The International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing, Applications and Technologies (PDCAT'08) is a major forum for scientists, engineers, and practitioners throughout the world to present the latest research, results, ideas, developments and applications in all areas of parallel and distributed computing.

PDCAT'08 will be held in Dunedin, New Zealand from 1–4 of December, 2008.

PDCAT programme

The programme features four keynote speeches, thirteen session topics ranging from grid computing to sensor networks, four associated workshops, four tutorials including grid-database management and multi-core programming, and one panel session.

Keynotes

• Looking toward Exascale Computing, Pete Beckman, Argonne National Laboratory
• Virtual Organizations By the Rules, Carl Kesselman, University of Southern California
• Case Studies in Computer Network Measurement, Tony McGregor, University of Waikato
• Global experimental testbeds for studying future Internet technologies, Max Ott, NICTA (Australia's ICT Research Centre of Excellence)

Tutorials

• The GRelC Project: advanced grid-database management
• Passive Network Analysis using Libtrace
• Simulation for Large-Scale Distributed Computing Research
• Multi-core programming

Workshops

• New Zealand Workshop in High Performance and Grid Computing
• Sensor Networks and Ambient Intelligence (SeNAmI 2008)
• PPAM 2008: Programming Parallel Applications for Multi-cores
• Workshop on High Performance Data Grid (HPDataGrid)

Panel session

NGN/NGI Research and Experimentation

Topics of the main sessions:

• Grid computing
• High performance computing
• Parallel/distributed algorithms
• Parallel/distributed architectures
• Interconnection networks
• Computer networks
• Sensor networks
• Fault tolerance and reliability
• Power-aware computing
• Intelligent computing
• Task scheduling and resource allocation
• Formal languages and programming languages
• Algorithms for cryptographic systems

Registration

Standard fee: $600
Student fee: $300

Further information

http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/pdcat08/

Updated 17 October 2008