The Workshop on Communication Architecture for Clusters
CAC 2006
To be held in Conjunction with the
International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2006)

Rhodes Island, Greece, April 25-29, 2006

Workshop Organization

Co-chairs

Program Committee

Theme

Many of the world's fastest computer systems are PC or workstation clusters. Numerous research groups in academia, industry, and government are currently engaged in cluster research, seeking new ways to advance the state of the art of cluster communication. The goal of the CAC workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the areas of communication hardware and software to discuss their latest findings as well as future trends in the design of scalable, high-performance, and cost-effective communication architectures for clusters.

Final Program

7:50 - 8:00 Welcome and workshop introduction
8:00 - 9:00 Keynote address
Introduction: Mazin Yousif, Intel
Speaker: José Duato, Technical University of Valencia
Title: Some Observations Regarding the Future of High-Performance Interconnects
9:00 - 10:00 Session I
Topic: Sockets
Chair: Mazin Yousif, Intel
10:00 - 10:30 Break
10:30 - 12:00 Session II
Topic: Collective communication
Chair: José Flich, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia
12:00 - 1:30 Lunch (on your own)
1:30 - 3:00 Session III
Topic: Analysis of cluster hardware and applications
Chair: Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens
3:00 - 3:30 Break
3:30 - 4:30 Session IV
Topic: Network protocols
Chair: Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories

Registration and Hotel Information

Workshop registration is handled by the IPDPS 2006 conference. There is a single registration for the conference and all of its 20 workshops. Please visit the IPDPS 2006 Web page for registration and hotel information.

Additional Information

E-mail Contact

For more information on CAC 2006 or if you have any questions please contact the workshop organizers at the e-mail address listed at the bottom of this page.

Call for Papers

Although the submission deadline has long passed, the following links will take you to the CAC 2006 CFP:

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