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21st IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium, Monday, 26th March - Friday, 30th March 2007, Renaissance Long Beach Hotel, Long Beach, California USA. www.ipdps.org Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing, In cooperation with ACM SIGARCH, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Computer Architecture, and IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Distributed Processing. General Chair Timothy M. Pinkston, University of Southern California and National Science Foundation, USA General Vice-Chair Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University, USA Program Chair Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, Ohio State University, USA. IPDPS serves as a forum for engineers and scientists from around the world to present their latest research findings in the fields of parallel processing and distributed computing. The five-day program will follow the usual format of contributed papers, invited speakers, panels, tutorials, and commercial participation mid week, framed by workshops held on the first and last days. For details and updates, visit the IPDPS Website or email inquiries to info@ipdps.org. IPDPS 2007 CALL FOR PAPERS Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that present original unpublished research in all areas of parallel and distributed processing, including the development of experimental or commercial systems. Work focusing on emerging technologies is especially welcome. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • Parallel and distributed algorithms, focusing on issues such as: stability, scalability, and fault tolerance of distributed systems, communication and synchronization protocols, network algorithms, and scheduling and load balancing. • Applications of parallel and distributed computing, including web applications, peer-to-peer computing, grid computing, scientific applications, and mobile computing. • Parallel and distributed architectures, including shared memory, distributed memory (including petascale system designs, and architectures with instruction-level and thread-level parallelism), special-purpose models (including signal and image processors, network processors, other special purpose processors), nontraditional processor technologies, network and interconnect architecture, parallel I/O and storage systems, system design issues for low power, design for high reliability, and performance modeling and evaluation. • Parallel and distributed software, including parallel programming languages and compilers, runtime systems, operating systems, resource management, middleware, libraries, data mining, and programming environments and tools. Best Papers Awards Awards will be given for one best paper in each of the four conference technical tracks: algorithms, applications, architectures, and software. The selected papers also will be considered for possible publication in a special issue of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. What/Where to Submit Submitted manuscripts may not exceed 15 single-spaced pages using 12-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages, including figures, tables, and references. Please use the standard 1-inch margin. Authors may submit additional material as an appendix to their submission, but there is no guarantee that this material will influence the review process. Files should be submitted in PDF format. Authors must ensure that electronically submitted files are formatted for 8.5x11 inch paper. Submission procedures are available via web access at www.ipdps.org. Authors who have e-mail access, but not web access, should send an e-mail message to cfp@ipdps.org for an automatic reply that will contain detailed instructions for submission of manuscripts. They should also contact the Program Chair at: ipdps07@ipdps.org. Authors who have no electronic access (e-mail or web) should contact the Program Chair at: Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Ohio State University, 2015 Neil Avenue, Dreese Lab #395, Columbus, OH 43210-1277, USA Review of Manuscripts All submitted manuscripts will be reviewed. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference scope. Submitted papers may NOT have appeared in, nor be under consideration for, another conference or workshop, nor for a journal. Manuscripts must be received by October 9, 2006, by 12:00 midnight, U.S. Eastern Daylight Time. This is a final, hard deadline; to ensure fairness, no extensions will be given. Notification of review decisions will be mailed by December 11, 2006 (typically electronically). Camera-ready papers will be due January 22, 2007. PROGRAM CHAIR Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, The Ohio State University, USA PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS: ALGORITHMS Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, France APPLICATIONS Srinivas Aluru, Iowa State University, USA ARCHITECTURES Per Stenstrom, Chalmers University, Sweden SOFTWARE Jose Moreira, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE Mikhail ATALLAH (Purdue U.) USA David BADER (Georgia Inst. of Tech.) USA Ioana BANICESCU (Mississippi State U.) USA Olivier BEAUMONT (LaBRI Bordeaux) France Michael BENDER (State U. New York at Stony Brook) USA Ricardo BIANCHINI (Rutgers U.) USA Gianfranco BILARDI (U. Padova) Italy Angelos BILAS (U. Crete/FORTH) Greece Alain BUI (U. Reims) France John CARTER (U. Utah) USA Umit CATALYUREK (Ohio State U.) USA Alok CHOUDHARY (Northwestern U.) USA Nikos CHRISOCHOIDES (College of William & Mary) USA Almadena CHTCHELKANOVA (NSF) USA Marcelo CINTRA (U. Edinburgh) UK Andrea CLEMATIS (CNR Genoa) Italy Toni CORTES (Barcelona Supercomputing Center) Spain Chita DAS (Penn. State U.) USA Bronis R. DE SUPINSKI (Lawrence Livermore National Lab.) USA Erik DIRKX (Vrije U. Brussels) Belgium Maria ELEFTHERIOU (IBM T.J. Watson Res. Center) USA Robert ELSAESSER (U. Paderborn) Germany Thomas FAHRINGER (U. Innsbruck) Austria Akihiro FUJIWARA (Kyushu Institute of Technology) Japan Rahul GARG (IBM India Research Lab) India Maria Jesus GARZARAN (U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) USA Michael GERNDT (Technical U. Munich) Germany Vladimir GETOV (U. of Westminster) UK Domingo GIMENEZ (U. Murcia) Spain Michael T. GOODRICH (U. California) USA Manimaran GOVINDARASU (Iowa State U.), USA Håkan GRAHN (Blekinge Inst. Tech.) Sweden Sandeep K.S. GUPTA (Arizona State U.) USA John GUSTAFSON (Clearspeed Technology Inc.) USA Mark HEINRICH (U. Central Florida) USA Bruce HENDRICKSON (Sandia National Labs) USA Adolfy HOISIE (Los Alamos National Lab.) USA Bo HONG (Drexel U.) USA Ananth KALYANARAMAN (Washington State U.) USA Helen KARATZA (Aristotle U. of Thessaloniki) Greece Hironori KASAHARA (Waseda U.) Japan Manolis KATEVENIS (U. Crete/FORTH) Greece Daniel S. KATZ (Louisiana State U. & JPL) USA Stefanos KAXIRAS (U. of Patras) Greece Paul H J KELLY (Imperial College London), UK Suresh KOTHARI (Iowa State U.) USA Kuan-Ching LI (Providence U.) Taiwan Calvin LIN (U. of Texas at Austin) USA Olav LYSNE (Oslo U.) Norway Muthucumaru MAHESWARAN (McGill U.) Canada Allen MALONY (U. of Oregon) USA Fredrik MANNE (U. of Bergen) Norway Pierre MANNEBACK (Faculte Polytechnique de Mons) Belgium Tomàs MARGALEF (Autonomous U. Barcelona) Spain Milo MARTIN (U. of Pennsylvania) USA Jose MARTINEZ (Cornell U.) USA Xavier MARTORELL (Polythecnic U. Catalunya) Spain Pedro MEDEIROS (New U. Lisbon) Portugal Celso MENDES (U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) USA Samuel MIDKIFF (Purdue U.) USA Edson Toshimi MIDORIKAWA (U. Sao Paulo) Brazil Bernd MOHR (Research Centre Juelich) Germany Andreas MOSHOVOS (U. Toronto) Canada Rajeev MURALIDHAR (Intel) India Kengo NAKAJIMA (U. Tokyo) Japan David O'HALLARON (Carnegie Mellon U.) USA Marcin PAPRZYCKI (SWPS and IBS PAN) Poland Manish PARASHAR (Rutgers U.) USA Franck PETIT (LARIA Amiens) France Cynthia A. PHILLIPS (Sandia National Labs) USA Alex POTHEN (Old Dominion U.) USA Sushil K. PRASAD (Georgia State U.) USA Padma RAGHAVAN (Pennsylvania State U.) USA Soumyendu RAHA (Indian Institute of Science) India Alex RAMIREZ (UPC Barcelona) Spain Sanjay RANKA (U. of Florida) USA Lawrence RAUCHWERGER (Texas A&M U.) USA Jose RENAU (Univ. Santa Cruz) USA P. SADAYAPPAN (Ohio State U.) USA Yanos SAZEIDES (U. Cyprus) Cyprus Bertil SCHMIDT (Nanyang Technological U.) Singapore Martin SCHULZ (Lawrence Livermore National Lab.) USA Hong SHEN (Manchester Metropolitan U.) UK Yefim SHUF (IBM T.J. Watson Research Center) USA Siang SONG (U. Sao Paulo) Brazil Yong Ho SONG (Hanyang U.) Korea Masha SOSONKINA (Ames Laboratory) USA Leonel SOUSA (TU Lisbon) Portugal Srikanta TIRTHAPURA (Iowa State U.) USA Sivan TOLEDO (Tel-Aviv U.) Israel Theo UNGERER (U. Augsburg) Germany Sathish VADHIYAR (Indian Institute of Science) India Stamatis VASSILIADIS (TU Delft) The Netherlands Frédéric VIVIEN (INRIA) France Biing-Feng WANG (Tsing Hua U.) Taiwan Ramin YAHYAPOUR (U. of Dortmund) Germany Sudhakar YALAMANCHILI (Georgia Inst. of Tech.), USA Yuanyuan YANG (State U. New York at Stony Brook) USA Craig ZILLES (U. Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) USA Albert Y. ZOMAYA (Univ. Sydney) Australia IMPORTANT DATES October 9, 2006 ………… Final Deadline for Manuscripts December 11, 2006 ………Review Decisions Mailed January 22, 2007 …………Camera-ready Papers Due IPDPS 2007 LOCATION In March of 2007, IPDPS returns to Southern California, its starting point. The meeting place is the Renaissance Long Beach Hotel, which overlooks the Queen Mary and Aquarium of the Pacific and is situated just steps from trendy dining, sandy beach, and boutique shopping. Attractions like Disneyland, Universal Studios, and the Getty Museum are a short drive from Long Beach, and the region north and south of Long Beach – know as the Tech Coast – is home to USC, UCLA, UCI, and UCSD. It is an international setting with village like beach communities and the attractions and resources of Los Angeles, Orange County and San Diego. Join us to commemorate 21 years of building the IPDPS event and community of computer scientists who meet annually to extend knowledge and understanding in this field. IPDPS 2007 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IPDPS serves as a forum for engineers and scientists from around the world to present their latest research findings in the fields of parallel processing and distributed computing. The five-day program will follow the usual format of contributed papers, invited speakers, panels, tutorials, and commercial participation mid week, framed by workshops held on the first and last days. For details and updates, visit the IPDPS Website or email inquiries to info@ipdps.org. Workshops IPDPS workshops provide attendees an opportunity to explore special topics and are a major part of the IPDPS week-long family of events. Each workshop has its own requirements and schedule for submissions and all are linked from the IPDPS Website. Workshops already planned for IPDPS 2007 include: • Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop • Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Real-Time Systems • Reconfigurable Architectures Workshop • Workshop on High-Level Parallel Programming Models & Supportive Environments • Java for Parallel and Distributed Computing Workshop • Workshop on Nature Inspired Distributed Computing • Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology • Advances in Parallel and Distributed Computing Models • Communication Architecture for Clusters • High-Performance, Power-Aware Computing • Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing • Performance Modelling, Evaluation, and Optimisation of Parallel & Distributed Systems • High Performance Grid Computing • Dependable Parallel, Distributed and Network-Centric Systems • International Workshop on Security in Systems and Networks • Workshop on System Management Techniques, Processes, and Services • Performance Optimization for High-Level Languages and Libraries • International Workshop on Hot Topics in Peer-to-Peer Systems • Workshop on Multi-Threaded Architectures and Applications Commercial Participation There are three exciting forums available for commercial participants to showcase their technologies at IPDPS 2007: (1) Give a presentation in a special Commercial Track, which includes publication of a technical article in the proceedings of the symposium (requires registration by January 22, 2007). (2) Offer an evening Commercial Tutorial to provide orientation and training to symposium participants interested in using and/or learning more about your technology. (3) Participate in three days of Commercial Exhibits by having a booth where your company can promote awareness about its recent technological advances in a "walk-up-and-talk" setting with a diverse audience. For more detailed information and to reserve your spot, contact the Commercial Chair Nalini Venkatasubramanian (nalini@ics.uci.edu), preferably before January 22, 2007. Birds-of-a-Feather These are informal early evening sessions in which a group of researchers can gather for discussions on a topic of mutual interest. We'll provide the space, you provide the topic and gather the people. To reserve space in advance, contact the General Vice Chair Jie Wu (jie@cse.fau.edu). Tutorial IPDPS 2007 will offer a half-day symposium tutorial, open to all attendees, with the objective of surveying the latest developments in a key emerging area of our field. Proposals are solicited for organizing this tutorial and should be submitted by November 15, 2006 to the Tutorials Chair Sushil K. Prasad (sprasad@gsu.edu). IPDPS 2007 ORGANIZATION General Chair Timothy M. Pinkston, University of Southern California and National Science Foundation, USA General Vice-Chair Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University, USA Program Chair Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, The Ohio State University, USA Workshops Committee Chair: Alan Sussman, University of Maryland, USA Vice-Chair: Yuanyuan Yang, State University of New York, Stony Brook, USA Tutorials Chair Sushil Prasad, Georgia State University, USA Commercial Presentations & Exhibits Chair Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California at Irvine, USA Proceedings Chair Shoukat Ali, University of Missouri-Rolla, USA Publicity Coordinators • AMERICAS Bo Hong, Drexel University, USA • ASIA/PACIFIC RIM Cho-Li Wang, University of Hong Kong, China • EUROPE/ASIA Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Computer Technology Institute, Greece Finance Chair Bill Pitts, Toshiba America Information Systems, Inc., USA Local Arrangements Chair Susamma Barua, California State University, Fullerton, USA Production Chair Sally Jelinek, Electronic Design Associates, Inc., USA Steering Committee K. Mani Chandy, California Institute of Technology, USA Ali R. Hurson, Pennsylvania State University, USA Joseph JaJa, University of Maryland, USA F. Tom Leighton, MIT, USA Alessandro Mei, University of Rome, Italy Sotiris E. Nikoletseas, CTI & University of Patras, Greece Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Ohio State University, USA Timothy M. Pinkston, University of Southern California and National Science Foundation, USA Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA Yves Robert, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France José D.P. Rolim, University of Geneva, Switzerland Arnold L. Rosenberg, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA Behrooz Shirazi, Washington State University, USA H.J. Siegel, Colorado State University, USA Paul Spirakis, CTI & University of Patras, Greece Hal Sudborough, University of Texas at Dallas, USA Charles Weems, University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA George B. Westrom, Future Scientists & Engineers of America, USA Jie Wu, Florida Atlantic University, USA