Workshop Organization

Co-chairs

Scott Pakin (LANL)
Mazin Yousif (Intel)

Program Committee

Angelos Bilas (FORTH & U. Crete)
Ron Brightwell (SNL)
Darius Buntinas (ANL)
Wu-Chun Feng (VT)
José Flich (UPV)
Mitchell Gusat (IBM)
Ben Lee (OSU)
Olav Lysne (Oslo)
Jarek Nieplocha (PNNL)
Greg Pfister (IBM)
Timothy Pinkston (USC)
Vikram Saletore (Intel)
Cris Simpson (Intel)
Evan Speight (IBM)
Pete Wyckoff (OSC)

Theme

Many of the world's fastest computer systems are PC or workstation clusters. Numerous research groups in academia, industry, and government are currently engaged in cluster research, seeking new ways to advance the state of the art of cluster communication. The goal of the CAC workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the areas of communication hardware and software to discuss their latest findings as well as future trends in the design of scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective communication architectures for clusters.

Topics of Interest

Topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to the following:

novel network-interface and switch architectures for supporting efficient point-to-point and collective communication,
design, implementation, and optimization of low-level communication protocols (e.g., VAPI, Tports, GM, and IP) and higher-level communication layers (e.g., MPI, sockets, put/get, and distributed shared memory),
tools and techniques for evaluating cluster and application performance, and
communication and architectural issues related to router/switch organization, flow control, congestion control, routing and deadlock handling, load balancing, reliability, QoS support, topology discovery, and dynamic reconfiguration.

Results of both theoretical and practical significance will be considered.

Proceedings

The proceedings of this workshop will be published together with the proceedings of other IPDPS 2006 workshops by the IEEE Computer Society Press.

Paper Submissions

Submitted manuscripts may not exceed eight single-spaced pages using a 12-point font on 8½×11-inch pages, everything included (figures, tables, references, etc.). Hardcopy submissions will be accepted, but files in either PostScript (level 2) or PDF format are strongly encouraged. Authors need to make sure that the electronically submitted files are formatted for 8½×11-inch paper. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the workshop attendees. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another workshop, conference, or journal.

Important Dates

Paper submission:	10 October 2005	Extended to 17 October 2005
PC reviews due:	28 November 2005	Extended to 5 December 2005
Notification of acceptance:	12 December 2005	Extended to 19 December 2005
Camera-ready due:	21 January 2006	Now due 13 January 2006

Additional Information

E-mail Contact

For more information on CAC 2006 or if you have any questions please contact the workshop organizers at the e-mail addresses listed at the bottom of this page.

Typeset Version of the CAC 2006 CFP

A single-page PDF version of this Web page is available below:

CAC 2006 CFP (PDF format)