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CfP-Reminder: International Workshop on Emerging Memory Solutions
by Matthias Jung 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

=================== CALL FOR PAPERS =================== International Workshop on Emerging Memory Solutions EMS 2016 March 18, 2016 Co-located with DATE 2016 in Dresden, Germany https://ems.eit.uni-kl.de/en/ems-workshop ======================================================= IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper Submission Deadline: December 4, 2015 Author Notification: December 14, 2015 Camera-Ready Material: February 22, 2016 SCOPE ----- Memory manufacturing, architectures, design and test were deeply investigated to face issues linked to technology scaling such as increasing static power, maximum operating frequency and the gap between logic and memory minimum voltages. Various emerging memories solutions have appeared in recent years to replace either partially or totally already existing memories with an aim to overcome both technology and design related limitations in order to answer the requirements of many different applications. The goal of this Workshop is to bring together researchers, practitioners, and others interested in this exciting and rapidly evolving field, in order to update each other on the latest state-of-the-art, exchange ideas, and discuss future challenges. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ You are invited to participate and submit your contributions to DATE 2016 Friday Workshop on Emerging Memory Solutions. The areas of interest include (but are not limited to) the following topics: * Volatile memory design (SRAM, DRAM, CAM or TCAM, etc.) * Non-Volatile memory design (ReRAM, Flash, PCM, STT-RAM, etc.) * Applications of emerging devices in memories (TFETs, nanowires, etc.) * 3D memories (volatile and non-volatile) * Processing in Memory * Application specific memory solutions for emerging markets * Test, design-for-test, and debug techniques * Application, product, or test chip case studies SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ----------------------- Submissions are invited in the form of (extended) abstracts not exceeding two pages and must be sent as PDF file to <bastien.giraud(a)cea.fr> with “DATE16-EMS-WS” as subject. All submissions will be evaluated for selection with respect to their suitability for the workshop, originality, and technical quality. Selected submissions will be accepted for oral or poster presentation. At the workshop, an Electronic Workshop Digest will be made available to all workshop participants, which will include all material that authors are willing to provide: abstract, paper, slides, poster, etc. ORGANIZERS ---------- * Christian Weis, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. (General chair) * Bastien Giraud, CEA Leti, France. (Program chair) * Rob Aitken, ARM, USA. (Panel chair) * Erik Jan Marinissen, IMEC, Belgium. (Steering committee member) * Pascal Vivet, CEA Leti, France. (Publication chair) * Matthias Jung, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. (Publicity chair)

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Call for Papers - CrossCloud'16
by Liang Wang 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email] ============================ Call for Papers ========================== CrossCloud'16 The 3rd Workshop on CrossCloud Infrastructures & Platforms Collocated with European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys'16) April 18-21, 2016 - London, UK http://bit.ly/CrossCloud <http://bit.ly/CrossCloud> ======================================================================= SCOPE CrossCloud is an international workshop series that aims to bring to light several issues related to cross-cloud systems: cloud federation, multi-cloud architectures, cross-cloud applications, and hybrid clouds. CrossCloud aims to attract researchers from both academia and industry to share and discuss their recent research and experiences in designing and operating multiple cloud systems. Work in this area extends over various topics including cross-cloud resource management, monitoring, service migration, API interoperability, portability, policy enforcement, benefit–cost analysis, and fault mitigation. ======================================================================= TOPICS OF INTERESTS Authors are encouraged, but not limited, to cover the following topics: - Cross-cloud systems: resource management across multiple clouds (e.g., load balancing, performance optimization, security and privacy policy enforcement). - Containers and Virtual Machine (VM) management across several cloud infrastructures (e.g., VM placement and migration). - Micro-services: system design, monitoring and management using containers and/or microkernels to achieve cloud provider independence. - Cross-Cloud agility: dynamic application deployment across multiple cloud platforms, flexibility in moving between different providers and vendors. - Hybrid cloud infrastructures management: public and private clouds, heterogeneous cloud systems, cloud and cluster/grid systems. - Cloud-bursting: workload offloading, multi-cloud resource scheduling strategies. - Cross-cloud SDKs and APIs: design, maintenance, support and performance evaluation. - Application portability: priorities, restrictions, and lock-in mitigation techniques and measures. - API interoperability: study cases and experiences with data and applications. - Interoperability between managed services (e.g., MapReduce, DB, message queues, etc.). - Decision support systems: efficient and open application deployment and monitoring across different cloud platforms and providers, cloud brokerage as a means of complexity outsourcing. - Scalable multi-cloud monitoring: monitoring among different cloud environments, relevant metrics at the different levels of the stack (e.g., network access), monitoring overhead analysis. - Experiences: assembling and (re)deploying in heterogeneous multi- cloud environments, costs and benefits of cross-cloud management and deployment, challenges in existing cross-cloud platforms, case studies on building or federating multi-cloud systems. - Cross-Cloud security: identity and access management across infrastructure boundaries, reconciling application security and privacy requirements across multiple SLAs. ======================================================================= IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: February 8, 2016 Author notification: February 29, 2016 EuroSys Grant application: March 11, 2016 Camera-ready version: March 21, 2016 All deadline times are Anywhere on Earth. ======================================================================= SUBMISSION GUIDELINE We solicit two types of submissions: (1) technical papers (max 6 double-column pages), and (2) posters (max 2 double-column pages). Each submission will receive at least 3 single-blind peer reviews. Authors of technical papers are also encouraged to prepare a poster to be displayed in a joint poster session on the workshop day. ======================================================================= JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE Like in the former editions of the workshop, authors of the best technical papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to the Springer Open Journal of Internet Services and Applications thematic series on cross-cloud computing (JISA-CCC). ======================================================================= ORGANIZATION General and Technical Program Co-Chairs: Yehia Elkhatib (Lancaster University, UK) Mohamed Faten Zhani (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada) Steering Committee: Gordon S. Blair (Lancaster University, UK) Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada) Renato Cerqueira (IBM Research, Brazil) Wouter Joosen (iMinds-Distrinet, KU Leuven, Belgium) Publicity Co-chairs: James Hadley (Lancaster University, UK) Liang Wang (Cambridge University, UK) ======================================================================= CONTACT CrossCloudRsrch(a)gmail.com <mailto:[email protected]> http://bit.ly/CrossCloud <http://bit.ly/CrossCloud>

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Call for Ideas Papers - DOE Workshop on Advancing Cross-cutting Ideas for Computational Climate Science
by Esmond G. Ng 24 Nov '15

24 Nov '15

Dear Colleagues, Given the short time frame to submit ideas papers, and the proximity to the holidays, we are pleased to announce that we can extend the deadline for submission to COB on Dec 1, 2015. This is the last extension we can give and still allow accepted paper authors to plan to attend. We thank you for considering this event and hope to see a wide array of submissions from the community. ----- Dear Colleagues, A workshop to discuss bold, new computational ideas to address longer-term science needs for climate modeling is being convened January 26-28, 2016 in Rockville, MD. As the climate science community explores a host of critical science questions to be answered over the next 10+ years, with the aim of informing stakeholders about the ongoing changes in global and local climate, there is a growing recognition of the expanding requirements for multiscale, global, coupled Earth system models. We expect them to provide much more detail and fidelity, with a much better understanding of their uncertainties, while still executing robustly and efficiently on ever larger and more complex computing systems. The DOE Office of Science BER and ASCR programs are sponsoring the event, titled “Advancing Cross-cutting Ideas for Computational Climate Science”, or AXICCS 2016. It is a grassroots effort to generate fresh thinking that will mold the optimal science directions and motivate the latest and as yet to be uncovered ASCR developments that will be required to handle new requirements. A report outlining the challenges, strategies to address them, and possible avenues for execution will be one of the outcomes of the event. A website with details and logistics will be provided shortly. A key aspect to achieve the workshop goals is to brainstorm before the event, and to accomplish this we are soliciting community input in the form of “ideas” papers. Overall space at the event is limited, but we plan to accommodate the lead authors of these ideas papers via a presentation (oral or poster) and acknowledgement in the workshop report. Some of those selected will be included in the workshop write-up. Details about the format for the ideas papers and templates to download are provided at http://www.csm.ornl.gov/workshops/AXICCS/paper.html. Ideas papers must be submitted through a link to EasyChair no later than 5:00pm Eastern Time on Nov 24, 2015, and official invitations to present will be sent to selected lead authors by Dec 9, 2015. Attendees will need to cover their own travel expenses. We would like to express our sincere appreciation to the workshop sponsors, the DOE Office of Science BER and ASCR programs, and in particular, Drs. Dorothy Koch and Randall Laviolette for their encouragement to proceed. We also thank those who have volunteered to become a part of the organizing committee. Sincerely, Katherine Evans, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Esmond Ng, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory

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Special Issue on Workflows for Data-Driven Research in FGCS - Deadline 30 April 2016
by Sandra Gesing 23 Nov '15

23 Nov '15

*************************************************************** * Special Issue on Workflows for Data-Driven Research * Journal Future Generation Computer Systems * http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/call-fo… **************************************************************** Data-intensive Workflows (a.k.a. scientific workflows) are routinely used in the majority of data-driven research disciplines today, often exploiting rich and diverse data resources and parallel and distributed computing platforms. This special issue focuses on the many facets of data-intensive and data-dependent workflows, from their use as a notation for describing, refining and sharing data-driven methods to the underpinning management systems that enact those methods. As such, it will welcome insights and clarity about any relevant topics including notations, strategies and tools for creating high quality data-intensive methods, and all aspects of mapping such methods onto platforms and organizing their execution, during their development and during their production use. The special issue therefore covers a broad range of topics in the scientific workflow lifecycle that include: the representation of data-intensive workflows and their enactment; workflow design and composition interfaces; workflow mapping techniques that may optimize the execution of the workflow; workflow enactment engines that need to deal with failures in the application and execution environment; and a number of computer science problems related to scientific workflows such as semantic technologies, compiler methods, fault detection and tolerance. The special issue welcomes research as well as position papers. Areas include, but are not limited to: - Workflow applications and their requirements - Abstract models and notations for data-intensive workflows - Methods for designing, refining and quality assuring workflows - Workflow composition, tools and languages - Workflow interoperability - Workflow debugging methods and tools - Workflow provenance collection, representation and use - Interactive workflows engaging domain specialists’ judgment - Workflow user environments, including portals - Methods and tools for mapping workflows to target platforms - Diverse platforms: e.g. HPC, HTC, Cloud and specialized data-intensive clusters, and smart devices - Exascale computing with workflows - Data streaming systems - Data-driven workflow processing - Workflow execution in distributed environments - Adaptive workflows - Dynamic data-dependent workflow systems - Big Data analytics workflows - Workflow fault-tolerance and recovery techniques - Workflow monitoring - Workflow optimizations - Performance analysis of workflows - Workflows for live data streams or dynamic networks e.g. sensor nets, Internet of Things (IoT) or mobile devices - Current and future challenges for data-driven workflow research *Submission Guidelines* Original, high quality contributions that are not yet published or that are not currently under review by other journals or peer-reviewed conferences are sought. Exceptions that may be accepted are invited high-quality papers from the last 10 years of the workshop WORKS and which are very significantly updated and extended. These must have at least 40% difference from the original conference papers. Papers will be peer reviewed by independent reviewers and selected based on originality, scientific quality and relevance to this Special Issue. The journal editors will make final decisions on the acceptance of the papers. Authors should prepare their manuscript according to the Guide for Authors available from the online submission page of the Future Generation Computer Systems at http://ees.elsevier.com/fgcs. Authors should select “SI: WORKS” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. *Important Dates* Paper submission due: 30 April, 2016 First-round acceptance notification: 30 June 2016 Revision submission: 15 September 2016 Notification of final decision: 15 January 2017 Submission of final paper: 28 February 2017 Expected publication: May 2017 *Guest Editors* Ian Taylor, University of Cardiff, UK and University of Notre Dame, USA Johan Montagnat, CNRS, France Malcolm Atkinson, University of Edinburgh, UK Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA

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Fwd: CFP: Workshop on Parallel Programming for Resilience and Energy Efficiency. Submission deadline extended till Dec. 15.
by Enrique S. Quintana Ortí 23 Nov '15

23 Nov '15

Workshop on Parallel Programming for Resilience and Energy Efficiency -- PP4REE (to be held as part of Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming -- PPoPP 2016) http://conf.researchr.org/track/PPoPP-2016/PP4REE-2016-papers Barcelona, Spain March 12-16, 2016 Overview ======== Nowadays, the number of components in High Performance Computing (HPC) systems increases at the pace dictated by Moore's Law, but the mean time between failures (MTBF) for the complete system is significantly shrinking. For example, when accounting for the instruction & data caches and register files, the mean time between soft errors for the Sequoia supercomputer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory is estimated to be 1.5 days. As HPC systems move into the Exascale era, the number of system components will increase by up to three orders of magnitude, and MTBF will further deteriorate, thus promoting resilience into a fundamental challenge. This scenario renders current system solutions to resilience, such as coordinated checkpointing, unfeasible, and motivates the use of algorithmic, programming model, or runtime system approaches to improve the resilience of parallel applications at scale. While a resilience crisis is looming in the HPC domain, the end of Dennard~scaling (i.e., the ability to shrink the feature size of integrated circuits while maintaining a constant power density) has pushed energy consumption into a primary design principle, in par with performance, for which holistic solutions are currently necessary, from the hardware to the application software. The Green500 ranking, based on the LINPACK benchmark, shows remarkable improvements in the MFLOPS/W (millions of floating-point arithmetic operations per Joule) of recent HPC facilities. However, with the cost of 1~MW being close to $1~million, any improvement on this metric will surely have an enormous positive impact on the deployment of future Exascale systems. Despite a flurry of research in recent years on techniques that improve the energy-efficiency of HPC systems via software intervention, energy remains transparent to existing parallel programming models used in production settings. The quest for higher energy-efficiency in future HPC systems is inherently connected to the quest for enhanced resilience for two reasons: First, resilience techniques have a non-trivial energy cost. Second, ongoing efforts to further improve the energy-efficiency of hardware at the device level (such as operating hardware below its nominal margins or replacing DDR technology with non-volatile memory technologies) may compromise hardware reliability. Topics ===== The purpose of this workshop is to explore the space of techniques for improving the resilience and energy-efficiency (REE) of parallel programs at the algorithmic and language levels. We are particularly interested in papers that present cross-cutting techniques that trade energy-efficiency with resilience. We solicit original papers that include but are not limited to the following topics: * Programming languages, interfaces, and general software techniques for REE. * Scheduling and mapping for REE. * Run-times for REE. * Algorithmic techniques for REE. * Programming models for computing paradigms that improve REE, such as near-threshold computing, approximate computing, or neuromorphic computing. * Applications and cases studies of success. Submissions ========== Papers should not exceed ten single-space double-column pages (including figures, tables and references) using a 10-point font on 8.5x11-inch pages. We suggest to use IEEE two-column template for conference proceedings. Submissions will be judged based on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, presentation, quality and appropriateness. Submitted papers should not have appeared in or be under consideration for another venue. A full peer-process will be followed with each paper being reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. Submissions will be made through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pp4ree) Important dates ============ Submission of Papers: December 15, 2015 (extended). Notification of Acceptance: January 21, 2016. Workshop: March 12-16, 2016 (half day). Organizers ======== * Christos D. Antonopoulos, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department of the University of Thessaly, Greece. * Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, EEECS, at Queen's University of Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom. * Oscar Plata, Department of Computer Architecture at the University of Malaga, Spain. * Enrique S. Quintana-Orti, Department of Computer Engineering & Sciences, Universidad Jaume~I of Castellon, Spain. Program Committee ================ To be confirmed. Special Issue ========== Extended versions of best papers will appear, after an additional review process, in a special issue of Elsevier Parallel Computing journal. -- Enrique S. Quintana-Orti Catedrático de Universidad, Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores Depto. de Ingenieria y Ciencia de Computadores Escuela Superior de Tecnología y Ciencias Experimentales Universidad Jaume I 12.071 - Castellon de la Plana (Spain) +34 964 728 257 quintana(a)uji.es <quintana(a)icc.uji.es> http://www3.uji.es/~quintana

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Call for Book Chapters: Big Data Management, Architecture, and Processing
by Kuan-Ching Li 23 Nov '15

23 Nov '15

---------------------- Call for Book Chapters ---------------------- Big Data Management, Architecture, and Processing (Chapman & Hall/ CRC Big Data Series) CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, USA https://sites.google.com/site/bigdata2map/ Important Dates *Proposal Submission: January 15, 2016* -Proposal Acceptance: February 1, 2016 -Sample Chapter (phase I): May 1, 2016 -Sample Chapter (phase II): July 1, 2016 -Complete Chapter Submission (to editors): August 1, 2016 -Submission of Chapters (to publisher): August 25, 2016 -Publication Time: Q4/2016 (tentative) Data are being generated at exponential rate all over the world, and organizations are storing and processing exponentially increasing amounts of data. Recently, they have to re-think about and figure out how to do this efficiently and effectively. Through evolving algorithms and analytics techniques, organizations can harness data, discover hidden patterns, and use the derived knowledge to act meaningfully for competitive advantages. Book co-editors intend to invite experts and successful case participating members to contribute discussions on topics for data gathering and management as well as processing. This book intends to bridge the gap between huge amount of data and appropriate computational/management methods for scientific discovery, and to bring together technologies for media/data communication, elastic media/data storage, and cross-network media/data fusion. The book also aims at interesting applications involving Big Data. Topics Topics include, but are not limited to, the follows: * Management - Big Data Design, implementation, evaluation and services, including the development process, use cases, experiments and associated simulations - Big Data as integration of technologies such as SOA, data mining, machine learning, HPC, cloud storage, multi-clouds and internet of things. - Big Data analytics and visualization with new algorithms showing how to achieve significant improvements from existing methods - Query processing and indexing - Data management within and across multiple geographically distributed data centers - Elasticity for data management systems - Self-*, adaptive and energy-efficient mechanisms - Performance evaluation of environments and technologies - Security, privacy, trust, data ownership and risk simulations *Architecture - GPU/Many-core and Heterogeneous Architecture - Energy Efficient Architecture - Node and System Architecture - Packaging, Power and Cooling - Interconnect/Memory Architecture - Single System Image Clusters - Big Data Open Systems - Administration and Maintenance Tools * Processing - Techniques, algorithms and innovative methods of processing, - Business and economic models (quantitative or computational), social network analyses, scientific workflows and business processes, - Adoption cases, frameworks and user evaluations involved with quantitative or computational research methods, - Data-intensive and scalable computing on hybrid infrastructures, - MapReduce based computations, - Many-Task Computing in the Cloud, - Streaming and real-time processing, - Big Data applications, experiences and solutions for specific domains of data science, including security, health, transportation, logistics, e-government, environment, computational physics, astronomy, and others. Proposal submission A proposal for a book chapter is needed from prospective authors before the proposal submission due date, describing the goals and scopes of the proposed chapter. Acceptance of chapter proposals will be communicated to lead authors after a formal double-blind review process. The submission of chapter proposals should be sent directly via email to corresponding editors. Book Editors Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Hai Jiang, Arkansas State University, USA Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Additional Information Inquiries and chapter proposal submissions can be forwarded electronically by email to kuancli(a)pu.edu.tw, hjiang(a)astate.edu or albert.zomaya(a)sydney.edu.au .

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CFP: 25th Int'l Conf. on Compiler Construction (CC) - Final Call
by Manuel Hermenegildo 22 Nov '15

22 Nov '15

[ Please forward. Apologies for any duplicates. ] ********************************************************************** FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 25th International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC 2016) March 17-18 2016, Barcelona, Spain Co-located with CGO, HPCA, PPoPP, and EuroLLVM http://cc2016.eew.technion.ac.il/ ********************************************************************** Important dates --------------- Abstracts due: 23 November 2015 Papers due: 30 November 2015 (any time zone) Author notification: 27 January 2016 Camera ready versions: 10 February 2016 Conference: 17-18 March 2016 Information ----------- The International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC) is interested in work on processing programs in the most general sense: analyzing, transforming or executing input that describes how a system operates, including traditional compiler construction as a special case. Original contributions are solicited on the topics of interest which include, but are not limited to: - Compilation and interpretation techniques, including program representation, analysis, and transformation; code generation and optimization; - Run-time techniques, including memory management, virtual machines, and dynamic and just-in-time compilation; - Programming tools, including refactoring editors, checkers, verifiers, compilers, debuggers, and profilers; - Techniques for specific domains, such as secure, parallel, distributed, embedded or mobile environments; - Design and implementation of novel language constructs and programming models. CC 2016 is the 25th edition of the conference. It will be co-located with CGO, HPCA, PPoPP, and EuroLLVM on March 17-18 2016, in Barcelona, Spain. Submission ---------- Papers should be submitted electronically via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cc2016. Papers must be written in English and be submitted in pdf in ACM SIGPLAN proceedings format (http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/, using the default 9pt font size). The proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library and will be made available freely for the period around the conference. Both regular papers (up to 11 pages) and tool papers (up to 2 + 3 pages), are invited. In tool papers the first part (2 pages) should describe the tool and the second (3 pages) explain the contents of the demo that will be presented with examples and screenshots. Submissions must adhere strictly to the page limits, including bibliography, figures, or appendices. Submissions that are clearly too long may be rejected immediately. Additional material intended for reviewers but not for publication in the final version ( listings, data, proofs) may be included in a clearly marked appendix. Submitted papers must be unpublished and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. A condition of submission is that, if the submission is accepted, one of the authors attends the conference to give the presentation. Organizers ---------- General Chair Ayal Zaks Intel and Technion, Israel Program Committee Chair Manuel Hermenegildo IMDEA SW Institute and Technical U. of Madrid, Spain Program Committee Raj Barik, Intel Labs, Santa Clara, CA Uday Bondhugula, IIS Bangalore Matthew Flatt U. of Utah Maria Garzaran, U. of Illinois UC and Intel Laurie Hendren, McGill U. Manuel Hermenegildo, IMDEA and T.U. Madrid Xavier Leroy, INRIA Ondrej Lhotak, U of Waterloo Francesco Logozzo, Facebook Antoine Mine, Ecole Normale Superieure, Paris Jose Morales, IMDEA SW Diego Novillo, Google Jens Palsberg, UCLA Xipeng Shen, North Carolina State University Vijay Sundaresan, IBM Walid Taha, Halmstadt U. Zheng Wang, Lancaster U. Steering Committee Koen De Bosschere, Ghent U. Bjoern Franke, U. of Edinburgh Michael O'Boyle, U. of Edinburgh Albert Cohen, INRIA Web site http://cc2016.eew.technion.ac.il/

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ISC 2016: Call for Papers
by Balaji, Pavan 22 Nov '15

22 Nov '15

ISC 2016 CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS The ISC research paper sessions provide first-class open forums for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present and discuss issues, trends and results that will shape the future of high performance computing. ISC is now calling for excellent contributions in all HPC-related fields, such as computer architecture, algorithms, performance analysis, storage, extreme parallelism and software engineering. Submitted work will be reviewed by the ISC 2016 Research Papers Committee, which is headed by Prof. Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee & ORNL, and Dr. Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory. The ISC organizers as well as the German Gauss Center for Supercomputing and PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, will again sponsor the call for papers with three awards for outstanding papers: the Hans Meuer Award, the GAUSS Award and the PRACE ISC Award. The research paper sessions will be held from Monday, June 20, through Wednesday, June 22. --- IMPORTANT DATES * Full Submission Deadline: Tuesday, December 1, 2015, 11:59 pm AoE * Author Rebuttal: Monday, February 15, 2016 * Author Notification: Monday, March 7, 2016 * Camera-Ready Submission: Thursday, May 12, 2016 * Research Paper Sessions: Monday, June 20 to Wednesday, June 22, 2016 This year, we are planning a significant revamp of the research paper review process. Apart from a longer review cycle, allowing for more thorough reviews, we have an in-person Research Papers Committee meeting where each paper will be discussed before the acceptance decisions are made. We hope that this will allow us to further improve the quality of the research paper session. --- AREAS OF INTEREST We encourage the submission of high-quality papers reporting original work in theoretical, experimental and industrial research and development in the following areas: Architectures * Future design concepts of HPC systems * Multicore/manycore systems * Heterogeneous systems * Network technology * Programming models Storage & Data * From big data to smart data * Memory systems for HPC & big data * File systems & tape libraries * Data intensive applications * Databases Algorithms & Analysis * Scalability on future architectures * Performance evaluation & tuning * Innovative domain-specific algorithms Software Engineering in HPC * The art of parallel programming * Application of methods * Surveys Large Scale Simulations * Workflow management * Data analysis & visualization * Coupled simulations * Industrial simulations * Scalable Applications: 50k+ Data Centers * Batch job management * Job mix & system utilization * Monitoring & administration tools * Production efficiency * Energy efficiency Future Trends * Trends in the HPC chip market * Exascale HPC * HPC in the cloud NOTE: Submissions on other innovative aspects of high performance computing are also welcome. --- SUBMISSION & REVIEW PROCESS * Abstracts and papers need to be submitted via the Linklings submission site at https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/isc_hpc/. * We only accept paper submissions which are formatted correctly in LNCS style (single column format) using either the LaTeX document class or Word template. For details on the author guidelines, please refer to Springer's website. Incorrectly formatted papers will be excluded from the reviewing process. * Papers submissions are required to be within 18 pages in the above mentioned LNCS style. This includes all figures and references. * Research papers will be peer-reviewed by the Research Papers Committee. Papers will be evaluated by reviewers based on their novelty, fundamental insights and potential for long-term contribution. Borderline papers will go through a rebuttal phase to give authors the chance to respond to reviewer comments and to discuss them with the Research Papers Committee. * By submitting a paper, you agree to present the paper at ISC High Performance 2016 in Frankfurt, Germany. Presenters need to be registered participants. --- PROCEEDINGS The proceedings are managed by the proceedings chair, Dr. Julian Kunkel. All accepted research papers will be published in the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. The publication is free of charge to paper authors regardless of the number of pages. The papers can be downloaded from Springer's website for a limited time after ISC 2016, and a limited number of hardcopies will also be available during ISC 2016. The proceedings are indexed in the ISI Web of Science, EI Engineering Index, ACM Digital Library, dblp, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Scopus, and Zentralblatt MATH. The ISC organizers will include the presentation slides, if provided to them as PDF files no later than Monday, June 27, in the conference proceedings, which will be available online to ISC 2016 attendees a few days after the event. --- RESEARCH PAPER AWARDS * Hans Meuer Award The Hans Meuer Award honors the most outstanding ISC research paper submitted to the conference's Research Papers Committee. This award has been introduced in the memory of the late Dr. Hans Meuer, general chair of the ISC conference from 1986 through 2014, and co-founder of the TOP500 project. >From all submitted research papers, the Research Papers Committee will select the overall best paper for the award. The winner will be announced at the ISC High Performance Opening Session and will be given the opportunity to present a keynote talk on their work in one of the research paper sessions. The winner will also receive a cash prize of 3,000 Euros, an award certificate, and a free conference pass for ISC High Performance in 2017. * Gauss Award The Gauss Award is sponsored by the German Gauss Center for Supercomputing, which is a collaboration of the German national supercomputing centers at Garching, Julich and Stuttgart. >From all papers accepted for the ISC Research Paper Sessions, the Gauss Award Committee will choose the most outstanding paper in the field of scalable supercomputing. The winner will receive a cash prize of 3,000 Euros, courtesy of the Gauss Center, which will be presented by Professor Michael Resch, chairman of the Gauss Award Committee, during the ISC Opening Session. The award winner will also have the opportunity to present a keynote talk on their paper during one of the research paper sessions. PRACE ISC Award PRACE, the Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, will award a prize to the best paper submitted to the ISC Research Paper Sessions in one of the following areas: * a breakthrough in science achieved through high performance computing; * an algorithm or implementation that achieves a significant improvement in scalability or performance; * a novel approach to performance evaluation on a massively parallel architecture. PRACE, with the help of its Scientific Steering Committee will select the paper to receive the award, which will be announced at the ISC Opening Session. The winner of the PRACE ISC Award will receive sponsorship for participation in a training event, or a conference relevant to petascale computing, and will have the opportunity to give a keynote talk on their work during the Research Papers Sessions.

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GPGPU9: Call for Papers
by Yifan Sun 21 Nov '15

21 Nov '15

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email.] =========================================== Call for Papers for GPGPU 9 [Deadline extended (December 1, 2015)] Held in cooperation with PPoPP 2016 March 12 - 16, 2016, Barcelona, Spain http://conf.researchr.org/home/GPGPU-9 =========================================== The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum to discuss new and emerging general-purpose purpose programming environments and platforms, as well as evaluate applications that have been able to harness the horsepower provided by these platforms. This year’s workshop is particularly interested in exploring new heterogeneous GPU platforms, new forms of concurrency, and novel/irregular applications that can leverage these platforms. Papers are being sought on many aspects of GPUs, including (but not limited to): GPU applications GPU programming environments GPU runtime systems GPU compilation GPU architectures Multi-GPU systems GPU power/efficiency GPU reliability GPU benchmarking/measurements Heterogeneous GPU platforms that incorporate GPUs ================ Submissions ================ All submissions must be made electronically through the EasyChair system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gpgpu9) Full paper submissions must be in PDF formatted for US lettersize paper. They must not exceed 10 pages (all inclusive) in standard ACM two-column conference format (preprint mode, with page number). Templates for ACM format are available for Microsoft Word, and LaTeX here at http://www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm (use the 9 pt template). All accepted papers will be published in the ACM Online Conference Proceedings Series. For questions, contact David Kaeli (kaeli(a)ece.neu.edu) ================ Important Dates ================ Papers due: December 1, 2015 Notification: December 21, 2015 Final paper due: January 4, 2015 ================ Travel Awards ================ PPoPP 2016 has received funds to support travel to Barcelona for student authors of GPGPU-9 papers. Student authors will be contacted after acceptance of their paper on how to apply for these funds.

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ISC 2016 CALL FOR WORKSHOPS - Pre-submission Deadline Tuesday, December 1
by Michela Taufer 20 Nov '15

20 Nov '15

ISC 2016 CALL FOR WORKSHOPS Are you interested in hosting a workshop at the ISC High Performance conference? ISC is now accepting proposals for full- or half-day workshops. The goal of workshops is to provide attendees with a focused and in-depth platform for presentations, discussion and interaction in a particular subject area. We are inviting workshop proposals on topics related to all aspects of research, development, and application of large-scale, high-performance experimental and commercial systems. Topics include HPC computer architecture and hardware, programming models, system software, and applications, solutions for heterogeneity, reliability, and power efficiency of systems as well as how those areas apply to big data and cloud computing. Submitted workshop proposals will be reviewed by the ISC 2016 Workshops Committee, which is headed by Bernd Mohr, Juelich Supercomputing Centre (Germany) and Michela Taufer, University of Delaware (USA). Workshops will be held on Thursday, June 23 in the Marriott Frankfurt Hotel, the day after the ISC High Performance conference. Attendance will require a workshop pass. IMPORTANT DATES * *** Pre-submission Deadline Tuesday, December 1, 2015, 11:59pm AoE * * Pre-submission Notification Tuesday, December 15, 2015 * Final Submission Deadline Monday, February 15, 2016, 11:59pm AoE * Final Notification Tuesday, March 15, 2016 * Workshop Day Thursday, June 23, 2016 NEW FOR ISC 2016 * **Early deadline for workshops with call for papers and a peer-review process: Proposals for workshops that want to disseminate their own call for papers and implement the peer-review process should be submitted by December 1, 2015. Proposals for “regular” workshops without call for papers should be submitted by February 15, 2016. * Workshop proceedings: We plan to provide workshop organizers with the option to publish their workshop papers, if desired, in a separate Joint Workshop Proceeding Volume, published online with Springer Publishing like the ISC 2016 research papers proceedings. Note that the decision by Springer is still pending. The workshop proceedings will be published after the conference. Of course, workshop organizers are also free to organize the publication of paper proceedings on their own. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS Workshop proposals can be submitted now via the ISC 2016 Linklings conference system at: https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/isc_hpc/. Proposals need to be uploaded as a single PDF file. The Workshops Committee will peer review all workshop proposals submitted, select the workshops and allocate their time slots. Note that the Workshops Committee will also make early acceptance decisions for workshops submitted to the pre-submission deadline. This will give workshop organizers more time to promote and prepare their workshops. We strongly encourage workshop organizers to submit their proposal as early as possible so that there is enough time to organize the workshop program before the conference. CONTACT AND FURTHER INFORMATION MS. HEIKE WALTHER <heike.walther(a)isc-group.com> -- _________________________________________________ Michela Taufer David and Beverly J.C. Mills Career Development Chair Computer and Information Sciences Biomedical Engineering University of Delaware 101 Smith Hall Newark, DE 19716 Phone: (302) 831 0071 Fax: (302) 831 8458 E-Mail: taufer(a)acm.org URL: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~taufer Global Computing Lab: http://gcl.cis.udel.edu Active Projects and SW Repository: Docking@Home: http://docking.cis.udel.edu ExSciTecH: https://exscitech.org/ QCNExplorer: http://qcnexplorer.org/ GitHub: https://github.com/TauferLab Follow me on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/MichelaTaufer Follow my Group on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/TauferLab __________________________________________________

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