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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------