(The 7th International Workshop on Systems Management Techniques, Processes, and Services)
- special focus on "Cloud Computing"-

May 16, 2011 @ Anchorage, Alaska, USA (in conjunction with IPDPS 2011)
http://www.ece.rutgers.edu/~smtps

*** Extended submission deadline: January 7, 2011 ***


In our 7th year of SMTPS, we would like to invite the pioneers in computing, resource and
system management, and discuss the latest ideas, with a special focus on “cloud computing”.
With the advent of virtualization technologies, efficient and effective systems management
plays an even more critical role to fully exploit the resulting simplification and to
contain the complexity introduced by virtual resources. The cloud computing paradigm has
been introduced to respond to dynamic computation demands by emerging applications, and to
improve utilization of computing resources and energy in aggregation to serve a large group
of users.

Many issues in systems management within a traditional computing environment remain
challenging for cloud computing. For instance, system administrators for both traditional
and cloud systems are required to provide satisfactory and continuous services to
applications even in the presence of interrupts and system failures. On the other hand, there
are new challenges and opportunities posed by cloud computing, which call for different
solutions. For example, management of computing infrastructure, platform and software as
service offerings and in the possible forms of private, public and hybrid cloud datacenter
with thousands of servers, a wide variety of middleware brings in challenges for tomorrow's
systems.

This workshop is intended to bring together researchers and practitioners to define and
discuss the issues and challenges and share early findings in systems management in the
emerging cloud computing paradigm. Topics of interest include, and are not limited to:

-- Scalable resource and system management solutions
-- Lifecycle management of virtualized resources (e.g. virtual server, virtual network
adapters, software appliances)
-- Cloud computing resource management with QoS
-- High availability with failure detection, prediction, and recovery
-- Identity, metering, and privacy in cloud computing
-- Workload and resource scheduling
-- Network delivery of IT services
-- Mobile cloud computing
-- Streaming in cloud computing
-- Cloud services for HPC and enterprise applications

Results of both theoretical and practical significance are welcome. Accepted papers will be
published in the IPDPS'11 proceedings.

** An IBM sponsored Best Paper award would be given to an outstanding paper presented at the workshop.

Important Dates:
Paper submission deadline
** extended to Jan 7, 2011 from Dec 20, 2010
Notification of acceptance
** changed to Jan 25, 2011 from Jan 18 2011
Camera-ready paper due
Feb 21, 2011

Workshop General Chair:
Kyung D. Ryu, IBM Research (kryu@us.ibm.com)

Program Co-Chairs:
Yanyong Zhang, Rutgers University (yyzhang@ece.rutgers.edu)
Liana L. Fong, IBM Research (llfong@us.ibm.com)

Publicity Chair:
Fabrizio Petrini, IBM Research (fpetrin@us.ibm.com)

Technical Program Committee
Arati Baliga, AT&T
Claudio Bartolini, HP Research
Dilma Da Silva, IBM Research
Dror G. Feitelson, Hebrew Univ.
Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida
Navendu Jain, Microsoft Research
Ignacio M. Llorente, Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Mauricio Mediano, Yahoo Labs
Dejan S. Milojicic, HP Research
Jose Moreira, IBM Research
Matthew Parket, Amazon
Ramendra Sahoo, Citigroup
Hui Xiong, Rutgers University
Heon Y. Yeom, Seoul National University