[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



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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
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E-mail: roberto.casce... at inria.fr               Web: 
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