Workshop Program

Location: San Jose Marriott, Room: Willow Glenn 1


SESSION - I (Chair: Tevfik Kosar)
1:30 pm : Opening Remarks
                   Tevfik Kosar, University at Buffalo, USA

1:40 pm : Keynote Address: "Wide-Area Clouds"
                   Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota, USA

2:30 pm : Wide Area Placement of Data Replicas for Fast & Highly Available Data Access
                   Fan Ping, University at Albany, USA
                   Xiaohu Li, University at Albany, USA
                   Christopher McConnell, University at Albany, USA
                   Rohini Vabbalareddy, University at Albany, USA
                   Jeong-Hyon Hwang, University at Albany, USA

3:00 pm : Preference Driven Server Selection in Peer-2-Peer Data Sharing Systems
                   Abdelhamid Elwaer, Cardiff University, UK
                   Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK
                   Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK

3:30 pm : Break
SESSION - II (Chair: Ian Taylor)
4:00 pm : Early Experience with the Distributed Nebula Cloud
                   Pradeep Sundarrajan, University of Minnesota, USA
                   Abhishek Gupta, University of Minnesota, USA
                   Matthew Ryden, University of Minnesota, USA
                   Rohit Nair, University of Minnesota, USA
                   Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota, USA
                   Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota, USA

4:30 pm : Towards Transparent Integration of Heterogeneous Cloud Storage Platforms
                   Ilja Livenson, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden
                   Erwin Laure, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

5:00 pm : Clause-Iteration with Map-Reduce to Scalably Query Data Graphs in the
                   SHARD Graph-store
                   Kurt Rohloff, BBN Technologies, USA
                   Richard E. Schantz, BBN Technologies, USA

5:30 pm : Integrated Data Placement and Task Assignment for Scientific Workflows
                   in Clouds
                   Umit V. Catalyurek, Ohio State University, USA
                   Kamer Kaya, CERFACS, France
                   Bora Ucar, CNRS & ENS, France

6:00 pm : Closing Remarks
                  Tevfik Kosar, University at Buffalo, USA