SDMAS08

First Call for papers

SDMAS'08

Second International Workshop on Scalable Data Management Applications and Systems

to be held within

The 2008 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications Las Vegas Nevada, USA July, 14-17 2008

http://www.arcos.inf.uc3m.es/~jdaniel/sdmas08/

Best papers to be published in Journal of Supercomputing

WORKSHOP SCOPE

Data management is becoming a more and more important issue in every kind of computing system. High-performance computing, data visualization, multimedia and data mining systems are examples of application areas where input/output and storage are critical issues for performance. A key challenge in those areas is how to transfer large amounts of data in and out of large-scale systems, like clusters, Grids and peer-to-peer systems. Another key point is how to transfer large amount of data in a timely manner. The aim of the workshop is to identify, discuss, and share the barriers and workarounds that have been discovered in the storage and input/output fields.

Compute and I/O-intensive applications, as represented by the Grand Challenge problems, multimedia, cosmology simulation, climate modeling and collaborative large-scale visualizations, large data acquisition networks, data fussion and integration to name just a few, call for innovative approaches to alleviate the I/O devices and networks(both bandwidth and file access) bottlenecks.

The advent of commodity (COTS) hardware platforms has opened up numerous possibilities in massive data gathering and storage, scalable systems, and large-scale simulations. The goal of this workshop is to bring together educators, researchers, developers and vendors to discuss problems and solutions in the former areas, to identify new issues, and to shape future research and development directions. We are soliciting papers reporting original work on, but not limited to the following

TOPICS

distributed systems, including supercomputers, clusters, grid, peer to peer, and embedded systems.
 * File systems, protocols and storage management for parallel and

distributed web systems, web clusters, web applications architecture, mobile applications, web services, load balancing, availability and reliability of web systems, web caching, web replication, edge services, web performance modeling, web workload characterization, etc.
 * Internet services scalability, including locally and geographically

architectures, data and meta-data consistency, allocation and utilization strategies for exploiting parallel and distributed memory, Ad-hoc parallel file systems, parallel I/O architectures, compilers and I/O APIs, etc.
 * High performance I/O, including massively parallel storage

schemes, optimal data allocation, multidimensional analysis, access patterns, data declustering, Client Caching Data Management Systems, index distribution schemes, memory management techniques, etc.
 * Parallel and distributed databases, including OLAP, replication

benchmarks, performance under faulty conditions, I/O optimization techniques for scientific and business applications, performance tuning, I/O modeling, performance tools, tests of products, etc.
 * Performance evaluation: benchmarking of data management systems, I/O

including fault tolerance mechanisms, impact of replication on reliability, reliability and availability modelling, highly available storage systems, cryptographic techniques, secure protocols, etc.
 * Security, reliability and availability in distributed storage systems,

discovery, data fussion, ontologies, bioinformatics, simulations, geographical information systems, image processing, Web retrieval, checkpointing, astrophysics, particle physics, etc.
 * Data management applications, including data mining, knowledge

elements, including new I/O architectures, active storage, virtualization, I/O middleware, quality of service issues, etc.
 * Storage technology and protocols including both hardware and software

IMPORTANT DATES

Submission deadline: Feb, 15, 2008 Notification to authors: March 20, 2008 Workshop dates.July 14-17, 2008

-- Jesús Carretero and José Daniel García SDMAS'08 Chairs e-mail: josedaniel.garcia@uc3m.es Web: http://www.arcos.inf.uc3m.es/~jdaniel/sdmas08 This CfP was obtained from WikiCFP