July 12, 2011 -- The International Workshop on Cloud Computing and Scientific Applications (CCSA) has been formed to promote research and development activities focused on enabling and scaling scientific applications using distributed computing paradigms, such as cluster, Grid, and Cloud Computing. With the rapid emergence of software systems and their applicability, the volume of users are growing exponentially. User requirements are getting more and more complex. Existing computing infrastructure, software system designs, and use cases will have to take into account the enormity in volume of requests, size of data, computing load, locality and type of users, and so forth.

Cloud computing promises reliable services delivered through next-generation data centers that are built on compute and storage virtualization technologies. Users will be able to access applications and data from a “Cloud” anywhere in the world on demand. In other words, the Cloud appears to be a single point of access for all the computing needs of users. The users are assured that the Cloud infrastructure is robust and will always be available at any time.

CCSA brings together researchers and practitioners from around the world to share their experiences on modeling, executing, and monitoring scientific applications on Clouds.

In this workshop, we are interested in receiving innovative work on enabling and scaling computing systems to support the execution of scientific applications. The target audience include researchers and industry practitioners who are interested in distributed systems, particularly focusing on scaling of applications using Cloud computing.

Topics of Interest:

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

-       Enabling applications using distributed systems

-       Architectural Models for scaling of applications

-       Novel applications for cloud computing, including games and social networks

-       Novel cloud programming models

-       Innovative cloud service models

-       Support for scalable and elastic cloud services

-       Cloud support for mobile applications and Content Delivery Networks

-       Reliability of applications and services running on the cloud

-       Performance monitoring for cloud applications

-       Cloud use-case studies

-       Scientific computing in the cloud

-       Business computing in the cloud

-       Social computing in the cloud

Important Dates:

• Paper Submission Deadline: August 15, 2011  

• Author Notification: September 5, 2011

• Camera Ready Submission: September 15, 2011

Submission Guidelines:

All papers must be submitted electronically and in PDF format by email to:

The material presented should be original and not published or under submission elsewhere. Authors should submit full papers of up to 6 pages, strictly following the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript style (available at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) using two-column, single-space format, with 10-point font size. Figures and references must be included in the 6 pages. The committee will automatically reject oversized papers. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register early to attend the conference, in order for the paper to appear in the conference proceedings.

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 length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. The proceedings will be published and will be made online through the IEEE Xplore.

Program Chairs:

• Suraj Pandey

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO), Australia

• Andrew Melatos

School of Physics, The University of Melbourne

Program Committee Members:

• Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia
• Alberto Sanchez, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain
• Craig Lee, Open Grid Forum, USA
• Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
• Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
• Klaus-Dieter Schewe, Software Competence Center, Austria
• Bahman Javadi, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Bart Pindor, University of Melbourne, Australia
• Richard O. Sinnott, e-Research at University of Melbourne, Australia
• James Sankar, AARNet Pty Ltd, Australia
• Christian Simone Vecchiola, IBM Research and Development Australia

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