MBA Career Resources Special Events

IBM University Days (Spring 2008) - May 15 and 16, 2008

2nd International Conference on the Virtual Computing Initiative (ICVCI 2)

Registration
Please register at on the IBM website

The IBM Employee and Activity Center (EAFC)
Building 400, Cornwallis Drive
Research Triangle Park, North Carolina

Sponsored by
IBM RTP Center for Advanced Studies (RTP CAS)
IBM North Carolina Technical Experts Council (NC TEC)
North Carolina State University (NC State)

Once again this spring, in place of our semi-annual one day IBM-academia event, we will be hosting IBM University Days on May 15-16, 2008, with the dedicated theme of the Virtual Computing Initiative (VCI).

The Virtual Computing Initiative (VCI) was announced by IBM and NC State in 2006, with the goal of creating a multi-institutional, shared computing services community, that includes universities, community colleges, K-12 schools and business partners. The objective of this community has been to develop and promote virtualization concepts and open source solutions to the benefit of the academia and its stake holders - through the creation of shared virtual computing systems and the support of associated research. Since last spring when we hosted the 1st International Conference on the VCI, the original NC State Virtual Computing Lab (VCL; see http://vcl.ncsu.edu) has grown to a multi-thousand server cluster supporting higher ed and K-12 education across much of North Carolina. And VCL-related activities have spread to many adjacent states - as well as to several other countries, including Canada and India. Numerous funded projects are ongoing WW, that include both infrastructure research and applications development.

One objective of this conference is to provide a discussion forum (through paper and poster presentations) on the implementation and research issues associated with the virtualization technology, management and security policies, user applications, etc. that underlie or utilize solutions like the Virtual Computing Lab. An ongoing set of recent activities has been the integration of "cloud computing" technolgies into the VCL platform, and so various papers will discuss these developments. Another objective is to provide hands-on workshops on the VCL technologies, as well as birds-of-a-feather meetings of various associated code development and other project communities or teams.

And as with previous IBM University Days, it will offer an opportunity for the IBM and academic communities to network - bringing together developers and university faculty (seeking to define collaborative educational and research projects), as well as prospective employers and employees, i.e., university students. There will be representatives from IBM recruiting and other university relations teams. In 2008, the RTP Center for Advanced Studies (CAS) will once again be funding projects associated with the Virtual Computing Initiative, and so there will also be various announcements and discussions on awards and funding opportunities.

More details can be found at https://www-927.ibm.com/ibm/cas/conferences/ICVCI/index.jsp

Agenda

May 15, 2008 (Day 1)
8:00 - 9:00 AM	Sign-in/poster set-up
9:00 - 9:15 AM	Bob Greenberg, IBM VP, State Senior Executive for IBM NC & GTS Lead Exec for Blue Cloud (Intro)
9:15 - 10:00 AM	"IBM Research Compute Cloud", Mark VanderWiele, IBM Distinguished Engineer & Architect, Linux Technology Center
10:00 - 10:45 AM	"The NC Virtual Computing Lab", Sam Averitt, NC State Vice Provost IT
10:45 - 11:00 AM	Break
11:00 AM - noon	Session 1 "Powered by VCL - Using Virtual Computing Lab. (VCL) Techn. to Implement Cloud Computing", Mladen Vouk et al. "Controlling Dynamic Guests in a Virtual Computing Utility", Jeff Chase et al. "Virtual Data Intensive Service Computing (V-DISC) at UMBC", Milton Halem et al.
noon - 1:00 PM	Lunch
1:00 - 2:00 PM	Session 2 "Application Virtualization in K-20 Environments", Brian Bouterse "VCL in the Community Colleges: Strategies for Maximizing Effective Use", Tara Behrend et al. "The Application of VCL for Science, Technology, and Engineering Education in Public Schools", Cameron Seay et al.
2:00 - 3:00 PM	Session 3 "Achieving and Assuring High Availability in the VCL", Kishor Trivedi & Rivalino Matias "Preloading policies for the Virtual Computing Lab", Keerthana Boloor et al. "Finding Good Configurations in High-Dimensional Spaces: Doing More with Less", Risi Thonangi et al.
3:00 - 3:20 PM	Break
3:20 - 4:00 PM	Session 4 "Optimizing CIM based storage mgt. solutions using indication based cache techniques", S. Sangwikar & J. Rane "Method. to validate providers before integ./usage with prods. from IBM Storage Mgt. Portfolio", V. Sanap & G. Chhaunker
4:00- 5:00 PM	Session 5 "Advanced Heterogeneous Virtualization Manager", Prabhakaran Rathanagiri & Munish Gopal "At-scale experimentation with resource virtualization in a metro optical testbed", Ilia Baldine et al. "Tool for managing Virtualization in IT infrastructure", Ashish Billore & Divya K.K.
May 16, 2008 (Day 2)
8:00 - 9:00 AM	Registration
9:00 - 9:30 AM	Doug Balog, IBM VP Blades & Modular Development (& Chair, blade.org )
9:30 - 10:00 AM	"IBM Blue Cloud solution", Dave Lindquist, IBM Fellow & Tivoli Chief Architect
10:00 - 10:15 AM	Break
10:15 - 11:15 AM	Session 6 "A Scalable and Secure Virtual Ecosystem for K-8 Education", Mark Gardner et al. "Networked 3D Virtual Computing for Collab. Environs. in Science & Ed.: Towards VCL 3.0", I. Papapanagiotou et al. "Beyond POC to Quantifying ROI at a Small Public Univ.: Assessing & Optimizing Cont. Improvements in the VCL", A. Malloy et al.
11:15 AM - 12:15 PM	Session 7 "Resource Discovery, Naming, and Virtualization in COPSE", Landon Cox et al. "A reliable approach to detect virt. machines using memory overheads", S. Vijayalakshmi & M. Pakkiriswamy "Analyzing, Mining, and Visualizing Tivoli Common Reporting Data" by Christopher Healey
12:15 - 1:15 PM	Lunch
1:15 - 2:15 PM	Session 8 "Power Aware Work Load Management in Virtualized Systems", Vijay Sukthankar et al. "The Semantic-Model Approach to Virtual Data Repositories" Dongfeng Chen et al. "Platform-as-a-Service", Manikandar Madduri Krishna Naga
2:15 - 3:15 PM	Session 9 "An Evaluation of KVM for User in Cloud Computing", Michael Fenn et al. "Dimensioning Virtual Computing Lab with Job Priorities and QoS Constraints". Wenhong Tian & Harry Perros "Statistical Input Analysis of VCL Data Via Cluster Analysis & Markov Regen. Methods", Y. Zhang & M. Devetsikiotis
3:15 - 4:00 PM	Break/Posters/End of conference

Location:
IBM Employee Activity and Fitness Center,
Building 400 Cornwallis Drive,
Research Triangle Park, NC 27709

DIRECTIONS

Directions when approaching RTP traveling east on I40 (from the Greensboro direction):
Take Davis Drive exit #280.
Turn right at the top of the exit ramp.
Go straight through two lights (the second light is the intersection between Cornwallis Road and Davis Drive).
Almost immediately past the second light, take an immediate right into the IBM Employee Activity and Fitness Center.
(If you get to the guard gate, you missed the turn-in.)
Park in the lower lot.
Registration and the conference rooms are in the main building.

Directions when approaching RTP traveling west on I40 (from the RDU airport):
Take Davis Drive exit #280.
Turn right at the top of the exit ramp onto Davis Drive.
Go through the stoplight at Cornwallis Road.
Almost immediately after passing through the Cornwallis Road and Davis Drive intersection, take an immediate right into the IBM Employee Activity and Fitness Center.
(If you get to the guard gate, you missed the turn-in.)
Park in the lower lot.
Registration and the conference rooms are in the main building.

Directions when approaching RTP from the Durham Freeway (Highway 147):
Take the Cornwallis Road Exit (exit number 6).
Turn left onto Cornwallis Road.
Turn left onto Davis Drive (the second stoplight).
Take an immediate right into the IBM Employee Activity and Fitness Center.
(If you get to the guard gate, you missed the turn-in.)
Park in the lower lot.
Registration and the conference rooms are in the main building.

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