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[CFP] Deadline Extension: Workshop on Advances in Software and Hardware for Big Data ( with IEEE BIG Data 2014) (ASH'14) --- Deadline extended to Sep. 7
by Weijia Xu 31 Aug '14

31 Aug '14

Workshop on Advances in Software and Hardware for Big Data co-located with IEEE BIG Data 2014, Oct. 27-30, Washington D.C. New: Submission deadline has been extended to Sep. 7th. The workshop on advances in software and hardware for big data to knowledge discovery aims to bridge latest technology development in hardware and software with end users of big data. The workshop will discuss issues that concern domain researchers about the latest software and hardware technologies, such as performance evaluation, optimizations, accessibility and usability of new technologies. We would like to invite cyber-infrastructure specialists and computer scientist to share their experience with latest hardware and software advancements as well as data scientists to share their experiences and perspectives in using those technologies for data driven discovery. Fueled by the big data analytics needs, new computing and storage technologies are developing rapidly and pushing for new high-end hardware geared toward big data problems. While those technologies have the potential to greatly improve effectiveness of big data analytics, the cost and sophistications of those technology and limited initial application support often make them inaccessible to the end users and not fully utilized in academia years later. Meanwhile, comprehensive analytic software environment and platform, such as R and Python, have become increasingly popular open-source platform for data analysis. Those software not only provides collection of analytic methods but also has the potential to utilize new hardware transparently and ease the efforts required from the end users. However, most data scientists have only had experience with small to medium-sized data; and now the size of Big Data poses its own challenges. It is therefore a critical issue to make the latest technology advancements in software and hardware accessible and usable to the domain scientists in a timely manner, especially those in fields traditionally not strong in computation and programming. The topics of the workshop are centered on the accessibility and applicability of the latest hardware and software to practical domain problems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Adopting hardware technology, such as GPGPU, Xeon Phi etc, for Big Data analytics * Application and use cases in using cyber-infrastructure for Big Data in sciences and engineering * Big data and interactive analysis languages (e.g., R, Python, and Matlab) * New advances in hardware technology. * Novel software platforms and models for big data collection management and analysis. * Performance tuning with new hardware infrastructure and software platform * Search and data retrieval on large-scale data set * Service oriented architectures to enable data science * Software and platform for big data analysis and visualization. Important dates: Sep, 7th, 2014: Due date for papers submission Sept 20, 2014: Notification of paper acceptance to authors Oct 5, 2014: Camera-ready of accepted papers October 27-30 2014: Workshops Submission Website: http://goo.gl/oAzomX For more information and submission instructions please visit https://www.tacc.utexas.edu/news/events/2014/ieee/software-hardware-big-data.

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Deadline Extension: CfP International Workshop on Software Engineering for Parallel Systems (SEPS 2014)
by Ali Jannesari 30 Aug '14

30 Aug '14

Call for Paper First Workshop and Special Issue on Software Engineering for Parallel Systems (SEPS) (Co-located with SPLASH 2014) October 21, 2014, Portland, Oregon, United States http://2014.splashcon.org/track/seps2014 General Scope: The increased complexity of parallel applications on modern parallel platforms (e.g. multicore/manycore, distributed or hybrid) requires more insight into development processes, and necessitates the use of advanced methods and techniques supporting developers in creating parallel applications or parallelizing and reengineering sequential legacy applications. SEPS 2014 aims to advance the state of the art in different phases of parallel software development, covering software engineering aspects such as requirements engineering and software specification; design and implementation; program analysis, profiling and tuning; testing and debugging. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: · Process models for parallel software development · Requirement engineering of parallel software · Design and build of parallel programs · Parallel design patterns · Parallel software architectures · Modeling techniques for parallel software · Parallel programming models and paradigms · Profiling and program analysis · Dynamic and static analysis · Refactoring and reengineering for parallelism · Performance tuning and auto-tuning · Testing and debugging of parallel applications · Tools and environments for parallel software development · Case studies and experience reports Paper Submission: Papers submitted to SEPS 2014 must not have been published or simultaneously submitted anywhere else. Contributions should follow the requirements defined for the Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software (JSS) and should be submitted electronically in PDF format via EasyChair conference submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seps2014) The workshop welcomes three types of submissions: · Original, unpublished regular papers (10 pages) on current research · Industrial papers and tool presentations (short papers, 5 pages) · Position statements (2 pages) Publication: All accepted papers will be published in the special issue Software Engineering for Parallel Systems of the Elsevier Journal of Systems and Software (JSS). Registration: Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the Workshop. Important Dates: Paper submission (extended): 7th Sep. 2014 Acceptance notification: 26th Sep. 2014 Organizers: Ali Jannesari, Walter F. Tichy, Felix Wolf Publicity Chair: Ali Jannesari

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[Deadline Extended to Sept 12th, 2014] DataCloud-2014@SC14: 5th International Workshop on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds
by Wei Tang 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '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.] Due to multiple requests, the deadline of DataCloud 2014 has been extended to Sept 12th, 2014. Following is the updated CFP. DataCloud 2014: 5th International Workshop on Data Intensive Computing in the Clouds In conjunction with SC14 In cooperation with ACM SIGHPC November 21st, 2014 New Orleans LA, USA, New Orleans, LA **URL: http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/DataCloud2014 **Overview Applications and experiments in all areas of science are becoming increasingly complex and more demanding in terms of their computational and data requirements. Some applications generate data volumes reaching hundreds of terabytes and even petabytes. Analyzing, visualizing, and disseminating these large data sets has become a major challenge and data intensive computing is now considered as the ''fourth paradigm'' in scientific discovery after theoretical, experimental, and computational science. As scientific applications become more data intensive, the technologies of handling "Big Data" have gathered great importance. This necessity has made that applications have seen an increasing adoption on clouds infrastructures. The computing models,system software, programming models, analysis frameworks, and other clouds services need to evolve and accommodate them to face the challenge of bigdata applications. DataCloud 2014 will provide the scientific community a dedicated forum for discussing new research, development, and deployment efforts in running data-intensive computing workloads on Cloud Computing infrastructures. The DataCloud 2014 workshop will focus on the use ofcloud-based technologies to meet the new data intensive scientific challenges that are not well served by the current supercomputers, grids or compute-intensive clouds. We believe the workshop will be an excellent place to help the community define the current state, determine future goals, and present architectures and services for future clouds supporting data intensive computing. **Topics Big data analytics Data-intensive cloud computing applications, characteristics, challenges Case studies of data intensive computing in the clouds Performance evaluation of data clouds, data grids, and data centers Energy-efficient data cloud design and management Data placement, scheduling, and interoperability in the clouds Accountability, QoS, and SLAs Data privacy and protection in a public cloud environment Distributed file systems for clouds Data streaming and parallelization New programming models for data-intensive cloud computing Scalability issues in clouds Social computing and massively social gaming 3D Internet and implications Future research challenges in data-intensive cloud computing **Important Dates ***Paper submission deadline: September 12th, 2014 (11:59pm ET)*** Acceptance notification: October 1st, 2014 Camera ready papers due: October 10th, 2014 Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 8 pages of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per ACM 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines; document templates can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. The final papers in PDF format must be submitted online at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/DATACLOUD2014/. Papers will be peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as part of the ACM digital library (in cooperation with SIGHPC). Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. For more information, please see http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/DataCloud2014/. **Organization **General Chairs Wei Tang, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Yong Zhao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, China Ziming Zheng, HP Vertica, USA **Steering Committee Roger Barga, Microsoft Research, USA Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA James Hamilton, Amazon, USA Tevfik Kosar, University at Buffalo, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology & Argonne National Laboratory, USA Dan Reed, Microsoft Research, USA Rich Wolski, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA Rong Chang, IBM, USA **Program Committee Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota, USA Bernard Traversat, Oracle Corporation, USA Bingsheng He, Nanyang Technogical University, Singapore Dan Katz, University of Chicago, USA Dong Li, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Douglas Thain,University of Notre Dame,USA Erwin Laure, CERN, Switzerland Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Hangwei Qian,VMWare, USA Hongbo Zou, VMWare, USA Ian Foster, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory, USA Jim Myers, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Judy Qiu, Indiana University, USA Kate Keahey, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Maria Indrawan, Monash University, Australia Matei Ripeanu, University of British Columbia, Canada Murat Demirbas, SUNY Buffalo, USA Narayan Desai, Ericcson, USA Qiang Guan, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Reagan Moore, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA Rob Gillen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Ruini Xue, University of Electronic Science and Technology, China Samer Al-Kiswany, University of British Columbia, Canada Steven Ko, SUNY Buffalo, USA Teng Ma, Amazon, USA Venkat Vishwanath, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Xiaoliang Fan, Lanzhou University, China Zhen Liu, Beijing Jiaotong University, China Zhiang Wu, Nanjing University of Finance and Economics, China Zhifeng Yun, University of Houston, USA Zhihui Lu, Fudan University, China

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Submission deadline extension: ScalA Workshop at SC'14
by Christian Engelmann 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

The deadline for the full paper submission has been extended to September 7. We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems (ScalA) 2014 held in conjunction with the SC14: The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis in cooperation with ACM SIGHPC November 17, 2014, New Orleans, LA, USA <http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Scala/2014> Novel scalable scientific algorithms are needed in order to enable key science applications to exploit the computational power of large-scale systems. This is especially true for the current tier of leading petascale machines and the road to exascale computing as HPC systems continue to scale up in compute node and processor core count. These extreme-scale systems require novel scientific algorithms to hide network and memory latency, have very high computation/communication overlap, have minimal communication, and have no synchronization points. Scientific algorithms for multi-petaflop and exa-flop systems also need to be fault tolerant and fault resilient, since the probability of faults increases with scale. Resilience at the system software and at the algorithmic level is needed as a crosscutting effort. Finally, with the advent of heterogeneous compute nodes that employ standard processors as well as GPGPUs, scientific algorithms need to match these architectures to extract the most performance. This includes different system-specific levels of parallelism as well as co-scheduling of computation. Key science applications require novel mathematical models and system software that address the scalability and resilience challenges of current- and future-generation extreme-scale HPC systems. Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit manuscripts in English structured as technical papers not exceeding 8 letter size (8.5x11) pages including figures, tables, and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. Reference style files are available at <http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html>. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, and significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the workshop attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop. Authors may contact the workshop program chair for more information. Papers should be submitted electronically at: <https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scala20140>. Full papers will be published with the SC 2014 workshop proceedings in the IEEE and ACM digital libraries. Selected papers will be invited for an extended version in a special issue of the Journal of Computational Science (JoCS). Important Dates - Full paper submission (IEEE format): 7 September, 2014 - Notification of acceptance: 22 September, 2014 - Final paper submission (firm): 3 October, 2014 - Workshop: 17 November, 2014 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Novel scientific algorithms that improve performance, scalability, resilience, and power efficiency - Porting scientific algorithms and applications to many-core and heterogeneous architectures - Performance and resilience limitations of scientific algorithms and applications at scale - Crosscutting approaches (system software and applications) in addressing scalability challenges - Scientific algorithms that can exploit extreme concurrency (e.g. 1 billion for exascale) - Naturally fault tolerant, self-healing, or fault oblivious scientific algorithms - Programming model and system software support for algorithm scalability and resilience Workshop Chairs - Prof. Vassil Alexandrov, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Al Geist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Workshop Program Chair - Dr. Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Program Committee - Prof. Vassil Alexandrov, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Dr. Rick Archibald, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Dr. David E. Bernholdt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Dr. Greg Bronevetsky, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Dr. Michael Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories - Dr. Mark Hoemmen, Sandia National Laboratories - Prof. Marian Bubak, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland and University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands - Prof. Zizhong Chen, University of California, Riverside, USA - Dr. Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Dr. Kirk E. Jordan, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA - Prof. Dieter Kranzlmueller, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany - Prof. Ron Perrot, University of Oxford, UK - Dr. Nageswara Rao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA -- Christian Engelmann, Ph.D. System Software Team Task Lead / R&D Staff Scientist Computer Science Research Group Computer Science and Mathematics Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Mail: P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6173, USA Phone: +1 (865) 574-3132 / Fax: +1 (865) 576-5491 e-Mail: engelmannc(a)ornl.gov / Home: www.christian-engelmann.info

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OpenSHMEM User Group (OUG 2014) : Submission Deadline Extension (Sep 8)
by Gorentla Venkata, Manjunath 29 Aug '14

29 Aug '14

--------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS *** Deadline Extension *** --------------------------------------------------------------- The OpenSHMEM User Group (OUG 2014) (to be held in conjunction with PGAS 2014, October 7, 2014, Eugene, OR, USA) http://www.csm.ornl.gov/OpenSHMEM2014/ ——————————————————————————————— IMPORTANT DATES: ****** Paper submission deadline: 09/08/2014 ****** Acceptance/rejection notification: 09/16/2014 Camera-ready version due: 09/22/2014 Call for Participation in WiP paper Session: —————————————————————————————————————————— The OpenSHMEM User Group (OUG 2014) is an user meeting dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of the OpenSHMEM API and its tools eco-system. We welcome submissions in the form of the work-in-progress WiP (up to 2 pages) from academia, industry, and research laboratories. The submissions will be peer-reviewed and selected for the oral presentations at the WiP session. --------------------------------------------------------------- Description The OpenSHMEM User Group Meeting’s Work-in-Progress (WiP) session will be held on October 7, 2014.The WiP session will consist of a series of talks on ongoing research or ideas to improve the OpenSHMEM specification. This is a chance to present the ongoing research that is not yet ready for publication and to get feedback on your work from the experts in the field. The work should be original and have never been presented before. We are interested in the research that is novel and interesting, even if it is premature. A particular interest for this session are submissions in the form of outrageous ideas and work-in-progress. Topics of interest for the WiP session include (but are not limited to): • Experiences in OpenSHMEM applications in any domain • Extensions to and shortcomings of current OpenSHMEM specification • Hybrid heterogeneous or many-core programming with OpenSHMEM and other languages or APIs (i.e. OpenCL, OpenACC, CUDA, OpenMP) • Experiences in implementing OpenSHMEM on new architectures • Low level communication layers to support OpenSHMEM or other PGAS languages/APIs • Power / energy studies of OpenSHMEM • Static analysis and verification tools for OpenSHMEM • Modeling and performance analysis tools for OpenSHMEM and/or other PGAS languages/APIs. • Auto-tuning or optimization strategies for OpenSHMEM programs • Runtime environments and schedulers for OpenSHMEM • Validation and verification suites for OpenSHMEM • Interoperability with other PGAS models such as UPC, and Co-Array Fortran The WiP session talks will be selected on the basis of a two-page paper submitted on or before September 8, 2014. Email notification of acceptance or rejection will be made by September 16, 2014. --------------------------------------------------------------- Papers submission and publication Format: ———————————— Submission must be in PDF format through the OUG 2014 web site. http://www.csm.ornl.gov/OpenSHMEM2014/ Paper should be prepared following the IEEE guidelines https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht… Publication: ———————————— All accepted papers will be published on the conference website. At least one of the author(s) of an accepted paper is expected to register for the meeting and present the paper. Journal Special Issue: —————————————————— The top rated papers from this session will be invited to submit an extended and revised version of the paper as a journal article. The journal article will be published in a special issue of Scientific Programming. --------------------------------------------------------------- General Co-Chairs: Stephen Poole, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Manjunath Gorentla Venkata, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Program Committee: Oscar Hernandez, Oak Ridge National Laboratory (Program Committee Head) Workshop Organizer: Pavel Shamis, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Program Committee: Donald Becker NVIDIA George Bosilca Innovative Computing Laboratory - University of Tennessee Tony Curtis University of Houston James Dinan Intel Corporation Jeffery Kuehn Los Alamos National Laboratory Barney Maccabe Oak Ridge National Laboratory Nicholas Park U.S. Department of Defense Duncan Poole NVIDIA Gilad Shainer Mellanox Technologies Pavel Shamis Oak Ridge National Laboratory Sameer Shende University of Oregon Monika ten Bruggencate Cray Inc --------------------------------------------------------------- Manjunath Gorentla Venkata, PhD Computer Science Research Group Computer Science and Math Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Email: manjugv(a)ornl.gov

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CFP Extended Deadline - IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E)
by Ivan Rodero 28 Aug '14

28 Aug '14

IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E) Tempe, Arizona, USA March 9-13, 2015 http://conferences.computer.org/IC2E/2015/ (“In Cooperation” status approved by SIGMOD EC; ACM approval pending) -----------------Call For Contributions--------------------------- The IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E) conference series seeks to provide a high-quality and comprehensive forum, where researchers and practitioners can exchange information on engineering principles, enabling technologies, and practical experiences as related to cloud computing. By bringing together experts that work on different levels of the cloud stack - systems, storage, networking, platforms, databases, and applications, IC2E will offer an end-to-end view on the challenges and technologies in cloud computing, foster research that addresses the interaction between different layers of the stack, and ultimately help shape the future of cloud-transformed business and society. IC2E 2015 solicits submissions for the programs and events listed below: + Research papers + Industrial papers + Tutorial proposals + Panel proposals + Doctoral symposium contributions + Workshop proposals We invite submissions of high quality contributions describing fully developed results or on-going foundational and applied work relating to all aspects of cloud engineering defined broadly, including + X as a Service, where X includes Backend, Business Process, Database, Information, Infrastructure, Network, Platform, Security, Software, and Storage + Big data management and analytics + Mobile cloud computing + Virtualization technology + Performance, dependability, and service level agreements + Cloud security, privacy, compliance, and trust + Workload deployment and migration + Energy management in cloud centers + Cloud programming models and tools + Hybrid cloud integration + Service lifecycle management + Service management automation + Metering, pricing, and software licensing + Cloud applications We particularly encourage submissions on topics of emerging interest in the research and development communities. Proposals for accompanying workshops are also solicited on topics that demand dedicated coverage due to their relevance to the current data management research and development. The program will also include industrial presentations, a doctoral symposium, and keynote and invited talks by leaders in academia and industry, including a "Cloud Summit". All aspects of the submission and notification process will be handled electronically. Calls for papers and detailed submission information will be available at http://conferences.computer.org/IC2E/2015/. This year, the conference will be held in Tempe, Arizona. Arizona promises stunning desert vistas and a breathtaking setting. Adjacent to Phoenix, the fifth most populated city in the United States, many attractions, parks, and recreational areas -including the Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Petrified Forest, and Painted Desert- are within a short distance. Important Dates (incomplete list) --------------------------------- Research Paper Abstract Submission Deadline: extended to September 5, 2014 Research Paper Submission Deadline: extended to September 12, 2014 Research Paper Notification of Acceptance: December 5, 2014 Final Research Paper Manuscripts Due: January 12, 2015 Organization ------------------------------------------------------ General Chairs K.Selçuk Candan, Arizona State University, USA Kyung Ryu, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Program Committee Chairs Christian S. Jensen, Aalborg University, Denmark Manish Parashar, Rutgers University , USA Hunyoung Yeom, Seoul Nat. University, S.Korea Workshops Chairs David Eyers, University of Otago, NZ Liana Fong, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Industry Track Chair Partha Kanuparthy, Yahoo! Research, USA Keynote and Panels Chair Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Tutorials Chairs Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy Jun Tatemura, NEC Labs America, USA Doctoral Symposium and Travel Awards Chair Maria Luisa Sapino, U. Torino, Italy Local Arrangements and Registration Chair Dijiang Huang, Arizona State University, USA Finance and Sponsorship Chair Shu Tao, IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA Publicity Chairs: Salman Baset, IBM TJ Watson Research Ctr., USA Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA Web and Information Chair Yinong Chen, Arizona State University, USA Proceedings Chair: Jong Wook Kim, Sangmyung University, S.Korea Steering Committee Jean Bacon, U. of Cambridge, UK Roy Campbell, UIUC, USA Dilma Da Silva, Qualcomm, USA Masaru Kitsuregawa, U. of Tokyo, Japan Christos Kozyrakis, Stanford University, USA Hui Lei, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Dejan Milojicic, HP Labs, USA Sponsors ---------------------------------------------------------- IEEE IEEE Computer Society IEEE Cloud Computing STC Cloud Computing TCBIS Arizona State University IBM Research ------------------------------------------------------------------- ============================================================= Ivan Rodero, Ph.D. Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2) NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC) Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 624 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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FINAL DEADLINE EXTENSION to September 5th: Workshop on accelerator programming using directives (WACCPD14)
by Sunita Chandrasekaran 28 Aug '14

28 Aug '14

*Workshop on accelerator programming using directives (WACCPD14)* Website: http://www.openacc.org/WACCPD14 Monday November 17th, 2014 In conjunction with SC14: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis Nov 16-21, 2014 New Orleans, Louisiana, USA http://sc14.supercomputing.org *FINAL DEADLINE EXTENSION SEPTEMBER 5TH, 2014 * * CALL FOR PAPERS* This workshop brings together leading researchers and software designers at the forefront of the application of high-level directives to program accelerator-based architectures. Using directives improve productivity, and program portability with minimal changes to the applications while achieving good power-efficiency and performance. HPC researchers and programmers (including Energy, Climate, Oil & Gas, Computational Chemistry, and Machine Learning) wishing to tap into the performance benefits of commodity accelerators are starting to use directives to program accelerators including OpenACC, OpenMP and other similar programming interfaces vigorously to tap into commodity accelerators and speed up applications. The goal of this workshop is to bring together users, vendors, and tools providers to share their knowledge and experiences to program heterogeneous systems using directive-based programming interfaces such as OpenACC, OpenMP, etc to achieve good performance. This year's workshop will also emphasize in the future direction of accelerator programming using directives and how we can address better the user and tools-ecosystem needs. Although, this is a workshop for accelerator programming using directives, we welcome ideas used for other languages/APIs that may be used to interoperate with directives, used to translate the directives, or target the directives. * Submission topics* Topics of interest for workshop submissions include (but are not limited to): *Application experiences in any scientific domain using directives *Compiler and runtime implementations of accelerator directives *Extensions to and shortcomings of current accelerator directives APIs *Experiences with hybrid heterogeneous or many-core programming using accelerator directives and other models (i.e. MPI, OpenSHMEM) *Interoperability of Scientific libraries with accelerator directives *Implementation experiences of accelerator directives on new architectures *Performance evaluation and studies *Extending the HPC tool chain (such as profiling, debugging, etc) to support directives *Modeling and performance analysis tools *Auto-tuning or optimization strategies *Benchmarks and validation suites * Papers Submission Guidelines:* Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. Format: Submissions are limited to 10 pages in the IEEE format see http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.htm l The 10-page limit includes figures, tables, and appendices, but does not include references, for which there is no page limit. * Submissions can be made through EasyChair:* https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=waccpd14 Proceedings will be published by ACM, and will be available to SIGHPC members through the ACM Digital Library. Authors of accepted papers and posters will be required to sign the ACM copyright form. Instructions for preparing papers for the proceedings will be emailed to authors of accepted papers. *Program Chair and Co-Chairs* Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Houston Fernanda Foertter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Oscar Hernandez, Oak Ridge National Laboratory *Steering Committee:* Barbara Chapman (University of Houston, cOMPunity) Satoshi Matsuoka (Titech) Duncan Poole (OpenACC) Thomas Schulthess (CSCS) Jeffrey Vetter (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) * Program Committee* Pavan Balaji (Argonne National Laboratory) Richard Barrett (Sandia National Laboratory) David Bernholdt (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) James Beyer (Cray Inc) Henri Calandra (Total) Stéphane Chauveau(CAPS) Romain Dolbeau (CAPS) Markus Eisenbach (ORNL) Mark Govett (NOAA) Jeff Hammond (Intel Labs) Si Hammond (Sandia National Laboratory) Michael Heroux (Sandia National Laboratory) Henry Jin (NASA-Ames) Wayne Joubert (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Guido Juckeland (TU Dresden) Christos Kartsaklis (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) John Mellor-Crummey (Rice University) Jeff Larkin (NVIDIA) Seyong Lee (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) Chunhua Liao (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) Carl Ponder (NVIDIA) Will Sawyer (CSCS) Sameer Shende (University of Oregon) Ray Sheppard (Indiana University) Thomas Schwinge (Mentor Graphics) Michael Wolfe (NVIDIA/PGI) Xinmin Tian (Intel) *Important Deadlines: * Submission deadline: August 22nd, 2014 (Midnight 12:00 Pacific TimeZone * Extended Deadline Aug 29thth, 2014 * *FINAL DEADLINE EXTENSION SEPTEMBER 5TH, 2014 * Author notification: September 22nd, 2014 *Panel Session * A panel session dedicated to discussion of current open problems, drawbacks and future evolutions of high-level directive approaches. A roadmap for accelerator directives will also be discussed. * Best Paper Award* The papers will be peer-reviewed where invited submissions will be candidates for a best paper award. Criterion for selection will be based on originality, scientific impact, utility, and quality of presentation.

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CFP PDSW 2014 - Deadline Extension
by Dries Kimpe 27 Aug '14

27 Aug '14

================== CFP ================== The 9th Parallel Data Storage Workshop (PDSW14), held in conjunction with IEEE/ACM Supercomputing (SC) 2014, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2014 URL: http://www.pdsw.org PDF version of the CFP: http://www.pdsw.org/pdsw14/cfp-pdsw14.pdf Peta- and exascale computing infrastructures make unprecedented demands on storage capacity, performance, concurrency, reliability, availability, and manageability. This one-day workshop focuses on the data storage and management problems and emerging solutions found in peta- and exascale scientific computing environments, with special attention to issues in which community collaboration can be crucial for problem identification, workload capture, solution interoperability, standards with community buy-in, and shared tools. Addressing storage media ranging from tape, HDD, and SSD, to emerging storage devices like NVRAM, the workshop seeks contributions on relevant topics, including but not limited to: * performance and benchmarking * failure tolerance problems and solutions * APIs for high performance features * parallel file systems * high bandwidth storage architectures * support for high velocity or complex data * metadata intensive workloads * autonomics for HPC storage * virtualization for storage systems * archival storage advances * resource management innovations * incorporation of emerging storage technologies * workload study from production systems Paper Submissions: The Parallel Data Storage Workshop holds a peer reviewed competitive process for selecting short papers. Submit a not previously published short paper of up to 5 pages, not less than 10 point font and not including references, in a PDF file as instructed on the workshop web site. Submitted papers will be reviewed under the supervision of the workshop program committee. Submissions should indicate authors and affiliations. Final papers must not be longer than 5 pages (excluding references). Selected papers and associated talk slides will be made available on the workshop web site; the papers will also be published in the digital library of the IEEE or ACM. Paper Submission Deadline: EXTENDED TO 9pm PDT, September 6, 2014. Paper Notification: September 30, 2014 Camera Ready Due: October 10, 2014 Work-in-progress (WIP) Submissions: There will also be a WIP session at the workshop, where presenters give 5-minute brief talks on their on-going work, with fresh problems/solutions, but may not be mature or complete yet for paper submission. A 1-page abstract is required as instructed on the workshop web site. WIP Submission Deadline: November 2, 2014 WIP Notification: November 7, 2014 Program Committee: * Andre Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany * Garth Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University and Panasas Inc., USA * Dean Hildebrand, IBM, USA * Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska, USA * Youngjae Kim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA * Dries Kimpe (Chair), Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Xiaosong Ma (Chair), Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar * Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA * Ron Oldfield, Sandia National Laboratories, USA * Narasimha Reddy, Texas A&M University, USA * Robert Ross, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, USA * Matt Tolentino, Intel, USA * Jin Xiong, ICT, Chinese Academy of Science, China * Sudharshan Vazhkudai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

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CFP: NDM'14: Network-aware Data Management: papers due on Sep 7: ACM SIGHPC, IEEE/ACM SC'14
by Mehmet Balman 27 Aug '14

27 Aug '14

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 4th International Workshop on Network-aware Data Management (NDM'14) in cooperation with ACM SIGHPC, in conjunction with SC14: IEEE/ACM International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, in New Orleans, LA, on November 16, 2014. Website: http://ndm-meeting.org Abstract Registration: August 29, 2014 Paper Submission deadline: September 07, 2014 PLEASE NOTE: NDM'14 has been moved to Sunday Nov 16, 2014 (from Friday Nov 21, 2014) Deadline extension: Paper submission deadline has been extended to September 07, 2014. EasyChair submission system will be open till midnight PST. Page limit is 8, including references and figures. Please register your abstract by August 29, 2014. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Scope: Data sharing and resource coordination among distributed teams are becoming significant challenges every passing year. Networking is one of the most crucial components in the overall system architecture of a data centric environment. Many of the current solutions both in industry and scientific domains depend on the underlying network infrastructure and its performance. There is a need for efficient use of the networking middleware to address increasing data and compute requirements. Main scope of this workshop is to promote new collaborations between data management and networking communities to evaluate emerging trends and current technological developments, and to discuss future design principles of network-aware data management. We will seek contribution from academia, government, and industry to address current research and development efforts in remote data access mechanisms, end-to-end resource coordination, network virtualization, analysis and management frameworks, practical experiences, data-center networking, and performance problems in high-bandwidth networks. * Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Applications of software defined networking to large data flows Experimental results from network applications Design, implementation, and analysis of high-performance networking Performance evaluation and network support for data-intensive computing Dynamic resource provisioning and network virtualization Operating system and virtualization support for networking Network-aware data management tools and systems Practical experiences and prototypes for network-aware data management Requirements and issues for network quality of service (QoS) Application pipelines and network-aware toolkits for data distribution Data replication and re-configurable data-access frameworks Network fault tolerant data distribution for large scientific datasets Optimization and development of data transfer protocols Scalable services and workflows for network-aware applications Data center networking and network management for Cloud environments Heterogeneous and distributed resource coordination and management * Important Dates: Abstract Registration: August 29, 2014 + Paper Submission deadline: September 07, 2014 (midnight PST) Notification of acceptance: September 23, 2014 Camera-Ready version due: October 6, 2014 Workshop date: Nov 16, 2014 +: We kindly request you to register your abstract by August 29, 2014. This is not a hard requirement. You will still be able to make a new submission till paper submission deadline. * Web Site: http://ndm-meeting.org * Workshop Organizers: Mehmet Balman, VMware, Inc. & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Surendra Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Brian L. Tierney, Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory * Program Committee: Ilya Baldin, Networking Research and Infrastructure RENCI/UNC Chapel Hill, USA Amitabha Banerjee, VMware Inc., USA Jerry Chou, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, China Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida, USA Dipak Ghosal, University of California, Davis, USA Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands Raj Kettimuthu, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago, USA Jinoh Kim, Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA Siva Kulasekaran, Texas Advance Computing Center, USA Malathi Veeraraghavan, University of Virginia, USA Chen Wu, ICRAR, The University of Western Australia, Australia Wenji Wu, Fermilab, USA Lei Xia, VMware Inc., USA Esma Yildirim, Fatih University, Turkey * Submission Guidelines: Please submit full papers (6-8 pages) in PDF format via the submission site (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ndm2014) No email submission would be accepted. Accepted papers would be given a total of 20-30 minutes for presentation and question time. The paper(s) should be no longer than eight (8) pages, including references and figures. The page limit will be enforced strictly. Reviewing of the full papers will be done by the program committee, assisted by external referees. At least one of the authors of an accepted paper should register and present the paper. Accepted papers will be included in the proceedings and will be available through ACM DL and IEEE Xplore. * Registration: SC'14 workshop registration (including NDM'14) is handled through the SC'14 system. Please visit http://sc14.supercomputing.org/register for more information * This year, we are working on preparing a special issue on Network-aware Data Management in a top-tier journal. High quality papers from NDM workshops (including NDM'11, NDM'12, NDM'13, and NDM'14) will be invited to submit their extended versions for the special issue. Stay tuned for more details and deadlines. * If you have any further questions, please email Mehmet Balman, Suren Byna, Brian L. Tierney {mbalman,sbyna,bltierney} at lbl.gov --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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SRMC'14 DEADLINE EXTENDED
by Nandini Mukhopadhyay 27 Aug '14

27 Aug '14

SRMC2014: Workshop on Scheduling and Resource Management in Cloud (SRMC) Hsinchu, Taiwan To be held in conjunction with ICPADS 2014 December 16-19, 2014 Website: http://smcc.jusl.ac.in/srmc Alternatively: http://www.aimoc.org/srmc/ EXTENDED SUBMISSION DEADLINE September 7, 2014 Introduction of cloud computing has changed the users' vision of the computing world. Users, who had always been accustomed to work on a computer with fixed configuration, limited resources and with only handful of software packages, can now be offered hardware and software resources on “use as and when needed” basis and payment for these resources are made just like any other utility bills for the consumers. Cloud computing concerns large-scale interconnected systems and it has the main purpose to aggregate and to efficiently exploit the power of widely distributed resources. Resource Management and Scheduling is one of the most important and challenging aspects of cloud computing as it involves complex optimization problems in a typically dynamic environment. The complexity of the problem increases manifold when user requests have to be respected in accordance with agreement rules. Such requirements need invention of new algorithms and new methods for resource management in order to increase the performance of such systems. On top of such robust systems, new methods are to be invented to create a secured fault tolerant, reliable cloud system which is efficient and more available. One major objective of the workshop is to explore new directions and avenues of analytical and experimental methods for efficient resource management in cloud environments. This workshop encourages submission of ongoing work, as well as position papers and case studies of existing verification projects. The workshop attempts to combine high-quality contributed papers revealing the latest topics in research in this domain and exciting applications and services from renowned industry houses. The topics to be covered include but are not limited to: Networking issues Programming models in Cloud Advances in virtualisation of software services Security, and privacy management Cloud composition, orchestration, federation Cloud Workload Profiling Cloud Deployment Control Monitoring and maintenance in Cloud Computing environments Performance optimization, service level agreements Innovative applications and experiences in Cloud Computing for Health care and Emerging Markets Paper Submission and Publication Regular research papers with original contribution in relevant areas may be submitted. All submitted papers will be peer reviewed. Papers are to be submitted through EasyChair using the following link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=srmc2014 The proceedings (regular research paper) of the workshop will be published along with the IEEE ICPADS 2014 proceedings by IEEE-CS Press and indexed by EI. Important Dates Workshop paper submission deadline: September 7, 2014 Workshop paper acceptance notification: September 30, 2014 Workshop Author Registration: October 7, 2014 Workshop camera-ready: October 11, 2014 Sincerely yours, Samiran Chattopadhyay Nandini Mukherjee Sarmistha Neogy Technical Program Chairs

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