Speaker: Michael Zink – Associate Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Massachusetts Amherst

Abstract: A team of researchers at the University of Massachusetts, Boston University, and Northeastern University recently received an award from the National Science Foundation to construct and support a testbed for research and experimentation into new cloud Testbeds such as this are critical for enabling research into new cloud technologies.

Speaker: Kate Keahey – Senior Fellow, University of Chicago Computation institute

Abstract: Chameleon is a large-scale, deeply reconfigurable experimental platform built to support Computer Sciences systems research. Kate will will explain the challenges faced in building Chameleon, lessons learned, and operations experiences. She will also describe the packaging of the system that integrates both the developed capabilities and the operational experience and facilitates managing platforms of this kind.

Speaker: Carrie Rampp – Vice President and CIO, Franklin & Marshall College

Speaker: Alex Szalay – Professor of Computer Science and Director of the Institute for Data Intensive Engineering and Science, Johns Hopkins University

Speaker: Jim Griffoen – Professor and Director, University of Kentucky Center for Computational Sciences

Atrio Dynamically provisions applications and platforms using an intelligent scheduling and provisioning stack on top...