Second Workshop on Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA): Applications, Implementations, and Technologies (RAIT 2005)

To be held on Sept 26th, 2005, in Boston (MA, USA),
in conjunction with the Cluster 2005 conference.

Burlington Marriott, Burlington, MA, USA.

 

 

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 2005 workshop is the second time that the RAIT workshop has been held. RAIT 2005 is intended to serve as a forum to present the latest research work by the researchers and developers from both academia and industry. The workshop focuses 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, VI NICs, or other adapters)

·        RDMA-aware networks and interfaces

·        Middleware and network services for RDMA-based networking

·        Applications of RDMA (iSCSI/iSER, NFS, DAFS, SDP, databases, clustering, storage networking, 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 authors’ 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 8.5”x11” 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                          May 24, 2005                

Notification of acceptance                      June 9, 2005

Camera ready papers                             July 2, 2005

Workshop date                                      September 26, 2005

 

 

Organizers

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

Program Co-chair: James Pinkerton, Microsoft Corporation

 

Program Committee

David Black, EMC Corporation

Stephen Bailey, Sandburst

Jeff Chase, Duke University

Uri Elzur, Broadcom Corporation

Dirk Grunwald, University of Colorado, Boulder

Mike Ko, IBM Research

Michael Krause, Hewlett-Packard Company

Kai Li, Princeton University

Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State University

Fabrizio Petrini, Los Alamos National Laboratory