Dear Colleagues,
This is invite you to attend the upcoming workshop at
OFC/NFOEC (see http://www.ofcnfoec.org/conference_program/Workshops_and_Panels.aspx)
Here's the latest info on the workshop. Feel free to
dsitribute to your colleagues and hope to see you there.
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Workshop Title:
Grid vs Cloud Computing and Why This Should Concern
the Optical Networking Community
Time and Place: Monday March 23, 2009, 8 to 11am,
Room 6E at the San Diego Convention Center
Organizers: Chunming Qiao¹, Dimitra
Simeonidou², Bill St. Arnaud³, Peter Tomsu4; ¹SUNY at Buffalo, USA,
²Univ. of Essex, UK, ³Canarie Inc., Canada, 4Cisco Systems Ltd.,
USA.
Descriprtion:
Recently, there has been a lot of interests in Cloud, Grid
and Utility computing and their influence in shaping the future network
infrastructure. While Grid Computing is geared mainly towards scientific users
and Grids, both Cloud and Utility computing are for enterprises. The common
point for both approaches is their reliance on high speed optical networks to
provide advanced and flexibly reconfigurable infrastructure. Optical network
researchers are facing big challenges in delivering the necessary
technologies for supporting Cloud, Grid and Utility computing services. Such
technologies and services will change the Internet in much the same way as
distributed and parallel computing has changed the computation and
cyber-infrastructure today. The workshop will discuss various Cloud, Grid and
Utility Computing approaches and will present the challenges (research and
implementation) for our community.
Schedule:
Welcome/Introduction
Clouds and Optical Networks, Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE Inc.,
Canada
Challenges in Enabling Cloud Computing over Optical
Networks, Piero Castoldi, Barbara, Martini, Fabio Baroncelli, Scuola
Superiore Sant'Anna Univ. Italy
Challenges in Enabling Grid Computing over Optical Networks, Cees de Laat,
Univ. of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Virtualizing and scheduling network resource for emerging IT services: the
CARRIOCAS approach, Pascale Vicat-Blanc Primet (INRIA) & Dominique Verchère
(Alcatel Lucent BellLabs)
Energy / cost beneifts of cloud computing, Rodney Tucker, U. Melbourne,
Australia
Opportunities in Optical Grid and Clouding Computing, Chunming Qiao, SUNY
Buffalo, USA
Panel discussion and Q&A