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ACDC 2009 Call for Papers
http://www.cs.duke.edu/nicl/acdc09/
Workshop on Automated Control for Datacenters and Clouds
June 19th, 2009, Barcelona, Spain
In conjunction with the 6th Intl. Conference on Autonomic Computing
and Communications (ICAC 2009)
Overview:
Large server farms—from enterprise datacenters and giant-scale
Internet services to utility and public cloud computing—are a
critical part of the execution platform for many of today’s
software programs. Interactive web services, business workflows,
large-scale batch data processing, and many scientific computations
all run on platforms built atop large server farms. While these
systems differ in many ways, they share many common challenges, such
as the desire to maximize efficiency and performance while
maintaining predictable behavior, power efficiency and fairness, and
at the same time responding appropriately to environmental and system
changes such as hardware failures and changes in workload.
We believe that solutions to these challenges in performance,
reliability and scalability will share many similarities across all
variants of server farm infrastructures. In particular, we believe
automated techniques will play a critical role in reasoning about and
orchestrating the behaviors of these large scale systems. The goal
of this workshop is to broadly explore the similarities and
differences in current and future policies and techniques in the
context of these large server farms.
Important Dates:
Submission deadline: February 27th, 2009
Notification of acceptance: March 27th, 2009
Camera-ready deadline: April 6th, 2009
Workshop Organizers:
Program Co-chairs
Jeff Chase, Duke University
Emre Kiciman, Microsoft Research
Rich Wolski, UC Santa Barbara
Program Committee
Katerina Argyraki, EPFL
Franck Capello, INRIA
Renato J. Figueiredo, University of Florida
Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia
Randy Katz, UC Berkeley
Mike Kozuch, Intel Labs Pittsburgh
Milan Milenkovic, Intel
Partha Ranganathan, HP Labs
Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame
John Wilkes, Google
Topics and Submissions:
We invite authors to submit short position papers or reports of
early work related to the automated control of datacenters and
clouds. Relevant topics for submission include, but are not
limited to:
* Autonomic policies and techniques for improving reliability,
performance, scalability and power efficiency of large server
farms
* Separation of application concerns from infrastructure, resource,
power and other management issues
* Change management and adaptation techniques
* Experience reports on challenges and solutions in large-scale
Internet services, cloud computing infrastructures, enterprise
datacenters and other server farms.
* Experience reports on requirements of high performance data
computing, scientific computing, data processing and other
applications using large server farms
* Experiences with automatic control strategies, including strategies
based on rule systems, strategies economic models, metering-based,
control
* Reports on key similarities and difference in autonomic
requirements across classes of server farm infrastructures
* Management of network infrastructures within server farms and
between server farms
Papers will be selected based on their originality, technical merit,
topical relevance and their likelihood of generating discussion at
the workshop. Furthermore, while simulations are acceptable in some
scenarios, strong preference will be given to papers describing
experience with systems that have been deployed and tested.
All accepted papers will be available online prior to the workshop
and proceedings will be distributed at the workshop.
Submission Instructions
Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 two-column pages (10pt
font, 1 inch margins), including all figures and references. The
review process is not blind. Author names and affiliations should
be included on the first page. Papers should be submitted as PDF
documents viewable using standard tools (e.g., Adobe Acrobat).
Further submission instructions will be posted at the workshop web
site.
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Masoud Sadjadi, PhD
Assistant Professor
School of Computing and Information Sciences
Florida International University
University Park, ECS 212C
11200 SW 8th St., Miami, FL 33199
Email: sadjadi@cs.fiu.edu
Tel: 305-348-1835
Fax: 305-348-2336
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