Autonomic Computing ang Grid Workshop 2009 (Barcelona, Spain)

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Autonomic Computing

GMAC’09: Workshop Grids Meets Autonomic Computing
Barcelona, Spain, 15 June 2009

Associated with the 6th International Conference
on Autonomic Computing & Communications

autonomic.ac.upc.edu/GRIDmeetsAC/

Preliminary call for papers

IMPORTANT DATES

Full paper
23 February 2009

Author notification
23 March 2009

Final manuscripts
6 April 2009

SCOPE

A major technical and societal challenge for the immediate future is the
stabilisation of production grids. Control, maintenance and
optimization of these complex systems is a significant operational
issue.

Autonomic Computing has emerged as a specific scientific domain, with
the strong involvement of industry. The area is highly relevant to grid
systems at a time when production grids have become critical scientific
infrastructures and must move to sustainable models. Considering the
volume and structure of the manpower dedicated to the day-to-day
operations, self-optimization, self-healing and self-configuration could
provide immediate benefits.

At the core of the autonomic computing is the fact that high-level goals
should be exposed by the middleware and should be easily tuned by users
and system administrators. The workshop will contribute to building
bridges between grid researchers on one hand and those in the autonomic
computing community on the other. The focus of the workshop is to
identify key scientific challenges related to the management and
evolution of grids as a specific category of complex large-scale
systems. The goal of the workshop is to promote community wide
discussion of, and collaboration on potentially high-impact ideas that
will influence and foster continued research in improving the
manageability and reliability of grids.

The workshop will feature invited presentations from major grid projects
and Autonomic Computing scientists as well as regular papers and
posters. The format will leave ample time for discussion

PAPER/POSTER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

Full papers (a maximum of 8 pages in length) and posters (2 pages) are
invited. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on merits including
correctness, originality, quality of presentation, and relevance to the
workshop themes. Please see the conference web site for more information
on the submission process. It is expected that the proceedings will be
published by ACM.

ATTENDANCE

At least one author of each accepted submission must attend the
workshop. Registration fee to the workshop is in addition to the ICAC
2009 conference fee.

Catherine Gater
Dissemination Manager (NA2)
European Organization for Nuclear Research

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Background on the EUAsia Grid Project

The Grid and High Performance Computing Research Group, School of Science and Engineering, Ateneo de Manila University is now part of a European Commission 7th Framework Programme -- Research Infrastructures-Capacities (FP7) approved project.

Below are the details:

Project Title: EUASIAGRID - Towards a common e-Science infrastructure for the European and Asian Grids

Over-all Project Leader: Prof. Marco Paganoni, Instituto Nazional di Fisica Nucleare, Milan, Italy

Project Leader for Ateneo de Manila University: Dr. Rafael Saldaña

Project Members:

1. Instituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare (Italy)
2. CESNET, z.s.p.p. (Czhech Republic)
3. University of Manchester (United Kingdom)
4. HealthGrid (France)
5. Ateneo de Manila University (Philippines)
6. The Australian National University (Australia)
7. Academica Sinica (Taiwan)
8. Advanced Science and Technology Institute (Philippines)
9. Hydro and Agro Informatics Institute (Thailand)
10. Infocomm Development Authority (Singapore)
11. Ho Chi Minh City Institute of Information Technology (Vietnam)
12. Institute of Technology of Bandung (Indonesia)
13. National Electronics and Computer Technology Center (Thailand)
14. Universiti Putra Malaysia (Malaysia)
15. MIMOS Berhard (Malaysia)

Abstract:

The EUAsiaGrid project contributes to the aims of the EU Research Infrastructure FP7 Programme by "promoting international interoperation between similar infrastructures with the aim of reinforcing the global relevance and impact of European e-Infrastructure."

The project's main goal will be to pave the way towards an Asian e-Science Grid Infrastructure, in synergy with the other European Grid inititiatives in Asia, namely EGEE-III via its Asia Federation, and both the EUChina GRID and EU-IndiaGRID projects and their eventual follow on efforts. Taking advantage fo the existing global Grid technologies, with the specific emphasis on the European experience with the gLite middleware and applications running on top of it, the project plans to to encourage federating approaches across scientific disciplines and communities. EUAsiaGrid will act as a support action, aiming to define and implement a policy to promote the gLite middleware developed within the EU EGEE project across Asian copuntries. Its main actions will be to spread disemination, provide training, support scientifica applications and monitor the results.

Project Launch: We (the EUAsiaGrid Partners) will have a kick-off meeting in Academica Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan on April 7-11, 2008 during the International Symposium on Grid Computing 2008 (http://www2.twgrid.org/event/isgc2008/ ). I will participate in the Symposium as an invited speaker and give a presentation on our experiences on biomedical applications of Grid Computing.

Our cluster system administrator Allan Espinosa will join me in the project launch in Taiwan.

By:

Rafael Saldaña, Ph.D.
Coordinator
Grid and High Performance Computing Research Group
School of Science and Engineering
Ateneo de Manila University
Loyola Heights, Quezon City 1108
PHILIPPINES
Tel./Fax.: +63 2 4266125
E-mail: raffysaldana@gmail.com
BLOG: http://raffysaldana.blogspot.com/

Dr. Marco Paganoni: EUAsia Grid Kick-off Meeting, 8 April 2008

Marco Paganoni (INFN, Italy)

EUAsia Grid Kick-off Meeting, Taipei, Taiwan, 8 April 2008

EUAsia Grid Project Meeting
3F, Buiding for Humanities and Social Sciences
Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan
13:30 - 17:40, Tuesday, 8 April 2008
13:30 - 18:00, Wednesday, 9 April 2008

PROGRAM

13:30 - 17:40, Tuesday, 8 April 2008

13:30 - 14:15 General Description (Marco Paganoni, Italy)
14:15 - 14:45 Administration (Ludek Matyska, Czech Republic)
14:45 - 14:55 INFN (Marco Paganoni, Italy)
14:55 - 15:05 CESNET (Ludek Matyska, Czech Republic)
15:05 - 15:15 NCeSS (Alexander Voss, Mark Birkin, UK)
15:15 - 15:40 Coffee Break
15:40 - 15:50 HealthGrid (Yannick Legre, France)
15:50 - 16:00 Ateneo de Manila University (Rafael Saldaña, Philippines)
16:00 - 16:10 ANU (George MacLaughlin, Australia) (on behalf of Markus Buckhorn)
16:10 - 16:20 ASGC (Simon Lin/ Eric Yen, Taiwan)
16:20 - 16:30 ASTI (Rey Vincent Babilonia, Philippines)
16:30 - 16:40 HAII (Royol Chitradon, Thailand)
16:40 - 16:50 NGO (Hing-Yen Lee, Singapore) (Remote)
16:50 - 17:00 IOT-HCM (Tran Van Lang/Do Van Long, Vietnam)
17:00 - 17:10 ITB (Basuki Suhardiman, Indonesia)
17:20 - 17:30 UPM (Suhaimi Napis, UPM, Malaysia)
17:30 - 17:40 MIMOS (Jingyuan Luke, Malaysia)