Oct. 11 — The 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2012) announces its call for papers, due Nov. 25, 2011. The event, which takes place May 13-16, 2012, in Ottawa, Canada, is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society / Technical Committee on Scalable Computing / ACM.

Overview/Scope

Rapid advances in processing, communication and systems/middleware technologies are leading to new paradigms and platforms for computing, ranging from computing Clusters to widely distributed grid and emerging clouds. CCGrid is a series of very successful conferences, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and ACM, with the overarching goal of bringing together international researchers, developers, and users and to provide an international forum to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these platforms and paradigms and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters and research demos, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenges featuring live demonstrations.

In 2012, CCGrid will come to Canada for the first time and will be held in Ottawa, the capital city. CCGrid 2012 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: System architectures, Design and deployment.

* Autonomic Computing and Cyberinfrastructure: Self managed behavior, models and technologies; Autonomic paradigms and approaches (control-based, bio-inspired, emergent, etc.); Bio-inspired approaches to management; SLA definition and enforcement.

* Performance Modeling and Evaluation: Performance models; Monitoring and evaluation tools, Analysis of system/application performance; Benchmarks and testbeds.

* Programming Models, Systems, and Fault-Tolerant Computing: Programming models for cluster, clouds and grid computing; fault tolerant infrastructure and algorithms; systems software to enable efficient computing.

* Multicore and Accelerator-based Computing: Software and application techniques to utilize multicore architectures and accelerators/heterogeneous computing systems.

* Scheduling and Resource Management: Techniques to schedule jobs and resources on clusters, clouds and grid computing platforms.

* Cloud Computing: Cloud architectures; Software tools and techniques for clouds.

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 8 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings:

http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting

Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format and make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses letter size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the meeting is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees.

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 Press, USA and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library.

During the paper submission process, you will be required to point out whether the paper is a "student paper" or a "regular paper". Student papers are those on which the primary author is a full-time student at the time of paper submission. Regular papers are all other papers. Regular paper vs. student paper has no impact on the paper selection/publication process. It is only meant for the "best paper" and "best student paper" awards, which will be given out during the conference. All accepted papers (including student papers) will be eligible for the best paper award. Only student papers will be eligible for the best student paper award.

Submission Link:

https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=ccgrid2012

Important Dates

Papers Due: 25 November 2011 (midnight Anywhere on Earth)
Notification of Acceptance: 30 January 2012
Camera Ready Papers Due: 27 February 2012
Sponsors: IEEE Computer Society (TCSE) & ACM SIGARCH (approval pending)

Journal Special Issue

Highly rated Top 6 papers from the CCGrid 2012 conference will be invited to extend for publication in a special issue of the "Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)" Journal published by Elsevier Press.

Chairs

General Chair

* Shikharesh Majumdar, Carleton University, Canada

Honorary Chair

* Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA

Program Committee Co-Chairs

* Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia
* Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Program Committee Vice-chairs

* Daniel S. Katz (Applications and Experiences)
* Dhabaleswar K. Panda (Architecture)
* Manish Parashar (Middleware, Autonomic Computing, and Cyberinfrastructure)
* Ahmad Afsahi (Performance Modeling and Analysis)
* Xian-He Sun (Performance Measurement and Evaluation)
* William Gropp (Programming Models, Systems, and Fault-Tolerant computing)
* David Bader (Multicore and Accelerator-based Computing)
* Thomas Fahringer (Scheduling and Resource Management)
* Ignacio Martin Llorente and Madhusudhan Govindaraju (Cloud Computing)

Cyber Co-Chairs

* Anton Beloglazov, The University of Melbourne, Australia
* Suraj Pandey, CSIRO, Australia
* Trevor Gelowsky, Carleton University, Canada

Workshops Co-Chairs

* Marin Litiou, York University, Canada
* Mukaddim Pathan, Telstra Corporation Limited, Australia

Publicity Chairs

* Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
* Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology & Argonne National Labs, USA
* Bruno Schulze, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Brazil
* G Subrahmanya VRK Rao: Cognizant technology Solutions, India

Tutorials Co-Chairs

* Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University, USA
* Rob Simmonds, Westgrid, Canada

Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs

* Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
* Yogesh Simmhan, University of Southern California

Poster and Research Demo Co-Chairs

* Suraj Pandey, CSIRO, Australia

SCALE Challenge Coordinator

* Shantenu Jha, Rutgers and Loisiana State University

Steering Committee

* Henri Bal, Vrije University, The Netherlands
* Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
* Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia (Chair)
* Franck Capello, University of Paris-Sud, France
* 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
* Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation, USA (Co-Chair)
* 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
* Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, USA
* Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

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Source: CCGrid 2012