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HPBDC 2017 Call for Papers (Keynote Talk and Best Paper Award)
by Xiaoyi Lu 31 Dec '16

31 Dec '16

=============================================================== IEEE International Workshop on High-Performance Big Data Computing (HPBDC) http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~luxi/hpbdc2017 In conjunction with the 31st IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2017) May 29th, 2017, Orlando, Florida USA =============================================================== WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION --------------------------------------- Managing and processing large volumes of data, or `Big Data', and gaining meaningful insights is a significant challenge facing the distributed computing community. This has significant impact on a wide range of domains including health care, bio-medical research, Internet search, finance and business informatics, and scientific computing. As data-gathering technologies and data-sources witness an explosion in the amount of input data, it is expected that in the future massive quantities of data in the order of hundreds or thousands of petabytes will need to be processed. Thus, it is critical that data-intensive computing middleware (such as Hadoop, HBase and Spark) are diligently designed, with high performance and scalability, in order to meet the growing demands of Big Data applications. The explosive growth of Big Data has caused many industrial firms to adopt High Performance Computing (HPC) technologies to meet the requirements of huge amount of data to be processed and stored. Modern HPC systems and the associated middleware (such as MPI and Parallel File systems) have been exploiting the advances in HPC technologies (multi/many-core architectures, accelerators, RDMA-enabled networking, NVRAMs and SSDs) during the last decade. However, Big Data middleware (such as Hadoop, HBase and Spark) have not embraced such technologies. These disparities are taking HPC and Big Data processing into `divergent trajectories'. The IEEE International Workshop on High-Performance Big Data Computing (HPBDC), aims to bring HPC and Big Data processing into a `convergent trajectory'. The workshop provides a forum for scientists and engineers in academia and industry to present their latest research findings on major and emerging topics in this field. HPBDC 2017 will be held in conjunction with the 31st IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2017), Orlando, Florida USA, Monday, May 29th, 2017. HPBDC 2017 welcomes original submissions in a range of areas, including but not limited to: * High-performance Big Data analytics frameworks, programming models, and tools * Performance optimizations for Big Data systems and applications with HPC technologies (multi/many-core architectures, accelerators, RDMA-enabled networking, NVRAMs and SSDs) * High-performance in-memory computing technologies and abstractions * Performance modeling and evaluation for emerging Big Data Computing technologies * Big Data analytics on HPC, Cloud, and Grid computing infrastructures * Emerging hardware and software technologies for Big Data processing and management in HPC and Clouds * HPC and exascale systems and runtimes for Big Data analytics * Scheduling and provisioning data analytics on HPC and Cloud infrastructures * Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability for high-performance Big Data Computing * Green, energy-efficient Big Data Computing * Scientific Computing with Big Data * Case studies of Big Data applications on HPC systems and Clouds * Streaming data processing architectures and technologies * High-performance graph processing with Big Data * SQL and NoSQL data management technologies Papers should present original research. As Big Data spans many disciplines, papers should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. One outstanding paper will be selected for the Best Paper Award by the Program Committee. BEST PAPER AWARD ------------------------------ Cisco has generously offered to sponsor the Best Paper Award. This award will be given to the author(s) of the paper selected by the Technical Program Committee and the Program Chairs. The award will be determined from viewpoints of the technical and scientific merits, impact on the science and engineering of the research work and the clarity of presentation of the research contents in the paper. KEYNOTE SPEAKER ----------------------------- Prof. Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan - Title: TBD SUBMISSION INFORMATION ---------------------------------------- All submissions should follow the IEEE standard 8.5x11 two-column format. The workshop will accept traditional research papers (8-10 pages) for in-depth topics and short papers (4 pages) for works in progress on hot topics. - Long papers: 8-10 pages, with a full problem description, background and related work, design, and evaluation. - Short papers: 4 pages, for works in progress on hot topics. All the papers should be submitted through https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpbdc2017. All papers will be carefully reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers should not be submitted in parallel to any other conference or journal. The proceedings of this workshop will be published together with the proceedings of other IPDPS 2017 workshops by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Proceedings of the workshops are distributed at the conference and are submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library after the conference. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a participant of the workshop and present the paper at the workshop, in order to have the paper published in the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- - Abstract submission deadline: January 10th, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth) - Paper submission deadline: January 17th, 2017 (Anywhere on Earth) - Acceptance notification: February 17th, 2017 - Camera-ready deadline: March 1st, 2017 - Workshop: May 29th, 2017 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS -------------------------------------- Xiaoyi Lu, The Ohio State University Jianfeng Zhan, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, The Ohio State University PROGRAM COMMITTEE ---------------------------------- Clement Cole, Intel Yanpei Chen, Splunk Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University Bloomington Ada Gavrilovska, Georgia Tech Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore, Singapore Shadi Ibrahim, Inria, France Lizy John, The University of Texas at Austin Xu Liu, The College of William and Mary Bin Fan, Alluxio Raghunath Nambiar, Cisco Manoj Nambiar, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., India Shuaiwen Leon Song, Pacific Northwest National Lab Juan Tourino, University of A Coruna, Spain Ren Wu, NovuMind Li Zha, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Yunquan Zhang, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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HPCA 2017: Call for Participation - Early Registration Deadline 1/11
by Michael Papamichael 31 Dec '16

31 Dec '16

HPCA-23 Call for Participation 23rd IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture Austin, Texas, USA, February 4 - 8, 2017 http://www.hpcaconf.org/hpca23 (collocated with PPoPP-2017 and CGO-2017) Important dates: - Early registration deadline: January 11, 2017 - Hotel discounted rate deadline: January 11, 2017 Important links: Conference Registration: https://www.regonline.com/registration/Checkin.aspx?EventID=1904773 Hotel Reservation: https://resweb.passkey.com/go/HPCACGO17 Student Travel Grant: http://www.cs.sjsu.edu/~mak/NSF/ The International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture provides a high-quality forum for scientists and engineers to present their latest research findings in this rapidly-changing field. Authors are invited to submit papers on all aspects of high-performance computer architecture. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Processor, cache, and memory architectures - Parallel computer architectures - Multicore and multiprocessor architectures - Impact of technology on architecture - Power-efficient architectures and techniques - Dependable/secure architectures - High-performance I/O systems - Embedded, reconfigurable, and heterogeneous architectures - Interconnect and network interface architectures - Architectures for cloud-based HPC and data centers - Innovative hardware/software trade-offs - Impact of compilers and system software on architecture - Performance modeling and evaluation - Architectures for emerging technology and applications Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society TC on Computer Architecture General Chair: Derek Chiou, Microsoft and UT Austin Program Chair: Daniel A. Jimenez, Texas A&M University Organizing Committee: Industrial Session Chair: Chris Wilkerson, Intel Labs Local Arrangements Chair: Mohit Tiwari, UT Austin Workshops and Tutorials Chair: Mike Ferdman, Stony Brook University Finance Chair: Dam Sunwoo, ARM Publications Chair: Xuehai Qian, USC Travel Awards Chair: Zhenman Fang, UCLA Publicity Chair: Michael Papamichael, Microsoft Research Web and Submissions Chairs: Hung-Wei Tseng, UCSD and Elvira Teran, Texas A&M and Intel Labs Program Committee: Valeria Bertacco, Michigan Abhishek Bhattacharjee, Rutgers Reetuparna Das, Michigan Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Georgia Tech Yoav Etsion, Technion Babak Falsafi, EPFL Michael Ferdman, Stony Brook University Antonio Gonzalez, UPC Paul Gratz, Texas A&M Nikos Hardavellas, Northwestern University Kei Hiraki, University of Tokyo Jaehyuk Huh, KAIST Engin Ipek, Rochester David Kaeli, Northeastern Samira Khan, UVA Hyesoon Kim, Georgia Tech Tao Li, Florida and NSF Calvin Lin, UT Austin Gabriel H. Loh, AMD Shih-Lien Lu, TSMC Pierre Michaud, Inria Timothy N. Miller, Binghamton University (SUNY) Miquel Moreto, BSC and UPC Andreas Moshovos, Toronto Trevor Mudge, Michigan Onur Mutlu, CMU and EPFL Abdullah Muzahid, UT San Antonio Vijay Nagarajan, University of Edinburgh Soner Onder, Michigan Tech Yale N. Patt, UT Austin Miquel Pericas, Chalmers University of Technology Alex Ramirez, NVIDIA Karu Sankaralingam, Wisconsin Yan Solihin, NCSU and NSF Yingying Tian, AMD Mohit Tiwari, UT Austin Josep Torrellas, UIUC Thomas F. Wenisch, Michigan David Wentzlaff, Princeton Carole-Jean Wu, ASU Yuan Xie, UCSB Mohamed Zahran, NYU Antonia Zhai, Minnesota Lixin Zhang, Institute of Computing Technology, CAS Huiyang Zhou, NCSU

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CFP Special Issue: "High Performance Computing Solutions for Complex Problems" (deadline January 7th)
by Pedro Valero Lara 31 Dec '16

31 Dec '16

(apologies for cross-postings) Special Issue "High Performance Computing Solutions for Complex Problems" http://www.scpe.org/index.php/scpe/pages/view/Call-issue-2-2017 Journal Scalable Computing: Practise and Experience http://www.scpe.org/index.php/scpe/index This journal is included in Thompson Reuters Emerging Sources Citation Index, Google Scholar, DBLP, SNIP, SJR, ... http://science.thomsonreuters.com/cgi-bin/jrnlst/jlresults.c gi?PC=EX&ISSN=1895-1767 *High Performance Computing Solutions for Complex Problems* In the last decades, the complexity of the current and upcoming scientific/engineering problems has increased considerably. Computations involved in numerical and physical simulations, molecular dynamics, fluid dynamics, bio-informatics, image processing, deep-learning, information retrieval, linear algebra or big-data computing are just a few examples of such problems. At the same time, improvements in high performance computing (HPC) systems are mainly associated with an increased complexity of computer architectures, resulting in increasing challenges in code optimization. This results in an increasing gap between the general scientific / engineering user community (in need of easy access to efficient high performance computations) and the HPC programmers community (who design codes for narrow sub-classes of problems). As a result, the development of user-friendly codes for non-HPC-trained user community becomes a big challenge. As a matter of fact, effective use of HPC centers requires specialized / individual training for each user group. The aim of this special issue report on efforts to reduce this gap by means of bringing new ways to face the growing complexity of problems that are to be solved. Specifically, we would like to address challenges involved in implementing large and complex problems on current and upcoming platforms, composed of a high number of computational cores. Thus, the issues to be addressed should deal with communication, programming, heterogeneous architectures, load balancing, benchmarking, etc. However, the overall goal should be development of solutions that are going to be usable by non-HPC-trained domain specialists. *Topics:* Authors are invited to submit manuscripts which present original and unpublished research in all areas related with complex problems solving via parallel and distributed processing, i.e., works focused on emerging solutions to face with big computing challenges on HPC systems are specially welcome. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: - Benchmarking, performance and scalability of algorithms, data structures, tools. - Code adapting to take advantages of latest computational features. - New strategies to improve performance. - Auto-tuning computing systems. - New transparent, portable, and hardware diagnostic programming paradigms. - Advances in current or upcoming HPC platforms. - Communication, synchronization, load balancing. *Important dates:* - *Submission: January 7, 2017* - Author notification: April 28, 2017 - Revised papers: May 19, 2017 - Author notification: June 2, 2017 - Camera Ready papers due: June 16, 2017 - Publication: June 30, 2017 *Submission guidelines:* Original and unpublished works on any of the topics aforementioned or related are welcome. The SCPE journal has a rigorous peer-reviewing process and papers will be reviewed by at least three S.C. referees. All submitted papers must be formatted according to the journal's instructions, which can be found at: http://www.scpe.org/index.php/scpe/about/submissions#authorGuidelines *Special issue editors:* - Dr. Pedro Valero Lara, University of Manchester, UK. - Prof. Dr. Fernando L. Pelayo, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain. - Dr. Mawussi Zounon, University of Manchester, UK. - Dr. Maxim Abalenkov, University of Manchester, UK.

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PPoPP 2017 call for participation (early registration deadline is Jan 11th)
by Jeff Huang 30 Dec '16

30 Dec '16

Call for Participation: 21st ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2017) (Co-located with CGO and HPCA) February 4-8, 2017 Austin, Texas USA PPoPP is the leading forum on all aspects of parallel programming, including foundational and theoretical aspects, techniques, languages, compilers, runtime systems, tools, and practical experiences. In the context of the symposium, “parallel programming” encompasses work on concurrent and parallel systems (multicore, multithreaded, heterogeneous, clustered systems, distributed systems, grids, clouds, and large scale machines). Given the rise of parallel architectures into the consumer market (desktops, laptops, and mobile devices), PPoPP is particularly interested in work that addresses new parallel workloads, techniques, and tools that attempt to improve the productivity of parallel programming, and work towards improved synergy with such emerging architectures. The PPoPP 2017 program will include 29 papers, and 3 keynote talks jointly hosted with CGO and HPCA. There will also be 27 workshops and tutorials co-located with PPoPP, CGO and HPCA. Important links: Registration, at discounted rates through January 11th: http://ppopp17.sigplan.org/attending/conf-registration <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ppopp17.sigplan.org_att…> For discounted hotel rates, also through January 11th: https://resweb.passkey.com/go/PPOPP17 <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__resweb.passkey.com_go_…> For information on student travel grants: http://ppopp17.sigplan.org/attending/student-grants <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ppopp17.sigplan.org_att…> For visa information: http://ppopp17.sigplan.org/attending/visa-info <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__ppopp17.sigplan.org_att…>

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IEEE NAS 2017 Call for Papers (Due April 10 2017) & Posters (Due June 19 2017)
by Kang Chen 30 Dec '16

30 Dec '16

CALL FOR PAPERS & POSTERs-Apologize for receiving multiple copies 12th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture and Storage (NAS 2017) Shenzhen, China, August 7-9, 2017, http://www.nas-conference.org/ Important Dates: Paper Submission: April 10, 2017 Notification: May 29, 2017 Camera Ready submission: June 26, 2017 Conference Information: The International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage provides a high-quality international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research on networking, high-performance computer architecture, and parallel and distributed data storage technologies. NAS 2017 will expose participants to the most recent developments in the interdisciplinary areas. Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished work for possible presentation at the conference. The program committee will nominate best papers for recognition in each of the three conference topic areas. All papers will be evaluated based on their novelty, fundamental insight, experimental evaluation, and potential for long-term impact; new-idea papers are encouraged. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE digital library. Papers are solicited in fields that include, but are not limited to, the following: * Accelerator-based architectures * Mobile and wireless networks * Ad hoc and sensor networks * Network applications and services * Application-specific, reconfigurable * Network architecture and protocols or embedded architectures * Network information theory * Architecture for handheld or mobile * Network modeling and measurement devices * Network security * Architecture, networking or storage * Non-volatile memory technologies modeling and simulation * Parallel and multi-core architectures methodologies * Parallel I/O * Big Data infrastructure * Power and energy efficient * Big Data services and analytics architectures and techniques * Cloud and grid computing * Processor, cache, memory system * Cloud storage architectures * Data-center scale architectures * Software defined networking * Effects of circuits and emerging * Software defined storage technology on architecture * SSD architecture and applications * Energy-aware storage * Storage management * File systems, object-based storage * Storage performance and scalability * GPU architecture and programming * Storage virtualization and security * HW/SW co-design and tradeoffs * Virtual and overlay networks Paper Submission: Please refer to the following link for paper submission detail: http://www.nas-conference.org/NAS-2017/submission.html Call For Poster: NAS'17 will include a poster session for authors wishing to share their late-breaking research as well as work in an early stage of development that is suitable for presentation in the form of a poster. Topics of interest to NAS can be found on its website (http://www.nas- conference.org<http://www.nas-conference.org/>). We invite all potential authors to submit their contributions in the form of a two-page PDF file formatted with templates for regular IEEE conference papers (IEEE Conference templates<http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html>). A submission should include poster title, author information, and a short abstract. Inclusion of preliminary evaluation results is preferred. Posters will be selected for acceptance based on their novelty, relevance, and quality of presentation. Accepted posters will be published online at the conference website and included in the conference proceedings as extended abstracts, while authors will retain the copyright for these contributions. Authors of accepted posters are expected to prepare and present their posters. Format of posters for display will be available after notification of acceptance. Important Dates: Extended Abstracts due:: June 19, 2017 Author Notification: June 26, 2017 Camera Ready Abstracts: July 7, 2017 To submit, please use NAS'17's submission website at EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeenas2017)<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeenas2017>. No reviews will be provided. For any questions about the submission, selection, and presentation of the accepted posters, please contact NAS program chairs, Haiying Shen or Christian Engelmann (Email: hs6ms(a)virginia.edu <mailto:[email protected]> or engelmannc(a)ornl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>)<mailto:[email protected]>. Best wishes, Kang Chen

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CGO 2017 -- Early bird registration about to expire!
by Vijay Janapa Reddi 30 Dec '16

30 Dec '16

Call for Participation: International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO) 2017 http://cgo.org/cgo2017/ (Co-located with HPCA and PPoPP) February 4-8, 2017 Austin, Texas USA The International Symposium on Code Generation and Optimization (CGO) provides a premier venue to bring together researchers and practitioners working at the interface of hardware and software on a wide range of optimization and code generation techniques and related issues. The conference spans the spectrum from purely static to fully dynamic approaches, and from pure software-based methods to specific architectural features and support for code generation and optimization. The program will feature 26 technical papers, 27 co-located workshops and tutorials, and 3 keynote speeches! Important links: Registration, at discounted rates through January 6th: https://www.regonline.com/builder/site/?eventid=1841528 For discounted hotel rates, also through January 11th: http://cgo.org/cgo2017/travel-information.html#hotel-info Student travel support is available: http://cgo.org/cgo2017/travel-grants.html

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CFP - CrossCloud'17
by Walter Cerroni 30 Dec '16

30 Dec '16

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] ============================ Call for Papers ========================== CrossCloud'17 The 4th Workshop on CrossCloud Infrastructures & Platforms http://bit.ly/CrossCloud April 23, 2017 Co-located with European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys'17) April 23-26, 2017 - Belgrade, Serbia (Submission deadline: January 30, 2017) ======================================================================= SCOPE CrossCloud is an international workshop series that aims to bring to light several issues related to cross-cloud systems: cloud federation, multi-cloud architectures, cross-cloud applications, and hybrid clouds. CrossCloud aims to attract researchers from both academia and industry to share and discuss their recent research and experiences in designing and operating multiple cloud systems. Work in this area extends over various topics including cross-cloud resource management, monitoring, service migration, API interoperability, portability, policy enforcement, benefit–cost analysis, and fault mitigation. ======================================================================= TOPICS OF INTERESTS Authors are invited to submit papers covering, but not limited to, the following topics: - Cross-cloud systems: resource management across multiple clouds (e.g., load balancing, performance optimization, security and privacy policy enforcement). - Containers and Virtual Machine (VM) management across several cloud infrastructures (e.g., VM placement and migration). - Fog/edge computing: fog-based infrastructures, caching, performance and services. - Micro-services: system design, monitoring and management using containers and/or microkernels to achieve cloud provider independence. - Cross-Cloud agility: dynamic application deployment across multiple cloud platforms, flexibility in moving between different providers and vendors. - Hybrid cloud infrastructures management: public and private clouds, heterogeneous cloud systems, cloud and cluster/grid systems. - Cloud-bursting: workload offloading, multi-cloud resource scheduling strategies. - Cross-cloud SDKs and APIs: design, maintenance, support and performance evaluation. - Application portability: priorities, restrictions, and lock-in mitigation techniques and measures. - API interoperability: study cases and experiences with data and applications. - Interoperability between managed services (e.g., MapReduce, DB, message queues, etc.). - Decision support systems: efficient and open application deployment and monitoring across different cloud platforms and providers, cloud brokerage as a means of complexity outsourcing. - Scalable multi-cloud monitoring: monitoring among different cloud environments, relevant metrics at the different levels of the stack (e.g., network access), monitoring overhead analysis. - Experiences: assembling and (re)deploying in heterogeneous multi- cloud environments, costs and benefits of cross-cloud management and deployment, challenges in existing cross-cloud platforms, case studies on building or federating multi-cloud systems. - Cross-Cloud security: identity and access management across infrastructure boundaries, reconciling application security and privacy requirements across multiple SLAs. ======================================================================= IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: January 30, 2017 Author notification: February 28, 2017 Camera-ready version: March 31, 2017 All deadline times are Anywhere on Earth. ======================================================================= SUBMISSION GUIDELINE We solicit two types of submissions: (1) technical papers (max 6 double-column pages), and (2) posters (max 2 double-column pages). Each submission will receive at least 3 single-blind peer reviews. Authors of technical papers are also encouraged to prepare a poster to be displayed in the workshop's poster sessions. ======================================================================= JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE Like in the former editions of the workshop, authors of the best technical papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to the Springer Open Journal of Internet Services and Applications thematic series on cross-cloud computing (JISA-CCC). ======================================================================= ORGANIZATION General and Technical Program Co-Chairs: Yehia Elkhatib (Lancaster University, UK) Mohamed Faten Zhani (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada) Steering Committee: Gordon S. Blair (Lancaster University, UK) Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada) Publicity Co-chairs: Michele Nogueira (Federal University of Parana, Brazil) Walter Cerroni (University of Bologna, Italy) ======================================================================= CONTACT CrossCloudRsrch(a)gmail.com http://bit.ly/CrossCloud

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HEART-2017 Call for papers
by kanazawa.kenji.fn＠u.tsukuba.ac.jp 29 Dec '16

29 Dec '16

======================================================================== = Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP ======================================================================== = /****************************************************************/ Call for Papers Paper Submission Deadline: February 20, 2017 The 8th International Symposium on Highly Efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies (HEART2017) 7-9 June 2017, Bochum, Germany http://www.isheart.org/HEART2017 /****************************************************************/ Important dates: - Submission deadline for conference papers: February 20, 2017 - Acceptance notification: April 15, 2017 - Camera-ready/Author registration: April 30, 2017 - Symposium dates: June 7-9, 2017 The 8th International Symposium on Highly Efficient Accelerators and Reconfigurable Technologies (HEART) is a forum to present and discuss new research on accelerators and the use of reconfigurable technologies for high-performance and/or power-efficient computation. Submissions are solicited on a wide variety of topics related to the acceleration for high-performance computation, including but not limited to: - Architectures and systems: --- Novel systems/platforms for efficient acceleration based on FPGA, GPU, and other devices --- Heterogeneous processor architectures and systems for scalable, high-performance, high-reliability, and/or low-power computation --- Reconfigurable and configurable hardware and systems including IP-cores, embedded systems, SoCs, and cluster/grid/cloud computing systems for scalable, high-performance and/or low-power processing --- Custom computing system for domain-specific applications such as Big-data, multimedia, bioinformatics, cryptography, and more --- Novel architectures and device technologies that can be applied to efficient acceleration, including many-core/NoC architectures, 3D-stacking technologies and optical devices - Software and applications: --- Novel applications of high-performance computing and Big-data processing with efficientacceleration and custom computing --- System software, compilers and programming languages for efficient accelerationsystems / platforms, including many-core processors, GPUs, FPGAs and otherreconfigurable /custom processors --- Run-time techniques for acceleration, including Just-in-Time compilation and dynamicpartial-reconfiguration --- Performance evaluation and analysis for efficient acceleration --- High-level synthesis and design methodologies for heterogeneous, reconfigurable and/orcustom processors/systems In order to encourage open discussion on future directions, the program committee will provide higher priority for papers that present highly innovative and challenging ideas. We are planning to organize special sessions on HPC, Big data, and Dynamic Reconfiguration. When submitting a paper, please select topic(s) if the paper is related to them. Note that regardless of the selection of special session topic(s), your paper will undergo the same peer-review process as the main technical track. Prospective authors are invited to submit original and unpublished contributions as 6-page papers to be considered as regular papers or 4-page papers to be considered as poster papers. All contributions must be submitted electronically in PDF format (two columns, US letter size, single-spacing, 10 points for main body text). For double-blind review, manuscripts must NOT identify the authors in any way, so author names, affiliations, e-mail addresses and self-references should be blanked out. Papers that identify authors may be rejected without review. You can submit your contribution(s) by following this easychair submission link. Submission: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=heart2017 Each accepted paper MUST have at least one author with a regular registration for the manuscript to be included and published in the symposium proceedings and ACM post-proceedings (tentative). Authors are also expected to attend and present their paper(s) at the symposium. The HEART2017 paper template can be download here: HEART2017 template in MS-Word, HEART2017 template in Latex. MS-Word: http://www.isheart.org/HEART2017/heart2017.doc Latex: http://www.isheart.org/HEART2017/heart2017.cls ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Organizing Committee: General co-chairs: Michael Huebner, Ruhr-University Bochum, DE Diana Goehringer, Ruhr-Universitat Bochum, DE Technical program co-chairs: Holger Blume, Leibniz University Hannover, DE Martin Herbordt, Boston University, US Hiroki Nakahara, Tokyo Tech, JP Publicity co-chairs: Kenji Kanazawa, University of Tsukuba, JP Brain Veale, IBM, US Gabriel Marchesan, Harman International, DE Finance and local arrangement chair: Linda Trogant, Ruhr-University Bochum, DE Publication chair: Yuichiro Shibata, Nagasaki University, JP Design contest chair: Donald Bailey, Donald Bailey, NZ

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CCGRID 2017: posters and PhD Symposium calls
by Jesus Carretero 29 Dec '16

29 Dec '16

THE 17TH IEEE/ACM INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM ON CLUSTER, CLOUD AND GRID COMPUTING (IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2017) May 2017, Madrid, Spain. https://www.arcos.inf.uc3m.es/wp/ccgrid2017/ Advances in architectures, networks, systems and middleware technologies are leading to new concepts and platforms for computing, ranging from Clusters and Grids to Clouds and Datacenters. The 17th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium in Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2017) is a forum bringing together international researchers, developers, and practitioners to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these concepts, platforms, and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, workshops, and posters, as well as the Doctoral Symposium and the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations. In 2017, CCGRID will come to Spain, Europe, and will be held in Madrid. IMPORTANT DATES FOR SUBMISSIONS: —- CALL FOR POSTERS: January 9th, 2017. Extended. Firm deadline! —- CALL FOR DOCTORAL SYMP. : January 15th, 2017 —- CALL FOR TUTORIALS: January 15th, 2017 —- CALL for SCALE challenge: February 8th, 2017 Special Issue associated: Journal of Grid Computing.

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ICA3PP-2017 call for papers
by Florin Pop 29 Dec '16

29 Dec '16

Call for Papers 17th International Conference on Algorithms and Architectures for Parallel Processing (ICA3PP-2017) August 21-23, 2017, Helsinki, Finland URL: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/ ICA3PP 2017 will be held jointly with IEEE CIT 2017 and NSS 2017 in Helsinki, Finland on 21-23 August 2017. Important News! * Keynote speakers Prof. Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA (IEEE Fellow, EiC of IEEE TDSC) Prof. Francisco Herrera, University of Granada, Spain (EiC of Information Fusion) Prof. Y. Thomas Hou (Tom Hou), Virginia Tech, USA (IEEE Fellow) Dr. Anand Prasad, NEC Corporation, Japan (3GPP SA3 Chair) Prof. Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Prof. Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada * Journal Special Issues 1. Future Generation Computer Systems (FGCS), Special Issue on Security and Privacy for RFID and IoTs (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 2.43) 2. Journal of Information Security and Applications (JISA), Special Issue on Mobile Networks and Devices Security, Privacy and Trust. 3. IEEE Internet of Things, Special Issue on Trust, Security and Privacy in Crowdsourcing (SCI indexed) 4. Special in IEEE Access (SCI indexed, Impact Factor: 1.27) 5. Special Issue in Journal of Cyber Security and Mobility (Scopes indexed) 6. Special Issue on Elsevier/Digital Communications and Networks * Workshops - The 4th International Workshop on Data, Text, Web, and Social Network Mining (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/wsdtwsm2017.html) ICA3PP 2017 is the 17th in this series of conferences started in 1995 that are devoted to algorithms and architectures for parallel processing. ICA3PP is now recognized as the main regular event of the world that is covering the many dimensions of parallel algorithms and architectures, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial components and systems. As applications of computing systems have permeated in every aspects of daily life, the power of computing system has become increasingly critical. This conference provides a forum for academics and practitioners from countries around the world to exchange ideas for improving the efficiency, performance, reliability, security and interoperability of computing systems and applications. Following the traditions of the previous successful ICA3PP conferences held in Hangzhou, Brisbane, Singapore, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Beijing, Cyprus, Taipei, Busan, Melbourne, Fukuoka, Vietri sul Mare, Dalian,Japan, Zhangjiajie, and Granada, ICA3PP 2017 will be held in Helsinki, Finland. The objective of ICA3PP 2017 is to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia, industry and governments to advance the theories and technologies in parallel and distributed computing. ICA3PP 2017 will focus on two broad areas of parallel and distributed computing, i.e., architectures, algorithms and networks, and systems and applications. The conference of ICA3PP 2017 is co-organized by Aalto University, Finland and Xidian University, China. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: Scope and Interests Track 1: Parallel and Distributed Architectures Track 2: Software Systems and Programming Models Track 3: Distributed and Network-based Computing Track 4: Big Data and its Applications Track 5: Parallel and Distributed Algorithms Track 6: Applications of Parallel and Distributed Computing Track 7: Service Dependability and Security in Distributed and Parallel Systems Track 8: Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical-Social Computing Track 9: Performance Modeling and Evaluation Submission Guidelines 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, must not exceed 14 pages, including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in Springer LNCS Format with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Please submit your paper via https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/submit.html Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. The conference proceeding will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues as below (SCI/SCIE indexed). Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: 15 March, 2017 Author Notification: 10th June, 2017 Camera-ready and Registration: 25th June, 2017 Conference Dates: 21-23 August, 2017 WORKSHOPS The ICA3PP 2017 Organization Committee invites proposals for one-day workshops affiliated with the conference and addressing research areas related to the conference. The workshop proceedings will be published by Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS, EI indexed). Excellent Papers will be recommended to high-quality journal special issues (SCI/SCIE indexed). Submit workshop proposals via emails to liukeen(a)mail.xjtu.edu.cn; zheng.yan(a)aalto.fi. Organization Committee Honorary chair: Xinbo Gao, Xidian University, China General Chairs: Witold Pedrycz, Alberta Unviersity, Canada Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China Program Chairs: Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Shadi Ibrahim, Inria, France Florin Pop, University Politechnica of Bucharest, Romania Workshop Chairs Jun Liu, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China KP Lam, Keele University, UK Publication Chair Peng Zhang, Zalando, Finland Publicity Chairs Wenxiu Ding, Xidian University, China Local & Finance Chair Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland Steering Committee Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia (Chair) Weijia Jia, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Web Chairs Mingjun Wang, Xidian University, China Huaqing Lin, Xidian University, China Track Chairs Guillaume Aupy, Inria, France Jing Chen, Wuhan University, China Gene Cooperman, Northeastern University, USA Marc Frîncu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Javier Garcia-Blas, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Julian Kunkel, German Climate Computing Center, Germany Laurent Lefèvre, Inria, France Haikun Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Ting Liu, Xi’an Jiaotong University, China Yining Liu, Guilin University of Electronic Technology, China Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS, France Zhonghong Ou, BUPT, China, Etienne Rivière, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Xueyan Tang, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Tomoaki Tsumura, Nagoya Institute of Technology, Japan Yu Xiao, Aalto University, Finland Yanjiang Yang, Huawei Research Center, Singapore Technical Program Committee See ICA3PP 2017 website: https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/ICA3PP2017/

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