[Tccc] Call for Contrail contest - in the framework of DIHC13 at Euro-Par
Roberto Cascella
roberto.cascellaatieee.org
Tue Jul 23 04:51:00 EDT 2013
[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP]
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CONTRAIL CONTEST COMPETITION
in the framework of the Workshop on
Dependability and Interoperability in Heterogeneous Clouds (DIHC13)
collocated with Euro-Par 2013
http://dihc13.conferences.iit.cnr.it/contest.html
August 27, Aachen, Germany
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IMPORTANT DATES
Registration and Code Submission: August 10, 2013
Notification of the Winner: August 15, 2013
Workshop date: August 27, 2013
CONTRAIL SOFTWARE
Contrail brings a number of important features to Cloud administrators and
users.
With the Contrail software a Cloud administrator now can manage a Federation of
Clouds providing support for basic SLA functionalities at the provider level on
top of the deployment and management of the entire life-cycle of applications
on a data center. A user accesses the Federation Web, which is completely
integrated with authentication and authorization functionalities, meaning that
user login obtains proper OAuth tokens that can be used for other calls.
Applications are described via proper OVFs, where virtual networks can also be
specified. A Contrail user can also access PaaS services via the ConPaaS
component, designed to host both high-performance scientific applications and
online Web applications. Contrail is available either as integrated software or
as a set of individual components: ConPaaS (PaaS services), Security
(authentication and authorization), SLA life-cycle management, VEP (data center
and application management), VIN (virtual networks), GAFS (reliable distributed
storage).
Contrail <http://contrail-project.eu> is a European project addressing
interoperability and dependability to allow a federation of heterogeneous
clouds to deploy distributed applications under QoS and QoP constraints.
Contrail is an open source integrated approach to virtualization, offering
Infrastructure as a Service services (IaaS), services for federating IaaS
clouds and Contrail Platform as a Service services (ConPaaS) on top of
federated clouds. The aim of the project is designing, implementing, evaluating
and promoting an open source computational cloud wherein users can limitlessly
share resources.
The Contrail is at the third public release of the software stack and is thus
targeted to the researchers and technology enthusiasts.
Detailed information available at the Contest website
<http://dihc13.conferences.iit.cnr.it/contest.html>.
CONTEST
The contest competition shall provide a forum to present and discuss the use of
Contrail software: new applications using the Contrail software stack or some
of its components, demonstration testbed of an existing application ported on
Contrail, new tools that interoperate with and integrate Contrail software.
Submissions should be in the form of a package including the code accompanied
by two-pages proposal providing informal description of the demonstration
(consisting of an application or tool), which parts of the Contrail software
have been used, the experience in installing and using the Contrail software
and advantages (if any) of using the Contrail software, what attendees will be
able to see or do during the demo (e.g. screenshots). The same document must
provide information about any equipment or facilities required for your system
demonstration.
All submissions will be evaluated mainly based on the quality of work, novelty
of the application or tool, the potential to stimulate interesting discussions,
exchange of ideas and promote collaborations.
The winner of the competition will be invited to DIHC 2013 workshop to present
the
application/tool and work accomplished; the expenses will be partially covered.
The winner will also be invited to submit a paper to be published in the
post-proceedings of the workshop. More information will come after the workshop.
The DIHC 2013 workshop aims at bringing together researchers from academia and
industry interested in the design, implementation, and evaluation of services
and mechanisms for dependable cloud computing in a multi-cloud environment.
SUBMISSION
All the submissions should be addressed to contrail-dihc13-cont... at inria.fr.
Support will be provided to all participants of the Contrail contest; the
support team can be contacted by email <contrail-dihc13-cont... at inria.fr>.
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
Organizers
Christine Morin, Inria, France
Roberto Cascella, Inria, France
Contrail Contest Co-Chairs
Uros Jovanovic, Xlab, Slovenia
Roberto Cascella, Inria, France
DIHC 2013 TPC Co-Chairs
Thilo Kielmann, VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Paolo Mori, CNR, Italy
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Roberto G. Cascella, PhD
Technical Manager - Contrail FP7 project <http://contrail-project.eu/>
INRIA Rennes - Bretagne Atlantique Myriads research team
Campus Universitaire de Beaulieu - 35042 RENNES - France
Tel: +33 (0)2 99 84 71 53
E-mail: roberto.casce... at inria.fr Web:
http://irisa.fr/myriads/rcascell
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