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XHPC'06 - Call for Participation

Workshop on XEN in High-Performance Cluster and Grid Computing Environments

4th of December, 2006, Sorrento, Italy.

held as part of the Fourth International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed

Processing and Applications (ISPA'2006)

ISPA'2006: http://www.ispa-conference.org/2006/

Workshop URL: http://xhpc.ai.wu-wien.ac.at/ws/

The Xen virtual machine monitor is reaching wide-spread adoption in a variety of

operating systems as well as scientific-educational usage areas. With its low

overhead, Xen allows for concurrently running large numbers of virtual machines,

providing each encapsulation, isolation and network-wide CPU migratability.

Xen offer a network-wide abstraction layer of individual machine resources to

OS environments, thereby opening whole new cluster-and grid high-performance

computing (HPC) architectures and services options.

The workshop will provide researchers-operators of HPC installations a unique

forum for exploring virtual machines in a HPC context. In addition to the paper

presentations, participants will find many interaction opportunities.

CHAIR

Michael Alexander (chair), WU Vienna, Austria

Geyong Min (co-chair), University of Bradford, UK

Gudula Ruenger (co-chair), Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

Franck Cappello, INRIA, France

Stephen Childs, Trinity College, Ireland

Claudia Eckert, Fraunhofer-Institute, Germany

Rob Gardner, HP Labs, USA

William Gardner, University of Guelph, Canada

Marcus Hardt, Forschungszentrum Karlsruhe, Germany

Sverre Jarp, CERN, Switzerland Thomas Lange, University of Cologne, Germany

Ronald Luijten, IBM Research Laboratory, Zurich, Switzerland

Klaus Ita, WU Vienna, Austria

Franco Travostino, Nortel CTO Office, USA

Andreas Unterkircher, CERN, Switzerland

Best Regards,

Dr. Michael Alexander

WU Wien Dept. of Information Systems

malexand@xxxxxxxxxxxxx / +43.1.31336.4467