Euro-Par 2008

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14th International Euro-Par Conference European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing. (Euro-Par 2008)

Sitio http://europar2008.caos.uab.es
mail europar2008@caos.uab.es

August 26-29th, 2008
ULPGC, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and distributed computing.

Euro-Par focuses on all aspects of hardware, software, algorithms and applications in this field. The objective of Euro-Par is to provide a forum within which to promote the development of parallel and distributed computing both as an industrial technique and an academic discipline, extending the frontier of both the state of the art and the state of the practice.

Topics:

1. Support tools and environments
2. Performance prediction and evaluation
3. Scheduling and load balancing
4. High performance architectures and compilers
5. Parallel and distributed databases
6. Grid and cluster computing
7. Peer to peer computing
8. Distributed systems and algorithms
9. Parallel and distributed programming
10. Parallel numerical algorithms
11. Distributed and high performance multimedia
12. Theory and algorithms for parallel computation
13. High performance networks
14. Mobile and ubiquitous computing


CONFERENCE PROGRAM

89 papers (selected from more than 260 submitted) with authors coming from more than 20 countries will be presented.

Three selected Best Papers will be presented in a special session:

* Directory-Based Metadata Optimizations for Small Files in PVFS
Michael Kuhn; Julian Kunkel; Thomas Ludwig

* Automatic Prefetching with Binary Code Rewriting in Object-based DSMs
Jean Christophe Beyler, Michael Klemm, Michael Philippsen, and Philippe Clauss

* Reducing Packet Dropping in a Bufferless NoC
Crispin Gomez; Maria Engracia Gomez; Pedro Lopez; Jose Duato


INVITED TALKS

- Prof. Antonio González (Intel, UPC)
"Elastic Parallel Architectures"

- Dr. Martin Schulz (Lawrence Livermore Nat. Lab.)
"Keeping up with Growing Machine Sizes: Challenges and Opportunities for Scaling Tools"

- Prof. Franck Cappello (INRIA)
To be defined


INDUSTRIAL SESSION

1- "Mega Data Centers"
José E. Moreira
Chief Architect, Commercial Scale Out
IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center

2- "Dynamic Errors: Symptoms and Solutions"
Jaume Abella
Senior Research Scientist
Intel Barcelona Research Center - UPC

3- Hewlett-Packard Corp. (To be announced)


ASSOCIATED WORKSHOPS

Held on August 25-26th, before the regular EuroPar sessions

* CoreGRID Symposium
* 3rd Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cluster and Grid Computing (VHPC'08)
* The UNICORE Summit 2008
* 2nd Workshop on Highly Parallel Processing on a Chip (HPPC 2008)
* The 5th International Workshop on Grid Economics and Business Models (Gecon2008)
* Workshop on Secure, Trusted, Manageable and Controllable Grid Services (SGS 08)
* Workshop on Productivity and Performance – Tools for HPC Application Development (PROPER 2008)
* Real-Time Online Interactive Applications (ROIA) on the GRID (ROIA 2008)
* Abstractions for Distributed Systems(DPA 2008)


CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS

Emilio Luque, (CAOS)UAB, Barcelona,Spain (General Chair)
Domingo Benítez, ULPGC, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain (Vice-Chair)
Tomàs Margalef, (CAOS)UAB, Barcelona,Spain (Vice-Chair)