From llorente at dacya.ucm.es Sun Dec 28 03:23:47 2008 From: llorente at dacya.ucm.es (Ignacio Martin Llorente) Date: Sun, 28 Dec 2008 10:23:47 +0100 Subject: [Clouds-bof] 1st International Workshop on Grids, Clouds and Virtualization Message-ID: <5B3CA173-F69B-4668-95D5-F8A07DEBA1C2@dacya.ucm.es> Please, let me use this list to distribute the Call for Papers for the 1st International Workshop on Grids, Clouds and Virtualization. I hope you are enjoying a nice Xmas break, Ignacio --------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1st INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON GRIDS, CLOUDS AND VIRTUALIZATION Held in conjunction with 4th International Conference on Grid and Pervasive Computing, GPC 2009 Geneva, 4-8 May 2009 Workshop website: http://sara.unile.it/wgcv The Workshop on Grids, Clouds and Virtualization is an international forum which brings together researchers and practitioners working on different high-performance aspects of web/grid services, middleware and technologies including virtualization that enable grid-aware and cloud applications. The enabling technologies and middleware include tools to assemble together different resources such as parallel supercomputers, data archives, high-speed storage systems, advanced visualization devices and scientific instruments using high speed networks connecting geographically distributed devices and organizations. Many recent international efforts are actively fostering the development of virtualization technologies and solutions. The Workshop will allow exchanging ideas and results related to on-going grid and cloud computing research, focusing on different aspects of middleware, technologies and applications. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Creating breakthrough middleware and virtualization technologies for high-performance grid and cloud applications requires addressing several key computing problems which may lead to novel solutions and new insights in interdisciplinary applications. The focus of the workshop is on all forms of advances in grid, clouds and virtualization middleware/applications, and related topics. The workshop solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: ? Grid infrastructures: advances and evaluation of grid middleware ? Cloud infrastructures: advances and evaluation of virtualization technologies ? Virtualization technologies: tools, middleware, management of virtual environments, virtualization of storage resources, security aspects ? Grid/cloud security: access policies, authentication, authorization, performance aspects of middleware ? P2P grid/cloud infrastructures: protocols, remote execution, security aspects ? Grid/cloud performances: benchmarking of enabling technologies ? Grid/cloud applications: best practices related to solving large- scale problems on grid/cloud infrastructures ? Data Grid/cloud: advances on management and analysis of large datasets ? Grid/cloud accounting, monitoring and scheduling ? Parallel applications on grid/cloud infrastructures: theory and practice, programming models, intercluster communications, remote execution ? Fault tolerant grid/cloud and virtualization technologies --------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The proceedings of the workshop will be published by IEEE. Authors are invited to submit 8-page papers in IEEE 2-column format by December 20, 2008. Papers must be submitted to the following email address: wgcv at sara.unile.it The results presented in the paper must be unpublished and not submitted for publication elsewhere, including the proceedings of other conferences or workshops. Papers will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers are evaluated with respect to originality, significance, clarity, and technical soundness. One author of each accepted paper will be expected to present the paper at the workshop. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission: December 31, 2008 Author notification: January 30, 2009 Camera ready: February 15, 2009 Workshop: May 4-8, 2009 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS/ORGANIZERS --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Giovanni Aloisio University of Salento & CMCC, Italy Massimo Cafaro University of Salento & CMCC, Italy Sandro Fiore University of Salento & CMCC, Italy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- PROGRAM COMMITTEE --------------------------------------------------------------------------- GGagan Agrawal, Ohio State University, USA Henry Casanova, University of Hawaii, USA Ewa Deelman, ISI/USC, USA Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Peter kacsuk, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, University of Lyon, France Ignacio Llorente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Jarek Nabrzyski, LSU, USA Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Rick Stevens, ANL, University of Chicago, USA Lizhe Wang, University of Karlsruhe, Germany -- Ignacio M. Llorente, Full Professor (Catedratico): web http://dsa-research.org/llorente and blog http://imllorente.dsa-research.org DSA Research Group: web http://dsa-research.org and blog http://blog.dsa-research.org Globus GridWay Metascheduler: http://www.GridWay.org OpenNebula Virtual Infrastructure Engine: http://www.OpenNebula.org