Ninth IEEE International Symposium on High Performance
		   Distributed Computing (HPDC-9)
	      (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~cmcl/hpdc2000)

			to be convened at

   Westin William Penn, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, August 1-4, 2000


		         CALL FOR PAPERS


The Ninth International Symposium on High Performance Distributed 
Computing is a forum for presenting the latest research findings on 
the use of networked systems for high-performance computing.  
Submissions are encouraged on all aspects of high performance 
distributed computing, including hardware technologies, network 
protocols, the middleware that ties distributed resources together 
into ``computational grids,''; and tools and languages that 
support application development.  

Papers discussing application experience with high-performance 
distributed computing are of particular interest.  Examples include 
scientific computing applications, distributed collaborative virtual 
reality, and non-scientific workloads such as Web servers or indexing 
engines.

Papers receiving the best reviews will also be considered for 
publication in a special issue of the Journal Cluster Computing.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
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	-- Software environments and language support for high 
	   performance distributed computing
	-- Applications and case studies of high performance 
	   distributed computing
	-- Parallel and distributed algorithms to solve 
	   computationally intensive problems in networked environments
	-- Tools for remote collaboration, distributed multimedia, 
	   and tele-immersion
	-- Management of very large distributed datasets
	-- High performance I/O and file systems
	-- Security, configuration, and management issues
	-- Fault tolerance strategies for heterogeneous distributed 
	   platforms 
	-- Application, job, and resource scheduling strategies for 
	   meta computing
	-- Quality of service, resource reservation protocols and 
	   strategies 
	-- Middleware and network support for network-aware applications
	-- Application experience with network and system quality of 
	   service
	-- Gigabit network architectures and protocols
	-- Cluster technologies for scientific and non-scientific 
	   workloads

SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS AND DATES
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Paper Submissions:

Authors are requested to submit extended abstracts of at most 3000
words.  (Figures and references are not counted in this total.)  
Abstracts should be written so as to be self contained and to provide 
the technical substance required for the program committee to 
evaluate the paper's contribution.  Excessively long abstracts will be 
rejected outright.

Papers submitted to or published in another conference or a journal
are ineligible for this conference.

Abstracts must be submitted by March 3, 2000.
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Authors will be notified by May 10, 2000, and final camera-ready 
copies are due by June 16, 2000.  Submission details will be posted on 
the conference web site http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hpdc/

Tutorials:

Submit proposals for tutorials by April 15, 2000, 
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to the Tutorials Chair, Jon Weissman, (jon@cs.umn.edu).


Exhibits and Technical Demonstrations:

Proposals for exhibits and technical demonstrations should be
submitted to David O'Halloran (droh@cs.cmu.edu)
by May 31, 2000.  
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Student travel awards:

HPDC 2000 is pleased announce a Student Travel Grant
program (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hpdc/student.html)
The deadline for applications is March 31st, 2000.
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General Chair:
Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago

Program Committee Chair: Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University

Program Committee:
Henri Bal, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
Francine Berman, University of California at San Diego
Charlie Catlett, NCSA
Bill Feiereisen, NASA
Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory
Andrew Grimshaw, University of Virginia
Bill Johnston, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory
Carl Kesselman, ISI/USC
Jorg Liebeherr, University of Virginia
Matt Mathis, Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center
Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo University of Technology
Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois
Dave O'Hallaron, Carnegie Mellon University
Doug Schmidt, Washington University
Ed Seidel, University of Potsdam
Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University
Rick Stevens, Argonne National Laboratory
Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota
Rich Wolski, University of Tennessee 

Local Arrangements Chair:
Beverly Clayton, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center

Exhibits and Demonstrations Chairs:
Beverly Clayton, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center
Dave O'Hallaron, Carnegie Mellon University

Tutorial Chair:
Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota

Publicity Chair:
Rich Wolski, University of Tennessee

Symposium Steering Committee:
Salim Hariri, University of Arizona (chair)
Francine Berman, U.C. San Diego
Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago
Andrew Grimshaw, University of Virginia
Carl Kesselman, Information Sciences Institute, University of 
Southern California
C. S. Raghavendra, Aerospace Corporation

The programs for the preceding years may be found on line:
http://www.npac.syr.edu/projects/hpdc/hpdc5_prog
http://www.cs.orst.edu/~quinn/hpdc6, 
http://www-fp.mcs.anl.gov/hpdc7 
http://www.isi.edu/hpdc8


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