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TPLP Special Issue: Past and Present (and Future) of Parallel and Distributed Computation in (Constraint) Logic Programming
by epontell 30 Nov '16

30 Nov '16

[Apologies for multiple copies of this message] Special Issue of Theory and Practice of Logic Programming Past and Present (and Future) of Parallel and Distributed Computation in (Constraint) Logic Programming http://www.cs.nmsu.edu/~ffiorett/cfp/TPLP2017/ Since its inception, logic programming has been recognized as an ideal paradigm for addressing the needs of parallel computing. An extensive literature has been developed exploring issues like automated parallelization of logic programs, the use of logic programs to describe parallel and distributed computations, and logic programming models to capture concurrency and facilitate the development of provably correct concurrent applications. After over 30 years of research in these domains, the state of the art has reached a stage where technologies are highly complex and sophisticated, and applications are plentiful. Yet, the continuous development of novel architectures (e.g., the onset of GPU-based computing; the widespread use of simple inter-connected devices, like Arduino and Raspberry Pi; the development of affordable multi-core platforms and reconfigurable computing; the widespread use of cloud computing), the appearance of new domains and potential applications (e.g., big data), and the developments in novel logic programming languages and paradigms are creating new research opportunities and fueling new ideas and developments. The goal of this special issue is to provide a multi-fold perspective of research at the junction between parallel and distributed computation and (constraint) logic programming: 1. Provide well-thought assessments of the state of the art (e.g., in the form of well organized surveys, personal perspectives) 2. Describe cutting-edge coverage of new developments (e.g., novel execution models, innovative systems and implementations) 3. Describe new research directions, offering clear motivations, new perspectives and solid foundations for other researchers to build upon 4. Novel applications (e.g., in big data, cyber-physical systems) that critically rely on the use on the integration of parallelism and logic programming SUBMISSION DEADLINES: * Optional Notes of Interest: December 1st 2017 (to facilitate planning) * Title and Abstract: January 30, 2017 * Full Paper: March 31, 2017 SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Please submit notes of interest and title/abstract to epontell(a)cs.nmsu.edu. Submissions of manuscripts must be made in the TPLP format http://journals.cambridge.org/images/fileUpload/images/tlp_ifc_MAY2014.pdf and handled through the TPLP Submission site (please select the appropriate option under the Special Issue category): https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tplp GUEST EDITOR: Enrico Pontelli, epontell(a)cs.nmsu.edu, New Mexico State University, USA Ferdinando Fioretto, ffiorett(a)cs.nmsu.edu, New Mexico State University, USA

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Deadline Extended: TRANSACT 2017 - 12th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Transactional Computing / 9th Workshop on the Theory of Transactional Memory - Call for Papers
by Paolo Romano 30 Nov '16

30 Nov '16

Apologies in case of cross-posting - - - - - - - — - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TRANSACT 2017 12th ACM SIGPLAN Workshop on Transactional Computing / 9th Workshop on the Theory of Transactional Memory February 5, 2017 Austin, Texas, USA In conjunction with the 22nd ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2017) Website: http://transact2017.cse.lehigh.edu/ ** Overview ** The past decade has seen an explosion of interest in programming languages, systems, and hardware to support transactions, speculation, and related alternatives to classical lock-based concurrency. Recently, transactional memory has crossed two important thresholds. First, IBM and Intel are now shipping processors with hardware support for transactional memory (TM). Second, the C++ Standard Committee has been working intensively to integrate TM as a new language feature. On the other hand, the post-release discovery of an erratum in Intel’s hardware TM implementation has brought upfront the need for effective TM verification mechanisms. Overall, these developments highlight the demand for continued high quality transactional memory research. In 2017, Transact will be merged with the Workshop on the Theory of Transactional Memory (WTTM); this will mark the twelfth Transact and ninth WTTM. Transact 2017, will provide a forum to present and discuss the latest research on all aspects of transactional computing. The scope of the workshop is intentionally broad, with the goal of encouraging interaction across the languages, architecture, systems, database, and theory communities. Papers may address implementation techniques, foundational results, applications and workloads, or experience with working systems. Environments of interest include the full range from multithreaded or multicore processors to high-end parallel and distributed computing platforms. ** Topics ** The workshop seeks papers on topics related to all areas of software, hardware, and formal foundations for transactional computing. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Run-time systems * Hardware support * Applications, workloads, and test suites * Experience reports * Language mechanisms and semantics * Formal semantics * Memory models * Transactions for non-uniform and non-cache coherent memory systems (e.g., NUMA, GPUs, RDMA, distributed transactions) * Formal verification * Speculative concurrency * Conflict detection and contention management * Debugging and tools * Static analysis and compiler optimizations * Checkpointing and failure atomicity * Persistence and I/O * Machine Learning and Transactional Memory * Nesting and exceptions * Impossibility results and lower bounds * Concurrent data structures and algorithms Papers should present original research. The final version of the accepted papers will appear on the workshop's web site. These papers will be available to the participants in electronic format during the workshop. Transact/WTTM does not publish proceedings, so accepted papers may appear in other venues as well. As transactional memory spans many disciplines, papers should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. Papers focused on foundations should indicate how the work can be used to advance practice; papers on experiences and applications should indicate how the experiments reinforce or reflect principles. ** Submissions ** Please use EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=transact2017) to submit a paper to TRANSACT!. Papers must be submitted in PDF, and be no more than 8 pages in standard two-column SIGPLAN conference format including figures and tables but not including references. Shorter submissions are welcome. The submissions will be judged based on the merit of the ideas rather than the length. Submissions must be made through the on-line submission site. Final papers will be available to participants electronically at the meeting, but to facilitate resubmission to more formal venues, no archival proceedings will be published, and papers will not be sent to the ACM Digital Library. Authors will have the option of having their final paper accessible from the workshop website. Authors must be familiar with and abide by SIGPLAN's republication policy, which forbids simultaneous submission to multiple venues and requires disclosing prior publication of closely related work. At the discretion of the program committee and with the consent of the authors, particularly worthy papers may be recommended for a special journal issue. Additional information (e.g., templates for papers’ submission) can be found at the workshop’s webpage: http://transact2017.cse.lehigh.edu/ For any additional information, do not hesitate to contact the PC Co-Chairs: Aleksandar Dragojevic, aleksandar.dragojevic(a)gmail.com Idit Keidar, idish(a)ee.technion.ac.il ** Important Dates ** Submission Deadline: December 9, 2016 Author Notification: January 19, 2017

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New submission deadline: IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Computing and Optimization in conjunction with IEEE IPDPS 2017 Orlando USA
by Didier Elbaz 30 Nov '16

30 Nov '16

We apologize for multiple copies of this CFP. ********************************************************************** The 7th IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Computing and Optimization (PDCO 2017) https://pdco2017.sciencesconf.org held in conjunction with The 31st IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'2017) May 29-June 2, 2017 Orlando, Florida, USA http://www.ipdps.org ********************************************************************** ************************************************** New Submission Deadline: December 21, 2016 ************************************************** PDCO 2017, Orlando USA, is the result of the merge of the Parallel Computing and Optimization (PCO) and the Nature Inspired Distributed Computing (NIDISC) workshops that have been held in conjunction with the IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium for the past years. Scope: ====== The IEEE Workshop on Parallel / Distributed Computing and Optimization aims at providing a forum for scientific researchers and engineers on recent advances in the field of parallel or distributed computing for difficult optimization problems, ranging from theoretical to applied problems. The latter include 0-1 multidimensional knapsack problems and cutting stock problems, large scale linear programming problems, nonlinear optimization problems and global optimization problems. Emphasis will be placed on new techniques for solving these difficult problems, like cooperative methods for integer programming problems, nature-inspired techniques and hybrid methods. Aspects related to Combinatorial Scientific Computing (CSC) will also be treated. We also solicit submissions of original manuscripts on sparse matrix computations and related topics (including graph algorithms); and related methods and tools for their efficiency on different parallel systems. The use of new approaches in parallel and distributed computing like GPU, MIC, cloud computing, volunteer computing will be considered. Applications combining traditional parallel and distributed computing and optimization techniques as well as theoretical issues (convergence, complexity, etc.) are welcome. Application domains of interest include (but are not limited to) cloud computing, planning, logistics, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications and computational biology. Topics: ======= * Integer programming, linear programming, nonlinear programming; * Global optimization, polynomial optimization; * Exact methods, heuristics, metaheuristics, hybrid methods; * Cooperative methods, hybrid methods; * Parallel / distributed algorithms for combinatorial optimization; * Parallel / distributed metaheuristics; * Distributed optimization algorithms; * Nature inspired distributed computing; * Parallel sparse matrix computations, graph algorithms, load balancing; * Peer to peer computing and optimization problems; * Applications: cloud computing, planning, logistics, manufacturing, finance, telecommunications, computational biology, combinatorial algorithms in high performance computing. Steering Committee: =================== Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg (co-chair) Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France (co-chair) El-Ghazali Talbi, University of Lille, INRIA, CNRS, France Albert Y. Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Chairs: =============== Grégoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Didier El Baz, team CDA, LAAS-CNRS, France Program Chairs: =============== Vincent Boyer, University of Nuevo Leon, Mexico Bernabe Dorronsoro, Universidad de Cádiz, Spain Publicity Chairs: ================= Keqin Li, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Committee (to be completed): ==================================== A. Bendjoudi, CERIST, Algiers, Algeria J.-N. Cao, Hong-Kong Polytechnic University, China J. J. Durillo, University of Innsbruck, Austria S. Fujita, Hiroshima University, Japan M. Halappanavar, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA K. Li, State University of New York, USA N. Melab, University of Lille, France M. Menai, King Saud University, Saudi Arabia A. Nakib, University Paris 12, France S. Nesmachnow, Universidad de la República, Uruguay S. Nikoletseas, University of Patras and CTI, Greece C. Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, USA T. Saadi, University of Picardie, France M. Seredynski, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, Luxembourg G. Ch. Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece G. Spezzano, University of Calabria, Italy A. Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center, Mexico B. Ucar, CNRS and ENS Lyon, France F. Xhafa, Polytechnic University of Catalonia, Spain L.T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada Submission : ============ Proceedings of the workshops are published by IEEE CPS; they are distributed at the conference and are submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library after the conference. Prospective authors should submit their papers through Workshop PDCO 2017 submission system: i.e. EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdco2017 Abstract and paper can be uploaded until December 21, 2016. Authors should preferably follow the manuscript specifications of IEEE IPDPS, i.e. submitted manuscripts may not exceed 10 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables and references. Style templates are available at the IPDPS web site. Important Dates: ================ - New Submission Deadline: December 21, 2016 - Notification of acceptance: January 16, 2017 - Camera ready: March 15, 2017 - Workshop: May 29, 2017 Contact: ======== For questions regarding the Workshop, please contact the conference organizers atpdco2017(a)sciencesconf.org

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ISC HPC 2017: Call for papers (deadline extension)
by Balaji, Pavan 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

ISC 2017 CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS ====> DEADLINE EXTENDED TO DECEMBER 16th, 2016 <==== The ISC research paper sessions provide first-class open forums for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present and discuss issues, trends and results that will shape the future of high performance computing. Submitted research papers will be reviewed by the ISC 2017 Research Papers Committee, which is headed by Dr. Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, with Prof. Dr. David Keyes, KAUST, as Deputy Chair and Dr. Julian Kunkel, Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum, as Proceedings Chair and Dr. Rio Yokota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, as Proceedings Deputy Chair. The ISC organizers as well as the German Gauss Center for Supercomputing will again sponsor the call for research papers with two awards for outstanding research papers: the Hans Meuer Award and the GAUSS Award. The research paper sessions will be held from Monday, June 19, through Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Attendance will require a Conference Pass. IMPORTANT DATES * Extended Full Submission Deadline: Friday, December 16, 2016, 11:59 pm AoE (firm, no more extensions) * Author Rebuttals: Monday, February 6 - Thursday, February 9, 2017 * Notification of Acceptance: Monday, February 27, 2017 * Camera-Ready Submission: Monday, March 27, 2017 * Research Paper Sessions: Monday, June 19 - Wednesday, June 21, 2017 * Final PDFs due for Proceedings: Friday, June 23, 2017 AREAS OF INTEREST We encourage the submission of high-quality papers reporting original work in theoretical, experimental and industrial research and development. The ISC submission process will be divided into four tracks this year for better manageability: Architectures & Networks - Future design concepts of HPC systems - Multicore/manycore systems - Heterogeneous systems - Network technology - Domain-specific architectures - Memory technologies - Trends in the HPC chip market - Exascale Computing Applications & Algorithms - Scalability on future architectures - Performance evaluation & tuning - Innovative domain-specific algorithms - Workflow management - Data analysis & visualization - Coupled simulations - Industrial simulations - Scalable Applications: 50k+ Data, Storage & Visualization - From big data to smart data - Memory systems for HPC & big data - File systems & tape libraries - Data intensive applications - Databases - Visual analytics - In-situ analytics Programming Models & Systems Software - The art of parallel programming - Tools and Libraries for Performance and Productivity - Application of methods - Batch job management - Monitoring & administration tools - Production efficiency - Energy efficiency Note: Submissions on other innovative aspects of high performance computing are also welcome. You will be asked to pick a primary and a secondary track for your submission. SUBMISSION & REVIEW PROCESS - Paper proposals need to be submitted via the ISC 2017 submission site at https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/isc_hpc/ by Friday, December 16, 2016. - We only accept paper submissions which are formatted correctly in LNCS style (single column format) using either the LaTeX document class or Word template. For details on the author guidelines, please refer to Springer's website at http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0. Incorrectly formatted papers will be excluded from the reviewing process. - Paper submissions are required to be within 18 pages in the above mentioned LNCS style. This includes all figures and references. - Each paper will be peer-reviewed double-blind by at least 4 reviewers and should be submitted in a form suitable for anonymous review. Papers will be evaluated by reviewers based on their novelty, fundamental insights and potential for long-term contribution. - Papers will go through a rebuttal phase to give authors the chance to respond to reviewer comments and to discuss them with the Research Papers Committee. During this phase, the reviews of your paper would be made available to you and you will have the opportunity to address any questions from the reviewers or aspects that you feel the reviewers might have misunderstood. The rebuttal would be in written format, and further instructions will be emailed to the authors. After the rebuttal period has closed, the Research Papers Committee members and chairs will have an opportunity to look through the author rebuttals and would be able to change their reviews based on this information. Final decisions will be made taking the reviews and rebuttals into consideration. - At an in-person Research Papers Committee meeting, each paper will be discussed before the acceptance decisions are made. TERMS & CONDITIONS - By submitting a paper proposal, you agree to present the paper at ISC 2017 in Frankfurt, Germany. - Paper presenters need to be registered ISC 2017 participants. The ISC organizers will grant a 100% discount on the conference day pass to one presenter per paper for the day of their presentation (or an equivalent discount on the full conference pass). - Travel, accommodation, registration fees and other such costs will not be covered by the ISC organizers. AWARDS The following two awards will be given to outstanding research papers: Hans Meuer Award The Hans Meuer Award honors the most outstanding research paper submitted to the conference's Research Papers Committee. This award has been introduced in the memory of the late Dr. Hans Meuer, general chair of the ISC conference from 1986 through 2014, and co-founder of the TOP500 project. >From all submitted research papers, the Research Papers Committee will select the overall best paper for the award. The winner will be announced at the ISC High Performance Opening Session and will be given the opportunity to present a keynote talk on their work in one of the research paper sessions. The winner will also receive a cash prize of 5,000 Euros, an award certificate, and a free conference pass for ISC High Performance in 2017. Gauss Award The Gauss Award is sponsored by the German Gauss Center for Supercomputing, which is a collaboration of the German national supercomputing centers at Garching, Julich and Stuttgart. The winner will receive a cash prize of 3,000 Euros, courtesy of the Gauss Center, which will be presented by Professor Michael Resch, chairman of the Gauss Award Committee, during the ISC Opening Session. The award winner will also have the opportunity to present a keynote talk on their paper during one of the research paper sessions. PUBLICATION The publication of the papers is managed by Proceedings Chair Dr. Julian Kunkel with Dr. Rio Yokota, Tokyo Institute of Technology, as Proceedings Deputy Chair. All accepted research papers will be published in the Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series (http://www.springer.com/lncs) For the camera-ready version, authors are automatically granted one extra page to incorporate reviewer comments. The publication is free of charge. The papers can be downloaded from Springer's website for a limited time after ISC 2017. The proceedings are indexed in the ISI Web of Science, EI Engineering Index, ACM Digital Library, dblp, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Scopus, and Zentralblatt MATH. SLIDE PROCEEDINGS The ISC organizers will make the proceedings available online, with presentation slides provided as PDF files, a week after the event. ISC 2017 attendees will receive an e-mail with the access link. Paper authors are kindly requested to provide a PDF version of their presentation slides to Ms. Heike Walther at heike.walther(a)isc-group.com by Friday, June 23, 2017 at the latest.

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CFP: ICS 2017 International Conference on Supercomputing
by Rosa M Badia 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

Call for Papers ICS 2017: International Conference on Supercomputing June 14-16, Chicago, USA Sponsored by ACM/SIGARCH http://press3.mcs.anl.gov/ics2017/ ICS is the premier international forum for the presentation of research results in high-performance computing. The 2017 conference will be held in Chicago, United States. Papers are solicited on all aspects of research, development, and application of high-performance computing systems, including but not limited to the following: -- Computer architecture and hardware, including multicore, manycore and multiprocessor systems from small to very large scales, components in such systems such as accelerators, memory systems, storage architectures, interconnection networks at various levels, and heterogeneous systems; -- Programming and execution models for high-performance computing, including new paradigms, languages, task creation and specification models, domain-specific language/programming support; -- Static and dynamic compilation: optimization techniques to exploit all aspects of high performance architectures and auto-tuning techniques; -- Runtime and system software support for high-performance computing, including task and resource management at chip-level, cluster-level, up to the level of large-scale academic/commercial computing service infrastructure, debugging, fault-tolerance, power/energy management, file systems, and performance evaluation/monitoring; -- New computational algorithms and their applications for high performance computing systems; -- Workload characterization empirical studies especially those on new scientific and commercial applications that pose significant challenges, and studies of highly experimental real systems; -- Data intensive high performance computing: system support, algorithm design and application development for high performance computing that deal with large-scale collected data sets. The review process will include a rebuttal period, and the papers will be judged based on novelty, technical soundness, and potential impact on the field. Important dates: ---------------- Abstract submission: January 11, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth (AOE)) Paper submission: January 18, 2017 (AOE) Author rebuttal period: March 5-7, 2017 (AOE) Author notification: March 21, 2017 (AOE) Camera-ready papers due: April 15, 2017 (AOE) Main conference days: June 14-16, 2017 (AOE) AOE (Anywhere on Earth) dates shown above mean the deadlines are at 11:59pm UTC -12:00 of the days. The above dates are tentative and subject to change. Consult the conference website for the most up-to-date scheduling information. Paper submissions: ------------------ Papers are submitted at Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ics20170) which is also accessible from the ICS'17 home page (http://press3.mcs.anl.gov/ics2017/) Use the ACM SIG Proceedings Alternate style. Extensive documentation can be found at the ACM site. Submissions should be a maximum of ten (10) pages, including references. Submissions (both abstract and paper) should be prepared for double blind review, i.e., without author names, or other identifying material in the submission. Authors should refer to themselves in the 3rd person when citing their own work.The submission system requests information about the authors. This information will not be given to the reviewers. Organizing committee GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Willian Gropp, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Pete Beckman, Argonne National Laboratory / Northwestern University PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Zhiyuan Li, Purdue University Francisco J. Cazorla, Barcelona Supercomputing Center LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR Kyle Hale, Illinois Institute of Technology PUBLICITY CHAIR Rosa M Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center FINANCE CHAIR Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology WARNING / LEGAL TEXT: This message is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed and may contain information which is privileged, confidential, proprietary, or exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If you are not the intended recipient or the person responsible for delivering the message to the intended recipient, you are strictly prohibited from disclosing, distributing, copying, or in any way using this message. If you have received this communication in error, please notify the sender and destroy and delete any copies you may have received. http://www.bsc.es/disclaimer

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*Extended Deadline* for PASC17 minisymposium submissions: January 8, 2017
by Robinson Tim 29 Nov '16

29 Nov '16

The PASC17 Conference would like to inform you that the submission deadline for minisymposia proposals has been extended to January 8, 2017. We look forward to receiving your contributions through the conference online submissions portal, and would be grateful if you could forward this communication to colleagues or collaborators. The PASC17 Conference, co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), will be held from June 26 to 28, 2017, at the Palazzo dei Congressi in Lugano, Switzerland. PASC17 Conference June 26-28, 2017 Palazzo dei Congressi Lugano, Switzerland pasc17.pasc-conference.org <http://pasc17.pasc-conference.org/> The 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. TARGET AUDIENCE PASC17 invites participants from academia, research laboratories and industry to discuss the state-of-the-art in computational science in the context of high-performance computing. PROGRAM The conference offers three days of stimulating and thought-provoking technical sessions, including keynote presentations, minisymposia, peer-reviewed papers, panels and poster sessions. The conference is co-sponsored by ACM SIGHPC, and papers are published in the ACM Digital Library. CONTRIBUTIONS PASC17 welcomes submissions in the following scientific fields: Chemistry and Materials Climate and Weather Computer Science and Applied Mathematics Emerging Domains in HPC (Special topic: Precision Medicine) Engineering Life Sciences Physics Solid Earth Dynamics MINISYMPOSIA A minisymposium at PASC17 is a two-hour session of four presentations on a single topic of current importance that addresses research topics related to domain science, applied mathematics, computer science or software engineering in the context of high performance computing. The session should include speakers from more than one country, and be designed such that the speakers bring a range of different perspectives and views to the topic. Organizers are strongly encouraged to include women and/or members of other underrepresented groups in their proposals. Please visit our website for submission guidelines: pasc17.pasc-conference.org/submission/submissions-portal/ <http://pasc17.pasc-conference.org/submission/submissions-portal/> Extended deadlines for minisymposium submissions: 8 January: Submissions close 1 February: Acceptance notifications CONFERENCE CO-CHAIRS Olaf Schenk (Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland) Horst Simon (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) MINISYMPOSIA AND POSTERS CO-CHAIRS Rolf Krause (Università della Svizzera italiana, Switzerland) Stefan Goedecker (University of Basel, Switzerland)

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IEEE Cloud Computing Magazine - Special Issue on Middleware for Multicloud
by Luiz Fernando Bittencourt 28 Nov '16

28 Nov '16

IEEE Cloud Computing Magazine - Special Issue on Middleware for Multicloud As Cloud Computing evolved to a widely used computing as a service model, limitations and intrinsic characteristics of monolithic cloud provider offerings emerged. Moreover, specialized computing power such as clusters, GPUs, solid state storage, and specific applications at different service levels can now be acquired as services from different providers. The use of a combination of cloud services from various providers can be performed to contour limitations of a single provider and enhance application execution by gathering together the necessary specific, on demand resources for a wide range of applications. Multicloud Middleware has a central role in providing a combination of resources from different cloud providers by implementing a distributed system platform that is able to efficiently coordinate them. This IEEE Cloud Computing Magazine Special Issue on Middleware for Multicloud aims to cover all aspects of design and implementation, as well as deployment and evaluation of multicloud middleware and its components. A middleware for multicloud connects multiple clouds to allow automatic, transparent, and on demand application execution that takes advantage from the synergy among resources of different providers. For this synergy to become effective and efficient, connecting different providers across their boundaries brings new, challenging efforts. Multicloud middleware design and deployment must solve challenges that include resource management and scheduling, identity management, trust and security issues, business models, and incentive mechanisms in multicloud environments. We invite authors to submit outstanding and original manuscripts on all aspects related to middleware for multiclouds, including, but not limited to: - Cloud Middleware design and implementation - Auditing and Accounting - Middleware performance and evaluation - Middleware for Data Management - Multicloud Middleware for the Internet of Things - Middleware for Cloud Federations - Middleware for Hybrid Clouds - Brokering Mechanisms - Resource Discovery and Management - Scheduling and Load Balancing - Cross-service-level Mgmt (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, XaaS) An updated version of this CFP can be found at: https://www.computer.org/web/computingnow/call-for-papers-cloud-computing-j… ***** Schedule Full manuscript due: January 2, 2017 Initial recommendations due: February 22, 2017 Revision due: April 9, 2017 Final decisions due: May 31, 2017 Final manuscript due: June 15, 2017 Publication date: August 2017 ***** Submission details Submissions will go through the IEEE Cloud Computing Magazines’ peer-review process. Articles should be between 3,000 and 5,000 words, with figures counting for approximately 250 words each and maximum of 15 references should be used. The authors should not assume specialized audience, thus the manuscript should be understandable to a broad audience of people interested in cloud computing and multiclouds. Accepted articles will be edited according to the IEEE Computer Society style guide. Submit your papers to Manuscript Central at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/ccm-cs. ***** Guest Editors Dr. Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil, bit(a)ic.unicamp.br Dr. Rodrigo N. Calheiros, University of Melbourne, Australia, rnc(a)unimelb.edu.au Dr. Craig A. Lee, Aerospace Corporation, United States, Craig.A.Lee(a)aero.org

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CFP: IPDPS ParSocial 2017 Workshop - 2nd IEEE Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing for Computational Social Systems
by John Korah 28 Nov '16

28 Nov '16

[Apologies if you receive multiple postings] ############################################################ ################### CALL FOR PAPERS The 2nd IEEE Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing for Computational Social Systems June 2 2017, Orlando, Florida USA. Conference Website : http://www.lcid.cs.iit.edu/parsocial (In conjunction with IEEE International Parallel & Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS)) IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission deadline : January 16, 2017 Notification of acceptance : February 27, 2017 Camera-ready papers : March 13, 2017 Workshop : June 2, 2017 ############################################################ #################### ABOUT PARSOCIAL Computational methods to represent, model and analyze problems using social information have come a long way in the last decade. Computational methods, such as social network analysis, have provided exciting insights into how social information can be utilized to better understand social processes, and model the evolution of social systems over time. We have also seen a rapid proliferation of sensor technologies, such as smartphones and medical sensors, for collecting a wide variety of social data, much of it in real time. Meanwhile, the emergence of parallel architectures, in the form of multi-core/many-core processors, and distributed platforms, such as MapReduce, have provided new approaches for large-scale modeling and simulation, and new tools for analysis. These two trends have dramatically broadened the scope of computational social systems research, and are enabling researchers to tackle new challenges. These challenges include modeling of real world scenarios with dynamic and real-time data, and formulating rigorous computational frameworks to embed social and behavioral theories. The 1st IEEE Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Processing for Computational Social Systems (ParSocial) provides a platform to bring together interdisciplinary researchers from areas, such as computer science, social sciences, applied mathematics and computer engineering, to showcase innovative research in computational social systems that leverage the emerging trends in parallel and distributed processing, computational modeling, and high performance computing. The papers selected for ParSocial will be published in the workshop proceedings. Proceedings of the workshops are distributed at the conference and are submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library after the conference. CALL FOR PAPERS Areas of research interests and domains of applications include, but are NOT LIMITED to: *Large-Scale Modeling and Simulation for Social Systems* Social network based models Models of social interactions (e.g. influence spread, group formation, group stability, and social resilience) Complex Adaptive System (CAS) models (e.g. modeling emergence in social systems) Models incorporating socio-cultural factors Novel agent based social modeling and simulation Modeling with uncertain, incomplete social data Models using real-time social data Representations of social and behavioral theories in computational models Simulation methodologies for social processes including numerical and statistical methods Models for network dynamism Modeling human and social elements in cyber systems (e.g. cyber-physical systems, socio-technical systems, and network centric systems) Social Computing Algorithms for Parallel and Distributed Platforms *Analysis of massive social data* Algorithms for dynamic social data Algorithms for social network analysis Analysis methods for incomplete, uncertain social data Social analysis methods on parallel and distributed frameworks Social computing for emerging architectures (e.g. cloud, multi-core/many-core, GPU, and mobile computing architectures) *Application* Emergency management (e.g. infrastructure resilience, natural disaster management) National security (e.g. political stability, counter-terrorism, and homeland security) Health science (e.g. disease spread models, health informatics, and health care analytics) Social media analytics (e.g. business analytics, political analysis, and economic analysis) PAPER SUBMISSION Submitted manuscripts may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. Please visit the workshop website(http://www.lcid.cs.iit.edu/parsocial) for details on submission.

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CFP: Sixth International Conference on Cloud Computing: Services and Architecture (CLOUD 2017)
by bovardjames＠csen2016.org 28 Nov '16

28 Nov '16

SIXTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLOUD COMPUTING: SERVICES AND ARCHITECTURE (CLOUD 2017) HTTP://CSEN2016.ORG/2017/CLOUD/INDEX.HTML JANUARY 28~29, 2017, DUBAI, UAE. CALL FOR PAPERS Cloud computing helps enterprises transform business and technology. Companies have begun to look for solutions that would help reduce their infrastructures costs and improve profitability. Cloud computing is becoming a foundation for benefits well beyond IT cost savings. Yet, many business leaders are concerned about cloud security, privacy, availability and data protection. To discuss and address these issues, we are inviting researches who focus on cloud computing to shed more light on this emerging field. This conference aims to bring together researchers and practitioners in all security aspects of cloud-centric and outsourced computing, including (but not limited to): TOPICS OF INTEREST Cloud Application, Infrastructure and platforms Design Tool for Cloud Computing Cloud Business Service-Oriented Architecture in Cloud Computing Cloud based, Parallel Processing Virtualization on Platforms in the Cloud Location Based Services, Presence, Availability, and Locality Mobile Clouds for new millennium, mobile devices Social Clouds (Social Networks in the Cloud) Maintenance and Management of Cloud Computing Cloud Computing Architecture Cloud Applications in Vertical Industries Cloud storage and file systems Networks within cloud systems, the storage area, and to the outside Virtualization in the context of cloud computing platforms System integration, virtual compute clusters Consolidation NoSQL data stores Performance, SLA management and enforcement Resource provisioning Security techniques for the Cloud Energy management and programming environments Data storage and management in Cloud computing Case Studies and Theories in Cloud Computing The Open Cloud: Cloud Computing and open source PAPER SUBMISSION Authors are invited to submit papers through the CONFERENCE SUBMISSION [1] System by DECEMBER 11, 2016. Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this conference. The proceedings of the conference will be published by COMPUTER SCIENCE CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS [2] in COMPUTER SCIENCE & INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY (CS & IT) SERIES (CONFIRMED). [2] Selected papers from CLOUD 2017, after further revisions, will be published in the special issue of the following journals International Journal on Cloud Computing: Services and Architecture (IJCCSA) International Journal of Software Engineering & Applications (IJSEA) Computer Science & Engineering: An International Journal (CSEIJ) Advanced Computing: An International Journal ( ACIJ ) International Journal of Information Sciences and Techniques (IJIST) IMPORTANT DATES SUBMISSION DEADLINE : DECEMBER 11, 2016 Authors Notification : January 10, 2017 Final Manuscript Due : January 15, 2017 Links: ------ [1] http://csen2016.org/2017/submission/index.php [2] http://airccse.org/cscp.html

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HiPINEB'17 @ IEEE HPCA - Deadline extended December 7
by Jesús Escudero Sahuquillo 28 Nov '16

28 Nov '16

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this e-mail] Due to several request, we decided to extend the deadline to December 7, 2016 LAST NEWS: *** Bill Dally from NVIDIA to give the keynote *** Journal Special Issue 2017 - Concurrency and Computation Practice & Experience *** Deadline extended to December 7 =========================================================================== HiPINEB 2017 The 3rd IEEE International Workshop on High-Performance Interconnection Networks in the Exascale and Big-Data Era Austin, TX, USA, 5 February 2017 http://hipineb.i3a.info/hipineb2017/ To be held in conjunction with the HPCA Conference 2017 =========================================================================== ABSTRACT By the year 2023, High-Performance Computing (HPC) Systems are expected to break the performance barrier of the Exaflop (10^18 FLOPS) while their power consumption is kept at current levels (or increases marginally), what is known as the Exascale challenge. In addition, more storage capacity and data-access speed is demanded to HPC clusters and datacenters to manage and store huge amounts of data produced by software applications, what is known as the Big-Data challenge. Indeed, both the Exascale and Big-Data challenges are driving the technological revolution of this decade, motivating big research and development efforts from industry and academia. In this context, the interconnection network plays an essential role in the architecture of HPC systems and datacenters, as the number of processing or storage nodes to be interconnected in these systems is very likely to grow significantly to meet the higher computing and storage demands. Besides, the capacity of the network links is expected to grow, as the roadmaps of several interconnect standards forecast. Therefore, the interconnection network should provide a high communication bandwidth and low latency, otherwise the network becoming the bottleneck of the entire system. In that regard, many design aspects are considered when it comes to improving the interconnection network performance, such as topology, routing algorithm, power consumption, reliability and fault tolerance, congestion control, programming models, control software, etc. The main goal of the third edition of HiPINEB is to gather and discuss in a full-day event the latest and most prominent efforts and advances, both from industry and academia, in the design and development of scalable high-performance interconnection networks, especially those oriented to meet the Exascale challenge and Big-data demands. All researchers and professionals, both from industry and academia, working in the area of interconnection networks for scalable HPC systems and Datacenters are encouraged to submit an original paper to the workshop and to attend this event. TOPICS OF INTEREST The list of topics covered by this workshop includes, but is not limited to, the following: * Interconnect architectures and network technologies for high-speed, low-latency interconnects. * Scalable network topologies, suitable for interconnecting a huge number of nodes. * Power saving policies in the interconnect devices and network infrastructure, both at software and hardware level. * Good practices in the configuration of the network control software. * Network communication protocols: MPI, RDMA, MapReduce, etc. * APIs and support for programming models. * Routing algorithms. * Quality of Service (QoS). * Reliability and Fault tolerance. * Load balancing and traffic scheduling. * Network Virtualization. * Congestion Management. * Applications and Traffic characterization. * Modeling and simulation tools. * Performance Evaluation. * Interfacing accelerators through the interconnect (GPUs, Xeon Phi, etc). * Network infrastructure in distributed storage, distributed databases and Big-Data. Furthermore, short papers in the above topics will be also taken into consideration, as long as they are based on emerging ideas, work-in-progress and early, high-impact achievements. Note, however, that papers focused on topics that are too far from the design, development and configuration of high-performance interconnects for HPC systems and Datacenters (e.g., mobile networks, intrusion detection, peer-to-peer networks or grid/cloud computing) will be automatically considered as out of scope and rejected without review. PAPER SUBMISSIONS Regular and short papers must be in PDF format and should include title, authors and affiliations as well as the e-mail address of the contact author. Submitted regular manuscripts may not exceed 8 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages, including figures, tables, and references. Short papers may not exceed 4 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages. At least one author of the paper must be registered for the conference workshop. The conference style is based on IEEE (available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html ). HiPINEB manuscript submissions are managed by easyChair. To submit a paper, go to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipineb2017 and follow the instructions. REVIEW PROCESS Authors are entitled to submit original papers of high technical quality, according to the list of topics described above. Papers will be reviewed based on originality, novelty, technical strength, presentation quality, correctness and relevance to the conference scope. WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS Papers will be published in the HiPINEB proceedings, edited by the IEEE CPS which will be submitted for indexing and inclusion in IEEE Xplore and CSDL. SPECIAL ISSUE Best papers among those selected for HiPINEB 2017 will be published in the Special Issue on “Trends in High-Performance Interconnection Networks in the Exascale and Big-Data Era 2017”, to be published in the Journal of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Wiley, (2015 Impact Factor: 0.942). Further details in http://hipineb.i3a.info/hipineb2017/special-issue IMPORTANT DATES Submission Opens: 20 September 2016 Paper submission due: 20 November 2016 (Extended to December 7) Notification of acceptance: 3 January 2017 Early Registration due: 6 January 2017 Camera-ready papers due: 10 January 2017 Workshop date: 5 February 2017 All deadlines are set at 11:59 p.m. anywhere on Earth (cf. http://wirelessman.org/aoe.html) PROGRAM HIGHLIGHTS * Keynote: Bill Dally, NVIDIA * Technical sessions: Presentation of regular and short papers * Panel: TBA WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION Organizers: * Pedro Javier Garcia, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain * Jesus Escudero-Sahuquillo, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Program Committee: * Francisco J. Alfaro, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain * Jose Cano-Reyes, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom * Lizhong Chen, Oregon State University, USA * Nikolaos Chrysos, FORTH, Greece * Holger Fröning, University of Heidelberg, Germany * Maria Engracia Gomez, Technical University of Valencia, Spain * Ernst Gunnar Gran, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway * Ryan E. Grant, Sandia National Laboratories, USA * Mitch Gusat, IBM Research, Switzerland * Scott Hemmert, Sandia National Laboratories, USA * John Kim, KAIST, South Korea * Michihiro Koibuchi, National Institute of Informatics, Japan * Yuho Jin, New Mexico State University, USA * Pedro Lopez, Technical University of Valencia, Spain * Jose Miguel Montañana, University of York, United Kingdom * Gaspar Mora, Intel Corporation, USA * Mondrian Nuessle, Extoll, Germany * Julio Ortega, University of Granada, Spain * Thibaut Palfer-Sollier, Numascale AS, Norway * Dhabaleswar K. Panda, The Ohio State University, USA * Matthieu Perotin, ATOS BULL, France * Mikel Eukeni Pozo Astigarraga, CERN, Switzerland * Samuel Rodrigo, Oracle Corporation, Norway * Sebastien Rumley, Columbia University, USA * Jose Luis Sanchez, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain * Heiko Joerg Schick, Huawei Technologies, Germany * Jörn Schumacher, CERN, Switzerland * Alex Shpiner, Mellanox Technologies, Israel * Evangelos Tasoulas, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway * Francisco Triviño, Oracle Corporation, Norway * Luis Tomas, Red Hat, Spain * Enrique Vallejo, University of Cantabria, Spain * Wainer Vandelli, CERN, Switzerland * Pierre Vigneras, ATOS BULL, France Steering Committee: * Jose Duato, Technical University of Valencia, Spain * Francisco Jose Quiles, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain * Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Timothy M. Pinkston, University of Southern California, USA * Eitan Zahavi, Mellanox, Israel ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For more information on HiPINEB 2017 check the website at: http://hipineb.i3a.info/hipineb2017 or, if you have any question, please contact the workshop organizers at hipineb(a)dsi.uclm.es

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