Special Session on:

Cloud Computing on Infrastructure as a Service and its Applications (CCISA)

Cloud Computing covers a broad range of distributed computing principles from infrastructure (e.g distributed storage, reconfigurable networks) to new programming platforms (e.g MS Azure, Google Appe Engine), and internet based applications. Particularly, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Cloud systems – such as Amazon EC2, Rackspace or Google Compute Engine - allow the dynamic creation, destruction and management of virtual machines (VMs) on virtualized clusters. IaaS Clouds provide a high-level of abstraction to the end user, one that allows the creation of on-demand services through a pay as you go infrastructure combined with elasticity. This special session on Cloud Computing is intended to be a forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences on the use of Cloud Computing technologies and applications with compute and data intensive workloads. The special session also aims at presenting the challenges and opportunities offered by the development of academic Cloud Computing solutions – such as OpenNebula, OpenStack or Eucalyptus – themselves, as well as case studies in applications of Cloud Computing. The general venue will be a good occasion to share, learn, and discuss the latest results in this field of research. The special session program will include presentations of peer-reviewed papers. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Virtualization technologies and their effects on IaaS solutions,
• Incorporating beyond-CPU virtualization (e.g. I/O, GPU) aspects to cloud infrastructures,
• Virtual Machine scheduling and management algorithms,
• Operational challenges in private, hybrid and public IaaS systems,
• Cost and pricing models in virtualized infrastructures,
• Enterprise level infrastructure clouds,
• Solutions that meet demands of HPC clouds,
• Federative aspects of hybrid (mixed private-public) clouds,
• Novel IaaS architectures, platforms and applications,
• Virtual Appliance storage management (e.g. caching, repositories, marketplaces),
• Virtual Machine migration techniques,
• Big Data and Infrastructure clouds,
• Security and Privacy aspects of data management in Clouds,
• Cloud Computing for scientific applications,
• Performance evaluation, modeling and prediction,
• Programming models and tools,
• Cloud computing for compute and/or data intensive applications,
• Workflows on the Cloud,
• CPU and GPU Clouds, Desktop Grids,
• Cloud Computing resource management,
• Cloud Computing deployment models,
• Interoperability solutions for multi-Cloud and federated management,
• Cloud storage and I/O.

Important dates

Paper submission: 25th Aug. 2014, 1st Sept. 22nd Sept. 2014
Acceptance notification: 25th Oct. 2014 2nd Nov. 2014
Camera ready due: 20th Nov 2014
Registration due: 20th Nov. 2014
Conference: 4th - 6th Mar 2015

Session Chair

• Gabor Kecskemeti, MTA SZTAKI and University of Miskolc, Hungary

Session Co-Chairs

• , University of Westminster, United Kingdom
• Attila Kertesz, MTA SZTAKI and University of Szeged, Hungary

Programme Committee:

Tentative, changes are expected.

Submission guidelines

Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in length (and in the Conference proceedings format (double column, 10pt) including a 150-200 word abstract. To facilitate a double blind reviewing process, the first page of the paper should contain only the title and abstract and reference entries to the author’s own work should be substituted with the string “omitted for blind review”.

Publication

All accepted papers will be included in the same volume, published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS). The Final Paper Preparation and Submission Instructions will be published after the notification of acceptance. Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the Conference. Conference proceedings will be submitted to IEEE explore, CSDL, DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge.

Past sessions

• 2nd "Cloud Computing on Infrastructure as a Service and its Applications" special session at the 22nd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing (PDP 2014)
• 1st "Cloud Computing on Infrastructure as a Service and its Applications" special session at the 21st Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing (PDP 2013)
• 1st "Cloud Computing for Compute and Data Intensive Applications" special session at the 20th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing (PDP 2012)
• 4th "Virtualization in Distributed Systems" special session at the 19th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing (PDP 2011)
• 3rd "Virtualization in Distributed Systems" special session at the 18th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing (PDP 2010)
• 2nd "Virtualization in Distributed Systems" special session at the 17th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing (PDP 2009)
• 1st "Virtualization in Distributed Systems" special session at the 16th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing (PDP 2008)

Contacts

Gabor Kecskemeti				Attila Kertesz
Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems Institute of Computer Science and Control Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest, Hungary e-mail: kecskemeti.gabor at sztaki.mta.hu		School of Electronics and Computer Science University of Westminster London, United Kingdom e-mail: T.Delaitre at wmin.ac.uk		Laboratory of Parallel and Distributed Systems Institute of Computer Science and Control Hungarian Academy of Sciences Budapest, Hungary e-mail: kertesz.attila at sztaki.mta.hu