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AICCSA 2018- Submission deadline extended
by Khouloud Boukadi 31 Mar '18

31 Mar '18

*15th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications *AICCSA 2018 *October 28th to November 1st, *2018 http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2018/call-for-contributions/call-for-papers Follow AICCSA on Facebook <https://www.facebook.com/AICCSAconference/> and Twitter <https://twitter.com/aiccsa> Journal Special Issues and Student Sponsorships will be available The ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications ( AICCSA) is a premier conference covering all contemporary areas in computer systems and applications and hence it is an international forum for leading researchers and practitioners in this important and rapidly changing discipline. AICCSA 2018, will be held in the lovely and highly vibrant city of Aqaba in Jordan. We solicit submissions in the categories of full papers, workshop proposals, posters, and demonstrations. *Call for Full Paper* We are pleased to invite you to submit original contributions to AICCSA 2018 via the official submission system for the conference https://easychair.o rg/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2018. Submissions may include, technical and experimental study, theoretical study, conceptual study, or a survey. All submissions will be peer-reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. Topics of interest will fall under one or more of the following conference tracks. Click on each track for more information. Track 1: Advances in Knowledge Engineering <http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2018/13-tracks/28-track-1> Track 2: Advances in Artificial Intelligence <http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2018/13-tracks/29-track-2> Track 3: Advances in Linguistics <http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2018/13-tracks/30-track-3> Track 4: Advances in Networks <http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2018/13-tracks/31-track-4> Track 5: Advances in Sensors <http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2018/13-tracks/32-track-5> Track 6: Advances in Information Systems and Security <http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2018/13-tracks/33-track-6> Track 7: Advances in Image processing, Computer Vision <http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2018/13-tracks/34-track-7> Track 8: Advances in Computing <http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2018/13-tracks/35-track-8> Track 9: Advances in Data Science <http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2018/13-tracks/36-track-9> Track 10: Advances in Software Engineering <http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2018/13-tracks/37-track-10> Track 11: Advances in Multimedia, Gamification and Serious Games <http://aiccsa.net/AICCSA2018/13-tracks/38-track-11> A full paper manuscript should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column conference format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically on easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2018. A manuscript must not exceed 8 pages (including all figures, tables and references). The manuscript must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. AICCSA 2018 uses double-blind review, which means that both the reviewer and author identities are concealed from each other throughout the review process. To facilitate this, authors need to ensure that their manuscripts are prepared in a way that does not give away their identity or affiliation. *Call for Workshops* AICCSA 2018 invites proposals for workshops on specific aspects that complement the conference main tracks in related areas to Computer Systems and Applications. We seek proposals across a wide range of topics and levels — ranging from fundamentals to the latest advances in hot topic areas. For more details on AICCSA workshops, please visit http://www.aiccsa.net/AICCSA2018/call-for-contributions/call-for-workshops. *Call for Posters* Authors can submit a 2-page short paper describing the poster content. Submissions should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column conference format. If accepted, these 2-page short papers will be published in the proceedings of the conference. Participants will be able to display the poster during the conference. Authors are invited to submit their contributions electronically on easychair https://easychair.or g/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2018. The recommended poster size is A0 (33.1 x 46.8 in, portrait). *Call for Demonstration* Authors are required to submit a 2-page short paper describing the demonstrated system, clearly indicate what is going to be demonstrated, and state the significance of the contribution. Submissions should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column conference format. Authors are invited to submit their contributions electronically on easychair https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aiccsa2018. Participants will be able to showcase the demo during the conference. The demonstration papers will appear in the proceedings as short papers. *Important Dates* Full paper submission due date: March 30, 2018 (Extended to April 20) Workshop proposals due date: April 1, 2018 (Extended to April 20) Posters and Demonstrations Due Date: April 3, 2018 (Extended to April 30) Workshop proposal notification of acceptance: May 10, 2018 Full Papers, Posters, and Demos notification of acceptance: June 30, 2018 Full Papers, Posters, and Demos camera ready: August 1, 2018 *Special Issues* Authors of selected full papers in the conference will be invited to submit extended versions of their work to: Springer Cluster Computing Journal, Computing and Informatics, International Journal of High Performance Computing and Networking and International Journal of Embedded Systems. Other journal will be announce soon as well. Papers will be ranked based on their reviewer scores and appropriateness for the journal. All extended papers will undergo a meticulous review process and must include original unpublished work. *Student Sponsorships* *Selected student authors will be selected to get sponsorships that cover registration and accommodation or part of them. In last year AICCSA, more than 50 students were sponsored. *

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CFP - Parallel & Distributed Data Mining - special session at HPCS'18, Orleans, France, July 16-20
by Dominik Ślęzak 31 Mar '18

31 Mar '18

+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CALL FOR PAPERS PDDM'18 -- 7th Special Session on Parallel and Distributed Data Mining Held as part of 16th Int. Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS'18) Orleans, France, 16-20 July, 2018 http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/2-conference/special-sessions---hpcs2018/session 08-pddm PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE: ***** APRIL 12, 2018 ***** (slight deadline extensions possible -- please contact PDDM chairs at slezak(a)mimuw.edu.pl) PAPER SUBMISSION LINK: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pddm2018hpcs2018 PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS: Please prepare your paper in standard IEEE conference 2-column format, up to 8 pages long. PDDM'18 TOPICS: -- Data mining solutions on GPUs, many-cores, accelerators -- Grid-/cluster-based data mining algorithms & systems -- Data mining on blockchain, cloud, open source platforms -- FPGA & middleware for high-performance data mining -- Approximate computing & data granulation in data mining -- Parallel/distributed data mining exploiting simulations -- Programming models, tools, environments for data mining -- Benchmarking & performance studies for data mining -- Energy-efficient distributed data mining approaches -- Scalable tools for deep learning & machine intelligence -- Distributed methods for security & privacy preserving -- Distributed mining of complex & massive data streams -- Data mining in social networks & social media -- Data mining in mobile & multimedia environments -- Web mining & scalable information retrieval -- Applications in business, science, engineering, etc. PDDM'18 PROGRAM COMMITTEE: -- Eugenio Cesario (ICAR-CNR, Italy) -- Zaineb Chelly (Aberystwyth University, UK) -- Boguslaw Cyganek (AGH, Poland) -- Piotr Honko (Bialystok University of Technology, Poland) -- Kristian Kersting (Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany) -- Bartek Kiepuszewski (MakerDAO & Oasis Development Foundation) -- Tianrui Li (Southwest Jiaotong University, China) -- Tsau Young Lin (San Jose State University, USA) -- Henryk Michalewski (University of Warsaw, Poland) -- Yi Pan (Georgia State University, USA) -- Vijay Raghavan (University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA) -- Christoph Schommer (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) -- Marek Sikora (Silesian University of Technology, Poland) -- Domenico Talia (University of Calabria, Italy) -- Shusaku Tsumoto (Shimane University, Japan) -- Michal Wozniak (Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland) Please forward this announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. CHAIRS OF PDDM'18 Dominik Slezak (University of Warsaw, Poland) & Janusz Borkowski (Security On-Demand, Poland/USA) +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

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CFP: General Call for Papers for ICPP 2018 Workshops
by Federico Silla 30 Mar '18

30 Mar '18

Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email] --------- General Call for Papers for ICPP 2018 Workshops ----------- ICPP (International conference on Parallel Processing) provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present their latest research findings in all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. The 47th ICPP will be held in Eugene, Oregon, USA during August 13-16, 2018. More information of ICPP 2018 can be found at http://www.icpp-conf.org/2018 ICPP 2018 invites researchers and practitioners to submit their work to the workshops available at the conference: AWASN: Applications of Wireless Ad hoc and Sensor Networks Website: http://www.comp.sd.tmu.ac.jp/kazuyasakai/events/awasn18.html Organizer: Kazuya Sakai, Tokyo Metropolitan University, Japan BIO-HPC: International Workshop on Novel High Performance Computing algorithms and platforms in Bioinformatics Website: http://bio-hpc.eu/biohpc2018/ Organizers: Horacio Pérez-Sánchez, Universidad Católica de Murcia (UCAM), Spain José P. Cerón-Carrasco, Universidad Católica de Murcia (UCAM), Spain José M. Cecilia, Universidad Católica de Murcia (UCAM), Spain EMS: International Workshop on Embedded Multicore Systems Website: https://sites.google.com/view/icpp-ems2018/ Organizers: Jenq-Kuen Lee, National Tsinghua University, Taiwan Yung-Chia Lin, Mediatek, Boston, USA Peng-Sheng Chen, National Chung-Cheng University, Taiwan HUCAA: Heterogeneous and Unconventional Cluster Architectures and Applications Website: http://www.hucaa-workshop.org/hucaa2018 Organizers: Federico Silla, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain Holger Fröning, University of Heidelberg, Germany NextGenClouds: International Workshop on Next Generation Clouds Website: www.nextgenclouds.net Organizers: Blesson Varghese, Queen’s University Belfast, UK Carlos Reaño, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain P2S2: International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-End Computing Website: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2/2018 Organizers: Min Si, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Yong Chen, Texas Tech University, USA QC: Quantum Computing Website: https://qutech.nl/events/workshop-quantum-computing Organizers: Koen Bertels, QuTech, Delft University of Technology, Nederlands Carmina García Almudever, QuTech, Delft University of Technology, Nederlands SRMPDS: International Workshop on Scheduling and Resource Management for Parallel and Distributed Systems Website: https://easychair.org/cfp/srmpds2018 Organizers: Rajkumar Kettimuthu, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Zhengchun Liu, Argonne National Laboratory, USA VA4EE: Vector Architectures for the Exascale Era Website: https://sites.google.com/view/va4ee2018 Organizers: Juan M. Cebrian,Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Magnus Själander, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway For further information please visit http://www.icpp-conf.org/2018 or the website of each workshop.

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CORRECTION: CFP: P-RECS'18 Submissions due *April 9*
by Carlos Maltzahn 30 Mar '18

30 Mar '18

# P-RECS '18 CFP First International Workshop on Practical Reproducible Evaluation of Computer Systems. June 11, 2018. In conjunction with HPDC'18 <http://hpdc.org/2018/ <http://hpdc.org/2018/>>. In cooperation with SIGHPC (pending). Independent evaluation of experimental results in the area of computer and networking systems is a challenging task. Recreating the environment where an experiment originally ran is commonly considered impractical or even impossible. This workshop will focus heavily on practical, actionable aspects of reproducibility in broad areas of computational science and data exploration, with special emphasis on issues in which community collaboration can be essential for adopting novel methodologies, techniques and frameworks aimed at addressing some of the challenges we face today. The workshop will bring together researchers and experts to share experiences and advance the state of the art in the reproducible evaluation of computer systems, featuring contributed papers and invited talks. ## Topics We expect submissions from topics such as, but not limited to: * Experiment dependency management. * Software citation and persistence. * Data versioning and preservation. * Provenance of data-intensive experiments. * Tools and techniques for incorporating provenance into publications. * Automated experiment execution and validation. * Experiment portability for code, performance, and related metrics. * Experiment discoverability for re-use. * Cost-benefit analysis frameworks for reproducibility. * Usability and adaptability of reproducibility frameworks into already-established domain-specific tools. * Long-term artifact archiving for future reproducibility. * Frameworks for sociological constructs to incentivize paradigm shifts. * Policies around publication of articles/software. * Blinding and selecting artifacts for review while maintaining history. * Reproducibility-aware computational infrastructure. ## Submission Submit via EasyChair <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=precs18 <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=precs18>>. We look for two categories of submissions: * **Position papers**. This category is for papers whose goal is to propose solutions (or scope the work that needs to be done) to address some of the issues outlined above. We hope that a research agenda comes out of this and that we can create a community that meets yearly to report on our status in addressing these problems. * **Experience papers**. This category consists of papers reporting on the authors' experience in automating one or more experimentation pipelines. The committee will look for submissions reporting on their experience: what worked? What aspects of experiment automation and validation are hard in your domain? What can be done to improve the tooling for your domain? As part of the submission, authors need to provide a URL to the automation service they use (e.g., [TravisCI](https://travis-ci.org <https://travis-ci.org/>), [GitLabCI](https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-ci/ <https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-ci/>), [CircleCI](https://circleci.com <https://circleci.com/>), [Jenkins](https://jenkins-ci.org <https://jenkins-ci.org/>), etc.) so reviewers can verify that there is one or more automated pipelines associated to the submission. ### Format Authors are invited to submit manuscripts in English not exceeding 5 pages of content. The 5-page limit includes figures, tables and appendices, but does not include references, for which there is no page limit. Submissions must use the [ACM Master Template](https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template <https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template>) (please use the `sigconf` format with default options). ### Proceedings The proceedings will be archived in both the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore through SIGHPC. ### Tools These tools can be optionally used used to automate your experiments: [CWL](http://commonwl.org <http://commonwl.org/>), [Popper](https://github.com/systemslab/popper <https://github.com/systemslab/popper>), [ReproZip](http://reprozip.org <http://reprozip.org/>), [Sciunit](http://sciunit.run <http://sciunit.run/>), [Sumatra](https://github.com/open-research/sumatra <https://github.com/open-research/sumatra>). ## Important Dates * Submissions due: April 9, 2018 * Acceptance notification: April 30, 2018 * Camera-ready paper submission: May 6, 2018 * Workshop: June 11, 2018 ## Organizers * Ivo Jimenez, UC Santa Cruz * Carlos Maltzahn, UC Santa Cruz * Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories ## Program Committee * Divyashri Bhat, UMass Amherst * Michael Crusoe, Project Lead, Common Workflow Language project * Anja Feldmann, TU Berlin * Todd Gamblin, LLNL * Mike Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories * Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zürich * Neil Chue Hong, Software Sustainability Institute / University of Edinburgh, UK * Dan Katz, NCSA * Kate Keahey, Argonne National Lab / ChameleonCloud * Ignacio Laguna, LLNL * Arnaud Legrand, Bâtiment IMAG * Reed Milewicz, Sandia National Laboratories * Robert Ricci, University of Utah / CloudLab * Victoria Stodden, UIUC * Violet R. Syrotiuk, ASU * Michela Taufer, University of Delaware * Michael Zink, UMass Amherst ## Contact Please address workshop questions to <ivo(a)cs.ucsc.edu <mailto:[email protected]>>.

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Call for Tutorials - SC18, The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
by khuck 30 Mar '18

30 Mar '18

SC18, The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis Call for Tutorials Submissions due: April 16, 2018 (11:59 pm Anywhere on Earth) FIRM deadline, no extensions Context and scope: ------------------------- The SC tutorials program is one of the highlights of the SC Conference series, and it is one of the largest tutorial programs at any computing-related conference in the world. It offers attendees the chance to learn from and to interact with leading experts in the most popular areas of high performance computing (HPC), networking, storage, and analysis. SC tutorials cover a wide range of topics. The tutorials committee is soliciting proposals for full-day (six hours) or a half-day (three hours) tutorials on topics in the following areas (as well as others): * Basic and introductory topics for expanding broader engagement * Applications and application frameworks * Algorithms, numerical methods, and libraries * Software engineering for portable performance and scalability * Parallel programming methods, models, languages and environments * Software tools for accelerators (co-processors, GPGPUs, FPGA, etc.) * Algorithmic, tools and runtime support for heterogeneous systems * Performance evaluation and/or optimization tools * Debugging and correctness tools * High performance I/O, storage, archive, and file systems * Scalable data mining and machine learning * High performance networking technology * Scientific and information visualization * Systems, tools and techniques for energy efficiency * Large systems administration and/or resource management * Computer and network security * Fault-tolerance, reliability, maintainability, and adaptability * High performance computer architecture * Clusters and distributed systems * Embedded- and/or reconfigurable systems * "Hot Topics" of current interest to the SC18 community Review Process: ------------------------- Submissions will be reviewed by the SC18 tutorials committee, which will consider among other factors: * Insights offered, in breadth and/or depth * Quality of the proposal (clarity, completeness, and cohesiveness of the proposal, quality of the visual aids) * Relevance for the SC18 audience and appropriateness for a tutorial * Timeliness of the topic * Potential audience appeal * Presentation history and teaching/speaking experience of the presenters * For "hands-on" tutorials, evidence that demos or live exercises have been thoroughly tested Additional information, including guidelines for proposal preparation and details regarding honoraria and support, can be found at: https://sc18.supercomputing.org/submit/tutorials-submissions/ Submission Deadline: April 16, 2018 (FIRM deadline, no extensions) Conditional Notification: June 8, 2018 Conference Dates: November 11-16, 2018 Tutorial Dates: November 11-12, 2018 Be sure to send your questions well in advance of the April 16, 2018 deadline for submitting tutorial proposals. There will be no extensions to the deadline for 2018. Web Submissions: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/ Email Contact: tutorials(a)info.supercomputing.org SC18 Tutorials Chair Janine Bennett, Sandia National Laboratories SC18 Tutorials Vice-Chair Kevin Huck, University of Oregon

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Call for paper: ApPLIED workshop held in conjunction with PODC 2018
by ApPLIED workshop 30 Mar '18

30 Mar '18

ApPLIED: Workshop on Advanced tools, programming languages, and PLatforms for Implementing and Evaluating algorithms for Distributed systems -- held in conjunction with PODC 2018. Homepage: https://tinyurl.com/ApPLIED2018 Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=applied2018 DATES Full Papers Submission: May 13, 2018. Acceptance Notification: June 6, 2018. Camera Ready version: June 18, 2018. Workshop day: July 27, 2018, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, United Kingdom, July 27th, 2018. SCOPE Designers of advanced systems wishing to implement and evaluate distributed algorithms in practical settings are often faced with challenging questions regarding the transformation from design to a working prototype. For example, what language should they use? What communication library or tool should use to enable the communication between processes? Over which platform should the algorithm be implemented and evaluated? What tradeoffs must be taken into consideration, i.e., choose a low-cost (or free) publically available setting with moderate maintenance or an expensive, developer-friendly one? Context is also very important. Some design assumptions might not be feasible nor affordable to be implemented in practice, or certain considerations might be irrelevant. In other words, some important issues in theory, might not be important in practice whereas some practical obstacles deserve more attention and analysis. The purpose of this workshop is to bring together designers and practitioners of distributed systems from both academia and industry to share their point of views and experiences. We solicit submissions describing research results and/or position papers relevant to the topic of interest to ApPLIED. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * The process of designing an algorithm to developing a prototype implementation suitable for running on working systems. * Success stories in which the evaluation of (perhaps known) distributed algorithms resulted in further (analytical) insights. * Position papers that consider new directions, opinions and learned lessons. ORGANIZATION Program Committee (confirmed) Ittai Abraham, VMware Research, Israel Ioannis Chatzigiannakis, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy Chryssis Georgiou (TPC co-chair), University of Cyprus, Cyprus Seif Haridi, SICS and KTH, Sweden Yanhong Annie Liu, Stony Brook University, USA Peter Musial, Intralinks, USA Nicolas Nicolaou, KIOS, Cyprus Elad Michael Schiller (TPC co-chair), Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Stefan Schmid, University of Vienna, Austria Roman Vitenberg, University of Oslo, Norway Marko Vukolic, IBM Research, Switzerland Organizing committee Chryssis Georgiou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Elad Michael Schiller, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden WORKSHOP SUBMISSION AND PRESENTATIONS Two formats will be considered: * A regular paper submission must report on original research that has not been previously or concurrently published; concurrent submissions to journals or conferences are not permitted. A regular submission must not exceed 6 pages excluding cover page and references. Additional necessary details may be included in an appendix which will be read at the discretion of the program committee. However, the paper must be self-contained without the appendices. Regular papers will have 30 minutes for an oral presentation at the workshop. * Short research statements aim at fostering discussion and collaboration. Research statements may summarize research published elsewhere or outline new emerging ideas. These submissions must not exceed 3 pages excluding cover page and references. The material in these short research statements may be published in other conferences. Short research statements will have 15 minutes for an oral presentation at the workshop. Submissions not conforming to these rules and papers outside of the scope of the conference will be rejected without consideration. The authors are responsible to have at least one of the authors registered to the workshop and presenting their work. PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Papers are to be submitted electronically through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=applied2018 Papers are to be submitted electronically, following the guidelines on the workshop web page. Submission must be in English, in pdf format, and in ACM proceedings style (ACM SIG). Each paper must begin with a cover page containing: (1) title, (2) author names and affiliations, (3) contact author's email, (4) abstract, and (5) indication of whether the paper should be considered as an article of original research, or short research statement. PUBLICATION The final version of the accepted papers will appear on the workshop's website and ACM digital library. These papers will be available to the participants in electronic format during the workshop.

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Final CFP: IWAC 2018 (correction)
by Lofstead, Gerald F II 29 Mar '18

29 Mar '18

Submission deadline is April 2, 2018 AoE. Sorry for the confusion. Call for Papers: The 1st Workshop on Infrastructure for Workflows and Application Composition (IWAC 2018) will be held in Tempe, Arizona on June 12, 2018. IWAC '18 is associated with the 27th Annual ACM High Performance and Distributed Computing (ACM HPDC 2018) and is sponsored by the ACM. This workshop will be one of the major venues for researchers to present novel approaches, results, and ideas on computing infrastructure to facilitate the performance and functionality of large scale workflows and composite applications. Organizations are increasingly leveraging workflows and composite applications to enrich a large number of workload classes, such as traditional large-scale science applications to big data and machine learning. Additionally, the growing size and complexity of the machines on which these applications run has imposed scalability limits on many applications that use a more traditional "bulk synchronous" compute model. Increasingly, researchers are looking for ways to integrate these technologies from different domains to glean greater insights and to improve performance and resilience for their applications. While advancements have been made in recent years, technologies enabling the full spectrum of application construction environments are largely either missing, primitive, niche, or research prototypes. This workshop contributes by exploring the various technological infrastructure needs to support effective, convenient workflow systems and application composition structures and approaches across a broad spectrum of HPC environments from clusters to supercomputers to cloud systems. Topics of Interest Include: - System software/OS features to enable workflow tools and application composition - Programming support for assembling workflows or connecting application components - Reusable components intended as either "glue'' between workflow components or for analysis or other processing - Front end systems for configuring or controlling workflows - Storage (both disk and in compute area) support for buffering between components - Workflow engines designed to simplify workflow construction for end users - Programming support for addressing data format/contents mismatch - Programming support for resource management - Communication and/or data exchange mechanisms - Application-specific workflow implementations - Other system support for mechanisms to support combining multiple application components into a composite application or workflow Important Dates: Submission Deadline: April 2, 2018 Responses to Authors: May 6, 2018 Camera Ready due: May 11, 2018 Paper Submissions: All manuscripts will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Submissions should be a complete manuscript or, in special cases, may be a summary of relevant work. Manuscript for full paper should be not exceed 5 single-spaced, double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5X11 inch pages (ACM conference style) including everything except references. Papers are to be submitted electronically in PDF format through EasyChair. Submitted papers should not have appeared in or be under consideration for a different workshop, conference or journal. It is also expected that all accepted papers will be presented at the workshop by one of the authors. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwac18 Organiziers and Program Co-Chairs: Jay Lofstead (Sandia National Labs) Jai Dayal (Intel) Program Committee: Gagan Agrawal (OSU) Ilkay Altintas (SDSC) Rosa Badia (Barcelona) Wes Bethel (LBL) Christopher Carothers (RPI) Ewa Deelman (USC ISI) Dmitry Duplyakin (Utah) Rosa Filgueira (British Geological Survey) Henry Gabb (Intel) Balazs Gerofi (Riken) Bingsheng He (Singapore) Shadi Ibrahim (INRIA) Kerstin Kleese van Dam (BNL) Brian Kocoloski (WUSTL) Julian Kunkel (DKRZ) Jack Lange (U Pitt) David Montoya (LANL) Kevin Pedretti (SNL) Tom Peterka (ANL) Matthew Wolf (ORNL) Justin Wozniak (ANL) Andrew Younge (SNL)

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CFP: Resilience@Euro-Par 2018 - Papers due May 4
by Christian Engelmann 29 Mar '18

29 Mar '18

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 11th Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance Computing (Resilience) in Clusters, Clouds, and Grids <https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2018 <https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2018>> in conjunction with the 24th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par), Turin, Italy August 27 - 31, 2018 <https://europar2018.org <https://europar2018.org/>> Overview: Resilience is a critical challenge as high performance computing (HPC) systems continue to increase component counts, individual component reliability decreases (such as due to shrinking process technology and near-threshold voltage (NTV) operation), and software complexity increases. Application correctness and execution efficiency, in spite of frequent faults, errors, and failures, is essential to ensure the success of the extreme-scale HPC systems, cluster computing environments, Grid computing infrastructures, and Cloud computing services. While a fault (e.g., a bug or stuck bit) is the cause of an error, its manifestation as a state change is considered an error (e.g., a bad value or incorrect execution), and the transition to an incorrect service is observed as a failure (e.g., an application abort or system crash). A failure in a computing system is typically observed through an application abort or a full/partial service or system outage. A detectable correctable error is often transparently handled by hardware, such as a single bit flip in memory that is protected with single-error correction double-error detection (SECDED) error correcting code (ECC). A detectable uncorrectable error (DUE) typically results in a failure, such as multiple bit flips in the same addressable word that escape SECDED ECC correction, but not detection, and ultimately cause an application abort. An undetectable error (UE) may result in silent data corruption (SDC), e.g., an incorrect application output. There are many other types of hardware and software faults, errors, and failures in computing systems. Resilience for HPC systems encompasses a wide spectrum of fundamental and applied research and development, including theoretical foundations, fault detection and prediction, monitoring and control, end-to-end data integrity, enabling infrastructure, and resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance. This workshop brings together experts in the community to further research and development in HPC resilience and to facilitate exchanges across the computational paradigms of extreme-scale HPC, cluster computing, Grid computing, and Cloud computing. Submission Guidelines: Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in English in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and BETWEEN 10 AND 12 PAGES, including figures, tables and references, using Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format at <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0>>. Papers with less than 10 or more than 12 pages will not be accepted due to publisher guidelines. Submissions should include abstract, key words and the e-mail address of the corresponding author. Papers not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. The proceedings will be published in Springer's LNCS as post-conference proceedings. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop for inclusion in the proceedings. Authors may contact the workshop program chairs for more information. Important websites: - Resilience 2018 Website: <https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2018 <https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2018>> - Resilience 2018 Submissions: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2018ws <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2018ws>> - Euro-Par 2018 website: <https://europar2018.org <https://europar2018.org/>> Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical foundations for resilience: - Metrics and measurement - Statistics and optimization - Simulation and emulation - Formal methods - Efficiency modeling and uncertainty quantification - Fault detection and prediction: - Statistical analyses - Machine learning - Anomaly detection - Data and information collection - Visualization - Monitoring and control for resilience: - Platform and application monitoring - Response and recovery - RAS theory and performability - Application and platform knobs - Tunable fidelity and quality of service - End-to-end data integrity: - Fault tolerant design - Degraded modes - Forward migration and verification - Fault injection - Soft errors - Silent data corruption - Enabling infrastructure for resilience: - RAS systems - System software and middleware - Programming models - Tools - Next-generation architectures - Resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance: - Algorithmic detection and correction of hard and soft faults - Resilient algorithms - Fault tolerant numerical methods - Robust iterative algorithms - Scalability of resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance Important Dates: - Workshop papers due: May 4, 2018 - Workshop author notification: June 15, 2018 - Workshop early registration: TBD - Workshop paper (for informal workshop proceedings): July 6, 2018 - Workshop date: August 27-28, 2018 - Workshop camera-ready papers: October 2, 2018 General Co-Chairs: - Stephen L. Scott Senior Research Scientist - Systems Research Team Tennessee Tech University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA scottsl(a)ornl.gov <mailto:[email protected]> - Chokchai (Box) Leangsuksun, SWEPCO Endowed Associate Professor of Computer Science Louisiana Tech University, USA box(a)latech.edu <mailto:[email protected]> Program Co-Chairs: - Patrick G. Bridges University of New Mexico, USA bridges(a)cs.unm.edu <mailto:[email protected]> - Christian Engelmann Oak Ridge National Laboratory , USA engelmannc(a)ornl.gov <mailto:[email protected]> Program Committee: - Ferrol Aderholdt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Rizwan Ashraf, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Wesley Bland, Intel Corporation, USA - Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Technical University of Munich, Germany - Marc Casas, Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Spain - Zizhong Chen, University of California at Riverside, USA - Robert Clay, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Miguel Correia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal - Nathan DeBardeleben, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA - James Elliott, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Kurt Ferreira, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Saurabh Hukerikar, NVIDIA, USA - Dieter Kranzlmueller, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany - Ignacio Laguna, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Scott Levy, University of New Mexico, USA - Alexander Reinefeld, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany - Rolf Riesen, Intel Corporation, USA - Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, France - Thomas Ropars, Universite Grenoble Alpes, France - Martin Schulz, Technical University of Munich, Germany - Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA -- Christian Engelmann, Ph.D. R&D Staff Scientist Computer Science Research Group Computer Science and Mathematics Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Mail: P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6173, USA Phone: +1 (865) 574-3132 / Fax: +1 (865) 576-5491 e-Mail: engelmannc(a)ornl.gov <mailto:[email protected]> / Home: www.christian-engelmann.info <http://www.christian-engelmann.info/>

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CFP: DRSN - Workshop on High Performance and Dynamic Reconfigurable Systems and Networks 2018, Orleans, France
by Syed Waqar Nabi 29 Mar '18

29 Mar '18

========================================================= DRSN-2018 International Workshop on High Performance and Dynamic Reconfigurable Systems and Networks http://tytra.org.uk/drsn/ July 17 - July 19, 2018 Orleans, France [as part of The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2018)] ========================================================= Quick Links -------------------- Workshop: http://tytra.org.uk/drsn/ Submission: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=drsn2018 Parent Conference: http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/ Important Dates -------------------- Paper submissions: April 16, 2018 Acceptance notification: April 27, 2018 Camera-ready papers and registration due: May 11, 2018 Workshop date: July 17 - 19, 2018 (workshop will be on one of these dates) About -------- The International Workshop on High Performance & Dynamic Reconfigurable Systems and Networks (DRSN-2018) is intended to serve as a forum and bring together researchers and engineers in both academia and industry to exchange ideas, share experiences, and report original works about all aspects of reconfigurable systems and networks in high-performance systems. The challenges to wider adoption of these technologies, arising out of heterogeneity, programming environments, compilers, and run-time systems are of special interest to this workshop, along with innovations at the architectural level. This workshop is part of the International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2018, http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/) and all accepted papers are published with the parent conference's proceedings on IEEE. Topics of Interest --------------------- The DRSN Workshop topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the following: * Heterogeneous High Performance Computing (HHPC) and High performance Reconfigurable Computing (HPRC) Applications - HPC applications on multi/many-core CPUs, GPUs and FPGAs - HHPC and HPRC for Scientific Applications - HHPC and HPRC for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence - HHPC and HPRC for Big-Data Applications - FPGAs for Edge Computing and Bump-in-the-Wire * Tools, Languages, Frameworks, Benchmarks, and DSE - Compilation, Programming Languages, and DSLs for HHPC and HPRC - Tools, Frameworks, Design-flows for HHPC and HPRC - VMs, Middleware, Run-time and Operating Systems for HHPC & HPRC - Domain Specific Languages (DSLs) for HHPC and HPRC - High-level and Pure Software Programming for Reconfigurable Devices - Design Space Exploration (DSE) of Reconfigurable and/or NoC-based systems - Self-reconfiguration and self-optimization for HPC * Benchmarks and Evaluations - Benchmarks: Compute performance and/or power/cost efficiency in cloud/HPC - Area, energy, and performance evaluation - Comparative analysis of heterogeneous devices and frameworks for HPC * Networks and NoCs - Novel NoC Architectures for high-performance systems - Systems software support for advanced NoC-based systems - NoC-aware compilation and runtime systems - Mapping and scheduling for NoC-based systems - Implementation case studies of reconfigurable and NoC-based systems * Other - Reliability, scalability, availability, and fault tolerance - Reconfigurable computing education Publication ------------- Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings of the host conference, HPCS 2018. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2018 Conference web site. As in the past, we plan to include the proceedings in the IEEE Digital Library and have it indexed in all major indexing services accordingly. Plans are underway to have the best papers, in extended version, selected for possible publication in a reputable journal as special issue. Detailed information will soon be announced and will be made available on the conference website. Instructions for Authors --------------------------- You are invited to submit original and unpublished research on the topics of interest, and other topics related to dynamic reconfigurable systems and networks. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. *Regular papers*: please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. *Poster papers*: Short poster papers (3-6 pages) will also be considered (please refer to http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po… for posters submission details). HPCS 2018, which is our host conference, uses IEEE manuscript templates for conference proceedings. For paper formatting instructions and *templates*, please refer to the instructions on the HPCS website here: http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/6-participants/author-s-info-hpcs2018 Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the workshop paper submission EasyChair site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=drsn2018. Please make sure you prepare your paper for *blind reviews*. Paper Review and Presentation ------------------------------------ Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and presentation, and references. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS 2018 conference (http://hpcs2018.cisedu.info/) to present the paper at the workshop. Keynote Speaker ----------------------- Dr Herman Lam Associate Director of CHREC, the NSF Center for High-Performance Reconfigurable Computing University of Florida Technical Program Committee ----------------------------------- Hideharu Amano, Keio University, Japan El-Bay Bourennanne, Université de Bourgogne, France David Castells-Rufas, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Sairahul Chalamalasetti, Hewlett Packard, USA Rene Cumplido, INAOE, Mexico Masoud Daneshtalab, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Diana Göhringer, TU Dresden, Germany Martin Herbordt, Boston University, Massachusetts, USA Michael Huebner, Ruhr-Uni¬ver¬si¬tät Bo¬chum, Germany Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University, Massachusetts, USA Martin Margala, University of Massachusetts - Lowell, Massachusetts, USA Jari Nurmi, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Andres Ortero, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain Muhammad Adeel Pasha, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Pakistan Kyprianos Papadimitriou, Technical University of Crete, Greece Hiren Patel, University of Waterloo, Canada Sebastien Pillement, Université de Nantes, France Thilo Pionteck, Otto-von-Guericke Universität Magdeburg, Germany Hassan Rabah, Université de Lorraine, France Ann Gordon-Ross, University of Florida, USA Oren Segal, Hofstra University, New York, USA Rahul R. Sharma, Intel Corporation Zain Ul-Abdin, Halmstad University, Sweden Dirk Stroobandt, Ghent University, Belgium Aaron Smith, Microsoft Research, USA Andres Upegui, École Spécialisée de Suisse Occidentale, Switzerland Wim Vanderbauwhede, University of Glasgow, UK Organizers ------------- Syed Waqar Nabi, University of Glasgow, UK Nasibeh Nasiri, Intel Corporation, CA Gilberto Ochoa-Ruiz, Universidad Autónoma de Guadalajara (UAG), Mexico Contact --------- Please find contact details of workshop organizers here: http://tytra.org.uk/drsn/committees/ [University of Glasgow: The Times Scottish University of the Year 2018]

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Submission deadline for SYSTOR 2018's Posters extended: April 1, 2018 + Keynote speakers announcement
by Goldstein, Maayan (Nokia - IL/Kfar Sava) 29 Mar '18

29 Mar '18

[ Apologies if you receive this multiple times ] We are pleased to announce that we will have the honor to host three keynote speakers this year: Margo Seltzer, Radia Perlman, Ant Rowstron. Please see more details here: https://www.systor.org/2018/keynote-speakers.html SYSTOR 2018 Posters submission deadline has been extended to April, 2018. Posters with Extended Abstract Track - original work presented as a poster, accompanied by a one-page extended abstract. Call for Papers: SYSTOR 2018 June 4-6, 2018 Haifa, Israel The ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR) is an excellent international forum for interaction across the systems research community. The program includes both innovative, peer-reviewed research papers in the broad area of systems and storage, as well as distinguished keynote lecturers, a poster session, and social events. ACM SYSTOR is designed to appeal to academic and industrial researchers and practitioners, welcoming both students and seasoned professionals. We invite you to submit original and innovative papers to SYSTOR 2018, The 11th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference. The conference will take place June 4-6, 2018 in Haifa, Israel. http://www.systor.org SYSTOR has a broad scope, promoting experimental and practical computer systems research encompassing the following topics: * Big data infrastructure * Cloud, datacenter, and distributed systems * Deployment, usage, and experience * Embedded and real-time systems * Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability * File and storage systems * Networked, mobile, wireless, peer-to-peer, and sensor systems * Operating systems, computer architecture, and their interactions * Performance evaluation and workload characterization * Runtime systems and compiler/programming-language support * Security, privacy, and trust * System design or adaptation for emerging storage technologies * Virtualization SYSTOR welcomes academic and industrial papers in systems and storage, broadly construed. SYSTOR encourages submissions that describe results from experimental system prototypes, as well as experience papers describing practical deployments, and valuable lessons learned from them. We solicit paper submissions in five separate categories: * Full Papers track - original research, at most 10 pages without the references * Short Papers Track - original research, at most 5 pages without the references * Highlight Papers Track - papers accepted at top-tier conferences * Posters with Extended AbstractTrack - original work presented as poster accompanied by the extended abstract * Informal Student Presentations - informal presentation of research findings, co-located with the poster session Formatting and submission instructions: http://www.systor.org/2018/cfp.html IMPORTANT DATES * Full and Short Papers Track * Paper Submission March 3, 2018 * Acceptance Notification April 15, 2018 * Camera-ready May 6, 2018 * Highlight Papers Track * Extended Abstract Submission March 29, 2018 * Acceptance Notification April 24, 2018 * Posters with Extended Abstract Track * Poster & Abstract Submission March 29, 2018 * Acceptance Notification April 22, 2018 * Camera-ready May 6, 2018 * Informal Student Poster Presentations Track * Poster Submission May 15, 2018 * Acceptance Notification May 22, 2018 SYSTOR 2018 will host distinguished keynote speakers, a poster session, and several social events at the conference. Our goal is to provide an excellent forum for interaction across the systems community: international, academic, and industrial, for both students and more established members. Program Chairs: * Gala Yadgar (Technion, Israel) * Donald E. Porter (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) Program Committee: * Nadav Amit (VMware Research, USA) * Antonio Barbalace (Huawei, Germany) * Angelos Bilas (University of Crete, Grece) * Renata Borovica-Gajic (University of Melbourne, Australia) * Edward Bortnikov (Yahoo! Labs, Israel) * Vijay Chidambaram (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) * Toni Cortes (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) * Angela Demke Brown (University of Toronto, Canada) * Fred Douglis () * Yoav Etsion (Technion, Israel) * Boris Grot (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Vishakha Gupta-Cledat (Intel Labs, USA) * Danny Harnik (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) * Joo-Young Hwang (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea) * Michael Kaminsky (Intel Labs, USA) * Orran Krieger (Boston University, USA) * Adam Morrison (Tel Aviv University, Israel) * Sam H. Noh (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Republic of Korea) * Amitabha Roy (Intel Labs, USA) * Larry Rudolph (Two Sigma, USA) * Margo Seltzer (Harvard University and Oracle, USA) * Alexander Shraer (Apple, USA) * Keith H. Smith (NetApp, USA) * Vasily Tarasov (IBM Research - Almaden, USA) * Chia-Che Tsai (University of California - Berkeley, USA) * Xi Wang (University of Washington, USA) * Pete Wyckoff (Nutanix, USA) * Aviad Zuck (Technion, Israel) General Chair: * David Breitgand (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) Posters Chair: * Michael Shapira (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel) Publication Chair: * Ittay Eyal (Technion, Israel) Publicity Chair: * Maayan Goldstein (Nokia, Bell Labs, Israel) Local Arrangements Chair: * Eti Jahr (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) Steering Committee Head: * Dalit Naor (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) Steering Committee: * Michael Factor (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) * Ethan Miller (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) * Liuba Shrira (Brandeis University, USA) * Dan Tsafrir (Technion, Israel) * Erez Zadok (Stony Brook University, USA)

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