Dear Colleagues:

Please find enclosed FINAL call for papers for CCGrid 2010 conference.
On numerous request form colleagues, we have extended deadline for
submission of papers for CCGrid 2010 by a week. Papers are now due by
Nov. 13, 2009. Paper Length: 10 pages in IEEE format.

I would like to encourage you to submit your current version of the
paper and final version by Nov. 13, 2009. Pls submit using only
submission system: http://www.manjrasoft.com/ccgrid2010/papersubmission.html

In 2010, CCGrid will return to Australia, to Melbourne, to celebrate its
10th anniversary. Please share the CFP with your students, friends, and
colleagues. We love to have an opportunity to welcome and host your
visit to Australia!

Thanks
Raj
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             The 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on
            Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2010)
                  May 17-20, 2010, Melbourne, Australia

                http://www.manjrasoft.com/ccgrid2010/

                            Sponsored by:
      IEEE Computer Society / Technical Committee on Scalable Computing

                         Hosted/Organised by:
        * Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory,
                   The University of Melbourne, Australia

         * ISSNIP: ARC Research Network on Intelligent Sensors,
              Sensor Networks and Information Processing

              * Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia

                 * NSF Center for Autonomic Computing
           Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA
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                        *****************
                         CALL FOR PAPERS
                        *****************


    ***************** Papers Due:  November 13, 2009 (extended)**********


OVERVIEW/SCOPE:

Tremendous advances in processing, communication and systems/middleware
technologies are leading to new paradigms and platforms for computing,
ranging from computing Clusters to widely distributed Grid and emerging
Clouds. CCGrid is a series of very successful conferences, sponsored by
the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing
(TCSC) and ACM, with the overarching goal of bringing together
international researchers, developers, and users and to provide an
international forum to present leading research activities and results
on a broad range of topics related to these platforms and paradigms and
their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical
presentations, posters, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE
challenges featuring live demonstrations.

In 2010, CCGrid will return to Australia, to Melbourne, to celebrate its
10th anniversary. CCGrid 2010 will have a special focus on three
important and immediate issues that are significantly influencing all
aspects of Cluster, Cloud and Grid computing: Economics, Environment and
Autonomics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Paradigms and Technologies: System architectures, Design and
deployment; Programming models, language, systems and
tools/environments; Virtualization; Middleware technologies; Volunteer
Computing.

* Service-Orientation: Service oriented architectures; Utility
computing models; *aaS paradigm; Service composition and orchestration

* Greening: Environment friendly computing ecosystems;
Hardware/software/application energy efficiency; Power and cooling;
Thermal/power awareness

* Autonomic Management: Self-* behaviors, models and technologies;
Autonomic paradigms and approaches (control-based, bio-inspired,
emergent, etc.); Bio-inspired approaches to management; SLA definition
and enforcement;

* Economic Aspects: Utility models and computing economies;
Economic-based models and approaches.

* Monitoring and Evaluation: Performance models; Monitoring and
evaluation tools, Analysis of system/application performance; Benchmarks
and testbeds.

* Security and Trust: Cloud/Grid security and trust; Access control;
Data privacy and integrity; Regulation.

* Applications and Experiences: Applications to real and complex
problems in science, engineering, business and society; User studies;
Experiences with large-scale deployments systems or applications.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted
manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed
10 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references
using the IEEE format for conference proceedings (print area of 6-1/2
inches (16.51 cm) wide by 8-7/8 inches (22.51 cm) high, two-column
format with columns 3-1/16 inches (7.85 cm) wide with a 3/8 inch (0.81
cm) space between them, single-spaced 10-point Times fully justified
text). Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned
without review. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format and
make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses letter size
(8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the meeting is English. All
manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness,
originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation,
and interest and relevance to the conference attendees.

Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is
not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers
not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and
further action may be taken, including (but not limited to)
notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and
sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date,
exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be
considered. Authors may contact the conference PC Chair for more
information. The proceedings will be published through the IEEE Computer
Society Press, USA and will be made online through the IEEE Digital Library.

CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

CCGrid 2010 is inviting proposals for organising of co-located and
peer-reviewed workshops on emerging topics. For details, please visit:
http://wiki.cs.cf.ac.uk/bin/view/Sandbox/WorkshopsCCGrid10



CHAIRS & COMMITTEES
********************

General Chair:
Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne and
Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Australia

Program Committee Chair:
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA

Vice Chairs

	 Applications And Experiences
	 Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA

	 Algorithms
	 David Bader, Georgia Tech, USA

	 Programming Models and Systems
	 Carlos Varela, RPI, USA

	 Middleware/Runtime
	 Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria

	 Performance Modeling and Evaluation
	 Dick Epema, Delft University, Netherland

Workshop Chair
Omer F. Rana, Welsh eScience Center and Cardiff University, UK

Industry Track Chair
Geng Lin, Cisco Systems, USA

Posters Chair
Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, US

Publicity Chair
Cho-Li Wang, University of Hong Kong, China
Masoud Sadjadi, FIU, US

Tutorials Chair
Sushil Prasad, University of GA, US

Research Demos/Competitions Chair (SCALE Challenge)
Shantenu Jha, LSU, USA/eSI, UK
Dan Katz, University of Chicago/ANL, US

Local Organising Chair
James Broberg, University of Melbourne, Australia

Cyber Chair
Suraj Pandey, University of Melbourne, Australia

IMPORTANT DATES - Updated

-------------------------------------------------------------------
Papers Due:       November 13, 2009
Notification of Acceptance:  Jan 11, 2010
Camera Ready Papers Due:     Feb 05, 2010
-------------------------------------------------------------------

SUBMISSIONS

Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the
CCGrid 2010 paper submission system (http://www.edas.info/N8181)
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Dear All:

In my last message I mentioned about formation of our CLOUDS Lab and a
new flagship project, called Cloudbus. We recently wrote an article on
detailing the vision, challenges, architecture along with brief
description of various tools and technologies developed. The article
appears as a keynote paper in "Proceeding of the 1st International
Conference on Cloud Computing (CloudCom 2009, Springer, Germany),
Beijing, China, December 1-4, 2009 (as noted below). You can access full
article from:
    http://www.buyya.com/papers/Cloudbus-Keynote2009.pdf

Best regards
Raj
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Title: Cloudbus Toolkit for Market-Oriented Cloud Computing
Authors: Rajkumar Buyya, Suraj Pandey, and Christian Vecchiola
Categories: cs.DC
Comments: 21 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables, Conference paper
ACM-class: C.2.4
Journal-ref: Proceeding of the 1st International Conference on Cloud
Computing (CloudCom 2009, Springer, Germany), Beijing, China, December
1-4, 2009.

Abstract: This keynote paper: (1) presents the 21st century vision of
computing and identifies various IT paradigms promising to deliver
computing as a utility; (2) defines the architecture for creating
market-oriented Clouds and computing atmosphere by leveraging
technologies such as virtual machines; (3) provides thoughts on
market-based resource management strategies that encompass both
customer-driven service management and computational risk management to
sustain SLA-oriented resource allocation; (4) presents the work carried
out as part of our new Cloud Computing initiative, called Cloudbus: (i)
Aneka, a Platform as a Service software system containing SDK (Software
Development Kit) for construction of Cloud applications and deployment
on private or public Clouds, in addition to supporting market-oriented
resource management; (ii) internetworking of Clouds for dynamic creation
of federated computing environments for scaling of elastic applications;
(iii) creation of 3rd party Cloud brokering services for building
content delivery networks and e-Science applications and their
deployment on capabilities of IaaS providers such as Amazon along with
Grid mashups; (iv) CloudSim supporting modelling and simulation of
Clouds for performance studies; (v) Energy Efficient Resource Allocation
Mechanisms and Techniques for creation and management of Green Clouds;
and (vi) pathways for future research.

Cite/Reference as: Rajkumar Buyya, Christian Vecchiola, and Suraj Pandey
Cloudbus Toolkit for Market-Oriented Cloud Computing, Proceeding of the
1st International Conference on Cloud Computing (CloudCom 2009,
Springer, Germany), Beijing, China, December 1-4, 2009.
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Dear All:

The Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory at
the University of Melbourne, Australia has released the next-version of
Grid simulation software, the GridSim Toolkit 5.0. The software can be
downloaded from:  http://www.cloudbus.org/gridsim/

This new version of GridSim brings a new package (i.e. gridsim.parallel)
that provides:
* A graphical user interface for debugging resource allocation policies.
* Several allocation policies for scheduling parallel jobs
* An implementation of the workload model
* A data structure to facilitate the scheduling of jobs and advance
reservations.

For details, please see attached release notes.

Best regards
Raj

Dear All:

I would like to some recent updates in Cloud and Grid computing area:

1. New name for our research group - CLOUDS Lab.

Since 2007, GRIDS Lab has been working on Cloud Computing along with
Grid Computing. During the last 2 years, Cloud Computing related R&D
activities have peaked in GRIDS Lab and we launched a new flagship
project, called Cloudbus, for Cloud Computing. In recognition of this
new thrust in Cloud Computing, we renamed GRIDS Lab as CLOUDS Lab!

2. Recently CLOUDS Lab team members have published/wrote a number of
papers related to Grid and Cloud Computing. To share a few:

- J. Broberg, R. Buyya, and Z. Tari, MetaCDN: Harnessing ‘Storage
Clouds’ for high performance content delivery, Journal of Network and
Computer Applications, Volume 32, Issue 5, September 2009, Pages 1012-1022.

Available at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jnca.2009.03.004

- Alexandre di Costanzo, Marcos Dias de Assuncao, and Rajkumar Buyya,
Building a Virtualized Distributed Computing Infrastructure by
Harnessing Grid and Cloud Technologies, IEEE Internet Computing, Volume
13, Number 5, Pages: 24-33, ISSN: 1089-7801, IEEE Computer Society
Press, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, September/October 2009.

Available at: http://www.buyya.com/papers/InternetComp-Cloud-2009.pdf

- Christian Vecchiola, Suraj Pandey, and Rajkumar Buyya,
High-Performance Cloud Computing: A View of Scientific Applications,
Proceedings of the 10th International Symposium on Pervasive Systems,
Algorithms and Networks (I-SPAN 2009, IEEE CS Press, USA), Kaohsiung,
Taiwan, December 14-16, 2009.

Available at: http://www.buyya.com/papers/HPCC-ISPAN2009-Keynote.pdf
-

Thanks
Raj
--
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Dr. Rajkumar Buyya
Director, Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) 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); +61-0421 813 723 (home)
Fax: +61-3-9348 1184; Email: raj@...
URL: http://www.buyya.com | http://www.gridbus.org/~raj
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------------------------------------------------------------------------
              The 10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on
             Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2010)
                   May 17-20, 2010, Melbourne, Australia

                 http://www.manjrasoft.com/ccgrid2010/

                             Sponsored by:
       IEEE Computer Society / Technical Committee on Scalable Computing

                          Hosted/Organised by:
          Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory,
                    The University of Melbourne, Australia

                  Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Melbourne, Australia

                   NSF Center for Autonomic Computing
            Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, USA
------------------------------------------------------------------------

                         ****************
                          CALL FOR PAPERS
                         ****************

OVERVIEW/SCOPE:

Tremendous advances in processing, communication and systems/middleware
technologies are leading to new paradigms and platforms for computing,
ranging from computing Clusters to widely distributed Grid and emerging
Clouds. CCGrid is a series of very successful conferences, sponsored by
the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing
(TCSC) and ACM, with the overarching goal of bringing together
international researchers, developers, and users and to provide an
international forum to present leading research activities and results
on a broad range of topics related to these platforms and paradigms and
their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical
presentations, posters, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE
challenges featuring live demonstrations.

In 2010, CCGrid will return to Australia, to Melbourne, to celebrate its
10th anniversary. CCGrid 2010 will have a special focus on three
important and immediate issues that are significantly influencing all
aspects of Cluster, Cloud and Grid computing: Economics, Environment and
Autonomics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Paradigms and Technologies: System architectures, Design and
deployment; Programming models, language, systems and
tools/environments; Virtualization; Middleware technologies.

* Service-Orientation: Service oriented architectures; Utility
computing models; *aaS paradigm; Service composition and orchestration

* Greening: Environment friendly computing ecosystems;
Hardware/software/application energy efficiency; Power and cooling;
Thermal/power awareness

* Autonomic Management: Self-* behaviors, models and technologies;
Autonomic paradigms and approaches (control-based, bio-inspired,
emergent, etc.); Bio-inspired approaches to management; SLA definition
and enforcement;

* Economic Aspects: Utility models and computing economies;
Economic-based models and approaches.

* Monitoring and Evaluation: Performance models; Monitoring and
evaluation tools, Analysis of system/application performance; Benchmarks
and testbeds.

* Security and Trust: Cloud/Grid security and trust; Access control;
Data privacy and integrity; Regulation.

* Applications and Experiences: Applications to real and complex
problems in science, engineering, business and society; User studies;
Experiences with large-scale deployments systems or applications.

PAPER SUBMISSION

Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted
manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed
10 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references
using the IEEE format for conference proceedings (print area of 6-1/2
inches (16.51 cm) wide by 8-7/8 inches (22.51 cm) high, two-column
format with columns 3-1/16 inches (7.85 cm) wide with a 3/8 inch (0.81
cm) space between them, single-spaced 10-point Times fully justified
text). Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned
without review. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format and
make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses letter size
(8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the meeting is English. All
manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness,
originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation,
and interest and relevance to the conference attendees.

Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is
not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers
not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and
further action may be taken, including (but not limited to)
notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and
sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date,
exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be
considered. Authors may contact the conference PC Chair for more
information. The proceedings will be published through the IEEE Computer
Society Press, USA and will be made online through the IEEE Digital Library.

CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS

CCGrid 2010 is inviting proposals for organising of co-located and
peer-reviewed workshops on emerging topics. For details, please visit:
http://wiki.cs.cf.ac.uk/bin/view/Sandbox/WorkshopsCCGrid10



CHAIRS & COMMITTEES
********************

General Chair:
Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne and
Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Australia

Program Committee Chair:
Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA

Vice Chairs

	 Applications And Experiences
	 Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA

	 Algorithms
	 David Bader, Georgia Tech, USA

	 Programming Models and Systems
	 Carlos Varela, RPI, USA

	 Middleware/Runtime
	 Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria

	 Performance Modeling and Evaluation
	 Dick Epema, Delft University, Netherland

Workshop Chair
Omer F. Rana, Welsh eScience Center and Cardiff University, UK

Industry Track Chair
Geng Lin, Cisco Systems, USA

Posters Chair
Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, US

Publicity Chair
Cho-Li Wang, University of Hong Kong, China
Masoud Sadjadi, FIU, US

Tutorials Chair
Sushil Prasad, University of GA, US

Research Demos/Competitions Chair (SCALE Challenge)
Shantenu Jha, LSU, USA/eSI, UK
Dan Katz, University of Chicago/ANL, US

Local Organising Chair
James Broberg, University of Melbourne, Australia

Cyber Chair
Suraj Pandey, University of Melbourne, Australia

IMPORTANT DATES
Papers Due: 2 November 2009
Notification of Acceptance: 18 December 2009
Camera Ready Papers Due: 25 January 2010

SUBMISSIONS

Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the
CCGrid 2010 paper submission system (http://www.edas.info/N8181)
------------------------------------------------------------------------

Dear All:

The GRIDS Lab has recently released a detailed report on our Aneka Cloud
Computing software. Brief details are enclosed below. The full report is
available at:
   http://www.gridbus.org/reports/AnekaCloudPlatform2009.pdf

If you like to have access/explore Aneka software, pls download it from:
    http://www.manjrasoft.com/download.html

Thanks
Raj

---
Title: Aneka: A Software Platform for .NET-based Cloud Computing
Authors: Christian Vecchiola, Xingchen Chu, and Rajkumar Buyya
Categories: cs.DC cs.CE cs.NI cs.OS cs.PL cs.SE
Comments: 30 pages, 10 figures
Report-no: GRIDS-TR-2009-4, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems
Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia, May 25, 2009.
ACM-class: C.1.4, C.2.4
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Abstract: Aneka is a platform for deploying Clouds developing
applications on top of it. It provides a runtime environment and a set
of APIs that allow developers to build .NET applications that leverage
their computation on either public or private clouds. One of the key
features of Aneka is the ability of supporting multiple programming
models that are ways of expressing the execution logic of applications
by using specific abstractions. This is accomplished by creating a
customizable and extensible service oriented runtime environment
represented by a collection of software containers connected together.
By leveraging on these architecture advanced services including resource
reservation, persistence, storage management, security, and performance
monitoring have been implemented. On top of this infrastructure
different programming models can be plugged to provide support for
different scenarios as demonstrated by the engineering, life science,
and industry applications.
---
Referenced/Cited as:
Christian Vecchiola, Xingchen Chu, and Rajkumar Buyya, Aneka: A Software
Platform for .NET-based Cloud Computing, Technical Report,
GRIDS-TR-2009-4, Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory, The
University of Melbourne, Australia, May 25, 2009.
------

Dear All:

I hope all of you are doing fine with your Grid Computing R&D. I would
like to share updates on recently Grid computing-related developments as
observed during last 2 months or so.

1. I have attended few events related to grid computing including CCGrid
2009 (http://grid.sjtu.edu.cn/ccgrid2009/) in Shanghai, China. Although
there were many papers related to Grid computing presented, but many
researchers seems to be shifting rapidly to Cloud Computing - perhaps as
a natural evolution. This can be observed from keynote talks and panel
discussions.

Keynotes: Two out 3 keynotes were focused on Cloud Computing and I had a
honour of presenting one as the winner of "2009 IEEE Medal for
Excellence in  Scalable Computing". I believe some of you are aware of
this honour bestowed on me this year as noted at:
     http://www.ieeetcsc.org/awards/tcsc-medal2009.html
Thanks to the support from Grid computing community.

Those who didn't attend CCGrid 2009 and interested in my presentation
slides, please have a look at:
   http://buyya.com/talks/Cloud-Buyya-Seminar-Keynote.ppt

Panel: There was very interesting panel on "Cloud Computing: Technical
challenges and Business Implications" organised by Dr. Geng Lin, CTO of
CISCO Systems. Check out: http://grid.sjtu.edu.cn/ccgrid2009/panel.html

Reflecting on heavy featuring/focus of Cloud Computing related topics
within CCGrid during last two years, the Conference Steering Committee
has added the word "Cloud" to the title (but acronym CCGrid remains the
same). The next year conference is titled as:
   10th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing

A call for papers is available at:
http://www.gridbus.org/ccgrid2010/CCGrid2010-flyer.pdf

[Full website will be available soon]. Please do submit your papers in
Cluster, Grid, and Cloud computing to CCGrid 2010 and it will be held in
   "one of the most liveable cities of the world", of course, Melbourne!

2. With GRIDS Lab: We have released our 2008 Activities report, please
check out: http://www.gridbus.org/reports/GRIDS-Lab-AnnualReport2008.pdf

3. One of our recent articles, titled:
   Cloud Computing and Emerging IT Platforms: Vision, Hype, and Reality
for Delivering Computing as the 5th Utility
has just appeared in Future Generation Computer Systems. It also has a
nice comparison between Cluster, Grid, and Cloud Computing.
   http://www.buyya.com/papers/Cloud-FGCS2009.pdf
This article highlights new developments that are necessary in Cloud
Computing to release the vision of Computing Utilities. Please browse
the article for more details.

Enjoy your weekend.

Cheers
Raj

Dear All:

Our GRIDS Lab has just released a Cloud Simulation software, called
CloudSim. For details, please see attached release notes below. The
software can be downloaded from:
      http://www.gridbus.org/cloudsim/
Please share this message with colleagues who may be interested in this
software.

We welcome comments on improving the software. Of course, will be happy to
receive info on how you are making use of CloudSim in your work!

Best regards
Raj


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              Melbourne GRIDS Lab to Release CloudSim Toolkit 1.0 Beta
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

GRIDS Lab and the Gridbus Project at The University of Melbourne,
Australia is please to announce the release of the new Cloud simulation
software, called CloudSim.

CloudSim supports research and development in the emerging field of
Cloud Computing, and offers the following novel features: (i) support
for modeling and simulation of large scale Cloud computing
infrastructure, including data centers on a single physical computing
node; and (ii) a self-contained platform for modeling data
centers, service brokers, scheduling, and allocations policies. Among
the unique features of CloudSim, there are: (i) availability of
virtualization engine, which aids in creation and management of
multiple, independent, and co-hosted virtualized services
on a data center node; and (ii) flexibility to switch between
space-shared and time-shared allocation of processing cores to
virtualized services. These compelling features of CloudSim would speed up the
development of new algorithms, methods, and protocols in Cloud computing, hence
contributing towards quicker evolution of the paradigm.

All components developed as part of the CloudSim Toolkit are released as "open
source" under the GPL license to encourage innovation and pass full freedom to
our users.

As a simulation tool for an emerging technology, there are several
issues related to Cloud Computing that still in development. We have
done our best to address as many issues as possible, considering not
only research developed in the GRIDS Lab but also recent cloud-related
research that has been published in academic journals and conferences.
Nevertheless, there may be features that is required by cloud
researches and that are not present in this version of CloudSim. In the other
hand, there may have features that are not required by cloud
researchers. Hence, the CloudSim team will be happy to receive feedback on
usefulness of the current features,and also to receive suggestions on which
features should be present in the final version of the tool. Also, any feedback
will be welcomed. Please, feel free to send e-mails to
the CloudSim developers. The addresses can be found in the CloudSim
homepage at http://www.gridbus.org/cloudsim/

To download the CloudSim software, please visit the Gridbus Project web site at:
http://www.gridbus.org/cloudsim/

The CloudSim Team
Melbourne, Australia, April 2009
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Dear All:

On behalf of Manjrasoft, I am pleased to share details on the release
its product:
    Aneka: A Software Technology to Simplify .NET-based Enterprise Clouds

This can be used for (1) building enterprise Clouds/Grids in
Windows/.NET environments, (2) constructing applications using one of
the supported  programming models - Threads, Tasks, or MapReduce - run
them, and (3) speed up execution of applications in Windows/.NET Clouds.

You can either use "dedicated" network of computers or harness exiting
network of desktop computers to build enterprise Clouds. In addition to
SDK for building application, we also provide GUI-based Design explorer
for creating parameter sweep application rapidly for execution on
enterprise Clouds. More details can be found in release notes enclosed
below.

A trial version of Aneka software and documents can be downloaded from:
    http://www.manjrasoft.com/download.html

Best regards
Raj


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\
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Aneka: A Software Technology to Simplify .NET-based Enterprise Clouds
               Aneka 1.0 - Release Notes - March 27, 2009.
                     Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Australia
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\
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What's in Aneka 1.0
===================

The Aneka 1.0 distribution comes with the following features:

The basic infrastructure of the system comprising client and server
components for setting up an Enterprise Cloud/Grid system with
scheduling and execution nodes.

- A configurable container hosting the core of Aneka that can be started
as Window Service or as a console application.

- A set of ready to use programming models for developing Enterprise
Cloud/Grid applications with Aneka:
-------

    [1] Thread Programming Model: this model is the best solution to adopt
for leveraging the computation of a multi-threaded application on a
distributed system.

    [2] Task Programming Model: this model allows quickly prototyping and
implementing independent bag of tasks applications.

    [3] MapReduce Programming Model: this model is an implementation of the
popular MapReduce programming model proposed by Google for Aneka systems.
--------

- A collection of sample applications that give the feeling of what can
be done by using the supported programming models.

- A software development kit containing step by step guides for
developing applications with the Thread, Task, and MapReduce Programming
Models.

- A Design Explorer allowing user to quickly prototype Parameter
Sweeping application for Aneka.

- A comprehensive API documentation covering the supported programming
models and the Aneka client APIs.

- A Windows integrated security mechanism to authenticate and authorise
user's access to Aneka

- A RDBMS persistence supports both SQL Server Express 2005 version 9
and MySQL 5.1.30.

Additional and updated content concerning samples and documentation can
be downloaded from the Manjrasoft Website:
    http://www.manjrasoft.com/download.html


System Requirements
===================

The basic system requirement for installing Aneka service is listed below:


Hardware Requirements:

- 1G RAM, 40 MB disk space


Software Requirements:

- Microsoft Windows Operating System (including Windows 2000, XP, NT, Vista)

- Microsoft .NET framework 2.0 or higher

- Microsoft SOL Server/SQL Server Express 2005 version 9 or higher/
MySQL 5.1.30 or higher (optional, if database support is required)


Downloading
===========

Aneka v 1.0 evaluation version can be downloaded from the Manjrasoft
Website. In order to download the sotfware the user is required to
provide the contact name and email. Tutorials and documentation are
freely available for download without any registration. This evaluation
version is valid until June 30, 2009. Those interested in perpetual
license with support, please contact Manjrasoft for pricing details.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------\
----

Dear All:

Our team has recently developed a framework for modelling and simulation
of Cloud Computing environments to support performance evaluation of
policies for resource provisioning / application scheduling / policies
of federation of Clouds (in a repeatable and controllable manner). For
details, please check our our Tech Report:
     http://www.gridbus.org/reports/CloudSim-ICPP2009.pdf

Those interested in having early access to it (before we make full
public release will full documentation), please let us know. We will be
happy to share early version of the software for your exploration.

Best regards
Raj

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                 Cloud Computing: Principles and Paradigms
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                          Call for Book Chapters
                          **********************

Cloud computing has recently emerged as one of the buzzwords in
the ICT industry. Several IT vendors are promising to offer
computation, data/storage, and application hosting services, and
provide coverage in several continents, offering Service-Level
Agreements (SLA) backed performance and uptime promises for their
services. While these 'clouds' are the natural evolution of
traditional clusters and data centers, they are distinguished by
following a 'utility' pricing model where customers are charged
based on their utilisation of computational resources, storage and
transfer of data. They offer subscription-based access to
infrastructure, platforms, and applications that are popularly
termed as IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service), PaaS (Platform as a
Service), and SaaS (Software as a Service). Whilst these emerging
services have reduced the cost of computation, application hosting
and content storage and delivery by several orders of magnitude,
there is significant complexity involved in ensuring applications,
services and data can scale when needed to ensure consistent and
reliable operation under peak loads.

The primary purpose of this book is to capture the
state-of-the-art in Cloud Computing technologies and applications.
The book will also aim to identify potential research directions
and technologies that will facilitate creation a global
market-place of cloud computing services supporting scientific,
industrial, business, and consumer applications. We expect the
book to serve as a reference for larger audience such as systems
architects, practitioners, developers, new researchers and
graduate level students. It is expected that one of the
prestigious international publishers (e.g., Wiley or Prentice
Hall) will publish the proposed book.

Topics for potential chapters include, but are not limited to:

- Novel architectural models for cloud computing
- Service and Utility-oriented platforms for Cloud computing
- Types of Clouds and Services
- Security, Privacy, and Trust management issues
- Cloud Economics and Business Models
- Resource management and scheduling
- QoS (Quality of Service) and Resource Allocation
- Virtual Machines Provisioning and migration services
- Support for Market-Aware Cloud Services
- Pricing Schemes and Risk Management
- SLA (Service Level Agreements) negotiation and management
- Accounting, Billing and Verification Infrastructure
- New programming models for cloud computing
- Tools and technologies building different types of Clouds
- Interoperability between Clouds
- Internetworking between Clouds (InterClouds)
- Building and Deploying Social Network Applications on Clouds
- Portability of applications and data between different cloud providers
- Reliability of applications and services running on the cloud
- Performance monitoring for cloud applications
- Content Delivery Networks using Storage Clouds
- Building and Hosting Internet Service Applications on Cloud
- Scientific computing in the cloud
- Workflows for cloud computing
- Experience with Building and Using Cloud Infrastructure
- Legal issues in Cloud Computing
- Business Computing on Clouds
- Consumer computing on Clouds
- Novel applications of cloud computing

Important Dates
***************

Chapter Proposal: You are invited to submit a 1-2 pages proposal
describing the topic of your chapter. The proposal should include
the chapter organization, anticipated number of pages of the final
manuscript and brief biography of authors.  We plan to follow the
timeline given below:

* Proposal Deadline: 30th June 2009
* Notification of proposal acceptance: 30th July 2009
* Full draft chapter submission: 15th Oct 2009
* Chapter review report to authors: 15th Nov 2009
* Final version submission: 15th Dec 2009

However, early submission is highly appreciated as the editors
would like to have progressive dialogue and work with prospective
authors to bring out a book of wide appeal.

If we receive more than one proposal for a chapter on the same
topic, the editors may request authors to collaborate to develop
an integrated chapter.

Manuscript Submission
*********************

Each accepted chapter should be about 20-35 A4 pages. We expect to
deliver CRC of the book to the publisher, a MS Word template will
be provided later.

Primary Editor's Contact Details:
*********************************

Dr. Rajkumar Buyya
Grid Computing and Distributed Systems Laboratory
Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering
The University of Melbourne, Australia
Email: raj@...
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Dear Colleagues:

I hope all of you have enjoyed Christmas and new year holidays and
energised to take up new challenges. Let me wish you all a productive
and prosperous new year 2009.

I would like to share recent developments with GRIDS lab (along with
accomplishments) and emerging new trends are observed during my travel
to USA, Europe, India.
-------
1. I have attended several conferences during Dec. month. They include
e-Science 2009 in USA, Cloud Computing Workshop in Germany, and ICDCIT
2008 (distributed computing and internet technology), ICON 2008, ADCOM
2008, and HiPC 2008 conferences in India; and ICCIT 2008 conference
(http://www.iccitbd.net/) in Bangladesh. Although these events are
features many papers in Grid computing area, but interest in Cloud
Computing is rapidly emerging. Keynote talks and panels on Cloud
computing featured with great interest. I also presented keynote talk on
Cloud Computing topic. Slides of my talk can be downloaded from:
    http://www.gridbus.org/~raj/talks/Cloud-Buyya-Keynote2008.ppt

In fact, I would also encourage you to have a look at our Cloud
Computing article that will soon appear in Future Generation Computing
Systems (FGCS) Journal as my keynote talk follows similar structure:
    http://www.gridbus.org/~raj/papers/Cloud-FGCS2009.pdf

2. During this trip I visited several cities in India and particularly
engaged in training teachers of engineering colleges in various states
by conducting workshops/seminars at Delhi, Chennai, Pune, Bangaluru,
Kolkata, Bhubaneswar, and Hyderabad and Dhaka in Bangladesh. It also
gave me opportunity to share how one can use our Aneka software to setup
enterprise Clouds and use it for teaching parallel and distributed
computing to students. To get glimpse of these events during Dec. and
early Jan months, please browse:
    http://www.manjrasoft.com/Manjrasoft_Events/index.html

I have also put slides of my talk online, which can be downloaded from:
    http://www.gridbus.org/~raj/Buyya-IndiaRoadShow.zip
Feel free to share with interested colleagues and all attendees of
seminar. If any of you want to explore the use of Aneka in teaching,
please contact me.

3. Recognitions:  One of our papers, entitled:
    "A Linear Programming Driven Genetic Algorithm for Meta-Scheduling on
Utility Grids", presented at ADCOM 2008 (16th International Conference
on Advanced Computing and Communications) has received "Best Paper
Award". What is nice way to say bye to year 2008 and venture into 2009.
----------

Recently we have been doing quite a bit of work on mixing Grid and Cloud
computing. More on it later!

Cheers
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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Dear All:

I would like to share several good news from GRIDS Lab:

1. GRIDS Lab video on YouTube:

We have produced a 10 min video that introduces GRIDS Lab R&D
activities. Pls check out:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eA48DEYhiBM

2. GRIDS Lab is involved in setting up a company called Manjrasoft to
commercialise our research and innovations. Check out:
   http://www.gridcomputingplanet.com/article.php/3785741

Do check out the company website for details:
    http://www.manjrasoft.com/

We also released our first product called Aneka (alpha version). This
is designed to support enterprise Cloud/Grid computing in Windows .NET
environment.  I will send more release notes later, but meanwhile, I
would like to encourage you to download the current version and build
some interesting applications. Yes, pls do let me know about
applications/interesting work you do with Aneka.

Best regards
Raj
PS: I will be at e-Science 2008 conference in Indianapolis, USA
(Dec.7-9). If any of you are attending this conference, it will be
great to meet you in person.

Dear All:

I would like to share some of our recent developments in GRIDS Lab:

1. We have recently done quite a bit of work on advancing our work on
Cloud Computing and enhancing our Aneka enterprise Cloud technology.
We have implemented MapReduce programming model in Aneka platform under
Windows/.NET environment. Check out following papers for details both
details on technology and applications:
    http://www.gridbus.org/reports/MapReduce-NET-2008.pdf
    http://www.gridbus.org/~raj/papers/MapReduce-GA-eScience2008.pdf
    http://www.gridbus.org/~raj/papers/Jeeva-ADCOM2008.pdf

2. Research Grant:

We received Australian Research Council (ARC) and Platform Corporation
supported research grant for our R&D efforts in SLA-Oriednted Resource
Allocation in Cloud Computing Systems. Please see project summary
enclosed at the end of this message. This project will be formally
executed during 2009-2011.

3. GRIDS Lab research students win Knowledge Transfer grant:

Provost of University of Melbourne presented Dream Large Knowledge
Trannsfer grant to students of GRIDS Lab for showcashing and sharing
their research to empower emerging economies. More details, please see:
      http://www.gridbus.org/cdn/ktp/



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Project:  Service Level Agreement (SLA) oriented Resource Allocation for
            Data Centers and Cloud Computing Systems

Collaborating/Partner Organisation(s)
        Platform Computing Singapore Pte Ltd

Administering Organisation The University of Melbourne

Project Summary

In the next 20 years, service oriented computing will play an important
role in shaping the industry and the way business is conducted and
services are delivered and managed. This paradigm will have major impact
on service economy, which contributes significantly towards Australia's
GDP. The service sector, which includes health, financial, and
government services, involves significant interaction between clients
and providers. With increasing  dependency on ICT technologies in their
realization, major advances are required in service driven allocation of
resources to competing applications. This project develops technologies
for Service Level Agreement (SLA) based allocation of Data Center/Cloud
computing system resources to applications.
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International Workshop on Cloud Computing (Cloud 2009)

                       In conjunction with the
9th IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid
                     (CCGrid 2009)
                   May 18-21, 2009, Shanghai, China.

                  http://www.gridbus.org/cloud2009/

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Call for participation:

Cloud computing has recently emerged as one of the buzzwords in the ICT
industry. Several IT vendors are promising to offer storage, application
and computation hosting services, and provide coverage in several
continents, offering Service-Level Agreements (SLA) backed performance
and uptime promises for their services. While these 'clouds' are the
natural evolution of traditional clusters and data centers, they are
distinguished by following a 'utility' pricing model where customers are
charged based on their utilisation of computational resources, storage
and transfer of data. Whilst these emerging services have reduced the
cost of computation, application hosting and content storage and
delivery by several orders of magnitude, there is significant
complexity involved in ensuring applications, services and data can
scale when needed to ensure consistent and reliable operation under peak
loads.

This workshop is of interest to researchers and practitioners involved
in cluster, grid and cloud computing that are now harnessing clouds in
their respective fields to maximise performance, minimise cost and
improve the scale of their endeavours.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):
* Novel architectural models for cloud computing
* Cloud resource management
* Utility models and service pricing
* New parallel / concurrent programming models for cloud computing
* Scientific computing in the cloud
* Workflows for cloud computing
* Storage as a Service
* Content Delivery Networks using Storage Clouds
* Interoperability / portability of applications and data between different
    cloud providers
* Reliability of applications and services running on the cloud
* Performance monitoring for cloud applications
* Novel applications of cloud computing

Important Dates:
Papers Due: 15th December 2008
Notification of Acceptance: 15th January 2009
Camera-Ready Papers: 15th February 2009

Organising Committee:

Assoc. Prof. Rajkumar Buyya (raj AT csse.unimelb.edu.au)
The University of Melbourne and Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Australia
http://www.buyya.com

Dr. James Broberg (brobergj AT csse.unimelb.edu.au)
The University of Melbourne, Australia
http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~brobergj

Program Committee:

Yoshio Tanaka, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and
Technology,Japan
Wolfgang Gentzsch, Duke University, United States
Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, United Kingdom
Ignacio M. Llorente,  Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain
Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, United States
Walfredo Cirne, Google, United States
Hamid Pirahesh, IBM Research, United States
Kate Keahey, University of Chicago, United States
Reuven Cohen, Enomaly Inc, Canada
Wolfgang Theilmann, SAP
Stephen Tai, Uni-Karlsruhe, Germany
Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
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Dear All,

Please find enclosed our detailed article on:
     Cloud Computing and Emerging IT Platforms
This is an extended version of article I share with you.

This article particularly includes details (1) on Characteristics that
differentiates Clouds from Grids (and Clusters) and (2) a case study on
building 3rd party services using commercial Cloud infrastructures. For
more details, please see the article available at:
   http://www.gridbus.org/reports/CloudITPlatforms2008.pdf

Cheers
Raj

>Dear Colleague,
>
> We Apologise if you have received this cfp multiple times!
>
> Please find enclosed a call for papers for the upcoming:
>
>  9th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and
>  the Grid (CCGRID 2009)
>  18-21 May 2009 in Shanghai, China
>  http://grid.sjtu.edu.cn/ccgrid2009| http://www.buyya.com/ccgrid
>
> *** Papers Due: 30th November 2008 ***
>
> We would like to take this opportunity to request you to consider this
> symposium as a venue for presenting your research. We also request
your help
> in publicising the enclosed cfp among your colleagues and encourage them
> to submit their work.
>
> We are looking forward to welcome and see you in Shanghai!
>
> Thank you very much.
>
> Sincerely Yours,
>
> CCGrid 2009 Team
> http://grid.sjtu.edu.cn/ccgrid2009
>
>
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> CCGrid2009: IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster Computing and
the Grid
>
******************************************************************************
>
> 18-21 May 2009, Shanghai, China
> http://grid.sjtu.edu.cn/ccgrid2009| http://www.buyya.com/ccgrid
>
> CALL FOR PAPERS
>
> CCGrid 2009 is the ninth in a series of successful international
conferences
> and for the first time will take place in China. The conference will
be held at
> Shanghai Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, which is located along the
coast of
> the East China Sea and the southern banks of the mouth of the Yangtze
River.
>
> Grid Computing started as a generalization of Cluster Computing,
promising to
> deliver large scale levels of parallelism to high-performance
applications by
> crossing administrative boundaries. Currently, Grid technology is
establishing
> the way out of the academic incubator and into industry environments.
The goal
> of CCGrid 2009 is to serve as an international forum for researchers
> and practitioners
> to present their innovative ideas and experiences in the
multi-faceted areas of
> Cluster and Grid computing including emerging areas such as Cloud
Computing.
>
> The areas of interest include, but are not limited to the following:
>
> * Cluster technologies
> * Grid Architectures and Systems
> * Utility Computing Models for Clusters and Grids
> * Grid Economies and Service Architectures
> * Service Composition and Orchestration
> * Middleware for Clusters and Grids
> * Parallel and Wide-Area File Systems
> * Peer-to-Peer Systems
> * Cloud Computing
> * Community and collaborative computing networks
> * Grid Trust and Security
> * Support for Autonomic Grid Infrastructure
> * Resource Management
> * Scheduling and Load Balancing
> * Programming Models, Tools, and Environments
> * Performance Evaluation and Modeling
> * Grid-based Problem Solving Environments
> * Scientific, Engineering, and Commercial Applications
>
>
> PAPER SUBMISSION and PUBLICATION
>
> Authors are invited to submit a full length 8-page "original"
research paper of
> double column text using single spaced 10 pt size type on 8.5"x11"
paper, as per
> IEEE manuscript guidelines. Paper submission instructions will be
placed on the
> conference web-page. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE
> Computer Society
> Press, USA, and will be made available online through the IEEE
Digital Library.
>
>
> WORKSHOPS
>
> We invite proposals for organising workshops as part of
> CCGrid2009. These special events are expected to be highly
specialiased and
> focused, and all selected papers will be published in the CCGrid2009
> proceedings. Those interested in organising special events, please
contact
> workshops chair.
>
> The following special events have been organised along with the
symposium:
>
> 1. Grids and Cloud Computing (led by Rajkumar Buyya, Melbourne
University)
> 2. Scientific Instruments on the Grid (led by Ian Welch, Victoria
> University of Wellington & Line Pouchard, Oak Ridge National Lab)
> 3. Embedded Grids (i.e. embedded systems and Grids) (led by Lutz
> Schubert, HLRS, Germany)
> 4. HealthGrids (led by Silvia Olabarriaga, Amsterdam Medical
> Centre/University of Amsterdam)
> 5. BIOGrid: Grid-based tools for biosciences (Christophe Blanchet,
> CNRS/ICBP, France)
> 6. Grids and P2P systems (Nick Antonoupolous, Surrey University, UK)
> 7. Grid Education (Jose Cunha, UNL, Portugal)
> 8. e-Science Visualization (Nick Avis, Cardiff, UK & Gao Shu, Wuhan
> University, China)
> 9. Grid workflows (Zhiming Zhao, U. Amsterdam)
>
>
>
> CHAIRS & COMMITTEES
>
> General Chairs:
> Minglu Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
> Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China
>
> Workshops Chair:
> Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK
>
> Program Committee Chairs:
> Franck Cappello, INRIA, France
> Cho-Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong, China
>
> Local Arrangements Chair:
> Jiadi Yu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
>
> Publicity chair
> Feilong Tang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
>
> Finance chair
> Zhihua Su, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China
>
>
>
> IMPORTANT DATES:
>
> Papers Due: 30th November 2008
> Notification of Acceptance: 15th January 2009
> Tutorial: Jan 15, 2009
> Camera-Ready Papers: 15th February 2009

Dear All,

Some good news to share: Along with colleagues, I have edited a book on "Content
Delivery Networks", published by Springer, which is just
released in the market.

Brief details are enclosed below..

Best regards
Raj

----------------------------
Book Publication and Release
----------------------------

The "Content Delivery Networks" book edited by Rajkumar Buyya (The
University of Melbourne, Australia) along with Mukaddim Pathan (The University
of Melbourne, Australia) and Athena Vakali (Aristotle University of
Thessaloniki, Greece) is published by Springer. Dr. Buyya and his team have
contributed a significant content for the book. In addition, the book also
brings together contributions from several leading experts from premier
institutions such as Carnegie Melon University, University of California at
Berkeley,  The University of Pensylavania, University of Southampton, Akamai
Inc, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

For details, please visit the book website at:
      http://www.gridbus.org/cdn/book/
or the publisher website:
http://www.springer.com/dal/home/engineering/signals?SGWID=1-186-22-173798317-0
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Dear All,

In my previous message I mentioned about about efforts Cloud
Computing. Some of you have asked me about how is Cloud Computing
different from Cluster and Grid Computing. I wrote a "detailed"
article on this and share with all of you next week.

Meanwhile, I have a shorter version to share, which is actually a
Keynote paper I wrote for HPCC 2008Conference. The article is titled as:
   "Market-Oriented Cloud Computing: Vision, Hype, and Reality for
Delivering IT Services as Computing Utilities"

The full article can be downloaded from:
    http://www.gridbus.org/~raj/papers/hpcc2008_keynote_cloudcomputing.pdf

Bibliographical details are as follows:
-----------
R. Buyya, C. S. Yeo, and S. Venugopa, Market-Oriented Cloud Computing:
Vision, Hype, and Reality for Delivering IT Services as Computing
Utilities, Proceedings of the 10th IEEE International Conference on
High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC-08), IEEE Computer
Society Press, Los Alamitos, CA, USA, 2008.
---------

I hope you will find this article useful.

Stay tuned for a detailed article (next week or so) in which you will
find detailed discussion on Clusters, Grid, and Clouds!

Best regards
Raj

Dear All:

The GRIDS Lab at the University of Melbourne and NICTA (National ICT
Australia) are pleased to release SensorWeb 2.0 software, which supports
unification of Sensor Networks and Grid Computing with the World-Wide
Web. In simple terms, it allows clients to access sensors using Web
services.

The SensorWeb 2.0 software confirms to Web Services standard defined by
the W3C (World-Wide Web) and SensorML (Sensor Model Language) standard
defined by the OpenGeospatial Consortium. This integration of sensor
networks with Grid computing brings out dual benefits: (i) sensor
networks can off-load heavy processing activities to the Grid and (ii)
Grid-based sensor applications can provide advance services for
smart-sensing by deploying scenario-specific operators at runtime.

For details on the SensorWeb Project and downloading latest version of
software, please see:
   http://www.gridbus.org/sensorweb/

For formal release notes of SensorWeb 2.0, please see:
     http://www.gridbus.org/sensorweb/SensorWeb2-0_Release_Notes.pdf

Please fee free to forward this message to colleagues interested in
SensorWeb.

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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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:
---
   Service and Utility Oriented Distributed Computing Systems: Challenges
and Opportunities for Modeling and Simulation Communities,
--
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.
---

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:
--
Market-Oriented Grid Computing and the Gridbus Middleware
--
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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Dear All,

The GRIDS Lab and the Gridbus Project is pleased to release Annual
Report of its key activities and outcomes during the academic year 2007.
Please browse:
    http://www.gridbus.org/reports/GRIDS-Lab-AnnualReport2007.pdf

Regards
Raj

Dear Colleagues:

We are looking for two PostDoc level Research Fellows:
1. Grid and P2P Overlay Networks:
    http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=402602
2. Grid Workflow Scheduling:
    http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/jobDetails.asp?sJobIDs=402579

If you know suitable candidates or have a student who has graduated/soon
graduating with a PhD on topic related to the above positions, please
share this message with them.

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); +61-0431385688 (home)
Fax: +61-3-9348 1184; Email: raj@...
URL: http://www.buyya.com | http://www.gridbus.org/~raj
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Dear All,

Omer Rana (from Cardiff University) and I put together a short technical
writeup "Views of eScience – from the 3rd IEEE eScience and Computing
Conference". Those of you have not attend, can get a feel of what
happened at the conference.

Summary: The 3rd IEEE International Conference on eScience and Grid
Computing (e-Science 2007) took place in Bangalore, India from December
10-13, 2007, building on previous successful events in Melbourne,
Australia (2005) and Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2006). The conference
was attended by over 200 participants, 50% of whom were international
delegates. Overall, approximately 60 research papers were presented (out
of 206 submitted) in the main conference. There were also three
associated workshops focusing on new developments in established
eScience topics on workflow, Problem Solving Environments and Grid
interoperability. There were also four tutorials on themes such as
Autonomic Grid Computing, Market-Oriented Grid Computing and the Gridbus
Middleware, the Globus Toolkit and Application enablement on the Grid.

Please browse the complete article from:
       http://www.gridbus.org/reports/escience2007-tech-report.pdf

Cheers
Raj

Dear All,

I thought some of you may also be interested in the below book...

Thanks
Raj

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: [ieeetcsc-discuss] TCSC book donation: e-Scinece 2007
Proceedings (printed) available
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2008 12:07:54 +1100
From: Rajkumar Buyya <raj@...>
Organisation: The University of Melbourne, Australia
To: discuss@...
CC: andreas boklund <andreas.boklund@...>, Bindhu <bindhu@...>

Dear All:

On Dec. 13, 2007, Bindu Madhav (Organising Chair of E-Science 2007), has
agreed to make available 30 copies of:
*  Proceedings of the 3rd IEEE International Conference on E-Science and
Grid Computing (IEEE CS Press).
printed copies for TCSC Book Donation program. Those interested
receiving a copy to the Book donation, please send an email to Secretary
        Dr. Andreas Boklund (andreas.boklund@...)
with following details:
-------------------------------------------------
     Name:
     Affiliation:
     Postal Address (official):
     Country:
     Postcode:
     Phone number:
-------------------------------------------------

Books will be allocated based on First Come First Served basis. So,
please make your request asap (within a week).

Best regards
Raj

Dear All,

I hope that all of you have enjoyed Christmas holidays and energised
yourself to launch into a new year with many exciting ideas. Let me
first wish you and your family a happy and prosperous new year 2008.

I am sharing the below message I sent to TCSC with you all as I had
often shared TCSC's opportunities such as scholarships etc. on this
mailing list.

I also want to bring to your attention:
    First IEEE International Scalable Computing Challenge (SCALE 2008)
which provides opportunities for showcasing your efforts in Grid
computing. For details, please see:
   http://www.ieeetcsc.org/scale2008.html

Here is a CFP for workshop on Content Delivery Networks that as sent to this
mailing list by a member: http://2008.upgrade-cn.org/

Cheers
Raj
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: New year wishes and TCSC report - 2007 and looking forward
Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2008 16:17:53 +1100
From: Rajkumar Buyya <raj@...>
Organisation: The University of Melbourne, Australia
To: tcsc@...

Dear Members of the TCSC:

1. I hope that all of you have enjoyed Christmas holidays and energised
yourself to launch into a new year with many exciting ideas. Let me
first wish you and your family a happy and prosperous new year 2008.

2. From the TCSC's perspective (http://www.ieeetcsc.org/), 2007 has been
a great and exciting year. TCSC has strengthened earlier programs and
services and further created new and innovative programs for the benefit
of our community. For example, to ignite the minds of young researchers
and recognise a prominent volunteer (for his/her excellence in research
and community service), TCSC has initiated two new programs: (i) IEEE
International Scalable Computing Challenge and (ii) IEEE Medal for
Excellence in Scalable Computing.

For full details on TCSC's 2007 activities, please browse the "final"
annual report available at:
    http://www.ieeetcsc.org/tcsc_files/TCSC2007AnnualReport.pdf
I have added outcomes of TCSC's recent events and some thoughts for
future activities as a result of new community developments.

3. As this report also happens to be my final report as the first
elected Chair of the TCSC, I have tried to reflect on TCSC
accomplishments during my tenure over the last two years. Of course, the
position statement:
    http://www.ieeetcsc.org/raj_position_statement.html
I had put forward, which is endorsed by the TCSC community (by way of
electing me), has offered strong guiding principles for TCSC activities
and services to its communities. I sincerely hope and believe that I
have been able to deliver all that I had promised to your satisfaction.

4. Acknowledgements: This was all made possible due to the strong
support I received from all the members and volunteers of TCSC (members
of the executive committee, organisers of various TCSC events), TCSC
advisory committee, the IEEE Computer Society, colleagues/friends on the
TCSC discussion mailing list, media, industrial sponsors of TCSC events
and all participants. I have tried my best to recognise all our key
volunteers by nominating them for the IEEE Computer Society service
awards (see 2007 annual report for details).

I would like to offer my special appreciation to my employer, the
University of Melbourne and the Dept. of Computer Science and Software
Engineering's previous head (Prof. Rao Kotagiri) and the current head
(Prof. Alistair Moffat) and my family for allowing me to spend a
significant amount of time on TCSC community services.

5. In a day or two, I will be handing over TCSC leadership to a new
Chair - I am waiting for the IEEE Computer Society's announcement of the
results of recent TCSC election. I will offer my full support to the new
TCSC leader to ensure smooth transition and outstanding success of TCSC
in offering community services into the future.

Thank you one and all, for your unreserved support and kindness you have
offered me for the past several years. I will continue to look for new
opportunities to further serve you all with dedication.

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); +61-0431385688 (home)
Fax: +61-3-9348 1184; Email: raj@...
URL: http://www.buyya.com | http://www.gridbus.org/~raj
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Dear All,

I would like to share two recent updates from the Gridbus Project and
GRIDS Lab:

1. The Gridbus Project has been awarded University of Melbourne
Vice-Chancellor's Knowledge Excellence (Commendation) Award for creating
and sharing various Grid technologies with colleagues around the world.
A brief details are attached at the end.

2. An article describing our Grid computing course has appeared in IEEE
Distributed Systems Online. You can browse it from:
http://dsonline.computer.org/portal/pages/dsonline/2007/12/oz002edu.html

Thanks
Raj
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Melbourne University's Vice Chancellor Award for the Gridbus Project
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Associate Professor Buyya's leadership in the Gridbus Project has
resulted in fundamental research and advances in Grid Computing, created
open-source Gridbus software technologies and generated partnerships
with various scientific, engineering and business communities which
apply Grid technologies to solve problems in e-science and e-business.

Grid and cluster computing is a critical area of computing research and
infrastructure, as it provides the mechanism to solve large-scale
scientific and industrial problems. The systems designed by Associate
Professor Buyya are used by biologists, medical scientists,
environmentalists, physicists and economists.

His software for Grid Computing has also been used by several academic
and commercial organisations including Columbia University, the
University of Southern California, Sun Microsystems, the Friedrich
Miescher Institute and IBM. The project has attracted more than $2
million in competitive research grants from the Australian Research
Council and the Department of Education, Science and Training.

In recognition of Dr. Buyya's leadership for the Gridbus Project, the
University of Melbourne has presented him an inaugural Vice-Chancellor's
Knowledge Transfer Excellence (Commendation) Award on Nov. 21, 2007.

A snapshot of the award certificate:
   http://www.gridbus.org/~raj/awards/Buyya-KT-Award2007.jpg

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Dear All,

Along with e-Research Day@Melbourne, we are organising exhibition of
various Gridbus technologies. For details, please see below and also
browse the attached flyer. I would like to take this opportunity to
personally invite you to join us. The exhibit will be between 2-5pm, so
feel free to drop in at your convenient time.

Please share below message with your colleagues who might be interested
in joining us.

Cheers
Raj

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2007 Grid Computing and e-Research Expo
The University of Melbourne
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Date: Nov. 30 (Friday), 2007
Time: 2pm-5pm
Venue: Room. 4.04
Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering
University of Melbourne, ICT Building
111 Barry Street, Carlton
Webpage: http://www.gridbus.org/expo/

*** An Invitation to Participate ***
*** Open to All and Free Entry! ****

The Expo organized as part of Melbourne e-Research Day aims to:

* bring together researchers, developers and users of Grid technologies
and e-Research applications to share and exchange ideas,

* demonstrate Gridbus technologies and e-Research applications developed
in collaboration with Australian and international organisations.

* explore how we can collaborate and work together in Grid-enabling your
applications and/or in advancing Grid technologies to the next level!

Grid Technologies @ Expo:
-------------------------

At the Expo, we will demonstrate Grid tools and technologies that assist in:
* the construction of grids that scale from enterprise to global level,
* grid-enabling your resources and the publication of their services,
* resource management,
* workflow and process management,
* application development or grid-enabling legacy applications, and on
demand deployment of applications on enterprise and global grids.

The Grid technologies to be demonstrated include the following:
----------------------
	 * Aneka: Next Generation Enterprise Grid
	 (successor of our high impact Alchemi system)
	 * Gridbus Broker: http://www.gridbus.org/broker
	 * GridSim: http://www.gridbus.org/gridsim
	 * Grid Workflow Engine: http://www.gridbus.org/workflow
	 * SensorWeb: http://www.gridbus.org/sensorweb

e-Research Grid Applications @ Expo:
-----------------------------------
At the Expo, we will demonstrate how eResearch applications developed by
our collaborators harnesses enterprise and global Grid resources located
within the University, distributed across Australia and around the
world. The application demonstrators include:
	 * Distributed Kidney Modelling (Melbourne Faculty of
Medicine)
	 * Protein Secondary Structure Predication
	 (Dept. of Electrical and Electronics Eng.)
	 * Ray Tracing and Image Processing
	 * Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (fMRI)
	 * Sensor Network applications

In addition, our colleagues from the rest of the University will also be
showcasing interesting applications. So, please join us for the whole of
Melbourne's key e-Research demonstrations.

Contact:
--------
If you have any specific enquires and want to meet or discuss with us in
advance or later, please contact:

A/Professor Rajkumar Buyya
Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory
Dept. of Computer Science and Software Engineering
The University of Melbourne
ICT Building, 111, Barry Street
Carlton, Melbourne, VIC 3053.
Ph: 83441344 Email: raj@...
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Dear Colleagues:

Let me share recent developments in Grid Computing area especially with
Gridbus Project and Australia:

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1. 3rd IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing
to be held in Bangalore, India during December 10-13, 2007 is all set.
e-Science 2007 is an important conference for the international
e-Science and Grid Computing community as it provides a forum for all
e-Science and Grid researchers, developers and users and those who are
just curious to see the project results and become aware of the progress
made in this area.

The conference program comprises of keynote talks, peer-reviewed
research papers, workshops, an industry track, tutorials, and a poster
and research demo session. For full program details, please see:
   http://www.escience2007.org/

2. Gridbus Exhibit at E-Science 2007 in India:
   As one of the sponsors of International Conference on e-Science and
Grid Computing conference, the University of Melbourne will have a
exhibit/booth showcasing our Universitiy and the GRIDS lab's efforts in
this this area.

We will demonstrating all our recent technological developments in Grid
Computing and e-Science including:
    * Aneka: Next-Generation Enterprise Grid Platform
      This is first public and international exhibit or our new Aneka
software technology. For more info, pls check our our article:
    http://www.gridbus.org/~raj/papers/AnekaNextGenGrid2007.pdf
    * GridSim Toolkit: including advanced execution trace visualiser
    * Gridbus Broker and its applications
      especially Distributed Kidney Modelling
   * Gridbus Workflow Engine driving neuroscience/brain imaging

Several members of the Gridbus Project (including me!) will be at
e-Science 2007 conference and it will be great to meet those attending
in person. Pleas do visit our booth.

3. Recently media has features our collaborative initiative with
Microsoft. Please visit:
   http://www.gridcomputingplanet.com/article.php/3712291
for details.

4. Recently Australia is pushing a lot more on Grid Computing. One most
interesting recent development is formation of QUT and Microsoft
Research in Brisbane. Please visit: http://www.mquter.qut.edu.au/
for details.

5. IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) which sponsors
several events in Grid Computing and its applications topics has
recently released its 2007 activities report. Please see:
   http://www.ieeetcsc.org/tcsc_files/TCSC2007AnnualReport.pdf
-------------------------------------------------------------------------

Cheers
Raj
PS: Some of you heard that Australia just elected a new Government
leaders and new PM promised to support education revolution in
Australia. I believe this will offer excellent opportunity for young
researchers.
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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); +61-0431385688 (home)
Fax: +61-3-9348 1184; Email: raj@...
URL: http://www.buyya.com | http://www.gridbus.org/~raj
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Dear All,

Please distribute the below Call for Participation for e-Science and
Grid Computing Conference as appropriate.

As indicated in the CFP, the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable
Computing, The University of Melbourne, and C-DAC sponsored travel
support is being offered to students (for both international and
India-based students). Please see:
   http://www.ieeetcsc.org/young/eScience07/TCSC-UnimelbGrant.html
Please encourage research students to apply.

Thank you.
Raj

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                         CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

     Third IEEE International Conference on e-Science and Grid Computing
                  December 10-13, 2007, Bangalore, India

                       http://www.escience2007.org

                                   Sponsored By:
         IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committee on Scalable Computing
                              http://www.ieeetcsc.org

                             Organised/Supported by:
                Centre for Development of Advanced Computing, India
                     The University of Melbourne, Australia
                           Indiana University, USA
                    LSU Center for Computation & Technology, USA
                             EuroIndiaGrid Project
                 OMII (Open Middleware Infrastructure Institute), UK
                           Microsoft Corporation
                            Hewlett Packard (HP)
***************************************************************************

UPCOMING DEADLINES:

      * Advance Registration Deadline:  Nov 7, 2007


PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS:
------------------
The e-Science 2007 conference, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society's
Technical Committee for Scalable Computing (TCSC), is designed to bring
together leading international and interdisciplinary research
communities, developers, and users of e-Science applications and
enabling IT technologies. The conference serves as a forum to present
the results of the latest research and product/tool developments, and
highlight related activities from around the world.

Keynotes:
---------

The conference features plenary keynote speakers drawn from Europe,
North America, and Asia

The conference also features technical talks from industries.

Contributed Papers:
-------------------

The Program Committee has selected 60 top quality research papers out of
206 submissions from all over the world for presentation at the conference.

Workshops:
----------

* OGF (Open Grid Forum) Workshop on eScience Highlights
* Innovative and Collaborative Problem Solving Environment in
    Distributed Resources
* Scientific Workflows and Business Workflow Standards in e-Science
* International Grid Interoperability and Interoperation Workshop

Posters and Research Demos:
---------------------------

The conference features 21 posters and 5 "live" research demons selected
from submissions from all over the world.

Tutorials:
----------

1. Introduction to Globus Toolkit GT4
Presenter: Ravi Madduri, Argonne National Laboratory, USA

2. Market-based Grid Computing and the Gridbus Middleware
Presenter: Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia

3. Autonomic Grid Computing
Presenter: Manish Parashar, Rutgers University (USA)
Omer Rana, Cardiff University (UK)

4. Applications enablement on Grid
Presenters: Mangala and Prahlad Rao, C-DAC, India

The exhibition session will consist of exhibits/presentations from
vendor companies and R&D laboratories.

TRAVEL SCHOLARSHIPS FOR STUDENTS:
---------------------------------
The IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing, The University of
Melbourne, and C-DAC sponsored travel support is being offered to
students. All eligible research degree students are encouraged to apply
to one of the following related scholarships:
1. International Students (TCSC supported):
http://www.ieeetcsc.org/young/eScience07/TCSCgrant.html
2. India-based Students (TCSC and Uni. of Melbourne supported):
http://www.ieeetcsc.org/young/eScience07/TCSC-UnimelbGrant.html
3. C-DAC supported (For Indian students only):
    http://www.escience2007.org/scholarship.asp


CONFERENCE REGISTRATION:
------------------------
The conference registration includes attendance to all e-Science (1)
workshops, (2) tutorials, (3) technical sessions, (4) posters and
research demo, (5) exhibits and (6) a copy of the conference proceedings
published by the IEEE Computer Society.
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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); +61-0431385688 (home)
Fax: +61-3-9348 1184; Email: raj@...
URL: http://www.buyya.com | http://www.gridbus.org/~raj
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