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CFP (upcoming deadline): ASHES'12: Second International Workshop on Accelerators and Hybrid Exascale Systems
by Krishnamoorthy, Sriram 30 Nov '11

30 Nov '11

===================================================================== The Second International Workshop on Accelerators and Hybrid Exascale Systems (ASHES 2012) held in conjunction with the 26th International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2012) Shanghai, China, May 25th, 2012 http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/ashes/2012/ ===================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- As we look beyond the petascale era, accelerators such as Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and FPGAs, as well as upcoming integrated hybrid processing cores, are expected to play a preeminent role in architecting the largest systems in the world. While there is significant interest in these architectures, much of this interest is an artifact of the hype associated with them. This workshop focuses on understanding the implications of accelerators on the architectures and programming environments of future systems. It seeks to ground accelerator research through studies of application kernels or whole applications on such systems, as well as tools and libraries that improve the performance or productivity of applications trying to use these systems. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners who are involved in application studies for accelerators and other hybrid systems, to learn the opportunities and challenges in future design trends for HPC applications and systems. SUBMISSIONS ----------- We are soliciting contributions in areas including but not limited to: * Characterizing strategies for implementing and optimizing HPC applications for accelerators. * Techniques for optimizing kernels for execution on GPUs and future hybrid platforms. * Modeling of applications running on accelerators and hybrid HPC systems. * Implication of workload characterization in hybrid design issues. * Benchmarking and performance evaluation for accelerator units. * Tools and techniques to assist application development for accelerators and hybrid processors. * System software techniques to abstract application domain-specific functionalities for accelerators. Submitted manuscripts may not exceed 10 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See the style templates for details. * Latex: http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip * Word: http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=ashes2012 Submissions will be judged based on relevance, significance, originality, correctness and clarity. SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE --------------------- The best papers of AsHES 2012 will be included in a Special Issue on Applications for the Heterogeneous Computing Era of the International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications, edited by Pavan Balaji and Satoshi Matsuoka. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- * Submission Deadline: December 7th, 2011 * Author Notification: January 30th, 2012 * Camera-ready Deadline: February 19th, 2012 ORGANIZERS ---------- STEERING COMMITTEE ------------------ Jiayuan Meng Argonne National Laboratory (co-chair) Pavan Balaji Argonne National Laboratory (co-chair) Satoshi Matsuoka Tokyo Institute of Technology GENERAL CHAIR ------------- Pavan Balaji Argonne National Laboratory PROGRAM CHAIRS -------------- Yunquan Zhang Chinese Academy of Sciences Jiayuan Meng Argonne National Laboratory PUBLICITY CHAIRS ---------------- Zhou Lei Shanghai University Sriram Krishnamoorthy Pacific Northwest National Laboratory WEB CHAIR --------- Gregory Diamos NVIDIA PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Hong An University of Science and Technology of China, China David Bader Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Surendra Byna Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Yifeng Chen Peking University, China Wenguang Chen Tsinghua University, China Xiaobing Feng Institute of Computing Technology, CAS, China Renato Ferreira Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, Brazil Torsten Hoefler National Center for Supercomputing Applications, USA Kenli Li Hunan University, China Yutong Lu National University of Defense Technologies, China Naoya Maruyama Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Dimitris Nikolopoulos University of Crete/FORTH, Greece Anand Raghunathan Purdue University, USA P. Sadayappan Ohio State University, USA Xipeng Shen College of William and Mary, USA Bronis de Supinski Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Vinod Tipparaju Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Thomas F. Wenisch University of Michigan, USA JOURNAL EDITORS --------------- Pavan Balaji Argonne National Laboratory Satoshi Matsuoka Tokyo Institute of Technology WEBSITE ------- http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/ashes/2012/ CONTACT ------- Please send any queries about the AsHES workshop to ashes12-chairs(a)mcs.anl.gov ******************************************************************************** The hpc-announce mailing list has been setup to have a common mailing list to share information with respect to upcoming HPC related events. You are included in this mailing list based on your participation or interest in a previous HPC conference or other event. 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CCGrid 2012: Final Call for Papers
by Rajkumar Buyya 27 Nov '11

27 Nov '11

Dear All: Please find enclosed the final call for papers for CCGrid 2012 to be held in Ottawa, Canada. The paper submission deadline is extended to 2 December 2011. Please share with colleagues and encourage them to submit. Thanks Raj ------------------ 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2012) Ottawa, Canada May 13-16, 2012 http://www.cloudbus.org/ccgrid2012 Sponsors: IEEE Computer Society (TCSE) & ACM SIGARCH CALL FOR PAPERS Rapid advances in processing, communication and systems/middleware technologies are leading to new paradigms and platforms for computing, ranging from computing Clusters to widely distributed Grid and emerging Clouds. CCGrid is a series of very successful conferences, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and ACM, with the overarching goal of bringing together international researchers, developers, and users and to provide an international forum to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these platforms and paradigms and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters and research demos, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenges featuring live demonstrations. In 2012, CCGrid will come to Canada for the first time and will be held in Ottawa, the capital city. CCGrid 2012 will have a focus on important and immediate issues that are significantly influencing all aspects of cluster, cloud and grid computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Applications and Experiences: Applications to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business and society; User studies; Experiences with large-scale deployments systems or applications. * Architecture: System architectures, Design and deployment. * Autonomic Computing and Cyberinfrastructure: Self managed behavior, models and technologies; Autonomic paradigms and approaches (control-based, bio-inspired, emergent, etc.); Bio-inspired approaches to management; SLA definition and enforcement. * Performance Modeling and Evaluation: Performance models; Monitoring and evaluation tools, Analysis of system/application performance; Benchmarks and testbeds. * Programming Models, Systems, and Fault-Tolerant Computing: Programming models for cluster, clouds and grid computing; fault tolerant infrastructure and algorithms; systems software to enable efficient computing. * Multicore and Accelerator-based Computing: Software and application techniques to utilize multicore architectures and accelerators/heterogeneous computing systems. * Scheduling and Resource Management: Techniques to schedule jobs and resources on clusters, clouds and grid computing platforms. * Cloud Computing: Cloud architectures; Software tools and techniques for clouds. PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 8 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format and make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses letter size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the meeting is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding the page limit, or not appropriately structured may not be considered. Authors may contact the conference chairs for more information. The proceedings will be published through the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library. During the paper submission process, you will be required to point out whether the paper is a "student paper" or a "regular paper". Student papers are those on which the primary author is a full-time student at the time of paper submission. Regular papers are all other papers. Regular paper vs. student paper has no impact on the paper selection/publication process. It is only meant for the "best paper" and "best student paper" awards, which will be given out during the conference. All accepted papers (including student papers) will be eligible for the best paper award. Only student papers will be eligible for the best student paper award. Submission Link: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=ccgrid2012 JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE Highly rated Top 6 papers from the CCGrid 2012 conference will be invited to extend for publication in a special issue of the "Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)" Journal published by Elsevier Press. CHAIRS General Chair * Shikharesh Majumdar, Carleton University, Canada Honorary Chair * Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Program Committee Co-Chairs * Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia * Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Program Committee Vice-chairs * Daniel S. Katz (Applications and Experiences) * Dhabaleswar K. Panda (Architecture) * Manish Parashar (Middleware, Autonomic Computing, and Cyberinfrastructure) * Ahmad Afsahi (Performance Modeling and Analysis) * Xian-He Sun (Performance Measurement and Evaluation) * William Gropp (Programming Models, Systems, and Fault-Tolerant computing) * David Bader (Multicore and Accelerator-based Computing) * Thomas Fahringer (Scheduling and Resource Management) * Ignacio Martin Llorente and Madhusudhan Govindaraju (Cloud Computing) Cyber Co-Chairs * Anton Beloglazov, The University of Melbourne, Australia * Suraj Pandey, CSIRO, Australia * Trevor Gelowsky, Carleton University, Canada Workshops Co-Chairs * Marin Litiou, York University, Canada * Mukaddim Pathan, Telstra Corporation Limited, Australia Publicity Chairs * Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece * Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology & Argonne National Labs, USA * Bruno Schulze, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Brazil * G Subrahmanya VRK Rao: Cognizant technology Solutions, India Tutorials Co-Chairs * Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University, USA * Rob Simmonds, Westgrid, Canada Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs * Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA * Yogesh Simmhan, University of Southern California Poster and Research Demo Co-Chairs * Suraj Pandey, CSIRO, Australia SCALE Challenge Coordinator * Shantenu Jha, Rutgers and Loisiana State University Steering Committee * Henri Bal, Vrije University, The Netherlands * Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia (Chair) * Franck Capello, University of Paris-Sud, France * Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee & ORNL, USA * Dick Epema, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands * Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria * Ian Foster, University of Chicago, USA * Wolfgang Gentzsch, DEISA, Germany * Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China * Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation, USA (Co-Chair) * Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France * Geng Lin, Dell Inc., USA * Manish Parashar, Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, USA * Shikharesh Majumdar, Carleton University, Canada * Satoshi Matsuoaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan * Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK * Paul Roe, Queensland University of Technology, Australia * Bruno Schulze, LNCC, Brazil * Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, USA * Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA IMPORTANT DATES Papers Due: extended to 2 December 2011 Notification of Acceptance: 30 January 2012 Camera Ready Papers Due: 27 February 2012 --------------------------------------------------------------------

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CFP: The 2012 International Workshop on Programming Models and Applications for Multicores and Manycores (PMAM 2012) with PPoPP 2012
by Qichang Liang 15 Nov '11

15 Nov '11

The 2012 International Workshop on Programming Models and Applications for Multicores and Manycores will be co-located with the PPoPP 2012 conference in New Orleans, Louisiana at 25th-29th February, 2012. Rapid advancements in multicore and chip-level multi-threading technologies open new challenges and make multicore systems a part of the computing landscape. From high-end servers to mobile phones, multicores and manycores are steadily entering every single aspect of the information technology. However most programmers are trained in sequential programming, yet most existing parallel programming models are prone to errors such as data race and deadlock. Therefore to fully utilise multicore and manycore hardware, parallel programming models that allow easy transition of sequential programs to parallel programs with good performance and enable development of error-free codes are urgently needed. This workshop is dedicated primarily to gather researchers and practitioners addressing the main challenges and share experiences in the emerging multicore and manycore software engineering and distributed programming paradigm. This workshop aims to provide a discussion forum for people interested in programming environments, models, tools and applications specifically designed for parallel multicore and manycore hardware environments. The program committee cordially invites any novel research ideas in (but not limited to) the following topics: * multicore and manycore programming models and systems * multicore and manycore software engineering * performance and utilisation metrics * performance analysis, efficiency and effectiveness * experiments of massively multicore / manycore systems and clusters * automated parallelization and compilation techniques * debugging and runtime optimizations tools for multicore / manycore applications * parallel applications and benchmarks on multicore / manycore systems * power saving metrics, protocols and benchmarks of multicore / manycore systems and clusters Important Dates Paper submission deadline : December 9, 2011 Notification of acceptance : January 3, 2012 Camera-ready papers due : January 13, 2012 Papers reporting original and unpublished research results and experience are solicited. All paper submissions will be handled electronically via EasyChair. http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pmam2012 Papers should be up to 10 pages long in standard ACM two-column conference format (preprint mode, with page number and the 9pt template). Authors must register and submit their paper through the online submission system. If you have problems accessing the system, e-mail your submission to: pmam2012 at cs dot otago dot ac dot nz For more details, please refer to: http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/pmam2012/ For enquiries, please contact: pmam2012(a)cs.otago.ac.nz

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CFP: PDSEC-2012 (with IPDPS-2012)
by Joseph Antony 13 Nov '11

13 Nov '11

(apologies for cross-postings) CALL FOR PAPERS: PDSEC-12 The 13th International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-12), May 25, 2011, Shanghai, China, to be held in conjunction with IPDPS 2012. http://cse.stfx.ca/~pdsec12/ Submission Deadline: December 23, 2011 Scope and Interests: The field of high performance computing has been prominent since the 1940s, and has become increasingly significant as recent advances in electronic and integrated circuit technologies have made it more widely accessible. The hardware is becoming faster, less expensive and more cost effective, which will result in a proliferation in the application of parallel and distributed systems. Scientific and engineering application domains play a key role in shaping future research and development activities in academia and industry, especially when the solution of large and complex problems must cope with tight timing constraints. This workshop will bring together computer scientists, applied mathematicians and researchers to present, discuss and exchange ideas, results, work in progress and experiences in the area of parallel and distributed computing for problems in science and engineering applications and interdisciplinary applications. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * development of advanced parallel and distributed methods, * parallel and distributed computing techniques and codes, * practical experiences using various parallel and distributed systems with software such as MPI, PVM, HPFortran, OpenMP, UPC, mpC etc., * domain decomposition, * loop and task parallelism, * scheduling and load balancing, * compiler, hardware and OS issues for scientific and engineering computing, * memory system and I/O support for scientific and engineering computing, * hardware/software support for performance, power and energy aware applications, * network, mobile/wireless processing and computing, * performance modeling and evaluation of scientific and engineering computing, * cluster and grid scientific and engineering computing, * scientific and engineering computing on HPC architectures, including (but not limited to) supercomputers, parallel computers, clusters, multicores, GPUs, FPGAs, * biologically inspired algorithms in system model, design and applications. Application areas include (but are not limited to): - computational fluid dynamics and mechanics - material sciences - space, weather, climate systems and global changes - computational environment and energy systems - computational ocean and earth sciences - combustion system simulation - computational chemistry - computational physics - bioinformatics and computational biology - medical applications - transportation systems simulations - combinatorial and global optimization problems - structural engineering - computational electro-magnetism - computer graphics - virtual reality and multimedia - semiconductor technology, electronic circuits, and system design - dynamic systems - computational finance - data mining - signal and image processing Submission Information: Authors are invited to submit manuscripts that present original unpublished research. Submitted papers should be at most 20 pages (IEEE style is recommended), must be in PDF format, and should list 5 to 10 keywords. The submission is via an online submission system; see the workshop website for details. Program Committee members and external reviewers will provide at least three reviews to the authors. Papers will be ranked for relevance to the workshop and technical merit. Accepted papers with at most 8 pages will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press as IPDPS-12 workshop proceedings. Selected best papers will be considered for a special issue of an international journal. Further information about the conference can be found at: http://cse.stfx.ca/~pdsec12 Important Further information about the conference can be found at: http://cse.stfx.ca/~pdsec12/ Important Deadlines: Paper submission due . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dec 23, 2011 Notification of Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan 15, 2012 Final camera-ready paper . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feb 01, 2012 General Chairs: Peter Strazdins, The Australian National University, Australia Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany Gudula Runger, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Program Chair: John O'Donnell, University of Glasgow, Scotland Steering Chairs: Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA -- Regards, Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Strazdins, PhD Associate Director of Education Research School of Computer Science ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science CSIT Building 108, North Rd The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200 AUSTRALIA T: +61 2 6125 5140 F: +61 2 6125 0010 W: http://cs.anu.edu.au/~Peter.Strazdins E: Peter.Strazdins(a)cs.anu.edu.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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CFP: 16th Workshop On Job Scheduling Strategies For Parallel Processing (JSSPP)
by Narayan Desai 12 Nov '11

12 Nov '11

CFP: 16th Workshop On Job Scheduling Strategies For Parallel Processing (JSSPP) in conjunction with IPDPS Shanghai, China, May 25, 2012 The JSSPP workshop addresses all scheduling aspects of parallel processing. Large parallel systems have been in production for over 15 years. Initially, they were primarily used in scientific computing. But with the advance of Cloud computing and new processor paradigms such as multi-core systems and reconfigurable architectures, scheduling in parallel systems has grown in relevance and scope, significantly extending its original focus. JSSPP has evolved with the area and now fully covers parallel scheduling for commercial environments while still maintaining strong interest in its traditional areas: scientific computing, supercomputing and cluster platforms. From its very beginning, JSSPP has strived to balance practice and theory in its program. This combination provides a rich environment for technical debate about scheduling approaches including both academic researchers as well as participants from industry. JSSPP is a high-visibility workshop, which has been ranking repeatedly in the top 10% of Citeseer's venue impact list. JSSPP solicits papers that belong to any of the following topics, although papers on other themes that are relevant in the context of JSSPP are welcome as well: Performance evaluation of scheduling approaches, including methodology, benchmarks, and metrics. Design of, and experience with, scheduling approaches for production systems. Workloads on parallel processing systems, including characterization, classification, and modeling. Consideration of additional constraints in scheduling systems, like job priorities, accounting, load estimation, and quality of service guarantees. Scaling and composition of very large scheduling systems. Interaction between schedulers on different levels, like processor level as well as whole single- or even multi-owner systems. Impact of scheduling strategies on application performance, user friendliness, cost efficiency, and energy efficiency. ================================================================================ Submission dates and guidelines DEADLINE: February 17, 2012 NOTIFICATION: March 25, 2012 FINAL PAPER DUE: April 20, 2012 Papers should be no longer than 20 single-spaced pages, 10pt font, including figures and references. All papers in scope will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. All submissions must follow the LNCS format, see the instructions at Springer's web site: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-7-72376-0 Files must be submitted electronically in PDF format and must be formatted for 8.5x11 inch paper. Submission procedures can be found at the workshop's homepage: http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~feit/parsched/ ================================================================================ Goals Continuing the tradition started at IPPS'95, the workshop is intended to attract people from academia, industry, computing centers, national laboratories, Cloud and Grid initiatives, and parallel computer vendors to address scheduling in parallel systems, and attempt to resolve often conflicting goals expressed by system owners. The workshop intends to achieve a balance between - reports of current practices in the entire range of parallel systems, - proposals of novel schemes that have not yet been tested in a real environment, and - realistic models and their analysis. =============================================================================== Registration Registration will be part of the IPDPS process and is handled by the IEEE. For details, see the IPDPS web site http://www.ipdps.org/ ================================================================================ Proceedings Interim proceedings containing a collection of the papers presented will be distributed at the workshop in electronic form. It is planned to also publish a post-workshop proceedings in the Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science series, as was done in previous years (pending approval from Springer). ================================================================================ Workshop organizers Walfredo Cirne, Google Narayan Desai, Argonne National Laboratory Eitan Frachtenberg, Facebook Uwe Schwiegelshohn, TU Dortmund University Program Committee Henri Casanova, University of Hawaii at Manoa Julita Corbalan, Technical University of Catalunya Dick Epema, Delft University of Technology Dror G. Feitelson, The Hebrew University Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory Alfredo Goldman, University of Sao Paulo Allan Gottlieb, New York University Morris Jette, SchedMD Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Argonne National Lab Derrick Kondo, INRIA Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology Virginia Lo, University of Oregon Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology Jose Moreira, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Bill Nitzberg, Altair Engineering Mark Squillante, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Dan Tsafrir, Technion John Wilkes, Google Ramin Yahyapour, The University of Göttingen

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CCGrid 2012: Call for Tutorial Proposals
by Rob Simmonds 12 Nov '11

12 Nov '11

Experts in cluster, cloud and grid computing areas are invited to share their expertise with the community by submitting proposals for tutorials to be presented at the CCGrid '12 conference to be held in Ottawa, Canada from May 13-16. The CCGrid '12 tutorials program will give attendees the opportunity to explore a wide variety of important topics related to cluster, cloud and grid computing and other related aspects. CCGrid '12 invites proposals for introductory, intermediate, and advanced tutorials, either full-day (six hours) or half-day (three hours). The deadline for submissions is February 17th, 2012. More information on the CCGrid '12 Call for Tutorials can be found here: http://www.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/~simmonds/CCGrid2012/ CCGrid '12 website: http://www.cloudbus.org/ccgrid2012/ Regards, Sushil K. Prasad and Rob Simmonds CCGrid '12 Tutorials co-chairs

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Call for Papers: Fifth International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-end Computing (P2S2)
by Qichang Liang 08 Nov '11

08 Nov '11

CALL FOR PAPERS =============== Fifth International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-end Computing (P2S2) Sept. 10th, 2012 To be held in conjunction with ICPP-2012: The 41st International Conference on Parallel Processing, Sept. 10-13, 2012, Pittsburgh, USA Website: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2/2012/ SCOPE ----- The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in parallel programming models and systems software for high-end computing systems. Please join us in a discussion of new ideas, experiences, and the latest trends in these areas at the workshop. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ The focus areas for this workshop include, but are not limited to: * Systems software for high-end scientific and enterprise computing architectures o Communication sub-subsystems for high-end computing o High-performance file and storage systems o Fault-tolerance techniques and implementations o Efficient and high-performance virtualization and other management mechanisms for high-end computing * Programming models and their high-performance implementations o MPI, Sockets, OpenMP, Global Arrays, X10, UPC, Chapel, Fortress and others o Hybrid Programming Models * Tools for Management, Maintenance, Coordination and Synchronization o Software for Enterprise Data-centers using Modern Architectures o Job scheduling libraries o Management libraries for large-scale system o Toolkits for process and task coordination on modern platforms * Performance evaluation, analysis and modeling of emerging computing platforms PROCEEDINGS ----------- Proceedings of this workshop will be published in CD format and will be available at the conference (together with the ICPP conference proceedings). The accepted papers will be included in and indexed by the IEEE digital library. JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE --------------------- The best papers of P2S2-2012 will be included in a Special Issue on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software of the Parallel Computing (ParCo), edited by Yong Chen, Pavan Balaji, and Abhinav Vishnu. This special issue is dedicated for the papers accepted in the P2S2 workshop. The submission to this special issue is by invitation only, and the submission deadline is August 17th, 2012. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ----------------------- Submissions should be in PDF format in U.S. Letter size paper. They should not exceed 10 pages (all inclusive). Submissions will be judged based on relevance, significance, originality, correctness and clarity. Please visit workshop website at: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2/ for the submission link. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper Submission: March 16th, 2012 Author Notification: June 8th, 2012 Camera Ready: July 8th, 2012 Workshop Date: Sept 10th, 2012 PROGRAM CHAIRS -------------- * Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory * Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory * Yong Chen, Texas Tech University PUBLICITY CHAIR --------------- * Qichang Liang, University of Otago STEERING COMMITTEE ------------------ * William D. Gropp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign * Vijay Saraswat, IBM Research PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- * Ahmad Afsahi, Queen's University * George Almasi, IBM Research * Taisuke Boku, Tsukuba University * Darius Buntinas, Argonne National Laboratory * Surendra Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab * Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratory * Bronis de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Lab * Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, China * Paul Hargrove, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab * Torsten Hoefler, Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign * Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand * Hai Jin, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. and Tech., China * Darren J. Kerbyson, Pacific Northwest National Lab * Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology * Doug Lea, State University of New York at Oswego * Heshan Lin, Virginia Tech * Scott Pakin, Los Alamos National Laboratory * Sonia Sachs, Department of Energy * Guangming Tan, Chinese Academy of Sciences * Gabriel Tanase, IBM Research * Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory * Vinod Tipparaju, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) * Jesper Traff, University of Vienna, Austria * Yunquan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences If you have any questions, please contact us at p2s2-chairs(a)mcs.anl.gov

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CFP: HCW 2012 - 21st International Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop (in conjunction with IPDPS 2012), May 21, 2012, Shanghai, China
by Vladimir Rychkov 08 Nov '11

08 Nov '11

---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- *** Call for Papers *** HCW 2012 - 21st International Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop In conjunction with IPDPS 2012, May 21, 2012, Shanghai, China http://hcw.wsu.edu/ Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society, through the Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP), and by the U.S. Office of Naval Research (ONR) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- Today, most computing systems have elements of heterogeneity. Heterogeneity springs from the richness of environments where diversity and resource abundance prevail. Recognizing, capturing, and efficiently exploiting this diversity in an integrated and coherent manner are key goals of heterogeneous computing. Heterogeneous computing systems are those with a range of diverse computing resources that can be on a chip, within a computer, or on a local or geographically distributed network. The development of heterogeneous multi-core chips and the pervasive use of networks by all segments of society mean that the number and types of heterogeneous computing resources are growing rapidly. This growth creates the need and opportunity for new research to effectively utilize these resources in innovative and novel ways. For example, cluster computing, grid computing, peer-to-peer computing, and cloud computing all involve elements of heterogeneity. The effective implementation of efficient applications in these environments, however, requires that a host of issues be addressed that simply do not occur in homogeneous systems. Whereas many researchers and practitioners that use computers have a peripheral awareness of heterogeneity in their respective fields, few critically approach their fields from the heterogeneous perspective. This is not particularly surprising, because each field has its own unique challenges and imperatives that propel investigations in search of solutions to pressing problems. Addressing computing problems from the heterogeneous perspective offers at least three advantages: (i) the design and development of more advanced high-performance computing platforms, (ii) insight into new solution approaches, and (iii) exposure to new research opportunities and relationships among distinct research areas. HCW encourages the examination of both hardware and software systems from the perspective of heterogeneity. With the increasing number of components in heterogeneous parallel and distributed systems, failure is becoming a critical factor that impacts application performance. High-performance computing systems, especially those heading towards exascale, are also becoming increasingly heterogeneous and hierarchical, expecting to routinely employ heterogeneous multicores, various accelerators (such as GPUs), deeper memory hierarchies, and heterogeneous and hierarchical communication networks. This year, HCW is specifically encouraging (but not limited to) submissions that explore paradigms, algorithms, and techniques for high performance heterogeneous computing. TOPICS ---------------------------------------------------------- Areas or research interest include, but are not limited to, heterogeneity aspects of: - Parallel algorithms for heterogeneous and hierarchical systems, including manycores and hardware accelerators (FPGAs, GPUs, etc.) - Parallel algorithms for efficient problem solving on heterogeneous platforms - Performance models and their use in the design of parallel and distributed algorithms for heterogeneous platforms - Programming paradigms and tools - Fault tolerance - Resource allocation and scheduling - Computer architectures - Performance evaluation and management - High performance computing - Cluster, Grid and Cloud computing - Peer-to-peer computing - Ubiquitous computing - Application case studies - Task and communication scheduling - Task coordination and workflow IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission: January 7, 2012 Author Notification: February 7, 2012 Camera-ready: February 21, 2012 PAPER SUBMISSIONS ---------------------------------------------------------- Prospective authors are encouraged to visit the HCW 2012 website (hcw.wsu.edu) for instructions on how to submit their papers. PUBLICATION ---------------------------------------------------------- The HCW 2012 proceedings will be published through the IEEE Computer Society Press as part of the IPDPS CD-ROM. The authors of accepted papers will be also invited to submit extended versions of their work to a special issue of the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) on Heterogeneity in Parallel and Distributed Computing that is planned for publication in 2012. WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION ------------------------------------------------------------ General Chair: Behrooz Shirazi, Washington State University, U.S.A. Program Chair: Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin, Ireland Steering Committee: H. J. Siegel, Colorado State University, U.S.A., Chair John Antonio, University of Oklahoma, U.S.A. Francine Berman, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, U.S.A. Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, U.S.A. Jerry Potter, Colorado State University, U.S.A. Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, U.S.A. Yves Robert, Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France Arnold Rosenberg, Colorado State University, Northeastern University, U.S.A. Vaidy Sunderam, Emory University, U.S.A. Program Committee: Shoukat Ali, IBM, Ireland Francisco Almeida, University of La Laguna, Spain Rosa Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center and CSIC, Spain Ioana Banicescu, Mississippi State University, U.S.A. Olivier Beaumont, INRIA, France Shuvra S. Bhattacharyya, University of Maryland, U.S.A. George Bosilca, University of Tennessee, U.S.A. Eddy Caron, ENS-Lyon, France Domingo Gimenez, University of Murcia, Spain Alexey Kalinov, Cadence Design Systems, Russia Tahar Kechadi, University College Dublin, Ireland Jong-Kook Kim, Korea University, South Korea Thomas Ludwig, University of Hamburg, Germany Tony Maciejewski, Colorado State University, U.S.A. John P. Morrison, University College Cork, Ireland Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania Antonio Plaza, University of Extremadura, Spain Xiao Qin, Auburn University, U.S.A. Enrique Quintana, University of Jaume I of Castellon, Spain Ioan Raicu, Northwestern University, U.S.A. Alistair Rendell, Australian National University, Australia Gudula Runger, TU Chemnitz, Germany Vladimir Rychkov, University College Dublin, Ireland Uwe Schwiegelshohn, University of Dortmund, Germany Stephen L. Scott, Tennessee Tech University & Oak Ridge National Laboratory, U.S.A. James T. Smith, DigitalGlobe, U.S.A. Leonel Sousa, Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal Stanimire Tomov, University of Tennessee, U.S.A. Denis Trystram, IMAG, France Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, U.S.A. Qin Zheng, A*Star, Singapore

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ICS 2012: Call For Papers
by Arun Kejariwal 07 Nov '11

07 Nov '11

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email. If you'd like to opt out of these announcements, information on how to unsubscribe is available at the bottom of this email.] 26th International Conference on Supercomputing 25-29 June 2012 San Servolo Conference Center San Servolo Island, Venice, Italy ICS is the premier international forum for the presentation of research results in high-performance computing systems. In 2012, the conference will be held at the San Servolo Conference Center in Venice, Italy. Papers are solicited on all aspects of research, development, and application of high-performance experimental and commercial systems, from terascale to exascale. Areas of interest include: • Computationally challenging scientific and commercial applications • Models of computation and programming • Computer architecture and hardware organization • System software • Power efficiency and reliability • Large scale installations for internet, data centers, and cloud computing • Theoretical foundations of all aspects relevant to supercomputing. Papers should not exceed 12 pages in the ACM format. Workshop and tutorial proposals are also solicited. For further information and future updates, refer to the ICS'12 web site at http://www.ics-conference.org/archive/ics12/ Important Dates - Abstract submission January 8, 2012 - Paper submission January 15, 2012 - Workshop and Tutorial Proposals January 22, 2012 Regards, Arun Kejariwal (Netflix) Kazuki Joe (Nara Women's University, Japan) Ben Juurlink (TU Berlin) *********************************************************************** If you do not wish to receive any emails from hpc-announce, you can unsubscribe from the mailing list (https://lists.mcs.anl.gov/mailman/listinfo/hpc-announce)

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CCGrid 2012 - Call for Papers
by Pavan Balaji 04 Nov '11

04 Nov '11

Dear Colleagues, Please find below a Call for Papers for the 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Grid and Cloud Computing (CCGrid 2012). Please share this CFP with other colleagues and encourage them to submit papers. The submission deadline is November 25, 2011. Best regards, -- Pavan --------------------------------------------------------------- 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Grid and Cloud Computing (CCGrid 2012) May 13-16, 2012, Ottawa, Canada http://www.cloudbus.org/ccgrid2012 Sponsors: IEEE Computer Society, USA ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), USA CALL FOR PAPERS Rapid advances in processing, communication and systems/middleware technologies are leading to new paradigms and platforms for computing, ranging from computing Clusters to widely distributed Grid and emerging Clouds. CCGrid is a series of very successful conferences, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and ACM, with the overarching goal of bringing together international researchers, developers, and users and to provide an international forum to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these platforms and paradigms and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters and research demos, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenges featuring live demonstrations. In 2012, CCGrid will come to Canada for the first time and will be held in Ottawa, the capital city. CCGrid 2012 will have a focus on important and immediate issues that are significantly influencing all aspects of cluster, cloud and grid computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Applications and Experiences: Applications to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business and society; User studies; Experiences with large-scale deployments systems or applications. * Architecture: System architectures, Design and deployment. * Autonomic Computing and Cyberinfrastructure: Self managed behavior, models and technologies; Autonomic paradigms and approaches (control-based, bio-inspired, emergent, etc.); Bio-inspired approaches to management; SLA definition and enforcement. * Performance Modeling and Evaluation: Performance models; Monitoring and evaluation tools, Analysis of system/application performance; Benchmarks and testbeds. * Programming Models, Systems, and Fault-Tolerant Computing: Programming models for cluster, clouds and grid computing; fault tolerant infrastructure and algorithms; systems software to enable efficient computing. * Multicore and Accelerator-based Computing: Software and application techniques to utilize multicore architectures and accelerators/heterogeneous computing systems. * Scheduling and Resource Management: Techniques to schedule jobs and resources on clusters, clouds and grid computing platforms. * Cloud Computing: Cloud architectures; Software tools and techniques for clouds. PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 8 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings (print area of 6-1/2 inches (16.51 cm) wide by 8-7/8 inches (22.51 cm) high, two-column format with columns 3-1/16 inches (7.85 cm) wide with a 3/8 inch (0.81 cm) space between them, single-spaced 10-point Times fully justified text). Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format and make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses letter size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the meeting is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding the page limit, or not appropriately structured may not be considered. Authors may contact the conference chairs for more information. The proceedings will be published through the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library. Submission Link: https://www.easychair.org/account/signin.cgi?conf=ccgrid2012 JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE Highly rated Top 6 papers from the CCGrid 2012 conference will be invited to extend for publication in a special issue of the "Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS)" Journal published by Elsevier Press. CHAIRS General Chair * Shikharesh Majumdar, Carleton University, Canada Honorary Chair * Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Program Committee Co-Chairs * Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia * Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Program Committee Vice-chairs * Daniel S. Katz (Applications and Experiences) * Dhabaleswar K. Panda (Architecture) * Manish Parashar (Middleware, Autonomic Computing, and Cyberinfrastructure) * Ahmad Afsahi (Performance Modeling and Analysis) * Xian-He Sun (Performance Measurement and Evaluation) * William Gropp (Programming Models, Systems, and Fault-Tolerant computing) * David Bader (Multicore and Accelerator-based Computing) * Thomas Fahringer (Scheduling and Resource Management) * Ignacio Martin Llorente and Madhusudhan Govindaraju (Cloud Computing) Cyber Co-Chairs * Anton Beloglazov, The University of Melbourne, Australia * Suraj Pandey, CSIRO, Australia * Trevor Gelowsky, Carleton University, Canada Workshops Co-Chairs * Marin Litiou, York University, Canada * Mukaddim Pathan, Telstra Corporation Limited, Australia Publicity Chairs * Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece * Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology & Argonne National Labs, USA * Bruno Schulze, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing, Brazil * G Subrahmanya VRK Rao: Cognizant technology Solutions, India Tutorials Co-Chairs * Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University, USA * Rob Simmonds, Westgrid, Canada Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs * Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA * Yogesh Simmhan, University of Southern California Poster and Research Demo Co-Chairs * Suraj Pandey, CSIRO, Australia SCALE Challenge Coordinator * Shantenu Jha, Rutgers and Loisiana State University Steering Committee * Henri Bal, Vrije University, The Netherlands * Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia (Chair) * Franck Capello, University of Paris-Sud, France * Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee & ORNL, USA * Dick Epema, Technical University of Delft, The Netherlands * Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria * Ian Foster, University of Chicago, USA * Wolfgang Gentzsch, DEISA, Germany * Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, China * Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation, USA (Co-Chair) * Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France * Geng Lin, Dell Inc., USA * Manish Parashar, Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, USA * Shikharesh Majumdar, Carleton University, Canada * Satoshi Matsuoaka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan * Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK * Paul Roe, Queensland University of Technology, Australia * Bruno Schulze, LNCC, Brazil * Nalini Venkatasubramanian, University of California, USA * Carlos Varela, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA IMPORTANT DATES Papers Due: 25 November 2011 Notification of Acceptance: 30 January 2012 Camera Ready Papers Due: 27 February 2012 --------------------------------------------------------------------

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