2nd International Workshop on Cloud Computing Applications (IWCA)

Theme:    Designing and scalable and high-performance applications for cloud.

Cloud Computing and its promise of scale, elasticity, and “pay-as-you-go” pricing models, presents an attractive proposition to corporate IT, academic researchers, as well as individual software application developers. Cloud is not just another new platform to develop and host applications, it presents opportunity to leverage unprecedented scale and performance at a reasonable cost. To harness the true potential of Cloud in terms of scalability and agility, one needs to rethink the way applications are architected and developed. Decisions across the different cloud layers – virtual machines to the app-services to data – have significant implications on an application’s behaviour in the cloud.

Many large-scale batch and HPC workloads are now being developed in Cloud. Architecture for Extreme Transaction Processing (with millions of read-write operations per minute) applications on cloud is evolving. Processing of large volume of data in so called “Big Data” paradigm is also getting hosted on cloud. So are large scale collaboration, gaming and content delivery networks.

This workshop invites papers in the broad area of Cloud Computing Applications across, but not limited to, the various research areas mentioned below. We welcome theoretical research treatise as well as practitioner reports. The workshop will also try to organize a good quality keynote presentation and a discussion panel on Cloud Application challenges.

Topics

• Handling scalability, availability and failure tolerance
• Workload migration to cloud
• Dealing with multi-tenancy in the platform and databases
• Data locality and  placement aware computation
• Event-driven programming paradigms
• Benchmarking and profiling applications on cloud
• Caching and replication
• Writing effective map-reduce code
• Monitoring and Performance Management

Important Dates

• July 15 - Paper Submission deadline
• August 15 - Author Notification
  
• August 25 - Camera ready paper deadline
  
• December 18 - Workshop date
  

Submissions

In this workshop, we invite both researchers and the practitioners to share their works, findings and experiences on the above topics. We seek submission of high-quality and original research works. The manuscripts should not be under review at any other conference / workshop. Please do not exceed eight (8) pages following the IEEE paper formatting guidelines (at http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/authors/author_submission.html). Each paper will be reviewed by at least two reviewers. Accepted papers will be published in the electronic proceedings of HiPC and will be indexed and available at IEEE Digital Library publication site. Please submit your work at EasyChair ( https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwca2013). Do not use the HiPC Conference submission system. In case you have difficulty using EasyChair, you can also directly mail your manuscript to the workshop co-chairs.

Please note that HiPC has mandated that atleast one of the authors of the selected workshop paper (preferably the presenting author) should REGISTER before submitting the CAMERA READY version of their paper.

Workshop Schedule

Program Co-Chairs

• Shubhashis Sengupta, Accenture, India
  Shubhashis dot Sengupta at accenture dot com
  
• Vikrant Kaulgud, Accenture, India
  vikrant dot kaulgud at accenture dot com
  
• Vibhu Sharma, Accenture, India
  vibhu dot sharma at accenture dot com
  

Technical Program Committee