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Call For Papers [Keynote Speaker]: Third International Workshop on Communication Architectures for HPC, Big Data, Deep Learning and Clouds at Extreme Scale (ExaComm 2017)
by Hari Subramoni 31 Mar '17

31 Mar '17

======================================================================== Call For Papers Third International Workshop on Communication Architectures for HPC, Big Data, Deep Learning and Clouds at Extreme Scale (ExaComm 2017) June 22, 2017, Frankfurt, Germany to be held in conjunction with ISC 2017, June 18 - 22, 2017 Frankfurt, Germany http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/exacomm/ ======================================================================== Extreme Scale computing in HPC, Big Data, Deep Learning and, Clouds are marked by multiple levels of hierarchy and heterogeneity ranging from the compute units (many-core CPUs, GPUs, APUs etc) to storage devices (NVMe, NVMe over Fabrics etc) to the network interconnects (InfiniBand, High-Speed Ethernet, Omni-Path etc). Owing to the plethora of heterogeneous communication paths with different cost models expected to be present in extreme scale systems, data movement is seen as the soul of different challenges for exascale computing. On the other hand, advances in networking technologies such as NoCs (like NVLink and Stormlake), RDMA enabled networks and the likes are constantly pushing the envelope of research in the field of novel communication and computing architectures for extreme scale computing. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and software/hardware designers from academia, industry and national laboratories who are involved in creating network-based computing solutions for extreme-scale architectures. The objectives of this workshop will be to share the experiences of the members of this community and to learn the opportunities and challenges in the design trends for exascale communication architectures. ExaComm 2017 will be held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing (ISC 2017), Frankfurt, Germany, on Thursday, June 22, 2017. Topics ------ ExaComm 2017 welcomes original submissions in a range of areas, including but not limited to: * Scalable communication protocols * High-performance networks * Runtime/middleware designs * Impact of high-performance networks on Deep Learning / Machine Learning * Impact of high-performance networks on Big Data * Novel hardware/software co-design * High-performance communication solutions for accelerator-based computing * Power-aware techniques and designs * Performance evaluations * Quality of Service (QoS) * Resource virtualization and SR-IOV Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. Best Paper Award ---------------- Mellanox has generously offered to sponsor the Best Paper Award. This award will be given to the author(s) of the paper selected by the Technical Program Committee and the Program Chairs. 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. Keynote Speakers ---------------- We are happy to announce that Dr. Jeffrey S. Vetter, Group Leader of the Future Technologies Group at Oak Ridge National Laboratory will deliver the keynote address at ExaComm'17. More details coming soon! Paper Submission and Registration --------------------------------- Abstracts and papers need to be submitted via the EasyChair conference system. EasyChair URL for ExaComm'17: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=exacomm2017 We request the authors to use the LNCS style (single column format) using either the LaTeX document class or Word template. For details on the author guidelines, please refer to Springer's website (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Incorrectly formatted papers will be excluded from the reviewing process. Submission must be made as a single PDF file which includes all figures and bibliography. Submissions are accepted under the following two categories: Full Paper : 12 pages with all figures and bibliography in the LNCS format Short Paper : 8 pages with all figures and bibliography in the LNCS format Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. It should not be submitted in parallel to any other conference or journal. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a participant of the workshop and present the paper at the workshop. Each research paper will be taken through a comprehensive peer review process by an internationally recognized group of experts in the field. Papers will be evaluated along the metrics of a) Quality of Presentation; b) Novelty / Originality; c) Relation to State of the Art; d) Technical Strength; e) Significance of Work; and f) Relevance to Workshop. Every effort will be made to ensure that each paper receives multiple reviews. The papers accepted to be presented in ExaComm'17 will be published in a separate post-conference joint workshop proceeding volume, published online with Springer Publishing. The camera-ready versions need to be submitted via the EasyChair conference management system. The link to the submission site will be provided soon. Please contact the Program Chairs for any questions/clarifications Proceedings Information ----------------------- The papers accepted to be presented in ExaComm'17 will be published in a separate, post-conference joint ISC workshop proceedings volume, published online with Springer Publishing. The idea about post-conference proceedings is that they give the authors the flexibility to adjust their contributions slightly based on the feedback given during the workshops. The camera-ready versions need to be submitted via the EasyChair conference management system. The link to the submission site will be provided soon. Page limits for full and short papers are as follows Full Paper: 12 pages with all figures and bibliography in the LNCS format Short Paper: 8 pages with all figures and bibliography in the LNCS format The authors must use the LNCS style (single column format) using either the LaTeX document class or Word template. For details on the author guidelines, please refer to Springer's website (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Incorrectly formatted papers will be excluded from the proceedings. Submission must be made as a single PDF file which includes all figures and bibliography. The copyright of the submission will need to be transferred to Springer. A copyright form will be provided for this at the appropriate time. Please contact the Program Chairs for any questions/clarifications. Important Dates --------------- Abstract submission deadline : 11:59 PM, AoE, April 7, 2017 Technical paper submission deadline : 11:59 PM, AoE, April 14, 2017 Author notification : May 19, 2017 Camera-ready deadline : 11:59 PM, AoE, June 2, 2017 Workshop : Thursday, June 22, 2017 ExaComm'17 Workshop Organizers ------------------------------ Hari Subramoni, The Ohio State University Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, The Ohio State University Program Committee ----------------- * Taisuke Boku, University of Tsukuba, Japan * Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories * Hans Eberle, NVIDIA * Jesus Escudero-Sahuquillo, University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM), Spain * Ada Gavrilovska, Georgia Tech * Brice Goglin, INRIA, France * Dror Goldenberg, Mellanox Technologies * R. Govindarajan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India * Ryan Grant, Sandia National Laboratories * Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China * Sven Karlsson, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark * Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece * Takeshi Nanri, University of Kyushu, Japan * Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Queen's University of Belfast, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK * Antonio Pena, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain * Sebastien Rumley, Columbia University * Smruti Ranjan Sarangi, Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi, India * Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory * John M. Shalf, NERSC/LBNL * Tor Skeie, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway * Sayantan Sur, Intel * Xin Yuan, Florida State University * Jidong Zhai, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Further Information ------------------- See the ExaComm'17 website at http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/exacomm/ Thanks, The ExaComm'17 Organizing Committee.

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CFP: SUSCOM Special Issue on Resilience and/or Energy-aware techniques for High-Performance Computing (RE-HPC)
by Hongyang Sun 31 Mar '17

31 Mar '17

Special Issue of Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (SUSCOM) on Resilience and/or Energy-aware techniques for High-Performance Computing (RE -HPC) https://www.journals.elsevier.com/sustainable-computing/call -for-papers/special-issue-on-resilience-andor-energy-aware-techniques-fo SCOPE: Resilience and energy consumption have become two important concerns for high-performance computing (HPC) systems. With the increasing core count and technology miniaturization, today's large computing platforms (datacenters, clusters, supercomputers, etc.) are increasingly prone to failures. Faults are becoming norm rather than exception. Besides the classical fail-stop errors (such as hardware failures), soft errors (such as SDCs for silent data corruptions) constitute another threat that can no longer be ignored by the HPC community. Another concern is energy. Presently, large computing centers are among the largest consumers of energy, hence measures must be taken to reduce energy consumption. Energy is needed not only to power the individual cores but also to provide cooling for the system. In today's datacenters, a large proportion of energy is spent on cooling and thermal-related activities. It is anticipated that the power dissipated to perform communications and I/O transfers will also make up a much larger share of the overall power consumption. The relative cost of communication is expected to increase dramatically, both in terms of latency/overhead and of consumed energy. Re-designing algorithms for HPC systems to ensure resilience and to reduce energy consumption will be crucial to achieving sustained performance. The link between resilience and energy must also be carefully tackled. Better resilience often requires redundancy (replication and/or checkpointing, rollback and recovery), which consumes extra energy. Hot cores may lead to less resilient computing or increase the probability of individual failures. On the other hand, reducing the energy consumption via voltage/frequency scaling techniques will increase the application running time, and hence the expected number of failures during execution. This Special Issue will encompass a broad range of topics related to resilience and energy efficiency for HPC. Its objective is to facilitate exchange of valuable information and ideas among researchers and practitioners. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): ● Fault-tolerant algorithms, tools, and protocols ● Checkpointing, replication, and recovery techniques ● Detection and prediction of soft errors and SDCs ● System reliability, testing, and verification ● Resilience models, algorithms, and simulations ● Energy-efficient scheduling and resource management ● Power-aware runtime systems ● Energy-efficient I/O, storage, and networking ● Thermal behavior modeling, control and management ● Cooling-aware optimizations and evaluations ● Tradeoffs between performance, reliability, energy and temperature SUBMISSION DETAILS: General information for submitting papers to SUSCOM can be found at http://www.journals.elsevier.com/sustainable-computing (please note the “Guide for Authors” link). Submissions to this Special Issue (SI) should be made using Elsevier's editorial system at the journal website (under the “submit your paper” link). Please make sure to select the “SI: RE-HPC” option for the type of the paper during the submission process. All submissions must be original and may not be under review. A submission based on one or more papers that appeared elsewhere has to include major value-added extensions over what appeared previously (at least 30% new conceptual material). Authors are requested to attach to the submitted paper such earlier articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. All submitted papers will be peer-reviewed using the normal standards of SUSCOM. IMPORTANT DATES: ● Manuscript due date: May 1, 2017 ● First decision notification: August 1, 2017 ● Tentative publication schedule: December- 2017 GUEST EDITORS: Anne Benoit, ENS-Lyon, France Jean-Marc Pierson, University of Toulouse, France Hongyang Sun, Vanderbilt University, USA Any question may be sent to hongyang.sun(a)vanderbilt.edu

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The 7th Workshop on Fault Tolerance for HPC at eXtreme Scale (FTXS) 2017 - June 26th, 2017 - With HPDC 2017 - Washington D.C.
by Debardeleben, Nathan 31 Mar '17

31 Mar '17

DEADLINE EXTENDED: April 8th? CALL FOR PAPERS 7th Workshop on Fault-Tolerance for HPC at eXtreme Scale (FTXS 2017) In conjunction with The 26th International ACM Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC 2017) Washington D.C, USA on June 26 - June 30, 2017 Authors are invited to submit original papers on the research and practice Of fault-tolerance in extreme scale (HPC) computing. Resilience and fault-tolerance remain a major concern for supercomputing and advances in this area are needed to allow applications to compute accurate (or within error tolerance) answers in a timely and efficient manner in the presence of degradations or failures of platform components (both hardware and software). Topics include, but are not limited to: * Failure data analysis and field studies * Power, performance, resilience (PPR) assessments / tradeoffs * Novel fault-tolerance techniques and implementations * Emerging hardware and software technology for resilience * Silent data corruption (SDC) detection / correction techniques * Advances in reliability monitoring, analysis, and control of highly complex systems * Failure prediction, error preemption, and recovery techniques * Fault-tolerant programming models * Models for software and hardware reliability * Metrics and standards for measuring, improving, and enforcing effective fault-tolerance * Scalable Byzantine fault-tolerance and security from single-fault and fail-silent violations * Atmospheric evaluations relevant to HPC systems (terrestrial neutrons, temperature, voltage, etc.) * Near-threshold-voltage implications and evaluations for reliability * Benchmarks and experimental environments including fault injection * Frameworks and APIs for fault-tolerance and fault management See https://sites.google.com/site/ftxsworkshop/home/ftxs-2017 and http://www.hpdc.org/2017/ for more information. PAPER SUBMISSIONS Submissions are solicited in the following categories: * Regular papers presenting innovative ideas improving the state of the art of extreme-scale fault-tolerance. * Experience papers presenting data and discussing issues seen on existing extreme-scale systems including some form of analysis and evaluation. Submissions shall be sent electronically, must conform to ACM conference proceedings style. Regular papers should not exceed eight (8) pages including all text, appendices, and figures. Experience papers should not exceed six (6) pages. IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers: March 16th, 2017 Author notification: April 20th, 2017 Camera-ready papers: May 5th, 2017 Workshop: June 26th (expected) 2017? WORKSHOP CHAIR Nathan DeBardeleben - Los Alamos National Laboratory ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Keita Teranishi - Sandia National Laboratories John Daly - Laboratory for Physical Sciences PROGRAM COMMITTEE Emmanuel Agullo - INRIA Bordeaux Rizwan Ashraf - Oak Ridge National Laboratory Leonardo Bautista Gomez - Barcelona Supercomputing Center Aurélien Bouteiller - University of Tennessee Knoxville Robert Clay - Sandia National Laboratories James Elliott - Sandia National Laboratories Christian Engelmann -Oak Ridge National Laboratory Kurt Ferreira - Sandia National Laboratories Marc Gamell - Rutgers University Qiang Guan - Los Alamos National Laboratory Sudhanva Gurumurthi -AMD Saurabh Hukerikar - Oak Ridge National Laboratory Hideyuki Jitsumoto - Tokyo Institute of Technology Zhiling Lan - Illinois Institute of Technology Scott Levy - Sandia National Laboratories Naoya Maruyama - RIKEN AICS Bogdan Nicolae - Huawei Research Germany Yves Robert - ENS Lyon & Univ. Tenn. Knoxville Vilas Sridharan - AMD Peter Strazdins - Australian National University Abhinav Vishnu - Pacific Northwest National Lab. Panruo Wu - University of California at Riverside https://sites.google.com/site/ftxsworkshop/home/ftxs-2017?

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CFP Workshop On Performance and Scalability of Storage Systems (WOPSSS) --> extended deadline
by Jalil Boukhobza 31 Mar '17

31 Mar '17

Second Workshop On Performance and Scalability of Storage Systems (WOPSSS) Held jointly with ISC, Frankfurt, Germany June 22, 2017 http://www.wopsss.org ** Submission deadline March 31 Extended to April 15th ** The Workshop On Performance and Scalability of Storage Systems (WOPSSS) aims to present state-of-the-art research, innovative ideas, and experience that focus on the design and implementation of HPC storage systems in both academic and industrial worlds, with a special interest on their performance analysis. The arrival of new storage technologies and scales unseen in previous practice lead to significant loss of performance predictability. This will leave storage system designers, application developers and the storage community at large in the difficult situation of not being able to precisely detect bottlenecks, evaluate the room for improvement, or estimate the matching of applications with a given storage architecture. WOPSSS intends to encourage discussion of these issues through submissions of researchers or practitioners from both academic and industrial worlds. ** Topics of interest ** included but are not limited to: Storage systems modeling and analysis tools Feed-back and empirical evaluation of storage systems Application I/O characterization Parallel I/O and storage systems: consistency, caching, replication, reliability and fault recovery overhead Network challenges and storage systems: Scalability, QoS, Partitionability Low latency storage systems usability and analysis: memory-only, Flash, NVRAM, Storage Class Memory File system design Operating system stack optimization Cloud and distributed storage ** Important Dates ** Submission deadline March 31 Extended to April 15th Author notification April 30 Camera Ready June 15 Workshop June 22 ** Submission Guidelines ** Papers need to be submitted via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wopsss2017) Authors are invited to submit papers are required to be formatted in Springer single column LNCS style (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) and within 10 pages, excluding the references. The submissions are "single-blind", i.e. submissions are allowed to include the author names. The workshop is held in conjunction with the ISC-HPC during the ISC workshop day. WOPSSS is co-organized with HPC-IODC workshop in order to create a full day event focused on I/O and storage. See http://isc-hpc-io.org. Our cooperation includes the alignment of sessions and the potential to shift papers between the two workshops. We encourage participants to take the opportunity to attend both events. ** Organizing committee ** Jean-Thomas Acquaviva, Research Engineer, DDN Storage, France Jalil Boukhobza, Associate professor, Univ. Bretagne Occidentale, France Philippe Deniel, Head of Storage group, CEA/DIF, France Massimo Lamanna, Leader - Data and Storage Services Group, CERN, Switzerland Pedro Javier García, Associated Professor, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Allen D. Malony, Full Professor, University of Oregon, USA ** Publicity Chairs ** Jesus Escudero-Sahuquillo, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Kaoutar El Maghraoui, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Rekha Singhal, Tata CS Innovation Labs, India ** Program committee ** Julien Bigot, CEA, France, Jason Chun Xue, City University of Hong Kong, Honk Kong Stefano Cozzini, CNR, Italy Maria Engracia Gomez Requena, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Jesus Escudero-Sahuquillo, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Pilar Gonzalez Ferez, Universidad de Murcia, Spain Denis Gutfreund, ATOS, France Julian Kunkel; DKRZ, Germany Duo Liu, Chongqing University, China Manolis Marazakis, Forth, Greece Lars Nagel, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Germany Ramon Nou, BSC, Spain Juan Piernas Cánovas, Universidad de Murcia, Spain Rekha Singhal, Tata Consultancy Services Josef Weidendorfer, TUM, Germany Soraya Zertal, University of Versailles, France ** Registration & Venue ** The workshop does not have a separate registration site. Attendees need to use the registration system provided by ISC'17 (http://www.isc-hpc.com/registration.html) WOPSSS is organized in conjunction the International Supercomputing Conference (http://www.isc-hpc.com) Frankfurt, Germany. ** Special Journal Issue ** Extended versions of the best papers will be published in the ACM SIGOPS Review (http://www.sigops.org/osr.html) -- Jalil Boukhobza Associate Professor Lab-STICC Lab./ Dept. of Computer Science University of Western Brittany, 20 Av. Le Gorgeu - CS 93837 29238 Brest Cedex 3 Tel: +33 2 98 01 69 73 Fax: +33 2 98 01 80 11

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PUMPS Summer School
by Antonio J. Peña 30 Mar '17

30 Mar '17

http://bcw.ac.upc.edu/PUMPS2017 In its eighth edition, the Programming and tUning Massively Parallel Systems summer school (PUMPS) offers researchers and graduate students a unique opportunity to improve their skills with cutting-edge techniques and hands-on experience in developing and tuning applications for many-core processors with massively parallel computing resources like GPU accelerators. - PUMPS 2017 Distinguished Lecturers: Wen-mei Hwu (Univ. of Illinois) and David Kirk (NVIDIA) - Invited Lecturer: Juan Gómez-Luna (Universidad de Córdoba) - BSC/UPC Lecturers: Xavier Martorell, Xavier Teruel The summer school is oriented towards advanced programming and optimizations, and thus previous experience in basic GPU programming will be considered in the selection process. We will also consider the current parallel applications and numerical methods you are familiar with, and the specific optimizations you would like to discuss. Some of the topics that will be covered during the course are: * DEEP Learning * High-level programming models (OpenACC, Python, and Mathematica on GPUs) * CUDA Algorithmic Optimization Strategies * Dealing with Sparse and Dynamic data * Efficiency in Large Data Traversal * Reducing Output Interference * Controlling Load Imbalance and Divergence * Acceleration of Collective Operations * Dynamic Parallelism and HyperQ * Debugging and Profiling CUDA Code * Multi-GPU Execution * Architecture Trends and Implications * Introduction to OmpSs and to the Paraver analysis tools * OmpSs: Leveraging GPU/CUDA Programming * Hands-on Labs: CUDA Optimizations on Scientific Codes; OmpSs Programming and Tuning Participants will have access to a multi-node cluster of GPUs, and will learn to program and optimize applications in languages such as CUDA and OmpSs. Teaching Assistants will be available to help with your hands-on lab assignments. At poster and code clinic sessions you may show your current work and applications you are optimizing. NVIDIA will award the best poster presentation and course achievements. - Important Dates: Applications due: April 30, 2017 Notification of acceptance: May 15, 2017 Summer school: June 26-30, 2017 Due to space limitations, early application is strongly recommended. You may also be suggested to attend an online prerequisite training on basic CUDA programming before joining PUMPS. - Location: Barcelona Supercomputing Center / Computer Architecture Dept. at Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain - Complete information, program and registration: http://bcw.ac.upc.edu/PUMPS2017 PUMPS is organized by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (NVIDIA GPU Center of Excellence), the University of Illinois, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, the HiPEAC Network of Excellence, and the PRACE Advanced Training Centre. Please note that PUMPS’17 dates are immediately following the dates of CEM’17 Computing and Electromagnetics International Workshop <http://cem17.computing.technology/> that will be organized in the same venue (UPC, Barcelona) on June 21-24, 2017. CEM’17 International Workshop is a friendly platform to discuss recent progress related to computing, computational science and engineering (CSE), multi-physics problems, high-performance computing (HPC), and parallel computing. For more information, please visit: http://cem17.computing.technology/ Some PUMPS’17 attendees may see this as a “two birds with one stone” opportunity and they may benefit by submitting a paper to CEM’17, in addition to participating in PUMPS’17. Looking forward to see you at the PUMPS Summer School, - PUMPS Co-Directors: Mateo Valero (BSC-UPC) and Wen-mei Hwu (Univ. of Illinois) - Local Organizers: Antonio J. Peña (BSC), Victor Garcia (BSC-UPC), and Pau Farre (BSC) - Contact: bcw2017(a)bcw.ac.upc.edu <mailto:[email protected]> -- Antonio J. Peña, PhD Sr Researcher & Activity Lead, Computer Sciences Dept || Teaching and Research Staff Manager, BSC/UPC NVIDIA GPU Center of Excellence || Computer Architecture Department Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) || Technical University of Catalonia (UPC) Juan de la Cierva Fellow, Prospective Marie Curie Fellow http://www.bsc.es/pena-antonio http://bsc.es/disclaimer

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DEADLINE EXTENDED: ISC 2017 P3MA WORKSHOP (Performance Portable Programming Models for Accelerators)
by Sunita Chandrasekaran 30 Mar '17

30 Mar '17

(Keynote at P3MA workshop will be given by Prof. David E. Keyes, KAUST. See below for details) *Second International Workshop on Performance Portable Programming Models for Accelerators (P^3MA)* http://www.csm.ornl.gov/workshops/p3ma2017/index.html *June 22, 2017* co-located with ISC 2017 <http://www.isc-hpc.com/> June 18 - 22, Frankfurt, German *CALL FOR PAPERS* High-level programming models aim to provide scientific applications a path onto HPC platforms with minimal loss of portability or programmer productivity. Emerging approaches include Domain Specific Languages (DSLs), C++ metaprogramming, directives, and runtime APIs. Using these, developers can incrementally port their codes to heterogeneous systems, sometimes with minimal code changes. Although these approaches attempt to introduce abstraction without performance penalty, programming challenges remain, with their designs, implementations, and ease-of-use on rapidly evolving hardware and diverse memory subsystems. Programming approaches to address these concerns are continuously being developed within standards committees for C++, OpenCL, OpenMP, OpenACC, and various DSLs. This workshop is designed to assess improved features of programming models (including but not limited to directives-based and C++ library-based programming models), their implementations, and experiences with their deployment in HPC applications. The workshop provides a forum bringing together researchers and developers to examine heterogeneous computing and how it has been evolving across an increasingly diverse set of accelerated architectures. Including an invited opening keynote address and a closing Q&A panel with all presenters, this workshop will provide perspectives from current research and a chance for attendees to actively participate in this quickly changing and growing area of HPC research. This workshop will be held on June 22, 2017, colocated with the ISC High Performance Conference in Frankfurt, Germany (http://www.isc-hpc.com) *Topics of interest for workshop submissions include (but are not limited to):* ▪ Experience porting applications using high-level models focused on performance portability and productivity ▪ Hybrid heterogeneous or many-core programming with models such as threading, message passing, and PGAS ▪ Asynchronous task and event driven APIs and execution/scheduling ▪ Performance-portable scientific libraries for heterogeneous systems ▪ Experiences in implementing compilers for performance portable programming on current and emerging architectures ▪ Low level communications APIs or runtimes that support accelerator architectures ▪ Extensions to programming models needed to support multiple memory hierarchies and accelerators ▪ Performance modeling and evaluation tools ▪ Power/energy studies ▪ Auto-tuning or optimization strategies ▪ Benchmarks and validation suites * Important Deadlines:* *Paper Submission Deadline: April 15 , 2017 * Paper Acceptance Notification: May 14, 2017 Camera Ready Paper: June 03, 2017 Workshop: June 23rd, 2017 *Review process* Abstracts and papers need to be submitted via Easy Chair : https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=p3ma17 We only accept paper submissions which are formatted correctly in LNCS style (single column format) using either the LaTeX document class or Word template. For details on the author guidelines, please refer to Springer’s website. Incorrectly formatted papers will be excluded from the reviewing process. Papers submissions are required to be within 18 pages in the above mentioned LNCS style. This includes all figures and references. The submissions are "single-blind", i.e. submissions are allowed to include the author names. All submitted manuscripts will be reviewed. The review process is not double blind, i.e., authors will be known to reviewers. Submissions will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference scope. Submitted papers may NOT have appeared in or be under consideration for another conference, workshop or journal. *KEYNOTE* *Algorithmic and Programming Model Pillars for Emerging Architectures* Algorithmic adaptations to use next-generation computers closer to their potential are underway. Instead of squeezing out flops – the traditional goal of algorithmic optimality, which once served as a reasonable proxy for all associated costs – algorithms must now squeeze synchronizations, memory, and data transfers, while extra flops on locally cached data represent only small costs in time and energy. After decades of programming model stability with bulk synchronous processing, new programming models and new algorithmic capabilities (to make forays into, e.g., data assimilation, inverse problems, and uncertainty quantification) must be co-designed with the hardware. We briefly recap the architectural constraints and application opportunities. We then concentrate on two types of tasks each of occupies a large portion of all scientific computing cycles: large dense symmetric/Hermitian systems (covariances, Hamiltonians, Hessians, Schur complements) and large sparse Poisson/Helmholtz systems (solids, fluids, electromagnetism, radiation diffusion, gravitation). We examine progress in porting solvers for these tasks to the hybrid distributed-shared programming environment, including the GPU and the MIC architectures that make up the cores of the top scientific systems on the floor and on the books. David Keyes is the director of the Extreme Computing Research Center at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, where he was a founding dean in 2009, and an adjoint professor of applied mathematics at Columbia University. Keyes earned his BSE in Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering from Princeton and his PhD in Applied Mathematics from Harvard. He works at the algorithmic interface between parallel computing and the numerical analysis of partial differential equations. He is a Fellow of SIAM and AMS and has received the AMC Gordon Bell Prize and the IEEE Sidney Fernbach Award. *ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE* *Steering Committee* Matthias Muller, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Barbara Chapman, Stony Brook University, USA Oscar Hernandez, ORNL, USA Duncan Poole, OpenACC, Torsten Hoefler, ETH, Zurich Michael Wong, Codeplay Software Ltd, Canada Mitsuhisa Sato, University of Tsukuba, Japan Michael Klemm, OpenM P Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan *Program Chair(s)* Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA <schandra(a)udel.edu> Graham Lopez, ORNL, USA <lopezmg(a)ornl.gov> *Program Committee * Samuel Thibault, INRIA, University of Bordeaux, France James Beyer, NVIDIA, USA Wei Ding, AMD, USA Saber Feki, King Abdullah University, Saudi Arabia Robert Henschel, Indiana University, USA Eric Stotzer, Texas Instruments, USA Amit Amritkar, University of Houston, USA Guido Juckeland, HZDR, Germany Will Sawyer, ETH, Zurich Sameer Shende, University of Oregon, USA Costas Bekas, IBM, Zurich Toni Collis, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Adrian Jackson, University of Edinburgh, Scotland Henri Jin, NASA, USA Andreas Knuepfer, TU Dresden, Germany Steven Olivier, Sandia National Laboratory, USA Suraj Prabhakaran, TU Darmstadt, Germany Bora Ucar, ENS De Lyon, France Veronica Vergara Larrea, ORNL, USA Manisha Gajbe, Intel, USA Govind Sreekar Shenoy , University of Edinburgh, UK Questions? Please contact one of the program chairs.

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Call for Papers: Journal of Grid Computing, Special issue on Storage for the Big Data Era
by Radu Prodan 30 Mar '17

30 Mar '17

SPECIAL ISSUE ON STORAGE FOR THE BIG DATA ERA The Journal of Grid Computing Guest Editors: Radu Prodan, Vlado Stankovski http://www.springer.com/cda/content/document/cda_downloaddocument/CFP_Speci… Submission online at: https://www.editorialmanager.com/grid/ INTRODUCTION One of the main conceptual breakthroughs in computer science, invented in theory by the baroness Ada Lovelace and then implemented in the Charles Babbage’s Analytic Machine design and the von Neumann computer architecture has been the ability to use "memory" to store both data and instructions. Following decades of progress in computer science, we are on the fringe of a new Big Data Era that poses significant requirements for the storage of both data and instructions. Undoubtedly, there exist problems for which even exascale computing approaches will not be enough. Immense storage capacity cannot be used without thoughtful storage designs that take care of many important aspects, such as availability versus cost. Storage can and still be used for both programs, that nowadays come in the form of functional Virtual Machine, container or other disk images and for storing raw data, such as file systems, object stores and other more structured forms of storage for data and metadata. Nowadays, in distributed computing environments such as cloud federations, the functional and nonfunctional requirements for storage play an increasingly important role. Therefore, new methods, approaches and technologies are necessary to address these requirements. Innovative approaches may include innovative forms of cloud storage federations, distribution and content-delivery networks, provenance tracking and replica management strategies, multi-objective optimization of storage etc. OBJECTIVES New and innovative storage paradigms have not been sufficiently addressed in the literature. The objectives of this Special Issue of the Grid Computing Journal are therefore to provide focused dissemination of new approaches, methods, and technologies for storage in the Big Data Era. Topics of interest may include: - Hierarchical approaches for storing data for the Internet of Things - Edge/Fog computing concepts for storage - Data fusion technologies - Software defined storage - Storage-related Quality of Service models - Service Level Agreements for storage - Measurement methods for storage properties - Storage approaches focusing on Virtual Machine, container and other disk images - Federation forms for storage - Security, privacy and other non-functional aspects of storage - Storage for Open Data When submitting your manuscript please indicate the Special Issue "Storage for the Big Data Era". PROCESS All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least three independent reviewers, and decision will be provided to the authors. DEADLINES Following is a timeframe for the Special Issue: - June 30, 2017. Submission of original manuscripts. Early submissions are encouraged. - August 31, 2017. Preliminary decision or acceptance notice sent to the authors. - November 15, 2017. Submission of manuscripts for which revisions were requested. - December 1, 2017. Publication of the Special Issue. CONTACT Please send any requests for information to one or both Guest Editors at: - Associate Professor Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria, Email: radu(a)dps.uibk.ac.at - Associate Professor Vlado Stankovski, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia, Email: vlado.stankovski(a)fgg.uni-lj.si

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3rd CFP: Tenth International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-End Computing (P2S2 2017)
by Seo, Sangmin 28 Mar '17

28 Mar '17

============================================================== P2S2 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS ============================================================== The Tenth International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-End Computing (P2S2) August 14th, 2017, Bristol, UK To be held in conjunction with ICPP 2017: The 46th International Conference on Parallel Processing. Website: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2/2017/ SCOPE ----- The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in parallel programming models and systems software for high-end computing architectures. Please join us in a discussion of new ideas, experiences, and the latest trends in these areas at the workshop. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ The focus areas for this workshop include, but are not limited to: * Systems software for high-end scientific and enterprise computing architectures - Communication sub-subsystems for high-end computing - High-performance file and storage systems - Fault-tolerance techniques and implementations - Efficient and high-performance virtualization and other management mechanisms for high-end computing * Programming models and their high-performance implementations - MPI, Sockets, OpenMP, Global Arrays, X10, UPC, CAF, Chapel, and others - Hybrid Programming Models * Tools for Management, Maintenance, Coordination and Synchronization - Software for Enterprise Data-centers using Modern Architectures - Job scheduling libraries - Management libraries for large-scale system - Toolkits for process and task coordination on modern platforms * Performance evaluation, analysis and modeling of emerging computing platforms PROCEEDINGS ----------- Proceedings of this workshop will be published in CD format only and will be available at the conference (together with the ICPP conference proceedings). The published papers will be available at the conference in CD format, and will be submitted to the IEEE CS Digital Library. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ----------------------- Submissions should be in PDF format in U.S. letter size paper, and should be formatted in a double-column format with a font size 10 pt or larger. They should not exceed 10 pages (all inclusive). Submissions will be judged based on relevance, significance, originality, correctness and clarity. The paper submission online system is open: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=p2s2-2017 JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE --------------------- The P2S2-2017 workshop papers will be invited to extend the manuscripts to be considered for a Special Issue on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software of the Elsevier International Journal of Parallel Computing (PARCO), edited by Pavaån Balaji, Abhinav Vishnu, and Yong Chen. This special issue is dedicated for the papers accepted in the P2S2 workshop. The submission to this special issue is by invitation only and the submission deadline is tentatively set as August 31st, 2017. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper Submission: April 3rd, 2017, Anywhere on Earth Author Notification: May 17th, 2017 Camera-Ready Copy: May 26th, 2017 Workshop Dates: August 14th, 2017 PROGRAM CHAIRS -------------- * Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory * Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory * Yong Chen, Texas Tech University PUBLICITY CHAIR --------------- * Sangmin Seo, Argonne National Laboratory STEERING COMMITTEE ------------------ * William D. Gropp, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign * Vijay Saraswat, IBM Research PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- * Ahmad Afsahi, Queen's University * Patrick Bridges, University of New Mexico * Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory * Daniel Chavarría, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory * Bronis de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory * Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University * Yanfei Guo, Argonne National Laboratory * Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago * Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology * Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories * Xiaoyi Lu, The Ohio State University * Yin Lu, Texas Tech University * Chao Mei, Google * Scott Pakin, Los Alamos National Laboratory * Min Si, Argonne National Laboratory * Lucas Wilson, Texas Advanced Computing Center * Yonghong Yan, Oakland University * Yunquan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences If you have any questions, please contact us at p2s2-chairs at mcs.anl.gov

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Final Extension for main track submission deadline - HPCS 2017
by Waleed Smari 28 Mar '17

28 Mar '17

Please Post. Thank you. [Sorry if you get multiple copies of this message] *Call for Papers and Participation*** ** *The 2017 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference* *(HPCS 2017)* *The 15th Annual Meeting* ** *July 17 - 21, 2017* *Genoa, Italy*** ** *http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info**or**http://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17*** ** *In Cooperation with the ACM, IEEE, IFIP*** ** *Main Track Paper Submission Deadline: _April 03, 2017_– Final Extension* *(**Symposia* <http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/symposia---hpcs2017>*, **Workshops* <http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/workshops---hpcs2017>*and **Special Sessions* <http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/special-sessions---hpcs-2017>*have their own deadlines**- please check the track of interest)* *Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters* You are cordially invited to participate in this international conference through paper submission, a track, a workshop or a special session organization, a tutorial, an invited speech, a demo, a poster, an exhibit, a panel discussion, a doctoral dissertation abstract, whichever sounds more appropriate and convenient to you. The conference will include invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as contributed paper presentations describing original work on the current state of research in high performance and large scale computing systems, architectures and systems, algorithms, software and middleware in HPC systems, applications-oriented high performance, HPC use in modeling and simulation, and related issues. There will also be *tutorial sessions, symposia, workshops, special sessions, demos, posters, panel discussions, doctoral colloquium, and exhibits.* Conference sponsorships are welcomed. In addition to the main track, the conference will have many refereed archived *symposia, workshops and special sessions (**may have different deadlines)*: Please see the following lists and check the specific track of interest.We also welcome colleagues interested in organizing tracks, including those without current organizers. Symposia: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/symposia---hpcs2017 Workshops: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/workshops---hpcs2017 Special Sessions: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/special-sessions---hpcs-2017 Tutorials: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-tu… DDC:http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-doctoral-colloquium Demos:http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-demos Panels:http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-panels Posters:http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-posters Sponsorships: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-sp… *SPECIAL ISSUES* Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for one or more special issues in ISI indexed Journals. HPCS Proceedings are published in IEEE XPLORE and indexed by all major indexing services including SCOPUS, EI, SCI, dblp, etc. *FOLLOW US ON* *Twitter:*https://twitter.com/HPCS_Conference *Facebook:*https://www.facebook.com/HPCSConference/ ================================================================= *_Important Dates_**:* Main Track Paper and Poster Paper Submission Deadline ———- *April 03, 2017 – Final Extension* Tutorial/Demo/Panel/Poster Proposal Deadline ———————- *April 03, 2017* Main Track Notification of Acceptance starts ———————— *April 24, 2017* Registration & Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due ——————— *May 11, 2017* Conference Dates ——————————————————— *July 17 - 21, 2017* ================================================================= For further details and updates, please consult the conference web site at URL: http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/orhttp://cisedu.us/rp/hpcs17or contact one of the conference organizers. We look forward to your contributions and seeing you in Genoa in July. Thank you very much.Best Regards. HPCS 2017 Organizers

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Second CFP: 2017 International Workshop on Open Source Supercomputing (OpenSuCo)
by John Leidel 28 Mar '17

28 Mar '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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