Calling all students!
FCW ‘14 grant applications are due Monday, May 5, 2014
Apply at: https://www.usenix.org/
Guidelines and hints for can be found at:
https://www.usenix.org/
Register online for FCW ’14 at:
https://www.usenix.org/
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Join us in Philadelphia, PA, June 17–20, 2014, for the 2014 USENIX
Federated Conferences Week. FCW ’14 combines a variety of events,
established and new, into one week chock-full of intensive training
sessions, research presentations, and information sharing. Attend, and
you’ll gain valuable insight into a variety of important topics, while
the joint lunches, breaks, and evening events provide cross-topic
networking possibilities.
https://www.usenix.org/
NEW at FCW ’14: Training Sessions!
Want to learn more about Hadoop, Jenkins, Apache CloudStack, SRE, or the
best practices and standards to improve security within an organization?
Attend the half- or full-day training courses, and you’ll acquire
unique skills that you can take back to your workplace. The FCW ’14
training program includes the following courses:
**Thursday, June 19**
Hadoop Operations by Jennifer Davis, Chef
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Using Apache Cloudstack to Build a Big IaaS Cloud by David Nalley, Citrix
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Jenkins for Continuous Education by Joshua Jensen, EMC
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**Friday, June 20**
SRE University–Practical Large System Design by Salim Virji, Google
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Hands-On Security for Sysadmins by Branson Matheson, NASA
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Register at:
https://www.usenix.org/
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If you’re interested in the latest systems computing breakthroughs,
looking for the hottest topics in storage or cloud computing, or would
like to discuss women in computing, FCW ’14 has everything you need to
stay ahead of the curve. The events include:
USENIX ATC ’14: 2014 USENIX Annual Technical Conference
Thursday–Friday, June 19–20
https://www.usenix.org/
USENIX ATC ’14 will bring together leading systems researchers for
cutting-edge systems research and unlimited opportunities to gain
insight into a variety of must-know topics, including virtualization,
system administration, cloud computing, security, and networking.
ICAC ’14: 11th International Conference on Autonomic Computing
Wednesday–Friday, June 18–20
https://www.usenix.org/
ICAC ’14 will bring together researchers and practitioners to address
multiple facets of adaptation and self-management in computing systems
and applications from different perspectives. The program includes
Keynote Addresses from Yuanyuan Zhou, Lucy Cherkasova, andIon Stoica;
paper presentations on self-adaption and self-tuning, cloud resource
management, network and system management, scheduling and pricing,
resource and workload management, and data center energy issues; and
more.
NEW at ICAC ’14: Half-day tutorials on “Autonomic Computing and Its
Applications” and “Autonomic Cloud Workload Optimization.” Learn more
at:
https://www.usenix.org/
9th International Workshop on Feedback Computing
Tuesday, June 17
https://www.usenix.org/
Many research disciplines rely on feedback to achieve goals such as
autonomy, learning, adaptation, stabilization, robustness, or
performance optimization. This workshop provides a unique forum to
exchange the insights across these disciplines as the theoretical
foundations of feedback, broadly defined, in computing and to share the
experience pertaining to use of feedback in computing.
HotCloud ’14: 6th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing
Tuesday–Wednesday, June 17–18
https://www.usenix.org/
HotCloud ’14 provides a forum for both academics and practitioners to
share their experience, leverage each other’s perspectives, and identify
new/emerging “hot” trends in this important area.
HotStorage ’14: 6th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File
Systems
Tuesday–Wednesday, June 17–18
https://www.usenix.org/
HotStorage ’14 will showcase the latest in storage systems design,
implementation, management, and evaluation. This workshop provides a
forum for the cutting edge in storage research where researchers can
exchange ideas and engage in discussions with their colleagues.
WiAC ’14: 2014 Women in Advanced Computing Summit
Wednesday, June 18
https://www.usenix.org/
At WiAC ’14, we will continue to bring technical women together to
discuss some of the challenges women face in the professional computing
world. Beyond mere discussion, we hope to engage all attendees to share
ideas, best practices, and knowledge to move us forward in our
professional capacity as technical people.
UCMS ’14: 2014 USENIX Configuration Management Summit
Thursday, June 19
https://www.usenix.org/
The configuration management community will come together at UCMS ’14 to
advance the state of configuration management, discuss its problems and
solutions, and enhance the community of this growing field. The summit
kicks off with Eric Windisch’s Keynote Address, entitled “Things Will
Change.” Invited talks throughout the day will discuss continuous
integration, automation within Ubuntu Juju, software-defined
infrastructure, in-container configuration management, and configuration
as a service, and much more.
URES ’14: 2014 USENIX Release Engineering Summit
Friday, June 20
https://www.usenix.org/
NEW at FCW ’14! The inaugural URES will bring members of the release
engineering community together to advance the state of release
engineering, discuss its problems and solutions, and enhance the
community of this quickly growing field. The summit includes a Keynote
Address by John O’Duinn; Invited Talks, and a Panel Discussion.
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to create the conference experience
that meets your unique needs.
Register now:
https://www.usenix.org/
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2014 USENIX Federated Conferences Week (FCW ’14)
June 17–20, 2014
Philadelphia, PA