IJCSA

Special Issue on Grid and Parallel Computing

With the advancement in the Internet technology and increasing popularity of the Service Oriented Architecture, Grid Computing is becoming a popular choice for the scientists and researchers to perform computing on a large network of interconnected machines. Although Grid has its origin in Parallel and Distributed Computing, it is evolving as the separate branch of the Computer Science because of its own challenges. Parallel Computing on the other hand is more established branch of Computer Science but with the ever increasing need for the power of computing and introduction of new architectures such as multi-core, it is also finding many interesting research paths.

The idea of this special issue is to invite the technology leaders and researchers to present their original results to address some of the current and future challenges in Grid and Parallel Computing domain.

•    Grid Architectures and Systems
•    Service Composition and Orchestration
•    Middleware for Grids
•    Scheduling/Meta Scheduling and Load Balancing for Girds
•    Utility Computing Models for Grids
•    High Speed network protocols for Grid
•    High Performance Grids
•    High Availability Grids
•    Support for Self-Managing/Self-Configuring Grid Infrastructure
•    Operating Systems for Grids
•    Resource Management schemes
•    Programming Models, Tools, and Environments
•    Scientific Workflow management systems
•    Performance Evaluation tools
•    Grid Trust and Security, Access controls
•    Fault Tolerance in Grid
•    High-Performance Cluster Computing  
•    Parallel Algorithms, Languages and Programming Environments  
•    Scheduling and Resource Management  
•    Fault-Tolerant Algorithms and Systems for Parallel Machines 
•    Heterogeneous Computing  
•    Interconnection Networks and Architectures  
•    Reconfigurable Architectures/Algorithms  
•    Compiler Technologies for High-Performance Computing  
•    Software Support for Multi-Core architecture Techniques  
•    Operating Systems for Scalable High-Performance Computing
•    Distributed Shared Memory Computing

We encourage the submission of the original high quality papers (10-12 pages) with contributions not published or not currently submitted for consideration to another journal or conference demonstrating the current research areas of Grid and Parallel Computing. All papers will be refereed according to the standard process of IJCSA. It is anticipated that the special issue on Grid and Parallel Computing will contain between eight to ten papers (the online special issue is expected to be between 150 and 200 pages in length), although this can be adjusted depending on the number and quality of papers submitted.