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EuroSys Call for Workshops
by Julia Lawall 26 Jun '14

26 Jun '14

***** EuroSys 2015: Call for Workshops ***** Researchers and practitioners are invited to submit proposals for workshops to be held in conjunction with the EuroSys 2015 conference. The purpose of workshops is to provide a forum for exchanging opinions, presenting ideas, and discussing preliminary results in an interactive atmosphere. Proposals should include: * The workshop name and a 150-200-word abstract describing the workshop, suitable for the conference web site. * A short summary of the topic, scope and significance of the workshop, including a discussion on the relevance to EuroSys topics (please include information about past iterations of the workshop, if any). * Information about the procedure for selecting papers, plans for dissemination (for example, special issues of journals, or position statements distributed to the participants), the expected number of participants, and the planned workshop format. * A brief CV of each of the organizers including contact addresses and an identification of a single primary contact. The definite dates for workshop submissions and camera-ready deadlines are yet to be set. However, we expect that EuroSys paper notifications will be sent out by end of January 2015, thus the workshop submission deadlines should be after that. Workshop notifications must probably be sent out by the end of February 2015, so that authors can benefit from the early registration rate. Furthermore, camera-ready copies of the papers must be provided by probably end of 2015, in order to include them in the electronic version of the proceedings. We will provide the definite dates as soon as they become available. All proposals will be judged on their merits and the best proposals will be accepted. Specifically, workshops that have been organized at previous iterations of Eurosys are not automatically accepted this year. For instance, we will take into account the success of previous events (in terms of attendance, submissions, etc.) in our deliberations. ***** Responsibilities ***** The EuroSys organization provides: * A link on the EuroSys Web site * Management of registration for participants * Setup of meeting space and related equipment * Coffee-breaks and workshop lunch arrangements For workshops interested in publishing their proceedings, the EuroSys organization will provide the following support. Note that workshop proceedings will not be included in the same volume as the EuroSys conference proceedings. * Collect camera-ready versions of the papers and their copyright forms * Provide support for publishing on the on-site CD * Provide support to obtain an ISBN number * Publish papers in ACM digital library The main responsibility of organizing a workshop goes to the chairperson(s) of the workshop. The workshop organization must take care of: * Coordinating deadlines and acceptance notifications for workshop papers with the EuroSys Workshop co-chairs * Workshop publicity, call for papers, and submission and review process * Providing a brief description of the workshop for inclusion on the EuroSys Web page * Scheduling workshop activities in collaboration with the EuroSys local organizers ***** Important Dates ***** Workshop proposals due: October 10, 2014 Acceptance notification: October 17, 2014 Date of workshops: April 20, 2015 ***** Workshop Submission ***** Please send electronic submissions to the workshop chairs at: eurosys2015-workshops(a)lists.cs.fau.de Feel free to also contact the workshop co-chairs, Daniel Lohmann and Vivien Quema with any questions regarding the EuroSys 2015 workshops. http://eurosys2015.labri.fr/calls/workshops/

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CFP: Software Engineering for High Performance Computational Science & Engineering (SC14 Workshop)
by Carver, Jeffrey C. 26 Jun '14

26 Jun '14

We are pleased to announce the second edition of the SEHPCCSE workshop to be held during SC'14. Call for papers is include below. Full details are available on the workshop website: http://sehpccse14.cs.ua.edu<http://sehpccse14.cs.ua.edu/> -- Like us on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SE4CSE Follow us on Twitter: http://twitter.com/SE_CSE Thank you, Jeffrey Carver Associate Professor Department of Computer Science University of Alabama 205.348.9829 --- Call for Papers New challenges in computational science & engineering (CSE) continue to push the boundaries of available computing resources. There is a demand to utilize high performance computing (HPC), including GPGPUs and computing clusters, for computational science & engineering (CSE) applications. However developing HPC software is not an easy task. Developers must solve reliability, availability, and maintainability problems in extreme scales, understand domain specific constraints, deal with uncertainties inherent in scientific exploration, and develop algorithms that use computing resources efficiently. Software engineering (SE) researchers have developed tools and practices to support various development tasks, including: requirements management, design, validation + verification, deployment, and maintenance. However software development for HPC historically attracted little attention from the SE community. Paradoxically, the HPC CSE community has increasingly been adopting SE techniques and tools. Indeed, the development of CSE software for HPC differs significantly from the development of more traditional business information systems, from which many SE best practices and tools have been drawn. Development of HPC CSE software requires tailoring of SE tools/methods developed for more traditional software applications to fit the requirements of HPC applications. The SE-HPCCSE workshop addresses this need by bringing together members of the SE and HPC CSE communities to share perspectives, present findings from research and practice, and generate an agenda to improve tools and practices for developing HPC CSE software. Scope and Aims This workshop is concerned with identifying the problems faced by those working with HPC Computational Science & Engineering (CSE) applications, and understanding how appropriate software engineering (SE) tools and practices might be applied to support the development of HPC CSE applications. These applications include large parallel models/simulations of the physical world running on HPC systems, and applications that analyze and/or manipulate large amounts of data. The organizing committee hopes for participation from a broad range of stakeholders from across the SE, CSE, and HPC communities on topics including: * Identification of the differences in development of software between business IT environments and research environments like HPC/CSE * The challenges of communicating (ideas. common pieces of work, requirements, functionality, practice) between people with SE and CSE backgrounds * SE tools and practices which are suited for HPC CSE applications * Measuring the impact of SE techniques or tools on "scientific productivity" * SE education and training gaps that prevent the development of HPC CSE applications We invite both full papers (8-page) and shorter position/experience reports (4-page) that will be used to organize panel and group discussion sessions and be published in advance of the workshop to inform all attendees. We especially encourage members of the HPC and CSE communities to submit practical experience papers. Papers on other related topics are also welcome. Please contact the organizers with any questions about the relevance of particular topics. A workshop report will be produced which summarizes the workshops findings, and revised papers will be invited to be published in the workshop proceedings following the event. Important Dates Submission Deadline: August 23, 2014 Author Notification: September 15, 2014 Workshop Date: November 21, 2014 Final Manuscript Due for proceedings: TBD

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call for submissions for SC14 Visualization and Data Analytics Showcase
by Hank Childs 26 Jun '14

26 Jun '14

SC14 Visualization and Data Analytics Showcase New Orleans, Louisiana, USA November 16th-21st 2014 Call for Submissions (movies and short papers): We seek submissions for the SC14 Visualization and Data Analytics Showcase, which provides a forum for the year's most instrumental movies in HPC. This year has a new format: six finalists will compete for the Best Visualization Award, and each finalist will present his or her movie during a dedicated session at SC14 in a 15-minute presentation. Their movies will be judged based on how their movie illuminates science, by the quality of the movie, and for innovations in the process used for creating the movie. *The accepted submissions will appear as short papers on the SC14 Webpage and archive.* *Review and selection process:* Submissions should include a movie (up to 250MB in size) and a short paper (up to 4 pages including references). The short paper should describe the scientific story conveyed by the movie, how the visualization helps scientific discovery, and the "state-of-the-practice" information behind making the movie. Each submission will be peer reviewed by the Visualization and Data Analytics Showcase Committee. Criteria for revision include: (i) Compelling visualization (ii) Visualizing data involving HPC in a significant way (whether through simulation or data analytics) (iii) Meaningful and compelling science story (iv) Description of visualization techniques necessary to accomplish the movie Finally, submissions will hopefully support SC14's overall theme "HPC matters." *Important Dates:* *Web Submissions Open:* February 14, 2014 *Submission Deadline: *July 31, 2014 *Notification: *September 15, 2014 *Final movies version: *October 1, 2014 *Web Submissions:* https://submissions.supercomputing.org/ *Email Contact:* vis_showcase(a)info.supercomputing.org *SC14 Scientific Visualization Showcase Chair:* Franck Cappello (ANL/UIUC) Hank Childs (U. Oregon / LBNL)

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Fwd: Re: SC14 WHPC Workshop call for papers
by Daniel Holmes 25 Jun '14

25 Jun '14

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CFP - Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing for Big Data Applications (WPBA 2014)
by Hermes Senger 25 Jun '14

25 Jun '14

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON PARALLEL AND DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING FOR BIGDATA APPLICATIONS - WPBA 2014 http://wpba2014.dc.ufscar.br/ In conjunction with SBAC-PAD 2014, Paris, France - October 22-24, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: Full Paper submission: August 10, 2014 Notification of acceptance: September 6, 2014 Submission of camera-ready papers: September 26, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scope: Nowadays, the abundance of data is changing from the way companies make business to the way governments take many decisions, from the way science is made in several knowledge areas to the way many individuals take daily decisions such as where to go or how to buy. During the last decade, tools and techniques emerged to support massive offline analysis of web scale datasets on many thousands of computers working as a single facility. However, the total amount of digital data being produced, stored, and transmitted around the world is growing exponentially. The wide diversity of data sources and formats (data variety) cannot be handled by traditional systems and techniques, raising new data management challenges. In many areas, applications need to collect data and produce answers with high frequency or low latency, e.g. to raise some alarm or take a decision within a few milliseconds. Furthermore, in scalable environments with hundreds or thousands of components, surviving to frequent failures is mandatory. Analytic processing and knowledge discovery in such scenarios demand scalable and efficient algorithms, able to handle the complexity and variety of data even under specific constraints (e.g., energy consumption, available memory, computational power, and networking capacity). Furthermore, sensor networks and the Internet-of-Things open new perspectives in terms of the amount and complexity of data to be managed. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to novel techniques, algorithms, and tools for collecting, storage, processing, mining and analysis of low latency big data in reliable and scalable computing environments: * Scalability and elasticity in big data environments * Fault-tolerance in big data environments * Security and privacy in big data environments * Reliability in big data environments * Data streams processing techniques and systems * Complex event processing * Big data applications * Energy efficiency and big data * Scientific workflows for big data * Programming models, including MapReduce, extensions, and new models * Algorithms for big data analytics and data mining * Management of big data on the cloud * Big data tools, services, and infrastructures on clouds * HPC clouds for big data * Performance analysis of big data environments and applications * Big data benchmarks * Challenges in big data storage and processing * Scheduling and resource management in big data environments * Large data stream processing systems and infrastructures * Data-intensive computing on hybrid infrastructures (e.g., clusters, clouds, grids, P2P) * Implementation and optimizations for heterogeneous architectures * Implementation and optimizations for specialized architectures * Performance evaluation and optimization Accepted papers will be published by the ACM International Conference Proceedings Series - ICPS and disseminated through electronic channels, specifically, the ACM Digital Library (approval pending). Best papers published and presented at the workshop may be invited to submit an extended version for publication in an good quality International Journal (approval pending). ---------------------------------------------------------------- Paper submission Papers of no more than 6 pages must be formatted for submission according to ACM proceedings template (Alternate style). Latex and word templates can be downloaded here:http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. All submissions must be done through EasyChair:https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wpba2014. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizing Committee Claudio Geyer (UFRGS, Brazil) Hermes Senger (UFSCAR, Brazil) Program committee: (to be announced): ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Venue The workshop will be held in conjunction with 26th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2014), Paris, France. http://sbac.lip6.fr/2014/index.php -- --- Prof. Hermes Senger, Dr. Computer Science Department Federal University of Sï¿½o Carlos, Brazil http://www.dc.ufscar.br/~hermes

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CfP : GECON 2014 - Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems and Services
by Kurt Vanmechelen 24 Jun '14

24 Jun '14

========================== GECON 2014 - Call For Papers ========================== The 11th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems, and Services September 16-18, 2014, Cardiff, UK Call for papers : http://www.gecon-conference.org/gecon2014/GECON_CFP.pdf Web page : http://www.gecon-conference.org/gecon2014 Important Dates =============== - Paper Submission Deadline: June 29th, 2014 - Notification of Paper Acceptance: August 5th, 2014 - Camera Ready Paper Deadline: August 26th, 2014 Scope ===== GECON solicits works that are interdisciplinary, combining business and economic aspects with engineering and computer-science related aspects. Works can describe extensions to existing technologies, successful deployments of technologies, economic analyses, analysis of technology adoption, and theoretical models. We welcome papers that combine micro- and macro-economic principles with resource management strategies in computer science and engineering. Case studies that demonstrate practical use of economic strategies and their benefits (and limitations) are particularly encouraged. The purpose of this event is to gather original work and build a strong multidisciplinary community in this increasingly important area of a future information and knowledge economy. Topics of Interest ================== The way in which IT resources and services are being provisioned is currently in flux. Advances in distributed systems technology have allowed for the provisioning of services on an unprecedented scale and with increasing flexibility. Businesses have started to embrace models based on this technology wherein third-party services, which can be acquired with minimal service provider interaction, replace or complement those services that are managed internally. However, enterprises, academia, and policy makers have only started to grasp the economic implications of this evolution. As a global market for infrastructure, platform, and software services emerges, the need for understanding and dealing with these implications is quickly growing. In addition, a multitude of new challenges arise. These are inherently multidisciplinary and relate to aspects such as the operation and structure of service markets, the alignment of cost, revenue and quality-related objectives when taking on a service consumer or provider role, the adoption of these new technologies on a wide scale, the creation of innovative business models, and the optimization of value chains. These challenges do not exclusively emerge in the IT field. An example is the coordinated operation of the next generation smart electricity grids that are characterized by distributed generation facilities, new consumption patterns, and opportunities for transactive energy. The alignment of IT with social networks in order to increase efficiency as well as collect and analyze user data is another. GECON invites researchers and practitioners from industry to present and discuss economics-related issues and solutions associated with these challenges. The topics of interest are: - Analysis of the software and cloud computing industry - Market mechanisms, auctions models, and bidding languages - Decision support for providers, service selection, and procurement - Revenue and energy-aware resource management - Pricing schemes and revenue models - Capacity planning - Resource allocation and scheduling - Automated trading and bidding support tools - Incentive design and strategic behavior - Development of sustainable infrastructures - Desktop grids, volunteer computing and crowd-sourcing - Economic modeling of networks, systems, software, and data - Business models and strategies - Service value chains and value networks - Metering, accounting, and billing - Negotiation, enforcement and monitoring of SLAs - Trust, reputation, security, and risk management - Performance monitoring and prediction - Reports and analysis on operational markets and testbeds - Techno-economic analysis - Standardization and legal aspects - Cost modeling, cost-benefit analysis, game theory - Smart electricity grids - Social network systems - IaaS, SaaS, PaaS - Services Science - Technology acceptance models - Benefits to small and medium-sized enterprises Publication and Submission Guidelines ===================================== Original full papers and work-in-progress papers, which are not currently under review by another conference, will be considered. Submitted papers should not exceed 14 pages in Springer LNCS format (including references and appendices). For further details, visit the GECON 2014 web page. Manuscripts will be reviewed based on technical merit, soundness, originality, and relevance. Past acceptance rates have been below 33%. Paper submissions are managed electronically through the EasyChair Website (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gecon2014) The proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS. Extended versions of up to 5 accepted papers in the Computer Science field will be invited for publication by Elsevier in a special issue of the Journal of Future Generation Computing Systems. For papers targeting pure business and economic aspects within the conference, a special issue of the Springer Electronic Markets Journal with up to 5 papers is foreseen. Conference Chairs ================= Jörn Altmann (Seoul National University, Korea) Kurt Vanmechelen (University of Antwerp, Belgium) Omer F. Rana (Cardiff University, UK) Steering Committee ================== Jörn Altmann (Seoul National University, South-Korea) Kurt Vanmechelen (University of Antwerp, Belgium) Omer F. Rana (Cardiff University, UK) Rajkumar Buyya (University of Melbourne, Australia) Junseok Hwang (Seoul National University, South-Korea) Hing-Yan Lee (National Grid Office, Singapore) Jysoo Lee (Kisti, South-Korea) Steven Miller (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Dirk Neumann (University of Freiburg, Germany) Program Committee ================= The list of program committee members can be found at http://www.gecon-conference.org/gecon2014/committees ==================================================== Dr. Kurt Vanmechelen Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Sciences Group CoMP (Computational Modelling and Programming) University of Antwerp Middelheimlaan 1 2020 Antwerpen, Belgium G2.14 +32 (3) 265 3477 kurt.vanmechelen(a)uantwerpen.be ====================================================

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CFP: SPECIAL SESSION on Multi-Core and Many-Core systems for EMbedded Computing (MC)3 in 23rd Euromicro PDP Conference
by Amirmohammad Rahmanisane 23 Jun '14

23 Jun '14

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] ============================================================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS Multi-Core and Many-Core systems for EMbedded Computing (MC)3 Special session in 23rd Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed, and Network-Based Processing (PDP 2015) http://www.pdp2015.org/specialsessions/MC3/index.html 4-6 March 2015, Turku, Finland ============================================================================================= This special session addresses all aspects of multi-core and many-core embedded systems design. It presents new ideas in the multi-core field such as theory and modeling, scalable and fault tolerant design approaches and frameworks, algorithms, software, tools and applications, analysis and comparison, design techniques and emerging implementations. The proceedings of the special session will be published together with the proceedings of PDP 2015 by the IEEE Computer Society, which are available worldwide through the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. An extended version of the best papers of the MC3 be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the ISI-indexed high-quality journals. Authors are invited to submit high quality papers representing original work from both the academia and industry in (but not limited to) the following topics: * Design space exploration and design methodology for embedded multi-core and many-core systems * Specification and Formal modeling of embedded multi-core and many-core systems * Multi-core/many-core embedded system design challenges * Parallel programming and software for embedded multi-core and many-core systems * Memory management * 3D architectures, integration and synthesis for embedded multi-core and many-core systems * On-chip communication architectures and networks-on-chip for embedded systems * Heterogeneous multi-core and many-core architectures * Hardware/software co-design * Simulation, validation and verification * Test and Fault Tolerance * QoS management and performance analysis * Multi-core and many-core cyber-physical systems * Programming languages and compilers * Thermal-, energy-, and power-aware architectures * Monitoring and reconfiguration * System prototyping * Industrial practices and case studies * IMPORTANT DATES Important Dates Deadline for paper submission: 25th August 2014 Acceptance notification: 25th October 2014 Camera ready paper due: 10th November 2014 Special session chairs: * Hannu Tenhunen (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden) * Axel Jantsch (Royal Institute of Technology (KTH), Sweden) * Pasi Liljeberg (University of Turku, Finland) * Amir-Mohammad Rahmani (University of Turku, Finland)

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CfP: ExaMPI14 - Workshop on Exascale MPI at SC14
by Stefano Markidis 20 Jun '14

20 Jun '14

ExaMPI14: Workshop on Exascale MPI 2014 https://www.pdc.kth.se/exampi14 New Orleans, LA November 17, 2014 Held in conjunction with SC14 (http://sc14.supercomputing.org) Held in cooperation with ACM SIGHPC (http://www.sighpc.org) The MPI design and its main implementations have proved surprisingly scalable. MPI has been robust, and been able to evolve, without fundamentally changing the model and specification. For this and many other reasons MPI is currently the de-facto standard for HPC systems and applications. However, there is a need for re-examination of the message-passing model for extreme-scale systems characterized by asymptotically decreasing local memory and highly localized communication networks. Likewise, there is a need for exploring new innovative and potentially disruptive concepts and algorithms partially to explore other roads than those taken by the MPI 3.0 standard. The aim of workshop is to bring together developers and researchers to present and discuss innovative algorithms and concepts in the Message Passing programming model and to create a forum for open and potentially controversial discussions on the future of MPI in the exascale era. Topics of interest (but are not limited to) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Development of scalable Message Passing collective operations. * Communication topology mapping interfaces and algorithms. * Innovative algorithms for scheduling/routing to avoid network congestion. * Integrated use of structured data layout descriptors. * One-sided communication models and RDMA-based MPI. * MPI and threading. * Interoperability of Message Passing and PGAS models. * Integration of task-parallel models into Message Passing models. * Fault tolerance in MPI. * MPI I/O. Paper Submission and Publication --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- There are two submission categories: - Regular research paper: submission of full paper. - Hot topic abstract: submission of an extended abstract. These submissions target work-in-progress research on potentially controversial topics in Message Passing. We are using EasyChair to manage submissions. The link to submit papers will be added to the conference home page in the near future. All manuscripts will be reviewed. The proceedings (regular research paper) will be archived in both the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore, by virtue of SIGHPC. Important Dates --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Paper submission: September 5, 2014 * Acceptance notification: September 22, 2014 * Final papers due: October 6, 2014 Organizers --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Erwin Laure, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stefano Markidis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Jesper Larsson Träff, TU Wien Daniel Holmes, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre Mark Bull, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre William Gropp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Masamichi Takagi, NEC Corporation in Japan Lorna Smith, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre Mark Parsons, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre Program Committee --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Erwin Laure, KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stefano Markidis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology William Gropp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Marc Snir, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Ewing Lusk, Argonne National Laboratory John Mellor-Crummey, Rice University Jesper Larsson Träff, TU Wien Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zürich Hans-Christian Hoppe, Intel Daniel Holmes, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre Mark Bull, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre Masamichi Takagi, NEC Corporation in Japan Lorna Smith, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre Mark Parsons, Edinburgh Parallel Computing Centre Contact --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please contact Stefano Markidis at markidis at kth.se

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CFP: IEEE Cloudnet 2014. Special Session on Cloud Computing and Sustainability (Deadline Extended July 3, 2014)
by Francisco Javier Garcia Blas 20 Jun '14

20 Jun '14

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email. If you'd like to opt out of these announcements, information on how to unsubscribe is available at the bottom of this email.] IEEE Cloudnet 2014: Special Session on Cloud Computing and Sustainability in The Third IEEE International Conference on Cloud Networking, www.ieee-cloudnet.org October 8-10th, 2014. LUXEMBOURG More details at www.ieee-cloudnet.org/Cloud_Computing_and_Susteinability-SS-CLOUDNET2014.pdf With the advent of ultrascale computing systems, envisioned as large scale complex systems joining parallel and distributed computing systems that will be two to three orders of magnitude larger that today’s systems, clouds will play a major role as an integration and support platform to provide every kind of virtual computing environment (HPC, HTC, data centers, etc.). However, as the scale grows, it is more and more difficult to provide efficient and sustainable solutions. To cope with this problem, the research in large scale cloud computing is addressing a large variety of challenges related to sustainable scalability such as economy-of-scale, agile elastic scalability, energy efficiency, scalable storage, computing accelerators, automatic management of resources, resilience, hybrid clouds, etc. This special session is focused on novel contributions towards increasing the sustain- ability of ultrascale cloud computing systems with a holistic approach. Papers submitted should provide new techniques toward sustainable cloud computing systems, including better programmability of applications and system software stack, sustainable data manage- ment, energy efficiency, system resilience, and deployment in distributed ultrascale cloud platforms. Topics: • Development, evaluation, and optimization of sustainable cloud architectures. • Cloud Composition, Federation, and hybrid cloud infrastructure. • Virtual HPC architectures on the Cloud: techniques for a sustainable implementation and deployment. • Software engineering approaches for ultra Scale systems. • Sustainable cloud management through self-managing techniques. • Ultra-scale performance monitoring techniques. • Dynamic provisioning techniques to increase utilization of servers. • Dynamic run-time adaptation for heterogeneous cloud platforms. • Data Flow Management and Load Balancing. • Sustainable software tools and techniques for clouds. • Agile (semi)automatic cloudification techniques and frames. • Sustainable big data processing techniques in cloud environments. • Techniques for reduction of energy consumption of applications and services by using Clouds. • Energy aware multi-Tenant environments. • Hardware and software tailoring techniques for greener infrastructures. • Resilience techniques to enhance sustainability of large-scale cloud systems. • Benchmarking and Modeling cloud sustainability in several aspects (applications, frameworks, IaaS, etc.). Important dates Paper Submission: July 3, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: August 1, 2014 Final Paper: August 15, 2014 Session organizers Ivona Brandic. Vienna University of Technology, Austria Jesus Carretero. University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Javier Garcia Blas. University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain ________________________________________________________ Francisco Javier García Blas Computer Architecture, Communications and Systems Area. Computer Science Department. UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID Avda. de la Universidad, 30 28911 Leganés (Madrid), SPAIN e-mail: fjblas(a)arcos.inf.uc3m.es fjblas(a)inf.uc3m.es Phone:(+34) 916249143 FAX: (+34) 916249129 ________________________________________________________

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Call for Papers - Seventh Workshop on High Performance Computational Finance (WHPCF'14)
by Jose Moreira 19 Jun '14

19 Jun '14

===WHPCF'14: Call for Participation=== http://ewh.ieee.org/conf/whpcf The Seventh Workshop on High Performance Computational Finance (WHPCF'14) is being held in co-operation with sighpc on the 16th of November at SC'14 in New Orleans. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together practitioners, researchers, vendors, and scholars from the complementary fields of computational finance and high performance computing, in order to promote an exchange of ideas, discuss future collaborations and develop new research directions. Financial companies increasingly rely on high performance computers to analyze high volumes of financial data, automatically execute trades, and manage risk. As financial market data continues to grow in volume and complexity, computational capabilities of emerging hardware also increases. Extracting high performance from emerging architectures requires a combination of domain knowledge and specialized technical skills. The workshop will explore how researchers, scholars, vendors and practitioners are collaborating to address high performance computing research challenges. We seek submissions that cover various aspects of computational finance. In addition to submissions that deal with performance and programmability challenges, theoretical analysis, algorithms, and practical experience in computational finance, we also particularly encourage submissions that demonstrate or result from the collaboration between financial practitioners, and scholars, researchers, or vendors. For 2014, we are particularly interested in submissions addressing the following emerging topics in high performance computational finance: -Financial analytics, including Big Data in computational finance -Software infrastructure for high performance and high productivity -Use of FPGAs for high frequency trading Additional topics of interest to this workshop are listed on the workshop webpage http://ewh.ieee.org/conf/whpcf. ==Author Instructions== Submitted papers must be no more than 8 pages in length. The camera ready version of accepted papers must be in ACM Proceedings format (latex users should select Option 2). Each submission will receive at least three reviews from the technical program committee and authors of selected submissions will have 30 minutes to present their work at the workshop. Papers should be submitted in electronic form to jmoreira(a)us.ibm.com ==Important Dates== Submission deadline: August 22nd, 11:59 EST Author notification: September 19th Final version due: October 3rd ==Program Committee== Claudio Albanese, Global Valuation John Ashley, NVIDIA Corporation David Cohen, EMC Patrick Flannery, May Street Dhiraj Kalamkar, Intel Corporation Hicham Lahlou, Xcelerit Peter Lankford, STAC Research Pat Miller, Jump Trading Travis Oliphant, Continuum Analytics Andrew Rau-Chaplin, Dalhousie University Mohammad Zubair, Old Dominion University ==Steering Committee== David Daly, MongoDB Matthew Dixon, University of San Francisco Jose Moreira, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center José E. Moreira Research Staff Member Future POWER Systems Concept Team IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Yorktown Heights NY 10598-0218 phone: 1-914-945-1709, fax: 1-914-945-4425 e-mail: jmoreira(a)us.ibm.com URL: http://www.research.ibm.com/people/m/moreira

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