Session details: The 3rd Annual Workshop on Distributed Cloud Computing (DCC 2015)

The Third Annual Workshop on Distributed Cloud Computing (DCC) was held on June 15, 2015 in conjunction with the ACM SIGMETRICS conference in Portland, OR, and was chaired by Marco Canini, Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, James Kempf, TU Berlin, Germany and Ericsson Research Silicon Valley, USA, and Stefan Schmid, TU Berlin and Telkom Innovation Labs, Germany.

The DCC workshop is intended to provide a forum for academic and industrial researchers working in the different fields of networking, cloud computing, and distributed systems, to meet and exchange their vision and expertise on how to plan and manage future research on distributed cloud. After the first edition of DCC, which was collocated with a cloud computing conference (namely IEEE/ACM Utility and Cloud Computing 2013), and the second edition, which was collocated with a networking conference (namely ACM SIGCOMM 2014), we broadened the scope further with this year's third edition, which was collocated with the premier conference on performance evaluation.

The great interest in distributed cloud computing is reflected in the number of submissions received. The CFP received 31 submissions of which 9 were selected by the Technical Program Committee as full papers and 4 as posters. Topics ranged from a new mechanism for auctioning off cloud resources to a Markov decision process model for deciding how to handle server failures in the cloud. In addition, the US Ignite project presented a demo of their distributed collaborative scientific visualization system, which allows visualization of large, complex scientific data sets on handheld devices.

A highlight of this year's DCC workshop was the keynote given by John Wilkes, Principle Software Engineer at Google, on Google's Borg cluster management system. John noted that many of the key pieces of Borg have been open sourced in the Kubernetes container management software.