Call for Student Participation in Cluster 2009
No more slots for student support are available. You can still submit an application in case any current students drop out.Preference is given to students who are US citizens or at US universities, but all students will be considered
The 2009 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computer (Cluster 2009, New Orleans, Louisiana, 31 August - 4 September, 2009, http://www.cluster2009.org/) has received a grant from NSF to support student participation in Cluster 2009.
We will be able to support up to 75 students, with the following support:
- The advance student registration fee will be paid by the conference (normally $245)
- Students staying in the conference hotel will have $200 of hotel costs paid by the conference (note that 2 approved students sharing a room will thus save $400 of hotel costs)
The main conference sessions on Tuesday-Thursday (September 1-3) will including keynotes, peer-reviewed papers sessions, panels, and a poster session. Additionally, a new panel session on careers in Cluster computing is now being organized, with representatives from industry, government, and academia.
All tutorials and workshops (to be held on Monday and Friday) will be included in the same registration fee (which the conference will pay for approved students).
Monday, August 31 will include the following tutorials: Performance Analysis and optimization with Open_SpeedShop; Developing Scientific Applications Using Eclipse and the Parallel Tools Platform; Parallel Distributed-Memory Visualization with Paraview; and Programming using the Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) Model and the following workshops: High Performance Interconnects for Distributed Computing; and Workshop on Parallel Programming on Accelerator Clusters
Friday, September 4 will include the following tutorials: High Performance Computing with CUDA; Parallel Programming Using the Global Arrays Toolkit; Designing High-End Computing Systems with InfiniBand and 10-Gigabit Ethernet; and Hybrid Parallel Programming and Performance Optimization on a Multi-core, Multi-socket Cluster System and the following workshops: Interfaces and Abstractions for Scientific Data; and Web 2.0 on e-Research Infrastructure, Services and Applications
Approvals of student support will generally be made on a first come, first served basis, with some preference for student authors of papers or posters. Students wishing to be supported under this program should send a single email to d.katz@ieee.org, with the subject "Cluster 2009 Student Support", containing their contact information, information about any authorship of material submitting to the conference, with an attached letter from their advisor/professor explaining how this program will advance the student's career.
The deadline for submission of posters is Friday, June 26. Additionally, the workshop: Interfaces and Abstractions for Scientific Data plans to extend its submission date to June 26. Further information on posters, workshops, and the conference in general is available from the conference website: http://www.cluster2009.org/