Dear OGF community, Please take note of the following extended deadline for a workshop of direct applicability to the work of many in the community at HPDC '15. Please also feel free to bring other events, workshops, plugfests, or other opportunities to collaborate on activities of interest to the OGF community to our attention. Begin forwarded message: From: Daniel S.Katz <d.katz@ieee.org<mailto:d.katz@ieee.org>> Date: February 12, 2015 at 8:06:05 AM EST Subject: deadline extended: CFP: Science of Cyberinfrastructure - SCREAM-15 Call for Papers: The Science of Cyberinfrastructure: Research, Experience, Applications and Models (SCREAM-15) https://sites.google.com/site/scream15workshop/home <https://sites.google.com/site/scream15workshop/home> June 16, 2015 Oregon Convention Center, Portland, Oregon (in conjunction with HPDC'15) There is a need for comprehensive, balanced and flexible distributed cyberinfrastructure (DCI) in support of science and engineering applications. A fundamental technical challenge is to support a broad range of application usage scenarios and modalities on a range of platforms with varying performance. The first generation of DCI has resulted in important scientific results as well as advances in the state-of-practice of delivering DCI as services to the user community, broadly defined. However, a complete conceptual framework for DCI design principles remains prominent by its absence. This missing framework prevents an objective assessment of important technical as well as policy considerations. The SCREAM workshop generally aims to address this gap, and specifically aims to understand, through a combination of experience, application requirements, and conceptual models, how to best to create a conceptual framework for the objective design and assessment of distributed cyberinfrastructure. In other words, it aims to build toward the science of cyberinfrastructure upon what has hitherto been a purely empirical approach to cyberinfrastructure design and practice. The SCREAM Workshop is interested in all areas that will further this objective, in particular the interaction of multiple cyberinfrastructure components and systems (distributed computing, broadly defined), including academic and commercial production systems and research testbeds. Significant effort has been invested in the delivery and practice of DCI with different objectives and varying capabilities, and existing (FutureGrid, Open Science Grid, XSEDE, GENI, EGI, PRACE, DAS-n) and previous offerings have yielded valuable information. Enough experience now exists to reflect on what has worked and why, and why some approaches have failed. Thus, we believe the time is appropriate to build upon these lessons towards a next generation of DCI that is designed and architected for well-defined usage modes, performance and capabilities. Although primarily targeted towards computing scientists, we believe this workshop will have an impact beyond the computing specialist in light of the fact that production cyberinfrastructure impacts the effectiveness of other science & engineering endeavors. This workshop will welcome technical contributions delivered via research-based results, experience papers, and vision papers. Understanding the principles and science of cyberinfrastructure has impact beyond just the computing aspects. Topics of interest are in the context of distributed cyberinfrastructure, including, but not limited to: - Research - Integration and interaction with commercial systems - Cloud issues - Sustainability and business models for both systems and software - Integrating AAA systems - Resilience - Federation of resources - Networking design/advances for widely distributed systems - Clean slate designs - Designing systems for data-intensive science, not just for computational science - Quantitative/metrics driven design - Management software - Experiences, both successes & failures - Cyberinfrastructure system experiences - Software experiences - Application experiences - Applications - Novel application types, including data-intensive applications - Application requirements that lead to new systems characteristics - Challenges in application development, deployment, and execution - Models of theoretical performance - Understanding actual performance - Models - Design principles - Architecture layers, including middleware - Next generation distributed cyberinfrastructure - Research-As-A-Service Submission Instructions Authors are invited to submit technical papers of at most 8 pages in PDF format, including figures and references. Papers should be formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style and submitted to EasyChair. No changes to the margins, spacing, or font sizes as specified by the style file are allowed. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, and will be incorporated into the ACM Digital Library. Papers must be self-contained and provide the technical substance required for the program committee to evaluate their contributions. Submitted papers must be original work that has not appeared in and is not under consideration for another conference or a journal. See the ACM Prior Publication Policy for more details. Important Dates February 23, 2015 (extended) Paper submission deadline (midnight anywhere on Earth) March 27, 2015 Paper acceptance notification April 10, 2015 Camera ready version due Co-Chairs: Shantenu Jha, RADICAL, ECE, Rutgers University, shantenu.jha@rutgers.edu<mailto:shantenu.jha@rutgers.edu> <mailto:shantenu.jha@rutgers.edu> Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, d.katz@ieee.org<mailto:d.katz@ieee.org> <mailto:d.katz@ieee.org> Jon Weissman, CS&E, University of Minnesota, jon@cs.umn.edu<mailto:jon@cs.umn.edu> <mailto:jon@cs.umn.edu> Program Committee: David Abramson, University of Queensland Gabrielle Allen: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Amy Apon, Clemson University Henri Bal, Vrije Universiteit John W. Cobb Peter Couvares, Syracuse University Cees de Laat, University of Amsterdam Peter Dinda, Northwestern Rudolf Eigenmann, NSF Dick Epema, TU Delft Tiziana Ferrari, EGI.eu<http://EGI.eu> <http://egi.eu/> Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University Andrew Grimshaw, University of Virginia David Halstead, National Radio Astronomy Observatory Robert Harrison, Stony Brook University Ivan Judson, Microsoft Dieter Kranzlmüller, LRZ Erwin Laure, KTH Royal Institute of Technology James Lin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology Steven Newhouse, European Bioinformatics Institute Peter Nugent, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Nick Nystrom, Pittsburgh Supercomputer Center Manish Parashar, Rutgers University Ed Seidel, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Frank Seinstra, Netherlands eScience Center Rob Simmonds, University of Calgary Richard Sinnott, University of Melbourne Dan Stanzione, University of Texas at Austin Rick Stevens, Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago Craig Stewart, Indiana University Vicraj Thomas, BBN Doug Thain, University of Notre Dame John Towns, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Von Welch, Indiana University Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, University of California-San Diego Rich Wolski, University of California-Santa Barbara -- Daniel S. Katz University of Chicago (773) 834-7186 (voice) (773) 834-6818 (fax) d.katz@ieee.org<mailto:d.katz@ieee.org> <mailto:d.katz@ieee.org> or dsk@uchicago.edu<mailto:dsk@uchicago.edu> <mailto:dsk@ci.uchicago.edu> http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/~dsk/ <http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/~dsk/>