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**                         CALL FOR PAPERS                        **
                  SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 31, 2006
 
            Topic 2:   Performance Prediction and Evaluation

                            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 2 - DESCRIPTION

Parallel computing enables solutions to computational problems that are impossible on 
sequential systems due to their limited performance. To meet this objective, it is 
critical that users can both measure performance on a given system and predict the 
performance for other systems. Authors are invited to submit papers presenting all 
fields of performance modeling, evaluation, prediction, measurement, benchmarking, 
and visualization for parallel and distributed applications and architectures. 
This workshop covers all aspects of techniques, implementations, tools, 
standardization efforts, and characterization and performance-oriented development 
of distributed and parallel applications. Of particular interest are tools and 
systems that work with large-scale applications or large numbers 
(hundreds to thousands) of processors. In addition, approaches to understand memory 
system performance and storage system performance are encouraged. 


Focus 
-	instrumentation for measurement and prediction 
-	scalable performance prediction models and techniques 
-	measurement and modelling of grid middleware & applications 
-	performance data analysis and visualization 
-	evaluation and benchmarking 
-	system and hardware monitoring 
-	performance of different programming models 
-	case studies involving tuning of real applications 
-	automatic performance analysis 
-	modeling, analysis, and tuning of emerging architectures


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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 2 - PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Global Chair
Prof. Dr. Jesus Labarta
Technical University of Catalonia (UPC)
Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC)
Barcelona, Spain
jesus@cepba.upc.es

Local Chair
Dr. Bernd Mohr
Forschungszentrum Jülich, ZAM
Jülich, Germany
b.mohr@fz-juelich.de

Vice Chair
Dr. Allan Snavely
Performance Modeling and Characterization
(PMaC) Lab
San Diego Supercomputer Center
La Jolla, California, USA
allans@sdsc.edu

Vice Chair
Dr. Jeffrey Vetter
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oak Ridge, Tennessee, USA
vetter@ornl.gov

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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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