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[PPoPP 2017] Second Call for Papers
by Jeff Huang 02 Jul '16

02 Jul '16

Have you started writing your PPoPP'17 <http://ppopp.org> research papers? If not, start now as they are due in *only four weeks* (Aug 1st). (We would like to apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message) *PPoPP 2017: 22nd ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium* * on **Principles **and Practice of Parallel Programming* Austin, Texas, USA, February 4 - 8, 2017 (collocated with HPCA-2017 and CGO-2017) http://ppopp.org *Full paper submission: August 1, 2016* Author response period I: September 22 -- 26, 2016 Author response period II: October 24--28, 2016 Author Notification: November 12, 2015 Artifact Evaluation by AE committee Nov 13 -- December 13, 2016. Final paper due December 15, 2016 PPoPP is a forum for leading work on all aspects of parallel programming, including theoretical foundations, techniques, languages, compilers, runtime systems, tools, and practical experience. In the context of the symposium, "parallel programming" encompasses work on concurrent and parallel systems (multicore, multi-threaded, heterogeneous, clustered, and distributed systems; grids; clouds; and large scale machines). Given the rise of parallel architectures in the consumer market (desktops, laptops, and mobile devices), PPoPP is particularly interested in work that addresses new parallel workloads, techniques, and tools that attempt to improve the productivity of parallel programming, and work towards improved synergy with such emerging architectures. Specific topics of interest include (but are not limited to): + Compilers and runtime systems for parallel and heterogeneous systems + Concurrent data structures + Development, analysis, or management tools + Fault tolerance for parallel systems + Formal analysis and verification + High-performance / scientific computing + Middleware for parallel systems + Parallel algorithms + Parallel applications and frameworks + Parallel programming languages + Parallel programming theory and models + Parallelism in non-scientific workloads: web, search, analytics, cloud + Performance analysis, debugging and optimization + Programming tools for parallel and heterogeneous systems + Software engineering for parallel programs + Software for heterogeneous architectures + Software productivity for parallel programming + Synchronization and concurrency control + Task-parallel libraries Papers should report on original research relevant to parallel programming, and should contain enough background materials to make them accessible to the entire parallel programming research community. Papers describing experience should indicate how they illustrate general principles; papers about parallel programming foundations should indicate how they relate to practice. Poster submissions should meet similar criteria for originality and relevance, but may present emerging ideas or results that are not yet sufficiently developed for a full paper. Paper Submission All submissions are due August 1, 2017 and must be made electronically through the conference web site and include an abstract (100--400 words), author contact information, the full list of authors and their affiliations. Full paper submissions must be in PDF formatted for US letter size paper. No extensions will be granted. Papers should contain a maximum of 11 pages of single-spaced, minimum 10pt font, two-column text, NOT INCLUDING references. There is no page limit for references and they must include the name of all authors (not {et. al.}). Submission is double blind and authors will need to identify any potential conflicts of interest with PC and Extended Review Committee members, as defined here: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Review/ (ACM SIGPLAN policy). Detailed instructions for electronic submission and other important ACM SIGPLAN Policies will be posted on the PPoPP conference web site http://ppopp.org. For additional information regarding paper submissions, please contact the Program Chair, Lawrence Rauchwerger <rwerger(a)tamu.edu>. Poster submissions must conform to the same format restrictions, but may not exceed 2 pages in length. Paper submissions that are not accepted for regular presentations will automatically be considered for posters; authors who do not want their paper considered for the poster session should indicate this in their paper submission. Two-page summaries of posters will be included in the conference proceedings. Artifact evaluation has been included in PPoPP 2015 and PPoPP 2016, and will be continued in PPoPP 2017. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to formally submit their supporting materials to the Artifact Evaluation process. The Artifact Evaluation process is run by a separate committee whose task is to assess how the artifacts support the work described in the papers. This submission is voluntary and will not influence the final decision regarding the papers. Papers that go through the Artifact Evaluation process successfully will receive a seal of approval printed on the papers themselves. Authors of accepted papers are encouraged (but not obliged) to make these materials publicly available upon publication of the proceedings, by including them as source materials in the ACM Digital Library. Tutorials / Workshops Proposals are solicited for tutorials and workshops to be held immediately before the conference. Interested individuals are invited to contact the Workshops Chair and the Tutorials Chair Rajkishore Barik < rajkishore.barik(a)intel.com> WORKSHOPS \& TUTORIALS DEADLINES: Proposals: August 31, 2016. Notification: 2 weeks after submission (latest: September 14, 2016). Dates: February 4--5, 2017. Organizing Committees ----------------------------- General Chair: Vivek Sarkar Rice University Program Chair: Lawrence Rauchwerger Texas A&M University Workshops & Tutorials Chair: Rajkishore Barik Intel

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CFP: IEEE HPCC2016 (High Performance Computing and Communications), Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 02 Jul '16

02 Jul '16

Call for papers: The 18th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/hpcc Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 20, 2016 Notification: September 25, 2016 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2016 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/hpcc/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing =========== Introduction With the rapid growth in computing and communications technology, the past decade has witnessed a proliferation of powerful parallel and distributed systems and an ever increasing demand for practice of high performance computing and communications (HPCC). HPCC has moved into the mainstream of computing and has become a key technology in determining future research and development activities in many academic and industrial branches, especially when the solution of large and complex problems must cope with very tight timing schedules. Among a series of highly successful International Conferences on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), the HPCC 2016 conference is the 18th edition of a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address the resulting profound challenges and to present and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on all aspects of high performance computing and communications. IEEE HPCC 2016 is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Parallel and distributed system architectures 2. Languages and compilers for high performance computing 3. Parallel and distributed software technologies 4. Parallel and distributed algorithms 5. Embedded systems 6. Peer-to-peer computing 7. Cluster computing 8. Web services and Internet computing 9. Cloud computing 10. Utility computing 11. Performance evaluation and measurement 12. Tools and environments for software development 13. Distributed systems and applications 14. High-performance scientific and engineering computing 15. Database applications and data mining 16. Biological/molecular computing 17. Collaborative and cooperative environments 18. Mobile computing and wireless communications 19. Computer Networks 20. Telecommunications 21. Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence 22. Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance 23. Trust, security and privacy Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/dss/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing General Chairs Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada General Co-Chairs Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Nong Xiao, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Geyong Min, The University of Exeter, UK Program Chairs Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Dongsheng Li, National University of Defense Technology, China Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Workshops Chairs Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China Vinh Tung Le, UTS, Australia Steering Committee Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy

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CfP: PhD Symposium of the 5th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing
by Massimo Villari 02 Jul '16

02 Jul '16

CfP: PhD Symposium of the 5th European Conference on Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing (5.9-7.9.2016, Vienna, Austria) The ESOCC 2016 PhD Symposium is an international forum for PhD students working in any of the areas addressed by the ESOCC conference. The main aim of the Symposium is to give PhD students an opportunity to present their research activity and perspectives, to critically discuss them with other PhD students and with established researchers in the area, and to get fruitful feedbacks and advices on their research activity. PhD students working in any area addressed by the ESOCC conference (all aspects of Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing, which constitute the main technology available to date for implementing service-oriented architectures and cloud computing, cf. http://esocc2016.eu/call-for-papers/ <http://esocc2016.eu/call-for-papers/>) can submit a short report providing a clear statement of the problem they intend to address, motivating the interest and novelty of the underlying research challenges, demonstrating the ideas by examples, and describing the proposed research plan and expected results. Reports should not exceed 8 pages formatted according to the LNCS proceedings guidelines. The papers should be authored by the PhD student and indicate the name of her/his supervisor. Papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee and have to be submitted by July 12, 2016 via EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2016 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=esocc2016>) . For any problem regarding the submission process, send an email to info(a)esocc2016.eu <mailto:[email protected]>. It is planned to provide the participants online proceedings and to publish selected contributions as post-proceedings in the Springer CCIS series. Important Dates: Paper Submission: July 12, 2016 Notification: July 26, 2016 Final Version: TBD Programme Committee: Antonio Brogi, University of Pisa, Italy Friederike Klan, Friedrich Schiller University Jena, Germany Welf Loewe, Linnaeus University, Sweden Flavio de Paoli, University of Milano-Bicocca, Italy Alexander Pokahr, University of Hamburg, Germany Ernesto Pimentel, University of Malaga, Spain Emilio Tuosto, University of Leicester, UK Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy John Erik Wittern, IBM T.J.Watson Research Center, USA Gianluigi Zavattaro (Co-Chair), University of Bologna, Italy Wolf Zimmermann (Co-Chair), Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Germany Prof. Eng. Massimo Villari, PhD Dip. di Ingegneria Universita' di Messina C.Da Di Dio, N°1 - 98166 - Messina - ITALY - phone: +39 090 397 7342 email: mvillari(a)unime.it http://it.linkedin.com/in/mvillari <http://it.linkedin.com/in/mvillari>

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(CFP) PDSW-DISCS’16, The 1st Joint International Workshop on Parallel Data Storage and Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems
by Jialin Liu 01 Jul '16

01 Jul '16

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email] **** 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)

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SC’16 Doctoral Showcase Program: Call for Submissions
by Manu Shantharam 01 Jul '16

01 Jul '16

The *SC’16 Doctoral Showcase Program* invites graduating Ph.D. students in high-performance computing, networking, storage and analysis to present a summary of their dissertation research and engage in stimulating discussions with the SC community. This program provides an ideal opportunity for senior researchers and prospective employers in academia, research laboratories and industry to interact and network with graduating Ph.D.s. Please encourage your students to participate! Submissions will be accepted from Ph.D. students who will be graduating in the next 12 months, i.e., before the end of November, 2017. Submissions *may include results that have been previously presented* by the student in other forums. Students are asked to submit a four-page summary of their research, a poster draft, and publications list on their major results for consideration by the Doctoral Showcase Committee. The authors of the accepted submissions will be invited to present their work at SC'16. To increase the visibility of the work and foster discussion, each accepted submission will be presented in two forms: podium talk and poster presentation. IMPORTANT DATES ------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Submission deadline: *July 31, 2016*. - Acceptance notification: September 1, 2016. CONTACTS ------------------------------------------------------------------------ For further information, including paper and poster format requirements, please visit the SC'16 Doctoral Showcase Program website at http://sc16.supercomputing.org/submitters/showcases/doctoral-showcase/, or contact the Doctoral Showcase Co-Chairs at doc-showcase(a)info.supercomputing.org ORGANIZING COMMITTEE ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Chair* Boyana Norris, University of Oregon norris(a)cs.uoregon.edu *Vice Chair* Manu Shantharam, SDSC mshantharam(a)sdsc.edu *Committee* Guillaume Aupy, Vanderbilt University Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware Kamil Iskra, Argonne National Laboratory Alice Koniges, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University Catherine Olschanowsky, Colorado State University Shankar Sastry, University of Utah Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Michelle Mills Strout, University of Arizona Didem Unat, Koç University

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