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TAPEMS 2017: 2nd Intl. Workshop on Theoretical Approaches to Performance Evaluation, Modeling and Simulation
by Juan A. Rico 25 Oct '16

25 Oct '16

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email) Call for Papers for the 2nd International Workshop on Theoretical Approaches to Performance Evaluation, Modeling and Simulation (TAPEMS 2017). <http://tapems.unex.es/tapems2017>http://tapems.unex.es <http://tapems.unex.es/>/tapems2017 <http://tapems.unex.es/>Organization: The workshop will be organized by the University of Extremadura, the University Carlos III and the University College Dublin, and will be held by the IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2017 conference. The workshop is organized in cooperation with NESUS (Networks for Sustainable Ultrascale Computing) eCost Action. Venue & Dates: Madrid, Spain, May 14th-17th, 2017 Introduction and scope: Performance and an aspect of it, energy efficiency, has become a key issue in both high performance and embedded computing. The objective of the 2nd TAPEMS International Workshop on Theoretical Approaches to Performance Evaluation, Modeling and Simulation is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss current advances and trends in theoretical approaches to the performance evaluation, modeling and analysis of parallel applications and algorithms on multicore clusters and heterogeneous platforms, including simulation. Three main areas are considered: 1. Performance modeling and evaluation. We pursue contributions on methodologies, metrics, formalisms and tools for the performance prediction and analysis of any subsystem of current machines, such as processor, communications, memory and I/O. 2. Modeling energy efficiency of communication runtimes. Power is considered the major impediment in designing the next-generation exascale systems, particularly affected by the cost of the communications. Current communication performance models as LogGP predict communication completion times. We look for links between communication performance modeling in terms of both time and consumed energy. 3. Heterogeneous computing systems. Submissions in this area are encouraged to model workload and communication in order to optimize energy and performance in heterogeneous computing. The list of topics for this workshop include (but not limited to): - Performance modeling, prediction and optimization of parallel algorithms and applications. - Performance modeling and evaluation of communications in parallel applications. - Theoretical strategies, methodologies and application of the theoretical aspects to the improvement of the performance. - Performance analysis of parallel architectures and applications. - Performance modeling and simulation of parallel algorithms and applications on heterogeneous systems. - Performance modeling, prediction and optimization of communications, algorithms and applications on heterogeneous systems. - Theoretical and practical approaches for load balancing on heterogeneous platforms. - Performance evaluation and modeling of big data techniques. - Theoretical and practical approaches to reduce the energy consumption in parallel systems. - Modeling, prediction and measurement of energy consumption on parallel platforms. - Modeling and analysis of energy consumption in relation to performance. - Benchmarking and simulation of energy consumption in parallel applications on parallel and heterogeneous architectures. - Application of the models to applications in different scientific fields. Submission and publication information: All papers need to be submitted electronically through the CCGrid 2017 conference website (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccgrid2017 <https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccgrid2017>) with PDF format. Note that you must select the track: “TAPEMS 2017: International Workshop in Theoretical Approaches to Performance Evaluation, Modeling and Simulation” at the beginning of the submission procedure. Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, and may not exceed 10 letter-size (8.5 x 11) pages including all figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. All papers presented at the TAPEMS workshop of the IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2017 will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for publication and EI indexing, and published in the conference proceedings.. Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: December 8th, 2017 Author Notification: January 15th, 2017 Camera-Ready Paper Due: February 15th, 2017 Conference Dates: May 14th-17th, 2017 Contact: Please, email inquiries concerning the workshop to Juan A. Rico (jarico(a)unex.es <mailto:[email protected]>), of the University of Extremadura.

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EuroMPI/USA 2017 Call for Workshops
by Jesper Larsson Träff 25 Oct '16

25 Oct '16

EUROMPI/USA 2017 CALL FOR WORKSHOPS Experts in parallel and high-performance computing areas related to or benefiting from MPI are invited to share their expertise with the broader MPI community by submitting proposals for workshops to be co-located with the EuroMPI/USA 2017 conference that will be held on September 25-28, 2017 in Chicago, Illinois. The EuroMPI/USA 2017 workshop program will provide an opportunity for researchers to present preliminary, new work and work that can complement and extend the topics covered by EuroMPI/USA 2017 and, thus, will give attendees access to the latest work in progress in the fields. EuroMPI/USA 2017 invites proposals for workshops on the broadest possible range of topics related to, complementing or challenging the message-passing paradigm in general and MPI in particular. The EuroMPI/USA workshops will all take place on September 25, 2017. TOPIC CATEGORIES Workshops on all areas with a relation to MPI, its usage or implementation, or complementary or challenging to the MPI paradigm are invited. Workshops can also be fora to present new work in an early stage. Possible topics include but are not limited to the following: - Use of MPI in new and unconventional applications - Paradigms and application areas that challenge the message-passing model - New message-passing models - Different high-performance programming models and interfaces like PGAS, streaming models, etc. - Irregular and non-numerical applications on large-scale systems - New applications areas - Use of accelerators in applications and programming interfaces - Large-scale scientific simulation Workshop contributions can be included in the ACM conference proceedings. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Proposals are limited to an up to 3 page description that should include the following: - A title, an abstract (400 words maximum), and a syllabus; - Discussion of the topic's relevance, suitability to EuroMPI/USA, and workshop goals; - A description of the target audience; - An indication of half-day or full-day duration; - If applicable, details on previous instantiations of the workshop, including attendance numbers. In addition to the 3 page description, please include the following: - A brief biographical sketch of each workshop organizer (at most 1 page per organizer). Workshop proposals will be evaluated as they are received. Decisions will be made based on the proposal content and its relationship to any other workshop proposals that have been accepted or received at the time the proposal is received. Since this policy may result in the workshop program being completed early, EuroMPI/USA 2017 reserves the right to close workshop submissions prior to the date listed below. A single pdf file with all the material described above should be submitted to the Euro MPI/US 2017 online submission system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eurompiusa2017 under the workshop track. Workshops should suggest their own submission deadlines, but the camera-ready deadline for accepted contributions should follow the camera-ready deadline for the main conference, in order to guarantee inclusion of workshop papers in the ACM proceedings. Workshop organizers will themselves be responsible for managing submission and review process. The length of a workshop will be determined based on the following policy: - Workshops that accept ten or more papers will be provided space for a full day program; - Workshops that accept seven to nine papers will be provided space for four and a half hours (not including breaks); - Workshops that accept five or six papers will be provided space for three hours (not including breaks); - Workshops that accept three or four papers will be provided space for a half hour per paper; - Workshops with fewer accepted papers will be canceled. EuroMPI/USA 2017 will consider increasing the time allocated to a workshop if space is available. EuroMPI/USA 2017 will provide free conference registration for one keynote speaker to workshops that accept ten or more papers. The free registration cannot be used by a workshop organizer, even if the organizer presents a keynote. IMPORTANT DATES * Workshop proposal submission cut-off deadline: January 15, 2017 * Camera-ready workshop papers deadline: August 18, 2017 EUROMPI/USA 2017 WORKSHOPS CHAIR Jesper Larsson Trï¿½ff, Vienna University of Technology

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GPGPU 2017 CFP
by Barik, Rajkishore 24 Oct '16

24 Oct '16

GPGPU 2017 Workshop CFP ====================== The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum to discuss new and emerging general-purpose programming architectures, environments and platforms, as well as evaluate applications that have been able to harness the horsepower provided by these platforms. This year's work is particularly interested in new heterogeneous architecture/platforms, new forms of concurrency, and novel/irregular applications that can leverage these platforms. Papers are being sought on many aspects of GPUs, including (but not limited to): >> GPU Applications >> GPU Programming Environments >> GPU Runtime Systems >> GPU Complication >> GPU Architectures >> Multi-GPU Systems >> GPU Power/efficiency >> GPU Reliability >> GPU Benchmarking/measurements >> Heterogeneous Architectures/platforms Important Dates: >> Papers due: November 20, 2016 >> Notification: December 20, 2016 >> Final Paper Due: January 15, 2017 For more details, please refer to: http://gpgpu10.athoura.com/index.html

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CFP: WP3 First Workshop on Pioneering Processor Paradigms in conjunction with HPCA'17
by Ramon Bertran 24 Oct '16

24 Oct '16

===================================================== Call for Contributions - WP3 - 2016 FIRST WORKSHOP ON PIONEERING PROCESSOR PARADIGMS (WP3) in conjunction with the 23rd IEEE Symposium on High Performance Computer Architecture (HPCA'16) 4 February, 2017 / Austin, TX, USA http://wp3workshop.website/ ===================================================== Innovations in instruction set architecture (ISA), processor microarchitecture and supportive advances in circuit design, compilers, semiconductor technology, pre-silicon specification, modeling and validation have all been essential elements of the computer systems revolution that has transformed human society so dramatically over the last six decades or more. In the late CMOS era, with power and reliability walls already causing major paradigm shifts, the need for new innovations in cross-layer, hardware-software design and modeling are being called for to help keep the IT industry moving and growing at historical rates. In trying to forge a path of innovation, it is sometimes worth examining the past to look for major paradigm shifts in (micro)-architecture, circuits, modeling and software that helped us keep going in the face of past technology-driven disruption points. With this in mind, we present a new workshop pioneering processor paradigms (P3). With the help of true pioneers as well as budding new researchers, P3 will take a retrospective look at how past technological hurdles were circumvented through major innovations. The goal is to learn from the past in devising new solution strategies for the future. The P3 workshop will offer a number of invited talks from true pioneers as well as reviewed selections from the new generation of researchers and teachers who are eager to take a retrospective look into surveying past pioneering work that can teach us a lesson about solution strategies of the future. *** Important Dates: - Submission deadline: November 27, 2016 - Notification of acceptance: December 11, 2016 - Final paper submission: January 8, 2017 - Workshop date: February 4, 2017 ** Call for contributions The workshop on pioneering processor paradigms invites survey (or tutorial)-like submissions for review. The ideal paper would highlight a single pioneering paper (or set of papers) constituting a major processing, design, modeling or software paradigm shift in the past. In addition to explaining the context and basic concepts articulated in such work, the author(s) should draw relevant conclusions about how this pioneering work could or should influence computing paradigms of the future. Note: Ph.D dissertation research topic proposals from (junior graduate students) that contain a survey of a key paper or two to build up the motivational justification of the proposal are quite welcome, for example. ** Topics of interestest Example topic areas include (but are not limited to): - Processing and cache taxonomy papers. - RISC architectures and CISC-to-RISC dynamic translation support. - Processor pipelining, super scalar processing and branch prediction innovations. - Register renaming, out-of-order execution and precise interruption. - Cycle-accurate processor performance modeling. - Innovations in floating point arithmetic units and vector/SIMD acceleration. - VLIW architectures. - Multi-threading, multiscalar and speculative multi-threading. - Homogeneous and heterogeneous multi-core processors; accelerator-enabled efficiency boost. - Power, temperature, and reliability-aware computing – with associated modeling innovations. - Compiler innovations in support of novel microarchitectural paradigms. - Circuit design innovations in support of (micro)-architectural paradigm shifts. *** Registration Refer to main conference: http://hpca2017.org/ *** Hotel Reservation Refer to main conference: http://hpca2017.org/ For more details, please see http://wp3workshop.website/ ====================================================

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Call for Papers: International Workshop on High Performance Energy Efficient Embedded Systems (5th Edition)
by david.castells＠uab.cat 24 Oct '16

24 Oct '16

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CfP for the HIPS 2017 workshop
by Andreas Knüpfer 24 Oct '16

24 Oct '16

== CFP for the HIPS 2017 Workshop at the IPDPS Conference == The 22nd International workshop on High-level Parallel Programming Models and Supportive Environments (HIPS, http://inside.mines.edu/~bwu/sites/HIPS2017/) will take place on Monday, 2017-05-29 in conjunction with the IPDPS conference (http://www.ipdps.org/ipdps2017/) in Orlando, Florida, USA. We kindly invite you to send your submissions to HIPS 2017. HIPS focuses on high-level programming of multiprocessors, compute clusters, and massively parallel machines. Like previous workshops in the HIPS series since 1996, this event serves as a forum for research in the areas of parallel applications, language design, compilers, runtime systems, and programming tools. It provides a timely and lightweight forum for scientists and engineers to present the latest ideas and findings in these rapidly changing fields. The workshop topics include but are not limited to: * New programming languages and constructs for exploiting parallelism and locality * Experience with and improvements for existing parallel languages and run- time environments such as MPI, OpenMP, Cilk, UPC, Co-array Fortran, X10, Chapel, Charm++, and OpenCL * Parallel compilers, programming tools, and environments * (Scalable) tools for performance analysis, modeling, monitoring, and debugging * OS and architectural support for parallel programming and debugging * Software and system support for extreme scalability including fault tolerance * Programming environments for heterogeneous multi-core systems and accelerators such as GPUs, FPGAs, and MICs * Domain specific languages exploring embedded and stand-alone languages, libraries and runtime for focused application areas * Languages and runtime support for multi-science/coupled codes, including but not limited to ensemble computing and UQ == Paper Submission == Please submit novel papers with up to 10 pages in IEEE style via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hips2017. Deadlines are: * Submissions due: **2017-01-29** * Author notification: **2017-02-27** * Camera-ready papers due: **2017-03-10** For details and paper templates see the workshop webpage at http:// inside.mines.edu/~bwu/sites/HIPS2017/#submission-deadlines. == Organizers == HIPS 2017 is organized by Bo Wu (Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO USA) and Andreas Knüpfer (Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany) Please see http://inside.mines.edu/~bwu/sites/HIPS2017/#committees for the HIPS Steering Committee and the Program Committee as well as the HIPS workshop history. We are looking forward to see you there! Bo and Andreas -- Dr. rer. nat. Andreas Knüpfer Deputy Director/CTO Technische Universität Dresden Center for Information Services and HPC (ZIH) Willersbau A113, Zellescher Weg 12, 01062 Dresden Tel. +49 351 463 38323 Fax. +49 351 463 37773 Email: andreas.knuepfer(a)tu-dresden.de

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MULTIPROG-2017: Deadline Extension (new deadline is November 4th)
by Miquel Pericàs 22 Oct '16

22 Oct '16

*** NOTE: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO NOVEMBER 4TH! *** CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- The Tenth International Workshop on Programmability and Architectures for Heterogeneous Multicores (MULTIPROG-2017) To be held in conjunction with: the 12th International Conference on High-Performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers (HiPEAC) Stockholm, Sweden, January 24, 2017 Workshop website: http://research.ac.upc.edu/multiprog/ Goal of the Workshop -------------------- Computer manufacturers have embarked on the many-core roadmap, promising to add more and more cores/hardware threads on their chips. The ever-increasing number of cores and heterogeneity in architectures has placed new burdens on the programming community. Software needs to be parallelized and optimized for accelerators such as GPUs in order to take advantage of the new breed of multi-/many-core computers. As a result, progress in how to easily harness the computing power of multi-core architectures is in great demand. The tenth edition of the MULTIPROG workshop aims to bring together researchers interested in programming models, runtimes, and computer architecture. The workshop's emphasis is on heterogeneous architectures and covers issues such as: * How can future parallel programming models improve software productivity? * How should compilers, runtimes and architectures support programming models and emerging applications? * How to design efficient data structures and innovative algorithms? MULTIPROG is intended for quick publication of early results, work-in-progress, etc., and is not intended to prevent later publication of extended papers. Informal proceedings with accepted papers will be made available at the workshop and online at the workshop’s web page http://research.ac.upc.edu/multiprog/. Topics of interest ------------------ Papers are sought on topics including, but not limited to: * Multi-core architectures o Architectural support for compilers/programming models o Processor (core) architecture and accelerators, in particular GPUs o Memory system architecture o Performance, power, temperature, and reliability issues * Heterogeneous computing o Algorithms and data structures for heterogeneous systems o Applications for heterogeneous computing and real-time graphics * Programming models for multi-core architectures o Language extensions o Run-time systems o Compiler optimizations and techniques * Benchmarking of multi-/many-core architectures o Tools for discovering and understanding parallelism o Tools for understanding performance and debugging o Case studies and performance evaluation Important dates --------------- Paper submission: November 4, 2016 Author notification: November 27, 2016 Paper submission ---------------- MULTIPROG accepts contributions of regular research papers and short position papers describing early research on emerging topics. When preparing your submission please adhere to the following format specification: * Regular research papers: Regular research papers should preferably use LNCS format (up to 12 pages, not including references). Single column (up to 12-Pages) or double column (up to 6-pages) formats are also accepted. * Short position papers: Short position papers should preferably use LNCS format (4-6 pages, not including references). Single column (4-6 pages) or double column (2-3 pages) formats are also accepted. Papers in this category should explicitly indicate "Position Paper:" in front of the title of their manuscript. The authors of the accepted papers will be requested to provide the final version of their paper in LNCS format. Please use the templates below: * LNCS Latex template: ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/ latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip * Word template: ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/ latex/llncs/word/splnproc1110.zip Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=multiprog2017 Organizers ---------- Miquel Pericàs Chalmers Sweden miquelp[at]chalmers.se Vassilis Papaefstathiou FORTH-ICS Greece vaspap[at]chalmers.se Oscar Palomar U. Manchester UK oscar.palomar[at] manchester.ac.uk Ferad Zyulkyarov BSC Spain ferad.zyulkyarov[at] bsc.es Program committee ------------------ Abdelhalim Amer Argonne National Lab USA Ali Jannesari UC Berkeley USA Avi Mendelson Technion Israel Chris Adeyeni-Jones ARM UK Christos Kotselidis University of Manchester UK Dong Ping Zhang AMD USA Håkan Grahn Blekinge TH Sweden Hans Vandierendonck Queen’s University Belfast UK Kenjiro Taura University of Tokyo Japan Magnus Själander NTNU Norway Oscar Plata University of Malaga Spain Pedro Trancoso University of Cyprus Cyprus Polyvios Pratikakis FORTH-ICS Greece Roberto Gioiosa PNNL USA Sasa Tomic IBM Research Switzerland Timothy G. Mattson Intel USA Trevor E. Carlson Uppsala University Sweden Yungang Bao ICT-CAS China Workshop site ----------------- http://research.ac.upc.edu/multiprog/

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CFP: CCGrid-Life 2017, in conjunction with CCGrid, May 14-17, Madrid, Spain
by Dagmar Krefting 19 Oct '16

19 Oct '16

*Workshop on Clusters, Clouds and Grids for Life Sciences* In conjunction with CCGrid 2017 - 17th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing, May 14-17, 2017, Madrid, Spain *Key Dates* Papers Due: Jan 15, 2017 Author Notifications: Feb 6, 2017 Conference: May 14-17, 2017 Website: http://lsgc.org/ccgrid-life/ *Welcome* Today, biomedicine and bioinformatics rely heavily on large scale computational resources, as they typically employ data- and compute- intensive methods. Omics, biomedical imaging and computational models quickly reach data volumes of terabytes and petabytes, data analysis may need teraflops or petaflops of computing power. New challenges arise from complex analysis of distributed heterogeneous data, for example in translational medicine. Distributed IT-systems such as Grids, Clouds and recently Big Data environments are used for to speed-up large experiments and development time for new algorithms. Distributed systems also allow for better availability of new computational methods for supporting large-scale multi-centric collaborations. However, specific challenges in the employment of such systems for biomedical applications, such as security, reliability and user-friendliness, often impede wide-range adoption of prototype solutions. This workshop aims at bringing together developers of bioinformatics and biomedical applications and researchers in the field of distributed IT systems. The goals of the workshop are to exchange and discuss existing solutions and latest developments in both fields, in particular for identified gaps and roadblocks. The workshop further intends to collaboratively explore new approaches to successfully apply distributed IT-systems in translational research, clinical intervention, and decision-making. *Topics of Interest* Contributions are expected but not restricted to the following topics: • Detailed application use-cases highlighting achievements and roadblocks • Exploitation of distributed IT resources for Life Sciences, health care and research applications, for example medical imaging, disease modeling, bioinformatics, Public health informatics, drug discovery, clinical trials • Service and/or algorithm design and implementation applicable to medical and bioinformatics applications • Improved energy consumption of bioinformatics applications using clouds • Modeling and simulation of complex biological processes • Genomics and Molecular Structure evolution • Molecular Dynamics • Ontologies and biomedical text mining • Biomedical data mining and visualization • Error handling and fault tolerance • Distributed and heterogeneous bioinformatics and medical data management • Big Medical and Omics Data applications and solutions • Data privacy, security and access control • Environments for distributed bioinformatics applications • Programming paradigms and tools for bioinformatics applications • Scientific gateways and user environments targeting distributed medical and bioinformatics applications • Dedicated distributed infrastructures and HPC systems • Interoperability for exchanging data, algorithms and analysis pipelines • Success stories and show stoppers *Workshop Chairs* • Dagmar Krefting, University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany • Silvia D. Olabarriaga, AMC / University of Amsterdam, Netherlands *Steering Committee* • Sandra Gesing, U. Notre Dame, IN, USA • Tristan Glatard, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada • Aaron Golden, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland • Daniel de Oliveira, Fluminense Federal University, Niterói, Brazil *Programme Committee* preliminary, please visit our website for the updated list • Ignacio Blanquer, Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Spain • Scott Emrich, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA • Alban Gaignard, CNRS, France • Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, IN, USA • Tristan Glatard, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada • Aaron Golden, National University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland • Vladimir Korkhov, St. Petersburg State University, Russia • Dagmar Krefting, University of Applied Sciences Berlin, Germany • Ivan Merelli, Institute for Biomedical Technologies, Segrate, Italy • Johan Montagnat, CNRS/I3S, France • Ralph Mueller-Pfefferkorn, TU Dresden - ZIH, Germany • Silvia D. Olabarriaga, AMC / University of Amsterdam, Netherlands • Daniel de Oliveira, Fluminense Federal University, Niterói, Brazil • Horacio Perez-Sanchez, University of Murcia, Spain • Estefanía Serrano, Universidad Carlos III of Madrid, Spain *Submission Guidelines* Authors are asked to prepare their manuscripts according to the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 8 pages (letter-size 8.5'' x 11'') including figures, tables and references.The initial submission needs to be in pdf format. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. We strongly encourage authors to consider open source code and open data wherever possible. Manuscripts must be submitted to the submission online system EasyChair no later than the indicated submission deadline. https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=ccgrid2017;a=12847479 Please register for an account as author if you do not already have one. Select the track "Workshop on Clusters, Clouds and Grids for Life Sciences". If you cannot access the submission website or have difficulties completing your submission, please contact the workshop chairs for assistance. All papers will be reviewed by at least 3 independent reviewers from the international program committee. Papers will be selected based on their originality, their interest for the research community, the quality of the use-case description, the description of the technical solution, the impact of the application and/or technical description and the status of the work. All papers presented at the main conference and workshops of IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2016 will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for publication and EI indexing. A special issue of extended workshop contributions is planned.

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CCPE Journal Special Issue CFP
by Federico Silla 19 Oct '16

19 Oct '16

(apologies if you receive multiple HUCAA publicity emails) ================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Journal Special Issue of Concurrency and Computation, Practice and Experience (CCPE) on Heterogeneous and Unconventional Cluster Architectures and Applications (HUCAA) http://www.hucaa-workshop.org/ccpe2017 ================================================================== ABOUT THE JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE The special issue of Concurrency and Computation, Practice and Experience (CCPE) calls for submissions on heterogeneous and unconventional cluster architectures and applications. While this journal is thematically connected to the workshops series on Heterogeneous and Unconventional Cluster Architectures and Applications (HUCAA), this call is open for all contributions. This special issue gears to gather recent work on heterogeneous and unconventional cluster architectures and applications, which might have an impact on future mainstream cluster architectures. This includes any cluster architecture that is not based on the usual commodity components and therefore makes use of some special hard- or software elements, or that is used for special and unconventional applications. In particular we call for GPUs and other accelerators (Intel MIC/Xeon Phi, FPGA) used at cluster level. Even though accelerators are already used pervasively, we still see many unconventional and even disruptive uses of them. Other examples of unconventional cluster architectures and applications include virtualization, in-memory storage, hard- and software interactions, run-times, databases, and device-to-device communication. We are in particular encouraging work on disruptive approaches, which may show inferior performance today but can already point out their performance potential. The broad scope of the workshop facilitates submissions on unconventional uses of hardware or software, gearing to gather ideas that are coming to life now and not limiting them except for their context: clusters. Also, these proposals may rather be reflective of a broader industry trend. We are seeking new proposals presented from a holistic perspective. Also, proposals may rather be reflective of a broader industry trend. In this regard, one of the aims of the workshop is anticipating the evolution of clusters. Instead of just presenting new work carried out in the traditional cluster areas usually addressed in other conferences and workshops, we are thinking on creating the right atmosphere for a discussion of opportunities in cluster computing. In this regard, contributions would not only be accepted according to their technical merits but also according to their contribution to this discussion. We are seeking new proposals presented from a holistic perspective. In this regard, one of the aims of the special issue is anticipating the evolution of clusters, instead of just presenting new work carried out in the traditional cluster areas usually addressed in other journals and conferences. This is an open call for contributions, but also invites (extended) selected papers from the Heterogeneous and Unconventional Cluster Architectures and Applications Workshop (HUCAA 2015 & 2016), collocated with IEEE CLUSTER respectively ICPP. Extended versions of conference papers must contain at least 50% new content. TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest include any heterogeneous or unconventional cluster architecture or application. Examples include, but are not limited to: - Clustered GPUs, Xeon Phis or other accelerators - Runtimes, resource management and scheduling for heterogeneous cluster architectures - Communication methods for distributed or clustered accelerators - Energy-aware data movement techniques - Energy efficiency at the cluster or node level - New industry and technology trends and their potential impact - High-performance, data-intensive, and power-aware computing - Application-specific cluster and datacenter architectures - Emerging programming paradigms for parallel heterogeneous computing - Software cluster-level virtualization for consolidation purposes - Hardware techniques for resource aggregation - New uses of GPUs, FPGAs, and other specialized hardware IMPORTANT DATES - Submission deadline : Feb 15, 2017 - Notification: April 30, 2017 - Revision Due: May 30, 2017 - Final decision due: June 30, 2017 - Camera-ready paper due: July 30, 2017 - Publication: early 2018 (estimated) GUEST EDITORS - Holger Fröning Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg, Germany holger.froening {at} ziti.uni-heidelberg.de http://www.ziti.uni-heidelberg.de/compeng - Federico Silla, Technical University of Valencia, Spain fsilla {at} disca.upv.es http://www.disca.upv.es/fsilla REVIEW BOARD TBD SUBMISSIONS - At most 50% overlap allowed with any article such as previous conference or workshop paper - Manuscripts should not exceed 30 pages in length - Submissions must be prepared for publication according to the journal submission guidelines:http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/authors.html - We recommend using the Latex template provided by Wiley: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291532-0634/homepage…

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Call for Papers: PASC17 Conference
by Robinson Tim 19 Oct '16

19 Oct '16

======================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing PASC17 Palazzo dei Congressi Lugano, Switzerland June 26-28, 2017 www.pasc17.org Submission Deadline: December 12, 2016 ======================================================================= The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) is inviting submissions for the PASC17 Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and SIGHPC, which will be held at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Lugano, Switzerland, from June 26 to 28, 2017. The PASC Conference is an interdisciplinary event in high performance computing that brings together domain science, applied mathematics and computer science - where computer science is focused on enabling the realization of scientific computation. The goal of the PASC papers initiative is to advance the quality of scientific communication between the various disciplines of computational science and engineering. The initiative is built from an observation that the computer science community traditionally publishes in the proceedings of major international conferences, while domain science communities publish primarily in disciplinary journals - neither of which is read regularly by the other disciplinary community. PASC papers presents a remedy to this situation that enables interdisciplinary exchange in a manner that bridges scientific publishing cultures and is useful to individual and community research goals. SUBMISSIONS GUIDELINES The PASC17 papers program is soliciting high-quality contributions of original research relating to high performance computing in eight domain-specific tracks: - Climate and Weather - Computer Science and Applied Mathematics - Emerging Domains in HPC - Engineering - Life Sciences - Materials Science and Chemistry - Physics - Solid Earth Dynamics Areas of interest include (but are not limited to): - The use of advanced computing systems for large-scale scientific applications - Implementation strategies for science applications in energy- efficient computing architectures - Domain-specific, languages, libraries or frameworks - The integration of large-scale experimental and observational scientific data and high-performance data analytics and computing - Best practices for sustainable software development and scientific application development We invite paper submissions for PASC17 of page length between 5 and 10 pages. The page limits include figures, tables, and appendices, but not references, for which there are no limits. The PASC17 Papers Committee, chaired by Dr. Jack Wells (Oak Ridge National Laboratory) and Prof. Torsten Hoefler (ETH Zurich), is responsible for reviewing submitted papers. The goal of the paper- selection process is to combine the strengths of the conference and journal publication schemes in order to execute an effective, high- quality publication venue in large-scale computational science. We use four key principles to design a paper selection process for PASC17: (1) no pre-selected committee, (2) short revision process, (3) double-blind peer-review, and (4) expert reviewers suggested by primary reviewers. For a more detailed discussion of this process and its implementation within PASC16, please see T. Hoefler, "Selecting Technical Papers for an Interdisciplinary Conference: The PASC Review Process", in the Proceedings of the Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing Conference (2016) [1]. As submissions will be evaluated double blind, authors should not be named, and references to an author's own previous work should be in the third person. Papers should be in the ACM proceedings format [2]. We suggest using "An Author", "Another Author", etc., in the ACM templates, and leaving affiliations and contact details blank. Contributions should be submitted using the PASC17 online submissions system, which will open in late October 2016. Please refer to http://www.pasc17.org for further details. SUBMISSIONS DEADLINES The review process is designed in the following stages: - December 12, 2016: Submissions close - January 31, 2017: First review notification - March 1, 2017: Revised submissions close - April 11, 2017: Final review notification PASC17 CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION Accepted manuscripts will be published in the ACM Digital Library at the time of the PASC17 Conference, June 26-28, 2017. Authors will be given 30-minute presentation slots at the conference, grouped in topically focused, parallel sessions. POST-CONFERENCE JOURNAL SUBMISSION Following the conference, authors will have the opportunity to develop their papers for publication in a relevant, computationally focused, domain-specific journal. The journal paper would be an expanded version of the conference paper allowing authors to present a more complete description of the work - a fuller introduction, deeper project description, additional results, and so on. Authors can thus benefit from the rapid and broad dissemination of results afforded by the conference venue and associated proceedings, and, from the impact associated with publication in a high-quality scientific journal. We look forward to receiving your submissions. Please subscribe to receive future alerts from the PASC Conference at http://seu2.cleverreach.com/f/104839-133247/ With very best regards, Jack Wells and Torsten Hoefler PASC17 Papers Chairs Tim Robinson PASC17 Proceedings Chair info(a)pasc-conference.org [1]: http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=2929908 [2]: http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings- template.html

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