Opening the Cloud - 2011 ASSYST Meeting on Cloud Computing

Jorge L. - 2011-01-10

Opening the Cloud will present the state-of-the-art in Cloud Computing and will debate the technical and social challenges that Cloud Computing is facing. The directions of research in a near future and possible contributions from the Complex Systems community will be discussed.

Institut des Systèmes Complexes, Paris - 31 January, 2011





Programme:

08:30 – 9:00 Coffee and Registration

9:00 – 9:05 Welcome

9:05 – 9:30 “ASSYST, Complexity, Socially Intelligent ICT and the Cloud: Questions for the Day" - Jeff Johnson, Rui Esteves, Jorge Louçã, Paul Bourgine and David Hales

9:30 – 10:10 “e-ScienceTalk: Communicating Clouds and e-Science” – Catherine Gater (e-ScienceTalk)

10:10 – 10:50 “Interoperability and neutrality: the idea of an Inter-Cloud eXchange” – Andrea Rivetti (TOP-IX)

10:50 – 11:05 Coffee

11:05 – 11:45 “Academic Computing Clouds” – Kemal Delic (Hewlett-Packard)

11:45 – 12:25 “Cloud computing and its scientific challenge” – Cécile Germain (Université Paris-Sud)

12:25 – 13:00 Sandwich Lunch at ISC-PIF

13:00 – 13:40 “A Case Study on Using a Desktop Grid for Evolutionary Robotics” – Sancho Oliveira (ISCTE-IUL)

13:40 – 14:20 “TBA” – Gaétan Hains – (Université Paris-Est Créteil)

14:20 – 15:00 “A generic platform for the distributed study of complex systems models”– Romain Reuillon (ISC-Paris)

15:00 – 15:15 Coffee

15:15 – 16:30 Panel Discussion and Conclusions of the Meeting – moderators Yasmin Merali and Jorge Louçã

16:30 Close of the meeting



Organization: Rui Esteves and Jorge Louçã of ASSYST.

Programme Committee: Rui Esteves, Jorge Louçã, Yasmin Merali, Kemal Delik, Jeff Johnson, David Chavalarias, David Hales and Paul Bourgine.



Contact: [email protected]



Web: http://assystcomplexity.eu/news.jsp?article=61



Confirmed presences:

* Andrea Rivetti (TOP-IX)

* Cécile Germain (Université Paris-Sud)

* Catherine Gater (e-ScienceTalk)

* David Chavalarias (ISC-Paris, CSS and ASSYST)

* David Hales (ASSYST)

* Gaétan Hains – (Université Paris-Est Créteil)

* Jeff Johnson (Open University, CSS and ASSYST)

* Jorge Louçã (Lisbon University Institute, and ASSYST

* Kemal Delic (Hewlett-Packard)

* Manuel Tânger (Doctoral Programme in Complexity Sciences and CSS)

* Paul Bourgine (ISC-Paris)

* Romain Reuillon (ISC-Paris)

* Rui Esteves (Doctoral Programme in Complexity Sciences)

* Sancho Oliveira (Lisbon University Institute)

* Yasmin Merali (University of Warwick and ASSYST)