Topic 13

High performance networks

Description

This topic is devoted to communication issues in scalable compute and storage systems, such as parallel computers, networks of workstations, and clusters. All aspects of communication in modern systems are of interest, including advances in the design, implementation, and evaluation of interconnection networks, network interfaces, system and storage area networks, on-chip interconnects, communication protocols, routing and communication algorithms, and communication aspects of parallel and distributed algorithms. Submitted papers should present significant, original work in the practice or theory of addressing aspects of performance, reliability and availability, power consumption and heat disspation, cost, scalability, and management. The scope of the topic includes, but is not limited to:

Focus

Interconnection networks

Switch architectures

Network adapters

High-speed system area networks for cluster computing

I/O architectures and storage area networks

On-chip and power-efficient interconnects

Lightweight and user-level communication protocols

Routing algorithms

Congestion management

Fault-tolerant and reconfigurable networks

Multimedia and QoS-aware communication

Network performance evaluation and analysis

Communication costs of parallel and distributed algorithms

Collective communication and synchronization support

Organization

Global Chair	Local Chair
Thilo Kielmann Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, The Netherland	Pascale Primet Laboratoire d'Informatique du Parallélisme (LIP) Ecole Normale Superieure Lyon, France
Vice Chair	Vice Chair
Bruce Lowekamp Computer Science Department College of William and Mary Williamsburg, USA	Tomohiro Kudoh Department of Electrical Engineering Keio University Japan