Dear Colleague: We have organised: GRID'2000: International Workshop on Grid Computing http://www.gridcomputing.org Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society and ACM SIGARCH The deadline for submission of papers for GRID'2000 is approaching near (May 1, 2000). If you need extension for few days, please let us know in advance--we will try to accomodate such requests. The call for paper is enclosed with this for your kind consideration and we hope you will consider Grid'2000 for presenting your research work. Please note that we are also encouraging the presentation of work-in-progress type research note. All accepted papers will be published through Springer Verlag LNCS-series (as a "Grid Computing" proceedings). Any help in publishing the enclosed CFP will be appreciated. Please forward the CFP your colleagues working in this area. We apologise if you have received this CFP multiple times. Best wishes, Sincerely, GRID'2000 Team http://www.gridcomputing.org ----------------------- GRID'2000 CFP ------------------------------------ GRID'2000: International Workshop on Grid Computing http://www.gridcomputing.org http://www.buyya.org/Grid2000/ http://www.dgs.monash.edu.au/~rajkumar/Grid2000/ In Conjunction with 7th International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC'2000) December 17-20, 2000, Bangalore, India Co-sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and ACM SIGARCH In Co-operation/Support: IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing EuroTools SIG on Metacomputing European Grid Forum Microsoft Research, USA. Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, India Genias Software/Gridware, Germany/USA --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The growing popularity of the Internet along with the availability of powerful computers and high-speed networks as low-cost commodity components is changing the way we do computing. This technology opportunity enables the clustering of a wide variety of geographically distributed resources such as supercomputers, storage systems, data sources, and special classes of devices, and allows them to be used as a single unified resource and thus forms what is popularly known as "computational grids". The computational grid is analogous to power (electricity) grid and aims to couple geographically distributed resources and offer consistent and inexpensive access to resources irrespective of their physical location or access point. Some of the research projects that have popularised the concept of grid computing include: Globus, Legion, Nimrod/G, DISCWorld, AppLeS, and others. GRID'2000 is an international meeting that brings together international grid computing researchers, developers, practitioners, and users. The aim of GRID'2000 is to serve as a forum to present current and future work as well as to exchange research ideas in this field. Scope GRID'2000 will emphasize both the design, analysis, implementation, and deployment of grid computing environments and applications as well as their use in scientific, engineering, and commercial settings. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Grid Fabrics and Architectures * Grid Middleware and Toolkits * Resource Management and Scheduling * Grid Information Services * Grid Security Issues * Advance Resource Reservation and Scheduling * Remote Data Access and Management * Grid Management and Organization Tools * Issues in integrating Clusters into Grid environment * Programming Models, Tools, and Environments * Performance Evaluation and Modelling of Gird Systems * Internet-based Computing Models * Collaborative Engineering Environments * Grid Applications (scientific, engineering, and business) * Information Power Grid * Computational Economy * Social, Scientific, and Industrial Implications of Computational Grids Paper Submission GRID'2000 invites authors to submit their original and unpublished work that demonstrate current research in all areas of Grid Computing including design and analysis of computational grids or metacomputers and their applications in science, technology, and commercial areas. The paper should not exceed 12 single-spaced pages of text using 10 point size type on A4 pages. Electronic submission by email is strongly encouraged. Authors should submit a PostScript (level 2) or PDF file that will print on a PostScript printer using A4 size paper. To facilitate processing, each submission should also enclose the following information in ASCII format: paper title, author name, abstract, up to five keywords, as well as the contacting information of the responsible author (postal address, e-mail address, phone/fax numbers). The results presented in the paper must be original. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. Hard copies should be sent only if electronic submission is not possible. Please send full paper for consideration to any one of the Workshop Co-Chairs. The hard copy submissions can be mailed, however, electronic submission is strongly encouraged. GRID'2000 also encourages the submission of outstanding "work-in-progress" type research note, however, the size of such papers is restricted to 5 pages. If the "reserach note" is rich in technical contents, we can relax this restriction. Proceedings All papers selected for this workshop by peer-review process will be published as a separate proceeding (titled as "Grid Computing") through Springer Verlag (LNCS series), Germany. Workshop Co-Chairs Rajkumar Buyya School of Computing Science and Software Engineering Monash University Clayton Campus, Melbourne Australia Phone: +61-3-9905 1502 Fax: +61-3-9905 3574 Email: rajkumar@csse.monash.edu.au WWW: http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~rajkumar Mark Baker School of Computer Science University of Portsmouth, c/o Milton Campus, Southsea, Hants, UK Tel: +44 1705 844285 Fax: +44 1705 844006 E-mail: Mark.Baker@port.ac.uk WWW: http://www.dcs.port.ac.uk/~mab/ Program Committee * David Abramson, Monash University, Australia. * Ishfaq Ahmad, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. * David Bader, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque. * Mark Baker, University of Portsmouth, England. * Francine Berman, University of California, San Diego. * Rajkumar Buyya, Monash University, Australia. * Steve Chapin , Syracuse University, New York. * Jack Dongarra , University of Tennessee/ORNL, Knoxville. * Wolfgang Gentzsch, GRIDware, Germany. * Jonathan Giddy, Distributed Systems Technology Centre, Australia. * Sergi Girona, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain. * Ken Hawick, Adelaide University, Australia. * Hai Jin, University of Southern California, Los Angeles. * William Johnston, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab. / NASA Ames., USA * Vipin Kumar, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis. * Domenico Laforenza, CNUCE-Institute of the Italian National Research Council, Italy. * Gregor von Laszewski, Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago. * Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation, Los Angeles. * Miron Livny, University of Wisconsin, Madison. * Muthucumaru Maheswaran, University of Manitoba, Canada. * Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan. * Jarek Nabrzyski, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland. * Lalit Patnaik, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore. * Mohan Ram, Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, Bangalore. * Alexander Reinefeld, Konrad-Zuse-Zentrum f’r Informationstechnik Berlin, Germany. * Michael Resch, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany. * Les Robertson, CERN-European Organization for Nuclear Research, Switzerland. * Mitsuhisa Sato, Real World Computing Partnership, Japan. * Peter Sloot, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands. Important Dates - May 1, 2000 : Final Date for Submissions - June 30, 2000 : Acceptances Notified - August 15, 2000 : Camera-Ready Paper Due - Dec. 17-20, 2000 : Conference ---------------------------------------------------------------------------