Cloud computing has recently emerged as one of the buzzwords in the ICT industry. Several IT vendors are promising to offer storage, application and computation hosting services, and provide coverage in several continents, offering Service-Level Agreements (SLA) backed performance and uptime promises for their services. While these ‘clouds’ are the natural evolution of traditional clusters and data centers, they are distinguished by following a ‘utility’ pricing model where customers are charged based on their utilisation of computational resources, storage and transfer of data. Whilst these emerging services have reduced the cost of computation, application hosting and content storage and delivery by several orders of magnitude, there is significant complexity involved in ensuring applications, services and data can scale when needed to ensure consistent and reliable operation under peak loads.

This workshop is of interest to researchers and practitioners involved in cluster, grid and cloud computing that are now harnessing clouds in their respective fields to maximise performance, minimise cost and improve the scale of their endeavours.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):

1. • Novel architectural models for cloud computing
   

2. • Cloud resource management
   

3. • Utility models and service pricing
   

4. • New parallel / concurrent programming models for cloud computing
   

5. • Scientific computing in the cloud
   

6. • Workflows for cloud computing
   

7. • Storage as a Service
   

8. • Content Delivery Networks using Storage Clouds
   

9. • Interoperability / portability of applications and data between different cloud providers
   

10. • Reliability of applications and services running on the cloud
    

11. • Performance monitoring for cloud applications
    

12. • Novel applications of cloud computing
    

Cloud 2009 will be held in conjunction with the IEEE International Symposium on Cluster Computing and the Grid (CCGRID 2009) during May 18-21, 2009, in Shanghai, China.

Organizing Committee:

Assoc. Prof. Rajkumar Buyya (raj AT csse.unimelb.edu.au)

Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering

The University of Melbourne, Australia

http://www.buyya.com

Dr. James Broberg (brobergj AT csse.unimelb.edu.au)

Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering

The University of Melbourne, Australia

http://www.csse.unimelb.edu.au/~brobergj