WORKSHOP SESSIONS

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All sessions will take place in Back Bay C unless otherwise noted.

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Session papers with links below are available to conference registrants immediately and to everyone beginning June 22, 2010.

Welcome and Introduction

Erich Nahum and Dongyan Xu, HotCloud '10 Co-Chairs

Performance and Power

Session Chair: Pradeep Padala, DoCoMo USA Labs

Seawall: Performance Isolation for Cloud Datacenter Networks
Alan Shieh, Cornell University and Microsoft Research; Srikanth Kandula, Albert Greenberg, and Changhoon Kim, Microsoft Research

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Performance Profiling in a Virtualized Environment
Jiaqing Du, EPFL, Switzerland; Nipun Sehrawat, IIT Guwahati, India; Willy Zwaenepoel, EPFL, Switzerland

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The Case for Energy-Oriented Partial Desktop Migration
Nilton Bila and Eyal de Lara, University of Toronto; Matti Hiltunen, Kaustubh Joshi, and H. Andrés Lagar-Cavilla, AT&T Labs Research; M. Satyanarayanan, Carnegie Mellon University

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Energy Efficiency of Mobile Clients in Cloud Computing
Antti P. Miettinen and Jukka K. Nurminen, Nokia Research Center

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Economics and Pricing

Session Chair: Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University

CloudCmp: Shopping for a Cloud Made Easy
Ang Li and Xiaowei Yang, Duke University; Srikanth Kandula and Ming Zhang, Microsoft Research

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Distributed Systems Meet Economics: Pricing in the Cloud
Hongyi Wang, Microsoft Research Asia; Qingfeng Jing, Shanghai Jiao Tong University; Rishan Chen, Peking University; Bingsheng He, Zhengping Qian, and Lidong Zhou, Microsoft Research Asia

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See Spot Run: Using Spot Instances for MapReduce Workflows
Navraj Chohan, University of California, Santa Barbara; Claris Castillo, Mike Spreitzer, Malgorzata Steinder, and Asser Tantawi, IBM Watson Research; Chandra Krintz, University of California, Santa Barbara

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Disaster Recovery as a Cloud Service: Economic Benefits & Deployment Challenges
Timothy Wood and Emmanuel Cecchet, University of Massachusetts Amherst; K.K. Ramakrishnan, AT&T Labs—Research; Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Jacobus van der Merwe, AT&T Labs—Research; Arun Venkataramani, University of Massachusetts Amherst

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CiteSeer^x: A Cloud Perspective
Pradeep B. Teregowda, Bhuvan Urgaonkar, and C. Lee Giles, Pennsylvania State University

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New Programming Models and Usage Scenarios

Session Chair: Hui Lei, IBM Research

Spark: Cluster Computing with Working Sets
Matei Zaharia, Mosharaf Chowdhury, Michael J. Franklin, Scott Shenker, and Ion Stoica, University of California, Berkeley

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Turning Down the LAMP: Software Specialisation for the Cloud
Anil Madhavapeddy, University of Cambridge; Richard Mortier, University of Nottingham; Ripduman Sohan; University of Cambridge; Thomas Gazagnaire, Citrix Systems R&D; Steven Hand, University of Cambridge; Tim Deegan, Citrix Systems R&D; Derek McAuley, University of Nottingham; Jon Crowcroft, University of Cambridge

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Scripting the Cloud with Skywriting
Derek G. Murray and Steven Hand, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory

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Toward Risk Assessment as a Service in Cloud Environments
Burton S. Kaliski Jr. and Wayne Pauley, EMC Corporation

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Information-Acquisition-as-a-Service for Cyber-Physical Cloud Computing
Silviu S. Craciunas, Andreas Haas, Christoph M. Kirsch, Hannes Payer, Harald Röck, Andreas Rottmann, Ana Sokolova, and Rainer Trummer, University of Salzburg, Austria; Joshua Love and Raja Sengupta, University of California, Berkeley

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Security and Reliability

Session Chair: Sharon Goldberg, Microsoft Research and Boston University

A First Look at Problems in the Cloud
Theophilus Benson, University of Wisconsin—Madison; Sambit Sahu, IBM Research; Aditya Akella, University of Wisconsin—Madison; Anees Shaikh, IBM Research

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Secure Cloud Computing with a Virtualized Network Infrastructure
Fang Hao, T.V. Lakshman, Sarit Mukherjee, and Haoyu Song, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent

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Look Who's Talking: Discovering Dependencies between Virtual Machines Using CPU Utilization
Renuka Apte, Liting Hu, Karsten Schwan, and Arpan Ghosh, Georgia Institute of Technology

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A Collaborative Monitoring Mechanism for Making a Multitenant Platform Accountable
Chen Wang, CSIRO ICT Center, Australia; Ying Zhou, The University of Sydney, Australia

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Panel: Barriers to Cloud Adoption and Research Opportunities

Moderator: Erich Nahum, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center

Panelists: Albert Greenberg, Microsoft Research; Trent Jaeger, Pennsylvania State University; Orran Krieger, VMware; Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts Amherst; Ion Stoica, University of California, Berkeley

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