THEME

During the last few years, research on consistency models, protocols and applications has allowed the software DSM field to become relatively mature. At the same time, general-purpose networks and communication packages have advanced to the point where clusters of workstations can be coupled almost as closely as hardware multi-processors.

The theme of this workshop, then, will be an attempt to answer the following two related questions:
       What remains to be done in DSM?
and more to the point:
       Will DSM ever move into the mainstream?

To this end, we solicit abstracts of original DSM research including, but not limited to, the following areas:

applications

clusters of multiprocessors

compiler support

DSM and real-world applications

fault tolerance

hardware support

memory models

multi-threading

online adaptation

performance/debugging tools

SUBMISSION DETAILS

All submissions must be in the form of extended abstracts whose length --- including abstract, figures, bibliographies, and appendices --- does not exceed 4 US letter (8.5" x 11"; no A4 please) pages; papers longer than 4 pages will be summarily rejected.  Text must be set in no smaller than a 10 pt font, be single-spaced and single-columned, and include page numbers. Each paper will be reviewed by the program chairs.

Full versions of accepted papers will be published separately from the ICS'99 Proceedings and will be available at the conference site. The workshop proceedings will be published as an ACM ICS'99 volumes (bearing the ACM logo).

Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format. It is essential that they print without difficulty on a variety of printers using Adobe Acrobat Reader. Therefore, be sure that you have included any special fonts that you use, etc. It is the absolute responsibility of the authors to ensure that the submitted papers will print easily.  The corresponding author is requested to include at the start of the message containing the paper:

• complete postal address
• e-mail address
• phone number
• fax number

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

Co-Program Chairs are Liviu Iftode and Peter J. Keleher.

Liviu Iftode (iftode@cs.rutgers.edu)
Department of Computer Science
Rutgers, The State University of NJ
110 Frelinghuysen Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019
Phone: (732) 445-2361
Fax: (732) 445-0537

Peter J. Keleher (keleher@cs.umd.edu)
Department of Computer Science
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742
Phone: 301-405-0345
Fax: 301-405-6707