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ICCCN 2014: call for papers
by Zhang, Liqiang 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

-- Please accept our apologies if multiple copies of this message are received -- *************************************************************************** * The 23rd Intl. Conf. on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN '14) * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * August 4 to August 7, 2014. Shanghai, China * * http://www.icccn.org/icccn14/ * *************************************************************************** ICCCN is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel ideas and fundamental advances in the fields of computer communications and networks. ICCCN serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners with a common interest in improving computer communications and networking through scientific and technological innovation. ICCCN 2014 is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Communication Society. Scope: ===== The primary focus of the conference is on new and original research results in the areas of design, implementation, and applications of computer communications and networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Cognitive, Cellular and Mobile Networks (CCM) - Comm. Architecture, Algorithms, Modeling and Evaluation (CAAME) - Data Centers and Big Data Computing (DCBC) - Green Networks and Sustainable Computing (GREEN) - Grid, Cloud, Internet and Peer-to-peer Computing and Comm. (GCIP) - Multimedia and Real-Time Networking (MRN) - Security, Privacy, and Trust (SPT) - Sensor/Embedded Networks and Pervasive Computing (SNPC) - Software Defined Networks and Network Testing and Deployment (SDN) - Wireless LAN, Ad Hoc, and Mesh Networks (WAM) Instructions for Authors: ================== Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font) and must be submitted via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/) as PDF files (formatted for 8.5x11-inch paper). The review version should be no longer than 8pages. The camera-ready version can have up to two additional pages if the authors pay an over-length charge at the time of publication (camera-ready manuscripts should not exceed 10 pages in total). Submitted papers should not be previously published in or be under consideration for publication in another conference or journal. Paper titles and/or author names cannot be changed and/or added to the papers once papers are submitted to ICCCN 2014 for review. The Program Committee reserves the right to not review papers that either exceed the length specification or have been submitted or published elsewhere. Submissions must include a title, abstract, keywords, author(s) and affiliation(s) with postal and e-mail address(es) and phone number(s). A paper abstract must be registered on EasyChair by the deadline indicated below. Review and Publication of Manuscripts: ============================= Submitted papers will be reviewed by the TPC and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance, and quality of presentation. An accepted paper must be presented at the conference venue by one of the authors registered at the full registration rate. Each full registration covers up to two papers authored by the registered author. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. Note that each accepted paper must be presented by one of authors. Papers of special merit will be selected for possible fast track publication in the Computer Communications (COMCOM) journal. Sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation, a number of travel assistance grants will be available for ICCCN 2014 student authors. Workshops: ======== Please note that the page limit for the workshop program is different. The review version should be no longer than 6 pages. The camera-ready version can have up to two additional pages if the authors pay an over-length charge at the time of publication (camera-ready manuscripts should not exceed 8 pages in total). The detailed info can be found in the workshop Call for Papers. For any questions or additional information, please contact the General, TPC, or Workshop Chairs. If you are interested in organizing a workshop, please contact the workshop chairs. Important dates: ============ Abstract Due: February 17, 2014 Paper Due: February 24, 2014 Acceptance Notification: April 23, 2014 Camera Ready Due: May 12, 2014 General Chairs: =========== Changjun Jiang, Tongji University, China Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA Program Chairs: ============ Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Lisong Xu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Workshop Chairs: ============= Aaron Striegel, University of Notre Dame, USA Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, China

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Bigsystem 2014 at HPDC - Call for Papers
by Ivan Rodero 21 Jan '14

21 Jan '14

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- =================== BigSystem 2014 =================== International Workshop on Software-Defined Ecosystems (BigSystem 2014) http://2014.bigsystem.org/ (co-located with ACM HPDC 2014, Vancouver, Canada, June 23-27, 2014) With the emerging technology breakthrough in computing, networking, storage, mobility, and analytics, the boundary of systems is undergoing fundamental change and is expected to logically disappear. It is the time to rethink system design and management without boundaries towards software-defined ecosystems, the Big System. The basic principles of software-defined mechanisms and policies have witnessed great success in clouds and networking. We are expecting broader, deeper, and greater evolution and confluence towards holistic software-defined ecosystems. BigSystem 2014 provides an open forum for researchers, practitioners, and system builders to exchange ideas, discuss, and shape roadmaps towards such big systems in the era of big data. Topics of Interest =================== * Architecture of software-defined ecosystems * Management of software-defined ecosystems * Software-defined principles * Software-defined computing * Software-defined networking * Software-defined storage * Software-defined security * Software-defined services * Software-defined mobile computing/cloud * Software-defined cyber-physical systems * Interaction and confluence of software-defined modalities * Virtualization * Hybrid systems, cross-layer design and management * Security, privacy, reliability, trustworthiness * Grand challenges in big systems * Big data infrastructure and engineering * HPC, big data, and computational science & engineering applications * Autonomic computing * Cloud computing and services * Emerging technologies Paper Submission Guidelines =================== Authors are invited to submit technical papers of at most 8 pages in PDF format, including figures and references. Short position papers (4 pages) are also encouraged. Papers should be formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style (double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch page, http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and submitted via EasyChair submission site. No changes to the margins, spacing, or font sizes as specified by the style file are allowed. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, and will be incorporated into the ACM Digital Library. A limited number of papers will be accepted as posters. Selected distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered a special issue in a high quality journal. EasyChair submission site, https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigsystem2014 Important Dates =================== * Papers Due Feb. 15th, 2014 * Notification Mar. 30th, 2014 * Camera-Ready April 15th, 2014 =================== Organization =================== Steering Committee =================== Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne Jeff Chase, Duke Univeristy Jose Fortes, University of Florida Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Chung-Sheng Li, IBM Research Xiaolin (Andy) Li, University of Florida Manish Parashar, Rutgers University General Chairs =================== Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University Manish Parashar, Rutgers University Program Chairs =================== Chung-Sheng Li, IBM Research Xiaolin (Andy) Li, University of Florida Publicity Chairs =================== Yong Chen, Texas Tech University Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University Web Chair =================== Ze Yu, University of Florida Technical Program Committee (to be announced) ============================================================= Ivan Rodero, Ph.D. Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2) NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 625 94 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058 Phone: (732) 993-8837 Fax: (732) 445-0593 Email: irodero at rutgers dot edu WWW: http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu/people/irodero =============================================================

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CFP: International Workshop on OpenCL (IWOCL)
by Mattson, Timothy G 20 Jan '14

20 Jan '14

The International Workshop on OpenCL (IWOCL - "eye-wok-ul") is an annual meeting of OpenCL users, researchers, developers and suppliers to share OpenCL best practice It will be held from May 12 to 13, 2014 at Bristol University,England. For more information, go to www.iwocl.org The IWOCL Call for papers/session is now open and is looking for submissions from industry and academia relating to the use of OpenCL. Submissions may refer to completed projects or those currently in progress and are invited in the form of; * Research papers * Technical presentations * Workshops and Tutorials * Posters Call for submissions CLOSES: Friday 31st January, 2014 (11:59 GMT) Final notifications sent by: Monday 10th February, 2014 Print Ready Materials to be IN: Friday 25th April, 2014

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ISC '14: Call for Tutorial Proposals
by Balaji, Pavan 20 Jan '14

20 Jan '14

Experts in high performance computing (HPC) are invited to share their expertise with the community by submitting proposals for tutorials at the International Supercomputing Conference (ISC ‘14) to be held in Leipzig, Germany from June 22-26, 2014. The ISC '14 tutorials program will give attendees the opportunity to explore a wide variety of important topics in HPC and other related aspects. ISC '14 invites proposals for introductory, intermediate, and advanced tutorials, either full-day (seven hours) or half-day (three and half hours). A distinguished panel of experts will select the tutorials from the submitted proposals. The deadline for submission is Feb. 9th, 2014. More information on the ISC '14 Call for Tutorials can be found here: http://www.isc-events.com/isc14/tutorials.html ISC '14 website: http://www.isc-events.com/isc14/ Regards, Pavan Balaji ISC '14 Tutorials Chair

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Special Issue on Emerging Many-core Systems for Exascale Computing - ACM JETC
by Masoud Daneshtalab 18 Jan '14

18 Jan '14

(Please accept our apologies for multiple postings of this announcement) Call for Papers: Special Issue on Emerging Many-core Systems for Exascale Computing ACM Journal on Emerging Technologies in Computing Systems (ACM JETC) http://jetc.acm.org/CfP_manycores_exascale.pdf General Scope To scale computing systems to Exaflops, future many-core systems will require the integration of hundreds of cores on a single chip. The large number of cores in emerging many-core systems introduces complexities associated with resource sharing, parallel programming, heterogeneity, distributed memory architectures, and implementation challenges. The design of such architectures will require new innovations in all areas of circuits and systems. The goal of this special issue is to present and discuss innovative ideas and solutions in the design, modelling, prototyping, programming, and implementation of many-core systems for exascale computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Bio-inspired many-core systems (emphasized on Neuromorphic systems) * On-chip interconnection (e.g. Optical, Wireless, etc.) * Domain-specific many-core processors * Fault-tolerance and reliability * Mapping of applications onto many-core systems * Thermal and power-aware techniques * 3-D stacked technology * Compiler for many-core systems * Reconfigurable computing * (Embedded) operating systems * Computer arithmetic * Synthesis, verification, debug & test * Design methodologies and tools * FPGA and ASIC prototyping * GPU implementation * Memory system design and optimizations * Heterogeneity challenges * Modeling and simulation of many-cores Submitted articles must not have been previously published or currently submitted for publication elsewhere. For work that has been published previously in a conference, it is required that submissions to the special issue have at least 30% new content. Submissions that do not meet this requirement will be returned without review. The papers should be submitted via the Manuscript Central website (http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jetc) and should adhere to journal formatting requirements (http://jetc.acm.org/) Important Dates Submission deadline: 1 February 2014 à 15 March 2014 Notification of interim decision: 1 June 2014 à 15 July 2014 Revised paper submission due: 1 August 2014 à 15 September 2014 Final decision: 15 October 2014 à 30 November 2014 Final paper due: 15 November 2014 à 10 January 2015 Target publication: April/May 2015 Guest Editors (in alphabetical order): Masoud Daneshtalab, University of Turku, Finland Farhad Mehdipour, E-JUST Center at Kyushu University, Japan Hannu Tenhunen, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Zhiyi Yu, Fudan University, China Corresponding Editor: Masoud Daneshtalab (masdan(a)utu.fi)

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3rd CFP 1st International Workshop on Scalable Computing For Real-Time Big Data Applications - held in conjuction with CCGrid'14
by Marc-Eduard Frincu 18 Jan '14

18 Jan '14

1st International Workshop on Scalable Computing For Real-Time Big Data Applications (SCRAMBL'14) held in conjunction with CCGrid'14 in Chicago IL, USA, May 26-29, 2014 URL: http://losangeles.usc.edu/scrambl/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- DESCRIPTION: The continuous growth of our society has lead to complex systems of behavior and also to the need to optimize certain aspects of our day to day activities. Time sensitive applications such as real time power management for smart grids, traffic control or network monitoring require on demand large scale information processing and real time responses. The data these applications gather on a regular basis from monitoring sensors exceeds the normal storage and capacity power of normal machines or even clusters. In addition, the complexities arising from handling large relational datasets include but are not limited to data heterogeneity (i.e. variability), data quality (missing/approximate), data temporality (i.e. high-velocity), data volume or data streaming. Traditional computing platforms and even storage/processing models cannot simultaneously address these efficiently. Advances in the state of art in scalable computing platforms such as clouds, offer an ideal environment for showcasing and advancing methods for modeling, management, mining and analysis of real-time big data. At the same time novel models that take into account all these complexities need to be designed on top of these scalable systems. This workshop aims at providing a venue for designers, practitioners, researchers, developers, and industrial/governmental partners to come together, present and discuss leading research results, use cases, innovative ideas, challenges, and opportunities that arise from real-time big data applications. SCRAMBL'14 is co-located with the 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2014) and will take place on May 26, 2014 in Chicago IL, USA. We intend to have one invited speaker to set the broader picture and share their experience in scalable computing for real-time big data applications. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST: Topics of interests include but are not limited to novel techniques for addressing modeling, storage, processing, mining and analysis real-time big data in secure scalable computing environments: * Scalable Models -Data representation and data structures -Dynamic/temporal data -Heterogeneous data -Relational -Linked Data -Semantic integration -Complex event processing -Messaging and data flow -Wokflows/processes * Scalable Algorithms & Architectures -Data extraction, cleaning, processing -Machine learning -Reasoning -Scalable architectures: Grids, Clouds, HPC, Clusters -Programming paradigms (e.g. MapReduce) * Security & Privacy Aspects * Real-time Big Data Applications and Usecases ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION (alphabetically) the list will be updated as new members join: Co-chairs: * Charalampos Chelmis, University of Southern California, USA * Marc Frincu, University of Southern California, USA * Bogdan Nicolae, IBM Research, Ireland Steering Committee: * Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA * Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Sciences, India * Yinglong Xia, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Program Committee: * Albert Bifet, University of Waikato, New Zeeland * Charalampos Chelmis, University of Southern California, USA * Marc Frincu, University of Southern California, USA * Danny Lange, Microsoft Research, USA * Adrien L?bre, Ecole des Mines, France * Bogdan Nicolae, IBM Research, Ireland * Anand Panangadan, University of Southern California, USA * Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA * Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA * Shadi Ibrahim, INRIA, France * Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Sciences, India * Yinglong Xia, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA * Liang Zhang, LinkedIn, USA * Tao Zhu, Twitter, USA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission deadline: 01/31/2014 Acceptance/rejection notification: 02/28/2014 Camera-ready version due: 03/14/2014 (hard deadline) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: SCRAMBL'14 is a half day workshop conducted in a highly interactive manner. We envisage two presentations sessions followed by a general discussion. In addition to regular research papers, we accept real-world use cases and position papers to stimulate discussions including practitioners. Further, we will accept outrageous ideas statements, which may highlight controversial topics or visionary ideas, to further foster discussions. Particularly, we welcome submissions in the form of: * Outrageous ideas (up to 2 pages) * Position papers (short papers up to 6 pages) * Real-world use cases papers (up to 10 pages) * Research papers (up to 10 pages) Authors are invited to submit papers formatted according to the 2-column IEEE format (http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/CCGrid2014/IEEECS_confs_LaTeX.zip) via EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scrambl2014 . The review process will not be blind, therefore it is not necessary for submissions to be anonymized. Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 10 letter-size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines or received after the due date will be returned without review. For the final camera-ready version, authors with accepted papers may purchase additional pages at the following rates: 100 USD for each of the first two additional pages; 200 USD for each of the third and fourth additional pages. Submitted papers must represent original and unpublished work, that is not currently under review. All manuscripts will be evaluated according to their si gnificance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, quality of presentation, and relevance to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop.

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CFP: The 43rd Annual Conference of Parallel Processing (ICPP-2014) Papers Due Day: March 1, 2014
by du 18 Jan '14

18 Jan '14

CALL FOR PAPERS The 43rd Annual Conference - 2014 International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2014) Minneapolis, MN, USA, September 9-12, 2014 http://icpp.cs.umn.edu Sponsored by The International Association for Computers and Communications (IACC) in cooperation with University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA Scope Parallel and distributed computing is a central topic in science, engineering and society. ICPP, the International Conference on Parallel Processing, provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present their latest research findings in all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. ICPP 2014 will be organized around the following tracks: • Algorithm Design • Networking and Mobile Computing • Applications • Cloud Computing and Big Data Analytics • Architectures • Software Systems and Programming Models • Compilers • Performance Modeling and Evaluation Paper Submission Paper submissions should be formatted according to the IEEE standard double-column format with a font size 10 pt or larger. Each paper is strictly limited to 10 pages in length. Submissions should represent original, substantive research results. See the conference website for electronic paper submission instructions. Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline March 1, 2014 Author Notification June 1, 2014 Final Manuscript Due June 15, 2014 Workshops Workshops with more focused scope will be held from September 9-12. Proposals should be submitted to Pavan Balaji (balaji(a)mcs.anl.gov) AND Anne Benoit (albenoit(a)gmail.com) by October 15, 2013. Proceedings Proceedings of the conference and workshops will be available on CD or USB at the conference and will be published via IEEE Xplore. Further Information Please contact David Du (du(a)cs.umn.edu) or Anand Tripathi (tripathi(a)cs.umn.edu) Conference Venue: Commons Hotel, Minneapolis, Minnesota USA (http://www.commonshotel.com) Organizing & Program Committees General Chair David Du, University of Minnesota, USA Program Chair Anand Tripathi, University of Minnesota, USA Program Vice-Chairs Algorithm Design: George Karypis, University of Minnesota, USA Applications: Srinivas Aluru, Georgia Institute of Technolgy, USA Architectures: Krishna Kavi, University of North Texas, USA Compilers: Wei-Chung Hsu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Cloud Computing and Big Data Analytics: Ananth Grama, Purdue University, USA Networking and Mobile Computing: Wenjing Lou, Virginia Tech, USA and Tilman Wolf, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA Performance Modeling and Evaluation: Anand Sivasubramaniam, Pennsylvania State University, USA Software Systems and Programming Models: Matt Mutka, Michigan State University, USA Program Committee Members (Please see the conference web page) Workshops Co-Chairs Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Lab., USA and Anne Benoit, ENS Lyon, France Awards Chair Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Publications Chair Wang-Chien Lee, Pennsylvania State University, USA Publicity & Int. Liaison Co-Chairs Admela Jukan, Technische Unversität Braunschweig, Germany Tei-Wei Kou, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Kyu-Young Whang, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Local Arrangements Chair Volkan Isler, University of Minnesota, USA Registration Chair Carrie Stein, Ohio-State University, USA Conference Web Manager Ziqi Fan, University of Minnesota, USA

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(CFP due 2/7) The 9th International Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning
by Suda, Reiji 17 Jan '14

17 Jan '14

============================================================== :: iWAPT 2014 :: CALL FOR PAPERS The 9th International Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning iwapt.org/2014/ One day in the time frame of June 30 - July 3, 2014 in Eugene, Oregon, United States The iWAPT 2014 will be held in conjunction with VECPAR 2014. http://www.vecpar.org/ =============================================================== # IMPORTANT: Updated Call for Papers iWAPT 2014 accepts both unpublished paper submissions and resubmissions of previously published papers. Details: see below. # Important dates * Submissions due: Friday, February 7, 2014 (anywhere on Earth) * Notification: Friday, March 21, 2014 * Camera-ready: Friday, April 25, 2014 Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwapt2014 (See below for instructions.) # About iWAPT The goal of the Ninth International Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning (*iWAPT 2014*) is to bring together researchers who are investigating automated techniques for constructing and/or adapting algorithms and software for high performance on modern complex computer architectures. We are particularly interested in autotuning and its relationship to the following topic areas (list is not exhaustive): * Machine-adaptive algorithms and software * Program generation * Performance analysis and modeling * Parallel and distributed computing * Numerical algorithms and libraries * Multi- and manycore systems, heterogeneous architectures * Compilation, e.g., iterative and empirical compilers * Programming models * Runtime systems * Empirical search heuristics * Power- and/or energy-aware computing # Paper submissions iWAPT 2014 invites two kinds of contributions: regular papers and previously published papers. Only regular papers will become a part of the formal proceedings, though all papers will be distributed to workshop attendees. The goal of this format is to encourage broad participation in the workshop, both for new work and prior but current work. All accepted papers will be assigned a speaking slot in the workshop's agenda. Regular papers present new, previously unpublished work. Such papers will undergo the usual peer-review, judged on the criteria of novelty, technical soundness, and writing quality. If accepted, they become part of the official VECPAR proceedings. They will also be included in the post-conference proceedings of VECPAR 2014, which Springer will publish in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Publication is subject to confirmation by the iWAPT program committee that the authors have revised the paper per reviewer comments as needed. Further information about the process will be sent to authors with the notice of acceptance. Prior papers are those that have already been published but still reflect the authors' current interests. They may also be new surveys of the authors' prior work. Importantly, such papers will be distributed locally to attendees but will not be included in the formal published proceedings. Review of such papers will be lighter, with acceptance determined by availability of time in the program, relevance, and likely significance to workshop attendees. # Submission guidelines The camera ready version of papers submitted for presentation in iWAPT 2014 should be limited to 8 pages. The manuscripts must be formatted according to the Rules of the Springer Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) in particular the styles defined in lncs-article-latex2e.zip (http://www.vecpar.org/lncs-article-latex2e.zip) and lncs-article-word.zip (http://www.vecpar.org/lncs-article-word.zip) Please do not use any header or footer, running title or author, or the A4paper option. Submissions must include a title, authors' names, addresses, complete affiliations, e-mail address of all authors, a short abstract (100 words) and a maximum of three topics from the topics list of the conference that you believe best fits your paper. Accepted submissions will be included in the material to be distributed to the participants of the meeting. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. PostScript and source versions of your paper must be submitted electronically through the paper submission system (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwapt2014) # Program Committee * (Chair) Franz Franchetti, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * (Vice Chair) Yusaku Yamamoto, Kobe University, Japan * Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna, Austria * I-Hin Chung, IBM * Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck Institute, Austria * Takeshi Fukaya, Riken AICS, Japan * Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich * Jeremy Johnson, Drexel University, USA * Takahiro Katagiri, The University of Tokyo, Japan * Jakub Kurzak, University of Tennessee, USA * Boyana Norris, University of Oregon, USA * Satoshi Ohshima, The University of Tokyo, Japan * Louis-Noel Pouchet, UCLA, USA * Takao Sakurai, Hitachi Ltd., Japan * Daisuke Takahashi, University of Tsukuba, Japan * Hiroyuki Takizawa, Tohoku University, Japan * Teruo Tanaka, Kogakuin University, Japan * Masahiro Yasugi, Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan # Organizing Committee * (General Chair) Osni Marques, LBNL, USA * (Finance Chair) Toshiyuki Imamura, AICS Riken, Japan * (SC liaison) Reiji Suda, The University of Tokyo, Japan * (Web Chair) Hisayasu Kuroda, Ehime University, Japan * (Publicity Chair) Akihiro Fujii, Kogakuin University, Japan * (PC Chair) Franz Franchetti, Carnegie Mellon University, USA # Contact iwapt2014 .at. sys.i.kyoto-u.ac.jp

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AsHES'14 (deadline extended to Jan 16): The Fourth International Workshop on Accelerators and Heterogeneous Exascale Systems
by Yao Zhang 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

We would like to inform you that we extended the submission deadline to Jan. 16, 2014 (Anywhere on Earth). Thank you all for your interests! ============================================================ * Call for papers: AsHES'14 <http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/ashes/2014/> * The Fourth International Workshop on Accelerators and Hybrid Exascale Systems (AsHES) May 20th, 2014 in Phoenix, USA To be held in conjunction with IPDPS 2014 ============================================================ *Workshop Website:* http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/ashes/2014/organizers.php ============================================================ *Workshop Scope and Goals:* As we look beyond the petascale era, accelerator and heterogeneous architectures are expected to play a preeminent role in architecting the largest systems in the world. Future systems may not only offer accelerators (e.g. GPU, MIC, FPGA) and hybrid processors of both lightweight and heavyweight cores (e.g APU, big.LITTLE), but also may use hybrid memory systems equipped with stacked memory and non-volatile memory in addition to regular DRAM. While there is significant interest in these architectures, much of it is an artifact of the hype associated with them. This workshop focuses on understanding the implications of accelerators and heterogeneous designs on the hardware systems, applications, and programming environments of future systems. It seeks to ground accelerator research through studies of application kernels or whole applications on such systems, as well as tools and libraries that improve the performance and productivity of applications on these systems. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners who are involved in application studies for accelerators and other heterogeneous systems, to learn the opportunities and challenges in future design trends for HPC applications and systems. We are soliciting contributions in areas including but not limited to: - Strategies for application behavior characterization and performance optimization for accelerators. - Techniques for optimizing kernels for execution on GPU, MIC, and future heterogeneous platforms. - Models of application performance on heterogeneous HPC systems. - Implications of workload characterization in heterogeneous architecture design. - Benchmarking and performance evaluation for accelerators. - Tools and techniques to assist application development for accelerators and heterogeneous processors. - System software techniques to abstract application domain-specific functionalities for accelerators. ============================================================ *Important Dates:* Paper Submission: Jan. 16, 2014 (Anywhere on Earth) Author Notification: Feb. 21, 2014 Camera-Ready Deadline: Mar. 10, 2014 ============================================================ *Submission Instructions:* Submitted manuscripts may not exceed 8 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See the style templates for latex or word for details. Submissions will be judged based on relevance, significance, originality, correctness and clarity. ============================================================ *Proceedings:* The proceedings of this workshop will be published electronically together with with IPDPS proceedings via the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. ============================================================ *Journal Special Issue:* The best papers of AsHES 2014 will be included in a Special Issue on Applications for the Heterogeneous Computing Era of the International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications. ============================================================ *Organizers:* *Steering Committee*Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory (co-chair) Yunquan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology Jiayuan Meng, Argonne National Laboratory (co-chair) *General Chair* Yunquan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences *Program Chairs* James Dinan, Intel Xiaosong Ma, North Carolina State University *Publicity Chairs* Yao Zhang, ANL Antonio Pena, ANL *Web Chair* Liang Yuan, Chinese Academy of Sciences *Technical Program Committee* Gabriele Jost, Intel Yongpeng Zhang, Stone Ridge Carl Beckmann, Intel Antonio J. Peña, ANL Fangfang Xia, ANL Naoya Maruyama, Tokyo Tech Sriram Krishnamoorthy, PNNL Bronis de Supinski, LLNL Dong Li, ORNL Surendra Byna, LBNL Dimitris Nikolopoulos, UOC Xipeng Shen, William & Mary Polychronis Xekalakis, Intel Huimin Cui, CAS Siva Hari, NVidia Feng Ji, VMWare Hao Wang, Virginia Tech Rong Ge, Marquette *Journal Special Issue Co-editors* Yunquan Zhang, CAS Dong Li, ORNL

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CFP - Special Issue on Parallel Soft Computing Techniques in HPCS - The Computer Journal (I. F. 0.755)
by Bernabe Dorronsoro 15 Jan '14

15 Jan '14

============================================================ Special Issue on Parallel Soft Computing Techniques in High Performance Computing Systems of the The Computer Journal (2012 Impact Factor 0.755) http://www.bernabe.dorronsoro.es/imagenes/cfp/CJ-SI-CFP.pdf ============================================================ Nowadays, there is a need to solve more and more complex optimization problems in industry, science, engineering, and many other domains. Soft computing techniques are highly appropriate methods to deal with such complex problems (that cannot be tackled with exact methods) with reasonable computational effort. Additionally, due to the growing complexity and computational demands of such problems and the widespread availability of powerful parallel architectures (GPUs, multicore CPUs, clusters, grids, and clouds), parallel soft computing algorithms arise as highly appropriate tools to handle these problems. This special issue focusses on novel advances in parallel soft computing algorithms and their application to the resolution of complex real-world problems to find accurate solutions in reasonable time. We look for high quality publications proposing parallel soft computing techniques designed for multi-core processors, GPUs, and other large High Performance Computing systems as clusters, grid or cloud computing to solve complex real-world problems. Additionally, works proposing novel soft computing/metaheuristic/parallel algorithms applied to solve complex problems in the context of clusters, grid or cloud computing are of interest too. With this special issue, we aim at collecting a number of diverse, outstanding papers with important theoretical and empirical contributions to the field of soft computing, including novel efficient parallel models, new soft computing techniques, and their applications to complex and original real world problems. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: • Parallel soft computing techniques for cluster/grid/cloud computing • Parallel soft computing techniques on GPGPUs and clusters of GPGPUs • Parallel soft computing techniques for complex real-world problems • Soft computing based solutions for cluster/grid/cloud computing related problems • Performance measures for parallel soft computing techniques • Reliable parallel soft computing algorithms for uncertain distributed environments • Massively parallel soft computing algorithms • Peer to peer soft computing techniques • Volunteer and ubiquitous soft computing ================================= Notes for Prospective Authors ================================= Submitted papers should not have been previously published nor be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. They should be submitted via The Computer Journal's online submission system, manuscript Central, at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/compj. They should be accompanied by a cover letter that clearly states that the submission is for the Special Issue on “Parallel Soft Computing Techniques in High Performance Computing Systems”. All submitted papers will be peer reviewed according to the usual standards of this journal, and will be evaluated on the basis of originality, quality and relevance to this Special Issue and the journal, and on the basis of clarity and correct use of English. The submitted papers should be formatted according to the journal style. For more detailed information concerning the requirements for submission, please refer to the journal homepage at: www.oxfordjournals.org/our_journals/computer_journal/for_authors/msprep_sub… ================================= Important Dates ================================= Paper submission: February 28, 2014 1st round review notification: June 15, 2014 1st revision due: July 15, 2014 2nd round review notification: Sept. 30, 2014 2nd revision due: Oct. 31, 2014 Final acceptance: Nov. 30, 2014 Publication (tentative): 3rd or 4th quarter, 2015 ================================== Guest Editors ================================== Prof. Sergio Nesmachnow Universidad de la República, Uruguay Website: www.fing.edu.uy/~sergion/ Email: sergion(a)fing.edu.uy Bernabé Dorronsoro University of Lille 1, France Website: www.bernabe.dorronsoro.es Email: bernabe.dorronsoro_diaz(a)inria.fr

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