Call for Papers: The Network-aware Data Management Workshop (NDM 2011) to be held in conjunction with SC 2011 (http://sc11.supercomputing.org)

Mon Nov 14th, 2011 - Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA, USA

The Network-aware Data Management Workshop (NDM 2011) will be held in conjunction with the IEEE/ACM International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC 2011).

The format will consist of 30 minute presentations of peer-reviewed papers. Accepted papers will be published in ACM or IEEE digital proceedings through SC'11.


Scope:

Accessing and managing large amounts of data is a great challenge in a collaborative environment where resources/scientists are geographically distributed. There is a need for efficient use of the network infrastructure in order to address the increasing data and compute requirements of large-scale applications. Since the amount of data is continuously growing, traditional techniques of leaving the burden on the user of moving/storing data is not a viable option in many cases. Furthermore, advance knowledge is required by the users to utilize system tools and manage data manipulations in order to deliver true exascale performance to the application layer. Network-aware data management services for resource provisioning, intelligent data-flow and coordination between the host systems is highly desirable. This workshop will seek contribution from academia, government, and industry to discuss emerging trends in use of networking for data management, novel abstraction techniques for data representation, simplification of end-to-end data flow by providing transparent data services, end-to-end resource coordination, and network-aware tools for the scientific community.

One “Best Paper” would be awarded for outstanding contributing to the field of large-scale data management across network. In addition to that, two “Best Paper Honorable Mention” would be awarded.

Important Dates:

Abstract Submission Sep 02th, 2011 (extended)
Paper Submission due: Sep 09th, 2011 (extended)
Notification of acceptance: Sep 26th, 2011
Camera-Ready version due: Oct 10th, 2011
Registration Deadline: Oct 14th, 2011
Workshop Date: Nov 14th, 2011


Workshop Organizers:

Mehmet Balman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Surendra Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

Topics of interest include but are not limited to:

Challenges in data-intensive distributed computing
End-to-end resource provisioning
Optimization and development of data transfer protocols
Scalable services for network-aware applications
Re-configurable end-to-end data-access frameworks
Network-aware scheduling and resource brokering
Advanced services for managing data-flow
On-demand bandwidth allocation and network reservation
Application pipelines and workflow management
Network-aware toolkits for data distribution
Data replication and metadata management
Data clouds, data scheduling, and data placement
Heterogeneous resource management
Performance evaluation of network-aware data management

Workshop Activities:

Invited Keynote Speaker:
Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory
Title: TBA

Panel Discussion: [At the end]
Title: “Data Management in Exa-scale Computing and Terabit Networking Era”
Panel members: To be determined


Accepted papers would be given a total of 30 mins. for presentation and question time. We would wrap up the day by summarizing the important open questions in the area.

Workshop Web Site:
http://2011.ndmmeeting.org

Submission Guidelines:

Please submit full papers in PDF format via the Easy Chair submission site
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ndm20110

No email submission would be accepted. The paper(s) should be no longer than ten (10) pages, excluding references.

Papers should be typeset in IEEE conference format.
Submissions that violate any of these restrictions will not be reviewed. The page limit will be enforced strictly.

Reviewing of the full papers will be done by the program committee, assisted by external referees. The decision of the program committee is final.


If you have any further questions, please email Mehmet Balman and/or Suren Byna {mbalman,sbyna} at lbl.gov