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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:14.0pt">Call for
Papers: The Third International Workshop on Data Intensive
Computing in the Clouds (DataCloud 2012)</span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">November 11, Salt Lake City, UT, USA (<span
style="color:#1F497D"><a
href="http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/tkosar/datacloud2012">http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/faculty/tkosar/datacloud2012</a></span>)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoPlainText">Co-Located with Super Computing 2012,
November 10-16, Salt Lake City, UT, USA (<span
style="color:#1F497D"><a href="http://sc12.supercomputing.org/">http://sc12.supercomputing.org/</a>)</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>IMPORTANT DATES</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul>
<li>Abstract Submission: August 27, 2012<o:p></o:p></li>
<li>Paper Submission: September 10, 2012<o:p></o:p></li>
<li>Notification of Acceptance: October 8, 2012 <o:p></o:p></li>
<li>Final Paper Due: October 29, 2012<o:p></o:p></li>
<li>Workshop: November 11, 2012 <o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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<p class="MsoPlainText"><b>OVERVIEW</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">Applications and experiments in all
areas of science are becoming increasingly complex and more
demanding in terms of their computational and data requirements.
Some applications generate data volumes reaching hundreds of
terabytes and even petabytes. As scientific applications become
more data intensive, the management of data resources and
dataflow between the storage and compute resources is becoming
the main bottleneck. Analyzing, visualizing, and disseminating
these large data sets has become a major challenge and data
intensive computing is now considered as the ''fourth paradigm''
in scientific discovery after theoretical, experimental, and
computational science.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">DataCloud 2012 will provide the
scientific community a dedicated forum for discussing new
research, development, and deployment efforts in running
data-intensive computing workloads on Cloud Computing
infrastructures. The DataCloud 2012 workshop will focus on the
use of cloud-based technologies to meet the new data intensive
scientific challenges that are not well served by the current
supercomputers, grids or compute-intensive clouds. We believe
the workshop will be an excellent place to help the community
define the current state, determine future goals, and present
architectures and services for future clouds supporting data
intensive computing.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>WORKSHOP SCOPE</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span
style="font-size:12.0pt">Topics of interest include, but are not
limited to:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1
level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Data-intensive cloud
computing applications, characteristics, challenges </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1
level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Case studies of data
intensive computing in the clouds </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1
level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Performance
evaluation of data clouds, data grids, and data centers </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1
level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Energy-efficient
data cloud design and management </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1
level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Data placement,
scheduling, and interoperability in the clouds </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1
level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Accountability, QoS,
and SLAs </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1
level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Data privacy and
protection in a public cloud environment </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1
level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Distributed file
systems for clouds </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1
level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Data streaming and
parallelization </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1
level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">New programming
models for data-intensive cloud computing </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1
level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Scalability issues
in clouds </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1
level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Social computing and
massively social gaming </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1
level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">3D Internet and
implications </span><o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l1
level1 lfo1"><span style="font-size:12.0pt">Future research
challenges in data-intensive cloud computing </span><o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>ORGANIZERS</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2
level1 lfo2">Tevfik Kosar, University at Buffalo<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2
level1 lfo2">Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology &
Argonne National Laboratory, USA<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l2
level1 lfo2">Roger Barga, Microsoft Research<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>STEERING COMMITTEE</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul type="disc">
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo3">Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne
National Laboratory, USA<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo3">Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo3">James Hamilton, Amazon Web Services<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo3">Manish Parashar, Rutgers University & National
Science Foundation<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo3">Dan Reed, Microsoft Research<o:p></o:p></li>
<li class="MsoNormal"
style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto;mso-list:l0
level1 lfo3">Rich Wolski, University of California, Santa
Barbara<o:p></o:p></li>
</ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>PROGRAM COMMITTEE</b><o:p></o:p></p>
<ul>
<li><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"></span></span>Samer
Al-Kiswany, University of British Columbia, Canada<o:p></o:p></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"></span></span>Abhishek
Chandra, University of Minnesota <o:p></o:p></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"></span></span>Rong
N. ChangI, BM Research <o:p></o:p></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"></span></span>Kyle
Chard, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory<o:p></o:p></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"></span></span>Terence
Critchlow, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory <o:p></o:p></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"></span></span>Murat
Demirbas, University at Buffalo <o:p></o:p></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"></span></span>Jaliya
Ekanayake, Microsoft Research <o:p></o:p></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"></span></span>Geoffrey
Fox, Indiana University <o:p></o:p></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"></span></span>Dennis
Gannon, Microsoft Research <o:p></o:p></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"></span></span>Rob
Gillen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory <o:p></o:p></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"></span></span>Maria
Indrawan, Monash University, Australia <o:p></o:p></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"></span></span>Hui
Jin, Oracle<o:p></o:p></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"></span></span>Dan
Katz, National Science Foundation <o:p></o:p></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"></span></span>Steven
Ko, University at Buffalo <o:p></o:p></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"></span></span>Reagan
Moore, University of North Carolina<o:p></o:p></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"></span></span>Judy
Qui, Indiana University<o:p></o:p></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"></span></span>Lavanya
Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory <o:p></o:p></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"></span></span>Kui
Ren, University at Buffalo <o:p></o:p></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"></span></span>Yogesh
Simmhan, University of Southern California, USA<o:p></o:p></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"></span></span>Borja
Sotomayor, University of Chicago <o:p></o:p></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"></span></span>Wei
Tang, Argonne National Laboratory <o:p></o:p></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"></span></span>Bernard
Traversat, Oracle<o:p></o:p></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"></span></span>Zhifeng
Yun, Louisiana State University <o:p></o:p></li>
<li><span style="font-family:Symbol"><span style="mso-list:Ignore"></span></span>Ziming
Zheng, Illinois Institute of Technology</li>
</ul>
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Ioan Raicu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Guest Research Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
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Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS/ANL
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