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CALL FOR PAPERS
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Third International Workshop on
Scalable Distributed and Multi/Many-core Applications and Systems (SDMAS'09)

within

The 2009 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing
Techniques and Applications (PDPTA'09)

Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. 13-16 July 2009.
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http://www.arcos.inf.uc3m.es/~jdaniel/sdmas09
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CONTEXT

The improvement of a single processor performance seems to have reached its 
limits. As a solution the emergence of multi-core and many-core processors can 
give a better performance and reduce problems like power comsumption or heat 
dissipation. While multiprocessing has been succesfully applied to scientific 
computing and server side computing it remains a challenge at the desktop and 
mobile devices.

Different kinds of distributed computing systems have emerged during the last 
years ranging from clusters and web to the Grid and the Cloud. In all those 
systems scalability is an important issue. Most of them may improve their 
scalability by taking advantage of multi/many core nodes.

GOAL

The Third International Workshop on Scalable Distributed and Multi/Many-core 
Applications and Systems aims to be a forum where researchers and practitioners 
address the challenges in the design, development and evaluation of scalable 
computing system.

The wokshop will focus specially in the scalability of multi/many-core systems, 
the impact of that technology on mainstream distributed computing and the common 
patters between both technologies.

TOPICS

* Scalability in Multi-core and Many-core sytstems
  + Programming models
  + Operating System and run-time support
  + Compiler support
  + Design patterns for multi/many-core software
  + Multi/Many-core and embbedded systems
  + Performance modelling and evaluation
* Scalability in Cluster Computing
  + Cluster architectures and hardware
  + Cluster software and middleware
  + Design patters for cluster computing software
  + Cluster networking
  + Cluster applications
  + Cluster performance models and evaluation
  + Impact of multi/many core in clusters
* Scalability in Grid and Cloud Computing
  + Grid and Cloud rchitectures and systems
  + Middlewares for Grids
  + Scheduling and load balancing in Grid and Cloud Computing
  + Scalable Grid Applications
  + Performance Models
* Scalability in Web systems
  + Web clusters and distributed architectures
  + Capacity planning, performance and availability
  + Web caching and replication
  + Edge services
  + Workload characterization and performance modelling

IMPORTANT DATES

Papers due: 6 March 2009.
Notification: 25 March 2009
Camera ready: 25 April 2009

MORE INFORMATION

For more information visit the workshop site at
http://www.arcos.inf.uc3m.es/~jdaniel/sdmas09

Or contact the workshop chairs:
J. Daniel Garcia (josedaniel.garcia@uc3m.es)
Jesus Carretero (jesus.carretero@uc3m.es)