Fourth Workshop on Grids and Advanced Networks GAN'06

Scope
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The rapid rise of the grid computing concept is leading to the development of a
wide range of capabilities for managing distributed applications and services.
These applications and services, in addition to the grid infrastructure itself,
all rely on network communication. Effectively utilizing high-speed networks,
however, is not entirely trivial. Network communication will also encompass far
more than simple, point-to-point data transfers. Advanced network capabilities
will include quality of service, security, filtering, reliable multicast, high
performance transport protocols, monitoring, performance measurements and
content-based routing, to name a few. In many cases, new network services will
offer applications a control plane whereby it can control network behavior in
the data plane. Hence, grid applications and middleware that can be more
network-aware, and even topology-aware, will be able to achieve higher
performance, and responsiveness while lower network demand. Meanwhile,
performance and specific requirements of Grid applications will push the
evolution of network protocols.
For these reasons, the Workshop of Grids and Advanced Networks (GAN'06) will be
convened as part of CCGrid 2006 to bring together researchers in both grids and
networks to present the latest work integrating these two fields. The topics of
interest include, but are not limited to :
- Grids and High-Performance Networks
- Communication Middleware
- Multicast for Grids
- QoS for Grids
- Grid Network Security
- Grid Network Services, e.g., monitoring, filtering
- Transport protocol for Grids
- Network resource allocation
- Content-based Networking
- Bulk Data Transfer
- Active and Programmable Networks for Grids
- Resource Discovery
- Topology Construction
- Network Protocols Enhancement for Grids
- Grid Applications using advanced network capabilities
- Optical network solutions supporting Grids

You can find here http://perso.ens-lyon.fr/laurent.lefevre/gan05 program and
slides of last GAN workshop.