Call for Papers

Fifth International Workshop on

ALGORITHMS, MODELS AND TOOLS FOR PARALLEL COMPUTING ON HETEROGENEOUS NETWORKS
(HeteroPar’06)

In conjunction with
The 2006 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing
(Cluster 2006)

September 25 - 28, 2006
Barcelona

WORKSHOP THEME:

Networks of computers are the most common and available parallel architecture now. Unlike dedicated parallel computer systems, networks are inherently heterogeneous. They consist of diverse computers of different performances interconnected via heterogeneous network equipment providing communication links with different latencies and bandwidths. Traditional parallel algorithms and tools are aimed at homogeneous multiprocessors and cannot be efficiently used for parallel computing on heterogeneous networks. New ideas, dedicated algorithms and tools are needed to efficiently use this new type of parallel architectures. The workshop is intended to be a forum for people working on algorithms, programming languages, tools, and theoretical models aimed at efficient problem solutions on heterogeneous networks.

WORKSHOP SCOPE:

The topics to be covered include but are not limited to:

• Heterogeneous parallel programming paradigms and models;

• Languages, libraries and interfaces for different heterogeneous parallel programming models;

• Performances models and their integration into the design of efficient parallel algorithms for heterogeneous networks;

• Parallel algorithms for efficient solving problems on heterogeneous networks (numerical linear algebra, nonlinear systems, fast transforms, data mining, etc.);

• Software engineering for heterogeneous parallel systems;

• Applications on heterogeneous networks;

• Integration of parallel and distributed computing on heterogeneous networks of computers;

• Experience of porting parallel software from supercomputers to heterogeneous networks;

• Fault tolerance of parallel computations on heterogeneous networks;

• Algorithms, models and tools for high performance computing on global networks (grids).

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

HeteroPar’06 invites authors to submit full papers presenting original and unpublished research by May 18th, 2006.  Submissions should consist of:

A cover page with the author's full name, address, fax number and e-mail address;

A 100-word abstract and keywords;

A paper describing original research in no more than 25 double-spaced numbered pages using 12 point font on 8.5x11-inch pages with 1-inch margins all around;

An optional appendix, with more details to be read/consulted at the discretion of the Program Committee.

All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee and outside referees. Submission will be sent to the Program Chair (Domingo Giménez: domingo@dif.um.es, domingo@um.es).

PUBLICATION:

The workshop plans to publish the proceedings through the IEEE Computer Society Press as part of the Cluster 2006 proceedings.

STEERING COMMITTEE:

Alexey Kalinov, Institute for System Programming, Russia (ka@ispras.ru)

Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin, Ireland (Alexey.Lastovetsky@ucd.ie)

Yves Robert, University of Lyon, France (Yves.Robert@ens-lyon.fr)

Denis Trystram, ID-IMAG, Grenoble, France (Denis.Trystram@imag.fr)

PROGRAM CHAIR:

Domingo Giménez, University of Murcia, Spain (domingo@dif.um.es, domingo@um.es)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth, UK

Jacques Mohcine Bahi, University of Franche-Comté, France

Ioana Banicescu, Mississippi State University, USA

Jorge Barbosa, Faculdade de Engenharia do Porto, Portugal

Olivier Beaumont, LABRI, France

Cristina Boeres, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brasil

José Luis Bosque, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain

Andrea Clematis, IMATI-CNR, Genova, Italy

Michel Daydé, IRIT-ENSEEIHT, France

Frédéric Desprez, University of Lyon, France

Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA

Pierre-François Dutot, LORIA, Nancy, France

Alfredo Goldman, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil

Shuichi Ichikawa, Toyohashi University of Technology, Japan

Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

Tahar Kechadi, University College Dublin, Ireland

Domenico Laforenza, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy

Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA

Pierre Manneback, Faculte Polytechnique de Mons, Belgium

John Morrison, University College Cork, Ireland

Wolfgang Nagel, University of Dresden, Germany

Wahid Nasri, Ecole Superieure des Sciences et Techniques de Tunis, Tunisia

Marcin Paprzycki, Oklahoma State University, USA

Dana Petcu, University of Timisoara, Romania

Serge Petiton, CNRS/LIFL and INRIA, France

Antonio J. Plaza, University of Extremadura, Spain

Casiano Rodríguez, University of La Laguna, Spain

Franciszek Seredynski, PJIIT and Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland

H. J. Siegel, Colorado State University, USA

Henk Sips, University of Delft, Netherland

Leonel Sousa, Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Portugal

Antonio M. Vidal, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain

Roman Wyrzykowski, Technical University of Czestochowa, Poland

IMPORTANT DATES:

WEB SITE:

The HeteroPar’06 workshop web site is at http://dis.um.es/heteropar