ERCIM News no. 83 (October 2010)

(this call is also availbe at http://ercim-news.ercim.eu/call)

DEADLINE FOR CONTRIBUTIONS: Saturday 28 August 2010

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The sections of ERCIM News 83 (October 2010) are :

* Joint ERCIM Actions
* The European Scene
* Special Theme: "Cloud Computing Platforms, Software, and Applications"
* R&D and Technology Transfer
* Events
* In Brief

/Special Theme:/
*Cloud Computing Platforms, Software, and Applications*

coordinated by:

* Frédéric Desprez, GRAAL/Avalon Research Team, INRIA Grenoble
Rhône-Alpes, LIP ENS Lyon, France ( Frederic.Desprez@inria.fr
< mailto:Frederic.Desprez@inria.fr>
* Ramin Yahyapour, IT and Media Center, TU Dortmund University,
Germany ( Ramin.Yahyapour@tu-dortmund.de
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* Ottmar Krämer-Fuhrmann, Fraunhofer SCAI, Sankt Augustin, Germany (
ottmar.kraemer-fuhrmann@scai.fraunhofer.de
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Short Description

The fast evolution of hardware capabilities with manycore architectures
in combination with fast wide area communication and broad availability
virtualization technologies lead to new challenges and opportunities in
application deployment. This will lead to a general change in the way
how data centers will be managed. Cloud computing is a state of the art
platform for efficient resource and service provisioning. Large scale
platforms based on huge data centers are now available for researchers
of different fields of science as well as private companies. This
variety of platforms and the way they are accessed have an important
impact on how applications are designed (i.e., the programming model
used) as well as how applications are executed (i.e. the
runtime/middleware system used). The access to these platforms is driven
through the use of different services providing core features such as
security, resource discovery, virtualization, load-balancing, etc.

Platform as a Service (PaaS) as well as Software as a Service (SaaS)
play an important role in the future development of large scale
applications. The overall idea is to consider the whole ecosystem,
ranging from resources to applications, as a set of services. Future
application will make use of local and remote services, and will
provide general or specific computational services or access to data
resources.

This ERCIM News special theme invites short articles (about 800 words)
on Cloud Computing platforms, software, frameworks and applications in
the domain of Cloud Computing.

Topics:

* Case studies on Cloud computing platforms
* Programming models and tools
* IaaS, PaaS or SaaS platforms and software
* Cloud applications, development and optimization
* Scheduling, resource provisioning
* Security issues
* Data management in Clouds
* License management in Cloud applications
* Utility computing
* Virtualization technologies
* Cloud computing benchmarks
* Fault tolerance and reliability
* Storage Cloud architectures and implementations
* Standardization.

/Reviewing:/
Articles submitted to the special theme are subject to a review process

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