Call for Papers
			Ninth International Workshop on 
		Scheduling and Resource Management for Parallel and
			Distributed Systems (SRMPDS '13)
	 To be held in conjunction with 2013 International Conference 
	 	        on Parallel Processing (ICPP '13)
	 	        Lyon, France, October 1, 2013

SCOPE:
The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and 
practitioners working in the areas of resource scheduling and 
resource management to exchange and share their experiences, new 
ideas, and latest research results on all aspects of scheduling 
and resource management in parallel and distributed systems
including Grids and Clouds.

TOPICS OF INTEREST:
Topics of interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to:
Resource allocation and management
Advance resource reservation and scheduling
Load sharing and Load balancing techniques
Network resource allocation
Fault-tolerant resource management approaches
Data access and management
Scheduling data intensive jobs
Scheduling on heterogeneous nodes
Time slicing, gang, or co-scheduling
Fairness, priorities, and accounting Issues
Performance implications of scheduling strategies
Performance metrics to compare scheduling schemes
Virtualization of resources

PROCEEDINGS: 
Proceedings of workshops will be published by the Conference
Publishing Services in CD format only and will be available at the conference.

PAPER SUBMISSIONS: 
Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original 
unpublished research and recent developments in the topics 
related to the workshop. Submitted papers should be formatted 
according to the IEEE standard double-column format with a font 
size 10 pt or larger and should not 
exceed 8 pages including figures and references. Papers should 
be submitted electronically in PDF format (or postscript) at 
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=srmpds10. All papers 
will be peer reviewed and the comments will be provided to the authors.

SUBMISSIONS PAGE:
http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=srmpds2013

IMPORTANT DATES: 
Submissions Due:      May 13, 2013
Review Decisions:     Jun 10, 2013
Final Manuscript Due: Jun 27, 2013

PROGRAM CHAIR:
Rajkumar Kettimuthu (Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago, USA)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
Sanjeev Agarwal (Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India) 
Rajdeep Bhowmik (Cisco Systems, Inc, USA)
Surendra Byna (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA)
Massimiliano Caramia (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy)
Julita Corbalan (Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain)
Tae-Young Choe (Kumoh National Institute of Technology, Korea)
Maciej Drozdowski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland)
Eitan Frachtenberg (Facebook, USA)
Alfredo Goldman (University of Sao Paulo, Brazil)
William Jones (Coastal Carolina University, USA)
Eun-Sung Jung (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
Hiroshi Koide (Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan)
Shikharesh Majumdar (Carleton University, Canada)
Aleardo Manacero Jr. (Sao Paulo State University, Brazil)
Serge Midonnet (University of Marne La Vallee, France)
Nandini Mukherjee (Jadavpur University, India)
Vijay Naik (IBM, USA)
Chanik Park (Pohang University of Science and Technology, Korea)
Rajiv Ranjan (The University of Melbourne, Australia)
Morris Riedel (Research Center Julich, Germany)
Michael Sobolewski (Texas Tech University, USA)
Achim Streit (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany)
Dina Sulakhe (The University of Chicago, USA)
Wei Tang (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
Yongwei Wu (Tsinghua University, China)
Philipp Wieder (GWDG, Germany)
Ramin Yahyapour (University of Dortmund, Germany)

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: 
www.mcs.anl.gov/~kettimut/srmpds or send email to srmpds@mcs.anl.gov