BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Microsoft Corporation//Outlook MIMEDIR//EN VERSION:1.0 BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART:20111114T170000Z DTEND:20111115T013000Z LOCATION:Hyatt Leonesa II DESCRIPTION;ENCODING=QUOTED-PRINTABLE:ABSTRACT: Recent decade has witnessed data explosion, and petabyte sized data archives are not uncommon any more. Many traditional application domains are now becoming data intensive. It is estimated that organizations with high end computing infrastructures and data centers are doubling the amount of data that they are archiving every year. Recent trends show that the cloud computing is becoming a more practical and economical solution for many organizations. Cloud computing has attracted significant attention of both industry and academia in recent years. The first edition of this workshop organized with SC-2010 has attracted more than 300 registrations, which demonstrates the popularity of this topic among SC attendees. In addition to the cloud focus, this years workshop will also look into the emerging middleware and software services that are specifically aimed at facilitating extreme scale data analytics. SUMMARY:2nd SC Workshop on Petascale Data Analytics: Challenges and Opportunities PRIORITY:3 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR