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CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION

4th International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
(CCGrid 2004: IEEE support pending final approval)

19-22 April, Chicago, Illinois, USA http://www.mcs.anl.gov/ccgrid2004

SCOPE

In 20 years from 1970 to 1990 the Internet and the UNIX operating system 
became ubiquitous in computer science laboratories and universities. 
During the 10 years from 1990 to 2000, the Internet emerged as a global 
information utility, commodity microprocessors fueled the establishment 
of clusters as computing platforms, and open source Linux became a 
mainstream operating system.  Metacomputers, the concept of combining 
networked resources into distributed virtual computers, grew into the 
concept of The Grid with the vision that those distributed resources 
would be as straightforward to build and use as the ubiquitous 
electrical power grid.

Today we are seeing a convergence of extremes: terascale computers 
created from Open Source Linux commodity clusters, multi-gigabit/second 
wide area networks, and the Open Grid Services Architecture, combining 
Web services designed to scale to millions of endpoints with High 
Performance Grid concepts designed to scale to TeraFlop endpoints. 
Together, they are facilitating a new wave of computer science research 
and development.

CCGrid2004, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society (final approval 
pending), is designed to bring together international leaders who are 
pioneering researchers, developers, and users of extreme 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.

CCGrid2004 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

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit papers of not more than 8 pages of double 
column text using single spaced 10 point size type on 8.5 x 11 inch 
pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines, see: 
http://www.computer.org/cspress/instruct.htm.  Authors should submit a 
PostScript (level 2) or PDF file that will print on a PostScript 
printer. Paper submission instructions will be placed on: 
http://www.mcs.anl.gov/ccgrid2004/.

It is expected that the proceedings will be published by the IEEE 
Computer Society Press, USA.

SPECIAL EVENTS - WORKSHOPS

Those wishing to organize workshops, present tutorials on emerging 
topics or participate in the industry track are invited to send the 
following information to .

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Event Type: Workshop / Tutorial / Industry Track
Workshop  Title:
Workshop Chairs:
Short Description of the Field:
Scope:
Prospective Reviewers/Program Committee:
Plans for publicizing the workshop:
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CHAIRS & COMMITTEES

Conference General Chairs
   Charlie Catlett (Argonne Nat'l Lab, USA and Global Grid Forum)
   Pete Beckman (Argonne Nat'l Lab, USA)

Honorary Chair
   Ian Foster (Argonne Nat'l Lab and University of Chicago, USA)

Program Committee Chair
   Pete Beckman (Argonne Nat'l Lab, USA)

Program Committee Vice-Chairs
   David Abramson (Monash University, Australia)
   Sameer Shende (Univ Oregon, USA)

IMPORTANT DATES

10 Nov 2003    Papers Due
1  Dec 2003    Workshop/Tutorial/Exhibit Proposals Due
20 Dec 2003    Notification of Paper Acceptance
19 Jan 2004    Camera Ready Papers Due

CCGRID 2004 PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS

David Abramson (Monash Univ., Australia)
Greg Astfalk (Hewlett-Packard, USA)
Ruth Aydt (NCSA, USA)
Henri Bal (Vrije Univ., The Netherlands)
Pete Beckman (ANL, USA)
Taisuke Boku (Univ. Tsukuba, Japan)
Ron Brightwell (Sandia Nat'l Laboratory, USA)
Rajkumar Buyya (Univ. Melbourne, Australia)
Charlie Catlett (ANL, USA)
Giovanni Chiola (Universit di Genova, Italy)
Susan Coghlan (ANL, USA)
Steve Crumb (GGF, USA)
Andreas Dilger (Cluster File Systems, Canada)
Ian Foster (ANL & Univ. Chicago, USA)
Dennis Gannon (Indiana Univ., USA)
Andrew S. Grimshaw (University of Virginia, USA)
Jon "maddog" Hall (Linux International, USA)
Tony Hey (EPSRC, Great Britain)
Marty Humphrey (Univ. Virginia, USA)
Satoshi Itoh (AIST, Japan)
William Johnston (NASA/LBL, USA)
Thilo Kielmann (Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Barbara 
Kucera (Univ of Kentucky, USA) Domenico Laforenza (ISTI-CNR, Pisa, 
Italy) Craig A. Lee (The Aerospace Corp., USA) Timothy Mattson (Intel 
Co., USA) Satoshi Matsuoka (Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan) 
Andre Merzky (ZIB, Germany) Bernd Mohr (FZJ, Germany) Bill Nitzberg 
(Veridian Co., USA) Joerg Nolte (Fraunhofer FIRST, Germany) Philip 
Papadopoulos (SDSC, USA) Rob Pennington (NCSA, USA) Ira Pramanick (Sun 
Microsystems, USA) Thierry Priol (IRISA, Campus Universitaire de 
Beaulieu, France) Alexander Reinefeld (Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany) 
Paul Roe (Queensland Univ. of Tech., Australia) Joel Saltz (Ohio State 
Univ., USA) Jenny Schopf (ANL, USA) Sameer Shende (Univ Oregon, USA) 
Derek Simmel (PSC, USA) Osamu Tatebe (AIST, Japan) Kenjiro Taura (Univ. 
of Tokyo, Japan) Putchong Uthayopas (Kasetsart Univ., Thailand) Richard 
M. Wolski (UCSB, USA)

CCGRID STEERING COMMITTEE
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Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth, UK
Henri Bal, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Rajkumar Buyya 
(coordinator/chair), University of Melbourne, Australia Franck Capello, 
University of Paris-Sud, Paris, France Charlie Catlett, Argonne National 
Laboratory, USA and Global Grid Forum Jack Dongarra, University of 
Tennessee (UTK) and ORNL, Knoxville, USA Ian Foster, Argonne National 
Laboratory and University of Chicago, USA Wolfgang Gentzsch, Sun 
Microsystems, Palo Alto, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and 
Technology, China Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles, USA 
Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, Lyon, France Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute 
of Technology, Japan Alexander Reinefeld, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum, Berlin, 
Germany Satoshi Sekiguchi, AIST, Tsukuba, Japan David Walker, University 
of Wales Cardiff, UK

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