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cfp: The 9th International Conference on Big Data Technologies and Applications
by MIAO Wang 06 Mar '18

06 Mar '18

The 9th International Conference on Big Data Technologies and Applications (BDTA-2018) URL: http://infoscale.org 4-5 September 2018, Exeter, UK Selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to the journal special issues: - ACM/Springer Mobile Networks and Applications Journal (MONET) - Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience Introduction ============ Due to the explosive evolution of Information Technology and Computer Science, we have entered in the Big Data Age, and this is really a scientific revolution, not just a fashion. As always, the technological aspects evolve faster than the scientific community mentality. Transforming Big Data into Big Knowledge and developing a new kind of Knowledge-Based Systems require new visions and approaches. Companies, facing the Big Data challenges, are moving faster in the right direction than the scientific community, being under a stronger competitive pressure. They were forced to renounce to wishful thinking, like the idea that a few variables, embedded in a few rules, discovered usaing the old fashion statistics, will give intelligent support for business decisions. We have to do the same for developing various applications. Moreover, motivated by the big data analytics needs, new computing and storage technologies are developing rapidly and pushing for new high-end hardware geared toward big data problems. While the high-performance computing technologies have the potential to greatly improve the effectiveness of big data analytics, the cost and sophistications of those technology and limited initial application support often make them inaccessible to the end users and not fully utilized in academia years later. Meanwhile, comprehensive analytic software environment and platforms, such as R and Python, have become increasingly popular open-source platforms for data analysis. Also, Computational Intelligence (CI) methodologies, tailored to Big Data, and combined with a proper vision of living systems, e.g., as complex dynamical systems or networks of interacting entities, could pave the way to Knowledge-Based System. Potential topics of interest, which can be investigated from different perspectives (social, organizational, technological) include, but are not limited to, the following application domains: - Data Visualization and Visual Analytics - Natural Language Processing in Big Texts - Biomedical imaging pre-processing and Analysis - Hardware and Software solutions for Big Data Searching, Storing and Management - Structured and Unstructured Data/Text/Web Mining - Deep Learning architecture, representations, unsupervised and supervised algorithms - Scalable computational intelligence tools - Novel Computational Intelligence approaches for data analysis - Evolutionary and Bio-inspired approaches for Big Data analysis - New domains and novel applications related to Big Data technologies Important Dates =============== Submission deadline: 13 April 2018 Notification deadline: 1 June 2018 Camera-Ready deadline: 4 July 2018 Publication =========== All accepted and presented papers will be published by Springer and made available through SpringerLink Digital Library. BDTA proceedings are indexed in leading indexing services, including Ei Compendex, ISI Web of Science, Scopus, CrossRef, Google Scholar, DBLP, as well as EAI's own EU Digital Library (EUDL). Authors of selected best accepted and presented papers will be invited to submit an extended version to: - Mobile Networks and Applications (MONET) (IF:3.259) - Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (IF:1.133) Paper submission ================ Papers should be submitted through EAI 'Confy' system (http://confy.eai.eu/entry.html) and have to comply with the Springer format (see Author's kit section at http://infoscale.org/authors-kit/)

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[SC18] Paper deadline in two weeks -- ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (Supercomputing 2018)
by Torsten Hoefler 05 Mar '18

05 Mar '18

========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ========================================================================== The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis *** Supercomputing SC18 *** Sponsored by ACM and IEEE ------------------------------ ========================================================================== https://sc18.supercomputing.org/program/papers/ ========================================================================== The Papers program at SC is the leading venue for the presentation of the highest-quality original research, groundbreaking ideas, and compelling insights on future trends. The conference is soliciting paper submissions around high performance computing and other neighboring areas. TOPICS OF INTEREST: ------------------- Submissions will be considered on any topic related to high performance computing including, but not limited to, the nine topical areas below. 1. Algorithms: The development, evaluation and optimization of scalable, general-purpose, high performance algorithms. Topics include: --------------- - Algorithmic techniques to improve energy and power efficiency - Algorithmic techniques to improve load balance - Data-intensive parallel algorithms - Discrete and combinatorial problems - Fault-tolerant algorithms - Graph algorithms - Statistical and machine learning algorithms - Hybrid/heterogeneous/accelerated algorithms - Network algorithms - Numerical methods, linear and nonlinear systems - Scheduling algorithms - Uncertainty quantification - Other high performance algorithms 2. Applications: The development and enhancement of algorithms, models, software and problem solving environments for domain-specific applications that require high performance resources. Topics include: --------------- - Bioinformatics and computational biology - Computational earth and atmospheric sciences - Computational materials science and engineering - Computational astrophysics/astronomy, chemistry, and physics - Computational fluid dynamics and mechanics - Computation and data enabled social science - Computational design optimization for aerospace, energy, manufacturing and industrial applications - Computational medicine and bioengineering - Use of uncertainty quantification techniques - Statistical and machine learning applications - Other high performance applications 3. Architecture and Networks: All aspects of high performance hardware including the optimization and evaluation of processors and networks. Topics include: --------------- - Innovative hardware/software co-design - Interconnect technologies (e.g., InfiniBand, Myrinet, Ethernet and Routable PCI), switch/router architecture, network topologies, on-chip or optical networks and network fault tolerance - Software defined networks - Memory systems, novel memory architectures, caches - Parallel and scalable system architectures - Power-efficient, resilient, highly-available, stream, vector, embedded and reconfigurable architectures, and emerging technologies - Processor architecture, chip multi-processors, GPUs, custom and reconfigurable logic - Protocols (e.g., TCP, UDP and sockets), quality of service, congestion management and collective communication 4. Clouds and Distributed Computing: All software aspects of clouds and distributed computing that are related to high performance computing systems, including software architecture, configuration, optimization and evaluation. Topics include: --------------- - Compute and storage cloud architectures including many-core computing and accelerators in the cloud. - Innovative methods for using cloud systems for HPC applications - Workflow, data and resource management including dynamic resource provisioning. - Methods, systems and architectures for data stream processing - Parallel programming models and tools at the intersection of cloud and HPC - Support and tuning of MapReduce/Spark and other cloud data ecosystems on HPC - Scheduling, load balancing, resource provisioning, energy efficiency, fault tolerance and reliability - Self-configuration, management, information services and monitoring - Service-oriented architectures and tools for integration of clouds, clusters and distributed computing - Virtualization and containerization for HPC, virtualized high performance I/O network interconnects, parallel and distributed file systems in virtual environments - Cloud security and identity management 5. Data Analytics, Visualization and Storage: All aspects of data analytics, visualization and storage related to high performance computing systems. Topics include: --------------- - Databases and scalable structured storage for HPC - Data mining, analysis and visualization for modeling and simulation - Ensemble analysis and visualization - I/O performance tuning, benchmarking and middleware - Scalable storage, next-generation storage systems and media - Parallel file, storage and archival systems - Provenance, metadata and data management - Reliability and fault tolerance in HPC storage - Scalable storage, metadata and data management - Storage networks - Storage systems for data intensive computing - Data science - Visualization and image processing 6. Performance Measurement, Modeling, and Tools: Novel methods and tools for measuring, evaluating, and/or analyzing performance. “Performance” may be broadly construed to include any number of metrics, such as execution time, energy, power, or potential measures of resilience. Submissions in this area are encouraged to show the applicability and reproducibility of their results by means such as sensitivity analysis, performance modeling, or code snippets. Topics include: --------------- - Analysis, modeling, or simulation methods - Empirical measurement techniques on real-world systems - Scalable tools and instrumentation infrastructure for measurement, monitoring, and/or visualization of performance - Novel, broadly applicable performance optimization techniques - Methodologies, metrics, and formalisms for performance analysis and tools - Performance studies of HPC subsystems, such as processor, network, memory and I/O - Workload characterization and benchmarking techniques 7. Programming Systems: Technologies that support parallel programming for large-scale systems as well as smaller-scale components that will plausibly serve as building blocks for next-generation high performance computing architectures. Topics include: --------------- - Programming language techniques for reducing energy and data movement (e.g., precision allocation, use of approximations, tiling) - Solutions for parallel programming challenges (e.g., interoperability, memory consistency, determinism, race detection, work stealing or load balancing) - Parallel application frameworks - Tools for parallel program development (e.g., debuggers and integrated development environments) - Program analysis, synthesis, and verification to enhance cross-platform portability, maintainability, result reproducibility, resilience (e.g., combined static and dynamic analysis methods, testing, formal methods) - Compiler analysis and optimization; program transformation - Parallel programming languages, libraries, models and notations - Runtime systems as they interact with programming systems 8. State of the Practice: All aspects related to novel but at the same time pragmatic practices of HPC that allow for results that are far superior with respect to time-, energy-, or cost-to-solution. These include infrastructure, services, facilities and large-scale application executions. Submissions that develop best end-to-end practices, optimized designs or benchmarks are of particular interest. Although concrete case studies within a conceptual framework often serve as the basis for accepted papers, how the experience generalizes is particularly encouraged. Topics include: --------------- - Bridging of cloud data centers and supercomputing centers - Comparative system benchmarking over a wide spectrum of workloads - Deployment experiences of large-scale infrastructures and facilities - Facilitation of “big data” associated with supercomputing - Long-term infrastructural management experiences - Pragmatic resource management strategies and experiences - Procurement, technology investment and acquisition best practices - Quantitative results of education, training and dissemination activities - User support experiences with large-scale and novel machines - Infrastructural policy issues, especially international experiences - Software engineering best practices for HPC 9. System Software: Operating system (OS), runtime system and other low-level software research & development that enables allocation and management of hardware resources for high performance computing applications and services. Topics include: --------------- - Alternative and specialized parallel operating systems and runtime systems - Approaches for enabling adaptive and introspective system software - Communication optimization - Distributed shared memory systems - System support for global address spaces - Enhancements for attached and integrated accelerators - Interactions between the OS, runtime, compiler, middleware, and tools - Parallel/networked file system integration with the OS and runtime - Resource management - Runtime and OS management of complex memory hierarchies - System software strategies for controlling energy and temperature - Support for fault tolerance and resilience - Virtualization and virtual machines SCHEDULE AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: ---------------------------------- Submissions open: March 1, 2018 Abstract deadline: March 19, 2018 Submission deadline: March 28, 2018 (NO EXTENSIONS) Reviews sent: May 14, 2018 Resubmissions deadline: May 30, 2018 Notifications sent: June 15, 2018 Major revision deadline: July 13, 2018 Major revision notifications: August 10, 2018 The SC18 proceedings will be published electronically via the ACM and IEEE Digital Libraries. Submitted manuscripts should be formatted using the IEEE Master article template. The maximum length is 10 pages. All papers must be in English. Please visit the SC18 website for further instructions and the submission link. TECHNICAL PAPERS CHAIRS: ---------------- Torsten Hoefler ETH Zurich, Switzerland Todd Gamblin Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory -- ### qreharg rug ebs fv crryF --- http://htor.inf.ethz.ch/ --- Torsten Hoefler | Associate Professor Dept. of Computer Science | ETH Zürich Universitätsstrasse 6 | Zurich-8092, Switzerland CAB F 75 | Phone: +41 44 632 68 79

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ATPESC 2018: Spread the word!
by Garcia Martinez, Marta 05 Mar '18

05 Mar '18

Training the next generation of supercomputer users. View this email in your browser<https://us6.campaign-archive.com/?e=&u=7d7e32ea6092c85ad51b75087&id=efa5612…> [ATPESC2018]<http://extremecomputingtraining.anl.gov/application/?utm_source=Special+Ann…> Apply Now<http://extremecomputingtraining.anl.gov/application/?utm_source=Special+Ann…> Designed to train the next generation of supercomputer users, the Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing (ATPESC) is scheduled for its sixth year in the Chicago area from July 29 - August 10. Deadline extended to March 15. PROGRAM CURRICULUM Renowned scientists, HPC experts, and leaders serve as lecturers and guide hands-on sessions. ATPESC participants will have access to Department of Energy leadership computing resources, which are among the fastest systems in the world dedicated to open science. The core curriculum includes: * Computer architectures and their predicted evolution * Programming methodologies for today’s supercomputers and future exascale systems * Numerical algorithms and mathematical software * Approaches to building community codes for HPC systems * Data analysis, visualization, and methodologies and tools for Big Data applications * Performance measurement and debugging tools ELIGIBILITY AND APPLICATION Doctoral students, postdocs, and computational scientists interested in attending ATPESC can review eligibility and application details on the website<http://extremecomputingtraining.anl.gov/application/?utm_source=Special+Ann…>. There are no fees to participate in ATPESC. Domestic airfare, meals, and lodging are also provided. Application deadline extended: March 15, 2018. Argonne Training Program on Extreme-Scale Computing: extremecomputingtraining.anl.gov<http://extremecomputingtraining.anl.gov/?utm_source=Special+Announcements&u…> ATPESC is supported by DOE’s Office of Science through the Exascale Computing Project<https://www.exascaleproject.org/> a joint effort of the DOE Office of Science’s Advanced Scientific Computing Research Program and the National Nuclear Security Administration. [cid:[email protected]]

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[GECCO CFP] [GECCO 2018] Hot Off the Press Track - Call for papers
by Andrew M. Sutton 05 Mar '18

05 Mar '18

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies] CALL FOR PAPERS Hot Off the Press (HOP) track to be held as part of the 2018 Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO 2018) Kyoto, JAPAN July 15-19, 2018 http://gecco-2018.sigevo.org/ Track URL: http://gecco-2018.sigevo.org/index.html/tiki-index.php?page=Call%20for%20Ho… *** IMPORTANT DATES *** Submission Deadline: 27-Mar-18 Reviews Due: 6-Apr-18 Notification: 10-Apr-18 Camera-Ready: 17-Apr-18 *** DESCRIPTION *** The Hot Off the Press (HOP) track offers authors of recent papers the opportunity to present their work to the GECCO community, both by giving a talk on one of the three main days of the conference and by having a 2-page abstract appear in the Proceedings Companion, in which also the workshop papers, late-breaking abstracts, and tutorials appear. We invite researchers to submit summaries of their own work recently published in top-tier conferences and journals. Contributions are selected based on their scientific quality and their relevance to the GECCO community. Typical contributions include (but are not limited to) evolutionary computation papers appeared at venues different from GECCO, papers comparing different heuristics and optimization methods that appeared at a general heuristics or optimization venue, papers describing applications of evolutionary methods that appeared at venues of this application domain, or papers describing methods with relevance to the GECCO community that appeared at a venue centred around this methods domain. In any case, it is the authors responsibility to make clear why this work is relevant for the GECCO community, and to present the results in a language accessible to the GECCO community. *** ACCEPTANCE CRITERIA *** * The HOP paper must be of significant interest to the GECCO community for whatever reason. * The HOP paper must have appeared in a well-respected journal or conference proceeding. For journal publications, it suffices that the paper is finally accepted and available on the publishers web page. * The HOP paper must not have been published in its final form earlier than 2017. * The core of the paper must not have been presented at a GECCO conference before. *** PUBLICATION *** Submitters to the HOP track have the choice between only giving a talk at the conference or giving both a talk and having their abstract appear in the GECCO Proceedings Companion. The track is equally happy with both formats. Acceptance/rejection of the submission will only be based on the acceptance criteria described above, not on the submission type. *** SUBMISSION *** A submission that aims at becoming a 2-page paper in the GECCO Proceedings Companion must follow relatively strict rules. It must consist of the 2-page paper that shall appear in the proceedings and a compulsory appendix with additional details. The paper part should give a concise description of the main results of the work in a language understood by the GECCO community. Where not obvious from the result, the particular interest to the GECCO audience must be clearly explained. The abstract of the 2-page paper must clearly indicate the original paper it is based on. This part of the paper at the moment of submission must be in the form the authors propose it to appear in the Proceedings Companion. The compulsory appendix (which will be only used for reviewing purposes) may contain any additional information the authors want to give to the reviewers. It must contain a complete description in what way the results have been presented at previous GECCO conferences. It must also contain a direct link to the original paper in PDF format. If the original paper appeared at a venue the reviewers might be unfamiliar with, then an explanation of its reputation is desirable. Any other arguments in favour of the paper should be given as well. The appendix should be brief. Apart from these rules, the same formatting rules apply as for the late-breaking abstracts (http://gecco-2018.sigevo.org/index.html/Call+for+Late-Breaking+Abstracts) If authors of an original paper prefer to only present their result at GECCO without a 2-page paper appearing in the Proceedings Companion, then their submission does not need to follow the above rules. However, still requires are (i) a short summary of the results accessible to reviewers with a typical GECCO background, (ii) an indication why the results are particularly interesting for the GECCO audience, (iii) a declaration to what extent they have been presented at previous GECCOs, (iv) and a link to the paper. Link to the submission site: https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/gecco/ (select category "Hot Off the Press" in the submission form) The submission deadline is Tuesday, March 27, 2018, 23:59 (Anywhere on Earth), and the notification of acceptance is Tuesday, April 10, 2018. *** COPYRIGHT *** Submitters of a 2-page paper have to ensure that there is no copyright conflict with the original submission. We do not expect greater problems here. One the one hand, a HOP paper is an excellent advertisement for the original paper, so it is clearly not in the interest of a publisher to make HOP submissions difficult. On the other hand, a good HOP submission, to optimally address the GECCO audience with 2 pages only, in almost all cases will contain a significant amount of new text. Nevertheless, it remains the authors' duty to take care of the copyright situation. This includes the reproduction of original artwork, for which a consent of the original publisher might be required. Authors retain the copyright of the HOP abstract, so there is no problem from the ACM or GECCO side. *** ACCEPTED PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS *** At least one author of an accepted presentation or paper is required to register for the conference (deadline to be announced) and present the result at the conference. *** MORE INFORMATION *** For more information, contact the Hot Off the Press Chair, Grant Dick: grant.dick(a)otago.ac.nz

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Call for Papers - BDCAT2018
by Zaheer Khan 04 Mar '18

04 Mar '18

Call for Full Papers 5th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2018<http://bdcat-conference.org/>), December 17-20, 2018 – Zurich, Switzerland Website: http://bdcat-conference.org/ Context: The IEEE/ACM International Conference on Big Data Computing, Applications and Technologies (BDCAT)<http://bdcat-conference.org/> is an annual conference series aiming to provide a platform for researchers from both academia and industry to present new discoveries in the broad area of big data computing and applications. The first 4 events were held in London, Cyprus, Shanghai, and Austin. BDCAT 2018 will be held in conjunction with the 11th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2018)<http://ucc-conference.org/category/basics.html> in Zurich, Switzerland. Important Dates: Paper submission due: August 01, 2018 Notification of acceptance: September 01, 2018 (tentative) Camera-ready papers due: October 01, 2018 (tentative) Early + author registration deadline: October 01, 2018 (tentative) Conference: December 17-20, 2018 Topics: Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts on a broad range of topics related to big data science, computing paradigms, platforms and applications. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: I. Big Data Science Big Data Analytics Data Science Models and Approaches Algorithms for Big Data Big Data Search and Information Retrieval Techniques Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery Approaches Machine Learning Techniques for Big Data Big Data Acquisition, Integration, Cleaning, and Best Practices Big Data and Deep Learning II. Big Data Infrastructures and Platforms Scalable Computing Models, Theories, and Algorithms In-Memory Systems and Platforms for Big Data Analytics Big Data and High Performance Computing Cyber-Infrastructure for Big Data Performance Evaluation Reports for Big Data Systems Storage Systems (including file systems, NoSQL, and RDBMS) Resource Management Approaches for Big Data Systems Many-Core Computing and Accelerators III. Big Data Applications Big Data Applications for Internet of Things Mobile Applications of Big Data Big Data Applications for Smart City Healthcare Applications such as Genome Processing and Analytics Scientific Application Case Studies on Cloud Infrastructure Big Data in Social Networks Data Streaming Applications IV. Big Data Trends and Challenges Fault Tolerance and Reliability Scalability of Big Data Systems Energy-Efficient Algorithms Big Data Privacy and Security Big Data Archival and Preservation V. Visualization of Big Data Visual Analytics Algorithms and Foundations Graph and Context Models for Visualization Analytics Reasoning and Sense-making on Big Data Visual Representation and Interaction Big Data Transformation, and Presentation Submission: Manuscripts shall be formatted in IEEE conference style and may not exceed ten pages. In detail, authors are invited to submit papers electronically. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed 10 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE templates - https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht…. Papers should be prepared in two-column single-spaced format. Authors should submit the manuscript in PDF format and make sure that the file will print on a printer that uses letter size (8.5 x 11) paper. The official language of the meeting is English. 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. Papers conforming to the above guidelines can be submitted through the BDCAT 2018 paper submission system (URL to be provided in March 2018). 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. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the conference TPC Chairs for more information. Awards: A selection commission chaired by the BDCAT 2018 TPC chairs will select and acknowledge the best paper and best student paper to receive an award during the conference. Authors of highly rated papers from BDCAT 2018 will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of a prestigious journal in the area of big data which is currently being defined. BDCAT 2018 Technical Programme Committee: The international programme committee for BDCAT is listed on the committees page<http://bdcat-conference.org/bdcat-committees.html> .

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Call for Papers - Journal Special Issue JPDC on Advanced Interconnection Network Architectures for Supercomputers and Data-Centers (HiPINEB 2018)
by Jesús Escudero Sahuquillo 04 Mar '18

04 Mar '18

[Apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP] ======================================================================== Special Issue on Advanced Interconnection Network Architectures for Supercomputers and Data-Centers (HiPINEB 2018) Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing http://hipineb.i3a.info/hipineb2018/special-issue/ ======================================================================== GUEST EDITORS * Pedro Javier Garcia, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain * Jesus Escudero-Sahuquillo, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain SCOPE 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 enormous 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 technologies 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 for improving the interconnection network performance, such as topology, routing algorithm, power consumption, reliability and fault tolerance, congestion control, programming models, control software, etc. In this Special Issue we will gather high-quality papers from both the community and those presented in the workshop HiPINEB 2018. The topics covered in this Special Issue are related with the above design aspects, and also we look for research papers in emerging ideas and technologies for high-speed and low-latency interconnect architectures, communication protocols, traffic characterization and simulation tools. Best papers among those selected for HiPINEB 2018 will be invited to submit a paper to a Journal Special Issue on the Elsevier's Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) with impact factor: 1.930 (JCR 2016). In addition, we also encourage to submit a paper to this special issue to all researchers and professionals, both from industry and academia, working in the area of interconnection networks for scalable HPC systems and Datacenters, and especially those involved in Exascale performance and Big-Data. TOPICS OF INTEREST The list of topics covered by this Special Issue 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. * Emerging ideas, work-in-progress and early, high-impact achievements. * Good practices in the configuration of the network control software. * Network communication protocols: MPI, RDMA, Hadoop, 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. 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. IMPORTANT DATES * First submission date: March 1, 2018 * Submission Deadline: May 30, 2018 * Acceptance deadline: December 30, 2018 * Estimated publication date: April 1, 2019 (tentative) INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS This is an open call for contributions, but also invites extended selected papers from the 4rd IEEE Workshop on High-Performance Interconnection Networks in the Exascale and Big-Data Era (HiPINEB 2018). * Extended versions of conference papers must contain at least 50% new content. * To submit a paper you must go to this website: https://ees.elsevier.com/jpdc and login with your credentials. In the "Choose Article Type" Box, you must choose the option "VSI: AINA" * Each manuscript should be accompanied by a cover letter outlining the basic findings of the paper and their significance. * Manuscripts should be no longer than 35 double-spaced pages, not including the title page, abstract, or references. Number all pages consecutively and organize the paper as follows: - Title page (page 1). This page should contain the article title, authors' names and complete affiliations, footnotes to the title, and the address for manuscript correspondence (including e-mail address and telephone and fax numbers). - Abstract (page 2). The abstract must be a single paragraph that summarizes the main findings of the paper in less than 150 words. - After the abstract a list of up to 10 keywords that will be useful for indexing or searching should be included. 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SPLASH 2018: 2nd Combined Call for Contributions
by SPLASH Publicity 02 Mar '18

02 Mar '18

ACM SIGPLAN SPLASH 2018 November 4-9, 2018 Boston, MA, USA http://2018.splashcon.org The ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Systems, Programming, Languages and Applications: Software for Humanity (SPLASH) embraces all aspects of software construction, to make it the premier conference at the intersection of programming, languages, and software engineering. We invite high quality submissions describing original and unpublished work. Combined Call for Contributions: * SPLASH Workshops * PACMPL Issue OOPSLA * Onward! Papers * Onward! Essays * Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) * Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) * Software Language Engineering (SLE) * SPLASH-E * Posters * Doctoral Symposium * Student Research Competition * Student Volunteers ## SPLASH Workshops Following its long-standing tradition, SPLASH 2018 will host a variety of high quality workshops, allowing their participants to meet and discuss research questions with peers, to mature new and exciting ideas, and to build up communities and start new collaborations. SPLASH workshops complement the main tracks of the conference and provide meetings in a smaller and more specialized setting. Workshops cultivate new ideas and concepts for the future, optionally recorded in formal proceedings. Submissions are currently being accepted on “a rolling basis” with 6 out of 15 available slots already filled by the middle of January. The rolling call will close on Sat March 3, 2018. http://2018.splashcon.org/track/splash-2018-Workshops ## PACMPL Issue OOPSLA Papers may target any stage of software development, including requirements, modeling, prototyping, design, implementation, generation, analysis, verification, testing, evaluation, maintenance, and reuse of software systems. Contributions may include the development of new tools (such as language front-ends, program analyses, and runtime systems), new techniques (such as methodologies, design processes, and code organization approaches), new principles (such as formalisms, proofs, models, and paradigms), and new evaluations (such as experiments, corpora analyses, user studies, and surveys). Submissions due: Mon, April 16, 2018 http://2018.splashcon.org/track/splash-2018-OOPSLA ## Onward! Papers Onward! is a premier multidisciplinary conference focused on everything to do with programming and software: including processes, methods, languages, communities, and applications. Onward! is more radical, more visionary, and more open than other conferences to ideas that are well-argued but not yet proven. We welcome different ways of thinking about, approaching, and reporting on programming language and software engineering research. Submissions due: Mon, April 23, 2018 https://2018.onward-conference.org/track/onward-2018-papers ## Onward! Essays Onward! Essays is looking for clear and compelling pieces of writing about topics important to the software community. An essay can be long or short. An essay can be an exploration of the topic and its impact, or a story about the circumstances of its creation; it can present a personal view of what is, explore a terrain, or lead the reader in an act of discovery; it can be a philosophical digression or a deep analysis. It can describe a personal journey, perhaps the one the author took to reach an understanding of the topic. The subject area—software, programming, and programming languages—should be interpreted broadly and can include the relationship of software to human endeavors, or its philosophical, sociological, psychological, historical, or anthropological underpinnings. Submissions due: Mon, April 23, 2018 https://2018.onward-conference.org/track/onward-2018-Onward-Essays ## Dynamic Languages Symposium (DLS) >From Lisp, Snobol, and Smalltalk to Python, Racket, and Javascript, Dynamic Languages have been playing a fundamental role both in programming research and practice. DLS is the premier forum for researchers and practitioners to share research and experience on all aspects of Dynamic Languages. DLS invites high quality papers reporting original research and experience related to the design, implementation, and applications of dynamic languages. Submissions due: Sun, July 1, 2018 http://www.dynamic-languages-symposium.org/dls-18/index.html ## Generative Programming: Concepts & Experiences (GPCE) The International Conference on Generative Programming: Concepts & Experience (GPCE) is a venue for researchers and practitioners interested in techniques and tools for code generation, language implementation, and metaprogramming. GPCE seeks conceptual, theoretical, empirical, and technical contributions to its topics of interest, which include but are not limited to (i) program transformation, staging, macro systems, preprocessors, program synthesis, and code-recommendation systems, (ii) domain-specific languages, language embedding, language design, and language workbenches, (iii) feature-oriented programming, domain engineering, and feature interactions, (iv) applications and properties of code generation, language implementation, and product-line development. Abstracts due: Fri, June 29, 2018 Submissions due: Fri, July 6, 2018 http://2018.splashcon.org/track/gpce-2018 ## Software Language Engineering (SLE) Software Language Engineering (SLE) is the discipline of engineering languages and their tools required for the creation of software. It abstracts from the differences between programming languages, modelling languages, and other software languages, and emphasizes the engineering facet of the creation of such languages, that is, the establishment of the scientific methods and practices that enable the best results. SLE 2018 solicits high quality contributions in areas ranging from theoretical and conceptual contributions, to tools, techniques, and frameworks in the domain of software language engineering. Abstracts due: Fri, June 29, 2018 Submissions due: Fri, July 6, 2018 http://2018.splashcon.org/track/sle-2018/papers ## Posters The SPLASH Poster track provides an excellent forum for authors to present their recent or ongoing projects in an interactive setting, and receive feedback from the community. We invite submissions covering any aspect of programming, systems, languages and applications. The goal of the poster session is to encourage and facilitate small groups of individuals interested in a technical area to gather and interact at any desired level of detail. To further facilitate, we will also host 15-minute demo sessions for interested presenters. The poster session and demo presentations are held early in the conference to promote continued discussion among interested parties. Submissions due: Sat, September 22, 2018 http://2018.splashcon.org/track/splash-2018-Posters ## Doctoral Symposium The SPLASH Doctoral Symposium provides students with useful guidance for completing their dissertation research and beginning their research careers. The symposium will provide an interactive forum for doctoral students who have progressed far enough in their research to have a structured proposal, but will not be defending their dissertation in the next 12 months. Submissions due: Fri, July 20, 2018 http://2018.splashcon.org/track/splash-2018-Doctoral-Symposium ## Student Research Competition The ACM Student Research Competition (SRC), sponsored by Microsoft Research, offers a unique forum for ACM student members at the undergraduate and graduate levels to present their original research at SPLASH before a panel of judges and conference attendees. The SRC gives visibility to not only up-and-coming young researchers, but also exposes them to the field of computer science research and its community. This competition also gives students an opportunity to discuss their research with experts in their field, get feedback, and to help them sharpen their communication and networking skills. Submissions due: Fri, July 27, 2018 https://2018.splashcon.org/track/splash-2018-Student-Research-Competition ## Student Volunteers The SPLASH Student Volunteers program provides an opportunity for students from around the world to associate with some of the leading personalities in industry and research in the following areas: programming languages, object-oriented technology and software development. Student volunteers contribute to the smooth running of the conference by performing tasks such as: assisting with registration, providing information about the conference to attendees, assisting session organizers and monitoring sessions. Detailed information on how to apply will be available on the main conference page in March 2018. Estimated deadline for the SV applications will be towards the end of September 2018. https://2018.splashcon.org/track/splash-2018-Student-Volunteers ## Information Contact: publicity(a)splashcon.org Website: http://2018.splashcon.org Location: Boston Park Plaza Hotel Boston, MA USA ## Organization SPLASH General Chair: * Jan Vitek (Northeastern University) OOPSLA Program Chair: * Manu Sridharan (Uber) Onward! Papers Chair: * Elisa Gonzalez Boix (Vrije Universiteit Brussel) Onward! Essays Chair: * Richard P. Gabriel (Dream Songs, Inc & HPI) DLS Program Chair: * Tim Felgentreff (Oracle Labs, Potsdam) GPCE General Chair: * Eric Van Wyk (University of Minnesota) GPCE Program Chair: * Tiark Rompf (Purdue University) SLE General Chair: * David Pearce (Victoria University of Wellington) SLE Program Co-Chairs: * Tanja Mayerhofer (TU Wien) * Friedrich Steimann (Fernuniversität) SPLASH-I Co-Chairs: * Karim Ali (University of Alberta) * Michael Carbin (MIT) Workshops Co-Chairs: * Arjun Guha (University of Massachusetts Amherst) * Alex Potanin (Victoria University of Wellington) OOPLSA Artifact Evaluation Co-Chairs: * Sam Tobin-Hochstadt (Indiana University) * Jan Vitek (Northeastern University) Posters Co-Chairs: * Paley Li (Czech Technical University in Prague) * Konrad Siek (Czech Technical University in Prague) Doctoral Symposium Chair: * Philipp Haller (KTH Royal Institute of Technology) Student Research Competition Co-Chairs: * Shan Shan Huang (LogicBlox) * Jay McCarthy (University of Massachusetts Lowell) Student Volunteers Co-Chairs: * Juliana Franco (Imperial College London) * Petr Maj (ReactorLabs) Publications Chair: * Tijs van der Storm (CWI & University of Groningen) * Fabio Niephaus (Hasso Plattner Institute, University of Potsdam) Publicity Co-Chairs: * Jonathan Bell (George Mason University) * Celeste Hollenbeck (Northeastern University) Housing Chair: * Ben Greenman (Northeastern University) Diversity Chair: * Etiene Dalcol (Red Badger) Accessibility Chair: * Justin Slepak (Northeastern University) Sponsorships Co-Chairs: * Tocker Taft (AdaCore) * Heather Miller (Northeastern University) Video Co-Chairs: * Benjamin Chung (Northeastern University) * Leif Andersen (Northeastern University) Web Co-Chairs: * Aviral Goel (Northeastern University) * Filip Krikava (Czech Technical University)

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DEADLINE EXTENDED: ISC 2018 CALL FOR RESEARCH POSTERS OPEN
by Sunita Chandrasekaran 02 Mar '18

02 Mar '18

ISC 2018 CALL FOR RESEARCH POSTERS http://www.isc-hpc.com/research-posters-2018.html Frankfurt, Germany The ISC research poster session is an excellent opportunity to present your latest research results, projects and innovations to a global audience including your HPC peers. Poster authors will give short presentations on their posters on Tuesday, June 26, and will also have the opportunity to informally present them to the attendees during lunch and coffee breaks. The accepted research posters will be displayed from Tuesday, June 26 through Wednesday, June 27, 2018. The ISC organizers will sponsor the call for research posters with awards for outstanding research posters: the ISC Research Poster Awards. Attendance will require a Conference Pass. *IMPORTANT DATES*NEW* Submission Deadline Friday, March 16, 2018, 11:59 pm AoE* Notification of Acceptance Friday, April 6, 2018 Final Presentation Slides due Monday, June 11, 2018 Research Posters Presentations & Reception Tuesday, June 26, 2018 Research Posters on Display Tuesday, June 26 – Wednesday, June 27, 2018 Please check the website for more submission details: http://www.isc-hpc.com/research-posters-2018.html *RESEARCH POSTER COMMITTEE:* • Matthias S. Mueller, RWTH Aachen University, Germany (Research Posters Chair) • Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA (Research Posters Deputy Chair) • James H. Cownie, Intel, UK • Saber Feki, KAUST , Saudi Arabia • Andy Herdman, AWE, UK • Guido Juckeland, HZDR, Germany • Andreas Knuepfer, Technical University Dresden, Germany • Julian Kunkel, Deutsches Klimarechenzentrum, Germany • John Leidel, Tech University, USA • Naoya Maruyama, LLNL , USA • Simon McIntosh-Smith, University of Bristol, UK • Hitoshi Murai, Riken, Japan • Sameer Shende, University of Oregon, USA • Dirk Schmidl, RWTH Aachen University, Germany • Emmanuelle Saillard, Inria Grenoble Université de Bordeaux, France • Richard Vuduc, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA • Felix Wolf, Technical University Darmstadt, Germany

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CFP: 4th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (DSS-2018), 28-30 June 2018
by Zhengxin Yu 02 Mar '18

02 Mar '18

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ******************************* IEEE DSS-2018 CFP ***************************** *The 4th IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (DSS-2018) * http://cse.stfx.ca/~dss2018/ *Exeter, England, UK, 28-30 June 2018 * *Sponsored by* IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee of Scalable Computing (TCSC). *** The paper submission deadline is extended to 23 March 2018 (firm deadline) *** INTRODUCTION ============= As an interdisciplinary area, Data Science draws scientific inquiry from a broad range of subject areas such as statistics, mathematics, computer science, machine learning, optimization, signal processing, information retrieval, databases, cloud computing, computer vision, natural language processing, etc. Data Science is on the essence of deriving valuable insights from data. Data Systems are posing many challenges in exploiting parallelism of current and upcoming computer architectures. Data volumes of applications in the fields of sciences and engineering, finance, media, online information resources, etc. are expected to double every two years over the next decade and further. With this continuing data explosion, it is necessary to store and process data efficiently by utilizing enormous computing power. DSS (Data Science and Systems) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Data Science and Data Systems as well as their synergy. DSS-2018 will be hosted in Exeter, the capital city of Devon and provides the county with a central base for education, medicine, religion, commerce and culture. The city is also home to the magnificent Exeter Cathedral, which dates back to Norman times. Exeter is also ideally placed to base a trip to branch out visiting places such as the famous Dartmoor National Park and the unspoilt beaches of the North and South Devon coastlines. Prospective authors are invited to submit their papers to DSS-2018. All accepted papers are expected to be included in IEEE Xplore and will be indexed by Engineering Index (EI). The authors of selected best papers will be invited post conference to extend their contributions for special issues of prestigious journals to be planned in conjunction with the conference. SCOPE AND TOPICS ================ Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Track 1: Data Science Track 2: Data Processing Technology Track 3: Data Systems Track 4: Data Applications IMPORTANT DATES ================ · Paper Submission Deadline: 23 March 2018 · Authors Notification: 22 April 2018 · Camera-Ready Paper Due: 22 May 2018 · Early Registration Due: 22 May 2018 · Conference Date: 28-30 June 2018 PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINE ========================== All papers need to be submitted electronically through the conference submission website ( http://dss.ex.ac.uk/ ) with PDF format. The materials presented in the papers should not be published or under submission elsewhere. Each paper is limited to 8 pages (or 10 pages with over length charge) including figures and references using IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style (two columns, single-spaced, 10 fonts). You can confirm the IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Author Guidelines at the following web page: http://www.computer.org/web/cs-cps/ Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings can be found at: https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht… Once accepted, the paper will be included into the IEEE conference proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society Press (indexed by EI). At least one of the authors of any accepted paper is requested to register the paper at the conference. JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUES ====================== Distinguished papers selected from the conferences and associated workshops, after further extensions, will be recommended for submission and publication in the following prestigious journals or their Special Issues: - IEEE Transactions on Sustainable Computing (IEEE Computer Society) - Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley) - Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer) - Expert Systems Journal (Wiley) - Cognitive Computation journal (Springer) - Big Data Analytics (BioMed Central/Springer)

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[UPDATE] The 11th P2S2 CFP w/ PARCO Special Issue - Submission deadline: April 2nd, 2018 (to be held in conjunction with ICPP 2018 in Eugene, Oregon)
by Sarunya Pumma 01 Mar '18

01 Mar '18

===================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Eleventh International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-End Computing (P2S2), 2018 to be held in conjunction with ICPP 2018: The 47th International Conference on Parallel Processing Join us in Eugene, Oregon on August 13th, 2018! ===================================================================== In the past decade, high-end computing (HEC) architectures have become an important tool in all aspects of scientific discovery. Having ushered in an era where HEC-enabled simulation is considered a third pillar of science along with theory and experiment, HEC architectures have quickly become a credible direction of focussed and long-term research. Rapid advances are taking place in different aspects of HEC architectures in an effort to improve performance. Recently, multi- and many-core systems (Intel, AMD), alternative architectures and accelerators (GPGPUs, Cell), high-speed network architectures (InfiniBand, Myrinet, iWARP), and integrated computing platforms (Blue Gene, Cray) have been introduced along this effort. These advances in the fundamental architecture of HEC architectures mean little, however, without appropriate software components that enable high-performance applications to take advantage of these architectures. System software plays a crucial role in exposing the raw performance of the underlying hardware in an efficient manner. Equally important are innovative, high-performance Parallel Programming models that enable scientists to express parallel algorithms so that they can execute efficiently on HEC architectures. === Scope === The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in parallel programming models and systems software for high-end computing architectures. Please join us in a discussion of new ideas, experiences, and the latest trends in these areas at the workshop. === Topics of Interest === The focus areas for this workshop include, but are not limited to: - Systems software for high-end scientific and enterprise computing architectures - Communication sub-subsystems for high-end computing - High-performance File and storage systems - Fault-tolerance techniques and implementations - Efficient and high-performance virtualization and other management mechanisms for high-end computing - Programming models and their high-performance implementations - MPI, Sockets, OpenMP, Global Arrays, X10, UPC, CAF, Chapel, and others - Hybrid Programming Models - Tools for Management, Maintenance, Coordination and Synchronization - Software for Enterprise Data-centers using Modern Architectures - Job scheduling libraries - Management libraries for large-scale system - Toolkits for process and task coordination on modern platforms - Performance evaluation, analysis and modeling of emerging computing platforms === Journal Special Issue === The P2S2-2018 workshop papers will be invited to extend the manuscripts to be considered for a Special Issue on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software of the Elsevier International Journal of Parallel Computing (PARCO), edited by Min Si, Abhinav Vishnu, and Yong Chen. This special issue is dedicated for the papers accepted in the P2S2 workshop. The submission to this special issue is by invitation only. === Important Dates === Paper Submission: April 2nd, 2018 (Monday), Anywhere on Earth Author Notification: May 21st, 2018 (Monday) Camera-Ready Copy: May 31st, 2018 Workshop Dates: August 13th, 2018 === Website === Please visit the workshop website for more information: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2/2018/

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