CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION The 3rd IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGrid 2003) May 12-15, 2003, Toshi Center Hotel, Tokyo, JAPAN http://www.ccgrid.org/ccgrid2003/ *** Paper Deadline Oct. 30, 2002 *** SCOPE Two new paradigms are changing the way we do computing: Clusters and Grids. Both have been born by the need for more economical means for high-performancecomputing. Clusters employ cost-effective commodity components for building powerful computers, and Grids allow to better utilize the computing resources that are available via Internet. CCGrid2003, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Cluster Computing, is designed to bring together international cluster and grid computing researchers, developers, and users to present and exchange the latest innovations and findings that drive future research and products. The areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - Middleware for Clusters and Grids - Interconnects and Protocols - File Systems, I/O and Databases - Resource Management - Scheduling and Load Balancing - Management of Large-Scale Distributed Data - Programming Languages and Models - Tools and Environments - Programming Support for SMP Clusters - System Management and Administration - Performance Evaluation and Modeling - Problem Solving Environments - Applications for Clusters and Grids - Computing / Science Portals - Peer-to-Peer Computing CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION TECHNICAL PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit original papers of up to 8 pages of double-column text using single spaced 10 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE manuscript guidelines, see http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm. Papers over 8 pages will be immediately rejected without refereeing. Authors should submit a PostScript (level 2) or PDF (preferred) file that will print on a PostScript printer. All submissions will be handled via the web. The submission site http://ccgrid.acm.org is now open. Please do NOT send your submission via email or hardcopy. Submission due date : October 30, 2002 CALL FOR POSTERS & RESEARCH DEMO Poster Chair solicits call for posters (upto 2 pages writeup) and research demos. Poster authors submits electrical data of posters after the conference. The poster chair creates an Online Proceedings of CCGrid posters for placing on the web. Research Demo: It is most likely that Internet facility will be organized at the conference venue, it is highly advisable to encourage research to present demo of their work. IMPORTANT DATES Technical Papers Due: October 30, 2002 Notification of Acceptance: December 17, 2002 Camera-Ready Papers Due: February 21, 2003 Tutorials: May 12, 2003 Conference: May 13-15, 2003 ORGANIZATION Hononary Chair Ken Miura (Fujitsu Ltd.) General Co-chairs Sangsan Lee (KISTI, Korea) Satoshi Sekiguchi (AIST, Japan) Program Committee Chair Satoshi Matsuoka (Tokyo Inst. Technology, Japan) Program Committee Co-chair Yutaka Ishikawa (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan) Program Committee David Abramson (Monash Univ., Australia) Kento Aida (Tokyo Inst. Technology, Japan) Henri Bal (Vrije Univ., The Netherlands) Taisuke Boku (Univ. Tsukuba, Japan) Rajkumar Buyya (Univ. Melbourne, Australia) Denis Caromel (Univ. Nice Sophia Antipolis-INRIA-CNRS, France) Henri Casanova (UCSD/SDSC, USA) Charlie Catlette (Argonne NL, USA) Iksoo Chang (Pusan National Univ., Korea) Andrew Chien (UCSD/Entropia, USA) Giovanni Chiola (Universit di Genova, Italy) Jack Dongarra ( Univ. Tennessee, USA) Markus Fischer (Univ. Manheim, Germany) Ian Foster (Argonne NL & Univ. Chicago, USA) Dennis Gannon (Indiana Univ., USA) Wolfgang Gentzsch (Sun Microsystems, USA) Ryutaro Himeno (RIKEN, Japan) Marty Humphrey (Univ. Virginia, USA) William Johnston (NASA/LBL, USA) Domenico Laforenza (ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy) Jason Leigh (Univ. Illinois at Chicago, USA) Craig A. Lee (The Aerospace Corp., USA) Sang Moon Lee (Samsung, Korea) Timothy Mattson (Intel Co., USA) Bill Nitzberg (Veridian Co., USA) Joerg Nolte (Fraunhofer FIRST, Germany) Philip Papadopoulos (SDSC, USA) Alexander Reinefeld (Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany) Paul Roe (Queensland Univ. of Tech., Australia) Joel Saltz (Ohio State Univ., USA) Stephen L. Scott (Oak Ridge NL., USA) Ed Seidel (Albert-Einstein-Institut, Potsdam, Germany) Chuck Seitz (Myricom, USA) Shinji Shimojo (Osaka Univ., Japan) Thomas M. Stricker (ETH Zurich, Switzerland ) Shinji Sumimoto (Fujitsu Laboratories Ltd., Japan) Osamu Tatebe (AIST, Japan) Kenjiro Taura (Univ. of Tokyo, Japan) Mary Thomas (Univ. Texas, USA) Bernard Tourancheau (Sun Microsystems, France) Putchong Uthayopas (Kasetsart Univ., Thailand) Jon B. Weissman (Minnesota Univ., USA) Andrew L Wendelborn (Univ. Adeleide, Australia) Richard M. Wolski (UCSB, USA) Industry Track Chair Katsuya Nishi (Grid Research Inc., Japan) Poster & Research Exhibit chair Srichaikul Piyawut (NECTEC, Thailand) Publicity Chairs Fang-Pang Lin (NCHC, Taiwan) Mathias Mueller (HLRS, Germany) Rajkumar Buyya (Univ. Melbourne, Australia) Henri Cassanova (UCSD, USA) Ruth Aydt (Univ. of Illinois, USA) Workshops Chair Mitsuhisa Sato (Univ. of Tsukuba, Japan) Tutorials Chair Koichi Nakanishi (NEC, Japan) Local Arrangements Chair Kiyohisa Ichikawa (AIST, Japan) Finance Chair Yuko Oshima (AIST, Japan) Registration Chair Naoko Kokubo (ICS,Inc., Japan) Addendum: Common Misconception (by Satoshi Matsuoka, the PC Chair): "I would like to attend but Japan is expensive for travelers!" This is a very common misconception, the result of early days when the only hotels where the travelers stayed at were the top-ranked hotels, and fortified in the early 90s when the exchange rate was 80-90 yens/US Dollar. Things have changed a lot since then; the exchange rate has gone down considerably (120-130 yens/US Dollar), but the prices of items have remained stable domestically due to deflationary status of the Japanese economy. Moreover, travelers can now find abundant low-price hotels and inexpensive but good restaurants to dine. For the CCGrid 2003 in particular, the conference will be held at a hotel near the Imperial Palace called Toshi-Center Hotel. Despite being new and quite comfortable as well as being conveniently located at the center of Tokyo, the room rate for a single room is approximately 9000 yens or $70-$75 U.S. I am sure everyone will find Japan to be quite economical and pleasant place to visit, especially in May when it is the best time of the year.