Cluster-based computing has become an area of serious interest due to the availability of high-end workstation class processors and high-speed networks as commodity components. High performance computing over networked computers is increasingly gaining popularity leading to commodity supercomputing. Computer applications are increasingly making use of multimedia contents rich with data, voice and video. To support cluster computing with multimedia traffic, the networking architecture, which is at the backbone of cluster computing paradigm, needs to support efficient transportation of voice and video in addition to traditional data types at very high speed. Several high speed networking technologies, e.g., Myrinet, Gigabit Ethernet and ATM networks, have emerged in the recent years. The aim of this special issue is to bring together survey and original work from both academia and industry on issues related to cluster computing with high speed networks.

Topics of Interest include (but not limited to):
 

Cluster Hardware Configuration	ATM based Cluster Computing and Wide-area computing
High-Speed Networks and Protocols	Data Structures and Algorithms
Programming Environments and Tools	Cluster Management and Administration
Cluster Middleware Infrastructure	High Availabality Computing Architecture
Single System Image	Applications of Clusters
Job and Process Management	Performance Analysis and Evaluation

Submission Guidelines:

Submissions should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliations, addresses, fax and phone numbers, email addresses. Please submit full papers, not previously published or submitted for publication elsewhere, not exceeding 15 single spaced pages , to sundar@lsu.edu electronically (postscript or pdf). Please also send a separate email with authors' names, addresses, fax and telephone numbers, title and abstract of the paper. Hard copies should be sent only if electronic submission is not possible.

Guest Editors:
 

Rajkumar Buyya   School of Computer Science & SE  Monash University, Clayton Campus Melbourne, VIC 3168, Australia  Tel: +61-3-9905 1502  Fax: +61-3-9905 5146  rajkumar@dgs.monash.edu.au http://www.dgs.monash.edu.au/~rajkumar

Mahbub Hassan   School of Computer Science & SE  Monash University, Caulfield Campus  Melbourne, VIC 3145, Australia  Tel: +61-3-9903 2122  Fax: +61-3-9903 1077  mahbub@insect.sd.monash.edu.au http://www.sd.monash.edu.au/~mahbub

Sundararajan Vedantham   105 Peabody hall Louisiana State University  Baton Rouge, LA 70803, U.S.A  Tel: +1-225-388-5099  Fax: +1-225-388-2267  sundar@lsu.edu http://asterix.ednet.lsu.edu/~sundar

Important Deadlines:
 

Submission Deadline :	December 15, 1999
Notification of Acceptance :	March 15, 2000
Camera Ready Due :	May 15, 2000
Publication of the Issue :	3rd Quarter, 2000

Useful Links:

Journal Home Page : http://www.wkap.nl/journalhome.htm/0920-85 42
Author Guideline: http://www.wkap.nl/kaphtml.htm/IFA0920-8542
Special Issue CFP URLs:
http://www.dgs.monash.edu.au/~rajkumar/jos-clusters.html
http://www.sd.monash.edu.au/~mahbub/jos-clusters.html
http://asterix.ednet.lsu.edu/~sundar/jos-clusters.html