Workshop Organization

Co-chairs

Scott Pakin (LANL)
Craig Stunkel (IBM)
José Flich (UPV)

Program Committee

Francisco Alfaro (UCLM)
Gheorghe Almasi (IBM)
Pavan Balaji (ANL)
Angelos Bilas (FORTH & U. Crete)
Ron Brightwell (SNL)
Darius Buntinas (ANL)
Mitchell Gusat (IBM)
Nectarios Koziris (NTUA)
Pedro López (UPV)
Andrew Lumsdaine (IU)
Jarek Nieplocha (PNNL)
Greg Pfister (indep.)
Jamie Riotto (indep.)
Vikram Saletore (Intel)
José Luis Sánchez (UCLM)
Tor Skeie (Simula)
Evan Speight (IBM)
Ola Tørudbakken (Sun)
Keith Underwood (Intel)

Steering Committee

D.K. Panda (OSU)
José Duato (UPV)
Mazin Yousif (Intel)

Theme

Many of the world's largest and fastest computer systems are workstation or server 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:

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)
communication and architectural issues related to router/switch organization, flow control, congestion control, routing and deadlock handling, load balancing, reliability, QoS support, topology discovery, dynamic reconfiguration, and clustered storage and fileservers
novel network-interface and switch architectures for supporting efficient point-to-point and collective communication
performance measurements, analysis, and early-user experience reports of pre-release and recently released network interfaces, network protocols/emerging standards, and routers/switches

Results of both theoretical and practical significance will be considered. Note, however, that papers on topics that are too far removed from cluster communication (e.g., mobile networks, intrusion detection, peer-to-peer networks) will be rejected without review.

Proceedings

The proceedings of this workshop will be published together with the proceedings of other IPDPS 2009 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.). Manuscripts must be submitted electronically and in either PostScript or PDF format. 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.

CAC manuscript submissions are being handled by EDAS. To submit a paper, go to https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=6859&submit=0& and follow the instructions.

Important Dates

Paper submission:	8 December 2008	15 December 2008
Notification of acceptance:	26 January 2009
Camera-ready papers due:	15 February 2009
Workshop date:	25 May 2009

All deadlines are set at 11:59 p.m. anywhere on Earth, except the camera-ready due date, which IPDPS sets as midnight PST (GMT–08:00).

Additional Information

E-mail contact

For more information on CAC 2009 or if you have any questions please contact the workshop organizers at the e-mail address listed at the bottom of this page.

Typeset version of this CFP

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

CAC 2009 CFP (PDF format)