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           Topic 13: High performance networks

                           EURO-PAR 2007

                    August 28 - August 31, 2007

                           Rennes, France

             Web site: http://europar2007.irisa.fr/

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Topic 13

High performance networks

Description

This topic is devoted to communication issues in scalable compute and storage systems, such as parallel computers,

 networks of workstations, and clusters. All aspects of communication in modern systems are of interest, including advances

 in the design, implementation, and evaluation of interconnection networks, network interfaces, system and storage area networks, 

on-chip interconnects, communication protocols, routing and communication algorithms, and communication aspects of parallel

 and distributed algorithms. Submitted papers should present significant, original work in the practice or theory of addressing 

aspects of performance, reliability and availability, power consumption and heat disspation, cost, scalability, and management. 

The scope of the topic includes, but is not limited to:

Focus

# Interconnection networks

# Switch architectures

# Network adapters

# High-speed system area networks for cluster computing

# I/O architectures and storage area networks

# On-chip and power-efficient interconnects

# Lightweight and user-level communication protocols

# Routing algorithms

# Congestion management

# Fault-tolerant and reconfigurable networks

# Multimedia and QoS-aware communication

# Network performance evaluation and analysis

# Communication costs of parallel and distributed algorithms

# Collective communication and synchronization support

Organization

Global Chair 

Thilo Kielmann

Vrije Universiteit

Amsterdam, The Netherland 

Local Chair

Pascale Primet

Laboratoire d'Informatique du Parallélisme (LIP)

Ecole Normale Superieure

Lyon, France

Vice Chair 

Bruce Lowekamp

Computer Science Department

College of William and Mary

Williamsburg, USA 

Vice Chair

Tomohiro Kudoh

Department of Electrical Engineering

Keio University

Japan