Special issue on tools in the ACTS Collection 2004: Preface

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Dongarra Jack UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, KNOXVILLE USA Tourancheau Bernard SUN LABS EUROPE, GRENOBLE, FRANCE 08 2006 20 3 317 317 sagemeta-type Other cover-date FALL 2006 search-text 317PREFACE Special Issue on Tools in the ACTS Collection 2004 PREFACE Jack Dongarra 1 Bernard Tourancheau2 This special issue of the journal contains many of the papers presented at the Workshop on Clusters and Com- putational Grids for Scientific Computing that was held at Chateau de Faverges de la Tour, September 2729, 2004. The workshop was the continuation of a series started in 1992 entitled Workshop on Environments and Tools for Parallel Scientific Computing. These workshops have been held every two years and alternate between the United States and France. The purpose of this workshop, which was by invitation only, was to evaluate the state-of-the- art and future trends for cluster computing and the use of computational grids for scientific computing. This workshop addressed a number of themes for devel- oping and using both cluster and computational grids. In particular, the talks covered: · Message Passing and Performance Tools · Information Power Grid Infrastructure and Program- ming Environment · Cluster Based Computing and Tools · Languages, Libraries, and Fault Tolerance Speakers presented their research in the above four areas and interacted and worked with all the participants on the future software technologies that will provide for easier use of parallel computers. The workshop was made possible thanks to: the French National Institute for Research in Computer Sci- ence (INRIA); a United States National Science Founda- tion (NSF) grant established for collaboration between the Laboratory of Computer Science for Parallelism (LIP) of the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL) and the Computer Science Depart- ment of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville; and a grant from the NSF Science and Technology Center for Research on Parallel Computation. The workshop was also sponsored by Sun Microsys- tems Inc., Microsoft Inc., Myricom Inc., Hewlett-Packard, and Intel with the scientific support of INRIA, the Center for Information Technology Research at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville (UTK) and the University Claude Bernard (UCB-Lyon 1). The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, Volume 20, No. 3, Fall 2006, pp. 317 DOI: 10.1177/1094342006067464 © 2006 SAGE Publications 1 UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE, KNOXVILLE USA 2 SUN LABS EUROPE, GRENOBLE, FRANCE