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Deadline Extension: OpenMPCon 2017 in conjunction with IWOMP 2017
by Schmidl, Dirk 30 May '17

30 May '17

The deadline for OpenMPCon 2017, the OpenMP Developers Conference has been extended to June 15, 2017. September 18-20, 2017 Stony Brook, New York, USA <http://www.openmpcon.org> http://www.openmpcon.org IMPORTANT DATE: Abstract Deadline: June 15, 2017 ***************************************************************** Sponsored by: OpenMP ARB Description: OpenMPCon is the annual OpenMP Developers conference organized by the OpenMP community, for the community. OpenMPCon takes place 18-20 September in Stony Brook, NY, USA and will focus on the practical usage of OpenMP and other directive based languages, to deliver high-performance computing through parallel processing. Submissions: Submissions are requested from industry experts, developers, and academia on all topics related to OpenMP, including but not limited to: application development from any discipline, algorithms, performance analysis, tools and libraries, optimization, verification, portability and education. Sessions can be in the form of technical presentations, tutorials and workshops, posters, or panel discussions. All submissions should be in the form of short abstracts (minimum 300 words, maximum 1,000 words) and must be handed in as a PDF document. All submissions will go through a peer review process. Session material will be posted on the OpenMPCon website and will be available to conference attendees. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * How you Use OpenMP * Guidelines of OpenMP * Tips, tricks, gotchas of OpenMP * Performance of OpenMP * Conformance, build, options of OpenMP compilers/runtime implementations * Latest OpenMP and older releases and how it changes life for users * Accelerator, and heterogeneous computing (GPUs, accelerators, FPGA, etc.) * Tasks, task groups and task dependencies * Scientific, HPC workloads * Commercial, analytic workload * Oil and Gas use of OpenMP * Research on OpenMP (although a good research paper should be submitted to IWOMP) * Manufacturing, games, graphics, operating system, device drivers, and networking domains for OpenMP * Comparisons with other parallel languages * Future of OpenMP * Reduction * Base language (C++, C, Fortran) with OpenMP * Affinity * SIMD and vectors * Memory model, atomics, locks, mutexes, barriers and critical sections in OpenMP * OpenMP APIs and environment variables * Cancellation and Error Model * Technical Reports, TR1, TR2 * Arrays shaping in OpenMP * OpenMP concurrency and parallelism * OpenMP designs * Cancellation * Interoperability * Event programming, futures * Governance, ARB, committee logistics * OpenMP website, discussion groups, forums, wikis * Conferences, language meetings, IWOMP * Speculative execution and transactional memory * Software development tools for OpenMP * Relation with other (MPI, OpenCL, OpenACC, ISO, etc) * History of OpenMP * Tutorial-style sessions GENERAL CHAIRS Michael Klemm, OpenMP ARB CEO PROGRAM CHAIR Dirk Schmidl, RWTH Aachen PROGRAM COMMITTEE James Beyer, NVIDIA Michael Klemm, Intel Naoya Maruyama, RIKEN AICS Helen He, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab MARKETING AND SOCIAL MEDIA CHAIR Matthjis van Waveren CONFERENCE MANAGEMENT Kathleen Mattson Tim Lewis -- Dr. rer. nat. Dirk Schmidl IT Center Group: High Performance Computing Division: Computational Science and Engineering RWTH Aachen University Seffenter Weg 23 52074 Aachen Tel: +49 241 80-24371 Fax: +49 241 80-624371 <mailto:[email protected]> schmidl(a)itc.rwth-aachen.de <http://www.itc.rwth-aachen.de> www.itc.rwth-aachen.de

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CFP: Gateways 2017 (Extended Deadline: Monday, June 12)
by Sandra Gesing 29 May '17

29 May '17

Call for Papers: Gateways 2017 (October 23-25, at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) is now accepting submissions of papers, demos, tutorials, and panels (2-4 pages) on the topic of science or engineering gateways, which are user-friendly interfaces to scientific computing, data, and other domain-specific resources to support research and education. Submissions may focus on design, use, impact, development processes, sustainability, best practices, or any other aspect that you think fellow gateway creators or users will find interesting to learn. We also welcome educational topics directed toward the next generation of gateway creators. The EXTENDED submission deadline is Monday, June 12, 2017, and a poster session deadline (open to all) will be September 8. Read more details in the Call for Participation: http://sciencegateways.org/gateways2017/call. ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------ Sandra Gesing Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Computational Scientist, Center for Research Computing University of Notre Dame http://www3.nd.edu/~sgesing ------------------------------------------------------------ ------------------------------------------------

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CCSNA 2017 CFP : IEEE Sixth International Workshop on Cloud Computing Systems, Networks, and Applications,Orlando, FL, USA, Oct 22 – Oct 25, 2017
by Donia Zheni 29 May '17

29 May '17

*The Six IEEE International Workshop on Cloud Computing Systems, Networks, and Applications (CCSNA)* *organized with* *IEEE Mobile Adhoc and Sensor Systems (MASS 2017)* *Oct 22, 2017 – Oct 25, 2017 // Orlando, FL, USA* http://www.ieee-ccsna.org/ccsna_mass2017/ Cloud Computing, as well as Cloud-inspired business models, enable on-demand access to a shared pool of resources, namely computing, storage, networks, services, and applications. With the advent of Cloud-based systems, cloud operators have been aiming at reliable, secured, privacy-preserving and cost-efficient cloud design and management. As the Cloud infrastructure aims at offering various IT resources as services, requirements of Cloud applications vary based on the resources which are requested as services. Thus, the resources may refer to heavy computation resources, massive storage resources, high-capacity network resources and so on. The heterogeneity of cloud applications leads to the challenge of holistic design of a robust Cloud system which can oversee and handle the diverse needs of numerous types of applications. On the other hand, these challenges enforce cooperation of various players in the Cloud system, each of which focuses on a different segment such as network, computing, applications, and systems. The Sixth International workshop on Cloud Computing Systems, Networks, and Applications (CCSNA-2017) aims at the crossroads between scientists, researchers, practitioners and students from diverse domains in Cloud computing research. The workshop aims at attracting contributions of system and network design that can support existing and future applications and services. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but are not limited to: *Cloud computing systems and networking- principles, designs, analyses, and performance* - Theoretical analysis for cloud systems - Cloud system and network design - Optimization for cloud computing, networking, and applications - Green cloud systems and networking - Storage, data, and analytics for clouds design and networking - Virtualization for cloud computing systems and networking - Modeling and performance analysis for cloud system, network and storage - Intra-cloud/inter-cloud computing and networking - Cloud computing architectures and cloud solution design patterns - Cloud migration, composition, federation, bridging, and bursting - Cloud provisioning and migration - Cloud DevOps - Cloud system design with FPGA, GPU, APU - Network Programmability, Software-Defined Networking and Virtual Ethernet Switching *Big data, data centers, and cloud managements* - Big data storage - Big data networking and data analytics - Real-time resource reporting and monitoring for cloud management - Cloud quality management and service level agreement (SLA) - Cloud configuration, performance, and capacity management - Cloud workload profiling and deployment control - Autonomic business process and workflow management in clouds - Collaboration, management, and administration of clouds and services - Quality of service on clouds and applications, including reliability, availability - Scalability, performance, and load balance - Knowledge engineering and data mining techniques and systems on clouds - Data center network management, reliability, optimization, and bridging - Distributed data center architectures - Cloud traffic engineering and control-plane architectures *Cloud services, applications, security, and interdisciplinary topics* - Cloud system and storage security - Mobile cloud system design - Cloud media and storage design - Security, privacy, and compliance management for clouds - Self-service cloud portal, dashboard, and analytics - Infrastructure, platform, application, business, social, and mobile clouds - Security, privacy, and compliance management for public, private, and hybrid clouds - Innovative cloud applications and experiences - Economic, business and ROI models for cloud computing - Mobile-aware networking, protocols, and infrastructures - Content and service distribution in clouds - Audit, authentication and authorization in clouds - Service-oriented architecture in clouds - Cloud support for IoTs and their services - Cloud for service discovery - Image processing and efficient video transmission on clouds - Multimedia service provisioning on clouds - MapReduce - Resilience, fault tolerance - Cloud forensics - *Submission Procedure :* Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers that are not currently under review elsewhere. Allsubmissions should be written in English with a maximum length of 9 single-spaced, double-column pages using 10pt fonts on 8.5 x 11 inch paper, including all figures, tables, and references, in PDF format. Authors must use the Manuscript Templates for IEEE Conference Proceedings. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by IEEE and will be presented at the conference. Based on TPC reviews and discussions, some papers may be accepted as 5-page short papers, in addition to the regular 9 page papers. For all papers, IEEE reserves the right to exclude the paper from distribution after the conference (e.g., removal from IEEE Xplore) if the paper is not presented at the conference.. *Submission system :* Submit your paper via EDAS here https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23848&track=86265 *Important Dates :* – Submission deadline: June 15, 2017 – Author notification: July 20, 2017 – Camera ready: August 4, 2017 *Committee :* General co-Chairs: Constandinos Mavromoustakis, University of Nicosia, Cyprus Yaser Jararweh, Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan TPC Co-Chairs: Houbing Song, West Virginia University, USA Elhadj Benkhelifa, Staffordshire University, UK) Peng Li, University of Aizu, Japan Deze Zeng, China University of Geosciences, China Invited Speaker and Panel Co-Chair: Andy Rindos (IBM Research, USA) Publication and EDAS Co-Chairs: Elhadj Benkhelifa (Staffordshire University, UK) Publicity Co-Chairs: Ranga Rao Venkatesha Prasad (Delft University of Technology, Netherlands) Donia ZHENI TRIKI (Higher Institute of Multimedia Arts of Manouba, Tunisia) Mohammad Alsmirat (Jordan University of Science and Technology, Jordan) William Liu, Auckland (University of Technology, New Zealand) Haijun Zhang (University of British Columbia, Canada) Steering Committee: Chuan Heng Foh University of Surrey, UK Jinsong Wu Universidad de Chile, Chile Periklis Chatzimisios Alexander TEI of Thessaloniki, Greece Song Guo Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK Andy Rindos IBM Research, USA Mladen Vouk, North Carolina State University, USA Please send any inquiry on CCSNA 2017 to Yaser Jararweh : yijararweh(a)just.edu.jo

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FSP 2017: CfP DEADLINE EXTENDED to June 4th (4th Intern. Workshop on FPGAs for Software Programmers)
by Markus Weinhardt 29 May '17

29 May '17

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CfP. =============================================================================== *F I N A L C A L L F O R P A P E R S* Fourth International Workshop on *FPGAs for Software Programmers* (FSP 2017) co-located with Int. Conf. on Field Programmable Logic and Applications September 4 - 8, 2017, Ghent, Belgium Extended Paper Submission Deadline: June 4, 2017 =============================================================================== *Scope of the Workshop* The aim of this one-day workshop is to make FPGA and reconfigurable technology accessible to software programmers. Despite their frequently proven power and performance benefits, designing for FPGAs is mostly an engineering discipline carried out by highly trained specialists. With recent progress in high-level synthesis, a first important step towards bringing FPGA technology to potentially millions of software developers was taken. However, to make this happen, there are still important issues to be solved that are in the focus of this workshop. *Topics of the FSP Workshop include, but are not limited to* o High-level synthesis and domain-specific languages (DSLs) for FPGAs and heterogeneous systems o Mapping approaches and tools for heterogeneous FPGAs o Support of hard IP blocks such as embedded processors and memory interfaces o Development environments for software engineers (automated tool flows, design frameworks and tools, tool interaction) o FPGA virtualization (design for portability, hardware abstraction, etc.) o Design automation technologies for multi-FPGA and heterogeneous systems o Methods for leveraging (partial) dynamic reconfiguration to increase performance, flexibility, reliability, or programmability o Operating system services for FPGA resource management, reliability, security o Target hardware design platforms (infrastructure, drivers, portable systems) o Overlays (CGRAs, vector processors, ASIP- and GPU-like intermediate fabrics) o Applications (embedded computing, signal processing, bio informatics, big data, database acceleration, etc.) using OpenCL, OpenSPL, Vivado-HLS, etc. o Directions for collaborations (research proposals, networking, Horizon 2020) *Important Dates* Submission deadline: June 4, 2017 Notification of acceptance: June 20, 2017 Camera-ready final version: July 10, 2017 Workshop: September 7 or 8, 2017 (to be decided) *Submission details and publication* Prospective authors are invited to submit original contributions (up to eight pages) or extended abstracts describing work-in-progress or position papers (not exceeding two pages). Details about the submission process are available on the workshop web page (www.fsp-workshop.org) The proceedings of this workshop containing all accepted full papers are planned to be published by VDE-Verlag (Germany) and to be indexed by IEEE Xplore. Every accepted paper must have at least one author registered to the workshop by the time the camera-ready paper is due. *General Co-Chairs* - Andreas Koch, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany - Markus Weinhardt, Osnabrück University of Applied Sciences, Germany *Proceedings Chair* - Christian Hochberger, Technical University of Darmstadt, Germany *Program Committee* (to be confirmed) - Hideharu Amano, Keio University, Japan - Jason H. Anderson, University of Toronto, Canada - Tobias Becker, Imperial College, London, UK - João M. P. Cardoso, University of Porto, Portugal - Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA - Paul Chow, University of Toronto, Canada - Frank Hannig, Friedrich-Alexander Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany - Tobias Kenter, University of Paderborn, Germany - Dirk Koch, University of Manchester, UK - Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University, USA - Janarbek Matai, University of California, USA - Walid Najjar, University of California Riverside, USA - Gael Paul, PLDA, France - Marco Platzner, University of Paderborn, Germany - Dan Poznanovic, Cray Inc., USA - Gustavo Sutter, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain - Zain Ul-Abdin, Halmstad University, Sweden - Rüdiger Willenberg, Mannheim University of Applied Sciences, Germany - Peter Yiannacouras, Altera Corp., Canada - Daniel Ziener, Friedrich-Alexander Univ. Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany

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Approaching Deadline: International Workshop on Energy efficient Cyber Physical Systems
by Davide Patti 29 May '17

29 May '17

[CFP] EnerCyPhy 2017 - International Workshop on Energy efficient Cyber Physical Systems Dear Colleague, as General Chair of EnerCyPhy 2017, I would like to invite you to submit a contribution to the International Workshop on Energy efficient Cyber Physical Systems - EnerCyPhy 2017, 24 - 26 July, 2017 - Madrid, Spain (In conjunction with the 7th International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Embedded Computing and Communication Systems - PECCS 2017) http://www.peccs.org/EnerCyPhy.aspx Potential topics include, but are not limited to: - Design Platforms and Tools for IoT-based ecosystems for optimizing energy/performance tradeoffs - Novel architectures for embedded low power computing CPS - Communication infrastructures for energy efficient embedded environments - Power Management algorithms and strategies for CPS - Approximate/Imprecise Computing for energy-efficient applications - Energy-aware Parallel architectures for high performance computing - Energy Harvesting All accepted papers will be published in a special section of the conference proceedings book - under an ISBN reference and on CD-ROM support. All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library (http://www.scitepress.org/DigitalLibrary/) SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). PROCEEDINGS SUBMITTED FOR INDEXATION BY: Thomson Reuters, Inspec, dblp, Ei Compendex, SCOPUS Paper Submission: May 30, 2017 Authors Notification: June 2, 2017 Camera Ready and Registration: June 9, 2017 Regards, Davide Patti —————————————————

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Call for Papers: HPCA 2018 - 24th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture
by Jishen Zhao 27 May '17

27 May '17

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] ***************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS HPCA 2018 24th IEEE International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture http://hpca2018.ece.ucsb.edu February/March 2018 Vienna, Austria ***************************************************************************** The International Symposium on High-Performance Computer Architecture provides a high-quality forum for scientists and engineers to present their latest research findings in this rapidly-changing field. Authors are invited to submit papers on all aspects of high-performance computer architecture. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Processor, cache, and memory architectures * Parallel computer architectures * Multicore and multiprocessor architectures * Impact of technology on architecture * Dependable/secure architectures * High-performance I/O systems * Embedded, reconfigurable, and heterogeneous architectures * Interconnect and network interface architectures * Architectures for cloud-based HPC and data centers * Innovative hardware/software trade-offs * Impact of compilers and system software on architecture * Performance modeling and evaluation * Architecture for novel application workloads, such as AI or graph analytics * Architectures for emerging technology and applications Authors should submit an abstract by July 25, 2017 11:59 PM CDT. They should submit the full version of the paper August 1, 2017, 11:59 PM CDT. No extensions will be granted. The full version should be a PDF file following the submission guidelines that will be made available at the submission website. Papers should be submitted for blind review. New-idea papers as well as papers that significantly advance established areas are strongly encouraged. Submission issues should be directed to the program chair at yuanxie(a)ece.ucsb.edu. HPCA-24 will host an Industrial Paper Session presenting novel insights from industry. See the HPCA 2018 website at http://hpca2018.ece.ucsb.edu for additional information about HPCA 2018 and submission details. General Chair: Michael Gschwind (IBM Corp.) Program Chair: Yuan Xie (UCSB) Important Dates: Abstract submission: July 25, 2017 Paper submission: August 1, 2017 -- Jishen Zhao Assistant Professor Computer Engineering Department University of California, Santa Cruz Office: Engineering 2, Room 217 Email: jishen.zhao(a)ucsc.edu Homepage: https://users.soe.ucsc.edu/~jzhao/

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PPoPP 2018 Call for Papers
by Jesper Larsson Träff 26 May '17

26 May '17

Call for Papers: PPoPP 2018: 23rd ACM SIGPLAN Annual Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming Vienna, Austria, Feb 24 -- 28, 2018 (collocated with HPCA-2018 and CGO-2018) Full paper submission: August 25, 2017 Author response period I: October 13--17, 2017 Author response period II: November 14--17, 2017 Author Notification: December 6, 2017 Artifact Evaluation by AE committee: December 6, 2017 -- January 14, 2018 Final paper due: January 15, 2018 PPoPP is the premier forum for leading work on all aspects of parallel programming, including theoretical foundations, techniques, languages, compilers, runtime systems, tools, and practical experience. In the context of the symposium, "parallel programming" encompasses work on concurrent and parallel systems (multicore, multi-threaded, heterogeneous, clustered, and distributed systems; grids; datacenters; clouds; and large scale machines). Given the rise of parallel architectures in the consumer market (desktops, laptops, and mobile devices) and data centers, PPoPP is particularly interested in work that addresses new parallel workloads and issues that arise out of extreme-scale applications or cloud platforms, as well as techniques and tools that improve the productivity of parallel programming or work towards improved synergy with such emerging architectures. Specific topics of interest include (but are not limited to): + Compilers and runtime systems for parallel and heterogeneous systems + Concurrent data structures + Development, analysis, or management tools + Fault tolerance for parallel systems + Formal analysis and verification + Libraries + Middleware for parallel systems + Parallel algorithms + Parallel applications and frameworks + Parallel programming languages + Parallel programming theory and models + Parallelism in non-scientific workloads: web, search, analytics, cloud + Performance analysis, debugging and optimization + Programming tools for parallel and heterogeneous systems + Software engineering for parallel programs + Software for heterogeneous architectures + Software productivity for parallel programming + Synchronization and concurrency control Papers should report on original research relevant to parallel programming and should contain enough background materials to make them accessible to the entire parallel programming research community. Papers describing experience should indicate how they illustrate general principles or lead to new insights; papers about parallel programming foundations should indicate how they relate to practice. PPoPP submissions will be evaluated based on their technical merit and accessibility. Submissions should clearly motivate the importance of the problem being addressed, compare to the existing body of work on the topic, and precisely state the paper’s key contributions and results towards addressing the problem. Submissions should strive to be accessible to both, broad audiences, as well as experts in the area. Paper Submission: All submissions are due August 25, 2018 and must be made electronically through the conference web site and include an abstract (100--400 words), author contact information, the full list of authors and their affiliations. Full paper submissions must be in PDF formatted printable on A4 and US letter size paper. No extensions will be granted. Papers should contain a maximum of 10 pages of text or figures, NOT INCLUDING references. There is no page limit for references and they must include the name of all authors (not {et. al.}). Submission is double blind and authors will need to identify any potential conflicts of interest with PC and Extended Review Committee members, as defined here: http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Review/ (ACM SIGPLAN policy). Detailed instructions for electronic submission and other important ACM SIGPLAN Policies will be posted on the PPoPP conference web sitehttp:// ppopp18.sigplan.org PPoPP'18 uses two review rounds. Authors of papers that are not considered for Round II will be informed by October 25. All submissions that are not accepted for regular presentations will automatically be considered for posters. Two-page summaries of posters will be included in the conference proceedings (authors must decide by December 15 if they want to submit a poster). For additional information regarding paper submissions, please contact the Program Chair, Thomas R. Gross <thomas.gross(a)inf.ethz.ch <mailto:[email protected]>>. Artifact evaluation has been included in recent PPoPP conferences and will be continued in PPoPP 2018. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to formally submit their supporting materials to the Artifact Evaluation process. The Artifact Evaluation process is run by a separate committee whose task is to assess how the artifacts support the work described in the papers. This submission is voluntary and will not influence the final decision regarding the papers. Papers that go through the Artifact Evaluation process successfully will receive a seal of approval printed on the papers themselves. Authors of accepted papers are encouraged (but not obliged) to make these materials publicly available upon publication of the proceedings, by including them as source materials in the ACM Digital Library. AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The titles of all accepted papers are typically announced shortly after the author notification date (around mid-December 2017). Note, however, that this is not the official publication date. The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to one month prior to the first day of the conference. Therefore, the official publication date, also known as the official public dissemination date, may be as early as January 2018. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Organizing Committees General Chair: Andreas Krall, TU Wien Program Chair: Thomas Gross, ETH Zurich Workshops & Tutorials Chair: Siegfried Benkner, Universität Wien

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Call for Papers: IISWC 2017 (extended deadline)
by Boris Grot 26 May '17

26 May '17

2017 IEEE International Symposium on Workload Characterization (IISWC'17) http://www.iiswc.org <http://www.iiswc.org/> Seattle, USA October 1-3, 2017 IMPORTANT DATES Abstract deadline: June 2, 2017 EXTENDED! Paper submission deadline: June 9, 2017 Author notification: August 1, 2017 Camera-ready due: August 28, 2017 Early Registration Deadline: September 18, 2017 TOPICS OF INTEREST: We solicit papers in all areas related to characterization of computing system workloads. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Characterization of applications in domains such as - Cloud, grid, search engines, e-commerce, web, databases, file/application servers - Embedded, real-time, Edge Computing, mobile and extensible distributed systems, multimedia - Memory, storage, and file systems - Life sciences, bioinformatics, scientific computing, finance, forecasting - Management and/or analytics big data, machine Learning, Analytics, Data mining and other data-intensive computation - Security, reliability, biometrics - User behavior and system-user interaction, social computing - Cyber-physical systems, pervasive computation and Internet of Things (IoT) Characterization of workload on emerging technology, such as - Quantum computation and communication - Near-threshold Computation - Non-volatile memory Characterization of OS, Virtual Machine, middleware and library behavior - Virtual machines, Websphere, .NET, Java VM, databases - Graphics libraries, scientific libraries - Operating system and hypervisor effects and overheads Implications of workloads in design issues, such as - Reliability, performance, power, security and privacy, scalability, and sustainability - Processors, memory hierarchy, I/O, and networks - Performance accelerators, FPGA¹s, GPU¹s, etc. - Near data processing architectures - Novel architectures (non-Von-Neumann) Benchmark creation and evaluation, including - Multithreaded benchmarks, benchmark cloning - Profiling, trace collection, synthetic traces - Validation of benchmarks Measurement tools and techniques, including - Instrumentation methodologies for workload verification and characterization - Techniques for accurate analysis/measurement of production systems - Analytical and abstract modeling of program behavior and systems ORGANIZERS: - General Chair: Eric Chung, Microsoft Research - Program Chair: Antonia Zhai, University of Minnesota - Workshop/Tutorial Chair: Hadi Esmaeilzadeh, Georgia Tech - Publications Chair: Laura Caulfield, Microsoft Research - Submissions Chair: Jieming Yin, AMD - Finance Chair: Carole-Jean Wu, Arizona State University - Local Arrangements Chair: Andrew Putnam, Microsoft Research - Publicity Chair: Boris Grot, University of Edinburgh - Industrial Liaison Chair: Lisa Wu, University of California, Berkeley - Web Chair: Adrian Caulfield, Microsoft Research - Registration Chair: Michael Papamichael, Microsoft Research - Student Travel Grant Chair: Michael Ferdman, Stony Brook The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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CFP: The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (DSS 2017)
by UK Conference CFP 26 May '17

26 May '17

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] <> ******************************** IEEE DSS-2017 CFP ******************************* The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (DSS 2017) Bangkok, Thailand December 18 - 20, 2017 http://hpcl.seas.gwu.edu/dss2017/ <http://hpcl.seas.gwu.edu/dss2017/> INTRODUCTION ============= In parallel with Petrol as a driving resource in this world, Data is becoming an increasingly decisive resource in modern societies, economies, and governmental organizations. Gradually and steadily, it is being world-wide recognized that data and talents are playing key roles in modern businesses. As an interdisciplinary area, Data Science draws scientific inquiry from a broad range of subject areas such as statistics, mathematics, computer science, machine learning, optimization, signal processing, information retrieval, databases, cloud computing, computer vision, natural language processing and etc. Data Science is on the essence of deriving valuable insights from data. It is emerging to meet the challenges of processing very large datasets, i.e. Big Data, with the explosion of new data continuously generated from various channels such as smart devices, web, mobile and social media. Data Systems are posing many challenges in exploiting parallelism of current and upcoming computer architectures. Data volumes of applications in the fields of sciences and engineering, finance, media, online information resources, etc. are expected to double every two years over the next decade and further. With this continuing data explosion, it is necessary to store and process data efficiently by utilizing enormous computing power. The importance of data intensive systems has been raising and will continue to be the foremost fields of research. This raise brings up many research issues, in forms of capturing and accessing data effectively and fast, processing it while still achieving high performance and high throughput, and storing it efficiently for future use. Innovative programming models, high performance scalable computing platforms, efficient storage systems and expression of data requirements are at immediate need. DSS (Data Science and Systems) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Data Science and Data Systems as well as their synergy. 2017 is the 3rd event following the success in 2015 (DSDIS 2015) and 2016 (DSS 2016). SCOPE AND TOPICS ================ A. Data Science • Foundational theories and models of data science • Foundational algorithms and methods for big data • Data classification and taxonomy • Data metrics and metrology • Machine learning and deep learning • Data analytics • Data provenance • Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability • Security, privacy and trust in Data B. Data Processing Technology • Data sensing, fusion and mining • Data representation, dimensionality reduction, processing and proactive service layers • Data capturing, management, and scheduling techniques • Stream data processing and integration • Knowledge discovery from multiple information sources • Statistical, mathematical and probabilistic modeling and theories • Information visualization and visual data analytics • Information retrieval and personalized recommendation • Parallel and distributed data storage and processing infrastructure • MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark, scalable computing and storage platforms • Security, privacy and data integrity in data sharing, publishing and analysis • Replication, archiving, preservation strategies • Stream data computing • Meta-data management • Remote data access C. Data Systems • Storage and file systems • High performance data access toolkits • Programming models, abstractions for data intensive computing • Compiler and runtime support • Future research challenges of data intensive systems • Real-time data intensive systems • Network support for data intensive systems • Challenges and solutions in the era of multi/many-core platforms • Green (power efficient) data intensive systems • Data intensive computing on accelerators and GPUs • Productivity tools, performance measuring and benchmark for data intensive systems • Big Data, cloud computing and data intensive systems D. Data Applications • HPC system architecture, programming models and run-time systems for data intensive applications • Innovative applications in business, finance, industry and government cases • Data-intensive applications and their challenges • Innovative data intensive applications such as health, energy, cybersecurity, transport, food, soil and water, resources, advanced manufacturing, environmental Change, and etc. IMPORTANT DATES ================ · Paper Submission Deadline: June 15, 2017 · Authors Notification: August 15, 2017 · Camera-Ready Paper Due: September 15, 2017 · Early Registration Due: September 15, 2017 · Conference Date: December 18 - 20, 2017 PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE ========================== Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site. PUBLICATIONS ========================== Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences and IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing.

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CfP: IEEE eScience Environmental Computing Workshop (ECW) - Oct 24 - 27, Auckland, New Zealand
by Matti Heikkurinen/LMU 26 May '17

26 May '17

Call for Papers: Environmental Computing Workshop (ECW) Organised in conjunction with eScience 2017 conference October 24 - 27 2017 Auckland, New Zealand http://www.envcomp.eu/eScience2017 This workshop will bring together practitioners, policymakers, and environmental modelling experts to present the latest developments in Environmental Computing. Submissions by groups and individuals working on related – or potentially related – fields are also encouraged in order to uncover new opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration. The topics of interest include: • Case studies in environmental computing related domains • Environmental modelling and optimisation techniques • Novel environmental computing applications • Multi-scale, multi-model and multi-physics systems • Civil protection and related engineering challenges • Scalability of environmental HPC and Big Data applications • Risk analysis, assessment, management, and mitigation • Interdisciplinary and stakeholder collaboration • Dynamic multi-directional model coupling approaches • Multifaceted data and metadata frameworks • Urgent computing and probabilistic models • Data visualisation and interactive analysis • Uncertainty quantification and visualisation BACKGROUND Already today, many domain- or problem-specific areas – such as meteorology or seismic analysis –use multi-model, multi-data, and multi-scale approaches to analyse and study environmental phenomena and their impact. However, a more generalised approach to producing actionable knowledge from different environmental data sources is needed to build more comprehensive multi-model systems that can more readily support various decision making processes. The topic is of acute interest due to environment-related societal challenges that require generalising, productising and maturing today’s environmental modelling solutions. Imminent application areas of environmental computing include managing disasters and disaster risks, supporting prompt political decision making, and many other similar domains. PAPER AND ABSTRACT SUBMISSION The contributions can be traditional papers (maximum 10 pages), experience papers (short papers or annotated slide sets of maximum 15 slides) or presentations abstracts. Contributions should be submitted at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ecw2017 by June 30th. Please consult the conference call for papers page ( http://escience2017.org.nz/submissions/call-for-papers/) for information about templates and submission types. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: June 30, 2017 Notification of Acceptance: July 28, 2017 Camera-Ready: August 11, 2017 Conference: October 23 – 27, 2017 (Auckland, New Zealand) ORGANISATION AND CONTACT Dieter Kranzlmüller, LMU & LRZ Munich, Germany Sam Dean, NIWA, New Zealand Matti Heikkurinen, LMU Munich http://www.envcomp.eu/eScience2016 - info(a)envcomp.eu -- Matti Heikkurinen - LMU heikku(a)nm.ifi.lmu.de - +41 76 716 05 31

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