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@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