ACDC 2009 Call for Papers http://www.cs.duke.edu/nicl/acdc09/ Workshop on Automated Control for Datacenters and Clouds June 19th, 2009, Barcelona, Spain In conjunction with the 6th Intl. Conference on Autonomic Computing and Communications (ICAC 2009) Overview: Large server farms—from enterprise datacenters and giant-scale Internet services to utility and public cloud computing—are a critical part of the execution platform for many of today’s software programs. Interactive web services, business workflows, large-scale batch data processing, and many scientific computations all run on platforms built atop large server farms. While these systems differ in many ways, they share many common challenges, such as the desire to maximize efficiency and performance while maintaining predictable behavior, power efficiency and fairness, and at the same time responding appropriately to environmental and system changes such as hardware failures and changes in workload. We believe that solutions to these challenges in performance, reliability and scalability will share many similarities across all variants of server farm infrastructures. In particular, we believe automated techniques will play a critical role in reasoning about and orchestrating the behaviors of these large scale systems. The goal of this workshop is to broadly explore the similarities and differences in current and future policies and techniques in the context of these large server farms. Important Dates: Submission deadline: February 27th, 2009 Notification of acceptance: March 27th, 2009 Camera-ready deadline: April 6th, 2009 Workshop Organizers: Program Co-chairs Jeff Chase, Duke University Emre Kiciman, Microsoft Research Rich Wolski, UC Santa Barbara Program Committee Katerina Argyraki, EPFL Franck Capello, INRIA Renato J. Figueiredo, University of Florida Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia Randy Katz, UC Berkeley Mike Kozuch, Intel Labs Pittsburgh Milan Milenkovic, Intel Partha Ranganathan, HP Labs Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame John Wilkes, Google Topics and Submissions: We invite authors to submit short position papers or reports of early work related to the automated control of datacenters and clouds. Relevant topics for submission include, but are not limited to: * Autonomic policies and techniques for improving reliability, performance, scalability and power efficiency of large server farms * Separation of application concerns from infrastructure, resource, power and other management issues * Change management and adaptation techniques * Experience reports on challenges and solutions in large-scale Internet services, cloud computing infrastructures, enterprise datacenters and other server farms. * Experience reports on requirements of high performance data computing, scientific computing, data processing and other applications using large server farms * Experiences with automatic control strategies, including strategies based on rule systems, strategies economic models, metering-based, control * Reports on key similarities and difference in autonomic requirements across classes of server farm infrastructures * Management of network infrastructures within server farms and between server farms Papers will be selected based on their originality, technical merit, topical relevance and their likelihood of generating discussion at the workshop. Furthermore, while simulations are acceptable in some scenarios, strong preference will be given to papers describing experience with systems that have been deployed and tested. All accepted papers will be available online prior to the workshop and proceedings will be distributed at the workshop. Submission Instructions Submitted papers must be no longer than 6 two-column pages (10pt font, 1 inch margins), including all figures and references. The review process is not blind. Author names and affiliations should be included on the first page. Papers should be submitted as PDF documents viewable using standard tools (e.g., Adobe Acrobat). Further submission instructions will be posted at the workshop web site.