[GSA-RG] CfP: JSSPP 2007

[Ramin Yahyapour]

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 13th WORKSHOP ON JOB SCHEDULING STRATEGIES FOR PARALLEL PROCESSING
                In Conjunction with ICS 2007
                         Seattle, WA
                        June 17, 2007

Since our first workshop in 1995, parallel processing has evolved to the point
where it is no longer synonymous with scientific computing on massively
parallel supercomputers. The original uses of parallel processing have been extended
by enterprise computing and the Grid. This has lead to a significant increase in users,
application types and application numbers. This trend underscores the importance of job
scheduling in multi-user parallel systems as the user community is expandíng. It also
emphasizes the importance of scheduling in an interactive setting, coordinating the
use of multiple non-CPU resources including various types of services, and coordination
across administrative domains and different resource owners.

Continuing the tradition established at IPPS'95, the workshop is intended to
attract people from academia, industry, supercomputing centers, national
laboratories, Grid initiatives, and parallel computer vendors to address resource management
issues in multitasking parallel systems, and attempt to resolve the
conflicting goals such as short response times for interactive work, minimal
interference with batch jobs, fairness to users based on their priorities, and high system
utilization. We hope to achieve a balance between reports of current practices
in the whole range from large and heavily-used installations to the desktop,
proposals of novel schemes that have not yet been tested in a real
environment, and realistic models and analysis. The emphasis will be on
practical designs in the context of real (parallel) operating systems and middleware as well
as real application programs.

Topics of interest include:

    * Benchmarking and performance metrics to compare scheduling schemes
    * Performance evaluation methodology and simulation of job scheduling
    * Experience with scheduling policies on production systems
    * Optimization of multiple-resource scheduling
    * Scheduling on multi-core systems, scalable SMP systems, and clusters
    * Resource discovery and scheduling in a Grid
    * Co-allocation of resources on different machines
    * Interaction of local schedulers and higher level schedulers
    * Infrastructure for resource management on clusters and grids
    * Workload characterization, classification, and modeling
    * Fairness, priorities, and accounting issues
    * Performance guarantees and QoS
    * Load estimation and load balancing
    * Scheduling on heterogeneous nodes
    * Support for different classes of jobs
    * Time slicing and gang scheduling
    * Effect of scheduling strategies on application performance
    * Interaction of scheduling with memory management and I/O

Please note that papers regarding task scheduling, whether the tasks are
represented as a DAG or are iterations of a loop, are generally outside the
scope of this workshop. The focus of the workshop is on scheduling of parallel
jobs.

SUBMISSION OF PAPERS:

Papers should be no longer than 20 single-spaced pages, including figures and
references. All papers will be reviewed. In previous years, a post-workshop
proceedings was published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes on Computer
Science series; we intend to also distribute an interim proceedings at the
workshop itself.

Send pdf or postscript of the paper as an attachment by e-mail to:

    jssppw at gmail.com

Please include the paper title and the name, address, phone, and email of
contact author as plain text in the submission.

Important Dates:
DEADLINE:       March 30, 2007
NOTIFICATION:   May 7, 2007
FINAL PAPER DUE: May 28, 2007

Registration:
This will be part of the ICS registration process. For details, see the
ICS web site http://ics07.ac.upc.edu/

Workshop organizers:
Eitan Frachtenberg
Uwe Schwiegelshohn, University Dortmund

Program Committee:
Su-Hui Chiang, Portland State University
Walfredo Cirne, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande
Dror Feitelson, The Hebrew University
Wolfgang Gentzsch, D-Grid and Duke University
Allan Gottlieb, New York University
Moe Jette, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
Richard Lagerstrom, Cray Inc.
Virginia Lo, University of Oregon
Reagan Moore, San Diego Supercomputer Center
Bill Nitzberg, Altair Grid Technologies
Mark Squillante, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center
John Towns, NCSA
Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota
Ramin Yahyapour, University Dortmund

Proceedings:
An interim proceedings containing a collection of the papers presented will be
distributed at the workshop. It is planned to also publish a post-workshop
proceedings in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes on Computer Science series,
as was done in previous years (pending approval from Springer).
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