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CFP: Third International Green Computing Conference (IGCC'12) [extended deadline! January 27]
by John Owens 21 Jan '12

21 Jan '12

*** PAPER DEADLINE EXTENDED TO JANUARY 27, 2012 *** *** ABSTRACT SUBMISSION IS OPTIONAL *** CALL FOR PAPERS Third International Green Computing Conference (IGCC'12) http://www.green-conf.org June 5-8, 2012 in San Jose, California, USA Scope IGCC'12 will provide a forum for presenting and discussing innovative research on a broad range of topics in the fields of sustainable and energy-efficient computing, and computing for a more sustainable planet. The conference will hold a technical program, panels, workshops, and tutorials on these topics. IGCC'12 will be technically co-sponsored by the IEEE. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Sustainable Computing * Power-aware algorithms and protocols * Power-aware software and hardware * Low-power electronics and systems * Application-specific ASICs and FPGAs * Sensing and monitoring * Characterization, metrics, and modeling * Reliability, thermal behavior and control * Power-efficient delivery and cooling * Life-cycle analysis of IT equipment Computing for Sustainability * Renewable energy models and prediction * Matching energy supply and demand * Smart grid and microgrids * Smart transportation and manufacturing * Smart buildings and urban development * Energy harvesting, storage, and recycling * Climate and ecosystem monitoring * Using IT to reduce carbon emissions * Carbon metering and user feedback IGCC'12 welcomes submissions that have not been published and that are not under review by another conference or journal. All submissions will be evaluated on their originality, technical soundness, significance, presentation, and interest to the conference attendees. Submissions must not exceed 10 letter-size pages using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Papers must be received by the submission deadline to be considered for presentation. Best paper award and journal publication The Technical Committee will select the best paper as well as several papers to be extended and considered by the Journal on Sustainable Computing. Workshops and tutorials Proposals are solicited for workshops and tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference. Proposals should be submitted to the Workshops and Tutorials Chairs. Additional details are available at http://www.green-conf.org. Important dates Abstract submission: Optional at any time before the paper deadline Paper submission: Extended to January 27, 2012 at 11:59pm US Pacific time Notifications sent to authors: April 4, 2012 Camera-ready papers due: May 1, 2012 Organization General chairs: David Culler (UC Berkeley), Behrooz Shirazi (Wash. State Univ.) Program chairs: Ricardo Bianchini (Rutgers Univ.), Fred Chong (UC Santa Barbara) Program committee: Tarek F. Abdelzaher UI Urbana-Champaign Hakan Aydin George Mason Univ. Iris Bahar Brown Univ. Cullen Bash HP Labs Kirk W. Cameron Virginia Tech John Carter IBM Research Prabal Dutta Univ. of Michigan Klaus Fichter Borderstep Institute Rodrigo Fonseca Brown Univ. Eugene Gorbatov Intel Research Rajesh Gupta UC San Diego Sandeep Gupta Arizona State Univ. Sudhanva Gurumurthi Univ. of Virginia Mor Harchol-Balter Carnegie Mellon Univ. Canturk Isci IBM Research Mahmut Kandemir Penn State Univ. Aman Kansal Microsoft Research Krishna Kant National Science Foundation Randy H. Katz UC Berkeley Dejan Kostic EPFL Christos Kozyrakis Stanford Univ. Ulrich Kremer Rutgers Univ. Benjamin C. Lee Duke Univ. Tao Li Univ. of Florida Srilatha Manne AMD Ethan L. Miller UC Santa Cruz Onur Mutlu Carnegie Mellon Univ. Manish Parashar Rutgers Univ. Massoud Pedram Univ. of Southern California Kirk Pruhs Univ. of Pittsburgh Partha Ranganathan HP Labs Tajana S. Rosing UC San Diego Martin Schulz Lawrence Livermore National Lab. David Shmoys Cornell Univ. Ankur Srivastava Univ. of Maryland Mani Srivastava UC Los Angeles Michael Taylor UC San Diego Bhuvan Urgaonkar Penn State Univ. Xiaorui Wang Ohio State Univ. Thomas F. Wenisch Univ. of Michigan Workshops chair: Sanjay Ranka (Univ. of Florida) Publications chair: Saeed Rajput (Nova Southeastern Univ.) Publicity chairs: Giuseppe Anastasi (Universita di Pisa, Italy), John Owens (UC Davis) Submissions chair: Guoping Long (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Steering committee: Ishfaq Ahmad Co-Chair, UT Arlington Behrooz Shirazi Co-Chair, Wash. State Univ. Rajesh Gupta UC San Diego Sandeep Gupta Arizona State Univ. Ali Hurson Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology Francis Lau Univ. of Hong Kong Sanjay Ranka Univ. of Florida Saeed Rajput Nova Southeastern University

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CFP Computing Frontiers 2012 - Cagliari (ITALY)
by Villa, Oreste 20 Jan '12

20 Jan '12

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] *** Submission deadline extended to January 25th, 2012, 11:59.59 PM (PST) *** *** FIANL DEADLINE - NOT FURTHER EXTESNIONS CAN BE GRANTED (PLEASE DON'T ASK) *** ********************************************************************************** C O M P U T I N G F R O N T I E R S 2 0 1 2 - C A G L I A R I ( I T A L Y ) D E A D L I N E E X T E N D E D 01 / 25 / 2012 http://www.computingfrontiers.org ********************************************************************************** Computing Frontiers 2012, Cagliari (Italy) Conference Website: The increasing complexity, performance, cost and energy efficiency needs of current and future applications require novel and innovative approaches for the design of computing systems. Boundaries between state of the art and revolutionary innovation constitute the computing frontiers that must be pushed forward to provide the support required for the advancement of science, engineering and information technology. The Computing Frontiers conference focuses on a wide spectrum of advanced technologies and radically new solutions relevant to the development of the whole spectrum of computer systems, from embedded to high-performance computing. Authors are invited to submit full papers to the main conference and Ph.D. students are invited to submit an extended abstract for a special Ph.D. forum and poster session We seek contributions on novel computing paradigms, computational models, application paradigms, computer architecture, development environments, compilers, or operating environments. Papers are solicited in, but not limited to, the following areas: - Applications, programming and performance analysis of advanced architectures - Next-generation high performance computing and systems - Accelerators: many-core, GPU, custom, reconfigurable, embedded, and hybrid - Defect- and variability-tolerant designs, dependable computing - Power and energy efficiency: architectures, compilers and algorithms - Virtualization and virtual machines - Cloud-, internet-scale, service-oriented and smart infrastructure computing - Compilers and operating systems: adaptive, run-time, and auto-tuning - System management and security - Quantum and nano-scale computing - Impact of novel technology (e.g. NV memory, silicon photonics) on computing - Computational neuroscience, neuromorphic and biologically-inspired architectures - Computational aspects of intelligent systems and robotics - Reconfigurable, autonomic, organic, and self-organizing computation and systems - Interfaces and visualization for emerging applications and systems - Novel frontiers in computational science and scientific data repositories - Storing, managing, analyzing, and searching large data sets (" big data ") - Sensors and sensor networks Two Special Sessions This year Computing Frontiers will have two special sessions of invited talks on projects from the European Commission's Seventh Framework Programme and artificial intelligence for games Full papers must be submitted through the conference web site and should not exceed 10 double-column pages and extended abstracts cannot exceed 4 double-column pages in standard ACM conference format, including figures, tables, and references. Papers will be reviewed in a double blind fashion. This means that submissions must be anonymous. When submitting for a double blind process, authors need to take special care in removing their names and any hints that might reveal their identities to the reviewers. Pacific Northwest National Laboratory and Delft University of Technology will present best paper awards dedicated to the memory of Jarek Nieplocha and Stamatis Vassiliadis. As per ACM guidelines, at least one of the authors of accepted papers is required to register for the conference. Additional submission guidelines will be available on the conference web site. Selected papers will be invited to be extended for a special issue of the Springer International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP).

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ISPA 2012: Call for Tutorials (deadline extended)
by Rob Latham 17 Jan '12

17 Jan '12

Call for Tutorials (Deadline Extended to 23 January 2012) As part of the 10th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA12), Leganï¿½s, Madrid, 10-13 July 2012 (http://arcos.inf.uc3m.es/ispa2012) The ISPA tutorials program seeks proposals for full and half day tutorials, to be held 10 July 2012. Proposals should not be exclusively focused on the presenter's own work or a commercial product. Tutorial topics should be related to some aspect of parallel and distributed computing and networking. Submitters are encouraged to both aim for a broad audience and also cover key areas in depth. Submissions should contain the following information: - Brief Abstract - Tutorial Goals - Targeted audience - Content level (% beginner, % intermediate, % advanced) - Audience prerequisites - General description of content - One page outline - Resume or CV for each presenter Please limit submissions to 5 pages or fewer. Tutorial presenters are responsible for: * Any additional equipment needed for the tutorial (hardware, software) * Providing tutorial handout material to the tutorial chair 1 month prior to the tutorial. * Presenting the tutorial at ISPA 2012. The ISPA 2012 organizing committee reserve the right to cancel any tutorial if too few attendees are registered for the tutorial. Tutorial speakers will be honored by a free conference registration. Please send electronic submissions, preferably in PDF format, to the tutorial chair, Rob Latham (robl(a)mcs.anl.gov) Deadline for submissions is January 23, 2012. -- Rob Latham Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Lab, IL USA

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CFP: Third International Green Computing Conference (IGCC'12) [extended deadline!]
by John Owens 14 Jan '12

14 Jan '12

CALL FOR PAPERS Third International Green Computing Conference (IGCC'12) http://www.green-conf.org June 5-8, 2012 in San Jose, California, USA Scope IGCC'12 will provide a forum for presenting and discussing innovative research on a broad range of topics in the fields of sustainable and energy-efficient computing, and computing for a more sustainable planet. The conference will hold a technical program, panels, workshops, and tutorials on these topics. IGCC'12 will be technically co-sponsored by the IEEE. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Sustainable Computing * Power-aware algorithms and protocols * Power-aware software and hardware * Low-power electronics and systems * Application-specific ASICs and FPGAs * Sensing and monitoring * Characterization, metrics, and modeling * Reliability, thermal behavior and control * Power-efficient delivery and cooling * Life-cycle analysis of IT equipment Computing for Sustainability * Renewable energy models and prediction * Matching energy supply and demand * Smart grid and microgrids * Smart transportation and manufacturing * Smart buildings and urban development * Energy harvesting, storage, and recycling * Climate and ecosystem monitoring * Using IT to reduce carbon emissions * Carbon metering and user feedback IGCC'12 welcomes submissions that have not been published and that are not under review by another conference or journal. All submissions will be evaluated on their originality, technical soundness, significance, presentation, and interest to the conference attendees. Submissions must not exceed 10 letter-size pages using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Papers must be received by the submission deadline to be considered for presentation. Best paper award and journal publication The Technical Committee will select the best paper as well as several papers to be extended and considered by the Journal on Sustainable Computing. Workshops and tutorials Proposals are solicited for workshops and tutorials to be held in conjunction with the conference. Proposals should be submitted to the Workshops and Tutorials Chairs. Additional details are available at http://www.green-conf.org. Important dates Abstract submission: Extended to January 20, 2012 at 11:59pm US Pacific time Paper submission: Extended to January 27, 2012 at 11:59pm US Pacific time Notifications sent to authors: April 4, 2012 Camera-ready papers due: May 1, 2012 Organization General chairs: David Culler (UC Berkeley), Behrooz Shirazi (Wash. State Univ.) Program chairs: Ricardo Bianchini (Rutgers Univ.), Fred Chong (UC Santa Barbara) Program committee: Tarek F. Abdelzaher UI Urbana-Champaign Hakan Aydin George Mason Univ. Iris Bahar Brown Univ. Cullen Bash HP Labs Kirk W. Cameron Virginia Tech John Carter IBM Research Prabal Dutta Univ. of Michigan Klaus Fichter Borderstep Institute Rodrigo Fonseca Brown Univ. Eugene Gorbatov Intel Research Rajesh Gupta UC San Diego Sandeep Gupta Arizona State Univ. Sudhanva Gurumurthi Univ. of Virginia Mor Harchol-Balter Carnegie Mellon Univ. Canturk Isci IBM Research Mahmut Kandemir Penn State Univ. Aman Kansal Microsoft Research Krishna Kant National Science Foundation Randy H. Katz UC Berkeley Dejan Kostic EPFL Christos Kozyrakis Stanford Univ. Ulrich Kremer Rutgers Univ. Benjamin C. Lee Duke Univ. Tao Li Univ. of Florida Srilatha Manne AMD Ethan L. Miller UC Santa Cruz Onur Mutlu Carnegie Mellon Univ. Manish Parashar Rutgers Univ. Massoud Pedram Univ. of Southern California Kirk Pruhs Univ. of Pittsburgh Partha Ranganathan HP Labs Tajana S. Rosing UC San Diego Martin Schulz Lawrence Livermore National Lab. David Shmoys Cornell Univ. Ankur Srivastava Univ. of Maryland Mani Srivastava UC Los Angeles Michael Taylor UC San Diego Bhuvan Urgaonkar Penn State Univ. Xiaorui Wang Ohio State Univ. Thomas F. Wenisch Univ. of Michigan Workshops chair: Sanjay Ranka (Univ. of Florida) Publications chair: Saeed Rajput (Nova Southeastern Univ.) Publicity chairs: Giuseppe Anastasi (Universita di Pisa, Italy), John Owens (UC Davis) Submissions chair: Guoping Long (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Steering committee: Ishfaq Ahmad Co-Chair, UT Arlington Behrooz Shirazi Co-Chair, Wash. State Univ. Rajesh Gupta UC San Diego Sandeep Gupta Arizona State Univ. Ali Hurson Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology Francis Lau Univ. of Hong Kong Sanjay Ranka Univ. of Florida Saeed Rajput Nova Southeastern University

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ISC12: Call for Tutorial Proposals
by Pavan Balaji 13 Jan '12

13 Jan '12

Experts in high performance computing are invited to share their expertise with the High Performance Computing (HPC) community by submitting proposals for tutorials at the ISC '12 conference to be held in Hamburg, Germany from June 17-21. The ISC '12 tutorials program will give attendees the opportunity to explore a wide variety of important topics related to high-performance computing and other related aspects. ISC '12 invites proposals for introductory, intermediate, and advanced tutorials, either full-day (seven hours) or half-day (three and half hours). A distinguished panel of experts will select the tutorials from the submitted proposals. The deadline for submission is Jan. 22nd, 2012. Tutorials by academic researchers would receive some compensation to support their travel to the conference. More information on the ISC '12 Call for Tutorials can be found here: http://www.isc-events.com/isc12/Take-Part/Call-for-Tutorials ISC '12 website: http://www.isc-events.com/isc12/ Regards, Pavan Balaji ISC '12 Tutorials Chair -- Pavan Balaji http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~balaji

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[*Deadline extended*] CFP: WHIST '12: Second International Workshop on High-performance Infrastructure for Scalable Tools
by Tallent, Nathan R 12 Jan '12

12 Jan '12

*** N.B.: Submission deadline extended *** ======================================================================== Second International Workshop on High-performance Infrastructure for Scalable Tools (WHIST 2012) Held in conjunction with the 17th ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2012) February 25-29, 2012 New Orleans, LA, USA http://whist-workshop.org ======================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- >From laptops to supercomputers, increasingly complex multicore and accelerator hardware is driving rapid growth in concurrency. At the high end, exascale systems are expected to support over 100 million threads, primarily due to increased intra-node concurrency. To take full advantage of this increased concurrency, new software and programming models are necessary. With increased system and application complexity, scalable tools are critical for diagnosing the root causes of performance and correctness problems. To diagnose and correct problems in highly concurrent systems, tools themselves are becoming more complex. Tools will require sophisticated infrastructure to measure, analyze, diagnose and present the causes of an execution's anomalies. In many cases, tools will combine online and offline analysis. They may use sophisticated modeling and statistical analysis techniques. They may attempt to correct problems; and they may have to survive faults. To manage this complexity, there is a need for abstractions that simplify tool design and for infrastructure that is reusable and extensible. SUBMISSIONS ----------- We solicit papers on all aspects of scalable tool abstractions and infrastructure, including (but not limited to): * Generic, reusable tool-infrastructure components * Tool-component interoperability * Tool-runtime design, including - Scalable data structures and data representation for tool runtimes - Scalable tool-communication infrastructure - Tool, language run time, and operating system interoperability - Fault management * Scalable online and offline attribution, data management, and analysis techniques, including - Techniques for managing large amounts of information - Low-overhead online parallel data analysis techniques * Monitoring, attribution, and analysis approaches for novel parallel programming models - Tool support for multithreading, shared-memory, and hierarchical parallelism, including interaction with language runtimes and operating systems - Measurement and attribution techniques for new programming paradigms * Scalable presentation of results Visit http://whist-workshop.org for more information. SPECIAL JOURNAL ISSUE --------------------- All papers from the workshop will be made available online, and selected papers will be published in a special journal issue. Details TBD. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Full papers (extended!) January 19, 2012, 11:59 PDT Notification February 3, 2012 PPoPP Conference February 25-29, 2012 WHIST Workshop February 25, 2012 PROGRAM CHAIRS -------------- Todd Gamblin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Nathan Tallent, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- Dorian Arnold, University of New Mexico Abhinav Bhatele, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Stephane Eranian, Google Rob Fowler, Renaissance Computing Institute, University of North Carolina Karl Fuerlinger, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitat Munchen Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, University of Utah Simon Hammond, Sandia National Laboratory Kevin Huck, Paratools Marty Itzkowitz, Oracle Stephen Jarvis, University of Warwick David Lecomber, Allinea Allen Malony, University of Oregon Bernd Mohr, Juelich Supercomputing Center Tipp Moseley, Google Phil Mucci, Samara Technologies Matthias Mueller, TU Dresden Boyana Norris, Argonne National Laboratory Lars Nyland, NVIDIA Ramesh Peri, Intel Dan Reed, Microsoft Research Philip Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Barry Rountree, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Dan Terpstra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Felix Wolf, German Research School for Simulation Sciences WEBSITE ------- http://www.whist-workshop.org MORE INFORMATION ---------------- For more information, please contact the program chairs at whist2012(a)easychair.org.

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REMINDER: CFP: P2S2 2012 - Fifth International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-end Computing
by Qichang Liang 12 Jan '12

12 Jan '12

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 4th, 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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2012 IEEE Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing: A Call for Nominations
by Rajkumar Buyya 11 Jan '12

11 Jan '12

------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The 2012 IEEE Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing A Call for Nominations ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The IEEE Award for Excellence in Scalable Computing is presented to an individual for his/her significant and sustained contributions to the scalable computing community through the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC), coupled with an outstanding record of high quality and high impact research. The award consists of a medal and an honorarium of $1000. In the past, the award as IEEE Medal of Excellence, were awarded to Professor Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee, USA) in 2008, Professor Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia) in 2009, Professor William Gropp (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA) in 2010, and Professor Albert Zomaya (University of Sydney, Australia) in 2011. Nominations: A candidate may be nominated by colleagues/TCSC members or may nominate him/her-self. Nomination shall be submitted online at the following site: http://tcsc.unina2.it/awards A nomination should include the following details: 1. Professional Employment Affiliations: List the nominee's current professional affiliations and titles. 2. Citation: Give a brief citation (thirty words or less) precisely stating the most salient reason(s) why the nominee is qualified for the award. 3. Technical Contributions: Describe the nominee's technical achievements as well as significance and impact. 4. TCSC Contribution: Describe the candidateï¿½s service and specific contributions to TCSC, its mission and its activities. 5. Endorsers: Each nomination must be supported by letter from three at least endorsers. Please provide the names, affiliation, and addresses (email) of your designated endorsers for your nomination. The endorsers will be required to comment on the nominee's technical contributions as well as service to the TCSC community. The complete nomination data and endorsement letters shall be submitted by the deadline. Important Dates: - Nomination Deadline: Feb 10, 2012 - Results Notification: Feb 28, 2012 Award Selection Committee: The award selection committee will consist of past winners, leaders in the field, as well as members of the TCSC Executive Committee. Award Presentation Note: The award will presented at the 12th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2012) to be held in Ottawa, Canada from May 13-16, 2012. The winner should be available to receive the award in person and present a keynote talk at the CCGrid 2012 conference. For more information about the conference please see http://www.cloudbus.org/ccgrid2012/. Award Committee Co-Chairs: * Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy (Email: beniamino.dimartino AT unina.it) * Manish Parashar, Rutgers: The State University of New Jersey, USA (Email: parashar AT rutgers.edu) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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CFP of IEEE Second Sustainable HPC Cloud Workshop in Liverpool, UK, 25-27 June 2012
by Justin YUAN SHI 11 Jan '12

11 Jan '12

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] ********************** IEEE SHPCloud-2012 CFP **************************** The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Sustainable HPC Cloud (SHPCloud-2012/HPCC-2012) to be held in Liverpool, England, UK, 25-27 June 2012 http://sites.google.com/a/temple.edu/shpcc12/ Sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society and IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC) INTRODUCTION Sustainability for HPC applications requires gaining performance and reliability at the same time when acquiring new resources. As cloud-based HPC resources have rapidly become available, the sustainability of HPC applications is a timely challenge to HPC systems and application developers. The HPCC-2012 conference is the 14th highly successful International Conference on High Performance and Communications (HPCC) started in the Netherlands, 1999. HPCC-2012 will be held in Liverpool, United Kingdom from June 25-27, 2012. It will provide a forum for scientists and engineers in academia, industry, and government to discuss the new challenges and to present their research results and experience in all aspects of high performance computing and communications. HPCC-2012 is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). SHPCloud-2012 is the second Workshop of Sustainable High Performance Cloud Computing after the first workshop in Banff, Canada, September 2011. For 2012, we will have a new focus on auction-based cloud computing. Auction-based clouds offer the users the most cost effective computing option. It also gives providers the most efficient resource utilization option. The only obstacle to make this win-win combination to become reality is our programming habits. Existing methods are incapable of handling volatile environments. As the computing clouds gain momentum for many applications, this unique resource provides an unparalleled opportunity for HPC research and development. The sustainable computing challenge is applicable to all computing applications as the "1 + 1" challenge – can you gain performance and reliability at the same time when adding resources? Solutions to this challenge can have profound practical and theoretical impacts in computer science research and development. Suggested Topics: * Investigative reports on delivered performance for computation intensive applications with or without failure and recovery * Investigative results on delivered cloud performances for computation intensive applications * Experiences in non-main stream HPC paradigms * Experiences in using auction-based cloud resources * Experiences in virtualized GPU for HPC applications * Experiences in virtualized network for HPC applications * Innovative failure prevention and recovery methods * HPC security considerations using cloud resources * Communication infrastructure virtualization experiences * Private cloud implementation experiences * Innovative cloud auction pricing models Important Dates: * Paper submission deadline: 21 March, 2012, 5pm EST. * Notification of acceptance: 15 April, 2012 5pm EST * Final Manuscript Due: 08 May, 2012 * Registration Due: 08 May, 2012 * Conference Date: 25-27 June, 2012 Submission Instructions: Prospective authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent related developments. The length of the papers should not exceed 6 pages + 2 pages for overlength charges (IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style: two columns, single-spaced, 10-point font), including figures and references. You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page: URL: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the paper. Submission Link: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=shpcc2012 Workshop URL: http://sites.google.com/a/temple.edu/shpcc12 Organizing Committee: Workshop Chair: Justin Y. Shi | shi(a)temple.edu | Temple University |USA Workshop Co-Chair: Pavan Balaji | balaji(a)mcs.anl.gov | Argonne National Laboratory | USA Technical Programs: * Abdallah Khreishah, Temple University,USA * Chiu Tan, Temple University, USA * Moussa Taifi, Temple University, USA * Bedrich Benes, Purdue University, USA * Yu Chen, State University of New York - Binghamton, USA * Thomas Hacker, Purdue University, USA * Issa Khalil, United Arab Emirates University, UAE * Ming Li, Utah State University, USA * Shuchen Yu, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA Contact: Justin Y. Shi | shi(a)temple.edu

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International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers (ROSS 2012)
by ross-2012＠easychair.org 11 Jan '12

11 Jan '12

======================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================================================= International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers *** ROSS 2012 *** In collaboration with ACM SIGHPC -------------------------------- Held in conjunction with ICS 2012, Venice, Italy, June 25-29, 2012 ======================================================================= http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/ross/2012/ ======================================================================= The complexity of node architectures in supercomputers increases as we cross petaflop milestones on the way towards Exascale. Increasing levels of parallelism in multi- and many-core chips and emerging heterogeneity of computational resources coupled with energy and memory constraints force a reevaluation of our approaches towards operating systems and runtime environments. The ROSS workshop, to be held as a full-day meeting at the ICS 2012 conference in Venice, Italy, focuses on principles and techniques to design, implement, optimize, or operate runtime and operating systems for supercomputers and massively parallel machines. TOPICS OF INTEREST: ------------------- - OS and runtime system scalability on many-node and multi/many-core systems - specialized OSs for Supercomputing - distributed/hybrid/partitioned OSs and runtime systems for Supercomputing - fault tolerance - system noise analysis and prevention - interaction between middleware, runtime system, and the OS - I/O resource management and forwarding - parallel job startup - memory management and emerging memory technologies - real-time considerations for Supercomputing SCHEDULE AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: ---------------------------------- Submission deadline: March 30, 2012 Author notification: May 7, 2012 Final papers due: May 25, 2012 Workshop date: To be announced (held between June 25-29, 2012) The ROSS workshop proceedings will be published electronically along with the ICS conference proceedings via the ACM Digital Library. Submitted manuscripts should be formatted using the ACM SIG proceedings alternate format. Extensive documentation can be found at the ACM site (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) The maximum length is 8 pages. All papers must be in English. Please visit the workshop website for further instructions and the submission link. The best papers of the workshop will be considered for inclusion in a special issue of International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications (IJHPCA). WORKSHOP CHAIRS: ---------------- Torsten Hoefler University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Kamil Iskra Argonne National Laboratory, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ------------------ George Almasi, IBM Research, USA Henri Bal, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, Netherlands Pete Beckman, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Patrick Bridges, University of New Mexico, USA Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Franck Cappello, INRIA, France / UIUC, USA Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Markus Geimer, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany Roberto Gioiosa, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Yutaka Ishikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Larry Kaplan, Cray, Inc., USA Ron Minnich, Google, Inc., USA Bernd Mohr, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany Raymond Namyst, University of Bordeaux 1, France Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Pascale Rosse-Laurent, Bull, France Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Jesper Larsson Traeff, University of Vienna, Austria Robert Wisniewski, IBM Research, USA Contact us at ross-2012(a)easychair.org if you have any questions.

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