Last Call for Papers: The 1st Workshop on Programming Models for Grid Computing

[Renato Cerqueira <rcerq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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                           CALL FOR PAPERS

                         The 1st Workshop on
               Programming Models for Grid Computing

                    in conjunction with CCGrid 2007,
               IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster
                       Computing and the Grid

                       Rio de janeiro, Brazil

                         May 14-17, 2007

                http://grenoble.ime.usp.br/pmgc2007
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            ** Paper Submission Deadline: December 10th **


With the  first  computers,  or  even  before,  there  appeared  several
computing models, from the architectural point of view as the  classical
Von Neuman model, to complexity models  like  the Turing  Machine. Then,
with the parallel machines there appeared several computing  models from
the first ones, such as PRAM, and ranging from  more  architectural ones
like LogP, to more conceptual ones such  as CGM/BSP.  These  models were
adapted with some changes to the cluster computing  paradigms.  However,
there is still the need of  specific  models.  Moreover,  with  the new
grid computing paradigm, where heterogeneity and changes are  usual, new
models  have  to  be  proposed.  Clearly,  a  "good"  model  should be:

   * Realistic;
   * Tractable;
   * Instantiable.

This workshop aims to provide some  advances  on programming models both
for grid and cluster computing,  gathering  works  from  the application
model, programming model, and middleware  model  to  the  platform model
and alternative  models.  The  workshop  welcomes  analysis,  experience
reports, simulations about existing programming models  such  as message
passing, BSP, LogP, etc., proposals for extensions  of these  models, as
well as proposals for innovative programming models.

The topics of interest include, but are not limited to :

   * Programming Models
   * Application Models
   * Extension of Current Models
   * Communication Models
   * Models for Bandwidth Sharing
   * Benchmark and Forecast
   * Implementations
   * Alternative Models
   * Scalable Models
   * Large Scale Distributed Models
   * Topology Models
   * Evaluation or experiences with existing Models
   * Simulations
   * New programming models


Paper Submissions

Full-paper submissions  can  be  submitted  via the  Easy  Chair  online
system  (http://www.easychair.org/).  Technical  papers,  up  to 6 pages
long,  are  supposed  to present  original  research  with    scientific
contributions. The papers are limited  to 6  pages  each  and  they must
follow the  IEEE  8.5"x11"  two-column  format  guidelines  described at
http://www.computer.org/portal/pages/cscps/cps/cps_forms.html. Workshop
papers will be distributed to all CCGrid participants on a CD  published
by IEEE Computer Society. The papers will also be available
electronically in the IEEE digital library.


Workshop Co-Chairs

   * Alfredo Goldman (USP - Brazil)
   * Arnaud Legrand (CNRS - France)
   * Renato Cerqueira (PUC Rio - Brazil)
   * Denis Trystram (ID IMAG - France)

Program Committee Members

 # Afonso Ferreira (CNRS & COST Office, Belgium)
 # Alfredo Goldman (Universidade de São Paulo - Brazil)
 # Arnaud Legrand (CNRS - France)
 # Arnold Rosenberg (University of Massachusetts Amherst, USA)
 # Christian Perez (IRISA - France)
 # Cristina Boeres (Universidade Federal Fluminense - Brazil)
 # Denis Trystram (ID IMAG - France)
 # Fabio Kon (Universidade de São Paulo - Brazil)
 # Francisco Brasileiro (Universidade de Campina Grande - Brazil)
 # Frédéric Vivien (INRIA - France)
 # Guochuan Zhang (Zhejiang University, China)
 # Klaus Jansen (Universität Kiel, Germany)
 # Laxmikant Kale (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - USA)
 # Maciej Drozdowski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
 # Marc Snir (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - USA)
 # Marco Danelutto (Università de Pisa, Italy)
 # Michael Bender (State University of New York at Stony Brook )
 # Noemi Rodriguez (PUC-Rio - Brazil)
 # Olivier Beaumont (LABRI, France)
 # Renato Cerqueira (PUC-Rio - Brazil)
 # Thilo Kielmann (Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands)
 # Viktor Prasanna (University of Southern California, USA)
 # Wahid Nasri (Ecole Superieure des Sciences et Techniques de Tunis, Tunisia)

For more information please see:
http://grenoble.ime.usp.br/pmgc2007