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PMAM 2019 CFP -- final extension
by hzy＠cs.otago.ac.nz 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

The 2019 International Workshop on Programming Models and Applications for Multicores and Manycores will be co-located with the PPoPP 2019 conference in February 16-20, 2019, Washington, DC, USA. Rapid advancements in multicore and chip-level multi-threading technologies open new challenges and make multicore systems a part of the computing landscape. From high-end servers to mobile phones, multicores and manycores are steadily entering every single aspect of the information technology. However, most programmers are trained in sequential programming, yet most existing parallel programming models are prone to errors such as data race and deadlock. Therefore, to fully utilize multicore and manycore hardware, parallel programming models that allow easy transition of sequential programs to parallel programs with good performance and enable development of error-free codes are urgently needed. This workshop is dedicated primarily to gather researchers and practitioners addressing the main challenges and share experiences in the emerging multicore and manycore software engineering and distributed programming paradigm. This workshop aims to provide a discussion forum for people interested in programming environments, models, tools and applications specifically designed for parallel multicore and manycore hardware environments. Selected best papers of PMAM will be considered for publication in a special issue of high ranked journal. The program committee cordially invites any novel research ideas in (but not limited to) the following topics: programming models and systems for multicore, manycore, and clusters of multicore/manycore parallel and distributed machine learning and AI algorithms multicore and manycore software engineering parallel and distributed algorithms on GPU and multicore clusters parallel libraries and frameworks performance analysis, efficiency and effectiveness massively parallel processing on multicore/manycore systems and clusters automated parallelization and compilation techniques debugging and performance autotuning tools and techniques for multicore/manycore applications parallel algorithms, applications and benchmarks on multicore/manycore systems runtime power/energy management on multicore/manycore systems and clusters fault tolerance and resilience Proceedings All accepted papers will be published in the PMAM 2019 proceedings by the ACM Digital Library, and will be included in the Elsevier databases Scopus and Compendex (EI indexed). Selected best papers of PMAM will be considered for publication in a special issue of a highly ranked journal. Important Dates Paper submission deadline: December 7, 2018 (final extension) Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2019 Camera-ready papers due: February 1, 2019 Papers reporting original and unpublished research results and experience are solicited. All paper submissions will be handled electronically via EasyChair. http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pmam2019 Papers must not exceed 10 pages in standard ACM two-column conference format (preprint mode, with page number and the 9pt template). Authors must register and submit their paper through the online submission system. If you have problems accessing the system, e-mail your submission to: pmam2019 at cs dot otago dot ac dot nz For more details, please refer to: http://www.cs.otago.ac.nz/pmam2019/ For enquiries, please contact: pmam2019(a)cs.otago.ac.nz

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CFP HiPINEB'19 - Washington D.C., USA - 5th IEEE International Workshop on High-Performance Interconnection Networks in the Exascale and Big-Data Era (co-located with IEEE HPCA 2019)
by JESUS ESCUDERO SAHUQUILLO 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

[Apologies if you receive this CFP from multiple sources] ================================================================== HiPINEB 2019 The 5th IEEE International Workshop on High-Performance Interconnection Networks in the Exascale and Big-Data Era February 16-20 2019, Washington D.C., USA http://hipineb.i3a.info/hipineb2019/ To be held in conjunction with the HPCA Conference 2019 ================================================================== ABSTRACT By the year 2023, High-Performance Computing (HPC) Systems are expected to break the performance barrier of the Exaflop (10^18 FLOPS) while their power consumption is kept at current levels (or increases marginally), what is known as the Exascale challenge. In addition, more storage capacity and data-access speed is demanded to HPC clusters and datacenters to manage and store huge amounts of data produced by software applications, what is known as the Big-Data challenge. Indeed, both the Exascale and Big-Data challenges are driving the technological revolution of this decade, motivating big research and development efforts from industry and academia. In this context, the interconnection network plays an essential role in the architecture of HPC systems and datacenters, as the number of processing or storage nodes to be interconnected in these systems is very likely to grow significantly to meet the higher computing and storage demands. Besides, the capacity of the network links is expected to grow, as the roadmaps of several interconnect standards forecast. Therefore, the interconnection network should provide a high communication bandwidth and low latency, otherwise the network would become the bottleneck of the entire system. In that regard, many design aspects are considered when it comes to improving the interconnection network performance, such as topology, routing algorithm, power consumption, reliability and fault tolerance, congestion control, programming models, control software, etc. The main goal of the fifth edition of HiPINEB is to gather and discuss in a full-day event the latest and most prominent efforts and advances, from both industry and academia, in the design and development of scalable high-performance interconnection networks, especially those oriented to meet the Exascale challenge and Big-data demands. All researchers and professionals, from both industry and academia, working in the area of interconnection networks for scalable HPC systems and Datacenters are encouraged to submit an original paper to the workshop and to attend this event. TOPICS OF INTEREST The list of topics covered by this workshop includes, but is not limited to, the following: * Interconnect architectures and network technologies for high-speed, low-latency interconnects. * Scalable network topologies, suitable for interconnecting a huge number of nodes. * Power saving policies in the interconnect devices and network infrastructure, both at software and hardware level. * Good practices in the configuration of the network control software. * Network communication protocols: MPI, RDMA, MapReduce, etc. * APIs and support for programming models. * Routing algorithms. * Quality of Service (QoS). * Reliability and Fault Tolerance. * Load balancing and traffic scheduling. * Network Virtualization. * Congestion Management. * Applications and Traffic characterization. * Modeling and simulation tools. * Performance Evaluation. * Interfacing accelerators through the interconnect (GPUs, Xeon Phi, etc). * Network infrastructure in distributed storage, distributed databases, and Big-Data. Furthermore, short papers in the above topics will be also taken into consideration, as long as they are based on emerging ideas, work-in-progress and early, high-impact achievements. Note, however, that papers focused on topics that are too far from the design, development, and configuration of high-performance interconnects for HPC systems and Datacenters (e.g., mobile networks, intrusion detection, peer-to-peer networks or grid/cloud computing) will be automatically considered as out of scope and rejected without review. PAPER SUBMISSIONS Regular and short papers must be in PDF format and should include title, authors and affiliations as well as the e-mail address of the contact author. Submitted regular manuscripts may not exceed 8 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages, including figures, tables, and references. Short papers may not exceed 4 single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages. At least one author of the paper must be registered for the conference workshop. The conference style is based on IEEE (available at http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html) HiPINEB manuscript submissions are managed by easyChair. To submit a paper, go to https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipineb2019 and follow the instructions. REVIEW PROCESS Authors are entitled to submit original papers of high technical quality, according to the list of topics described above. Papers will be reviewed based on originality, novelty, technical strength, presentation quality, correctness and relevance to the conference scope. WORKSHOP PROCEEDINGS Papers will be published in the HiPINEB proceedings. Further details will be provided soon. SPECIAL ISSUE Best papers among those selected for HiPINEB 2019 will be invited to submit an extended version to a journal indexed in the JCR index. Further details will be provided soon. IMPORTANT DATES * Submission Opens: November 28, 2018 * Paper submission due: January 20, 2019 (Hard deadline) * Notification of acceptance: January 30, 2019 * Early Registration due: TBA (http://hpca2019.seas.gwu.edu/) * Camera-ready papers due: February 2, 2019 * Workshop date: February 16-17, 2019 All deadlines are set at 11:59 p.m. anywhere on Earth (Cf. http://wirelessman.org/aoe.html) WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION Organizers: * Pedro Javier Garcia, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain * Jesus Escudero-Sahuquillo, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain Steering Committee: * Jose Duato, Technical University of Valencia, Spain * Ada Gavrilovska, Georgia Tech, USA * Maria Engracia Gómez, Technical University of Valencia, Spain * Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich, Switzerland * Timothy M. Pinkston, University of Southern California, USA * Francisco Jose Quiles, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain * Eitan Zahavi, Mellanox, Israel Program Committee: * TBA ADDITIONAL INFORMATION For more information on HiPINEB 2019 check the website at: http://hipineb.i3a.info/hipineb2019 or, if you have any question, please contact the workshop organizers at hipineb(a)dsi.uclm.es

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ISC 2019 CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS: Submission ends December 12, 2018
by Carsten Trinitis 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

Apologies for cross-postings ISC 2019 CALL FOR RESEARCH PAPERS: Submission ends December 12, 2018 The ISC research paper sessions provide world-class opportunities for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present and discuss issues, trends and results that will shape the future of HPC, Networking, Storage and AI/Machine Learning. Submissions will be accepted through December 12, 2018. The research paper sessions will be held from Monday, June 17 through Wednesday, June 19, 2019. ISC High Performance (ISC 2019) will be hosted in Frankfurt, Germany. Submitted research papers will be peer-reviewed double-blind by at least four reviewers. This year’s Research Papers Committee is headed by Dr. - Ing. Carsten Trinitis, TU Munich, as Chair and Saday Sadayappan, Ohio State University, as Deputy Chair as well as Dr. Michèle Weiland, EPCC, as Proceedings Chair and Guido Juckeland, Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf, as Proceedings Deputy Chair. *Free conference day pass for presenter* PUBLICATION All accepted research papers will be published in the Springer‘s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS] series. For the camera-ready version, authors are automatically granted one extra page to incorporate reviewer comments. The publication is free of charge and the published papers can be downloaded from Springer‘s website for a limited time after the conference. The proceedings are indexed in the ISI Conference Proceedings Citation Index -Science (CPCI-S), included in ISI Web of Science, EI Engineering Index (Compendex and Inspec databases), ACM Digital Library, DBLP, Google Scholar, IO-Port, MathSciNet, Scopus and Zentralblatt MATH. AREAS OF INTEREST The Research Papers Committee encourages the submission of high-quality papers reporting original work in theoretical, experimental and industrial research and development. The ISC submission process will be divided into eight tracks this year. Architectures, Networks & Infrastructure - Future design concepts of HPC systems - Multi-core & many-core systems - Heterogeneous systems - Other paradigms (including data flow computing, FPGAs, etc.) - Network technology - Domain-specific architectures - Memory technologies - Trends in the HPC chip market - Exascale computing Data Storage & Visualization - From big data to smart data - Memory systems for HPC & big data - File systems & tape libraries - Data-intensive applications - Databases - Visual analytics - In-situ analytics HPC Applications - Highly scalable applications - Convergence of simulations & big data - Scalability on future architectures - Workflow management - Coupled simulations - Industrial simulations - Implementations on GPUs & other accelerators HPC Algorithms - Innovative algorithms, discrete or continuous - Algorithmic-based fault tolerance - Communication & synchronization-reducing algorithms - Time-space trade-offs in algorithms - Energy-efficient algorithms Programming Models & Systems Software - Parallel programming paradigms - Tools and libraries for performance and productivity - Job management - Monitoring & administration tools - Productivity improvement - Power & energy management & scheduling - Resilience Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning - Neural networks & HPC - Machine learning & HPC - AI & machine learning-oriented hardware - Devising benchmarks for machine learning - Use cases Performance Modeling & Measurement - Performance models - Performance prediction & engineering - Performance measurement - Power consumption - Energy measurement & modelling Emerging Technologies - Quantum computing architecture - Software for quantum computing - Quantum algorithms - Quantum annealing NOTE: Submissions on other innovative aspects of high performance computing are also welcome. You will be asked to pick a primary and a secondary track from the eight above for your submission. Please refer to www.isc-hpc.com/ research-papers-2019.html for full submission guidelines. Furthermore all terms & conditions stated on the website apply to submissions. AWARDS The ISC organizers as well as the German Gauss Center for Supercomputing will again sponsor the call for research papers with two awards for outstanding research papers: the Hans Meuer Award and the GCS Award. IMPORTANT DATES Full Submission Deadline: Wednesday, December 12, 2018 Author Rebuttals: Monday, February 11 -Thursday, February 14, 2019 Notification of Acceptance: Wednesday, February 27, 2019 Camera-Ready Submission: Monday, March 25, 2019 Research Paper Sessions: Monday, June 17 -Wednesday, June 19, 2019 TRACK CHAIRS Architectures, Networks & Infrastructure | Antonino Tumeo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, United States of America Data, Storage & Visualization | Kathryn Mohror, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, United States of America HPC Applications | Srinivas Aluru, Georgia Institute of Technology, United States of America HPC Algorithms | Didem Unat, Koç Universitesi, Turkey Programming Models & Systems Software | Brad Chamberlain, Cray, United States of America Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning | Xipeng Shen, North Carolina State University, United States of America Performance Modeling & Measurement | Bernd Mohr, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany Emerging Technologies | Damian Steiger, Huawei Technologies, Switzerland OTHER SUBMISSION OPPORTUNITIES Calls are also open for: - Research Posters - PhD Forum - Project Posters - Tutorials - Workshops - Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions - Student Volunteer Program Please refer to www.isc-hpc.com/overview.html for details. IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR COMMENTS, PLEASE CONTACT: Ms. Tanja Gruenter, Conference Program Manager tanja.gruenter(a)isc-group.com

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[EuroLLVM'19] Call for Talks, Tutorials, BoFs, Student Research Competition, and more !
by Arnaud Allard de Grandmaison 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

All developers and users of LLVM and related sub-projects are invited to present at EuroLLVM'19 <http://www.llvm.org/devmtg/2019-04/>. We are looking for the following proposals: 1. *Technical Talks (30 minutes including Q&A):* talks on LLVM core libraries, Clang, Infrastructure and all related sub-projects, on uses of LLVM in academia or industry, on new projects using Clang or LLVM. 2. *Tutorials (60 minutes):* in depth talks on LLVM infrastructure or other core libraries, with in depth examples and explanations. 3. *Student Research Competition (25 minutes talk including Q&A + poster):* The SRC offers students doing LLVM related research a non-academic platform to announce and advertise their work as well as to discuss it with other researchers, developers and users of LLVM. Students are strongly encouraged to present a poster as well, as this will enable wider discussions with the audience. There will be a prize for the best SRC talk. 4. *Lightning Talks (5 minutes, no questions, no discussions)* 5. *Bird of a Feather (30 minutes)* 6. *Posters (1 hour poster session)* *Submission deadline:* The submission deadline is January 13, 2019 AoE. *Please submit your proposal at* https://hotcrp.llvm.org/eurollvm2019 For each proposal, submit a title, short abstract (to be used on the website), note who the speakers are, and provide a more detailed description of the talk. *You must consult and follow the guide at the end of this CFP when submitting your proposal.* *Call for Papers - Frequently Asked Questions* *When will I be notified of acceptance?* Our goal is to notify all proposal submitters by January 25, 2019. *Should I register if I have submitted a proposal?* We have 1 complimentary reserved registration for each accepted technical talk, BoF, or student research competition talk. Accepted tutorials have been reserved 2 complimentary registrations. There are no reserved registration spots for posters or lightning talks. So please register any additional speakers or if you do not have a reserved registration slot. *What if I registered and my talk got accepted?* We can refund your registration fee and instructions will be sent following notification. If you plan to attend even if your proposal is not accepted and are worried about the event selling out, we suggest registering before notification of acceptance. *What if I registered and my talk DID NOT get accepted?* We can refund your registration fee if you no longer wish to attend if you contact the organizers by February 25, 2019. *What will be recorded?* All technical talks, tutorials, SRC talks and lightning talks will be recorded. By submitting your proposal, you are giving us permission to record if you present at the meeting. For SRC talks, you have the option to delay publication of the slides and video for you talk for up to 12 months. *Who is on the program committee?* Our program committee chair is Anton Korobeynikov. The program committee is composed of active developers of the LLVM, Clang, and related sub-communities and have industrial, academic or research backgrounds : Aaron Smith, Eric Christopher, Quentin Colombet, Damien Couroussé, Sylvestre Ledru, Hans Wennborg, Johannes Doerfert, Alex Bradbury and Sven Van Haastregt. *I have a question, who do I contact?* Please email the EuroLLVM'19 organisers (eurollvm-organizers(a)lists.llvm.org) or the LLVM developers' meeting mailing list (llvm-devmeeting(a)lists.llvm.org ) *Detailed guidance on writing a proposal for the LLVM developers' meeting* This is a guide to help you submit the best proposal and increase your chances of your proposal being accepted. The LLVM Developers' Meeting program committee receives more proposals than can be accepted, so please read this guide carefully. If you have never presented at an LLVM Developers' Meeting, then do not fear this process. We are actively looking for new speakers who are excited about LLVM and helping grow the community through these educational talks! You do not need to be a long time developer to submit a proposal. *General guidelines:* - It should be clear from your abstract what your topic is, who your targeted audience is, and what are the takeaways for attendees. The program committee gets a lot of proposals and does not have time to read 10 page papers for each submission (excluding SRC submissions). - Talks about a use of LLVM (etc) should include details about how LLVM is used and not only be about the resulting application. - Tutorials on "how to use X" in LLVM (or other subproject) are greatly desired and beneficial to many developers. Entry level topics are encouraged as well. - Talks that have been presented at other technical conferences tend to not get accepted. If you have presented this topic before, make it clear what is new and different in your talk. - We suggest you proofread and pay attention to grammar. *Technical talk & tutorial proposal template:* *Title:* - This will be displayed on the website, schedule, and signs. - Keep it short and catchy to attract attendees to your talk. A couple of examples are "WebAssembly: Here Be Dragons" or "Beyond Sanitizers: guided fuzzing and security hardening". *Speaker Name(s), Company, Email:* - This should be only the people giving the talk. HotCRP allows you to list authors but not speakers. We also recommend you put speakers only in the HotCRP "Contact" field so they are the ones contacted regarding conference details. *Abstract:* - 1-2 paragraphs. Keep in mind that this is displayed on the schedule and website for attendees to consider when selecting talks. *Submission:* - Include details about your talk in the PDF you upload: an outline, demo description, background of the speaker, etc. - For tutorials, include additional details such as tutorial outline, what materials you will provide attendees, etc. - This will not be published and is intended for the PC to better understand how interesting your talk will be to the audience. For example, if you would prefer not to reveal some conclusions in the published abstract, explaining them here ensures that the PC can take them into account when evaluating your proposal. *SRC talk proposal template:* *Title:* - This will be displayed on the website, schedule, and signs. - Keep it short and catchy to attract attendees to your talks. A couple of examples are "WebAssembly: Here Be Dragons" or "Beyond Sanitizers: guided fuzzing and security hardening". *Speaker Name(s), Company, Email:* - This should be only the people giving the talk. HotCRP allows you to list authors but not speakers. We also recommend you put speakers only in the HotCRP "Contact" field so they are the ones contacted regarding conference details. *Abstract:* - 1-2 paragraphs. Keep in mind that this is displayed on the schedule and website for attendees to consider when selecting talks. *Submission:* - Details must be provided in a 2 pages pdf, formatted using the SIGPLAN article format : 8.5in x 11in single spaced, double column page with a 10pt or larger font. - Optionally, you can attach your actual research paper, but that's mainly for the benefit of the reviewers who may not have time to actually read it. - If you need an embargo (delaying the publishing of the slides and video by up to 12 months), please fill-in the embargo request text box. - You are strongly encouraged to submit your talk as a poster as well as it will enable wider discussions at the meeting. The Program committee might also not select your talk proposal, but still offers you to present a poster. - This will not be published and is intended for the PC to better understand how interesting your talk will be to the audience. For example, if you would prefer not to reveal some conclusions in the published abstract, explaining them here ensures that the PC can take them into account when evaluating your proposal. *BoF proposal template:* *Title:* - This will be displayed on the website, schedule, and signs. These tend to be very straight forward about the area being discussed. An example is "Future directions and features for LLDB". *Speaker Name(s), Company, Email:* - This should be only the people giving the talk. HotCRP allows you to list authors but not speakers. We also recommend you put speakers only in the HotCRP "Contact" field so they are the ones contacted regarding conference details. *Abstract:* - 1-2 paragraphs. Keep in mind that this is displayed on the schedule and website for attendees to consider when selecting which BoFs to attend. *Submission:* - Provide additional details in the PDF you upload: goals of the BoF, presentation style. BoFs are to brainstorm ideas on a specific topic but you will be more successful if you have a guided discussion with talking points and actionable items at the end. - Provide some talking points or potential subtopics. - This will not be published and is intended for the PC to better understand how interesting your talk will be to the audience. *Lightning talks & Poster proposal template:* *Title:* - This will be displayed on the website, schedule, and signs. - Keep it short and catchy to attract attendees to your talks. A couple of examples are "WebAssembly: Here Be Dragons" or "Beyond Sanitizers: guided fuzzing and security hardening". *Speaker Name(s), Company, Email:* - This should be only the people presenting the poster. HotCRP allows you to list authors but not presenters. We also recommend you put presenters only in the HotCRP "Contact" field so they are the ones contacted regarding conference details. *Abstract:* - 1-2 paragraphs. Keep in mind that this is displayed on the schedule and website for attendees to consider when selecting the posters they want to look at. *Submission:* - No need for a detailed PDF submission.

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4th Workshop on Novel Challenges for Scheduling of HPC Applications
by Carsten Trinitis 30 Nov '18

30 Nov '18

*** 4th Workshop on Novel Challenges for Scheduling of HPC Applications *** (COSH 2019) In Conjunction with HiPEAC 2019 January 21 - 23, 2019, Valencia, Spain https://cosh.caps.in.tum.de Scope COSH 2017 and COSH 2018 (COSH being an acronym for "Workshop on Co-Scheduling of HPC Applications" focussed on co-scheduling, a method to improve utilisation of HPC systems by simultaneously running multiple applications on the same node. While co-sched- uling remains an important research topic, COSH 2019 will broaden the scope to upcoming challenges for scheduling on current and future HPC systems. This includes novel scheduling methods and strategies with a focus on on heterogeneous hardware. New func- tionality that is to be supported by scheduling strategies (e.g. malleability, fault tolerance, or resilience), new requirements around power (global control of power/energy consumption across multiple HPC systems, reducing ramp up/down effects), as well as novel usage models (e.g. urgent reservations, workflow schedul- ing) represent the topics of the workshop. Scope COSH 2017 and COSH 2018 (COSH being an acronym for "Workshop on Co-Scheduling of HPC Applications" focussed on co-scheduling, a method to improve utilisation of HPC systems by simultaneously running multiple applications on the same node. While co-scheduling remains an important research topic, COSH 2019 will broaden the scope to upcoming challenges for scheduling on current and future HPC systems. This includes novel scheduling methods and strategies with a focus on on heterogeneous hardware. New functionality that is to be supported by scheduling strate- gies (e.g. malleability, fault tolerance, or resilience), new re- quirements around power (global control of power/energy consump- tion across multiple HPC systems, reducing ramp up/down effects), as well as novel usage models (e.g. urgent reservations, workflow scheduling) represent the topics of the workshop. Main topics Exascale architectures, supercomputers, scheduling, performance sensors, energy efficiency, task migration Paper submission Work- shop papers must not exceed 6 single-spaced, double-column pages in ACM style (including figures and references). Accepted papers will be published online in the TUM library. Upon acceptance of the submission, at least one author is required to register for the HiPEAC 2019 conference. Deadlines Submission: Dec 10 2018 Notification: Dec 19, 2018 Camera-ready: Jan 19, 2019 Workshop: Jan 23, 2019 Participation Please refer to https://www.hipeac.net/2019/valencia/ for registration and venue information. For further information check https://cosh.caps.in.tum.de -- =============================================================== Dr.-Ing. Carsten Trinitis Mitglied des Präsidiums der Gesellschaft für Informatik Institut für Informatik 10, Technische Universität München Carsten.Trinitis(a)in.tum.de ===============================================================

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CGO 2019 Student Research Competition (SRC) -- Deadline extended!!
by Adwait Jog 29 Nov '18

29 Nov '18

**** DEADLINE EXTENDED **** ****************************************************************** IEEE/ACM CGO-2019 Call for submissions to Student Research Competition (SRC) ****************************************************************** The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC) offers a unique forum for undergraduate and graduate students to present their original research before a panel of judges and attendees at CGO. Participants must be undergraduates or graduate students pursuing an academic degree at the time of initial submission. Participants must be current student members of the ACM. The abstracts will be examined by a selection committee and selected abstracts will be invited to present as posters at the conference. SRC poster submissions are, in addition, evaluated by a jury during the poster session at the conference. The best three posters are then invited to give a short presentation (10 minutes + 5 minutes questions) on the next day. Based on the submitted abstract, the poster, and the presentation, the winner of CGO's Student Research Competition will be selected, who will receive an award. In addition, the winner will be invited to participate in the grand 2019 ACM SRC competition. Further information on the ACM SRC is available at: https://src.acm.org SRC Chair: Jagadish Kotra (AMD Research) Submission Information: *Submission must be about unpublished work that is not under review anywhere*. Extended abstracts of up to 500 words should be submitted by email to *Jagadish.Kotra(a)amd.com <Jagadish.Kotra(a)amd.com>* and in CC to *zsura(a)us.ibm.com <zsura(a)us.ibm.com>* on or before December 1, 2018. All submissions will be reviewed by a selection committee. Notifications will be sent out by December 10, 2018. Selected submissions will have their abstract included in the CGO 2019 proceedings and will be invited to CGO to participate in the ACM SRC competition. Please format your submission using the SIGPLAN format found here. Use one 8.5″x11″ single spaced, double-column page, with 10pt or larger font. Include your name and the name of your advisor(s). Optionally, send a pdf of the poster you plan to present (this does not have to be the final version of the poster). Important Dates (**** DEADLINE EXTENDED ***)* Submission: *December 15th, 2018 (AoE) * Notification: *December 22nd, 2018* Submission Topics: As in previous years, CGO will host a Student Research Competition (SRC) session. Submissions in the form of an extended abstract (details above) are solicited in any topics relevant to the main conference, including: ** Code Generation, Translation, Transformation, and Optimization for performance, energy, virtualization, portability, security, or reliability concerns, and architectural support ** Efficient execution of dynamically typed and higher-level languages Optimization and code generation for emerging programming models, platforms, domain-specific languages ** Dynamic/static, profile-guided, feedback-directed, and machine learning based optimization ** Static, Dynamic, and Hybrid Analysis for performance, energy, memory locality, throughput or latency, security, reliability, or functional debugging ** Program characterization methods ** Efficient profiling and instrumentation techniques; architectural support ** Novel and efficient tools ** Compiler design, practice and experience ** Compiler abstraction and intermediate representations ** Vertical integration of language features, representations, optimizations, and runtime support for parallelism ** Solutions that involve cross-layer (HW/OS/VM/SW) design and integration ** Deployed dynamic/static compiler and runtime systems for general purpose, embedded system and Cloud/HPC platforms ** Parallelism, heterogeneity, and reconfigurable architectures ** Optimizations for heterogeneous or specialized targets, GPUs, SoCs, CGRA ** Compiler-support for vectorization, thread extraction, task scheduling, speculation, transaction, memory management, data distribution and synchronization The same information can be found at CGO-2019 SRC website: http://cgo.org/cgo2019/src/ Please feel free to contact the SRC chair at *Jagadish.Kotra(a)amd.com <Jagadish.Kotra(a)amd.com>* for any further questions/concerns.

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Call for papers - GPC2019 - May 26-28, 2019 - Uberlândia/Brazil
by Kuan-Ching Li 28 Nov '18

28 Nov '18

Apologies if multiple copies are received ================== Call For Papers - GPC 2019 The 14th International Conference on Green, Pervasive and Cloud Computing (GPC-2019) May 26-28, 2019, Uberlandia, Brazil http://www.gpc2019.facom.ufu.br <http://www.gpc2019.facom.ufu.br> *** Paper Submission Due: January 18, 2019 *** ================== Conference Outline ================== Green computing, in the context of cloud and pervasive computing, is a emerging research field in computer science and engineering. Pervasive computing and cloud computing are two promising paradigms that have been seeing exponential growth in the deployments and which, poised to take major roles in human's daily life. But in order to realize this potential, both will have to face the critical challenges related to energy consumption, for example, controlling the energy spent by the large-scale cloud data centers and prolonging the battery life of mobile devices in pervasive computing and Internet of Things (IoT). New concepts and technologies such as mobile cloud computing (MCC), software-defined networking (SDN), Edge/Fog and hybrid cloud services can be leveraged to make cloud data centers and pervasive wireless devices more energy efficient. They aid us shape a "green" world in the future. GPC 2019 is the next event in a series of highly successful events focusing on pervasive and environmentally sustainable computing. In the last years, the conference has been successfully held and organized all over the world: Taichung, Taiwan (2006), Paris, France (2007), Kunming, China (2008), Geneva, Switzerland (2009), Hualien, Taiwan (2010), Oulu, Finland (2011), Hong Kong (2012), Seoul, Korea (2013), Wuhan, China (2014), Plantation Island, Fiji (2015), Xi’an, China (2016), Coast, Italy (2017), Hangzhou, China (2018). GPC 2019 will happen in the vibrant city of Uberlândia, in the heart of Brazil, and you are invited to join. Topics of interest: GPC 2019 welcomes original and innovative paper submissions from the academia, industry, and government, describing theoretical advances, system designs, implementations, and experimentations, including but not limited to the following topics: *Ubiquitous communications and networks. *Infrastructure softwarization. *Slicing. *Programmable and software defined networks. *Sensor, ad hoc networks, mobile agents, and networking. *Multimedia communications, machine to machine communications. *Cloud, edge/fog, cluster, and grid computing. *Mobile, peer-to-peer, and pervasive computing. *Service-oriented computing. *Multi-core systems, parallel and distributed systems. *Internet of things, and cyber-physical systems. *Social network and services. *Energy-efficient computing, communication, and virtualization architectures and protocols. *Instrumentation and measurement studies on energy-efficient systems. *Energy-aware mobile cloud systems and large-scale applications. *Monitoring, sensing, control, and management of energy-aware systems. *Innovative technologies for robustness and reliability of energy-aware systems. *Trade-offs between performance, energy, and other resources in cloud sites and pervasive computing. *Lightweight and efficient cryptography, communication, and mobile apps. *Modeling and control of variability in demand and supply of green energy sources. *Integration, scheduling, and management of renewable energy sources. *Programming models, tools, and environments for and pervasive computing and energy-efficient systems. *Data analytics for pervasive computing and energy-efficient systems. *Machine learning for pervasive computing and energy-efficient systems. *Semantic web, semantic grid, metadata, and ontology related to cloud computing and pervasive computing. *Security and privacy for cloud computing and pervasive computing. *Economy and business models for cloud computing and pervasive computing. *Service Level Agreements (SLAs) guarantee for customers in cloud computing. *Incentives and innovative pricing for the management of cloud resources. *Grid and pervasive applications, including e-Science, e-Business, smart city, etc. Publication =========== The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag as part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) Series. Submission Guidelines ===================== Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Submissions should be in English and at most 15 pages (.PDF) including the bibliography and appendices with LNCS template ( https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… ). Papers must be submitted in .PDF format using the following link at EasyChair platform: https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=gpc19 <https://easychair.org/my/conference.cgi?conf=gpc19> Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Important Dates =============== Paper Submission Due: January 18, 2019 Authors Notification: February 22, 2019 Camera ready due: March 15, 2019 Conference Dates: May 26-28, 2019

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CFP: Special Issue on Scientific Programming - In Search of Extreme Scale Scientific Programming Paradigms
by Justin Y. Shi 28 Nov '18

28 Nov '18

The Special Issue of International Journal on Scientific Programming is accepting papers on the topic of "In Search of Extreme Scale Scientific Programming Paradigms," submission deadline is March 29, 2019 with publication date in August 2019. ========================================================================================== Call for Papers: In Search of Extreme Scale Scientific Programming Paradigms It is known that application level program-program (or process-process) communication and coordination protocols decide the ultimate deliverable performance and reliability of parallel applications. It is also known that parallel applications using traditional hop-by-hop protocols, such as MPI (message passing interface) and OpenMP (program-memory-program), suffer shrinking MTBF (mean time between failures), as the processing infrastructure expands for meeting larger computing needs. Regardless of optimization methods, checkpoint/restart routines generate growing energy and resource inefficiencies as the applications scale up. End-to-end protocols, such as blockchain and BitTorrent, can defy the scaling challenges in distributed and parallel systems. These protocols follow end-to-end distributed system design principles as opposed to the hop-by-hop protocols. While the current blockchain and BitTorrent protocols are too slow for high performance applications, the end-to-end nature of their design should enable the development of end-to-end resource optimization techniques. These include potentials for automatic fault tolerant nonstop parallel computing, optimized energy and resource efficiency, as well as the potential of best effort performances for volatile environments. It is plausible that future decentralized high-performance computing applications can exploit scaling benefits and be limited only by the economic law of diminishing returns. The solution for fault tolerant parallel computing can also be used for automated workload distribution, thus cheaper but slower computing clouds may become performant and energy efficient HPC work horses. This special issue aims to publish original and previously unpublished research results in the broad area of extreme scale scientific programming paradigms. Potential topics include but are not limited to the following: - Novel scientific programming paradigms that are free from the scalability dilemma - Legacy application reengineering concepts that can mitigate the scalability dilemma when the application up scales - Custom program-program communication and coordination protocols that can mitigate specific application scaling difficulties - Practice and experiences of large-scale scientific simulations with demonstrable performance and reliability levels - Compilers, libraries, and runtime systems that can mitigate application scaling difficulties in performance and reliability - Virtualization techniques, such as fault tolerant software containers, that can facilitate the scaling of large scale scientific applications - Parallel workload optimization methods for heterogeneous environments - Parallel workload optimization methods that can also mitigate component failures for nonstop computing - Parallel application scalability modeling methods for homogeneous and heterogeneous environments Authors can submit their manuscripts through the Manuscript Tracking System athttps://mts.hindawi.com/submit/journals/sp/sssc/. Submission Deadline Friday, 29 March 2019 Publication Date August 2019 Papers are published upon acceptance, regardless of the Special Issue publication date. Lead Guest Editor - Justin Shi <shi(a)temple.edu>, Temple University, Pennsylvania, USA Guest Editors - Hsing-Bung Chen <hbchen(a)lanl.gov>, Los Alamos National laboratory, New Mexico, USA - Hanqi Guo <hguo(a)anl.gov>, Argonne National Laboratory, Illinois, USA - Qiang Guan <qguan(a)kent.edu>, Kent State University, Ohio, USA ========================================================================================== Weblink: https://www.hindawi.com/journals/sp/si/640542/cfp/

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PASC19: Call for Minisymposia (Deadline: 7 Dec 2018)
by Robinson Tim 28 Nov '18

28 Nov '18

============================================================================== CALL FOR MINISYMPOSIA Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing PASC19 ETH Zurich Zurich, Switzerland June 12-14, 2019 https://pasc19.pasc-conference.org Deadline for Expression of Interest: December 07, 2018 ============================================================================== The Platform for Advanced Scientific Computing (PASC) invites minisymposium submissions for PASC19, co-sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and SIGHPC, which will be held at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, from June 12 to 14, 2019 (https://pasc19.pasc-conference.org) PASC19 is the sixth edition of the PASC Conference series, an international platform for the exchange of competences in scientific computing and computational science, with a strong focus on methods, tools, algorithms, application challenges, and novel techniques and usage of high performance computing. As in previous years, the technical program of PASC19 is organized around eight scientific domains: * Climate and Weather * Chemistry and Materials * Computer Science and Applied Mathematics * Emerging Application Domains (incl. but not limited to social sciences, finance) * Engineering (incl. but not limited to CFD, computational mechanics, computational engineering materials, turbulent flow) * Life Sciences (incl. but not limited to biophysics, genomics, bioinformatics, systems biology, neuroscience and computational biology) * Physics (incl. but not limited to astrophysics, cosmology, plasma modelling, QCD) * Solid Earth Dynamics A minisymposium is a two-hour session of four 30-minute slots on a topic of current importance in computational science that showcases research related to domain science, applied mathematics, computer science and software engineering, and is an ideal platform for promoting interdisciplinary communication. Proposals that address aspects emphasizing the theme of PASC19 – Exascale and Beyond – are particularly welcome. The minisymposium submission for PASC19 is a two-stage process. The first stage is an expression of interest which includes a short description of the proposed minisymposium (title and abstract). The second stage, the full submission, should include an extended abstract along with proposed speakers and titles for four 30-minute presentation slots (typically, these slots are 25-minute talks with 5 minutes for questions). The minisymposium organizer is permitted to give one of the four presentations her/himself. If desired, the fourth 30-minute slot could be a panel discussion or open discussion forum. Please note that no other formats are possible. The organizer of a minisymposium takes an "active chair" role in their session – that is, s/he should present a brief overview of the themes of the minisymposium and the state of the art, introduce the speakers and their topics, and facilitate a lively and interactive discussion amongst the speakers and audience throughout the session. SUBMISSION AND REVIEW PROCESS In order to be allowed to submit a full proposal, minisymposium organizers must first submit an expression of interest. The expression of interest consists of the following: * Title * Scientific domain(s): A primary domain and optionally additional domains. * Organizer details: Full names and contact details of organizers (up to three). * Abstract: A short description of the minisymposium (no more than 200 words). The full proposal consists of the following: * Title * Scientific domain(s): A primary domain and optionally additional domains. * Organizer details: Full names and contact details of organizers (up to three). * Presenter details: Full names and contact details of four proposed speakers (three if the minisymposium proposal includes a discussion panel) and proposed titles for their presentations. * Description for review: A description of the minisymposium that outlines the scope, describes the problems being addressed and their importance, and discusses current directions of research and methods being developed to solve these problems (no more than 800 words) * Abstract for publication: An short abstract for publication in the conference program (no more than 200 words). If the proposal is accepted then presentation titles and abstracts (200 words) will be requested from each speaker, and necessary revisions can be made to the minisymposium abstract for publication in the conference program. Domain experts from the PASC19 Minisymposium and Posters Committee (https://pasc19.pasc-conference.org/about/minisymposia-and-posters-program-c… mittee/) will assess minisymposium proposals based on the following criteria: * The research described should be of significant current interest to the given scientific domain, and ideally, have potential application to other scientific domains. * The research should be based on state-of-the-art numerical methods. * Proposals should include speakers from multiple institutions and/or countries, and be designed such that the speakers bring a range of different perspectives and views to the topic. * Organizers are strongly encouraged to include women and members of other underrepresented groups. Proposals must be submitted through the PASC19 online submission portal (https://submissions.pasc-conference.org) SUBMISSION DEADLINES * 07 December 2018: Deadline for expressions of interest * 11 January 2019: Deadline for full submissions * 04 February 2019: Acceptance notifications * 10 March 2019: Deadline for abstracts from presenting speakers Deadlines correspond to anywhere on earth ('AoE' or 'UTC-12'). CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION TERMS Please note that PASC19 is unable to reimburse the expenses or waive the registration fees of organizers and speakers. All organizers and speakers must register for the conference and are subject to the corresponding registration fees. MINISYMPOSIUM AND POSTERS PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS General Chairs * Haohuan Fu (National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, China) * Simon Scheidegger (University of Zurich, Switzerland) Chemistry and Materials * Zhong Jin (Chinese Academy of Sciences, China) * Nuria Lopez (Catalan Institute of Chemical Research, Spain) Climate and Weather * Joachim Biercamp (German Climate Computing Center, Germany) * Zhenya Song (State Oceanic Administration, China) Computer Science and Applied Mathematics * Stefan Wild (Argonne National Laboratory, US) * Wei Xue (Tsinghua University, China) Emerging Application Domains * Philipp Eisenhauer (University of Bonn, Germany) * Andrew Lumsdaine (Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, US) Engineering * Ilias Bilionis (Purdue University, US) * Claudia Schillings (University of Mannheim, Germany) Life Sciences * Weiguo Liu (Shandong University, China) * Arvind Ramanathan (Oak Ridge National Laboratory, US) Physics * Roger Käppeli (ETH Zurich, Switzerland) * Sinéad Ryan (Trinity College, Ireland) Solid Earth Dynamics * Alice Gabriel (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Germany) * Chun Liu (Nanjing University, China) If you have any questions regarding the submission or reviewing process please email info(a)pasc-conference.org<mailto:[email protected]>.

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CFP: [Algorithms] Special Issue "Algorithm Engineering" (Deadline: 28 February 2019)
by Mattia D'Emidio 28 Nov '18

28 Nov '18

Dear Colleagues, We invite submissions of novel research articles for a forthcoming special issue of "Algorithms" dedicated to "Algorithm Engineering: Towards Practically Efficient Solutions to Combinatorial Problems" Algorithms (ISSN 1999-4893; CODEN: ALGOCH) is a peer-reviewed open access journal which provides an advanced forum for studies related to algorithms and their applications. Algorithms is published monthly online by MDPI and is indexed by DBLP, Emerging Sources Citation Index (ESCI - Web of Science), Ei Compendex, Scopus and other databases. More details can be found at the following link: http://www.mdpi.com/journal/algorithms/special_issues/algorithm_engineering The purpose of this Special Issue is to attract papers presenting original research in the area of Algorithm Engineering. In particular, we encourage submissions concerning the design, implementation, tuning, and experimental evaluation of discrete algorithms and data structures, or addressing methodological issues and standards in algorithmic experimentation. Papers dealing with advanced models of computing, including memory hierarchies, cloud architectures, and parallel processing are also welcome. We solicit contributions from all relevant areas of applied algorithmics, which include but are not limited to: databases; geometry; graphs; big data; complex networks; combinatorial aspects of scientific computing; and computational problems in natural sciences or engineering. We kindly invite you and your colleagues to submit a contribution for this special issue. The submission deadline is 28 February 2019, but you may send your manuscript now or up until the deadline as papers will be published on an ongoing basis. Submitted papers should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. We also encourage authors to send a short abstract or tentative title to the Editorial Office in advance (algorithms at mdpi.com <http://www.zaik.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/dmanet> orjones.zhang at mdpi.com <http://www.zaik.uni-koeln.de/mailman/listinfo/dmanet>). Best Regards, Prof. Daniele Frigioni Dr. Mattia D'Emidio Guest Editors Manuscript Submission Information Manuscripts should be submitted online atwww.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to the following website:http://www.mdpi.com/user/login/ Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website. Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 850 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions. Keywords - Algorithm Engineering - Algorithms and Data Structures - Experimental Algorithmics - Algorithms for Large Scale Combinatorial Problems - Efficient Solutions for Real World Applications

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