Call for Papers: CORBA + High Perf. Applications

[Arno Jacobsen]

Dear Colleagues,

please forward this cfp to interested parties and please note the
early deadline in case of personal interest.

Thanks.

Arno

Call for Papers for 
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          a Special Session on 

               Middleware for High Performance Distributed Computing in 
               Heterogeneous Environments,


organized at the 1998 International Conference on Parallel and
Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (Pdpta'98) in 
Las Vegas, Nevada, USA. July 13 - 16, 1998.


Description:
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The objective of this session is to bring current research in the
distributed object computing community and the high performance
computing community closer together. The primary goal is to identify
the computational requirements of distributed high performance
applications in terms of middleware needs (i.e., required features,
services, and performance) and to determine whether current
state-of-the-art middleware meets these demands.

The session therefore invites contributions addressing :

	- distributed applications in heterogeneous environments
	- middleware architectures and case studies of their application
	  to high performance computing applications
	- high performance distributed application designs
	- compositional software architectures for distributed high
          performance applications
	- distributed object computing in heterogeneous environments
	- performance evaluations of current middleware and performance
	  evaluation of distributed applications identifying middleware 
          requirements, or the lack of support thereof 
	- experience reports of middleware deployment (CORBA, DCE, DCOM, 
          JavaRMI) 
        - performance evaluation of the above
        - real-time middleware and case studies of its application
        - optimizations of middleware


Paper Submission :
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Papers must be submitted electronically no later than Sunday March
29th 1998 in postscript format to the session organization (see address
below).

By 3/20 send title and abstract of your submission in ASCII format
to the session organization (see address below).

Please follow the guidelines for paper submission outlined for PDPTA at
http://jhpc.org/pdpta98/ . (Paper submissions must not exceed 8 printed
pages, including all figures and tables.)

Notification of acceptance will be send out in the week of 3/30 - 4/3.


Session organization :
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Hans - Arno Jacobsen
Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin 
Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche Fakultaet 
Institut fuer Wirtschaftsinformatik 
Spandauerstr. 1 
D-10178 Berlin 

Phone:   49 30 2093 - 5742 
Fax:     49 30 2093 - 5741 
Email:   jacobsen@wiwi.hu-berlin.de           


Important Dates :
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Abstract and Title 
submission due :               3/20
Submission Deadline :          3/29
Notification of Acceptance :   in the week of 30/3 - 4/3
Conference :                   13/7 - 16/7