Workshop Program

The ScienceCloud2010 will be on Monday, June 21st, 2010, from 8:45AM to 6:15PM, in room Superior I. Please check in early to get your HPDC2010 badge from the registration booths. See below for the 12 talks that are part of the workshop, their abstracts, papers, and slides, as well as the panel at the end of the workshop.

 

Time Description Authors Links
8:45AM Opening Remarks
8:50AM Keynote
The Client + Cloud: Changing the Paradigm for Scholarly Research
* Dennis Gannon Microsoft Research
Director of Applications for the Cloud Computing Futures Group
Slides
Session 1: Storage (Roger Barga, Microsoft Research)
9:30AM Early Observations on the Performance of Windows Azure * Arkaitz Ruiz-Alvarez
Zach Hill
Ming Mao
Jie Li
Marty Humphrey
University of Virginia, USA

Paper

Slides

10:00AM An Overview of the Open Science Data Cloud * Robert Grossman
Yunhong Gu
Michal Sabala
University of Illinois at Chicago, USA

Paper

Slides

Joe Mambretti Northwestern University, USA
Alex Szalay Johns Hopkins University, USA
Kevin White University of Chicago, USA
10:30AM Break
Session 2: High-Performance Computing (Session Chair, Jeff Broughton, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
11:00AM Providing a Cloud Network Infrastructure on a Supercomputer
Best paper award finalist
Eric Van Hensbergen 
Robert Wisniewski
Bryan Rosenburg 
Amos Waterland
Dilma Da silva
IBM Research, USA

Paper

Slides

* Jonathan Appavoo Boston University, USA
Volkmar Uhlig Aster Data Systems, USA
Jan Stoess Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Udo Steinberg Technische Universitat Dresden, Germany
11:30AM Case Study for Running HPC Applications in Public Clouds * Qiming He Open Research, Inc., USA

Paper

Slides

Shujia Zhou
Ben Kobler 
Dan Duffy
Tom McGlynn
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, USA
12:00PM Exploring Application and Infrastructure Adaptation on Hybrid Grid-Cloud Infrastructure * Hyunjoo Kim
Manish Parashar
Rutgers University, USA

Paper

Slides

Yaakoub El Khamra The University of Texas at Austin, USA
Shantenu Jha Louisiana State University, USA
12:30PM Lunch
Session 3: Applications (Session Chair, Robert Grossman, University of Illinois at Chicago)
1:30PM AzureBlast: A Case Study of Cloud Computing for Science Applications * Wei Lu
Jared Jackson 
Roger Barga 
Microsoft Research, USA

Paper

Slides

2:00PM

Seeking Supernovae in the Clouds: A Performance Study

Best paper award finalist

BEST PAPER WINNER

* Keith R. Jackson
Lavanya Ramakrishnan
Rollin Thomas 
Karl Runge 
Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA

Paper

Slides

2:30PM Migrating a (Large) Science Database to the Cloud * Ani Thakar
Alex Szalay 
Johns Hopkins University, USA

Paper

Slides

3:00PM Reshaping Text Data for Efficient Processing on Amazon EC2 * Gabriela Turcu 
Svetlozar Nestorov
University of Chicago, USA

Paper

Slides

Ian Foster University of Chicago, USA
Argonne National Laboratory, USA
3:30PM Break
Session 4: Resource Management (Session Chair, David E. Martin, Argonne National Laboratory)
4:00PM Comparison of Resource Platform Selection Approaches for Scientific Workflows Yogesh Simmhan Microsoft Research, USA

Paper

Slides

Lavanya Ramakrishnan Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
4:30PM

A Perspective on Scientific Cloud Computing

Best paper award finalist

* Craig Lee Open Grid Forum, USA

Paper

Slides

Panel on Scientific Cloud Computing (Moderator, Dr. Pete Beckman, Argonne National Laboratory & University of Chicago)
5:00PM Scientific Cloud Computing: Reality or Vaporware? * Manish Parashar Rutgers University, USA
National Science Foundation (NSF), USA
Bio
Slides
* Roger Barga Microsoft Research, USA
* Kate Keahey Argonne National Laboratory, USA
University of Chicago, USA
* Peter Dinda Northwestern University, USA
* Bob Grossman University of Illinois at Chicago, USA
6:00PM Best Paper Award Announcement
6:10PM Closing Statements
6:15PM Reception (Lasalle II)
8:00PM Dinner (Superior Ballroom)

 

* denotes the speaker for a particular paper being presented

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