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(SMTPS) The Fourth International Workshop on System Management Techniques, Processes, and Services To be held in conjunction with IPDPS'08 April 14, 2008, Miami, FL
In today's on-demand era the usage of computer systems are broadened the scope to cover from pervasive systems to high-end and high performance server systems depending on business or scientific computing needs. In our fourth year of SMTPS, we would like to expand our workshop topics to cover pervasive and multi-core system management issues, going beyond high-performance server systems. From a systems management point of view, there are many common issues, whether a system is a high-end server environment or a low-cost pervasive system. For instance, system administrators for servers, distributed systems or even supercomputers need to strive to provide satisfactory services to applications even in the presence of interruptions and exceptions. Moreover, while there is a need to provide runtime management techniques, which are self-adapting and light-weight on one hand, the demand for faster processing power, brings in multi-core process architectures for pervasive usage on the other hand. There is also a recent trend to run traditional applications designed for high-end systems on either resource- constrained pervasive systems or small-scale multi-core systems, due to the fast changing computational demands, while minimizing systems management, resources involved to cut down the costs.
This workshop is intended to bring together researchers and practitioners to identify the new challenges imposed by these new trends and investigating efficient software tools, techniques and service processes to improve the performance, reliability and operation of a spectrum of parallel and distributed systems ranging from pervasive systems to enterprise servers.
Topics of interest include, and are not limited to: * Scalable operating system design * Resource management * Power management, energy conservation * Failure diagnosis, failure prediction and failure recovery * Failure-aware runtime management * System bring-up, maintenance and control tools * System virtualization * Storage management * Scalable I/O and file system management * System integration of emerging processor architecture (e.g. multi-core architecture) * Optimization techniques for services management * Services engineering and utility computing techniques
Submission Guideline o Extended deadline: December 24, 2007 o Notification of acceptance: Jan 8, 2008 o Camera Ready Due: Jan 28, 2008 o Papers should be submitted electronically through EDAS http://www.edas.info/ o Further detail information available at this website: http://www.ece.rutgers.edu/~yyzhang/ipdps-ws/
General Chair: o Yanyong Zhang, Rutgers Univ - yyzhang@ece.rutgers.edu
Technical Co-Chairs o Fabrizio Petrini - (fpetrin@us.ibm.com) IBM Research o Kyung Dong Ryu - (kryu@us.ibm.com) IBM Research o Ramendra K. Sahoo - (rsahoo@us.ibm.com) IBM Research
Publicity Chair: o Weikuan Yu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Technical Program Committee: * Ricardo Bianchini Rutgers University * Henri Casanova University of Hawaii * I-hsin Chung IBM Research * Dick Epema Delft University of Technology * Dror Feitelson Hebrew University * John Janakiraman HP * Joefon Jann IBM Research * Jose E. Moreira IBM Research * Manish Parashar Rutgers University * Rolf Riesen Sandia National Laboratories * Anand Sivasubramaniam Penn State University * Rajeev Thakur Argonne National Laboratory * Wenyuan Xu Univeristy of South Carolina * Andy Yoo LLNL * Weikuan Yu Oak Ridge National Laboratory