All: following I forward a CFP which might be of interest for you Regards, Volker Call For Papers (text version) =============================== First IEEE/IFIP International Workshop on Autonomic Grid Networking and Management (AGNM05) October 28, 2005 Universitat Politcecnica de Catalunya Barcelona, Spain Held within the framework of the 1st International Week on Management of Networks and Services (MANWEEK2005) Co-located with DSOM 2005, MMNS 2005, IPOM 2005, and SSS 2005 Website: http://www.agnm05.fh-aachen.de Scope: =============================== 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 compute machines and storage systems. Grid computing is performed with the support of two major infrastructure components: 1) a Grid middleware, such as Globus or UNICORE, that provides advanced services and supports Grid resource management, and 2) a fabric layer that comprises the underlying systems, 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 compute (servers, supercomputers) and storage resources. In other words, the autonomic behavior of AGC and AGCI is a function of changes in compute and storage resources, but not networking resources. Hence there is need for support of Autonomic Grid Networking (AGN) and associated resource management. Note that, an AGN is a overlay (layer 7) Grid network, in the same way a typical Grid network is, with the following exceptions: 1) a limited set of network resources are considered along with the existing (compute and storage) Grid resources; 2) addition of autonomic functions to the Grid middleware that are (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.) features of lower layer networks. 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 Network-aware autonomic Grid scheduling Network-aware autonomic Grid data and storage 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 =============================== Workshop Co-chairs Masum Z. Hasan, Cisco Systems, USA Volker Sander, Aachen U of Applied Sciences, Germany Steering Committee Masum Z. Hasan, Cisco Systems, USA Volker Sander, Aachen U of Applied Sciences, Germany Raouf Boutaba, U Waterloo, Canada Program Committee Bill St. Arnaud, Canarie, Canada Raouf Boutaba, U Waterloo, Canada Jon Crowcroft, U Cambridge, UK Asit Dan, IBM Watson Research C, USA Cees DeLaat, U Amsterdam, Netherlands Gabi Dreo-Rodosek, LRZ, Germany Rüdiger Geib, T-Systems, Germany Gigi Karmous-Edwards, MCNC, USA Tiziana Ferrari, INFN, Italy Markus Fidler, NUST, Norway Wolfgang Gentzsch, MCNC, USA Michiaki Hayashi, KDDI, Japan Heinz-Gerd Hegering, LRZ, Germany Doan B. Hoang, U Sydney, Australia Admela Jukan, UIUC, USA B.H. Lee, Daejeon U, South Korea Francis Lee, NTU, Singapore J.P. Martin-Flatin, UQAM, Canada M. Morrow, Cisco Systems, Switzerland Pramila Mullan, France Telecom, USA Sid Nag, Prominence Networks, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers U, USA Pascale Primet, INRIA, France Ehab Al-Shaer, DePaul U Chicago, USA Franco Travostino, Nortel Networks, USA Michael Welzl, U Innsbruck, Austria Chan-Hyun Youn, ICU, South Korea Panel Chair Wayne Clark, Cisco Systems, USA Important Dates Submission deadline: June 10, 2005 Notification of acceptance: July 18, 2005 Camera-ready: September 9, 2005 Paper Submission Please submit your paper, which is previously unpublished and currently not under review to agnm05@fz-juelich.de. Please submit no more than 10 pages including figures, tables, references and annexes in .pdf or .doc formats. Further instructions for final submission will be provided later