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Call for Paper: 15th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC2017)
by Xiao Liu 08 Jul '16

08 Jul '16

Call for Paper: 15th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC2017) AusPDC 2017 (http://www.ozcom.org/auspdc2017/) will be held in Geelong Australia in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week<http://acsw2017.deakin.edu.au/>, January 31 - February 3, 2017. (The season of Australian Open is 16 - 29 January 2017) Scope of the Symposium In 2010, AusGrid event was broadened to include all aspects of parallel and distributed computing and hence was called as Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC). Following a couple of successful events, it comes to the 15th this year in the series. In both New Zealand and Australia parallel and distributed computing has been recognised as strategic technologies for driving their moves towards knowledge economies. A number of projects and initiatives are underway in both countries in these areas. There is a natural interest in tools which support collaboration and access to remote resources given the challenges of the countries location and sparse populations. Topics of interest for the symposium include (but not limited to): * Cloud computing * Grid and Cluster computing * Big Data processing and analytics * Data storage, placement and replication * Multi-core systems * Peer-to-peer computing * GPUs and other forms of special purpose processors * Service computing and workflow management * Managing large distributed data sets * Middleware and tools * Performance evaluation and modeling * Datacentre and Interconnection networks * Performance accelerators * Problem-solving environments * Parallel programming models, languages and compilers * Operating systems and runtime systems * Fog/edge computing and software defined networks * Mobile, sensor networks and Internet of things * Resource scheduling and load balancing * Data mining and machine learning * Computational Science and Engineering * Agent-based computing * Reliability, security, privacy and dependability * e-Science and e-Health Applications The symposium is primarily targeted at researchers from Australia and New Zealand, however in the spirit of parallel and distributed computing, which aims to enable collaboration of distributed virtual organizations, we encourage papers and participation from international researchers. Paper Submission The proceedings of the symposium will be published by ACM together with ACSW 2017. Papers should be formatted according to ACM conference paper formatting guidelines ACM SIG Proceedings Templates<http://www.acm.org/publications/article-templates/proceedings-template.html/>. The following guidelines must be met for all submissions: * Submissions must be in English. * Submissions must not exceed 10 pages for full papers and 4 pages for short papers. * Submissions must be in PDF format. Other formats will not be accepted. * Submissions must clearly state the problem being addressed, the goal of the work, the results achieved, and the relation to other work. * Submissions must be original contributions that have not been published previously, nor already submitted to other conferences or journals in parallel with this conference. * Authors must choose the appropriate satellite conference or workshop for your submission Papers are to be submitted via the ACSW 2017 Easy Chair Submission Site<https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=acsw2017>. Upon logging into the system, please select “New Submission”, then select "Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing" track and proceed through the steps for submission. Every submission will be reviewed by a minimum of three members of the program committee. Important Dates Paper submissions due : August 8, 2016 Author notification: October 17, 2016 Camera-ready full papers due: November 7, 2016. Committee General Co-Chairs Albert Zomaya The University of Sydney, Australia Wanlei Zhou Deakin University, Australia Jinjun Chen University of Technology, Sydney, Australia Program Committee Co-Chairs Xiao Liu Deakin University, Australia Dong Yuan The University of Sydney, Australia Publicity Co-Chairs Fang Dong Southeast University, China Wei Li The University of Sydney, Australia Publication Co-Chairs Qiang He Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Wei Bao The University of Sydney, Australia Local Organization Chair Longxiang Gao Deakin University, Australia Program Committee Members (To Be Comfirmed) Jemal Abawajy Deakin University, Australia David Abramson Monash University, Australia Peter Bertok RMIT, Australia Rajkumar Buyya University of Melbourne, Australia Mingsong Chen East China Normal University, China Phoebe Chen La Trobe University, Australia Lizhen Cui Shandong University, China Fang Dong Southeast University, China Xiaoliang Fan Lanzhou University, China Andrzej Goscinski Deakin University, Australia Haiwu He Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Qiang He Swinburne University of Technology John Hine Victoria University of Wellington, NZ Michael Hobbs Deakin University, Australia Jiankun Hu The University of New South Wales, Australia Zhiyi Huang Otago University, NZ Nick Jones University of Auckland, NZ Wayne Kelly Queensland University of Technology, Australia Young Choon Lee Macquarie University, Australia Andrew Lewis Griffith University, Australia Jiuyong Li University of South Australia, Australia Weifa Liang Australian National University, Australia Li Pan Shandong University, China Paul Roe Queensland University of Technology, Australia Hong Shen The University of Adelaide, Australia Jun Shen University of Wollongong, Australia Michael Sheng The University of Adelaide, Australia Peter Strazdins The Australian National University, Australia Srikumar Venugopal The University of New South Wales, Australia Yan Wang Macquarie University, Australia Sheng Wen Deakin University, Australia Andrew Wendelborn The University of Adelaide, Australia Yang Xiang Deakin University, Australia Jingling Xue The University of New South Wales, Australia Jun Yan University of Wollongong, Australia Yun Yang Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Rui Zhang The University of Melbourne, Australia Xuyun Zhang The University of Auckland Albert Zomaya The University of Sydney, Australia Steering Committee David Abramson Monash University, Australia Rajkumar Buyya University of Melbourne, Australia Jinjun Chen (Vice Chair) Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Paul Coddington University of Adelaide, Australia Andrzej Goscinski (Chair) Deakin University, Australia Kenneth Hawick Massey University, NZ John Hine Victoria University of Wellington, NZ Rajiv Ranjan University of NSW, Australia Wyne Kelly Queensland University of Technology, Australia Paul Roe Queensland University of Technology, Australia Andrew Wendelborn University of Adelaide, Australia _________________________ Dr. Xiao Liu BMgt, MMgt, PhD Senior Lecturer - Information Technology (International Partnerships) School of Information Technology, Deakin University, 221 Burwood Hwy, Burwood, VIC 3125. 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CFP: MECC 2016: Workshop on Middleware for Edge Clouds & Cloudlets, held in conjunction with ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2016
by Jiaqi Tan 06 Jul '16

06 Jul '16

1st Workshop on Middleware for Edge Clouds & Cloudlets (MECC 2016) held in conjunction with ACM/IFIP/USENIX ACM International Middleware Conference Trento, Italy, 12-16 December, 2016 IMPORTANT DATES (23:59 GMT/UTC-12) August 20, 2016 - Abstract submission August 27, 2016 - Paper submission September 27, 2016 - Notification of Acceptance October 10, 2016 - Final version (Camera ready) The Middleware for Edge Clouds & Cloudlets (MECC) workshop aims to address the increasing need for closer integration between the different tiers on modern cloud computing platforms. There is a growing trend of interactive and resource-intensive (e.g., compute, storage, need for big data) applications on mobile devices today, and currently many such applications are provided using resources on infrastructural clouds. However, it is challenging to provide such applications using cloud resources when there is limited connectivity. Harvesting the resources present on nearby mobile devices and/or cloudlets is a viable solution to this problem. Today, there is also increasing demand for middleware that offers higher level abstractions without hampering expressiveness and performance. However, many distributed systems today are designed for the datacenter, and their assumptions, such as that nodes use fast wired interconnects, no longer hold in edge environments. In particular, edge clouds, such as those made up of only mobile devices at the edge, use unreliable wireless links. These unreliable links directly translate into unavailability and churn. Simultaneously, since mobile devices have limited energy resources, heavyweight distributed algorithms, such as coordination using a leader-based consensus protocol, are impractical. As an effort to offload computation from mobile devices, cloudlets were originally envisioned as server-class hardware deployed in a neighborhood, office building or more generally, in close physical proximity to any scenario with a high density of users, such as at large public events. It is now transitioning to a more lightweight approach where the offloading is done through multiple techniques besides the use of virtual machines, as originally proposed, and where cloudlets can also offer connectivity support to crowd-sourced mobile devices, i.e., edge clouds. With this new trend in sight, there is a need to define the services that should be offered at each tier. For example, cloudlets can provide well-defined APIs to support multiple computation offloading methods. Furthermore, new modular and reconfigurable architectures have to be proposed in order to support a variety of deployment scenarios, such as edge clouds without cloudlet support, and scenarios with very limited access to infrastructural clouds. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Design and performance of middleware platforms for edge clouds and cloudlets - Mechanisms for the integration of edge clouds with cloudlets - Security mechanisms for edge clouds including, but not limited to, storage and computation - Context-aware services by cloudlets - Connectivity-as-a-service provided by cloudlets - Novel theoretical approaches for churn tolerance - Lightweight replication and fault-tolerance algorithms - Lightweight computation sandboxing for edge clouds - Distributed coordination and cooperation for edge clouds - Novel storage systems for edge clouds, with special focus on geo-aware storage engines - Tools for testing and benchmarking MECC - Experimental deployments and applications - Network coding approaches for MECC - Programming languages for edge clouds - P2P overlays and systems for edge clouds - Gossip-based protocols for edge clouds - Computational frameworks for MECC - Programming models and abstractions to manage inter-cloud interactions - Middleware platforms for cloud-of-clouds - Privacy enforcing algorithms for leveraging MECC - Trust for edge clouds and/or cloudlets - Interoperability between mobile OSes - Formal methods for middleware verification - Sensor fusion for MECC - Infrastructure-cloud based services for supporting MECC WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Rolando Martins (University of Porto, Portugal) Hervé Paulino (University Nova of Lisbon, Portugal) Contact: mecc2016(a)easychair.org PROGRAM COMMITTEE Fernando Silva (University of Porto, Portugal) Nuno Preguiça (University Nova of Lisbon, Portugal) Paulo Ferreira (INESC-ID, Portugal) Padmanabhan Pillai (Intel/Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Michael Kozuch (Intel/Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Luís Antunes (University of Porto, Portugal) Wolfgang Richter (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Alysson Bessani (University of Lisbon, Portugal) Jiaqi Tan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) João Lourenço (University Nova of Lisbon, Portugal) Evangelia Kalyvianaki (City University London, UK) Utsav Drolia (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) João Leitão (University Nova of Lisbon, Portugal) Luís Lopes (University of Porto, Portugal) Kunal Mankodiya (University of Rhode Island, USA) Odorico Mendizabal (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Brazil) Eduardo Marques (University of Porto, Portugal) Ketan Bhardwaj (Georgia Tech, USA) Luís Veiga (Universidade de Lisboa - INESC-ID, Portugal) Amir M. Rahmani (UC Irvine, USA and TU Wien, Austria) Heverson B. Ribeiro (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) Manuel E. Correia (University of Porto, Portugal) Rui Campos (University of Porto, Portugal) Jon Francis (BOSCH, USA) PUBLICITY CHAIRS Utsav Drolia (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Jiaqi Tan (Carnegie Mellon University, USA) SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION MECC 2016 will receive proposals for communication in the form of full research papers of at most 6 pages, and short research papers of at most 3 pages, including references. Short papers should either describe work-in-progress, or should describe visions of challenges, problems, and potential research directions in MECC. Content should be work that is not previously published or concurrently submitted elsewhere. All submissions should be in PDF and must follow the ACM template. Submissions must have authors’ information, text, figures, references and appendices (if applicable). Submissions that do not respect the formatting requirement may be rejected without review. Reviewing is single-blind. This means that the names and affiliations of the authors must appear in the submitted papers. Each paper will receive at least three reviews from members of the program committee. Submissions should be done through EasyChair at the following URL: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mecc2016 Accepted papers will appear in companion proceedings to the Middleware 2016 proceedings, which will be available in the ACM Digital Library before the workshop.

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HPGDMP16 Workshop at SC16 - Call for papers
by Toyotaro Suzumura 06 Jul '16

06 Jul '16

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CfP: SPEEDUP 2016 - Basel, September 15-16, 2016 (Call for posters - deadline approaching!!!)
by Florina M. Ciorba 06 Jul '16

06 Jul '16

****************************************************************************** * SPEEDUP 2016 Workshop * * 45th SPEEDUP Workshop on Performance Challenges in HPC, * Basel, Switzerland, September 15-16, 2016 * * Webpage: www.speedup.ch <http://www.speedup.ch/> * ****************************************************************************** Call for Participation ——————— The purpose of this workshop is to bring together experts in the field to present their ideas that focus on various performance challenges, to foster learning and inspiration, and to provoke discussions and exchanges on the state-of-the-art in high-performance and parallel scientific computing. Workshop Agenda ——————— The scientific program of Thursday, September 15, consists of six 45-minute talks, a series of lightning talks from young talents in HPC followed by a PhD poster session. The program will end with an engaging debate on the future of HPC, followed by an apero. Invited speakers are Gerhard Wellein (FAU Erlangen, Germany), Martin Schulz (Lawrence Livermore National Labs, USA), Sascha Hunold (TU Wien, Austria), Rudi Eigenmann (NSF and Purdue University, USA), Michael Resch (University of Stuttgart, Germany), and Nicholas Holway (Novartis, Switzerland). The presentations on Thursday, September 15, will focus on performance modeling, benchmarking, and analysis as well as the opportunities for achieving performance using accelerators, clouds, and future technologies. On Friday, September 16, two half-day tutorials will be offered on performance monitoring and reproducibility, by ZIH TU Dresden, Germany and HPWC University Basel, Switzerland, respectively. Call for Posters *** ——————— Students in all stages of their PhD are encouraged to actively participate in the PhD Forum by submitting their research in the form of a poster, which will be reviewed by the SPEEDUP committee. If your doctoral school allows it, students with accepted posters may earn one ECTS for attending the workshop and tutorials and for participating in the PhD Forum. Important Dates ——————— * Deadline submission: July 15, 2016 <— DEADLINE APPROACHING * Notification of acceptance: August 22, 2016. * Due date for submission of presentation slides to be assembled in a single presentation file: September 5, 2016. Poster Submission ——————— Submission: By email at posters(a)speedup.ch <mailto:[email protected]>. Submission requirements (a single PDF file): (1) Title, (2) Author (contact) information, (3) Summary of research objectives/early results (500 words maximum), (4) Topic area, (5) One to five keywords, (6) Poster draft (1 page max.). Eligibility: PhD thesis must not have been defended by September 16, 2016. Local Organizing Committee ——————— Helmar Burkhart (University of Basel) Florina Ciorba (University of Basel) SPEEDUP Committee ——————— Rolf Krause (USI Lugano), Peter Arbenz (ETH Zurich), Vittoria Rezzonico (EPF Lausanne), Helmar Burkhart (University of Basel), Dominik Obrist (University of Bern), Olaf Schenk (USI Lugano), Deparis Simone (EPF Lausanne), Andreas Adelmann (PSI Villigen), Ales Janka (HES-SO Fribourg), Chopard Bastien (University of Geneva), VandeVondele Joost (ETH Zurich), Jan Hesthaven (EPF Lausanne), Nordborg Henrik (HSR Rapperswil). Registration ——————— Online registration: http://www.speedup.ch/workshops/w45_2016/registration.html <http://www.speedup.ch/workshops/w45_2016/registration.html> Participation fees can be paid on site during the event. Workshop (Thursday, September 15): CHF 80 (free for bachelor and master students) Tutorial (Friday, September 16): CHF 170 (CHF 50 for bachelor and master students) Notes: 1. Students enrolled in the FoMICS or CCCS PhD programs are exempt from registration fees. 2. Members of the CCCS at University of Basel are exempt from registration fees. Directions ——————— SPEEDUP 2016 will take place at the University of Basel in Kollegienhaus - Hörsaal 001. The building Kollegienhaus is located at Petersplatz 1, 4003 Basel, Switzerland. Directions can be found here: https://www.unibas.ch/en/University/Contact-Directions.html <https://www.unibas.ch/en/University/Contact-Directions.html> Sponsors ——————— The 2016 edition of SPEEDUP is sponsored by * CCCS: Competence Center for Computational Sciences at University of Basel (cccs.unibas.ch <http://cccs.unibas.ch/>) * Swiss Graduate Programme FoMICS "Foundations of Mathematics and Informatics in Computational Science" (https://www.ics.usi.ch/index.php/education/phd-and-fomics <https://www.ics.usi.ch/index.php/education/phd-and-fomics>)

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Final Call for Submissions: Final Call for Submissions: 4th Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE4)
by Anshu Dubey 06 Jul '16

06 Jul '16

Final Call for Submissions: 4th Workshop on Sustainable Software for Science: Practice and Experiences (WSSSPE4) (http://wssspe.researchcomputing.org.uk/wssspe4/) Location: School of Computer Science, Kilburn and IT Buildings, University of Manchester, Manchester, UK Dates: 2 ½ days from Sept. 12th noon – Sept. 14th 5 pm, 2016 Immediately preceding and co-located in Manchester with First Conference of Research Software Engineers (RSE Conference) (Sept 15-16 at Museum of Science and Industry, Manchester, UK) Follow @wssspe, tweet with #wssspe A nominal registration fee may be charged. Abstract: Progress in scientific research is dependent on the quality and accessibility of research software at all levels. It is now critical to address many new challenges related to the development, deployment, maintenance, and sustainability of open-use research software: the software upon which specific research results rely. Open-use software means that the software is widely accessible (whether open source, shareware, or commercial). Research software means that the choice of software is essential to specific research results; using different software could produce different results. In addition, it is essential that scientists, researchers, and students are able to learn and adopt a new set of software-related skills and methodologies. Established researchers are already acquiring some of these skills, and in particular, a specialized class of software developers is emerging in academic environments who are an integral and embedded part of successful research teams. WSSSPE provides a forum for discussion of these challenges, including both positions and experiences, and a forum for the community to assemble and act. WSSSPE4 will consist of two separate tracks with some joint sessions: Track 1 – Building a sustainable future for open-use research software has the goals of defining a vision of the future of open-use research software, and in the workshop, initiating the activities that are needed to get there. The idea of this track is to first think about where we want to be 5 to 10 years from now, without being too concerned with where we are today, and then to determine how we can move to this future. Track 2 – Practices & experiences in sustainable scientific software has the goal of improving the quality of today’s research software and the experiences of its developers by sharing practices and experiences. This track is focused on the current state of scientific software and what we can do to improve it in the short term, starting with where we are today. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: • Development and Community • Best practices for developing sustainable software • Models for funding specialist expertise in software collaborations • Software tools that aid sustainability • Academia/industry interaction • Refactoring/improving legacy scientific software • Engineering design for sustainable software • Metrics for the success of scientific software • Adaptation of mainstream software practices for scientific software • Professionalization • Career paths • RSE as a brand • RSE outside of the UK or Europe • Increase incentives in publishing, funding and promotion for better software • Training • Training for developing sustainable software • Curriculum for software sustainability • Credit • Making the existing credit and citation ecosystem work better for software • Future credit and citation ecosystem • Software contributions as a part of tenure review • Case studies of receiving credit for software contributions • Awards and recognition that encourage sustainable software • Software publishing • Journals and alternative venues for publishing software • Review processes for published software • Software discoverability/reuse • Proposals and case studies • Reproducibility and testing • Reproducibility in conferences and journals • Best practices for code testing and code review Important Dates: • Submission of lightning talks: July 10 • Submission of Track 1 idea papers: July 10 • Submission of Track 2 position papers, experience papers, presentations of previously published works, and demos: July 10 • Submission of travel support requests: July 10 • Lightning talk decisions announced: Aug 1 • Track 1 idea papers decisions announced: Aug 1 • Track 2 position papers, experience papers, presentations of previously published works, and demo decisions announced: Aug 1 • Travel support decisions announced: Aug 2 Submission types and formats: • Lightning talks: a short paper, up to 2 pages, that if accepted can be conveyed in a 5 to 7 minute talk, either on Track 1: Building a sustainable future for open-use research software or Track 2: Practices & experiences in sustainable scientific software. Lightning talks may be based on either novel or previously published work, but must contain a core idea that will contribute to the discussion in the workshop. • Idea papers: a longer paper, up to 8 pages, that presents implementable proposals related to Track 1: Building a sustainable future for open-use research software. Track 1 participants will build on the proposals and ideas in these papers, with the goal of initiating the planning, development, and execution of some of the ideas during the workshop itself. Given the magnitude and importance of the task at hand, the WSSSPE4 organizing committee encourages these proposals to be developed on an open, public, and inclusive basis. Submitters are invited to present a vision of some aspect of the future of open-use research software, and a plan of activities to gather and organize the resources needed to get there. Example idea paper topics: • Adaptation of industrial software engineering principles into the research software community with a plan to fund the work • Funding and scaling software carpentry style training in advanced topics • Infrastructure and funding for community maintenance of open use research software • Scaling the SSI beyond the UK • Specific proposals of how to bridging/network the various research software engineering communities in scalable manner without destroying independence and unique foci of each community • Position papers: a longer paper, not previously published, up to 8 pages, that if accepted can be conveyed in a 15 to 20 minute talk, on Track 2: Practices & experiences in sustainable scientific software, specifically discussing what we can do to improve sustainable scientific software in the short term, starting with where we are today. • Experience papers: a longer paper, not previously published, up to 8 pages, that if accepted can be conveyed in a 15 to 20 minute talk, on Track 2: Practices & experiences in sustainable scientific software, specifically discussing current practices and experiences and how they have been used to improve the quality of today’s research software and/or the experiences of its developers. • Presentation of previously published work: a short paper, up to 2 pages, that if accepted can be conveyed in a 15 to 20 minute talk, describing a previous published work by the authors and its relevance to Track 2: Practices & experiences in sustainable scientific software on the topic of improving the quality of today’s research software and the experiences of its developers by sharing practices and experiences. • Demos: a short paper, up to 2 pages plus 2 pages of screenshots, that if accepted can be conveyed in a 10 to 15 minute demonstration, showing a tool or process relevant to Track 2: Practices & experiences in sustainable scientific software, that improves the quality of today’s research software and/or the experiences of its developers. Demo submissions may be based on previously published work. Submission process: All submissions should be created in PDF format. They should begin with a title, author names and affiliations, a short abstract, then the body of the submission. The title should begin with “Lightning talk:” or “Position paper:” or “Experience paper:” or “Idea paper:” or “Previously published:” or “Demo:”. Submissions should also include a statement of their license, preferably CC BY 4.0. Submissions should be made via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wssspe4. WSSSPE4 accepted submissions (except presentations of previously published work) will be published by WSSSPE as a special collection in http://ceur-ws.org/. Authors retain copyright to their work and are free to self-publish their submissions or accepted papers elsewhere in addition. Preliminary Agenda: Sept 12 pm – Joint session of both tracks Introduction Keynote Lightning talks Updates on actions and activities from WSSSPE3 working groups Discussion and planning for the remainder of WSSSPE4 Sept 13 (all day) and 14 (until 3 pm) – Parallel tracks Track 1: This will be a set of working sessions with a facilitated discussion, breakout sessions, report backs, and active writing towards the track goal of defining a vision of the future of open-use research software, and a plan of activities that are needed to get there. Track 2: presentations of position papers, experience papers, previously published works, and demos; and breakout sessions or unconference sessions. Sept 14 (1:30 pm – 5 pm) – Joint session of both tracks Panel on best practices Summary and discussion of each tracks’ progress Planning for future events Organizing Committee: • Gabrielle Allen, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA • Jeffrey Carver, University of Alabama, USA • Sou-Cheng T. Choi, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA • Tom Crick, Cardiff Metropolitan University, UK • Michael R. Crusoe, Common Workflow Language project • Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA • Robert Haines, University of Manchester, UK • Michael Heroux, Sandia National Laboratory, USA • Lorraine J. Hwang, University of California, Davis, USA • Daniel S. Katz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA • Kyle E. Niemeyer, Oregon State University, USA • Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA • Colin C. Venters, University of Huddersfield, UK Program Committee: • David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia • Lorena A. Barba, George Washington University, USA • Ross Bartlett, Sandia National Laboratories, USA • Christoph Becker, University of Toronto, Canada • David Bernholdt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA • Stefanie Betz, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany • Coral Calero, Universidad Castilla La Mancha, Spain • Ishwar Chandramouli, National Cancer Institute, National Institutes of Health, USA • Ruzanna Chitchyan, University of Leicester, UK • Neil Chue Hong, Software Sustainability Institute, University of Edinburgh, UK • Karen Cranston, Duke University, USA • Ewa Deelman, Information Sciences Institute, University of Southern California, USA • Dave De Roure, Oxford e-Research Centre, University of Oxford, UK • Charlie E. Dibsdale, O-Sys, Rolls Royce PLC, UK • Alberto Di Meglio, CERN, Switzerland • Anshu Dubey, Argonne National Laboratory, USA • Nadia Eghbal, Independent Researcher (via Ford Foundation), USA • Peter Elmer, CERN, Switzerland • Martin Fenner, DataCite, Germany • David Gavaghan, University of Oxford, UK • Mike Glass, Sandia National Laboratories, USA • Carole Goble, University of Manchester, UK • Joshua Greenberg, Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, USA • Michael K Griffiths, University of Sheffield, UK • Sarah Harris, University of Leeds, UK • James Hetherington, University College London, UK • Fred J. Hickernell, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA • Caroline Jay, University of Manchester, UK • Rafael C. Jimenez, ELIXER, Cambridge, UK • Matthew B. Jones, University of California Santa Barbara, USA • Nick Jones, New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI), NZ • Jong-Suk Ruth Lee, National Institute of Supercomputing and Networking, KISTI (Korea Institute of Science and Technology Information), Korea • Sedef Akinli Kocak, Ryerson University, Canada • James Lin, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China • Frank Löffler, Louisiana State University, USA • Gregory Madey, University of Notre Dame, USA • Ketan Maheshwari, University of Pittsburgh, USA • Steven Manos, University of Melbourne, Australia • Chris A. Mattmann, NASA JPL & University of Southern California, USA • Abigail Cabunoc Mayes, Mozilla Science Lab, USA • Robert H. McDonald, Indiana University, USA • Lois Curfman McInnes, Argonne National Laboratory, USA • Chris Mentzel, Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, USA • Peter Murray-Rust, University of Cambridge, UK • Christopher R. Myers, Cornell University, USA • Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame, USA • Cameron Neylon, Curtin University, Australia • Aleksandra Pawlik, New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI), NZ • Fernando Perez, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory & University of California, Berkeley, USA • Marian Petre, The Open University, UK • Marlon Pierce, Indiana University, USA • Andreas Prlic, University of California, San Diego, USA • Karthik Ram, University of California, Berkeley, USA • Morris Riedel, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany • Norbert Seyff, University of Zurich, Switzerland • Arfon Smith, GitHub Inc, USA • Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA • Edgar Spalding, University of Wisconsin, USA • Maria Spichkova, RMIT University, Australia • Victoria Stodden, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA • Matthew Turk, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA • Ewout van den Berg, IBM Watson, USA • Nancy Wilkins-Diehr, San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, USA • James Willenbring, Sandia National Laboratories, USA • Scott Wilson, Cetis LLP, UK • Theresa Windus, Iowa State University and Ames Laboratory, USA -- ******************************************************** Anshu Dubey 630 252 3313 (work) 312 420 0033 (mobile) Argonne National Laboratory ********************************************************

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NRE-2016: Call for Papers
by Keyrouz, Walid (Fed) 05 Jul '16

05 Jul '16

[Apologies for the repeat posting to fix a typo.] !!!!! Call for Participation !!!!! Numerical Reproducibility at Exascale Workshop (NRE2016) Where: In cooperation with SC16, Salt Lake City, Utah When: Friday morning, November 20, 2015 Web: http://www.cs.fsu.fedu/~nre Submit: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nre2016 Deadline: Monday, August 29, 2016 Notifications: Monday, September 19, 2016 Full Papers: Monday, December 19, 2016 Organized by: Walid Keyrouz (NIST) and Michael Mascagni (FSU & NIST) Overview -------- Experimental reproducibility is a cornerstone of the scientific method. As computing has grown into a powerful tool for scientific inquiry, computational reproducibility has been one of the core assumptions underlying scientific computing. With "traditional" single-core CPUs, documenting a numerical result was relatively straightforward. However, hardware developments over the past several decades have made it almost impossible to ensure computational reproducibility or to even fully document a computation without incurring a severe loss of performance. This loss of reproducibility started with CPUs that used out-of-order execution to improve performance. It has accelerated with recent architectural trends towards platforms with increasingly large numbers of processing elements, namely multicore CPUs and compute accelerators (GPUs, Intel Xeon Phi, FPGAs). Programmers targeting these platforms rely on tools and libraries to produce codes or execute them efficiently. As a result, codes can run efficiently, but have execution details that can be impossible to predict and are often very difficult to understand after execution. Furthermore, parallel implementations often result in code with varying execution orders between runs, leading to non-reproducible computations. The underlying reasons are that (1) the hardware and system software allocate parallel work in ways that are not always specifiable at compile time and (2) the execution often proceeds in an opportunistic manner with the execution order changing between runs. As such, floating-point computations, which are not commutative and associative, can have different execution orders and execute on different processing elements between runs, leading to runs with varying results as a matter of fact. The predictability of systems is further complicated by two issues that are becoming more critical as systems grow in scale: (1) interconnect systems with latencies that are often outside the control of programmers and (2) reliability as the mean time between failure (MTBF) is now measured in hours on large systems. This situation seriously affects the ability to rely on scientific computations as a metrological substitute for experimentation! Previous Offerings ------------------ This is the second offering of Numerical Reproducibility at Exascale; the first edition, NRE2015, was at SC15. Workshop Scope -------------- The workshop is meant to address the scope of the problems of numerical reproducibility in HPC in general and those anticipated as we scale to Exascale machines in the next decade. We initially seek contributions of extended abstracts (two pages) in the areas of computational reproducibility in HPC from academic, government, and industry stakeholders. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Case studies of reproducibility or the lack of it * Reproducibility issues in current HPC * System-level solutions * Algorithmic solutions * Software solutions * Uncertainty quantification in computational reproducibility * Fundamental numerical analysis of reproducibility * Future prospects Workshop Format --------------- The workshop will have: * two plenary talks with authors TBD * a morning of contributed talks * a panel discussion to summarize the problem, current research, and prospects on long-term solutions Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed. The referees will select the papers that will be presented in the workshop. In addition, a group of papers will be published in a special issue of Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM) devoted to Numerical Reproducibility. Submissions ----------- Submissions of two page extended abstracts are sought. The format for the abstracts is not specified, but full papers that are accepted will be published in the MATCOM special issue. The MATCOM instructions for authors can be found on the MATCOM website. The abstracts are to submitted as a PDF document using Easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nre2016 Travel Support -------------- Some limited travel support may be available via NIST. Important Dates (all are Mondays) Aug 29, 2016: submission deadline for two page abstracts via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nre2016 Sep 19, 2016: notification of authors about their submissions based on: rejection, acceptance as a paper, acceptance as a paper and presentation Dec 19, 2016: submission deadline for full papers for refereeing via the MATCOM site, the papers must be in MATCOM format Organizers and Co-Editors of the MATCOM Special Issue ----------------------------------------------------- * Walid Keyrouz, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), USA * Michael Mascagni, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Florida State University, USA Steering Committee ------------------ * Dong H. Ahn, Lawrence Livermore National Lab, USA * David Bailey, UC Davis, USA * Mike Heroux, Sandia National Laboratory, USA * David R. C. Hill, Université Blaise Pascal, Clermont-Ferrand, France * Torsten Hoefler, ETH-Zurich, Switzerland * Walid Keyrouz (co-organizer), NIST, USA * Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University, USA * Xiaoye Sherry Li, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA * Yaohang Li, Old Dominon University, USA * Michael Mascagni (co-organizer), FSU/NIST, USA * Junji Nagano, Insitute of Statistical Mathematics, Japan * Nathalie Revol, INRIA/ENS-Lyon, France * Siegfried Rump, University of Hamburg, Germany * Michela Taufer, University of Delaware Contact ------- E-mail: numerical.reproducibility.at.nist.gov (replace '.at.' by '@')

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Final Deadline Extension CfP - JARA-HPC Symposium 2016 (JHPCS'16)
by Marc-André Hermanns 04 Jul '16

04 Jul '16

(We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message) ********************************************************************** * * JHPCS'16: JARA-HPC Symposium 2016 * * !!! Final Deadline Extension !!! * * Jointly organized by * the Forschungszentrum Jülich * and RWTH Aachen University * in the framework of the Jülich Aachen Research Alliance (JARA). * * http://hpc-symposium.jara.org/ * ********************************************************************** This call can be viewed online at: http://hpc-symposium.jara.org/call-for-papers/ ## General Information The first JARA-HPC Symposium will take place in Aachen, Germany, from October 04 – 05, 2016. Current HPC systems consist of complex configurations with a huge number of components, very likely heterogeneous, and typically with not enough memory. The hard- and software configuration can change dynamically due to fault recovery or power saving procedures. Deep software hierarchies of large, complex software components are needed to make efficient use of such systems. On the applications side, HPC systems are increasingly used for data analytics and complex workflows. Successful application development requires collaboration between the domain scientists on one side, and computer science / HPC experts on the other. JARA-HPC is the High Performance Computing section of JARA, the Jülich Aachen Research Alliance. JARA represents a cooperation between RWTH Aachen University and Forschungszentrum Jülich and is a model that is unique in Germany, overcoming the mere juxtaposition of university and non-university research and teaching. Scientists of JARA-HPC combine the knowledge of massively parallel computing on supercomputers with the respective expert competences from different research fields. JARA-HPC organizes this symposium to motivate lively discussions on the various aspects of the development of HPC applications among experts. Participants will have the opportunity for an in-depth exchange with colleagues from different research fields who also make use of HPC systems in their scientific work. Specifically, visualization methods, performance optimization and data management topics will be discussed in connection with application development in Engineering-, Materials- and Neuroscience. ## Topics Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Efficient multi-physics coupling strategies in CFD - Large materials simulation for energy applications - Integration of HPC numerical libraries in ab-initio codes - Provenance tracking for reproducibility of workflows and data in science - Scalable I/O for massively parallel applications - Scalable parallel visualization methods - In-situ visualization solutions - Scalable algorithms in Simulation Science - Performance portability / porting applications ## Submission Instructions JHPCS 2016 is still open to authors for submissions via easychair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=jhpcs2016 We are accepting submissions as extended abstracts with a minimum of 4 pages in Springer LNCS style, structured like the final paper. The extended abstract should clearly specify the content that will be added for the final paper in comments for the reviewers. Authors of accepted abstracts will be invited to give a presentation at the JARA-HPC Symposium and will have the chance to extend the initial submission to a full paper of 8 to 10 pages LNCS style to be published in the LNCS Symposium proceedings after the symposium. ## Important Dates !! July 11, 2016 !! - extended abstract (4+ pages) due - July 27, 2016 - author notification - October 4-5, 2016 - symposium - October 30, 2016 - camera-ready full paper due ## Organization ### Symposium General Co-chairs - Thomas Lippert, Forschungszentrum Jülich - Matthias S. Müller, RWTH Aachen University - Wolfgang Schröder, RWTH Aachen University ### Programm Committee: - Edoardo Di Napoli, Forschungszentrum Jülich - Bernd Hentschel, RWTH Aachen University - Marc-André Hermanns, Forschungszentrum Jülich - Hristo Iliev, RWTH Aachen University - Andreas Lintermann, RWTH Aachen University - Bernd Mohr, Forschungszentrum Jülich - Boris Orth, Forschungszentrum Jülich - Herwig Zilken, Forschungszentrum Jülich -- Marc-Andre Hermanns Jülich Aachen Research Alliance, High Performance Computing (JARA-HPC) Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC) Phone: +49 2461 61 2509 | +49 241 80 24381 Fax: +49 2461 80 6 99753 www.jara.org/jara-hpc email: m.a.hermanns(a)fz-juelich.de

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[CFP] (Submission Deadline extension: July 11th, 2016) First International Workshop on Reproducible Open Science (RepScience 2016)
by Idafen Santana Pérez 04 Jul '16

04 Jul '16

[*** Apologies for cross-posting ***] *New submission deadline: research paper submission: July 11th, 2016 - 23:59 CET* ****************************************************************** First International Workshop on Reproducible Open Science (RepScience 2016) **** Co-sponsored by Research Data Alliance Europe and OpenAIRE2020 **** Hannover, Germany, September 9th, 2016 Web site: http://repscience2016.research-infrastructures.eu E-mail: repscience2016(a)isti.cnr.it In conjunction with the International Conference on Theory and Practice of Digital Libraries (TPDL 2016) Proceedings published as Special Issue of the D-Lib Magazine Journal ( http://www.dlib.org) ******************************************************************* ###### Workshop Objectives ###### This Workshop aims at becoming a forum to discuss ideas and advancements towards the revision of current scientific communication practices in order to support Open Science, introduce novel evaluation schemes, and enable reproducibility. As such it candidates as an event fostering collaboration between (i) Library and information scientists working on the identification of new publication paradigms; (ii) ICT scientists involved in the definition of new technical solutions to these issues; (iii) scientists/researchers who actually conduct the research and demand tools and practices for Open Science. The expected results are advancements in the definition of the next generation scientific communication ecosystem, where scientists can publish research results (including the scientific article, the data, the methods, and any “alternative” product that may be relevant to the conducted research) in order to enable reproducibility (effective reuse and decrease of cost of science) and rely on novel scientific reward practices. ###### Invited speakers ###### *Carole Goble, Professor at University of Manchester (UK)Sunje Dallmeier-Tiessen, CERN (CH)* ###### Workshop topics ###### The topics of this workshop are of interest to, but not limited to, the following research avenues: * Classification (models and ontologies), description (e.g. metadata), identity management of products of science different from the traditional article; * Representing, exchanging, sharing, assessing (peer-reviewing), depositing, preserving products different from the traditional article * Publishing workflows for products different from the traditional article, e.g. submission, review, scientific reward (e.g. software publishing, research data publishing) * Interlinking and contextualization of products: mining techniques, LOD, data models, relationships (citation, versioning) between research results, etc. * Findability of products of science: indexing, searching, browsing challenges; * Controlled access to products of science (e.g. anonymization, role-driven views) * “Packaging research results”: identification, representation, description (metadata), deposition, preservation, evaluation, and interoperability of “research results packages” (e.g. Research Objects, Elsevier’s “article of the future”, executable papers, RMap) * Systems, tools, paradigms, publishing workflows towards favouring repetition, replication, reproduction, or re-use of science. ###### Paper Submission ###### Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers. Submitted manuscripts will have to be in the range of 4000-5000 words and edited with OpenOffice Writer or Microsoft Word, following the "Matters of style" section in the author guidelines for D-Lib Magazine. Papers submitted to the workshop will undergo a single-blind peer-review process by Program Committee members. Accepted papers will be published as a special issue of the D-Lib Magazine journal, in the first Quarter of 2017. To be published on the proceedings, accepted contributions should be revised according to the reviews and consider the feedback from the workshop. Moreover, at least one author is required to register and present the paper at the workshop. ###### Submission System ###### Research papers must be submitted via the workshop submission system, available at: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=repscience2016 ###### Important dates ###### *Research paper submission: July 11th, 2016 - 23:59 CETNotification of acceptance: July 30th, 2016*Revised paper re-submission: after workshop date, to be agreed with D-Lib Magazine Workshop day: September 9th, 2016 ###### Workshop Organisers ###### - Amir Aryani, Australian National Data Service, Australia - Oscar Corcho, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain - Paolo Manghi, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR, ISTI), Italy - Jochen Schirrwagen, Bielefeld University Library, Germany -- PhD, Ontology Engineering Group

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CFPs: ICPADS 2016 (Wuhan, China, December 13-16) [Deadline Extension]
by Fan Wu 04 Jul '16

04 Jul '16

Dear Colleagues, Apologize for cross-delivery. ************************************************************************************************************ IEEE ICPADS 2016 The 22nd IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2016) http://grid.hust.edu.cn/icpads2016/ Submission deadline is July 14 (no more extension) ************************************************************************************************************ Special issues in SCI indexed journals Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JDPC, SCI, Impact Factor: 1.320) Another two SCI indexed journals will be decided. Organizers: Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Venue & Dates: Wuhan, China, December 13-16, 2016 INTRODUCTION Established in 1992, ICPADS has been a major international forum for scientists, engineers, and users to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and latest research results on all aspects of parallel and distributed computing systems. The 22nd IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems (ICPADS 2016) will be held in Wuhan, China, December 13 ¨C 16, 2016. Contributions are solicited in all areas of parallel and distributed systems research and applications. SCOPE AND INTEREST Mobile, Sensor and Ubiquitous Computing P2P and Web-based Computing Cyber-Physical Systems Security and Trustworthy Computing Big Data and Massive Storage Systems Cloud Computing and Services Multicore Computing and Parallel / Distributed Architecture Parallel/Distributed Algorithms and Applications IMPORTANT DATES On-line submission system open: April 10, 2016 Deadline for paper submissions: July 14, 2016 (no more extension) Workshop proposal submission: July 16, 2016 Notification of paper acceptance: September 01, 2016 Deadline for author registration: October 01, 2016 Deadline of camera-ready version: October 01, 2016 SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION INFORMATION Papers must be unpublished and must not be submitted for publication elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed by Program Committee members and other experts active in the field to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. Submissions should include author information, abstract, 5-10 keywords, and be in PDF format. Each submission must not exceed 10 pages in the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format with 10 point font, including tables, figures and references. The final version will be limited to 8 pages in IEEE proceeding format for conference papers. Up to 2 extra pages may be purchased. Each submission should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the submission be accepted, at least one of the authors must register the paper and attend the conference to present the work in order for the accepted paper to be included into the IEEE digital library. **************************************************************************************************

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CFP: FTS workshop @ IEEE Cluster 2016 (deadline approaching)
by Hong Zhang 03 Jul '16

03 Jul '16

Call for paper Second International Workshop on Fault Tolerant Systems (FTS) September 16th. To be held in conjunction with IEEE Cluster 2016, September 12-16 in Taiwan. Website: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/fts/2016/ <http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/fts/2016/> SCOPE Fault Tolerance is a cross-cutting issue that spans all layers of the hardware/software stack, and hence, requires coupled improvements in each layer and co-design between the different layers. FTS aims at providing a venue for researchers to share experiences across the hardware/software layers and attendees to get a holistic view of fault tolerance techniques, especially with a focus on HPC and parallel computing. TOPICS OF INTEREST The focus areas for this workshop include, but are not limited to: Techniques for predicting, detecting, and correcting silent data corruption Hardware failure prediction and recovery techniques Novel hardware design for fault mitigation Programming interfaces and libraries to facilitate resilience of parallel executions Resilient algorithm design for application level fault tolerance Failure modeling and analysis Checkpoint/restart model Replication model Fault injection techniques for improved tool development Hardware and software fault detection and reporting systems Fault tolerance for coupled executions, workflows, and in situ data analytics Algorithms for performance optimization in the presence of faults Techniques and algorithms for rollback recovery PROCEEDINGS Proceedings of this workshop will be published in CD format and will be available at the conference (together with the IEEE Cluster conference proceedings). The accepted papers will be included in and indexed by the IEEE CS digital library. JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE Test best papers of FTS-2016 will be included in a special issue on Fault Tolerant Systems in an appropriate international journal. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Submissions should be in PDF format in U.S. Letter size paper. They should not exceed 8 pages (all inclusive). Authors with accepted papers may purchase additional up to 4 pages. Submissions should use the same formatting as IEEE Cluster (). Submissions will be judged based on relevance, significance, originality, correctness and clarity. Please visit workshop website at: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/fts/2016 <http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/fts/2016> for the submission link. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: May 1, 2016 (extended to July 7, 2016) Author Notification: July 20, 2016 Camera Ready: August 1, 2016 Workshop Date: September 16, 2016 PROGRAM CHAIRS Sheng Di, Argonne National Laboratory Vaidy Sunderam, Emory University PUBLICITY CHAIR Hong Zhang, Argonne National Laboratory STEERING COMMITTEE Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory Franck Cappello, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Illinois Urbana-Chanpaign Mattan Erez, University of Texas, Austin Yves Robert, INRIA and University of Tennessee, Knoxville PROGRAM COMMITTEE Leonardo Bautista Gomez, Barcelona Supercomputing Center Ana Gainaru, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Esteban Meneses, Costa Rica Institute of Technology Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Lab Aurelien Bouteiller, University of Tennessee Knoxville Qiang Guan, Los Alamos National Laboratory Kento Sato, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Raghunath Raja Chandrasekar, Cray Inc. Catello Di Martino, Bell Labs Alcatel-Lucent Devesh Tiwari, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Sanguine Seo, Argonne National Laboratory Massimiliano Lupo Pasini, Emory University Michael Mascagni, Florida State University/National Institute of Standards and Technology Rizwan A. Ashraf, Oak Ridge National Laboratory If you have any questions, please contact us at fts-chairs(a)mcs.anl.gov <mailto:[email protected]>

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