-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [Tccc] CFP: Network-I/O Convergence (NICELI), Karlsruhe Germany, Aug. 2003 Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2003 15:39:29 -0500 From: SIGCOMM 2003 jpgs@acm.org To: tccc@cs.columbia.edu
WORKSHOP ON NETWORK-I/O CONVERGENCE: EXPERIENCE, LESSONS, IMPLICATIONS (NICELI) http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2003/workshop/niceli
In Conjunction with SIGCOMM 2003 Karlsruhe, Germany 25 August (tentative date within week of 25-29)
ANNOUNCEMENT and CALL FOR PAPERS
The performance and commodity price advantages of modern LANs have created a convergence of networks and I/O. This convergence promises both price efficiencies and true interoperability, for storage and for cluster interconnect. The NICELI workshop provides a forum for researchers and practitioners to discuss the merits, drawbacks, applications, and practical implications of protocol and implementation designs. Approaches based on Internet protocols are of particular interest. We invite submissions of research results, protocol design rationales, significant implementation experience, and architectural papers related to the convergence of networks and interconnect.
Topics of interest could include, but are not limited to:
* Remote DMA and Direct Data Placement (DDP) protocols * Architectural directions for and implications of RDMA/DDP * What implementation techniques are most beneficial? * Performance (and what are the right metrics)? * How can these protocols and implementations be made secure? * Formal verification of these protocols * Case studies of implementations (HW and SW) * Operating system implications * Applications (e.g., iSCSI, DAFS, NFS, clustering, etc.) * Lessons learned from past attempts at network-I/O convergence * Speculations on future developments enabled by this technology
Other relevant topics are certainly welcome; please contact the Program Chair or Co-Chair to discuss the relevance of a topic not listed above.
Accepted papers will appear in a workshop proceedings (to be placed in the ACM Digital Library). A report on workshop discussions will appear in SIGCOMM Computer Communication Review.
WHAT AND HOW TO SUBMIT
We invite two kinds of submissions:
1. Technical papers presenting research and practical results. 2. Position papers addressing the pros and cons of specific proposals, such as those being discussed in the IETF or in industry consortia.
Technical papers should be no longer than 14 pages and anonymized; position papers should be no longer than 8 pages and not anonymized. See http://www.acm.org/sigcomm/sigcomm2003/workshop/niceli/nicelicfp.html for full submission requirements.
DEADLINES (Tentative; please check the Web page for updates)
Submission deadline March 17, 2003 (no extensions!) Notification of acceptance May 22, 2003 Camera ready papers due June 15, 2003 Workshop date August 25, 2003 (tentative)
ORGANIZERS
Program Chair: Allyn Romanow allyn@cisco.com Cisco Program Co-chair: Jeff Mogul JeffMogul@acm.org HP Labs Program Committee: * Stephen Bailey, Sandburst Corporation * Jeff Chase, Duke University * Patrick Crowley, University of Washington * Uri Elzur, Broadcom Corp. * Dirk Grunwald, University of Colorado, Boulder * Liviu Iftode, University of Maryland * Kostas Magoutis, Harvard University * Vijay S. Pai, Rice University * Prasenjit Sarkar, IBM Research * Peter Steenkiste, Carnegie Mellon University
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