[CAnet - news] From lightweight mash-ups to lambda grids: Mardi Gras Conference

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Mardi Gras Conference 2008 - http://www.mardigrasconference.org/

The Center for Computation & Technology at LSU, in cooperation with ACM
SIGAPP, is hosting the 15th Mardi Gras Conference, 31 January - 2
February 2008, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Mardi Gras conferences
take place annually, concentrating each year on a different
computational theme of current relevance.

This Year's Theme: From lightweight mash-ups to lambda grids:
Understanding the spectrum of distributed computing requirements,
applications, tools, infrastructures, interoperability, and the
incremental adoption of key capabilities.

Description: The field of distributed computing has been recognized for
decades but only in the last few years has there been a vast expansion
of distributed computing approaches and tools that are gaining serious,
wide-spread use. This wide-spread use goes far beyond computational
science and engineering, to include business, government, art, and
popular culture. While the fundamental requirements of distributed
computing are generally understood, the ubiquitous availability of
networks and servers has enabled the development of many different tools
to suit the needs of different communities. Besides what have become
traditional grids, there is growing use of lambda grids, enterprise
service buses, service-oriented architectures, and Web 2.0. All of these
approaches enable the sharing of resources in "virtual organizations"
but with widely differing support for discoverability, reliability,
security, management, quality-of-service, etc. In all cases,
interoperability at the infrastructure level and at the application
domain level is a critical issue.
While network connectivity has become ubiquitous, and has enabled the
creation of virtual organizations, it is still an open issue how tightly
coupled these organizations can be. Bandwidth and latency determine how
interactive and collaborative distributed participants can work
together. Hence, advanced networks such as lambda networks (dedicated
optical networks) have the potential for enhancing interactiveness on a
large-scale, and actually being an enabling technology for application
domains that require tight coupling.

The goal of Mardi Gras 2008 is to improve our understanding of the
drivers for all of these technologies, how they relate to one another,
and how user communities can transition from simpler approaches, like
Web 2.0 mash-ups, to more full-service grids, when better discovery,
reliability, security, etc., are needed -- while achieving sufficient
interoperability -- and how tightly coupled virtual organizations can be.


Topics include, but are not limited to:

Application case studies in all areas, e.g., geospatial, disaster
response/management, science, engineering, commerce, finance, art, etc.
Innovative and advanced scenarios, e.g., dynamic data-driven,
interactive, collaborative, tele-immersive, adaptive, etc.
Tools for developing and deploying applications, e.g., middleware,
toolkits, portals, problem solving environments, production
environments, virtual organizations, etc.
Application APIs and programming models
High speed and optical networks
Distributed algorithms
Workflow management
Resource management and scheduling
Education

General Chair: Daniel S. Katz, LSU

Deputy General Chair: Shantenu Jha, LSU

Program Chair: Craig Lee, Aerospace Corporation

Program Vice-Chairs:
Emerging Technologies: Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University
Data-Intensive Applications: Liping Di, George Mason University
Network-Intensive Applications: Bill St. Arnaud, CANARIE
Middleware and Distributed Infrastructures: Franck Cappello, INRIA

Publicity Chair: Matei Ripeanu, University of British Columbia

Proceedings Chair: Omer Rana, Cardiff University


Conference Schedule

Workshops may start on Wednesday, 30 January, in advance of the main
conference. Conference sessions will be held on Thursday, 31 January and
Friday, 1 February, and for the morning of Saturday, 2 February. On
Saturday afternoon an optional excursion will take participants to join
in the celebrations for Mardi Gras in New Orleans, returning to Baton
Rouge on Sunday morning at approximately 2 a.m.


Associated Workshops

Distributed Programming Abstractions Workshop:
http://www.mardigrasconference.org/DPA_workshop.php

Workshop on Grid-Enabling Applications:
http://www.mardigrasconference.org/GEA_workshop.php

-- 
Daniel S. Katz                              http://www.cct.lsu.edu/~dsk/
        Louisiana State University
(225) 578-2750 (voice)       (225) 578-5362 (fax)        [email protected]

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