Computational Grids are an enabling technology that permit the transparent coupling of geographically-dispersed resources (machines, networks, data storage, visualization devices, and scientific instruments) for large-scale distributed applications. Grids provide several important benefits for users and applications: convenient interfaces to remote resources, resource coupling for resource-intensive distributed applications and remote collaboration, and resource sharing. Research in this burgeoning area embodies the confluence of high-performance parallel computing, distributed computing, and Internet computing, attracting successful research from all three disciplines. Initial application domains targeting the Grid come from science and engineering yielding strong empirical and quantitative results. In addition, NSF's TeraGrid effort, which seeks to leverage these successes to enable its Distributed Terascale Facility, will certainly encourage significant new research in Grid computing to serve the scientific communities. Many challenges must be confronted for Grids to achieve their potential.
This special issue of the Journal Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) is seeking original unpublished research articles that describe recent advances in Computational Grids. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: Grid architectures (including P2P), Grid building blocks, Grid and Internet security, Grid fault tolerance, Grid scheduling and resource management, Grid programming models and tools, Grid access and interface, and Grid applications. Papers should not be solely abstract or conceptual in nature: proofs and experimental results should be included as appropriate. Submit 5 hard copies of the manuscript to one of the co-guest editors at the addresses below or by electronic submission to the website http://www.cs.umn.edu/~jon/jpdc.
Authors should follow the JPDC manuscript format as described in the "Information for Authors" at the end of each issue of JPDC. Authors should submit their papers by April 8, 2002. The review decision will be communicated to the authors by August 1, 2002. The journal version will be reviewed as per JPDC review process for special issues. For details for the JPDC special issue see http://www.cs.umn.edu/~jon/jpdc.
Authors are encouraged to submit their paper electronically to either one of the co-guest editors. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable postscript file. Authors should submit a correct PostScript (level 2) file of their paper to be considered and make sure that the PostScript file will print on a PostScript printer that uses 8.5 x 11 inch size (letter size) paper. Hard copy submissions are also permitted and, like electronic submissions, must be received by the above deadline. Send five copies of the manuscript one of the co-guest editors.
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IMPORTANT DATES: Paper Submission : APRIL 8, 2002 Notification of Acceptance/Rejection : ~ OCTOBER 15, 2002 *Change* Final Version of the Paper : DECEMBER 12, 2002 Co-Guest Editors: Jon Weissman Rich Wolski Department of CS&E Computer Science Department University of Minnesota, Twin Cities University of California, Santa Barbara 200 Union St. S.E. Minneapolis, MN 55455 Santa Barbara, CA 93106 612-626-0044 805-893-3319 jon@cs.umn.edu rich@cs.ucsb.edu http://www.cs.umn.edu/~jon/jpdc http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~rich