[Acpc-l] CFP: FTPDS 2000, Cancun, Mexico

[Hermann Hellwagner]

> Call for Papers
> 
> Annual IEEE Workshop on Fault-Tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems
> 
> May 1-5, 2000
> West Regina Hotel, Cancun, Mexico
> 
> Held in conjunction with the
> 
> International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium
> 
> May 1-5, 2000
> 
> Program Chair:
> 
> Dimiter Avresky, Boston University
> 
> Theme
> 
> Increasingly large parallel computing systems provide unique challenges to
> the researchers in dependable computing, especially because of the high
> failure rates intrinsic to these systems. While commercial and scientific
> companies share the need for massive throughput and low latency,
> dependability of service is also a concern. In addition to providing
> uninterrupted service, commercial systems must be free from data corruption.
> Achieving dependability in highly scalable parallel and distributed systems
> poses a considerable challenge. As the number of components increases, so
> does the probability of a component failure. Therefore, improved
> fault-tolerant technology is required for high scalable parallel and
> distributed systems.
> 
> The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and
> practitioners to discuss issues related to these issues of fault-tolerant
> parallel and distributed systems. All aspects of design, theory and
> realization of parallel and distributed systems are of interest.
> 
> Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
> 
> - Dependable distributed systems
> 
> - Fault-tolerant  protocols for distributed systems
> 
> - Fault tolerance in clusters of workstations and PCs
> 
> - Fault-tolerant interconnection networks
> 
> - Fault-tolerant parallel programming
> 
> - Using COTS  for designing dependable network based computing systems
> 
> - Portable checkpointing for heterogeneous distributed systems
> 
> - Fault injection in parallel and distributed systems
> 
> - Dependability evaluation of fault-tolerant parallel and distributed
> systems
> 
> Program Committee:
> 
> J. Bruck, Caltech, USA
> 
> B. Ciciani, University of Roma, Italy
> 
> D. Culler, University of California Berkley, USA
> 
> O. Frieder, IIT, USA
> 
> J. Hayes, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
> 
> H. Hellwagner, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
> 
> C. Katsinis, Drexel University, PA, USA
> 
> I. Koren, Univ. of Mass. Amherst, USA
> 
> D. Kaeli, Northeastern University, USA
> 
> T. Katayama,  AIST, Japan
> 
> I. Keidar, MIT, USA
> 
> H. Levendel, Motorola, USA
> 
> Q. Li, Santa Clara University, USA
> 
> F. Lombardi, Northeastern University, USA
> 
> E. Maehle, University of Lubeck, Germany
> 
> K. Makki, UNLV, USA
> 
> M. Malek, Humboldt University, Germany
> 
> P. Mehra, Compaq Tandem Labs, USA
> 
> C. Petitpierre, EPFL, Switzerland
> 
> D. Powell, LAAS-CNRS, France
> 
> M. Raynal, IRISA, France
> 
> J. Reed, Oxford Brooks University, UK
> 
> J. Sifakis, UMR Verimag, France
> 
> R. Vidale, Boston University, USA
> 
> The workshop is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Techical Committee on
> Parallel Processing. For further information, please contact the Program
> Chair.
> 
>      D.  R.  Avresky
>      Network Computing Lab
>      ECE Department
>      Boston University
>      8 Saint Mary's St.
>      Boston, MA 02215
>      phone: (617)- 353-9850
>      fax:(617)- 353-6440
>      e-mail : avresky@bu.edu
>      http://netcom1.bu.edu/FTPDS99_workshop.html
> 
> To submit papers, send six copies of a manuscript (at most 20 pages long
> including figures and references) describing original unpublished research
> to D. R. Avresky by January 28, 2000 The authors of selected papers will be
> invited by February 28, 2000 to submit papers. Camera-ready papers due by
> March 10, 2000s. The selected papers will appear in the proceedings,
> published by Springer-Verlag. Selected papers will be invited for
> publication in a special issue of IEEE Transactions on Parallel and
> Distributed Systems on Dependable Network Computing , January 2001.