I'm on the technical program committe for ACM Science Cloud 2010. You should consider both submitting a paper and attending the conference. The conference will be held in Chicago on June21st, 2010 colocated with ACM HPDC 2010 (High Performance Distributed Computing).
The call for papers abstracst are due Feb 22 with final papers due March 1st: http://dsl.cs.uchicago.edu/ScienceCloud2010/
Workshop Overview:
The advent of computation can be compared, in terms of the breadth and depth of its impact on research and scholarship, to the invention of writing and the development of modern mathematics. Scientific Computing has already begun to change how science is done, enabling scientific breakthroughs through new kinds of experiments that would have been impossible only a decade ago. Today's science is generating datasets that are increasing exponentially in both complexity and volume, making their analysis, archival, and sharing one of the grand challenges of the 21st century. The support for data intensive computing is critical to advancing modern science as storage systems have experienced an increasing gap between their capacity and bandwidth by more than 10-fold over the last decade. There is an emerging need for advanced techniques to manipulate, visualize and interpret large datasets. Scientific computing involves a broad range of technologies, from high-performance computing (HPC) which is heavily focused on compute-intensive applications, high-throughput computing (HTC) which focuses on using many computing resources over long periods of time to accomplish its computational tasks, many-task computing (MTC) which aims to bridge the gap between HPC and HTC by focusing on using many resources over short periods of time, to data-intensive computing which is heavily focused on data distribution and harnessing data locality by scheduling of computations close to the data.
The 1st workshop on Scientific Cloud Computing (ScienceCloud) will provide the scientific community a dedicated forum for discussing new research, development, and deployment efforts in running these kinds of scientific computing workloads on Cloud Computing infrastructures. The ScienceCloud workshop will focus on the use of cloud-based technologies to meet new compute intensive and data intensive scientific challenges that are not well served by the current supercomputers, grids or commercial clouds. What architectural changes to the current cloud frameworks (hardware, operating systems, networking and/or programming models) are needed to support science? Dynamic information derived from remote instruments and coupled simulation and sensor ensembles are both important new science pathways and tremendous challenges for current HPC/HTC/MTC technologies. How can cloud technologies enable these new scientific approaches? How are scientists using clouds? Are there scientific HPC/HTC/MTC workloads that are suitable candidates to take advantage of emerging cloud computing resources with high efficiency? What benefits exist by adopting the cloud model, over clusters, grids, or supercomputers? What factors are limiting clouds use or would make them more usable/efficient?
This workshop encourages interaction and cross-pollination between those developing applications, algorithms, software, hardware and networking, emphasizing scientific computing for such cloud platforms. We believe the workshop will be an excellent place to help the community define the current state, determine future goals, and define architectures and services for future science clouds.
James Hamilton
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b: http://blog.mvdirona.com / http://perspectives.mvdirona.com
Want to join a startup team within Amazon Web Services? I’m deeply involved and excited about this project and another couple of talented engineers could really make a difference. We are looking for:
User Interface Software Development Engineer
We are looking for an experienced engineer with a proven track record of building high quality, AJAX enabled websites. HTML, JavaScript, AJAX, and CSS experience is critical, along with Java and Tomcat. Experience with languages such as PHP, Perl, Ruby, Python, etc. is also useful. You must have significant experience in designing highly reliable and scalable distributed systems, including building front end website facing applications. You must thrive in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast, have strong OO design and implementation experience, knowledge of web protocols, and in-depth knowledge of Linux tools and Java EE architectures.
For more information: https://us-amazon.icims.com/jobs/107700/job
Senior Software Development Engineer
We are looking for a Senior Software Engineer with a strong track record of building production scalable, high end, reliable, data driven distributed website systems. You must be able to tackle tough challenges and feel strongly not only about building good software but about making that software achieve its goals in an operational reality. You must thrive in a hyper-growth environment where priorities shift fast, have strong OO design and implementation experience, knowledge of web protocols, and in-depth knowledge of Linux tools and Java EE architectures.
For more information: https://us-amazon.icims.com/jobs/109479/job
If you are interested, send a resume to aws-jobinfo-lee@amazon.com. I’m looking forward to working with you.
--jrh
James Hamilton, Amazon Web Services
1200, 12th Ave. S., Seattle, WA, 98144
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I’ll be taking a brief hiatus from blogging during the first three weeks of August. Tomorrow we leave for China. You might wonder why we would go to China during the hottest time of the year. For example, our first stop, Xiamen, is expected to hit 95F today, which is fairly typical weather for this time of year (actually its comparable to the unusual weather we’ve been having in Seattle over the last week). The timing of the trip is driven by a boat we’re buying nearing completion in a Xiamen China boat yard: Boat Progress. The goal is to see the boat roughly 90% complete so we can catch any issues early and get them fixed before the boat leaves the yard. And, part of the adventure of building a boat, is to get a chance to visit the yard and see how they are built.
We love boating but, having software jobs, we end up working a lot. Consequently, the time we do get off, we spend boating between Olympia, Washington and Alaska. Since we seldom have the time for non-boat related travel, we figured we should take advantage of visiting China and see more than just the boat yard.
After the stop at the boat yard in Xiamen, we’ll visit Hong Kong, Guilin, Yangshou, Chengdu, and do a cruise of the Yangtze River and then travel to Xian followed by Beijing before returning home.
--jrh
James Hamilton, Amazon Web Services
1200, 12th Ave. S., Seattle, WA, 98144
W:+1(425)703-9972 | C:+1(206)910-4692 | H:+1(206)201-1859 | james@amazon.com
H:mvdirona.com | W:mvdirona.com/jrh/work | blog:http://perspectives.mvdirona.com
MIT’s Barbara Liskov was awarded the 2008 Association of Computing Machinery Turing Award. The Turning award is the highest distinction in computer science and is often referred to as the Nobel price of computing. Past award winners are listed at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_Award.
The full award citation:
Barbara Liskov has led important developments in computing by creating and implementing programming languages, operating systems, and innovative systems designs that have advanced the state of the art of data abstraction, modularity, fault tolerance, persistence, and distributed computing systems.
The Venus operating system was an early example of principled operating system design. The CLU programming language was one of the earliest and most complete programming languages based on modules formed from abstract data types and incorporating unique intertwining of both early and late binding mechanisms. ARGUS extended many of the CLU ideas to distributed programming, and incorporated the first versions of nested transactions to maintain predictable consistencies. Other advances include solutions elegantly combining theory and pragmatics in the areas of decentralized information flow, replicated storage and caching of persistent objects, and modular upgrading of distributed systems. Her contributions have been incorporated into the practice of programming, thereby influencing many of the most important systems used today: for programming, specification, systems design, and distributed architectures.
From: http://awards.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1108679&srt=year&year=2008&aw=140&ao=AMTURING
The cover article in the July Communications of the ACM was on the award: http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2009/7/32083-liskovs-creative-joy/fulltext.
James Hamilton, Amazon Web Services
1200, 12th Ave. S., Seattle, WA, 98144
W:+1(425)703-9972 | C:+1(206)910-4692 | H:+1(206)201-1859 | james@amazon.com
H:mvdirona.com | W:mvdirona.com/jrh/work | blog:http://perspectives.mvdirona.com
Our 1999 Mitsubishi 3000 VR4 For Sale. Black-on-black with 80,000 miles. $12,500 OBO. Fewer than 300 1999 VR-4s were produced for North America, and only 101 in black-on-black.
We love this car and hate to sell it, but are living downtown Seattle and no longer need a car. It's a beautiful machine, 320 HP, and handles incredibly well. We're often stopped on the street asking if we would sell it, and now we are.
Details and pictures at: http://www.mvdirona.com/somerset/vr4.html.
Our house in Bellevue is for sale
as well: 4509
Somerset Pl SE, Bellevue, Wa. Virtual tour: http://vifp.com/presentation/video_flash.php?PresID=U6I3JN153KNBW7625R826E0KP2411X18&CustID=0&Branded=logo14909.jpg.
--jrh
James Hamilton, Amazon Web Services
1200, 12th Ave. S., Seattle, WA, 98144
W:+1(425)703-9972 | C:+1(206)910-4692 | H:+1(206)201-1859 | james@amazon.com
H:mvdirona.com | W:mvdirona.com/jrh/work | blog:http://perspectives.mvdirona.com
The HotPower ’09 workshop will be held on October 10th at the same venue and right before the Symposium on Operating Systems Principles (SOSP 2009) at Big Sky Resort Montana. Hotpower recognizes that power is becoming a central issue in the design of all systems from embedded systems to servers for high-scale data centers.
From http://hotpower09.stanford.edu/:
Power is increasingly becoming a central issue in designing systems, from embedded systems to data centers. We do not understand energy and its tradeoff with performance and other metrics very well. This limits our ability to further extend the performance envelope without violating physical constraints related to batteries, power, heat generation, or cooling.
HotPower hopes to provide a forum in which to present the latest research and to debate directions, challenges, and novel ideas about building energy-efficient computing systems. In addition, researchers coming to these issues from fields such as computer architecture, systems and networking, measurement and modeling, language and compiler design, and embedded systems will gain the opportunity to interact with and learn from one another.
If you are interesting in submitting a paper to HotPower: http://hotpower09.stanford.edu/cfp.html.
--jrh
James Hamilton, Amazon Web Services
1200, 12th Ave. S., Seattle, WA, 98144
W:+1(425)703-9972 | C:+1(206)910-4692 | H:+1(206)201-1859 | james@amazon.com
H:mvdirona.com | W:mvdirona.com/jrh/work | blog:http://perspectives.mvdirona.com
There has been lots of speculation about the new name for Microsoft Search. The most prevalent speculation is that Live.com will be branded Kumo: Microsoft to Rebrand Search. Will it be Kumo?
Confirming that the Kumo brand is definitely the name that is being tested internally at Microsoft, I’ve noticed over the last week that the Search Engine Referral URL www.kumo.com has been showing up frequently as the source for searches that find this blog. I suppose the brand could be changed yet again as the Microsoft internal bits are released externally. But, having been through the hassle of a brand change and know how much testing it really does require, I suspect we’re looking at the final answer with this one.
--jrh
James Hamilton, Amazon Web Services
1200, 12th Ave. S., Seattle, WA, 98144
W:+1(425)703-9972 | C:+1(206)910-4692 | H:+1(206)201-1859 | james@amazon.com
H:mvdirona.com | W:mvdirona.com/jrh/work | blog:http://perspectives.mvdirona.com
HotCloud ’09 is a workshop that will be held at the same time as USENIX ’09 (June 14 through 19, 2009). The CFP:
Join us in San Diego, CA, June 15, 2009, for the Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing. HotCloud '09 seeks to discuss challenges in the Cloud Computing paradigm including the design, implementation, and deployment of virtualized clouds. The workshop provides a forum for academics as well as practitioners in the field to share their experience, leverage each other's perspectives, and identify new and emerging "hot" trends in this area.
HotCloud '09 will be co-located with the 2009 USENIX Annual Technical Conference (USENIX '09), which will take place June 14–19, 2009. The exact date of the workshop will be set soon.
The call for paper is at: http://www.usenix.org/events/hotcloud09/cfp/.
James Hamilton, Amazon Web Services
1200, 12th Ave. S., Seattle, WA, 98144
W:+1(425)703-9972 | C:+1(206)910-4692 | H:+1(206)201-1859 | james@amazon.com
H:mvdirona.com | W:mvdirona.com/jrh/work | blog:http://perspectives.mvdirona.com
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