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[CfP] Workshop on Parallel Computational Biology
by Schmidt, Prof. Bertil 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** ********************************************************** *** Workshop on Parallel Computational Biology *** *** September 6-9, 2015, Krakow, Poland *** *** http://pbc.ppam.pl *** ********************************************************** Bioinformatics is the science of managing, mining, and extracting knowledge from biological data. With the ubiquitous adoption of high-throughput sequencing and other bio-technologies, and the concurrent proliferation of multi- and many-core parallel architectures, the field experiences new challenges in delivering scalable and efficient solutions to the front-line of life sciences. This pertains not only to the algorithms and applications, but also to the entire large-scale infrastructure including workflows design, data storage and presentation, etc. The goal of this Workshop is to present the latest research in high-performance computing applied to bioinformatics. We are especially interested in parallel and distributed algorithms, memory efficient algorithms, and design of high-performance software for clusters, grids and clouds. Submission of articles dealing with parallelization of applications on multi-/many-core, massively parallel systems, accelerator architectures and large distributed systems are specifically encouraged. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Next-Generation Sequencing (NGS) * Bioinformatics databases * Computational genomics, metagenomics and proteomics * Short-read assembly, clustering, and mapping * Gene expression analysis * Molecular sequence analysis * Phylogeny reconstruction algorithms * Protein structure prediction and modeling * Parallel algorithms for biological analysis * Parallel architectures for biological applications * System tools that support large-scale high-performance bio-computing * Workflow and storage systems for biological analysis The PBC Workshop (http://pbc.ppam.pl) will be held in conjunction with the Eleventh International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics PPAM 2015, Krakow, Poland, September 6-9, 2015 (http://www.ppam.pl) --- Paper Submission and Publication --- The workshop will consist of dedicated sessions containing selected papers. Papers will be refereed and accepted on the basis of their originality, scientific merit and relevance to the Workshop topics. Papers presented during the workshop will be included into the proceedings of PPAM and published after the conference. --- Important Dates --- Submission of Papers: April 26, 2015 Notification of Acceptance: June 5, 2015 Camera-ready Papers: November 15, 2015 --- Program Committee --- Jaroslaw Zola, SUNY at Buffalo, USA - workshop chair Bertil Schmidt, Univ. of Mainz - program chair Umit Catalyurek, Ohio State Univ., USA Scott Emrich, Univ. of Notre Dame, USA Jorge Gonzalez, Univ. of Mainz, Germany Andreas Hildebrandt, Univ. of Mainz, Germany Ananth Kalyanaraman - Washington State Univ., USA Marta Kasprzak - Poznan Tech., Poland Jan Kassens, Univ. of Kiel, Germany Ben Langmead - Johns Hopkins Univ., USA Dominique Lavenier, IRISA, France Weiguo Liu, Shandong Univ., China Yongchao Liu, Georgia Tech, USA Folker Meyer, Argonne National Lab, USA Knut Reinert, FU Berlin, Germany Alexandros Stamatakis, HITS gGmbH, Germany Michela Taufer, Univ. of Delaware, USA Jerzy Tiuryn, Univ. of Warsaw, Poland Lars Wienbrandt, Univ. of Kiel, Germany

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CFP: SBAC-PAD 2015 (T-12)
by Edson Borin 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

Call for Papers The 27th International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing Florianópolis, SC, Brazil, October 18-21, 2015 http://www.sbac-pad.org -- General Chair Mario A. R. Dantas (UFSC, Brazil) -- Program Chairs Edson Borin (Unicamp, Brazil) Viktor K. Prasanna (USC, USA) -- Important Dates Abstract deadline: June 1st Paper deadline: June 8th Rebuttal period: July 7th - 9th Author notification: July 19th Camera ready: August 14th Workshop proposals: May Tutorial proposals: May Authors are invited to submit manuscripts on all aspects of computer architecture and high performance computing. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Application-specific systems Benchmarking, performance measurements, and analysis Cloud, Grid, cluster, and peer-to-peer systems Embedded and pervasive systems GPUs, FPGAs and other accelerator architectures Languages, compilers, and tools for parallel and distributed programming Modeling and simulation methodology Operating systems and virtualization Parallel and distributed systems, algorithms, and applications Power and energy-efficient systems Processor, cache, memory, storage, and network architecture Real-world applications and case studies Reconfigurable, resilient and fault-tolerant systems Submissions must be in English, 8 pages maximum, following the IEEE conference formatting guidelines. To be published in the SBAC-PAD 2015 Conference Proceedings and to be eligible for publication at the IEEE Xplore (pending), one of the authors must register at the full rate. Authors may not use a single registration for multiple papers. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication on the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. SBAC-PAD 2015 will be held in Florianópolis, SC, Brazil. Known as "the Island of Magic", Florianópolis is the favorite destination for tourism in the Southern part of Brazil. Florianópolis is known by its 42 beautiful beaches, special resorts, historical buildings, environmental protected areas, and by an economy strongly based on information technology.

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Deadline extended: 12th IFIP Int. Conf. on Network and Parallel Computing (NPC-2015), New York
by Christoph Kessler 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

[Paper submission deadline extended to March 16] ============================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS NPC 2015 The 12th IFIP International Conference on Network and Parallel Computing http://npc15.cs.umass.edu September 17-19, 2015 New York, New York ============================================================== SPONSOR: IFIP IN-COOPERATION: ACM SIGMICRO ============================================================== NPC'2015 provides a forum for bold and innovative ideas. Big Data, Internet of Things, Smartphones, Youtube, Globally Distributed Databases, Social Networks and more are driving network and parallel computing in new directions. Security and privacy have new importance after break-ins at major retailers and banks, Stuxnet, and the revelations of Edward Snowden. What are the implications for network and parallel computing? NPC especially seeks early stage work with the potential for major changes in network and parallel computing. Although quantitative assessment is valuable, and NPC welcomes such papers, NPC places yet more value on bold ideas, even if all of the details and corner cases are not yet resolved, or the ideas fully implemented. NPC 2015 welcomes original submissions in a range of areas, including but not limited to: o In-Memory computing o Applications of parallel and distributed computing. o Systems, networks, and architectures for high end computing. o Parallel and multi-core issues and opportunities. o Big data intelligence. o Virtualization of machines, networks, and storage. o Programming languages and environments. o I/O, file systems, and data management. o Resource management, scheduling, and load-balancing. o Performance modeling, simulation, and prediction. o Fault tolerance, reliability and availability. PC is in its 12th year and previous conferences have attracted high quality papers and wide international participation. As in previous years, we will publish top papers from NPC 2015 in a special issue of the International Journal of Parallel Programming, and proceedings will be published as part of Springer LNCS. Additional details are on the NPC'2015 website above. ============================================================== IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions Due March 9, 2015 -> MARCH 16, 2015 Results notification May 20, 2015 Camera-ready version due June 10, 2015 Poster submissions due June 1, 2015 Poster Notification June 20, 2015 NPC'2015 Conference in New York Sept 17-19, 2015 ============================================================== GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Erik Altman, IBM Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science & Technology PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Viji Srinivasan, IBM TJ. Watson Research Center Yunquan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences PUBLICATIONS CHAIR Abdullah Muzahid, University of Texas, San Antonio LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CO-CHAIRS Martha Kim, Columbia University Zehra Sura, IBM PUBLICITY CHAIRS Wonsun Ahn, University of Pittsburgh (Americas) Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua Univ (Asia) Christoph Kessler, Linkoping Univ (Europe) REGISTRATION CHAIR Ioana Baldini, IBM WEB CHAIR Charlie Curtsinger, University of Massachusetts, Amherst ============================================================= PROGRAM COMMITTEE Zhen Fang, AMD - In Memoriam Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory Mehmet Balman, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Surendra Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy Jun Chen, IAPACM, China Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua University Yifeng Cui, University of California, San Diego Parijat Dubey, IBM Xiaobing Feng, ICT, CAS Junli Gu, AMD Haiwu He, CNNIC, China Shadi Ibrahim, INRIA Dejun Jiang, Chinese Academy of Sciences David Kaeli, Northeastern University Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Lab Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Jian Li, Huawei Kenli Li, Hunan University, China Zhiyuan Li, Purdue University Xiaofei Liao, HUST, China Kai Lu, NUDT, China Xiaoyi Lu, Ohio State University Yutong Lu, NUDT, China Yingwei Luo, Peking University Lin Ma, Huawei, USA Xiaosong Ma, North Carolina State University Kaoutar El Maghraoui, IBM Serge Petiton, Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille Apan Qasem, Texas State University Guangzhi Qu, Oakland University Xuanhua Shi, HUST, China Gaurav Singh, CSIRO, Australia Peter Sweeney, IBM Marco Vanneschi, University of Pisa Clark Verbrugge, McGill University Long Wang, SCCAS, China Ren Wu, Baidu Limin Xiao, Beihang University, China Shengen Yan, Baidu, IDL Liang Yuan, ICT, CAS Linbo Zhang, LSEC, CAS Xianyi Zhang, IOS, CAS Huiyang Zhou, North Carolina State University ============================================================= ADVISORY COMMITTEE Ruay-Shiung Chang, Taiwan Hospitality & Tourism Univ Ce-Kuen Shieh, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Timothy K. Shih, National Central University, Taiwan Pen-Chung Yew, University of Minnesota, USA STEERING COMMITTEE Kemal Ebcioglu, Global Supercomputing, USA (Chair) Hai Jin, Huazhong Univ. of Science & Technology, China Chen Ding, University of Rochester, USA Jack Dongarra, Univ of Tennessee, USA Guangrong Gao, Univ of Delaware, USA Daniel Reed, University of Iowa, USA Zhiwei Xu, Institue of Computing Technology, China Yoichi Muraoka, Waseda University, Japan Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of California Irvine, USA Guojie Li, The Institute of Computing Technology, China Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA Tony Hey, Microsoft, USA ===========================================================================

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The 2015 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2015) July 20 – 24, 2015
by Belloum, A.S.Z. 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email] Call for papers: ============================================================================ The 2015 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2015) July 20 – 24, 2015 The Hilton Amsterdam Hotel Amsterdam, The Netherlands ============================================================================= http://hpcs2015.cisedu.info or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs15 In Cooperation with the ACM, IEEE, IFIP Co-Sponsored by IEEE Benelux Section, IEEE Dayton Section, ASIM, EUROSIM, CASS, JSST, LSS, PTSK, TSS, SURFSara Dutch Supercomputing Centre, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands (Pending) Important Dates: =============== Full Paper Submission Deadline ----------------------------------March 23, 2015 Notification of Acceptance --------------------------------------April 20, 2015 Registration & Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due ---------------------May 08, 2015 Conference Dates ------------------------------------------------July 20 -24, 2015 Invitation: ========== You are cordially invited to participate in and attend the 2015 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation to be held in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, July 20 – 24, 2015). The conference is to address, explore and exchange information on the state-of-the-art in high performance and large scale computing systems, their use in modeling and simulation, their design, performance and use, and their impact. Participation is extended to researchers, designers, educators and interested parties in all related disciplines and specialties. Purpose: ======== The conference will include invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as contributed paper presentations describing original work on the current state of research in HPC & simulation technologies and systems and related issues. Topics include (but are not limited to): • Architectures and Systems Track -Grid and Cluster Computing -Multi-Core Architectures and Support -Cloud Computing & Architectures -Service Oriented Architectures -Fine-Grain Parallelism and Architectures -Instruction-, Data-, Thread-and Memory-Level Parallelism -Network, Cell and Security Processors -Embedded and Application-Specific Architectures -Scalable Computing -Reconfigurable Computing & FPGA Based Architectures -Distributed Shared Memory -Mobile and Wireless Architectures and Networks -Peer-to-Peer Architectures and Networks -Sensor, Broadband and High Performance Networks -High Performance Interconnection Networks -Warehousing and Storage -High Performance I/O -Architectures for Ubiquitous and Pervasive Computing -Enterprise and Federated Architectures -Nature Inspired HPC Architectures -HPC Monitoring & Instrumentation -Innovative HPC (Autonomic, Affective, Quantum, …) -Energy/Power Aware HPC Systems -Architectures for Green Computing -Energy Efficient HPC Systems -Exascale Systems • Algorithms Track -Modeling, Simulation and Evaluation Techniques of High Performance Computing Systems -Modeling and Simulation using HPC Systems -Reliable, Parallel and Distributed Algorithms -Partitioning, Mapping, and Scheduling -Routing, Synchronization, Consistency -Load Balancing and Sharing -Resource Allocation, Sharing and Management -Mutual Exclusion, Deadlock Detection -Coordination, Consensus, and Agreement -Causality and Time -Fault Tolerance, Replication -Network Flow and Congestion -Network and Systems Protocols -Message Passing -HLA, InfiniBand and Other Related Standards -Query Processing and Information Retrieval -Data Mining and Searching -Learning and Intelligence Algorithms -Security, Authentication, Access Control • Software and Middleware in HPC Systems Track -Operating Systems and Compilers -Virtualization and Virtual Machines -Operating Systems Support -Languages -Name Services and Naming -Libraries and Programming Environments -Interprocess Communication -File Systems -Transaction and Concurrency Control -Distributed Objects and Remote Invocation -Brokering Middleware -Object Oriented Programming & Design -Enterprise Based Technologies -Software Development Tools and Support -Benchmarking and Assessment -Markup Languages and their Applications -Web Semantics and Ontologies -Software Monitoring and Measurement -Open CL Platforms and Developments -Web 2.0 Infrastructure • Applications Oriented High Performance Track -General-Purpose computation on Graphics -Cloud Computing and Applications Processing Units (GPGPU) -Big Data and Data Intensive Supercomputing -Parallelization of Simulation -Real-time and embedded P & D Applications -Bioinformatics and Biocomputing -Distributed Multimedia Systems -Internet and Web Computing -Web Services and Applications -Federated and Legacy Applications -P & D Industrial and Manufacturing Applications -e-Commerce, e-Business, e-Learning -Databases, Repositories and Their Applications -Autonomous Vehicles and Robotics Systems -Mobile and Wireless Applications -Knowledge Based Systems -Cooperative Information Systems and Applications -Agent and Multi Agent Based Applications -Computer Supported Decision Making -Neural, Fuzzy, and Rough Sets in HPC -Granular Computing and its Applications -Large Scale Scientific Computing -HPC in Digital Signal and Image Processing and Vision -HPC and Education -e-Sciences -Service Oriented Applications -Vision, Image Processing, and Pattern Recognition -Applied Modeling and Simulation -Machine Learning and Business Intelligence Applications -Large Scale Systems for Computational Sciences (Biological, Chemical, Physical, Bioinformatics, Environmental, Transportation, Agriculture, etc.) Submission of Papers: ==================== Papers reporting original and unpublished research results on above and related HPC topics are solicited. Please submit an electronic copy of your full manuscript (not to exceed 8 double-column IEEE formatted pages, including figures, tables, and references). Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Please clearly indicate the corresponding author and include emails for all co-authors of the papers. Include up to 6 keywords from the above list and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Papers must be submitted in .pdf format only at the following conference website: http://hpcs15.cisedu.info/ (Upload link http://cisedu.us/cis/hpcs/15/users/upload.jsp) More detailed submission procedures will be available on this website. If accepted, the final camera-ready manuscript will follow the format posted, which will be made available to all authors. Consistent with standard practice, each submitted paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, contributions and significance, timeliness, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Initial selection will be based on full papers. Submission implies the intent and willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. All accepted papers in the conference are required to be presented and will be included in the conference proceedings. Manuscripts submitted should not be under simultaneous consideration by any other conference or venues. People with a submission for the purpose of obtaining reviews only will be cited. For information about the HPCS 2015 conference in general, please contact the conference organizers or consult the conference web site. Journals Opportunities ====================== Plans are underway to have the best accepted papers be selected for publication in some journal special issue(s). Detailed information will soon be announced, and will be made available on the official conference website. Tracks, Symposia, Workshops and Special Sessions ================================================ Tracks, Symposia, Workshops and Special Sessions on HPCS related topics are welcomed. A workshop or a special session proposal should include a title, topics covered by the workshop, organizers information, submission instructions, review process, important dates, total number of expected accepted papers, and any other information for the authors. Proposals for tracks, symposia, workshops and special sessions should be submitted by January 30, 2015 as a Word file email attachment. See Tracks, Symposia, Workshops and Special Sessions web page for more information. Tutorials ========= The conference will offer tutorials (typically 2-4 -hours) on state-of-the-art topics in HPCS. Each tutorial proposal should provide a title, topics to be covered, targeted audience, prerequisites, and a brief biography and qualifications of the instructor. All proposals should be submitted to Tutorials Chairs by February 15, 2015. See Tutorials web page for more information. Panels and Forums ================ Panel sessions and forums will examine innovative, promising, or controversial HPCS issues today. They will also address HPCS challenges and future prospects. Audience participation will be welcomed. If you have ideas or questions concerning Conference’s panels and forums, please contact Panels Chairs. Proposals are welcomed and should be submitted by February 15, 2015. See Panels web page for more information. Posters ====== Posters addressing preliminary results, innovative ideas, work in progress, late-breaking results, HPC tools, platforms and products, and other work not suitable for a formal paper and best presented in an interactive setting are solicited. Posters will be held in a special session where presenters will demonstrate their work directly to conference attendees. Proposals for posters are welcomed and should be submitted to Posters Co-Chairs by March 01, 2015. See Posters web page for more information. Demonstrations ============== Demos and experiential showcases of HPC and large scale computing environments and tools are highly encouraged. These may include any of the themes outlined in the conference topics. If you have any questions, please contact Demos Chairs. Proposals for demos are welcomed and should be submitted by February 15, 2015. See Demos web page for more information. Doctoral Dissertation Colloquium ================================ The HPCS Doctoral Colloquium is intended to bring together PhD students working on HPCS related topics, to provide them a friendly forum and an opportunity to present, discuss and illustrate their ongoing research in a constructively critical and informal atmosphere, to obtain valuable feedback from conference attendees, particularly senior researchers and experts in the field. Additionally, the colloquium is meant to facilitate the interaction and collaboration with other researchers. Doctoral students who have not defended their thesis prior to HPCS 2015 are invited to participate in the HPCS Doctoral Colloquium. Proposals for the Doctoral Colloquium are welcomed and should be submitted by March 13, 2015. See DDC web page for more information. Exhibits ======== Exhibit booths will be available to display your newest products and technologies. Make plans now to take advantage of this prime advertising opportunity. If you have any questions, please contact Exhibits Chairs. Proposals are welcomed and should be submitted by February 15, 2015. See Exhibits web page for more information. Sponsorship and Industry Liaison ================================ The HPCS 2015 Conference seeks interested Industry Partners who would be willing to sponsor conference events or social activities (e.g., exhibits reception, speaker sponsorship, registration handout packets, special break snacks, etc.). If an industry representative is interested in becoming an HPCS 2015 Industry Partner or would like to propose an event or activity at the conference, please contact the Industry Liaison Chairs. See Sponsorships web page for more information. For further information or questions about the HPCS 2015 conference, please consult the web site at URL: http://hpcs2015.cisedu.info/ or http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs15.

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CFP: Nature's Inspired Parallel Collaborative Systems Track, INCoS-2015
by Gabriel Luque 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

** Apologies for multiple postings ** ************************************************************************************************* *** CALL FOR PAPERS *** *** INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT NETWORKING AND COLLABORATIVE SYSTEMS (INCoS-2015) *** *** Nature's Inspired Parallel Collaborative Systems Track *** *** September 2-4, 2015, Taipei, Taiwan *** *** http://voyager.ce.fit.ac.jp/conf/incos/2015/ *** ************************************************************************************************* Track Description: During these last twenty years modern research has expanded to address more and more complex problems, with regards to their dimensionality, restrictions, computing power required, etc. In particular, those coming from real-world scenarios are getting both larger in size and harder in complexity. With high demands of accuracy (and robustness) in the solutions and needing the shortest possible computational time, these problems face researchers to new challenges which are hard to solve with traditional techniques and computers. One way to efficiently produce results derived from processing huge amounts of data is the use of parallel algorithms, hardware, and specialized techniques. The technical evolution of parallel architectures (symmetric multiprocessors, multi/many-cores, GPUs, clouds, etc.), is offering more and more opportunities for designing efficient algorithms in many research fields. This track in INCoS aims at fostering the cross-fertilization of knowledge between Nature's inspired techniques, or metaheuristics in general, and parallel computing. Working in two domains of research is at the same time difficult and fruitful. Knowledge about parallel computing helps in creating parallel algorithms for clusters, grids of computers or GPU architectures. However, this also implies the need for a careful definition of proper benchmarks, software tools, and metrics to measure the behavior of algorithms in a meaningful way. In concrete, a conceptual separation between physical parallelism and decentralized algorithms (whether implemented in parallel or not) is needed to better analyze the resulting algorithms. Scope: This track includes (but is not limited to) topics concerning the design, implementation, and application of parallel evolutionary algorithms, as well as metaheuristics and agents in general: ACO, PSO, VNS, SS, SA, EDAs, TS, ES, GP, GRASP… As an indication, contributions are welcomed in the following areas: * Parallel evolutionary algorithms * Parallel metaheuristics * Parallel hybrid/memetic algorithms * Parallel multiobjective optimization algorithms * Parallel algorithms and dynamic optimization problems (DOP) * Master/slave models * Massively parallel algorithms * GPU computing * SIMD/MIMD and FPGA parallelization * Distributed and shared-memory parallel algorithms * Multicore execution of parallel algorithms * Concurrent algorithms with several threads of execution * Algorithms running in clusters of machines * Grid computing * Peer to peer (P2P) algorithms * Competitive/cooperative parallel algorithms and agents * Ad-hoc and mobile networks for parallel algorithms * Algorithms and tools for helping in designing new parallel algorithms * Parallel software frameworks/libraries * Parallel test benchmarks * Statistical assessment of performance for parallel algorithms * Unified view of parallel approaches and results * Theory on decentralized and parallel algorithms * Real-world applications in: * telecommunications * bioinformatics * signal and image processing * manufacturing * engineering * ... All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings of INCoS 2015, which will be published by IEEE CPS. Important Dates: Submission Deadline: March 25, 2015 Notification of Acceptance: May 25, 2015 Camera-Ready Submission: June 25, 2015 Registration: June 25, 2015 Workshop and INCoS Main Conference: September 2 - 4, 2015 Track Chairs: Enrique Alba, eat(a)lcc.uma.es Gabriel Luque, gabriel(a)lcc.uma.es --- El software de antivirus Avast ha analizado este correo electrónico en busca de virus. http://www.avast.com

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CFP: The Sixth workshop on Big Data Benchmarks, Performance Optimization, and Emerging Hardware Co-located with VLDB 2015
by jiazhen 09 Mar '15

09 Mar '15

BPOE-6 Call for Papers ------------------------- The Sixth workshop on Big Data Benchmarks, Performance Optimization, and Emerging Hardware Web: http://prof.ict.ac.cn/bpoe_6_vldb/ Co-located with VLDB 2015 September 4th, 2015, Hawai'i, USA * Introduction Big data has emerged as a strategic property of nations and organizations. There are driving needs to generate values from big data. However, the sheer volume of big data requires significant storage capacity, transmission bandwidth, computations, and power consumption. It is expected that systems with unprecedented scales can resolve the problems caused by varieties of big data with daunting volumes. Nevertheless, without big data benchmarks, it is very difficult for big data owners to make choice on which system is best for meeting with their specific requirements. They also face challenges on how to optimize the systems and their solutions for specific or even comprehensive workloads. Meanwhile, researchers are also working on innovative data management systems, hardware architectures, operating systems, and programming systems to improve performance in dealing with big data. This workshop, the sixth its series, focuses on architecture and system support for big data systems, aiming at bringing researchers and practitioners from data management, architecture, and systems research communities together to discuss the research issues at the intersection of these areas. * Call for papers Topics: The workshop seeks papers that address hot topic issues in benchmarking, designing and optimizing big data systems. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to: ** Big data workload characterization and benchmarking ** Performance analysis of big data systems ** Workload-optimized big data systems ** Innovative prototypes of big data infrastructures ** Emerging hardware technologies in big data systems ** Operating systems support for big data systems ** Interactions among architecture, systems and data management ** Hardware and software co-design for big data ** Practice report of evaluating and optimizing large-scale big data systems Papers should present original research. As big data spans many disciplines, papers should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. * Paper Submissions Papers must be submitted in PDF. We will accept 12-page papers in Springer LNCS style: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. The submissions will be judged based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. The workshop proceeding will be published by Springer LNCS (pending). Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bpoe6 Best paper award will be announced at the end of the workshop! * Important dates: Abstract due June 1,2015 Papers due June 7,2015 Notification of acceptance July 1,2015 Camera-ready copies July 30,2015 Workshop session September 4,2015 * Program Committee (updated on 2015/3/5) ** Bingsheng He, Nanyang Technological University ** Xu Liu, Rice University ** Rong Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University ** Weijia Xu, Texas Advanced Computing Center, University of Texas at Austin ** Lijie Wen, School of Software, Tsinghua University ** Xiaoyi Lu, The Ohio State University ** Yuqing Zhu, Institute of computing technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences ** Yueguo Chen, Renmin University ** Edwin Sha, Chongqing University ** Mingyu Chen, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences ** Zhenyu Guo, Microsoft ** Tilmann Rabl， University of Toronto ** Farhan Tauheed,EPFL ** Chaitan Baru, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego ** Seetharami Seelam, IBM ** Rene Mueller, IBM Research ** Cheqing Jin, East China Normal University * Organization Steering committee: ** Christos Kozyrakis, Stanford ** Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland ** Dhabaleswar K Panda, Ohio State University ** Aoying Zhou, East China Normal University ** Raghunath Nambiar, Cisco ** Lizy K John, University of Texas at Austin ** Xiaoyong Du, Renmin University of China ** Ippokratis Pandis, IBM Almaden Research Center ** Xueqi Cheng, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences ** Bill Jia, Facebook ** Lidong Zhou, Microsoft Research Asia ** H. Peter Hofstee, IBM Austin Research Laboratory ** Alexandros Labrinidis, University of Pittsburgh ** Cheng-Zhong Xu, Wayne State University ** Jianfeng Zhan, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences ** Guang R. Gao, University of Delaware. ** Yunquan Zhang, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences PC Co-Chair: Prof. Jianfeng Zhan, Institute of Computing Technology (ICT), Chinese Academy of Sciences and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences. Prof. Roberto V. Zicari, Frankfurt Big Data Lab, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. Dr. Rui Han, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences Web Chair: Lei Wang, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences Xiaolong Jin, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences * Previous Events BPOE-1 October 7,2013 IEEE BigData Conference, San Jose, CA BPOE-2 October 31,2013 CCF HPC China, Guilin, China BPOE-3 December 5,2013 CCF Big Data Technology Conference 2013, BeiJing, China BPOE-4 March 1,2014 ASPLOS 2014, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA BPOE-5 September 5,2014 VLDB 2014, Hangzhou, Zhejiang Province, China * Sponsors CCF Task Force on Big Data

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CCGrid'15 Call for Participation, with Student Travel Awards Available
by Junchao Zhang 08 Mar '15

08 Mar '15

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ======================================================================== CCGrid 2015 15th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing May 4-7, 2015 Shenzhen, China http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/ ======================================================================== Rapid advances in architectures, networks, and systems and middleware technologies are leading to new concepts and platforms for computing, ranging from Clusters and Grids to Clouds and Datacenters. The 15th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium in Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2015) is a forum bringing together international researchers, developers, and practitioners to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these concepts and platforms, and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, workshops, and posters, as well as the Doctoral Symposium and the SCALE challenge, featuring live demonstrations. In 2015, CCGrid will return to China and be held in Shenzhen in the Pearl River Delta, China's fifth largest city. The main conference will be held on May 5-7, 2015, with affiliated workshops taking place on May 4, 2015. Come and join us to meet preeminent computer scientists, leading creators of Grid and Cluster technologies, and new upcoming stars, the significant contributors of today’s Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing advances. We promise you a memorable experience unequalled at other conferences. Events: ====================== Keynote speakers: * To be announced Main conference: * http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/program-conference.html Seven Workshops: * http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/program-workshops.html Posters: * http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/call-posters.html Doctoral Symposium: * http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/call-doctoral.html Scalable Computing Challenge: * http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/call-scale.html Student Travel Awards: ====================== * http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/call-students.html * About 15 student travel awards will be provided to CCGrid’15 attendees. * Application due: March 16, 2015 Registration: ====================== * http://cloud.siat.ac.cn/ccgrid2015/registration.html * Early Registration due: March 13, 2015

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CfP: ROME 2015 - 3rd Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for the Many-core Era
by Lankes, Stefan 07 Mar '15

07 Mar '15

======================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The 3rd Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for the Many-core Era (ROME 2015) August 24/25, 2015, Vienna, Austria held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2015, August 24 - 28, 2015 Vienna, Austria http://www.rome.eonerc.rwth-aachen.de ======================================================================== Background ---------- Since the beginning of the multicore era, parallel processing has become prevalent across the board. However, in order to continue a performance increase according to Moore's Law, a next step needs to be taken: away from common multicores towards innovative many-core architectures. Such systems, equipped with a significant higher amount of cores per chip than multicores, pose challenges in both hardware and software design. On the hardware side, complex on-chip networks, scratchpads, hybrid memory cubes, non-volatile memory and stacked memory, as well as deep cache-hierarchies and novel cache-coherence strategies will enrich the current research areas in the future. However, the ROME workshop focuses on the software side because without complying system software, runtime and operating system support, all these new hardware facilities cannot be exploited. Hence, the new challenges in hardware/software co-design are to step beyond traditional approaches and to wage new programming models and operating system designs in order to exploit the theoretically available performance of future hardware as effectively and power-aware as possible. Topics ------ This year, too, authors from all related disciplines are invited to submit unpublished papers regarding software for novel many-core hardware architectures. The call for papers especially emphasizes on the challenges and research questions arising from the upcoming generation of heterogeneous and/or massive parallel systems stepping towards a many-core dominated exascale era. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Operating system extensions for addressing may-core related issues * Many-core aware runtime support for large-scale applications * Virtualization solutions to deal with hardware limitations * Tools for performance and energy consumption analysis on many-core systems * Dealing with legacy software on novel many-core architectures * Experiences in porting, running, or developing many-core applications * Support for interactivity with and between many-core applications * Traditional and new programming models for novel many-core hardware * Concepts and methods for exploiting deep memory hierarchies * Operating system and file system designs for non-volatile memories * Heterogeneity- and/or hierarchy-aware many-core middleware * Software stacks for new concepts of compute acceleration * Bare-metal programming and system software * Power-aware many-core computing Paper Submission, Registration, and Publication ----------------------------------------------- Workshop papers must not exceed 12 single-spaced, single-column pages in LNCS proceedings style. Submission implies that at least one author will register for the workshops at Euro-Par 2015 and present the paper in the workshop session, if accepted. Upload your PDF to the Euro-Par 2015 Workshop submission server, track "ROME - Runtime and Operating Systems for the Many-core Era" at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2015ws It must not be simultaneously submitted to the main conference or any other publication outlet. For the workshop, we will prepare handouts with the revised papers. These will be published after the conference in the workshop proceedings of Euro-Par 2015, part of the LNCS series of Springer. Important Dates --------------- May 22, 2015 : Submission deadline June 19, 2015 : Notification of acceptance July 31, 2015 : Camera ready, revised papers due Program Committee ----------------- * Jens Breitbart, TU München, Germany * Andre Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg Universität, Germany * Carsten Clauss, ParTec Cluster Competence Center GmbH, Germany * Stefan Lankes, RWTH Aachen University, Germany * Christos Kartsaklis, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA * Timothy G. Mattson, Intel Labs, USA * Jörg Nolte, BTU Cottbus, Germany * Bettina Schnor, University of Potsdam, Germany * Christian Terboven, RWTH Aachen Univeristy, Germany * Theo Ungerer, Universität Augsburg, Germany * Josef Weidendorfer, TU München, Germany Workshop Organizers ------------------- * Stefan Lankes, Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems, E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University, Germany * Carsten Clauss, ParTec Cluster Competence Center GmbH, Germany Further Information ------------------- See the ROME'15 website at http://www.rome.eonerc.rwth-aachen.de

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IEEE Cluster: submission deadline extended to March 25th AOE! (hard deadline)
by Francesco Silvestri 07 Mar '15

07 Mar '15

Due to numerous requests, we have decided to provide a deadline extension to March 25th (AOE) for paper submission to IEEE Cluster. This is the final deadline extension. For more information, see http://www.mcs.anl.gov/ieeecluster2015/. ---- March 7, 2015 Release IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing September 8-11, 2015 Chicago, IL, USA http://www.mcs.anl.gov/ieeecluster2015/ CLUSTER 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS Following the successes of the series of Cluster conferences, for 2015 we solicit high-quality original papers presenting work that advances the state-of-the-art in clusters and closely related fields. All papers will be rigorously peer-reviewed for their originality, technical depth and correctness, potential impact, relevance to the conference, and quality of presentation. Research papers must clearly demonstrate research contributions and novelty, while papers reporting experience must clearly describe lessons learned and impact, along with the utility of the approach compared to the ones in the past. *** Paper Tracks *** Area 1: Application, Algorithms, and Libraries * HPC Applications on Clusters * Performance Modeling and Measurement * Novel Algorithms on Clusters * Hybrid programming techniques (MPI+OpenMP, MPI+OpenCL, etc.) * Cluster Benchmarks * Application-level libraries on clusters * Effective use of clusters in novel applications * Performance evaluation tools Area 2: Architecture, Network/Communications, and Management * Energy-efficient cluster architectures * Node and system architecture * Packaging, power and cooling * GPU/ManyCore and heterogeneous clusters * Interconnect/memory architectures * Single system image clusters * Administration and maintenance tools Area 3: Programming and System Software * Cluster System Software/Operating Systems * Cloud-enabling cluster technologies and virtualization * Energy-efficient middleware * Cluster system-level Protocols and APIs * Cluster Security * Resource and job management * Programming and Software Development Environment on Clusters * Fault tolerance and high-availability Area 4: Data, Storage, and Visualization * Cluster Architecture for Big Data storage and processing * Middleware for Big Data management * Cluster-based Cloud Architecture for Big Data * File systems and I/O libraries * Support and Integration of Non-Volatile Memory * Visualization clusters and tiled displays * Big Data visualization tools * Programming models for Big Data processing * Big Data Application studies on cluster architectures *** Submission Guidelines *** Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter-size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. Authors should make sure that their file will print on a printer that uses letter-size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the conference is English. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Paper submissions are limited to 10 pages in 2-column IEEE format including all figures and references. Submitted manuscripts exceeding this limit will be returned without review. For the final camera-ready version, authors with accepted papers may purchase additional pages at the following rates: 200 USD for each of two additional pages. See formatting templates for details: LaTex Package ZIP (http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/CCGrid2014/IEEECS_confs_LaTeX.zip) Word Template DOC (http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/CCGrid2014/instruct8.5x11x2.doc) and PDF (http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/CCGrid2014/instruct8.5x11x2.pdf) 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 the page limit, or not appropriately structured may not be considered. Authors may contact the conference chairs for more information. The proceedings will be published through the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services. Please submit your paper via the EasyChair submission system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecluster2015 *** Journal Special Issue *** The best papers of Cluster 2015 will be included in a Special Issue on advances in topics related to cluster computing of the Elsevier International Journal of Parallel Computing (PARCO), edited by Pavan Balaji, Satoshi Matsuoka, and Michela Taufer. This special issue is dedicated for the papers accepted in the Cluster 2015 conference. The submission to this special issue is by invitation only. *** NEW!!!! Important Dates *** March 25, 2015 (AOE) Papers Submission Deadline May 9, 2015 Papers Acceptance Notification See other deadlines in the Important Dates page (http://www.mcs.anl.gov/ieeecluster2015/author-information/important-dates) *** Cluster 2015 Program Chair *** Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology (matsu AT is.titech.ac.jp). ---------------------------------------------- ...Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/ieee.cluster ...Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/IEEECluster ...Follow us on Linkedin at https://www.linkedin.com/groups/IEEE-International-Conference-on-Cluster-74… ...Follow us on RenRen at http://page.renren.com/601871401 ----------------------------------------------

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IEEE HPSC 2015 Call For Papers
by John Free 06 Mar '15

06 Mar '15

*********************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS IEEE HPSC 2015 IEEE International Symposium on High Performance and Smart Computing http://csis.pace.edu/bigdatasecurity/HPSC.htm August 24-26, 2015, New York, USA *********************************************************************************** Important Dates Paper submission:Apr. 15, 2015 Camera-ready due:June. 15, 2015 Author registration:July. 20, 2015 Conference:Aug. 24-26, 2015 Scope and Topics of Interest The rapid development of computing and communications technology has resulted in a great attention in high performance and smart computing (HPSC) in recent years. Both computing industry and research domain have a great demand of the high performance smart computing. HPSC has become one of the mainstreams of computing. As a key technology, smart computing is playing an important role in determining future research and development activities in many academic and industrial branches. High performance is another significant aspect when solving large and complex problems under a tight timing constraint. The HPSC 2015 is a research workshop cooperated with the 17th IEEE HPCC. This symposium provide engineers and scientists in computing domain with an academic forum in which the new research achievements, ideas, and results are shared. The state-of-the-art smart computing applications and experiences in high performance and smart computing will be represented in this academic event. HPSC-2015 is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). The objective of HPSC 2015 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange their new ideas, novel results, work in progress and experience on all aspects of Big Data Security on cloud. Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Parallel and distributed system architectures - Languages and compilers for high performance computing - Parallel and distributed software technologies - Parallel and distributed algorithms - Embedded systems - Peer-to-peer computing - Grid and cluster computing - Web services and Internet computing - Cloud computing - Utility computing - Performance evaluation and measurement - Tools and environments for software development - Distributed systems and applications - High-performance scientific and engineering computing - Database applications and data mining - Biological/molecular computing - Collaborative and cooperative environments - Mobile computing and wireless communications - Computer Networks - Telecommunications - Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence - Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance - Trust, security and privacy PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Submitted manuscripts should be written in English conforming to the IEEE conference proceedings format (8.5" x 11", Two-Column, template available at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting) Full Papers (up to 6 pages complimentary, or 12 pages with the over length charge), Short Papers (up to 4 pages complimentary, or 6 pages with the over length charge), and Posters (up to 1 page complimentary, or 2 pages with the over length charge) are solicited. See Instructions for authors. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. The submission website for HPSC 2015 is HERE ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeehpsc2015) Some SCI journal related to HPSC 2015: -Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley), SCI indexed, IF=0.784 link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291532-0634 -Future Generation of Computer System (Elsevier), link: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/future-generation-computer-systems/call-fo… - Journal of Signal Processing Systems (JSPS), Special issue on High Performance Computing and Communication (HPCC 2015) link:http://cse.stfx.ca/~hpcc2015/html/CFP_JSPS_HPCC2015.pdf - The Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA), Special Issue on Design Automation for Embedded Ubiquitous Computing Systems (DAEUCS) link: http://cse.stfx.ca/~icess2015/html/SpecialIssueCallforPapersDAEUS-JSA.pdf - The Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA), Special Issue on High Performance Computing and Communications and Embedded Software and Systems - ACM Transactions on Embedded Computing Systems (TECS), Special Issue on Emerging Technologies in Embedded Software and Systems link:http://cse.stfx.ca/~icess2015/html/ACM-TECS.pdf *********************************************************************************** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chair Hui Zhao, Henan University, China Program Committee Chairs Ning Jiang, Henan University, China Keke Gai, Pace University, USA Program Committee Jie Li, Henan University, China Bin Wang, Wright State University, USA Peng Zhang, SUNY Stony Brook, USA Yikui Zhang, Tianjin University, China Zonghua Gu, Zhejiang University, China Zongming Fei, University of Kentucky, USA Ruixuan Li, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China

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