The submission deadline for the Eurosys Doctoral Workshop is the 14th of February 2010. The workshop is co-located with Eurosys in Paris.

The web page is at http://research.microsoft.com/~risaacs/eurosys10dw.html

Here is a brief description from the organizers:

"The doctoral workshop, which will take place on the day before the main EuroSys 2010 program, will provide a forum for PhD students to present their work and receive constructive feedback from experts in the field as well as from peers. Technical presentations will be augmented with general advice and discussions about getting a PhD, doing research, and post-doctoral careers. We invite applications from PhD students at any stage of their doctoral studies, and plan to have about 30 attendees."

• Improved installer with a new xosautoconfig tool to greatly simply and automate installation of XtreemOS instances.

• A number of high impact bug fixes, along with work on stability and correctness.
• XtreemFS 1.2, which has a number of new features along with enhanced performance and stability
• XtreemOS MD (Mobile Device) - This new version integrates XtreemOS on Internet Tablets, beginning with the Nokia N810. This makes it possible to launch jobs and interact with XtreemOS resources via a special client.
• Virtual Nodes - a framework to provide fault tolerance for grid applications by replicating them over multiple nodes.
• XOSSAGA - a set of technologies to allow you to run SAGA compliant  applications on top of XtreemOS unmodified.

This tutorial presents XtreemOS Grid system from the user point of view. Its goal is to show why XtreemOS is a system of choice for Grid users who want to easily execute their applications while taking advantage of advanced features for job management. We show what can be done with XtreemOS with regards to application execution, how it can be done and how the available features are implemented. Demonstrations will be presented throughout the tutorial.

Target audience: Grid users, Grid application developers, Grid system and middleware designers

Session leaders: Christine Morin (INRIA), Yvon Jégou (INRIA), Toni Cortes (BSC), Michael Schöttner (Heinrich-Heine Universität Düsseldorf)

Session agenda

- Overview of XtreemOS
- Dynamic resource discovery for job execution
- Resource management
        - Resource selection
        - Resource reservation
        - Resource (co-)allocation
- Job Management
    - Job control
    - Job dependency management
    - Job monitoring & auditing
    - Support for interactive applications
    - Examples of job execution
        - Workflow
        - MPI applications
- Reliable job execution
    - XtreemOS-GCP checkpointing service for distributed applications
        - Integration of different checkpointer packages
        - Generic callbacks for application-level optimizations
        - Channel checkpointing with heterogenous checkpointer packages
- Executing SAGA applications on XtreemOS

Event date and location

OGF28
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Munich, Germany
March 15-19, 2010

Getting XtreemOS 2.0 RedFlag Asianux Version

The XtreemOS 2.0 RedFlag Asianux Version can be downloaded from the Red Flag website: http://dtoem.redflag-linux.com/hhp/

The source code is available at
https://gforge.inria.fr/plugins/scmsvn/viewcvs.php/distribution/packages/asianux/?root=xtreemos

Press release in Chinese

...on Red Flag's website:

http://www.redflag-linux.com/XtreemOS-2-0-Redflag-Asianux.html