Track Report of Convergence of Distributed Clouds, Grids and Their Management (CDCGM 2014)

Current state-of-the-art infrastructure-centric deployment and management of distributed web-scale applications cannot scale and meet the demands of changing workloads and increasing demands on application availability, mobility and security. The DIME network architecture has matured during the last four years to offer an alternative to provide a post-Hyper visor, Hyper-Cloud network of applications spanning across physical or virtual servers with self-management properties. The first paper presented in this conference, addresses a new computing architecture. A second paper describes an implementation showing its usefulness in addressing fault, configuration, accounting, performance, as well security of service transactions spanning across data enters and multiple clouds with or without virtualization. In addition, infrastructure optimization strategies for Cloud computing continue to provide a fertile ground for research and five papers address these topics. Two papers address scheduling and optimization issues in Grid computing while three more papers address various aspects of content management, distributed and parallel computing. The remaining papers embrace interesting topics related to applications of Cloud Computing in different areas of scientific Cloud computing, collaborative platforms, and big data analysis.