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Call for Posters: ACM HPDC 2013
by Ioan Raicu 29 Mar '13

29 Mar '13

**** CALL FOR POSTERS **** The 22nd International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC'13) New York City, USA - June 17-21, 2013 http://www.hpdc.org/2013 The ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC)?is the premier annual conference on the design, the implementation, the evaluation, and?the use of parallel and distributed systems for high-end computing.HPDC'13 will take place in the heart of iconic New York City from June 17-21. The conference will be held on June 19-21 (Wednesday to Friday), with affiliated workshops taking place on June 17-18 (Monday and Tuesday). __ HPDC'13 will feature a poster session that will provide the right environment for lively and informal discussions on various high performance parallel and distributed computing topics. We *invite all potential authors* to submit their contribution to this poster session in the form of a two-page PDF abstract (we recommend using the ACM Proceedings style, and fonts not smaller than 10 point). Posters may be accompanied by practical demonstrations. Participating posters will be selected based on the following criteria: ï¿½Submissions must describe new, interesting ideas on any HPDC topics of interest ï¿½Submissions can present work in progress, but we strongly encourage the authors to include preliminary experimental results, if available ï¿½Student submissions meeting the above criteria will be given preference Please provide the following information in your PDF file: ï¿½Poster title ï¿½Author names, affiliations, and email addresses ï¿½Note which authors, if any, are students ï¿½Indicate if you plan to set up a demo with your poster (the authors and organizers need to agree that the requirements for the demo to function can be met at the site of the poster exhibition) Abstracts must be submitted through EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpdc13posters) *before May 15 2013, 23:59 EDT*. Authors will be notified of acceptance or rejection via e-mail by May 20, 2013. No reviews will be provided. Posters will be published online on the conference website. Each poster will have an A0 panel in the poster exhibition area, which will also include posters of the HPDC accepted papers. The *poster session* will be held on Wednesday, June 19, in the late afternoon, and it will start with a poster advertising session during which the author(s) of each poster will give a very short presentation (2 slides, 1-2 minutes) of their poster. Following these presentations, the poster exhibition will be opened for visiting and, we hope, for fruitful discussions. Therefore, we kindly request at least one author of each poster to be present throughout the entire session. For any questions about the submission, selection, and presentation of the accepted posters, please contact the Posters Chair -- Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University. -- ================================================================= Ioan Raicu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Guest Research Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) ================================================================= Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory, CS/IIT Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS/ANL ================================================================= Editor: IEEE TCC, Springer JoCCASA Chair: IEEE/ACM MTAGS, ACM ScienceCloud, IEEE/ACM DataCloud ================================================================= Cel: 1-847-722-0876 Office: 1-312-567-5704 Email: iraicu(a)cs.iit.edu Web: http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/ Web: http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ioanraicu Google: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jE73HYAAAAAJ ================================================================= =================================================================

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[Deadline Extended] CFP - EuroMPI Workshop: PBio 2013 (proceedings published by ACM DL) + Special Issue in Journal PARCO (IF: 1.311, Q1)
by Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez 29 Mar '13

29 Mar '13

Call for Papers --- EuroMPI Workshop: International Workshop on Parallelism in Bioinformatics (proceedings published by ACM Digital Library) + Special Issue in the Journal Parallel Computing (Elsevier) (Impact Factor: 1.311, Quartile Q1) --- SUBMISSION DEADLINE: APRIL 12, 2013 (EXTENDED) We seek original, high-quality research papers, clearly focused on the application of Parallelism to any possible Bioinformatics problem. In particular, contributions are solicited on, but are not limited to, the following topics: - MPI implementations in Bioinformatics. - Parallel and distributed algorithms in Bioinformatics. - Workload partitioning strategies in Bioinformatics. - Memory-efficient algorithms in Bioinformatics. - Parallel tools and applications in Bioinformatics. - Multicore and cluster computing in Bioinformatics. - Supercomputing in Bioinformatics. - Grid/Cloud/P2P computing in Bioinformatics. - Volunteer computing in Bioinformatics. - Hardware accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs, Cell processors, etc.) in Bioinformatics. With regard to the Bioinformatics problems, many different alternatives exist: biological sequence analysis, comparison and alignment; motif, gene and signal recognition/discovery; molecular evolution; phylogenetics and phylogenomics; determination or prediction of the structure of RNA and protein; DNA twisting and folding; gene expression and gene regulatory networks; deduction of metabolic pathways; microarray design and analysis; proteomics; functional genomics; molecular docking; design of DNA sequences for DNA computing; etc. All the details (paper format, submission system, important dates, etc.) at: http://arco.unex.es/mavega/pbio2013/ --- Kind regards. -- ------------------------------------------------- Dr. Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez <mavega(a)unex.es> http://arco.unex.es/mavega ARCO Research Group University of Extremadura Dept. Technologies of Computers & Communications Escuela Politecnica. Campus Universitario, s/n 10003 Caceres. SPAIN Tel: +34-927-25-72-63 Fax: +34-927-25-71-87 -------------------------------------------------

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Deadline Extended (April 05-2013) - IEEE- Turkey- TAEECE 2013
by The International Conference on Technological Advances in Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (TAEECE2013) 29 Mar '13

29 Mar '13

KIND REMINDERS:: CALL FOR PAPERS AND PARTICIPATION DEADLINE SUBMISSION: APRIL 05, 2013 The International Conference on Technological Advances in Electrical, Electronics and Computer Engineering (TAEECE2013) Mevlana University, Konya, Turkey May 9-11, 2013. http://sdiwc.net/conferences/2013/taeece2013/ The TAEECE2013 is technically co-sponsored by Region 8 IEEE Section and All papers will be submitted to IEEE for potential inclusion to IEEE Xplore ============================================================================ The conference welcomes papers on the following (but not limited to) research topics: *Electronics Engineering: *Electrical Engineering: *Computer Engineering: ============================================================================ IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline : April 05, 2013 Notification of Acceptance : April 20, 2013 or Before Camera Ready Submission: April 30, 2013 Registration : April 30, 2013 Conference Dates : May 9-11, 2013.

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CFP: The first international workshop FedICI'2013, Federative and interoperable cloud infrastructures
by Gabor Kecskemeti 28 Mar '13

28 Mar '13

The first international workshop FedICI'2013 Federative and interoperable cloud infrastructures August 26 or 27 2013, Aachen, Germany organized in conjunction with Euro-Par 2013 Call for papers Workshop theme: Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) cloud systems allow the dynamic creation, destruction and management of Virtual Machines (VM) on virtualized clusters. IaaS clouds provide a high-level of abstraction to the end user that allows the creation of on-demand services through a pay as you go infrastructure combined with elasticity. As a result, many academic infrastructure service providers have started transitions to add cloud resources to their previously existing campus and shared grid deployments. To complete such solutions, they should also support the unification of multiple cloud and/or cloud and grid solutions in a seamless, preferably interoperable way. Hybrid, community or multi-clouds may utilize more than one cloud system, which are also called as a cloud federations. The management of such federations raise several challenges and open issues that require significant research work to be done in this area. This workshop will provide a dedicated forum for sharing the latest results, exchanging ideas and experiences, presenting new research, development and management of interoperable, federated IaaS cloud systems. The aim of the workshop is to help the community with defining the current state, determining further goals and presenting architectures and service frameworks to achieve highly interoperable federated cloud infrastructures. Priority will be given to submissions that focus on presenting solutions to interoperability and efficient management challenges faced by current and future infrastructure clouds. Selection will prioritize papers that document and present measured comparisons or practical information on realistic, real-world solutions. All submissions will be peer-reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation and relevance to the topics of interest. Scope: Papers may be submitted on any topic relevant to the theme of the workshop, including but not limited to: - Case studies of interoperable and federated solutions across multiple infrastructures including mixed grid and cloud systems - Application programming interfaces and standards for interoperability and federation - Federation-compatible service agreements, SLAs and quality of service systems - Virtual machine scheduling, management and deployment algorithms in federated systems (considering multi-objective solutions, scalability, energy efficiency etc.) - Accounting, identity management and security solutions that support federation-level models - Legal issues and data privacy in federated Cloud management - Performance evaluation, prediction and comparison of federated cloud systems - Storage management, focusing on interoperability and multi cloud placement - Novel IaaS architectures incorporating federative constructs in their foundations - Virtual appliance marketplaces and repositories meeting the demands and serving multi-cloud systems Authors are required to submit original, unpublished research or overviews on Federative and interoperable cloud infrastructures. Manuscripts should be limited to 10 pages in Springer LNCS format and submitted through the EasyChair submission system (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=fedici2013) Accepted papers that are presented at the workshop will be published in revised form in a special Euro-Par Workshop Volume in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series after the Euro-Par conference. Important dates: Deadline for paper submission: May 31, 2013 Author notification: July 8, 2013 Camera ready paper due: July 28, 2013 Workshop: August 26 or 27, 2013 The program committee: Chair: Gabor Kecskemeti Co-chairs: Radu Prodan, Attila Kertesz, Attila Csaba Marosi Workshop webpage: http://www.dps.uibk.ac.at/~gabor/FedICI13/

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[CFP] IISWC 2013: Call for Papers
by Kushagra Vaid 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

CALL FOR PAPERS IISWC 2013 2013 Annual IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization Portland, Oregon, September 22-24, 2013 http://www.iiswc.org\ ******* Please note updated submission date: April 5th 2013 ************ =========================================================================== This symposium is dedicated to the understanding and characterization of Workloads that run on all types of computing systems. New applications and programming paradigms continue to emerge rapidly as the diversity and performance of computers increase. On one hand, improvements in computing technology are usually based on a solid understanding and analysis of existing workloads. On the other hand, computing workloads evolve and change with advances in microarchitecture, compilers, programming languages, and networking/communication technologies. Whether they are smart phones and deeply embedded systems at the low end or massively parallel systems at the high end, the design of future computing machines can be significantly improved if we understand the characteristics of the workloads that are expected to run on them. This symposium will focus on characterizing and understanding emerging applications in consumer, commercial and scientific computing. We solicit papers in all areas related to characterization of computing system workloads. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): o Characterization of applications in areas including Search engines, e-commerce, web services, databases, file/application servers Embedded, mobile, multimedia, real-time, 3D-Graphics, gaming, telepresence Life sciences, bioinformatics, scientific computing, finance, forecasting Machine Learning, Analytics, Data mining Security, reliability, biometrics Grid and Cloud computing o Characterization of OS, Virtual Machine, middleware and library behavior Virtual machines, Websphere, .NET, Java VM, databases Graphics libraries, scientific libraries o Characterization of system behavior, including Operating system and hypervisor effects and overheads Hardware accelerators (GPGPU, XML, crypto, etc) User behavior and system-user interaction Instrumentation methodologies for workload verification and characterization Techniques for accurate analysis/measurement of production systems o Implications of workloads in design issues, such as Power management, reliability, security, performance Processors, memory hierarchy, I/O, and networks Design of accelerators, FPGA's, GPU's, etc. Novel architectures (non-Von-Neumann) o Benchmark creation, analysis, and evaluation issues, including Multithreaded benchmarks, benchmark cloning Profiling, trace collection, synthetic traces Validation of benchmarks o Analytical and abstract modeling of program behavior and systems o Emerging and future workloads Transactional memory workloads; workloads for multi/many-core systems Stream-based computing workloads; web2.0/internet workloads; Cyber-physical workloads ================================================================== Important Dates: Abstracts Due..................April 5, 2013 Papers Due.....................April 13, 2013 Author Notification............June 14, 2013 ================================================================== General Chair......................Ravi Iyer, Intel Program Chair......................David Brooks, Harvard Workshop/Tutorials Chair...........Eriko Nurvitadhi, Intel Finance Chair......................Rajeev Balasubramonian, U. of Utah Local Arrangements Chair...........Omesh Tickoo, Intel Publications Chair.................Vijay Janapa Reddi, UT-Austin Publicity Chair....................Kushagra Vaid, Microsoft Registration Chair.................Guangdeng Liao, Intel Web Chair..........................Mi Sun Park, Penn State University Submissions Chair..................Glenn Holloway, Harvard Program Committee.................. Leslie Barnes, AMD Brad Beckmann, AMD Mei Chen, Intel Paul Gratz, Texas A&M Mark Hempstead, Drexel James Hoe, Carnegie-Mellon University Martha Kim, Columbia Benjamin Lee, Duke Xiaoyao Liang, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Tipp Moseley, Google Valentina Salapura, IBM Weidong Shi, Houston Ravi Soundararajan, VMware Bronis di Supinski, LLNL Lingjia Tang, UC-San Diego Olivier Temam, INRIA Qiang Wu, Facebook Carole-Jean Wu, Arizona State University Chia-Lin Yang, National Taiwan University Li Zhao, Intel ==================================================================

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IMUDI 2013 - Submission Deadline Extended to April 19
by Ahmad Afsahi 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email. If you'd like to opt out of these announcements, information on how to unsubscribe is available at the bottom of this email.] --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMUDI -- Call For Papers Special Session on Improving MPI User And Developer Interaction http://press.mcs.anl.gov/imudi/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope: ------ The IMUDI special session, to be held as a full-day meeting at the EuroMPI 2013 conference in Madrid, Spain, focuses on bringing together the MPI end-user and MPI implementor communities through discussions on MPI usage experiences, techniques, and optimizations. This meeting will focus on evaluating the MPI standard from the perspective of the MPI end-user (application and library developers) and address concerns and insights of MPI implementors and vendors. Unlike workshops associated with other conferences, the IMUDI session is still considered to be a part of the Euro MPI conference. Submissions will be reviewed separately to facilitate bringing together research publications falling into these "special focus" areas. Topics of Interest: ------------------- The topics include but are not limited to: * Software development and optimization challenges for MPI-based applications and libraries * Evaluation of existing MPI features and use cases by the MPI application and * library development community * Analysis of MPI-based and alternative programming model implementations of applications and libraries * New techniques and features to improve the MPI programming model and usage by current MPI end-users * Analysis of the evolution of the MPI programming model and implementation for future HPC systems * Analysis of alternative programming model features implemented within MPI * Issues related to deploying and supporting MPI on parallel machines * Experiences in porting applications and libraries to MPI Author instructions: -------------------- Contributors are invited to submit a full paper as a PDF document not exceeding 6 pages in English. The title page should contain an abstract and five specific, topical keywords. The paper must be formatted according to double-column ACM ICPS proceedings style. The usage of LaTeX for preparation of the contribution as well as the submission in camera ready format is strongly recommended. Style files can be found athttp://www.acm.org/publications/icps-instructions/. New work that is not yet mature for a full paper, short observations, and similar brief announcements are invited as well. Accepted submissions will be given an appropriate length time slot. All contributions, including short papers and work-in-progress contributions, will be fully peer reviewed by the program committee. Submissions can be uploaded through EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=imudi2013 Publication: ------------ Accepted papers will be published in the EuroMPI proceedings (published by the ACM Digital Library). Accepted contributions are expected to be presented by one of the authors at EuroMPI 2013 during the IMUDI special session. Session Organizers: ------------------- Ahmad Afsahi, Queen's University Dries Kimpe, Argonne National Laboratory. Program Committee: ------------------ To be announced. Important Dates: ---------------- Submission of full and short papers: Extended to April 19th! Author Notification: June 1st, 2013. Camera Ready papers due: June 15th, 2013. Conference: September 15-18, 2013. Conference Venue: ----------------- IMUDI 2013 (as part of EuroMPI 2013) will be held in Madrid, Spain.

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CFP DaSi 2013, 2nd Dark Silicon Workshop -- Deadline Extension to April 7th
by John Sampson 27 Mar '13

27 Mar '13

**** Call For Presentations **** Update: The DaSi 2013 submission deadline has been extended to April 7th (from March 29th). The 2nd Dark Silicon Workshop Tel-Aviv, Israel. June 24th, 2013. Held in conjunction with ISCA 2013 The second Dark Silicon Workshop provides a unique forum for discussing the challenges and opportunities that Dark Silicon presents. There are many research questions left to answer before new architectures built specifically to mitigate or exploit dark silicon become the default platforms for general purpose computing. To scale alongside dark silicon, architects will need to design and verify specialized processors in increasing numbers. Making heterogeneous platforms easy to program will require us to reconsider traditional language and OS abstractions. Traditionally, many of the performance gains from specialized hardware stem from customized memory designs, and it is not yet clear how best to integrate multiple such memory designs together into a single architecture. These and other challenges will face researchers as they shed light on silicon’s dark future. The organizing committee is soliciting presentations on any topic related to Dark Silicon, including (but not limited to): - Architectural approaches to managing and exploiting dark silicon - Power management techniques - Energy/power-efficient circuit designs - Energy/power-efficient memory systems - Scalable design and synthesis techniques for customizable and specialized cores - Novel applications for idle chip area The goal is to facilitate the exchange of the latest ideas, insights, and knowledge that can propel future progress. In lieu of printed proceedings, we will post the slides and extended abstracts of the presentations online. Presentation of new work at the workshop does not preclude future publication. Workshop submissions should be in the form of a 2-page presentation abstract. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of impact, novelty, and general interest. The submission deadline is April 7th, 2013, with notification of acceptance by May 10, 2013. Further details on abstract submission, technical program, tutorials, travel, social program, and travel grants will be provided at the workshop website: http://DarkSilicon.ucsd.edu Organizing Committee: Babak Falsafi, EPFL Jack Sampson, UCSD Steven Swanson, UCSD Michael Taylor, UCSD Program Committee: Andrew Chien, University of Chicago Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, University of Washington Babak Falsafi, EPFL Nikos Hardavellas, Northwestern University James Hoe, Carnegie Mellon Ravi Iyer, Intel Martha Kim, Columbia Per Ljung, Motorola Scott Mahlke, University of Michigan Milo Martin, University of Pennsylvania Vijaykrishnan Narayanan, The Pennsylvania State University Ronny Ronen, Intel Jack Sampson, UCSD Karthikeyan Sankaralingam, University of Wisconsin Steven Swanson, UCSD Michael Taylor, UCSD Thomas Wenisch, University of Michigan

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CFP: 1st Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Agent-Based Simulations (with Euro-Par 2013)
by Vittorio Scarano 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

Call for Papers 1st Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Agent-Based Simulations August 26th-27th, 2013, Aachen (Germany), jointly with Euro-Par 2013 http://www.padabs.org Submission deadline: May 31st, 2013 Organizers • Vittorio Scarano (Università di Salerno, Italy), chair • Gennaro Cordasco (Seconda Università di Napoli, Italy), • Rosario De Chiara (Poste Italiane, Italy), • Ugo Erra (Università della Basilicata, Italy) Program Committee • Maria Chli (Aston University, United Kingdom) • Claudio Cioffi-Revilla (George Mason University, USA) • Biagio Cosenza (University of Innsbruck, Austria) • Nick Collier (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) • Rosaria Conte (CNR, Italy) • Andrew Evans, (University of Leeds, United Kingdom) • Bernardino Frola (The MathWorks, Cambridge, UK) • Nicola Lettieri (Università del Sannio e ISFOL, Italy) • Sean Luke (George Mason University, USA) • Michael North (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) • Mario Paolucci (CNR, Italy) • Paul Richmond (The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom) • Arnold Rosenberg (Northeastern University, USA) • Michela Taufer (University of Delaware, USA) Objectives of the Workshop Agent-Based Simulation Models are an increasingly popular tool for research and management in many fields such as ecology, economics, sociology, etc.. In some fields, such as social sciences, these models are seen as a key instrument to the generative approach, essential for understanding complex social phenomena. But also in policy-making, biology, military simulations, control of mobile robots and economics, the relevance and effectiveness of Agent-Based Simulation Models is recently recognized. Computer science community has responded to the need for platforms that can help the development and testing of new models in each specific field by providing tools, libraries and frameworks that speed up and make massive simulations possible. The key objective of this First Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Agent-Based Simulations is to bring together the researchers that are interested in getting more performances from their simulations, by using synchronized, many-core simulations (e.g., GPUs), strongly coupled, parallel simulations (e.g. MPI) and loosely coupled, distributed simulations (distributed heterogeneous setting). Several frameworks have been recently developed and are active in this field. They range from the GPU-Manycore approach, to Parallel, to Distributed simulation environments. In the first category, you can find FLAME GPU, that allows also non GPU specialists to harness the GPUs performance for real time simulation and visualization. For tightly-coupled, large computing clusters and supercomputers a very popular framework is Repast for High Performance Computing (REPAST-HPC), a C++-based modeling system. On the distributed side, recent work on Distributed Mason, allows non specialists to use heterogeneous hardware and software in local area networks for enlarging the size and speeding up the simulation of complex Agent-Based models. Topics of interest • Frameworks for parallel/distributed ABSs. • Case studies of ABSs in parallel/distributed settings, with an emphasis on the technical implementation, architectural choices and their impact on performances • Benchmark parallel/distributed ABSs • Debugging parallel/distributed ABSs • Formal methods and algorithms for ABSs in parallel/distributed models • Load Balancing algorithms, techniques and frameworks • Management and deployment of parallel/distributed ABSs • Visualization of parallel/distributed ABSs Paper submission The papers will be presented in the regular format (10 pages LNCS format, 5 pages for short papers) and will be reviewed, anonymously by at least 2 reviewers of the Program Committee. Acceptance as regular/short papers will depend upon scientific value, originality and relevance to the Workshop theme. Euro-Par Workshops Proceedings will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes for Computer Science series after the Workshops. Submissions and reviewing will be through EasyChair and details will be given by end of April on the Workshop web site http://www.padabs.org . Important Dates • May 31st 2013, Submission deadline • July 8th, 2013: Authors notification • August 26th or 27°, 2013: Workshop • October 3rd, 2013: Camera-ready papers due Contact information: • Vittorio Scarano: vitsca(a)dia.unisa.it • Ugo Erra: ugo.erra(a)unibas.it • Gennaro Cordasco: gennaro.cordasco(a)unina2.it • Rosario De Chiara: dechia24(a)posteitaliane.it -- _____________________________________________________________________________ Vittorio Scarano Dipartimento di Informatica, Università di Salerno, Fisciano (SA) -- 84084 ITALY E-mail: vitsca(a)dia.unisa.it Homepage: http://www.dia.unisa.it/professori/vitsca ISISLab: http://www.isislab.it Phone : +39 089 96 9733 (office), 9308 (ISISLab 1), 9307 (ISISLab 2) Fax: +39 089 96 9600

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CFP for HOTI 2013: 21st International Symposium on High Performance Interconnects
by Cyriel Minkenberg 26 Mar '13

26 Mar '13

======================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================================================= 21st International Symposium on High Performance Interconnects HotI 2013 ======================================================================= Cisco Headquarters San Jose, California August 21-23, 2013 ======================================================================= Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/HotiConference ======================================================================= Hot Interconnects is the premier international forum for researchers and developers of state-of-the-art hardware and software architectures and implementations for interconnection networks of all scales, ranging from multi-core on-chip interconnects to those within systems, clusters, data centers, and clouds. This yearly conference is attended by leaders in industry and academia. The atmosphere provides for a wealth of opportunities to interact with individuals at the forefront of this field. Themes include cross-cutting issues spanning computer systems, networking technologies, and communication protocols for high-performance interconnection networks. This conference is directed particularly at new and exciting technology and product innovations in these areas. Contributions should focus on real experimental systems, prototypes, or leading-edge products and their performance evaluation. Building on last yearâ€™s successful technical program comprising keynotes, technical sessions, and panels on networking for datacenters and high-performance computing, the 2013 edition of Hot Interconnects is generously hosted by Cisco at their Headquarters in San Jose, CA. This year's conference focuses on the convergence of networking across the embedded, commercial, data center, and HPC domains. We hope you can join us there. We invite paper submissions across a wide range of topics and levels, ranging from fundamentals to the latest advances in hot topic areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: TOPICS OF INTEREST: * Novel and innovative interconnect architectures * Multi-core processor interconnects * System-on-Chip Interconnects * Advanced chip-to-chip communication technologies * Optical interconnects * Protocol and interfaces for inter-processor communication * Survivability and fault-tolerance of inter-connects * High-speed packet processing engines and network processors * System and storage area network architectures and protocols * High-performance host-network interface architectures * High-bandwidth and low-latency I/O * Pb/s switching and routing technologies * Innovative architectures for supporting collective communication * Novel communication architectures to support cloud & grid computing * Centralized and distributed cloud interconnects * Requirements driving high-performance inter-connects * Traffic characterization for HPC systems and commercial data centers * Software-defined networking and software overlay networks * Software for network bring-up, configuration and performance management (OpenFlow, OpenSM) * Data Center Networking SCHEDULE AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: * Paper abstract deadline: April 26, 2013 * Submission deadline: May 10, 2013 * Notification of acceptance: June 16, 2013 * Symposium: August 21-22, 2013 * Tutorials: August 23, 2013 In a change from previous years, this year we invite papers to be submitted either as regular, long papers (6-8 pages) or as short papers (3-4 pages). Short papers could be positional papers, industry papers, or papers describing hot-off-the-press breaking research results, and will judged accordingly and independently from the regular long papers. * Papers need sufficient technical detail to judge quality and suitability for presentation. * Submissions should include title, author, abstract, and paper in double-column, IEEE format. * Long paper limit: 8 pages, single-spaced, 2 columns. * Short paper limit: 4 pages, single-spaced, 2 columns. * Papers should be submitted electronically through EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hoti2013 * Paper title and abstract should be submitted by April 26. * Full paper manuscript should be submitted is by May 10. * Accepted papers will be published in proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society. * Regular paper presentations are 30-minute talks in a single-track conference format. GENERAL CHAIRS Madeleine Glick, APIC Corporation Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich Fabrizio Petrini, IBM T.J. Watson TECHNICAL PROGRAM CHAIRS Cyriel Minkenberg, IBM Research Zurich Sudipta Sengupta, Microsoft Research TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory Christian Bell, Myricom Keren Bergman, Columbia University Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories Luca Carloni, Columbia University David Cohen, EMC Hans Eberle, Oracle Yashar Ganjali, University of Toronto Ada Gavrilovska, Georgia Institute of Technology Patrick Geoffray, Myricom Paolo Giaccone, Politecnico di Torino Brice Goglin, INRIA Mitchell Gusat, IBM Research - Zurich Ron Ho, Oracle Ajay Joshi, Boston University Isaac Keslassy, Technion Sameer Kumar, IBM Research Rami Melhem, University of Pittsburgh Mondrian Nuessle, University of Heidelberg Greg Pfister, Independent Computer Hardware Professional Galen Shipman, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Tor Skeie, University of Oslo/Simula Craig Stunkel, IBM Research Keith Underwood, Intel Anujan Varma, University of California Phil Watts, University College London Eitan Zahavi, Mellanox Please contact us at info(a)hoti.org if you have any questions. Go to the Hot Interconnects web site for updates: www.hoti.org =======================================================================

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Deadline extended to March 30, 2013: P2S2 2013 - Sixth International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-end Computing
by Qichang Liang 24 Mar '13

24 Mar '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 (extended to March 30th, 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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