[ghpn-wg] CFP Autonomic Grid Networking and Management 06

[Volker Sander]

                       Call for Papers 

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                        AGNM 2006

 

Second IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Autonomic Grid Networking and
Management 

October 26th-27th, 2006, Herbert Park Hotel, Dublin, Ireland

Held as part of the IEEE/IFIP 2nd International Week on Management of
Networks and Services

Website: http://www.manweek2006.org/agnm/agnm.php

 

Autonomic Grid Computing (AGC) deals with self-managing and self-adapting
parallel and 

distributed computing and associated data management on a distributed and
parallel Grid 

of computational machines (PCs, servers, supercomputers, clusters) and
storage systems. 

Grid computing is performed with the support of two major infrastructure
components: 

1) a Grid middleware, such as Globus or UNICORE, which provides advanced
services and 

supports Grid resource management, and 2) a fabric layer, which comprises
the underlying

systems, such as computers, operating systems, and storage systems. A fabric
layer 

component of particular importance is the network since all distributed
services rely 

on the capabilities of the interconnecting network. 

 

Recently, the Grid Community has started efforts to enhance the core
services of a 

Grid middleware with autonomic capabilities so that the functions are
self-managing. 

For example, an autonomic Grid resource allocation manager, instead of
statically 

allocating or releasing resources to Grid applications, could do so
adaptively, or 

self-heal to failures. However, the AGC and associated infrastructure (AGCI)
is geared 

mainly towards computational (servers, supercomputers) and storage
resources. In other 

words, the autonomic behavior of AGC and AGCI is a function of changes in
computational

and storage resources, but not networking resources. Hence there is need for
support 

of Autonomic Grid  Networks (AGN)  that incorporates into the Grid the
following: 1) Network

resources distributed across LAN, MAN and WAN, 2)  Autonomic and on-demand
functions  

(into various layers and components, such as a Grid middleware). The
autonomic functions

may be conceptually similar to the ones provided in the lower layer (Layers
3, 2, 1) 

networks, such as self-control (dynamic rerouting, such as IGP rerouting),
self-protection

([G]MPLS Fast Rerouting and Protection, Sonet/SDH protection switching), and
self-healing

(control and data plane high-availability, etc.). For example, in a typical
Grid, the 

resource management architecture is client-server oriented, where resources
are typically 

registered to and pulled from a particular service. In contrast, in an AGN,
the resource 

management architecture could be distributed and autonomous, where resource
requests are 

routed by autonomous and distributed AGN middleware components.

 

This one-day workshop offers a unique opportunity for researchers and
practitioners to 

exchange ideas and experiences on problems, challenges, solutions and
potential future 

research and development issues in this new field of Autonomic Grid
Networking and 

Management. In addition to paper presentations, the workshop provides an
intimate setting 

for discussion and debate through panels and group work. 

 

The authors are encouraged to submit original papers on topics related to
the concepts 

described above, including, but not limited to:

- Grid middleware enhancements for AGN

- Cluster middleware enhancements for AGN

- Network-aware autonomic Grid scheduling

- Network-aware autonomic Grid data and storage management

- Network-aware autonomic cluster scheduling and management

- AGN specific resource discovery

- AGN QoS (combined application and abstracted network QoS) management

- AGN routing

- AGN self-healing and self-protection

- AGN high-availability

- AGN monitoring and performance management

- AGN effects on HPC applications  

- HPC applications (MPI and other) on AGN

- HPC applications (MPI and other) on MAN and WAN AGN

- Commercial applications (CRM, ERP, Financial, etc.) on AGN

- P2P AGN

 

Submission

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For online submission instructions please visit 

http://www.manweek2006.org/agnm/submission.php

Questions should be directed to agnm06 at anut.fh-aachen.de

 

IMPORTANT DEADLINES

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Submission: May 19 2006

Notification: July 7 2006

Camera ready: August 2 2006

Workshop: October 26-27 2006

 

Organizing Committee:

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Workshop Chair:           Masum Z. Hasan (Cisco Systems, USA)

Workshop TPC Co-chairs: Volker Sander (University of Aachen, Germany)

and Silvia Figueira (Santa Clara University, USA)

 

Technical Programme Committee

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Lina Battestilli, MCNC, USA

Raouf Boutaba, U Waterloo, Canada

Rob Brennan, Ericsson R&D, Ireland

Wayne Clark, Cisco Systems, USA

Asit Dan, IBM Watson Research C, USA

Cees DeLaat, U Amsterdam, Netherlands

Gabi Dreo-Rodosek, LRZ, Germany

Horst Dumcke, Cisco Systems, France

Tiziana Ferrari, INFN, Italy

Markus Fidler, U Toronto, Canada

Silvia Figueira, SCU, USA

Wolfgang Gentzsch, D-Grid, Germany

Rüdiger Geib, T-Systems, Germany

Masum Z. Hasan, Cisco Systems, USA

Michiaki Hayashi, KDDI, Japan

Doan B. Hoang, U of Technology Sydney, Australia

Admela Jukan, UIUC, USA

Gigi Karmous-Edwards, MCNC, USA

Francis Lee, NTU, Singapore

Edgar Magaña, UPC, Spain

J.P. Martin-Flatin, UQAM, Canada

Manish Parashar, Rutgers U, USA

Gerard Parr, U Ulster, UK

Pascale Primet, INRIA, France

Volker Sander, U Aachen, Germany

Dimitra Simeonidou, U Essex, UK

John Strassner, Motorola Lab, USA

Franco Travostino, Nortel Networks, USA

Michael Welzl, U Innsbruck, Austria

Peter Tomsu, Cisco Systems, Autria

Yufeng Xin, MCNC, USA

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