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Added February 4, 2009: Our recent paper, entitled "The Eucalyptus Open-source Cloud-computing System" was accepted for publication in the proceedings of CCGrid'09: the 9th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid. As mentioned in the acceptance letter, 271 papers were submitted and 57 papers were accepted (21% acceptance rate). CCGrid'09 is taking place this year May 18-21, in Shanghai, China.


 

Added Jan. 28th, 2009: Our Cloud Computing Ontology paper; entitled "Towards a Unified Ontology of Cloud Computing" and co-authored with Dilma Da Silva and Maria Burtico at IBM TJ Watson during Summer 2008; was dicussed at several important cloud computing blogs. Several discussions were generated about defining a common taxonomy/ontology for the cloud. Check some of the links and discussion here:
    CNET Cloud News by James Urquhart
    John M. Willis Blog
    Reuven Cohen's ElasticVapor Blog
    CloudCast



November 16, 2008: Several talks and live demos on the VGrADS project are planned for SC08, some of which will showcase our Cloud Infrastructure framework, Eucalyptus. The schedule is as follows:
    Tuesday, 11:30am, RENCI booth (2633)
    Wednesday, noon, GCAS booth (285)
    Wednesday, 2:00Pm, SDSC booth (568)
    Wednesday, 4:00pm, RENCI booth (2633)



November 1, 2008: Lamia will be presenting her dissertation work at SC08 Doctoral Research Showcase. Her extended abstract on "Paravirtualization Performance and Programming Support for Next Generation HPC Systems" was selected with 11 other talks from 44 submitted talks to present at the conference. Lamia's talk is on Thursday Nov 20Th, 11:30AM - 11:45AM in Room 17A/17B. The link to her abstract is here.
The SC Conference is the premier international conference for high performance computing (HPC), networking, storage and analysis. The number of attendees of SC08 is expected to exceed 9000 from academia, industry and government.



April 17, 2008: IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) has selected Lamia's Poster to IPDPS-09 to receive the Best-Poster Award at the Inaugural TCPP PhD Forum. The poster, entitled "Virtualization Aspects of High Performance Computing" was selected out of 74 submissions for presentation at the forum, and out of 36 accepted posters for the award. Kamesh Madduri, from Georgia Institute of Technology also received Best-Poster award from the morning session of the forum.
Read the news here and here.

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Department of Computer Science University of California, Santa Barbara