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ParLearning 2014 (In Conjunction with IPDPS 2014) - CFP - Last call
by Hoang Le 27 Nov '13

27 Nov '13

Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email. *ParLearning 2014 - CFP* The 3rd International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing for Large Scale Machine Learning and Big Data Analytics May 23, 2014 Phoenix, AZ, USA In Conjunction with IPDPS 2014 <http://www.ipdps.org/> Data-driven computing needs no introduction today. The case for using data for strategic advantages is exemplified by web search engines, online translation tools and many more examples. The past decade has seen 1) the emergence of multicore architectures and accelerators as GPGPUs, 2) widespread adoption of distributed computing via the map-reduce/hadoop eco-system and 3) democratization of the infrastructure for processing massive datasets ranging into petabytes by cloud computing. The complexity of the technological stack has grown to an extent where it is imperative to provide frameworks to abstract away the system architecture and orchestration of components for massive-scale processing. However, the growth in volume and heterogeneity in data seems to outpace the growth in computing power. A "collect everything" culture stimulated by cheap storage and ubiquitous sensing capabilities contribute to increasing the noise-to-signal ratio in all collected data. Thus, as soon as the data hits the processing infrastructure, determining the value of information, finding its rightful place in a knowledge representation and determining subsequent actions are of paramount importance. To use this data deluge to our advantage, a convergence between the field of Parallel and Distributed Computing and the interdisciplinary science of Artificial Intelligence seems critical. From application domains of national importance as cyber-security, health-care or smart-grid to providing real-time situational awareness via natural interface based smartphones, the fundamental AI tasks of Learning and Inference need to be enabled for large-scale computing across this broad spectrum of application domains. Many of the prominent algorithms for learning and inference are notorious for their complexity. Adopting parallel and distributed computing appears as an obvious path forward, but the mileage varies depending on how amenable the algorithms are to parallel processing and secondly, the availability of rapid prototyping capabilities with low cost of entry. The first issue represents a wider gap as we continue to think in a sequential paradigm. The second issue is increasingly recognized at the level of programming models, and building robust libraries for various machine-learning and inferencing tasks will be a natural progression. As an example, scalable versions of many prominent graph algorithms written for distributed shared memory architectures or clusters look distinctly different from the textbook versions that generations of programmers have grown with. This reformulation is difficult to accomplish for an interdisciplinary field like Artificial Intelligence for the sheer breadth of the knowledge spectrum involved. The primary motivation of the proposed workshop is to invite leading minds from AI and Parallel & Distributed Computing communities for identifying research areas that require most convergence and assess their impact on the broader technical landscape. *HIGHLIGHTS* - Foster collaboration between HPC community and AI community - Applying HPC techniques for learning problems - Identifying HPC challenges from learning and inference - Explore a critical emerging area with strong academia and industry interest - Great opportunity for researchers worldwide for collaborating with Academia and Industry *CALL FOR PAPERS* Authors are invited to submit manuscripts of original unpublished research that demonstrate a strong interplay between parallel/distributed computing techniques and learning/inference applications, such as algorithm design and libraries/framework development on multicore/ manycore architectures, GPUs, clusters, supercomputers, cloud computing platforms that target applications including but not limited to: - Learning and inference using large scale Bayesian Networks - Large scale inference algorithms using parallel TPIC models, clustering and SVM etc. - Parallel natural language processing (NLP). - Semantic inference for disambiguation of content on web or social media - Discovering and searching for patterns in audio or video content - On-line analytics for streaming text and multimedia content - Comparison of various HPC infrastructures for learning - Large scale learning applications in search engine and social networks - Distributed machine learning tools (e.g., Mahout and IBM parallel tool) - Real-time solutions for learning algorithms on parallel platforms More detail <http://edas.info/web/parlearning2014/cfp.html>. PDF version<http://edas.info/web/parlearning2014/images/cfp.pdf> *IMPORTANT DATE* Workshop Paper Due December 30, 2013 Author Notification February 14, 2014 Camera-ready Paper Due March 14, 2014 *PAPER GUIDELINES* Submitted manuscripts may not exceed 10 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. More format requirements will be posted on the IPDPS web page (www.ipdps.org) shortly after the author notification Authors can purchase up to 2 additional pages for camera-ready papers after acceptance. Please find details on www.ipdps.org. Students with accepted papers have a chance to apply for a travel award. Please find details at www.ipdps.org. Submit your paper using EDAS portal for ParLearning: http://edas.info/N15817 *PROCEEDINGS* All papers accepted by the workshop will be included in the proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Parallel & Distributed Processing, Workshops and PhD Forum (IPDPSW), indexed in EI and possibly in SCI. Accepted papers with proper extension will be recommended to publish in the Journal of Parallel & Cloud Computing (PCC). *ORGANIZATION* General Co-chairs: Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Yinglong Xia, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Publicity Co-chairs: George Chin, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Hoang Le, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Program Committee: Co-Chair: Yinglong Xia, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Co-Chair: Yihua Huang, Nanjing Universtiy, China Vice co-chair: Makoto Takizawa, Hosei University, Japan Vice co-chair: Ching-Hsien (Robert) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan Vice co-chair: Jong Hyuk Park, Kyungnam University, Korea Vice co-chair: Sajid Hussain, Nashville, Tennessee, USA Haimonti Dutta, Columbia University, USA Jieyue He, Southeast University, China Sutanay Choudhury, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Yi Wang, Tecent Holding Lt., China Zhijun Fang, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, China Wenlin Han, University of Alabama, USA Wan Jian, Hangzhou Dianzi University, China Daniel W. Sun, NICTA, Australia Danny Bickson, GraphLab Inc., USA Virendra C. Bhavsar, University of New Brunswick, Canada Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, China Ichitaro Yamazaki, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Gwo Giun (Chris) Lee, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Lawrence Holder, Washington State University, USA Vinod Tipparaju, AMD, USA Nishkam Ravi, NEC Labs, USA Renato Porfirio Ishii, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul (UFMS), Brazil *KEYNOTE SPEAKER* TBD *CONTACT* Should you have any questions regarding the workshop or this webpage, please contact parlearning ~AT~ googlegroups DOT com.

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ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2014 (CF'14)
by Xiong Jin 26 Nov '13

26 Nov '13

================================================================== ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2014 (CF'14) May 20 - 22, 2014, Cagliari, Italy CALL FOR PAPERS www.computingfrontiers.org ================================================================== Computing Frontiers represents an engaged, collaborative community of researchers who are excited about transformational technologies in the field of computing. We are presently on the cusp of several revolutions, including new memory technologies, networking technologies, algorithms for handling large-scale data, power-saving and energy-efficient solutions for data centers, systems solutions for cloud computing, and many, many more. Boundaries between the state-of-the-art and revolutionary innovation constitute the computing frontiers that must be pushed forward to advance science, engineering, and information technology. Before revolutionary materials, devices, and systems enter the mainstream, early research must be performed using far-reaching projections of the future state of technologies. Computing Frontiers is a gathering for people to share and discuss such work, focusing 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. KEY DATES ========= Abstract submission: January 11, 2014 Submissions deadline: January 18, 2014 Notification: February 28, 2014 Camera-Copy Papers Due: March 15, 2014 TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== We seek contributions that push the envelope in a wide range of computing topics, ranging from more traditional research in architecture and systems to new technologies and devices. We seek contributions on novel computing paradigms, computational models, algorithms, application paradigms, development environments, compilers, operating environments, computer architecture, hardware substrates, and memory technologies. We are also interested in emerging fields that may not fit within traditional categories. * Algorithms and Models of Computing approximate and inexact computing, quantum and probabilistic computing * Big Data analytics, machine learning, search and representation, system design * System Complexity Management cloud systems, datacenters, computational neuroscience, biologically-inspired architectures</li> * Computers and Society education, health and cost/energy-efficient design, smart cities, emerging markets * Security architecture and systems support for protection against malicious code * Limits on Technology Scaling and Moore's Law defect- and variability-tolerant designs, graphene and other novel materials, nanoscale design, optoelectronics, dark silicon * Uses of Technology Scaling 3D stacked technology, challenges of manycore designs, PCM's, novel memory architectures, mobile devices * Compiler technologies novel techniques to push the envelope on new technologies, applications, hardware/software integrated solutions, advanced analysis * Networking technology and protocols, bandwidth management, social networks, internet of things SUBMISSION ========== Authors are invited to submit full papers to the main conference. Full papers must be submitted through the conference paper submission site and should not exceed 10 double-column pages in standard ACM conference format, including figures, tables, and references. As per ACM guidelines, at least one of the authors of accepted papers is required to register for the conference. ORGANIZATION ============ Computing Frontiers 2014 Chairs General Chair: Pedro Trancoso, University of Cyprus, CY Program Chairs: Diana Franklin, Univ. of California at Santa Barbara, US Sally A. McKee, Chalmers University of Technology, SE Finance Chair: Carsten Trinitis, TUM, DE/Univ. of Bedfordshire, UK Local Arrangements Chair: Francesca Palumbo, University of Cagliari, IT Poster Chair: Hubertus Franke, IBM, US Publicity Chairs: Mohamed Zahran, New York University, US Rui Hou, Inst. of Comp. Tech., Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN Publication Chair: Roberto Gioiosa, PNNL, US Web Chair: Josef Weidendorfer, TU Muenchen, DE Program Committee Members Bridget Benson California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo, US Haibo Chen Shanghai Jiao Tong University, CN David Black-Schaffer Uppsala University, SE Marcelo Cintra Intel, DE Hadi Esmailzadeh Georgia Tech, US Hubertus Franke IBM, US Michael Franz University of California at Irvine, US Maria Gini University of Minnesota, US Dimitris Gizopoulos University of Athens, GR Torsten Hoefler ETH Zurich, CH Koji Inoue Kyushu University, JP Engin Ipek University of Rochester, UK Mahmut Kandemir Penn State University, US Ryan Kastner University of California at San Diego, US Gokcen Kestor Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, US John Kim KAIST, KR Cetin Koc University of California at Santa Barbara, US Gabriel Loh AMD Research, US Guoping Long Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN Mauro Migliardi University of Padua, IT Katerina Mitrokotsa Chalmers University of Technology, SE Dimitrios Nikolopulos Queen's University of Belfast, IR Magnus Sjaelander Florida State University, US Leonel Sousa Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, PT Lingjia Tang University of Michigan, US Michela Taufer University of Delaware, US Gary Tyson Florida State University, US Carole-Jean Wu Arizona State University, US Jin Xiong Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN Zhibin Yu Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN Lixin Zhang Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN Computing Frontiers 2014 Steering Committee Monica Alderighi, INAF, IT Paolo Faraboschi, HP, ES Hubertus Franke, IBM, US John Feo, Pacific Northwest National Lab, US Georgi Gaydadjiev, Chalmers University of Technology, SE Alex Heinecke, TU Muenchen, DE Paul H. J. Kelly, Imperial College London, UK Sally A. McKee, Chalmers University of Technology, SE Valentina Salapura, IBM TJ Watson, US Pedro Trancoso, University of Cyprus, CY Carsten Trinitis, TUM, DE/Univ. of Bedfordshire, UK Oreste Villa, NVIDIA Architecture Research, US

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Euro-Par 2014: First Call for Papers
by Ines Dutra 25 Nov '13

25 Nov '13

Call for Papers 20th International European Conference on Parallel Processing Euro-Par 2014 Porto, Portugal August 25-29, 2014 http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt Submission Deadlines *Abstracts:* January 30, 2014, 23:59 AOE *Full papers:* February 6, 2014, 23:59 AOE Scope of the Conference Euro-Par is an annual series of international conferences dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. It covers a wide spectrum of topics from algorithms and theory to software technology and hardware-related issues, with application areas ranging from scientific to mobile and cloud computing. The objective of Euro-Par is to provide a forum for the introduction, presentation and discussion of the latest scientific and technical advances, extending the frontier of both the state of the art and the state of the practice. The following topics will be covered by regular Euro-Par 2014 sessions: 1. Support Tools and Environments<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic1> 2. Performance Prediction and Evaluation<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic2> 3. Scheduling and Load Balancing<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic3> 4. High Performance Architectures and Compilers<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic4> 5. Parallel and Distributed Data Management<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic5> 6. Grid, Cluster and Cloud Computing<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic6> 7. Green High Performance Computing<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic7> 8. Distributed Systems and Algorithms<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic8> 9. Parallel and Distributed Programming<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic9> 10. Parallel Numerical Algorithms<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic10> 11. Multicore and Manycore Programming<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic11> 12. Theory and Algorithms for Parallel Computation<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic12> 13. High Performance Networks and Communication<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic13> 14. High Performance and Scientific Applications<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic14> 15. GPU and Accelerator Computing<http://europar2014.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.php?page=topic15> Full details on the topics, including topic descriptions and chairs, will be available on the Euro-Par 2014 Web site. To access them please follow the links above. The conference will feature contributed and invited talks. Co-located workshops are also planned. Paper Submission Guidelines Full papers should not exceed 12 pages in the Springer LNCS style. Paper submission has to be performed electronically via the conference Web site in PDF format. Papers accepted for publication must also be supplied in source form (LaTeX). The 12 pages limit is a hard limit. It includes everything (text, figures, references) and will be strictly enforced by the submission system. Download LNCS Latex style here<ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip>. Papers must offer original contributions regarding the theory and practice of parallel and distributed computing. Full submission guidelines are available on the conference website. Only contributions not submitted elsewhere for publication will be considered. Authors must submit their papers to the specific topic they judge most appropriate. Details on the topics, including descriptions and chairs, are available on the conference Web site. All accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings, published by Springer in the ARCoSS/LNCS series. Authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a Springer copyright form. Important Dates *Abstracts due:* January 30, 2014 *Full papers due:* February 6, 2014 *Workshop proposal due:* February 27, 2014 *Author notification:* May 8, 2014 *Camera-ready full papers due:* June 2, 2014 *Conference:* August 25-29, 2014 Location The Euro-Par 2014 conference will take place in Porto, Portugal, from August 25-29, 2014. The conference is jointly organized by the CRACS/INESC-TEC (Center for Research in Advanced Computing Systems) and by the Computer Science Departement of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto. Conference Co-Chairs Fernando Silva, University of Porto Inês Dutra, University of Porto Vítor Santos Costa, University of Porto

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SSTiC 2014: 1st announcement
by GRLMC 24 Nov '13

24 Nov '13

*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ********************************************************************* 2014 TARRAGONA INTERNATIONAL SUMMER SCHOOL ON TRENDS IN COMPUTING SSTiC 2014 Tarragona, Spain July 7-11, 2014 Organized by Rovira i Virgili University http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/ ********************************************************************* AIM: SSTiC 2014 is the second edition in a series started in 2013. For the previous event, see http://grammars.grlmc.com/SSTiC2013/ SSTiC 2014 will be a research training event mainly addressed to PhD students and PhD holders in the first steps of their academic career. It intends to update them about the most recent developments in the diverse branches of computer science and its neighbouring areas. To that purpose, renowned scholars will lecture and will be available for interaction with the audience. SSTiC 2014 will cover the whole spectrum of computer science through 5 keynote lectures and 30 six-hour courses dealing with the hottest topics in the field. The organizers share the idea that outstanding speakers will really attract high-quality students. ADDRESSED TO: Graduate students from around the world. There are no formal pre-requisites in terms of the academic degree the attendee must hold. However, since there will be several levels in the courses, reference may be made to specific knowledge background in the description of some of them. SSTiC 2014 is also appropriate for more senior people who want to keep themselves updated on developments in their own field or in other branches of computer science. They will surely find it fruitful to listen and discuss with scholars who are main references in computing nowadays. REGIME: In addition to keynotes, 3 parallel sessions will be held during the whole event. Participants will be able to freely choose the courses they will be willing to attend as well as to move from one to another. VENUE: SSTiC 2014 will take place in Tarragona, located 90 kms. to the south of Barcelona. The venue will be: Campus Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Larry S. Davis (U Maryland, College Park), A Historical Perspective of Computer Vision Models for Object Recognition and Scene Analysis George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), Recommender Systems Past, Present, & Future Ronald R. Yager (Iona C, New Rochelle), tba ... more will come ... COURSES AND PROFESSORS: Divyakant Agrawal (U California, Santa Barbara), [intermediate] Scalable Data Management in Enterprise and Cloud Computing Infrastructures Rajkumar Buyya (U Melbourne), [intermediate] Cloud Computing Kwang-Ting (Tim) Cheng (U California, Santa Barbara), [introductory/intermediate] Smartphones: Hardware Platform, Software Development, and Emerging Apps Richard M. Fujimoto (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Parallel and Distributed Simulation Mark Guzdial (Georgia Tech, Atlanta), [introductory] Computing Education Research: What We Know about Learning and Teaching Computer Science George Karypis (U Minnesota, Twin Cities), [intermediate] Programming Models/Frameworks for Parallel & Distributed Computing Arie E. Kaufman (U Stony Brook), [advanced] Visualization Sudhakar M. Reddy (U Iowa, Iowa City), [introductory] Test and Design for Test of Digital Logic Circuits Robert Sargent (Syracuse U), [introductory] Validation of Models Mubarak Shah (U Central Florida, Orlando), [intermediate] Visual Crowd Analysis Steffen Staab (U Koblenz), [intermediate] Programming the Semantic Web Mike Thelwall (U Wolverhampton), [introductory] Sentiment Strength Detection for Twitter and the Social Web Nitin Vaidya (U Illinois, Urbana-Champaign), [introductory/intermediate] Distributed Consensus: Theory and Applications Philip Wadler (U Edinburgh), [intermediate] Topics in Lambda Calculus and Life ... more will come ... ORGANIZING COMMITTEE: Adrian Horia Dediu (Tarragona) Carlos Martín-Vide (Tarragona, chair) Bianca Truthe (Magdeburg) Florentina Lilica Voicu (Tarragona) REGISTRATION: It has to be done at http://grammars.grlmc.com/sstic2014/registration.php The selection of up to 8 courses requested in the registration template is only tentative and non-binding. For the sake of organization, it will be helpful to have an approximation of the respective demand for each course. Since the capacity of the venue is limited, registration requests will be processed on a first come first served basis. The registration period will be closed when the capacity of the venue will be complete. It is very convenient to register prior to the event. FEES: As far as possible, participants are expected to attend for the whole (or most of the) week (full-time). Fees are a flat rate allowing one to attend all courses. They vary depending on the registration deadline. If seats will still be available, shortly prior to the event attending only a few days (part-time) may be permitted, with the appropriate adjustment of the fees. ACCOMMODATION: Information about accommodation will be available on the website of the School in due time. CERTIFICATE: Participants will be delivered a certificate of attendance. QUESTIONS AND FURTHER INFORMATION: florentinalilica.voicu(a)urv.cat POSTAL ADDRESS: SSTiC 2014 Lilica Voicu Rovira i Virgili University Av. Catalunya, 35 43002 Tarragona, Spain Phone: +34 977 559 543 Fax: +34 977 558 386 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS: Departament dEconomia i Coneixement, Generalitat de Catalunya Universitat Rovira i Virgili

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CFP: BPOE 2014 (co-located with ASPLOS 2014)
by jiazhen 21 Nov '13

21 Nov '13

Fourth Workshop on Big Data Benchmarks, Performance Optimization, and Emerging Hardware (BPOE4) Call for Papers (co-located with ASPLOS 2014 �C Salt Lake City, Utah, USA) **** Important Dates **** Abstract submission deadline, December 31, 2013 Submission Deadline: January 7, 2014 (11:59pm PST) Author Notification: January 25, 2014 Final Copy Due: February 17, 2014 Workshop: Saturday, March 1, 2014 Workshop home page: http://prof.ict.ac.cn/bpoe_4_asplos Submission Web page: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpoe4 Big data has emerged as a strategic property of nations and organizations. There are driving needs to generate values from big data. However, the sheer volume of big data requires significant storage capacity, transmission bandwidth, computations, and power consumption. It is expected that systems with unprecedented scales can resolve the problems caused by varieties of big data with daunting volumes. Nevertheless, it is very difficult for big data owners to make choice on which system is most suited for their specific requirements. They also face challenges on how to optimize the systems and their solutions. Meanwhile, system researchers are working on new hardware architecture, operating systems, programming systems, and data management systems to improve performance in dealing with big data. This workshop, the fourth in its series, aims at bringing researchers and practitioners in related areas together to discuss the research issues at the intersection of these areas, and also to draw much attention from architecture, systems, programming, and data management research communities to this new and highly promising field. Topics The workshop seeks papers that address hot topic issues in benchmarking, designing and optimizing big data systems. Early stage work, new ideas, unconventional approaches are encouraged. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to: > Big data workload characterization and benchmarking > Innovative computer and memory architecture for big data > Emerging hardware technologies in big data systems > Innovative operating systems and programming systems for big data > Interactions among architecture, systems and data management > Performance analysis and optimization of big data systems > Innovative prototypes of big data infrastructures > Practice report of evaluating and optimizing large-scale big data systems Papers should present original research. As big data spans many disciplines, papers should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. Submissions: Papers must be submitted in PDF, and be no more than 6 pages in standard two-column SIGPLAN conference format including figures and tables but not including references. The submissions will be judged based on the merit of the ideas rather than the length.Submissions must be made through the online submission site. Final papers and presentations will be accessible from the workshop website, but to facilitate resubmission to more formal venues, no archival proceedings will be published, and papers will not be sent to the ACM Digital Library. Steering committee: Christos Kozyrakis, Stanford Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland Dhabaleswar K Panda, Ohio State University Raghunath Nambiar, Cisco Xiaoyong Du, Renmin University of China Jianfeng Zhan, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences Program Chair: Jianfeng Zhan, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences Chuliang Weng, Huawei Web Chair: Lei Wang, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences Publicity Chairs: Yuqing Zhu (Data management), ICT, CAS Gang Lu (Operating systems), ICT, CAS Zhen Jia (Architecture), ICT, CAS Program Committee TBD

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ICS 2014: Call for Posters and Participation in ACM Student Research Competition
by Prof. Beniamino Di Martino 20 Nov '13

20 Nov '13

The International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS) invites submissions of high-quality posters. The poster session is intended to showcase unpublished work in progress in the topics covered by ICS. The titles, abstracts, and authors of accepted posters will be listed in the conference proceedings. Eligible student posters will be also included into the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC). General Poster Submission Requirements --------------------------------------------------- All poster participants must submit the following information: • The title of the poster and a list of author names, affiliations, and the name of the academic advisor if it is a student poster. • A camera-ready abstract of the poster, up to 100 words. • A separate description outlining the content of the poster, up to 800 words, which describes the research problem, motivation and background, techniques and results, and the prospect for clearly and concisely conveying the work in a poster format. Further, it should emphasize the novel contributions of the work explicitly. • Please indicate the eligibility for SRC of your poster & whether you are an undergraduate or graduate student. Entering the SRC is optional. Competition-eligible posters must be authored solely by an ACM student member, with student status as of March 14, 2014. A panel of experts will evaluate the submissions based on novelty of approach, significance of contribution, and quality of work. ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) ================================ Sponsored by ACM and Microsoft Research, the SRC is a forum for students to share research results, exchange ideas, and improve their communication skills while competing for prizes. Students accepted to participate in the SRC are entitled to a travel grant (up to $500) to help cover travel expenses. The top 3 undergraduate and graduate winners will receive the following prizes: • Monetary prizes of $500, $300, and $200, respectively. • A 2-year ACM Student membership with ACM Digital Library subscription. • Winners' names & abstracts will be posted on ACM's SRC web site. • The first place undergraduate and graduate winners from all SRCs for the program year receive invitations to compete in the Grand Finals Please review the SRC website at http://src.acm.org/ for more details. Important dates: Poster submission: March 7, 2014 (Friday) AOE Student Research submission: March 7, 2014 (Friday) AOE Poster notification: March 28, 2014 (Friday) ACM Student research notification: March 28, 2014 (Friday) Final abstract submission: April 7, 2014 (Monday) AOE Early registration deadline: April 28, 2014 (Monday) Conference: 10—13 June 2014 AOE (Anywhere on Earth) dates shown above mean the deadlines are at 11:59pm UTC-12:00 of the days. The above dates are tentative and subject to change. Consult the conference website for the most up-to-date scheduling information. -- ------------------------- Beniamino Di Martino, PhD - Full Professor mOSAIC EU-ICT Project Coordinator - www.mosaic-cloud.eu vice-Director Dipartimento di Ingegneria Industriale e dell'Informazione Seconda Universita' di Napoli via Roma, 29 - 81031 Aversa (CE) - ITALY Phone: +39-0815010282 Fax: +39-0815037042 Mobile: +39-3470461656 e-mail: beniamino.dimartino(a)unina.it beniamino.dimartino(a)unina2.it --------------------------

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1st CfP: INFOCOMP 2014 || July 20 - 24, 2014 - Paris, France
by Björn Hagemeier 20 Nov '13

20 Nov '13

INVITATION: ================= Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to INFOCOMP 2014. The submission deadline is February 28, 2014. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== INFOCOMP 2014 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS INFOCOMP 2014, The Fourth International Conference on Advanced Communications and Computation July 20 - 24, 2014 - Paris, France General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/INFOCOMP14.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPINFOCOMP14.html - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitINFOCOMP14.html Submission deadline: February 28, 2014 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options. The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels. Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html INFOCOMP 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) Large scale and fast computation Developments in information and computing systems; Grid computing; Cloud computing; Pervasive / ubiquitous computing; Services computing and Opportunistic computing; High Performance Computing (HPC); Fast data processing; Real-time processing; Fast switching and routing protocols; Parallelization of algorithms and applications; Energy-efficient High Performance Computing; Large scale data visualization; Tools for parallelization; Highly performance codes; Optimization; Innovative architectures; Distributed systems, dynamical systems; Future architectures, integrated systems, beyond cloud, reaching exaflop; Supercomputing architectures, operation, and management; Petascale, Exascale; Big data, dCache; HPC centers, data centers; Benchmarking; Green500, Graph500, Top500; Service provisioning; Green computing, cooling techniques Programming models Programming languages and parallel algorithms; Message Passing Interface (MPI), OpenMP; Massively Parallel Processing, Symmetric Multi-Processing; PGAS, GASPI, CAF (Co-array Fortran), UPC (Unified Parallel C); X10, Chapel, CUDA, OpenCL, OpenACC, OpenHMPP, Lime, OmpSs, OpenStream; Parallel Virtual Machine (PVM); Programming paradigms; Manycore, multicore; CPU, GPU, FPGA, accelerators; Chip design, architectures, and programming; Fault tolerance, troubleshooting, debugging; High end issues, latency, concurrency Networks/systems communications Cross-layer design and optimization; Cyber-physical systems and networks; Data centers, virtualization, and cloud networks; Delay/disruption tolerant networks; Future Internet broadband services; Software Defined Networks (SDN); Fast networks / InfiniBand architectures for future interactive multicore applications; Sensor networks and embedded systems; Ad hoc mobile networks; Access technologies; P2P networks; Optical networks; Cellular and broadband wireless networks; Mobility models and mobile networks; Multicast, broadcast and anycast; Multimedia protocols and networking; Software defined radio and cognitive radio networking; Content-based network service; Certification, public key infrastructures, data integrity; Privacy and anonymity Networks/systems measurement, control and management Networks/systems measurement, simulation and emulation; Network-, system-, and application-management; Congestion control and capacity planning; Dynamic spectrum management; Addressing and location management; Quality of Service (QoS) and Quality of Experience (QoE); Quality of Data (QoD) and Quality of Context (QoC); e-Commerce, accounting, pricing and billing; Highly parallel file systems, Lustre, GPFS; Interconnects, high speed ethernet; Use of distributed compute and storage resources; Energy-aware mechanisms for control and management; Configuration, reuse of software components; Resource allocation and management; Denial of service mitigation and prevention; System and data security; Communication visualization Advanced applications Scientific, theoretical, methodological, practical, and technical contributions; Advanced scientific computing; Simulation and modelling (scientific applications, engineering, industry); Mathematical and numerical algorithms and methods; Computer science and geoinformatics; e-Energy, geosciences, prospection, exploration, oil and gas; Mobility and logistic services; Geoscientific Information Systems (GIS); Remote sensing and satellite imaging; Cartography, hydrology; Climatology and environmental sciences; Molecular dynamics simulation; Genetic algorithms; Physics and chemistry applications; Medicine, genetics, epidemiology, medical geology; Multi-dimensional data visualization; Search engines and scientific discovery; Online social networking; Vehicular, underground and underwater networks and applications; Scientific data processing; Computation frameworks and tools; Mathematica, SAGE, Maple, Matlab, Scilab, Gromacs, ANSYS, Fluent, etc.); Database applications and developme nt; Information and database systems; Education, e-Learning, and e-Science; ICT business evaluation and management; Legal informatics, Open Access, Science / Copyright, Patents; Earth and planetary sciences; Archaeology, cultural heritage; Knowledge discovery, documentation, and classification; Data intensive computing, data science; Methdodology and case studies regarding computing and communication scenarios; Small and Medium Enterprises (SME) applications; Computer Aided Engineering (CAE) applications Evaluation context Energy-aware and energy-efficient networks; Implementation and experimental testbeds; Traffic measurement and traffic patterns; Characterization of topology dynamics; Access and biometric technologies, performance, and cost prediction; Web services and performance; Performance measurement and benchmarking; Energy-aware and energy-efficient High Performance Computing; Usability studies; Social and ethic consequences with biometry and data security; Standards, benchmarks, protocols Biometry, security, access technologies, algorithms, and applications Technologies and advances in biometric algorithms and interfaces (gait, electrocardiography, iris, image, fingerprint, palm veins, multi-modality); Biometric systems; Integration of biometrics with other technologies; Challenge response; Simplified enrollment; NFC support, spoofing, and countermeasures; Single sign on (SSO); Adaptive trust; Template protection (protection of reference data); Large and scalable biometric systems using cloud services; Deployed solutions and applications; Experience reports and systems; Description in physical and logical access control; information system access, immigration and border control, law enforcement, entertainment, finance, life science, healthcare, forensics); Distributed and mobile devices; Public Key Infrastructures; Digital Forensics Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComINFOCOMP14.html ================================================ -- Dipl.-Inform. Björn Hagemeier Federated Systems and Data Juelich Supercomputing Centre Institute for Advanced Simulation Phone: +49 2461 61 1584 Fax : +49 2461 61 6656 Email: b.hagemeier(a)fz-juelich.de Skype: bhagemeier WWW : http://www.fz-juelich.de/jsc JSC is the coordinator of the John von Neumann Institute for Computing and member of the Gauss Centre for Supercomputing ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Forschungszentrum Juelich GmbH 52425 Juelich Sitz der Gesellschaft: Juelich Eingetragen im Handelsregister des Amtsgerichts Dueren Nr. HR B 3498 Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: MinDir Dr. Karl Eugen Huthmacher Geschaeftsfuehrung: Prof. Dr. Achim Bachem (Vorsitzender), Karsten Beneke (stellv. Vorsitzender), Prof. Dr.-Ing. Harald Bolt, Prof. Dr. Sebastian M. 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CFP: 4th Workshop on Systems for Future Multicore Architectures (SFMA'14)
by Simon Peter 19 Nov '13

19 Nov '13

Call For Papers: 4th Workshop on Systems for Future Multicore Architectures SFMA 2014 (http://sfma14.cs.washington.edu) Overview Future multi-core architectures will present a variety of challenges for system developers, such as non-cache-coherent memory, heterogeneous processing cores and the exploitation of novel architectural features. SFMA ï¿½14 is a forum for researchers in the operating systems, language runtime and virtual machine communities to present and discuss their experiences with the new generation of highly-parallel hardware. SFMA '14 is co-located with EuroSys '14 and takes place April 13, 2014 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Call for Papers Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished work that exposes a new problem, advocates a specific solution, or reports on actual experience. Papers should be submitted using the standard two-column ACM SIG proceedings or SIG alternate template, and are limited to 6 pages (including figures, tables and references). Final papers will be made available to participants electronically at the meeting, but to facilitate resubmission to more formal venues, no archival proceedings will be published, and papers will not be sent to the ACM Digital Library. Authors will be given the option of having their final paper accessible from the workshop website. Submission site: http://sfma14.cs.washington.edu Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * novel multi-core operating system designs, * runtime systems and programming environments for future hardware, * OS or runtime support for heterogeneous processing cores, * scheduling on many-core architectures, * energy efficiency, fault tolerance and resource management on future multi-core architectures, * performance evaluation of potential future hardware, * architectural support for systems-level software, and * case studies of system-level software design for current or future multi-core hardware. Important Dates Submission deadline: Monday, February 3, 2014, 11:59pm PT Acceptance Notification: Monday, February 24, 2014 Final versions due: Friday, March 28, 2014, 11:59pm PT Workshop date: Sunday, April 13, 2014 Program Co-Chairs Simon Peter (University of Washington) Chris Rossbach (Microsoft Research) Program Committee Mahesh Balakrishnan (Microsoft Research) Willem de Bruijn (Google) Allen Clement (MPI-SWS) Joseph Devietti (University of Pennsylvania) Steve Gribble (University of Washington) Wyatt Lloyd (Princeton University) Derek Murray (Microsoft Research) Donald Porter (Stony Brook University) Jan Sacha (Alcatel-Lucent Bell Labs) Michael Swift (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

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Call for Papers: WoDet 2014 (Workshop on Determinism and Correctness in Parallel Programming)
by Joseph Devietti 19 Nov '13

19 Nov '13

WODET 2014 Call for Papers Fifth Workshop on Determinism and Correctness in Parallel Programming http://wodet.cs.washington.edu Salt Lake City, Utah, Sunday, March 2 2014 Co-located with ASPLOS 2014 IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: Friday, January 10 2014 at 11:59pm US Eastern Time Notification: Sunday, February 9 2014 DESCRIPTION Simplifying parallel programming and making parallel programs execute correctly are important goals. Support for programmability, correctness and reliability, such as support for determinism and failure tolerance, has moved us toward these goals. We have seen tremendous progress, but deciding what support to provide for which properties remains an active research area with many open questions: What are the performance and programmability trade-offs for providing a particular property? What is the right balance between support for finding or fixing bugs and preventing them with more restrictive programming models? How should we handle programs that violate safety properties for performance or expressivity? How can we accommodate heterogeneous parallel computers? What is the role of each layer of the system stack? These questions are increasingly urgent as more computing goes parallel, from sensors to data centers. The Workshop on Determinism and Correctness in Parallel Programming (WoDet) is an inclusive, across-the-stack forum to discuss the role of a wide range of correctness properties in parallel and concurrent programming. While determinism is an important theme, the scope of the workshop includes other correctness properties for parallel programs and systems. The workshop will be a full day event with invited talks and technical sessions for short peer-reviewed papers discussing ideas, positions, or preliminary research results. TOPICS In addition to answers to the questions above, topics of interest include: * Language extensions for disciplined parallelism, e.g., determinism, structured parallelism * Architecture, OS, runtime, and compiler support for parallel program correctness * Concurrent program debugging techniques * New properties of parallel programs * Limit studies and empirical studies of the cost of safety properties * Studies of the applicability of correctness properties in parallel programs and algorithms * Techniques for avoiding/tolerating failures due to concurrency bugs * Real-world experience with safe parallel programming models, systems, or tools SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit original and unpublished work that exposes a new problem, advocates a specific solution, or reports on actual experience. Papers should be submitted using the standard two-column ACM SIG proceedings or SIG alternate template, and are limited to 6 pages (including figures, tables and references). Final papers will be made available to participants electronically at the meeting, but to facilitate resubmission to more formal venues, no archival proceedings will be published, and papers will not be sent to the ACM Digital Library. Authors will be given the option of having their final paper accessible from the workshop website. ORGANIZERS Brandon Lucia, Microsoft Research Joe Devietti, University of Pennsylvania PROGRAM COMMITTEE Eddie Aftandilian, Google Joe Devietti, University of Pennsylvania Jakob Eriksson, University of Illinois at Chicago Shan Lu, University of Wisconsin-Madison Brandon Lucia, Microsoft Research Santosh Nagarakatte, Rutgers University Mark Oskin, University of Washington Michael Scott, University of Rochester Serdar Taşiran, Koç University Martin Vechev, ETH Zürich Eran Yahav, Technion

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Deadline Extended: ASPLOS 2014: Call for Tutorial Proposals
by Niti Madan 18 Nov '13

18 Nov '13

*ASPLOS 2014 Call for Tutorial Proposals* *http://www.cs.utah.edu/asplos14/cfp.html*<http://www.cs.utah.edu/asplos14/cfp.html> *Important Dates* Submission deadline:*Thursday, December 12, 2013* Notification:* Tuesday, December 17, 2013* Tutorial proposals are solicited for ASPLOS-2014, Salt Lake City, Utah. Tutorials will be held on March 1, 2014 (Sat) and March 2, 2014 (Sun). Proposals for both half- and full-day tutorials are solicited on any topic that is relevant to the ASPLOS audience. Tutorials that focus on tools and techniques that enable research across layers of the computational stack are strongly encouraged. In previous years, tutorials seeking to achieve any of the following goals have been particularly successful: Describe an important piece of research infrastructure Educate the community on an emerging topic. * Submission Procedures* Proposals should provide the following information: Title. Presenter(s) and contact information. Proposed duration (full day, half day). 1-2 paragraph abstract suitable for tutorial publicity. 1 paragraph biography per presenter suitable for tutorial publicity. 1-3 page description (for evaluation). This should include: Tutorial scope and objectives, Topics to be covered, Target audience, If the tutorial has been held previously, the location (i.e., conference), date, and number of attendees. Proposals should take the form of a PDF document, and be submitted via e-mail to Ioana Baldini (ioana(a)us.ibm.com) and Livio Soares ( lsoares(a)us.ibm.com) with the subject "ASPLOS 2014 Tutorial Proposal". Submissions will be acknowledged via e-mail.

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