[Storage-research-list] Symposium on Cloud Computing in October

[Joan Digney]

A note from  Al Spector:


I'm writing to you as General Chair of the Symposium on Cloud Computing.

I took on this conference, because of the truly enormous impact and
potential of this area, in both research and engineering. While one could
argue that Cloud Computing is "just distributed computing/distributed
databases on steroids," many things make the area much more interesting:
There are quite a few orders of magnitude in scale. There are vast number
of emerging applications (e.g., most of us who worked on traditional OLTP
never anticipated the data, transaction, and processing requirements of
web-scale AI/machine learning...). There are enormously interesting
economic implications on both the cost and pricing side. And, many more...

So, on October 15-17th in San Jose, we'll have the first ACM-sponsored,
independent Cloud Computing Conference, and I am hoping that we will
establish SOCC in the best tradition of SOSP, SIGMOD, and the other great
systemsy conferences. The Program Committee, under the leadership of
Michael Carey and Steven Hand accepted ~25 papers, out of 160 submissions,
so we have a great start. We've also gotten excellent sponsorships, so the
conference should be a most pleasant experience.

The program for The Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC 2012) is now online.

Why this note? It is to encourage you and/or some of your team
members/colleagues to attend the conference. For those unable to register
before the original, early bird deadline, we have extended the early bird
registration deadline to September 24, 2012.  I'd like to see diverse
attendance from the many relevant areas of academe and industry, and I'd
appreciate your help.

Thanks for your attention.

Alfred

PS --  For details on the exciting things happening at SoCC 2012, continue
reading below.

What's new at SoCC 2012?
This will be an exciting year for SoCC because it's the first time it
will run independently from SIGMOD and SOSP.  In addition, its Silicon
Valley location should make it easy for the large local cloud computing
community to participate.  Program details are in the works, but it will
include a keynote address, two full days of single-track technical talks,
and then a day of optional tutorials.  Below are a few of the anticipated
highlights:

Keynote
The accomplished Scott Shenker (Berkeley) will be keynoting at SoCC 2012 on
"Software-Defined Networking: Overview and Implications". In addition
to teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, he is also the chief
scientist and leader of the Networking Group at the International Computer
Science Institute, where he was a founding member of the ICSI Center for
Internet Research. Scott has received awards from both SIGCOMM and IEEE and
serves as a leader in the movement toward Software-Defined Networking.

Tutorials
We will have two tracks of informative Tutorials available the day after
the main conference:

     "Designing Good Algorithms for Map-Reduce and Beyond" (Full Day)
         Speakers: Foto N. Afrati (NTUA and Google), Magdalena Balazinska
(University of Washington), Anish Das Sarma (Google), Bill Howe (University
of Washington), Semih Salihoglu (Stanford University), and Jeffrey D.
Ullman (Stanford University)
     "Distributed Programming and Consistency: Principles and Practice"
(Half Day)
         Speakers: Peter Alvaro (UC Berkeley), Neil Conway (UC 
Berkeley), and Joseph
M. Hellerstein (UC Berkeley)
     "Open Source Cloud Technologies" (Half Day)
         Speaker: Salman A. Baset (IBM Research)


Papers
We received over 160 paper submissions covering a variety of topics. As
mentioned, The program committee accepted ~25 papers, which equates to a
selective 15.33% acceptance rate, so you can look forward to a very high
quality technical program.

Networking
In addition to the high-caliber technical participation at the conference,
there will also be opportunities to mingle with world-class leaders in
cloud computing in a more informal setting (i.e accompanied by excellent
food, wine, and cocktails). Monday evening, October 15th,  we will host a
banquet exclusively for SoCC attendees at the Tech Museum, which houses
many innovative exhibits.

The SoCC 2012 organizing committee is excited to hear about all the latest
work being done in cloud computing and to bringing together all of the
fantastic thought leaders in this field. We hope to see you there!
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