ACDC 2009 - Workshop on Automated Control for Datacenters and Clouds

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-AT-cs.fiu.edu

Web: www.cs.fiu.edu/~sadjadi

Tel: 305-348-1835

Fax: 305-348-2336