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Call for Papers 11th International Conference On Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics
by Ewa Deelman 12 Mar '15

12 Mar '15

********************************************************** ****** SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS ****** ****** PPAM 2015 ****** ****** 11th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ****** ****** PARALLEL PROCESSING AND APPLIED MATHEMATICS ****** ********************************************************** Krakow, Poland, September 6-9, 2015 http://ppam.pl <http://ppam.pl/> The PPAM 2015 conference, eleven in a series, will cover topics in parallel and distributed computing, including theory and applications, as well as applied mathematics. The focus will be on models, algorithms, and software tools which facilitate efficient and convenient utilization of modern parallel and distributed computing architectures, as well as on large-scale applications, including big data problems. PPAM is a biennial conference started in 1994, with the proceedings published in the LNCS series. The PPAM Proceedings are indexed in main databases such as Web of Science, SciVerse Scopus, and DBLP. PPAM 2015 will take place in beautiful Krakow, the old capital of Poland, a major national academic, cultural and artistic centre. --- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (tentative list) --- David A. Bader Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Pete Beckman Argonne National Laboratory, USA Costas Bekas IBM Research - Zurich, Switzerland Christopher Carothers Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Barbara Chapman University of Houston, USA Ewa Deelman University of Southern California, USA Jack Dongarra University of Tennessee and ORNL, USA Geoffrey Fox Indiana University, USA Dieter Kranzlmueller Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet Muenchen, Germany Vladik Kreinovich University of Texas at El Paso, USA Alexey Lastovetsky University College Dublin, Ireland Enrique S. Quintana-Orti Universidad Jaime I, Spain Rizos Sakellariou University of Manchester, UK Boleslaw K. Szymanski Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Manuel Ujaldon NVIDIA Jeffrey Vetter ORNL and Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Richard W. Vuduc Georgia Institute of Technology, USA -- WORKSHOPS, MINISYMPOSIA, SPECIAL SESSIONS (preliminary list) -- * MS on GPU Computing * WS on Numerical Algorithms on Hybrid Architectures * Special Session on Efficient Algorithms for Problems with Matrix and Tensor Decompositions * WS on Models, Algorithms and Methodologies for Hierarchical Parallelism in New HPC Systems * WS on Power and Energy Aspects of Computation * WS on Scheduling for Parallel Computing * WS on Language-Based Parallel Programming Models * Special Session on Frameworks, Libraries and Tools for Programming Modern Parallel Applications * WS on Performance Evaluation of Parallel Applications on Large-Scale Systems * WS on Parallel Computational Biology * MS on Applications of Parallel Computation in Industry and Engineering * MS of HPC Applications in Physical Science * MS on Applied High Performance Numerical Algorithms in PDEs * MS on High Performance Computing Interval Methods * WS on Complex Collective Systems --- PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION --- Authors should submit full papers (draft versions) before April 26, 2015. Regular papers are not to exceed 10 pages (LNCS style). Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their scientific merit and relevance to the conference topics. The proceedings will be published after the conference in the LNCS series. --- JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES --- The authors of the best papers selected by the Program Committee will be invited to submit extended versions of their work to special issues of the following journals: Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, and International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications. --- IMPORTANT DATES --- Submission of Papers: April 26, 2015 Notification of Acceptance: June 5, 2015 Camera-Ready Papers: Nov. 15, 2015 Roman Wyrzykowski Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland CHAIR OF PROGRAM COMMITTEE Ewa Deelman University of Southern California, USA VICE-CHAIR OF PROGRAM COMMITTEE

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CFP: 7th Workshop on Interfaces and Architectures for Scientific Data Storage (IASDS 2015)
by Javier Garcia Blas 12 Mar '15

12 Mar '15

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] 7th Workshop on Interfaces and Architectures for Scientific Data Storage (IASDS 2015) September 1-4, 2015, held in conjunction with ICPP 2015 in Beijing, China More info at: http://1nvy.mjt.lu/link/1nvy/gqmu9t6/1/PBDOEHTDpaWu_fE6I168hA/aHR0cDovL3ByZ… <http://1nvy.mjt.lu/link/1nvy/gqmu9t6/1/PBDOEHTDpaWu_fE6I168hA/aHR0cDovL3ByZ…> High-performance computing simulations and large scientific experiments generate tens of terabytes of data, and these data sizes grow each year. Existing systems for storing, managing, and analyzing data are being pushed to their limits by these applications, and new techniques are necessary to enable efficient data processing for future simulations and experiments. The needs of scientific applications have triggered a continuous increase in scale of parallel systems, as demonstrated by the evolution of Top 500. However, the computation scale has not been matched by an increase in I/O scale. For example, in the design of earlier supercomputers the parallel I/O bandwidth was 1GBps for every TFLOP, whereas in the current solutions is 1GBps for every 10TFLOPS. This increased bottleneck makes even more pressing the need to employ the I/O subsystem in the most efficient solution possible. Scalable I/O has been already identified as critical for the PFLOP systems. The future exascale systems forecasted for 2018-2020 will presumably have O(1B) cores and will be hierarchical in both platform and algorithms. This hierarchy will imply a larger path in pipelining the data from cores to storage and vice-versa, exposing even more the I/O latency perceived by the current MPP architectures. This workshop will provide a forum for engineers and scientists to present and discuss their most recent work related to the storage, management, and analysis of data for scientific workloads. Emphasis will be placed on forward-looking approaches to tackle the challenges of storage at extreme scale or to provide better abstractions for use in scientific workloads. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: • parallel file systems • scientific databases • active storage • scientific I/O middlewares • extreme scale storage • analysis of large data sets • NoSQL storage solutions and techniques • energy-aware file systems All papers will be reviewed by at least 3 independent reviewers from the international program committee. Papers will be selected based on their originality, their interest for the research community, the quality of the use-case description, the description of the technical solution, the impact of the application and/or technical description and the status of the work. All papers presented at the main conference and workshops will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for publication and EI indexing. Acceptable submissions include short papers and work-in-progress reports, as well as full papers. Organization Workshop chairs Javier Garcia Blas Computer Science and Engineering Dep Carlos III University fjblas(a)inf.uc3m.es <mailto:[email protected]> Dries Kimpe Mathematics and Computer Science Division Argonne National Laboratory dkimpe(a)mcs.anl.gov <mailto:[email protected]> Tentative Program Committee Stergios V. Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina Jorge Barbosa, University of Porto Lars Ailo Bongo, University of Tromsø Jesus Carretero, Carlos III University Salvatore Distefano, Politecnico di Milano Felix Garcia Carballeira, Carlos III University Florin Isaila, Argonne National Laboratory John Jenkins, Argonne National Laboratory Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Peter Kropf, Université de Neuchâtel Julian Kunkel, DKRZ David Hart, University Corporation for Atmospheric Research Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratory Ricardo Morla, University of Porto Ron Oldfield, Sandia National Laboratory Juan Antonio Rico Gallego, University of Extremadura Philip Rhodes, University of Mississippi Duan Rubing, Institute of High Performance Computing (A*start) Ali Shoker, HASLab/INESC-TEC Domenico Talia, University of Calabria Douglas Thain, Univeristy of Notre Dame Submission Information Submissions should be formatted according to the CPS standard double-column format with a font size 10 pt or larger (see www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/home <http://1nvy.mjt.lu/link/1nvy/gqmu9t6/2/yO4r8iiHc32CqOhpRNmKBw/aHR0cDovL3d3d…>). Each paper is limited to 10 pages in length. The submission site is www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iasds2015 <http://1nvy.mjt.lu/link/1nvy/gqmu9t6/3/istL64zUWh8CqT87C0s0PA/aHR0cDovL3d3d…>. ________________________________________________________ Dr. 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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CFP: 1st European Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education for Undergraduate Students (Euro-EDUPAR) of Euro-Par 2015
by Florina Ciorba 12 Mar '15

12 Mar '15

1st European Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education for Undergraduate Students (Euro-EDUPAR), with the support of the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) CALL FOR PAPERS As part of Euro-Par 2015 (http://www.europar2015.org/ <http://www.europar2015.org/>), Vienna, Austria from August 24 to August 28, 2015 Website: http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~tcpp/curriculum/?q=Euro-EDUPAR <http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~tcpp/curriculum/?q=Euro-EDUPAR> Submission deadline: May 22, 2015 SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) is nowadays omnipresent. It is in all the computational environments, from mobile devices, laptops and desktops to clusters of multicore nodes and supercomputers, comprising in most cases one or several coprocessors of different types (GPU, MIC, FPGA). In this context, it is vital to train new generations of scientists and engineers in the use of these computational systems, so parallelism topics must be incorporated in Computer Science (CS) and Computer Engineering (CE) programs. In 2010 the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing launched the Curriculum Initiative on Parallel and Distributed Computing, with Core Topics for Undergraduates, and in 2011 started the workshop EduPar, dedicated to Parallel and Distributed Computing Education. Given the differences in education in different parts of the world, the Euro-EDUPAR workshop starts with the aim of analyzing PDC Education in a European context, i.e. the structure and organization of European education. So, the 1st European Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Computing Education for Undergraduate Students (Euro-EDUPAR) invites unpublished manuscripts from individuals or teams from academia, industry, and other educational and research institutes on topics pertaining to the teaching of PDC topics in the Computer Science and Engineering curriculum as well as in Computational Science and with PDC and high performance computing (HPC) concepts, with emphasis on European undergraduate teaching, and the workshop especially seeks papers that report on experiences incorporating PDC topics into undergraduate core courses taken by the majority of students on a degree course. Methods, pedagogical approaches, tools, and techniques that have potential for adoption across the European teaching community are of particular interest. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Parallel and Distributed Computing teaching in the European space 2. Pedagogical issues in PDC, educational methods and learning mechanisms 3. Novel ways of teaching PDC topics, including informal learning environments 4. Curriculum design, models for incorporating PDC topics in core CS/CE curriculum 5. Experience with incorporating PDC topics into core CS/CE courses 6. Experience with incorporating PDC topics in the context of other applications learning 7. Pedagogical tools, programming environments, and languages for PDC 8. e-Learning, e-Laboratory, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), Small Private Online Courses (SPOC) 9. PDC experiences at non-university levels; secondary school, postgraduate, industry, diffusion of PDC SUBMISSION GUIDELINES The submissions will follow the Euro-Par guidelines, in PDF format, and should not exceed 12 pages in the Springer LNCS style, which can be downloaded from the Springer Web site. Paper submission is handled electronically (EasyChair). The 12-page limit is comprehensive (text, figures, references). Complete LaTeX sources must be provided for accepted papers. Short papers and work-in-progress papers can be submitted and presented at the workshop, but they will not be eligible for the post-conference proceedings. Submissions will be reviewed according to impact at European level, the novelty of contributions, impact on broader undergraduate curriculum, relevance to the goals of the workshop, the results and methodology. The workshop proceedings will be published in a LNCS workshop volume after the conference. Only long papers (10-12 pages) positively reviewed by at least 3 referees and presented at the workshop will be considered for inclusion in the workshops proceedings. ATTENDANCE GRANTS There will be a modest number of small attendance grants (2 or 3, around 500 euros) for young researchers (Ph.D. students and Doctors in the last two years) presenting their work at the workshop. The application will be through comments in EasyChair when uploading the paper. IMPORTANT DATES 22 May 2015: Paper submission deadline 19 June 2015: Author notification 31 July 2015: Paper due, for informal workshop proceedings 2 October 2015: Camera-ready paper deadline ORGANIZATION Workshop Co-Chairs: Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University Arnold L. Rosenberg, Northeastern Univ., Boston Steering Committee: Henri E. Bal, Vrije Universiteit Alexey Lastovetsky, Univ. College Dublin Christian Lengauer, University of Passau Pierre Manneback, University of Mons Yves Robert, Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester Cristina Silvano, Politecnico di Milano Paul G Spirakis, University of Liverpool Denis Trystram, Grenoble Institute of Technology Mateo Valero, BSC Vladimir Voevodin, Moscow State University Program Chair: Domingo Giménez, University of Murcia Program Committee: Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy Paolo Bientinesi, RWTH Aachen, Germany Florina Ciorba, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Pierre-François Dutot, Université Pierre-Mendès Grenoble, France Anshul Gupta, IBM Research, USA Emmanuel Jeannot, INRIA, France Eleni Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Kishore Kothapalli, International Institute of Information Technology, Hyderabad, India Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide, University of Paderborn, Germany Milan D. Mihajlovic, The University of Manchester, UK Julio Ortega, University of Granada, Spain Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Cynthia Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Martin Quinson, University of Lorraine / Inria Nancy, France Noemi Rodriguez, PUC-Rio Julio Sahuquillo, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Mitsuhisa Sato, RIKEN Advanced Inst. of Computational Science, Japan Christian Scheideler, Universität Paderborn, Germany Leonel Sousa, INESC-ID, IST, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Peter Strazdins, Australian National University, Australia Frédéric Vivien, INRIA, France Roman Wyrzykowski, Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland Julius Žilinskas, Vilnius University, Lithuania

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IEEE eScience 2015 (Aug 31st - Sept 4, Munich, Germany) - deadline extended 22nd/29th March
by Matti Heikkurinen 11 Mar '15

11 Mar '15

** Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers ** CALL FOR PAPERS - Extended Deadline 11th IEEE International Conference on eScience Munich, Germany, August 31 - September 04, 2015 http://escience-conference.org/2015 The ways scientific research is conducted and its results are taken up are undergoing radical changes as a result of the digital revolution. Researchers in all disciplines are increasingly adopting digital tools, techniques and practices in communities and projects that span multiple disciplines, laboratories, organisations, and national boundaries. The eScience 2015 conference is designed to bring together leading international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies. The conference aims to serve as a forum to present recent research advances in eScience and highlight associated activities worldwide, providing an outlook of challenges and opportunities we will face in the future. eScience 2015 will follow the previous eScience conferences in encouraging submissions that explore advances in the application of technology in particular disciplines, covering both data-oriented and compute-oriented approaches, as well as extreme scale approaches and applications. Major topics include, but are not limited to * New ways to engage and collaborate with external stakeholders, e.g.: - Scientists from other disciplines - Stimulating startups and industrial collaboration - Citizen scientists - General public - Addressing the challenge of anti-science * Progress in thematic areas, e.g.: - Arts, humanities (including Digital Humanities) and eSocial science - Bioinformatics and e-Health - Climate, Environmental & Earth Sciences - Cyberinfrastructure to support eScience, including novel hardware, software and services - Data science, data management and digital repositories - eScience in the cloud - Education and eScience practice - Physical Sciences and Engineering * Sustainability and service management issues, e.g.: - Quality of Service in collaborative environments - Quality aspects of eScience tools - Security and trust (including migration of services from organisation to another) - Long-term sustainability (20 - 50 year perspective) Important Dates - Abstract submission deadline (full papers): 22 March 2015 - Paper Submission Deadline: 29 March 2015 - Notification of Acceptance: 29 May 2015 - Camera Ready Papers Due: 21 June 2015 - Conference Dates: 31 August - 04 September 2015 The conference proceedings are planned to be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library. Submission Process Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work, either as an: Experience paper: an annotated pdf slide set consisting of maximum 15 slides (for an example of the format, see e.g. http://im2013.ieee-im.org/noms2014/expsession_slides.pdf) or as a maximum 6 page pdf document in the IEEE 2-column format; or as a Full conference paper: maximum 10 pages of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines. Templates are available from http://www.ieee.org/. Authors should submit a PDF file that will print on a postscript printer to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeescience2015. N.B. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference. For more details (including call for posters), please see the call for contributions page at http://escience2015.mnm-team.org/?page_id=87 .

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CFP: Workshop on Scheduling and Resource Management for Parallel and Distributed Systems (SRMPDS¹15)
by Jung, Eun Sung 11 Mar '15

11 Mar '15

*********************************************************************************** 11th International Workshop on Scheduling and Resource Management for Parallel and Distributed Systems To be held in conjunction with ICPP'15 - 2015 International Conference on Parallel Processing Beijing, China, September 1, 2015 https://sites.google.com/site/srmpds/ *********************************************************************************** Call for Papers SCOPE: The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the areas of resource scheduling and resource management to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and latest research results on all aspects of scheduling and resource management in parallel and distributed systems including Grids and Clouds. TOPICS OF INTEREST: Topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to: * Resource allocation and management * Advance resource reservation and scheduling * Load sharing and Load balancing techniques * Network resource allocation * Fault-tolerant resource management approaches * Data access and management * Scheduling data intensive jobs * Scheduling on heterogeneous nodes * Time slicing, gang, or co-scheduling * Fairness, priorities, and accounting Issues * Performance implications of scheduling strategies * Performance metrics to compare scheduling schemes * Virtualization of resources PROCEEDINGS: The published papers will be available at the conference in CD format, and will be submitted to the IEEE CS Digital Library. PAPER SUBMISSIONS: Submissions Page Authors are invited to submit manuscripts reporting original unpublished research and recent developments in the topics related to the workshop. Submitted papers should be formatted according to the Conference Publishing Services standard double-column format with a font size 10 pt or larger and should not exceed 10 pages including figures and references. All papers will be peer reviewed and the comments will be provided to the authors. IMPORTANT DATES: Submissions Due: Apr 12, 2015 Review Decisions: May 12, 2015 Final Manuscript Due: Jun 15, 2015 PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: * Rajkumar Kettimuthu (Argonne National Laboratory and The University of Chicago, USA) * Eun-Sung Jung (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) * Wei Tang (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)

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CFP: The International Conference on Open and Big Data (OBD 2015)
by Javid Taheri 11 Mar '15

11 Mar '15

----------------------Call for Papers--------------------------- The International Conference on Open and Big Data (OBD 2015) 24-26 August 2015, Rome, Italy http://www.ficloud.org/obd2015/ --------------------------------------------------------------- Data has become a key asset in modern societies, economies, and governmental organizations. Big Data encompasses various kinds of complex and large scale information that are beyond the processing capabilities of conventional software and databases. Open Data on the other hand can make Big Data more useful and widely accessible. The combination of Open and Big data can benefit users, developers, companies and various kinds of organizations to carry out useful analysis of data pattern and trends, make intelligent decisions, and solve complex problems that can help societies and economies and speed up innovations. The aim of the Open and Big Data conference (OBD 2015) is to promote the state of the art in scientific and practical research of open and big data and to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and public sector in an effort to present their research work and share research and development ideas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Challenges and opportunities in open and big data - Data models and architectures - Security, privacy, and trust - Data protection and integrity - Identity theft, data loss and leakage - Legal and ethical issues - Data analytics and metrics - Data representation and structures - Data management and processing - Data capturing and acquisition - Tools and technologies - QoS in open and big data - Social networks analysis - Data searching and mining - Visualisation of data - Personal data logging and quantified-self - Context-aware data - Personalisation of data - Data economics - Applications of open and big data - Open and linked data - Methodologies and use cases - Usability issues - Storages and network requirements - Network models and protocols - Open and big data in cloud and IoT Paper submission and Publication: OBD 2015 is technically co-sponsorship by the IEEE-CS TCI: Technical Committee on the Internet of the IEEE Computer Society. Authors are requested to submit papers reporting original research results and experience. The page limit for full papers is 8 pages and for short papers is 6 pages. Papers should be prepared using IEEE two-column template. See instructions on the conference website. All papers accepted for this conference will be published in the conference proceedings by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Service (CPS). The proceedings will be submitted to the IEEE-Xplore and the IEEE Computer Society (CSDL) digital libraries. The proceedings are also submitted for indexing through IEE INSPEC, EI (Compendex), Thomson ISI, and other indexing services. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for special issues in international journals. Important Dates: Submission Deadline: 02 April 2015 (Extended) Authors Notification: 30 May 2015 Final Manuscript Due: 20 June 2015 Organizing Committee: General Chair Daniel Neagu, University of Bradford, UK Program Co-Chairs George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University, UK Local Organising Chair Massimo Mecella, SAPIENZA Universita di Roma, Italy International Liaison Chair Irfan Awan, University of Bradford, UK Workshop Coordinator Tor-Morten Gronli, Westerdals-Oslo School of Arts, Communication and Technology, Norway Journal Special Issues Coordinator Farookh Hussain, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Publicity Chair Javid Taheri, University of Sydney, Australia Advisory Committee Salima Benbernou, Universite Paris Descartes, France Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Keith Jeffery, Independent Consultant and Ex-Director IT at STFC Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, UK Dana Petcu, Western University of Timisoara, Romania Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles, University of Copenhagen, Denmark David Taniar, Monash University, Australia Yanchun Zhang, Victoria University, Australia Programme Committee Abdullah Gani, University of Malaya, Malaysia Andre de Carvalho, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil Angelica Caro, University of Bio-Bio, Chile Annalisa Appice, Universita degli Studi di Bari, Italy Basem Y. Alkazemi, Umm Al-Qura University, Saudi Arabia Bo Shen, University of Massachusette, Boston, USA Daniela Barreiro Claro, Universidade Federal da Bahia, Brazil Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Eric Rondeau, Universite de Lorraine France Georgia M. Kapitsaki, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Hamideh Afsarmanesh, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Haralambos Mouratidis, University of Brighton, UK Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany Haruo Yokota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Isaac Woungang, Ryerson University, Canada Jaroslav Pokorny, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Jerome Darmont, Universite de Lyon, France Juan Fernando Perez, Imperial College London, UK Khaled Mohammed Khan, Qatar University, Qatar Ladjel Bellatreche, ENSMA, France Lai Xu, Bournemouth University, UK Lauro Beltrao Costa, University of British Columbia, Canada Lena Stromback, Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute, Sweden Lenka Lhotska, Czech Technical University, Czech Republic Manolis Gergatsoulis, Ionian University, Greece Marco Aurelio, Stelmar Netto, IBM Research, Brazil Maria Esther Vidal, Universidad Simon Bolivar, Venezuela Ming Hour Yang, Chung Yuan Christian University, Taiwan Mohamed Bakhouya, International University of Rabat, Morocco Nadia Bennani, INSA Lyon, France Nadira Lammari, CNAM, France Nawaz Khan, Middlesex University, UK Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, University of Zaragoza, Spain Riccardo Albertoni, Institute of Applied Mathematics and Information Technologies, Italy Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy Sadok Ben Yahia, Faculty of Sciences of Tunis, Tunisia Samhaa El-Beltagy, Nile University Cairo, Egypt Samia Oussena, University of West London, UK Satish Srirama, University of Tartu, Estonia Selma Boumerdassi, CNAM, France Sharifullah Khan, NUST, Pakistan Simon Fong, University of Macau, China Siti Hafizah Ab. Hamid, University of Malaya, Malaysia Siobhan Clarke, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Toshiyuki Amagasa, University of Tsukuba, Japan Yi Gu, Middle Tennessee State University, USA Yunjun Gao, Zhejiang University, China Zaki Malik, Wayne State University, USA, Zhifeng Bao, University of Tasmania, Australia

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Deadline extension: International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers (ROSS 2015)
by ross2015＠easychair.org 10 Mar '15

10 Mar '15

======================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================================================= International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers *** ROSS 2015 *** In cooperation with ACM SIGHPC -------------------------------- Held in conjunction with HPDC 2015, Portland, Oregon, USA, June 16, 2015 ======================================================================= http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/ross/2015/ ======================================================================= The complexity of node architectures in supercomputers increases as we cross petaflop milestones on the way towards Exascale. Increasing levels of parallelism in multi- and many-core chips and emerging heterogeneity of computational resources coupled with energy and memory constraints force a reevaluation of our approaches towards operating systems and runtime environments. The ROSS workshop, to be held as a full-day meeting at the HPDC 2015 conference in Portland, Oregon, USA, focuses on principles and techniques to design, implement, optimize, or operate runtime and operating systems for supercomputers and massively parallel machines. The keynote will be delivered by Kimberly Keeton from HP Labs, USA. TOPICS OF INTEREST: ------------------- - OS and runtime system scalability on many-node and multi/many-core systems - specialized OSs for Supercomputing - distributed/hybrid/partitioned OSs and runtime systems for Supercomputing - fault tolerance - system noise analysis and prevention - interaction between middleware, runtime system, and the OS - modeling and performance analysis of runtime systems - OS and runtime considerations for large-volume, high-performance I/O - parallel job startup - memory management and emerging memory technologies - the role of OS and runtime system in minimizing power usage - real-time considerations for Supercomputing SCHEDULE AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: ---------------------------------- Submission deadline: March 20, 2015 (extended) Author notification: April 27, 2015 Final papers due: May 15, 2015 Workshop date: June 16, 2015 The ROSS workshop proceedings will be published electronically along with the ICS conference proceedings via the ACM Digital Library. Submitted manuscripts should be formatted using the ACM SIG proceedings alternate format. Extensive documentation can be found at the ACM site (http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) The maximum length is 8 pages. All papers must be in English. Please visit the workshop website for further instructions and the submission link. The best papers of the workshop may be considered for inclusion in a special issue of International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications (IJHPCA). See the workshop website for more information. WORKSHOP CHAIRS: ---------------- Torsten Hoefler ETH Zurich, Switzerland Kamil Iskra Argonne National Laboratory, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ------------------ Patrick Bridges, University of New Mexico, USA Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Roberto Gioiosa, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Yutaka Ishikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan Larry Kaplan, Cray, Inc., USA Michael Lang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA Stefan Lankes, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Bernd Mohr, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany Raymond Namyst, University of Bordeaux 1, France Yoonho Park, IBM Research, USA Pascale Rosse-Laurent, Bull, France Jesper Larsson Traeff, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Eric Van Hensbergen, ARM, USA Robert Wisniewski, Intel, USA Contact us at ross2015(a)easychair.org if you have any questions.

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CFP: Special Issue on Clusters, Cloud and Grid on Life Sciences (Future Generation Computer Systems - Impact Factor: 2.639)
by Javier Garcia Blas 10 Mar '15

10 Mar '15

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email.] Special Issue on Clusters, Cloud and Grid on Life Sciences Future Generation Computer Systems In the last 20 years, computational methods have become an important part of developing emerging technologies for the field of bioinformatics and biomedicine. Research areas such as biomodelling, molecular dynamics, genomics, neuroscience, cancer models, evolutionary biology, medical biology, biochemistry, biophysics, biotechnology, cell biology, nanobiotechnology, biological engineering, pharmacology, genetics therapy, or automatic diagnosis, rely heavily on large scale computational resources as they need to manage Tbytes or Pbytes of data with large-scale structural and functional relationships, TFlops or PFlops of computing power for simulating highly complex models, or many-task processes and workflows for processing and analyzing data. This new situation demands appropriate IT-infrastructures, where bioinformatic and medical data can be processed within an acceptable timespan - reaching from minutes in health-care applications to days in large-scale research projects. Large-scale distributed IT-systems such as Grids, Clouds and Big-Data-Environments are promising to address research, clinical and medical research community requirements. They allow for significant reduction of computational time for running large experiments, for speeding-up the development time for new algorithms, for increasing the availability of new methods for the research community, and for supporting large-scale multi-centric collaborations. However, specific challenges in the employment of such systems for bioinformatic applications such as security, reliability and user-friendliness, often impede straightforward adoption of existing solutions from other application domains. Areas of interest for this special issue include, but are not limited to: Detailed application use-cases highlighting achievements and roadblocks Exploitation of distributed IT resources for Life Sciences, HealthCare and research applications, for example medical imaging, disease modeling, bioinformatics, Public health informatics, drug discovery, clinical trials Improved energy consumption of bioinformatic applications Modeling and simulation of complex biological processes Ontologies and biomedical text mining Biological data mining and visualization Error handling and fault tolerance Distributed and heterogeneous bioinformatic and medical data management Data privacy, security and access control Development environments for distributed bioinformatic applications Programming paradigms and tools for bioinformatic applications Scientific gateways and user environments targeting distributed medical and bioinformatic applications Dedicated distributed infrastructures and HPC systems Interoperability for exchanging data, algorithms and analysis pipelines 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 are extended high-quality papers presented at CCGrid-Life 2015. These must have at least 30% 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 www.ees.elsevier.com/fgcs/ <http://1nvy.mj.am/link/1nvy/6n7uu24/2/-Or4C9WOtIpycfGzmfOV1g/aHR0cDovLzFudn…>. Authors should select “SI: CCGrid-Life” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. Important Dates Paper submission due: July 31, 2015 First-round acceptance notification: October 31, 2015 Revision submission: December 14, 2015 Notification of final decision: January 31, 2016 Submission of final paper: March 31, 2016 Publication date: June 30, 2016 (Planned) Guest Editors Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA sandra.gesing(a)nd.edu <mailto:[email protected]> Johan Montagnat, CNRS, France johan.montagnat(a)cnrs.fr <mailto:[email protected]> Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain jesus.carretero(a)uc3m.es <mailto:[email protected]> Javier Garcia Blas, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain fjblas(a)inf.uc3m.es <mailto:[email protected]> More info at: www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/call-for-paper… <http://1nvy.mj.am/link/1nvy/6n7uu24/1/9_ypwI0o_zP4QWXe0Bh17A/aHR0cDovLzFudn…> ________________________________________________________ Dr. 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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Special Stream in High Performance Computing -IDAACS´15
by Dora Blanco Heras 10 Mar '15

10 Mar '15

Dear Colleagues, We would like to inform that the IEEE 8th International Conference on "Intelligent Data Acquisition and Advanced Computing Systems: Technology and Applications" (IDAACS'2015 )will be held in Warsaw, Poland, September 24-26, 2015( <http://www.idaacs.net> www.idaacs.net) As part of IDAACS'15 Conference there will be a Special Stream in High Performance Computing. We should note that accepted papers will be published in Conference Proceedings and available in IEEE Xplore and indexed by Scopus and DBLP. Conference Proceedings will be applied to Web of Science as well (most of past IDAACS Proceedings were indexed by Web of Science). Selected papers will be collected for a publication in international journals indexed by Web of Science, Engineering Index (Compendex) and Scopus. So it's our pleasure to invite you to submit your paper for the Special Stream in High Performance Computing and make a contribution to the IDAACS'2015 Conference. Moreover we should appreciate very much if you inform your colleagues about this event. The deadline has been extended up to March 20, 2015. Warm regards, Co-chairs of the IDAACS'2015 High Performance Computing Stream Dr Dora Heras Dr Volodymyr Turchenko ----------- Dora Blanco Heras Dept. of Electronic and Computer Science CITIUS (Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías da Información) University of Santiago de Compostela Rúa de Jenaro de la Fuente Domínguez, 15782, Santiago de Compostela. Spain Tel: +34 8818 16462 Fax: +34 8818 16405 e-mail: dora.blanco(a)usc.es

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CFP: 2nd International Workshop on Reproducibility in Parallel Computing (REPPAR)
by Mark Stillwell 10 Mar '15

10 Mar '15

============================================================================ CALL FOR PAPERS 2nd International Workshop on Reproducibility in Parallel Computing (REPPAR) http://reppar.org in conjunction with Euro-Par 2015 (August 24-28), Vienna, Austria ============================================================================ Scope ----- The workshop is focused on the design, implementation, execution, and analysis of experiments in parallel computing in order to improve the reproducibility of results. Topics addressed in the workshop include: * Experimental design of parallel computing experiments * Experiences and best practices for conducting experiments (including papers that address the reproduction of other articles) * Supporting reproducibility in experimental testbeds for parallel computing * Tools for reproducible research (e.g., control of experiments, versioning, archiving) * Analysis of experimental data (e.g., visualization, statistical analysis, provenance) Paper Types ----------- * full paper: a regular article with up to 12 pages * short paper: ca. 4-6 pages presenting first results or addressing viewpoints on the reproducibility problem Please not that only long papers (10-12 pages), which have been positively reviewed by at least 3 referees before being presented at the workshop, may be included in the workshop proceedings. Thus, short papers will not be included in the workshop proceedings. Important Dates --------------- * Workshop papers due: 22 May 2015 * Workshop author notification: 19 June 2015 * Workshop paper (for informal workshop proceedings) due: 31 July 2015 * Workshop camera-ready papers due: 2 October 2015 Proceedings ----------- Accepted articles will be published in the Euro-Par workshop proceedings after the conference. Submission --------- Submissions are handled through the EasyChair conference system. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2015ws To submit your paper, log in to the EasyChair website of the Euro-Par workshops (Euro-Par 2015 WS) and select the track "REPPAR". Papers should not exceed 12 pages and must comply with the Springer LNCS format. Organizers ---------- * Sascha Hunold, Vienna University of Technology, Austria * Arnaud Legrand, CNRS, LIG Grenoble, France * Lucas Nussbaum, CNRS, LORIA, France * Mark Stillwell, Imperial College London, UK Program Committee ----------------- * Andrew Davison, CNRS, France * Georg Hager, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany * Olivier Richard, LIG Grenoble, France * Lucas M. Schnorr, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil * Jesper Larsson Trï¿½ff, Vienna University of Technology, Austria -- Mark Stillwell

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