VISUALIZATION

SCOPE: This workshop will provide industrial developers and academic and national laboratory research groups the opportunity to report on qualitative and quantitive characteristics of computational grids. It brings together experts in the field of grid computing to describe their results in developing grid measurement and monitoring technologies and tools. We particularly encourage papers on evaluation of and comparisons between various grid implementations on the basis of existing/proposed grid benchmarks. Equally important are the choices of applications to be used in synthesizing benchmarks, which merits the development of an application space taxonomy. Examples of grid performance properties of interest are: computational efficiency, communication speed, scheduler efficiency, robustness, reliability, programmability, scalability. Topics include: - grid performance metrics - grid monitoring/mapping systems - application characterization and navigation (or scheduling) - design of micro-benchmarks, probes, and application benchmarks - new application benchmarks from the following areas/domains: image processing, bioinformatics, astronomy, earth sciences, data mining, and related fields - measurement and analysis of benchmark performance on existing grids, such as: Information Power Grid, UNICORE, Teragrid, LSF, Datagrid Guidelines for paper submission and information about the conference: http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2004/ SCHEDULE (different from main conference!): - Papers due: December 1, 2003 - Author notification of acceptance: December 23, 2003 - Camera ready manuscripts due: January 23, 2004 ORGANIZERS: - Michael A. Frumkin, NASA Ames Research Center - Rob F. Van der Wijngaart, Computer Sciences Corporation - Allan E. Snavely, San Diego Supercomputing Center PROGRAM COMMITTEE: - Ian Baird, Platform Computing - Henri Casanova, San Diego Supercomputing Center - Steve Chapin, Syracuse University - Wolfgang Gentzsch, Sun Microsystems - Valentina Huber, Research Centre Juelich - Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia - William E. Johnston, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory - Thuy T. Le, San Jose State University - Jennifer M. Schopf, Argonne National Laboratory - Rich Wolski, UC Santa Barbara Marty Humphrey Assistant Professor Computer Science Department University of Virginia