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                       2nd International Workshop on

                     Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing

                    on Large Scale Distributed Systems*

                                     at

       IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
                               (CCGrid'2002)
           Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities
                     May 21 - 24, 2002 Berlin, Germany
             http://www.ccgrid.org/| http://ccgrid2002.zib.de/


                                                             Sponsored by
                         the IEEE Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC) 

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    *This workshop is the successor of the "Global Computing on Personal
                Devices" workshop held during CCGRID'2001. 

                              Call for Papers


     SCOPE

     The wide spread of the World Wide Web along with the availability
     of increasingly powerful off-the-shelf hardware give rise to a new
     infrastructure for distributed computing. Besides traditional grid
     computing systems, it is now possible to run computations on a
     large number workstations, personal computers and servers using a
     large scale and loosely coupled system.

     This type of distributed computing, also referred to as Global
     Computing, is currently used for a large variety of physic,
     mathematics and biology applications mostly following the
     Master/slave paradigm. Peer-to-Peer interaction models give the
     opportunity to enlarge the number of user and applications of
     Global Computing by allowing any resource to send job or/and data
     requests, provide data or/and computation services and participate
     to maintain the infrastructure itself.

     Because of their size and the high volatility of their resources,
     Global Computing and Global Peer-to-Peer Computing platforms
     provide the opportunity for researchers to revisit distributed
     computing major fields: protocols, infrastructures, security,
     certification, fault tolerance, scheduling, performance, etc.

     Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished work describing
     current research in the area of Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing
     including design and analysis of computational infrastructures as
     well as applications in science, technology, and commerce.

     The first workshop of the series, "Global Computing on Personal
     Devices", which was held as part of the IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2001 in
     Brisbane, Australia has attracted participants from all over the
     world.


     TOPICS

     Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

          + Global Computing and Peer-to-Peer computing platforms,
          + Autonomous, self organizing and/or mobile distributed
            systems,
          + Middleware, programming models, environments and toolkits,
          + Protocols for resource
            management/discovery/reservation/scheduling,
          + Economic considerations of resource usage (protocols,
            accounting),
          + Storage in Global Computing Infrastructures (stategies,
            protocols)
          + Performance monitoring, benchmarning, evaluation and modeling
            of Global Computing and
            Peer-to-Peer systems and/or components thereof,
          + Security, management and monitoring of resources,
          + Result certification (detection/tolerance of wrong/corrupted
            results),
          + Parallel computing on large scale distributed systems,
          + Compute or I/O driven applications (scientific, engineering,
            business),
          + Global and peer-toPeer computing applications (programmed
            from scratch, ported from sequential,
            or parallel version, adaptations to fit a global computing
            environment)


     IMPORTANTES DATES

     Papers due:                  November 24, 2001
     Notification to authors:     December 21, 2001
     Final version of papers due: February 15, 2002 


     PAPER SUBMISSION

     Authors are encouraged to:

     * Submit a full paper (max: 6 pages in length, formatted to the IEEE
       format)
     * Submit a research statement (max: 2 pages in length, formatted to
       the IEEE format)

     Use a minimum of 10pt font, and printable on A4 paper. IEEE
     guidelines can be found here. Please email your papers to
     mailto:fci@lri.frormailto:lalis@ics.forth.gr, which is the
     preferred method for submission.

     Full papers (category (a)) will be reviewed by the programme
     committee for relevance, clarity and the novelty of results. If
     accepted, full papers will be published in the conference
     proceedings by IEEE Computer Society. Authors may purchase two
     additional pages.

     Short papers (category (b)) will be published in a seperate
     section. This is to encourage work that is not yet advanced enough
     for a full paper.

     We also encourage authors to present novel ideas, critique of
     existing work, and application examplers, which demonstrate how
     Global and Peer-to-Peer Computing technology could be effectively
     deployed. We also welcome practical work which applies Global and
     Peer-to-Peer Computing technology in novel and interesting ways.


   PROGRAM COMMITTEE (still expanding)
     * Mark Baker, DCS , University of Portsmouth, UK
     * Taisuke Boku, CCP, University of Tsukuba, Japan 
     * Franck Cappello, CNRS, Paris-South University, France
     * Henri Casanova, SDSC, California, USA
     * Andrew Grimshaw, University of Virginia, Avaki, USA
     * Christian Huitema, Microsoft, USA
     * Spyros Lalis, ICS-FORTH, University of Thessaly, Greece
     * Serge Petiton, LILF, Lille University, France
     * Avi Rubin, AT&T Labs - Research, USA
     * Mitsuhisa Sato, CCP, University of Tsukuba, Japan 

   WORKSHOP CHAIRS

     For more information please contact:

     Franck Cappello,
   LRI,
   CNRS, Universite Paris-Sud,
   France,
   fci@lri.lri.fr
   Spyros Lalis,
   ICS-FORTH,
   University of Thessaly,
   Greece,
   lalis@ics.forth.gr