1st International Workshop
on Cluster/Data Center

Dynamic Provisioning and Resource Management
DPRoM'04

to be held in conjunction with HiPC 2004, Dec 22, 2004, in Bangalore, India.

9:00 - 9:10 Welcome
9:10 - 9:50 Automating Provisioning of a Complete Software Stack in Grid Environment
Bikash Agarwalla (Georgia Institute of Technology/ USA), Vanish Talwar, Sujoy Basu, Raj Kumar (Hewlett-Packard Laboratories/ USA)
9:50 - 10:30 Strategies for Dynamic Provisioning in the Data Center
Vijay Tewari (Intel Corporation/ USA)
10:30 - 11:00 Break
11:00 - 11:40 Towards a Wide-Area Online Benchmarking Arichitecture for Service Hosting Platforms
Paul Card (University of Manitoba/ Canada), Muthucumaru Maheswaran (McGill University/ Canada)
11:40 - 12:20 Heuristics for Resource Provisioning in Computing Utilities Using Dedicated and Non-Dedicated Resources
Yi Yang and Muthucumaru Maheswaran (McGill University/ Canada)
12:20 - 1:00 Characterizing Process Execution Behavior Using Machine Learning Techniques
Kishore Kumar P. and Atul Negi (University of Hyderabad/ India)