Performance in Clusters: Measurement, Analysis and Achievement (PCMAA)

Invited session in SCI-2003

July 2003, Orlando, Florida, USA

 

Call For Papers:

Performance in Clusters: Measurement, Analysis and Achievement (PCMAA)

 

 

PCMAA is a session organized on the 7th World Multi Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics And Informatics (SCI 2003).

 

July 27 - 30, 2003.

Orlando, Florida, USA

Sheraton World


http://www.iiisci.org/sci2003/

 

PCMAA focuses on performance measurement, analysis and achievement in cluster computing. All kind of clusters, commodity/beowulf, high performance and large Internet/Grid oriented clusters, are of interest. Each cluster category matches some application requirement and need particular investigation about how to achieve the best performance. Among factors that can influence cluster performance there are broadband networks, network protocols, message passing systems, fitting algorithms, parallel and distributed programming techniques, parallel I/O techniques, management tools, performance measurement tools and many others. We would like to encourage participation of both researchers and practitioners working on these problems.

 

Topics of interest are:

 

  • Impact of networks and network protocols on cluster performance
  • High-performance I/O design for cluster computing
  • Impact of cluster management tools on cluster performance
  • Performance instrumentation on clusters
  • Application benchmark test on clusters

 

 

A panel will end this session, talking about efficient cluster design, programming and management.

 

 

PCMAA is organized by :

 

Amelia De Vivo

  Dipartimento di Informatica e Applicazioni "R. Capocelli"

  Universita' di Salerno

  Via S. Allende

  84081 Baronissi (SA)

  Italy

  tel: +39-089-965416

  fax: +39-089-965272

  amedev@unisa.it

 

Stephane Vialle

  Supelec

  2 rue Edouard Belin

  57070 Metz

  France

  tel: +33-3-87-76-47-20

  fax: +33-3-87-76-47-00

  Stephane.Vialle@supelec.fr

 

Contributions, which should not exceed six single-spaced typed pages, can be send

via e-mail to the following addresses:

 

amedev@unisa.it

Stephane.Vialle@supelec.fr

 

 

DEADLINES:

 

April 15, 2003: Submission of papers

 

May 1, 2003: Acceptance Notification

 

May 7, 2003: Final version of papers

 

 

All information about paper format, conference fee, hotel, proceedings, etc. can be

 found on the official SCI site, http://www.iiisci.org/sci2003/.

 

Please note that the only audiovisual equipment provided for presentation will be an
overhead projector and a screen. Video projection or any other equipment,
if needed, will have to be supplied by the presenter.

 

Should you require any further information, please do not hesitate to contact us. us.

 

 

PROGRAM:

 

  • Performance Implications by Hierarchical Design of Clusters. W. B. Fradj, M. Essaidi and J. Gustedt
  • Exploring Peformances of Parallel Applications on Clusters. Jacques Chassin de Kergommeaux, Francois-Gael Ottogalli and Jean-Marc Vincent
  • Characteristics and Performances of the Light Communication (LiCo) Library. M. Coli, P. Palazzari and R. Rughi.
  • Experiments to Get Performance on Different PC Clusters. A. De Vivo and S. Vialle
  • Evaluating IO performance on an Itanium multiprocessor. S. Zertal and A. Ait Eldjoudi

 

 

  • Panel on Cluster performances

 

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