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CFP CARLA 2014: Latin American HPC Conference [Special Issue on Cluster Computing, Impact factor: 0.776]
by Sergio Nesmachnow 14 May '14

14 May '14

Call for Papers CARLA 2014: Latin American HPC Conference http://www.ccarla.org/ First HPCLATAM �C CLCAR Joint Conference 20 �\ 22 October 2014, Valpara��so, Chile Important Dates Paper submission deadline: : 15 June 2014 Notification of acceptance: : 15 August 2014 Camera�\ready papers due: : 15 September 2014 Aims & Scope Building on the success of the previous editions of the HPCLATAM and the CLCAR Conferences, in 2014 both major HPC Latin�\American workshops will joint in CARLA 2014, to be held in the Universidad Santa Mar��a in Valpara��so, Chile. This conference also includes the Third High Performance Computing School �\ ECAR 2014 (from 13 �\ 17 October, 2014). The main goal of CARLA is to provide a forum fostering the growth of the HPC community in Latin America through the exchange and dissemination of new ideas, techniques, and research in HPC. The conference will feature invited talks from academy and industry, short�\ and full�\paper sessions presenting both mature work and new ideas in research and industrial applications. Suggested topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: Parallel Algorithms and Techniques, GPU Computing Applications, Distributed, Grid, and Cloud Computing, High Performance Computing Applications, Visualizations and Software Tools, Component Technologies, Tools and Environments for High Performance System Engineering. Instructions for Authors Authors are invited to submit full and short papers written in English, according to the Springer LNCS style. Full papers must have between 10 to 15 pages and short papers must have between 4 to 6 pages. Papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere. Submissions will be handled electronically using the Easy Chair system. All paper submissions will be carefully reviewed by at least two experts and returned to the author(s). The authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. Proceedings and Special Issues in Journals All accepted full papers will be included in the CARLA 2014 proceedings that will be published in the serie CCIS of Springer: Communications in Computer and Information Science. In addition, authors of accepted full papers will be invited to submit extended versions to a Special Issue of Cluster Computing (Impact factor: 0.776). All accepted short papers will be published electronically in the ��Book of Ongoing Works��. Organized by: CCTVal (USM) & NLHPC (UCHILE) General Chair: Gonzalo Hern��ndez (chair2014(a)hpclatam.org) Best regards SN

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CFP: 2nd Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE2)
by Daniel S. Katz 13 May '14

13 May '14

2nd Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE2) http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/wssspe2/ (to be held in conjunction with SC14, Sunday, 16 November 2014, New Orleans, LA, USA) Progress in scientific research is dependent on the quality and accessibility of software at all levels and it is critical to address challenges related to the development, deployment, and maintenance of reusable software as well as education around software practices. These challenges can be technological, policy based, organizational, and educational, and are of interest to developers (the software community), users (science disciplines), and researchers studying the conduct of science (science of team science, science of organizations, science of science and innovation policy, and social science communities). The WSSSPE1 workshop (http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/WSSSPE1) engaged the broad scientific community to identify challenges and best practices in areas of interest for sustainable scientific software. At WSSSPE2, we invite the community to propose and discuss specific mechanisms to move towards an imagined future practice of software development and usage in science and engineering. The workshop will include multiple mechanisms for participation, encourage team building around solutions, and identify risky solutions with potentially transformative outcomes. Participation by early career students and postdoctoral researchers is strongly encouraged. We invite short (4-page) actionable papers that will lead to improvements for sustainable software science. These papers could be a call to action, or could provide position or experience reports on sustainable software activities. The papers will be used by the organizing committee to design sessions that will be highly interactive and targeted towards facilitating action. Submitted papers should be archived by a third-party service that provides DOIs. We encourage submitters to license their papers under a Creative Commons license that encourages sharing and remixing, as we will combine ideas (with attribution) into the outcomes of the workshop. The organizers will invite one or more submitters of provocative papers to start the workshop by presenting highlights of their papers in a keynote presentation to initiate active discussion that will continue throughout the day. Areas of interest for WSSSPE2, include, but are not limited to: • defining software sustainability in the context of science and engineering software • how to evaluate software sustainability • improving the development process that leads to new software • methods to develop sustainable software from the outset • effective approaches to reusable software created as a by-product of research • impact of computer science research on the development of scientific software • recommendations for the support and maintenance of existing software • software engineering best practices • governance, business, and sustainability models • the role of community software repositories, their operation and sustainability • reproducibility, transparency needs that may be unique to science • successful open source software implementations • incentives for using and contributing to open source software • transitioning users into contributing developers • building large and engaged user communities • developing strong advocates • measurement of usage and impact • encouraging industry’s role in sustainability • engagement of industry with volunteer communities • incentives for industry • incentives for community to contribute to industry-driven projects • recommending policy changes • software credit, attribution, incentive, and reward • issues related to multiple organizations and multiple countries, such as intellectual property, licensing, etc. • mechanisms and venues for publishing software, and the role of publishers • improving education and training • best practices for providing graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in domain communities with sufficient training in software development • novel uses of sustainable software in education (K-20) • case studies from students on issues around software development in the undergraduate or graduate curricula • careers and profession • successful examples of career paths for developers • institutional changes to support sustainable software such as promotion and tenure metrics, job categories, etc. Submissions: Submissions of up to four pages should be formatted to be easily readable and submitted to an open access repository that provides unique identifiers (e.g., DOIs) that can be cited, for example http://arXiv.org or http://figshare.com. Once you have received an identifier for your self-published paper from a repository, submit it to WSSSPE2 by creating a new submission at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wssspe2, and entering: • author information for all authors • title • abstract (with the identifier as the first line of the abstract, for example, http://dx.doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.791606 or http://arxiv.org/abs/1404.7414 or alternative) • at least three keywords • tick the abstract only box Do not submit the paper itself through EasyChair; the identifier in the abstract that points to the paper is sufficient. Deadline for Submission: 14 July 2014 (any time of day, no extensions) Travel Support Funds are available to support participation in WSSSPE2 by 1) US-based students, early-career researchers, and members of underrepresented groups; and 2) participants who would not otherwise attend the SC14 conference. Priority will be given to those who have submitted papers and can make a compelling case for how their participation will strengthen the overall workshop and/or positively impact their future research or educational activities. Submissions for travel support will be accepted from September 1st to September 15th 2014 following instructions posted on the workshop web site. Financial support to enable this has been generously provided by 1) the National Science Foundation and 2) the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation. Important Dates: July 14, 2014 Paper submission deadline September 1, 2014 Author notification September 15, 2014 Funding request submission deadline September 22, 2014 Funding decision notification November 16, 2014 WSSSPE2 Workshop Organizers: • Daniel S. Katz, d.katz(a)ieee.org, National Science Foundation, USA • Gabrielle Allen, gdallen(a)illinois.edu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA • Neil Chue Hong, N.ChueHong(a)software.ac.uk, Software Sustainability Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK • Karen Cranston, karen.cranston(a)nescent.org, National Evolutionary Synthesis Center (NESCent), USA • Manish Parashar, parashar(a)rutgers.edu, Rutgers University, USA • David Proctor, djproctor(a)gmail.com, National Science Foundation, USA • Matthew Turk, matthewturk(a)gmail.com, Columbia University, USA • Colin C. Venters, colin.venters(a)googlemail.com, University of Huddersfield, UK • Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, wilkinsn(a)sdsc.edu, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, USA Program Committee: • Aron Ahmadia, U.S. Army Engineer Research and Development Center, USA • Liz Allen, Wellcome Trust, UK • Lorena A. Barba, The George Washington University, USA • C. Titus Brown, Michigan State University, USA • Coral Calero, Universidad Castilla La Mancha, Spain • Jeffrey Carver, University of Alabama, USA • Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, USA • Gabriel A. Devenyi, McMaster University, Canada • Charlie E. Dibsdale, O-Sys, Rolls Royce PLC, UK • Alberto Di Meglio, CERN, Switzerland • Anshu Dubey, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA • David Gavaghan, University of Oxford, UK • Paul Ginsparg, Cornell University, USA • Josh Greenberg, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, USA • Sarah Harris, University of Leeds, UK • James Herbsleb, Carnegie Mellon University, USA • James Howison, University of Texas at Austin, USA • Caroline Jay, University of Manchester, UK • Matthew B. Jones, National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis (NCEAS), University of California, Santa Barbara, USA • Jong-Suk Ruth Lee, National Institute of Supercomputing and Networking, KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information), Korea • James Lin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China • Frank Löffler, Louisiana State University, USA • Chris A. Mattmann, NASA JPL & University of Southern California, USA • Robert H. McDonald, Indiana University, USA • Lois Curfman McInnes, Argonne National Laboratory, USA • Chris Mentzel, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, USA • Kenneth M. Merz, Jr., Michigan State University, USA • Marek T. Michalewicz, A*STAR Computational Resource Centre, Singapore • Peter E. Murray, LYRASIS, USA • Kenjo Nakajima, University of Tokyo, Japan • Cameron Neylon, PLOS, UK • Aleksandra Pawlik, Software Sustainability Institute, Manchester University, UK • Birgit Penzenstadler, University of California, Irvine, USA • Marian Petre, The Open University, UK • Mark D. Plumbley, Queen Mary University of London, UK • Andreas Prlic, University of California, San Diego, USA • Victoria Stodden, Columbia University, USA • Kaitlin Thaney, Mozilla Science Lab, USA • Greg Watson, IBM, USA • Theresa Windus, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory, USA -- Daniel S. Katz University of Chicago (773) 834-7186 (voice) (773) 834-6818 (fax) d.katz(a)ieee.org or dsk(a)uchicago.edu http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/~dsk/

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IEEE CLOUDNET 2014 - 8-10 October 2014, Luxembourg - Deadline May 30, 2014 (Final)
by Dzmitry Kliazovich 13 May '14

13 May '14

***************************************************** Call for Papers: IEEE CLOUDNET 2014 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking October 8-10, 2014 | Luxembourg City, Luxembourg http://www.ieee-cloudnet.org/ ***************************************************** Submit now using EDAS system: http://edas.info/N16271 ================================= IMPORTANT DATES ================================= - Full paper submission: May 30th, 2014 (Final Deadline) - Special sessions submission: June 16th, 2014 - Posters and Demos submission: June 30th, 2014 - Notification: August 1st, 2014 - Final Paper: August 15th, 2014 Cloud Networking has emerged as a promising direction for cost-efficient and reliable service delivery across data communication networks. The dynamic location of service facilities and the virtualization of hardware and software elements are stressing the communication network and protocols, especially when data centers are interconnected through the Internet. Although the "computing" aspects of Cloud technologies have been largely investigated, lower attention has been devoted to the "networking" aspects. The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking (IEEE CloudNet 2014), part of the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative, precisely addresses these aspects. Conference topics include (but are not limited to): - Data Center Network Management, Reliability, Optimization - Distributed Data Center Architectures and Services, IaaS, PaaS, SaaS - Energy-Efficient Datacenters and Networks - Big Data Management - Internet Routing of Cloud data - Virtual Ethernet Switching, Data Center Bridging - Cloud Traffic Characterization and Measurements - Intra-Cloud vs Inter-Cloud Management - Cloud Traffic Engineering and Control-Plane Architectures - Green Data Centers and Cloud Networking - Security, Privacy, and Confidentiality in Cloud Networking - Virtualization of Network Equipment - Unified User and Machine Mobility Management - Data Flow Management and Load Balancing - Mobile Cloud Networking - Cloud Federation and Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure - Storage Area Networks, Optical Interconnect, Fiber Channels - Content and Service Distribution ================================= CORPORATE PATRONS ================================= DIMENSION DATA (Platinum), TELINDUS (Gold), BULL (Silver), EBRC (Bronze), FUJITSU, FNR in collaboration with CROSSFIRE, LUXINNOVATION ================================= SPECIAL ISSUES ================================= The following journals will invite submission of "extended versions" of the best quality papers from the IEEE CLOUDNET 2014 conference. For more details please visit http://www.ieee-cloudnet.org/cfp.html. - IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, special issue on Cloud Networking - Journal of Grid Computing (Impact Factor 1.603), special issue on Green Cloud Computing - International Journal of Metaheuristics, Special Issue on Metaheuristics and the Cloud ================================= KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ================================= Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida Babak Falsafi, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) Stephen L. Diamond, IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative ================================= SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ================================= Prospective authors are invited to submit original technical papers for publication in the IEEE CLOUDNET 2014 Conference Proceedings. All submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of six (6) single-spaced, double-column pages without incurring additional page charges. One (1) additional page is allowed with a charge of USD100, if accepted. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEExplore. The best accepted paper will receive Best Paper Award. ================================= POSTERS AND DEMOS ================================= Submitted demos and posters short papers should be written in English and follow IEEE formatting guidelines with a maximum length of three (3) pages. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three experts. Accepted short papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEExplore, provided that at least one of the authors registers at full rate and performs presentation at the conference. If you would like to present a demo, and dont have time to write a companion paper, please submit a synthetic proposal to Posters and Demos Chairs Sebastien Varrette (sebastien.varrette(a)uni.lu) and Stefano Giordano (s.giordano(a)iet.unipi.it) ================================= SPECIAL SESSIONS ================================= The IEEE CloudNet14 technical program will include the following special sessions. More information and submission instructions are available at http://www.ieee-cloudnet.org/specialsessions.html. SS1: Network Virtualization and QoE in Future Mobile Cellular Networks SS2: Intelligent Transportation Systems for Traffic and Mobility Management SS3: Optical Networking for Data Centers SS4: Networks for Intensive Computing and Massive Storage Applications in Biology, Genetics, and Genomics SS5: Energy Efficiency on Datacenters, Networks, and Distributed Infrastructures SS6: Cloud Computing and Sustainability SS7: NTC 2014: New Tools for the Cloud SS8: Mobile Cloud Networking and Services SS9: Optimization Models for Cloud Computing ================================= TRAVEL GRANTS ================================= A number of student travel grants is reserved to be awarded to the authors of the accepted papers. For more details and application guidelines please visit http://www.ieee-cloudnet.org/travelgrants.html. ================================= VENUE ================================= The conference will be held in the Abbey of Neumunster. Located in the heart of Luxembourg city, the Abbey of Neumunster is classified as World Heritage by the UNESCO. ================================= General Chairs ================================= Dzmitry Kliazovich, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Technical Program Committee Chairs ================================= Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, U.S.A. Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China El-Ghazali Talbi, INRIA, France Organizing Chair ================================= Gregoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Posters and Demos Chairs ================================= Stefano Giordano, Univ. of Pisa, Italy Sebastien Varrette, Univ. of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Special Sessions Chairs ================================= Bernabe Dorronsoro, Univ. of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Christos Verikoukis, CTTC, Spain Nicos Passas, University of Athens, Greece Awards Chairs ================================= Fabrizio Granelli, Univ. of Trento, Italy Nelson Fonseca, State Univ. of Campinas, Brazil Publicity Chairs ================================= Burak Kantarci, University of Ottawa, Canada Luca Foschini, University of Bologna, Italy Sushmita Ruj, Indian Statistical Institute, India Yongwei WU, Tsinghua University, China Financial Chair ================================= Laurent Betry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Publication and Web Chair ================================= Claudio Fiandrino, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Local Arrangement Chairs ================================= Stephanie Annet, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Magali Martin, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Celine Lagrost, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Bertrand Dessart, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg More info at: http://www.ieee-cloudnet.org/

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CFP - Energy Efficient Data, Services and Memory Management in Big Data Information Systems
by Miranda.Zhang＠csiro.au 13 May '14

13 May '14

Information Sciences Special Section on: Energy Efficient Data, Services and Memory Management in Big Data Information Systems (EnergyIS) As we delve deeper into the 'Digital Age', we are witnessing an explosive growth in the variety, velocity, and volume of data being transmitted over the Internet. A zettabyte of data was transferred on the Internet in the past year resulting from internet search, social media, Internet of Things, business transactions, and content distribution. The rapid migration of Big Data Infromation Systems (e.g., fraud detection in banking transaction, product sentiment analysis, etc.) to datacentre computing environments is fuelling an increasing concern about the growing demand for electricity and related carbon emissions. One of the major causes of energy inefficiency in Information Systems is the idle power wasted when datacentre servers providing computing and storage capabilities run at low utilization. Even at a very low server load, such as 10% server utilization, the power consumed is over 50% of the peak power. Similarly, if the disk, network, or any such datacentre resource becomes the performance bottleneck, other datacentre resources will consequently become idle and waste a lot of energy. Hence, there is a need to develop methods and techniques that provide sustainable processing of Big Data generated by information systems with high energy efficiency (lower carbon footprint), increased product longevity (reducing the need for computing and cooling equipment replacement), maintaining the current throughput of the system and lightweight memory management, meeting service level commitments (e.g., availability, reliability, fairness, response time, etc.). This special section will primarily encompass models, simulators, and practical approaches that advance research in all aspects of designing, developing, and modeling energy efficient Big Data IS. Successful contributions may range from advanced technologies, models, applications, and innovative solutions for today's Big Data processing IS. It is expected that this special section will attract a significant number of submissions from academia and industry, readership, and consequently numerous citations of the published contributions. Recommended topic areas include, but are not limited to: * Techniques for energy-efficient consolidation of IS workload over datacentres * Monitoring techniques of the energy consumption in IS systems * Energy efficient IS application architectures * Energy awareness in Big Data processing and storage * Optimizing energy efficiency while avoiding datacentre resource contention * Predictable scheduling and provisioning of Big Data streams on IS datacenters * Energy-aware memory management in IS The submitted papers must be original, neither published anywhere else nor under any simultaneous consideration in any other venue. They must be written in excellent English. Previously published conference papers should be clearly identified by the authors (at the submission stage) and an explanation should be provided how such papers have been extended to be considered for this special section. Extended conference contributions must have at least 50% difference from the original works (the authors must indicate the conference name and make the reference to the base conference paper). All submissions will be filtered through the selected anti-plagiarism software by the guest editors. The submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. Final decisions on accepted papers will be approved by the journal editors. Manuscripts must be prepared for publication according to the journal's Author Guidelines available at the following webpage: http://ees.elsevier.com/ins/ Tentative schedule: Manuscript Due June 15, 2014 First Decision Date September 14, 2014 Revision Due October 26, 2014 Second Revision and Second Decision Date November 30, 2014 Final Decision and Camera Ready Due December 14, 2014 Guest Editors: Joanna Kołodziej*, Institute of Computer Science, Cracow University of Technology, Poland, e-mail: jokolodziej(a)pk.edu.pl Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO Computational Informatics, Decision and User Science Laboratory, Australia, e-mail: raj.ranjan(a)csiro.au Tadeusz Burczyński, Institute of Fundamental Technological Research, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland, e-mail: tburczynski(a)ippt.pan.pl Albert Y. Zomaya, School of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia, e-mail: albert.zomaya(a)sydney.edu.au * Corresponding Editor

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CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS : Workshop on Modeling & Simulation of Exascale Systems & Applications - due June 15
by Vetter, Jeffrey S. 12 May '14

12 May '14

CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS Workshop on Modeling & Simulation of Systems & Applications August 13-14, 2014, Seattle, WA Sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research Workshop URL: http://hpc.pnl.gov/modsim/2014/ Submission URL: http://j.mp/modsim2014 SUBMISSIONS DUE ON JUNE 15 (11:59 PM EDT) =========================================================================== Meeting the performance, energy-efficiency, and resilience requirements of systems and applications at all scales from embedded to exascale will require rapid, accurate, and dynamic evaluation of tradeoffs. To provide these capabilities, significant advances in predictive modeling and simulation methods are needed. Models are key tools in the area of application/system co-design. As applications and systems evolve, models must be able to track ongoing complex changes and predict the impact of developments in both software and hardware design. While today's methods tend to focus on application performance as the metric of concern, modeling methods must evolve to consider performance, power consumption, and reliability in concert. It is critical to develop tools and techniques that will allow modeling capability to spread into the larger computational science community where it will have the greatest possible impact. Simulation and emulation capabilities must also expand along multiple directions, including scalability improvements, interoperability, support for system design from embedded to the extreme scale, and interfaces with modeling tools. As part of the process, we solicit community input, in the form of position papers that describe novel research approaches for performance modeling and simulation at extreme scales. Position papers should address one or more of the following areas. 1. Integrated Modeling and Simulation of Performance, Power and Reliability Both integrated modeling of multiple physical phenomena and the ability to capture the impact on the architecture and applications are significant challenges. Position papers are encouraged that address: 1) modeling and understanding of the relationships between physical phenomena, such as temperature, energy, power, and reliability, and their impact on devices; 2) their impact at the microarchitecture and system levels; and 3) how modeling can help to maximize system-level performance and power attributes; 4) novel techniques and ideas for modeling of performance, power/energy, and reliability in an unified fashion. 2. Standards, Integration, and Interoperability of ModSim Methodologies and Tools. Without interoperable, best-practice-based, validated models, ModSim risks becoming an expensive process whose actual development may exceed a useful timeframe compared to the lifespan of systems. We are seeking white paper contributions related to many aspects of this topic: interfaces, best practices, how different methodologies can cooperate, verification and validation in support of interoperability, integration of modsim for various layers of the HW-SW stack, just to name a few. ----- Submissions ----- The Organizing Committee will review these position papers and invite selected contributors to participate in the workshop to be held on August 13-14th, 2014, in Seattle, WA. Responsive submissions will be made public via the workshop website and selected papers may be included in a post-workshop proceedings, if the decision is made for publication of proceedings. The previous workshop report can be found here, and submissions can be made with EasyChair at http://j.mp/modsim2014. ----- Requirements ----- Position papers (up to 2 pages) should describe a fundamental computer science research approach in the development of performance modeling and simulation approaches to address the key challenges associated with high performance, energy efficient computing systems from embedded to extreme scale. This description should be followed by a brief summary of related work and an assessment of the approach based on the following dimensions: Challenges addressed: Which modeling and/or simulation challenges does this approach address? Maturity: What are the indicators that this approach will address the identified challenges? Uniqueness: To what extent is the proposed approach unique? Could it be addressed by other research programs? Novelty: How is this approach different from existing solutions? Applicability: To what extent will the proposed approach, if successful, be applicable to other areas? Effort: How much effort is needed to effectively explore this approach? The paper may include any number of authors, but must provide contact information for a single "contact" author. There is no limit to the number of position papers that an individual or group can submit. Authors are strongly encouraged to follow the structure presented above. Authors of selected position papers will be invited to participate in a workshop based on the overall quality of the position paper(s) and our expectation that their inclusion in the workshop will stimulate constructive discussion by workshop participants. Unique positions that are well presented and emphasize transformative approaches will be given preference. Finally, all position papers will be made available online on the workshop website. ----- Summary ----- Length: Up to 2 pages (a list of cited references does not count against this limit). Due Date: 11:59 PM EDT on June 15th. Submission site: http://j.mp/modsim2014 Notification of Selection for Workshop Presentation: July 12th. ModSim Workshop, August 13-14, 2014, Seattle, WA ----- Organizing Committee ----- Adolfy Hoisie, PNNL (Chair) Laura Carrington, SDSC Jon Hiller, STA Darren Kerbyson, PNNL Ankur Srivastava, UMD Dolores Shaffer, STA Jeffrey Vetter, ORNL and Georgia Tech Bill Ward, DoD Noel Wheeler, DoD Sudhakar Yalamanchili, Georgia Tech # # # -- Jeffrey S. Vetter | +1-865-356-1649 | http://ft.ornl.gov/~vetter

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Extended deadline for LDAV 2014: abstracts 5/19, papers 5/26
by Hank Childs 12 May '14

12 May '14

===================================================== Call For Papers: LDAV 2014 - BigData Analysis and Visualization Held in conjunction with IEEE VisWeek 2014, Nov. 9-10, Paris, France. Abstract deadline: May 19, 2014 Paper submission deadline: May 26, 2014 ===================================================== LDAV Symposium: Modern large-scale scientific simulations, sensor networks, and experiments are generating enormous datasets, with some projects approaching the multiple exabyte range in the near term. Managing and analyzing large datasets in order to transform it into insight is critical for a variety of disciplines including climate science, nuclear physics, security, materials design, transportation, and urban planning. This is currently referred to as the Big Data Challenge. The tools and approaches needed to mine, analyze, and visualize data at extreme scales can be fully realized only if we have end-to-end solutions, which demands collective, interdisciplinary efforts. The Large Scale Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV) symposium, to be held in conjunction with IEEE VisWeek 2014, is specifically targeting possible end-to-end solutions. The LDAV symposium will bring together domain scientists, data analysts, visualization researchers, users, designers and artists, to foster common ground for solving both near- and long-term problems. Scope: We are looking for original research contributions on a broad-range of topics related to collection, analysis, manipulation or visualization of large-scale data. We also welcome position papers on these topics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Data collection, management and curation - Innovative approaches combining information visualization, visual analytics, and scientific visualization - Streaming methods for analysis, collection and visualization - Novel, extreme or innovative methods for understanding and interacting with data - Advanced hardware for data handling or visualization - Distributed, parallel or multi-threaded approaches - MapReduce-based and database-related methods, algorithms or approaches - Hierarchical data storage, retrieval or rendering - Collaboration or co-design of data analysis with domain scientists - Topics in cognitive issues specific to manipulating and understanding large data - Application case studies - Industry solutions for big data Submission Instructions: Submitted manuscripts may not exceed 8 pages. The manuscripts can be 4-8 pages, with the authors determining length based on the content. The manuscripts should be formatted according to guidelines from IEEE VGTC. Submission site note: Go to the submission site, log in, go to 'new submissions', and select 'LDAV 2014 Papers'. Proceedings: The proceedings of the symposium will be published together with the VisWeek proceedings and via the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Best Paper: The LDAV Program Committee will present a Best Paper award to the authors whose submission is deemed the strongest according to the reviewing criteria. This award will be announced in conjunction with VisWeek 2014. Important Dates: Abstract Deadline: May 19, 2014 Paper Submission Deadline: May 26, 2014 Author Notification: July 30, 2014 Camera-Ready Deadline: August 21, 2014 Contact: papers(a)ldav.org Link: http://ldav.org/call-for-papers.html

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CfP -- Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Cyberspace Safety and Security to be held in conjunction with CSS 2014 -- August 20, 2014 in Paris (France) -- LAST CALL
by Gregorio Martinez 12 May '14

12 May '14

Call for Papers Workshop on Privacy-Preserving Cyberspace Safety and Security. Paris, August 20th 2014 Main conference: http://conference.css2014.studiocheik.fr/ Workshop: http://www.uni-saarland.de/lehrstuhl/sorge/workshops/workshop-on-privacy-pr… The workshop is held in conjunction with The 6th Symposium on Cyberspace Safety and Security (CSS 2014). In dependence on the main conference that seeks research submissions on a safe and secure cyberspace, the workshop puts its focus on privacy protection in such an environment. While achieving cyberspace safety and security, deploying defense systems, and deterring potential attacks are already demanding tasks, coming up with methods to do that in a privacy-preserving way is even more challenging. The aim of this workshop is to foster research efforts to combine those (contradicting) worlds and to present new methods that lie in between that area of conflict. Thus, the scope and interests are also closely related to those of the main conference (but are not limited to): - Data and Applications Security - Network and Communications Security - Software and Systems Security - Cloud Security All of those areas of interest still require research efforts on privacy protection and the implications of safety and security mechanisms for the cyberspace need to be investigated as well ï¿½ from a technical as well as from a legal and a social perspective. Thus, we are seeking for submissions presenting novel results from researchers of different disciplines like practical and theoretical computer sciences, legal research, etc. Important Dates: - Paper submission deadline: May, 31st, 2014 - Notification of acceptance: June, 30th, 2014 - Camera ready due: July, 15th 2014 Paper Submission: Papers should be written in English conforming to the IEEE conference proceedings format (8.5" x 11", Two-Column). Papers should be submitted through the paper submission system at the main conference website. Full Papers (up to 8 pages, or 12 pages with the over length charge) and Short Papers (up to 4 pages) are solicited. All submissions will be peer-reviewed by at least two reviewers. The accepted papers from this workshop will be submitted for publication by IEEE Computer Society in IEEE proceedings and submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases (indexed by EI Compendex). Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in several SCI & EI indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. By submitting a paper to the workshop, authors assure that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will attend the workshop and present the paper. Find the web site of the main conference, including a link for paper submission, at http://conference.css2014.studiocheik.fr/ Workshop Organizer: - Ronald Petrlic, Saarland University, Germany; E-Mail: ronald.petrlic(at)uni-saarland.de - Co-Chair: Gregorio Martinez Perez, University of Murcia, Spain; E-Mail: gregorio(at)um.es Program Committee: - Felix Gomez Marmol, NEC Europe Ltd, Germany - Dominik Leibenger, University of Paderborn, Germany - Francesc Sebï¿½, Universitat de Lleida, Spain - Christoph Sorge, Saarland University, Germany - Juan Pablo Timpanaro, INRIA, France - Osman Ugus, AuthentiDate International AG, Germany - Yung Shin van der Sype, KU Leuven, Belgium - Dirk Westhoff, HS Furtwangen, Germany -- Gregorio Martinez, PhD University of Murcia, Spain http://webs.um.es/gregorio/

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CFP : Special Session : NTC 2014 New Tools for the Cloud (CLOUDNET 2014)
by Geo 12 May '14

12 May '14

Kind reminder : CFP : Special Session : NTC 2014 New Tools for the Cloud (CLOUDNET 2014) ***************************************************** SS7: NTC 2014 New Tools for the Cloud http://www.ieee-cloudnet.org/New-Tools-for-the-Cloud-SS-CLOUDNET2014.pdf co-located with The Third IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking 8-10th October 2014 LUXEMBOURG http://www.ieee-cloudnet.org/ ***************************************************** Submit now using EDAS system: http://edas.info/N16271 ================================= IMPORTANT DATES ================================= - Special Session Paper submission: June 16th, 2014 - Notification: August 1st, 2014 - Final Paper: August 15th, 2014 Cloud Computing has emerged as new infrastructure to share services like ï¿½SaaSï¿½ (Software as a Service), ï¿½PaaSï¿½ (Platform as a Service) or IaaSï¿½ (Infrastructure as a Service). However different issues remain to improve the usage : resources provisioning and scheduling, network reliability and energy consumption has to be saved as much as possible. The special session is focused on new tools for the cloud and its use. This special session addresses different main topics of the IEEE CloudNet 2014 conference : Cloud Traffic Characterization and Measurements, Green Data Centers and Cloud Networking, Mobile Cloud Networking and Cloud Federation and Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure. The main topics to be covered by this special session include (but are not limited to): -Energy efficiency in cloud -Proportional computing in cloud -Virtual machine management -Simulation of cloud -Benchmarks for the cloud -Heterogeneous execution in cloud, hybrid cloud -Resources provisioning and scheduling -Quality of service in cloud -Cloud network -Autonomic computing for cloud applications -Cloud middleware -Using models at runtime -Provisioning and brokering tools -Tools and simulators for the cloud ================================= JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES ================================= The following journals will invite submission of "extended versions" of the best quality papers from the IEEE CLOUDNET 2014 conference. For more details please visit http://www.ieee-cloudnet.org/cfp.html. - IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing, special issue on ï¿½Cloud Networkingï¿½ - Journal of Grid Computing (Impact Factor 1.603), special issue on ï¿½Green Cloud Computingï¿½ - International Journal of Metaheuristics, Special Issue on ï¿½Metaheuristics and the Cloudï¿½ ================================ SESSION ORGANIZERS ================================ Georges Da Costa, Assistant professor, IRIT lab, University of Toulouse, France Email: dacosta(a)irit.Fr Laurent Lefï¿½vre, Inria Research associate, Inria Avalon team, LIP Laboratory, ï¿½cole Normale Supï¿½rieure de Lyon, University of Lyon, France Email: laurent.lefevre(a)inria.fr Patricia Stolf, Assistant professor, IRIT lab, University of Toulouse, France Email: stolf(a)irit.fr

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HiPC 2014 (Goa, India 17-20 December) - Deadline Extended
by Yi-Hua Edward Yang 10 May '14

10 May '14

5 May 2014 Release HiPC 2014 21st IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing December 17-20, 2014 Hotel Cidade De Goa Goa, India www.hipc.org Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) --------------------------------- HiPC 2014 CONFERENCE --------------------------------- The 21st annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing (HiPC 2014) will be held at the Hotel Cidade De Goa in Goa, India, during December 17 - December 20, 2014. It will serve as a forum for researchers from around the world to present their current research efforts and findings, and will act as a venue for stimulating discussions and highlighting high performance computing (HPC) related activities in Asia. The conference has a history of attracting participation from reputed researchers from all over the world. --------------------------------- HiPC 2014 ALERTS & UPDATES - See details below --------------------------------- • CALL FOR PAPERS SUBMISSION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO MAY 30th • PAPER SUBMISSION MENTORING AVAILABLE UNTIL MAY 15th • ACADEMIC BOF SESSIONS PLANNED FOR HIPC 2014 • TWO WORKSHOPS PLANNED FOR DECEMBER 17th AT HIPC --------------------------------- HiPC 2014 CALL FOR PAPERS - Submissions due May 30, 2014 --------------------------------- For details, go to http://www.hipc.org/hipc2014/papers.php IMPORTANT DATES May 30, 2014....................Conference Paper Submissions Due July 31, 2014.....................Notification of Acceptance/Rejection August 18, 2014................Camera-Ready Paper Submission September 30, 2014........Author Registration Deadline December 17-20, 2014 ...HiPC Conference in Goa, India PROGRAM CHAIR •Thomas Herault, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS •Algorithms: Frederic Vivien, ENS Lyon, France •Applications: Galen Shipman, Oak-Ridge National Laboratory, USA •Architecture: Murali Annavaram, University of Southern California, USA •System Software: Hiroshi Nakashima, Kyoto University, Japan SCOPE Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of high performance computing including design and analysis of parallel and distributed systems, embedded systems, and their applications in scientific, engineering, and commercial deployment. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: • High-Performance Computing • Parallel and Distributed Algorithms/Systems • Parallel Languages and Programming Environments • Hybrid Parallel Programming with GPUs and Accelerators • Load Balancing, Scheduling and Resource Management • Resilient/Fault-Tolerant Algorithms and Systems • Scientific/Engineering/Commercial Applications and Workloads • Emerging Applications such as Biotechnology and Nanotechnology • Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing • Heterogeneous Computing • Interconnection Networks and Architectures • Scalable Servers and Systems • High Performance/Scalable Storage Systems • Power-Efficient and Reconfigurable Architectures • Compiler Technologies for High-Performance Computing • Software Support and Advanced Micro-architecture Techniques • Operating Systems for Scalable High-Performance Computing BEST PAPER AWARDS One or more best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. WHAT/WHERE TO SUBMIT Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. The detailed procedures for manuscript submission, including style templates for LaTex and Word, and the link to the EDAS submission site are available at http://www.hipc.org/hipc2014/papers.php. Manuscripts must be received by May 30, 2014. REVIEW OF MANUSCRIPTS All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Authors may contact the Program Chair by email (email: herault at eecs dot utk dot edu) for further information or clarification. Notification of review decisions will be mailed by July 31, 2014. Camera-ready papers are due by August 18, 2014. At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. Presentation of an accepted paper at the conference is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in IEEE Xplore. --------------------------------- HiPC 2014 MENTORING - Available until May 15, 2014 --------------------------------- Mentoring is a new feature of HiPC this year. Student authors, and first time submitters, can receive feedback from members of the HiPC organising committee and other volunteers on how to improve the quality of their papers. For details, go to the Mentoring page at http://www.hipc.org/hipc2014/mentoring.php --------------------------------- HiPC 2014 ACADEMIC BOFs --------------------------------- HiPC is introducing a new session format, starting from this year, named Academic BoFs. The purpose is to help foster greater participation by the academic community, both domestic and international. For details, go to the Academic BoF page at http://www.hipc.org/hipc2014/acadbof.php --------------------------------- HiPC 2014 WORKSHOPS --------------------------------- >From proposals solicited by HiPC, two workshops are provisionally planned to be held at HiPC on December 17, 2014 in Goa. They are titled: Workshop on Management of Big Data (MoBD) and International Workshop on Cloud Computing. A link for each workshop, detailing the scope of the workshop, information regarding, and the schedule for submissions, will be posted soon. For details, go to the Workshops page at http://www.hipc.org/hipc2014/workshops.php --------------------------------- HiPC 2014 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION --------------------------------- HiPC 2014 will include a strong single track technical program of peer reviewed papers and three invited keynote lectures. Day 1 will be devoted to workshops aimed at broadening the technical scope of the conference focused on current trends. In addition, day 1 will also feature a student research symposium for fostering student research and providing an international forum to highlight student research accomplishments. HiPC receives strong industry support from companies operating globally and also established in India. In addition to the two days of industry exhibits, the sponsoring partners to the conference hold industry symposiums to bring together providers and users of HPC in a forum for presenting state-of-the-art in HPC platforms and technologies, for discussing best practices, and for exchanging experiences. Visit the HiPC Website at www.hipc.org for updates and details on participating in the 2014 program in Goa, India. --------------------------------- HiPC 2014 SPONSORSHIP --------------------------------- HiPC 2014 is co-sponsored by • IEEE Computer Society • HiPC Education Trust, India • IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) In cooperation with • ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) • ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH) • IFIP Working Group on Concurrent Systems • Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT) • National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ...Follow us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/groups/HiPC-53197?gid=53197&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr ...Follow us on Google+ at https://plus.google.com/+HipcOrg/posts ...Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/hipc.conference ...Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/hipcconf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Fwd: Concurrent Process Architectures (CPA) 2014 - Second Call for Papers
by Marc Smith 10 May '14

10 May '14

[Apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP] ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Thomas Gibson-Robinson <thomas.gibson-robinson(a)cs.ox.ac.uk> Date: Wed, May 7, 2014 at 2:37 AM Subject: Concurrent Process Architectures (CPA) 2014 - Second Call for Papers To: announcements(a)lists.artist-embedded.org, comp.parallel(a)googlegroups.com, concurrency(a)listserver.tue.nl, users(a)concurrency.cc, golang-nuts(a)googlegroups.com, comp.sys.transputer(a)googlegroups.com, seworld(a)sigsoft.org Communicating Process Architectures (CPA) 2014 The 36th WoTUG Conference on Concurrent and Parallel Systems http://www.wotug.org/cpa2014/ Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford, UK August 24-27, 2014 ===================== Second Call for Papers Communicating Process Architectures covers all aspects of the theory, design and implementation of concurrency in computer systems. This includes, but is not limited to: * The design and implementation of concurrent programming systems; * Case studies reporting on the use of concurrency in academic or industrial software; * Theoretical approaches to modelling and verifying concurrent systems. A full list of relevant topics can be found at http://www.wotug.org/cpa2014/call.shtml. Whilst CPA has historically focused on concurrency approaches that involve CSP-style message passing, papers involving other approaches are warmly welcomed. CPA 2014 is being hosted by the Department of Computer Science at the University of Oxford, which previously hosted the 2nd WoTUG Conference in 1985. CPA runs in a single track over two and a half days. In addition, two evening Fringe sessions provide a forum for presenting and discussing new ideas and/or work in progress. Invited speakers will be announced shortly. Timetable --------- Paper submission deadline : 2nd June Notification of acceptance : 30th June Final revised CRC due : 21st July Conference : 24-27th August Submissions ----------- Papers can be submitted at: http://www.wotug.org/cpa2014/authors.shtml There is no limit on the length of submissions; we merely ask authors to make good use of the available space. All submissions will be refereed by an international panel of academic and industrial reviewers, with extensive feedback given to authors. CPA is an open-access conference: accepted papers will be published by Open Channel Publishing Ltd. in the CPA 2014 Proceedings, and made freely available from the WoTUG papers archive. People ------ The Editorial Board consists of: * Professor Peter Welch, University of Kent, UK (Chair) * Dr. Frederick Barnes, University of Kent, UK * Dr.ir. Jan Broenink, University of Twente, The Netherlands * Dr. Kevin Chalmers, Edinburgh Napier University, UK * Dr. Thomas Gibson-Robinson, University of Oxford, UK * Ruth Ivimey-Cook, eLifesciences Ltd., UK * Professor Gavin Lowe, University of Oxford, UK * Dr. Jan Bækgaard Pedersen, University of Nevada, USA * Dr. Adam T. Sampson, University of Abertay Dundee, UK * Dr. Marc L. Smith, Vassar College, New York, USA Contact ------- If you have any queries, please contact the Editorial Board at cpa2014(a)wotug.org.

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