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(a)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, MCNC, USA
Rüdiger Geib, T-Systems, Germany
Masum Z. Hasan, Cisco Systems, USA
Michiaki Hayashi, KDDI, Japan
Doan B. Hoang, U 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, University of 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
--Masum
http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~zmhasan/ <http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~zmhasan/>
