The Seventeenth International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC) will be a forum for presenting the latest research findings on the design and use of parallel and distributed systems for high end computing, collaboration, data analysis, and other innovative applications. Submissions are welcomed covering all aspects of high-performance distributed computing, Grids, and global computing ensembles. New scholarly research emphasizing empirical and reproducible results as well as investigative expositions of successful application and deployment efforts are particularly encouraged.

All papers will be rigorously reviewed by a distinguished international review committee, with a strong focus on the combination of rigorous scientific results and practical impact. In particular, research papers must clearly demonstrate research contribution and novelty; experience/applications/systems papers must clearly demonstrate impact and/or lessons learned and/or design choices. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

• HPDC systems and applications
• Service oriented architectures for HPDC
• Data management and transport
• Virtualization for HPDC systems
• Software environments, programming frameworks and language/compiler support
• Grid middleware
• Resource management, scheduling and load-balancing
• Parallel and distributed algorithms
• Workflow management
• High performance I/O and file systems
• Performance modeling, simulation, and prediction
• Fault tolerance, reliability and availability for HPDC applications
• Software/hardware/architecture for high end communications and networking
• Security, configuration, policy, and management issues
• Operating system technologies for high performance computing
• Multimedia, teleimmersive, and collaborative applications
• Terabit networks systems and services
• Multicore algorithms and software implementations

PAPER SUBMISSIONS

Authors are invited to submit technical papers of at most 10 pages, not including figures or references. Papers that exceed this length will be rejected outright. These papers should be written to be self-contained and to provide the technical substance required for the program committee to evaluate the paper's contribution. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference. Submitted papers may not have appeared in or be under consideration for another conference or a journal, nor may they be under review or submitted to another forum during the HPDC 2008 review process.

Papers should be submitted electronically (PDF or postscript) via the HPDC 2008 conference web site at http://www.hpdc.org, Please note that, as with previous HPDC conferences, there will NO EXTENSIONS on the paper submission deadlines.

PUBLICATION

The HPDC proceedings will be published by ACM , and they will be distributed at the conference.

HOT TOPICS SESSION

In addition to the regular papers track, HPDC 2008 is soliciting papers for a special Hot Topics session. A Hot Topics paper should present an outrageous new idea, advocate an unusual position, defy common sense, or otherwise generate a lively discussion at the conference. An ideal paper should present a novel and clearly stated argument and support it with some initial results or observations. A Hot Topics paper should be formatted in the same way as a regular submission with a maximum of four pages, including references. Submissions may be submitted online at http://www.hpdc.org.

CALL FOR DEMOS AND EXHIBITS

The Seventeenth International Symposium on High-Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC) will be a forum for presenting the latest research findings on the design and use of parallel and distributed systems for high end computing, collaboration, data analysis, and other innovative applications. HPDC 2008 will feature a demo and exhibit session consisting of prototypes and technology artifacts demonstrating HPDC concepts, mechanisms and applications. Submissions to the demonstrations and exhibits session are welcomed, both from industry and academia, demonstrating state-of-the-art applications of high-performance distributed computing, Grids, and global computing ensembles. Demos of new scholarly research emphasizing empirical and reproducible results as well as exhibitions of investigative expositions of successful application and deployment efforts are particularly encouraged.

DEMOS AND EXHIBITS SUBMISSIONS

Please send an email to the Demo/Exhibit Co-Chairs (Masoud Sadjadi and Thilo Kielmann ) containing:

• Title
• Short description (5-10 lines)
• Contact information (Name/Address/Email)
• URL to a Web site describing the demo (optional)
• Resource requirements (optional; please note that we may not be able to accommodate you with all your needs; we will let you know ahead of time on what we cannot provide for you.)

• HPDC systems and applications
• Service oriented architectures for HPDC
• Data management and transport
• Virtualization for HPDC systems
• Software environments, programming frameworks and language/compiler support
• Grid middleware
• Resource management, scheduling and load-balancing
• Parallel and distributed algorithms
• Workflow management
• High performance I/O and file systems
• Performance modeling, simulation, and prediction
• Fault tolerance, reliability and availability for HPDC applications
• Software/hardware/architecture for high end communications and networking
• Security, configuration, policy, and management issues
• Operating system technologies for high performance computing
• Multimedia, tele-immersive, and collaborative applications
• Terabit networks systems and services
• Multi-core algorithms and software implementations

Demo/Exhibit Deadline

May 23, 2008

Demo/Exhibit Logistics

Demos will be held along with the reception on the Wednesday evening of the conference, June 25, 2008. The demos will be advertised both on the conference web site and in a leaflet within the participants’ package with a list of demonstrations (title, abstract, people/organization). In addition, there will be a short introductory session at the beginning of the reception to introduce the demo groups and to announce their demos. The demo groups are encouraged to provide the demo session chair with a short write-up (two paragraphs no longer than 300 words) that briefly introduces their group and their demos. After the announcements, each demo group will give one-on-one demos to the HPDC attendees during the reception. There will be food and drink in the room to ensure a good flow.
Each demo group will be provided with a table, a couple of chairs, a power outlet, an extension cord, and access to the conference wireless network connection, which can remain set up for the entire conference (as an exhibit) if you would like to show your work one-on-one or during breaks. For anything else, including projector, projection surface, poster board, poster stand, extra chair and table, you would need to contact Kelly Sutton (epd at engr.arizona.edu) who is handling the local arrangements and can answer your questions. Please give us enough time to accommodate your needs.
The demo room will be available (with working network connections and the basic setup) to demo groups before the demo session for groups to set up their demos. If you need an extensive amount of time to setup your demo, you would need to coordinate with Kelly Sutton ahead of time.

Demo/Exhibit Registration Fees

There will be two flavors of demos. The research (academic) demos will only require registration to the conference. The industry demos will be charge $5000.