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[Call For Participation] IA^3 2017 - Seventh SC Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms
by Tumeo, Antonino 30 Oct '17

30 Oct '17

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] IA^3 2017 Seventh Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3/ Monday, November 13, 2017 Colorado Convention Center Room 507 Denver, CO In conjunction with SC17 In collaboration with SIGHPC Sponsored by TCHPC Theme Irregular applications occur in many subject matters. While inherently parallel, they exhibit highly variable execution performance at a local level due to unpredictable memory access patterns and/or network transfers, divergent control structures, and data imbalances. Moreover, they often require fine-grain synchronization and communication on large-data structures such as graphs, trees, unstructured grids, tables, sparse matrices, deep nets, and their combinations (such as, for example, attributed graphs). They have a significant degree of latent parallelism, which however is difficult to exploit due to their complex behavior. Current high performance architectures rely on data locality and regular computation to reduce access latencies, and often do not cope well with the requirements of these applications. Furthermore, irregular applications are difficult to scale on current supercomputing machines, due to their limits in fine-grained synchronization and small data transfers. Irregular applications pertain both to well established and emerging fields, such as machine learning, social network analysis, bioinformatics, semantic graph databases, Computer Aided Design (CAD), and computer security. Many of these application areas also process massive sets of unstructured data, which keep growing exponentially. Addressing the issues of irregular applications on current and future architectures will become critical to solve the challenges in science and data analysis of the next few years. This workshop seeks to explore solutions for supporting efficient execution of irregular applications in the form of new features at the level of the micro- and system-architecture, network, languages and libraries, runtimes, compilers, analysis, algorithms. Program 9:00 - 9:10 Welcome and Introduction Antonino Tumeo, John Feo, Vito Giovanni Castellana 9:10 - 9:50 Keynote 1 - Chair: John Feo (PNNL) A Taxonomy of HPDA Algorithms programming of Irregular Algorithms Steve Conway (Hyperion Research) 9:50 - 10:00 Session 1: Parallel Algorithms Chair: Marco Minutoli (PNNL & WSU) Accelerating Energy Games Solvers on Modern Architectures Andrea Formisano, Raffaella Gentilini and Flavio Vella 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break 10:30 - 11:30 Session 2: Load Balancing Chair: TBD 10:30 - 10:55 Overcoming Load Imbalance for Irregular Sparse Matrices Goran Flegar and Hartwig Anzt 10:55 - 11:20 Progressive load balancing of asynchronous algorithms Justs Zarins and Michele Weiland 11:20 - 11:30 Enabling Work-Efficiency for High Performance Vertex-Centric Graph Analytics on GPUs Farzad Khorasani, Keval Vora, Rajiv Gupta and Laxmi N. Bhuyan 11:30 - 12:30 Session 3: Parallel Irregular Algorithms Chair: TBD 11:30 - 11:55 Parallel Depth-First Search for Directed Acyclic Graphs Maxim Naumov, Alysson Vrielink and Michael Garland 11:55 - 12:20 Optimizing Word2Vec Performance on Multicore Systems Vasudevan Rengasamy, Tao-Yang Fu, Wang-Chien Lee and Kamesh Madduri 12:20 -12:30 Spherical Region Queries on Multicore Architectures Hao Lu, Sudip Seal, Wei Guo and Jonathan Poplawsky 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch Break (on your own) 2:00 - 2:50 Keynote 2 - Chair: Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL) Quantum Computing and Irregular Applications Prof. Fred Chong (University of Chicago) 2:50 - 3:00 Session 4: Data Layouts Chair: Marco Minutoli (PNNL & WSU) An Efficient Data Layout Transformation Algorithm for Locality-Aware Parallel Sparse FFT Cheng Wang, Sunita Chandrasekaran and Barbara Chapman 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break 3:30 - 4:30 Session 5: Architecture for Irregular Applications Chair: TBD 3:30 - 3:55 A Case for Migrating Execution for Irregular Applications Peter Kogge and Shannon Kuntz 3:55 - 4:20 Pressure-Driven Hardware Managed Thread Concurrency for Irregular Applications John Leidel, Xi Wang and Yong Chen 4:20 - 4:30 Evaluation of Knight Landing High Bandwidth Memory for HPC Workloads Solmaz Salehian and Yonghong Yan 4:30 - 5:30 Debate - Moderator: Ruud Van Der Pas (Oracle) Proposition: “Specialized, perhaps configurable, hardware and software are necessary to achieve high-performance, scalable data analytics" Panelists: Rich Vuduc (Georgia Tech), Franz Franchetti (CMU), Eric Van Hensbergen (ARM), David Wang (Samsung)

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Deadline Extended until November 5th! [CFP] MULTIPROG-2018: 11th International Workshop on Programmability and Architectures for Heterogeneous Multicores
by Miquel Pericas 30 Oct '17

30 Oct '17

On 2017-09-27 17:23, Miquel Pericas wrote: > CALL FOR PAPERS > --------------- > > The Eleventh International Workshop on > Programmability and Architectures for Heterogeneous Multicores > (MULTIPROG-2018) > > To be held in conjunction with: > the 13th International Conference on > High-Performance and Embedded Architectures and Compilers (HiPEAC) > Manchester, UK, January 24, 2018 > > Workshop website: http://research.ac.upc.edu/multiprog/ > > Goal of the Workshop > -------------------- > > Computer manufacturers have embarked on the many-core roadmap, > promising to add > more and more cores/hardware threads on their chips. The > ever-increasing number > of cores and heterogeneity in architectures has placed new burdens on the > programming community. Software needs to be parallelized and optimized > for > accelerators such as GPUs in order to take advantage of the new breed of > multi-/many-core computers. As a result, progress in how to easily > harness the > computing power of multi-core architectures is in great demand. > > The eleventh edition of the MULTIPROG workshop aims to bring together > researchers > interested in programming models, runtimes, and computer architecture. > The > workshop's emphasis is on heterogeneous architectures and covers > issues such as: > > * How can future parallel programming models improve software > productivity? > > * How should compilers, runtimes and architectures support > programming > models and emerging applications? > > * How to design efficient data structures and innovative algorithms? > > MULTIPROG is intended for quick publication of early results, > work-in-progress, > etc., and is not intended to prevent later publication of extended > papers. > Informal proceedings with accepted papers will be made available at > the workshop > and online at the workshop’s web page > http://research.ac.upc.edu/multiprog/. > > > Topics of interest > ------------------ > Papers are sought on topics including, but not limited to: > * Multi-core architectures > o Architectural support for compilers/programming models > o Processor (core) architecture and accelerators, in > particular GPUs > o Memory system architecture > o Performance, power, temperature, and reliability issues > * Heterogeneous computing > o Algorithms and data structures for heterogeneous systems > o Applications for heterogeneous computing and real-time graphics > * Programming models for multi-core architectures > o Language extensions > o Run-time systems > o Compiler optimizations and techniques > * Benchmarking of multi-/many-core architectures > o Tools for discovering and understanding parallelism > o Tools for understanding performance and debugging > o Case studies and performance evaluation > > > Important dates > --------------- > Paper submission: November 5, 2017 AOE [extended deadline] > Author notification: November 27, 2017 > > > Paper submission > ---------------- > MULTIPROG accepts contributions of regular research papers describing > early research on emerging topics. > When preparing your submission please adhere to the following format > specification: > > Papers should preferably use LNCS format (up to 12 pages, not > including references). Single column (up to 12-Pages) or double column > (up to > 6-pages) formats are also accepted. > > The authors of the accepted papers will be requested to provide the final > version of their paper in LNCS format. Please use the templates below: > > * LNCS Latex template: > ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip > * Word template: > ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/word/splnproc1110.zip > > Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=multiprog2018 > > > Organizers > ---------- > Miquel Pericàs Chalmers University of Technology Sweden > miquelp[at]chalmers.se > Vassilis Papaefstathiou FORTH-ICS Greece vaspap[at]chalmers.se > Oscar Palomar University of Manchester UK > oscar.palomar[at]manchester.ac.uk > Ferad Zyulkyarov Barcelona Supercomputing Center Spain > ferad.zyulkyarov[at]bsc.es > > > Program committee > ------------------ > Avi Mendelson Technion Israel > Christos Kotselidis University of Manchester UK > Dong Ping Zhang eBay USA > Hans Vandierendonck Queen’s University Belfast UK > Pedro Trancoso University of Cyprus Cyprus > Trevor E. Carlson National University of Singapore Singapore > More to be added > > Workshop site > ----------------- > http://research.ac.upc.edu/multiprog/

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CC 2018 Call for Papers
by Michel Steuwer 30 Oct '17

30 Oct '17

2018 International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC) February 24-25, 2018 Vienna, Austria https://cc-conference.github.io/18/ (Co-located with CGO, HPCA, and PPoPP) *Important Dates* Abstract Submission: 31 October 2017, Anywhere on Earth Paper Submission: 7 November 2017, Anywhere on Earth Author Response: 14-15 December 2017 Notification: 1 January 2018 Final papers due: 15 January 2018 Conference: 24-25 February 2018 The International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC) is interested in work on processing programs in the most general sense: analyzing, transforming or executing input that describes how a system operates, including traditional compiler construction as a special case. CC 2018 is the 27th edition of the conference. It will be co-located with CGO, HPCA, and PPoPP and take place during 24-25 February in Vienna, Austria. *Submissions* Submissions are open! Link and guidelines available at https://cc-conference.github.io/18/submission/ *Call for Papers* Original contributions are solicited on the topics of interest which include, but are not limited to: - Compilation and interpretation techniques, including program representation, analysis, and transformation; code generation, optimization, and synthesis; the verification thereof - Run-time techniques, including memory management, virtual machines, and dynamic and just-in-time compilation - Programming tools, including refactoring editors, checkers, verifiers, compilers, debuggers, and profilers - Techniques for specific domains, such as secure, parallel, distributed, embedded or mobile environments - Design and implementation of novel language constructs, programming models, and domain-specific languages *Program Chair* Jingling Xue University of New South Wales, Australia *Program Committee* Jose Nelson Amaral University of Alberta Cédric Bastoul University of Strasbourg Derek Bruening Google Bruce Childers University of Pittsburgh Franz Franchetti Carnegie Mellon University Sebastian Hack Saarland University Manuel Hermenegildo IMDEA SW Institute and T.U. Madrid Alexandra Jimborean Uppsala University Lian Li Chinese Academy of Sciences Zhiyuan Li Purdue University Yun Liang Peking University Vijay Nagarajan University of Edinburgh Santosh Nagarakatte Rutgers University Dorit Nuzman Intel Fernando Pereira Federal University of Minas Gerais David Pichardie ENS Rennes Louis-Noël Pouchet Colorado State University John Regehr University of Utah P. (Saday) Sadayappan Ohio State University Jennifer B. Sartor Vrije Universiteit Brussel Bernhard Scholz University of Sydney Xipeng Shen North Carolina State University Peng Wu Huawei America Research Lab *General Chair* Christophe Dubach University of Edinburgh, UK *Web & Publicity Chair* Florian Brandnaer Télécom ParisTech, France Michel Steuwer University of Glasgow, UK -- @MichelSteuwer<https://twitter.com/MichelSteuwer> | https://michel-steuwer.github.io<https://michel-steuwer.github.io/> Lecturer in Computing Science at the University of Glasgow [University of Glasgow: The Times Scottish University of the Year 2018]

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CfP: 6th CCISA at PDP2018 - Last call
by Attila Kertesz 30 Oct '17

30 Oct '17

Call for Papers --------------- for the 6th CLOUD COMPUTING ON INFRASTRUCTURE AS A SERVICE AND ITS APPLICATIONS (CCISA) special session at the 26th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, Distributed and network-based Processing Location ======== Cambridge, UK Conference dates: 21-23th March, 2018. Scope ===== Cloud Computing covers a broad range of distributed computing principles from infrastructure (e.g distributed storage, reconfigurable networks) to new programming platforms (e.g MS Azure, Google Appe Engine), and internet-based applications. Particularly, Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Cloud systems - such as Amazon EC2, Rackspace or Google Compute Engine - allow the dynamic creation, destruction and management of virtual machines (VMs) as part of virtual computing infrastructures. IaaS Clouds provide a high-level of abstraction to the end user, one that allows the creation of on-demand services through a pay as you go infrastructure combined with elasticity. The increasingly large range of choices and availability of IaaS toolkits has also allowed creation of cloud solutions and frameworks even suitable for private deployment and practical IaaS use on smaller scales. This special session on Cloud Computing is intended to be a forum for the exchange of ideas and experiences on the use of Cloud Computing technologies and applications with compute and data intensive workloads. The special session also aims at presenting the challenges and opportunities offered by the development of open-source Cloud Computing solutions - such as OpenStack or OpenNebula - themselves, as well as case studies in applications of Cloud Computing. With the rapid evolution and proliferation of Internet of Things systems, we this session also aims to provide a forum for case studies on integrated use of clouds and IoT systems. The general venue will be a good occasion to share, learn, and discuss the latest results in this field of research. The special session program will include presentations of peer-reviewed papers. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Virtualization and container technologies and their effects on IaaS solutions - Incorporating beyond-CPU virtualization (e.g., I/O, GPU) aspects to cloud infrastructures - Cloud Computing resource management (e.g., Virtual Machine scheduling and management algorithms) - Operational challenges, federative and interoperability aspects of private, hybrid and public IaaS systems - Novel IaaS architectures, platforms and applications (e.g., incorporating IoT systems) - Virtual machine/container image and virtual appliance storage management (e.g., caching, repositories, marketplaces) - Virtual Machine migration techniques - Security and Privacy aspects of data management in clouds and IoT systems - Cloud Computing for scientific, compute and/or data intensive applications - Performance evaluation, modeling, simulation and prediction of IaaS clouds and their relation to IoT (including cost and price models) - Programming models, tools, orchestration techniques and workflows involving Cloud and IoT systems - Cloud Computing deployment models - Cloud, edge and fog storage and I/O - Cloud services for the Internet of Things - Scalability issues of IoT systems - Emerging techniques in Edge and Fog Computing - Autonomous control in Internet of Things, multi-clouds and software defined networks Submission guidelines ===================== Authors are required to submit original, unpublished research or overviews on infrastructure clouds and their applications. Submitted manuscripts should not exceeding 8 pages in the Conference proceedings format ( double-column, 10pt). The special session applies double-bind review: the paper should not contain authors’ names and affiliations; in the reference list, references to the authors’ own work entries should be substituted with the string "omitted for blind review”. Submission site:http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdp2018 Please note, as the first step of the submission procedure, authors must pick the cloud special session in order to be considered for inclusion within the session. All accepted papers will be included in the same volume as the main conference's material, and they will be published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS). The Final Paper Preparation and Submission Instructions will be published after the notification of acceptance. Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the Conference. Conference proceedings will be submitted to IEEE explore, CDSL, and for indexing among others, to DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge. Important dates - Extended deadlines =============== Paper submission: 3rd Nov. 2017 Acceptance notification: 1st Dec. 2017 Camera ready due: 22nd Dec. 2017 Conference: 21th - 23th Mar. 2018 Session Chair ============= Gabor Kecskemeti, Liverpool John Moores University, United Kingdom Session Co-Chairs ================= Thierry Delaitre, University of Westminster, United Kingdom Attila Kertesz, University of Szeged and MTA SZTAKI, Hungary Programme Committee =================== Vlado Stankovsky, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia Vincent Chimaobi Emeakaroha, University College Cork, Ireland Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria Eduardo Huedo, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Steven Latre, University of Antwerp - iMinds, Belgium Philipp Leitner, University of Zurich, Switzerland Attila Csaba Marosi, MTA SZTAKI, Hungary Anne-Cecile Orgerie, CNRS, France Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA Gabor Terstyanszky, University of Westminster, United Kingdom Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy Valeria Cardellini, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Thar Baker Shamsa, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Posco Tso, Loughborough University, UK Zoltan Mann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany Website for further information =============================== http://pdp2018.org/specialsessions/ccisa.html

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[ACM GLSVLSI 2018] Call for Papers (Submission Deadline: December 11, 2017)
by Yuan-Hao Chang 29 Oct '17

29 Oct '17

Dear Colleagues, Please consider submitting your most recent research contributions to ACM GLSVLSI 2018 (http://www.glsvlsi.org/) Meanwhile, we would be most grateful if you would share this CFP with those who may be interested. Thank you. [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email] ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *The 28th edition of the ACM Great Lakes Symposium on VLSI (GLSVLSI), Sponsored by ACM SIGDA ** **May 23-25, 2018** **Chicago, USA* http://www.glsvlsi.org/ **** Submission Deadline: December 11, 2017 **** Call for Papers ============================ The 28th edition of GLSVLSI will be held in Chicago. Original, unpublished papers describing research in the general areas of VLSI and hardware design are solicited. Please visit http://www.glsvlsi.org/ for more information. In addition to the traditional topic areas of GLSVLSI listed below, papers are solicited for a special theme of “IoT Hardware and Heterogeneous Computing for Artificial Intelligence”. - Track 1: VLSI Design - Track 2: VLSI Circuits and Power Aware Design - Track 3: Computer-Aided Design (CAD) - Track 4: Testing, Reliability, Fault-Tolerance - Track 5: Emerging Computing & Post-CMOS Technologies - Track 6: Hardware Security - Track 7: VLSI for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence Details of the requirements that each track places on submitted papers can be found on the conference website. Paper Submission Guidelines ============================ Authors are invited to submit full-length (6 pages maximum), original, unpublished papers along with an abstract of at most 200 words. To enable blind review, the author list should be omitted from the main document. Previously published papers or papers currently under review for other conferences/journals should NOT be submitted and will not be considered. Electronic submission in PDF format to the http://www.glsvlsi.org/ website is required. Author and contact information (name, affiliation, mailing address, telephone, fax, e-mail) must be entered during the submission process. Paper Format: Submissions should be in camera-ready two-column format, following the ACM proceedings specifications located at: http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template-16dec2016 and the classification system detailed at: http://www.acm.org/publications/class-2012 Paper Publication and Presenter Registration: Papers will be accepted for regular or poster presentation at the symposium. Every accepted paper MUST have at least one author registered to the symposium by the time the camera-ready paper is submitted; at least one of the authors is also expected to attend the symposium and present the paper. Important Dates ============================ Paper submission deadline: December 11, 2017 Acceptance Notification: February 13, 2018 Camera-Ready Paper Due: March 13, 2018 Organizers ============================ General Chair: Deming Chen University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Program Chairs: Houman Homayoun George Mason University, USA Baris Taskin Drexel University, USA Finance Chair: Weisheng Zhao Beihang University, China Local Chair: Qi Zhu Northwestern University, USA Publicity Chair: Robert Wille Johannes Kepler University, Austria Yuan-Hao Chang Academia Sinica, Taiwan Miao Hu Binghamton University, USA Special Sessions Chair: Yanjing Li University of Chicago, USA Web & Registration Chair: Yi-Chung Chen SUNY at New Paltz, USA Proceedings Chair: Kyle Rupnow Inspirit IoT, Inc., USA

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CFP: 2018 IEEE World Congress on Services (BIGDATA CONGRESS/CLOUD/EDGE/ICCC/ICIOT/ICWS/SCC)
by Patrick Hung 28 Oct '17

28 Oct '17

Apology for cross-postings. Please send it to interested colleagues and students. Thanks! ***** Call For Papers ***** 2018 IEEE World Congress on Services (BIGDATA CONGRESS/CLOUD/EDGE/ICCC/ICIOT/ICWS/SCC) ====================================================================================== JULY 2 - 7, 2018, SAN FRANCISCO, USA Website: http://conferences.computer.org/services/2018/ 2018 IEEE World Congress on Services (IEEE SERVICES 2018) will be held on July 2-7, 2018 at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in San Francisco, California, USA. The scope of the Congress will cover all aspects of innovative services computing and applications, current and emerging. It involves various systems and networking aspects, such as cloud, edge, and Internet-of-Things (IoT), as well as other research and technologies, such as intelligent computing, learning techniques, and big data, including quality factors, such as high performance, security, privacy, dependability, trustworthiness, and cost-effectiveness. The Congress with the following seven conferences/congresses is solely sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society under the auspice of the Technical Committee on Services Computing (TCSVC). Original manuscripts are invited to submit to these conferences/congresses considered with most suitable from the technical point of view. IEEE International Congress on Big Data (BigDataCongress) --------------------------------------------------------- General chair: Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada; co-chair: Francisco Henrrera, University of Granada, Spain; Program chair: Shadi Ibrabim, INRIA Rennes, France; co-chair: Isaac Triguero, Nottingham University, UK IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing (CLOUD) -------------------------------------------------------- General chair: Geoffrey C. Fox, Indiana University, USA; co-chair: Daniel Reed, University of Iowa, USA; Program chair: Ian Foster, University of Chicago, USA; co-chair: Jia Zhang, Carnegie Mellon University, USA IEEE International Conference on Edge Computing (EDGE) ------------------------------------------------------ General chair: Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia; co-chair: Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, USA; Program chair: Hong Zhu, Oxford Brookes University, UK; co-chair: Shangguang Wang, Beijing University of Post and Telecommunication, China IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Computing (ICCC) ----------------------------------------------------------- General chair: Jeffrey Tsai, Asia University, Taiwan; co-chair: Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy; Program chair: Xiaoqing Frank Liu, University of Arkansas, USA; co-chair: Incheon Paik, University of Aizu, Japan IEEE International Congress on Internet of Things (ICIOT) --------------------------------------------------------- General chair: Rong N. Chang, IBM Research, USA; co-chair: Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA; Program chair: Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria; co-chair: Zihin Zheng, Sun Yat-Sen University, China IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) ---------------------------------------------------- General chair: Peter Chen, Carnegie Mellon University, USA; co-chair: Nimish Radia, Ericsson Research, USA; Program chair: Bhavani Thuraisingham, University of Texas Dallas, USA; co-chair: Yushun Fan, Tsinghua University, China IEEE International Conference on Services Computing (SCC) --------------------------------------------------------- General chair: Xiaofei Xu, Harbin Institute of Technology, China; co-chair: Michael Goul, Arizona State University, USA; Program chair: Ilkey Altintas, University of California, San Diego, USA; co-chair: Yan Wang, Macquarie University, Australia *** Manuscript Guidelines and Submission Information *** Language: English. Paper size and format: US Letter; Two-column format in the IEEE style. Page limit: Up to 8 pages for peer review. Abstract length: Approximately 1500 characters. File format: Limit the size of a single PDF file to be 6 MB. All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least 3 program committee members. Accepted papers with confirmed presentation will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Each conference/congress will publicly announce the winners of its Best Paper Award, and Best Student Paper Award. The authors of selected papers will be encouraged to submit extended and enhanced versions of their papers to the IEEE Transactions on Services Computing (TSC) and other suitable journals. *** Key Dates *** Paper submission (for peer review) due: January 10, 2018. Notification to authors on the decisions on papers: March 15, 2018. Camera-ready papers due: April 6, 2018. Congress date: July 2 – 7, 2018. SERVICES Congress General Chair: Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA Steering Committee: Elisa Bertino, Purdue University, USA Carl K. Chang, Iowa State University, USA (Chair) Rong N. Chang, IBM Research, USA Peter Chen, Carnegie Mellon University. USA Ernesto Damiani, University of Milan, Italy Ian Foster, University of Chicago, USA Dennis Gannon, Indiana University, USA Michael Goul, Arizona State University, USA Hong Mei, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Stephen S. Yau, Arizona State University, USA Publicity Team: Uwe Breitenbücher, University of Stuttgart, Germany Young Poon, Hongik University, Korea Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada (Chair) Eleanna Kafeza, Zayed University, UAE Andrei V. Kopylov, Tula State University, Russia Matogoro Jabera, University of Dodoma, Tanzania Jorge Roa, National Technological University, Santa Fe Regional Faculty, Argentina Radha Krishna Pisipati, Infosys, India Send inquiries to ieeecs.services(a)gmail.com

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TPNC 2017: call for posters
by GRLMC 28 Oct '17

28 Oct '17

TPNC 2017: call for posters*To be removed from our mailing list, please respond to this message with UNSUBSCRIBE in the subject line* ------------------------------------------------------ The 6th International Conference on the Theory and Practice of Natural Computing (TPNC 2017) invites researchers to submit poster presentations. TPNC 2017 will be held in Prague on December 18-20, 2017. See http://grammars.grlmc.com/TPNC2017/ Poster presentations are intended to enhance informal interactions with conference participants, at the same time allowing for in-depth discussion. TOPICS Presentations displaying novel work in progress on computational principles, models and techniques inspired by information processing in nature are invited. Posters do not need to show final research results. Work that might lead to new interesting developments is welcome. KEY DATES Poster submission deadline: November 11, 2017 Notification of poster acceptance or rejection: November 18, 2017 SUBMISSION Please submit a .pdf abstract through: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=tpnc2017 It should contain the title, author(s) and affiliation, and should not exceed 500 words. PRESENTATION Posters will be allocated 10 minutes each in the programme for oral presentation. Moreover, they will remain hanging out during the whole conference for discussion. PUBLICATION Posters will not appear in the LNCS proceedings volume of TPNC 2017. However, they will be eligible for submission to the post-conference journal special issue in BioSystems (Elsevier, 2015 JCR impact factor: 1.495). REGISTRATION At least one author of each accepted poster must register to the conference by December 4, 2017. The registration fare is reduced: 285 Euro. It gives the same rights all other conference participants have (attendance, copy of the proceedings volume, coffee breaks, lunches). Contributors of regular papers who in addition get a poster accepted must register for the latter independently.

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PDSW-DISCS 2017: Call for Works in Progress Abstracts
by Mohror, Kathryn 26 Oct '17

26 Oct '17

Call for Works in Progress Abstracts: (PDSW-DISCS'17) DEADLINE: November 1, 2017 AOE PDSW-DISCS'17: The 2nd Joint International Workshop on Parallel Data Storage and Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems ** http://www.pdsw-discs.org ** Monday, November 13, 2017 9:00am - 5:30pm ** SC'17 Workshop ** Denver, CO ** In cooperation with SIGHPC General Chair: ** Dean Hildebrand (IBM Research) Program Co-Chairs: ** Kathryn Mohror (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) ** Brent Welch (Google) Important Dates: ** Work in Progress (WIP) submissions due: Wednesday, November 1, 2017, 11:59 PM AoE ** WIP Notification: Tuesday, November 7, 2017 Workshop Abstract: We are pleased to announce that the second Joint International Workshop on Parallel Data Storage and Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (PDSW-DISCS'17) will be hosted at SC17: 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. Workshop topics of interest: ** 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 Work-in-progress (WIP) Submissions Details: ** Email to pdswdiscs17(a)easychair.org<mailto:[email protected]> by Wednesday Nov 1 AoE ** Submission format: A 1 page PDF abstract. For the WIP session at the workshop, accepted WIP presenters will 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 PDF abstract is required for the submission. WIP Submission Deadline: Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2017 WIP Notification: Tuesday, Nov. 7, 2017 _________________________________________________________________ Kathryn Mohror, kathryn(a)llnl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>, http://scalability.llnl.gov/ Scalability Team @ Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, USA

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CCGRID 2018 CALL FOR PAPERS - OPEN; ABSTRACT DEADLINE NEARING
by Sunita Chandrasekaran 25 Oct '17

25 Oct '17

CALL FOR PAPERS 18th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2018)* http://hpcl.seas.gwu.edu/ccgrid2018/ Advances in architectures, networks, systems and middleware technologies are leading to new concepts and platforms for computing, ranging from Clusters and Grids to Clouds and Datacenters. The 18th Annual IEEE/ACM International Symposium in Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2018) is a forum bringing together international researchers, developers, and practitioners to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these concepts, platforms, and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, workshops, and posters, as well as the Doctoral Symposium and the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations. In 2018, CCGrid will be held in Washington, DC, USA. *IMPORTANT DATES * Abstract due: November 6, 2017; Papers due: November 20, 2017; Author notifications: January 20, 2018 *TOPICS OF INTEREST * CCGrid 2018 will have a focus on important and immediate issues that are significantly influencing all aspects of cluster, cloud and grid computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Applications, Architecture and Networking, Cloud Computing, Data Centers and Cyberinfrastructure, Performance Modeling and Evaluation, Programming Models and Runtime Systems, Scheduling and Resource Management, and Storage and I/O. *BEST PAPER AWARD* A Best Paper Award will be given to the author(s) of the paper selected by the Program Committee. The award will be determined from viewpoints of the technical and scientific merits, impact on the science and engineering of the research work and the clarity of presentation of the research contents in the paper. *ORGANIZATION * General Chair: Tarek El-Ghazawi, George Washington University, USA Program Chair: Dhabaleswar K (DK) Panda, The Ohio State University, USA Vice Chairs: Applications - William M. Tang, Princeton University, USA Architecture and Networking - Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratory, USA Cloud Computing - Hai Jin, Huangzong University of Science and Technology, China Datacenters and Cyberinfrastructure - Mitch Gusat, IBM Zurich, Switzerland Performance Modeling and Evaluation - Sameer Shende, University of Oregon, USA Programming Models and Runtime - Martin Schulz, Technical University of Munich, Germany Scheduling and Resource Management - Henri Bal, Vrije University, The Netherlands Storage and I/O - Hong Jiang, University of Texas at Arlington, USA For more information on the organization (including Program Committee Members), please see the conference organization page. *PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES * Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter-size (8.5 x 11) pages including all figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Papers need to be submitted through the Easy Chair following this link ( https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccgrid2018) *Sponsorship approval pending

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CFP: The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC 2018)
by Burak Kantarci 25 Oct '17

25 Oct '17

CFP: The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing http://www.cloudbus.org/fog/icfec2018/ May 1, 2018 - May 3, 2018 Washington DC, USA Submission Deadline Nov 27, 2017 Notification Due Jan 31, 2018 Final Version Due Feb 14, 2018 The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm promises to make "things" such as physical objects with sensing capabilities and/or attached with tags, mobile objects such as smart phones and vehicles, consumer electronic devices and home appliances such as fridge, television, healthcare devices, as part of the Internet environment. In cloud-centric IoT applications, the sensor data from these "things" is extracted, accumulated and processed at the public/private clouds, leading to significant latencies. To satisfy the ever increasing demand for Cloud Computing resources from emerging applications such as Internet-of-Things (IoT), academics and industry experts are now advocating for going from large-centralized Cloud Computing infrastructures to micro data centres located at the edge of the network. These micro data centres are often closer to a user (geographically and in access latency) compared to the centralized cloud data centre. The aim of utilizing such edge resources is to off load computation that would have "traditionally" been carried out at the cloud data centre to a resource that is closer to a user or edge devices. This vision also acknowledges the variation in network latency from an end user to cloud data centre. Whereas the network around a data centre is often high capacity and speed, that near the user device may have variably properties (in terms of resilience, bandwidth, latency, etc). Referred to as "fog/edge computing", this paradigm is expected to improve the agility of cloud service deployments in addition to bringing computing resources closer to end-users. On the one hand, the development of Fog and Edge clouds includes dedicated facilities, operating system, network and middleware techniques to build and operate such micro data centres that host virtualized computing resources. On the other hand, the uses of Fog and Edge clouds requires extension to current programming models and propose new abstractions that will allow developers to design new applications that take benefit from such massively distributed systems. The use of this approach also opens up other challenges in: security and privacy (as a user now needs to "trust" every micro data centre they interact with), support for resource management for mobile users who transfer session from one micro data centre to another, support for "embedding" such micro data centres into devices ( e.g. cars, buildings, etc.) The conference seeks to attract contributions covering both theory and practice of any of the aforementioned challenges, from the management software stack to domain-specific applications. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Data centers and infrastructures for Fog/Edge Computing - Middleware for Fog/Edge infrastructures - Programming models and runtime systems for Fog/Edge Computing - Scheduling for Fog/Edge infrastructures - Fog/Edge storage - Monitoring/metering of Fog/Edge infrastructures - Fog/Edge Computing applications - Latency/locality-critical applications - Legal issues in Fog/Edge clouds - Security and privacy - including support for new cryptographic approaches - Modeling Fog/Edge environments - e.g. using process networks, agent-based models, Peer-2-Peer systems, etc - Performance monitoring and modeling - Applications of Fog/Edge Computing Publication: Proceedings will be published through the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services. Paper submitted could be accepted as REGULAR paper (10 pages) or SHORT papers (4 pages), depending on the review scores. Special Issues: Authors of highly rated papers from ICFEC 2018 will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of the Journal of Software: Practice and Experience (SPE): Software Tools and Techniques for Fog and Edge Computing, published by Wiley Press.

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