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                           Call for Papers

    2009 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing
                            (Cluster 2009)

                31 August - 4 September 2009

                 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

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Cluster 2009 welcomes paper and poster submissions on innovative work from researchers in academia, industry, and government, describing original research in the field of cluster computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • Cluster Architecture and Hardware Systems
    • Node architectures
    • Packaging, Power, and Cooling
  • Cluster Software and Middleware
    • Software Environments and Tools
    • Single -System Image Services
    • Parallel File Systems and I/O Libraries
    • Standard Software for Clusters
    • Virtualization
  • Cluster Networking
    • High-Speed Interconnects
    • High Performance Message Passing Libraries
    • Lightweight Communication Protocols
  • Implications of Multicore and Clouds on Clusters
    • Hardware Architecture
    • Software and Tools
    • Networking
    • Management
    • Applications
  • Applications
    • Application Methods and Algorithms
    • Adaptation to Multicore
    • Data Distribution, Load Balancing & Scaling
    • MPI/OpenMP Hybrid Computing
    • Visualization
  • Performance Analysis and Evaluation
    • Benchmarking & Profiling Tools
    • Performance Prediction & Modeling
  • Cluster Management
    • Security and Reliability
    • High Availability Solutions
    • Resource and Job Management
Paper Submission:

Paper Format: Since the camera-ready version of accepted papers must be compliant with the IEEE Xplore format for publication, submitted papers must conform to the following Xplore layout, page limit, and font size. This will insure a size consistency and a uniform layout for the reviewers. (With minimal changes, accepted document can be styled for publication according to Xplore requirements explained in the Xplore formatting guide, which is also in Xplore format).
Calls for Tutorials, Workshops, and Posters:

See http://www.cluster2009.org/

Important Dates:

  Workshop proposal deadline: 12 December 2008
  Workshop notification: 22 December 2008
  Tutorial proposal deadline: 31 March 2009
  Technical paper abstracts submissions: 14 April 2009
  Technical paper full paper submissions: 21 April 2009
  Tutorial notification: 31 May 2009
  Technical paper notification: 19 June 2009
  Poster submissions: 26 June 2009
  Poster notification: 24 July 2009
  Poster camera ready deadline: 7 August 2009
  Paper camera ready deadline: 7 August 2009

Conference Organizing Chairs and Committees:

General Chair
  Daniel S. Katz, Louisiana State University, USA
General Vice Chair
  Mark Baker, University of Reading, UK
Program Chair
  Thomas Sterling, Louisiana State University, USA
Program Vice Chairs
  Pete Beckman, Argonne National Lab, USA
  William Camp, Intel, USA
  Chirag Dekate, Louisiana State University, USA
  Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, USA
  William Gropp, University of Illinois, USA
  Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
  Barton Miller, Univ. of Wisconsin, USA
Poster Co-Chairs
  Sushil Prasad, Georgia State University, USA
  Eric Aubanel, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Workshops Chair
  Wu Feng, Virginia Tech, USA
Tutorials Co-Chairs
  Robert Ferraro, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, USA
  Bryan Biegel, NASA Ames, USA
Proceedings Chair
  Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Publicity Co-Chairs
  Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
  Feilong Tang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
  Tevfik Kosar, Louisiana State University, USA
Finance Chair
  Box Leangsuksun, Louisiana Tech University, USA
Sponsor and Exhibitors Co-Chairs
  George Jones, Data Direct Networks, USA
  Charlie McMahon, Louisiana State University, USA
  Ali Butt, Virginia Tech, USA
Local Arrangements Chair
  Karen Jones, Louisiana State University, USA
PR/Graphics Chair
  Kristen Sunde, Louisiana State University, USA

Program Committee Members:

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