The Large Scale Computing in Grids (LaSCoG) workshop originated in 2005, and when it was created we have stated in its preamble that:

“The emerging paradigm for execution of large-scale computations, whether they originate as scientific or engineering applications, or for supporting large data-intensive calculations, is to utilize multiple computers at sites distributed across the Internet. In particular, computational Grids are collections of distributed, possibly heterogeneous resources which can be used as ensembles to execute large-scale applications. While the vision of the global computational Grid is extremely appealing, there remains a lot of work on all levels to achieve it.”

While, it can hardly be stated that the issues we have observed in 2005 have been satisfactorily addressed, a number of changes has happened that expanded the world of large-scale computing. Today we can observe emergence of a much more general paradigm for execution of large-scale applications, whether they originate from scientific or engineering areas, or they support large data-intensive calculations. These tasks utilize computational Grids, cloud-based systems and resource virtualization. Here, collections of distributed, possibly heterogeneous resources, are used as ensembles to execute large-scale applications.

This being the case, we have decided to keep the LaSCoG workshop tradition alive, but to co-locate it with a conference which will have an appropriately broader scope. This is how the Workshop on Scalable Computing in Distributed Systems (SCoDiS'10) emerged.

The LaSCoG-SCoDiS'10 pair of events shares a joint Program Committee and is envisioned as a forum to promote an exchange of ideas and results aimed at addressing sophisticated issues that arise in developing large-scale applications running on heterogeneous distributed systems.


Covered topics include (but are not limited to):

* Large-scale algorithms and applications
* Cloud computing
* Symbolic and numeric computations
* High performance computations for large scale simulations
* Large-scale distributed computations
* Agent-based computing
* Data models for large-scale applications
* Security issues for large-scale computations
* Science portals
* Data visualization
* Performance analysis, evaluation and prediction
* Programming models
* Peer-to-peer models and services for scalable Grids
* Collaborative science applications
* Business applications
* Data-intensive applications
* Operations on large-scale distributed databases
* On-demand computing
* Computation as a service
* Federation of compute capacity
* Virtualization supporting computations
* Self-adaptive computational / storage systems


Paper submission

* Authors should submit draft papers (as Postscript, PDF of MSWord file).
* The total length of a paper should not exceed 8 pages (IEEE style). IEEE style templates are available here.
* Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the workshop.
* Accepted and Presented paper will be published in the Conference Proceedings and included in the IEEE Xplore® database.
* Extended versions of selected papers will be published in a special issue of the Scalable Computing; Practice and Experience journal.
* A separate special issue is planned for the Journal of Zhejiang University-SCIENCE C (Springer partner, ISI indexed) This issue is to be topic-focused, and consist of selected papers originating from the LaSCoG/SCoDiS and from an open call.
* Organizers reserve right to move accepted papers between IMCSIT events.


Imporant dates:

31.05.2010 (May, 31, 2010) – Full paper submission
12.07.2010 (July, 12, 2010) – Notification of acceptance
23.08.2010 (August, 23, 2010) – Camera-ready version of the accepted paper


Program Committee

Rui Aguiar, Universidade de Aveiro, Portugal
Ishfaq Ahmad, UT Arlington, USA
Mark Baker, University of Reading, United Kingdom
Xu Baomin, Beijing Jiaotong university, China
Andrej Brodnik, University of Primorska, Slovenia
Marian Bubak, AGH University of Technology, Poland and UvA Amsterdam, Netherlands
Hsu Ching-Hsien, Chung Hua University, Taiwan
Jose Cardoso Cunha, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal
Pasqua D'Ambra, ICAR-CNR, Italy
Frederic Desprez, INRIA, France
Beniamino Di Martino, Seconda Universita' di Napoli, Italy
Salvatore Filippone, Universita di Roma 'Tor Vergata', Italy
Ian Foster, Argonne National Lab & The University of Chicago, USA
Maria Ganzha, University of Gdansk and IBS PAN, Poland
Wolfgang Gentzsch, DEISA, Germany
Pawel Gepner, Intel, Poland
Minor Gordon, NEC High Performance Computing Europe, Germany
Dorian Gorgan, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Andrzej Goscinski, Australia, Australia
George Gravvanis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece
Daniel Grosu, Wayne State University, USA
Pilar Herrero, Facultad de Informática – Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
Wei Jie, Thames Valley University, United Kingdom
Alexey Kalinov, Cadence Design Systems, Russian Federation
Aneta Karaivanova, Institute for Parallel Processing – BAS, Bulgaria
Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Jacek Kitowski, AGH University of Technology, Poland
Dieter Kranzlmueller, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen (LMU), Germany
Jan Kwiatkowski, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland
Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin, Ireland
Gregor von Laszewski, Indiana University, USA
Dong Woo Lee, OIKO Laboratory, Korea, Republic of
Alexander Legalov, Siberian Federal University, Russian Federation
Thomas Ludwig, University of Hamburg, Germany
Loris Marchal, CNRS, France
Tudruj Marek, Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland
John P. Morrison, University of Cork, Ireland
Thoai Nam, Ho Chi Minh City University of Technology, Vietnam
Henry Neeman, University of Oklahoma, USA
Richard Olejnik, University of Lille I, France
Can Ozturan, Bogazici University, Turkey
Michael Resch, HLRS, University of Stuttgart, Germany
Isaac D. Scherson, University of California, Irvine , USA
Erich Schikuta, University of Vienna, Austria
Bertil Schmidt, Nanyang Technolgocial University, Singapore
Bernhard Schott, Platform Computing, Germany
Wolfgang Schreiner, Johannes Kepler University, Austria
Simon See, Sun Microsystems Inc and Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Hong Shen, University of Adelaide, Australia
Ha Yoon Song, Hongik University, Korea, Republic of
Frederic Suter, CNRS – IN2P3 Computing Center, France
Domenico Talia, University of Calabria & ICAR-CNR, Italy
Pavel Telegin, JSCC RAS, Russian Federation
Lang Van Tran, Vietnam Academy of Science and Technology, Vietnam
Denis Trystam, Grenoble University, France
Pavel Tvrdik, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
Stefan Wesner, High Performance Computing Centre Stuttgart, Germany
Roman Wyrzykowski, Technical University of Czestochowa, Poland
Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan
Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia
Dick van Albada, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands


Organizing Committee

Marcin Paprzycki (Chairman), WSM and IBS PAN, Poland
Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania