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Fwd (Francoise.Baude@sophia.inria.fr): HPDC workshop on Grid experimental platforms
by Thilo Kielmann 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

For those of us dealing with testbeds. Thilo EXPGRID - Experimental Grid testbeds for the assessment of large-scale distributed applications and tools http://www-sop.inria.fr/caiman/personnel/Stephane.Lanteri/hpdc-15/expgrid.h… A workshop to be held in conjunction with the 15th International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC-15) June 19-23 2006, Paris Grids raise a large number of research issues in topics like networking (protocols, communication layers, performance evaluation, etc.), middleware (control, scheduling, fault-tolerance, management, etc.), programming (paradigms, languages and environments, etc.) and applications (parallel and distributed numerical and non-numerical algorithms, large-scale simulations, performance evaluation, etc) for which, in addition to theory, simulators and emulators, there is a strong need for large-scale testbeds where real life experimental conditions hold. Grid'5000 (https://www.grid5000.fr/) is a research effort for building a large scale nation wide infrastructure for Grid research. The objective is to provide the community of Grid researchers a testbed allowing experiments in all the software layers between the network protocols up to the applications: network protocols, operating systems, middleware, runtime, algorithms and applications. The Grid'5000 project aims at building a highly reconfigurable, controlable and monitorable experimental Grid platform gathering 9 sites geographically distributed in France, interconnected by a 1 to 10 Gb/s dedicated network, featuring a total of 5000 CPUs. This high collaborative research effort is funded by the French ministry of Education and Research, INRIA, CNRS, the Universities of all sites and some regional councils. The objectives of this workshop are the following: a) to present the latest results of large-scale experiments conducted on experimental Grid testbeds worldwide and on the Grid'5000 platform. b) to promote the exchange of ideas, informations and novel developments concerning experimental Grid testbeds worldwide. Topics of interest to this workshop include (but are not limited to): - communication protocols and libraries for the Grid, - performance modelling, simulation, and prediction, - scheduling and distribution middleware, - resource management middleware, - fault-tolerance middleware, - global computing/P2P middleware, - programming languages and environments, - parallel and distributed numerical and non-numerical algorithms, - large-scale applications. IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: February 28th, 2006 (extended abstract) Notification of acceptance: March 17th, 2006 Final Manuscript due: April 10th, 2006 Workshop: June 20th, 2006 PUBLICATION: all accepted papers will be published on a CD edited by IEEE. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Submissions are accepted only electronically, in PDF format. Authors are required to submit an extended abstract (4 pages IEEE style) before submitting the full paper. Submission will be handled through the main HPDC web site. Submitted full papers must conform to IEEE conference style and should not exceed 8 pages. Information for authors and reference style files are available at: http://www.ieee.org/portal/pages/pubs/transactions/stylesheets.html. All papers, which will be reviewed by the program commitee. PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Stéphane Lanteri (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France) Raymond Namyst (LABRi, Bordeaux, France) Olivier Richard (ID-IMAG, Montbonnot Saint Martin, France) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Franck Cappello (INRIA Futurs and LRI, France) Michel Dayde (IRIT-ENSEEIHT, Toulouse, France) Frédéric Desprez (INRIA and LIP, Rhône-Alpes, Lyon, France) Emmanuel Jeannot (INRIA/LORIA, Vandoeuvre les Nancy, France) Yvon Jegou (INRIA/IRISA, Rennes, France) Thilo Kielmann (Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands) Stéphane Lanteri (INRIA, Sophia Antipolis, France) Nouredine Melab (LIFL, Lille, France) Raymond Namyst (LABRi, Bordeaux, France) Brigitte Plateau, (ID-IMAG, Montbonnot Saint Martin, France) Thierry Priol (INRIA/IRISA, Rennes, France) Olivier Richard (ID-IMAG, Montbonnot Saint Martin, France) Dany Vandromme (Renater, France) Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA and LIP, Rhône-Alpes, Lyon, France) FURTHER INFORMATION For further information please contact: Stephane.Lanteri(a)inria.fr -- Thilo Kielmann http://www.cs.vu.nl/~kielmann/

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End User support Grid workshop in Paris
by Thilo Kielmann 20 Jan '06

20 Jan '06

This event might be of interest for our group member. With kind regards, Thilo Kielmann Grid-Enabling Legacy Applications and Supporting End Users Workshop (GELA) within the framework of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing HPDC'15 Paris, France June 19-23, 2006 The workshop will present existing solutions for gridifying legacy code applications, and for supporting the development and usage of Grid applications. It will bring together Grid researchers, current and perspective users. Researchers will present the available Grid solutions, while users will demonstrate existing Grid applications and define their requirements towards their Grid applications. The workshop aims to reach user communities, which do not have even basic knowledge in Grid computing presenting both developers' and users' views on the Grid. The goals of the workshop are: " To gather information about existing solutions for gridifying legacy applications, " To present existing high-level Grid user environments, " To identify the key application requirements and scenarios towards the Grid, " To provide a forum for exchanging the ideas between the Grid application users, application developers and Grid developers, " To broaden the Grid community by encouraging new users to use the Grid technologies. The workshop is seeking papers and poster presentations from different areas of Grid computing, especially those concerned with applications. Suggested topics for papers and posters include, but are not limited to, the following: " Gridifying legacy code applications, " High-level Grid user environments, " Application requirements towards to Grid and its infrastructure, " .Experience in both, converting existing applications and designing new applications to run on the Grid. PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit technical papers up to 10 pages to the workshop web site: http://www.cpc.ac.uk/gemlca/hpdc-gela/submit using the IEEE 8 1/2 x 11 CS format. Appropriate style files can be found at: ftp://pubftp.computer.org/Press/Outgoing/proceedings/Format.pdf. Papers that exceed this length will be rejected. These papers should be written to be self-contained and to provide the technical substance required for the Program Committee to evaluate the paper's contribution. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another conference or a journal, nor may they be under review or submitted to another forum during the review process. PUBLICATION Papers presented at the workshop will appear in the HPDC workshop proceedings CD published by IEEE Computer Society Press and given to all participants at the workshop. IMPORTANT DATES Full Papers Submission: February 13, 2006 Notice of Acceptance: March 06, 2006 Final Manuscript Due: April 08, 2006 Workshop June 20, 2006 -- Thilo Kielmann http://www.cs.vu.nl/~kielmann/

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ggf14 workshop proceedings in public comments period
by Thilo Kielmann 18 Jan '06

18 Jan '06

Dear all, the proceedings of our workshop held at GGF14 on Grid Applications: from Early Adopters to Mainstream Users now is in the public comment period for becoming a GGF informational document. Please check this out at http://www.ggf.org/gf/docs/?public_comment and submit your comment (even if it is just "OK") as each GGF document requires some people commenting on it before it can be published. Thanks to all for helped getting this far! Thilo -- Thilo Kielmann http://www.cs.vu.nl/~kielmann/

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