Call for Papers

Annual IEEE Workshop on Fault-Tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems

April 12, 1999, Caribe Hilton, 
San Juan, Puerto Rico, USA

Held in conjunction with the

13th International Parallel Processing Symposium and
10th Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing

April 12 - 16, 1999

Program Chair:

Dimiter Avresky, Boston University
 

Theme

Increasingly large parallel computing systems provide unique challenges to the researchers in dependable computing, especially because of the high failure rates intrinsic to these systems. While commercial and scientific companies share the need for massive throughput and low latency, dependability of service is also a concern. In addition to providing uninterrupted service, commercial systems must be free from data corruption. Achieving dependability in highly scalable parallel and distributed systems poses a considerable challenge. As the number of components increases, so does the probability of a component failure. Therefore, improved fault-tolerant technology is required for high scalable parallel and distributed systems.

The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss issues related to these issues of fault-tolerant parallel and distributed systems. All aspects of design, theory and realization of parallel and distributed systems are of interest.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Dependable distributed systems

- Fault-tolerant  protocols for distributed systems

- Fault tolerance in clusters of workstations and PCs

- Fault-tolerant interconnection networks

- Fault-tolerant parallel programming

- Using COTS  for designing dependable network based computing systems

- Portable checkpointing for heterogeneous distributed systems

- Fault injection in parallel and distributed systems

- Dependability evaluation of fault-tolerant parallel and distributed systems

Program Committee:

J. Bruck, Caltech, USA

B. Ciciani, University of Roma, Italy
 
F. Cristian, U.C. San Diego, USA
 
J. Hayes, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
 
R. Horst, Compaq Tandem Labs, USA
 
S. Hosseini, Univ. of Wisconsin-Mil. USA
 
I. Koren, Univ. of Mass. Amherst, USA
 
D. Kaeli, Northeastern University, USA
 
M. Karpovsky, Boston University, USA
 
T. Katayama,  AIST, Japan
 
H. Levendel, Motorola, USA
 
Q. Li, Santa Clara University, USA
 
F. Lombardi, Northeastern University, USA
 
E. Maehle, University of Lubeck, Germany
 
K. Makki, UNLV, USA
 
M. Malek, Humboldt University, Germany
 
V. Morariu, CTC, USA
 
M. Raynal, IRISA, France
 
R. Vidale, Boston University, USA

The workshop is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Techical Committee on Parallel Processing. For further information, please contact the Program Chair.

To submit papers, send six copies of a manuscript (at most 20 pages long including figures and references) desribing original unpublished research to D. R. Avresky by January 15, 1999 The authors of selected papers will be invited by February 15, 1999 to submit papers. Camera-ready papers due by February 28, 1999. The selected papers will appear in the book, published by Kluwer Academic Publishers, MA, USA.