[hpc-announce] IEEE NAS 2011 - Deadline Approaching

[Lei Tian]

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IEEE NAS 2011
Dates: July 28-30
Dalian, Liaoning, China

CALL FOR PAPERS

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The 6th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture,
and Storage (NAS 2011)

http://www.nas-conference.org/
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Overview
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The objective of IEEE NAS 2011 is to serve as an international
forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from
academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research on
networking, high-performance computer architecture, and
parallel and distributed data storage technologies.


Important Dates
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Extended Submission Deadline: April 15, 2011 23:59 PST(Firm)
Notification of acceptance: May 20, 2011
Camera-ready Paper: June 10, 2011
Conference: July 28-30, 2011


Topics
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The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
Networking
* Networks for Multimedia
* Network architectures and protocols
* Virtual and overlay networks
* Network applications and services
* Ad hoc and sensor networks
* Network security and privacy
Architecture
* Processor architectures
* Cache and memory systems
* Parallel computer architectures
* Power efficient architectures
* Innovative HW/SW tradeoffs
Storage
* Architecture and applications of solid state disks
* File systems, object-based storage, and block storage
* Energy-aware storage
* Storage management
* Storage performance and QoS
* Storage security
* Cloud storage
* Database storage
* Parallel I/O
* Distributed I/O (wide-area, grid, peer-to-peer)
* Reliability, availability, and disaster tolerance
* Data-intensive applications
* Search and data retrieval

Submission Guildlines
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NAS 2011 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work.
Each paper submitted is limited to 10 pages and must be prepared
in the IEEE camera-ready format. Formatting instructions and LaTeX
macros can be downloaded from our website. The submission site is
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/nas2011. Only submissions in PDF
format are accepted and the acceptable file size is limited to 10MB.
All accepted papers will be included in the IEEE digital library
and indexed by EI.


Awards
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There will be one award for the best paper in each of the
three tracks (networking, architecture, and storage). The
awards will be chosen by the program committee and will
be awarded to the paper with the highest overall quality in
each of the three categories


Conference Organizers
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Steering Committee

 - Xubin He, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
 - Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
 - Changsheng Xie, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China
 - Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island, USA
 - Andre Brinkmann,University of Paderborn, Germany

General Co-Chairs
 - David Du, University of Minnesota, USA
 - He Guo, Dalian University of Technology, China

Program Co-Chairs
 - Bianca Schroeder, University of Toronto, Canada
 - Jizhong Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Program Vice-Chairs
Networking
 - Gang Zhou, College of William and Mary, USA
 - Gaogang Xie, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
Architecture
 - Thomas Wenisch, University of Michigan,USA
 - Jian Li, IBM Austin Research Lab, USA
Storage
 - Carlos Maltzahn, University of California Santa Cruz, USA
 - Fang Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Publicity Chair
 - Qiang Cao, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China
 - Lei Tian, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Local Arrangement Co-Chairs
 - Yuxin Wang, Dalian University of Technology, China
 - Zhaobin Liu, Dalian Maritime University, China

Registration and Finance Chair
 - Qi Jia, Dalian University of Technology, China
 - Zhiyong Xu, Suffolk University, USA

Web Chair
 - Yuanzheng Lu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Program Committee Members
Networking
 - Baosheng Wang, National University of Defense Technology, China
 - Benyuan Liu, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
 - Bo Sheng, University of Massachusetts Boston, USA
 - Chiu C. Tan, Temple University, USA
 - Chuan Yue, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, USA
 - Dong Xuan, The Ohio State University, USA
 - Fei Li, George Mason University, USA
 - Guangdeng Liao, Intel Lab, USA
 - Guanhua Yan, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
 - Guanling Chen, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA
 - Haodong Wang, Cleveland State University, USA
 - Hongyi Wu, University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
 - Hongwei Zhang, Wayne State University, USA
 - Jian-non Cao, The Hong Kong Politechnic University, China
 - Jiangyi Hu, Florida State University, USA
 - Junwei Cao, Tsinghua University, China
 - Junzhou Luo, Southeast University, China
 - Kave Salamatian, University of Savioe, France
 - Kui Ren, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
 - Leo Selavo, University of Latvia, Latvia
 - Lei Xie, Nanjing University, China
 - Li Shen, Indiana University, USA
 - Liang Hong, WuHan University, China
 - Liudong Xing, University of Massachusetts, USA
 - Mengjun Xie, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA
 - Meikang Qiu, University of Kentucky, USA
 - Meng Yu, Virginia Central University, USA
 - Mo Li, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
 - Nikolaos Georgantas, INRIA, France
 - Pan Li, Mississippi State University, USA
 - Pei Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
 - Qing Cao, University of Tennessee, USA
 - Qixin Wang, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China
 - Radu Stoleru, Texas A&M University, USA
 - Sajal Das, University of Texas at Arlington, USA
 - Shan Lin, Temple University, USA
 - Songqing Chen, George Mason University, USA
 - Tao Xie, San Diego State University, USA
 - Wei Zhang, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
 - Weijia Jia, City University of Hong Kong, China
 - Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA
 - Xiaolin Chen, Chuxiong Normal University, China
 - Xingfu Wu, Texas A&M University, USA
 - Yaohang Li, Old Dominion University, USA
 - Yong Guan, Iowa State University, USA
 - Yongning Tang, Illinois State University, USA
 - Yu Gu, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore
 - Yu Wang, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA
 - Zhen Jiang, West Chester University of Pennsylvania, USA,
 - Zonghua Gu, Zhejiang University, China

Architecture
 - BiBo Tu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
 - Christophe Bobda, University of Arkansas, USA
 - Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, University of Crete and FORTH-ICS, Greece
 - Greg Bronevetsky, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
 - Haixia Wang, Tsinghua University, China
 - Koji Inoue, Kyushu University, Japan
 - Marco D. Santambrogio, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
 - Meyrem Kirman, Intel Labs Barcelona, Spain
 - Michael Huebner, Uni Karlsruhe, Germany
 - Mingyu Chen, Institute of Computing Technology, China
 - Mladen Berekovic, TU Braunschweig, Germany
 - Naehyuck Chang, Soul National University, Korea
 - Nikos Hardavellas, Northwestern University, USA
 - Oliver Bringmann, FZI, Forschungszentrum Informatik, Germany
 - Resit Sendag, University of Rhode Island, USA
 - Shih-Hao Hung, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
 - Sungjoo Yoo, Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea
 - Tao Wang, Peking University, China
 - Wei Huang, IBM Research - Austin, USA
 - Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA
 - ZhiChun Zhu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
 - Zhao Zhang, Iowa State University, USA

Storage
 - Andrew Leung, Data Domain, California, USA
 - Andreas Dilger, Whamcloud, USA
 - Andy Wang, Florida State University,USA
 - Ahmed Amer, Santa Clara University, California, USA
 - Anna Povzner, IBM Almaden, California, USA
 - Ben Kobler, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
 - Bo Hong, Pure Storage, California, USA
 - Dan Feng, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China
 - Dean Hildebrand, IBM Almaden, California, USA
 - Deepavali Bhagwat, Hewlett Packard, USA
 - Dilma Da Silva,IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
 - Frank Zhigang Wang,University of Kent, UK
 - Ismail Ari, Ozyegin University, Turkey
 - Jiwu Shu, Tsinghua University, China
 - John Bent, Los Alamos National Lab, USA
 - Julio Lopez, Parallel Data Laboratory, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
 - Kevin Greenan, Data Domain, California, USA
 - Kostas Magoutis, FORTH-ICS,Greece
 - Laurence T. Yang,St. Francis Xavier University, Canada
 - Ming Zhang, EMC, USA
 - Ron Oldfield,Sandia National Labs, New Mexico, USA
 - Tim Kaldewey,IBM Almaden, USA
 - Xiao Qin, Auburn University, USA
 - Yifeng Zhu,University of Maine, Orono, USA
 - Yong Chen,Texas Tech University, Texas, USA
 - Yu Hua, Huazhong Univ. of Science and Technology, China
 - Zhiyong Xu, Suffolk University, USA