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 CALL FOR PAPERS
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                                 CCGrid 2015
    15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing
                                May 4-7, 2015
                               Shenzhen, China
                      http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/
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Rapid advances in architectures, networks, and systems and middleware technologies
are leading to new concepts and platforms for computing, ranging from Clusters and
Grids to Clouds and Datacenters. The 15th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium
in Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2015) is a forum bringing together
international researchers, developers, and practitioners to present leading research
activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these concepts and
platforms, and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical
presentations, workshops, and posters, as well as the Doctoral Symposium and the
SCALE challenge, featuring live demonstrations.

In 2015, CCGrid will return to China and be held in Shenzhen in the Pearl River Delta,
China's fifth largest city. The main conference will be held on May 5-7, 2015,
with affiliated workshops taking place on May 4, 2015.

All papers presented at the main conference and workshops of IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2015
will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for publication and EI indexing.

IMPORTANT DATES (Anywhere on Earth)
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Papers Due: October 27, 2014
Author Notifications: January 15, 2015
Camera Ready Papers Due: March 20, 2015

TOPICS OF INTEREST
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CCGrid 2015 will have a focus on important and immediate issues that are
significantly influencing all aspects of cluster, cloud and grid
computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

- Applications:
    Applications of new computing concepts and platforms to real and complex problems
    in science, engineering, business, and society; User studies; Experiences with
    large-scale deployments, systems, or applications; Application-level security
- Architecture:
    Design and use of emergent system architectures including but not limited to
    accelerators; Multicores; Security and reliability; High availability solutions
- Autonomic Computing, Datacenters, and Advanced Cyberinfrastructure:
    Self-managed behavior, models and technologies; Autonomic paradigms and systems
    (control-based, bio-inspired, emergent, etc.); Development, evaluation, and
    optimization of large-scale cloud, grid, and HPC architectures;
    Datacenter-level security
- Cloud Computing:
    Software tools and techniques for clouds
- Performance Modeling, Analysis, and Evaluation:
    Prediction of speed, time, energy, etc.; Modeling and analysis;
    Monitoring and evaluation tools; Benchmarks and testbeds
- Programming Models and Runtime Systems:
    Programming models, systems software and environments for cluster, cloud, and
    grid computing; Fault-tolerant systems, programs and algorithms; MapReduce
    model and implementation; programming and runtime optimizations for VM environments
- Scheduling and Resource Management:
    Techniques to schedule jobs and resources on cluster, cloud, and grid
    computing platforms; SLA definition and enforcement
- Storage and I/O:
    System design and optimization for data storage and processing in cluster
    and cloud environments

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF format.
Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may
not exceed 10 letter-size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and
references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Submissions
not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. The
official language of the conference is English. All manuscripts will be
reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength,
significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the
conference attendees.

Paper submissions are limited to 10 pages in 2-column IEEE format
including all figures and references. Submitted manuscripts exceeding
this limit will be returned without review. For the final camera-ready
version, authors with accepted papers may purchase additional pages at
the following rates: 100 USD for each of the first two additional pages;
200 USD for each of the third and fourth additional pages.

Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not
currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not
following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further
action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to
the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the
conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding the page
limit, or not appropriately structured may not be considered. Authors may
contact the conference chairs for more information. The proceedings will
be published through the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services.

The paper submission online system is https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccgrid2015.

JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
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A special issue of Future Generation Computing Systems
(FGCS, http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems)
will invite extended versions of the top 10-15 CCGrid 2015 papers. Authors
of these papers will be notified of this opportunity by the CCGrid Program
Co-chairs, who will be the editors of this special issue.

CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS, POSTERS, DOCTORAL SYMPOSIUM, AND SCALE CHALLENGE
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Workshops affiliated with CCGrid 2015 will be held on May 4, 2015. Poster
presentations will be done during the main conference dates on May 5, 2015.
The Doctoral Symposium and the SCALE Challenge will held during the main
conference, May 5-7, 2015.

For more information on the workshops, posters, and doctoral symposium,
see the following links:
- Workshops: http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/call-workshops.html
- Posters: http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/call-posters.html
- Doctoral Symposium: http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/call-doctoral.html
- SCALE Challenge: http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/call-scale.html

Organization
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Honorary General Chair
    Jianping Fan, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

General Chairs
    Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
    Cheng-zhong Xu, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China &
                    Wayne State University, USA

Program Committee Chairs
    Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
    Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA

Program Committee Tracks and Vice-Chairs
    APPLICATIONS
        Gabrielle Allen, University of Illinois, USA
    ARCHITECTURE
        Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
    AUTONOMIC COMPUTING, DATACENTERS, and ADVANCED CYBERINFRASTUCTURE
        Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
    CLOUD COMPUTING
        Kate Keahey, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
    PERFORMANCE MODELING, ANALYSIS, and EVALUATION
        Darren Kerbyson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
    PROGRAMMING MODELS and RUNTIME SYSTEMS
        Qing Yi, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, USA
        Xipeng Shen, College of William & Mary, USA
    SCHEDULING and RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
        Peter Troger, Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam, Germany
    STORAGE and I/O
        Toni Cortes, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
        Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

Poster Chair
    Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Houston, USA

Proceedings Chair
    Yanjie Wei, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Workshop Co-chairs
    Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand
    Kun Yang, Essex University, UK

Doctoral Symposium Co-chairs
    Lisong Xu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA
    Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, China

SCALE Challenge Co-chairs
    Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Sciences, India
    James Lin, Shanghai Jiao-Tong University, China

Publicity Co-chairs
    Junchao Zhang, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
    Kenli Li, Hunan University, China

Sponsor/Exhibitors Co-chairs
    Yong Chen, Texas Tech University, USA
    Yunquan Zhang, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Local Arrangements Co-chairs
    Shengzheng Feng, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
    Zhibin Yu, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Web Co-chairs
    Huiwei Lu, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
    Dong Lin, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

Finance and Registration Co-chairs
    Zhangqiong Huo, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
    Mary Dzielski, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
    Sangmin Seo, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

Technical Program Committee
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APPLICATIONS
    Metin Aktulga, Michigan State University, USA
    Bill Barth, Texas Advanced Computing Center, USA
    Costas Bekas, IBM Research-Zurich, Switzerland
    Sanjukta Bhowmick, University of Nebraska, USA
    Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Houston, USA
    Yifeng Chen, Peking University, China
    Alfredo Cuzzocrea,  ICAR-CNR & University of Calabria, Italy
    Frederic Desprez, INRIA, France
    Adriana Iamnitchi, University of South Florida, USA
    Frank Loeffler, Louisiana State University, USA
    Hai Ah Nam, Oak Ridge National Laboratory,  USA
    Esmond Ng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
    Judy Qiu, Indiana University, USA
    Ashok Srinivasan, Florida State University, USA
    Matthew Turk, University of Illinois, USA
    Rio Yokota, KAUST, Saudia Arabia

ARCHITECTURE
    Michela Becchi, University of Missouri, USA
    Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA
    Kirk Cameron, Virginia Tech, USA
    Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua University, China
    Toshio Endo, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan
    Wu Feng, Virginia Tech, USA
    Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich, Switzerland
    Michihiro Koibuchi, National Institute of Informatics, Japan
    Masaaki Kondo, The University of Tokyo, Japan
    Akira Naruse, NVIDIA, Japan
    Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA
    John Shalf, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA
    Cadambi Srihari, NEC Labs America Inc., USA
    Shinji Sumimoto, Fujitsu Laboratories, Japan
    Guangming Tan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
    Keith Underwood, Intel, USA
    Jeff Vetter, Oak Ridge National Lab / Georgia Tech, USA
    Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA

AUTONOMIC COMPUTING, DATACENTERS, and ADVANCED CYBERINFRASTUCTURE
    Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputing Center, USA
    Amy Apon, Clemson University, USA
    Umesh Bellur, Indian Institute of Technology, USA
    Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA
    Ann Chervenak, University of Southern California, USA
    Neil Chue Hong, Software Sustainability Institute, UK
    Paolo Costa, Microsoft Research, UK
    Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, USA
    Liana Fong, IBM, USA
    Giancarlo Fortino, University of Calabria, Italy
    Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
    Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster, UK
    Salima Hassas, LIRIS, France
    Dieter Kranzlmuller, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen, Germany
    Gregor von Laszewski, Indiana University, USA
    Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France
    Xiaolin Li, University of Florida, USA
    Xiaosong Ma, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar
    Julie McCann, Imperial College, UK
    Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame, USA
    Shrideep Pallickara, Colorado State University, USA
    Marlon Pierce, Indiana University, USA
    Jean-Marc Pierson, Universite Paul Sabatier, France
    Andres Quiroz, Xerox, USA
    Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
    Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA
    Masoud Sadjadi, Florida International University, USA
    John Shalf, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA
    Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA
    Alan Sill, Texas Tech University, USA
    Shu Tao, IBM, USA
    Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain
    Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
    Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota, USA
    Tim Wood, George Washington University, USA
    Ming Zhao, Florida International University, USA
    Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware, USA

CLOUD COMPUTING
    Gabriel Antoniu, INRIA, France
    Susanne Balle, HP, USA
    Jim Basney, NCSA, USA
    Tekin Bicer, Argonne National Lab, USA
    Vincent Breton, CNRS-IN2P3, France
    Young-Ri Choi, UNIST, Korea
    Minh Dinh, The University of Queensland, Australia
    Gilles Fedak, INRIA & University of Lyon, France
    Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
    Marc Frincu, University of Southern California, USA
    Kartik Gopalan, Binghamton University, USA
    Madhusudhan Govindaraju, Binghamton University, USA
    Abhishek Gupta, University of Illinois, USA
    Soonwook Hwang, KISTI, Korea
    Alexandru Iosup, University of Delft, Netherlands
    Shantenu Jha, Rutgers University, USA
    Jens Jensen, Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK
    Chao Jin, The University of Queensland, Australia
    Michael Kozuch, Intel, USA
    James Lin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
    Bogdan Nicolae, IBM Research, Ireland
    Anne-Cecile Orgerie, CNRS, France
    Christian Perez, INRIA, France
    Paul Rad, Rackspace, USA
    Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA
    Paul Ruth, RENCI - UNC Chapel Hill, USA
    Haiying Shen, Clemson University, USA
    Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy
    Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba, Japan
    Cho-li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
    Von Welch, Indiana University, USA
    Chuliang Weng, Huawei Shannon Lab, China
    Fan Wu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
    Lamia Youseff, Google, USA
    Jianfeng Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

PERFORMANCE MODELING, ANALYSIS, and EVALUATION
    Dorian Arnold, University of New Mexico, USA
    Yungang Bao, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
    Taisuke Boku, University of Tsukuba, Japan
    Chris Carothers, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
    Laura Carrington, San Diego Supercomputing Center, USA
    I-Hsin Chung, IBM Research, USA
    Karen Karavanic, Portland State University, USA
    Karl Fuerlinger, LMU Munich, Germany
    Todd Gamblin, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA
    Judit Gimenez, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
    Simon Hammond, Sandia National Lab, USA
    Mike Heroux, Sandia National Lab, USA
    Stephen Jarvis, University of Warwick, UK
    Mike Lang, Los Alamos National Lab, USA
    Edgar Leon, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA
    Ram Rajamony, IBM Research, USA
    Barry Rountree, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA
    Jose Sancho, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain
    Sameer Shende, University of Oregon, USA
    Nathan Tallent, Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA
    Ana Varbanescu, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
    Michele Weiland, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Center, UK
    Patrick Worley, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA
    Nick Wright, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA

PROGRAMMING MODELS and RUNTIME SYSTEMS
    Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University, USA
    Wesley Bland, Angonne National Laboratory, USA
    John Cavazos, University of Delaware, USA
    Daniel Chavarria, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
    Albert Cohen, INRIA, France
    Huimin Cui, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
    Damian Dechev, University of Central Florida, USA
    Chen Ding, University of Rochester, USA
    Grigori Fursin, INRIA, France
    Rajiv Gupta, University of California Riverside, USA
    Martin Hirzel, IBM, USA
    Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand
    Paul H J Kelly, Imperial College London, UK
    Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Lab, USA
    Palden Lama, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA
    Andrew Lenharth, University of Texas at Austin, USA
    Dong Li, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA
    Chunhua Liao, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA
    Jiayuan Meng, Angonne National Lab, USA
    Frank Mueller, North Carolina State University, USA
    Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Queen's University at Belfast, Ireland
    Judy Qiu, Indiana University, USA
    Kenjiro Taura, Tokyo University, Japan
    Didem Unat, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA
    Hans Vandierendonck, Queen's University Belfast, United Kingdom
    Richard Vuduc, Georgia Tech, USA
    Chenggang Wu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
    Peng Wu, Huawei America R&D Laboratory, USA
    Jingling Xue, University of New South Wales, Australia
    Zheng Zhang, Rutgers University, USA

SCHEDULING and RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
    Henri Bal, Vrije University, Netherlands
    Anne Benoit, ENS Lyon et IUF, France
    Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil
    Ivona Brandic, TU Wien, Austria
    Julita Corbalan, Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain
    Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, USA
    Erik Elmroth, Umea University and Elastisys, Sweden
    Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Lab, USA
    Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria
    Frank Feinbube, University of Potsdam, Germany
    Hakan Grahn, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
    Gideon Juve, University of Southern California, USA
    Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
    Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin, Ireland
    Lars Lundberg, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
    Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland
    Nandini Mukhopadhyay, Jadavpur University, India
    Jorg Nolte, TU Cottbus, Germany
    George Pallis, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
    Alexander Papaspyrou, Adesso Mobile Solutions GmbH, Germany
    Andreas Polze, University of Potsdam, Germany
    Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK
    Bettina Schnor, University of Potsdam, Germay
    Uwe Schwiegelshohn, TU Dortmund University, Germany
    Denis Trystram, university of Grenoble-Alpes, France
    Kurt Vanmechelen, University of Antwerp, Belgium
    Carlos A. Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
    Vladimir Vlassov, Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden
    Ramin Yahyapour, University of Gottingen, Germany
    Wolfgang Ziegler, Fraunhofer Institute SCAI, Germany

STORAGE AND I/O SYSTEMS
    Gabriel Antoniou, INRIA, France
    Andre Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat Mainz, Germany
    Richard-Shane Canon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
    Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
    Jianxi Chen, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
    Yafei Dai, Peking University, China
    Francisco Javier Garcia Blas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain
    Xubin He, Virginia Commonwealth University, USA
    Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
    Quincey Koziol, HDF Group, USA
    Julian Kunkel, German Climate Computing Centre (DKRZ), Germany
    Robert Latham, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
    Adrien Lebre, INRIA, France
    Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Lab, USA
    Carlos Maltzahn, UC Santa Cruz, USA
    Bo Mao, Xiamen University, China
    Dirk Meister, Pure Storage, USA
    Christine Morin, INRIA, France
    Sai Narasimhamurthy, Xyratex, UK
    Juan Piernas, Universidad de Murcia, Spain
    Maria S. Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain
    Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
    Qingsong Wei, Data Storage Institute, Singapore
    Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine, USA