Awards

CCGrid 2013 will have awards in the categories best paper, best Doctoral Symposium paper, best poster, and best presentation, in addition to the award for the winner of the SCALE Challenge. The winners will be announced, and the awards will be presented to them, in the closing session of the conference.

Best Paper

The three nominations for best paper are:

Partially Separated Page Tables for Efficient Operating System Assisted Hierarchical Memory Management on Heterogeneous Architectures
Balazs Gerofi (RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science), Akio Shimada (RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science), Atsushi Hori (RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science) and Yutaka Ishikawa (University of Tokyo)

Resilin: Elastic MapReduce over Multiple Clouds
Anca Iordache (INRIA), Christine Morin (INRIA), Nikos Parlavantzas (INSA), Eugen Feller (INRIA) and Pierre Riteau (University of Chicago)

Automated, Elastic Resource Provisioning for NoSQL Clusters Using TIRAMOLA (WINNER)
Dimitrios Tsoumakos (Ionian University), Ioannis Konstantinou (National Technical University of Athens), Christina Boumpouka (National Technical University of Athens), Spyros Sioutas (Ionian University) and Nectarios Koziris (National Technical University of Athens)

Best Doctoral Symposium Paper

Extending the Capabilities of Mobile Devices for Online Social Applications through Cloud Offloading (WINNER)
Alexandru-Corneliu Olteanu (University Politehnica of Bucharest Romania)

Best Poster

The three nominations for best poster are:

Data Usage Control for the Cloud (WINNER)
Florian Kelbert (Technische Universität München)

Extending the Capabilities of Mobile Devices for Online Social Applications through Cloud Offloading
Alexandru-Corneliu Olteanu (University Politehnica of Bucharest Romania), Nicolae
Tapus (University Politehnica of Bucharest Romania) and Alexandru Iosup (Delft University of Technology)

An Autonomic and Scalable Management System for Private Clouds
Matthieu Simonin (INRIA), Eugen Feller (INRIA), Anne-Cécile Orgerie (CNRS), Yvon Jégou (INRIA) and Christine Morin (INRIA)

Best Presentation

The three nominations for best presentation are:

A Lightweight Continuous Jobs Mechanism for MapReduce Frameworks
Fabrice Huet (INRIA-University of Nice-CNRS)

SR-IOV Support for Virtualization on InfiniBand Clusters: Early Experience
Jithin Jose (Ohio State University)

Case Studies in Designing Elastic Applications (WINNER)
Dinesh Rajan (University of Notre Dame)

SCALE Challenge

First-prize winner:

Scalable Complex System Modeling for Sustainable City
Henry Kasim (Institute of High Performance Computing), Terence Hung (Institute of High Performance Computing), Erika Fille Tupas Legara (Institute of High Performance Computing), Kee Khoon Lee (Institute of High Performance Computing), Xiaorong Li (Institute of High Performance Computing), Bu-Sung Lee (Nanyang Technological University), Vicknesh Selvam (Institute of High Performance Computing), Sifei Lu (Institute of High Performance Computing), Long Wang (Institute of High Performance Computing), Christopher Monterola (Institute of High Performance Computing), and Vasundhara Jayaraman (Institute of High Performance Computing)

Second-prize winner:

Scalability of the Snooze Autonomic Cloud Management System
Eugen Feller (INRIA Centre Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique), Christine Morin (INRIA Centre Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique), Matthieu Simonin (INRIA Centre Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique), Anne-Cécile Orgerie (CNRS) and Yvon Jégou (INRIA Centre Rennes-Bretagne Atlantique)