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**                         CALL FOR PAPERS                        **
                  SUBMISSION DEADLINE: January 31, 2006
 
            Topic 6:   Grid and Cluster Computing: 
                       Models, Middleware and Architectures

                            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 6 - DESCRIPTION

Grid computing is a major research area with strong involvement from both
academia and the computing industry. The common vision is that grid computing
represents the culmination of truly general distributed computing across
various resources in a ubiquitous, open-ended infrastructure to support a wide
range of different application areas. Although significant progress has been
made in the design and deployment of grids, many challenges still remain
before the goal of a user-friendly, efficient, and reliable grid can be
realized. Grid research issues cover many areas of computer science to address
the fundamental capabilities and services that are required in a heterogeneous
environment, such as adaptability, scalability, reliability and security, and
to support applications as diverse as ubiquitous local services,
enterprise-scale virtual organizations, and internet-scale distributed
supercomputing. Therefore, grid research will greatly benefit from
interactions with the many related areas of computer science, making Euro-Par
an excellent venue to present results and discuss issues.


Focus
-	Grid middleware
-	Resource/Service/Information discovery
-	Resource management and scheduling
-	Grid programming models, tools, and algorithms
-	Dependability, adaptability, and scalability
-	Security for grids
-	Monitoring and event notification for grids
-	Workflow management
-	Grid accounting and economics
-	Innovative Applications for Grid and Cluster Computers

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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 6 - PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Global Chair
Dr. Domenico Laforenza
Istituto di Scienza e Tecnologie
dell'Informazione (ISTI-CNR)
Pisa, Italy
domenico.laforenza@isti.cnr.it

Local Chair
Prof. Dr. Alexander Reinefeld
Zuse Institute Berlin
Berlin, Germany
ar@zib.de

Vice Chair
Prof. Dr. Dieter Kranzlmüller
Johannes Kepler Universität Linz
GUP - Institute of Graphics and Parallel
Processing
Linz, Austria
dk@gup.jku.at

Vice Chair
Prof. Dr. Luc Moreau
University of Southampton
School of Electronics & Computer
Science
Southampton, UK
L.Moreau@ecs.soton.ac.uk

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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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