Call for Papers ================= 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 ---------- For online submission instructions please visit http://www.manweek2006.org/agnm/submission.php Questions should be directed to agnm06@anut.fh-aachen.de IMPORTANT DEADLINES ------------------- Submission: May 19 2006 Notification: July 7 2006 Camera ready: August 2 2006 Workshop: October 26-27 2006 Organizing Committee: --------------------- 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 ----------------------------- 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