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NoCArc 2016 - Submission Deadline Extended to Aug. 8, 2016
by Maurizio Palesi 31 Jul '16

31 Jul '16

-- Maurizio Palesi Kore University of Enna http://www.unikore.it/mpalesi/ [Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ==> IMPORTANT: Submission deadline extended to August 8, 2016 ==> NEWS: NoCArc is supported by ACM SIGMICRO ==> NEWS: Keynote talk by An-Yeu (Andy) Wu, National Taiwan University Thermal/Traffic-aware 3D Network-on-Chip (NoC) Designs ********************************************************************** NoCArc 2016 http://nocarc.unikore.it/ 9th International Workshop on Network on Chip Architectures October 15, 2016 - Taipei, Taiwan (To be held in conjunction with IEEE/ACM MICRO-49) ********************************************************************** G E N E R A L I N F O R M A T I O N Current multicore architectures formed by tens of processing cores will be soon replaced by the next generation of manycore architectures with hundreds of cores. In fact, the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors foresees that the number of Processing Elements (PEs) that will be integrated into a System-on-Chip (SoC) will be in the order of thousand within the 2020. As the number of communicating elements increases, there is a need for an efficient, scalable and reliable communication infrastructure. As technology geometries shrink to the deep submicron regime, however, the communication delay and power consumption of global interconnections become the major bottleneck. The Network-on-Chip (NoC) design paradigm, based on a modular packet-switched mechanism, can address many of the on-chip communication issues such as performance limitations of long interconnects, and integration of large number of PEs on a chip. The goal of NoCArc workshop is to provide a forum for researchers to present and discuss innovative ideas and solutions related to design and implementation of multi-core systems on chip. The workshop will focus on issues related to design, analysis and testing of on-chip networks. A R E A S O F I N T E R E S T The workshop will focus on issues related to design, analysis and testing of on-chip networks. The topics of specific interest for the workshop include, but are not limited to: NoC Architecture and Implementation * Topologies, routing, flow control * Managing QoS * Timing, synchronous/asynchronous communication * Reliability issues * Design methodologies and tools * Signaling & circuit design for NoC links * NoC Analysis and Verification Power, energy and thermal issues * Benchmarking and experience with NoC-based systems * Modeling, simulation, and synthesis * Verification, debug and test * Metrics and benchmarks * NoC Application Mapping of applications onto NoCs * NoC case studies, application-specific NoC design * NoCs for FPGAs, structured ASICs, CMPs and MPSoCs * NoC designs for heterogeneous systems * On-Chip Communication Optimization Communication efficient algorithms * Multi/many-core communication workload characterization and evaluation * Energy efficient NoCs and energy minimization * NoC at System-level Design of memory subsystem * NoC support for memory and cache access * OS support for NoCs * Programming models including shared memory, message passing and novel programming models * Issues related to large-scale systems (datacenters, supercomputers) with NoC-based systems as building blocks Emerging NoC Technologies * Wireless, Optical, and RF * NoCs for 3D and 2.5D packages Besides regular papers, papers describing work in progress or incomplete but sound new innovative ideas related to the workshop theme are also encouraged. S U B M I S S I O N Both research and application-oriented papers are welcome. All papers should be submitted electronically by EasyChair. Papers must be in PDF format and should include title, authors and affiliation, e-mail address of the contact author. Additional information at http://www.unikore.it/nocarc/submission.html I M P O R T A N T D A T E S * Paper submission deadline: August 8, 2016 * Acceptance notification: September 1, 2016 * Camera-ready version due: September 8, 2016 O R G A N I Z E R S GENERAL CHAIRS * Maurizio Palesi, Univ. of Enna, KORE, Italy * Masoud Daneshtalab, MDH and KTH, Sweden * Xiaohang Wang, South China University of Technology, China TPC CHAIRS * Masoumeh Ebrahimi, Univ. of Turku, Finland and KTH, Sweden * Davide Patti, Univ. of Catania, Italy

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Deadline Extended: SC16 Visualization Showcase submission deadline - August 15, 2016
by Chris Johnson 30 Jul '16

30 Jul '16

Visualization Showcase Important Dates: February 16, 2016: Submissions open August 15, 2016: Submissions deadline September 1, 2016: Notifications sent A new format for 2016! SC16’s Visualization and Data Analytics Showcase Program provides a forum for the year’s most instrumental movies in HPC. This year, there will be both a live display throughout the conference so that attendees can experience and enjoy the latest in science and engineering HPC results expressed through state-of-the-art visualization technologies, and a session at SC16 dedicated to the best of the submissions. Selected entries will be displayed live in a museum/art gallery format and six finalists will compete for the Best Visualization Award, with each finalist presenting his or her movie in a 15-minute presentation. Movies are judged based on how their movie illuminates science, by the quality of the movie, and for innovations in the process used for creating the movie. The six finalist submissions will appear as short papers on the SC16 webpage and archive. Review and selection process: Submissions need to include a movie (up to 250MB in size) and a short paper (up to 4 pages including references). The short paper should describe the scientific story conveyed by the movie, how the visualization helps scientific discovery, and the “state-of-the-practice” information (ieeevis.org <http://ieeevis.org/>)information behind making the movie. Each submission will be peer reviewed by the Visualization and Data Analytics Showcase Committee. Criteria for review include: How effective is the visual communication of the data? How relevant to the HPC community is the visualization? What is the impact of the science story and how well is it told? What visualization techniques were necessary to create the movie? Finally, submissions should support SC16’s overall theme “HPC matters.” http://sc16.supercomputing.org/submitters/showcases/scientific-visualizatio… <http://sc16.supercomputing.org/submitters/showcases/scientific-visualizatio…> Web Submissions: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/ <https://submissions.supercomputing.org/> Email Contact: vis_showcase(a)info.supercomputing.org <mailto:[email protected]> SC16 Visualization Showcase Chair Chris Johnson, University of Utah SC16 Visualization Showcase Vice Chair Kristin Potter, University of Oregon

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CFP: IEEE SmartCloud 2016, Submission Extended: Aug. 1st, 2016 - Conference Date: Nov. 18th-20th, New York, USA
by John Free 29 Jul '16

29 Jul '16

*CFP: The IEEE International Conference on Smart Cloud 2016 (SmartCloud 2016)* *(IEEE SmartCloud 2016)* Nov. 18th-20th, New York, USA http://csis.pace.edu/CSCloud/sc2016/index.html *IEEE SmartCloud 2016 will be held at Columbia University, New York, USA.* As a novel technology, cloud computing implementations have been booming in recent years. Align with the development of data mining and big data, cloud computing has been an efficient approach for delivering intelligent services and forming advanced distributed systems. Empowering the existing infrastructure by using cloud computing techniques has been considered a dramatically significant issue for both academia and industry. Therefore, making cloud computing "smart" has a giant demand in multiple fields, from telehealth to e-learning, from vehicular systems to mobile applications. IEEE SmartCloud 2016 aims to collect recent academic achievements in novel techniques, developments, empirical studies, and new developments in cloud computing. Innovative technical applications in clouds are highly encouraged. The objective of IEEE SmartCloud 2016 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange their new ideas, novel results, work in progress and experience on all aspects of smart computing and cloud computing. *Special Issues: * - - IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, Special Issue on “Secure Sustainable Green Smart Computing” (S2GSC) - IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing, Special Issue on "Sustainable Cyber-Physical Systems" (SCPS) - Elsevier's Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC): Special issue on "Scalable Computing for Smart Energy Cyber-Physical Systems" (SCSE-CPS). Submission Deadline was extended to Aug. 30th, 2016. - Elesevier's Journal of Computational Science, Special Issue on Modeling and Evaluation of Highly Complex Computer Systems Architecture (SI:MEHCSA) - Springer, Cluster Computing Journal: Special Issue on Convergence of Internet of Things and Cloud Computing: Recent Advances and Future Trends - Journal of Computational Science: Special Issue on Optimization in Distributed Information Systems (Optimization in DIS)(Impact factor: 1.231) - Journal of Network and Computer Applications: Special Issue on Pervasive Social Networking (PSN)(Impact factor: 2.229) - Future Generation Computer Systems: Special Issue on Advances in Human-like Intelligence towards Next-Generation Web (AHI-NGW)(Impact factor: 2.786) - Wiley's Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience: "Big Data Security and Intelligent Data in Clouds" (BDS-IDS2016) - Journal of Signal Processing Systems (JSPS): "Big Data Security and Smart Clouds" (BDSSC) *Topics* of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Novel mechanisms in cloud computing - Pervasive computing applications and innovations in cloud computing - QoE / QoS for D2D communication in cloud computing - WiFi-Direct, WLAN-Direct, and cellular technology for empowering cloud computing - Nature inspired algorithms for resource management in cloud computing - Channel modulation for 5G networks in cloud computing - Cloud computing for D2D communication - Intelligent control mechanism for D2D communication in cloud computing - Cyber monitoring, incident response - Digital forensics in cloud computing - Big data security, Database security - Social engineering, insider threats, advance spear phishing - Cyber threat intelligence - Security and fault tolerance for embedded or ubiquitous systems - Cloud security and privacy issues - Sensor network security issues in mobile cloud computing - Embedded networks and sensor network optimizations - Cloud computing and networking models - Ambient intelligence and intelligent service systems in cloud systems - Analysis and evaluation of cloud-based Healthcare - Cloud-assisted clinical data and knowledge management - Cloud computing for Healthcare - Data mining techniques and data warehouses in cloud computing - Heterogeneous architecture for cloud computing - Dynamic resource sharing algorithm for cloud computing - Load balance for cloud computing - Cloud-based audio/video streaming techniques - Cloud-based real-time multimedia techniques - Green cloud computing applications and optimizations *Committee* * Honor General Chair* Sun-Yuan Kung, Princeton University, USA * General Chairs* Xiaodong Zhang, Ohio State University, USA Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island, USA Meikang Qiu, Pace University, USA * Program Chairs* Yongxin Zhu, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Yan Zhang, University of Oslo, Norway Lixin Tao, Pace University, USA *Important Dates* *Paper Submission: Aug. 1st, 2016 (extended)* Author Notification September 15th, 2016 Camera-Ready October 15th, 2016 Registration Due October 15th, 2016 Conference Date Nov. 18th-20th, 2016

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SEHPCCSE'16 (SC Workshop) Call for Papers
by Jeffrey Carver 27 Jul '16

27 Jul '16

SEHPCCSE'16 - Call for Papers (http://se4science.org/workshops/sehpccse16/) -------------------------------------------- New challenges in computational science & engineering (CSE) continue to push the boundaries of available computing resources. There is a demand to utilize high performance computing (HPC), including GPGPUs and computing clusters, for computational science & engineering (CSE) applications. However developing HPC software is not an easy task. Developers must solve reliability, availability, and maintainability problems in extreme scales, understand domain specific constraints, deal with uncertainties inherent in scientific exploration, and develop algorithms that use computing resources efficiently. Software engineering (SE) researchers have developed tools and practices to support various development tasks, including: requirements management, design, validation + verification, deployment, and maintenance. However software development for HPC historically attracted little attention from the SE community. Paradoxically, the HPC CSE community has increasingly been adopting SE techniques and tools. Indeed, the development of CSE software for HPC differs significantly from the development of more traditional business information systems, from which many SE best practices and tools have been drawn. Development of HPC CSE software requires tailoring of SE tools/methods developed for more traditional software applications to fit the requirements of HPC applications. The SE-HPCCSE workshop addresses this need by bringing together members of the SE and HPC CSE communities to share perspectives, present findings from research and practice, and generate an agenda to improve tools and practices for developing HPC CSE software. Scope and Aims ------------------------ This workshop is concerned with identifying the problems faced by those working with HPC Computational Science & Engineering (CSE) applications, and understanding how appropriate software engineering (SE) tools and practices might be applied to support the development of HPC CSE applications. These applications include large parallel models/simulations of the physical world running on HPC systems, and applications that analyze and/or manipulate large amounts of data. The organizing committee hopes for participation from a broad range of stakeholders from across the SE, CSE, and HPC communities on topics including: Identification of the differences in development of software between business IT environments and research environments like HPC/CSE The challenges of communicating (ideas. common pieces of work, requirements, functionality, practice) between people with SE and CSE backgrounds SE tools and practices which are suited for HPC CSE applications Measuring the impact of SE techniques or tools on "scientific productivity" SE education and training gaps that prevent the development of HPC CSE applications Special foci of this workshop edition In addition to the traditional goals of this workshop series, the 2016 edition will have two special foci for which we specifically solicit papers. Quality Assurance for scientific software development, and considerations of any particular techniques to improve the adoption of such process. Experience reports (including positive, negative, and neutral) of applying software engineering practices to the development of scientific software. It is as important to understand which SE practices do not work in science contexts as those which do. We invite both full papers (8-page) and shorter position/experience reports (4-page) that will be used to organize panel and group discussion sessions and be published in advance of the workshop to inform all attendees. We especially encourage members of the HPC and CSE communities to submit practical experience papers. Papers on other related topics are also welcome. Please contact the organizers with any questions about the relevance of particular topics. A workshop report will be produced which summarizes the workshops findings, and revised papers will be invited to be published in the workshop proceedings following the event. Submission Deadline: August 15, 2016 Submission information can be found on the website (http://se4science.org/workshops/sehpccse16/) Jeffrey Carver Associate Professor Department of Computer Science University of Alabama 205.348.9829 (v)

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IEEE Workshop on Big Data Metadata and Management
by Qian,Lijun 26 Jul '16

26 Jul '16

* Apologies for Cross-Posting IEEE Workshop on Big Data Metadata and Management (BDMM '2016, http://credit.pvamu.edu/bdmm2016/) Washington DC, USA, Dec 5 (or 8), 2016 Sponsored by IEEE Big Data Initiative (BDI) In conjunction with the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Big Data http://cci.drexel.edu/bigdata/bigdata2016/ Topics include, but are not limited to: Metadata standard(s) development for Big Data management Methodologies, architecture and tools for metadata annotation, discovery, and interpretation Case study on metadata standard development and application Metadata interoperability (crosswalk) Metadata and Data Privacy Metadata for Semantic Webs Human Factors on Metadata Innovations in Big Data management Opportunities in standardizing Big Data management Query languages and ontology in Big Data NoSQL databases and Schema-less data modeling Multimodal resource and workload management Availability, reliability and Fault tolerance Frameworks for parallel and distributed information retrieval Domain standardization for Big Data management * Important Dates Sep 20, 2016: Due date for full workshop papers submission Oct 20, 2016: Notification of paper acceptance to authors Nov 15, 2016: Camera-ready of accepted papers Dec 5 or 8, 2016: Workshop

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Deadline extension - 9th IEEE/ACM UCC - Utility and Cloud Computing
by Luiz Fernando Bittencourt 26 Jul '16

26 Jul '16

9th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2016) December 6-9, 2016 - Tongji University - Shanghai, China - Call for Papers Website: http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2016/ Context and Scope: Cloud Computing delivers computational resources ondemand as services that are commoditized and delivered comfortably analogous to traditional utilities such as electricity, gas, water and telephony. Cloud service offerings for compute, storage and communication resources as well as for hosted software and data are growing at a tremendous rate. It is essential to understand how to effectively transform these services into Utilities that provide value to both users and providers. There is also increasing interest from commercial providers to offer business and revenue models around the services they offer. Understanding how these models could be used to provide utility for users, intermediary brokers (aggregators) and providers is also an area of active research. UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility and provides an international forum for leading researchers and practitioners in this important and growing field. UCC 2016, to be held in Shanghai, reflects the need to bring academics and industrial researchers together to discuss how to improve existing services and how to bring new applications into the cloud. This will be the 9th UCC in a successful conference series of community-driven events. Previous events were held in Shanghai, China (Cloud 2009), Melbourne, Australia (Cloud 2010 & UCC 2011), Chennai, India (UCC 2010), Chicago, USA (UCC 2012), Dresden, Germany (UCC 2013), London, UK (UCC 2014), and Limassol, Cyprus (UCC 2015). UCC 2016 will have a co-located 3rd International Conference on Big Data Computing Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2016). Website: http://computing.derby.ac.uk/bdcat2016/ CALL FOR PAPERS Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of Cloud and Utility computing including design and analysis of distributed and centralized Cloud systems, data centre design and engineering, economic and market models for cloud systems, revenue and business models and their applications in scientific and commercial deployments. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: • Principles and theoretical foundations of Utility Computing, including pricing and service models • Policy languages and programming models, such as cloud-native and cloud-enabled applications • Utility-driven models and mechanisms for Cloud federations • Autonomic techniques for Cloud applications • Utility-/comfort-driven platforms for Clouds • Architectural models to achieve Utility in Clouds • Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid, federated, aggregated • Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and services at all layers (XaaS) • Virtualization technologies and other enablers • Economic models and scenarios of use • Scalability and resource management: brokering, scheduling, capacity planning, parallelism and elasticity, as well as marketplaces • Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, performance models and monitoring • Applications: games, social networks, scientific computing (e-science) and business, as well as large- scale foundations for Big Data and analytics • Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds • Beyond technology: Cloud business and legal implications, such as security, privacy, trust and jurisdiction especially in Utility contexts Important Dates: Workshop proposals due: 08 May, 2016 Tutorial proposals due: 03 July, 2016 (see separate calls for workshops, tutorials and other tracks) Paper submissions due: 31 July, 2016 ** extended ** Notification of acceptance: 21 August, 2016 Camera ready papers due: 21 September, 2016 Early registration deadline: 21 September, 2016 Paper Submission: Submitted manuscripts should be structured of high technical quality and 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. Borderline papers may be accepted as short papers but all submissions must be full papers. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society, USA, and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library, as well as through the ACM Digital Library. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. Manuscripts must be received in EasyChair by July 03, 2016. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigour in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors. Further details on the publication and registration regulations are published on the UCC website and need to be followed. At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. There is NO student rate for the author who is responsible for registration for his/her published paper. If you have more than one accepted paper, you have to register for each one individually. There is no discount if you have two or more papers accepted. Presentation of an accepted paper at the conference is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in IEEE Xplore. Templates: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc2016 Awards and Special Issues: One or more best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. Selected papers from the conference will be invited to submit an extended version to reputable journals for special issues. Papers will be selected based on their reviewers’ scores and appropriateness to the journal’s theme. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. Further details will be made available at the conference webpage. Program Committee Chairs: • Josef Spillner, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland • Alan Sill, Texas Tech University, USA Technical Programme Committee: • Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University • Nasro Allah, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences P. R. China • Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK • Marcos Assuncao, Inria, LIP, ENS Lyon • Thomas Beach, Cardiff University • Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna • Nik Bessis, Edge Hill University • Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas • Peter Bloodsworth, National University of Science and Technology (NUST), Pakistan • Ivona Brandic, TU Wien • Andrey Brito, UFCG • Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington • Rodrigo Calheiros, The University of Melbourne • Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign • Tim Cockerill, Texas Advanced Computing Center • Jean-Pierre Corriveau, School of Computer Science, Carleton University • Jörg Domaschka, Institute of Information Resource Management, Ulm University • Andrew Edmonds, ZHAW • Mohsen Farid, University of Derby • Flavio Frattini, RisLab • Lee Gillam, University of Surrey • Rob Gillen, Oak Ridge National Laboratory • Sebastian Götz, Technische Universät Dresden • Madhu Govindaraju, SUNY Binghamton • Neil Chue Hong, Software Sustainability Institute, EPCC, University of Edinburgh • Geir Horn, University of Oslo, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences • Marty Humphrey, University of Virginia • Jesús Omana Iglesias, Nokia Bell Labs • Bahman Javadi, University of Western Sydney • Samee Khan, North Dakota State University • Thilo Kielmann, Vrije Universiteit • Shinji Kikuchi, Fujitsu Laboratories • Kyong Hoon Kim, Gyeongsang National University • Ryan Ko, University of Waikato • Paul Krause, University of Surrey • Marc Lacoste, Orange Labs • Alex Sim Lawrence, Berkeley National Laboratory • Craig Lee, The Aerospace Corporation • Philipp Leitner, University Of Zurich • Jianxin Li, Beihang University • Zhangxi Lin, Texas Tech University • Raquel Lopes, Universidade Federal de Campina Grande • Fabio López-Pires, Itaipu Technological Park • Richard McClatchey, University of the West of England • Andrew Stephen Mcgough, Durham University • Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology • Peter Membrey, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University • Kashif Munir, UOHB • Mukesh Chandra Negi, Tech Mahindra • Shrideep Pallickara, Department of Computer Science, Colorado State University • Sangmi Pallickara, Colorado State University • George Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus • Manish Parashar, Rutgers University • Siani Pearson, HP Labs • Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck • Khaled Salah, Khalifa University of Science, Technology, and Research • Siraj A. Shaikh, Coventry University • Ruppa Thulasiram, University of Manitoba • Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Universidad de Zaragoza • Adel Toosi, The University of Melbourne • Carlos A. Varela, Rensselaer Polytecnic Institute • Massimo Villari, University of Messina • Daniel Waddington, Samsung Electronics • David Walker, Cardiff University • Ramin Yahyapour, GWDG - University of Göttingen • Muhammad Younas, Oxford Brookes University

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Call for Participation: Second Workshop on HPC Power Management
by Hsu, Chung-Hsing 26 Jul '16

26 Jul '16

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ==================== The Second Workshop on HPC Power Management: Knowledge Discovery Thursday, August 25, 2016 9:00 am - 5:30 pm Baltimore, Maryland http://hpm.ornl.gov *The workshop agenda has been posted. *A keynote talk titled "FITARA Data Center Optimization Initiative (DCOI) - How It Applies to HPC" by W. Jake Wooley, Program Manager, DOE. *9 invited talks from DOE labs, industry, and academia. *A vendor panel consisting of representatives from HP, Cray, IBM, Intel, and Allinea. *There is no registration fee. However, registration is required. For details, please check the workshop website. ------------------- This workshop will address the issues and potential solutions for power capacity planning and management in an HPC facility. Two main issues are managing stranded and trapped capacity. Stranded and trapped capacity issues often manifest when facility managers are given highly inaccurate power budget estimations. Power and other physical resources are allocated based on these estimations, which results in overprovisioning and underutilization of these resources. Currently many HPC users are not concerned about power usage effectiveness, but that is certain to change in the near future as the HPC community gears up to meet the exa-scale challenge. Power consumption and management and related infrastructure requirements are considered to be some of the main hurdles to overcome in order to achieve sustained exa-scale operations on future computing platforms and key applications. This workshop will be a multi-year series to address different aspects of power capacity management and will include topics such as energy efficient hardware design, green programming models, energy-aware job scheduling, monitoring, modeling, evaluation etc. For 2016, the theme will be "knowledge discovery" for all stake holders: procurement managers, facilities and infrastructure personnel, IT personnel, and end users. Today there is a good amount of monitoring data available to HPC centers. However, there is a lack of best practices on the management and analysis of this data. This workshop will provide a forum for the HPC community to exchange field experiences and discuss the guidelines for HPC power management. It will include a keynote talk, nine invited talks, and a panel discussion. There is no registration fee for the workshop. However, due to limited space, registration is required. For details, please check the workshop website. Best Regards, Neena Imam, Workshop co-chair, ORNL Chung-Hsing Hsu, Workshop co-chair, ORNL

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[RE-HPC'16 --- Deadline Extended to Aug. 15]: First Int'l Workshop on Resilience and/or Energy-aware techniques for High-Performance Computing
by Hongyang Sun 26 Jul '16

26 Jul '16

CALL FOR PAPERS ============================================ First International Workshop on Resilience and/or Energy-aware techniques for High-Performance Computing (RE-HPC) In conjunction with the International Green and Sustainable Computing Conference (IGSC), 2016. November 7-9, Hangzhou, China. Website: http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/~abenoit/RE-HPC/ ============================================ *NEWS: Selected papers presented at the workshop will be invited for a special issue in the Elsevier Journal **Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (SUSCOM).* Resilience and energy consumption have become two important concerns for high-performance computing (HPC) systems. With the increasing core count and technology miniaturization, today's large computing platforms (datacenters, clusters, supercomputers, etc.) are increasingly prone to failures. Faults are becoming norm rather than exception. Besides the classical fail-stop errors (such as hardware failures), soft errors (such as SDCs for silent data corruptions) constitute another threat that can no longer be ignored by the HPCcommunity. Another concern is energy. Presently, large computing centers are among the largest consumers of energy, hence measures must be taken to reduce energy consumption. Energy is needed not only to power the individual cores but also to provide cooling for the system. In today's datacenters, a large proportion of energy is spent on cooling and thermal-related activities. It is anticipated that the power dissipated to perform communications and I/O transfers will also make up a much larger share of the overall power consumption. The relative cost of communication is expected to increase dramatically, both in terms of latency/overhead and of consumed energy. Re-designing algorithms for HPC systems to ensure resilience and to reduce energy consumption will be crucial to achieving sustained performance. The link between resilience and energy must also be carefully tackled. Better resilience often requires redundancy (replication and/or checkpointing, rollback and recovery), which consumes extra energy. Hot cores may lead to less resilient computing or increase the probability of individual failures. On the other hand, reducing the energy consumption via voltage/frequency scaling techniques will increase the application running time, and hence the expected number of failures during execution. This workshop will encompass a broad range of topics related to resilience and energy efficiency for HPC. Its objective is to facilitate exchange of valuable information and ideas among researchers and practitioners. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Fault-tolerant algorithms, tools, and protocols - Checkpointing, replication, and recovery techniques - Detection and prediction of soft errors and SDCs - System reliability, testing, and verification - Resilience models, algorithms, and simulations - Energy-efficient scheduling and resource management - Power-aware runtime systems - Energy-efficient I/O, storage, and networking - Thermal behavior modeling, control and management - Cooling-aware optimizations and evaluations - Tradeoffs between performance, reliability, energy and temperature *Important Dates: * Paper Submission: August 15, 2016 Author Notification: September 15, 2016 Camera-ready Paper: October 1, 2016 *Author Information:* Full papers following the guidelines of the International Green and Sustainable Computing (IGSC) Conference (http://igsc.eecs.wsu.edu/cfp_16) are sought. Authors should select Resilience and/or Energy-aware techniques for High-Performance Computing (RE-HPC'16) when submitting their papers on easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rehpc16) All submitted manuscripts will be reviewed and evaluated on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the scope of the workshop. Papers presented at the workshop will be published in the official conference proceedings (through IEEE Digital Library) contingent on two conditions: (1) One author of each accepted paper must register for the conference at the time of the submission of the final manuscript and (2) One of the authors must appear to present the paper at the workshop. Please note that each accepted workshop paper will require a full IGSC registration at the IEEE member or at the non-member rate (NOT student rate). This means that there is no separate workshop-only registration. *Workshop Co-Chairs:* Anne Benoit, ENS de Lyon, France Jean-Marc Pierson, University of Toulouse, France Hongyang Sun, ENS de Lyon, France *Program Committee:* Guillaume Aupy, Vanderbilt University, USA Leonardo Bautista-Gomez, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Georges Da Costa, IRIT, University of Toulouse, France Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, China Amina Guermouche, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Sebastien Lafond, Åbo Akademi University and Turku Center for Computer Science, Finland Hermann de Meer, University of Passau, Germany Rami Melhem, University of Pittsburgh, USA Ariel Oleksiak, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Enrique Quintana-Orti, HPCA, Jeaume, Spain Leonel Sousa, INESC, Portugal Patricia Stolf, IRIT, University of Toulouse, France *Contact: * Please email hongyang.sun(a)ens-lyon.fr for any questions.

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(CFP) PDSW-DISCS @ SC 2016, The 1st Joint International Workshop on Parallel Data Storage and Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems
by Jialin Liu 26 Jul '16

26 Jul '16

**** CALL FOR PAPERS **** The 1st Joint International Workshop on Parallel Data Storage and Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (PDSW-DISCS’16) Held in conjunction with SC16: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Salt Lake City, UT, and in cooperation with SIGHPC. Monday, November 14, 2016 http://www.pdsw-discs.org We are pleased to announce that the first Joint International Workshop on Parallel Data Storage and Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (PDSW-DISCS’16) will be hosted at SC16: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. The objective of this one day joint workshop is to combine two overlapping communities and to better promote and stimulate researchers’ interactions to address some of the most critical challenges for scientific data storage, management, devices, and processing infrastructure for both traditional compute intensive simulations and data-intensive high performance computing solutions. Special attention will be given to issues in which community collaboration can be crucial for problem identification, workload capture, solution interoperability, standards with community buy-in, and shared tools. Many scientific problem domains continue to be extremely data intensive. Traditional high performance computing (HPC) systems and the programming models for using them such as MPI were designed from a compute-centric perspective with an emphasis on achieving high floating point computation rates. But processing, memory, and storage technologies have not kept pace and there is a widening performance gap between computation and the data management infrastructure. Hence data management has become the performance bottleneck for a significant number of applications targeting HPC systems. Concurrently, there are increasing challenges in meeting the growing demand for analyzing experimental and observational data. In many cases, this is leading new communities to look towards HPC platforms. In addition, the broader computing space has seen a revolution in new tools and frameworks to support Big Data analysis and machine learning. There is a growing need for convergence between these two worlds. Consequently, the U.S. Congressional Office of Management and Budget has informed the U.S. Department of Energy that new machines beyond the first exascale machines must address both the traditional simulation workloads as well as data intensive applications. This coming convergence prompts integrating these two workshops into a single entity to address the common challenges. The scope of the proposed joint PDSW-DISCS workshop is summarized as: * Scalable storage architectures, archival storage, storage virtualization, emerging storage devices and techniques * Performance benchmarking, resource management, and workload studies from production systems including both traditional HPC and data-intensive workloads. * Programmability, APIs, and fault tolerance of storage systems * Parallel file systems, metadata management, and complex data management, object and key-value storage, and other emerging data storage/retrieval techniques * Programming models and frameworks for data intensive computing including extensions to traditional and nontraditional programming models, asynchronous multi-task programming models, or to data intensive programming models * Techniques for data integrity, availability and reliability especially * Productivity tools for data intensive computing, data mining and knowledge discovery * Application or optimization of emerging “big data” frameworks towards scientific computing and analysis * Techniques and architectures to enable cloud and container-based models for scientific computing and analysis * Techniques for integrating compute into a complex memory and storage hierarchy facilitating in situ and in transit data processing * Data filtering/compressing/reduction techniques that maintain sufficient scientific validity for large scale compute-intensive workloads * Tools and techniques for managing data movement among compute and data intensive components both solely within the computational infrastructure as well as incorporating the memory/storage hierarchy Paper Submissions: http://www.pdsw-discs.org/ Paper (in pdf format) due Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016, 11:59PM AoE Notification: Friday, Sept. 30, 2016 Camera ready due: Friday, Oct. 7, 2016 Slides due before workshop: Sunday, Nov. 13, 2016, 5:00 pm PDT Paper Submission Details: The PDSW-DISCS Workshop holds a peer reviewed competitive process for selecting short papers. Submit a not previously published short paper of up to 5 pages, not less than 10 point font and not including references, in a PDF file as instructed on the workshop web site. Submitted papers will be reviewed under the supervision of the workshop program committee. Submissions should indicate authors and affiliations. Papers must not be longer than 5 pages (excluding references). Selected papers and associated talk slides will be made available on the workshop web site; the papers will also be published in the digital libraries of the IEEE and ACM. Work-in-progress (WIP) Submissions: http://www.pdsw-discs.org/ There will also be a WIP session at the workshop, where presenters give 5-minute brief talks on their on-going work, with fresh problems/solutions, but may not be mature or complete yet for paper submission. A 1-page abstract is required as instructed on the workshop web site. WIP Submission Deadline: Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016 WIP Notification: Monday, Nov. 7, 2016 General Co-Chairs: Garth Gibson (Carnegie Mellon University) Yong Chen (Texas Tech University) Program Co-Chairs: Shane Canon (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Dean Hildebrand (IBM Research) Publications Chair: Jialin Liu (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

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Update: First Int'l Workshop on Communication Optimizations in HPC (COMHPC) @SC16, Submission Deadline Extended to September 6, New Best Paper Award and Short paper category
by Akhil langer 25 Jul '16

25 Jul '16

First International Workshop on Communication Optimizations in High Performance Computing (COMHPC) https://software.intel.com/en-us/event/comhpc/2016/overview In cooperation with ACM SIGHPC [image: Inline image 1] *Friday, November 18, 2016* co-located with SC16: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__sc16.supercomputing.org…> *November 13-18, 2016* *Call for Papers:* As HPC applications scale to large supercomputing systems, their communication and synchronization need to be optimized in order to deliver high performance. In order to achieve this, capabilities of modern network interconnect and parallel runtime systems need to be advanced and the existing ones to be leveraged optimally. The workshop will bring together researchers and developers to present and discuss work on optimizing communication and synchronization in HPC applications. This includes state-of-the-art methodological and algorithmic advances in topology-aware or topology-oblivious blocking and non-blocking collective algorithms, offloading of communication to network interface cards, topology aware process mappings for minimizing communication overhead on different network topologies such as dragonfly, high-dimensional torus networks, fat trees, optimizations for persistent communication patterns, studies and solutions for inter-job network interference, overlapping of communication with computation, optimizing communication overhead in the presence of process imbalance, GPU-GPU and GPU-CPU communication. The workshop also aims at bringing researchers together to foster discussion, collaboration, and ideas for optimizing communication and synchronization that drive the design of future peta/exascale systems and of HPC applications. In addition, we expect that researchers and others looking for research directions in this area will get up-to-date with the state of the art so that they can drive their research in a manner that will impact the future of communication methods in high-performance computing. *Topics of interest for workshop submissions include (but are not limited to):* Blocking and non-blocking collective operations Topology-aware collective algorithms and process mappings Neighborhood collective optimizations Communication offloading design and optimizations (such as offloaded triggered operations) Modeling and simulation of traffic patterns (including collectives) for generic/specific network topologies Optimizations for persistent communication patterns Inter-job network interference Computation-communication overlap in HPC applications Communication optimization in presence of process imbalance Static/runtime tuning of collective operations Scalable communication endpoints for many-core architectures Communication optimizations on Peta/Exascale systems, heterogeneous systems, and GPUs Network congestion studies and mitigation methods Machine learning to optimize communication Communication aspects of GPGPU Communication aspects of Graph Applications Communication aspects of Fault Tolerance *Important Deadlines:* Submission deadline: September 6, 2016 AOE Notification of Acceptance: September 28, 2016 Camera Ready copy: October 11, 2016 Workshop Date: November 18, 2016 *Paper Submission Guidelines:* Papers must follow the ACM format (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates <https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__www.acm.org_sigs_public…>). We invite two kinds of submissions to this workshop: 1. Full-length research papers (10-page limit) 2. Short papers (5-page limit), which can take the form of position papers, experience reports, work in progress, late breaking ideas, or surveys/comparisons The page limit does not include references, for which there is no page limit. Papers should be submitted electronically via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=comhpc2016. Submitted papers should not have appeared in or be under consideration for a different workshop, conference or journal. Papers will be peer-reviewed by the Program Committee for novelty, scientific merit, technical strength, originality, quality of presentation and scope of the workshop. It is also expected that at least one author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings by SIGHPC and made available in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore. One outstanding paper will be selected for the *Best Paper Award* by the Program Committee. *Organizing Committee:* Michael Chuvelev (Intel, Russia) Daniel Faraj (Intel, USA) Maria Garzaran (Intel, USA) Akhil Langer (Intel, USA) Malek Musleh (Intel, USA) Gengbin Zheng (Intel, USA) *Program Committee:* Ahmad Afsahi (Queen’s University, Canada) George Almasi (IBM, USA) Abhinav Bhatele (LLNL, USA) Bill Gropp (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA) Manish Gupta (Xerox Research Center, India) Ram Huggahalli (Intel, USA) Nikhil Jain (LLNL, USA) David Lowenthal (University of Arizona, USA) Vijay Pai (Google, USA) D. K. Panda (Ohio State University, USA) Sameh Sharkawi (IBM, USA) Yogish Sabharwal (IBM, India) Martin Schulz (LLNL, USA) Bronis Supinski (LLNL, USA) Sayantan Sur (Intel, USA) Michela Taufer (University of Delaware, USA) Keith Underwood (Intel, USA) Abhinav Vishnu (PNNL, USA) Alan Wagner (University of British Columbia, Canada) Xin Yuan (Florida State University, USA) *Contact: * Please email comhpc.org(a)gmail.com for any questions.

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