INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF
HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING APPLICATIONS
Special Issue on Grid
Computing: Infrastructure and Applications
Guest editor: DW Walker,
Cardiff University, UK
The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications (IJHPCA) invites the submission of papers for a special issue entitled Grid Computing: Infrastructure and Applications.
The Grid has emerged as a key computing infrastructure for the coordinated and secure use of shared resources in a distributed environment, and supports new approaches to the use of computer resources, instrumentation, sensors, and human expertise in a number of broad areas including science, business, government, and healthcare. Efforts are underway, through organizations such as the Global Grid Forum and the World-Wide Web Consortium, to standardize aspects of the Grid software infrastructure, and a consensus has emerged based on the idea of a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Proposed approaches such as the Open Grid Services Architecture, and service description and flow languages[1], are all relevant to the ongoing debate over the details of an SOA for the Grid.
The special issue will focus on the inter-relationship between Grid infrastructure and Grid applications. Papers are solicited on the following topics:
· Software infrastructure and software architectures for the Grid, preferably with reference to working prototypes. Papers mainly about infrastructure should be strongly motivated by Grid applications and/or typical modes-of-use.
· Grid applications. Papers about applications should describe how the underlying Grid infrastructure is used.
· Grid-enabled problem-solving environments and application portals.
· Investigations into performance and/or quality of service issues in relation to the Grid.
· Standards for the Grid, including the comparison and evaluation of different proposed standards.
· Software tools for supporting Grid computing.
· The use of Web/Grid services, and their inter-operation with different types of service, e.g., Jini and CORBA services.
It is expected that papers will make appropriate reference to emerging Grid standards, and an explanation and justification should be given if such standards are not used.
It is anticipated that most of the papers comprising the special issue will present original and unpublished research results. However, review and work-in-progress papers will also be considered. Review papers should include cogent analyses of the relevant issues facing the development of Grid computing, as well as discussion of the technologies and application requirements driving this development. Work-in-progress papers should place the work presented in the context of a coherent program of research, and in relation to more general Grid computing issues.
Schedule and
Deadlines
The schedule for the publication of the special issue is as follows:
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1 September 2002 |
Distribution of Call for Papers |
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15 December 2002 |
Deadline for submission of papers |
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1 February 2003 |
Notification of authors |
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1 March 2003 |
Final submission of accepted papers |
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Fall 2003 (August) |
Publication of special issue |
Submission of Manuscipts
Papers should be prepared in accordance with the “Notes for Authors” given at the IJHPCA web site at http://www.sagepub.co.uk/journals/details/j0233.html, and submitted directly to the Guest Editor:
Professor David W. Walker
Department of Computer Science
Cardiff University
PO Box 916
Cardiff CF24 3XF
United Kingdom
Please note that four copies of the manuscript, with a brief biography of each author, are required. Manuscripts may also be submitted electronically to David.W.Walker@cs.cardiff.ac.uk in PostScript, Word, or PDF formats.
For any further information about this special issue please contact the Guest Editor at David.W.Walker@cs.cardiff.ac.uk.
[1] For example, the Web Service Description Language, the Web Service Choreography Interface, and the Business Process Execution Language for Web Services.