LADIS 2009 Title: The 3rd International Workshop on Large Scale Distributed Systems and Middleware (LADIS 2009) Submission Deadline: June 5, 2009 Webpage: http://www.cs.cornell.edu/projects/ladis2009 Dates: October, 10-11, 2009 Location: Big Sky Resort, Big Sky, MT, USA Contact Email: hweather@cs.cornell.edu, Doug.Terry@microsoft.com Synopsis: LADIS 2009 will bring together researchers and practitioners in the fields of distributed systems and middleware to discuss the challenges of building massive cloud computing infrastructures. By posing research questions in the context of the largest and most- demanding real-world systems, LADIS serves to catalyze dialog between cloud computing engineers and scalable distributed systems researchers, to open the veil of secrecy that has surrounded many cloud computing architectures, and to increase the potential impact of the best research underway in the systems community.