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CFP HPCSP: deadline extension until 15 July
by Dana Petcu 30 Jun '13

30 Jun '13

================================================================= Extended deadline: 15 July 2013 ================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Workshop on HPC for scientific problems http://host.hpc.uvt.ro/events/hpcsp/ September 23-26, 2013, Timisoara, Romania in conjunction with SYNASC 2013 (http://synasc13.info.uvt.ro) ================================================================= IMPORTANT DATES: * Full paper submissions: 15 July 2013 * Notifications: 30 July 2013 * Revised papers and registrations: 1 Sept 2013 * Event: 23-26 Sept 2013 * Publication in IEEE proceedings of SYNASC 2013: Jan 2014 * Extended version for SCPE: Feb 2014 * Notifications: March 2014 * Publication of selected papers in SCPE: April 2014 AIM: The purpose of this workshop is to present and discuss the state-of-the-art in high-performance scientific computing with applications and various fields, like environment, chemistry, physics etc. Thus, the presentations will focus on applications needing high-performance computing, physical modeling of large-scale problems, and the development of scalable algorithms for solving large scale problems on modern parallel and distributed high-performance computing platforms, including multicore architectures, GPGPUs/GPUs, and clusters. Furthermore, during the workshop the participants will have the opportunity to discuss and share the latest research in parallel and distributed high performance computing systems applied to scientific problems. The emphasis of this workshop will be on running complex realistic applications at sustained performance in production-grade HPC environments. Scalability studies of complex computing codes on HPC platforms and the tools and development environments facilitating improved scalability are among the expected contributions. TOPICS: Specific topics for this workshop include, but are not limited to, the following: * Interactive HPC applications * Multi-Scale / Multi- Physics HPC applications * Exploration of large data sets on HPC systems * Multicore/manycore architectures in scientific applications * GPU support for applications * Cluster, Grid and Cloud Computing in scientific applications * Parallelization of compute or data-intensive tasks in scientific applications * Data handling, integration and visualization in scientific applications * Distributed infrastructures for scientific applications * Programming paradigms for high performance computing in scientific applications * Tools and programming environments supporting high performance computing in scientific applications * Scheduling in high performance computing for scientific applications * Workflow management and remote collaboration in scientific applications * System level support for high performance computing in scientific applications * Fault tolerance of distributed scientific applications * Scalability of infrastructures and applications in scientific applications SUBMISSION: Up to 8 pages IEEE CS Format – follow the links from SYNASC Workshops 2013. GENERAL CHAIR: Ralf-Peter Mundani – Technical University of Munich, Germany LOCAL CHAIR: Dana Petcu – West University of Timisoara, Romania PROGRAMME COMMITTEE: * Adrian Jackson, EPCC, UK * Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin, Ireland * Andrea Clematis, Institute for Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies, CNR, Italy * Emil Slusanschi, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania * Florin Isaila, University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain * Gabriel Mateescu, Virginia Bioinformatics Institute, USA * Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece * Ioan Lucian Muntean, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania * Jesus Carretero, University Carlos III de Madrid, Spain * Jorge Sevilla Cedillo, University of Extremadura, Spain * Julius Žilinskas, Vilnius University, Lithuania * Karoly Skala, Rudjer Boskovic Institute, Croatia * Pierre Manneback, University of Mons, Belgium * Ranieri Baraglia, Information Science and Technologies Institute, CNR, Italy * Rio Yokota, University of Bristol, UK * Roman Wyrzykowski, Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland * Suleyman Tosun, University of Ankara, Turkey * Svetozar Margenov, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria * Thomas Rauber, University Bayreuth, Germany

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HPCA 2014 Call for Papers (abstracts due September 3, papers due September 6)
by Onur Mutlu 28 Jun '13

28 Jun '13

The 20th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA'14) February 2014 - Orlando, FL, (collocated with CGO-2014 and PPoPP-2014) http://hpca20.ece.ufl.edu/ The International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture provides a high-quality forum for scientists and engineers to present their latest research findings in this rapidly-changing field. Authors are invited to submit papers on all aspects of high-performance computer architecture. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Processor, cache, and memory architectures - Parallel computer architectures - Multi-core architectures - Impact of technology on architecture - Power-efficient architectures and techniques - Dependable/secure architectures - High-performance I/O systems - Embedded and re-configurable architectures - Interconnect and network interface architectures - Architectures for cloud-based HPC and data centers - Innovative hardware/software trade-offs - Impact of compilers and system software on architecture - Performance modeling and evaluation - Architectures for emerging technology and applications Authors should submit an abstract by Tuesday, September 3, 2013, 11:59 PM EDT. They should submit the full version of the paper by Friday, September 6, 2013, 11:59 PM EDT. No extensions will be granted. Papers should be submitted for double-blind review. We anticipate making a Best Paper award; all papers will be evaluated based on their novelty, fundamental insights, and potential for long-term impact. New-idea papers are encouraged. Submission issues should be directed to the program chair at <enright(a)eecg.toronto.edu>. Workshop and tutorial submissions should be directed to the workshop and tutorial co-chairs (nsatish(a)umich.edu, jmwu(a)ustc.edu.cn) HPCA-20 will host an Industrial Paper Session presenting novel insights from industry. Important Dates * Abstract deadline: September 3, 2013, 11:59 PM EDT * Paper deadline: September 6, 2013, 11:59 PM EDT * Workshop and tutorial proposals due: September 7, 2013 * Notification of paper outcome: November 13, 2013 General Chair: Tao Li, University of Florida Program Chair: Natalie Enright Jerger, University of Toronto Program Committee: Murali Annavaram, University of Southern California Todd Austin, University of Michigan Rajeev Balasubramonian, University of Utah Trey Cain, Qualcomm Research-Raleigh Ramon Canal, UPC Tom Conte, Georgia Tech Chita Das, Penn State Joe Devietti, University of Pennsylvania Lieven Eeckhout, Ghent University Babak Falsafi, EPFL Antonio Gonzalez, Intel/UPC James Hoe, Carnegie Mellon University Lisa Hsu, Qualcomm Research-Raleigh Hillery Hunter, IBM Research Ravi Iyer, Intel Vijay Janapa Reddi, University of Texas Russ Joseph, Northwestern University Ulya Karpuzcu, University of Minnesota John Kim, KAIST Nam Sung Kim, University of Wisconsin Ruby Lee, Princeton University Gabriel Loh, AMD Research Ahmed Louri, Arizona José Martínez, Cornell University Ravi Rajwar, Intel Partha Ranganathan, HP Steve Reinhardt, AMD Research Karu Sankaralingam, University of Wisconsin Josh Simons, VMware Daniel Sorin, Duke University Viji Srinivasan, IBM Research Per Stenstrom, Chalmers Lingjia Tang, UCSD Michael Taylor, UCSD Thomas Wenisch, University of Michigan David Wentzlaff, Princeton University Carole-Jean Wu, Arizona State Yuan Xie, AMD Research China/Penn State Sudhakar Yalamachili, Georgia Tech Jun Yang, University of Pittsburgh Steering Committee: Lixin Zhang, ICT/Chinese Academy of Sciences Dean Tullsen, University of California, San Diego David Christie, AMD David Koppelman, Louisiana State University David Brooks, Harvard University Laxmi Bhuyan, University of California, Riverside David Kaeli, Northeastern University Yale Patt, University of Texas at Austin Josep Torrellas, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

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CFP: (Deadline Extension - July 10, 2013) Special Issue on Advances in Methods for Adaptive Multicore Systems (The Journal of Supercomputing)
by Amirmohammad Rahmanisane 28 Jun '13

28 Jun '13

/* Apologies for Multiple Copies */ (IMPORTANT: Submission Deadline Extended to July 10, 2013) ************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS The Journal of Supercomputing (Springer) Special issue on Advances in Methods for Adaptive Multicore Systems http://computersystems.utu.fi/SI/CFP_Journal_of_Supercomputing.pdf ************************************* Recent trends in the microprocessor industry have important ramifications for the design of the next generation of high-performance computing systems. By increasing number of cores, it is possible to improve the performance while keeping the power consumption unchanged. This trend has reached all areas of computing, ranging from `high-performance supercomputers to embedded multicore systems. Multicore systems need to be able to reconfigure themselves adaptively by monitoring their own condition and the surrounding environment in order to adapt themselves to different scenarios and performance-power requirements. Runtime monitoring becomes crucial in the emerging and future parallel and distributed multicore systems due to increase in variations and fault occurrences, thermal issues as well as due to the need for various adaptive optimizations. This special issue addresses all aspects of monitoring and reconfiguration of parallel and distributed multicore systems. TOPICS (non-exclusive) * Design space exploration and tradeoff analysis * Scalable monitoring architectures for multicore systems * Adaptive architectures for supercomputers * Methods for distributed parallel system monitoring and reconfiguration * Adaptive on/off chip communication (e.g. Networks-on-Chip) * Energy-aware architectures and computing * Adaptive fault tolerant architectures * Thermal-aware architectures * Dynamic power management techniques * Adaptive techniques for FPGA based designs * Adaptive architectures for 3D multicore systems * Low-power monitor and sensor circuits * Embedded multicore real-time systems * Dynamic coherence protocols * Formal methods for modeling, design and verification of monitoring and reconfiguration * On-line testing, design of checkers * Application analysis and parallelization for adaptive high-performance design * Cases studies of multicore systems demonstrating adaptive implementation Guest Editors: Amir-Mohammad Rahmani, University of Turku, Finland Pasi Liljeberg, University of Turku, Finland Juha Plosila, University of Turku, Finland Hannu Tenhunen, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Important Dates Manuscript due: July 10th, 2013 Acceptance/rejection notification: October 15th, 2013 2nd round check: December 15th, 2013 Final manuscript due: January 15th, 2014 Submissions: All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed based on their originality, presentation, and novelty, as well as their suitability to the special issue. Previously published conference papers should be clearly stated by the authors and an explanation should be provided how such papers have been extended to be considered for this special issue. Authors are requested to follow the author guidelines at http://www.springer.com/computer/swe/journal/11227, and include the name of the call within the submission letter. -------------------------------- Amir-Mohammad Rahmani, Ph.D. Assistant Professor Department of Information Technology University of Turku, Finland http://users.utu.fi/amirah/

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CfP: Python for High Performance and Scientific Computing (PyHPC 2013) Workshop at SuperComputing/SC13
by William Scullin 27 Jun '13

27 Jun '13

Call for Papers ============================================================================== Python for High Performance and Scientific Computing (PyHPC 2013) Workshop November 18, 2013, Denver, USA in conjunction with the IEEE/ACM International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC13) http://www.dlr.de/sc/pyhpc2013 ============================================================================== Introduction --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Python is an established, general-purpose, high-level programming language with a large following in research and industry for applications in fields including computational fluid dynamics, finance, biomolecular simulation, artificial intelligence, statistics, data analysis, scientific visualization, and systems management. The use of Python in scientific, high performance parallel, big data, and distributed computing roles has been on the rise with the community providing new and innovative solutions while preserving Python’s famously clean syntax, low learning curve, portability, and ease of use. The workshop will bring together researchers and practitioners from industry, academia, and the wider community using Python in all aspects of high performance and scientific computing. The goals are to present Python applications from mathematics, science, and engineering; discuss general topics regarding the use of Python - such as language design and performance issues; and to share experience using Python in scientific computing education. Topics --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please submit papers related to Python usage in any of the following topics and application areas as well as on broader topics in business, science, technology, engineering, education, mathematics or multidisciplinary topics. * High performance computing with Python * Performance analysis, profiling, and debugging of Python code * System administration * Integration with other programming languages * Scientific visualization * Problem solving environments and frameworks * Education in scientific computing * Computational finance applications * Health and biosciences applications * Big data and data analytics * Image processing Papers/Submission --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite you to submit a paper of up to 10 pages via the submission site (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pyhpc2013) All papers will be published published as a part of the SC13 digital proceedings. These are IEEE digital library proceedings that will be available online. The 10-page limit includes figures, tables, and appendices, but does not include references, for which there is no page limit. The formatting instructions are available here: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Important Dates --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Full paper submission: September 6, 2013 Notification of acceptance: September 30, 2013 Camera-ready papers: November 1, 2013 Workshop: November 18, 2013 Program Committee --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Achim Basermann, German Aerospace Center, Germany William E. Hart, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Konrad Hinsen, Centre de Biophysique Moléculaire, CNRS Orléans, France Guy K. Kloss, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Maurice Ling, The University of Melbourne, Australia Stuart Mitchell, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Mike Müller, Python Academy, Germany Travis Oliphant, Continuum Analytics, Inc., USA Fernando Pérez, University of California, Berkeley, USA Massimo Di Pierro, DePaul University, USA Marc Poinot, ONERA, France Andy R. Terrel, TACC, University of Texas at Austin, USA Gaël Varoquaux, INRIA, France Aron Ahmadia, Columbia University, New York, USA William Spotz, Sandia National Laboratory, USA Kurt Smith, Enthought, Inc., USA Francesc Alted, Continuum Analytics, Inc., USA Matthew Turk, Columbia University, USA Cyrus Harrison, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Samantha Foley, University of Wisconsin, USA Emmanuelle Gouillart, Joint Unit CNRS/Saint-Gobain, France Yung-Yu Chen, Taiwan Workshop Organizers --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chairs: Andreas Schreiber, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Germany William Scullin, Argonne National Laboratory, USA E-Mail: pyhpc2013(a)dlr.de

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Call for Papers: ASPLOS 2014
by Niti Madan 27 Jun '13

27 Jun '13

19th International Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems ASPLOS 2014 (http://www.cs.utah.edu/asplos14/index.html) To be held in Salt Lake City, UT, USA from March 1-5, 2014 Abstracts (required): 5PM EDT, July 17, 2013 (no extensions) Full Paper Submissions: 5PM EDT, July 24, 2013 (no extensions) Author Response Period: Oct 7-11, 2013 Notification: Nov 8, 2013 Accepted papers will be available in the ACM digital library up to two weeks prior to the conference. General Co-Chairs: Rajeev Balasubramonian and Al Davis, University of Utah Program Chair: Sarita Adve, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign ASPLOS is the premier forum for multidisciplinary systems research spanning computer architecture and hardware, programming languages and compilers, operating systems and networking, as well as applications and user interfaces. The research may target diverse goals such as performance, energy and thermal efficiency, resiliency, security, and sustainability. The importance of such cross-cutting research continues to grow as we grapple with the end of Dennard scaling, the explosion of big data, scales ranging from ultra-low power wearable devices to exascale parallel and cloud computers, the need for sustainability, and increasingly human-centered applications. ASPLOS embraces systems research that directly targets these new problems in new ways. ASPLOS 2014 invites papers on ground-breaking research on current and future computer systems. Submissions should emphasize synergy of at least two ASPLOS disciplines: architecture, programming languages, operating systems, and related areas. Non-traditional topics are especially encouraged. The review process will be sensitive to the challenges of multidisciplinary work in emerging areas. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: - emerging platforms at all scales; e.g., networks of embedded devices, multicore client devices, and cloud systems - applications and systems that address social, educational, and environmental challenges - programming and compilation for existing and emerging platforms - managing, storing, and computing on big data - virtualization, memory, and storage technologies and architectures - power, energy, and thermal management - security, reliability, and availability - verification and testing - heterogeneous architectures and accelerators - new computing model Submission instructions (http://www.cs.utah.edu/asplos14/submission.html) Submission website (http://www.asplos14.cs.illinois.edu/)

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Special Session on Advances in High-Performance Bioinformatics, Systems and Synthetic Biology
by Ivan Merelli 26 Jun '13

26 Jun '13

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] CALL FOR PAPERS ****************************************************************************** Special Session on Advances in High-Performance Bioinformatics, Systems and Synthetic Biology of the 22nd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel Distributed and Network-base Processing 12-14 February 2014 Turin, Italy <a href="http://www.pdp2014.org/specialsessions/bio/" target="_blank">http://www.pdp2014.org/specialsessions/bio/</a> ****************************************************************************** The computational approach to biology is dealing with an enormous availability of data and an extreme complexity in the modelling and analysis of life systems. Both these issues make the scaling-up promise of High Performance Computing extremely appealing. Currently, the possibility of parallelising algorithms and analysis techniques exploiting the various HPC emerging frameworks is receiving a lot of interest. Examples include the porting of legacy applications to clusters, e.g. those for genome analysis, and the use of distributed technologies, cloud computing, on-chip supercomputing, GPGPUs, and massively parallel architectures for the treatment of high-throughput data-sets (e.g. Xeon Phi implementations). Arguably, HPC will turn out to be an unifying aspect of the future integration of Bioinformatics, Systems and Synthetic Biology. The aim of this special session is to present the latest efforts in High Performance Computational Biology and to foster the integration of researchers interested in HPC and Computational Biology. Examples of topics of interest include, but are not limited to, HPC experiences in: - Algorithms for genomics and proteomics - DNA assembly and mapping - Bio-Molecular sequence analysis - Gene identification and annotation - SNP analysis and classification - Differential gene expression analysis and clustering techniques - Phylogeny reconstruction algorithms - Biological databases for big data management - Modelling and simulation of biological systems - Automated verification in Computational Biology - Virtual labs and experiments - HPC-based approaches in Synthetic Biology - DNA-based biological circuits simulations - Modelling of structural protein properties - Parallel architectures for Computational Biology - System infrastructure for high throughput analysis SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the IEEE Conference proceedings format <a href="http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html" target="_blank">www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html</a> (IEEEtran, double-column, 10pt). Double-bind review: the first page of the paper should contain only the title and abstract; in the reference list, references to the authors' own work should appear as "omitted for blind review" entries. Submissions can be made through the submission web site at <a href="https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdp2014" target="_blank">https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdp2014</a> PUBLICATION Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society <a href="http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/home" target="_blank">www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/home</a> in the same volume as the main track. Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the Conference. Conference proceedings will be indexed, among others, by IEEE explore, DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge. A special issue of a international journal collecting selected papers is under consideration. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: 31st Jul 2013 Acceptance notification: 7th Oct 2013 Camera ready due: 31st Oct 2013 Conference: 12th - 14th Feb 2014 CO-CHAIRS Ivan Merelli, CNR-ITB, Italy Marco Beccuti, University of Turin, Italy Andrea Bracciali, University of Stirling, UK PROGRAM COMMITTEE Andrea Clematis, CNR-IMATI, Italy Daniele D'Agostino, CNR-IMATI, Italy Antonella Galizia, CNR-IMATI, Italy Sandra Gesing, University of Tuebingen, Germany David Gilbert, Brunel University, UK Alberto Policriti, University of Udine, Italy Luciano Milanesi, CNR-ITB, Italy Steffen Moeller, Institut fur Neuro- und Bioinformatik, Germany Gethin Norman, University of Glasgow, UK Horacio Pérez-Sánchez, University of Murcia, Spain Monika Heiner, Brandenburg University at Cottbus, Germany Luca Bortolussi, University of Trieste, Italy CONTACTS Dr. Ivan Merelli Institute for Biomedical Technologies Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche E-mail: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">ivan.merelli(a)itb.cnr.it</a> Tel: +39 02 26422600 Fax: +39 02 26422770 Dr. Marco Beccuti Dept. of Computer Science Università degli Studi di Torino E-mail: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">beccuti(a)di.unito.it</a> Tel: +39 011 6706780 Fax: +39 011 751603 Dr. Andrea Bracciali Dept. of Computing Science and Mathematics University of Stirling E-mail: <a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">abb(a)cs.stir.ac.uk</a> Tel: +44 (0)1786 467446 Fax: +44 (0)1786 464551 <div class="gmail_quote"> </div>

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CFPs: Track on INterconnect ARchitectures for Reconfigurable Computing Systems at ReConFig 2013
by anrope2 26 Jun '13

26 Jun '13

(apologies if you receive multiple copies) ================================================================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS INARCS at ReConFig Track on INterconnect ARchitectures for Reconfigurable Computing Systems To be held at International Conference on ReConFigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig 2013) Cancun, Mexico, 9-11 December http://www.reconfig.org/ ================================================================================================== THEME The increase in performance and capacity of modern FPGAs enable the design of on-FPGA multiprocessing SoC. The efficient operation of such systems and their fast integration require efficient on-chip communication fabrics called networks-on-fpgas. Current knowledge and research in interconnects can not directly be applied to FPGA domain, as suboptimal solutions will be achieved. There is a need of a customized design of the network tailored to the FPGA constraints and opportunities it brings. Optimal implementations can be supported by hard pre-built network components that will simplify design and increase performance of overlaid soft interconnect architectures. At the same time, the emerging high-performance reconfigurable computing systems that aim in integrating thousands of FPGA nodes, require novel system interconnect architectures with both on-chip and off-chip components. The increasing IO bandwidth of FPGA fabrics enable truly scalable interconnect architectures that would fit the novel programming models, the communication patterns and the accelerator-rich features of Reconfigurable HPC systems. The emergence of such interconnect architectures with both hard and soft components is expected to inspire new designs, specially when dealing with reconfigurable systems. There is a need to identify the best designs and practices combining all the solutions provided. For example: (1) the intrinsic reconfiguration capabilities of FPGAs and/or in-network reconfiguration capabilities for on-chip interconnects, (2) network-centric reconfiguration protocols and/or paralelized reconfiguration operations, and (3) additional properties such as isolation, partitioning and virtualization. This track aims to create a forum for researchers from both environments (interconnects and reconfigurable computing systems) to come up with efficient solutions and approaches for reconfigurable FPGA-based interconnect systems and identifying the potential of such inter-disciplinary concept. TOPICS OF INTEREST (not limited to) - Hard and Soft interconnect architectures - Customized networks-on-fpgas - Interconnect architectures and protocol for reconfigurable HPC systems - Network-centric reconfiguration mechanism - Interconnect fault-tolerant techniques - Virtualization/partitioning support of the interconnect - In-network cache coherence support - Hands-on experiences on interconnects embedded in FPGA systems PROCEEDINGS Conference proceedings will be published by IEEE and will appear at the IEEE Digital Library (IEEE Xplore). Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version for publication in ReConFig'13 Special Issues of international journals (TBC). PAPER SUBMISSIONS Submissions should be no more than 6 pages long including tables, figures and references (4 pages for PhD Forum). They have to be submitted for evaluation as a PDF file using IEEE formatting (US-letter size). Additional pages can be purchased for regular papers at a price of 75 USD per page (up to 2 extra pages are allowed). No additional pages will be allowed for PhD forum papers. At least one author of every submitted paper has to attend the conference if the paper is accepted. Authors who do not attend the conference to present their papers will not have their paper published in the conferenceï¿½s proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: 19 July 2013 Notification of acceptance: 13 September 2013 Final paper submission: 15 October 2013 Conference: 9-11 December 2013 SPECIAL TRACK ORGANIZATION Co-chairs * Jose Flich (Universidad Politï¿½cnica de Valencia, Spain) * Giorgos Dimitrakopoulos (Democritus University of Thrace, Greece) * Antoni Roca (Universidad Politï¿½cnica de Valencia, Spain) Program Committee: * Yannis Papaefstathiou (University of Crete, Greece) * Pedro Gil (Universidad Politï¿½cnica de Valencia, Spain) * Ioannis Sourdis (Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden) * Teresa Riesgo (Universidad Politï¿½cnica de Madrid, Spain) * Gerard K. Rauwerda (Recore Systems, Netherlands) * Hiroki Matsutani (Keio University, Japan) * Vaughn Betz (University of Toronto, Canada) * Andreas Doering (IBM Research, Zurich) * Felix Tobajas (Universidad de las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain) * Terrence Mak (The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong) * Elliot Fleming (Intel, USA) * Christoforos Kachris (Athens Information Technology, Greece) ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For more information on INARCS 2013 (special track held on ReConFig'13) or if you have any questions please contact the special track organizers at inarcs2013(a)gap.upv.es

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CFP: IEEE DataCloud 2013 -- at SuperComputing/SC'13
by Ziming Zheng 24 Jun '13

24 Jun '13

Call for Papers --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The Fourth International Workshop on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds (DataCloud 2013) 2013 http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/DataCloud2013/index.html --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- November 17th, 2013 Denver, Colorado, USA Co-located with IEEE/ACM International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC13) ======================================================================================= Applications and experiments in all areas of science are becoming increasingly complex and more demanding in terms of their computational and data requirements. Some applications generate data volumes reaching hundreds of terabytes and even petabytes. Analyzing, visualizing, and disseminating these large data sets has become a major challenge and data intensive computing is now considered as the ''fourth paradigm'' in scientific discovery after theoretical, experimental, and computational science. As scientific applications become more data intensive, the techology of handling "Big Data" have gathered great importance. This necessity has made that applications have seen an increasing adoption on clouds infrastructures. The computing models,system software, programming models, analysis frameworks, and other clouds sevices need to evolve and accommodate them to face the challenge of big data applications. The fourth international workshop on Data-intensive Computing in the Clouds (DataCloud 2013) will provide the scientific community a dedicated forum for discussing new research, development, and deployment efforts in running data-intensive computing workloads on Cloud Computing infrastructures. The DataCloud 2013 workshop will focus on the use of cloud-based technologies to meet the new data intensive scientific challenges that are not well served by the current supercomputers, grids or compute-intensive clouds. We believe the workshop will be an excellent place to help the community define the current state, determine future goals, and present architectures and services for future clouds supporting data intensive computing. Topics --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Big data analytics * Data-intensive cloud computing applications, characteristics, challenges * Case studies of data intensive computing in the clouds * Performance evaluation of data clouds, data grids, and data centers * Energy-efficient data cloud design and management * Data placement, scheduling, and interoperability in the clouds * Accountability, QoS, and SLAs * Data privacy and protection in a public cloud environment * Distributed file systems for clouds * Data streaming and parallelization * New programming models for data-intensive cloud computing * Scalability issues in clouds * Social computing and massively social gaming * 3D Internet and implications * Future research challenges in data-intensive cloud computing Paper Submission and Publication --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 5 pages of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per ACM 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines; document templates can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. The final 5 page papers in PDF format must be submitted online at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/DataCloud2013/ before the deadline of September 1st, 2013 at 11:59PM PST. Papers will be peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as part of the ACM digital library (pending approval). Notifications of the paper decisions will be sent out by October 13th, 2011. Selected excellent work may be eligible for additional post-conference publication as journal articles. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. For more information, please see http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/DataCloud2013/. Important Dates --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Paper submission: September 1, 2013 * Acceptance notification: October 13, 2013 * Final papers due: November 10, 2013 Committee Members --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Chairs * Yong Zhao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China * Ziming Zheng, University of Chicago, USA * Hui Jin, Oracle, USA Steering Committee * Roger Barga, Microsoft Research, USA * Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA * James Hamilton, Amazon, USA * Tevfik Kosar, University at Buffalo, USA * Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA * Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology & Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Dan Reed, Microsoft Research, USA * Rich Wolski, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA * Rong Chang, IBM, USA Program Committee * Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota, USA * Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology, USA * Bernard Traversat, Oracle Corporation, USA * Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA * Dan Katz, University of Chicago, USA * Douglas Thain,University of Notre Dame,USA * Erwin Laure, CERN, Switzerland * Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA * Hangwei Qian,VMWare, USA * Ian Foster, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Jack Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA * Jim Myers, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA * Judy Qui, Indiana University, USA * Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA * Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA * Maria Indrawan, Monash University, Australia * Matei Ripeanu, University of British Columbia, Canada * Murat Demirbas, SUNY Buffalo, USA * Peter Dinda, Northwestern University, USA * Peter Kacsuk, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary * Reagan Moore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA * Rob Ross, Argonne National Labs, USA * Rob Gillen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA * Ruini Xue, University of Electronic Science and Technology, China * Samer Al-Kiswany, University of British Columbia, Canada * Steven Ko, SUNY Buffalo, USA * Suraj Pandey, IBM Australia Research Lab, Australia * Venkat Vishwanath, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Wei Tang, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Yogesh Simmhan, University of Southern California, USA * Zhifeng Yun, Louisiana State University, USA

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CfP: Special Session & Issue on On-Chip Parallel and Network-Based Systems (OCPNBS) in PDP-14
by Masoud Daneshtalab 23 Jun '13

23 Jun '13

(Please accept our apologies for multiple postings of this announcement) Call for Paper 5th On-Chip Parallel and Network-Based Systems (OCPNBS) in conjunction with 22nd Euromicro PDP 2014, Turin, Italy, 12-14 Feb. 2014 http://www.pdp2014.org/specialsessions/ocpnbs/index.html with a special issue in Elsevier's Integration, the VLSI Journal<http://www.journals.elsevier.com/integration-the-vlsi-journal/> General Scope In order to achieve functionality with low energy speed product, on-chip parallel and network-based system design requires larger device, multi block functions, and energy evaluation schemes. Such systems, which are emerging as the architecture of choice for future high performance processors, require efficient interconnect which are necessary to satisfy the data supply needs of all cores. This session is dedicated to research on on-chip communication technology, architecture, design methods and applications, bringing together scientists and engineers working on on-chip innovations from related research communities, including parallel computer architecture, networking, and embedded systems. Original papers describing new and previously unpublished results are solicited on all aspects of on-chip parallel and networked system technology. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * On-chip network architecture (topology, routing, arbitration, ...) * 3D stacked logic and memory * Processor allocation and scheduling in many/multi-core processors * Mapping * Reliability and Reconfigurability issues * OS and compiler support * Performance and power issues * Metrics, benchmarks, and trace analysis * Workload characterization & evaluation * Modeling and simulation * Synthesis, verification, debug & test * Design methodologies and tools * Quality of service * FPGAs and structured ASICs * Application-specific design issues * Parallel programming models and tools * Memory system design and optimizations Proceeding and Special Issue Proceedings will be published by IEEE Computer Society in the same volume of the main track. Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the Conference. Conference proceedings will be indexed, among others, by IEEE explore, DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge. Selected high-quality papers from the session will be considered to appear in Integration, the VLSI Journal<http://www.journals.elsevier.com/integration-the-vlsi-journal/>. Paper Submissions Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the IEEE Conference proceedings format (IEEEtran, double-column, 10pt). Double-bind review: the first page of the paper should contain only the title and abstract; in the reference list, references to the authors' own work should appear as "omitted for blind review" entries. Important Dates Submission deadline: 31st July 2013 Notification of acceptance: 7th October 2013 Camera ready: 31st October 2013 Organizers Hamid Sarbazi-Azad (Sharif University of Technology, Iran) Nader Bagherzadeh (UC-Irvine, USA) Masoud Daneshtalab (University of Turku, Finland)

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Special Issue on Software Tools and Technologies for Delivering Smart Media-Optimized Applications in the CLOUD
by Chang Liu 22 Jun '13

22 Jun '13

*Computing Journal* *Publisher: **Springer* *Guest Editors: Rajiv Ranjan, Dimitrios Georgakopoulos, Lizhe Wang*** **** Call for Papers **** CISCO (a network technology giant) predicts that by 2016, 90% of internet traffic will be multimedia content (3D images, high resolution video, and audio). In addition to entertainment and advertising applications, the new multimedia content-driven applications in the domain of healthcare, aged-care, surveillance, and education will contribute significantly to this traffic. The new applications’ contribution to the traffic will be due to their unprecedented processing (storage, distribution, and indexing) requirements for hundreds of petabytes of content. In the *healthcare domain *, live as well as archived videos will be used as a medium to educate patients about the aftercare treatment (follow-ups), once the patient is at home. This will include video instructions about how to change the dressing on a healing wound or how to brush their teeth after having braces installed. Other scenario from healthcare domain will arise from the problem of managing petabytes of multimedia content produced by advanced medical imaging devices. In the *aged-care domain*, health professional will rely on real-time or recorded video feeds from patient’s home to monitor clinical signs and indicators such as skin color, mood, affect, and to determine whether a patient is utilizing devices and medications appropriately. In the *surveillance domain*, governments, small businesses, and individuals will need to deal with stream of video content from security cameras and perform analytics (event detection, event tracking, and alert generation) on-the-fly for protecting citizens, homes and nations’ critical infrastructures. Finally, in the *education domain*, students will need to have the opportunity to access teachers from home; especially, the students in rural or remote areas need an opportunity to be able to receive interactive lessons or instructions via live video streaming, from specialised teachers or trainers who are not available locally. In the aforementioned application scenarios: (i) hundreds of petabytes of multimedia content will be generated in real-time as well as offline which will be required to be efficiently processed (stored, distributed, and indexed with a schema and semantics) in a way that does not compromise end-users’ Quality of Service (QoS) in terms of content availability, content search delay, content analysis delay, and the like and (ii) the information retrieved from content will be consumed and processed in many places concurrently and collaboratively. Many of the existing ICT (Information and Communication Technology) infrastructures that store, distribute, and index hundreds of petabytes of multimedia content fall short of this challenge or do not exist. Hence, we need more powerful and fast ICT infrastructures that can support scalable storage, indexing, and distribution of petabytes of multimedia content produced by aforementioned applications. We believe that Cloud computing infrastructures (e.g., Amazon, Microsoft Azure, etc.) in conjunction with fast communication infrastructure will emerge as the platform for hosting and delivering aforementioned multimedia-content driven applications. Cloud computing assembles large networks of virtualised ICT services such as hardware resources (such as CPU, storage, and network), software resources (such as databases, application servers, and web servers) and applications. Cloud computing services are hosted in large data centres, often referred to as data farms, operated by companies such as Amazon, Apple, Google, and Microsof Azure. In industry these services are referred to as Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). Cloud computing gives multimedia application developers the ability to marshal virtually infinite resources with an option to pay-per-use and as needed, instead of requiring upfront investments in resources that may never be optimally used. Once multimedia applications are hosted on cloud infrastructures, users are able to access them from anywhere at any time, using devices ranging from smartphones to desktop computers. While Cloud computing optimises the use of resources, it does not (yet) provide an effective solution hosting multimedia content-driven applications which has to process tsunami (often in real-time) of content from heterogeneous sources such as surveillance camera, medical imaging devices, etc. Developing a software tools and technologies that can support end-to-end lifecycle operations of different multimedia content-driven applications on Cloud infrastructures (while ensuring the QoS targets) remains a challenging research problem. This challenge mainly arises from the uncertainty posed by application workloads (streaming vs. static content), resources capacity demands (e.g., bandwidth, memory, storage, and processors), failures (e.g., failure of a network link), access patterns (e.g., number of end-users and location), different device types (e.g., mobile phone, laptop, and smart TV), indexing needs (e.g., text and content based), and different network types (e.g. wired and wireless). *Topics* Novel software tools, techniques, and technologies for delivering smart media-optimized applications in the CLOUD, but not limited to: - Cloud-based petabyte multimedia content storage tools and indexing algorithms - Techniques for petabyte efficient non-SQL indexing of multimedia content - Statistical multimedia application workload estimation and related cloud service optimization - Network QoS aware provisioning of multimedia applications - Techniques for provisioning multimedia applications in collaborative environments - Autonomic techniques for provisioning cloud services to multimedia applications - Techniques for content personalization and adaptation - Innovative application case study from healthcare, aged care, surveillance, and education domains *Important Dates* * * November 1, 2013 Paper submission deadline February 1, 2014 First notification March 1, 2014 Revision submission April 1, 2014 Second notification May 1, 2014 Final version submission Paper Submisison - The editors of the special issue are Rajiv Ranjan, Dimitrios Georgeakopoulos, and Lizhe Wang - Please submit a paper to Springer Editorial System<https://www.editorialmanager.com/comp/>for special issue *by November 1, 2013* - *Please select Special Issue Paper as your manuscript type, and enter “Media Cloud” as both the Special Issue title and as your Preferred Editor* - Papers submitted to this special issue for possible publication must be original and must not be under consideration for publication in any other journal or conference. - Previously published or accepted conference papers must contain at least 30% new material to be considered for the special issue. - There is a 20 page length limit (12 point single space inclusive of figures and tables). - Springer has Latex templates<http://www.springer.com/computer/journal/607?detailsPage=pltci_1060244>but no special templates for Word; most papers are submitted in Word. Either Latex OR Word accepted. *Selection and Evaluation Criteria* - Significance to the readership of the journal - Relevance to the special issue - Originality of idea, technical contribution, and significance of the presented results - Quality, clarity, and readability of the written text - Quality of references and related work - Quality of research hypothesis, assertions, and conclusion *Guest Editors* * * *Dr. Rajiv Ranjan – Corresponding Guest Editor* Research Scientist and Project Leader, Information Engineering Laboratory CSIRO ICT Centre, GPO Box 664, Canberra, ACT 2601 Email: raj.ranjan(a)csiro.au * * *Prof. Dimitrios Georgakopoulos* Research Director, Information Engineering Laboratory CSIRO ICT Centre, GPO Box 664, Canberra, ACT 2601 Email: dimitrios.georgakopoulos(a)csiro.au * * *Prof. Lizhe Wang* Institute of Remote Sensing and Digital Earth, Chinese Academy of Sciences No.9 Dengzhuang South Road, Hadian District Beijing 100094, P.R. China Email:[email protected]

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