CALL FOR PAPERS

      Workshop on Job Scheduling Strategies for Parallel Processing
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	      in conjunction with IPPS '95, April 25, 1995
	       Red Lion Resort, Santa Barbara, California

SCOPE:

As large parallel computers become more popular, scheduling strategies
become more important as a means of balancing the need for exclusive
use of the machine's resources and the desire to make these resources
readily available to many diverse users.  Neither sign-up sheets,
naive time-slicing, nor naive space-slicing are suitable solutions.
Moreover, there appears to be a divergence between what is studied,
modeled, and analyzed in academic circles and the actual, sometimes
ad-hoc, scheduling schemes developed by vendors and large installations.

The workshop is intended to attract people from academia, supercomputing
centers, national laboratories, and parallel computer vendors to
address resource management issues in multiuser parallel systems, and
attempt to resolve the conflicting goals such as short response times
for interactive work, minimal interference with batch jobs, fairness
to all users, and high system utilization.  We hope to achieve a
balance between reports of current practices in large and heavily-used
installations, proposals of novel schemes that have not yet been
tested in a real environment, and realistic models and analysis.
The emphasis will be on practical designs in the context of real
parallel operating systems.


TOPICS AND ISSUES:

- Experience with scheduling policies on current systems
- Performance implications of scheduling strategies
- Fairness, priorities, and accounting issues
- Workload characterization and classification
- Support for different classes of jobs (e.g. interactive vs. batch)
- Static vs. dynamic partitioning
- Time slicing and gang scheduling
- Scheduling to support a specific model of computation
- Interaction of scheduling with memory management and I/O


SUBMISSIONS:

Papers should be no longer than 20 pages, including figures and
references.  All papers will be reviewed, and a proceedings will be
distributed at the workshop.  Send 6 copies of the paper to:
	Dror Feitelson
	IBM T J Watson Research Center
	P O Box 218
	Yorktown Heights, NY 10598
Please include name, address, phone, and email of contact author.
* DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION: February 1, 1995
* AUTHOR NOTIFICATION:     March 15, 1995
* FINAL COPY DUE:          April 3, 1995


REGISTRATION:

The workshop is open to all participants of IPPS '95.
For general IPPS '95 information, contact ipps95@halcyon.usc.edu.


ORGANIZERS:

Dror Feitelson, IBM Research (feit@watson.ibm.com)
Larry Rudolph, Hebrew University (rudolph@lcs.mit.edu)


PROGRAM COMMITTEE:

David Black, OSF
Jim Cownie, Meiko
Dror Feitelson, IBM Research (Co-Chairman)
Allan Gottlieb, New York University
Mal Kalos, Cornell Theory Center
Bradley C. Kuszmaul, MIT
Miron Livny, University of Wisconsin
Virginia Lo, University of Oregon
Reagan Moore, SDSC
Larry Rudolph, Hebrew University (Co-Chairman)
Mark Squillante, IBM Research
Bernard Traversat, NASA Ames
John Zahorjan, University of Washington