------------------------------------------------------------------- [We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message] ******************************************************************** ** CALL FOR PAPERS ** SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 31, 2006 Topic 16: Applications of High-Performance and Grid Computing 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 ******************************************************************** TOPIC 16 - DESCRIPTION Description The use of high performance and grid computing has spread rapidly, revolutionising the ability of scientists and engineers to tackle the challenges they face. Driven by commoditisation and open standards: the widespread availability of parallel computers, large data storage, fast networks, maturing Grid middleware, and distributed service-oriented technologies have led to the development and deployment of large scale distributed simulation and data analysis solutions in many areas. This topic will highlight recent progress in applications of all aspects of distributed computing technologies with an emphasis on successes, advances, and lessons learned in the development, implementation, and deployment of novel scientific, engineering and industrial applications on high performance and grid computing platforms. Today's large computational solutions often require access to or generate large volumes of data- indeed today seamless data access and management can be as important to the underlying computational algorithm as raw computing power. We welcome papers highlighting data intensive applications which couple together High Performance/ Grid computing with large-scale data access/management. We invite papers that describe new applications which have been enabled by recent advances in high performance/ grid computing, as well as results where existing applications have been migrated to new environments or platforms, e.g., from single workstations to high-performance parallel or Grid computing or where a heterogeneous infrastructure has been employed. Focus - Advances in applications of science and engineering modelling, simulation and design which leverage high performance/ grid computing and/or data management e.g. fluid dynamics, structural mechanics/dynamics, computational electromagnetics, medicine, physics, chemistry, pharmaceutical, environmental and the life sciences, - New applications in non-traditional areas like health care, social sciences, archaeology, financial modeling, transportation, and economics. - Tightly and loosely coupled multi-physics and/or multiscale applications, particularly those which require the integration of heterogenous systems or a combination of high performance parallel computing and Grid computing resources. - Scalability of parallel applications, with a particular emphasis to the challenges of scaling to very large scales (from TeraFLOPS to PetaFLOPS) - Successful implementation and deployment of large-scale Grid-enabled systems and associated problem-solving environments for applications in the above areas which may provide e.g. portal services, visual analysis, data mining solutions, or assistance with the composition and management of complex workflows ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPIC 16 - PROGRAM COMMITTEE Global Chair Prof. Dr. Simon J. Cox University of Southampton School of Engineering Science Southamton, UK S.J.Cox@soton.ac.uk Local Chair Prof. Dr. Thomas Lippert Research Center Juelich Central Institute for Applied Mathematics Juelich, Germany th.lippert@fz-juelich.de Vice Chair Dr. Giovanni Erbacci CINECA High Performance Systems Department Bologna, Italy erbacci@cineca.it Vice Chair Prof. Dr. Denis Trystram ID-IMAG Grenoble, France Denis.Trystram@imag.fr ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -----------------------------------------------------------------------