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ICCS 2016: Last call for papers
by Altintas, Ilkay 20 Jan '16

20 Jan '16

ICCS 2016 ---------------------------------------------------- The 16th International Conference on Computational Science --------------------------------------------------- 6-8 June 2016, San Diego, California, USA --------------------------------------------------- http://iccs-meeting.org/iccs2016/ CALL FOR PAPERS: “Data through the Computational Lens” The 16th International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS 2016) will take place in San Diego, California, USA, on June 6-8, 2016. With an average attendance of 350 participants, an excellent lineup of keynote speakers and over 20 thematic workshops, ICCS is the prime annual event in Computational Science, bringing together researchers and scientists from academics and industry. The theme for ICCS 2016 refers to the crucial role of Computational Science in tackling the myriad problems and applications stemming from a society that produces and analyzes data at an ever-increasing rate. Located on the Pacific coast of California, San Diego is known for its beautiful beaches and parks, warm climate and world-class attractions. We invite original contributions on all topics related to Computational Science, including, but not limited to:  Scientific Computing  Problem Solving Environments  Advanced Numerical Algorithms  Complex Systems: Modeling and Simulation  Hybrid Computational Methods  Web- and Grid-based Simulation and Computing  Parallel and Distributed Computing  Advanced Computing Architectures and New Programming Models  Large Scale Scientific Instruments  Visualization and Virtual Reality as Applied to Computational Science  Applications of Computation as a Scientific Paradigm  New Algorithmic Approaches to Computational Kernels and Applications  Computational Humanities  Education in Computational Science  Computational Sociology  Medical and Biomedical Computational Science IMPORTANT DEADLINES Full paper submission………………………. January 31, 2015 Notification of paper acceptance................. February 15, 2016 Camera-ready paper submission………….. March 4, 2016 PAPER SUBMISSION, PUBLICATIONS AND INDEXATION The deadline for full paper submission is January 31, 2015. All accepted full papers will be published in the open-access Procedia Computer Science and indexed by Scopus, ScienceDirect and Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation (former ISI Proceedings) – an integrated index within Web of Science. After the conference, selected papers will be invited for a special issue of the Journal of Computational Science (Impact Factor 1.231). ORGANIZERS Scientific Chairs: Peter Sloot, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; ITMO University, Russia; NTU, Singapore Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA; Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA; University of Manchester, UK Workshops Chair: Michael Lees, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Publicity Chair: Valeria Krzhizhanovskaya, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands; St. Petersburg Polytechnic University and ITMO University, Russia Local Chairs: Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego, USA Michael Norman, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego, USA

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Deadline Extention of Special Issue on "Resource Management in Virtualized Clouds" in "Scientific Programming" (SCI indexed)
by Zhihui Du 19 Jan '16

19 Jan '16

Special Issue on "Resource Management in Virtualized Clouds" in "Scientific Programming" (SCI indexed) CFP weblink: <http://www.hindawi.com/journals/sp/si/860504/cfp/> http://www.hindawi.com/journals/sp/si/860504/cfp/ Deadline is extended to 22nd Feb, 2016 Call for Papers Resource management is critical in achieving high performance in Cloud environments. Different from traditional parallel and distributed systems, resource management in Clouds involves managing Virtual Machines (VMs) since virtualization is a key technology in Clouds. Researchers have been developing various strategies and techniques to address the resource management issues encountered in virtualized Clouds. New strategies are designed to consolidate VMs to improve resource utilization in Clouds. Many schemes are implemented to improve running performance of VMs, such as I/O response and inter-VM communications, in virtualized environments. Monitoring and modelling techniques are developed to facilitate VM management in Cloud settings. Energy-aware VM management frameworks are proposed to save energy consumptions in Clouds. Resource management frameworks are custom-designed to optimize the application- or system-oriented performance for scientific, service, or big data applications. This special issue aims to report the latest scientific advances and stimulate continuing research endeavors in resource management techniques for virtualized Clouds. We cordially invite researchers and practitioners to submit original research and development work. Potential topics include, but are not limited to: - VM consolidation strategies - VM scheduling algorithms and frameworks - I/O optimization in VMs - Communication-aware VM management in Clouds - Energy-aware VM management in Clouds - Performance monitoring and modelling of VM executions in Clouds - Security in VM management - Resource management frameworks optimized for hosting scientific or service-oriented applications in Clouds - Optimizing resource management for processing big data applications in Clouds - Elastic resource allocations for large-scale applications in Clouds Authors can submit their manuscripts via the Manuscript Tracking System at <http://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/sp/rmvc/> http://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/sp/rmvc/. Manuscript Due Friday, 22 Feburary 2016 First Round of Reviews Friday, 15 April 2016 Publication Date Friday, 10 June 2016 Lead Guest Editor Ligang He, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Guest Editors Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Antigonish, Canada Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Bucharest, Romania

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CFP:Special Issue for Journal of Big Data Research: Tutorials of HPC Tools and Methods for Big Data
by Weijia Xu 19 Jan '16

19 Jan '16

CFP: Special Issue, Journal of Big Data Research: Tutorials of HPC Tools and Methods for Big Data ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Special Issue on Tutorials of High Performance Computing Tools and Methods for Big Data ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.journals.elsevier.com/big-data-research/call-for-papers/special-… Driven by the big data analytics needs, new computing and storage technologies are developing rapidly and pushing for new high-end hardware geared toward big data problems. While the high performance computing technologies have the potential to greatly improve effectiveness of big data analytics, the cost and sophistications of those technology and limited initial application support often make them inaccessible to the end users and not fully utilized in academia years later. Meanwhile, comprehensive analytic software environment and platforms, such as R and Python, have become increasingly popular open-source platforms for data analysis. The software not only provides collection of analytic methods but also has the potential to utilize new hardware transparently and ease the efforts required from the end users. However, most data scientists have only had experience with small to medium-sized data; and now the size of Big Data poses its own challenges. It is therefore a critical issue to make the latest technology advancements in software and hardware accessible to the domain scientists in a timely manner. We are looking for contributions to a special issue for Journal of Big Data Research that present tutorials of high performance computing tools and methods for big data problem. About the Topics of InterestThe topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Adopting hardware technology, such as GPGPU, Xeon Phi etc, for Big Data analytics - Libraries and programming languages environment utilizing HPC for Big Data analytics - Novel software platforms and models for big data collection management - Service oriented architectures to enable data science - Software and platforms for big data analysis and visualization - Submission Format and Guideline All submitted papers should contain only original work, which has not been previously published nor is currently under review by any other journals or conferences. Clearly written in excellent English, papers must not exceed 25 pages (one-column, at least 11pt fonts) including figures, tables, and references. A detailed submission guideline is available as â€œGuide to Authorsâ€ at: http://www.journals.elsevier.com/big-data-research All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Elsevier Editorial System (EES). The authors must select â€œArticle Typeâ€ when they reach the â€œArticle Typeâ€ step in the submission process. All papers will be peer-reviewed by three independent reviewers. Requests for additional information should be addressed to the guest editors (xwj(a)tacc.utexas.edu<mailto:[email protected]>) Editors in Chief B.C. Ooi Z. Wu Guest Editors Weijia Xu Tony Xiaohua Hu Victor Eijkhout Important dates Submission deadline: March 31 2016 Acceptance deadline: July 31 2016 Publication: October 1 2016

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CFP of EMSICC'2016
by BOUZEFRANE Samia 19 Jan '16

19 Jan '16

EMSICC 2016 – International Workshop on Energy Management for Sustainable Internet-of-Things and Cloud Computing http://cedric.cnam.fr/workshops/emsicc16/ Deadline April 30, 2016 Vienna, Austria, 22-24 August 2016 In conjunction with FiCloud 2016, the 4nd IEEE International Conference on Future Internet of Things and Cloud http://ficloud.org/2016/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Scope of the Workshop: --------------------------------- With the emergence of new information, wireless communication and geolocation technologies, new innovative applications are designed moving towards the Internet of Things, Cyber-physical systems and Cloud computing, targeting virtualization technologies and intensive data computation. Due to their constraints in terms of energy, computational power, memory, high mobility, sporadic connectivity, and sometimes security constraints, some smart devices need to outsource their data storage and computation on the Cloud. Hence, the Internet of Things as well as Cyber-physical systems require an efficient energy management to save energy and optimize energy consumption through communication protocols, scheduling approaches, self-organization mechanisms, offloading techniques, security solutions, etc. that rely on energy-aware and energy-adaptive concepts. In addition, alternative energy sources available in our environment could be used to achieve perpetual functioning without replacing or refilling batteries, such as energy harvesting. On the other side, energy management is also a concern for cloud data centers that need to be managed efficiently regarding power consumption, air conditioning, energy saving, and environmental impact. This workshop will address the range of problems related to energy-aware and energy harvesting management when designing software and hardware platforms for the Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems and Cloud computing. Prospective authors are invited to submit original, previously unpublished work, reporting on novel and significant research contributions, on-going research projects, experimental results and recent developments related to, but not limited, the following topics: * Energy-aware/energy harvesting Scheduling algorithms * Middleware for energy-efficient computing * Instrumentation and measurement of energy-efficient computing and networking * Enhanced Performance and QoS in energy-efficient systems * Resource management in large infrastructures (such as datacenters) and in power/energy constrained systems * Data management in energy-efficient systems * Sensing, monitoring, control, and management of energy systems * Modelling, control, and architectures for renewable energy generation resources * Privacy and security in energy-aware platforms * Metrics, benchmarks, interfaces, tools to take into account Energy dimension * Energy-aware hardware platforms * Specifications and validation of energy-aware platforms * Energy efficiency and virtualization in Cloud of things. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: --------------------- Paper submission: April 30, 2016 Author notification: May 30, 2016 Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2016 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submission procedure: -------------------------------- Authors are requested to electronically submit a PDF paper (maximum 6 pages in IEEE two-column format: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/formatting.) Use the following link for submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=emsicc2016. The proceedings of the workshop will be published by the IEEE CPS. For any question, send an email to emsicc2016(a)easychair.org. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizing Committee ------------------------------- Samia Bouzefrane, INRIA, France Maryline Chetto, University of Nantes, France Selma Boumerdassi, CNAM, France.

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HPCS 2016 - CALL FOR TUTORIALS, Deadline: February 01, 2016
by Maciej Malawski 19 Jan '16

19 Jan '16

CALL FOR TUTORIALS: The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2016) The University of Innsbruck Innsbruck, AUSTRIA July 18 - 22, 2016 http://hpcs2016.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers/call-for-tutorials PURPOSE AND SCOPE: The 2016 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2016) 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. The HPCS 2016 Organizing Committee invites proposals and ideas for tutorials to be held as part of the Conference. All tutorials will address timely, important, and relevant subject areas within high performance computing and simulation. Typically, 2-4 hour tutorials are planned but others will be considered. The tutorials will run on Monday, July 18. If you are interested in presenting a tutorial at this conference or have an idea for a tutorial you would like to see offered please contact the Tutorials Co-Chairs. IMPORTANT DATES: Tutorial Proposal Submission Deadline: February 01, 2016 Notification of Acceptance: March 15, 2016 Extended Registration & Proceedings Manuscripts Due by: May 01, 2016 Conference Dates: July 18 - 22, 2016 TUTORIALS CO-CHAIRS: Yun (Helen) He Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA Maciej Malawski AGH University of the Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland Simon Ostermann Institute for Computer Science University of Innsbruck, Austria

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Ada-Europe 2016 EXTENDED 24 January submission deadline
by Mauro Marinoni 18 Jan '16

18 Jan '16

The Ada-Europe 2016 Conference organizers decided to provide more time for authors to finalize their contributions, and hence extended the deadline for all submissions to Sunday 24 January 2016. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATED Call for Papers - EXTENDED DEADLINE 21st International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2016 13-17 June 2016, Pisa, Italy http://www.ada-europe.org/conference2016 Organized by Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna on behalf of Ada-Europe, in cooperation (approval pending) with ACM SIGAda, SIGBED, SIGPLAN and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) *** Extended DEADLINE Sunday 24 JANUARY 2016 *** ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ada-Europe organizes annual international conferences since the early 80's. This is the 21st event in the Reliable Software Technologies series, previous ones being held at Montreux, Switzerland ('96), London, UK ('97), Uppsala, Sweden ('98), Santander, Spain ('99), Potsdam, Germany ('00), Leuven, Belgium ('01), Vienna, Austria ('02), Toulouse, France ('03), Palma de Mallorca, Spain ('04), York, UK ('05), Porto, Portugal ('06), Geneva, Switzerland ('07), Venice, Italy ('08), Brest, France ('09), Valencia, Spain ('10), Edinburgh, UK ('11), Stockholm, Sweden ('12), Berlin, Germany ('13), Paris, France ('14), and Madrid, Spain ('15). General Information ------------------- The 21st International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies - Ada-Europe 2016 will take place in Pisa, Italy. Following its traditional style, the conference will span a full week, including a three-day technical program and vendor exhibition from Tuesday to Thursday, along with parallel tutorials and workshops on Monday and Friday. The conference has over the years become a leading international forum for providers, practitioners and researchers in reliable software technologies. The conference presentations will illustrate current work in the theory and practice of the design, development and maintenance of long-lived, high-quality software systems for a challenging variety of application domains. The program will allow ample time for keynotes, Q&A sessions and discussions, and social events. Participants include practitioners and researchers representing industry, academia and government organizations active in the promotion and development of reliable software technologies. The Ada language, a reliable software technology by design, crosses all topics of the conference, which nonetheless also welcomes any other technologies proposed or in use for reliable software. This edition of Ada-Europe also features a focused Special Session on Safe, Predictable Parallel Software Technologies. Following the intensifying trend of usage of Multi-/Many-core systems, it is increasingly important to assess how reliable software technologies need to adapt to these complex platforms, as well as how parallel models need to adapt to domains in which safety and predictability is a must. Conference Proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer. Selected papers of the conference will be also invited for special issues of Springer's Computing Journal (general track papers) and Journal of Parallel Programming (special session papers). Schedule -------- 24 January 2016: Submission of regular papers, industrial presentations, tutorial and workshop proposals 10 March 2016: Notification of acceptance to all authors 24 March 2016: Camera-ready version of regular papers required 2 May 2016: Industrial presentation, turorial and workshop materials required Topics ------ For the general track of the conference, topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Real-Time and Embedded Systems: Real-Time Scheduling, Design Methods and Techniques, Architecture Modelling, HW/SW Co-Design, Reliability and Performance. - Mixed-Criticality Systems: Scheduling methods, Mixed-Criticality Architectures, Design Methods, Analysis Methods. - Theory and Practice of High-Integrity Systems: Medium to Large-Scale Distribution, Fault Tolerance, Security, Reliability, Trust and Safety, Languages Vulnerabilities. - Software Architectures: Design Patterns, Frameworks, Architecture- Centered Development, Component-based Design and Development. - Methods and Techniques for Software Development and Maintenance: Requirements Engineering, Model-driven Architecture and Engineering, Formal Methods, Re-engineering and Reverse Engineering, Reuse, Software Management Issues, Compilers, Libraries, Support Tools. - Ada Language and Technologies: Compilation Issues, Runtimes, Ravenscar, Profiles, Distributed Systems, SPARK. - Software Quality: Quality Management and Assurance, Risk Analysis, Program Analysis, Verification, Validation, Testing of Software Systems. - Mainstream and Emerging Applications: Manufacturing, Robotics, Avionics, Space, Health Care, Transportation, Cloud Environments, Smart Energy Systems, Serious Games, etc. - Experience Reports in Reliable System Development: Case Studies and Comparative Assessments, Management Approaches, Qualitative and Quantitative Metrics. - Experiences with Ada: Reviews of the Ada 2012 new language features, implementation and use issues, positioning in the market and in the software engineering curriculum, lessons learned on Ada Education and Training Activities with bearing on any of the conference topics. For the special focus session, topics include (but are not limited to): - Predictable Parallel Programming Models. - Parallel Language Technologies. - Compiler Support for Parallel Execution. - Parallel Runtimes and Libraries. - Automatic Parallelization. - Safety Issues and Reliability Mechanisms for Parallel Execution. - Software Modelling and Design Approaches. - Hardware Support for Predictability of Parallel Software. Call for Papers --------------- Authors of regular and special session papers which are to undergo peer review for acceptance are invited to submit original contributions. Paper submissions shall not exceed 14 LNCS-style pages in length. Authors shall submit their work via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adaeurope2016. The format for submission is solely PDF. Proceedings ----------- The conference proceedings will be published in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series by Springer, and will be available at the start of the conference. The authors of accepted regular papers shall prepare camera-ready submissions in full conformance with the LNCS style, not exceeding 14 pages, and strictly by March 24, 2016. For format and style guidelines authors should refer to http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html. Failure to comply and to register for the conference by that date will prevent the paper from appearing in the proceedings. The International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies is ranked class A in CORE. Microsoft Academic Search has it in the top third for conferences on programming languages by number of citations in the last 10 years. The conference is listed in DBLP, SCOPUS and Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation index, among others. Call for Industrial Presentations --------------------------------- The conference seeks industrial presentations which deliver value and insight but may not fit the selection process for regular papers. Authors are invited to submit a presentation outline of exactly 1 page in length by January 17, 2016. Submissions shall be made via EasyChair athttps://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=adaeurope2016. The format for submission is solely PDF. The Industrial Committee will review the submissions and make the selection. The authors of selected presentations shall prepare a final short abstract, aiming at a 20-minute talk. The authors of accepted presentations will be invited to submit corresponding articles for publication in the Ada User Journal (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/) which will host the proceedings of the Industrial Program of the Conference. For any further information please contact the Industrial Co-chairs directly. Awards ------ Ada-Europe will offer honorary awards for the best regular paper and the best presentation. Call for Tutorials ------------------ Tutorials should address subjects that fall within the scope of the conference and may be proposed as either half- or full-day events. Proposals should include a title, an abstract, a description of the topic, a detailed outline of the presentation, a description of the presenter's lecturing expertise in general and with the proposed topic in particular, the proposed duration (half day or full day), the intended level of the tutorial (introductory, intermediate, or advanced), the recommended audience experience and background, and a statement of the reasons for attending. Proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the Tutorial Chair. The authors of accepted full-day tutorials will receive a complimentary conference registration as well as a fee for every paying participant in excess of 5; for half-day tutorials, these benefits will be accordingly halved. The Ada User Journal will offer space for the publication of summaries of the accepted tutorials. Call for Workshops ------------------ Workshops on themes that fall within the conference scope may be proposed. Proposals may be submitted for half- or full-day events, to be scheduled at either end of the conference week. Workshop proposals should be submitted to the Tutorial and Workshop Chair. The workshop organizer shall also commit to preparing proceedings for timely publication in the Ada User Journal. Call for Exhibitors ------------------- The commercial exhibition will span the three days of the main conference. Vendors and providers of software products and services should contact the Exhibition Chair for information and for allowing suitable planning of the exhibition space and time. Grants for Reduced Student Fees ------------------------------- A limited number of sponsored grants for reduced fees is expected to be available for students who would like to attend the conference or tutorials. Contact the Conference Chair for details. Venue ----- The conference will take place at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, in the heart of Pisa, Italy. Plan in advance as June is full of events in Pisa, including in the conference week the Saint Patron's festivities (San Ranieri) with the Luminara on the night of June 16. Organizing Committee -------------------- Conference Chair Giorgio Buttazzo, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy g.buttazzo(a)sssup.it Program Co-Chairs Marko Bertogna, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy marko.bertogna(a)unimore.it Luis Miguel Pinho, CISTER Research Centre/ISEP, Portugal lmp(a)isep.ipp.pt Special Session Chair Eduardo Quinones, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain eduardo.quinones(a)bsc.es Tutorial and Workshop Chair Jorge Real, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain jorge(a)disca.upv.es Industrial Co-Chairs Marco Di Natale, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy marco(a)sssup.it Tullio Vardanega, Universita di Padova, Italy tullio.vardanega(a)unipd.it Publication Chair Geoffrey Nelissen, CISTER Research Centre/ISEP, Portugal grrpn(a)isep.ipp.pt Exhibition Co-Chairs Paolo Gai, Evidence Srl, Italy pj(a)evidence.eu.com Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant GmbH, Switzerland ahlan(a)Ada-Switzerland.ch Publicity Co-Chairs Mauro Marinoni, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy m.marinoni(a)sssup.it Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, Belgium Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be Local Chair Ettore Ricciardi, ISTI-CNR, Pisa, Italy ettore.ricciardi(a)isti.cnr.it Program Committee ----------------- Mario Aldea, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain Ted Baker, NSF, USA Marko Bertogna, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Johann Blieberger, Technische Universitï¿œt Wien, Austria Bernd Burgstaller, Yonsei University, Korea Albert Cohen, INRIA, France Juan A. de la Puente, Universidad Politï¿œcnica de Madrid, Spain Michael Gonzï¿œlez Harbour, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain J. Javier Gutiï¿œrrez, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain Jï¿œrï¿œme Hugues, ISAE, France Raimund Kirner, University of Hertfordshire, UK Albert Llemosï¿œ, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain Franco Mazzanti, ISTI-CNR, Italy Stephen Michell, Maurya Software, Canada Jï¿œrgen Mottok, Regensburg University of Applied Sciences, Germany Laurent Pautet, Telecom ParisTech, France Luï¿œs Miguel Pinho, CISTER/ISEP, Portugal Erhard Plï¿œdereder, Universitï¿œt Stuttgart, Germany Eduardo Quinoï¿œes, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Jorge Real, Universitat Politï¿œcnica de Valï¿œncia, Spain Christine Rochange, IRIT, University of Toulouse, France Josï¿œ Ruiz, AdaCore, France Sergio Sï¿œez, Universitat Politï¿œcnica de Valencia, Spain Martin Schoeberl, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Tucker Taft, AdaCore, USA Theodor Tempelmeier, University of Applied Sciences Rosenheim, Germany Elena Troubitsyna, ï¿œbo Akademi, Finland Santiago Urueï¿œa, GMV, Spain Tullio Vardanega, Universitï¿œ di Padova, Italy Industrial Committee -------------------- Ian Broster, Rapita Systems, UK Jï¿œrgen Bundgaard, Ramboll, Denmark Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, Belgium Arne Hamann, Bosch, Germany Ismael Lafoz, Airbus Defence & Space, Spain Riccardo Mariani, Yogitech, Italy Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant, Switzerland Paolo Panaroni, Intecs, Italy Paul Parkinson, Wind River, UK Eric Perlade, AdaCore, France Jean-Pierre Rosen, Adalog, France Jacob Sparre Andersen, JSA Consulting, Denmark Claus Stellwag, Elektrobit AG, Germany Jean-Loup Terraillon, European Space Agency, The Netherlands Sergey Tverdyshev, SysGO, Germany Rod White, MBDA, UK ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. 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Submission Deadline Extended - CFP: 2nd International Workshop on the Lustre Ecosystem
by Michael J. Brim 18 Jan '16

18 Jan '16

We have extended the abstract submission deadline by one week. The new deadline is January 22, 2016. Looking forward to your submissions. **** CALL FOR PAPERS **** 2nd International Workshop on the Lustre Ecosystem: Enhancing Lustre Support for Diverse Workloads Baltimore, Maryland, USA March 8‑9, 2016 http://lustre.ornl.gov/ecosystem **** IMPORTANT DATES **** Note: all submission deadlines are midnight anywhere‑on‑earth Extended abstracts due: January 22, 2016 Acceptance notification: February 4, 2016 Full papers due: March 14, 2016 Tutorial presentations: March 8, 2016 Technical presentations: March 9, 2016 Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lustreeco2016 **** SCOPE and TOPICS **** The Lustre parallel file system has been widely adopted by scientific high‐performance computing (HPC) centers as an effective system for managing large‑scale storage resources. Lustre achieves unprecedented aggregate performance by parallelizing I/O over file system clients and storage targets at extreme scales. Today, 7 out of 10 fastest supercomputers in the world use Lustre for high‑performance storage. Traditionally, Lustre development has focused on improving the performance and scalability of large‑scale scientific workloads. In particular, large‑scale checkpoint storage and retrieval, which is characterized by bursty I/O from coordinated parallel clients, has been the primary driver of Lustre development over the last decade. With the advent of extreme scale computing and Big Data computing, many HPC centers are seeing increased user interest in running diverse workloads that place new demands on Lustre. This workshop series is intended to help explore improvements in the performance and flexibility of Lustre for supporting non‑scientific application workloads. The 2015 workshop was the inaugural edition, and the goal was to initiate a discussion on the open challenges associated with enhancing Lustre for diverse applications, the technological advances necessary, and the associated impacts to the Lustre ecosystem. The workshop program featured a day of tutorials and a day of technical paper presentations. In this workshop, we seek contributions that explore improvements in the performance and flexibility of the Lustre file system for supporting diverse workloads. This will be a great opportunity for the Lustre community to discuss the challenges associated with enhancing Lustre for diverse applications, the technological advances necessary, and the associated ecosystem. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Using Lustre as a Shared Resource * Adaptability and Scalability of Lustre for Diverse Workloads * Resilience and Serviceability of Lustre * Knowledge Provenance in Lustre * Application‑driven Lustre Benchmarking * Integrating Big Data Technologies with Lustre * Performance Monitoring Tools for Lustre **** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES **** Authors should electronically submit extended abstracts of previously unpublished work in PDF format. Abstracts may consist of up to 5 US letter‑size (8.5 by 11in.) pages, including figures, tables, and references. Submissions should be formatted in IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings style. Accepted abstracts are expected to be expanded into technical papers of at most 10 pages in length, all‑inclusive. Full papers will be due the week following the workshop, and will undergo shepherding in preparation for publication in the workshop proceedings. **** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE **** == PROGRAM CO‑CHAIRS == Neena Imam, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Michael Brim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Sarp Oral, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA == TUTORIALS CHAIR == Richard Mohr, University of Tennessee, USA -- Michael J. Brim, PhD | Office: 5700/G219 HPC Systems and Tools R&D | Phone: +1 865 576-9358 Oak Ridge National Laboratory | Fax: +1 865 576-5491

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Extended Deadline: Workshop on Multi-Objective Many-Core Design (MOMAC)
by Stefan Wildermann 18 Jan '16

18 Jan '16

*** Extended Submission Deadline: January 24, 2016 *** ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers Third International Workshop on Multi-Objective Many-Core Design (MOMAC) Nuremberg, Germany, April 4-5, 2016 https://www12.cs.fau.de/momac/ in conjunction with International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2016) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Paper submission deadline: January 24, 2016 (extended!) Notification of acceptance: February 15, 2016 Final version: February 26, 2016 *** PROCEEDINGS *** All accepted papers will be published in the ARCS Workshop Proceedings and by the IEEE Computer Society, through the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Dear colleagues, please consider the opportunity to contribute to the Third Workshop on Multi-Objective Many-Core Design (MOMAC) to be held in Nuremberg, Germany in conjunction with ARCS 2016. *** ABOUT MOMAC *** Semiconductor industry is hitting the utilization wall, resulting in parallel and heterogeneous many-core architectures. Applications have to exploit the available parallelism and heterogeneity to meet their functional and non-functional requirements and to gain performance improvements. A main challenge originates from many-cores promoting highly dynamic usage scenarios as already observable in today’s “smart devices”, where multiple and varying numbers of applications are running at different points in time. As a consequence, providing mapping of applications to processor cores which is optimal and predictable with respect to performance, timing, energy consumption, safety, security, etc. may not be guaranteed by static design-time optimization alone. At the same time, pure run-time optimization may result in unpredictable and non-optimal system states. This workshop investigates this field of tension of run-time, design-time, and hybrid design methodologies for the mapping of applications on many-core systems, particularly addressing the aspect of multiple conflicting objectives that drive the design. This field of research includes numerous intermeshed aspects: - Languages, Models, and Compilers: How to specify, analyze, parallelize, and compile programs which support dynamic usage scenarios in many-cores? - Formal methods, Test, and Verification: How to analyze and verify predictable execution of applications despite unforeseeable run-time events? - Optimization Techniques: Which design-time and run-time techniques as well as combinations of them provide optimized and predictable application mapping for many-cores? - Architecture: Which architectural concepts are required to support predictability, run-time management and (self-)optimization? *** TOPICS OF INTEREST *** Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Multiple Objectives & Predictability * Performance * Hard & Soft Real-time * Energy Efficiency * Fault Tolerance & Reliability * Safety * Security * Scalability * Flexibility Specification * Programming * Modelling * Parallelization * Resource awareness Design-time Optimization * Multi-Objective Optimization * Design Space Exploration * Verification * Profiling * Performance Analysis Run-time Optimization * Resource Management * Temperature and Power Management * Decentralized vs Centralized Management * Reconfigurable Computing * Operating System * Online Verification * Auto-tuning * Machine Learning Architecture * Architectural Predictability * Reconfiguration * Power Management * Benchmarking * Monitoring *** SUBMISSION *** Paper can be submitted as regular papers or as position papers. Formats requirements: - up to 8 pages (regular paper) IEEE style - up to 4 pages (position paper) IEEE style: Preliminary and exploratory work are welcome in this category, including wild & crazy ideas. Authors submitting papers in this category must prepend "Position Paper:" to the title of the submitted paper. - Special call for Tutorials, introducing tools and techniques for modeling, programming, analysis, and optimization of many-core systems. Each tutorial should be accompanied by a 4-page tutorial paper in IEEE conference style. The title of a tutorial paper should be prepended with “Tutorial:”. The proceedings will be published through VDE Verlag on CD and online by the IEEE Computer Society through the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Papers should not exceed 8 pages (regular papers) or 4 pages (position papers) in IEEE format A4, templates can be found at http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/ templates.html PDF submission via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=momac2016. Paper submission deadline: January 24, 2016 (exended) All papers undergo a blind review process. Authors will be notified until February 15, 2016. Final version is due to February 26, 2016. All accepted papers will be published in the ARCS Workshop Proceedings and by the IEEE Computer Society, through the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. *** LOCATION *** MOMAC will be held conjunction with the 29th International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems (ARCS 2016), April 4-7, 2016 in Nuremberg, Germany. *** ORGANIZERS *** Stefan Wildermann (FAU, Germany, stefan.wildermann(a)fau.de) Michael Glaß (FAU, Germany, michael.glass(a)fau.de) *** PROGRAM COMMITTEE *** Lars Bauer (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany) Deepak Gangadharan (University of Pennsylvania, U.S.A.) Markus Happe (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) Christian Haubelt (University of Rostock, Germany) Martin Lukasiewycz (Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany) Akash Kumar (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany) Sanaz Mostaghim (Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg, Germany) Mathias Pacher (University of Hannover, Germany) Gianluca Palermo (Politecnico Di Milano, Italy) Felix Reimann (Audi Electronics Venture GmbH, Germany) Muhammad Shafique (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Germany) Lucian Vintan (Lucian Blaga University of Sibiu, Romania) Sebastian Voss (fortiss GmbH, Germany) Best regards, Michael Glass and Stefan Wildermann -- Dr.-Ing. Stefan Wildermann Lehrstuhl für Informatik 12 (Hardware-Software-Co-Design) Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg (FAU) Cauerstr. 11, 91058 Erlangen +49 9131 85 25161 (Telefon) +49 9131 85 25149 (Fax) http://www12.cs.fau.de/people/wildermann

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HPC-WCES workshop at HPCS2016 conference - Call for papers
by Italo Epicoco 18 Jan '16

18 Jan '16

CALL FOR PAPERS: ============================================================================ The 3rd International Workshop on High Performance Computing for Weather, Climate, and Solid Earth Sciences (HPC-WCES 2016) http://hpcs2016.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops---hpcs2016/workshop14-wc… As part of The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2016) http://hpcs2016.cisedu.info/home July 18-22, 2016 Innsbruck, Austria ============================================================================= Important Dates: =============== Paper Submissions: -------------------------------------------------- March 14, 2016 Acceptance Notification: --------------------------------------------- April 07, 2016 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ------------- May 1, 2016 Conference Dates: --------------------------------------------------- July 18 – 22, 2016 Scope and Objectives: ==================== Most of the legacy and even some of the current advanced Weather, Climate and solid Earth Sciences (WCES) applications require code re-engineering, improving computational kernels, new parallel model design and new algorithms, in order to exploit new and emerging computational architectures and to increase the spatial resolution. At higher resolution, new physical aspects can be taken into account and integrated into the climate models. It is necessary to design efficient and scalable computational kernels and algorithms, as well as considering new approaches and paradigms to better exploit high levels of concurrency in HPC systems. Moreover, due to the emergency of Exascale systems, issues related to energy-efficiency should be carefully addressed. The workshop aims at discussing the state-of-the-art research in high-performance computing for WCES applications. Emphasis will be on novel advanced algorithms, formulations and simulations, as well as the related issues for computational environments and infrastructures. The workshop aims also at facilitating communication among diverse scientific expertise geoscientists, applied mathematicians, computational and computer scientists to exchange advanced knowledge, insights and science discoveries. Topics: ====== The HPC-WCES Workshop topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: • Modeling & Simulation on HPC systems for WCES applications • Computational models in Climate and solid Earth Sciences (including seismology, geodynamics and volcanology) • Climate Change Resilience • Advanced numerical methods for WCES applications, such as FEM, FDM, FVM, Mesh-Free method, Particle method, and etc. • Evaluating Models for Climate Changes • Efficiency and Scalability analysis of WCES models on high end computing infrastructures • Methodological approaches for performance analysis • Advanced algorithms for WCES applications to reduce communications • Numerical algorithms and hybrid parallel approaches for WCES models • Advanced algorithms for WCES applications to reduce energy consumption • Optimization and reengineering of WCES applications for both conventional multi- and many cores processors, and accelerators such as GPU, MIC • Frameworks and tools for development of codes for WCES models for Peta/Exa Scale Systems • Integration of HPC and Cloud computing for WCES applications Instructions for authors: ==================== You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to High Performance Computing for Weather, Climate, and solid Earth Sciences. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. For Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://hpcs2016.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers/call-for-posters for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the Workshop paper submission EasyChair site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpcwces2016. Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and presentation, and references. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS 2016 conference to present the paper at the Workshop. Proceedings: =========== Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings which will be made available at the time of the meeting. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2016 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE Digital Library and indexed in major indexing services accordingly. If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organizers. International Program Committee: =============================== All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the workshop technical program committee members following similar criteria used in HPCS 2016 and will be published as part of the HPCS 2016 Proceedings. Jean-Claude André, Jca Consultance & Analyse, Toulouse, France Joachim Biercamp, Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum DKRZ, Germany Paul C. Messina, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA Almerico Murli, DMA University of Naples Federico II, Italy Wolfgang Rauch, Inst. of Infrastructure Engineering - University Innsbruck, Austria Graham Riley, University of Manchester, U.K. Ben van Werkhoven, Netherlands eScience Center Amsterdam, the Netherlands Workshop Organizers: =================== Giovanni Aloisio, University of Salento & Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Italy Italo Epicoco, University of Salento, Italy Silvia Mocavero, Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Italy Sandro Fiore, Euro Mediterranean Center on Climate Change, Italy Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy

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DEADLINE EXTENSION (31.01.16) 12th ARCS Workshop on Dependability and Fault Tolerance (VERFE’16)
by Fechner, Bernhard 18 Jan '16

18 Jan '16

Dear Sirs, could you please consider the following CfP for publication? Thank you. Greetings from Germany, Bernhard Fechner ======================== Call for Papers ======================================= 12th Workshop on Dependability and Fault Tolerance (VERFE’16) in conjunction with ARCS 2016, Nuremberg, Germany, April 4th – 7th, 2016 ================================================================================ GI/ITG/GMA Technical Committee “Dependability and Fault Tolerance” (VERFE) and DFG Priority Program SPP 1500 “Dependable Embedded Systems” Background and Focus --------------------- Although the basic reliability of hardware and software components over the decades has steadily grown, their increasing number still causes severe problems. Moreover, in recent years it can be observed that in an increasing number of devices, e.g. cars, digital components are integrated into environments of other physical components. Here the complexity of the interactions with these other components, as well as the limited accessibility of the digital ones create problems with regard to maintaining a dependable operation of the entire system in case of faults or external disturbances. While this is not a problem with microprocessors, there, the ever shrinking feature sizes, the higher complexity, lower voltages, and higher clock frequencies increase the probability of design-, manufacturing-, and operational faults, making fault tolerance techniques in general purpose processors to be of crucial importance in the future. As simple solutions (such as TMR) easily can get too expensive, the ability to trade increased reliability against performance/power overhead will become important, resulting in light-weight fault tolerance techniques implemented in hardware, but controllable from higher software layers. This workshop aims at presenting contributions and work-in-progress from the research area of dependable and fault tolerant computing in order to bring together scientists working in related fields, especially from the central European countries. Topics --------------------- Contributions on the topics of “Dependable Embedded Systems“ and “Software-Controlled, Adaptive Fault Tolerance in Microprocessors” are of particular interest; contributions on general topics of dependability and fault tolerance are also welcome but not limited to: * reliability models for hardware and software * modeling and simulation of fault-tolerant systems * fault-tolerant systems and system components * formal verification of systems * testing of hardware and software * fault treatment * detection and correction of transient faults * quantitative assessment of reliability improvements * safety-critical applications * timeliness problems * dependability of networks * dependability of embedded systems * highly available systems * dependable organic computing * self-organization within redundant systems * dependable ubiquitous and pervasive computing * composability of dependable systems * dependable mechatronic systems / micro systems * dependability of mobile and wireless systems * robustness and robustness metrics * validation and verification * fault models and fault model abstraction * fault-injection techniques * software-controlled fault tolerance * on-chip backward recovery techniques (e.g. pipeline flush and re-execution) * forward recovery techniques (notification of higher layers) * fault-tolerant caches * dynamic re-use of currently unused resources in processors for fault-tolerance Information for Authors ----------------------- Accepted papers will be published by VDE and are intended for IEEExplore. The workshop will focus on research presentations as well as brainstorming sessions. Therefore, two kinds of contributions are welcome: * research papers documenting results of scientific investigations and * position papers proposing strategies or discussing open problems. Deadlines: ----------------------- Submission: EXTENDED: January 31, 2016 (extended abstracts (3-4 pages) or full papers, PDF) to: bernhard.fechner(a)fernuni-hagen.de Notification: February 15, 2016 Camera-ready: February 26, 2016 (max. 12 pages); will appear in ARCS 2016 Workshop Proceedings. VERFE'16 Workshop site: http://www3.cs.fau.de/arcs2016/download/CfP_VERFE.pdf Further information about ARCS 2016: http://www3.cs.fau.de/arcs2016 Workshop Chairs ----------------------- B. Fechner, Univ. of Hagen, DE K.-E. Großpietsch, St. Augustin, DE Program Committee ----------------------- L. Bauer, Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology, DE F. Belli, Univ. of Paderborn, DE R. Buchty, Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology, DE K. Echtle, Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, DE W. Ehrenberger, Univ. of Fulda, DE R. Ernst, TU Braunschweig, DE B. Fechner, Univ. of Hagen, DE M. Gössel, Univ. of Potsdam, DE K.-E. Großpietsch, St. Augustin, DE J. Henkel, Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology, DE J. Hursey, Oak Ridge National Lab., US J. Keller, Univ. Hagen, DE H.-D. Kochs, Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, DE M. Lê, KUKA Augsburg, DE P. Limbourg, Univ. of Duisburg-Essen, DE M. Malek, Univ. of Lugano, CH E. Maehle, Univ. of Lübeck, DE M. Mock, Fraunhofer, St. Augustin, DE E. Nett, Univ. of Magdeburg, DE D. Nikolos, Univ. of Patras, DE A. Pataricza, Univ. of Budapest, HU F. Saglietti, Univ. of Erlangen-Nuremberg, DE T. Sato, Univ. of Fukuoka, JP M. Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Lab., US M. Shafique, Karlsruhe Inst. of Technology, DE P. Sobe, HTW Dresden, DE J. Sosnowski, Univ. of Warsaw, PL A. Stopp, Daimler AG, Berlin, DE C. Trinitis, TU Munich, DE P. Tröger, TU Chemnitz, DE T. Vierhaus, TU Cottbus, DE M. Walter, Siemens AG, Nuremberg, DE H. Wedde, TU Dortmund, DE N. Wehn, TU Kaiserslautern, DE J. Weidendorfer, TU Munich, DE H.-Y. Youn, Univ. of Sungkyunkwan, KR T. Yoneda, Univ. of Tokyo, JP S. Zug, Univ. of Magdeburg, DE

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