The 11th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2011) announces its call for papers, due Nov. 30, 2010. The event, which takes place May 23-26, 2011, in Newport Beach, California, is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society / Technical Committee on Scalable Computing / ACM.

Submission Deadline

• Nov 30, 2010 -- main conference contributions
• Oct 05, 2010 -- workshop proposals

Overview/Scope

Advances in processing, communication and systems/middleware technologies are leading to new paradigms and platforms for computing, ranging from computing clusters to widely distributed grids and clouds.

Cluster computing continues to be a key resource for high-performance computing, and a fundamental element in grid and cloud computing deployments. Grid computing has effectively addressed many integration, security, and heterogeneity aspects arising from larger-scale virtual organizations. The cloud computing paradigm promises on-demand scalability, reliability, and cost-effective high-performance.

CCGrid is a series of successful conferences, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and ACM, with the overarching goal of bringing together international researchers, developers, and users and to provide an international forum to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these platforms and paradigms and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations.

In 2011, CCGrid will return to the US, where it was last held in 2004. CCGrid 2011 will have a special focus on four important and immediate issues that are significantly influencing all aspects of cluster, cloud and grid computing: Adaptive Elastic Computing, Green Computing, Virtualization, and GP-GPU Computing.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Paradigms and Technologies: System architectures, Design and deployment; Programming models, language, systems and tools/environments; Virtualization; Middleware technologies; Volunteer Computing; Enterprise, HPC, Hybrid Clouds; GP-GPU Computing.
   
• Service-Orientation: Service oriented architectures; Utility computing models; *aaS paradigm; Service composition and orchestration.
   
• Autonomic Management: Self-* behaviors, models and technologies; Autonomic paradigms and approaches (control-based, bio-inspired, emergent, etc.); Bio-inspired approaches to management; SLA definition and enforcement; Adaptive elastic distributed computing.
   
• Greening: Environment friendly computing ecosystems; Hardware/software/application energy efficiency; Power and cooling; Thermal/power awareness.
   
• Virtualization: Virtual machine technologies; VM migration and reconfiguration; Virtual networks; Virtual machine images and optimization techniques.
   
• GP-GPU Computing: Programming technology for General-Purpose GPU Computing; Heterogeneous CPU/GPU computing; GPU Grids and Clouds.
   
• Monitoring and Evaluation: Performance models; Monitoring and evaluation tools; Analysis of system/application performance; Benchmarks and testbeds; Workload characterization and modeling.
   
• Economic Aspects: Utility models and computing economies; Economic-based models and approaches.
   
• Security and Trust: Cloud/Grid security and trust; Access control; Data privacy and integrity; Regulation.
   
• Applications and Experiences: Applications to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business, and society; User studies; Support for social networks and massively multiplayer online games; Experiences with large-scale deployments of systems or applications.

Paper Submission

Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings (print area of 6-1/2 inches (16.51 cm) wide by 8-7/8 inches (22.51 cm) high, two-column format with columns 3-1/16 inches (7.85 cm) wide with a 3/8 inch (0.81 cm) space between them, single-spaced 10-point Times fully justified text). Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format and make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses letter size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the meeting is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees.

Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the conference PC Chair for more information. The proceedings will be published through the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA, and will be made online through the IEEE Digital Library.

Important Dates

Nov 30, 2010 -- Submission of main conference contributions
Jan 25, 2011 -- Author notification
Oct 05, 2010 -- Submission of workshop proposal
Oct 10, 2010 -- Workshop proposal notification
Feb 15, 2011 -- Camera-ready version of accepted contributions
May 23-24, 2011 -- Workshops
May 23-26, 2011 -- Main conference

Journal Special Issue

Highly rated Top 5 papers from the CCGrid 2011 conference will be selected for publication in a special issue of the Future Generation Computer Systems Journal published by Elsevier Press.

Call For Workshop Proposals

CCGrid 2011 is inviting proposals for organising of co-located and peer-reviewed workshops on emerging topics.

Chairs & Committees

General co-Chairs:
Nalini Venkatasubramanian, UC Irvine, USA
Craig Lee, Aerospace Corp., USA

Program Committee Chair:
Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA

Program Committee Vice Chairs:

 Algorithms and Applications
 Kenjiro Taura, U. Tokyo, Japan

 Middleware, Autonomic Computing, and Cyberinfrastructure
 Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA

 Performance Modeling and Evaluation
 Henri Casanova, U. Hawaii, USA

 Programming Models and Systems
 Gul Agha, UIUC, USA

 Scalable Heterogeneous Fault-Tolerant Computing
 David Anderson, UC Berkeley, USA

 Scheduling and Resource Management
 Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Lab, USA

Program Committee Members (partial list):

Sheri Abdelwahed Mississippi State University United States
Ahmad Afsahi Queen's University Canada
Gagan Agrawal Ohio State University United States
Kento Aida National Institute of Informatics Japan
Jorn Altmann Seoul National University Korea
Geoff Arnold Huawei China
David Bader Georgia Institute of Technology United States
Henri Bal Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Netherlands
Carlos Jaime Barrios Universidad Industrial de Santander Colombia
Viraj Bhat Yahoo United States
Ivona Brandic Vienna University of Technology Austria
Franck Cappello INRIA and UIUC France / United States
Harold Castro Universidad de Los Andes Colombia
Brad Chamberlain Cray United States
Yong Chen Oak Ridge National Laboratory United States
Eunmi Choi Kookmin Korea
Michael Cummings University of Maryland United States
Ewa Deelman University of Southern California United States
Travis Desell Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute United States
Frédéric Desprez LIP/INRIA France
Zhihui Du Tsinghua University China
Kaoutar El-Maghraoui IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab United States
Erik Elmroth Umeå University Sweden
Toshio Endo Tokyo Institute of Technology Japan
Dick Epema Technische Universiteit Delft Netherlands
Thomas Fahringer University of Innsbruck Austria
Gilles Fedak INRIA France
Wu-chun Feng Virginia Tech United States
John Field IBM T.J. Watson Research Lab United States
Renato Figueiredo University of Florida United States
Jose Fortes University of Florida United States
Geoffrey Fox Indiana University United States
Keiichiro Fukazawa Kyushu University Japan
Saurabh Kumar Garg University of Melbourne Australia
Ada Gavrilovska Georgia Institute of Technology United States
Michael Gerndt Technishe Universitaet Muenchen Germany
Cécile Germain-Renaud Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique (LRI) France
Daniel Gonzalez Univ. of Extremadura Spain
Ganesh Gopalakrishnan University of Utah United States
William Gropp UIUC United States
Bob Grossman UIC United States
Seif Haridi KTH Stockholm Sweden
Kenneth Hawick Massey University - Albany New Zealand
Torsten Hoefler NCSA United States
Marty Humphrey University of Virginia United States
Alexandru Iosup Delft University of Technology Netherlands
TakeshiIwashita Kyoto University Japan
Shantenu Jha Louisiana State University United States
Hai Jin Huazhong University of Science and Technology China
Krishna Kant NSF United States
Takahiro Katagiri University of Tokyo Japan
Kate Keahey Argonne National Laboratory United States
Thilo Kielmann Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam Netherlands
Hyunjoo Kim Rutgers University United States
Derrick Kondo INRIA France
Adam Kornafeld Worcester Polytechnic Institute United States
Arnaud Legrand INRIA France
Laurent Lefevre INRIA France
Xiaolin Li University of Florida United States
Satoshi Matsuoka Tokyo Institute of Tech. Japan
Guillaume Mercier INRIA France
Hidemoto Nakada AIST Japan
Charles Norton JPL/NASA United States
Scott Pakin Los Alamos National Laboratory United States
Dhabaleswar K. Panda Ohio State University United States
Suraj Pandey University of Melbourne Australia
Anjaneyulu Pasala Infosys India
Martin Quinson University of Nancy France
Rajiv Ranjan University of Melbourne Australia
Ivan Rodero Rutgers University United States
Massoud Sadjadi Florida International University United States
Joel Saltz Emory University United States
Martin Schulz Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory United States
Bruno Schulze LNCC Brazil
Naveen Sharma Xerox Innovation Group United States
Mark Silberstein Technion Israel
Jaspal Subhlok University of Houston United States
Frédéric Suter CNRS France
Shivasubramanian Swami Amazon Inc. United States
Michela Taufer University of Delaware United States
Rajeev Thakur Argonne National Laboratory United States
Vinod Tipparaju Oak Ridge National Laboratory United States
Jordi Torres Technical University of Catalonia Spain
Sathish Vadhiyar Indian Institute of Science India
Srikumar Venugopal The University of New South Wales Australia
Deepak Vij Huawei China
Abhinav Vishnu Pacific Northwest National Laboratory United States
Wei-Jen Wang National Central University Taiwan
Jon B. Weissman University of Minnesota United States
Matt Wolf Georgia Institute of Technology United States
Jan-Jan Wu Academia Sinica Taiwan
Albert Zomaya University of Sydney Australia