Fifth Annual Workshop on
I/O in Parallel and Distributed Systems

November 17, 1997, San Jose, CA, USA

co-located with
SC97: High Performance Networking and Computing

Current sponsors: ACM SIGACT, SIGARCH, SIGMETRICS, and SIGOPS, and in cooperation with ACM SIGPLAN

IOPADS brings together researchers in all aspects of storage-related I/O in parallel and distributed systems, including algorithms, applications, architecture, and systems software. It is our opinion that the research problems are most effectively addressed by investigating all these areas rather than working in each area in isolation. Although I/O-related papers appear in many other conferences, the value of IOPADS is in gathering interested researchers from all these areas of computer science, encouraging cross-disciplinary interaction.

IOPADS '96 was held in conjunction with the FCRC group of conferences and was a huge success. IOPADS '97 will be co-located with SC97 (the 1997 entry in the former "Supercomputing 'XY" series).

We expect that ACM Press will again publish the IOPADS proceedings, which will be provided to all registrants and will be available for sale at SC97 and afterwards.

We invite you to submit papers that focus on storage-related I/O in high-performance parallel and distributed systems, in the context of parallel or distributed applications. Suggested topics include:

• Experimental characterization of I/O demand
• Design and implementation of I/O-intensive applications
• Real-time and multimedia I/O
• Theory and implementation of parallel-I/O algorithms
• Interconnect issues, e.g., network-attached storage devices
• Devices, including disk arrays and tape robots
• Language and compiler support
• Run-time libraries
• Database systems
• File systems

Papers submitted to IOPADS must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. The manuscript should be written in English, at most twelve pages long (including figures, tables, and excluding references), single- or double-spaced, using an 11-point font. Electronic submission (of PostScript) is required (details will be posted here soon). All submissions must arrive by 6 P.M. Eastern Time on March 25, 1997. Decisions will be announced by June 1, 1997.

General Chairs:

• Thomas H. Cormen, Dartmouth College
• Alok Choudhary, Northwestern University

Program Committee:

• Rajesh Bordawekar, California Institute of Technology
• Garth Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University
• Leana Golubchik, Columbia University
• Jim Gray, Microsoft Corp.
• Phil Hatcher, University of New Hampshire
• David Kotz, Dartmouth College (chair)
• Orran Krieger, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
• Jai Menon, IBM Almaden Research Center
• David Nagle, Carnegie Mellon University
• Bill Nitzberg, NASA Ames Research Center
• Sivan Toledo, Xerox PARC
• Darren Vengroff, University of Delaware
• Jeffrey Vitter, Duke University
• Marianne Winslett, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Publicity Chair:

• Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory

Other Information:

• For general inquiries, send e-mail to iopads@cs.dartmouth.edu
• The parallel-I/O archive
• Proceedings of previous IOPADS workshops
• IOPADS '96 information
• IOPADS '95 information
• IOPADS '94 information
• IOPADS '93 information

Maintained by Rajeev Thakur.
Last modified: Sat Dec 7 16:53:40 EST 1996