• Deadline for papers: Feb 14th, 2025 AoE
• Acceptance notification: March 3rd, 2025
• Camera-ready deadline: March 14th, 2025

The emergence of new opportunities in AI, networking, as well as edge computing and IoT creates the potential for new avenues of exploration in science but at the same time challenges our understanding of the role and shape of infrastructure. An effective exploration of the edge to cloud continuum requires research infrastructure where those challenges can be investigated, and where new solutions and disruptive ideas can be developed, deployed, tested, and shared. Such infrastructure has to not only support a diversity of hardware configurations, deployments at scale, as well as deep reconfigrability so that a wide range of experiments can be supported – but also mechanisms and services that will allow the community to share repeatable digital artifacts so that new experiments and results can be easily replicated and help enable further innovation.

This type of research infrastructure (RI) has been implemented in systems like Chameleon (www.chameleoncloud.org), SLICES (www.slices-ri.eu), FABRIC, or the PAWR testbeds (www.pawr.org), many of which address distinct, if overlapping, aspects of this problem. This workshop will provide a forum for the RI designers, engineers, and users to discuss emergent use cases and modes of usage; RI solutions and and operations; features that support research in the computing continuum; user interfaces and usability; experimental support for reproducibility; building and sustaining RI user communities; as well as evaluating and sustaining RI.

Topics of interest

• Emergent use cases/requirements
• Modes of usage (e.g., reproducibility, teaching with testbeds)
• Testbed solutions and features
• Testbed infrastructures for computing continuum research
• Experimental tools favouring reproducibility
• User interfaces and usability
• Building and sustaining user communities
• Operations (allocations, support, etc.)
• Evaluating impact of testbeds
• Sustainability of testbeds
• Applications/case studies of the use of ContinuumRI
• Trustworthy experiments

Workshop Organizers

• Kate Keahey (ANL/U. Chicago)
• Gabriel Antoniu (Inria)
• Christian Perez (Inria)

Program Committee

• Panayiotis Andreou, University of Central Lancashire, Cyprus
• Bartosz Belter, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland
• Silvina Caino-Lores, Inria, France
• Alexandru Costan, INSA / IRISA Rennes, France
• Yuri Demchenko, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Serge Fdida, Sorbonne Université, France  
• Fraida Fund, New York University, USA
• Are Magnus-Bruaset, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway
• Jelena Mirkovic, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA
• Robert Ricci, University of Utah, USA
• Olivier Richard, Inria, France
• Paul Michael Ruth, RENCI, USA
• Brecht Vermeulen, Ghent University/imec, Belgium
• Hongwei Zhang, Iowa State University, USA

Submission Guidelines

Authors are invited to submit papers electronically, through EasyChair. The papers should be submitted in PDF, using IEEE format for conference proceedings. Paper length must not exceed 8 pages (including figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers determined to be under active review elsewhere will be rejected without review. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding the length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the conference chairs for more information.

Publication

All accepted papers will be published as part of the CCGRIDW proceedings (CCGrid Workshops proceedings). All previous CCGrid proceedings have been published by the IEEE and available online through IEEE Digital Library (EI indexing).