One of the key benefits of a conference is the networking opportunities provided especially for early-career community members: PhD students get to give a talk and be nominated to post-doctoral and faculty positions, junior tenure-track faculty get to meet senior faculty who can later write recommendation letters for tenure/promotion, PIs discuss future grants and collaboration, etc.

Furthermore, sessions enable paper authors of similar directions to exchange ideas in ways that virtual meetings truly lack. Coffee breaks, meals, elevator speeches, birds-of-a-feather sessions are where most interaction happens.

We decided that given the uncertainties associated to the Covid-19 pandemic, it would be in the best interest of authors to postpone the conference but still hold it physically. In this way, social interaction is not undermined, particularly given the worldwide audience we have and the difficulty even finding a time zone that would work for everyone or even the majority. While we initially postponed it to November, it became more clear that it is not obvious whether we can still do it in that timeframe. So, we decided that we would merge with 2021. Of course, we are taking risks: (1) will we be able to have the 2021 conference physically? (2) is the work presented one year later going to be stale? (3) will there be people unwilling/unable to travel in 2021?

It was not an easy decision, but putting all the pros and cons, we decided it would be best to co-locate CCGrid 2020 and CCGrid 2021, and have one big celebration of the first two decades of the conference in Australia, its birth place. The proceedings will get published this year, and therefore, the work can still be timely read/cited.

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The CCGrid symposium series serves as a major international forum for presenting and sharing recent research accomplishments and technological developments in the field of Cluster, Cloud and Internet computing.

The first CCGrid Conference started in Brisbane, Australia, in 2001. Since then, the conference has successfully been hosted around the world. Returning back to its originating country, the 20th International conference is going to be held in Melbourne, Australia.

Tremendous advances in processing, communication and systems/middle-ware technologies are leading to new paradigms and platforms for computing, ranging from computing Clusters to widely distributed Clouds and emerging Internet computing paradigms such as Fog/Edge Computing for Internet of Things (IoT)/Big Data applications. 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 challenge featuring live demonstrations and the ICFEC 2020 conference.

In 2020, CCGrid will return to Melbourne, Australia, to celebrate its 20th anniversary. CCGrid 2020 will have a special focus on three important issues that are significantly influencing all aspects of Cluster, Cloud, and Internet computing: Adaptive Elastic Computing, Green Computing, and Cyber-Physical Computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• Internet Computing Frontiers: Edge, Fog, Serverless, Lambda, Streaming, etc.
  More decentralized approaches to cloud computing. Edge/fog/mist computing, sensor data streaming and computation on the edges of the network. Function as a Service (Faas), Backend as a Service (BaaS), serverless computing, lambda computing.
• Architecture, Networking, Data Centers
  Service oriented architectures. Utility computing models. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, *aaS paradigms. Service composition and orchestration. Micro-datacenter, cloudlet, edge, or fog computing infrastructure. Virtualized hardware: GPUs, tensor processing units, FPGAs.
• Storage and I/O Systems
  Distributed storage, cloud storage, Storage as a Service, data locality techniques for in-memory processing, storage in the edge.
• Programming Models and Runtime Systems
  Programming models, languages, systems and tools/environments. Virtualization, containers, and middleware technologies. Actors, agents, programming decentralized computing systems.
• Resource Management and Scheduling
  Resource allocation algorithms, profiling, modeling. Cluster, cloud, and internet computing scheduling and meta-scheduling techniques.
• Performance Modelling and Evaluation
  Performance models. Monitoring and evaluation tools. Analysis of system/application performance.
• Cyber-Security and Privacy
  Cloud security and trust. Access control. Data privacy and integrity. Regulation.
• Sustainable and Green Computing
  Environment friendly computing ecosystems. Hardware/software/application energy efficiency. Power, cooling and thermal awareness.
• Applications: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber-Physical Systems, etc.
  Applications to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business and society. User studies. Experiences with large-scale deployments systems and data science applications. Distributed AI/Machine Learning on the cloud. Data streaming analytics for intelligent transportation systems.

CCGrid 2020 Template

Chairs and Committees

• General Chair:
  Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne and Manjrasoft Pty Ltd, Australia.
• General Vice Chairs:
  Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State University, USA
  Jin Hai, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China
  Massimo Villari, The University of Messina, Italy
• Program Committee Co-Chairs:
  Carlos A Varela, RPI, USA
  Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France
• Workshops Co-Chairs:
  George Pallis, The University of Cyprus, Cyprus
  Borja Sotomayor, The University of Chicago, USA
• Doctoral Symposium Chairs :
  Anne-Cecile Orgerie, Inria, France
  Ivan Rodero, The State University of New Jersey, USA
• Posters Co-Chairs :
  Hari Subramoni, Ohio State University, USA
  Joanna Kolodziej, National Research Institute (NASK), Poland
• Student Travel Awards Chair:
  Lena Mashayekhy, University of Delaware, USA
• SCALE Challenge Chair :
  Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India
  Daniel S. Katz, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA
• Research/Product Demonstrations Chairs :
  Rodrigo Calheiros, Western Sydney University, Australia
  Deepak Puthal, Newcastle University, UK
• Proceedings Co-Chair :
  Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK
  Adel N. Toosi, Monash University, Australia
• Publicity Co-Chairs:
  Jithin Jose, Microsoft, USA
  Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
  Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia
  Mohsen Amini, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA
  Ching-Hsien Hsu, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan
  Carlos Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil
  Minxian Xu, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China
• Finance Chair:
  Shashikant Ilager, The University of Melbourne, Australia
• Cyber Chair :
  Mohammad Goudarzi, The University of Melbourne, Australia

Important Dates

• Paper Due: 10 December 2019
  
• Acceptance Notification: 8 February 2020
  
• Camera Ready Papers Due: 3 March 2020