-------------------------- IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2014 -------------------------- 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing May 26-29, 2014 Chicago, IL, USA http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/CCGrid2014/ Rapid advances in architectures, networks, and systems and middleware technologies are leading to new concepts and platforms for computing, ranging from Clusters and Grids to Clouds and Datacenters. The 14th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium in Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2014) is a forum bringing together international researchers, developers, and practitioners to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these concepts and platforms, and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, workshops, tutorials, and posters, as well as the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations. In 2014, CCGrid will return to the USA and be held in Chicago, the third largest city in the United States. The main conference will be held on May 27-29, 2014, with tutorials and affiliated workshops taking place on May 26, 2014. IMPORTANT DATES (Anywhere on Earth) Workshop Proposals Due: November 3rd, 2013 Papers Due: **** EXTENDED TO: November 18, 2013**** Author Notifications: January 24th, 2014 Camera Ready Papers Due: March 14th, 2014 Posters Due: February 24th, 2014 Tutorials Due: March 4th, 2014 TOPICS OF INTEREST CCGrid 2014 will have a focus on important and immediate issues that are significantly influencing all aspects of cluster, cloud and grid computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Applications and Experiences: Applications to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business, and society; User studies; Experiences with large-scale deployments, systems, or applications * Architecture and Accelerators: Design and use of emergent system architectures including but not limited to accelerators; Multicores; Power and cooling; Security and reliability; High availability solutions * Autonomic Computing and Cyberinfrastructure: Self-managed behavior, models and technologies; Autonomic paradigms and systems (control-based, bio-inspired, emergent, etc.); Bio-inspired optimizations and computing * Cloud Computing: Development, evaluation, and optimization of cloud architectures; Software tools and techniques for clouds * Modeling and Evaluation of Performance and Energy: Prediction, modeling and analysis; Monitoring and evaluation tools; Benchmarks and testbeds * Programming Models, Systems, and Fault-Tolerant Computing: Programming models, systems software and environments for cluster, cloud, and grid computing; Fault-tolerant systems, programs and algorithms * Scheduling and Resource Management: Techniques to schedule jobs and resources on cluster, cloud, and grid computing platforms; SLA definition and enforcement * Storage and I/O Systems: System design and optimization for big data processing in cluster and cloud environment PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter-size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. The official language of the conference is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Paper submissions are limited to 10 pages in 2-column IEEE format including all figures and references. Submitted manuscripts exceeding this limit will be returned without review. For the final camera-ready version, authors with accepted papers may purchase additional pages at the following rates: 100 USD for each of the first two additional pages; 200 USD for each of the third and fourth additional pages. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding the page limit, or not appropriately structured may not be considered. Authors may contact the conference chairs for more information. The proceedings will be published through the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services. The paper submission online system is open https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccgrid2014. JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing (TCC: http://computer.org/TCC) is organizing a Special Issue which encourages submission of revised and extended versions of 2-3 best/top rated papers in the area of Cloud Computing from our conference. The special issue also seeks direct submission of papers that present 'new' ideas for the first time in TCC. All papers will be peer-reviewed and selected competitively based on their originality and merit as per requirement of TCC. All queries on this special issue should be directed to its guest editors. Details on this special issue will be informed about in a separate Call for Papers at http://www.computer.org/cms/Computer.org/transactions/cfps/cfp_tccsi_apbdac.pdf. CALL FOR TUTORIAL, WORKSHOP PROPOSALS, AND POSTERS Tutorials and workshops affiliated with CCGrid 2014 will be held on May 26, 2014. Poster presentations will be done during the main conference dates between May 27th and May 29th 2014. For more information on the tutorials, workshops, posters, and doctoral symposium, see the following links: - Tutorials: http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/CCGrid2014/call-tutorials.html - Workshops: http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/CCGrid2014/call-workshops.html - Posters: http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/CCGrid2014/call-posters.html - Doctoral Symposium: http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/CCGrid2014/call-doctoral.html ORGANIZATION Honorary General Chair Daniel A. Reed, University of Iowa, USA General Chairs Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Ian T. Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA Program Committee Chair Kirk W. Cameron, Virginia Tech, USA Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Queen's University of Belfast, UK APPLICATIONS Esmond G. Ng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA ARCHITECTURE & ACCELERATORS Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA AUTONOMIC COMPUTING AND CYBERINFRASTUCTURE Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster, UK Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado, USA CLOUD COMPUTING Ali R. Butt, Virginia Tech, USA Xiaosong Ma, North Carolina State University, USA MODELING AND EVALUATION OF PERFORMANCE AND ENERGY David Lowenthal, University of Arizona, USA PROGRAMMING MODELS, SYSTEMS, AND FAULT-TOLERANT COMPUTING Kasidit Chanchio, Thammasat University, Thailand Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA SCHEDULING AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Matthew Grove, Rackspace, USA Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK STORAGE AND I/O SYSTEMS Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Workshops Co-Chairs Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Matei Ripeanu, University of British Columbia, Canada Tutorials Co-Chairs Kate Keahey, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs Judy Qiu, Indiana University, USA Poster and Research Demo Chair Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Hui Jin, Oracle, USA SCALE Challenge Coordinator Doug Thain, Notre Dame, USA Student Award Chair Yong Chen, Texas Tech University, USA Publicity Chair Bruno Schulze, LNCC, Brazil Cho-Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, China Darren J. Kerbyson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Toni Cortes UPC/BSC, Spain Cyber Co-Chairs Rong Ge, Marquette University, USA Wei Tang, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Proceedings Chair Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Local Organizing Committee Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA Finance Chairs Dawn DeBartolo, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Steering Committee Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia (Chair) Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation, USA (Co-Chair) Henri Bal, Vrije University, The Netherlands Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Franck Capello, University of Paris-Sud, France Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California/ISI, USA Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee & ORNL, USA Dick Epema, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria Ian Foster, University of Chicago, USA Wolfgang Gentzsch, DEISA, Germany Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Geng Lin, Dell Inc., USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, USA Shikharesh Majumdar, Carleton University, Canada Satoshi Matsuoaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Paul Roe, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Bruno Schulze, LNCC, Brazil Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, USA Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Technical Program Committee Applications: Bill Barth, University of Texas at Austin Costas Bekas, IBM Research - Zurich Sanjukta Bhowmick, University of Nebraska Yifeng Chen, Peking University Olivier Coulaud, INRIA Frederic Desprez, INRIA Daniel Martin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Kengo Nakajima, University of Tokyo Hai Ah Nam, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Esmond Ng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara Judy Qiu, Indiana University Ashok Srinivasan, Florida State University Gerhard Wellein, Erlangen Regional Computing Center Rio Yokota, KAUST Yunquan Zhang, Institute of Software - Chinese Academy of Sciences ARCHITECTURE & ACCELERATORS Michela Becchi, University of Missouri Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Srihari Cadambi, NEC Labs America Inc. Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua University Cong Du, Arista Networks Natalie Enright Jerger, University of Toronto Michael Ferdman, Stony Brook University Dong Li, Oak Rdige National Lab Sonia Lopez, Rochester Institute of Technology Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University Jiayuan Meng, Argonne National Lab Ahmad Samih, Intel Corporation Vinod Tipparaju, AMD Didem Unat, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Sathish Vadhiyar, Indian Institute of Science – Bangalore Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Yili Zheng, LBNL AUTONOMIC COMPUTING AND CYBERINFRASTUCTURE Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino Francoise Baude, Universite de Nice Sophia-Antipolis Alexander Bolotov, University of Westminster Marian Bubak, AGH Krakow PL and University of Amsterdam Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota Yong Chen, Texas Tech University Yuan Chen, HP Labs Marco Danelutto, University of Pisa Xiaoning Ding, New Jersey Institute of Technology Jose Fortes, University of Florida Paraskevi Fragopoulou, FORTH-ICS Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster Sergei Gorlatch, University of Muenster Palden Lama, University of Texas at San Antonio Zhiqiang Lin, University of Texas at Dallas Cristian Lumezanu, NEC Laboratories Ningfang Mi, Northeastern University Christine Morin, INRIA Jia Rao, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs Ian Taylor, Cardiff University and Louisiana State University Thomas Weigold, IBM Research Timothy Wood, George Washington University Weikuan Yu, Auburn University Ming Zhao, Florida International University Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado CLOUD COMPUTING Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo Ali R. Butt, Virginia Tech Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University Dick Epema, Delft University of Technology Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida Geoffrey C. Fox, Indiana University Chuntao Hong, Microsoft Research Peter Kilpatrick, Queen's University Belfast Jong Kim, HPC Lab Youngjae Kim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Shan Lu, University of Wisconsin at Madison Xiaosong Ma, North Carolina State University Kostas Magoutis, ICS-FORTH Gaurav Makkar, NetApp M. Mustafa Rafique, IBM Research Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Kai Sachs, SAP AG Prasenjit Sarkar, IBM Radu Sion, Stony Brook University Yang Song, IBM Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame Devesh Tiwari, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Dimitrios Tsoumakos, Ionian University Guanying Wang, Google Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota Gianluigi Zanetti, CRS4 Jianfeng Zhan, Institute of Computing Technology - Chinese Academy of Sciences MODELING AND EVALUATION OF PERFORMANCE AND ENERGY Sadaf Alam, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre Dorian Arnold, University of New Mexico Frank Bellosa, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Peter Dinda, Northwestern University Todd Gamblin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Rong Ge, Marquette University Lizy John, University of Texas at Austin Karen L. Karavanic, Portland State University Darren Kerbyson, Pacific Northwest National Lab James Laros, Sandia National Labs David Lowenthal, University of Arizona Naoya Maruyama, RIKEN AICS Barry Rountree, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Valerie Taylor, Texas A&M University Hans Vandierendonck, Queen's University Belfast Ana Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam Xin Yuan, Flroida State University PROGRAMMING MODELS, SYSTEMS, AND FAULT-TOLERANT COMPUTING Vassil Alexandrov, BSC Christos Antonopoulos, University of Thessaly Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory David E. Bernholdt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Filip Blagojevic, Hitachi Research George Bosilca, University of Tennessee Patrick Bridges, University of New Mexico Greg Bronevetsky, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Franck Cappello, INRIA and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Kasidit Chanchio, Thammasat University Zizhong Chen, University of California at Riverside Andrew Chien, University of Chicago Nathan Debardeleben, Los Alamos National Laboratory Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Kurt Ferreira, Sandia National Laboratories Ada Gavrilovska, Georgia Institute of Technology Cecile Germain, LRI Michael Gerndt, Technische Universität München William Gropp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit Bettina Krammer, Université de Versailles St-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ) Dieter Kranzlmüller, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Lab Hatem Ltaief, KAUST Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology Celso Mendes, University of Illinois Kathryn Mohror, LLNL Frank Mueller, NCSU Wolfgang E. Nagel, ZIH, TU Dresden Bogdan Nicolae, IBM Research (Ireland) Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State University Prapaporn Rattanatamrong, Thammasat University Alexander Reinefeld, Zuse Institute Berlin Rolf Riesen, IBM Research Scott Schneider, IBM Research Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Stephen Scott, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Shuaiwen Leon Song, Pacific Northwest National Lab Wei Tang, Argonne National Laboratory Michela Taufer, University of Delaware Putchong Uthayopas, Kasetsart University Felix Wolf, German Research School for Simulation Sciences SCHEDULING AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT Carl Albing, Cray Inc. and University of Reading Henri Bal, Vrije Universiteit Anne Benoit, ENS Lyon - LIP Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas Richard Boakes, University of Portsmouth Ivona Brandic, TU Wien Julita Corbalan, Barcelona Supercomputing Center Ewa Deelman, USC Information Sciences Institute Erik Elmroth, Umeå University Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck Matthew Grove, Rackspace Emmanuel Jeannot, Inria Gideon Juve, USC Information Sciences Institute Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin Charles Lively, DeVry University Maciej Malawski, AGH Nandini Mukherjee, Jadavpur University Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame Thomas Naughton, ORNL George Pallis, University of Cyprus Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester Uwe Schwiegelshohn, TU Dortmund University Domenico Talia, University of Calabria Matthew E. Tolentino, Intel Corporation Denis Trystram, Grenoble Institute of Technology Kurt Vanmechelen, University of Antwerp Carlos A. Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Vladimir Vlassov, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) Ramin Yahyapour, University of Göttingen Wolfgang Ziegler, Fraunhofer Institute SCAI STORAGE AND I/O SYSTEMS Andre Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz Toni Cortes, Barcelona Supercomputing Center Yafei Dai, Peking University Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Xubin He, Virginia Commonwealth University Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska Lincoln Xiao Qin, Auburn University Fang Wang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Chunxiao Xing, Tsinghua University Zhenquan Xu, Wuhan University Lu Xu, Institute of Computing Technology - Chinese Academy of Sciences Zhao Zhang, Iowa State University Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine Zhichun Zhu, University of Illinois at Chicago