IEEE International Workshop on Cluster Computing (IWCC'99)held in Melbourne, Australia, Dec. 2-3, 1999 was successful. We had over hundread participants registered for the meeting from five major continents of the world: USA, Japan, France, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Brazil, Germany, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, the UK; and Mexico as well as researchers throughout Australia.
The IWCC'99 program comprises of keynote talks, invited talks from industries, regular sessions, poster session, and a panel on "Cluster Computing R & D in Australia". The program details and presentation slides of some of invited/keynote/industry speakers can be found at the meetings web site.
The proceedings has been published by IEEE CS Press and those who are interested having one can get from the IEEE CS Press:
http://services.ieee.org/titles/bwshop.htmand search for "Cluster Computing", you will get a link to order form.
The proceedings will soon be available online at www.computer.org and all CS members can access it freely. We also created web-based online proceedings for poster paper and it can be accessed from IWCC web site.
To see all speakers/organisers in Action, please browse:
http://www.dgs.monash.edu.au/~rajkumar/tfcc/IWCC99/photos/preparations.htmlWe also conducted a Post conference tour on Dec. 4, please see:
http://www.dgs.monash.edu.au/~rajkumar/tfcc/IWCC99/photos/presentations.html
http://www.dgs.monash.edu.au/~rajkumar/tfcc/IWCC99/photos/PosterSocial.html
http://www.dgs.monash.edu.au/~rajkumar/tfcc/IWCC99/tour.htmlOR just access IWCC web site & click on options below "PHOTOS" (see side bar).
Technical program highlights
Plenary Speaker:
Thomas L. Sterling (California Institute of Technology)
Kai Hwang, (University of Southern California)
Task Force acknowledges the financial support of the following organisations:
Sponsored by: · IEEE Computer Society Task Force on Cluster Computing (TFCC) Premier Contributor: · Hewlett Packard (USA) Contributors: · MPI Software Technology Inc. (USA), · Asian Technology Information Program (ATIP, Japan), · GENIAS Software GmbH (Germany), · Sun Microsystems Inc. (USA), · Compaq Computer Australia, · Distributed Systems Technology Centre (Australia), . Monash University (Australia).We would like to acknowledge Microsoft Research for their participation and funding the participation of Mr. Beowulf, Thomas Sterling, as our plenary speaker. Mr. Beowulf gave highly emotional talk on Beowulf-class computing and future directions.
The conference concluded with Thomas's talk reflecting on the content and implications of the presentations comprising the IWCC technical agenda. The Task Force would like announce that our second annual meeting in 2000 is scheduled to be held in Germany, for details, please see:
http://www.tu-chemnitz.de/cluster2000/The word "workshop" has been replaced by "conference" officially and of course everyone called IWCC'99 as IWCC conference (refused to call it as workshop) due its conference scale technical agenda and a significant number of participants from all over the world. The credit for its success goes to all TFCC volunteers, IWCC'99 crew members, and participants.
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The Task Force would like to thank all our members and volunteers for
supporting us in our first year of operation. And we are looking forward
working with you all next year in large scale.
BTW, IWCC'99 conference along with Task Force activities will be featured in the first issue of:
Have a great holiday season, merry christmas, and enjoy the arrival of Y2K!
Thank you very much.
Your humble servants of the:
The IEEE Computer Society Task Task Force on Cluster Computing
Rajkumar and Mark