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Final deadline extension for Co-HPC 2015
by Shirley Moore 31 Aug '15

31 Aug '15

*Final Call for Papers* *Co-HPC 2015: Second International Workshop on Hardware-software Co-design for High Performance Computing* *http://codaash.org/co-hpc/* <http://codaash.org/co-hpc/> To be held November 16, 2015 in Austin, Texas, in conjunction with SC’15 and in collaboration with ACM SIGHPC Hardware-software co-design involves the concurrent design of hardware and software components of complex computer systems, whereby application requirements influence architecture design and hardware constraints influence design of algorithms and software. High Performance Computing (HPC) is facing a daunting challenges as we move towards the exascale era, with the necessity of designing systems that run large-scale simulations with high performance while meeting cost and energy consumption constraints. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together researchers who are investigating the interrelationships between algorithms/applications, systems software, and hardware, and who are developing methodologies and tools for hardware-software co-design for HPC. We seek submissions that address various aspects of hardware-software co-design and that demonstrate collaboration between domain scientists, applied mathematicians, computer scientists, and hardware architects. Last year’s workshop was one of the best attended at SC’14, averaging over 80 attendees throughout the day, with attendees including academic, research lab, and industry researchers and government program managers in the hardware-software co-design area. This year’s workshop focuses especially on hardware-software co-design for advanced architectures, including systems with new low-power processor designs and new memory technologies. Topics of interest to the workshop include but are not limited to the following: - Use of simulation and emulation techniques for co-design - Modeling and prediction of performance and energy consumption - Co-optimization for multiple objectives (such as performance, power, resilience) - Evaluation of new processor and memory technologies for scientific applications - Mapping of algorithms and applications to heterogeneous systems Submitted papers must be no more than 8 pages in length and must be in IEEE Proceedings format. Use the templates available at http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. All submissions should be to the EasyChair submissions website at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cohpc2015. *Keynote Speaker : Dr. Laura Carrington* *Abstract:* The 64-bit ARMv8 platform has captured the attention of system designers across a number of computing domains, ranging from mobile and tablet computing to large-scale cloud and HPC systems. This is evidenced by the fact that ARM has sold over 50 licenses to the technology. Many in the HPC community are convinced that energy efficient ARM designs, and the ARMv8 platform in particular due to its improved double-precision and SIMD support over prior ARM designs, will figure prominently into the set of solutions that allow continued expansion in the computational capabilities of HPC systems and the scientific discoveries fueled by those capabilities. Dr. Carrington will present her work on the performance and energy-efficiency analysis of ARM processors for HPC workloads. The analysis includes comparison of an early ARMv8 HPC platform to current architectures including INTEL SandyBridge, Haswell, and ATOM. *Bio:* Dr. Carrington is the Director of the Performance Modeling and Characterization (PMaC) lab at San Diego Supercomputer Center and the Vice President of Research for EP Analytics. Dr. Carrington is an expert in High Performance Computing with publications in HPC benchmarking, workload analysis, application performance analysis and optimization, analysis of accelerators (i.e. FPGAs and GPUs) for scientific workloads, tools in performance analysis (i.e. processor and network simulators), and energy-efficient computing. She has presented numerous invited talks and been a member of various panels and committees. She is the lead for the energy efficiency thrust area for the DOE SciDAC-3 Institute for Sustained Performance, Energy, and Resilience (SUPER). *Journal Special Issue* The authors of papers accepted to the Co-HPC 2015 workshop will be invited to extend the manuscript for a special issue of Scientific Programming, guest-edited by the Co-HPC 2015 workshop chairs. The target submission deadline for the journal papers is December 25, 2015. See http://www.hindawi.com/journals/sp/si/184027/cfp/ for details. *Organizing Committee* Shirley Moore, University of Texas at El Paso (Chair) Laura Carrington, San Diego Supercomputer Center Gregory Peterson, University of Tennessee Richard Vuduc, Georgia Institute of Technology Theresa Windus, Iowa State University *Advisory Committee* John Luginsland, Air Force Office of Scientific Research Karen Pao, At Large *Program Committee* Richard Barrett, Sandia National Laboratory David Bernholdt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Alexandru Calotoiu, German School of Simulation Sciences Eric Freudenthal, University of Texas at El Paso Mark Gordon, Iowa State University Christos Kartsaklis, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Piotr Luszczek, University of Tennessee Heike McCraw, University of Tennessee Ramon Ravelo, University of Texas at El Paso Lina Sawalha, Western Michigan University Manu Shantharam, San Diego Supercomputer Center Masha Sosonkina, Old Dominion University Hiroyuki Takizawa, Tokohu University Ananta Tiwari, San Diego Supercomputer Center Vincent Weaver, University of Maine Samuel Williams, Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory Shuangyang Yang, LinkedIn Corporation, USA *Important Dates* Submission deadline: September 7, 2015 (final extension) Author notification: September 28, 2015 Final paper due: October 8, 2015

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The E2SC 2015 Calls for Papers FINAL EXTENSION: September 7, 2015
by Manzano, Joseph B 31 Aug '15

31 Aug '15

3rd International Workshop on Energy Efficient SuperComputing (E2SC) Held in conjunction with SC'15, Austin, Texas, USA November 15th-20th 2015 In cooperation with SIGHPC Call for Papers (FINAL EXTENSION) Description ----------- With Exascale systems on the horizon, we will be ushering in an era with power and energy consumption as a key concern for scalable computing. To achieve viable high performance, a combination of evolutionary and revolutionary methods is required with a stronger integration among hardware features, system software and applications. Equally important are the capabilities for fine-grained spatial and temporal measurement and control to facilitate energy efficient computing across all layers. Current approaches for energy efficient computing rely heavily on power efficient hardware in isolation. However, it is pivotal for hardware to expose mechanisms for energy efficiency to optimize power and energy consumption for various workloads and to reduce data motion, a major component of energy use. At the same time, high fidelity measurement techniques, typically ignored in data-center level measurement, are of high importance for scalable and energy efficient inter-play at different layers of application, system software and hardware. This workshop seeks to address the important energy efficiency aspects in the HPC community that have not been previously addressed by aspects covered in the data center or cloud computing communities. Emphasis is given to an application's view related to significant energy efficiency improvements as well as to the required hardware/software stack that must include necessary power and performance measurement, and analysis harnesses. Current tools are often limited by hardware capabilities and their lack of information about the characteristics of a given workload/application. In the same manner, hardware techniques, like dynamic voltage frequency scaling, are often limited by their granularity (very coarse power management) or by their scope (a very limited system view). More rapid realization of energy savings will require significant increases in measurement resolution and optimization techniques. Moreover, the interplay between performance, power and reliability add another layer of complexity to this already difficult group of challenges. Workshop Focus -------------- We encourage submissions in the following areas: - Tools for power and energy analysis with different granularities and scope from hardware (e.g., component, core, node, rack, system) or software views (e.g., threads, tasks, processes, etc.) or both. - Tools and techniques for measurement, analysis, and modeling of thermal effects at different granularities (e.g., component, core, node, rack, system) for large-scale systems. - Techniques that enable power and energy optimizations at different scale levels for HPC systems. - Integration of power-aware technologies in applications and throughout the software stack of HPC systems. - Characterization of current state-of-the-art HPC systems and applications in terms of power. - Disruptive infrastructure hardware technologies for energy-efficient supercomputing. - Analysis of future technologies that will provide improved energy consumption and management on future HPC systems. Organizing Committee -------------------- General Chairs: Kirk Cameron, Virginia Tech, USA Adolfy Hoisie, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Darren Kerbyson, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA David Lowenthal, Arizona State University, USA Dimitrios S. Nikolopoulos, Queen's University of Belfast, UK Sudha Yalamanchili, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Program Co-Chairs: Laura Carrington, San Diego Supercomputing Center, USA Joseph Manzano, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Publicity Chair: Andres Marquez, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA European Liaison: Michele Weiland, EPCC, UK Publication Chair: Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Onsite Coordination: Kevin J. Barker, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Program Committee ----------------- Jee Choi Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Pietro Cicotti San Diego Supercomputing Center, USA Philippe Clauss University of Strasbourg, France Joshua Fryman Intel, USA Vladimir Getov University of Westminster, UK Georg Hager Erlangen Regional Computing Center, Germany Eric Van Hensbergen ARM Research, USA Torsten Hoefler ETH Zurich, Switzerland Hillery Hunter IBM Research, USA Lennart Johnsson University of Houston, USA Erwin Laure KTH/PDC Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Dong Li Univerty of California Merced, USA Satoshi Matsuoka Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Leonid Oliker Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Scott Pakin Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Barry Rountree Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Shuaiwen Song Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Important Dates --------------- Paper Submission (Final Extension) 7th September 2015 (11:59:59 P.M. PDT) Paper Notification 25th September 2015 Final Papers Due 9th October 2015 Submission Guidelines --------------------- Papers should not exceed ten single-space pages (including figures, tables and references) using a 10-point on 8.5x11-inch pages (US Letter). Templates can be found in: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, presentation quality and appropriateness. Submitted papers should not have appeared in or should not be under consideration for another venue. A full peer-review processes will be followed with each paper being reviewed by at least 3 members of the program committee. Submissions will be made through EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=e2sc2015)

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Extended Deadline : September 14, 2015] CFP: 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2016)
by Ningfang Mi 31 Aug '15

31 Aug '15

------------------------------------------------------------------- [Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email. If you'd like to opt out of these announcements, information on how to unsubscribe is available at the bottom of this email.] 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2016) April 4-8, 2016, Berlin, Germany http://conferences.computer.org/IC2E/2016 Important Dates Paper Submission (Extended): September 14, 2015 Author notification: December 5, 2015 The 4th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E) seeks to provide a high-quality and comprehensive forum, where researchers and practitioners can exchange information on engineering principles, enabling technologies, and practical experiences related to cloud computing. By bringing together experts that work on different levels of the cloud stack - systems, storage, networking, platforms, databases, and applications, IC2E offers an end-to-end view on the challenges and technologies in cloud computing, fosters research that addresses the interaction between different layers of the stack, and ultimately helps shape the future of cloud-transformed business and society. We invite submissions of high-quality research papers describing fully developed results or on-going foundational and applied work related to all aspects of cloud engineering. The program committee will interpret ìcloud engineeringî very broadly - everything from engineering principles to practical experiences on different levels of the cloud stack. We particularly encourage submissions on topics of emerging interest in the research and development communities. We invite submissions on the following topics: * Big data management, platforms and analytics * Cloud applications and services * Cloud programming models, benchmarks, and tools * Cloud security, privacy, compliance, and trust * Energy management in cloud centers * Hybrid cloud integration * Metering, pricing, and software licensing * Mobile cloud computing * Performance, dependability, and service level agreements * Resource management and optimization in the cloud * Service lifecycle management and automation * Virtualization technology * Workload deployment and migration * X as a Service, where X includes Backend, Business Process, Database, Information, Infrastructure, Network, Platform, Security, Software, and Storage Submission instructions * Please submit full (and short) papers by September 14th, 2015 in PDF format via the web submission form at https://hotcrp.doc.ic.ac.uk/ic2e16. * Full research track papers should not exceed 10 pages double column, including figures, tables, and references; short papers are limited to 6 pages. Short papers should be clearly marked as such in the title. * Submissions must be in the standard IEEE format for conference proceedings - see the style templates for details: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Review process and publication * All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference scope. Submitted manuscripts must contain original contributions, and their contributions must NOT have appeared in or be under consideration for publication in another workshop, conference, or journal. * After review, some submissions may be offered to be published as a short paper (6 pages) or a poster (2 pages). * Accepted papers will be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services (EI indexed). Organization General Chairs * Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA * Stefan Tai, TU Berlin, Germany Program Committee Chairs * Lucy Cherkasova, HP Labs, USA * Peter Pietzuch, Imperial College London, UK * Cho-Li Wang, University of Hong Kong, China Program Committee * Artur Andrzejak, Heidelberg University, Germany * Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy * Martin Arlitt, HP Labs, USA * Jean Bacon, University of Cambridge, UK * Novella Bartolini, University of Rome "Sapienza", Italy * Sonia Ben Mokhtar, LIRIS-CNRS, France * Sara Bouchenak, University of Grenoble, France * Yerom-David Bromberg, University of Bordeaux 1, France * Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA * Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London, UK * Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota, USA * Haibo Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China * Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia * Gregory Chockler, Royal Holloway University of London, UK * Paolo Costa, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK * Dilma Da Silva, Texas A&M University, USA * Eliezer Dekel, IBM Research Haifa, Israel * Erik Elmroth, Umea University, Sweden * Patrick Eugster, Purdue University, USA * David Eyers, University of Otago, New Zealand * Christof Fetzer, TU Dresden, Germany * Jose Fortes, University of Florida, USA * Ian Foster, University of Chicago, USA * Xiaohui Gu, North Carolina State University, USA * Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA * Seif Haridi, KTH Royal Institute of Technology/SICS, Sweden * Bingsheng He, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore * Ching-Hsien Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan * Jinho Hwang, IBM Research, USA * Alex Iosup, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands * Arun Iyengar, IBM Research, USA * K. R. Jayaram, IBM Research, USA * Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China * Ruediger Kapitza, TU Braunschweig, Germany * Dejan Kostic, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden * Philippe Lalanda, Universite Joseph Fourier, France * Wolfgang Lehner, TU Dresden, Germany * Baochun Li, University of Toronto, Canada * Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan * Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA * Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore, Singapore * Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA * Fernando Pedone, University of Lugano, Switzerland * Guillaume Pierre, IRISA/University of Rennes 1, France * Thomas Sandholm, EMC, USA * Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, USA * Marco Serafini, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar * Weisong Shi, Wayne State University, USA * Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University, USA * Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary, USA * Stefan Tai, TU Berlin, Germany * Francois Taiani, Universite de Rennes 1, France * Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota, USA * Dan Williams, IBM Research, USA * Joel Wolf, IBM Research, USA * Bernard Wong, University of Waterloo, Canada * Timothy Wood, George Washington University, USA * Yongwei Wu, Tsinghua University, China * Cheng-Zhong Xu, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, China

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CFP: 8th Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Clouds, Grids, and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2015 -- co-located with IEEE/ACM Supercomputing/SC 2015
by Ioan Raicu 31 Aug '15

31 Aug '15

Call for Papers --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 8th Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Clouds, Grids, and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2015 http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS15/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- November 15th, 2015 Austin, Texas, USA Co-located with with IEEE/ACM International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC15) ======================================================================================= The 8th workshop on Many-Task Computing on Clouds, Grids, and Supercomputers (MTAGS) will provide the scientific community a dedicated forum for presenting new research, development, and deployment efforts of large-scale many-task computing (MTC) applications on large scale clusters, Grids, Supercomputers, and Cloud Computing infrastructure. MTC, the theme of the workshop encompasses loosely coupled applications, which are generally composed of many tasks (both independent and dependent tasks) to achieve some larger application goal. This workshop will cover challenges that can hamper efficiency and utilization in running applications on large-scale systems, such as local resource manager scalability and granularity, efficient utilization of raw hardware, parallel file system contention and scalability, data management, I/O management, reliability at scale, and application scalability. We welcome paper submissions on all theoretical, simulations, and systems topics related to MTC, but we give special consideration to papers addressing petascale to exascale challenges. Papers will be peer-reviewed for novelty, scientific merit, and scope for the workshop. The workshop will be co-located with the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2015 Conference in Austin Texas on November 15th, 2015. For more information, please see http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS15/. For more information on past workshops, please see MTAGS14, MTAGS13, MTAGS12, MTAGS11, MTAGS10, MTAGS09, and MTAGS08. We also ran a Special Issue on Many-Task Computing in the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) which appeared in June 2011; the proceedings can be found online at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/abs/trans/td/2011/06/ttd201106toc.h…. We are also currently assembling a new special issue in the IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing on Many-Task Computing in the Cloud, see http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/TCC-MTC15/index.html for more information. We, the workshop organizers, also published a highly relevant paper that defines Many-Task Computing which was published in MTAGS08,titled “Many-Task Computing for Grids and Supercomputers”; we encourage potential authors to read this paper, and to clearly articulate in your paper submissions how your papers are related to Many-Task Computing. Topics --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- We invite the submission of original work that is related to the topics below. The papers should be 6 pages, including all figures and references.We aim to cover topics related to Many-Task Computing on each of the three major distributed systems paradigms, Cloud Computing, Grid Computing and Supercomputing. Topics of interest include: * Compute Resource Management * Scheduling * Job execution frameworks * Local resource manager extensions * Performance evaluation of resource managers in use on large scale systems * Dynamic resource provisioning * Techniques to manage many-core resources and/or GPUs * Challenges and opportunities in running many-task workloads on HPC systems * Challenges and opportunities in running many-task workloads on Cloud Computing infrastructure * Storage architectures and implementations * Distributed file systems * Parallel file systems * Distributed meta-data management * Content distribution systems for large data * Data caching frameworks and techniques * Data management within and across data centers * Data-aware scheduling * Data-intensive computing applications * Eventual-consistency storage usage and management * Programming models and tools * Map-reduce and its generalizations * Many-task computing middleware and applications * Parallel programming frameworks * Ensemble MPI techniques and frameworks * Service-oriented science applications * Large-Scale Workflow Systems * Workflow system performance and scalability analysis * Scalability of workflow systems * Workflow infrastructure and e-Science middleware * Programming Paradigms and Models * Large-Scale Many-Task Applications * High-throughput computing (HTC) applications * Data-intensive applications * Quasi-supercomputing applications, deployments, and experiences * Performance Evaluation * Performance evaluation * Real systems * Simulations * Reliability of large systems Paper Submission and Publication --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 6 pages of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per ACM 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines; document templates can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. The final 6 page papers in PDF format must be submitted online at https://cmt.research.microsoft.com/MTAGS2015/ before the deadline. Papers will be peer-reviewed for novelty, scientific merit, and scope for the workshop. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. For more information, please see http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS15/. Important Dates --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Abstracts due: September 4th, 2015 * Full paper due: September 11th, 2015 * Acceptance notification: October 2nd, 2015 * Early Registration deadline: October 15th, 2015 * Final papers due: November 6th, 2015 * Workshop date: November 15th, 2015 Committee Members --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Workshop Chairs * Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology & Argonne National Laboratory * Justin Wozniak, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory * Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory * Yong Zhao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China Steering Committee * David Abramson, Monash University, Australia * Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA * Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA * Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA * Marc Snir, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA * Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA * Weimin Zheng, Tsinghua University, China Technical Committee * Hasan Abbasi, Oak Ridge National Labs, USA * Tim Armstrong, University of Chicago, USA * Roger Barga, Microsoft, USA * Mihai Budiu, Microsoft Research, USA * Rajkumar Buyya University of Melbourne, Australia * Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA * Evangelinos Constantinos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA * Catalin Dumitrescu, Fermi National Labs, USA * Haryadi Gunawi, University of Chicago, USA * Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA * Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands * Florin Isaila, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain & Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Kamil Iskra, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago, USA * Jik-Soo Kim, Kristi, Korea * Scott A. Klasky, Oak Ridge National Labs, USA * Mike Lang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA * Tonglin Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA * Chris Moretti, Princeton University, USA * David O'Hallaron, Carnegie Mellon University, USA * Marlon Pierce, Indiana University, USA * Judy Qiu, Indiana University, USA * Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA * Matei Ripeanu, University of British Columbia, Canada * Iman Sadooghi, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA * Wei Tang, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Edward Walker, Whitworth University, USA * Ke Wang, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA * Matthew Woitaszek, Walmart Labs, USA * Rich Wolski, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA * Zhifeng Yun, University of Houston, USA * Zhao Zhang, University of California at Berkeley, USA * Ziming Zheng, University of Chicago, USA -- ================================================================= Ioan Raicu, Ph.D. Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) Guest Research Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) ================================================================= Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory, CS/IIT Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS/ANL ================================================================= Editor: IEEE TCC, Springer Cluster, Springer JoCCASA Chair: IEEE/ACM MTAGS, ACM ScienceCloud ================================================================= Office: 1-312-567-5704 Email: iraicu(a)cs.iit.edu Web: http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/ Web: http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ioanraicu Google: http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jE73HYAAAAAJ ================================================================= =================================================================

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Deadline extended for EduHPC-15: September 7
by Francesco Silvestri 31 Aug '15

31 Aug '15

EduHPC 2015: WORKSHOP ON EDUCATION FOR HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING Mon, Nov 16, 2015 http://www.cs.gsu.edu/~tcpp/curriculum/?q=edupdhpc Held in conjunction with SC-15: The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis Nov 15-20, 2015 <http://sc15.supercomputing.org> CALL FOR PAPERS Parallel and Distributed Computing (PDC) along with High Performance Computing (HPC) has become pervasive, from supercomputers and server farms containing multicore CPUs and GPUs, to individual PCs, laptops, and mobile devices. Even casual users of computers depend on parallel processing nowadays. It is now necessary for every computer user -and especially every programmer -to understand how parallelism and distributed computing affect problem solving. It is now essential to impart a range of PDC and HPC knowledge and skills at various levels within the educational fabric woven by Computer Science (CS), Computer Engineering (CE), and related computational curricula. Companies and laboratories need people with these skills and are finding that they must do extensive on-the-job training. However, rapid changes in hardware platforms, languages, programming environments, and advances in research increasingly challenge educators to decide what to teach and how to teach it, in order to prepare students for careers that are increasingly likely to involve PDC. This workshop invites unpublished manuscripts from academia, industry, and government laboratories on topics pertaining to the needs and approaches for augmenting undergraduate and graduate education in Computer Science and Engineering, Computational Science, and computational courses for STEM and business disciplines with PDC and high performance computing (HPC) concepts. The workshop is particularly dedicated to bringing together stakeholders from industry (both hardware vendors and employers), government labs, funding agencies, and academia in the context of SC-15, so that each can hear the challenges faced by the others, can learn the various approaches to these challenges, and can generally have opportunities to exchange ideas and brainstorm solutions. In addition to contributed talks, this workshop will feature panels, special sessions, and invited talks on opportunities for collaboration, resource sharing, educator training, internships, and other means of increasing cross-fertilization between industry, government, and academia, without "eating the seed corn." Proposals for panels and special sessions are also welcome. This effort is in coordination with the NSF/TCPP curriculum initiative on Parallel and Distributed Computing and the Center for Parallel and Distributed Computing Curriculum Development and Educational Resources (CDER). TOPICS OF INTEREST include, but are not limited to: 1. Pedagogical issues in incorporating PDC and HPC in undergraduate 1. Pedagogical issues in incorporating PDC and HPC in undergraduate and graduate education, especially in core courses 2. Novel ways of teaching PDC and HPC topics 3. Experience with incorporating PDC and HPC topics into core CS/CE courses 4. Pedagogical tools, programming environments, infrastructures, 5. Employers' experiences with and expectation of the level of PDC and HPC proficiency among new graduates 6. Education resources based on higher level programming languages such as PGAS, X10, Chapel, Haskell, Python and Cilk, and emerging environments such as CUDA, OpenCL, OpenACC, and Hadoop 7. Parallel and distributed models of programming/computation suitable for teaching, learning and workforce development. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: PAPERS: Authors are asked to submit 6-8 page papers in pdf format through the EasyChair submission site at <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eduhpc15> choosing its "Paper" track. Submissions should be formatted as single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See style templates available from IEEE for details. Paper will be published in the conference workshop proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES: September 7, 2015: Paper submission deadline (extended) Sept 25, 2015: Author notification Oct 9, 2015: Camera-ready paper deadline PANELS: Prospective organizers are asked to submit a proposal in PDF format through the EasyChair submission site at <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eduhpc15>, choosing its "Panel" track. Upload a single PDF file that describes the panel, which may include such information as description of the panel topic or position statements by the panelists. You must convince us that the panel will truly be an interactive session and not a series of presentations. Explain why the panel will attract a good audience and why the audience will feel that the panel was beneficial. Suggested length for this proposal is 1-2 pages. Use font and style as for papers noted earlier. SPECIAL SESSIONS: A session will consist of 2-3 talks on a coherent theme spanning about an hour. Organizers are asked to submit a proposal in pdf format through the EasyChair submission site at <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eduhpc15>, choosing its "Special Session" track. Use font and style as for papers noted earlier. Upload a single PDF file (1-2 pages) that describes the session: (i) session goals -specifically how attendees will benefit, (ii) target audience, (iii) why the topic is relevant to workshop and SC attendees, (iv) general description of session content, and (v) links to resume or curriculum vitae for each presenter. IMPORTANT DATES: Sept 21, 2015: Proposal for panels or special sessions submission deadline Oct 16, 2015: Notifications for panels/special sessions ORGANIZATION: Workshop Chair: Sushil K. Prasad, Georgia State University Program Chair: Ioana Banicescu, Mississippi State University Proceedings Chair: Satish Puri, Georgia State University Program Committee: Henri Bal, Vrije Universiteit Martina Barnas, Indiana University Bloomington Virendra Bhavsar, University of New Brunswick Andrey Brito, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande Scott Buck, Intel David Bunde, Knox College Florina Ciorba, University of Basel Debzani Deb, Winston-Salem State University Akshaye Dhawan, Ursinus College Diana Franklin, UC Santa Barbara Eric Freudenthal, University of Texas at El Paso Victor Gergel, Nizhni Novgorod State University Sheikh Ghafoor, Tennessee Tech Nasser Giacaman, The University of Auckland Domingo Gimenez, University of Murcia Ganesh Gopalakrishnan, University of Utah Ajay Gupta, Western Michigan University David Juedes, Ohio University David Kaeli, Northeastern University Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki Karen Karavanic, Portland State University George Karypis, University of Minnesota Kishore Kothapalli, Indian Institute of Information Technology Hyderabad Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin Andrew Lumsdaine, Indiana University Henry Neeman, University of Oklahoma Brandeis Marshall, Spelman College Edusmildo Orozco, University of Puerto Rico Peter Pacheco, University of San Francisco Manish Parashar, Rutgers University Sathya Peri, Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad Cynthia Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories Thomas Rauber, University Bayreuth Noemi Rodriguez, PUC-Rio de Janeiro Gudula Ruenger, Chemnitz University of Technology Erik Saule, University of North Carolina at Charlotte Chandra Sekharan, Loyola University Chicago Jawwad Shamsi, FAST National University Chi Shen, Kentucky State University Suzanne Shontz, University of Kansas Rudrapatna Shyamasundar, Tata Institute of Fundamental Research Leonel Sousa, Universidade de Lisboa Srishti Srivastava, University of Southern Indiana Michelle Strout, Arizona State University Nitin Sukhija, Mississippi State University Violet Syrotiuk, Arizona State University Michela Taufer, University of Delaware Dominique Thiebaut, Smith College Denis Trystram, Grenoble Institute of Technology Susan Wang, Mills College Michael Wrinn, Intel

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Special Journal Issue on Sustainable High Performance Computing 2015
by Justin Y. Shi 30 Aug '15

30 Aug '15

******************************** Open Journal of Cloud Computing (http://www.ronpub.com/journals/ojcc) ******************************** =========================== Call for Papers ========================================== Special Issue: "Sustainable High Performance Computing (SHPC-2015)" (http://www.ronpub.com/index.php/journals/ojcc/special-issues) ====================================================================================== Note: Publication fees will be waived for accepted papers submitted before September 10, 2015. ** AIMS: Sustainable high performance computing put dependable and autonomic computing in context. Without self-healing, self-configuration and self-monitoring, a high performance computing application will not be able to complete in extreme scales. Without dependability, high performance computing applications are to suffer rapidly decreasing MTBF (mean time between failures) as we expand the size of computing clusters. Security is another dimension that mission critical high performance applications must take into account, or unintended consequences may cause irreparable harms. While the above discussion made sense at the conceptual level, current research communities are narrowly divided into specific subareas. In fact, all these topics concern how to handle volatile resources in terms of programming, monitoring, configuration, load distribution/optimization and management. This Special Issue of OJCC aims to bring together contributions from all relevant areas for the benefit of sustainable high performance computing -- the non-lethal large scale typical distributed computing applications. Unlike traditional publications that favor successful novel technologies, this Special Issue of OJCC encourages submissions of credible in-depth stories that may be success or failure in dependable computing, autonomic computing, information security and sustainable high performance computing efforts. In fact, we can learn more from failures than successes. In particular, data intensive distributed computing efforts are highly encouraged since they are more difficult to secure, to practice dependability and be made autonomic-ally computable. This Special Issue provides a platform for academic architecture researchers, industry practitioners and government agencies to exchange evolving distributed mission critical computing requirements, ideas and preliminary results. As computational services are to become integral parts of human societies, performance, dependability, sustainability and security of these services directly impact future social and economic prosperity. This Special Issue will be a checkpoint of dependable computing, autonomic computing and sustainable HPC efforts. The results may prove to be of fundamentally importance towards the building of 21st century software engineering principles. ** TOPICS: This special issue welcomes regular research papers, short communications, reviews and visionary papers in the fields cloud and ubiquitous computing, including but not limited to the following topics: - Theoretical foundation of programming volatile resources - Theoretical architecture concepts for volatile resources - Application scalability analysis using volatile resources - Investigative reports on delivered performance for computation intensive and data intensive applications with failure - Investigative results on delivered cloud performances for computation intensive and data intensive applications - Theoretical models and experiences in non-conventional HPC programming paradigms - Experiences in using auction-based HPC cloud resources - Experiences in virtualized GPU for HPC applications - Experiences in virtualized network for HPC applications - Innovative failure prevention and recovery methods - HPC security considerations using cloud resources - Communication infrastructure virtualization experiences - Private cloud implementation experiences - Innovative cloud auction pricing models ** LEAD GUEST EDITOR: - Justin Y. Shi, Temple University, USA ** GUEST EDITORS: - Krishna Kant, Temple University, USA - Kitrick Sheets, Cray Inc., USA - Sen Chiao, San Jose State University, USA - Gang Wang, Nankai-Baidu Joint Lab, Nankai University, China - Xiaoguang Liu, Nankai University, China - Joseph Jupin, Temple Univesity, USA ** IMPORTANT DATES: - Submission Deadline: 10 September, 2015 - Author Notification: 25 October, 2015 ** PREPARATION: For detailed information on the preparation and submission of manuscripts, please visit Author Guidelines ( http://www.ronpub.com/index.php/journals/ojcc/author-guidelines) ** PAPER SUBMISSION: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=shpc2015specialissue ************************************************ OJCC Editorial Office RonPub UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Lübeck, Germany Web: www.ronpub.com/journals/ojcc Email: ojcc(a)ronpub.com

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deadline extended to 9/18/2015: IEEE CG&A special issue on High Performance Visualization and Analysis
by Wes Bethel 30 Aug '15

30 Aug '15

CFP URL: http://www.computer.org/web/computingnow/cgacfp3 IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications IEEE CG&A Special Issue on High Performance Visualization and Analysis *Extended deadline for final submissions* : 18 September 2015 Publication date: May/June 2016 (Note: the submission web page above is in the process of being updated. It may continue to show the original submission date of 9/1/2015 for a short while longer. The new extended deadline is 9/18/2015. Sorry for any confusion.) In the 27 years since the groundbreaking report by McCormick, DeFanti, and Brown that coined the phrase “visualization in scientific computing,” we have witnessed a dramatic growth in our ability to collect and generate data. Concurrently, computing technology has rapidly evolved from single-processor systems to large scale, multi-petaflop systems comprised of 10Ks to 100Ks processors, with processors having upwards of 100s of cores per chip. The confluence of larger HPC systems, data sets of unprecedented size and complexity, and complex lines of inquiry, gives rise to diverse and difficult research challenges and opportunities for visualization and analysis that were only dimly visible at the dawn of the field of scientific visualization. We define high performance visualization and analysis as those methods that are, by their design, capable of taking advantage of modern computational platforms, either in whole or in part. “In whole” refers to techniques that are capable of effectively using all computational resources on today’s largest computational platforms. “In part” refers to techniques that are specifically designed and implemented to take advantage of new processor or system architectures in one way or another. The upcoming Special Issue of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications will focus on High Performance Visualization and Analysis (HPVA). For this special issue, we solicit papers presenting original research that span a diversity of visualization and analysis topics including: New algorithms and methods for knowledge discovery suitable for use on modern computational platforms, methods that leverage the extreme-scale concurrency of these platforms to solve a problem of extreme scale or complexity. Examples of new methods for visualization and analysis that are designed to take advantage of new architectural features, such as deepening memory hierarchies, extreme-scale concurrency, etc.; methods that overcome the challenges inherent to modern HPC platforms where, for example, it is increasingly expensive to move data through the memory hierarchy and increasingly intractable to save full-resolution data to persistent storage for subsequent analysis. Case studies/applications of HPVA methods to solve knowledge discovery problems in physical or social science, engineering, medicine, etc. where there is a thematic element of size and/or complexity that is made tractable through the use of new scalable methods making use of modern HPC-class platforms. Submission Guidelines Articles should be no more than eight magazine pages, where a page is 800 words and a quarter-page image counts as 200 words. Please cite only the 12 most relevant references, and consider providing technical background in sidebars for nonexpert readers. Color images are preferable and should be limited to 10. Visit the CG&A style and length guidelines at www.computer.org/web/peerreviewmagazines/cga. We also strongly encourage you to submit multimedia (videos, podcasts, and so on) to enhance your article. Visit the CG&A supplemental guidelines at www.computer.org/web/peerreviewmagazines/accga#supplemental. Papers that do not follow these guidelines will result in publication delays or administrative rejection. Thank you for your attention. See http://www.computer.org/web/computingnow/cgacfp3 for additional information. -- Wes Bethel -- voice (510) 486-7353 -- fax (510) 486-5812 -- vis.lbl.gov

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SEEDA-CECNSM 2015 conference call 111 (extended deadline to September 6)
by Michael Dossis 28 Aug '15

28 Aug '15

*** Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP *** SEEDA-CECNSM 2015 conference call 111 (extended deadline to September 6) Please submit your recent work and/or forward this CFP to any of your colleagues, friends that might be interested. The South-East Europe Design Automation, Computer Engineering, Computer Networks, and Social Media Conference (SEEDA-CECNSM 2015) Venue: Technological Educational Institute of Western Macedonia Kastoria, Greece September 25-27, 2015 web-page: http://sdiwc.net/conferences/seeda-cecnsm2015 seeda-cecnsm15(a)sdiwc.net The event will be held over three days, with presentations delivered by researchers and excellent scholars from the international community, including presentations from keynote speakers and state-of-the-art lectures. The conference aims to enable researchers build connections between different digital application/methodology areas. TOPIC AREA ========== - Design Automation - Computer Networks - Computer Engineering - Social Media SUBMISSION ========== - Submitted paper should not exceed 15 pages. - The submission must be for the full paper (abstracts only are not acceptable). - Researchers are encouraged to submit their work electronically through http://sdiwc.net/conferences/seeda-cecnsm2015/paper-submission/ PUBLICATION =========== - All registered papers will be published in SDIWC Digital Library, and in the proceedings of the conference. - The published proceedings will be indexed in ResearchBib, in addition, they will be reviewed for POSSIBLE inclusion within the INSPEC, EI, DBLP, Microsoft Academic Research, ResearchGate, and Google Scholar Databases. - ALL selected papers will be published in one of the following special issues: * International Journal of New Computer Architectures and their Applications (IJNCAA) * International Journal of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (IJDIWC) * International Journal of Cyber-Security and Digital Forensics (IJCSDF) * International Journal of E-Learning and Educational Technologies in the Digital Media (IJEETDM) IMPORTANT DATES =============== September 6, 2015 Submission Deadline (extended) September 15, 2015 Camera Ready Submission September 15, 2015 Registration Deadline September 25-27, 2015 Conference Dates Best regards, Dr Michael Dossis Associate Professor General Chair SEEDA-CECNSM 2015

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[CFP - EXTENDED DEADLINE]: Special Issue on Energy Efficient Multi-Core and Many-Core Systems (The Elsevier Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing)
by Amirmohammad Rahmanisane 28 Aug '15

28 Aug '15

/* Apologies for Multiple Copies */ ************************************* CALL FOR PAPERS The Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (Elsevier) Special issue on Energy Efficient Multi-Core and Many-Core Systems<http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-parallel-and-distributed-comput…> (E2MC2) ************************************* Recent trends in the microprocessor industry have important ramifications for the design of the next generation of high-performance as well as embedded parallel and network-based systems. By increasing number of cores, it is possible to improve the performance while keeping the power consumption at the bay. This trend has reached the deployment stage in parallel and network-based systems ranging from small ultramobile devices to large telecommunication servers. It is expected that the number of cores in these systems increases dramatically in the near future. For such systems, energy efficiency is one of the primary design constraints. The cessation of Dennard scaling and the dark silicon phenomenon have limited recent improvements in transistor speed and energy efficiency, resulting in slowed improvements in multi-core and many-core systems. Consequently, architectural innovation has become crucial to achieve performance and efficiency gains. New technologies that combine different types of cores or similar cores with different computation capabilities can result in a better match between the workload and the execution hardware improving overall system energy efficiency. In addition, multi-core and many-core systems need to be able to reconfigure themselves adaptively by monitoring their own condition and the surrounding environment in order to adapt themselves to different scenarios and performance-power requirements. Runtime monitoring becomes crucial in the near future parallel and distributed multicore systems due to increase in thermal issues as well as due to the need for various adaptive managements. This special issue addresses all aspects of energy-efficient computing in parallel and distributed multi-core and many-core systems. TOPICS (non-exclusive) * Power and thermal estimation, analysis, optimization, and management techniques for hardware and software systems * Energy- and thermal aware application mapping and scheduling * Energy- and thermal-aware dark silicon system design and optimization * Energy-efficient heterogeneous system architecture * Programming models, tools, languages and compilers to support energy-aware computing * Low-power monitor and sensor circuits * Energy Efficient defect/fault tolerance, testing, and reliability * Aging aware design, energy- and thermal-related reliability issues * Energy-efficient off-chip/on-chip communication architectures including networks-on-chip * 3D architectures, integration and synthesis * Energy-proportional systems * Energy-efficient memory architectures and technologies (e.g. coherence protocols) * Formal methods for modeling, design and verification of energy efficient parallel and network-based systems * Application analysis and parallelization for energy-efficient design * Cases studies of parallel and network-based systems demonstrating energy-efficient implementation as well as emerging applications and design frameworks Guest Editors: * Hannu Tenhunen, Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden (hannu(a)kth.se<mailto:[email protected]>) * Alexander V. Veidenbaum, University of California, Irvine, USA (alexv(a)ics.uci.edu<mailto:[email protected]>) * Jose L. Ayala, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain (jayala(a)ucm.es<mailto:[email protected]>) * Pasi Liljeberg, University of Turku, Finland (pakrli(a)utu.fi<mailto:[email protected]>) * Amir Rahmani, University of Turku, Finland (amirah(a)utu.fi<mailto:[email protected]>) Important Dates: Manuscript due: September 22nd, 2015 (Hard deadline) Acceptance/rejection notification: November 15th, 2015 2nd round check: January 15th, 2016 Final manuscript due: March 15th, 2016 Submissions: Submitted manuscripts will be reviewed according to the peer review policy of JPDC as available on-line at http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-parallel-and-distributed-comput…. Previously published conference papers should be clearly stated by the authors and an explanation should be provided how such papers have been extended to be considered for this special issue. Manuscripts should be formatted and be submitted online according to the instructions for JPDC at http://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-parallel-and-distributed-comput…. As papers are uploaded, authors should make sure to select the correct special issue (select "SI: E2MC2" when reaching the Article Type step).

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SC15 Workshop on Computational Approaches for Cancer - November 15th, 2015
by Sunita Chandrasekaran 27 Aug '15

27 Aug '15

*CALL FOR PARTICIPATION* *Workshop on Computational Approaches for Cancer* *Held in conjunction with IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2015, Austin, Texas* *Sunday, November 15, 2015* *http://sc15compcancer.hpc.mssm.edu/ <http://sc15compcancer.hpc.mssm.edu/>* A workshop focusing on computational approaches for cancer has become increasingly important as the drive towards precision medicine has accelerated, the challenges in cancer research and clinical application requiring computational solution are growing, and the pursuit of effective predictive models for complex biological systems begin to inform future exascale computing requirements. This inaugural workshop focuses on bringing together the interdisciplinary expertise ranging from clinicians, mathematicians, data scientists, computational scientists, hardware experts, engineers, developers, leaders and others with an interest in advancing the use of computation at all levels to better understand, diagnose, treat and prevent cancer. The workshop will provide opportunities for participants to learn about how computation is employed across multiple areas including imaging, genomics, analytics, modeling, pathology and drug discovery. The forward focus of the workshop looks at challenges and opportunities for computational methods, including approaches to efficiently manage increasingly large datasets, collecting real-time data, developing models, validation for clinical application, and the potential for exascale applications involving cancer. *Linked workshop: Computational and Data Challenges for Genomic Analysis* *http://sc15compgenome.hpc.mssm.edu/ <http://sc15compgenome.hpc.mssm.edu/>* *Agenda* *2:00 – 2:15 PM Workshop Introduction* *2:15-3:10 PM - Computational Approaches for Cancer – Session 1* · Kathleen Nicol, MD, Vice Chair Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Nationwide Children’s Hospital · Lynda Chin, MD, Department Chair, Department of Genomic Medicine, Division of Cancer Medicine, Scientific Director, MD Anderson Cancer Center · Heiko Enderling, PhD, Integrated Mathematical Oncology, H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute *3:10-3:30 - Break* *3:30-3:45 PM - Computational Approaches for Cancer – Session 2* · William G. Richards, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, Harvard Medical School, Research Associate, Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital · Jack Collins, Ph.D., Director, Advanced Biomedical Computing Center, Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research · Warren Kibbe, Ph.D., Director, Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology, National Cancer Institute · Dmitri Kusnezov, Ph.D., Chief Scientist and Senior Advisor to the Secretary, National Nuclear Security Agency, Department of Energy *4:45-5:15 PM Moderated interactive question and answer session with workshop presenters.* *5:15-5:30 Workshop Recap and Next Steps* *Program Committee:* Patricia Kovatch, Ph.D., Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai Thomas Barr, The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital Eric Stahlberg, Ph.D., Frederick National Laboratory for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute

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