Call for Papers and Announcement

ALGORITHMS AND TOOLS FOR PARALLEL COMPUTING ON HETEROGENEOUS CLUSTERS

Technical session at The 2001 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA’2001)

Monte Carlo Resort, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA
June 25-28, 2001

(Submission deadline: March 26, 2001)

SESSION THEME:

Local networks of computers are the most common and available parallel architecture now. Unlike dedicated parallel computer systems, local networks are inherently heterogeneous. They consist of diverse computers of different performances interconnected via mixed network equipment providing communication links of different speeds and bandwidths. Traditional parallel algorithms and tools are aimed at homogeneous multiprocessors and cannot be efficiently used for parallel computing on heterogeneous clusters. New ideas, dedicated algorithms and tools are needed to efficiently use this most common but most irregular parallel architecture. The session is intended to be a forum for people working on algorithms, programming languages, tools, and theoretical models aimed at efficient solution problems on heterogeneous clusters.

SESSION SCOPE:

The topics we expect to cover in this session include but are not limited to:

- Heterogeneous parallel programming paradigms and models;

- Languages, libraries and interfaces for different heterogeneous parallel programming models;

- Performances models and their integration into the design of efficient parallel algorithms for heterogeneous clusters;

- Parallel algorithms for efficient solving problems on heterogeneous clusters (numerical linear algebra, nonlinear systems, fast transforms, data mining, etc.)

- Software engineering for heterogeneous parallel systems;

- Applications on heterogeneous clusters;

- Integration of parallel and distributed computing on heterogeneous networks of computers;

- Experience of porting parallel software from supercomputers to heterogeneous clusters

You are invited to submit a draft paper of about 4-5 pages to any of co-chairs of the session by March 26^th, 2001. All accepted papers will be published in the PDPTA’2001 conference proceedings. The first page of the draft paper should include: title of the paper, name, affiliation, postal address, E-mail address, telephone number, and Fax number for each author. The first page should also include the name of the contact author who will be presenting the paper (if accepted) and a maximum of 5 keywords. The length of the camera-ready papers (if accepted) will be limited to 7 pages. Papers must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere.

The PDPTA’2001 Conference web site is at http://www.ashland.edu/~iajwa/conferences/2001/PDPTA2001/pdpta.html.

The technical session web site is at http://www.ispras.ru/~mpc/PDPTA'2001.htm.

CO-CHAIRS:

Alexey Kalinov, Institute for System Programming, 25 B.Kommunisticheskaya str., Moscow 109004, RUSSIA ;
email ka@ispras.ru

Alexey Lastovetsky, IONA Technologies PLC, The IONA Building, Shelbourne Road, Dublin 4, IRELAND;
email Alexey.Lastovetsky@iona.com

Yves Robert, Laboratoire LIP, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, 69364 Lyon Cedex 07, FRANCE;
email Yves.Robert@ens-lyon.fr

IMPORTANT DATES:

March 26, 2001 (Monday): Paper submission due

April 2, 2001 (Monday): Notification of acceptance

May 1, 2001 (Tuesday): Camera-ready papers due

June 25-28, 2001: PDPTA'2001

PUBLICATION:

The conference proceedings will be published by CSREA Press (ISBN) in hardcopy. The proceedings will be available at the conferences site. Some accepted papers will also be considered for journal publication (soon after the conferences). (In addition to the hardcopy, it is also planned to publish the papers on a CD.)

Accepted papers

Dynamic Performance Modeling for Network Enabled Servers in a Heterogeneous Environment F. Desprez, M. Quinson and F. Suter; LIP--ENS Lyon, France

A Novel Paradigm for Mission Critical Systems Purvi Shah, Carl Bruggeman, and Lonnie R. Welch; Ohio Univ., Ohio, USA

Modeling of Multiple and Heterogeneous Stream Elements for Resource Management Anbuselvan Neelamegam, Carl Bruggema, and Lonnie R. Welch; Ohio Univ., Ohio, USA

A mpC Parallel Debugger Alexey Kalinov and Ilya Ledovskikh; Russian Academyof Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Distributed Extension of the Parallel Graph Reduction. GRACE: Compact and Efficient Dynamic Parallelization Technology for the Heterogeneous Computing SystemsV. Roganov and A. Slepuhin; Lomonosov Moscow StateUniv., Moscow, Russia

Self-Tuned Parallel Processing System for Heterogeneous Clusters J. Barbosa, J. Tavares, and A. Padilha; Portugal

Data Allocation Strategies for Dense Linear Algebra on Two-Dimensional Grids with Heterogeneous Communication Links Olivier Beaumont and Arnand Legrand; LIP,UMR CNRS-ENS Lyon-INRIA, Lyon, France

The mpC Parallel Development EnvironmentK. Karganov, K. Khorenko, and M. Posypkin; Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

Using mpC to Improve Performance of CORBA-BasedDistributed Applications on Heterogeneous Networks A. Lastovetsky; IONA Technologies PLC, Dublin, Ireland