Dear Friends,

Please share/forward the enclosed CCGrid 2004 Symposium call for papers
(message below) with your research colleagues working in cluster and grid
computing areas. And of course, encourage them to submit papers for
our conference!

Thanks for your support
Raj

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CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION

4th International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2004)
Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society (final approval pending )
19-22 April, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Web site: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/ccgrid2004

SCOPE

In 20 years from 1970 to 1990 the Internet and the UNIX operating system
became ubiquitous in computer science laboratories and universities.
During the 10 years from 1990 to 2000, the Internet emerged as a global
information utility, commodity microprocessors fueled the establishment
of clusters as computing platforms, and open source Linux became a
mainstream operating system. Metacomputers, the concept of combining
networked resources into distributed virtual computers, grew into the
concept of The Grid with the vision that those distributed resources
would be as straightforward to build and use as the ubiquitous
electrical power grid.

Today we are seeing a convergence of extremes: terascale computers
created from Open Source Linux commodity clusters, multi-gigabit/second
wide area networks, and the Open Grid Services Architecture, combining
Web services designed to scale to millions of endpoints with High
Performance Grid concepts designed to scale to TeraFlop endpoints.
Together, they are facilitating a new wave of computer science research
and development.

CCGrid2004, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society (final approval
pending), is designed to bring together international leaders who are
pioneering researchers, developers, and users of extreme clusters,
networks, and Grid architectures and applications. The symposium will
also serve as a forum to present the latest work, and highlight related
activities from around the world.

CCGrid2004 is interested in topics including, but not limited to:

* Hardware and Software (based on PCs, Workstations, SMPs or
Supercomputers)
* Middleware for Clusters and Grids
* Dynamic Optical Network Architectures for Grid Computing
* Parallel File Systems, including wide area file systems, and Parallel I/O
* Scheduling and Load Balancing
* Programming Models, Tools, and Environments
* Performance Evaluation and Modeling
* Resource Management and Scheduling
* Computational, Data, and Information Grid Architectures and Systems
* Grid Economies, Service Architectures, and Resource Exchange
Architectures
* Grid-based Problem Solving Environments
* Scientific, Engineering, and Commercial Grid Applications
* Portal Computing / Science Portals

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit papers of not more than 8 pages of double
column text using single spaced 10 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inch
pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines, see:
http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm. Authors should submit a
PostScript (level 2) or PDF file that will print on a PostScript
printer. Paper submission instructions will be placed on:
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/ccgrid2004/.

It is expected that the proceedings will be published by the IEEE
Computer Society Press, USA.

SPECIAL EVENTS - WORKSHOPS

Those wishing to organize workshops, present tutorials on emerging
topics or participate in the industry track are invited to send the
following information to special-event-ccgrid2004@....

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Event Type: Workshop / Tutorial / Industry Track
Workshop Title:
Workshop Chairs:
Short Description of the Field:
Scope:
Prospective Reviewers/Program Committee:
Plans for publicizing the workshop:
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CHAIRS & COMMITTEES

Conference General Chairs
Charlie Catlett (Argonne Nat'l Lab, USA and Global Grid Forum)
Pete Beckman (Argonne Nat'l Lab, USA)

Honorary Chair
Ian Foster (Argonne Nat'l Lab and University of Chicago, USA)

Program Committee Chair
Pete Beckman (Argonne Nat'l Lab, USA)

Program Committee Vice-Chairs
David Abramson (Monash University, Australia)
Sameer Shende (Univ Oregon, USA)

IMPORTANT DATES

10 Nov 2003 Papers Due
1 Dec 2003 Workshop/Tutorial/Exhibit Proposals Due
20 Dec 2003 Notification of Paper Acceptance
19 Jan 2004 Camera Ready Papers Due


CCGRID 2004 PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

* David Abramson, Monash University, Australia
* Greg Astfalk, Hewlett-Packard, USA
* Ruth Aydt, NCSA, USA
* Henri Bal, Vrije University, The Netherlands
* Taisuke Boku, University of Tsukuba, Japan
* Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratory, USA
* Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
* Charlie Catlett, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
* Giovanni Chiola, Universit di Genova, Italy
* Susan Coghlan, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
* Steve Crumb, Global Grid Forum, USA
* Andreas Dilger, Cluster File Systems, Canada
* Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
* Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, USA
* Andrew S. Grimshaw, University of Virginia, USA
* Jon "Maddog" Hall, Linux International, USA
* Tony Hey, EPSRC, Great Britain
* Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia, USA
* Satoshi Itoh, AIST, Japan
* William Johnston, NASA/Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
* Thilo Kielmann, Vrije University, The Netherlands
* Barbara Kucera, University of Kentucky, USA
* Domenico Laforenza, ISTI-CNR, Italy
* Craig A. Lee, The Aerospace Corporation, USA
* Timothy Mattson, Intel Corporation, USA
* Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
* Andre Merzky, ZIB, Germany
* Bill Nitzberg, Veridian, USA
* Joerg Nolte, Fraunhofer FIRST, Germany
* Philip Papadopoulos, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA
* Rob Pennington, NCSA, USA
* Ira Pramanick, Sun Microsystems, USA
* Thierry Priol, IRISA, Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu, France
* Alexander Reinefeld, Zuse Institute, Germany
* Paul Roe, Queensland University of Technology, Australia
* Joel Saltz, Ohio State University, USA
* Jenny Schopf, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
* Sameer Shende, University of Oregon, USA
* Derek Simmel, Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center, USA
* Osamu Tatebe, AIST, Japan
* Kenjiro Taura, University of Tokyo, Japan
* Putchong Uthayopas, Kasetsart, University, Thailand
* Richard M. Wolski, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA

Tutorials Chair

* Steve Crumb, Global Grid Forum, USA

Publications Chair

* Stacey Bruno, Global Grid Forum, USA

Publicity Chair

* Clare Spartz, Global Grid Forum, USA

Finance Chair

* Tom Morgan, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Exhibits Chair

* Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation, USA

Registration Chair

* Ann Collins, Global Grid Forum, USA

Local Arrangements Chair

* Angel Murakami, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Steering Committee

* Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth, United Kingdom
* Henri Bal, Vrije University, The Netherlands
* Rajkuma Buyya, University of Melbourn, Australia (Chair)
* Franck Capello, University of Paris-Sud, France
* Charlie Catlett, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
* Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee & Oak Ridge National Laboratory,
USA
* Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
* Wolfgang Gentzsch, Sun Microsystems, USA
* Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China
* Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation, USA
* Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France
* Satoshi Matsuoaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
* Alexander Reinefeld, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum, Germany
* Satoshi Sekiguchi, AIST, Japan
* David Walker, University of Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom
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