From - Sun Feb 23 03:53:52 1997 Path: Radon.Stanford.EDU!news.Stanford.EDU!su-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!milo.mcs.anl.gov!abacus.mcs.anl.gov!thakur From: thakur@abacus.mcs.anl.gov (Rajeev Thakur) Newsgroups: comp.theory Subject: CFP: IOPADS '97, deadline March 25 Date: Fri, 21 Feb 1997 22:53:12 GMT Organization: Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, Illinois Lines: 91 Distribution: world Message-ID: <85656559315791@abacus.mcs.anl.gov> NNTP-Posting-Host: abacus.mcs.anl.gov CALL FOR PAPERS Fifth Annual Workshop on I/O in Parallel and Distributed Systems (IOPADS) November 17, 1997, San Jose, CA, USA co-located with SC97: High Performance Networking and Computing Current Sponsors: ACM SIGACT, SIGARCH, SIGMETRICS, and SIGOPS, and in cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN URL: http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/iopads IOPADS brings together researchers in all aspects of storage-related I/O in parallel and distributed systems, including algorithms, applications, architecture, and systems software. It is our opinion that the research problems are most effectively addressed by investigating all these areas rather than working in each area in isolation. Although I/O-related papers appear in many other conferences, the value of IOPADS is in gathering interested researchers from all these areas of computer science, encouraging cross-disciplinary interaction. IOPADS '96 was held in conjunction with the FCRC group of conferences and was a huge success. IOPADS '97 will be co-located with SC97 (the 1997 entry in the former "Supercomputing 'XY" series). We expect that ACM Press will again publish the IOPADS proceedings, which will be provided to all registrants and will be available for sale at SC97 and afterwards. We invite you to submit papers that focus on storage-related I/O in high-performance parallel and distributed systems, in the context of parallel or distributed applications. Suggested topics include: * Experimental characterization of I/O demand * Design and implementation of I/O-intensive applications * Real-time and multimedia I/O * Theory and implementation of parallel-I/O algorithms * Interconnect issues, e.g., network-attached storage devices * Devices, including disk arrays and tape robots * Language and compiler support * Run-time libraries * Database systems * File systems Papers submitted to IOPADS must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. The manuscript should be written in English, at most twelve pages long (including figures, tables, and excluding references), single- or double-spaced, using an 11-point font. Electronic submission (of PostScript) is required; detailed submission instructions are on the web page. All submissions must arrive by 6 P.M. Eastern Time on March 25, 1997. Decisions will be announced by June 1, 1997. General Chairs Program Chair ------------------------------------------------- ----------------------- Thomas H. Cormen Alok Choudhary David Kotz Department of Department of Department of Computer Science Elec. and Computer Eng. Computer Science Dartmouth College Northwestern University Dartmouth College 6211 Sudikoff Lab 2145 Sheridan Road 6211 Sudikoff Lab Hanover, NH 03755-3510 Evanston, IL 60208-3118 Hanover, NH 03755-3510 (603) 646-2417 (847) 467-4129 (603) 646-1439 thc@cs.dartmouth.edu choudhar@ece.nwu.edu dfk@cs.dartmouth.edu Program Committee ----------------- Rajesh Bordawekar (Caltech) Garth Gibson (Carnegie Mellon) Leana Golubchik (Columbia University) Jim Gray (Microsoft) Phil Hatcher (Univ. New Hampshire) David Kotz (Dartmouth College) Orran Krieger (IBM T.J. Watson) Jai Menon (IBM Almaden) David Nagle (Carnegie Mellon) Bill Nitzberg (NASA Ames) Sivan Toledo (Xerox PARC) Darren Vengroff (Univ. Delaware) Jeffrey Vitter (Duke University) Marianne Winslett (Univ. Illinois Urbana) Publicity Chair: Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory For updates and more information, see http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/iopads For general inquiries, send e-mail to iopads@cs.dartmouth.edu