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Call for Papers: ISPDC-2017 - Extended deadline for paper submission
by Florina M. Ciorba 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

(Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP) The paper submission deadline for ISPDC-2017 was extended until February 19th, 2017 (strong deadline). ********************************************************************************** ISPDC-2017: The 16th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing Institute for Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria July 3-6, 2017 http://ispdc2017.dps.uibk.ac.at ********************************************************************************** It is our pleasure to invite you to the 16th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC-2017). Following very successful runs since 2002 at locations all over Europe, last time in July 2016 in FuZhou, China, the next ISPDC edition will be held from 3 to 6 July 2017, in Innsbruck, Austria. It will be organised by the Institute for Computer Science, University of Innsbruck, Austria. The mission of the 16th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing is to bring together researchers, engineers, and practitioners involved in the development of new algorithms, architectures and applications for parallel and distributed computing, as well as visualisation and post-processing. The goal is to provide an interactive and friendly yet professional forum for original research contributions describing novel ideas, groundbreaking results or quantified system experiences. We cordially invite you to submit your contribution to the 16th International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (ISPDC-2017). We kindly invite you to submit original contributions to ISPDC-2017 on topics including, but not limited to: System Architectures for Parallel and Distributed Computing - Multi-Cores, Virtualization - Clusters and Grid Computing - Methods and Tools for Parallel and Distributed Programming - Embedded, Mobile and Networking Environments - System Architecture and System Software for In-Memory Computing - Innovative System Architecture for Big Data Processing - System Architecture for Graph Computing/Processing - Interconnect Architecture for HPC and Data Centers High Performance Computing and Large Scale Applications - Tools and Environments for Parallel Program Design/Analysis - Scalable Algorithms and Applications - Urban Networks and Applications, Vehicular Networks - Parallel, Distributed and Mobile big-Data Management Parallel Computing and Algorithms - Parallel Programming Paradigms and APIs - GPU Programming - Bio-inspired Parallel Algorithms - Big Data and Graph Analytics - Algorithms, Models and Formal Verification Cloud Computing - Cloud Resource Provisioning and Allocation - Pricing of Cloud Resources - Cloud Performance, and Capacity Management - Green Cloud Computing - Mobile Clouds - Security and Privacy in Clouds - Cloud Computing Techniques for Big Data - Storage Architectures for Clouds and Big Data Processing Edge Computing - Fog computing and networking architectures - Edge-Cloud interactions and enabling protocols - System and service management - Edge resource management - Distributed data centers, edge data analytics, edge caching - Security and privacy Distributed and Embedded Computing - Collaborative Computing, P2P Computing - Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing - Web Services and Internet Computing - Distributed Software Components, Multi-agent Systems - Parallel Embedded Systems Programming - Highly Embedded Parallel Systems Support for Programming - FPGA and SoC Solutions Performance Modeling, Management and Optimization - Scheduling and Load Balancing - Performance Modeling, Analysis and Evaluation - Optimisation, Security and Dependability Interactivity - Real-time Distributed and Parallel Systems - Visualisation of Massively Parallel Data - IoT, Social Networks PAPER SUBMISSION: You are invited to submit original papers of up to 10 pages, written in English and compliant with the IEEE standard (8.5"x11", two-column). The Conference Publishing Services (CPS, http://www.computer.org/portal/web/cscps/home) will publish the proceedings. To be published in the ISPDC-2017 Conference Proceedings and to be eligible for publication in IEEE Xplore®, an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at the full rate and the paper must be presented by an author of that paper at the conference. A best paper award will be presented to paper(s) receiving the highest quality rating from the reviewers and the PC. Paper submissions are to be made accessing the registration page on EasyChair (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ispdc2017) If you do not already have an account there, you should create one. Please see the conference website for details and further information: http://ispdc2017.dps.uibk.ac.at IMPORTANT DATES: Submissions deadline (extended, firm): February 19, 2017 Submissions deadline: January 29, 2017 Notification of authors: March 12, 2017 Camera ready papers: April 30, 2017 Author registration by: April 30, 2017 Early registration by: May 7, 2017 ISPDC-2017 Symposium: July 3 to 6, 2017 Please email this call to anyone you think may be interested. Many Thanks form Symposium Chairs, Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria Florin Pop, University Politehnica of Bucharest, Romania Ralf-Peter Mundani, Technische Universität München, Germany

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CFP - CrossCloud'17 - Deadline extended
by Walter Cerroni 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

============================ Call for Papers ========================== CrossCloud'17 The 4th Workshop on CrossCloud Infrastructures & Platforms http://bit.ly/CrossCloud April 23, 2017 Co-located with European Conference on Computer Systems (EuroSys'17) April 23-26, 2017 - Belgrade, Serbia (Submission deadline extended to February 14, 2017) ======================================================================= SCOPE CrossCloud is an international workshop series that aims to bring to light several issues related to cross-cloud systems: cloud federation, multi-cloud architectures, cross-cloud applications, and hybrid clouds. CrossCloud aims to attract researchers from both academia and industry to share and discuss their recent research and experiences in designing and operating multiple cloud systems. Work in this area extends over various topics including cross-cloud resource management, monitoring, service migration, API interoperability, portability, policy enforcement, benefit–cost analysis, and fault mitigation. ======================================================================= TOPICS OF INTERESTS Authors are invited to submit papers covering, but not limited to, the following topics: - Cross-cloud systems: resource management across multiple clouds (e.g., load balancing, performance optimization, security and privacy policy enforcement). - Containers and Virtual Machine (VM) management across several cloud infrastructures (e.g., VM placement and migration). - Fog/edge computing: fog-based infrastructures, caching, performance and services. - Micro-services: system design, monitoring and management using containers and/or microkernels to achieve cloud provider independence. - Cross-Cloud agility: dynamic application deployment across multiple cloud platforms, flexibility in moving between different providers and vendors. - Hybrid cloud infrastructures management: public and private clouds, heterogeneous cloud systems, cloud and cluster/grid systems. - Cloud-bursting: workload offloading, multi-cloud resource scheduling strategies. - Cross-cloud SDKs and APIs: design, maintenance, support and performance evaluation. - Application portability: priorities, restrictions, and lock-in mitigation techniques and measures. - API interoperability: study cases and experiences with data and applications. - Interoperability between managed services (e.g., MapReduce, DB, message queues, etc.). - Decision support systems: efficient and open application deployment and monitoring across different cloud platforms and providers, cloud brokerage as a means of complexity outsourcing. - Scalable multi-cloud monitoring: monitoring among different cloud environments, relevant metrics at the different levels of the stack (e.g., network access), monitoring overhead analysis. - Experiences: assembling and (re)deploying in heterogeneous multi- cloud environments, costs and benefits of cross-cloud management and deployment, challenges in existing cross-cloud platforms, case studies on building or federating multi-cloud systems. - Cross-Cloud security: identity and access management across infrastructure boundaries, reconciling application security and privacy requirements across multiple SLAs. ======================================================================= IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: February 14, 2017 (EXTENDED) Author notification: March 10, 2017 Camera-ready version: March 31, 2017 All deadline times are Anywhere on Earth. ======================================================================= SUBMISSION GUIDELINE We solicit two types of submissions: (1) technical papers (max 6 double-column pages), and (2) posters (max 2 double-column pages). Each submission will receive at least 3 single-blind peer reviews. Authors of technical papers are also encouraged to prepare a poster to be displayed in the workshop's poster sessions. ======================================================================= JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE Like in the former editions of the workshop, authors of the best technical papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to the Springer Open Journal of Internet Services and Applications thematic series on cross-cloud computing (JISA-CCC). ======================================================================= ORGANIZATION General and Technical Program Co-Chairs: Yehia Elkhatib (Lancaster University, UK) Mohamed Faten Zhani (École de Technologie Supérieure, Canada) Steering Committee: Gordon S. Blair (Lancaster University, UK) Raouf Boutaba (University of Waterloo, Canada) Publicity Co-chairs: Michele Nogueira (Federal University of Parana, Brazil) Walter Cerroni (University of Bologna, Italy) ======================================================================= CONTACT CrossCloudRsrch(a)gmail.com http://bit.ly/CrossCloud

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CFP: Fifth International Workshop on OpenCL (IWOCL 2017) - EXTENDED deadline Friday 17th February, 2017 (23:59 AOE)
by Simon McIntosh-Smith 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

Now in its fifth year, the International Workshop on OpenCL (IWOCL) will be hosted by The University of Toronto, Canada, at the Bahen Centre on May 16th-18th 2017. May 16th sees two activities: an Advanced Hands On OpenCL tutorial and a SYCL workshop, while May 17th and 18th will include of a mix of keynotes, academic papers, technical presentations, tutorials and poster sessions. We are inviting high-quality submissions in four categories: * Full Academic Papers. As in previous years these will undergo peer review by at least three reviewers each, with accepted papers being published in the ACM international conference proceedings series after the conference. * Technical Presentations. These are an opportunity to talk about work in progress or more industrially-focused work. Submission only requires a 1-page abstract, with slide sets being made available online via the conference website after the workshop and abstracts included in the conference proceedings. * Tutorials. We are inviting proposals for quarter day or half day tutorials on OpenCL-related topics. * Posters. These will be on show during the whole workshop. Submission is via an abstract and we will exhibit as many of high-quality posters as we can. IWOCL will publish formal proceedings of the accepted papers in The ACM International Conference Series (ACM ICPS). Details of the selection criteria and how to submit your paper or tutorial proposal via EasyChair can be found in the official call for papers: http://www.iwocl.org/iwocl-2017/opencl-call-for-papers/ * Important Dates * Submission deadline: Friday 17th February, 2017 (23:59 Anywhere On Earth - AOE) Notification will be in early March 2017. We hope to see many of you at Toronto in May! With best wishes, Simon McIntosh-Smith, University of Bristol (IWOCL’17 general chair) Tim Lewis, Croftedge Marketing Limited AJ Guillon, YetiWare (co local chair for IWOCL'17) Michael Wong, Codeplay (co local chair for IWOCL'17) -- Professor of High Performance Computing PI for the Isambard GW4 Tier 2 HPC service Head of Microelectronics Research Group, Department of Computer Science University of Bristol, Merchant Venturers Building, Woodland Road, Clifton, Bristol, BS8 1UB, UK Phone: +44 (0)117 331 5324, Twitter: simonmcs, Web: http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~simonm/ HPC research webpage: http://uob-hpc.github.io

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Call for Papers - ICCS ECA-2017 Workshop (Zurich June 12 - 14 2017) - deadline extended
by Matti Heikkurinen/LMU 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

Environmental computing applications - state of the art ECA 2017 ICCS 2017 workshop Jun 12, 2016 - Jun 14, 2017 Zurich, Switzerland Submission deadline: 10th February http://envcomp.eu/ICCS17/ There are several domain- or problem-specific areas – such as meteorology or seismic analysis – that use multi-model and multi-data approaches to analyse environmental phenomena and their impact. However, a more general approach to produce actionable knowledge from different environmental data sources is needed. The workshop is intended to bring together practitioners, policymakers, environmental modelling experts to present the latest developments in Environmental Computing. The submitted papers can be case studies or present new approaches to environmental computing systems, including (but not limited to) multi-model and multi-data frameworks (including metadata approaches), scalability of the systems, socioeconomic impact of environmental computing, data and model semantics and visualisation. The topics of interest include: * Case studies * Environmental modelling techniques (and optimisation of them) * Multi-model systems * Civil protection (and related engineering challenges) * Scalability of environmental HPC and Big Data applications * Risk assessment and management * Interdisciplinary collaboration * Dynamic model coupling approaches * Interdisciplinary metadata frameworks * Visualisation Submission Contributions should be submitted via the ICCS 2017 easychair ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccs2017 - select “Environmental Computing Applications – State of the Art” in the first menu). For more information about the submission process (including the “abstract only” option), please consult the conference website ( http://www.iccs-meeting.org/iccs2017/call-for-papers/) Organisation and contact Dieter Kranzlmüller, LMU Munich and LRZ, Germany Matti Heikkurinen, LMU Munich http://envcomp.eu/ICCS17/ info(a)envcomp.eu -- Matti Heikkurinen - LMU heikku(a)nm.ifi.lmu.de - +41 76 716 05 31

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CFP: International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers (ROSS 2017)
by ross2017＠easychair.org 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ========================================================================== International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers *** ROSS 2017 *** In cooperation with ACM SIGHPC ------------------------------ Held in conjunction with HPDC 2017, Washington, D.C., USA, June 27, 2017 ========================================================================== http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/ross/2017/ ========================================================================== The complexity of node architectures in supercomputers increases as we cross petaflop milestones on the way towards Exascale. Increasing levels of parallelism in multi- and many-core chips and emerging heterogeneity of computational resources coupled with energy and memory constraints force a reevaluation of our approaches towards operating systems and runtime environments. The ROSS workshop, to be held as a full-day meeting at the HPDC 2017 conference in Washington, D.C., USA, focuses on principles and techniques to design, implement, optimize, or operate runtime and operating systems for supercomputers and massively parallel machines. TOPICS OF INTEREST: ------------------- - OS and runtime system scalability on many-node and multi/many-core systems - management of heterogeneous and reconfigurable compute resources, including FPGAs, GPUs, etc. - distributed/hybrid/partitioned OSes and runtime systems for Supercomputing - system noise analysis and prevention - interaction between middleware, runtime system, and the OS - modeling and performance analysis of runtime systems - OS and runtime considerations for large-volume, high-performance I/O - memory management and emerging memory technologies - the role of OS and runtime system in minimizing power usage SCHEDULE AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: ---------------------------------- Submission deadline: March 31, 2017 Author notification: May 12, 2017 Final papers due: June 2, 2017 Workshop date: June 27, 2017 The ROSS workshop proceedings will be published electronically via the ACM Digital Library. Submitted manuscripts should be formatted using the ACM Master article template sigconf format (please be sure to use the new 2017 version). Extensive documentation can be found at the ACM site (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template) The maximum length is 8 pages. All papers must be in English. Please visit the workshop website for further instructions and the submission link. WORKSHOP CHAIRS: ---------------- Torsten Hoefler ETH Zurich, Switzerland Kamil Iskra Argonne National Laboratory, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ------------------ Patrick Bridges, University of New Mexico, USA Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Markus Geimer, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany Roberto Gioiosa, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Yutaka Ishikawa, RIKEN, Japan Michael Lang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA Stefan Lankes, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Yoonho Park, IBM Research, USA Pascale Rosse-Laurent, Bull, France Jesper Larsson Traeff, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Eric Van Hensbergen, ARM, USA Robert Wisniewski, Intel, USA Contact us at ross2017(a)easychair.org if you have any questions.

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CFP: 2017 International Workshop on Open Source Supercomputing (OpenSuCo)
by John Leidel 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

================================================================= 2017 International Workshop on Open Source Supercomputing (OpenSuCo-2017) Thursday June 22, 2017; Frankfurt Germany Held in conjunction with ISC 2017 CALL FOR PAPERS http://www.opensuco.community/ ================================================================= The OpenSuCo Workshop seeks to encapsulate a wealth of effort in design, prototyping, and cross-functional collaboration of open source hardware, software, and scientific computing projects in a singular point of technical discussion and exchange. As the limits of MOSFET/Dennard scaling grow ever closer, the high performance/technical computing community continually seeks new methods by which to continue scaling system performance and, potentially, system efficiency. Important Dates ============================= Submission Deadline: 2017 April 07, 23:59 AOE Conference-Ready Deadline: 2017 June 10 Camera-Ready Deadline: 2017 July 22 Topics of Interest ============================= We solicit papers according to (but not limited to) three technical tracks as follows: - Hardware -- ISA & processors -- System and network interconnects -- Simulation & emulation -- Early hardware evaluations - Software -- System software & OS -- Programming models, tools & tool chains -- Numerical solvers -- Application infrastructures - Collaboration -- Co-design projects and methods -- Cross-disciplinary projects -- International collaborations Conference Website ============================= More information regarding the program committee and general scope of the workshop can be found below: http://www.opensuco.community/2017/01/30/opensuco-2017-isc17/ Submission Process ============================= Submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=opensuco2017 Papers need to be formatted according to Springer’s single column LNCS style (see this link for LaTeX and Word templates). Papers are limited to 8 pages including figures, references, the abstract, and everything else. Selected papers will be published in ISC’s 2017 workshop proceedings with Springer. Authors will have a chance to revise their papers according to feedback they receive during the workshop and submit a camera-ready version by July 22nd 2017. Paper formatting/templates: http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 =================================================================

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Call for Papers - CARLA 2017 - Springer CCIS Series
by carla2017＠ccarla.org 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

Latin American HPC Conference http://carla2017.ccarla.org/ September 20 - 22, 2017 Buenos Aires, Argentina IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission deadline : June 30, 2017 Notification of acceptance: July 31, 2017 Camera-ready papers due : August 15, 2017 AIMS & SCOPE Building on the success of the previous editions of the CARLA Conference (and former HPCLATAM and CLCAR Conferences), the tenth edition will be organized by Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Universidad de la República (Uruguay). The main goal of CARLA is to provide a forum fostering the growth of the HPC community in Latin America, through the exchange and dissemination of new ideas, techniques, and research in HPC. CARLA will feature invited talks from academy and industry, short‐ and full‐paper sessions presenting mature work and new ideas in research and industrial applications. Suggested topics of interest include, but are not restricted to: Distributed Systems, Parallel Algorithms and Concurrency; GPU and MIC Computing; Mobile, Grid & Cloud Computing; Big data, Data Management & Visualization; Scientific Computing & Computing Applications; Architecture, Infrastructure and HPC Data Center; HPC Computing Education and Outreach; Industrial Solutions. INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS Authors are invited to submit full and short papers written in English, according to the Springer LNCS/CCIS style. Papers must not have been previously published or submitted elsewhere. Submissions will be handled electronically using an online system. All paper submissions will be carefully reviewed by three experts and returned to the author(s). The authors of accepted papers must guarantee that their paper will be presented at the conference. Regular full-length papers Full papers must not exceed 15 pages, including name, affiliation and address of the author(s), figures, tables, references, and an abstract of no more than 200 words. All full paper submissions will be carefully reviewed by at least two experts and returned to the author(s) with comments to ensure the high quality of accepted papers. Full papers accepted for the program will appear in the CARLA 2017 proceedings. Short papers/Extended abstracts Authors are invited to submit short papers (extended abstracts) for results that are too late to be submitted as regular full-length papers. Short papers must not exceed 4 pages. Short papers accepted for the program will appear in the proceedings (not expanded to full papers, and with Extended Abstract in the title) and be presented orally during the symposium (in suitably shorter speaking slots) as a regular part of the program. Student papers (special Students Track) Students are invited to submit papers to the special Students Track. Student papers can be either full-length or short, and they will be presented during the symposium (in suitably student speaking slots) as a regular part of the program. Proceedings All papers accepted for publication will be included in CARLA 2017 Proceedings, to be published in Springer CCIS Series -- Communications in Computer and Information Science. CCIS is abstracted/indexed in Scopus, DBLP, Google Scholar, EI-Compendex, Mathematical Reviews and SCImago. CCIS volumes are also submitted to be included in ISI Proceedings. Special Issues Authors of the best papers submitted to the workshop will be invited to submit their extended versions to special issues of journals in the areas of supercomputing and high performance computing (details will be provided soon). Submission link [To be available soon] ORGANIZED BY: Universidad de Buenos Aires (Argentina) and Universidad de la República (Uruguay). GENERAL CHAIRS: Sergio Nesmachnow & Esteban Mocskos PUBLICITY CHAIRS: Santiago Iturriaga, Sebastián Valenzuela, Pedro Moreno CONTACT: carla2017(a)ccarla.org

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Euro-Par 2017: Final Call for Papers and extended deadlines
by Euro-Par 2017 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

(Apologies if you are receiving multiple copies of this CFP. Please do forward it to interested colleagues.) ******************************************************************************* *** EURO-PAR 2017: FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS AND EXTENDED DEADLINES *** ******************************************************************************* Call for Papers: Euro-Par 2017 23rd International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Santiago de Compostela, Spain, from August 28th to September 1st, 2017 http://europar2017.usc.es/ Twitter: @europar2017 Euro-Par is the prime European conference covering all aspects of parallel and distributed processing, ranging from theory to practice, from small to the largest parallel and distributed systems and infrastructures, from fundamental computational problems to full-fledged applications, from architecture, compiler, language and interface design and implementation, to tools, support infrastructures, and application performance aspects. Euro-Par’s unique organization into topics provides an excellent forum for focused technical discussion, as well as interaction with a large, broad and diverse audience. Scope We invite submissions of high-quality, novel and original research results in areas of parallel and distributed computing covered by the following topics: 1. Support Tools and Environments 2. Performance and Power Modeling, Prediction and Evaluation 3. Scheduling and Load Balancing 4. High Performance Architectures and Compilers 5. Parallel and Distributed Data Management and Analytics 6. Cluster and Cloud Computing 7. Distributed Systems and Algorithms 8. Parallel and Distributed Programming, Interfaces, and Languages 9. Multicore and Manycore Parallelism 10. Theory and Algorithms for Parallel Computation and Networking 11. Parallel Numerical Methods and Applications 12. Accelerator Computing Full details on the topics, including topic descriptions and chairs, are available on the Euro-Par 2017 Web site. To access them please follow the links above. The conference will feature contributed and invited talks. Co-located workshops are also planned. Important Dates – Paper abstracts: February 9, 2017, 23:59 AOE – Full paper submission: February 16, 2017, 23:59 AOE – Author notification: April 24, 2017 – Camera ready full papers: June 3, 2017 – Workshop proposals: February 17, 2017 Submission Guidelines Submissions in PDF format should not exceed 12 pages in the Springer LNCS style, which can be downloaded from the Springer Web site. Paper submission is handled electronically (EasyChair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2017) Complete LaTeX sources must be provided for accepted papers. All submitted research papers will be peer-reviewed. Only contributions that are not submitted elsewhere or currently under review will be considered. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings, published by Springer in the ARCoSS/LNCS series. Authors of accepted papers will have to sign a Springer copyright form. Location Euro-Par 2017 will be held in Santiago de Compostela, Spain, from August 28th to September 1st, 2017, at the ETSE (Escola Técnica Superior de Enxeñaría) of the University of Santiago de Compostela in Campus Vida. It is organized by CiTIUS (Centro Singular de Investigación en Tecnoloxías da Información) of the University of Santiago de Compostela. Conference Co-Chairs Francisco Fernandez Rivera Jose Carlos Cabaleiro Tomas Fernandez Pena Dora Blanco Heras Program Committee http://europar2017.usc.es/#organization

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HiCOMB 2017 extended submission deadline
by Pothen, Alex 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

HiCOMB 2017, 16th IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology Monday, May 29, 2017, Buena Vista Palace Hotel, Orlando, FL, USA http://www.hicomb.org/ The submission deadlines have been extended by two weeks! Call For Papers The size and complexity of genome- and proteome-scale data sets in bioinformatics continues to grow at a furious pace, and the analysis of these complex, noisy, data sets demands efficient algorithms and high performance computer architectures. Hence high-performance computing has become an integral part of research and development in bioinformatics, computational biology, and medical and health informatics. The goal of this workshop is to provide a forum for discussion of latest research in developing high-performance computing solutions to data- and compute-intensive problems arising from all areas of computational life sciences. We are especially interested in parallel and distributed algorithms, memory-efficient algorithms, large scale data mining techniques including approaches for big data and cloud computing, algorithms on multicores, many-cores and GPUs, and design of high-performance software and hardware for biological applications. The workshop will feature contributed papers as well as invited talks from reputed researchers in the field. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: • Bioinformatics data analytics; Biological network analysis; Cloud-enabled solutions for computational biology; Computational genomics and metagenomics; Computational proteomics and metaproteomics; DNA assembly, clustering, and mapping; Energy-aware high performance biological applications; Gene identification and annotation; High performance algorithms for computational systems biology; High throughput, high dimensional data analysis: flow cytometry and related proteomic data; Parallel algorithms for biological sequence analysis; Molecular evolution and phylogenetic reconstruction algorithms; Protein structure prediction and modeling; Parallel algorithms in chemical genetics and chemical informatics; Transcriptome analysis with RNASeq Details and Important Dates To submit a paper, please upload a PDF file through Easy Chair at the URL https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hicomb2017. Submitted manuscripts may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using a 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references (see IPDPS Call for Papers for more details). All papers will be reviewed. Proceedings of the workshops will be distributed at the conference and are submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Explore Digital Library after the conference. Workshop submissions due: February 13, 2017 Author notification: February 27, 2017 Final Camera-ready papers due: March 22, 2017 Workshop: May 29, 2017 Workshop Organizers Alex Pothen and Ananth Grama Department of Computer Science, Purdue University ------------------

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CFP: Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '17)
by Balazs Gerofi 30 Jan '17

30 Jan '17

========================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS ========================================================================= 12th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '17) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance, June 18-22, 2017, Frankfurt, Germany. (Springer LNCS Proceedings) ========================================================================= Date: June 22, 2017 Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org Abstract Submission Deadline: February 28, 2017 Paper Submission Deadline: April 25, 2017 (Springer LNCS) Abstract/Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23179 Call for Papers: Virtualization technologies constitute a key enabling factor for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need to manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads and hosted applications customers deploy. Similarly, HPC environments have been increasingly adopting techniques that enable flexible management of vast computing and networking resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Various virtualization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to livemigrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e., containerization), with its capability to isolate multiple userspace environments and to allow for their coexistence within the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of responsiveness and performance; I/O Virtualization allows physical NICs/HBAs to take traffic from multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of the underlying physical topology and IP addressing, provides the fundamental ground on top of which evolved network services can be realized with an unprecedented level of dynamicity and flexibility; the increasingly adopted paradigm of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) promises to extend this flexibility to the control and data planes of network paths. Publication: Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS proceedings volume. Topics of Interest: The VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions related to virtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus on the intersection of HPC and the cloud. Major Topics: - Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, HPC in the cloud and grids - OS-level virtualization and containers (Docker, rkt, Singularity, Shifter, i.a.) - Lightweight/specialized operating systems, unikernels and multi-kernels - Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms and hypervisors - Hypervisor support for heterogenous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.) - Virtualization support for emerging memory technologies - Virtualization in enterprise HPC and microvisors - Software defined networks and network virtualization - Management, deployment of virtualized environments and orchestration (Kubernetes i.a.), - Support for workflows and container-based composability - Performance measurement, modelling and monitoring of cloud workloads - Virtualization in data intensive computing and Big Data processing - HPC convergence - Adaptation of HPC technologies in the cloud (high performance networks, RDMA, etc.) - ARM-based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensions - I/O virtualization and cloud based storage systems - Job scheduling/control/policy and container placement in virtualized environments - Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance and high-availability - QoS and SLA in virtualized environments - IaaS platforms, cloud frameworks and APIs - Large-scale virtualization in domains such as finance and government - Energy-efficient and power-aware virtualization - Security in containerized environments - Configuration management tools for containers (including CFEngine, Puppet, i.a.) The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. Important Dates: February 28, 2017 - Abstract Submission Deadline April 25, 2017 - Paper Submission Deadline May 30, 2017 - Acceptance Notification June 22, 2017 - Workshop Day June 25, 2017 - Camera-ready Version Due Workshop Chairs: Michael Alexander (chair), Scaledinfra Technologies, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), NTUA, Greece Balazs Gerofi (co-chair), RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science, Japan Program Committee: Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Jakob Blomer, CERN, Europe Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Julian Chesterfield, OnApp, UK Stephen Crago, USC ISI, USA Christoffer Dall, Columbia University, USA Patrick Dreher, MIT, USA Robert Futrick, Cycle Computing, USA Maria Girone, CERN, Europe Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Romeo Kinzler, IBM, Switzerland Brian Kocoloski, University of Pittsburgh, USA Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA Che-Rung Lee, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy Qing Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Amer Qouneh, University of Florida, USA Carlos Reaño, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Thomas Ryd, CFEngine, Norway Josh Simons, VMWare, USA Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Craig Stewart, Indiana University, USA Anata Tiwari, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan Nicholas Wright, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Paper Submission-Publication: Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions should include abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS volume. . The format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide source files. Format Guidelines: ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip Abstract, Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23179 Lightning Talks: Lightning Talks are non-paper track, synoptical in nature and are strictly limited to 5 minutes. They can be used to gain early feedback on ongoing research, for demonstrations, to present research results, early research ideas, perspectives and positions of interest to the community. Submit abstract via the main submission link. General Information: The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance (ISC) 2017, June 18-22, Frankfurt, Germany.

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