[Clouds-bof] 1st International Workshop on Grids, Clouds and Virtualization

[Ignacio Martin Llorente]

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

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			CALL FOR PAPERS
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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.


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			TOPICS
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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


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			SUBMISSION
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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.


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			IMPORTANT DATES
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Paper submission: December 31, 2008
Author notification: January 30, 2009
Camera ready: February 15, 2009
Workshop: May 4-8, 2009

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			WORKSHOP CHAIRS/ORGANIZERS
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Giovanni Aloisio
University of Salento & CMCC, Italy

Massimo Cafaro
University of Salento & CMCC, Italy

Sandro Fiore
University of Salento & CMCC, Italy	

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			PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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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