Call for Papers
IEEE Workshop on Fault-Tolerant Parallel and Distributed Systems
April 1, 1998, Delta Orlando Resort
Orlando, Florida USA
Held in conjunction with the
March 30 - April 5, 1998
Workshop Chairman:
Dimiter Avresky,
Boston University
Workshop Vice-Chairman:
David R. Kaeli,
Northeastern 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-tolerance in clusters of workstations
- Fault-tolerant interconnection networks
- Reconfigurable fault-tolerant parallel and distributed systems
- Fault-tolerant parallel programming
- Scalable fault-tolerant architectures and algorithms
- Fault injection in parallel and distributed systems
- Dependability evaluation of fault-tolerant parallel and distributed systems
Program Committee:
J. Bruck, Caltech, USA
S. Budkowski, ENT, France
B. Ciciani, University of Roma, Italy
F. Cristian U.C. San Diego
A. Goyal IBM Watson Research Center, USA
J. Hayes University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA
R. Horst, Tandem Computers Inc., USA
M. Karpovsky, Boston University, USA
H. Levendel, Lucent Tech., Bell Labs Innovations, USA
Q. Li, Santa Clara University, CA, USA
F. Lombardi, Texas A&M, USA
E. Maehle, University of Lubeck, Germany
K. Makki, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
M. Malek, Humboldt University, Germany
A. Nordsieck, Boeing, USA
J. Hauser, Sun Microsystems, USA
N. Pissinou, CACS, USE, USA
M. Raynal, IRISA, France
R. Riter, Boeing, USA
B. Smith, IBM Watson Research Center, USA
K. Siu, MIT, USA
K. Trivedi, Duke University, USA
J. Wu, University of Florida, USA
The workshop is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Techical Committee
on Parallel Processing. For further information, please contact one of
the following:
- D. R. Avresky
- Dept. of El. and Computer Eng.
- Boston University
- 8, Saint Mary's st.
- Boston, MA 02215
- phone: (617)- 353-9850
- fax:(617)- 353-6440
- e-mail : avresky@bu.edu
- D. R. Kaeli
- Dept. of El. and Comp. Eng.
- Northeastern University
- Boston, MA 02115
- phone: (617)-373-5413
- fax: (617) -373-8970
- email: kaeli@ece.neu.edu
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 October 1, 1997. The authors of selected
papers will be invited by November 15, 1997 to submit papers. The papers
will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. Camera-ready papers due by
December 15, 1997.