CloudCP 2012: 2nd International Workshop on Cloud Computing Platforms
10 April 2012
Bern, Switzerland
http://www.wikibench.eu/CloudCP/
In conjunction with EuroSys 2012


Cloud computing is currently on the way to maturing from early
prototypes to become a serious platform for production environments. At
the same time, however, early adopters complain about serious usability
problems as well as insufficient or fluctuating system performance. Even
more, different application domains, like web services or scientific
computing, have strongly different requirements to clouds as their
computing environments.

This workshop is investigating the needs and requirements from
different, potential cloud application domains, and especially how cloud
computing platforms (IaaS, PaaS, and their integration) can be built in
order to meet these requirements. The workshop's focus is on building
suitable and high-performance cloud computing platforms. We aim to bring
together researchers and practitioners interested in the technical
aspects of cloud computing. The focus of the workshop is on novel,
practical, systems-oriented work.

CloudCP seeks contributions on all systems-related aspects of cloud
computing platforms. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

* Cloud storage and file systems
* Networks within cloud systems, the storage area, and to the outside
* Virtualization techniques in the context of cloud computing platforms
* System integration, virtual compute clusters
* Consolidation
* NoSQL data stores
* Performance, SLA management and enforcement
* Resource provisioning
* Security techniques for the Cloud
* Energy management
* Programming paradigms for clouds, Map-reduce and beyond
* Performance analysis of cloud applications and programming environments

Proceedings will be published in the ACM digital library (pending
confirmation).

Papers should be formatted using the standard ACM format, with a maximum
size of 6 pages. The format of submitted papers should correspond to our
LaTeX style file. Instructions on how to use this format can be found
here. Authors should not change the ACM template in terms of font size
or page margins.

For convenience, we allow authors to indicate potential conflicts of
interest (e.g., to exclude PC members from within their research group),
and submission type (regular paper, position paper).

Important dates

* Paper submission: January 20th 2012
* Notification to authors: February 10th 2012
* Camera-ready papers due: February 24th 2012
* Workshop: April 10th 2012

Program Committee

Program co-chairs:
* Valentin Cristea (Politehnica University Bucharest, Romania)
* Guillaume Pierre (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands)

Program committee:
TBA