If you are interested in presenting a paper at the conference, please review the submission instructions. Abstracts are due by June 18, 2002. Final papers are due August 20, 2002. For all accepted papers, at least one author is required to attend and present the paper. All conference papers will be provided to attendees on a CD-ROM.

The conference planning committee is interested in papers on a broad range of topics related to systems integration, operation and support, end user applications, tools, and experiences. Topics being sought include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Performance Evaluation, Analysis, and Optimization
• Performance Tools, debuggers, and Environments
• High Performance Applications and Libraries
• Experiences in Development of Highly Parallel Applications
• System Management and Administration
• Tools for Building and Administrating Clusters
• Scheduling and Load Balancing
• Resource Management
• Network, Interconnects, and Protocols
• Middleware for Clusters
• Meta- and Grid-Computing Parallel I/O, File Systems, and Storage
• Autonomic computing
• Security
• Compilers
• New Experimental and Commercial Linux Clusters

Abstracts must include the required information and be submitted to linux-conf@ncsa.uiuc.edu in text format, PDF, or Microsoft Word.

Required Information

• Title
• Track (Systems or Applications & Tools)
• Author(s) and Institutions(s)
• Presenter's name
• Presenter's email
• Presenter's phone
• Abstract (750-1000 words)

Submission Instructions and Deadline
Submit the required information via email to linux-conf@ncsa.uiuc.edu. Remember that acceptable submission formats are text files, PDF, or Microsoft Word.

If you have any questions, please send email to:
John Towns, jtowns@ncsa.uiuc.edu, for the Applications & Tools Track
Bob Ballance, ballance@ahpcc.unm.edu, for the Systems Track

Deadline: June 18, 2002.