Conferences

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Highly relevant venues
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First ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC)
June 10 & 11, 2010, Indianapolis
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/socc

SOSP -- OS - Oct 2009 (http://www.sigops.org/sosp/sosp09/index.html)
also the LADIS workshop colocated with SOSP
(http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/ladis2009/)

Micro -- computer architecture and systems - Dec 2009
(http://www.microarch.org/micro42/)

FAST -- storage -- Feb 2010 (http://www.usenix.org/event/fast10/)
ASPLOS -- architecture, OS and language -- Mar. 2010
(http://www.ece.cmu.edu/CALCM/asplos10/doku.php)
EuroSys -- OS and general systems -- Apr 2010
(http://eurosys2010.sigops-france.fr/)
HPCA -- architecture -- Jan 2010
(http://www.cse.psu.edu/hpcl/hpca16.html)
WWW -- world wide web -- Apr. 2010 (http://www2010.org/www/)

OSDI -- USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation
- OSDI'10: Oct 4-6, http://www.usenix.org/event/osdi10/

Related conferences and workshops
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International Conference on Cloud Computing
http://www.cloudcomp.eu/index.shtml

HotNets: http://www.sigcomm.org/learn/hotnets-workshop

SC: the ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC)
http://www.supercomputing.org/

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First ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SOCC)
June 10 & 11, 2010, Indianapolis
https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/socc

CFP
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The ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2010 (ACM SOCC 2010) is the first in a new series of symposia with the aim of bringing together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners interested in cloud computing. This series is co-sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Groups on Management of Data (ACM SIGMOD) and on Operating Systems (ACM SIGOPS). ACM SOCC will be held in conjunction with ACM SIGMOD and ACM SOSP Conferences in alternate years, starting with ACM SIGMOD in 2010.

The scope of SOCC Symposia will be broad and will encompass diverse systems topics such as software as a service, virtualization, and scalable cloud data services. Many facets of systems and data management issues will need to be revisited in the context of cloud computing. Suggested topics for paper submissions include but are not limited to:

Administration and Manageability Data Privacy
Data Services Architectures Distributed and Parallel Query Processing
Energy Management Geographic Distribution
Grid Computing High Availability and Reliability
Infrastructure Technologies Large Scale Cloud Applications
Multi-tenancy Provisioning and Metering
Resource management and Performance Scientific Data Management
Security of Services Service Level Agreements
Storage Architectures Transactional Models
Virtualization Technologies


Important Dates
Paper Submission: Jan 15, 2010
Notification: Feb 22, 2010
Camera-Ready: Mar 22, 2010

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Micro -- computer architecture and systems - Dec 2009
(http://www.microarch.org/micro42/)

FAST -- storage -- Feb 2010 (http://www.usenix.org/event/fast10/)
ASPLOS -- architecture, OS and language -- Mar. 2010
(http://www.ece.cmu.edu/CALCM/asplos10/doku.php)
EuroSys -- OS and general systems -- Apr 2010
(http://eurosys2010.sigops-france.fr/)
HPCA -- architecture -- Jan 2010
(http://www.cse.psu.edu/hpcl/hpca16.html)
WWW -- world wide web -- Apr. 2010 (http://www2010.org/www/)

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International Conference on Cloud Computing and Virtualization 2010
(CCV 2010)
17th - 18th May 2010
Singapore

Abstract submission deadline: around Jan 29
http://www.cloudcomputingconf.org

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CFP: First International Workshop on Security and Privacy in Cloud Computing
(ICDCS-SPCC)

http://www.ece.iit.edu/~ubisec/workshop.htm


Cloud computing has recently emerged as a new information technology
infrastructure. In cloud computing, information is permanently stored in
large data centers on the Internet and temporarily accessed and cached on
clients that include desktops and portable PCs, sensors, etc. With the
"cloud" as a metaphor for the Internet, cloud computing promises to deliver
massively scalable IT-enabled data, software, and hardware capabilities as a
service to external clients using Internet technologies. Cloud computing has
been envisioned as the key technology to achieve economies of scale in the
deployment and operation of IT solutions.

Cloud computing has unique attributes that raise many security and privacy
challenges in areas such as data security, recovery, and privacy, as well as
legal issues in areas such as regulatory compliance and auditing. In
contrast to traditional enterprise IT solutions, where the IT services are
under proper physical, logical and personnel controls, cloud computing moves
the application software and databases to the servers in large data centers
on the Internet, where the management of the data and services are not fully
trustworthy. When clients store their data on the server without themselves
possessing a copy of it, how the integrity of the data can be ensured if the
server is not fully trustworthy? Will encryption solve the data
confidentiality problem of sensitive data? How will encryption affect
dynamic data operations such as query, insertion, modification, and
deletion? Data in the cloud is typically in a shared environment alongside
data from other clients. How the data segregation should be done, while data
are stored, executed, and transmitted? How the virtulized resources is being
managed and secured in the cloud? Due to the fundamental paradigm shift in
cloud computing, many security concerns have to be better understood,
unanticipated vulnerabilities identified, and viable solutions to critical
threats devised, before the wide deployment of cloud computing techniques
can take place. Topics of interests include (but are not limited to) the
following subject categories:


Secure management of virtualized cloud resources

Secure network architecture for cloud computing

Joint security and privacy aware cloud protocol design

Access control and key management

Trust and policy management in clouds

Identification and privacy in cloud

Remote data integrity protection

Secure computation outsourcing

Dynamic data operation security

Software and data segregation security

Failure detection and prediction

Secure data management within and across data centers

Availability, recovery and auditing

Secure wireless cloud

Both regular research papers and position papers that define new problems in
cloud computing security or provide visions and clarifications of cloud
computing security are solicited. Additionally, short research papers that
describe work-in-progress ideas are also welcome.


Time Table

Manuscript submission: January 22, 2010

Acceptance notification: Feburary 28, 2010

Final Manuscript due: March 15, 2010

Paper Submission

Form of Manucript: All paper submissions should follow the IEEE 8.5" x 11"
Two-Column Format. Each submission can have 10 pages plus up to 2
over-length pages. If the paper is accepted for publication, an over-length
fee will be charged to each of the over-length pages, at $200 per page in
the final camera-ready version. The short papers, on the other hand, are
allowed to be up to 5 pages.

Electronic Submission: https://www.easychair.org/login.cgi?conf=spcc20100

Organizing Committees

Program Co-chairs

Peng Ning, North Carolina State University

Wenjing Lou, Worcester Polytechnic Institute


Publicity Chair

Kui Ren, Illinois Institute of Technology


Technical Program Committee

Vasanth Bala, IBM T.J. Watson Research

Guohong Cao, The Pennsylvania State University

Hao Chen, UC Davis

Shigang Chen, University of Florida

Bruno Crispo, University of Trento

Weidong Cui, Microsoft Research

Roberto Di Pietro, Universitat Rovira i Virgili

Dong Xuan, The Ohio State University

Yong Guan, Iowa State University

Xuxian Jiang, North Carolina State University

Yongdae Kim, University of Minnesota at Twin Cities

Wenke Lee, Georgia Institute of Technology

Karl Levitt, UC Davis

Refik Molva, EURECOM

Peter Muller, IBM Zurich Research

Cristina Nita-Rotaru, Purdue University

Alina Oprea, RSA Laboratories

Michael Reiter, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Kui Ren, Illinois Institute of Technology

Mark Ryan, University of Birmingham

Pierangela Samarati, Universit‡ degli Studi di Milano

Wade Trappe, Rutgers University

Mladen Vouk, North Carolina State University

Cliff Wang, US Army Research Office

Guilin Wang, University of Birmingham

Xinyuan Wang, George Mason University

Samuel Weber, National Science Foundation

Tilman Wolf, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Dongyan Xu, Purdue University

Lok-Kwong Yan, US Air Force Research Laboratory

Moti Yung, Google Inc.

Xiaolan Zhang, IBM T.J. Watson Research


Steering Committee

Peng Ning, North Carolina State University (Chair)

Jeffrey Chase, Duke University

David Du, University of Minnesota

Ari Juels, RSA Laboratories

Wenjing Lou, Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Michael Reiter, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Moti Yung, Google Inc.

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(Abbreviated from http://www.usenix.org/event/osdi10/cfp/ )

9th USENIX Symposium on Operating Systems Design and Implementation (OSDI '10)

October 4–6, 2010
Vancouver, BC, Canada

Sponsored by USENIX in cooperation with ACM SIGOPS

Important Dates


Complete paper submissions due: Friday, May 7, 2010, 9:00 p.m. PDT
Notification of acceptance: Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Final papers due: Tuesday, August 31, 2010
Posters due: TBA
WiP reports due: TBA


Symposium Organizers

Program Co-Chairs
Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Brad Chen, Google, Inc.

Program Committee
Dave Andersen, Carnegie Mellon University
Emery Berger, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Felipe Cabrera, Amazon.com
George Candea, EPFL
Bryan Cantrill, Sun Microsystems, Inc.
Pei Cao, Google, Inc.
Robert M. English, Facebook, Inc.
Bryan Ford, Yale University
Michael J. Freedman, Princeton University
Kim Hazelwood, University of Virginia
Jon Howell, Microsoft Research
Wilson Hsieh, Google, Inc.
Michael Isard, Microsoft Research
Brad Karp, University College London
Randy Katz, University of California, Berkeley
Sam King, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Hank Levy, University of Washington
Shan Lu, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Ed Nightingale, Microsoft Research
Christopher Olston, Yahoo! Research
Adrian Perrig, Carnegie Mellon University
Vijayan Prabhakaran, Microsoft Research
Mendel Rosenblum, Stanford University
Jiri Schindler, NetApp, Inc.
Bianca Schroeder, University of Toronto
Emin Gün Sirer, Cornell University
Amin Vahdat, University of California, San Diego
Carl Waldspurger, VMware
Emmett Witchel, University of Texas, Austin
Jay Wylie, HP Labs
Junfeng Yang, Columbia University
Nickolai Zeldovich, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lidong Zhou, Microsoft Research

Steering Committee
Richard Draves, Microsoft Research
Margo Seltzer, Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences
Robbert van Renesse, Cornell University
Ellie Young, USENIX

Overview

The ninth OSDI seeks to present innovative, exciting research in computer systems. OSDI brings together professionals from academic and industrial backgrounds in what has become a premier forum for discussing the design, implementation, and implications of systems software.

The OSDI Symposium emphasizes innovative research as well as quantified or insightful experiences in systems design and implementation. OSDI takes a broad view of the systems area and solicits contributions from many fields of systems practice, including, but not limited to, operating systems, file and storage systems, distributed systems, mobile systems, secure systems, embedded systems, virtualization, networking as it relates to operating systems, and the interaction of hardware and software development. We particularly encourage contributions containing highly original ideas, new approaches, and/or groundbreaking results.

Submitting a Paper

Submissions will be judged on originality, significance, interest, clarity, relevance, and correctness. Accepted papers will be shepherded through an editorial review process by a member of the program committee.

A good paper will:

consider a significant problem
propose an interesting, compelling solution
demonstrate the practicality and benefits of the solution
draw appropriate conclusions
clearly describe what the authors have done
clearly articulate the advances beyond previous work

All papers will be available online to registered attendees before the conference. If your accepted paper should not be published prior to the event, please notify production@usenix.org. The papers will be available online to everyone beginning on the first day of the conference, October 4, 2010.

Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. All submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication on the USENIX OSDI '10 Web site; rejected submissions will be permanently treated as confidential.

In addition to citing relevant, published work, authors should relate their OSDI submissions to relevant submissions of their own that are simultaneously under review for other venues. The OSDI PC reserves the right to ask authors to provide copies of related simultaneously submitted papers.

Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. USENIX, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may, on the recommendation of a program chair, take action against authors who have committed them. See the USENIX Conference Submissions Policy for details. Questions? Contact your program co-chairs, osdi10chairs@usenix.org, or the USENIX office, submissionspolicy@usenix.org.

One author per paper will receive a registration discount. USENIX will offer a complimentary registration upon request.

Deadline and Submission Instructions

Authors are required to submit full papers by 9:00 p.m. PDT on Friday, May 7, 2010. This is a hard deadline—no extensions will be given.

Submitted papers must be no longer than 12 single-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages, including figures and tables, plus as many pages as needed for references, using 10 point type on 12 point (single-spaced) leading, two-column format, Times Roman or a similar font, within a text block 6.5" wide x 9" deep. Papers not meeting these criteria will be rejected without review, and no deadline extensions will be granted for reformatting. Pages should be numbered, and figures and tables should be legible in black and white, without requiring magnification. Papers so short as to be considered "extended abstracts" will not receive full consideration.

Papers must be in PDF format and must be submitted via the Web submission form, which will be available here soon.

The title and author name(s) and affiliation(s) should appear on the first page of the submitted paper. (Reviewing is not blind.)

For more details on the submission process, and for templates to use with LaTeX, Word, etc., authors should consult the detailed submission requirements.

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Symposium on High-Performance Interconnects

August 18-19, 2010
On the Google campus, Mountain View, CA in 2010.

Join us for our 18th year! of an information packed three day Symposium about the latest in High Performance Interconnects. IEEE Hot Interconnects is the premier international forum for researchers and developers of state-of-the-art hardware and software architectures and implementations for interconnection networks of all scales, ranging from multi-core on-chip interconnects to those within systems, clusters, and data centers. Leaders in industry and academia attend the conference to interact with individuals at the forefront of this field.

Two days of technical sessions led by Fabrizio Petrini from IBM TJ Watson and Dennis Abts of Google, our 2010 General Co-Chairs, plus a day of tutorials to keep you on top of the latest industry developments and academic laboratories.

Our objective is to address the Networking and Supercomputing families. This year we are proud to have Ron Brightwell with Sandia National Laboratories, Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratories, and Cyriel Minkenberg, IBM Zurich, as our 2010 IEEE Hot Interconnects Program Co-Chairs.

We have four distinguished keynotes: Pradeep Sindhu of Juniper Networks will speak about "Scaling the Internal Data Center Network". We also have Steve Yatko from Cresting Wave. Additional keynote information will be announced.

We hope you can join us and benefit not only by the content, but also by the networking opportunities this event always offers.