NSF/Google/IBM CLuE PI Meeting: October 5, 2009 in Mountain View, California

[Jimmy Lin <ji...@umd.edu>]

==CLuE PI Meeting 2009==

Monday, October 5, 2009
Mountain View, California (Exact Location TBA)

Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Google, IBM
Organized by the University of Maryland Cloud Computing Center

Website: https://wiki.umiacs.umd.edu/ccc/index.php/CLuE_PI_Meeting_2009
Registration: http://clue2009.eventbrite.com/
               (Early-bird registration ends 8/31)

= What's this event about?

In October 2007, Google and IBM announced the first pilot phase of the 
Academic Cloud Computing Initiative (ACCI), which granted several 
prominent U.S. universities access to a large computer cluster running 
Hadoop, an open source distributed computing platform inspired by 
Google’s file system and MapReduce programming model. In February 2008, 
the ACCI partnered with the National Science Foundation to provide grant 
funding to academic researchers interested in exploring large-data 
applications that could take advantage of this infrastructure. This 
resulted in the creation of the Cluster Exploratory (CLuE) program led 
by Dr. Jim French, which currently funds 14 projects from 17 universities.

Nearing the two year anniversary of this collaboration, the National 
Science Foundation, Google, and IBM will be jointly sponsoring a meeting 
for the CLuE project principal investigators (PIs). This will event will 
be open to the public—in fact, the explicit goal of this event is to 
showcase the exciting research currently underway in academia and 
promote closer ties with the broader "cloud computing" community in the 
bay area.  Register now!

= Who's speaking?

Most of the meeting will consist of plenary talks by the following people:

* Daniel Abadi (Yale University): "HadoopDB An Architectural Hybrid of 
MapReduce and DBMS Technologies for Analytical Workloads"

* Jamie Callan (Carnegie Mellon University): "Topic-Partitioned Search 
Engine Indexes"

* Andrew Connolly (University of Washington): "Scaling the Universe 
through MapReduce"

* Bill Howe (University of Washington) and Claudio Silva (University of 
Utah)

* Chen Li (University of California, Irvine): "Large-Scale Data Cleaning 
Using Hadoop"

* Jimmy Lin (University of Maryland): "Data-Intensive Text Processing 
with MapReduce"

* Sam Madden (MIT): "A Performance and Usability Comparison of Hadoop 
and Relational Database Systems"

* Mihai Pop (University of Maryland): "Commodity Computing in Genomics 
Research"

* Naphtali Rishe (Florida International University): "Experience with 
Geospatial Data in MapReduce"

* Suresh Jagannathan and Ananth Grama (Purdue University): "Relaxed 
Synchronization and Eager Scheduling in MapReduce"

* Stephan Vogel (Carnegie Mellon University)

* Ben Zhao and Xifeng Yan (University of California, Santa Barbara): 
"Scalable Graph Processing in Data Center Environments"

We are also anticipating keynotes from both Google and IBM.

The meeting will be capped off with a poster reception in the early 
evening, where representatives of all CLuE projects will present their 
work in a more informal setting. The speakers above will be joined by 
the follow presenters in the poster session:

* James Allan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)

* Jason Lawrence (University of Virginia)

* Chaitanya Baru and Sriram Krishnan (San Diego Supercomputer 
Center/University of California, San Diego)