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.ht... 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@inria.fr -- Thilo Kielmann http://www.cs.vu.nl/~kielmann/