Challenges facing tomorrow's datacenter: Summary of the LADiS workshop

The 2008 workshop on Large-Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADiS) addressed challenges facing tomorrow's datacenter. Over the course of three days, attendees laid forth an ambitious research agenda that covered hot topics, ranging from fault-tolerance algorithms to performance management to cloud computing. This report summarizes key themes and conclusions from the workshop. © ACM 2008.