Call for Participation

SCOPE

Commodity-based clusters and Grid computing technologies are rapidly developing, and are key components in the emergence of a novel service-based fabric for high capability computing. Cluster-powered Grids not only provide access to cost-effective problem-solving power, but also promise to enable a more collaborative approach to the use of distributed resources, and new economic products and services. CCGrid2005, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society is designed to bring together international leaders who are pioneering researchers, developers, and users of clusters, networks, and Grid architectures and applications. The symposium will also serve as a forum to present the latest work, and highlight related activities from around the world. CCGrid2005 is interested in topics including, but not limited to:

• Hardware and Software (based on PCs, Workstations, SMPs or Supercomputers)
• Middleware for Clusters and Grids
• Dynamic Optical Network Architectures for Grid Computing
• Parallel File Systems, including wide area file systems, and Parallel I/O
• Scheduling and Load Balancing
• Programming Models, Tools, and Environments
• Performance Evaluation and Modeling
• Resource Management and Scheduling
• Computational, Data, and Information Grid Architectures and Systems
• Grid Economies, Service Architectures, and Resource Exchange Architectures
• Grid-based Problem Solving Environments
• Scientific, Engineering, and Commercial Grid Applications
• Portal Computing / Science Portals

The conference will contain:

• Over 75 papers in the main track (33% Acceptance Rate)

• 9 workshops:
  Chair: Craig Lee (Aerospace Corporation, US)
  • Workshop 1:
    Collaborative and Learning Applications of Grid Technology

    Organisers:
    Oscar Ardaiz-Villanueva, Technical University Catalunya, Spain
    Miguel L. Bote-Lorenzo, University of Valladolid, Spain
    Amy Apon, University of Arkansas, US
    Barry Wilkinson, Western Carolina University, US

  • Workshop 2:
    Cluster-Sec 2005: Cluster Security -- The Paradigm Shift

    Organiser:
    William Yurcik, NCSA, US

  • Workshop 3:
    Semantic Infrastructure for Grid Computing Applications

    Organisers:
    Line C. Pouchard, Oak Ridge National Lab, US
    Luc Moreau, University of Southampton, UK
    Valentina Tamma, University of Liverpool, UK

  • Workshop 4:
    Fifth International Workshop on Global and Peer-2-Peer Computing: "Theory and Experience of Desktop Grids and P2P systems"

    Organisers:
    Franck Cappello, INRIA, France
    Adriana Iamnitchi, Duke University, US
    Mitsuhisa Sato, Tsukuba University, Japan

  • Workshop 5:
    DSM 2005: Fifth International Workshop on Distributed Shared Memory

    Organisers:
    Laurent Lefevre, INRIA RESO/LIP, France
    Michael Schoettner, University of Ulm, Germany

  • Workshop 6:
    GAN'05: Third Workshop on Grids and Advanced Networks

    Organisers:
    Laurent Lefevre, INRIA RESO/LIP, France
    Pascale Primet, INRIA RESO/LIP, France

  • Workshop 7:
    Bio-Medical Computations on the Grid (BioGrid)

    Organisers:
    Chun-Hsi Huang, University of Connecticut, US
    Sanguthevar Rajasekaran, University of Connecticut, US

  • Workshop 8:
    1st International Workshop on Grid Performability

    Organisers:
    Nigel Thomas, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
    Stephen Jarvis, University of Warwick, UK

  • Workshop 9:
    Workshop on Agent-based Grid Economics (AGE-2005)

    Organisers:
    Daniel Veit, University of Karlsruhe, Germany
    Bjoern Schnizler, University of Karlsruhe, Germany

• 4 Tutorials (31% acceptance rate -- 13 tutorial proposals were submitted)
  Chair: Michael Gerndt (TUM, Germany)
  • Tutorial 1:

    High Performance I/O for Scientific Applications
    Robert Latham
    Mathematics and Computer Science Division, Argonne National Lab, IL, USA

  • Tutorial 2:

    Practical Performance Measurement and Analysis of Parallel Programs on Clusters (and Grids)
    Bernd Mohr
    Forschungszentrum Juelich, Zentralinstitut fuer Angewandte Mathematik, 52428 Juelich, Germany

  • Tutorial 3:

    Grid Computing Security - Issues, Concerns and Counter-measures
    Anirban Chakrabarti
    Grid Computing Focus Group, Software Engineering Technology Lab, Infosys Technologies, Electronics City, Bangalore, Karnataka 560100, India

  • Tutorial 4:

    The Gridbus Toolkit: Creating and Managing Utility Grids for eScience and eBusiness Applications
    Rajkumar Buyya
    Senior Lecturer and StorageTek (USA) Fellow of Grid Computing Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Lab Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Melbourne, ICT Building, 111, Barry Street, Carlton, Melbourne, VIC 3053, Australia

• A poster session with over 16 posters
  Posters Chair: Yan Huang (Cardiff University, UK)

• Two General Keynote Talks:
  • Talk 1:

    "e-Science, Cyberinfrastructure and Web Service Grids"
    Professor Tony Hey, University of Southampton/ERSRC, UK

  • Talk 2:

    "Experiences with System X"
    Professor Srinidhi Varadarajan, Virginia Tech, US

• An Industry Track
  Chair: Alistair Dunlop (OMII, UK)

  Industry Keynote:
  "WS-Agreement"
  Heiko Ludwig, IBM T.J.Watson Research Centre, US

• A "Work in Progress" Session
  Chairs: Mark Baker (Portsmouth University)
  Daniel Katz (JPL, Caltech, US)