AGENDA

Conference Location:
Gleacher Center
450 North Cityfront Plaza Drive
Chicago, IL 60611

Wednesday
October 22, 2008
 
9:00 am- 10:00 am KEYNOTE: Werner Vogels, Amazon [presentation]
"A Head in the Cloud - The Power of Infrastructure as a Service"
10:00 am - 10:30 am Coffee break
10:30 am - Noon
SESSION 1

Jeff Hammerbacher, Facebook (30 minutes)
"Hive and Cassandra: Open Source Tools for Managing Data at Web Scale"

Owen O'Malley, Yahoo (30 minutes) [presentation]

Oliver Ratzesberger, Ebay (30 minutes) [presentation]
"Agile Analytics - Analytics as a Service"
Noon - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 2:45 pm SESSION 2

Alex Szalay, JHU (30 minutes) [presentation]
"Science in the Cloud"

Constantinos Evangelinos and Chris Hill, MIT (15 minutes) [presentation]
"Cloud Computing for parallel Scientific HPC Applications: Feasibility of Running Coupled Atmosphere-Ocean Climate Models on Amazon's EC2"

Group discussion (30 minutes)
2:45 pm - 3:30 pm Coffee break
3:30 pm - 5:00 pm SESSION 3

Ariel Rabkin, Yahoo (15 minutes) [presentation]
"Chukwa: A large-scale monitoring system"

Dragos Manolescu and Erik Meijer, Microsoft (15 minutes) [presentation]
"LINQ-to-Datacenter"

Armando Fox, Berkeley [presentation]
Shanti Subramanyam, Sun Microsystems (15 minutes)
"Cloudstone: Multi-Platform, Multi-Language Benchmark and Measurement tools for Web 2.0"

Paul Watson, Newcastle University (15 minutes) [presentation]
"The CARMEN Science Cloud"

Group discussion (30 minutes)
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm Reception and Poster Session
Thursday
October 23, 2008
 
9:00 - 10:00 am SESSION 4

Rick Stevens, Argonne (30 minutes) [presentation]

Patrick Moore, NYTimes (15 minutes) [presentation]

Dennis Gannon, Data Center Futures Microsoft Research (15 minutes) [presentation]
"Application Drivers for Cloud Computing"
10:00 - 10:30 am Coffee break
10:30 am - Noon SESSION 5

Daniel Nurmi, UCSB (15 minutes) [presentation]
"The Eucalyptus Open-source Cloud Computing System"

Kate Keahey, Univ. of Chicago (15 minutes) [presentation]
"Science Clouds: Early Experiences in Cloud Computing for Scientific Applications"

Robert Grossman, Yunhong Gu, UIC (15 minutes) [presentation]
"Sector and Sphere: Towards Large Scale Data Storage, Sharing, and Simplified Processing"

Ian Foster, Univ. of Chicago (15 minutes) [presentation]
"Swift"

Group discussion (30 minutes)
Noon - 1:30 pm Lunch
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm SESSION 6

John Paul Walters, Univ. at Buffalo (15 minutes) [presentation]
"Enabling Interactive Jobs in Virtualized Data Centers"

Borja Sotomayor, Univ. of Chicago (15 minutes) [presentation]
"Capacity Leasing in Cloud Systems using the OpenNebula Engine"

Lizhe Wang and Marcel Kunze, Univ. Karlsruhe (15 minutes) [presentation]
"The Cumulus Project: Build a Scientific Cloud for a Data Center"

Shantenu Jha, Louisiana State University (15 minutes) [presentation]
"Programming Abstractions for Clouds"

Doug Thain, University of Notre Dame (15 minutes) [presentation]
"Programming Cloud Computers with High Level Abstractions"

Group discussion
3:00 pm - 3:30 pm Coffee break
3:30 pm - 4:30 pm Panel Session
4:30 pm Closing remarks