Advancing Research with Cloud Computing
On April 8 and 9, 2010, the Cloud Futures Workshop brought together thought leaders from academia, industry, and government to discuss the role of cloud computing across disciplines, with the goal of highlighting how new techniques and methods of research in the cloud may solve distinct challenges arising in those diverse areas.
Workshop Co-Chairs
David A. Patterson
Professor of Computer Science
Reliable Adaptive
Distributed Systems Lab, University of California Berkeley
Dan Reed
Corporate Vice President
Extreme Computing Group, Microsoft Research
Call for Abstracts
Cloud computing is fast becoming the most important platform for research. Researchers today need vast computing resources to collect, share, manipulate, and explore massive data sets as well as to build and deploy new services for research. Cloud computing has the potential to advance research discoveries by making data and computing resources readily available at unprecedented economy of scale and nearly infinite scalability. To realize the full promise of cloud computing for research, however, one must think about the cloud as a holistic platform for creating new services, new experiences, and new methods to pursue research, teaching and scholarly communication. This goal presents a broad range of interesting questions.
We invited extended abstracts that illustrate the role of cloud computing across a variety of research and curriculum development areas—including computer science, earth sciences, healthcare, humanities, life sciences, and social sciences—that highlight how new techniques and methods of research in the cloud may solve distinct challenges arising in those diverse areas.
Note: All abstract submissions were due on February 10, 2010. We are no longer accepting submissions.
Agenda
Thursday, April 8, 2010
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7:30 A.M. – 8:00 A.M. |
Shuttle bus transport from hotels to Microsoft Research | ||
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8:00 A.M. – 9:00 A.M. |
Breakfast at Microsoft Research (Bldg 99) | ||
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9:00 A.M. – 9:15 A.M. |
LOCATION: Room 1919 Dennis Gannon – Welcome and Workshop Kickoff | ||
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9:15 A.M. –10:15 A.M. |
LOCATION: Room 1919 Ed Lazowska – The University of Washington eScience Institute | ||
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10:15 A.M. – 10:30 A.M. |
Coffee break | ||
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10:30 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. |
LOCATION: Room 1915 Session Chair: Dennis Gannon
Interactive and Fault-tolerant Data Analytics in the Cloud – Magdalena Balazinska, University of Washington
Cloud Computing for Chemical Property Prediction – Paul Watson, Newcastle University
Looking Inside the Virtualization Layer for Performance, Security, and Software Fault Tolerance – Sorav Bansal, IIT Dehli |
LOCATION: Room 1919 Session Chair: Roger Barga
Amazon Web Services (AWS) –Deepak Singh, Amazon |
LOCATION: Room 1927 Session Chair: Arkady Retik
Towards Predictable Cloud Computing – Andreas Polze, Hasso-Plattner-Institute
The Cloud for University City Campus – Danilo Montesi, University of Bologna
Cloud Computing Projects in Engineering – Harold Castro, Universidad de los Andes |
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12:00 P.M. – 1:00 P.M. |
Box lunch | ||
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1:00 P.M. – 2:00 P.M. |
LOCATION: Room 1919 General session keynote: David Patterson – University of California at Berkeley (Session Chair: Juan Vargas) | ||
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2:00 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. |
LOCATION: Room 1915 Session Chair: Arkady Retik
Proposing a Curriculum/Course for Cloud Computing from a Software Engineering Perspective – Kurschl Werner, Upper Austria University of Applied Sciences
Operating System Research Extended into the Cloud – Alexander Schmidt, Hasso-Plattner-Institute
Consumer Decision Support for Resource Procurement in IaaS Markets – Kurt Vanmechelen, University of Antwerp
Using Cloud Computing to Support Virtual Congress – Juan G. Lalinde-Pulido, Universidad EAFIT |
LOCATION: Room 1919 Session Chair: Juan Vargas
Building Application for the Cloud on Google App Engine |
LOCATION: Room 1927 Session Chair: Roger Barga
Early Progress on SEJITS in Many Core and Cloud Environments – Armando Fox, University of California Berkeley
Consistency Options for Replicated Storage in the Cloud – Ken Birman, Cornell University
Elasticity through Modularity – Jan Rellermeyer, ETH Zurich
Programming a Service Cloud – Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center |
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4:00 P.M. – 4:30 P.M. |
Break and refreshments | ||
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4:30 P.M. – 6:00 P.M. |
LOCATION: Room 1915 Session Chair: Dennis Gannon
Enabling Scalable Genomics Research across Desktop and the Cloud – Yogesh Simmhan, Microsoft Research
Implementing a DICOM Image Archival Solution in Microsoft Windows Azure Cloud – an Information Technology Senior Project – Chia-Chi Teng, Brigham Young University
Rapid Diagnosis of Acute Heart Disease by Cloud-based High Performance Computing for Computer Vision – Oleksii Morozov, University Hospital of Basel |
LOCATION: Room 1919 Session Chair: Krishna Kumar
Microsoft Azure for Research |
LOCATION: Room 1927 Session Chair: Juan Vargas
Leveraging Domain-Specific Software Architectures for Classifying Cloud Service Abstractions
Achieving Energy Efficient Computing for Future Large Scale Applications – Tajana Simunic Rosing, University of California San Diego
Early Observations on the Performance of Windows Azure – Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia
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6:00 P.M. – 10:00 P.M. |
Reception and dinner at Spitfire Restaurant, Microsoft Commons | ||
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10:00 P.M. – 10:30 P.M. |
Shuttle bus transport to hotels from Spitfire | ||
Friday, April 9, 2010
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7:30 A.M. – 8:00 A.M. |
Shuttle bus transport from hotels to Microsoft Research | ||
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8:00 A.M. – 9:00 A.M. |
Breakfast at Microsoft Research | ||
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9:00 A.M. – 10:15 A.M. |
LOCATION: Room 1919 General session keynote: Dan Reed, Microsoft Research (Session Chair: Kent Foster) | ||
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10:15 A.M. – 10:30 A.M. |
Coffee break | ||
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10:30 A.M. – 12:15 P.M. |
LOCATION: Room 1915 Session Chair: Roger Barga
Management and Contextualization of Scientific Virtual Appliances – Germán Moltó, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia
SKYINFO – Innovative Technology-Convergence Cloud Application – Matej Hertis, University of Maribor
Domain Specific Cloud Components for General Availability of Cloud Computing to Research – Marco Parenzan, Università degli Studi di Trieste
Towards an Open Service Framework for Cloud-based Knowledge Discovery – Domenico Talia, Università della Calabria |
LOCATION: Room 1919 Session Chair: Kent Foster
Microsoft Codename |
LOCATION: Room 1927 Session Chair: Judith Bishop
Managing the Cloud Infrastructure – Antonio Cisternino, University of Pisa
QoS-aware Clouds – Fabio Panzieri, University of Bologna
A New Class of Services for Cloud Computing: Real-Time Services over Massive and Continuous Data Flows – Ricardo Jimenez-Peris, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid
Cognitive Publish/Subscribe for Heterogeneous Clouds – Sarunas Girdzijauskas, Swedish Institute of Computer Science |
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12:15 P.M. – 1:15 P.M. |
Buffet lunch | ||
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1:15 P.M. – 2:15 P.M. |
LOCATION: Room 1919 Panel Chair: Roger Barga
Panel on Applications for the Cloud Paul Watson, Newcastle University Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia Bertrand Meyer, ETH Zurich Rob Gillen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Savas Parastatidis, Microsoft Corporation | ||
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2:15 P.M. – 4:00 P.M. |
LOCATION: Room 1915 Session Chair: Dennis Gannon
Data and the Cloud.
Experiences using Windows Azure to Process MODIS Satellite Data – Jie Li, University of Virginia
Monitoring and Mining Sensor Data in Cloud Computing Platforms – Wen-Chih Peng, National Chiao Tung University |
LOCATION: Room 1919 Session Chair: Kent Foster
Azure Academic Pilot |
LOCATION: Room 1927 Session Chair: Judith Bishop
Cloud Computing Support for Massively Social Gaming – Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology
CloudStudio: Collaborative, Cloud-Based Software Development – Bertrand Meyer, ETH Zurich
Cloud TV – Karin Breitman, PUC-Rio |
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4:00 P.M. – 5:00 P.M. |
LOCATION: Room 1919 Wrap up | ||
