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Call for Submissions: Extreme Scaling Workshop 2013 – Heterogeneous Computing, hosted by Blue Waters and XSEDE
by Murray, Elizabeth Nicole 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

Call for Submissions: Extreme Scaling Workshop 2013 – Heterogeneous Computing, hosted by Blue Waters and XSEDE WORKSHOP WEBSITE: https://www.xsede.org/web/xscale/xscale13<applewebdata://B66E267F-86BB-4F09-BA82-8BD5D636F336/%22> Workshop Dates: August 15-16, 2013 Location: University of Colorado, Boulder Deadline for submissions: May 15, 2013 2013 is the year that large scale heterogeneous computing becomes a reality. Systems such as Blue Waters, Stampede, and Titan take a major step from modest scale, heterogeneous test beds and prototypes to world-class, extreme-scale heterogeneous computing systems.. Through the use of these systems, the science and engineering community has access to excellent resources and services to experience multiple ways to harness manycore processes for their applications. The NSF funded Blue Waters and eXtreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment (XSEDE) projects are hosting the seventh in a series of Extreme Scaling workshops. The workshop will address large scale heterogeneous computing through a series of talks and discussions for sharing experiences and successes making use of the new types resources of GPUs and manycore processors. This workshop is set up to provide a sufficient period of time for science and engineering teams to gain understanding on utilizing these systems to advance their applications while still having time to exchange and learn best practices. The workshop goal is to inform research and education communities about how to effectively utilize large numbers of accelerated nodes. The dissemination of information will occur through presentations, discussions, and workshop proceedings that will include recommendations from the presenters and participants who have had experience with these technologies. The workshop organizers plan to seek ACM SIG affiliation to include the proceedings in the ACM digital library. The workshop committee seeks submissions of excellent quality addressing your experiences with the following challenges: * Application porting and tuning to NVIDIA Kepler and Intel Phi systems * Using GPU/manycore nodes at large scale, including load balancing at scale * Using heterogeneous and homogeneous cores in a single application (e.g. XE6 and XK7 nodes) * Performance evaluation of heterogeneous systems * Experiences and performance comparison with OpenACC, CUDA, and Intel Phi * Use of heterogeneous computing for solving Big Data problems and challenges Two types of submissions are encouraged from scientists, engineers, scholars, and high-performance technologists from colleges, universities, laboratories, industry, HPC centers, and other organizations conducting related work. 1. Abstracts for papers that include title, abstract, and names and institutions of authors/presenters. Abstracts should be no more than two pages in length and provide sufficient detail for the workshop committee to make informed judgments about the work. Abstracts should include the names and affiliations of all co-authors and indicate which author will be presenting. Authors whose abstracts are selected will be asked to submit a full paper by July 1, 2013, and provide a 30-minute presentation during the workshop. 2. White papers that identify needs for improving the computing environment for advancing scientific discovery that can be implemented in three to six months. Please provide a description (at least 2 paragraphs but at most 2 pages) of the desired improvement(s), including your name, institution, and how the improvement will enhance scientific discovery. The white papers should address the top three improvements that will benefit the community. The workshop committee will select a few white paper authors to be members of a lightning round panel to each speak about the proposed improvements, and to foster discussion among the workshop participants. There will be discussion time after the paper presentations and after the panels on needed improvements. Workshop proceedings will be produced that will include the accepted papers and white papers and a summary of recommendations from the discussions among the presenters and participants. Send submissions to Scott Lathrop at lathrop(a)illinois.edu<mailto:[email protected]> by May 15, 2013. Notice of acceptances will be issued by June 1, 2013. Key Dates May 15: Paper abstracts and white paper submissions due. June 1: Acceptances issued. June 10: Workshop registration opens. July 1: Final papers due. Aug. 15-16: Workshop held at University of Colorado, Boulder Registration, Travel and Accommodations A registration fee of $150 covers the cost of food and beverages provided at the workshop: breakfast, lunch and dinner on Monday, and breakfast and lunch on Tuesday. A block of rooms will be reserved at a hotel that is within walking distance of the meeting location in Boulder. The room rates in our block are $124/night plus taxes. Participants are responsible for the cost of their own travel and accommodations and making their own travel arrangements. There is a shuttle available to transport people between the Denver airport and Boulder for about $33/person. Additional details about housing and travel will be made available on the web site. Further Information If you have questions, please contact Scott Lathrop at lathrop(a)illinois.edu<mailto:[email protected]>. We look forward to seeing you at the Extreme Scaling Workshop 2013. WORKSHOP WEBSITE: https://www.xsede.org/web/xscale/xscale13<applewebdata://B66E267F-86BB-4F09-BA82-8BD5D636F336/%22>

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Call for Participation: 1st International Workshop on Strategic Development of High Performance Computer
by Naoya Maruyama 28 Feb '13

28 Feb '13

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 1st International Workshop on Strategic Development of High Performance Computers March 18-19, 2013 Tsukuba International Congress Center, Tsukuba Japan The purpose of this workshop is to report Japan's research activities for post petaflops, or exascale, machines, and also to discuss international system software development collaborations. In 2012, Japan started a two-year program to investigate feasibility on development of post K computer. Four research teams have been involved with this program. A team headed by AICS is responsible for studying scientific and social issues to be solved by 2020 and making a science road map until 2020. Three teams, headed by Tohoku U., U. of Tsukuba, and U. of Tokyo, have been working with NEC, Hitachi, and Fujitsu to study on three types of next supercomputers. The US DOE (Department of Energy) and Japan MEXT (Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology) have agreed to pursue cooperation between the U.S. and Japan on system software for post-petascale computing, including collaborative R&D and international standardization of system software. They organized an SC12 BOF session to discuss this matter and concluded that draft plans for collaboration, coordination, and management are discussed in this workshop. Date: March 18-19, 2013 Venue: Tsukuba International Congress Center, Tsukuba Japan http://www.epochal.or.jp/eng/index.html Registration: http://goo.gl/STIgj (by March 7, 2013) Co-sponsored by: Cyberscience Center, Tohoku University Center for Computational Sciences, University of Tsukuba Information Technology Center, The University of Tokyo Global Scientific Information and Computing Center, Tokyo Institute of Technology Academic Center for Computing and Media Studies, Kyoto University Information Technology Research Institute, AIST RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science Development of System Software Technologies for post-Peta Scale High Performance Computing, CREST, JST Supported by: High Performance Computing Infrastructure Consortium Workshop Chairs: Masaaki Kondo (UEC), Naoya Maruyama (RIKEN AICS), Yutaka Ishikawa (Univ of Tokyo) Tentative Program: Monday, March 18 09:30-12:00 International Collaboration Planning (This session is invited only) 12:00-13:00 Registration 13:00-13:05 Opening Remarks Yutaka Ishikawa (University of Tokyo) 13:05-13:45 Welcome Address William Harrod (DOE), Takahiro Hayashi (MEXT) 13:45-14:30 [Invited Talk] Resilience and Reliability for Future Systems Bronis Supinski (LLNL) 14:30-15:15 [Invited Talk] Performance Analysis and Optimization of Scientific Applications on Extreme-Scale Computer Systems Bernd Mohr (JSC) 15:15-15:30 BREAK 15:30-16:30 Report on Feasibility Study on Future HPC Infrastructure I Hirofumi Tomita (RIKEN) 16:30-17:30 Report on Feasibility Study on Future HPC Infrastructure II Mitsuhisa Sato (University of Tsukuba) 18:00-20:00 Banquet Tuesday, March 19 09:00-10:00 Report on Feasibility Study on Future HPC Infrastructure III Hiroaki Kobayashi (Tohoku University) 10:00-10:15 BREAK 10:15-11:00 [Invited Talk] Automated Exploration of the HPC Co-Design Space Jeffrey Vetter (ORNL) 11:00-11:45 [Invited Talk] The DEEP Project Norbert Eicker (JSC) 11:45-13:30 LUNCH 13:30-14:15 [Invited Talk] Big Data and Exascale Systems -- Challenges and Opportunities Alok Choudhary (Northwester University) 14:15-15:15 Report on Feasibility Study on Future HPC Infrastructure IV Yutaka Ishikawa (University of Tokyo) 15:15-15:30 BREAK 15:30-16:00 Report on draft plan of international collaboration TBD 16:00-16:10 Closing

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Euro-Par 2013: Call for Workshops - Deadline extended to March 10
by an Mey, Dieter 27 Feb '13

27 Feb '13

********************************************************************* **** EURO-PAR 2013: CALL FOR WORKSHOPS - DEADLINE EXTENDED ********************************************************************* 19th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Euro-Par 2013 Aachen, Germany August 26-30, 2013 http://www.europar2013.org **** EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE **** Workshop proposal due: March 10, 2013, 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. A full list of topics covered by regular Euro-Par 2013 sessions can be found here: http://www.europar2013.org/conference/topics/ To provide further meeting points for researchers to discuss and exchange ideas on topics related to parallel and distributed computing, Euro-Par 2013 will continue the tradition of co-locating workshops with the main conference and invites proposals for the workshop program. The workshops will be held on August 26-27, two days before the main conference. Workshop proceedings will be published in a separate LNCS Euro-Par 2013 volume after the conference. The principal coordinator of each workshop will appear as an editor of the workshop volume. Registered workshop participants will receive an electronic copy of the volume by mail. All authors of accepted papers will be requested to sign a Springer copyright form. **** WORKSHOP PROPOSAL GUIDELINES **** The proposals should include the following information: * Workshop title * Information on the organizers, including a short biography of each organizer * The tentative program committee * Description of the workshop including its objectives, its contents and its format, indicating a preference for the length of the workshop (half a day or a full day) * Potential attendees * Potential authors * Workshop background (previous editions) * Link to international projects/initiatives Please direct questions to <workshops(a)europar2013.org>. The decision on acceptance/rejection of workshop proposals will be made on the basis of the overall quality of the proposal and the degree to which it matches the scope of the conference. In the case of workshop proposals with common or very similar objectives and contents, a proposal on how to merge the overlapping workshops will be made. **** RESPONSIBILITY OF THE WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS **** * Preparing the call for papers for the workshop and publicizing it * Maintaining the workshop Web site * Selecting the workshop program committee * Selecting the papers through a rigorous peer-review process * Delivering the final workshop program to the Euro-Par 2013 conference co-chairs in time * Delivering preliminary workshop proceedings in time before the conference * Reporting to the Euro-Par Steering Committee after the conference about keys indicators: number of submitted and accepted papers, program committee and review process management, etc. * Delivering the final workshop proceedings with a revised version of the papers in time after the conference in the required Springer LNCS format (10 pages max.) and writing an introductory preface to the workshop. Camera-ready papers will be published only if the management report has been delivered. **** WORKSHOP SUBMISSION GUIDELINES **** Workshop proposals are due by February 28, 2013. The proposals should be sent via email to <workshops(a)europar2013.org>. **** IMPORTANT DATES **** Workshop proposal due: Thursday, March 10, 2013, 23:59 AOE Workshop notifications: Friday, March 22, 2013 Workshop website online: Monday, April 22, 2013 Workshop dates: August 26-27, 2013 Workshop management report due: Friday, October 3, 2013 There will be common due dates for all workshop authors: Workshop papers due: Friday, May 31, 2013 Workshop author notification: Monday, July 8, 2013 Workshop camera-ready papers due: Friday, October 3, 2013 **** LOCATION **** The Euro-Par 2013 conference will take place in Aachen, Germany, from August 26th until August 30th, 2013. The conference is jointly organized by the German Research School for Simulation Sciences, Forschungszentrum Juelich, and RWTH Aachen University in the framework of the Juelich Aachen Research Alliance. **** WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS **** Dieter an Mey, RWTH Aachen University Luc Bouge, ENS de Cachan **** CONTACT **** Please direct questions to <workshops(a)europar2013.org>.

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(CFP) - PhD Forum - IEEE ISVLSI 2013
by Antonio Carlos S. Beck Filho 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

(Please accept our apologies for multiple postings of this announcement) ################ CALL FOR PAPERS PhD FORUM ISVLSI 2013 - IEEE Computer Society Annual Symposium on VLSI August 5-7 - Natal, Brazil http://www.lasic.ufrn.br/isvlsi2013/index.php?id=phd_forum ################ ******************************************************************************************** *About:* The PhD forum is hosted by the ISVLSI 2013 conference. It is a great opportunity for PhD students to present their thesis work to a broad audience in the VLSI community, composed of representatives from both industry and academia. They will be on the other side, getting a glance at the state-of-the-art in system design and design automation. Therefore, the PhD Forum is an excellent chance for students to receive expert feedback on their research and to establish contacts for future job opportunities. *Ten submissions will be selected to be presented at the ISVLSI 2013 conference and to be published (2 pages) in the Conference Proceedings.* *********************** *Who can present their work at the PhD forum?* - Students who have finished their PhD thesis within the last 12 months or students who are close to finish their thesis work. *********************** *Benefits:* The selected PhD Students will have the following benefits: - A poster presentation in A0 format at the ISVLSI 2013 PhD - To contact professionals from industry and academia; - To distribute flyers summarizing their PhD work; - The chance to receive the best PhD poster award of the ISVLSI 2013 (for this purpose, the program committee of the ISVLSI 2013 PhD Forum will evaluate the review results and the quality of the poster/ presentation at the conference). The best PhD poster award will be announced at the conference dinner. *********************** *Submission Details:* Submit a 2-page extended abstract describing the novelties and advantages of your thesis. Use the IEEE 2 column format, which can be found on this weblink: http://www.ieee.org/web/publications/pubservices/confpub/AuthorTools/confer… The submission interface is available at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isvlsi2013phdforum Paper Due: March 15, 2013 Acceptance Notification: May 10, 2013 Camera Ready Due: June 07, 2013 *********************** *Ph.D. Forum Chair Information* Prof. Dr.-Ing. habil. Michael Hübner Prof. Dr. Antonio Carlos Schneider Beck Filho *********************** *Ph.D. Forum Technical Program Committee Members* Mauricio Ayala-Rincon, UNB, Brazil Pascal Benoit , LIRMM, France Ateet Bhalla, OIST, Bhopal, India Fabio Campi , ST Microelectronics, Italy Joao Cardoso, INESC-ID, Portugal Pedro Diniz, INESC-ID, Portugal Adam Donlin , Xilinx Inc, USA Luca Fanucci , Uiv. Of Pisa, Italy Alberto Garcia-Ortiz, Univ.of Bremen, Germany Diana Goehringer , KIT, Germany Arnaud Grasset , Thales TRT,France Joerg Henkel , KIT Germany Andreas Herkersdorf , TUM , Germany Michael Huebner , Ruhr-Univ. Bochum, Germany Dimitrios Soudris, NTUA, Greece Julio Carlos Balzano de Mattos, UFPel, Brazil Marco Aurelio Wehrmeister, UDESC, Brazil

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2nd CFP: HPCS2013, Jun 2-6, Ottawa: “Big Data + Big Compute = Big Insights"
by Jonathan Dursi 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

HPCS2013 Second Call for Submissions HPCS (the High Performance Computing Symposium), http://www.hpcs.ca, is Canada’s foremost supercomputing conference – a multidisciplinary conference where computational researchers from all disciplines in industry and academia, computer scientists, and vendors exchange new tools, techniques and interesting results in and for HPC computational research. HPCS2013, “Big Data + Big Compute = Big Insight”, will take place in Ottawa, 2-6 June. The first two days (Sunday and Monday) will consist of tutorial workshops covering introductory and advanced tools for high performance computing, and the technical sessions of the symposium will take place Tuesday through Thursday. Further information can be found at the conference website, http://2013.hpcs.ca . Submissions are open for contributed works relating to our theme. We are particularly interested in policy-relevant work at the intersection of HPC and Big Data across all sectors: Society (including topics such as Medicine, Privacy, and the Power grid), Industry (including such topics such as Data mining, Oil and Gas, and business analytics), Government (including such Traffic modelling, data mining for internal), and Academia (from the physical sciences to digital humanities). Submissions for contributed works will be due on 2 April. There will be two streams for submissions – full-paper works and abstracts. Submissions will be refereed and notifications of acceptance will go out by 3 May. Proceedings will be published in Journal of Physics: Conference Series, an open-access, indexed, refereed journal. Both full-paper submissions to the conference and its proceedings, and extended abstract submissions to the conference will be accepted. HPCS2013 will have a “best visualization” prize for accepted technical submissions. We encourage those submitting to the conference to submit along, with their paper or extended abstract, any particularly great visualizations or movies (max 3 per submission) resulting from the work, along with a caption and brief for-the-public blurb about the work, as part of their submission. These materials will not influence the peer review of the technical submission. After acceptance, a separate panel will judge the visualizations, and particularly compelling visualizations will be used in publicity material to promote the work and the conference. Submissions are accepted at https://2013.hpcs.ca/submissions/ .

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CFP of NoF 2013 Conference
by roc chee 26 Feb '13

26 Feb '13

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fourth International Conference on Network of the Future (NoF'13) October 21-24, 2013 Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH) South Korea http://nof2013.postech.ac.kr/----------------------------------------------… CALL FOR PAPERS The Network of the Future conference is the premier annual conference that covers advances in the area of Future Internet design, with emphasis on enabling technologies, architectures and services. The conference aims at providing a forum for researchers, students and professionals to exchange ideas, share their experiences, and discuss their research results around a single-track of technical sessions and a series of Tutorials and Workshops. After the first successful edition of Network of the Future in Brisbane (Australia) in 2010, the 2011 edition in Paris (France), and the 2012 edition in Tunis (Tunisia), the fourth edition of Network of the Future will be held in Pohang (South Korea) on October 21-24, 2013. The conference solicits submission of papers describing significant and innovative research contributions. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: Technologies for Future Internet Network protocols and architectures Autonomous and self-organised networks Self-Management Frameworks Quality of services and traffic engineering Cyber-physical systems and the Internet of Things Content distribution networks Cloud computing and network virtualization Software-defined networking Programmable networking Machine-to-machine networking Publish/subscribe network architectures Wireless and mobile networks Mesh, ad hoc and sensor networks Vehicular ad hoc networks and intelligent transportation systems Advances in cellular networks, femtocell networks Broadband access technologies Mobile Internet applications Security, trust and privacy challenges User-centric networking Information-centric networking Social networking, crowdsourcing, cloud services E-services and smart cities Green computing PAPER SUBMISSION Submitted papers must present original, unpublished research or experiences. Work-in-progress reports from ongoing research are also encouraged. A 5-page limitation applies. Papers should follow the IEEE double-column conference paper template. Papers are to be submitted in PDF format via EDAS (https://edas.info/N14067) by the deadline indicated below. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission - April 10, 2013 Acceptance notification - June 11, 2013 Camera ready papers - August 21, 2013 Conference dates - October 21-24, 2013 CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo (Canada) Chansu Yu, Cleveland State University (USA) TPC CO-CHAIRS Noura Limam, University of Waterloo (Canada) Young-Joo Suh, POSTECH (South Korea) STEERING COMMITTEE James W. Hong, POSTECH (South Korea) Fouad Tobagi, Stanford University (USA) Jean Walrand, UC Berkeley (USA) Luigi Fratta, Politechnico di Milano (Italy) George Pavlou, UCL (UK) Guy Pujolle, UPMC (France) Farouk Kamoun, SESAME University (Tunisia) For further information please e-mail to nof2-13.info(a)gmail.com

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FeedbackComputing'13 CFP (one month before deadline)
by Ming Zhao 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

CALL FOR PAPERS Feedback Computing 2013 - The 8th International Workshop on Feedback Computing San Jose, California, USA, 25 June 2013 Co-hosted with the 2013 USENIX Federated Conferences Week https://www.usenix.org/conference/feedback13 ----------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper submissions due: March 29, 2013, 11:59 p.m. PDT Notification to authors: April 26, 2013 Final paper files due: May 24, 2013 Workshop date: June 25, 2013 ----------------------------------------------------------------- OVERVIEW Following the success of the past six FeBID workshops and the newly debuted Feedback Computing Workshop in 2012, the 2013 International Workshop on Feedback Computing will be held in June 2013, as part of USENIX Federated Conferences Week in the heart of the Silicon Valley. Feedback Computing is a unique forum built around advancing feedback system theory and practice in modeling, analyzing, designing, and optimizing computing systems. The creation of this workshop represents the growing use of feedback in a broader agenda and is a timely response to the following two trends: 1. Computing systems are growing larger, smarter, and more complex, embedding in the physical world, human interactions, and societal infrastructure. Systematic and feedback-driven approaches are critical to address the dynamic complexity that arises in new fields such as cyber-physical systems, cloud computing, social networks, and mobile applications. 2. Advances in disciplines such as machine learning, mathematical optimization, network theories, decision theories, and data engineering provide new foundations and techniques that empower feedback approaches to address computing systems at scale and to achieve goals such as autonomy, adaptation, stabilization, robustness, or performance optimization. ----------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS The Feedback Computing Workshop seeks original research contributions and position papers on advancing feedback control technologies and their applications in computing systems, broadly defined. Topic of interests include but are not limited to: * Theoretical foundations for feedback computing * New control paradigms and system architecture * Sensing, actuation, and data management in feedback computing * Learning and modeling of computing system dynamics * Design patterns and software engineering * Feedback computing education and awareness * Experiences and best practices from real systems * Applications in domains such as distributed systems, cloud computing, data center resource management, real-time systems, cyber-physical systems, social network, and mobility We encourage research paper submissions expressing original research results, challenge paper submissions motivating new research directions, and application paper submissions elaborating experiences from real systems. In addition, the workshop will leverage extended coffee breaks and lunch break to arrange special meetings and to discuss collaborative research agenda built among the participants. ----------------------------------------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit three types of papers to emphasize the multiple focuses of this workshop: * Research Papers: Research paper submissions must represent original, unpublished contributions. All submissions should be typeset in two-column format in 10 point type on 12 point (single-spaced) leading, with the text block being no more than 6.5" wide by 9" deep; submission should not exceed 6 pages in length (excluding references). Manuscript templates are available for download from the USENIX templates page. * Challenge Papers: Challenge paper submissions must motivate research challenges with real systems that can take advantage of feedback computing. All submissions should be typeset in two-column format in 10 point type on 12 point (single-spaced) leading, with the text block being no more than 6.5" wide by 9" deep; submission should not exceed 3 pages in length (excluding references). Manuscript templates are available for download from the USENIX templates page. * Application Papers: Application paper submissions must be based on real experience and working systems. All submissions should be formatted as annotated slides-a visual in the upper half of a page and the explanatory text in the lower half-and should not exceed 15 slides in length. All papers are to be submitted via the Web submission form, which will be available here soon, as PDF files. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. USENIX, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. See the USENIX Conference Submissions Policy for details. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. If you are uncertain whether your submission meets USENIX's guidelines, please contact the program co-chairs, feedback13chairs(a)usenix.org, or the USENIX office, submissionspolicy(a)usenix.org. At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to present the paper in person at the workshop. There will not be copyright-transferred formal proceedings for the workshop. The accepted papers will be available online to registered attendees before the conference and will also be distributed via USB drives at the conference. If your accepted paper should not be published prior to the event, please notify production(a)usenix.org. The papers will be available online to everyone beginning on June 25, 2013. Accepted submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication on the USENIX Feedback Computing Workshop'13 Web site; rejected submissions will be permanently treated as confidential. One Best Paper Award will be announced at the end of workshop to recognize the current best work in feedback computing. ------------------------------------------------------------------ ORGANIZERS General Chair Yixin Diao, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Program Co-Chairs Jie Liu, Microsoft Research Ming Zhao, Florida International University Program Committee Sherif Abdelwahed, Mississippi State University Christos Cassandras, Boston University Zonghua Gu, Zhejiang University Jeffrey Kephart, IBM Research Maria Kihl, Lund University Xenofon D. Koutsoukos, Vanderbilt University Charles R. Lefurgy, IBM Research Michael Lemon, University of Notre Dame Xue Liu, McGill University Martina Maggio, Lund University Ole Mengshoel, Carnegle Mellon University Arif Merchant, Google Pradeep Padala, VMware Eric Rutten, INRIA Grenoble Sharad Singhal, HP Labs Eduardo Tovar, Polytechnic Institute of Porto Zhikui Wang, HP Labs Steering Committee Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign Yixin Diao, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Joseph L. Hellerstein, Google Chenyang Lu, Washington University in St. Louis Anders Robertsson, Lund University Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware Publicity Chair Matina Maggio, Lund University Web Chair Adrian Suarez, Florida International University

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CFP Reminder: P2S2 2013 - Sixth International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-end Computing
by Qichang Liang 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

CALL FOR PAPERS =============== Sixth International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-end Computing (P2S2) Oct 1st, 2013 To be held in conjunction with ICPP-2013: The 42nd International Conference on Parallel Processing, Oct. 1-4, 2013, Lyon, France Website: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2/2013/ 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 P2S2-2013 will be included in a Special Issue on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software of the Journal of Supercomputing (JoSC), edited by Abhinav Vishnu, Yong Chen, and Pavan Balaji. 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 July 28th, 2013. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ----------------------- Submissions should be in PDF format in U.S. Letter size paper. They should not exceed 10 pages (all inclusive). Submissions will be judged based on relevance, significance, originality, correctness and clarity. Please visit workshop website at: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2/ for the submission link. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper Submission: March 15th, 2013 Author Notification: May 1st, 2013 Camera Ready: July 12th, 2013 Workshop Date: Oct 1st, 2013 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 * Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratory * Darius Buntinas, Argonne National Laboratory * Surendra Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab * Daniel Chavarria, Pacific Northwest National Lab * Bronis de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Lab * Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, China * Paul Hargrove, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab * Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand * Hai Jin, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. and Tech., China * Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology * Doug Lea, State University of New York at Oswego * Amith Rajith Mamidala, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center * Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Queen's University of Belfast * Scott Pakin, Los Alamos National Laboratory * 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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IEEE 2013 7th International Workshop on Scientific Workflows
by Liqiang Wang 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

############################################################### CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE 2013 7th International Workshop on Scientific Workflows: Advances in Workflows addressing the Big Data Challenge (SWF 2013) http://www.servicescongress.org/2013/swf.html ############################################################### One day between June 27-July 2 2013, Santa Clara Marriott, CA, USA (Center of Silicon Valley) within IEEE SERVICES 2013 +++++++++++++++ Description +++++++++++++++ Today, many science and engineering disciplines have become increasingly data- intensive. Massively complex new instruments and simulators are generating massive data sets that are described as big data. For example, in Physics, the Large Hadron Collider will eventually generate about 15 petabytes (1 petabye is about 1,000,000 gigabyes) of data per year. In neuroscience, a complete map of the brain's neural circuitry would generate about 1000 exabytes (an exabyte is about 1000 petabytes). The coming data deluge poses great challenges to the whole lifecycle of data management, from data collection, data storage, to data processing and visualization. In the meanwhile, workflow has become a popular paradigm for scientists and engineers to formalize and structure complex processes to solve increasingly data-intensive scientific and engineering problems. The importance of workflow is well recognized by NSF as well as by numerous workshops. As a recent Science article concluded, "In the future, the rapidity with which any given discipline advances is likely to depend on how well the community acquires the necessary expertise in database, workflow management, visualization, and cloud computing technologies." The theme of this year's SWF workshop is "Advances in Workflows addressing the Big Data Challenge", recognizing the big data challenge in scientific workflows. Built upon the successful history of SWF since 2007, this year, we broaden the scope of SWF to include big data oriented workflows, soliciting papers to share the challenges, experiences, and lessons in applying workflow technologies to various data-driven science and engineering problems. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: +++++++++++++++++ List of topics +++++++++++++++++ * Big-data workflows * Data-driven workflows * Event-driven workflows * Scientific workflow provenance management and analytics * Scientific workflow data, metadata, service, and task management * Scientific workflow architectures, models, languages, systems, and algorithms * Scientific workflow monitoring, debugging, exception handling, and fault tolerance * Streaming data processing in scientific workflows * Pipelined, data, workflow, and task parallelism in scientific workflows * Cloud, Service, Grid, or hybrid scientific workflows * Data, metadata, compute, user-interaction, or visualization-intensive scientific workflows * Semantic techniques for scientific workflows * Scientific workflow composition * Security issues in scientific workflows * Data integration and service integration in scientific workflows * Scientific workflow mapping, optimization, and scheduling * Scientific workflow modeling, simulation, analysis, and verification * Scalability, reliability, extensibility, agility, and interoperability * Scientific workflow applications and case studies * Enterprise workflow management and services computing * Enterprise workflow cooperation and collaboration +++++++++++++++++++ Important dates +++++++++++++++++++ * Full Paper Submission Due Date: March 15, 2013 * Decision Notification (Electronic): April 4, 2013 * Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: April 15, 2013 Paper submission Authors are invited to submit full papers (about 8 pages) or short papers (about 4 pages) as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines (download instruction). All papers should be in PDF and submitted via at the submission system. Website http://www.servicescongress.org/2013/swf.html Workshop chairs * Liqiang Wang, wang(a)cs.uwyo.edu, University of Wyoming, U.S.A. * Mike Wu, cwu(a)oakland.edu, Oakland University, U.S.A.

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International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers (ROSS 2013)
by ross2013＠easychair.org 25 Feb '13

25 Feb '13

======================================================================= SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================================================= International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers *** ROSS 2013 *** In cooperation with ACM SIGHPC -------------------------------- Held in conjunction with ICS 2013, Eugene, OR, USA, June 10, 2013 ======================================================================= http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/ross/2013/ ======================================================================= 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 2013 conference in Eugene, Oregon, USA, focuses on principles and techniques to design, implement, optimize, or operate runtime and operating systems for supercomputers and massively parallel machines. TOPICS OF INTEREST: ------------------- - OS and runtime system scalability on many-node and multi/many-core systems - specialized OSs for Supercomputing - distributed/hybrid/partitioned OSs and runtime systems for Supercomputing - fault tolerance - system noise analysis and prevention - interaction between middleware, runtime system, and the OS - modeling and performance analysis of runtime systems - I/O resource management and forwarding - parallel job startup - memory management and emerging memory technologies - the role of OS and runtime system in minimizing power usage - real-time considerations for Supercomputing SCHEDULE AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: ---------------------------------- Submission deadline: March 15, 2013 Author notification: April 22, 2013 Final papers due: May 10, 2013 Workshop date: June 10, 2013 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 ETH Zurich, Switzerland Kamil Iskra Argonne National Laboratory, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ------------------ 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, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Yutaka Ishikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Larry Kaplan, Cray, 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, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Robert Wisniewski, Intel, USA Contact us at ross2013(a)easychair.org if you have any questions.

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