==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)
