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Wednesday, Jan 13^th, 2009

Opening Remarks

Sriram Rajamani and Ram Ramjee

Session 1: What is Cloud Computing?

•  “Data Management Challenges in the Cloud” Raghu Ramakrishnan, Chief Scientist for Audience and Cloud Computing, Yahoo Research, USA
•  “Programming Clouds”, Jim Larus, Director, Cloud Computing Futures, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA

Session 2: Distributed Computing 

•  “Reintroducing Consistency: Challenges in Cloud Settings”, Ken Birman, Cornell University, USA
•  “Accountability in Distributed Systems”, Peter Druschel, Max Planck Institute for Software Systems, Germany
•  “Distributed Computing using Dryad”, Mike Isard, Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley, USA

Session 3: Networking 

•  “VPN Extentions for Cloud Services”, T.V. Lakshman, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, Murray Hill, USA
•  “Resource Management in the Cloud”, Alex Snoeren, University of California, San Diego, USA
•  “The Future of Software Radio: Wireless Network Cloud”, Shivkumar Kalyanaraman, IBM Research, Bangalore, India

Signup session

• "Complexity of Weak Consistency Models", Madan Musuvathi, Microsoft Research, Redmond

Thursday, Jan 14^th, 2009

Session 4: Virtualization

• “Virtualization: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly”, S. Keshav, University of Waterloo, Canada
•  “Elastic Provisioning in Virtualized Cloud Platforms”, Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
• “Deriving an Enterprise-wide Server Virtualization Strategy, Challenges and Opportunities” Harrick Vin, TRDDC, India

Session 5: Programming Models I

• “Structuring the Cloud with Orc”, William Cook, UT Austin, USA
•  “Dev 2.0: Model Driven Development in the Cloud”, Gautam Shroff, TCS, India

Session 6: Configuration

•  “Configuring the Cloud: inside and out”, Paul Anderson, University of Edinburgh, U.K.
•  “Formal Methods for Management of the Cloud”, Radu Calinescu, Oxford University, U.K.
• “Finding the Dark Cloud: Static Analysis of Cloud Configurations”, Shriram Krishnamurthy, Brown University, USA

Saturday, Jan 16^th, 2009

Session 7: Programming Models II

•  “The DryadLINQ approach to Distributed Data Parallel Computing”, Yuan Yu, Microsoft Research, Silicon Valley, USA
•  “Finding Liveness Bugs in Distributed Systems”, Ranjit Jhala, University of California, San Diego, USA

Session 8: Customer Perspectives 

•  “Cloud Computing – An Enterprise Perspective”, Raghavan Subramanian, Infosys, India
•  “Cloud Computing Applications for Logistics”, Jakob Rehof, Fraunhofer Institute, Germany

 Additional material from participants

• "VM Interference and Placement for Server Consolidation", Umesh Bellur, IIT Bombay