Sponsored by  the IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC)

News:

Sunday March 9:

Program is available

Friday January 18:

-10 normal size papers / long presentations
-8 short papers / short presentations.

Monday January 14:

SCOPE

The wide spread of the World Wide Web along with the availability of increasingly powerful off-the-shelf hardware give rise to a new infrastructure for distributed computing. Besides traditional grid computing systems, it is now possible to run computations on a large number workstations, personal computers and servers using a large scale and loosely coupled system.

This type of distributed computing, also referred to as Global Computing, is currently used for a large variety of physic, mathematics and biology applications mostly following the Master/slave paradigm. Peer-to-Peer interaction models give the opportunity to enlarge the number of user and applications of Global Computing by allowing any resource to send job or/and data requests, provide data or/and computation services and participate to maintain the infrastructure itself.

Because of their size and the high volatility of their resources, Global Computing and Global Peer-to-Peer Computing platforms provide the opportunity for researchers to revisit distributed computing major fields: protocols, infrastructures, security, certification, fault tolerance, scheduling, performance, etc.

Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished work describing current research in the area of Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing including design and analysis of computational infrastructures as well as applications in science, technology, and commerce.

The first workshop of the series, "Global Computing on Personal Devices", which was held as part of the IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2001 in Brisbane, Australia has attracted participants from all over the world.
 
 

TOPICS

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Global Computing and Peer-to-Peer computing platforms,
• Autonomous, self organizing and/or mobile distributed systems,
• Middleware, programming models, environments and toolkits,
• Protocols for resource management/discovery/reservation/scheduling,
• Economic considerations of resource usage (protocols, accounting),
• Storage in Global Computing Infrastructures (stategies, protocols)
• Performance monitoring, benchmarning, evaluation and modeling of Global Computing and

Peer-to-Peer systems and/or components thereof,
• Security, management and monitoring of resources,
• Result certification (detection/tolerance of wrong/corrupted results),
• Parallel computing on large scale distributed systems,
• Compute or I/O driven applications (scientific, engineering, business),
• Global and peer-toPeer computing applications (programmed from scratch, ported from sequential,

or parallel version, adaptations to fit a global computing environment)

IMPORTANTES DATES

 

Papers due:	November 24 --> December 1, 2001 (dead line extension)
Notification to authors:	December 21, 2001 --> January 7, 2002
Final version of papers due:	February 15, 2002 --> March 1, 2002

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are encouraged to:

• Submit a full paper (max: 6 pages in length, formatted to the IEEE format)
• Submit a research statement (max: 2 pages in length, formatted to the IEEE format)

Use a minimum of 10pt font, and printable on A4 paper. IEEE guidelines can be found here. Please email your papers to mailto:fci@lri.frormailto:lalis@ics.forth.gr, which is the preferred method for submission.

Full papers (category (a)) will be reviewed by the programme committee for relevance, clarity and the novelty of results. If accepted, full papers will be published in the conference proceedings by IEEE Computer Society. Authors may purchase two additional pages.

Short papers (category (b)) will be published in a seperate section. This is to encourage work that is not yet advanced enough for a full paper.

We also encourage authors to present novel ideas, critique of existing work, and application examplers, which demonstrate how Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing technology could be effectively deployed. We also welcome practical work which applies Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing technology in novel and interesting ways.
 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• Mark Baker, DCS , University of Portsmouth, UK
• Taisuke Boku, CCP, University of Tsukuba, Japan
• Franck Cappello, CNRS, Paris-South University, France
• Henri Casanova, SDSC, California, USA
• Andrew Grimshaw, University of Virginia, Avaki, USA
• Christian Huitema, Microsoft, USA
• Spyros Lalis, ICS-FORTH, University of Thessaly, Greece
• Serge Petiton, LILF, Lille University, France
• Olivier Richard, INRIA ID, Grenoble, France
• Avi Rubin, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
• Mitsuhisa Sato, CCP, University of Tsukuba, Japan

Reviewers

Mark Baker, George Bosilca, Franck Cappello, Henri Casanova, Gilles Fedak, Cecile Germain, Christian Huitema, Geraud Krawezik, Spyros Lalis, Serge Petiton, Derik Kondo, Olivier Richard, Avi Rubin, Mitsuhisa Sato.
 

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

For more information please contact:

Franck Cappello, LRI, CNRS, Universite Paris-Sud,  France, fci@lri.lri.fr

Spyros Lalis, ICS-FORTH,  University of Thessaly,  Greece, lalis@ics.forth.gr