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Deadline extended - 10 Sept 2011 - CFP: NetCloud2011 - Workshop Network Infrastructure Services as part of Cloud Computing, in conjunction with CloudCom2011 - November 20 - December 1, 2011, Athens, Greece
by Yuri Demchenko 30 Aug '11

30 Aug '11

FYI: This is a good opportunity to meet researches and practitioners in Cloud at the Europe the most representation conference on Cloud (check for conference website) that will feature a number of interesting invited talks and presentations from European Commission. [apologies for cross-posting] CALL FOR PAPERS Network Infrastructure Services as part of Cloud Computing (NetCloud2011) > http://www.ds.unipi.gr/cloudcom2011/images/stories/cloucom2011-cfp-workshop… In conjunction with the 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom2011 - http://2011.cloudcom.org/) November 29 - December 1, 2011, Athens, Greece Introduction The Cloud computing emerges as a new computing paradigm which aims to provide secure and reliable, on demand QoS guaranteed computing environments for the end-users. Cloud computing services usage in both academia and industry, changed the way of thinking on how users' needs can be satisfied by computational infrastructures. However, with the increase of data transferred among different places, it became critical how to support distributed computing resources with advanced network infrastructure services. It is envisioned that network infrastructure services provisioned on-demand could be managed and reconfigured dynamically by Cloud operators and user applications to achieve optimal usage criteria. Such dynamic infrastructures reveal new aspects in network virtualization, service delivery automation and general infrastructure resources management that should be supported by well-defined information models and related middleware. New components of the required network infrastructure for Cloud services and applications should create an integrated self-management environment that can react to changes in workloads and other events with minimal human interference. Security issues should addressed as a part of the general service delivery framework/workflow and support both infrastructure provisioning process and secure virtualised services/infrastructures operation. The workshop will discuss issues of optical network virtualisation to create internal distributed datacenter network infrastructure and provide dedicated inter-cloud network connectivity on-demand. Objective NetCloud, collocated with IEEE CloudCom 2011, attempts to address the problem of how the underlying network infrastructure is capable of supporting advanced cloud computing cases. The workshop is intended to bring together network research community, commercial network operators and industry with the major cloud computing players, including IT specialists, researchers and commercial providers. Topics of Interest The workshop includes, but is not limited to the following topics: * Dynamic infrastructure services for Clouds * Heterogeneous network architectures and frameworks for distributed and high performance computing * Information modeling for combined network and IT resources infrastructure services * New services provisioning/delivery models for multi-provider business environment * Network virtualization technologies * Virtual networking and network services in Clouds * Network infrastructure provisioning and management as a part of cloud computing workflows * Network interfaces for clouds * Performance and reliability issues * Service Level Agreement and QoS guarantees in the network layer * Dynamically provisioned security infrastructures (integration with provider and customer legacy services and service provisioning workflow, security policy definition, security context management) * End-to-end techniques for autonomic management of cloud resources * Policy based infrastructure services management * Experimental platforms that support network management in Cloud computing * Experimentation testbeds and measurements studies Call for papers: Papers describing original research on both theoretical and practical aspects of dynamic network services for cloud computing are solicited. Important Dates: Paper Submissions: September 10, 2011 (Extended) Authors' Notification: September 24, 2011 Camera-ready paper submission: October 1, 2011 Paper submission instructions: Submission website: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=netcloud2011 This workshop will only accept for review original papers that have not been previously published. Papers should be formatted based on the IEEE Transactions journals and conferences style; maximum allowed camera-ready paper length is six (6) pages. Submissions must be in Adobe PDF format, including text, figures and references. Accepted papers will be published in the CloudCom2011 proceedings. For further information see IEEE CloudCom2011 web page http://2011.cloudcom.org/. Review procedure All submitted papers will be reviewed by international Technical Program Committee. Workshop Organizers Mary Grammatikou, National Technical University of Athens, Greece (mary (at) netmode.ntua.gr) Bartosz Belter, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland (bartosz.belter (at) man.poznan.pl) Technical Program Committee 1. Ilias Baldine (RENCI, US) 2. John Baras (Maryland, US) 3. Thomas Michael Bohnert (SAP, Switzerland) 4. Graca Carvalho (Cisco, The Netherlands) 5. Nicola Ciulli (Nextworks, Italy) 6. Pasquale Donadio (Alcatel-Lucent Italy, Italy) 7. Yuri Demchenko (UvA, Netherlands) 8. Joan Antoni Garcia Espin (i2CAT, Spain) 9. Athanasios Liakopoulos (GRnet, Greece) 10. Diego R. Lopez (RedIRIS, Spain) 11. Norbert Meyer (PSNC, Poland) 12. David O'Callaghan (TCD, Ireland) 13. Max Ott (NICTA, Australia) 14. Symeon Papavassiliou (NTUA, Greece) 15. Anna Tzanakaki (AIT, Greece) 16. Pascale Vicat-Blanc (Lyatiss, France)

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CFP: The Network-aware Data Management Workshop (NDM 2011) to be held in conjunction with SC 2011
by Inder Monga 12 Aug '11

12 Aug '11

Sharing an interesting CFP for a workshop to be held during SC2011, please feel free to share with your colleagues. Sorry if you receive duplicate requests. Inder ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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OGF 32 ISOD-RG session schedule (Sun Jul 17)
by Chin Guok 29 Jun '11

29 Jun '11

Hi all, I just checked the OGF session scheduling and both the ISOD-RG sessions have currently been scheduled for Sun Jul 17. The session information for session 2 got overwritten and shows a duplicate of session 1, so I've added the information below: ISOD-RG Session (1/2) - Time: 2011-07-17 11:00am [90 mins] - Location: Salon C - Agenda: - Academic and industry update on IaaS efforts - Cisco OpenStack (Rick Clark) [30 mins*] - NEC Virtualized Tenant Network Framework (Samrat Ganguly) [30 mins*] - RENCI ORCA-BEN (Yufeng Xin) [30 mins*] * presentations will be ~20 mins with 10 mins of Q&A ISOD-RG Session (2/2) - Time 2011-07-11 1:30pm [90 mins] - Location: Salon C - Agenda: - Update from OGF 31 (Yuri Demchenko) [10 mins] - Discussion of work items for deliverables [80 mins] - IaaS architecture taxonomy - IaaS BCPs Thanks again to all for participating in this. Chin Guok Co-chair ISOD-RG

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Fwd: [wg-all] Open Grid Forum 32 Call for Session Proposals
by Yuri Demchenko 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

FYI: This is indeed signal for us to start discussion about the next meeting. -------- Original Message -------- Subject: [wg-all] Open Grid Forum 32 Call for Session Proposals Date: Tue, 7 Jun 2011 11:01:11 -0500 From: Alan Sill <Alan.Sill(a)ttu.edu> To: OGF Work Groups <wg-all(a)ogf.org> Dear OGF work groups and interested parties, The Open Grid Forum 32 call for session proposals is now available at the following link. As a reminder, the dates of OGF 32 are July 15-18, 2011, with the last day of OGF 32 overlapping the first day of the Teragrid 2011 meeting. Please submit a session request for any group, BOF or session you would like to see and/or are planning to lead. We have recently worked out some problems with logistics and are now able to report that we *WILL* be co-located in the same hotel as the Teragrid 2011 conference, the Salt Lake City Marriott Downtown: http://www.marriott.com/hotels/travel/slcut-salt-lake-city-marriott-downtown More information will be forthcoming on the hotel booking code soon. Meanwhile, we encourage you to explore the links for OGF 32 and to fill out the call for proposals if you are a group or session leader or area director, or would like to propose a BOF, workshop or tutorial. Call for Session Proposals link: http://ogf.org/OGF32/cfp.php Note also that Monday, July 18 will be a special "Science Agency Uses of Clouds and Grids" to focus attention and work on this area. This workshop will be a follow-on to the successful OGF/USDOE "High Performance Applications of Clouds and Grids" workshop held in April 2011 and will also serve as a venue to develop formal input to several ongoing standards and software roadmapping efforts, including the US National Institute of Science and Technology's Business Use Cases group and the SIENA Cloud Standards Roadmap effort. International contributions to this workshop are encouraged and will be accepted. Project status updates on cloud and grid framework software efforts and major projects are recruited to be presented at this workshop. There will be other special tutorials of interest occurring in the Teragrid 2011 program on the same day. We invite thorough participation in the Science Agencies workshop and/or these tutorials. Special note: The TAGPMA branch of the International Grid Trust Federation will be meeting at the headquarters of Digicert in Salt Lake City July 14-15; corresponding CAOps and Cloud Security meetings will be scheduled at OGF on the 16th or 17th with this schedule in mind. We apologize for the delay in getting this information to you, but the logistics -- thought to be settled many months ago -- proved to be more challenging than we had anticipated and there seem to be many different events taking place in Salt Lake City during that interval. Alan Alan Sill, Ph.D Senior Scientist, High Performance Computing Center Adjunct Professor of Physics, TTU Vice President of Standards, Open Grid Forum ==================================================================== : Alan Sill, Texas Tech University Office: Drane 162, MS 4-1167 : : e-mail: Alan.Sill(a)ttu.edu ph. 806-742-4350 fax 806-742-4358 : ==================================================================== -- The wg-all mailing list is an umbrella list for all OGF mailing lists. If you are subscribed to any OGF mailing list, you will receive mails to wg-all. You can unsubscribe from this list on http://www.ogf.org/cgi-bin/perl/unsubscribe-wg-all.pl wg-all mailing list wg-all(a)ogf.org http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/wg-all

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ISOD-RG mailing list and next meeting at OGF32 ( 15-18 July 2011, Salt Lake City)
by Yuri Demchenko 07 Jun '11

07 Jun '11

Hello Everybody, You should have received email notification about migrating to the ISOD-RG mailing list from the initial mailing list serving ISOD-BoF meetings. You can find subscription instruction at the end of this message if you want to invite other people to join the list or unsubscribe. The next ISOD-RG meeting is planned at the next OGF32 meeting that will be co-locate with Teragrid 11 meeting and will take pace on July 15-18, 2011 in Salt Lake City, Utah USA http://www.gridforum.org/OGF32/ We are starting drafting Agenda that will contain 2 or more sessions of which one session will be devoted to ISOD-RG deliverables and technical discussions and other sessions are planned as workshop where people can present related research and projects. An initial draft agenda will be sent soon and you are invited to send your proposals and ideas what we can discuss at the meeting. We hope to have more active attendance at this meeting comparing to meeting at OGF31 in Taipei. Regards, Yuri Demchenko Chin Guok ISOD RG co-chairs P.S. You can subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription from this page http://www.ogf.org/mailman/listinfo/isod-rg There is also an email-based interface for users, you can get info about using it by sending a message with just the word `help' as subject or in the body, to: isod-bof-request(a)ogf.org

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