From - Tue Aug 13 13:25:09 2002
Subject: CFP: IEEE Vis Workshops2002
Date: Wed,  7 Aug 2002 02:01:46 +0200 (CEST)
From: vis2002a@gris.uni-tuebingen.de (IEEE Vis Symposia 2002)




	Workshop on Commodity-Based Visualization Clusters

			October 27, 2002
	
		      Boston, Massachusetts



  Call for Participation
  ----------------------

    Clusters of commodity computers (possibly enhanced with "game"
    graphics cards) are rapidly becoming a viable alternative to
    traditional "big iron" for both visualization research and the
    delivery of production visualization tools. Clusters are cost
    effective, flexible, and exhibit superior performance when
    applied to visualization and rendering algorithms in a parallel
    or distributed fashion.

    The first Workshop on Commodity-Based Visualization Clusters will
    be held October 2002 in conjunction with IEEE Visualization 2002.
    Submissions on any aspect of commodity based visualization and
    graphics are solicited.

    We would like to especially encourage participation by people from
    outside North America.

    Please visit our web site at http://www.acl.lanl.gov/ccviz02



  Schedule
  --------

    August 16, 2002		Deadline for white paper submissions

    September 6, 2002		Notification of acceptance

    September 27, 2002		Final presentations due

    October 27, 2002		Workshop



  Workshop Chair
  --------------

    Allen McPherson		Los Alamos National Laboratory

  Organizing Committee (Invited Speakers)
  ---------------------------------------

    Byron Alcorn		Hewlett-Packard
    Randy Frank			Lawerence Livermore National Laboratory
    Kwan-Liu Ma			UC Davis
    Greg Humphreys		Stanford University
    Constantine Pavlakos	Sandia National Laboratories



  Format of Workshop
  ------------------

    The workshop will be held on Sunday, October 27, 2002.  Sunday is
    the first day of the three-day pre-conference portion of IEEE
    Visualization 2002 when tutorials and symposia are traditionally
    held. The workshop will consist of 20-minute presentations on
    specific commodity technologies as applied to scientific
    visualization.  We will allot time for discussion with other
    presenters and those in the audience that are not presenting.

    All presenters are required to attend the workshop to present their
    work. Presenters must register for at least the Sunday portion of
    IEEE Visualization and are invited to remain for the symposia on
    Monday and Tuesday and the conference from Wednesday through Friday
    (additional registration required). Please note that all attendees
    that register for the Sunday portion of IEEE Visualization are
    eligible to attend the workshop--attendance is "passport" style.

    


  Submissions
  -----------

    We invite submissions on all aspects of commodity-based visualization
    clusters describing either proven solutions or novel ideas and concepts.
    Submitters should view "commodity" in the widest sense possible (e.g.
    commodity graphics, commodity nodes, commodity networks, commodity
    displays, commodity software).

    Submission info:

      Please submit a 1-4 page white paper describing the commodity
      aspects of either full-system visualization or novel aspects of
      systems and designs. The organizing committee will review submissions
      and select specific topics so as to minimize overlap with other
      speakers. In other words, if the committee finds the networking
      aspect of a submission to be especially interesting, they will
      encourage the presenter to submit a presentation targeted to that
      technology.  In this way we hope to cover the broadest spectrum of
      ideas.

      Upon acceptance, the submitter will be asked to provide a 20-minute
      presentation on their selected topic.  PowerPoint templates will be
      provided by the committee. These presentations and any supporting papers,
      documentation, or media will be collected and posted to the web site
      at the conclusion of the workshop.

      PLEASE NOTE that papers submitted as part of workshops
      cannot be referenced as they will not be published in the proceedings
      of the conference.

      Send all submissions to ccviz02@lanl.gov.  We will attempt to deal with
      most possible formats (PDF, text, Word, HTML, etc).



  Suggested Topics
  ----------------

    - OS and driver issues as they relate to visualization
      - Windows
      - Linux
      - other

    - Graphics API issues
      - OpenGL
      - DirectX
      - other

    - software environments
      - development environments
      - end-user visualization tools

    - image compositing
      - approaches for very high resolution
      - novel hardware-based approaches
      - compositing APIs and libraries

    - viz specific cluster management
      - resource allocation
      - display configuration
      - issues related to using graphics hardware

    - I/O subsystems
      - file systems
      - high-bandwidth streaming architectures
      - data distribution strategies

    - driving high-resolution displays
      - multi-panel (e.g. power walls)
      - desktop
      - remote image delivery

    - distributed rendering algorithms
      - hardware assisted (e.g. graphics cards, CPU instruction extensions)
      - software (e.g. ray tracing)
      - mixed hardware/software approaches
      - load balancing techniques
      - multi-resolution techniques

    - visualization algorithms
      - hardware assist (as for rendering algorithms)

    - network interconnect
      - high-speed interconnects
      - communication libraries
      - mixed networks

  Contacts
  --------

    Send any and all questions to:  ccviz02@lanl.gov