Workshop Scope

The performance modeling and evaluation of communication mechanisms and algorithms implemented in parallel, distributed, and grid computing systems have been an important and fundamental research topic over the past years and poses challenging problems that require innovative tools and techniques to keep up with the rapid evolution and increasing complexity of such systems.

This workshop will serve as a forum for researchers from both academia and industry to share and exchange their experiences, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on all aspects of communication in parallel, distributed, and grid systems based on either wired or wireless networks with a specific emphasis on their performance modeling, evaluation and analysis. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Performance evaluation of communication in large-scale parallel, distributed, and grid  systems
• Predictive performance models of communication
• Novel algorithms/protocols/mechanisms for communication
• Routing algorithms design and performance
• Performance measurement and monitoring tools
• Tracing and trace analysis
• Simulation techniques
• Analytical modeling
• Automatic performance analysis
• Performance evaluation techniques
• Performance comparison and metrics
• Workload characterization and traffic modeling of communication
• Performance impact of communication on application in parallel, distributed and mobile computing systems
• Performance evaluation of MPI, PVM and other message-passing environments
• Group communication performance in wireless networks
• Communication performance in peer-to-peer networks
• Communication in mobile wireless ad hoc networks
• Performance improvement of communication through optimization and tuning
• Case studies showing the role of evaluation in the design of communication protocols in wired/wireless networks

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 Workshop Co-Chairs

Publicity Chair

 Program Committee

 Submission Guidelines