High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC) Fourteen Registration Now Open http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/hpdc2005/ HPDC combines the advances in research and technologies in high speed networks, software, distributed computing and parallel processing to deliver high-performance, large-scale and cost-effective computational, storage and communication capabilities to a wide range of applications. The intent of this meeting is to provide a forum in which researchers report on new ideas and technical insights, application teams express the challenges of constructing wide area or scalable high performance applications, and technology creators report on future developments. The Fourteenth IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing will be a forum for presenting the latest research findings on the design and use of parallel and distributed systems for high end computing, collaboration, data analysis, and other innovative applications. HPDC is the premier conference for high-performance distributed systems and grid computing systems. Come see the latest developments this July in Raleigh-Durham North Carolina. Keynotes by Dan Reed (http://its.unc.edu/its_vc/) and Pratap Pattniak (http://domino.research.ibm.com/comm/pr.nsf/pages/bio.pattnaik.html) head the program. In addition to the keynotes the results of the latest research from around the world will be presented, as well as two half-day tutorials, the first on the Globus toolkit, and the second on Autonomic Computing. As in past years two exciting workshops proceed the full conference. The first, CLADE (Challenges of Large Applications in Distributed Environments) The goal of CLADE is to encourage innovation by addressing the complex issues that arise in large-scale applications of distributed computation, and to promote the development of innovative applications that effectively use distributed resources and adapt to a wide range of heterogeneity and dynamics in space and time. This includes development, deployment, management and evaluations of large scale applications in science, engineering, medicine, business, economics, education, and other disciplines, on Grids and other distributed heterogeneous and dynamic computing environments. The second workshop is High-Performance Interconnects for Distributed Computing. The purpose of HPI-DC is to explore the confluence of WAN technologies with high performance interconnects, as applicable or applied to realistic high end applications. The intent is to create a venue that will act as a bridge between researchers developing tools and platforms for high-performance distributed computing, end user applications seeking high performance solutions, and technology providers aiming to improve interconnect and networking technologies for future systems. Please visit http://www.caip.rutgers.edu/hpdc2005/ for more information and to register for HPDC. See you there. Andrew Grimshaw