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
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.
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D. R. Avresky
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Network Computing Lab
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ECE Department
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Boston University
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8 Saint Mary's St.
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Boston, MA 02215
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phone: (617)- 353-9850
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fax:(617)- 353-6440
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e-mail : avresky@bu.edu
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http://netcom1.bu.edu/FTPDS99_workshop.html
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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.