Workshop on Communication Architecture for Clusters

CAC '02

to be held in Conjunction with Int'l Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS '01)
San Francisco, April 23-27, 2001

Will be held as a one-day workshop on Friday, April 27

Deadline for Advance Registration is March 31st.

Papers presented in this workshop were published by IEEE Computer Society Press as a part of the IPDPS '01 workshop proceedings .

Advance Program

April 27 (Friday)

7:50 -  8:00 Welcome and Workshop Introduction

8:00 -  9:00 Keynote Speech

Thomas Sterling, California Institute of Technology and Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Title: Commodity Clusters: The Third Wave for High Performance Computing

9:00 -  10:15 Session I

Low-Level Messaging
Session Chair: Reza Rooholamini, Dell Computers

Each presentation is for 20 minutes. The last 15 minutes of the session is for discussion.

10:15 -  10:45 Break

10:45 -  12:00 Session II

Interconnection and Communication
Session Chair: Jarek Nieplocha, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

Each presentation is for 20 minutes. The last 15 minutes of the session is for discussion.

12:00 -  1:15 Lunch (On your own)

 1:15 -  2:55 Session III

Switch/Router and NIC Support
Session Chair: Fabrizio Petrini, Los Alamos National Laboratory

Each presentation is for 20 minutes. The last 20 minutes of the session is for discussion.

2:55 - 3:20 Break

3:20 - 5:00 Session IV

Network Services and Communication
Session Chair: Bob Horst, 3ware, Inc.

Each presentation is for 20 minutes. The last 20 minutes of the session is for discussion.

 5:00 -  5:15 Break

 5:15 -  6:45 Panel Session

Title: InfiniBand: The de facto future standard for system and local area networks or just a scalable replacement for PCI buses?

Moderator: Timothy Pinkston, Univ. of Southern California

Tentative Panelists:

Jose Duato, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Michael Krause, Hewlett Packard
Irving Robinson, Intel Corp.
Thomas Sterling, Caltech and JPL
Madhu Talluri, Sun Microsystems
Alan Benner, IBM Zurich

 6:45 - Adjourn

Registration and Hotel information

Workshop registration is handled by the IPDPS '01 conference. There is a single registration for the conference and all of its 19 workshops. Please visit IPDPS'01 web page for registration and hotel information.

Deadline for advance registration is March 31, 2001.

Call For Papers

THEME:

The availability of commodity PCs/workstations and high-speed networks at low prices enabled the development of low-cost clusters. These clusters are being targeted for supporting the traditional high-end computing applications as well as emerging applications, especially those requiring high-performance servers. Designing high-performance and scalable clusters for these emerging applications requires design and development of high-performance communication systems, low-overhead programming environment support and support for Quality of Service (QoS). New user-level communication protocol standards such as Virtual Interface Architecture (VIA) and InfiniBand Architecture (IBA) are providing exciting ways to design high-performance communication architectures for clusters.

A large number of research groups from academia, industry, and research labs are currently engaged in the above research directions. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the areas of communication and architecture to discuss state-of-the-art solutions as well as future trends for designing scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective communication architectures for clusters.

TOPICS OF INTEREST:

Topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to:
  1. Router/switch, network, and network-interface architecture for supporting efficient point-to-point and collective communication at intra-cluster and inter-cluster levels.
  2. Design, development, and implementation of user-level communication protocols (GM, VIA, etc) on different networking and interconnect technologies (such as Myrinet, Gigabit Ethernet, ATM, Infiniband, etc.).
  3. High-performance implementation of different programming layers (Message Passing Interface (MPI), Distributed Shared Memory such as TreadMarks, Get/Put, Global Arrays, sockets, etc.)
  4. Communication and architectural issues related to flow control, management of communication resources, deadlock-handling, reliability, and QoS.
Results of both theoretical and practical significance will be considered.

PROCEEDINGS:

The proceedings of this workshop will be published together with the proceedings of other IPDPS '01 workshops by IEEE Computer Society Press.

BEST PAPERS FOR A SPECIAL ISSUE OF ``CLUSTER COMPUTING'' JOURNAL:

The authors of the best papers in the workshop will be invited to submit extended versions of their work to a special issue of `Cluster Computing' journal. Direct submission of high-quality work to the special issue will also be possible.

PAPER SUBMISSIONS:

We are planning a purely electronic submission and review process. Authors are requested to submit papers (in PDF format) not exceeding 10 single-spaced pages, including abstract, five key words, contact address, figures, and references. E-mail your manuscripts to: cac01@cse.ohio-state.edu.

Note: the PDF file must be viewable using the ``acroread'' tool. It is also important, when creating your PDF file, to use a page size of 8.5x11 inches (LETTER sized output not A4), since an A4 sized page may be truncated on a LETTER sized printer.

SCHEDULE:

  
Paper submission:           October 16, 2000  (Extended to Oct 23, 2000) 
Notification of acceptance: December 11, 2000 
Camera-ready due:           January 22, 2001

WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS:

Dhabaleswar K. Panda (Ohio State)
Jose Duato (Univ. of Valencia, Spain)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

PUBLICITY COORDINATOR:

Mohammad Banikazemi (Ohio State)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION:

 For further questions, send e-mail to cac01@cse.ohio-state.edu.

last updated Feb 24, 2001