar Buyya, Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Computer Science and
         Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, Australia

     * Tutorials Chair:
       - Box Leangsuksun, Lousiana Tech, Louisiana, USA

     * Exhibits/Sponsors Co-Chairs:
        - Ivan Judson, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
        - Rosa Badia, CEPBA-IBM Research Institute, UPC, Spain

     * Posters Chair:
        - Shawn Houston, University of Alaska, USA

     * Publications Chair:
        - Kurt Keville, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA

     * Publicity Chair:
        - Kevin Gleason, Mount Ida College, Newton, USA

     * Finance/Registration Chair:
        - Madeleine Furlotte, Genzyme, USA