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CFP: The Network-aware Data Management Workshop (NDM 2011) to be held in 
conjunction with SC 2011
Mon Nov 14th, 2011 - Seattle, WA (8:30am - 5:00pm)

The Network-aware Data Management Workshop (NDM 2011) will be held in 
conjunction with the IEEE/ACM International Conference for High 
Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC 2011), in 
Seattle, WA. The format will consist of 30 minute presentations of 
peer-reviewed papers. Accepted papers will be published in ACM or IEEE 
digital proceedings through SC'11.

Scope:
Accessing and managing large amounts of data is a great challenge in a 
collaborative environment where resources/scientists are geographically 
distributed. There is a need for efficient use of the network 
infrastructure in order to address the increasing data and compute 
requirements of large-scale applications. Since the amount of data is 
continuously growing, traditional techniques of leaving the burden on 
the user of moving/storing data is not a viable option in many cases. In 
order to deliver true exascale performance to the application layer, 
network-aware data management services for resource provisioning, 
intelligent data-flow and coordination between the host systems is 
highly desirable. This workshop will seek contribution from academia, 
government, and industry to discuss emerging trends in use of networking 
for data management, novel abstraction techniques for data 
representation, simplification of end-to-end data flow by providing 
transparent data services, end-to-end resource coordination, and 
network-aware tools for the scientific community.

One "Best Paper" would be awarded for outstanding contributing to the 
field of large-scale data management across network. In addition to 
that, two "Best Paper Honorable Mention" would be awarded.

Important Dates:

     Abstract Submission:  Aug 22nd, 2011
     Paper Submission due:  Aug 29th, 2011
     Notification of acceptance:  Sept 26th, 2011
     Camera-Ready version due:  Oct 10th, 2011
     Registration Deadline:  Oct 14th, 2011
     Workshop Date:  Nov 14th, 2011

Workshop Web Site:
http://sites.google.com/a/lbl.gov/ndm2011/

Workshop Organizers:
     Mehmet Balman,  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
     Surendra Byna,  Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

       Challenges in data-intensive distributed computing
       End-to-end resource provisioning
       Optimization and development of data transfer protocols
       Scalable services for network-aware applications
       Re-configurable end-to-end data-access frameworks
       Network-aware scheduling and resource brokering
       Advanced services for managing data-flow
       On-demand bandwidth allocation and network reservation
       Application pipelines and workflow management
       Network-aware toolkits for data distribution
       Data replication and metadata management
       Data clouds, data scheduling, and data placement
       Heterogeneous resource management
       Performance evaluation of network-aware data management


Invited Keynote Speaker:
                          Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne 
National Laboratory
                          Title: TBA

Submission Guidelines:

Please submit full papers in PDF format via the submission site ( 
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ndm20110 ). Reviewing of the 
full papers will be done by the program committee, assisted by external 
referees. Accepted papers would be given a total of 30 mins. for 
presentation and question time.
If you have any further questions, please email Mehmet Balman and/or 
Suren Byna {mbalman,sbyna} at lbl.gov

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