ExtremeGreen2014 will occur in Chicago during CCGrid 2014 in May 2014 !

ExtremeGreen: Extreme Green & Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems

May 13-16, 2013, Delft, The Netherlands

during CCGrid 2013 : the 13th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing

http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/RESO/extremegreen

ExtremeGreen workshop is supported by the European COST Action IC804

Workshop co-chairs:

Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, Ecole Normale Superieure of Lyon, France - laurent.lefevre@inria.fr

Marcos Dias de Assuncao, IBM Research, Brazil marcosda@br.ibm.com

Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS, France - anne-cecile.orgerie@irisa.fr

Workshop Program :

Monday May 13, 2013 :

13:30 : ExtremeGreen Opening by Laurent Lefevre (slides)
13:30-14:30 : Keynote speaker : Manish Parashar (Rutgers University, USA) : "Staying Green at the Extreme : Exploring Energy Challenges and Tradeoffs for Science Workflows at Extreme Scales" (slides) (chaired by Laurent Lefevre)
Abstract: As scientific applications target extreme scales, energy-related challenges are becoming dominating concerns. As a result, it is critical to explore emerging architectures (e.g., with multiple cores and deep memory hierarchies) and applications (e.g., coupled simulation workflows) from an energy perspective and investigate associated overheads and tradeoffs. For example, energy/power-efficiency have to be addressed in combination with quality of solution, performance and reliability, and other objectives, and achieving the desired levels of reduction in power consumptions requires a comprehensive cross-layer and application-aware strategy. In this talk I will explore these issues and will describe recent related research efforts at the Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2).
Bio: Manish Parashar is Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at Rutgers University. He is the founding Director of the Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2) and of the NSF Cloud and Autonomic Computing Center (CAC), and is Associate Director of the Rutgers Center for Information Assurance (RUCIA). Manish received a BE degree from Bombay University, India and MS and Ph.D. degrees from Syracuse University. His research interests are in the broad areas of Parallel and Distributed Computing and Computational and Data-Enabled Science and Engineering. A key focus of his research is on addressing the complexity or large-scale systems and applications through programming abstractions and systems. Manish serves on the editorial boards and organizing committees of a large number of journals and international conferences and workshops, and has deployed several software systems that are widely used. He has also received numerous awards and is Fellow of AAAS, Fellow of IEEE/IEEE Computer Society and Senior Member of ACM.
14:30-15:00 : Extreme Energy Efficiency in HPC Session (chaired by Anne-Cécile Orgerie)
14:30-15:00 : Georges Da Costa. Heterogeneity : the key to achieve Power-Proportional Computing (slides)
15:00-15:30 : Break
15:30-17:00 : Extreme Energy Efficiency in Clouds Session (chaired by Marcos Dias de Assuncao)
15:30-16:00 : Dapeng Dong and John Herbert. Energy Efficient VM Placement Supported by Data Analytic Service (slides)
16:00-16:30 : Cesar Diaz, Harold Castro, Mario Villamizar, Johnatan E. Pecero and Pascal Bouvry. Energy-aware VM Allocation on An Opportunistic Cloud Infrastructure (slides)
16:30-17:00 : Chaima Ghribi, Makhlouf Hadji and Djamal Zeghlache. Energy Efficient VM Scheduling for Cloud Data Centers: Exact allocation and migration algorithms (slides)

Workshop description :

Improving the energy efficiency of large-scale distributed systems (e.g. data centres and Clouds) is a key challenge for both academic and industrial organizations. Although the topic has gained lots of attention over the past years, some of the proposed solutions often seem conservative and not easily applicable to large-scale systems. Their impact at large-scale remains to be proved. Hence, this workshop aims to provide a venue for discussion of ideas that can demonstrate "more than small % solution" to energy efficiency and their applicability to "real world". . The ExtremeGreen workshop will focus on scientific and industrial approaches and solutions that could have a large impact in terms of energy savings and energy efficiency. Clean-slate approaches and innovative solutions breaking conventional approaches are welcome. The workshop also welcomes submissions of work-in-progress papers on ideas that can have a large impact on improving the energy efficiency of large-scale distributed systems. The papers must provide preliminary results that demonstrate the originality and possible impact of the proposed solutions. Submissions will be reviewed by an international group of experts in distributed systems and energy efficiency.

Topics of interests :

Green clouds
Energy efficiency of data centers
Green Grids
Green networks for large scale distributed systems
Energy efficiency of storage solutions
Energy-aware design and programming
Energy-efficient hardware and software architectures
Sustainable solutions in large scale distributed systems
Energy-efficient resource management tools
Energy-efficient scalable approaches
Experimental results of Green solutions

Important dates :

Papers due on : February 16, 2013 (extended)
Author Notification : March 1, 2013
Final Papers Due : March 15, 2013
ExtremeGreen Workshop : May 13-16, 2013

Papers submission :

Submitted papers must be 8 pages long maximum. Authors must submit their articles through the submission system : https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=extremegreen2013 .

Program Commitee :

Cosimo Anglano, Universitá del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
Silvia Bianchi, IBM Research, Brazil
George Bosilca, Innovative Computing Laboratory - University of Tennessee, USA
Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Georges Da Costa, IRIT/Toulouse III, France
Bronis De Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani, University of Leeds, UK
Wu Feng, Virginia Tech, USA
Jean-Patrick Gelas, Universite de Lyon / INRIA, France
Yiannis Georgiou, BULL, France
Olivier Gluck, Université de Lyon, France
Zhiyi Huang, Univ of Otago, NEw Zealand
Thomas Ludwig, University of Hamburg, Germany
Hiroshi Nakamura, University of Tokyo, Japan
Marco Netto, IBM Research, Brazil
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT, France
Enrique S. Quintana-Orti, Universidad Jaume I, Spain
Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University / CAC, USA
Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy
Jordi Torres, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) - Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain
Xavier Vigouroux, BULL, France
Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia