Wednesday, September 14, 2011

CFP - Gateway Computing Environments (GCE) 2011

CALL FOR PAPERS - GCE 2011
*** Extended Submission Deadline - October 3, 2011 ***

Gateway Computing Environments (GCE) 2011
(Workshop at SC 2011)
November 18, 2011
Seattle, Washington

Scientific portals and gateways are important components of many large-scale Grid and Cloud
computing projects. They are characterized by Web-based environments, which include, but are not limited to, user interfaces and services that securely access Grid and Cloud resources, data,
applications, and collaboration environments for communities of scientists. As a result, the scientific portals and gateways provide both a user-centric and a community-centric view (with social networking) of the cyber infrastructure.

Web technologies evolve rapidly, and trends such as Cloud Computing are changing the way many scientific users expect to interact with cyberinfrastructure resources. Academic clouds are being created using open source cloud technologies. Important Web standards such as Open Social, OpenID, and OAuth are changing the way Web portals are built, shared, and secured. It is the goal of the GCE workshop series to provide a venue for researchers to present pioneering, peer-reviewed work on the above discussed and other related topics to the international science gateway community.

Topics of interest include the following:
* Integration of Web 2.0 technologies with science gateways;
* Gateways to cloud computing services;
* Applications of virtual world technologies to science and education gateways;
* Social networks for scientific communities;
* Grid portals and gateways deployments, including User Portals, Application Portals, Science
Gateways, Education Portals, User interface/usability studies;
* Design and architecture of Grid portals, portal containers, and gateways;
* Tools and frameworks that make developing Grid Portals and gateways easier;
* Portal security models and solutions;
* Middleware solutions in support of scientific portals and Gateways including Web Services, workflow and mashup composers and engines, and similar capabilities;
* Non-browser gateways: desktops and mobile computing gateways; and
* Summary and survey papers.

See http://www.collab-ogce.org/gce11/ for additional information.

Wednesday, May 11, 2011

CFP: The 12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid2011) - Submission deadline extended to July 15

The 12th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Grid Computing (Grid2011)
Lyon, France
Sep 21 - Sep 23, 2011
http://grid2011.mnm-team.org/
Co-located with the EGI Technical Forum

Sponsored by:
[TBD] The IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing
[TBD] Association for Computing Machinery Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture


Grid computing enables the sharing of distributed computing and data
resources such as processing, network bandwidth and storage capacity
to create a cohesive resource environment for executing distributed
applications. The Grid conference series is an annual international
meeting that brings together a community of researchers, developers,
practitioners, and users involved with Grid technology. The objective
of the meeting is to serve as both the premier venue for presenting
foremost research results in the area and as a forum for introducing
and exploring new concepts. The conference will feature invited talks,
workshops, and refereed paper presentations.

Grid 2011 welcomes paper and poster submissions on innovative work
from researchers in academia, industry and government describing
original research work in grid computing. Previous events in this
series have been successful in attracting high quality papers and a
wide international participation. This event will be co-located with
the EGI Technical Forum.

SCOPE

Grid 2011 topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Applications, including eScience and eBusiness Applications
- Architectures and Fabrics
- Authentication, Authorization, Auditing and Accounting
- Autonomic and Utility Computing on Global Grids
- Cloud computing
- Cloud, Cluster and Grid Integration
- Creation and Management of Virtual Enterprises and Organizations
- Critical surveys or reflections on the past decade on grid and distributed computing
- Dynamic, Distributed, Data-Intensive Access, Management and Processing
- Energy Efficiency and Grid
- Grid Economy and Business Models
- Infrastructure and Practise of Distributed Computing - Metadata, Ontologies, and Provenance
- Middleware and Toolkits
- Monitoring, Management and Organization Tools
- Networking - Performance Measurement and Modelling
- Problem Solving Environments
- Programming Models, Tools and Environments
- Production Cyberinfrastructure
- QoS and SLA Negotiation
- Resource Management, Scheduling, and Runtime Environments
- Scientific, Industrial and Social Implications
- Semantic Grid
- Standardization efforts in Grid
- Virtualization and grid computing

TECHNICAL PAPERS

Grid 2011 invites authors to submit original papers (not published or
under review elsewhere). Papers should be no more than 8 pages in
length (including diagrams and references) and be submitted as a PDF
file by using the submission system: URL

Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to
register and present the paper. A separate conference proceedings will
be published and will also be a part of the IEEE Xplore and the CS
digital library. For author instructions visit www.grid2011.org.

IMPORTANT DATES

05 May 2011 Technical Paper Submission Open
08 June 2011 Workshop proposal due
15 June 2011 Workshop acceptance notifcation
15 July 2011 Technical Paper Submission Due (Extended)
17 August 2011 Paper Acceptance Notifications
24 August 2011 Full and Revised papers due
15 August 2011 Poster submissions Due
25 August 2011 Poster Acceptance Notifications

CONFERENCE ORGANISATION

General Chair: Nils gentschen Felde, MNM, Munich
Program Chair: Shantenu Jha, Rutgers, USA and Edinburgh, UK
Local Chair: Frederic Suter, IN2P3, Lyon
Workshop Chair & Poster Chair: Gilles Fedak, INRIA, Lyon
Proceedings and Publications Chair: Rajkumar Buyya, The University of
Melbourne and Manjrasoft, Australia

Program Vice Chairs:

Clouds and Virtualisation: Roger Barga, Microsoft Research, US
Distributed Production Cyberinfrastructure and Middleware: Andrew Grimshaw, Univ. of Virginia, US
e-Research and Applications: Daniel S. Katz, Univ. of Chicago and Argonne National Lab, US
Tools & Services, Resource Management & Runtime Environments: Ramin Yahyapour, Dortmund Distributed Data-Intensive Science and Systems: Erwin Laure, KTH, Sweeden

Publicity Chairs: Suraj Pandey, Univ of Melbourne, Australia
Yoshiyuki Watase, KEK, Japan
Cameron Kiddle, Calgary, Canada
Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology and Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Adam Barker, St. Andrew's, UK

Program Comittee:

Andreas Aschenbrenner, Austrian Academy of Sciences
Ignacio Blanquer, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Jim Dowling, SICS, Sweden
Vangelis Floros, GRNET, Greece
Neil Chue Hong, EPCC, UK
Patrick Fuhrmann, DESY, DE
Jens Jensen, STFC, UK
Peter Kunszt, SystemsX, Switzerland
Hideo Matsuda, University of Osaka, Japan
Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology and Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Heiko Schuldt, Basel University, Switzerland
Alex Sim, LBL, US
Osamu Tatebe, Tsukuba University, Japan
Domenico Talia, Università della Calabria, Italiy
Erik Elmroth, Umeå University, Sweden
Bastian Koller, HLRS, Germany
Rosa Badia, UPC, Spain
Marco Danelutto, Università di Pisa, Italy
Frederic Desprez, INRIA-LIP, France
Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit, The Netherlands
Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo
Alan Sill, Texas-Tech, US
Steven Newhouse, EGI, NL
Eva Deelman, ISI, USC Karolina, US
Sarnowska-Upton, Univ. of Virginia, US
Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia, US
Rob Gillen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory , US
Kate Keahey, Argonne National Laboratory, US
Judy Qiu, Indiana University, US
Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, US
Jim Myers, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, US
Tevfik Kosar, University at Buffalo, US
David Abramson, Monash University, Australia
Chaitanya Baru, San Diego Supercomputer Center, US
Jaliya Ekanayake, Microsoft University, US
Miron Livny, Univ. of Wisconsin, US
Ian Foster, Univ. of Chicago, US
Dieter Kranzlmueller, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Germany
Gabrielle Allen, Louisiana State University, USA
David Bader, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Henri Bal, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands
Eloisa Bentivegna, Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics, Germany
Nicolas Kourtellis, University of South Florida, USA
Patricia Kovatch, University of Tennessee, USA
Manish Parashar, Rutgers, USA
Alistair Rendell, Australian National University, Australia
Richard Sinnott, University of Melbourne, Australia
Alan Sussman, University of Maryland, USA
Mark Stillwell, INRIA-Université de Lyon-LIP, France
David Wallom, Oxford University, UK

Monday, October 18, 2010

Slides from Cybera Summit 2010 Presentation: Collaborative Science: Technologies & Examples

Presentation I gave at Cybera Summit 2010 in Banff, AB (September 21 - 22, 2010). Discusses different Web 2.0 / social networking technologies that can enable collaborative science and example uses of these technologies as part of collaborative science portals/gateways. Examples include a few projects that the Grid Research Centre at the University of Calgary is involved in including: GeoChronos, CyberSKA and WaterCloud - all of these projects make use of the Elgg open source social networking platform.

Friday, September 3, 2010

CFP: GCE 2010 (Gateway Computing Environments) - DEADLINE EXTENDED

The paper submission deadline for Gateway Computing Environments 2010 has been extended to September 23rd, 2010.

See http://www.collab-ogce.org/gce10 for additional information.

Thursday, August 19, 2010

CFP: GCE 2010 (Gateway Computing Environments)

CALL FOR PAPERS - GCE 2010
***Submission Deadline - September 5, 2010***

Gateway Computing Environments
(Workshop at SC 2010)
November 14, 2010
New Orleans, LA, USA

Scientific portals and gateways are important components of many large-scale Grid and Cloud computing projects. They are characterized by Web-based environments, which include, but are not limited to, user interfaces and services that securely access Grid and Cloud resources, data, applications, and collaboration environments for communities of scientists. As a result, the scientific portals and gateways provide both a user-centric and a community-centric view (with social networking) of the cyber infrastructure.

Web technologies evolve rapidly, and trends such as Cloud Computing are changing the way many scientific users expect to interact with cyberinfrastructure resources. Academic clouds are being created using open source cloud technologies. Important Web standards such as Open Social, OpenID, and OAuth are changing the way Web portals are built, shared, and secured. It is the goal of the GCE workshop series to provide a venue for researchers to present pioneering, peer-reviewed work on the above discussed and other related topics to the international science gateway community.

Topics of interest include the following:
* Integration of Web 2.0 technologies with science gateways;
* Gateways to cloud computing services;
* Applications of virtual world technologies to science and education gateways;
* Social networks for scientific communities;
* Grid portals and gateways deployments, including User Portals, Application Portals, Science Gateways, Education Portals, User interface/usability studies;
* Design and architecture of Grid portals, portal containers, and gateways;
* Tools and frameworks that make developing Grid Portals and gateways easier;
* Portal security models and solutions;
* Middleware solutions in support of scientific portals and Gateways including Web Services, workflow and mashup composers and engines, and similar capabilities;
* Non-browser gateways: desktops and mobile computing gateways; and
* Summary and survey papers.

See http://www.collab-ogce.org/gce10 for additional information.

Friday, May 7, 2010

Slides from GeoChronos Presentation at #bcnet10

Presentation I gave at BCNET/CANARIE Conference 2010 (May 4-5, 2010) in Vancouver. It gives an overview of GeoChronos - and on-line collaborative portal for earth observation scientists built on social networking and cloud computing technologies. The presentation is primarily composed of a mix of slides from previous GeoChronos presentations that I have given.

Monday, March 15, 2010

Slides from "GeoChronos: Challenges and Achievements" presentation at #OGF28

Presentation I gave at OGF 28 in Munich (Mar. 15-18, 2010). It is about challenges and achievements to date in the GeoChronos project, which is aimed at the development of an on-line collaborative environment for earth observation scientists. The presentation is also available on the OGF site along with other presentations from the same session.