Open Cirrus Summit 2011

Open Cirrus Summit 2011

The 6th International Event
October 12-13, 2011, Atlanta, Georgia
Hosted by the Center for Experimental Research
in Computer Systems (CERCS) at
Georgia Tech

opencirrus.org

Introduction

Open Cirrus is an open cloud-computing research testbed designed to support research in the design, provisioning, and management of services at a global, multi-datacenter scale. The open nature of the testbed is designed to encourage research into all aspects of service and datacenter management. In addition, we hope to foster a collaborative community that aims to share tools, lessons, and best practices, and ways to benchmark and compare alternative approaches to service management at datacenter scale.

Papers are solicited in, but not limited to the following areas:

Availability

Data-intensive computing
Hadoop
High-performance computing
Large scale and geographically distributed Cloud Services
Manageability
Provisioning and metering
Resource management
Security
Storage
Sustainability
Virtualization
And other Cloud computing related technologies

In addition to the topics listed above, the committee is explicitly soliciting submissions -- in the form of papers, posters, and demos -- related to multi-datacenter distributed cloud services, applications, and usecases. Poster and demo submissions will be handled separately from the conference paper submissions. The best ideas, implementations and results related to this cross-site challenge will be recognized and awarded.

The proceedings of Open Cirrus Summit 2011 will be published by the IEEE Communication Society. Papers should be no longer than five (5) pages (including abstract, all figures, all tables, and references), typeset in two-column format, and have a minimum font size of 11pt.

Important Dates

Full paper submission due: (extended) August 18, 2011 (23:59 EST)
Author notification: August 31, 2011
Camera-ready version due: September 15, 2011
Poster submission due: TBA
Demo submission due: TBA