Cloud computing is transforming the way large-scale computation is performed. Dynamic scalability or “elasticity” provided by the cloud make high-performance computing accessible to everyone. However, cloud computing introduces new challenges with respect to security and privacy. Although virtualization addresses some of these concerns, it has a significant impact on performance: the actual gains in performance depend heavily on the predictability of physical and virtualized resources. Consequently, the balancing of performance against security and the adaptation of HPC or VLDB techniques to cloud computing are of strategic importance and will have long-lasting scientific impact.

The Fourth SPCLOUD workshop brings together researchers and IT practitioners, to present new results and ongoing work on the themes of security, privacy, and performance in the cloud.

The SPCLOUD Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following:
Secure Mobile Cloud
Reliability and Security of Cloud Environments
Monitoring for Cloud-Based Applications
Cryptography and Crypto-Protocols for Cloud Computing Systems
Parallel Computing With Cloud-Based Systems
Very Large Databases In The Cloud: Transactions, Backup, Security, Scalability
Security and Virtualization
Risk Management in Cloud Computing Environments
Usability and Human Centered Security for Clouds
Trusted Data Sharing and Shared Technology Issues
Untrusted Cloud Servers and Networks
Privacy Protection in Cloud Platforms and Operations
Autonomic Security in Cloud Computing
Intercloud Security Issues and Considerations
Insecure Interfaces and APIs
Insiders Threats
Security Models for New Services
Services Hijacking
Interoperable Identity Management
Information Hiding in Cloud Computing
Forensics in the Clouds
Cloud Infrastructure Security
Use of Cloud Systems for Scalable High-performance Computing
Performance Overhead of Virtualization
Monitoring of Cloud Systems, Alerts for Resource Consumption
Identification and Privacy in Cloud
SPCLOUD welcomes submission of papers describing:
Experimental work to measure existing systems and applications
Industrial experience relevant to the Workshop’s themes
Theoretical work on specific new models
Software and hardware platforms from the angle of security and performance
Short papers describing ongoing work.

Submitted papers should highlight their application or relevance for cloud computing.