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**                         CALL FOR PAPERS                        **
                  SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 31, 2006
 
    TOPIC 13:  Routing and Communication in Interconnection Networks

                            EURO-PAR 2006 
                     August 29 - September 1, 2006 
           Dresden University of Technology, Dresden, Germany

                 Web site: http://www.europar2006.de/
                   Email: europar@zih.tu-dresden.de
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                      TOPIC 13 - 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:


Areas of Interest
-	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

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                             KEY DATES

                  December 31, 2005: Workshop proposals due
                  January  31, 2006: Full papers due
                  May       3, 2006: Notification of acceptance
                  May      30, 2006: Camera-ready papers 
                                     and author registration due

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                         SUBMISSION DETAILS

Authors are invited to submit full papers (10 pages, Springer LNCS
style) to this topic, by using the online submission site:

         http://www.europar2006.de/index.php?page=1

Online submission will be open before the end of December 2005.
(When submitting, please indicate this topic.)

All accepted full papers will be published in the conference
proceedings in the Springer Verlag LNCS series.

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                     TOPIC 13 - PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Global Chair
Prof. Dr. Jose A. Gregorio
University of Cantabria
Computer Architecture Group
Spain
joseangel.gregorio@unican.es

Local Chair
Prof. Dr. Bettina Schnor
University Potsdam
Dept. of Computer Science
Germany
schnor@cs.uni-potsdam.de

Vice Chair
Prof. Dr. Angelos Bilas
ICS-FORTH & University of Crete
Greece
bilas@ics.forth.gr

Vice Chair
Prof. Dr. Olav Lysne
University of Oslo and
Simula Research Laboratory
Norway
olavly@simula.no

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                    MISSION STATEMENT - EURO-PAR

Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to
the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and
distributed computing. Each year, the conference normally attracts
more than 300 participants coming from universities, research centres
and industry. Euro-Par 2006 will represent 18 topics
(http://www.europar2006.de/index.php?page=3) in the categories
of hardware, software, algorithms and applications, and will also
include tutorials, invited talks, and co-located workshops.
Besides, the planed Grid Village provides an opportunity to showcase
the latest developments in Grid technology with demonstration and hands
on experiences.

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