[apps-rg] Fwd (Francoise.Baude at sophia.inria.fr): HPDC workshop on Grid experimental platforms

[Thilo Kielmann]

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.html

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 at inria.fr

-- 
Thilo Kielmann                                 http://www.cs.vu.nl/~kielmann/