SIGARCH-MSG: October 2001 Digest of SIGARCH Messages

["Mark D. Hill" <markhill@cs.wisc.edu>]

Attached is the SIGARCH mailing list digest for October 2001
(grep sigarch-oct01):

* August Removals from SIGARCH Mailing List
  Submitted by Mark D. Hill <markhill@cs.wisc.edu>

* SIGMETRICS: Int'l Conf. of Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems
  Call for Papers: http://www.ee.princeton.edu/~sigm2002
  Submitted by Elizabeth Royer <sigmet02@cs.ucsb.edu>

* HPCA-8 Workshop on Novel Uses of System Area Networks (SAN-1)
  Call for Papers: http://www.csl.cornell.edu/SAN-1/
  Submitted by Evan Speight <espeight@csl.cornell.edu>

* Removing yourself from SIGARCH mailing list

--Mark D. Hill
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	  August Removals from SIGARCH Mailing List

		            Mark D. Hill


Rachael Barish of ACM reports that the August 25 deletions from the
SIGARCH mail list were intentional.  I quote:

   Our IS staff did a mass delete across all the SIG member e-mail lists
   of people who were more than 3 months expired.  Some people who were
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   If there is anyone who thinks they should still be on the list please
   let me know and we will look them up and add them.

If you think you were deleted inappropriately, email ACM's Member Services
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                      Call for Papers 
              
                ******SIGMETRICS 2002 ******

                 International Conference on 
        Measurement and Modeling of Computer Systems

                     June 15-19 2002 
                 Marina del Rey, California
            http://www.ee.princeton.edu/~sigm2002



The SIGMETRICS conference solicits papers on the development and
application of state-of- the-art, broadly-applicable analytic,
simulation, and measurement-based performance evaluation techniques.  Of
particular interest is work that furthers the state-of-the-art in
performance evaluation methods, or those that creatively apply
previously developed methods to understand or to gain important insights
into key design trade-offs in complex computer/communication systems.
Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

- Performance-oriented design and evaluation studies of: communication
networks, Internet servers, computer architectures, database systems,
operating systems, distributed systems, multimedia systems, mobile and
handheld systems, file and I/O systems, memory systems, real-time
systems, and fault-tolerant systems.

- Performance methodology techniques and algorithms for: analytic
modeling, system measurement and monitoring, model verification and
validation, workload characterization, simulation, statistical analysis,
stochastic modeling including queues and Petri nets, experimental
design, reliability analysis, power analysis, performance optimizations,
and hybrid models. 

Submission Guidelines
=====================

- Papers: Paper submissions are due on Friday, October 26 and should not
exceed 20 double-spaced pages including figures and tables.  Papers must
be submitted electronically in printable postscript or PDF form.  All
submissions will be reviewed using a double-blind review process.  The
identity of the authors and referees will not be revealed to each other.
To ensure blind reviewing, authors names and affiliations MUST NOT
appear in the paper; bibliographic references must be made in such a way
as to preserve author anonymity.

- Hot Topic Sessions: Proposals are solicited for a hot topic session,
in which a group of speakers will present and discuss their recent
results in an area.  Send proposals to the program chairs, identifying
the organizer of the session, the session title, three to five speakers,
the titles of their talks, and a short abstract of each talk.

- Tutorials: A series of tutorials will immediately precede the
conference.  Send proposals of no more than 1-2 pages for 90 minute and
3 hours tutorials to the tutorials chair.  Include the proposed title,
brief description of material, intended audience, assumed background of
attendees, and the name, affiliation, contact information (email and
phone) and brief biography of speaker(s).  Postscript or PDF is
preferred.

Important Dates:
================

Paper, tutorial and hot topic proposal submission deadline: October 26,
2001

Notification of acceptance: February 14, 2002

Camera-Ready Copy: March 20, 2002


Organization
============

General Chair:
  Richard Muntz, UCLA (muntz@cs.ucla.edu)

Program Co-Chairs: 
  Margaret Martonosi, Princeton University (mrm@ee.princeton.edu)
  Edmundo A. de Souza e Silva, UFRJ Brazil (edmundo@land.ufrj.br)

Proceedings Chair:
  Jose Renato Santos, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories (jsantos@hpl.hp.com)

Treasurer:
  H. Richard Gail, IBM TJ Watson Research Center (rgail@uc.ibm.com)

Publicity Chairs:
  Elizabeth M. Royer, University of California, Santa Barbara 
        (eroyer@cs.ucsb.edu)
  Giuliana Franceschinis, Universita' del Piemonte Orientale, 
           Alessandria, Italy (giuliana@mfn.unipmn.it)

Local Arrangements Chair:
  Cyrus Shahabi, University of Southern California (shahabi@usc.edu)

Tutorials: 
  Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts (shenoy@cs.umass.edu)

Technical Program Committee:

  Vikram Adve, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 
  Virgilio Almeida, UFMG, Brazil 
  David August, Princeton University 
  M. Ajmone-Marsan, Politechnico di Torino 
  C.S. Chang, Taiwan 
  M. Colajanni, University of Modena, Italy 
  Mark Crovella, Boston University 
  Lorenzo Donatiello, University of Bollogna, Italy 
  D. Eager, University of Saskatchewan, Canada 
  H. R. Gail, IBM Watson 
  Leana Golubchik, University of Maryland 
  Mor Harchol-Balter, Carnegie Mellon University
  Gunter Haring, Austria 

  Phil Heidelberger, IBM Watson 
  Kevin Jeffey, University of North Carolina 
  Sugih Jamin, University of Michigan 
  Krishna Kant, Intel
  Kim Keeton, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories 
  Ed Knightly, Rice University
  J. Kurose, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
  T. V. Lakshman, Bell Laboratories
  J.-Y. LeBoudec, EPFL, Switzerland 
  J. Lui, CUHK, Hong Kong 
  Raymond Marie, IRISA/INRIA, France 
  Danny Menasce, George Mason University 
  Michela Meo, University of Torino, Italy 
  Vishal Misra, Columbia University 

  Ph. Nain, INRIA, France 
  Girija Narlikar, Lucent Technologies 
  David Nicol, Dartmouth University
  Scott Rixner, Rice University
  J. Rexford, AT&T Laboratories
  Gerardo Rubino, INRIA, France 
  W. Sanders, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign 
  Kevin Skadron, University of Virginia 
  M. Squillante, IBM Watson 
  D. Towsley, University of Massachusetts, Amherst 
  S. Tripathi, University of California, Riverside 
  M. Vernon, University of Wisconsin 
  Carey Williamson, University of Calgary, Canada 
  M. Woodside, Carleton University, Canada 


For more and up to date information see the conference web site
at:   http://www.ee.princeton.edu/~sigm2002


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                           CALL FOR PAPERS

              1st Workshop on Novel Uses of System Area Networks
                               (SAN-1)

                       held in conjunction with
  The 8th International Symposium on High Performance Computer
Architecture
                              (HPCA-8)

               Cambridge, Massachusetts, February 2, 2002

          SAN-1 Home Page:  http://www.csl.cornell.edu/SAN-1/

IMPORTANT DEADLINES:

  Paper submission:        November 30, 2001
  Author Notification:     December 14, 2001
  Camera-Ready Papers:     January 7, 2002

WORKSHOP INFORMATION:

This one-day workshop will focus on innovative uses of emerging network
technology for use in system area networks. As the price of individual
cluster components continues to fall, accompanied by a steady increase
in the performance of these components, clusters of PCs or workstations
are becoming commonplace in areas once reserved for supercomputers or
massively parallel architectures.  The networks used in clusters have
moved from traditional Ethernet to system area networks, such as the
Virtual Interface Architecture, Myrinet, ServerNet II, and the
forthcoming InfiniBand network.  System area networks (SANs) are
characterized by high bandwidth; low latency (on the order of 10 usec or
less for zero-length messages); a switched network environment; reliable
transport service implemented directly in hardware; no kernel
intervention to send and receive messages; and little or no copying on
either the sending or receiving side.  SANs may be used for enterprise
applications such as databases, web servers, reservation systems, and
parallel computing environments.  The workshop will include
presentations of accepted technical papers and a keynote address.

This workshop will focus on non-traditional uses of commodity system
area networks, as well as innovative system area network architectures.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:

  * Intelligent system area components
  * System area network architecture enhancements
  * Clustering middleware that takes advantage of SAN hardware
  * Fault-tolerant solutions
  * Novel message-passing library implementations
  * Active I/O
  * Use of remote memory operations in system area networks
  * Novel uses of SAN-based cluster architectures
  * Compilation support for system area networks
  * Applications for clusters using system area networks

SUBMISSION INFORMATION:

Authors should submit an extended abstract no longer than 5 pages for
consideration. Reviews of all papers will be blind.  Accepted papers
must be no longer than 10 single-spaced pages (including figures,
references, and
appendices) using 12pt font.  Submit one electronic copy of the abstract
in PDF format by November 30. Please visit the workshop home page for
submission instructions.

Notification of acceptance will be given by December 14, and
camera-ready papers will be due January 7.  All accepted papers will be
presented at the workshop and included in a bound proceedings that will
be distributed at the workshop.  In addition, accepted papers will be
made available on the workshop home page.

GENERAL INFORMATION:

    PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS:
        Evan Speight       Cornell University
        espeight@csl.cornell.edu

        Mark Heinrich      Cornell University
        heinrich@csl.cornell.edu

The symposium will be held in Cambridge, Massachusetts from February 2
to
February 6, 2002.

Information related to the conference at the official HPCA-8 web site:
    http://www.eecg.toronto.edu/hpca8/

HPCA-8 is generously sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and Compaq
Corporation.


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