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EuroMPI 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS
by Rajeev Thakur 31 Mar '12

31 Mar '12

EuroMPI 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS Recent Advances in Message Passing Interface. 19th European MPI Users' Group Meeting Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, Austria, September 23-26, 2012 Submission Deadline: May 5, 2012 www.eurompi2012.org BACKGROUND AND TOPICS EuroMPI is the preeminent meeting for users, developers and researchers to interact and discuss new developments and applications of message-passing parallel computing, in particular in and related to the Message Passing Interface (MPI). The annual meeting has a long, rich tradition, and the 19th European MPI Users' Group Meeting will again be a lively forum for discussion of everything related to usage and implementation of MPI and other parallel programming interfaces. Traditionally, the meeting has focused on the efficient implementation of aspects of MPI, typically on high-performance computing platforms, benchmarking and tools for MPI, short-comings and extensions of MPI, parallel I/O and fault tolerance, as well as parallel applications using MPI. The meeting is open towards other topics, in particular application experience and alternative interfaces for high-performance heterogeneous, hybrid, distributed memory systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * MPI implementation issues and improvements * Extensions to and shortcomings of MPI * Tools and environments for MPI * Hybrid and heterogeneous programming with MPI and other interfaces * Relation of MPI to alternative interfaces for hybrid/heterogeneous distributed memory systems * Interaction between message-passing software and hardware, in particular new high performance architectures * Fault tolerance in message-passing implementations and systems * Performance evaluation for MPI and MPI based applications * Automatic performance tuning of MPI applications and implementations * Verification of message passing applications and protocols * Applications using message-passing, in particular in Computational Science and Scientific Computing * Non-standard message-passing applications * Parallel algorithms in the message-passing paradigm * Algorithms using the message-passing paradigm The meeting will feature contributed talks on the selected, peer-reviewed papers, invited expert talks covering upcoming and future issues, a vendor session where selected vendors will present their new developments in hybrid and heterogeneous cluster and high-performance architectures, a poster session, and a tutorial day. As in 2011, EuroMPI 2012 will include the special session IMUDI dedicated to improving MPI user and developer interaction. The special session will have the same deadlines as the conference, but its own CFP and feature its own specialist program committee that will review all dedicated IMUDI submissions. This session should attract strongly application focused papers showing potential or problems with MPI and current MPI practice. IMUDI papers may be shorter and may center on problem analysis rather than solution, and will thus contribute to intensify discussion between MPI developers and application programmers. Other, special sessions may be organized, and proposals are solicited. Proceedings for EuroMPI 2012 will be published in Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). A Special Issue of the Springer "Computing" journal is planned for a selection of the best papers of the conference. SUBMISSION INFORMATION Contributors are invited to submit a full paper as a PDF document not exceeding 10 pages in English. The title page should contain an abstract of at most 100 words and five specific, topical keywords. The paper must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS guidelines. The usage of LaTeX for preparation of the contribution as well as the submission in camera ready format is strongly recommended. Style files can be found with Springer New work that is not yet mature for a full paper, short observations, and similar brief announcements are invited for the poster session. Contributions to the poster session should be submitted in the form of a two page abstract. All contributions will be fully peer reviewed by the program committee. Papers shall be submitted electronically via Easychair, see http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eurompi2012 Papers with a very strong application focus concerned with use of MPI and possible obstacles should be considered for submission to the IMUDI special session, see http://press.mcs.anl.gov/imudi SCHEDULE, IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of full papers and poster abstracts: May 5th, 2012 * Author Notification: June 11th, 2012 * Camera Ready papers due: July 6th, 2012 * Tutorial(s): September 23rd, 2012 * Conference: September 24-26th, 2012 GENERAL CHAIR Jack Dongarra ORGANIZERS, PC CHAIRS Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna, sigi(a)par.univie.ac.at Jesper Larsson Träff, Vienna University of Technology, traff(a)par.tuwien.ac.at PROGRAM COMMITTEE Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna, Austria Gil Bloch, Mellanox Technologies George Bosilca, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, USA Darius Buntinas, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Franck Cappello, INRIA, France and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Gilles Civario, Irish Centre for High-End Computing Yiannis Cotronis, University of Athens, Greece Jim Cownie, Intel, UK Anthony Danalis, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Luiz DeRose, Cray, USA Edgar Gabriel, University of Houston, USA Brice Goglin, INRIA, France David Goodell, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, University of Utah, USA Richard Graham, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA William Gropp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Thomas Herault, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Torsten Hoefler, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Yutaka Ishikawa, Universty of Tokyo, Japan Michael Kagan, Mellanox Technologies Dries Kimpe, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Jesus Labarta, Technical University of Catalonia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Dong Li, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Ewing Rusty Lusk, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Amith Rajith Mamidala, IBM, USA Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Guillaume Mercier, INRIA, France Bernd Mohr, Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC), Germany Matthias Mueller, Center for Information Services and HPC, TU Dresden, Germany Rolf Rabenseifner, High Performance Computing Center Stuttgart (HLRS), Germany Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany Rolf Riesen, IBM, Ireland Robert Ross, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Peter Sanders Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Mitsuhisa Sato, University of Tsukuba, Japan Saba Sehrish, Northwestern University, USA Christian Siebert, University of Aachen, Germany Stephen Siegel, University of Delaware, USA Anna Sikora, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Spain Jeff Squyres, Cisco, USA Shinji Sumimoto, Fujitsu, Japan Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Vinod Tipparaju, AMD, USA Carsten Trinitis, Technical University of Munich, Germany Denis Trystram, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France Jesper Larsson Träff, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Keith Underwood, Intel, USA Robert Van De Geijn, The University of Texas at Austin, USA Alan Wagner, University of British Columbia, Canada Roland Wismüller, University of Siegen, Germany Xin Yuan, Florida State University, USA CONFERENCE VENUE EuroMPI 2012 will be held in Vienna, Austria, at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Vienna is easily accessible by plane and train, and in addition to the conference has a highly attractive cultural heritage. CONFERENCE FEES The conference will hopefully be well supported by sponsors, which will help directly towards keeping the fees low. As far as possible, special student fees will be offered.

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CFP: SC12 Call for Technical Papers - abstracts due April 20
by Jeffrey Vetter 30 Mar '12

30 Mar '12

============================== SC12 Call for Technical Papers ============================== November 10 - 16, 2012 Salt Lake City, Utah Abstracts due April 20, 2012; full papers due April 27, 2012 http://sc12.supercomputing.org/content/papers SC12, the premier annual international conference on high performance computing, networking, and storage, will be held in Salt Lake City, Utah, November 10-16, 2012. The Technical Papers Program at SC is the leading venue for presenting the highest-quality original research, from the foundations of HPC to its emerging frontiers. The conference committee solicits submissions of excellent scientific merit that introduce new ideas to the field and stimulate future trends on topics such as applications, systems, parallel algorithms, and performance modeling. SC also welcomes submissions that make significant contributions to the "state of practice" by providing compelling insights on best practices for provisioning, using, and enhancing high performance computing systems, services, and facilities. New in 2012 =========== - Reorganized and new topic areas - "State of Practice" track integrated with regular papers - Later deadlines (end of April) - Review rebuttal period Technical Paper Topic Areas =========================== Submissions will be considered on any topic related to high performance computing including, but not limited to, the nine topical areas below. 1. Algorithms 2. Applications 3. Architectures and Networks 4. Clouds and Grids 5. Performance, Energy, and Dependability 6. Programming Systems 7. Storage, Visualization, and Analytics 8. System Software 9. State of Practice ** Algorithms Concerns the development, evaluation and optimization of scalable, high performance algorithms for problems that are typically common to multiple disciplines. Topics include: - Data assimilation, model refinement, and reduced-order models - Discrete and combinatorial problems - Grid and mesh-based methods - Inverse problems - Numerical methods, linear and non-linear systems - Particle, N-body, and molecular/coarse-grained methods - Uncertainty quantification ** Applications Concerns the development and enhancement of algorithms, models, software, and problem solving environments for domain-specific applications that require high performance computing, networking, and storage. Topics include: - Bioinformatics and computational biology - Computational earth and atmospheric sciences - Computational materials science and engineering - Computational astronomy, chemistry, fluid dynamics, physics, mechanics, etc. - Computation and data enabled social science - Computational design optimization for aerospace, energy, manufacturing, and industrial applications - Computational medicine and bioengineering ** Architecture and Networks Concerns all aspects of high performance hardware including the optimization and evaluation of processors and networks. Topics include: - Processor architecture, chip multiprocessors, GPUs, cache, and memory subsystems - Interconnect technologies (InfiniBand, Myrinet, Quadrics, Ethernet, Routable PCI etc.), switch/router architecture, network topologies, on-chip or optical networks, and network fault tolerance - Internet protocol (TCP, UDP, sockets), quality of service, congestion management, and collective communication - Power-efficient architectures, high-availability architectures, stream or vector architectures, embedded and reconfigurable architectures, and emerging technologies - Innovative hardware/software co-design - Parallel and scalable system architectures - Performance evaluation and measurement of real systems ** Clouds and Grids Concerns all aspects of grids and clouds. Topics include: - Security and identity management - Virtualization and overlays - Scheduling, load balancing, workflows, and resource provisioning - Data management and scientific applications - Self-configuration, management, information services, and monitoring - Compute and storage cloud architectures - Programming models and tools for computing on clouds and grids - Quality of service and service-level agreement management - Problem solving environments and portals - Service-oriented architectures and tools for integration of clouds, clusters, and grids ** Performance, Energy, Dependability Concerns the crosscutting subjects of performance, energy, and dependability (PED) that typically span multiple areas of expertise and are crucial factors in the design of scalable HPC systems. Topics include: - Analysis, modeling, or simulation for PED - Empirical measurement of PED on real-world systems - Tools, code instrumentation, and instrumentation infrastructure for measurement and monitoring of PED - New opportunities or challenges for PED made possible by emerging HPC technologies - PED workload characterization and benchmarking - PED studies of HPC subsystems, such as processor, network, memory, and I/O - Impact of PED on applications and their design - Impact of application design on PED - Methodologies and formalisms for PED ** Programming Systems Concerns technologies that support parallel programming for large-scale systems as well as smaller-scale components that will plausibly serve as building blocks for next-generation HPC architectures. Topics include: - Compiler analysis and optimization; program transformation - Parallel programming languages and notations; programming models - Runtime systems - Libraries (in support of end users or other aspects of the programming environment) - Parallel application frameworks - Tools (e.g., debuggers, performance analysis, integrated development environments, data analysis, visualization) - Software engineering for parallel programming - Productivity-oriented programming environments and studies - Solutions for parallel programming challenges: interoperability, memory consistency, determinism, race detection, work stealing, load balancing, etc. ** Storage, Visualization, and Analytics Concerns all aspects of storage, visualization, and analysis. Topics include: - Databases for HPC, scalable structured storage - Data mining, analysis, and visualization for modeling and simulation - Parallel file, storage, and archival systems - Scalable storage, metadata, and data management - I/O performance tuning, benchmarking, and middleware - Next generation storage systems and media - Storage systems for data intensive computing - Storage networks - Reliability and fault tolerance in HPC storage - Visualization and image processing ** System Software Concerns the design and development of operating systems, runtime systems, and other low- level software that enables allocation and management of hardware resources for high performance computing applications and services. Topics include: - Alternative and specialized operating systems and runtime systems for many-core processors - Support for fault tolerance and resilience - Management of complex memory hierarchies and transactional memory - Enhancements for attached and integrated accelerators - Distributed memory and shared memory systems - Communication optimization - Interactions between the OS, runtime, compiler, middleware, and tools - Strategies for managing and reducing energy consumption - Virtualization and virtual machines - Approaches for enabling adaptive and introspective system software ** State of Practice Concerns all aspects related to the pragmatic practices of HPC, including infrastructure, services, facilities, large-scale application executions, etc. Submissions that develop best practices, optimized designs, or benchmarks are of particular interest. Although concrete case studies within a conceptual framework would likely serve as the basis for submitted papers, efforts to generalize the experience for wider applicability will be highly valued. Topics include: - Deployment experiences of large-scale infrastructures and facilities - Long-term infrastructural management experiences - Comparative benchmarks of actual machines over a wide spectrum of workloads - Pragmatic resource management strategies and experiences - Facilitation of "big data" associated with supercomputing - User support experiences with large-scale and novel machines - Multi-center infrastructures and their management - Pragmatic bridging of cloud data centers and supercomputing centers - Education, training, and dissemination activities and their quantitative results - Procurement, technology investment, and acquisition of best practices - Infrastructural policy issues, especially international experiences Review Process ============== The SC12 Technical Papers Committee will rigorously review all submissions with the goal of selecting the best technical contributions across both established and emerging areas of HPC. In an effort to enhance the review process and to create an exceptional program, SC12 will introduce a review rebuttal option for the authors. The review process acceptance criteria will concentrate on originality, technical soundness, presentation quality, timeliness, impact, and relevance to SC. Some papers may present principles, results, and discussions in the context of a single node, core, thread, or GPU. To be accepted, these papers must measurably improve upon the state of the art along dimensions that are relevant for SC. Awards will be presented for Best Paper and Best Student Paper. Extended versions of papers selected as finalists for the Best Paper and Best Student Paper Awards may be published in the journal Scientific Programming. With our focus on quality and the observed trend towards substantial increases in submissions from year to year, the committee expects a 20% acceptance rate for SC12 Technical Papers. ** How to submit SC follows a two-part submission process, with abstracts due by April 20, 2012 and full papers by April 27, 2012. Abstracts and papers must be submitted electronically via the website https://submissions.supercomputing.org/. A sample submission form is also available at that site (click on the tab "Sample Submission Forms" at the login page). Format: Submissions are limited to 10 pages in the IEEE format (see http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html ) The 10-page limit includes figures, tables, and appendices, but does not include references, for which there is no page limit. Selecting areas of contribution: All submissions must indicate one of the nine areas as the primary area of contribution. One of the remaining eight areas may be indicated as a secondary area of contribution. Dual Submission: Submission material cannot overlap substantially with any paper previously accepted for publication or under review by any conference or journal during the SC review process. Authors should follow IEEE publication policies (see http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/rights/Multi_Sub_Gui delines_Intro.html). Important SC12 Information ========================== Location : Utah Salt Palace Convention Center, Salt Lake City, UT Information : http://sc12.supercomputing.org/ Web Submissions: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/ Email Contact : papers(a)info.supercomputing.org ** Important Dates Submissions Open: February 15, 2012 Abstracts Due : April 20, 2012 (Abstracts are required in order to submit a full paper.) Full Papers Due : April 27, 2012 Review Rebuttal : June 15--19, 2012 Notifications : July 15, 2012 Conference Dates: November 10-16, 2012 SC12 Technical Papers Committee =============================== ** SC12 Technical Papers Chairs Padma Raghavan, The Pennsylvania State University Jeffrey S. Vetter, Georgia Tech and Oak Ridge National Laboratory ** SC12 Technical Papers Areas Chairs Algorithms : Edmond Chow, Georgia Tech Applications : Martin Berzins, University of Utah Architecture and Networks : Steve Keckler, NVIDIA and The University of Texas at Austin Clouds and Grids : Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia Performance, Power, Dependability: David Lowenthal, University of Arizona Programming Systems : Brad Chamberlain, Cray Inc. Storage, Visualization, Analytics: Hank Childs, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory System Software : Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories State of Practice : Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology The complete list of members of the technical papers committee is available online at http://sc12.supercomputing.org/content/committees. # # #

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*Extended Submission Deadline* -- MASCOTS 2012 -- The 20th International Symposium on Modeling, analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
by Ali R. Butt 27 Mar '12

27 Mar '12

The 20th IEEE* International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems MASCOTS'12 http://mascots.cs.vt.edu August 7-9, 2012 Washington, DC, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Deadline: April 8, 2012 (extended from April 1, 2012) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Scope and Topics The MASCOTS conference is a well-established forum for state-of-the-art research on the measurement, modeling, and performance analysis of computer systems and networks, and is sponsored* by the IEEE and in technical cooperation with the ACM SIGSIM*. The 20th edition of this conference will take place August 7-9, 2012 in the Virginia Tech Arlington Research Center, located in the Washington DC metropolitan area. The conference will bring together academics and industry practitioners to present and discuss their latest research results. The technical program for the 3-day conference will include keynote talks, refereed full and work-in-progress papers, and posters. We encourage researchers world-wide to submit original technical papers describing their latest research work in the areas of: - Measurement studies; - Performance evaluation methodologies; - Industrial practice and experience; or - Theoretical results Topics of interest include: - Computer Architecture - Computer Networks - Distributed/Parallel Systems - Internetworking Protocols - Multimedia Systems - Pervasive Web and Mobility - Sensor Networks - Storage Systems - Web-based Systems - Wireless Networks *** Full Papers Submissions may be up to 10 pages in length (including figures and references), formatted in two-column IEEE conference style with font size no less than 10 point. *** Work-in-Progress Papers Work-in-progress papers provide a peer-reviewed forum for late-breaking or preliminary research results, giving an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present and demonstrate their recent research, and to obtain feedback from their peers in an informal setting. Unsuccessful full paper submissions will be also be given consideration as a work-in-progress paper where appropriate. Work-in-progress paper submissions may be up to 3 pages in length (including figures and references), with the option of purchasing one extra page upon acceptance. Please see the conference webpage for additional details. *** Submission Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted or under review for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by program committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings to be published by IEEE press. IMPORTANT: ATTENDANCE BY AT LEAST ONE AUTHOR IS MANDATORY *** Important Dates Abstract submission (main track): April 1, 2012 (extended from March 25) Paper submission (main track): April 8, 2012 (extended from April 1) Notification of acceptance (main track): May 6, 2012 Poster paper submission: May 13, 2012 Poster paper acceptance: May 20, 2012 Camera-ready due (main and poster tracks): May 27, 2012 Author registration (main and poster tracks): June 10, 2012 Early registration (main and poster tracks): July 3, 2012 Conference in Washington DC: August 7-9, 2012 *** Organizing Committee General Chair: Srinidhi Varadarajan, Virginia Tech, USA Program Co-Chairs: Kalyan Perumalla, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA David Jefferson, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Publicity Chair: Ali Butt, Virginia Tech, USA Web Chair: Alfred Park, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA -------------- For additional information and updates, please visit the conference webpage at http://mascots.cs.vt.edu -------------- * IEEE/ACM pending approval

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Extended Submission Deadline - April 9th: The Second International Workshop on Energy Consumption and Reliability of Storage Systems (ERSS 2012)
by Xenia Mountrouidou 26 Mar '12

26 Mar '12

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ============================== ======================================= The Second International Workshop on Energy Consumption and Reliability of Storage Systems (ERSS 2012) Held in conjunction with the International Green Computing Conference - IGCC 2012 June 5, 2012, San Jose, California, USA http://research.cs.vt.edu/dssl/wer/ ===================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- * Submission deadline: *April 9, 2012, 11:59 PDT* *(extended)* * Author Notification: April 23, 2012 * Camera-ready deadline: May 7, 2012 CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------- Large-scale computing infrastructures make unprecedented demands on information storage capacity, performance, energy consumption, reliability, and manageability. The increasing use of computers for saving valuable data imposes stringent energy consumption and reliability constraints on storage systems. As the disk capacity improves, advanced techniques are being employed to proactively conserve energy while improving the reliability of the storage systems. To this end, the Workshop on Energy Consumption and Reliability of Storage Systems is being organized to bring together researchers and practitioners to explore the challenges, opportunities, and approaches of energy-aware and reliable storage systems. This workshop focuses on the data storage problems and emerging solutions found in large-scale scientific and enterprise computing environments, with special attention to the issues concerning energy consumption and reliability of the storage systems. SUBMISSIONS ------------------------------- We solicit papers on all aspects of energy efficient and reliable storage systems. The topics include (but are not limited to): * Cloud storage system. * Cluster and data center storage system. * Energy efficient storage system. * Reliable storage system. * Algorithms for energy and reliability-aware storage. * Models for collective optimization of energy and reliability. * Monitoring tools for energy and/or reliability-aware storage. * Experiences with real storage systems concerning energy and reliability. * Reliability and energy efficiency in mobile storage systems. * Factors affecting energy and/or reliability. The workshop invites authors to submit papers describing original, unpublished, work in all areas of energy consumption and reliability storage systems that is not concurrently under review elsewhere. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. The papers should not exceed five single-spaced pages (IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style: two columns, 11-point fonts, IEEE 8.5 x 11 inch) including everything, e.g., abstract, research description, figures, tables, and references. Each paper will be refereed by independent reviewers. Submission is a definite commitment for at least one of the authors to register to attend IGCC (workshops are included) and present the paper if it is accepted. The workshop proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society along with the IGCC conference proceedings. WORKSHOP CHAIRS ------------------------------- Xenia Mountrouidou, Jacksonville University Ali R. Butt, Virginia Tech Chris Gniady, University of Arizona PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------------------------- Jichuan Chang, HP Labs Canturk Isci, IBM TJ Watson Yung-Hsiang Lu, Purdue University Prasenjit Sarkar, IBM Almaden Research Peter J. Varman, Rice U. Tao Xie, San Diego State U. Yifeng Zhu, U. Maine Mustafa Uysal, Vmware Dean Hildebrand, IBM Almaden Research Nitin Agrawal, NEC Labs Wes Felter, IBM Austin Research Sriram Sankar, Microsoft STEERING COMMITTEE ------------------------------- Sudhanva Gurumurthi, U. Virginia Jun Wang, U. Central Florida Hari Cadambi, NEC Labs Anand Sivasubramaniam, Penn State Canturk Isci, IBM TJ Watson WEBSITE ------------------------------- http://research.cs.vt.edu/dssl/wer/ CONTACT ------------------------------- If you have any questions, please contact us: Xenia Mountrouidou xmountr at ju.edu, or Ali R. Butt butta at cs.vt.edu, or Chris Gniady gniady at cs.arizona.edu -- Best regards, Xenia Mountrouidou Visiting Assistant Professor Jacksonville University, Department of Computing Sciences http://www.xeniamountrouidou.net/

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CFP: PASA 2012 - International Workshop on Power-Aware Systems and Architectures
by Li, Dong 24 Mar '12

24 Mar '12

The 1st International Workshop on Power-Aware Systems and Architectures (PASA) will be held on September 10, 2012 in Pittsburgh, in conjunction with the 41st Annual International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP 2012), to be held on September 10-13, Pittsburgh, USA. Website: http://ft.ornl.gov/~dol/workshops/pasa/ Scope Power-aware computing is becoming one of the top research priorities for a large variety of systems, including large-scale high performance computers and corporate data centers. We expect that more efforts will be invested in the power-aware computing, as a consequence of the continuous pushing towards higher performance and more compact system. Power-aware research requires both software and architecture innovation to improve power-efficiency while maintaining performance-oriented design. This workshop provides a forum to discuss the novel ideas about building power-aware software systems and architectures. It will present researchers the opportunity to develop new perspective on power-aware hot topics. Topics * Power-aware runtime systems * Power and performance modeling and evaluation * Tools for power profiling, accounting and measurement * System-level cross-layer coordination * Hardware/software co-design to improve power efficiency * Emerging power efficient storage device such as Solid-State Devices (SSD)and Storage Class Memories (SCM) * Power-aware programming scheme * Power-aware resource management strategies * Novel architecting that assists in power management * Thermal control and reduction Proceedings The workshop papers will be included in the proceedings of ICPP. They will be included in and indexed by the IEEE digital library. Important Dates * Paper Submission: April 15th, 2012 * Notification Date: June 8th, 2012 * Camera-ready Copy: June 27th, 2012 * Workshop Date: Sept 10th, 2012 Program Chairs Dong Li, Oak Ridge National Lab Xiaorui Wang, Ohio State University Steering Committee Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Lab Ricardo Bianchini, Rutgers University Program Committee * Laura Carrington, San Diego Supercomputer Center * Barry Rountree, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory * Weisong Shi, Wayne State University * Abhinav Vishunu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory * Naoya Maruyama, Tokyo Institute of Technology * Chung-Hsing Hsu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory * Jordi Torres, Technical University of Catalonia * Chris Stewart, Ohio State University * Hakan Aydin, George Mason University * Charles Lefurgy, IBM * Yicheng Tu, University of South Florida * Radu Teodorescu, Ohio State University * Jian-Jia Chen, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology * Zhikui Wang, HP Labs * Yungang Bao, Princeton University/Chinese Academy of Sciences * Xin Fu, University of Kansas

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Submission Deadline Extended: ROSS 2012 - International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers
by Torsten Hoefler 23 Mar '12

23 Mar '12

======================================================================= *** Submission deadline extended to April 6th *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================================================= International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers *** ROSS 2012 *** In cooperation with ACM SIGHPC -------------------------------- Held in conjunction with ICS 2012, Venice, Italy, June 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. The keynote will be delivered by Timothy Roscoe from ETH Zurich, Switzerland. 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: April 6th, 2012 (extended) Author notification: May 7, 2012 Final papers due: May 25, 2012 Workshop date: June 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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Deadline in 3 days: Second International Workshop on Energy Consumption and Reliability of Storage Systems (ERSS 2012)
by Xenia Mountrouidou 23 Mar '12

23 Mar '12

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ===================================================================== The Second International Workshop on Energy Consumption and Reliability of Storage Systems (ERSS 2012) Held in conjunction with the International Green Computing Conference - IGCC 2012 June 5, 2012, San Jose, California, USA http://research.cs.vt.edu/dssl/wer/ ===================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------- Large-scale computing infrastructures make unprecedented demands on information storage capacity, performance, energy consumption, reliability, and manageability. The increasing use of computers for saving valuable data imposes stringent energy consumption and reliability constraints on storage systems. As the disk capacity improves, advanced techniques are being employed to proactively conserve energy while improving the reliability of the storage systems. To this end, the Workshop on Energy Consumption and Reliability of Storage Systems is being organized to bring together researchers and practitioners to explore the challenges, opportunities, and approaches of energy-aware and reliable storage systems. This workshop focuses on the data storage problems and emerging solutions found in large-scale scientific and enterprise computing environments, with special attention to the issues concerning energy consumption and reliability of the storage systems. SUBMISSIONS ------------------------------- We solicit papers on all aspects of energy efficient and reliable storage systems. The topics include (but are not limited to): * Cloud storage system. * Cluster and data center storage system. * Energy efficient storage system. * Reliable storage system. * Algorithms for energy and reliability-aware storage. * Models for collective optimization of energy and reliability. * Monitoring tools for energy and/or reliability-aware storage. * Experiences with real storage systems concerning energy and reliability. * Reliability and energy efficiency in mobile storage systems. * Factors affecting energy and/or reliability. The workshop invites authors to submit papers describing original, unpublished, work in all areas of energy consumption and reliability storage systems that is not concurrently under review elsewhere. All submissions will be reviewed by the Program Committee. The papers should not exceed five single-spaced pages (IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style: two columns, 11-point fonts, IEEE 8.5 x 11 inch) including everything, e.g., abstract, research description, figures, tables, and references. Each paper will be refereed by independent reviewers. Submission is a definite commitment for at least one of the authors to register to attend IGCC (workshops are included) and present the paper if it is accepted. The workshop proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society along with the IGCC conference proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------- * Submission deadline: March 26, 2012, 11:59 PDT * Author Notification: April 23, 2012 * Camera-ready deadline: May 7, 2012 WORKSHOP CHAIRS ------------------------------- Xenia Mountrouidou, Jacksonville University Ali R. Butt, Virginia Tech Chris Gniady, University of Arizona PROGRAM COMMITTEE ------------------------------- Jichuan Chang, HP Labs Canturk Isci, IBM TJ Watson Yung-Hsiang Lu, Purdue University Prasenjit Sarkar, IBM Almaden Research Peter J. Varman, Rice U. Tao Xie, San Diego State U. Yifeng Zhu, U. Maine Mustafa Uysal, Vmware Dean Hildebrand, IBM Almaden Research Nitin Agrawal, NEC Labs Wes Felter, IBM Austin Research Sriram Sankar, Microsoft STEERING COMMITTEE ------------------------------- Sudhanva Gurumurthi, U. Virginia Jun Wang, U. Central Florida Hari Cadambi, NEC Labs Anand Sivasubramaniam, Penn State Canturk Isci, IBM TJ Watson WEBSITE ------------------------------- http://research.cs.vt.edu/dssl/wer/ CONTACT ------------------------------- If you have any questions, please contact us: Xenia Mountrouidou xmountr at ju.edu, or Ali R. Butt butta at cs.vt.edu, or Chris Gniady gniady at cs.arizona.edu -- Best regards, Xenia Mountrouidou Visiting Assistant Professor Jacksonville University, Department of Computing Sciences http://www.xeniamountrouidou.net/

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CFP: The 5th P2S2'12 workshop with Parallel Computing journal special issue
by Chen, Yong 23 Mar '12

23 Mar '12

Dear Colleagues, The extended submission deadline (Apr. 6th, 2012) of the 5th International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-end Computing (P2S2), in conjunction with ICPP-2012, is approaching. We welcome you submit your high-quality research work there. The best papers of P2S2'12 will be included in a **dedicated special issue of the Parallel Computing (by Elsevier, impact factor: 1.086)**. Please find a detailed CFP below. Thank you. P2S2-2012 Co-chairs 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: April 6th, 2012 Author Notification: June 8th, 2012 Camera Ready: June 27th, 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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IMUDI 2012 CFP
by Dries Kimpe 21 Mar '12

21 Mar '12

CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------------------------------------------- IMUDI 2012 --------------------------------------------------------------- Special Session on Improving MPI User And Developer Interaction http://press.mcs.anl.gov/imudi/imudi2012 Scope: The IMUDI special session, to be held as a full-day meeting at the EuroMPI 2012 conference in Vienna, Austria, focuses on bringing together the MPI end-user and MPI implementor communities through discussions on MPI usage experiences, techniques, and optimizations. This meeting will focus on evaluating the MPI standard from the perspective of the MPI end-user (application and library developers) and address concerns and insights of MPI implementors and vendors. Unlike workshops associated with other conferences, the IMUDI session is still considered to be a part of the Euro MPI conference. Submissions will be reviewed separately to facilitate bringing together research publications falling into these "special focus" areas. Topics of Interest: The topics include but are not limited to: - Software development and optimization challenges for MPI-based applications and libraries - Evaluation of existing MPI features and use cases by the MPI application and library development community - Analysis of MPI-based and alternative programming model implementations of applications and libraries - New techniques and features to improve the MPI programming model and usage by current MPI end-users - Analysis of the evolution of the MPI programming model and implementation for future HPC systems - Analysis of alternative programming model features implemented within MPI - Issues related to deploying and supporting MPI on parallel machines - Experiences in porting applications and libraries to MPI Author instructions: Authors are invited to contribute either full papers (at most 10 pages) or a short paper (up to 6 pages). Papers should be submitted in PDF format using the LNCS style described on the IMUDI 2012 web site. (http://press.mcs.anl.gov/imudi/imudi2012) Submissions should be uploaded through EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=imudi2012 Publication: Accepted papers will be published in the EuroMPI proceedings as part of Springer's LNCS series. Accepted contributions are expected to be presented by one of the authors at EuroMPI 2012 during the IMUDI special session. Session Organizers: Dries Kimpe, Argonne National Laboratory Jason Cope, Argonne National Laboratory Program Committee: To be announced. Important Dates: Submission of full and short papers: May 5th, 2012. Author Notification: June 11th, 2012. Camera Ready papers due: July 6th, 2012. Conference: September 24-26th, 2012. Conference Venue: IMUDI 2012 (as part of EuroMPI 2012) will be held in Vienna, Austria, at the Austrian Academy of Sciences. Vienna is easily accessible by plane and train, and in addition to the conference has a highly attractive cultural heritage.

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Call for Papers: Workshop on Unconventional Cluster Architectures and Applications (UCAA)
by Holger Fröning 20 Mar '12

20 Mar '12

====================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 1st International Workshop on Unconventional Cluster Architectures and Applications (UCAA2012) September 10th 2012 - Pittsburgh, PA, USA In conjunction with the ICPP 2012 ====================================================================== ABOUT THE WORKSHOP This workshop gears to gather recent work on unconventional cluster architectures and applications, which might have a big impact on future cluster architectures. This includes any cluster architecture that is not based on the usual commodity components and therefore makes use of some special hard- or software elements, or that is used for very special and unconventional applications. Examples include GPUs, MICs (Many Integrated Core) and FPGAs on the hardware side, and virtualization, in-memory storage and device-to-device communication on the software side. We are in particular encouraging work on disruptive approaches, which may show inferior performance today but can already point out their full performance potential. The broad scope of the workshop facilitates submissions on unconventional uses of hardware or software, gearing to gather ideas that are coming to life now and not limiting them except for their context: clusters. We are seeking new proposals presented from a holistic perspective. In this regard, one of the aims of the workshop is anticipating the evolution of clusters. Instead of just presenting new work carried out in the traditional cluster areas usually addressed in other conferences and workshops, we are thinking on creating the right atmosphere for a discussion of opportunities in cluster computing. In this regard, contributions would not only be accepted according to their technical merits but also according to their contribution to this discussion. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include any unconventional cluster architecture or application. Examples include, but are not limited to: - High-performance, data-intensive, and power-aware computing - Application-specific clusters, datacenters, and high performance cloud architectures - New industry and technology trends and their potential impact on one of the above - Dedicated support for novel parallel programming paradigms like PGAS - Software cluster-level virtualization for consolidation purposes - Hardware techniques for disaggregation of resources - Management techniques for large-scale systems - New uses of GPUs, FPGAs, and other specialized hardware IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: 1st May 2012 Notification of acceptance: 7th June 2012 Camera-ready paper: 27th June 2012 PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions may not exceed 8 pages (single spaced, 11pt font, 8ï¿½ï¿½11-inch pages) in PDF format including figures and references. We recommend a minimum of 6 pages. Submitted papers must be original work that has not appeared in and is not under consideration for another conference or journal. Work in progress is welcome, but first results should be made available as a proof of concept. Submissions only consisting of a proposal will be rejected. Visit http://www.gap.upv.es/ucaa for additional details about paper submission. CLUSTER COMPUTING JOURNAL The authors of the best three papers from the workshop will be directly invited to submit an extended version for a special issue on the Springer Cluster Computing Journal. (http://www.springer.com/journal/10586) From the rest of the papers presented in the workshop, selected ones will be invited to submit an extended version. These papers will undergo a shepherding process in order to provide the authors with guidance for improving their work. Shepherds will be selected from the program committee members, which will also ensure the quality of the new versions. Notice that this special issue will be open to other works not previously submitted to the workshop, although these new papers will compete with the shepherded ones, which will have higher priority for similar quality papers. ORGANIZERS Federico Silla, U. Politï¿½cnica Valencia Holger Frï¿½ning, U. Heidelberg STEERING COMMITTEE Josï¿½ Duato, U. Politï¿½cnica Valencia Sudhakar Yalamanchili, Georgia Tech Ulrich Brï¿½ning, U. Heidelberg TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Elvira Baydal, U. Politï¿½cnica Valencia David Black-Schaffer, U. Uppsala Rainer Buchty, Karlsruhe Inst. Technology Stephan Diestelhorst, AMD Hans Eberle, Oracle Pedro Garcia, U. Castilla-La Mancha Ada Gavrilovska, Georgia Tech Torsten Hoefler, U. Illinois Mark Hummel, AMD Gabriele Jost, TACC & AMD Ben Juurlink, Technische U. Berlin Rafael Mayo, U. Jaume I Gaspar Mora, Intel Mondrian Nuessle, U. Heidelberg Juan Manuel Orduï¿½a, U. Valencia Frank Olaf Sem-jacobsen, Simula Christian Terboven, RWTH Aachen Jesper Larsson Traeff, U. Tech. Vienna Jeff Young, Georgia Tech Sam Williams, Lawrence Berkeley Lab. ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For more information visit: http://www.gap.upv.es/ucaa

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