[GHPN-WG] CFP: Workshop on High Performance Grid Networks @ CCGrid 2008

[Chris Develder]

*Call for Papers***

*Workshop on High Performance Grid Networks*

Co-located with CCGrid 2008

18-22 May 2008, Lyon, France

http://hpng.intec.ugent.be <http://hpng.intec.ugent.be/>

Several Grid projects have deployed or utilized high performance  
networking technologies to offer end-to-end connectivity in a cost- 
effective and flexible way. To further increase the performance and  
scalability of such distributed computing facilities, it is expected  
that the integration of Grid resources and networking technologies  
will enable novel and disruptive application paradigms. For example,  
as a number of key optical component technologies approach maturity,  
hybrid optical networks are becoming an increasingly attractive and  
practical architecture for the next-generation Grids. Of particular  
interest are the scalability and efficiency properties of these Grid  
networks.

The Workshop on High Performance Grid Networks brings together  
practitioners and researchers from the high performance computing  
field and networking experts. The main objective is discussion and  
work on the emerging aspects related to advanced techniques,  
platforms, paradigms and models for the design, deployment and usage  
of high performance Grid networks.

The workshop solicits original papers related to all aspects of high  
performance networking with respect to the design and deployment of  
Grid infrastructures. More specifically, the concurrent optimization  
of networking and Grid resources to offer a scalable, efficient and  
cost-effective environment is of key interest. Additionally,  
experiences with novel features and performance behaviour of  
middleware solutions, possibly with testbed results, are also  
sollicited.

This workshop is partially supported by the IST FP6 Phosphorus project.

Topics of special interest, but not limited to, are the following:

    * Next-generation Grid network architectures, paradigms, and
      functionalities
    * Hybrid optical network solutions (circuit, burst and packet
      switching) for Grids
    * Experiences with testbeds, prototypes and proof-of-concept  
deployments
    * Novel Grid applications and middleware solutions with focus on
      networking aspects (e.g. user-driven reconfigurability)
    * High performance control, management and signaling protocols
    * Modeling of performance, scalability, and efficiency issues in  
Grids
    * Multi-domain issues in optical Grids
    * Novel programming models, supporting workflows and orchestration
      of resources over high performance networks
    * Job routing and scheduling, resource management and optimization
      algorithms
    * Resilient Grid networks
    * Layer-2 technologies for high performance Grids
    * Trade-offs in service plane vs. control plane: overlay model vs.
      peer model


Authors are invited to submit original papers of 6 pages maximum.  
Papers should be double column text and follow the IEEE manuscript  
guidelines provided by the CCGrid2008 website (on-line submission).  
Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to  
register (for both the conference and the workshop) and present the  
paper.

*Organizing committee*

	* Marc De Leenheer, Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium
	marc.deleenheer at intec.ugent.be <mailto:marc.deleenheer at intec.ugent.be>

    	* Chris Develder, Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium
	chris.develder at intec.ugent.be <mailto:chris.develder at intec.ugent.be>

	* Dimitra Simeonidou, University of Essex, UK
      	dsimeo at essex.ac.uk <mailto:dsimeo at essex.ac.uk>

*Technical program committee (TPC)*

    * Artur Binczewski, PSNC, Poland
    * Franco Callegati, University of Bologna, Italy
    * Piero Castoldi, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy
    * Cees de Laat, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands
    * Filip De Turck, Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium
    * Bart Dhoedt, Ghent University - IBBT, Belgium
    * Sergi Figuerola, i2CAT, Spain
    * Admela Jukan, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Germany
    * Gigi Karmous-Edwards, MCNC, USA
    * Ken-Ichi Kitayama, Osaka University, Japan
    * Joe Mambretti, Northwestern University, USA
    * Biswanath Mukherjee, UC Davis, USA
    * Reza Nejabati, University of Essex, UK
    * Ralph Niederberger, Forschungszentrum Jülich, Germany
    * Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet, INRIA, France
    * Chunming Qiao, SUNY Buffalo, USA
    * Volker Sander, Fachhochschule Aachen, Germany
    * Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE Inc., Canada
    * Anna Tzanakaki, AIT, Greece
    * Manos Varvarigos, University of Patras, Greece
    * Wolfgang Ziegler, Fraunhofer SCAI, Germany
    * Wei Guo, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
    * Jian Wu, BUPT, China

*Important dates*

    * Submission deadline				November 28, 2007 (hard deadline)
    * Notification of acceptance			January 15, 2008
    * Camera ready deadline			January 30, 2008

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