CFP Workload Characterization Workshop

[Gabriele Kotsis]

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                              CALL FOR PAPERS 

                                Workshop on
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   WORKLOAD CHARACTERIZATION IN HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING ENVIRONMENTS
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               Sixth International Symposium on Modeling,
                Analysis and Simulation of Computer and
                Telecommunication Systems (MASCOTS '98)
   
                           July 19-24, 1998
               Complex Dejardins Hotel, Montreal, Canada

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Short Description 
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A critical factor in the design and development of high-performance
computing architectures and applications is to understand and to 
characterize the requirements of computing and network resources. The
objective of this workshop is to discuss recent trends, approaches and
results in workload characterization for high-performance computing systems.
In particular, the following topics will be addressed:

     + workload models for parallel and distributed systems
     + high-speed network traffic characterization
     + characterization of multimedia traffic
     + Internet / WWW traffic characterization
     + traffic characteristics of networked applications
          (e.g. CSCW, distributed virtual environments)
     + user behavior characterization in networked environments
     + relation between workload and QoS

If you are interested in submitting a paper, send an extended abstract
(plain ascii or PostScript, not exceeding 5 pages) by December 5 to 

           wlc.mascots@ani.univie.ac.at

or three hardcopies to

           Gabriele Kotsis 
           Department of Applied Computer Science 
           University of Vienna
           Lenaugasse 2/8, A-1080 Vienna, Austria
           Fax: (+43 1) 408 04 50

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DEADLINES

* Submit an extended abstract (5 pages) by  December  5, 1997 
* Feedback to authors on abstract by        December 19, 1997 
* Full manuscript due by                    February  2, 1998 
* Notification of accepted papers by        March     5, 1998
* Camera-ready copy due by                  April    10, 1998

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Duration / Preliminary Schedule
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1-Day Workshop (exact date to be announced)

   9:00 -  9:30 Welcome, Introduction 
   9:30 - 10:30 Paper Session 
  10:30 - 11:00 Coffee Break
  11:00 - 12:30 Paper Session 
  12:30 - 14:00 Lunch Break
  14:00 - 15:30 Paper Session 
  15:30 - 16:00 Coffee Break
  16:00 - 17:00 Open Issues, Discussion

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Organizing Committee 
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           Guenter Haring 
           Department of Applied Computer Science 
           University of Vienna
           Austria
           haring@ani.univie.ac.at

           Gabriele Kotsis 
           Department of Applied Computer Science 
           University of Vienna
           Austria
           gabi@ani.univie.ac.at

           S.V. Raghavan
           Department of Computer Science & Engineering 
           Indian Institute of Technology, Madras 
           India
           svr@iitm.ernet.in

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