Date: Thu, 15 Apr 1999 09:37:27 +0200 (MET DST)
From: Eduard Ayguade <eduard@ac.upc.es>
Subject: ICS99 Workshops announcement

Dear colleague,
I would like to inform you about three workshops that will be held in
conjunction with the 13th ACM International Conference on Supercomputing
ICS99 in Rhodes (June 20-25, 1999):
	- Scheduling Algorithms for Parallel/Distributed Computing 
	     --From Theory to Practice-- (June 19)
	- Workshop on Cluster-based Computing (June 20)
	- 1st Workshop on Software Distributed Shared Memory (June 25)
	- Workshop on Java for High-Performance Computing (June 19-20)

Attached in this mail you will find the Call for Papers for those 
that still have the CFP open. Notice that the deadline for submissions 
is very soon.

For additional information about the conference, workshops and tutorials, 
please visit the ICS99 web page located at 

	           www.csrd.uiuc.edu/ics99

For questions, please send an e-mail to ics99@csrd.uiuc.edu.

I apologize if you receive multiple copies of this mail. 

Best regards, 
Prof. Eduard Ayguade (ICS99 Publicity Chair)               

Centre Europeu de Paral.lelisme de Barcelona (CEPBA)
Dept. d'Arquitectura de Computadors, Univ. Politecnica de Catalunya      
Jordi Girona 1-3, Modul D6, Barcelona 08034, SPAIN
Phone:   +34-93-4015951                       Fax:   +34-93-4017055
www.ac.upc.es/homes/eduard           mailto:eduard@ac.upc.es
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		 WORKSHOP ON CLUSTER-BASED COMPUTING
    In conjunction with the 1999 ACM Int. Conf. on Supercomputing
                   www.csrd.uiuc.edu/ics99

			    June 20, 1999,
			    Rhodes, Greece

		   ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

Call For Submissions -- Workshop on Cluster-Based Computing

To be held in conjunction with the Thirteenth International Conference on 
Supercomputing June 20-25, in Rhodes, Greece
(www.csrd.uiuc.edu/ics99)

Cluster-based computing platforms offer the potential for high
performance at low cost by exploiting program parallelism across
multiple commodity uniprocessors. This new computing paradigm offers a 
number of interesting research areas, such as operating systems for
clustered computers, support for clusters of SMP's, and application
tuning on clustered machines. This workshop will explore recent
developments in this field, presenting many preliminary results from
work which has not yet been published elsewhere.

Abstracts are solicited for presentations in all areas related to
cluster-based computing, including, but not limited to:

- Multi-level Exploitation of Parallelism
- Clusters of SMP's
- Compiler Support for Clusters
- Hardware Support for Clustered Computing
- Performance Analysis
- Run-time and Operating Systems
- Programming Language and Synchronization Issues
- Software Tools
- Application Results

Abstracts should be approximately 500 words in length, ASCII text
only. Please e-mail the abstracts to conference co-chairs, Nicholas
Carter and Steven Lumetta, at cluster@crhc.uiuc.edu. Authors of accepted
abstracts will be asked to prepare 5-page papers for distribution at
the workshop. 

Deadlines:
Abstract Submission: April 26, 1999
Acceptance Notification: May 7, 1999
5-Page Final Papers: May 24, 1999

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                   Software Distributed Shared Memory 

          1st Workshop on Software Distributed Shared Memory

            www.cs.umd.edu/~keleher/wsdsm99/WSDSM'99

To be held in Rhodes, Greece, June 25, 1999 in conjunction with the
1999 ACM International Conference on Supercomputing ICS'99

Workshop proceedings to be published by the ICS organization 

THEME 

During the last few years, research on consistency models, protocols 
and applications has allowed the software DSM field to become
relatively mature. At the same time, general-purpose networks and
communication packages have advanced to the point where clusters of
workstations can be coupled almost as closely as hardware
multi-processors. 

The theme of this workshop, then, will be an attempt to answer the
following two related questions:
       What remains to be done in DSM?
and more to the point:
       Will DSM ever move into the mainstream?

To this end, we solicit abstracts of original DSM research including, but
not limited to, the following areas: 

    applications 
    clusters of multiprocessors 
    compiler support 
    DSM and real-world applications 
    fault tolerance 
    hardware support 
    memory models 
    multi-threading 
    online adaptation 
    performance/debugging tools 

IMPORTANT DATES
Submission: 15 April 1999
Notification of acceptance: 30 April 1999
Camera-ready copies: 15 May 1999

SUBMISSION DETAILS 

All submissions must be in the form of extended abstracts whose length ---
including abstract, figures, bibliographies, and appendices ---
does not exceed 4 US letter (8.5" x 11"; no A4 please) pages; papers
longer than 4 pages will be summarily rejected.  Text must be set in
no smaller than a 10 pt font, be single-spaced and single-columned, and
include page numbers. Each paper will be reviewed by the
program chairs. 

Full versions of accepted papers will be published separately from the
ICS'99 Proceedings and will be available at the conference site.
The workshop proceedings will be published as an ACM ICS'99 volumes
(bearing the ACM logo). 

Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format. It is essential
that they print without difficulty on a variety of printers using Adobe
Acrobat Reader. Therefore, be sure that you have included any special
fonts that you use, etc. It is the absolute responsibility of the
authors to ensure that the submitted papers will print easily.  The
corresponding author is requested to include at the start of the message
containing the paper: 

    complete postal address 
    e-mail address 
    phone number 
    fax number 

Email your submission to wsdsm@cs.umd.edu. Receipt of submissions will be
promptly acknowledged.  Late submissions will not be
accepted; sorry, no exceptions. In cases where electronic submission is
not possible, please contact one of the program chairs (see
below). 

WORKSHOP CHAIRS 

Co-Program Chairs are Liviu Iftode and Peter J. Keleher. 

Liviu Iftode (iftode@cs.rutgers.edu) 
Department of Computer Science 
Rutgers, The State University of NJ 
110 Frelinghuysen Road 
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019 
Phone: (732) 445-2361 
Fax: (732) 445-0537 

Peter J. Keleher (keleher@cs.umd.edu) 
Department of Computer Science 
University of Maryland 
College Park, MD 20742 
Phone: 301-405-0345 
Fax: 301-405-6707 

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                   Java for High-Performance Computing 

           WORKSHOP ON JAVA FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING
        In conjunction with the 1999 ACM Int. Conf. on Supercomputing

                           June 19 and 20, 1999,
                               Rhodes, Greece

                      ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS

The High-Performance Java Workshop at ICS'99 will take place during 
June 19 and 20, 1999 in conjunction with ICS'99. The first day is 
dedicated to two tutorials on Java programming, compilation and system 
support. The tutorials will discuss several optimization techniques 
that improve the performance of Java programs. The second day consists 
of a workshop on Java for high-performance computing. 

Workshop Co-Chairs: Manish Gupta, Sam Midkiff and Jose Moreira, IBM 
Workshop Committee: 
    Sid Chatterjee, University of North Carolina 
    Dennis Gannon, Indiana University 
    Milind Girkar, Intel 
    Mohammad Haghighat, Intel 
    Tim Lindholm, Sun Microsystems 
    Kathryn McKinley, University of Massachusetts at Armhest 
    Roldan Pozo, NIST 
    Vivek Sarkar, IBM 

Authors interested in contributing to the workshop are invited to submit 
manuscripts that report new technologies and practical experience related 
to the use of Java for high-performance computing. Topics of interest 
include but are not restricted to: 

    Parallel and distributed computing with Java 
    Numerical computing in Java 
    Compilation and optimization techniques for Java 
    Computationally intensive applications developed in Java 
    Use of Java in database and other server-oriented applications 
    Java frameworks and libraries for high-performance computing 
    Tools and techniques for developing high-performance applications 
	  in Java 

SUBMISSION 

Authors should submit an extended abstract absolutely not to exceed 3000 
words (approximately 6 pages) by the deadline of 4/25. The program 
committee will review each submission and select papers based on 
relevance, originality, soundness and clarity. Accepted papers will be 
presented at the conference and published in the Workshop Proceedings. 
Final versions of the papers, for publication, are due on 5/25. 

Only electronic submission will be accepted. Please e-mail a Postscript 
or PDF copy of your submission to the Workshop Co-Chair Jose Moreira at 
jmoreira@us.ibm.com. 

Important deadlines: 

4/25: Deadline for submission of extended abstract
5/15: Notification to authors of results
5/25: Final version due

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