Rapid advances in processing, communication and systems/middleware
technologies are leading to new paradigms and platforms for computing,
ranging from computing Clusters to widely distributed Grid and
emerging Clouds. CCGrid is a series of very successful conferences,
sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable
Computing (TCSC) and ACM, with the overarching goal of bringing
together international researchers, developers, and users and to
provide an international forum to present leading research activities
and results on a broad range of topics related to these platforms and
paradigms and their applications. The conference features keynotes,
technical presentations, posters and research demos, workshops,
tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenges featuring live
demonstrations.

In 2012, CCGrid will come to Canada for the first time and will be
held in Ottawa, the capital city. CCGrid 2012 will have a focus on
important and immediate issues that are significantly influencing all
aspects of cluster, cloud and grid computing.

TOPICS:

* Applications and Experiences: Applications to real and complex
problems in science, engineering, business and society; User
studies; Experiences with large-scale deployments systems or
applications.

* Architecture: System architectures, Design and deployment.

* Autonomic Computing and Cyberinfrastructure: Self managed behavior,
models and technologies; Autonomic paradigms and approaches
(control-based, bio-inspired, emergent, etc.); Bio-inspired
approaches to management; SLA definition and enforcement;

* Performance Modeling and Evaluation: Performance models; Monitoring
and evaluation tools, Analysis of system/application performance;
Benchmarks and testbeds.

* Programming Models, Systems, and Fault-Tolerant Computing:
Programming models for cluster, clouds and grid computing; fault
tolerant infrastructure and algorithms; systems software to enable
efficient computing.

* Multicore and Accelerator-based Computing: Software and application
techniques to utilize multicore architectures and
accelerators/heterogeneous computing systems.

* Scheduling and Resource Management: Techniques to schedule jobs and
resources on clusters, clouds and grid computing platforms.

* Cloud Computing: Cloud architectures; Software tools and techniques
for clouds.


PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted
manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not
exceed 8 pages including figures, tables and references. All
manuscripts will be peer reviewed. The proceedings will be
published by IEEE Computer Society Press.

Submission Link:
https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=ccgrid2012CHAIRS

General Chair
* Shikharesh Majumdar, Carleton Univ., Canada

Program Committee Co-Chairs
* Rajkumar Buyya, Univ. of Melbourne, Australia
* Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Lab., USA

Program Committee Vice-chairs
* Daniel S. Katz (Applications and Experiences)
* Dhabaleswar K. Panda (Architecture)
* Manish Parashar (Middleware, Autonomic Computing, and Cyberinfrastructure)
* Ahmad Afsahi (Performance Modeling and Analysis)
* Xian-He Sun (Performance Measurement and Evaluation)
* William Gropp (Programming Models, Systems, and Fault-Tolerant computing)
* David Bader (Multicore and Accelerator-based Computing)
* Thomas Fahringer (Scheduling and Resource Management)
* Ignacio Martin Llorente and Madhusudhan Govindaraju (Cloud Computing)

Honorary Chair
* Geoffrey Fox, Indiana Univ., USA

IMPORTANT DATES

Papers Due: 11-25-2011
Notification of Acceptance: 01-30-2012
Camera Ready Papers Due: 02-27-2012