Workshop on Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA): Applications, Implementations, and Technologies (RAIT 2004)

To be held on Sept 20th, 2004, in San Diego (CA, USA),
in conjunction with the IEEE CLUSTER 2004 conference.

 

 

Call for papers

 

Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) enables transfer of data across a network directly to and from application buffers without requiring any intermediate copies or buffers. RDMA, along with direct access to the networking hardware, also provides a low overhead mechanism for achieving low latency, high-bandwidth communication. RDMA has become a desirable feature in high-speed clusters and data-center networks.

 

Scope

The RAIT 2004 workshop is the first event dedicated to RDMA. RAIT 2004 will serve as a forum to present the latest research work by the researchers and developers from both the academia and industry. The focus of this workshop will be on the applications of RDMA, the implementation aspects of RDMA, and the RDMA technologies based on the standards (RDMA over TCP/IP, InfiniBand, Virtual Interface Architecture, etc.). Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

…        RDMA hardware (RDMA-enabled NICs, InfiniBand adapters, or VI NICs)

…        RDMA-aware networks and interfaces

…        Middleware and network services for RDMA-based networking

…        Applications of RDMA (iSCSI/iSER, NFS, DAFS, SDP, databases, clustering, etc.)

…        RDMA Protocols

…        Operating system infrastructure for RDMA

…        RDMA performance evaluation (application performance, performance metrics, network performance, etc.)

…        RDMA and security

…        Future directions for RDMA     

 

 

Paper Submission

 

We invite submissions of technical papers, position papers, and case studies relevant to the workshop. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to present the paper and register. Submission should include on the front page the authorsํ name, affiliations, addresses, email addresses, and phone numbers.

 

Please submit a full paper not exceeding 8 single-spaced pages in PDF or Postscript form, page-numbered, in 10-point font or larger, and suitable for printing on 8.5๎x11๎ paper with at least 1 inch margin all around. Please submit the full paper for consideration to this workshop to Hemal Shah (hemal.shah@intel.com) and James Pinkerton (jpink@microsoft.com) by email.  

 

 

Important dates

 

Deadline for submission                           July 9, 2004                

Notification of acceptance                       July 30, 2004

Camera ready papers                             August 20, 2004

Workshop date                                      September 20, 2004

 

 

Organizers

Program Co-chair: Hemal V. Shah, Intel Corporation

Program Co-chair: James Pinkerton, Microsoft Corporation

 

Program Committee

David Black, EMC Corporation

Jeff Chase, Duke University

Uri Elzur, Broadcom Corporation

Paul Grun, Intel Corporation

Dirk Grunwald, University of Colorado, Boulder

Mike Ko, IBM Research

Michael Krause, Hewlett-Packard Company

Kai Li, Princeton University

David Lifka, Cornell Theory Center

Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State University

Fabrizio Petrini, Los Alamos National Laboratory