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3rd WACCPD Workshop @SC16; EARLY-BIRD Submission Deadline + Best Paper AWARD
by Sunita Chandrasekaran 30 Jun '16

30 Jun '16

Third Workshop on Accelerator Programming using Directives (WACCPD) http://waccpd.org/ In cooperation with ACM SIGHPC Monday, November 14, 2016 co-located with SC16: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis <http://sc16.supercomputing.org/> November 13-18, 2016 *Call for Papers* One of the hard realities is that the hardware continues to evolve very rapidly with diverse memory subsystems or cores with different ISAs or accelerators of varied types. The HPC community is in constant need for sophisticated software tools and techniques to port legacy code to these emerging platforms. Maintaining a single code base yet achieving performance portable solution continues to pose a daunting task. Directive-based programming models such as OpenACC, OpenMP tackle this issue by offering scientists a high-level approach to accelerate scientific applications and develop performance portable solutions. This enables accelerators to be first-class citizens for HPC! To address the rapid pace of hardware evolution, developers continue to explore and add richer features to the various (parallel) programming standards. Domain scientists continue to explore the programming and tools space while preparing themselves for future Exascale systems. This workshop aims to solicit papers that explore innovative language features – their implementations, compilation & runtime scheduling techniques, performance optimization strategies, auto-tuning tools exploring the optimization space and so on. WACCPD has been one of the major forums for bringing together the users, developers and tools community to share their knowledge and experiences of using directives and similar approaches to program emerging complex systems. * Topics of interest for workshop submissions include (but are not limited to):* - Compiler and Runtime support for current and emerging architectures - Language-based extensions - Memory management using directives - Performance evaluation and lessons learnt - Auto-tuning and optimization strategies - Programming experience porting applications in any domain - Extensions to and shortcomings of current accelerator directives APIs - Hybrid heterogeneous or many-core programming with accelerator directives with other models (i.e. OpenMP, MPI, OpenSHMEM) - Scientific libraries interoperability with accelerator directives - Experiences in implementing compilers for accelerator directives on newer architectures - Low level communication APIs or runtimes that support accelerator directives - Asynchronous execution and scheduling (heterogeneous tasks) - Power / energy studies - Static analysis and verification tools - Modeling and performance analysis tools - Benchmarks and validation suites *Important Deadlines* - Early-Bird Submission Deadline: Aug 1, 2016 AOE - Early-Bird Paper Notification: Aug 31, 2016 AOE - Regular Submission Deadline: August 22nd, 2016 AOE - Regular Paper Author notification: September 30th, 2016 - Camera Ready for all papers DUE: October 2nd, 2016 AOE *Best Paper Award:* NVIDIA has generously offered to sponsor the ‘Best Paper Award’ with NVIDIA’s newest Pascal compute capable card. 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. *Paper Submission Guidelines* Submissions are limited to 10 pages. They must follow the ACM format (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) The 10-page limit includes figures, tables, and appendices, but does not include references, for which there is no page limit. Papers should be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=waccpd2016 Submitted papers should not have appeared in or be under consideration for a different workshop, conference or journal. It is also expected that all accepted papers will be presented at the workshop by one of the authors. *Journal Special Issue* A Special issue of the International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking <http://www.inderscience.com/jhome.php?jcode=ijhpcn>(IJHPCN) titled ‘High Level Programming Approaches for Accelerators’ will feature invited contributions from the workshop. These special issues will be edited by Sunita Chandrasekaran and Guido Juckeland. The submission to this special issue is by invitation only. * Steering Committee:* - Barbara Chapman (StonyBrook University, cOMPunity, USA) - Oscar Hernandez (ORNL, USA) - Kuan-Ching Li (Providence University, Taiwan) - Satoshi Matsuoka (Titech, Japan) - Duncan Poole (OpenACC) - Thomas Schulthess (ORNL, USA) - Jeff Vetter (ORNL, USA) *Program Co-Chairs:* - Guido Juckeland, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, Dresden, Germany - Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA *Program Committee:* - Christopher Bergstorm (Pathscale) - James Beyer (NVIDIA, USA) - Henri Callandra (TOTAL, USA) - Robert Dietrich (TU Dresden, Germany) - Fernanda Foertter (ORNL, USA) - Mark Govette (NOAA, USA) - Georg Hager (FAU, Germany) - Jeff Hammond (Intel, USA) - Christian Iwainsky (TU Darmstadt, Germany) - Arpith J. Jacob (IBM, USA) - Henri Jin (NASA-Ames, USA) - Wayne Joubert (ORNL, USA) - Michael Klemm (Intel, Germany) - Seyong Lee (ORNL, USA) - Antonio J. Pena (BSC, Spain) - William Sawyer (CSCS, Switzerland) - Thomas Schwinge (MentorGraphics, Germany) - Ray Sheppard (Indiana University, USA) - Christian Terboven (RWTH Aachen University, Germany) - Michael Wolfe (NVIDIA, USA) - *Keynote Speaker:* Jack Well, the Director of Science for the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF), will give the Keynote at the workshop. OLCF is a DOE Office of Science national user facility, and the Titan supercomputer is located at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL). Wells is responsible for the scientific outcomes of the OLCF’s user programs. Wells has previously lead both ORNL’s Computational Materials Sciences group in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division and the Nanomaterials Theory Institute in the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences. Prior to joining ORNL as a Wigner Fellow in 1997, Wells was a postdoctoral fellow within the Institute for Theoretical Atomic and Molecular Physics at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. Wells has a Ph.D. in physics from Vanderbilt University, and has authored or co-authored over 80 scientific papers and edited 1 book, spanning nanoscience, materials science and engineering, nuclear and atomic physics computational science, applied mathematics, and text-based data analytics. *Contact: * Pls email organizers(a)waccpd.org for any questions.

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CFP ReConFig 2016 :: Nov 30 - Dec 2 :: Cancun, Mexico
by René Cumplido 30 Jun '16

30 Jun '16

CALL FOR PAPERS ReConFig 2016 2016 International Conference on ReConFigurable Computing and FPGA's Nov 30 - Dec 2, 2016, Cancun, Mexico. www.reconfig.org * 3 Keynote Speeches * Technical Sessions (General Sessions + 9 Special Tracks) * PhD Forum * Demo Night * Social Events IEEE CASS Technical Cosponsorship. Conference Proceedings by the IEEE, to be included in IEEE Digital library (IEEE Xplore). Special Issues of International Journals. Deadline for Submissions: July 15, 2016 ******************************************************************** Call for Papers It is our pleasure to invite you to participate in the 2016 International Conference on Reconfigurable Computing and FPGAs (ReConFig ï¿½16). The eleventh ReConFig will be held in Cancun, Mexico, during November 30 - December 2, 2016. Reconfigurable computing and FPGA technology have become major subjects of research in computing and electrical engineering as they have been identified as powerful alternatives for creating highly efficient computing systems. Reconfigurable computing offers substantial performance improvements when compared against traditional processing architectures via custom design and reconfiguration capabilities. Reconfiguration is characterized by the ability of hardware architectures or devices to rapidly alter the functionalities of its components and the interconnection between them as needed. Existing theoretical models and algorithms combined with commercially available devices, such as FPGAs, make Reconfigurable Computing a very powerful computing paradigm. Topics ReConFig is one of the leading forums in the field that brings together an appropriate mix of all theoretical and practical aspects of reconfigurable computing and FPGA technology. The conference promotes the use of reconfigurable computing and FPGAs devices for research, education, and applications, covering from hardware architectures and devices to custom computers and high performance systems. ReConFig covers a broad spectrum of topics including, but not limited to: * Models, methods, tools, and architectures for reconfigurable computing * Compilation, simulation, debugging, synthesis, verification, and test of reconfigurable systems * Field programmable gate arrays and other reconfigurable technologies * Evolvable hardware and dynamic reconfiguration * Algorithms implemented on reconfigurable hardware * Reconfigurable computing education * Reconfigurable computing applications In addition to the general session, submissions are invited for the following tracks: * High Performance Reconfigurable Computing * Productivity Environments and High Level Languages * Reconfiguration Techniques * Reconfigurable Computing for Security and Cryptography * Reconfigurable Computing for Networks and Communications * Reconfigurable Computing in Space * Reconfigurable Computing with GPUs and APUs * Reconfigurable Computing for Signal Processing * Multiprocessor Systems and Networks on Chip * Phd Forum Demo Night All attendees will be encouraged to bring their hardware/software for display at the ReConFig 2016 Demo Night. Conference Proceedings Conference Proceedings will be edited by the IEEE and will appear at IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version for a ReConFigï¿½16 Special Issue of International Journals (TBA). Submission information Regular submissions should be no more than 6 pages long including tables, figures and references. They have to be submitted for evaluation as a PDF file using IEEE formatting. Important Dates Full Paper Submission: July 15, 2016 Acceptance Notification: September 16, 2016 Final paper submission: October 0, 2016 Conference: November 30 - December 2, 2016 Organizing Committee General Chair Renï¿½ Cumplido, INAOE, Mexico Program co-Chairs Peter Athanas, Virginia Tech, USA Ron Sass, UNC-Charlotte, USA Proceedings Chair Claudia Feregrino, INAOE, Mexico Publicity Chair Alicia Morales, INAOE, Mexico Tracks co-Chairs Hugo Andrade, National Instruments, USA David Andrews, University of Arkansas, USA Jason Bakos, University of South Carolina, USA Gordon Brebner, Xilinx, USA Eduardo de la Torre, Technical University of Madrid, Spain Suhaib Fahmy, Univeristy of Warwick, UK Diana Goehringer, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Sylvain Guilley, TELECOM-ParisTech, France Michael Huebner, Ruhr University Bochum, Germany Herman Lam, University of Florida, USA Fernanda Lima Kastensmidt, UFRGS, Brazil Sonia Lopez Alarcon, Rochester Institute of Technology, USA Martin Margala, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Nele Mentens, KU Leuven, Belgium Andrew Schmidt, ISI/USC, USA Dirk Stroobandt, Ghent University, Belgium Juergen Teich, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, Germany

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[EWiLi'16] Deadline July 11th, Embedded Operating System Workshop held in conjunction with ESWEEK
by Jalil Boukhobza 30 Jun '16

30 Jun '16

**************************************************************************** *************** Call For Papers EWiLi'16, the 6th Embedded Operating System Workshop held in conjunction with ESWEEK October 6th, PITTSBURGH, PA, USA Submission deadline: 11 July 2016 http://syst.univ-brest.fr/ewili2016 **************************************************************************** *************** Aim and Scopes EWiLi, the embedded operating system workshop, aims at presenting state-of-the-art research, experimentations, significant and original realizations that focus on the design and implementation of embedded operating systems in both academic and industrial worlds. Expected contributions include but are not limited to the following topics, but should all consider embedded operating systems : - Reconfigurable architectures - Heterogeneous MPSOC and Multicore - Sensor networks - Multimedia systems - Cyber physical systems - Internet of things - Methods, software and tool chains - Model-driven Engineering - Data management and memory hierarchy optimization - Real-time, concurrency, scheduling and temporal performance - File systems, storage, and I/Os in embedded operating systems - Debug and profiling - Energy and power optimization - Performance evaluation and optimization - Safety and security concerns - Case studies and application projects - Embedded operating systems and education Submissions & publication Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ewili16 Papers should not exceed 6 pages in ACM SIG format (see http://sigbed.seas.upenn.edu/submit.html ) All accepted papers will be published in the ACM SIGBED Review (ISSN: 1551-3688) Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems. Important dates: Submission deadline: 11 July 2016 Notifications to authors: 19 August 2016 Camera ready versions: 19 September 2016 Steering committee (to be completed): Jalil BOUKHOBZA (Associate professor, Lab-STICC/University of Western Brittany, France) Marco Dominico SANTAMBROGIO (Polytech. Milano, Italy) Frank SINGHOFF (Professor, Lab-STICC/University of Western Brittany, France) Contact: boukhobza(a)univ-brest.fr Publicity chairs Giuseppe LIPARI (Univ. Lilles, France) Duo Liu (Chongqing Univ., China) Program committee (to be completed/confirmed) Mario ALDEA-RIVAS (Univ. de Cantabria, Spain) Sébastien BILAVARN (LEAT/Univ. Nice, France) Gedare BLOOM (Howard University, USA) Julien BOIBESSOT (Armadeus Systems, France) Jalil BOUKHOBZA (Lab-STICC/Univ. Western Brittany, France) Eric GRESSIER (CNAM Paris, France) Emmanuel GROLLEAU (LIAS, ISAE-ENSMA, France) Dionisio DE NIZ (SEI, Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Jean Philippe DIGUET (Lab-STICC/ Univ. Of South Brittany, France) Henrique DOMINGOS (FCT/Univ. Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Pierre FICHEUX (Openwide, France) Ann GORDON-ROSS (Univ. of Florida, USA) Henry HOFFMANN (University of Chicago, USA) Michael HUEBNER (Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany) Jérôme HUGUES (ISAE, France) Mathieu JAN (CEA, France) Patrice KADIONIK (ENSEIRB, France) Mouloud KOUDIL (ESI, Algeria) John KUBIATOWICZ (Univ. of California Berkeley, USA) Giuseppe LIPARI (Univ. Lilles, France) Duo Liu (Chongqing Univ., China) Manolis MARAZAKIS (ICS FORTH, Greece) Pierre Olivier (Virginia Tech, USA) Laurent PAUTET (Telecom Paris-Tech, France) Luis Miguel PINHO (CISTER/ISEP, Portugal) Juan Antonio de la PUENTE (DIT-UPM, Spain) José RUFINO (FCUL, Portugal) José RUIZ (AdaCore, France) Marco D. SANTAMBROGIO (Polytech. Milano, Italy) Eric SENN (Lab-STICC/Univ. of South Brittany, France) Joel SHERRILL (OAR Corporation, USA) Frank SINGHOFF (Lab-STICC/Univ. Western Brittany, France) Frank SIQUEIRA (Univ. Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil) Zili SHAO (Polytechnic Univ. Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Oleg SOKOLSKY (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Jon SOLWORTH (University of Illinois, USA) John WILLIAMS (ex. PetaLogix/Xilinx, Australia) -- Jalil Boukhobza Associate Professor Lab-STICC Lab./ Dept. of Computer Science University of Western Brittany, 20 Av. Le Gorgeu - CS 93837 29238 Brest Cedex 3 Tel: +33 2 98 01 69 73 Fax: +33 2 98 01 80 11

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SeedHPC Workshop Call for Papers
by Xavier Martorell 29 Jun '16

29 Jun '16

Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email. CALL FOR PAPERS SeedHPC: Seeding Future HPC Programming As Part of PACT 2016 Dan Carmel, Haifa, Israel September 11th, 2016 https://sites.google.com/site/seedhpc/ Endorsed by the HiPEAC Network of Excellence ====================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES **if you plan to submit a paper, please let us know in advance** **by contacting Marisa Gil <marisa(a)ac.upc.edu> ** **and Chris Fensch <C.Fensch(a)hw.ac.uk> ** * Paper Submission deadline **extended**: July 15th, 2016 * Author Notification: July 30th, 2016 * Camera-ready papers: August 16th, 2016 * Workshop date: September 11th, 2016 ====================================================================== Description We are in a critical turning point in the HPC domain where new languages are needed to better exploit current and especially future technology, the paradigms of which are rapidly changing, as well as the problems to face from now to the future. While this change originates from HPC, it also affects many mainstream domains as well as parallel programming has become ubiquitous. Current use of large datasets and high bandwidth memory and networks, and the increase of collaborative multidisciplinary projects, based on intensive computation and visualization, which we typically associate with supercomputing, have not yet become part of undergraduate courses. The challenge now is how to introduce this new technology to undergraduate education and also include the necessary supercomputing tools in order to prepare students for future challenges, to facilitate the process of scientific progress. In this workshop, we call for papers proposing new strategies to train students for these challenging and rewarding domains, as well as to discuss open issues and investigate directions for broader student engagement. Topics of Interest This workshop would like to encourage submissions on any of (but not limited to) the following topics: * critical topics to teach for the future, * new programming approaches to deal with HPC systems, * new programming languages facilitating student education, * tools to facilitate identification of real problems, * new tools to ease performance analysis and understanding of systems, * ... Procedure Papers should be limited to 6 pages, please use the same format as the PACT conference, see the PACT Paper Submission Information: http://pactconf.org/authors/paper-submission-information/ Submission: please send your paper by email to Marisa Gil <marisa(a)ac.upc.edu> and Chris Fensch <C.Fensch(a)hw.ac.uk>. Papers publication TBD Venue This workshop is organized within the PACT 2016 at the Dan Carmel hotel, Haifa, Israel. Lunch and coffee breaks are included in the registration fee. Attendees should register via the PACT registration site, using the "PACT Workshops" category. The official language of the conference is English. Link to PACT 2016 registration: http://pactconf.org/rates-registration/ Organizers Marisa Gil, UPC-BSC Xavier Martorell, UPC-BSC Chris Fensch, Heriot-Watt University Georgios Goumas, National Technical University of Athens Program Committee Koen De Bosschere, Ghent University Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Queen's University of Belfast Avi Mendelson, Technion Gladys Utrera, UPC Pedro Trancoso, University of Cyprus Lasse Natvig, NTNU Javier Bueno, BSC Toni Peï¿½a, BSC Conference Site https://sites.google.com/site/seedhpc/ -- Xavier Martorell Computer Architecture Department DAC || Computer Science/Programming Models Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya UPC || Barcelona Supercomputing Center BSC xavim(a)ac.upc.edu people.ac.upc.es/xavim || xavier.martorell(a)bsc.es 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.

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CfP: Environmental Computing Workshop (ECW) at IEEE eScience 2016 - Deadline extended (July 4 2016)
by Matti Heikkurinen/LMU 29 Jun '16

29 Jun '16

Call for Papers: Environmental Computing Workshop (ECW) Organised in conjunction with eScience 2016 conference October 23 - 27 2016 Baltimore, Maryland, USA, Submission deadline 4th July (extended) http://www.envcomp.eu/eScience2016 This workshop will bring together practitioners, policymakers, and environmental modelling experts to present the latest developments in Environmental Computing. Submissions by groups working on related – or potentially related – fields are also encouraged in order to uncover new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration. The topics of interest include: • Case studies in environmental computing related domains • Environmental modelling and optimisation techniques • Novel environmental computing applications • Multi-scale, multi-model and multi-physics systems • Civil protection and related engineering challenges • Scalability of environmental HPC and Big Data applications • Risk analysis, assessment, management, and mitigation • Interdisciplinary and stakeholder collaboration • Dynamic multi-directional model coupling approaches • Multifaceted data and metadata frameworks • Urgent computing and probabilistic models • Data visualisation and interactive analysis • Uncertainty quantification and visualization BACKGROUND Already today, many domain- or problem-specific areas – such as meteorology or seismic analysis –use multi-model, multi-data, and multi-scale approaches to analyse and study environmental phenomena and their impact. However, there is still a need for a more generalised approach to producing actionable knowledge from different environmental data sources. The topic is of acute interest due to its societal challenges and state-of-the-art technical developments, requiring generalising, productising and maturing today’s environmental modelling solutions. Application areas include managing disasters and disaster risks, supporting prompt political decision making, and many other similar domains. PAPER AND ABSTRACT SUBMISSION The contributions can be traditional papers (maximum 10 pages), experience papers (short papers or annotated slide sets of maximum 15 slides) or presentations abstracts. Contributions should be submitted at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecw2016. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: July 4, 2016 Notification of Acceptance: July 14, 2016 Camera-Ready: August 1, 2016 Conference: October 23 – 27, 2016 (Baltimore, Maryland, USA) ORGANISATION AND CONTACT Dieter Kranzlmüller, LMU & LRZ Munich, Germany Matti Heikkurinen, LMU Munich Anton Frank, LRZ Munich http://www.envcomp.eu/eScience2016 - info(a)envcomp.eu -- Matti Heikkurinen - LMU heikku(a)nm.ifi.lmu.de - +41 76 716 05 31 Publish at ECW 2016: http://www.envcomp.eu/eScience2016 (deadline 4th July) Other environmental computing events: http://www.envcomp.eu/events

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CFA: The Eighth Annual Concurrent Collectoins Workshop (CnC 2016)
by CnC Workshop 2016 29 Jun '16

29 Jun '16

*** Apologies if you received multiple copies of this email *** ____________________________________________________________________________________ Call for Abstracts: CnC 2016: The Seventh Annual Concurrent Collections Workshop <https://cncworkshop2016.github.io/> September 27-28, 2016 at Rochester, NY (co-located with LCPC'16 <https://lcpc2016.wordpress.com/>) ____________________________________________________________________________________ Important Dates Abstracts Due: August 29, 2016 Acceptance Notification: September 12, 2016 Workshop: September 27-28, 2016 About The annual Concurrent Collections (CnC) workshop is a forum for researchers and developers of parallel programs to interact on a variety of issues related to next-generation parallel programming models. The focus is on fostering a community around the CnC programming model. However, we also strongly encourage participation by anyone interested in programming models inspired by dataflow and/or tuple space ideas, coordination languages, dependence programming, as well as current or emerging applications of these models. Participation and Call for Abstracts The workshop agenda will include CnC tutorials on current and future trends, talks selected from contributed abstracts, and a programming contest. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: language design and implementation, semantics and theory, application experiences, and teaching CnC. If you are interested in giving a talk, please submit a short abstract (between 200–500 words in length) to workshop chairs Alina Sbirlea and Vivek Sarkar at cncworkshop2016(a)gmail.com no later than Monday, August 29, 2016. Background on CnC CnC is a parallel programming model for mainstream programmers that philosophically differs from other approaches. CnC programmers do not specify parallel operations. Instead, they only specify semantic ordering constraints. This provides a separation of concerns between the domain expert and tuning expert, simplifying the domain expert’s job while providing more flexibility to the tuning expert. Details on CnC and related research can be found at: http://intel.ly/concurrent-collections and http://habanero.rice.edu/cnc The CnC workshops serve as a forum for users and potential users to discuss experiences with the programming, as well as a range of topics, including developments for the language, applications, usability, performance, semantics, and teaching CnC. If you have any questions about logistics or participation, please contact the workshop chairs at cncworkshop2016(a)gmail.com. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Workshop Chairs - Alina Sbirlea, Google Inc. - Vivek Sarkar, Rice University. Steering Committee - Zoran Budimlic, Rice University - Aparna Chandramowlishwaran, UC Irvine - Kath Knobe, Rice University - Milind Kulkarni, Purdue University - Louis-Noel Pouchet, Ohio State University - Frank Schlimbach, Intel Corp.

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Call for Workshops: 17th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid’17)
by FRANCISCO JAVIER GARCIA BLAS 29 Jun '16

29 Jun '16

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email) Call for Papers for the 17th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid’17) Call for Workshops ————————————————— The organizers of the 17th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid’17) call for proposals for workshops to be co-located with CCGrid’17. Workshops should provide forums for discussion among researchers and practitioners on focused topics or emerging research areas relevant to the community. Organizers may structure workshops as they see fit, including invited talks, panel discussions, presentations of work in progress, fully peer-reviewed papers, or some combination of the above. Workshops could be scheduled for half a day or a full day, depending on interest, space constraints, and organizer preference. Organizers should design workshops for approximately 20-40 participants, to balance impact and effective discussion. The peer-reviewed accepted papers of organized workshops will be published in the CCGrid proceedings. Each paper must have at least two reviews for being eligible for publication. Important dates ————————————————— • Deadline for Workshop Proposals: September 15, 2016 • Notifications of Acceptance: October 15, 2016 Submission requirements ————————————————— Workshop proposals must submitted in PDF format and should include: • The name and acronym of the workshop. • An abstract (0.5-1 page) of the workshop. • A brief description of why and to whom the workshop is of interest. • A list of topics of interest. • The names and affiliations of the workshop organizers, and ideally, of a significant portion of the program committee. • A description of the expected structure of the workshop (papers, invited talks, panel discussions, etc.) • Data about previous offerings of the workshop (if any), including the attendance, the numbers of papers or presentations submitted and accepted, and the links to the corresponding websites. • A publicity plan for attracting submissions and attendees. Please also include expected number of submissions, accepted papers, and attendees that you anticipate for a successful workshop. Please, submit your proposal through the Easy chair place for the conference: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccgrid2017. In the track list, select: Workshops proposal. If you are interested in presenting a workshop at this conference and you need info, please contact the workshops chairs: • Florin Isaila (fisaila(a)inf.uc3m.es) Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain • Sandra Gesing (sandra.gesing(a)nd.edu) Notre Dame University, USA ________________________________________________________ Dr. Javier García Blas Computer Architecture, Communications and Systems Area. Computer Science Department. UNIVERSIDAD CARLOS III DE MADRID Avda. de la Universidad, 30 28911 Leganés (Madrid), SPAIN e-mail: fjblas(a)arcos.inf.uc3m.es fjblas(a)inf.uc3m.es Phone:(+34) 916249143 FAX: (+34) 916249129 ________________________________________________________

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FSP 2016: CfP DEADLINE EXTENDED to July 7th (3rd Intern. Workshop on FPGAs for Software Programmers)
by Markus Weinhardt 29 Jun '16

29 Jun '16

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP. =============================================================================== *F I N A L C A L L F O R P A P E R S* Third International Workshop on *FPGAs for Software Programmers* (FSP 2016) August 29, 2016, Lausanne, Switzerland co-located with Int. Conf. on Field Programmable Logic and Applications Extended Paper Submission Deadline: July 7, 2016 Proceedings will be published by VDE and indexed by *IEEE Xplore* =============================================================================== *Scope of the Workshop* The aim of this one-day workshop is to make FPGA and reconfigurable technology accessible to software programmers. Despite their frequently proven power and performance benefits, designing for FPGAs is mostly an engineering discipline carried out by highly trained specialists. With recent progress in high-level synthesis, a first important step towards bringing FPGA technology to potentially millions of software developers was taken. However, to make this happen, there are still important issues to be solved that are in the focus of this workshop. *Topics of the FSP Workshop include, but are not limited to* o High-level synthesis and domain-specific languages (DSLs) for FPGAs and heterogeneous systems o Mapping approaches and tools for heterogeneous FPGAs o Support of hard IP blocks such as embedded processors and memory interfaces o Development environments for software engineers (automated tool flows, design frameworks and tools, tool interaction) o FPGA virtualization (design for portability, hardware abstraction, etc.) o Design automation technologies for multi-FPGA and heterogeneous systems o Methods for leveraging (partial) dynamic reconfiguration to increase performance, flexibility, reliability, or programmability o Operating system services for FPGA resource management, reliability, security o Target hardware design platforms (infrastructure, drivers, portable systems) o Overlays (CGRAs, vector processors, ASIP- and GPU-like intermediate fabrics) o Applications (embedded computing, signal processing, bio informatics, big data, database acceleration, etc.) using OpenCL, OpenSPL, Vivado-HLS, etc. o Directions for collaborations (research proposals, networking, Horizon 2020) *Important Dates* Submission deadline: July 7, 2016 Notification of acceptance: July 21, 2016 Camera-ready final version: July 28, 2016 Workshop: August 29, 2016 *Submission details and publication* Prospective authors are invited to submit original contributions (up to eight pages) or extended abstracts describing work-in-progress or position papers (not exceeding two pages). Details about the submission process are available on the workshop web page (www.hs-osnabrueck.de/fsp2016) The proceedings of this workshop containing all accepted full papers will be published by VDE-Verlag (Germany) and will be indexed by IEEE Xplore. Every accepted paper must have at least one author registered to the workshop by the time the camera-ready paper is due. *General Co-Chairs* - Andreas Koch, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany - Markus Weinhardt, Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, Germany *Proceedings Chair* - Christian Hochberger, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany *Program Committee* - Hideharu Amano, Keio University, Japan - Jason H. Anderson, University of Toronto, Canada - Tobias Becker, Imperial College, London, UK - João M. P. Cardoso, University of Porto, Portugal - Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA - Frank Hannig, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany - Dirk Koch, University of Manchester, UK - Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University, USA - Walid Najjar, University of California Riverside, USA - Marco Platzner, University of Paderborn, Germany - Christian Plessl, University of Paderborn, Germany - Dan Poznanovic, Cray Inc., USA - Olivier Sentieys, University of Rennes, France - Dirk Stroobandt, Ghent University, Belgium - Gustavo Sutter, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain - Peter Yiannacouras, Altera Corp., Canada - Daniel Ziener, Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

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CFP (Submission Deadline extension: July 15th, 2016): IEEE CloudCom 2016 - 8th IEEE Intl. Conf. on Cloud Computing Technology and Science
by Sebastien Varrette 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

Please, accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message. New deadline extension ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS **IEEE CloudCom 2016** _8th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science_ December 12-15th, 2016, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg http://2016.cloudcom.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES **New Regular Papers Due........... July 15, 2016** PhD Consortium Papers Due.......... August 10, 2016 Posters and Demo Paper Due......... August 10, 2016 Notification of Paper Acceptance... August 31, 2016 Camera Ready Due.................. September 15, 2016 Conference Date................... December 12 - 15, 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The "Cloud" is a natural evolution of distributed computing and of the widespread adaption of virtualization and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). In Cloud Computing, IT-related capabilities and resources are provided as services, via the Internet and on-demand, accessible without requiring detailed knowledge of the underlying technology. **IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology & Science 2016** will be the 8th in the series of conferences, steered by the Cloud Computing Association, that brings together researchers, developers and users interested in cloud computing systems to present and discuss the needs of, and innovations in, the area and related technologies. TOPICS OF INTEREST, but are not limited to: 1. **Architecture and Virtualization** - Intercloud architecture models - Cloud services delivery models, campus integration & "last mile" issues - Networking technologies - Programming models & systems/tools - Cloud system design with FPGAs, GPUs, APUs - Storage & file systems - Scalability & performance - Resource provisioning, monitoring, management & maintenance - Operational, economic & business models - Green data centers - Computational resources, storage & network virtualization - Resource monitoring - Virtual desktops - Resilience, fault tolerance, disaster recovery - Modeling & performance evaluation - Disaster recovery - Energy efficiency 2. **Cloud Services and Applications** - Cloud services models & frameworks - Cloud services reference models & standardization - Cloud-powered services design - Business processes, compliance & certification - Data management applications & services - Application workflows & scheduling - Application benchmarks & use cases - Cloud-based services & protocols - Fault-tolerance & availability of cloud services and applications - Application development and debugging tools - Business models & economics of cloud services 3. **IoT and Mobile on Cloud** - IoT cloud architectures & models - Cloud-based dynamic composition of IoT - Cloud-based context-aware IoT - Mobile cloud architectures & models - Green mobile cloud computing - Resource management in mobile cloud environments - Cloud support for mobility-aware networking protocols - Multimedia applications in mobile cloud environments - Cloud-based mobile networks and applications 4. **Big Data** - Machine learning - Data mining - Approximate & scalable statistical methods - Graph algorithms - Querying & search - Data lifecycle management - Frameworks, tools & their composition - Dataflow management & scheduling 5. **High Performance Computing in/with the Cloud** - Load balancing - Middleware solutions - Scalable scheduling - HPC as a Service - Programming models - Use cases & experience reports - Cloud deployment systems - TCO analysis Cloud vs HPC 6. **Security and Privacy** - Accountability & audit - Authentication & authorization - Cloud integrity - Cryptography for & in the cloud - Hypervisor security - Identity management & security as a service - Prevention of data loss or leakage - Secure, interoperable identity management - Trust & credential management - Trusted computing - Usable security 7. **Distributed Cloud / Cloud Brokering / Edge Computing** - Distributed Cloud Infrastructure - Cloud federation & hybrid cloud infrastructure - Utility Computing (UC) - Cloud Brokering Problem - Edge Computing infrastructure - Cloudlets - Fog Computing Systems More details can be found at the following URL: http://2016.cloudcom.org/conf/tracks.html -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION See http://2016.cloudcom.org/submissions/cfp.html Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Authors must submit their papers by the deadline indicated above, using the Easychair submission system available on the following URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cloudcom2016 Only PDF files will be accepted. Manuscripts need to be prepared according to the IEEE CS format. All regular paper submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of 8 pages (including references). All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three experts (acceptance rate: ~18%). Accepted papers **must be presented** at the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the conference, by the early date indicated by the organizers, and present the paper. The conference proceedings of CloudCom 2016 will be published by IEEE CS Press (IEEE Xplore) and indexed by EI and ISSN. Distinguished papers will be invited to be included within a number of special issues in prestigious international journals. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEE __General Chairs__ - Sebastien Varrette, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia __Steering Committee__ - Chunming Rong (chair), University of Stavanger, Norway - Martin Gilje Jaatun (vice-chair), SINTEF, Norway - Albert Y. Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia - Stephen L. Diamond, IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative, USA __Program Chairs__ - Gregoire Danoy, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Sathish Gopalakrishnan, The University of British Columbia, Canada __Workshops and Tutorials Chairs__ - Valentin Plugaru, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Henry Chan, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China __Posters and Demo Chair__ - Xavier Besseron, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg __Industry Panel Chair__ - Dany Donnen, Bidvest Belgium, Belgium - Mazin Yousif, T-Systems International, IEEE, USA __Student Travel Grants and PhD Forum Chairs__ - Lin Wang, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Magali Martin, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg __Publicity Chair__ - Robert (Ching-Hsien) Hsu, Chung Hua University, Taiwan __Sponsorship Chairs__ - Joseph Emeras, SnT, Luxembourg - Dzmitry Klaziovich, SnT, Luxembourg __Publication and Web Chair__ - Hyacinthe Cartiaux, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg __Registration Chairs__ - Magali Martin, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Stephanie Annet, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg __Local Arrangement Chairs__ - Stephanie Annet, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Magali Martin, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Daniel Gugan, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Bertrand Dessart, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Laurent Betry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg __Financial Chair__ - Magali Martin, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Laurent Betry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE More than 250 technical experts compose the TPC of IEEE CloudCom'16. The detailed list is maintained at the following URL: http://2016.cloudcom.org/committees/tpc.html

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SC16 Research Posters and ACM Student Research Competition
by Sadaf Alam 28 Jun '16

28 Jun '16

Call for Posters Submission to the The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis http://sc16.supercomputing.org/ SC16 is soliciting submissions for posters that display cutting-edge research and work in progress in high performance computing, storage, networking and analysis. Posters provide an excellent opportunity for short presentations and informal discussions with Conference attendees. Posters will be prominently displayed for the duration of the Conference, giving presenters a chance to showcase their latest results and innovations. The presented posters will be digitally archived and made publicly available after the Conference. A Best Poster Award will be presented based on quality of research work and quality of poster presentation. SC16 will also host the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC). This competition will feature posters from undergraduate and graduate students showcasing original student research. A SRC poster may be authored by exactly one student (optionally with the advisor(s)). Student authors must be an active ACM member. The ACM SRC pre-selection will happen during the poster reception and selected poster presenters will be given the opportunity to present their work in short talks on Wednesday. The ACM SRC Committee will select a set of winners based on their poster content and presentation style. IMPORTANT DATES Poster Submission Deadline: July 15, 2016 [auto extended to July 22, AoE] Notification Sent: September 1, 2016 Web Submissions: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/ Email Contact and Questions: posters(a)info.supercomputing.org IMPORTANT LINKS SC16 Research Posters: http://sc16.supercomputing.org/submitters/research-posters/ SC16 ACM Student Research Competition (SRC): http://sc16.supercomputing.org/studentssc/student-research-venues/acm-stude… SC16 Posters and ACM SRC FAQs: http://sc16.supercomputing.org/submitters/research-posters/posters-faq/ SUBMISSIONS As in past years, SC16 is soliciting two different types of posters: Regular Poster: Regular poster submissions must include (1) a 150 word abstract, (2) a draft of the poster, and (3) an up to two-page extended abstract including references in the SC16 technical paper format. ACM Student Research Competition Poster: ACM SRC poster submissions must include (1) a 150 word abstract, (2) a draft of the poster, and (3) a 800 word summary of the poster. There are separate submission forms for the two different types of posters. A poster may only be submitted as one type. All posters can be submitted within up to two of the following categories: Algorithms; Applications; Architectures and Networks; Clouds and Distributed Computing; Data Analytics, Visualization and Storage; Performance; Programming Systems; State of the Practice; System Software; and Education. For submission details, see the sample submission forms at the login page of the submission website: https://submissions.supercomputing.org Web Submissions: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/ Email Contact and Questions: posters(a)info.supercomputing.org SC16 Posters Chair Sadaf Alam, Swiss National Supercomputing Center Posters Vice Chair Luke Olson, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign CJ Newburn, Intel

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