IEEE Computer magazine seeks articles for a special issue on Internet
data centers, to appear in November 2004. Guest editors are Krishna Kant
from Intel and Prasant Mohapatra from the University of California,
Davis.
Internet data centers (IDC) form the backbone of most Internet based
services, including e-commerce, IP-based telecom services, hosting
services, and the like. As the reach of the Internet widens and more
business-critical services are offered, the demands on IDCs grow along
multiple dimensions, including responsiveness, service differentiation,
security, and availability. Many other forces are likely to affect how
the data centers of the future are designed, provisioned, and operated.
IEEE Computer's special issue will focus on research issues in
identifying and implementing new strategies for optimizing IDCs:
application services, protocol enhancements, performance evaluations,
provisions for adequate security, protection and isolation, and ensuring
an adequate quality of service.
IEEE Computer is soliciting a small number of high-quality papers from
academia and industry that highlight various problems and solutions and
provide a vision for future work in this area. Topics of particular
interest include system architecture and converged data centers;
symmetric multiprocessors versus clustered systems; scalability,
reliability, and fault tolerance; performance evaluation and workload
characterization; operations, control, and autonomic management; power
management issues; exploitation of new hardware/software technologies;
and issues of security, protection, and isolation.
The deadline for papers is 1 April 2004. Submission guidelines are
available at www.computer.org/computer/author.htm. Submit manuscripts at
http://cs-ieee.manuscriptcentral.com/. Send inquiries to the guest
editors at krishna.kant@intel.com and prasant@cs.ucdavis.edu.