CloudCP 2011: 1st International Workshop on Cloud Computing Platforms
10 April 2011
Salzburg, Austria
http://www.wikibench.eu/CloudCP2011/

In conjunction with EuroSys 2011


Cloud computing is currently on the way to maturing from early
prototypes to become a serious platform for production environments. At
the same time, however, early adopters complain about serious usability
problems as well as insufficient or fluctuating system performance. Even
more, different application domains, like web services or scientific
computing, have strongly different requirements to clouds as their
computing environments.

This workshop is investigating the needs and requirements from
different, potential cloud application domains, and especially how cloud
computing platforms (IaaS, PaaS, and their integration) can be built in
order to meet these requirements. The workshop's focus is on building
suitable and high-performance cloud computing platforms. We aim to bring
together researchers and practitioners interested in the technical
aspects of cloud computing. The focus of the workshop is on novel,
practical, systems-oriented work.

CloudCP seeks contributions on all systems-related aspects of cloud
computing platforms. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

* Cloud storage and file systems
* Networks within cloud systems, the storage area, and to the outside
* Virtualization techniques in the context of cloud computing platforms
* System integration, virtual compute clusters
* Consolidation
* NoSQL data stores
* Performance, SLA management and enforcement
* Resource provisioning
* Security techniques for the Cloud
* Energy management
* Programming paradigms for clouds, Map-reduce and beyond
* Performance analysis of cloud applications and programming environments

Proceedings will be published in the ACM digital library (pending
confirmation).

Papers should be formatted using the standard ACM format, with a maximum
size of 6 pages. The format of submitted papers should correspond to our
LaTeX style file. Instructions on how to use this format can be found
here. Authors should not change the ACM template in terms of font size
or page margins.

For convenience, we allow authors to indicate potential conflicts of
interest (e.g., to exclude PC members from within their research group),
and submission type (regular paper, position paper).

Important dates

* Paper submission: January 14th 2011
* Notification to authors: March 4th 2011
* Camera-ready papers due: TBA
* Workshop: April 10th 2011

Program Committee

* Thilo Kielmann -- co-chair (VU university, the Netherlands)
* Guillaume Pierre -- co-chair (VU university, the Netherlands)
* Sara Bouchenak (INRIA, France)
* Paolo Costa (Imperial College London, U.K.)
* Paulo Ferreira (INESC-ID, Portugal)
* Renato Figueiredo (University of Florida, USA)
* Geoffrey Fox (Indiana University, USA)
* Jacob Gorm Hansen (VMware, Denmark)
* Ruediger Kapitza (University of Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany)
* Ramin Yahyapour (Technical university Dortmund, Germany)
* Cristian Zamfir (EPFL, Switzerland)