PDP 2013 - The 21th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and Network-Based Computing.
to be held at the Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland, from 27th February – 1st March 2013
http://www.pdp2013.org/

Special session on
"Cloud Computing on Infrastructure as a Service and its Applications"

Scope

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 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 challenges and opportunities offered by the development of Cloud Computing solutions 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,
• Beyond-CPU virtualization (e.g. I/O, GPU),
• Virtual Machine scheduling and management algorithms,
• IaaS systems operational challenges,
• 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,
• Cloud Computing for scientific applications,
• Performance evaluation, modelling 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
• Cloud storage and I/O

Important dates

• Deadline for paper submission: 13th Autust 2012 extended to 27th August 2012
• Acceptance notification: 15th October 2012 extended to 22nd October 2012
• Camera ready paper due: 5th November 2012 extended to 26th November 2012
• Conference: 27th February – 1st March 2013

Statistics

The special session has received 9 submissions, out of 3 was accepted as a full paper (8 pages). The PC also accepted 2 submissions as short papers (4 pages). As a result, the session has had a 56% acceptance rate.

In the following list you can find the papers accepted by the Program Committee:

• [FULL PAPER] Fareed Ahmed Jokhio, Adnan Ashraf, Sebastien Lafond, Ivan Porres and Johan Lilius: "Prediction-Based Dynamic Resource Allocation for Video Transcoding in Cloud Computing"
• [FULL PAPER] Sandor Acs, Mark Gergely, Peter Kacsuk and Miklos Kozlovszky: "Block Level Storage Support for Open Source IaaS Clouds through Ethernet Network without the TCP/IP Overhead"
• [FULL PAPER] Michele Amoretti, Alberto Lluch Lafuente and Stefano Sebastio: "A cooperative approach for distributed task execution in autonomic clouds"
• [SHORT PAPER] Dongmei Liu, Hong Zhu, Ian Bayley and Yongli Wang: "A Case Study on Algebraic Specification of Cloud Computing"
• [SHORT PAPER] Xiaolong Wu, Yunwei Gao, Xinhui Tian and Yuzhong Sun: "SecMon: A Secure Introspection Framework for Virtualization"

Submission guidelines

Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 5000 words in length and including a 150-200 word abstract. To facilitate an anonymous reviewing process, the first page of the paper should contain only the title and abstract. Proceedings will be published by Conference Publishing Services (CPS). Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present the paper at the Conference.

Papers submitted for the workshops or special sessions must be submitted through the conference submission system with an indication of the name of the workshop/special session. Papers must adhere to the formatting rules of the conference and will undergo the same review process as other papers submitted to the conference.

The submission period is over.

Organization

Session Chairs

Program Committee

Past sessions

• 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)

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