Third International Workshop on System Management Techniques, Processes, and Services (SMTPS) (Held in Conjunction with IPDPS 2007, Long Beach, CA) ****************************************************************************** In today's high-performance computing, system management and related services play a key role. With services business accounting for more than half of the U.S. economy, in our third year of SMTPS we would like to broaden the scope of our workshop to cover all aspects of system management, going beyond scientific computing related topics. In order to satisfy the systems needs of both commercial and scientific applications, the focus on system management now includes not only the tools and user interfaces, but also other aspects such as services, processes and system control. Essentially, the wide use of high -end parallel and distributed systems demand sophisticated fault-tolerant techniques, services and processes from minimizing the performance loss under faulty conditions to automating the recovery process in order to reduce management costs. Similarly, at system level, today's commercial systems are evolving towards generalized system management solutions. On the other hand the explosion of outsourcing business in IT area are focusing more and more for innovative techniques, processes and methods not only to manage commercial and scientific systems remotely, but also to optimize the use of resources by minimizing the system down time. With the emergence of web services, services oriented architecture and services computing as standards of IT solutions and services delivery there is an emerging need of research not only in the area of enterprise systems and services management, but also from the usability and applicability of these new technologies. As a result, there are also requirements not only to revisit some of the traditional methods used to develop system management tools for today's servers but also evaluate the implications and benefits the new programming models can provide for parallel and distributed systems in terms of system services performance and utilization. This workshop is intended to bring together researchers and practitioners to identify the new challenges imposed by this trend and investigating efficient software tools, techniques and service processes to improve the performance, reliability and operation of enterprise servers including parallel and distributed systems. In addition to paper presentations by researchers in this area, we plan to invite industrial speakers to give their perspective on important research topics, and organizing a panel discussion on where future research is really needed. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: · Scalable operating system design . Scalable resource management tools . Efficient failure diagnosis, failure prediction and failure recovery tools . Scalable job scheduling tools . Scalable check-pointing tools . Self-healing and self-management tools . Power management for enterprise servers leading to efficient systems management . System bring-up and control tools . Ease of system maintenance, services including system management experiences . Performance, system utilization implications . Scalable I/O and file system management . Optimization techiniques for services management . Services engineering and utility computing techniques . Web services and Services oriented architecture and implications to system management aspects Workshop General Chair: Ramendra K. Sahoo, IBM TJ Watson Research Center Technical Co-Chairs: Kyung Dong Ryu, IBM TJ Watson Research Center Fabrizio Petrini , Pacific Northwest National Lab Yanyong Zhang, Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Rutgers University Program Committee: Ricardo Bianchini(Rutgers Univ.) ricardob@cs.rutgers.edu Henri Casanova (Univ. of Hawaii) henric@hawaii.edu I-hsin Chung (IBM Research) ihchung@us.ibm.com Dick Epema (Delft University of Technology) D.H.J.Epema@ewi.tudelft.nl Dror Feitelson (Hebrew University) feit@cs.huji.ac.il John Janakiraman (HP) john_janakiraman@hp.com Joefon Jann (IBM Research) joefon@us.ibm.com Jose E. Moreira (IBM Research) jmoreira@us.ibm.com Manish Parashar (Rutgers) parashar@caip.rutgers.edu Rolf Riesen (Sandia) rolf@sandia.gov Anand Sivasubramaniam (Penn. State Univ.) anand@cse.psu.edu Rajeev Thakur (Argonne National Lab.) thakur@mcs.anl.gov Andy Yoo (Lawrence Livermore National Lab.) ayoo@llnl.gov Important Dates: Submission Date: 12/1/2006 Notification Date: 1/8/2007 Camera-Ready Date: 1/22/2007 Submission: Authors are requested to submit extended abstracts not exceeding 12 pages, including abstract, five key words, contact address, figures, and references. Please send your extended abstracts via email to kryu@us.ibm.com by Dec 1st, 2006 (Midnight, EST).