Dear All,

Let me update you with some new recent developments in Grid computing in
general and Gridbus in particular:

1. Last week I visited Canada and USA. In Canada, I presented a keynote
talk on:
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Service and Utility Oriented Distributed Computing Systems: Challenges
and Opportunities for Modeling and Simulation Communities,
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at the 41th Annual Simulation Symposium (ANSS-41) held in Ottawa, Canada
during April 14-16, 2008.

A copy of keynote paper can be found at:
http://www.gridbus.org/~raj/papers/anss41-canada-keynote2008.pdf
Slides of the talk can be found at:
http://www.gridbus.org/talks/GridSim-ANSS2008Keynote.zip

Both paper and slides highlights various trends in Distributed computing
with special focus on Grids. In conclusion, it proposes/identifies new
research issues in cloud and market-oriented computing areas. Also
concludes that for true realisation of "computer utilities", we need
convergence of various competing technologies.
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2. During my return form Canada (on April 18), I visited Argonne
National Laboratory (ANL), one of the major centers/location for Grid
computing research (via the Globus Project). Some of their team members
of pursuing new research on Cloud-like computing by using/building on
Virtual Machines. I also high lighted some of these areas in my above
keynote talk.

During my visit to the ANL, I presented a seminar on:
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Market-Oriented Grid Computing and the Gridbus Middleware
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and slides of this can can be downloaded from:
http://www.gridbus.org/talks/Gridbus-ANL-USA.zip
Major highlights of this talk was on our recent work on SLA/Negotiation
based Resource Allocation, which is going to be very important for cloud
computing. One of our recent paper on this area, can be found at:
http://www.gridbus.org/papers/Service-Negotiation-IWQoS2008.pdf

3. Upcoming Events:

(i) CCGrid 2008: 8th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing
and the Grid will be held in Lyon, France during May 19-22, 2008.
The conference has put together interesting technical programs and
featuring tutorials, Keynote talks, Scalable Computing Challenge etc. on
may emerging topics including Clusters, Clouds, and Grids.
http://www.ens-lyon.fr/LIP/RESO/ccgrid2008/
I encourage all colleagues, especially those from Europe, to attend the
conference.

(ii) e-Science 2008: 4th IEEE International Conference on e-Science
Dec. 7-12, 2009: Indianapolis, USA
http://escience2008.iu.edu/
has issued a Call for papers. Please consider and also encourage
colleagues to submit a paper on thier work on e-Science and technologies.

Best regards
Raj
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Dr. Rajkumar Buyya
Associate Professor and Reader
Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Lab
Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering
The University of Melbourne
ICT Building, 111, Barry Street, Carlton
Melbourne, VIC 3053, Australia
Phone: +61-3-8344 1344 (office); +61-0403710138 (home)
Fax: +61-3-9348 1184; Email: raj@...
URL: http://www.buyya.com | http://www.gridbus.org/~raj
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