DreamCloud 2014

International Workshop on Dynamic Resource Allocation and  Management in Embedded, High Performance and Cloud Computing

DreamCloud is the first workshop aiming to encourage technical and scientific exchanges between senior academics, young researchers and industrialists in the area of dynamic resource management in embedded, high performance and cloud computing. It aims to foster cooperation across the different domains by emphasising the latest trends bringing together the respective research communities:

• embedded systems are increasingly complex, having to cope with dynamic workloads, and using multiprocessor and communication-centric platforms, while fulfilling strict timing and energy requirements;
• high-performance and cloud computing critically need to address fundamental problems in energy efficiency and performance predictability, despite having little or no a priori knowledge about their workloads.

DreamCloud Workshop will be held in Montpellier, France, and will be

co-located with ReCoSoC 2014 (http://www.recosoc.org), a cross-disciplinary symposium bringing together the research communities working on multiprocessor, communication-centric and reconfigurable embedded systems.   Topics of interest:

• dynamic resource allocation and management algorithms and heuristics for  time-predictable and performance-predictable systems
• dynamic resource allocation and management algorithms and heuristics  targeting energy-efficiency
• operating system and virtualisation technologies implementing dynamic resource allocation and management (task allocation, task migration, context management)
• dynamic resource allocation of on-chip and off-chip interconnects (routing, buffer allocation)
• dynamic management of memory hierarchies and storage (time-predictable memory controllers, scratchpads, file systems)
• dynamic hardware reconfiguration to support dynamic resource management (hardware-assisted dynamic scheduling and allocation)
• specification languages and environments (workload characterisation)
• system monitoring (workload monitoring, platform monitoring, energy monitoring)
• verification and evaluation techniques (simulation, analytical models)
• benchmarks for dynamic resource allocation in embedded, high performance and cloud computing

The workshop is part of the EU-funded DreamCloud project, which has started in September 2013 and is addressing some of the topics listed above. The overall goal of the workshop, however, is to assess the most relevant research contributions and industrial needs in this area, therefore contributions from outside of the consortium are extremely welcome and will be given preference in the final programme.   All accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore, in a special chapter of the proceedings of ReCoSoC 2014.   More details about the venue, travel, hotels: http://www.recosoc.org   Committees:   General Chair Leandro Soares Indrusiak - University of York, UK   Technical Program Committee Neil Audsley - University of York, UK Luciano Copello Ost -  LIRMM, FR Alexey Cheptsov - High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, DE Piotr Dziurzanski - University of York, UK Abdoulaye Gamatie - LIRMM, FR Jochen Haerdtlein - Bosch, DE Raj Patel - RheonMedia, UK Gilles Sassatelli - LIRMM, FR Fridtjof Siebert - aicas, DE Leandro Soares Indrusiak - University of York, UK