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Call for Papers - MECC 2018
by MECC 2018 Publicity Chair 10 Sep '18

10 Sep '18

*Call for Papers* *3rd Workshop on Middleware for Edge Clouds & Cloudlets (MECC 2018) * held in conjunction with *ACM/IFIP/USENIX ACM International Middleware Conference * *Rennes, France, 10-14 December, 2018 * http://mecc2018.dcc.fc.up.pt/ <http://mecc2018.dcc.fc.up.pt/> *IMPORTANT DATES (23:59 GMT/UTC-12) * *September 15, 2018 - Paper submission* *October 1, 2018 - Notification of Acceptance* October 15, 2018 - Final version (Camera ready) The Middleware for Edge Clouds & Cloudlets (MECC) workshop aims to address the increasing need for closer integration between the different tiers on modern cloud computing platforms. There is a growing trend of interactive and resource-intensive (e.g., compute, storage, need for big data) applications on mobile devices today, and currently many such applications are provided using resources on infrastructural clouds. However, it is challenging to provide such applications using cloud resources when there is limited connectivity. Harvesting the resources present on nearby mobile devices and/or cloudlets is a viable solution to this problem. Today, there is also increasing demand for middleware that offers higher level abstractions without hampering expressiveness and performance. However, many distributed systems today are designed for the datacenter, and their assumptions, such as that nodes use fast wired interconnects, no longer hold in edge environments. In particular, edge clouds, such as those made up of only mobile devices at the edge, use unreliable wireless links. These unreliable links directly translate into unavailability and churn. Simultaneously, since mobile devices have limited energy resources, heavyweight distributed algorithms, such as coordination using a leader-based consensus protocol, are impractical. As an effort to offload computation from mobile devices, cloudlets were originally envisioned as server-class hardware deployed in a neighborhood, office building or more generally, in close physical proximity to any scenario with a high density of users, such as at large public events. It is now transitioning to a more lightweight approach where the offloading is done through multiple techniques besides the use of virtual machines, as originally proposed, and where cloudlets can also offer connectivity support to crowd-sourced mobile devices, i.e., edge clouds. With this new trend in sight, there is a need to define the services that should be offered at each tier. For example, cloudlets can provide well-defined APIs to support multiple computation offloading methods. Furthermore, new modular and reconfigurable architectures have to be proposed in order to support a variety of deployment scenarios, such as edge clouds without cloudlet support, and scenarios with very limited access to infrastructural clouds. *Topics of interest include but are not limited to:* - Design and performance of middleware platforms for edge clouds and cloudlets - Mechanisms for the integration of edge clouds with cloudlets - Security mechanisms for edge clouds including, including but not limited to, storage and computation - Context-aware services by cloudlets - Connectivity-as-a-service provided by cloudlets - Novel theoretical approaches for churn tolerance - Lightweight replication and fault-tolerance algorithms - Distributed coordination and cooperation for edge clouds - Lightweight computation sandboxing for edge clouds - Novel storage systems for edge clouds, with special focus on geo-aware storage engines - Tools for testing and benchmarking MECC - Experimental deployments - Novel applications for MECC - Networking coding approaches for MECC - P2P overlays and systems for edge clouds - Gossip based protocols for edge clouds - Computational frameworks for MECC - Programming models and abstractions to manage edge to infrastructure cloud interactions - Middleware platforms for cloud-of-clouds - Privacy enforcing algorithms for leveraging MECC - Trust for edge clouds and/or cloudlets - Interoperability between mobile OSes - Sensor fusion for MECC - Infrastructure cloud based services for supporting MECC *WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS* Rolando Martins (University of Porto, Portugal) Hervé Paulino (University Nova of Lisbon, Portugal) Luis Veiga (Technical University of Lisbon, Portugal) Contacts: rmartins(a)dcc.fc.up.pt herve.paulino(a)fct.unl.pt luis.veiga(a)inesc-id.pt *PROGRAM COMMITTEE* Paulo Ferreira (INESC-ID, Portugal) Fernando Pedone(University of Lugano, Switzerland) Padmanabhan Pillai (Intel/Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Felix Freitag (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain) Ruediger Kapitza (TU Braunschweig, Germany) Diego Kreutz (University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg) Luís Antunes (University of Porto, Portugal) Alysson Bessani (University of Lisbon, Portugal) João Lourenço (University Nova of Lisbon, Portugal) Evangelia Kalyvianaki (University of Cambridge, UK) Utsav Drolia (NEC Labs America, USA) Odorico Mendizabal (Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Brazil) Ketan Bhardwaj (Georgia Tech, USA) Amir M. Rahmani (UC Irvine, USA and TU Wien, Austria) Heverson B. Ribeiro (Cloud Computing Lab/IRT b-com, France) Jonathan Francis (Carnegie Mellon University, Bosh Research Pittsburgh, USA) Eddy Truyen (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium) Wolfgang Richter (Soroco, USA) Jat Singh (University of Cambridge, UK) Nuno Preguiça (University Nova of Lisbon, Portugal) Mennan Selimi (University of Cambridge, UK) *PUBLICITY CHAIRS* Patrícia Sousa (University of Porto, Portugal) João Resende (University of Porto, Portugal) *SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION* MECC 2018 will receive proposals for communication in the form of full research papers of at most 6 pages, and short research papers of at most 3 pages, including references. Short papers should either describe work-in-progress, or should describe visions of challenges, problems, and potential research directions in MECC. Content should be work that is not previously published or concurrently submitted elsewhere. All submissions should be in PDF and must follow the ACM template. Submissions must have authors’ information, text, figures, references and appendices (if applicable). Submissions that do not respect the formatting requirement may be rejected without review. Reviewing is single-blind. This means that the names and affiliations of the authors must appear in the submitted papers. Each paper will receive at least three reviews from members of the program committee. *Submissions should be done through HotCRP at the following URL: https://mecc18.hotcrp.com <https://mecc18.hotcrp.com/> * Accepted papers will appear in companion proceedings to the *Middleware 2018 proceedings*, which will be available in the *ACM Digital Library* before the workshop.

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[ICIN 2019] Call For Papers: 22nd Conference on Innovation in Clouds, Internet and Networks
by Huang Kai 09 Sep '18

09 Sep '18

(Apologies if you received duplicate copies of this CFP) ********************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS - ICIN 2019 22nd Innovations in Cloud, Internet and Networks February 19 - 21, 2019 Paris, France www.icin-conference.org/<http://www.icin-conference.org/> Technically co-sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Communications Society All accepted and presented papers will be submitted for publication in IEEE Xplore Digital Library ********************************************************************************* ******** Paper Submission Due: September 23, 2018****** The ICIN conference, established in 1989 and praised for the richness of its social networking, is also recognized for its continuous adaptation to emerging technical trends. 2019 will be the year of first large-scale 5G trials world-wide, targeting early network introduction, preliminary experimentation of network intelligence and orchestration solutions, and moving towards commercial large scale introduction in the 2020 horizon. At ICIN 2019, the driving theme is "Network AI and Zero-Touch Communication Systems": we focus on the challenges related to the integration of analytics and orchestration solutions, enablers and methods, into automatic and autonomic service delivery and network management and operations. The conference will foster presentation of novel approaches and technical solutions, as well as experimental validation and proof of concepts. Submissions should be original, unpublished work, not currently under review by other conferences or journals. Papers submitted to ICIN 2019 will be assessed based on originality, technical soundness, clarity and interest to a wide audience. Only PDF files will be accepted for the review process and all submissions must be done electronically through EDAS: http://edas.info/N24828 All submissions must be written in English and must use standard IEEE two-column conference template. Papers can be of two types: Full papers or Short papers, up to 8 pages and 5 pages respectively, including tables, figures and references. Demo and poster papers of length of 3 pages are also solicited. At least one author is required to register, at the full rate, to present accepted papers at the conference and for the paper to appear in the proceedings and the IEEE digital library. Areas of interest include, but are not limited to: * Enablers and use cases for 5G 'zero-touch' service delivery * Network Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning and Reasoning * Network Data Analytics, Anomaly Detection, Feature Extraction * Network automation and orchestration architectures and protocols * Societal and Legal Aspects of Network Automation * Autonomic, Cognitive and Intent-based Networking and Management * 5G Network Architecture, Services and Protocols * 5G Control and Management Architecture * 5G Functional Decomposition and Composition * Advanced 5G Infrastructure Slicing and Radio Slicing * Scalability and multi-tenancy in 5G Networks and 5G network slicing * Network Programmability and Softwarization architectures and systems * Protocols for Ultra-Low Latency and Ultra-High Reliability * Fog, Edge and Multi-Access Computing, IoT and Vertical Industries * Software Defined Networking and High Availability * Network Function Virtualization (NFV) and Orchestration * Service Function Chaining, Function Placement and Network Embedding * Big data and Fast Data Processing and Management * CDN Architectures and Network Cache Allocation Schemes * Advanced multimedia and real-time communications, QoS/QoE design * Performance, Optimization and Resource Dimensioning * Security, Trust and Privacy * Use of Blockchains in 5G Networking and Servicing * Measurement, Monitoring and Telemetry * Testbeds, Open source efforts and open standards Important dates * Paper Submission Due: September 23, 2018 * Paper Review Feedback: November 30, 2018 * Final Papers Due: January 10, 2019 * Conference: February 19-21, 2019 General Chairs --------------------------- Alex Galis (UCL, UK) Fabrice Guillemin (Orange, France) Technical Program Committee Chairs --------------------------- Rogier Noldus (Ericsson, Netherlands) Stefano Secci (Sorbonne Université, France) International Steering Committee Chair --------------------------- Noel Crespi, IMT, France Technical Sponsors IEEE, IEEE Communications Society We are looking forward to your submission at ICIN 2019

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2nd CFP: Fourth Workshop on Open Source Supercomputing at SC 2018 (OpenSuCo-4)
by John Leidel 09 Sep '18

09 Sep '18

================================================================ Fourth Workshop on Open Source Supercomputing (OpenSuCo-4) Dallas, Texas, USA Held in conjunction with Supercomputing 2018 CALL FOR PAPERS & LIGHTNING DEMOS http://www.opensuco.community ================================================================ Increased specialization is an effective way for HPC to continue performance scaling at the end of MOSFET scaling. To decrease design cost - in both money and time, rapid hardware prototyping methods combined with flexible software stacks and programming models must be explored. Open source solutions may provide the best opportunities for specialization and the OpenSuCo Workshop seeks to encapsulate a wealth of effort in design, prototyping and cross-functional collaboration of open source hardware, software and scientific computing projects in a singular point of technical discussion and exchange. As the limits of MOSFET/Dennard scaling grow ever closer, the high performance/technical computing community continually seeks new methods by which to continue scaling system performance and, potentially, system efficiency. The goal of this workshop is to engage the HPC community and explore open source solutions for constructing and operating an HPC system - from silicon to applications. Important Dates ============================= Submission Deadline: 2018, Sept 30, 23:59 AOE Conference-Ready Deadline: 2018, October 26 Camera-Ready Deadline: 2018, Nov 2 Topics of Interest ============================= We invite the community to submit both papers and proposals for "lightning demos." The demo session will provide attendees the opportunity to give short (5-min) demos of software or hardware technology that could forward the construction of open source HPC systems. The lightning demo sessions may be extended time permitting. We solicit papers & demos according to (but not limited to) four technical tracks as follows: - Hardware -- ISA & processors -- System and network interconnects -- Simulation & emulation -- Early hardware evaluations - Software -- System software & OS -- Programming models, tools & tool chains -- Numerical solvers -- Application infrastructures - Collaboration -- Co-design projects and methods -- Cross-disciplinary projects -- International collaborations - Lightning Demo -- Prototype hardware (FPGA or ASIC) demonstrations -- Application demonstrations -- Live benchmarking or performance analysis demos Conference Website ============================= More information regarding the program committee and general scope of the workshop can be found below: http://www.opensuco.community Submission Process ============================= Papers must be formatted according to the SC18 style guidelines. This requires adherence to the standard IEEE conference format. Submissions can be made via the SC18 Linklings submission page (select the SC18 OpenSuCo Workshop) Paper Formatting: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Submission Link: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/

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BIO-HPC IJHPCA Journal Special Issue
by José María Cecilia Canales 08 Sep '18

08 Sep '18

==================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS Journal Special Issue of the International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications (IJHPCA) on Novel High Performance Computing algorithms and platforms in Bioinformatics (BIO-HPC) ==================================================== ABOUT THE JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE This special issue of the International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications (IJHPCA) calls for submissions on novel high performance computing algorithms and platforms in Bioinformatics. While this special issue is thematically connected to the workshops series on Bioinformatics and High Performance Computing (BIO-HPC), this call is open for all contributions. The integration of the latest breakthroughs in biochemistry and biotechnology from one side and high performance computing and computational modelling from the other, enables remarkable advances in the fields of healthcare, drug discovery, genome research, systems biology and so on. By integrating all these developments together, scientists are creating new exciting personal therapeutic strategies for living longer and having healthier lifestyles that were unfeasible not that long ago. Those efforts have created new research fields such as Bioinformatics, Computational Biology or Computational Chemistry that work into many different research areas, such as life sciences, where there are many examples of scientific applications for discovering biological and medical unknown factors that could greatly benefit from increased computational resources. However, we are witnessing a steady transition to heterogeneous architectures, where traditional CPUs and accelerators like Graphics Processing Units (GPUs), Intel MIC/Xeon Phi or FPGAs, are combined together to maintain the traditional increment in performance over the years. The underlying computational model of such architectures relies on massive vectorization to reduce the Energy per Instruction (EPI). Traditional algorithms are often tailored to sequential or modestly parallel based architectures that may not fit within this landscape of computation. However, novel algorithms that are inspired by nature procedures such as metaheuristics, artificial neural networks, just to mention a few, are gaining special interest in the community as they are massively parallel by its definition. This special issue proposal is looking for original research works to explore the intersection between both algorithm design and hardware platforms to deal with the emergent challenges of the next century in the field of Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Computational Chemistry. In this regard, one of the main objectives of this special issue proposal is discussing about the main trends in parallel processing, algorithm definition and problem-domain requirements altogether, which may anticipate future solutions to be translated into real benefits to the society. This is an open call for contributions, but also invites (extended) selected papers from the BIO-HPC’18, collocated with the ICPP conference. Extended versions of conference papers must contain at least 50% of new content. TOPICS OF INTEREST The aim of the proposed Special Issue of IJHPCA is to promote research for disruptive proposals presented from a holistic perspective that really make a step forward in the fields of Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Computational Chemistry. In particular, contributions are solicited on, but are not limited to, the following topics: - Programming Models and Systems for Multicore, Manycore, and Clusters of Multicore/Manycore. - Parallel Stochastic Simulation. - Biological and Numerical Parallel Computing. - Parallel and Distributed Architectures. - Emerging Processing Architectures (e.g. GPUs, Intel Xeon Phi, FPGAs, mixed CPU-GPU or CPU-FPGA, etc). - Parallel Model Checking Techniques. - Parallel Algorithms for Biological Analysis. - Cluster and Grid Deployment for System Biology. - Soft Computing Algorithms in Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Computational Chemistry. - Application of HPC Developments in Structural Bioinformatics, Computational Biology and Computational Chemistry. - Biological and Chemical databases for Big Data Management. - Automated Verification in Computational Biology. - System Infrastructure for High Throughput Analysis. - Biomolecular Structure Prediction and Large Molecular Systems. - Molecular Visualization of Biological Big Data. - Large Scale Proteomics. IMPORTANT DATES Submission Due November 30, 2018 1st Round Notification February 1, 2019 Final Notification April 1, 2019 Publication Fall 2019 GUEST EDITOR If you have any question, please don’t hesitate to contact - José M. Cecilia, Universidad Católica de Murcia (UCAM), Jmcecilia {at} ucam.edu -- "Este mensaje es privado y confidencial y se dirige exclusivamente a su destinatario. Si usted recibe este mensaje por error, no debe revelar, distribuir o copiar este e-mail. Por favor, comuníquelo al remitente y borre el mensaje y los archivos adjuntos de su sistema. No hay renuncia a la confidencialidad ni a ningún privilegio a causa de una transmisión errónea o por mal funcionamiento". "This message is private and confidential and it is intended exclusively for the addressee. If your receive this message by mistake, you should not disseminate, distribute or copy this e-mail. Please inform the sender and delete the message and attachments from your system. 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Call for Papers: [Deadline Extended to 09/14/18 ] Fourth International IEEE Workshop on Extreme Scale Programming Models and Middleware (ESPM2 2018)
by Hari Subramoni 08 Sep '18

08 Sep '18

======================================================================== Call For Papers Fourth International IEEE Workshop on Extreme Scale Programming Models and Middleware (ESPM2 2018) to be held in conjunction with SuperComputing 2018, November 11 - 16, 2018 Dallas, Texas http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/espm2/ ======================================================================== Next generation architectures and systems being deployed are characterized by high concurrency, low memory per-core, and multiple levels of hierarchy and heterogeneity. These characteristics bring out new challenges in energy efficiency, fault-tolerance and, scalability. It is commonly believed that software has the biggest share of the responsibility to tackle these challenges. In other words, this responsibility is delegated to the next generation programming models and their associated middleware/runtimes. This workshop focuses on different aspects of programming models such as task-based parallelism (Charm++, OCR, Habanero, Legion, X10, HPX, etc), PGAS (OpenSHMEM, UPC, CAF, Chapel, UPC++, etc.), BigData (Hadoop, Spark, etc), Deep Learning (Caffe, Microsoft CNTK, Google TensorFlow), directive-based languages (OpenMP, OpenACC) and Hybrid MPI+X, etc. It also focuses on their associated middleware (unified runtimes, interoperability for hybrid programming, tight integration of MPI+X, and support for accelerators/FPGAs) for next generation systems and architectures. The ultimate objective of the ESPM2 workshop is to serve as a forum that brings together researchers from academia and industry working in the areas of programming models, runtime systems, compilers, programming languages, and application developers. ESPM2 2018 will be held as a full day workshop in conjunction with the SuperComputing (SC 2018), on Monday, November 12th in Dallas, Texas, USA. Topics ------ ESPM2 2018 welcomes original submissions in a range of areas, including but not limited to: * New programming models, languages and constructs for exploiting high concurrency and heterogeneity * Experience with and improvements for existing parallel languages and run-time environments such as: - MPI - PGAS (OpenSHMEM, UPC, CAF, Chapel, UPC++, etc.) - Directive-based programming (OpenMP, OpenACC) - Asynchronous Task-based models (Charm++, OCR, Habanero, Legion, X10, HPX, etc) - Hybrid MPI+X models - BigData (Hadoop, Spark, etc), and - Deep Learning (Caffe, Microsoft CNTK, Google TensorFlow) * Parallel compilers, programming tools, and environments * Software and system support for extreme scalability including fault tolerance * Programming environments for heterogeneous multi-core systems and accelerators such as KNL, OpenPOWER, ARM, GPUs, FPGAs, MICs, and DSPs Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. Best Paper Award ---------------- Mellanox has generously offered to sponsor the Best Paper Award. This award will be given to the author(s) of the paper selected by the Technical Program Committee and the Program Chairs. The award will be determined from viewpoints of the technical and scientific merits, impact on the science and engineering of the research work and the clarity of presentation of the research contents in the paper. Keynote Speaker --------------- We are happy to announce that Prof. Laxmikant V. Kale, the Paul and Cynthia Saylor Professor in Computer Science at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will deliver the keynote address at ESPM2'18. Panel Information ----------------- Details coming soon! Paper Submission and Registration --------------------------------- Abstracts and papers need to be submitted via the Linklings conference system (https://submissions.supercomputing.org) After logging in, please select the "Make a New Submission" tab on the top. Click on the "SC18 Workshop: ESPM2 2018" link among the available options to submit your work. Submissions should not exceed 8 pages using IEEE conference format with 10pt font. Each submission must be a single PDF file (see https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) Papers must be submitted in PDF format (readable by Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 and higher) and formatted for 8.5" x 11" (U.S. Letter). Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. It should not be submitted in parallel to any other conference or journal. Reproducibility Initiative -------------------------- For all technical papers submitted to ESPM2'18, we request the authors to include an "Artifact Description Appendix". Please use the following template to create the appendix. The appendix can be uploaded as a separate PDF document in the submission site. https://collegeville.github.io/sc-reproducibility/ArtifactDescriptionAppend… Please note the following: 1. The completed appendix must be at most 2 pages 2. The appendix is meant to provide information about the computing environment you used to produce your results, reducing barriers for future replication of your results by others in the community. 3. If a new software package is developed as part of the publication, it software must be downloadable by anyone without restriction to enable replication of your results by others in the community. - Note that this does not require you to make your code available in an open source manner. 4. A paper cannot be disqualified based on information provided or not provided in this appendix, nor if the appendix is not available. 5. The availability and quality of an appendix can be used in ranking a paper. In particular, if two papers are of similar quality, the existence and quality of the appendices can be part of the evaluation process. Proceedings Information ----------------------- The workshop proceedings will be published through IEEE TCHPC and included in the IEEE Xplore digital library. Each research paper will be taken through a comprehensive peer review process by an internationally recognized group of experts in the field. Papers will be evaluated along the metrics of a) Quality of Presentation; b) Novelty / Originality; c) Relation to State of the Art; d) Technical Strength; e) Significance of Work; f) Relevance to Workshop; and g) Availability and quality of the "Artifact Description Appendix". Every effort will be made to ensure that each paper receives multiple reviews. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a participant of the workshop and present the paper at the workshop, in order to have the paper published in the proceedings. Please contact the Program Chairs for any questions/clarifications Important Dates --------------- Technical paper submission deadline : 11:59 PM, AoE, September 14th, 2018 Author notification : October 1, 2018 Camera-ready deadline : 11:59 PM, AoE, October 7, 2018 Workshop : Monday, November 12th, 2018 ESPM2'18 Workshop Organizers ------------------------------ Hari Subramoni, The Ohio State University Karl Schulz, University of Texas at Austin Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, The Ohio State University Program Committee ----------------- * Siegfried Benkner, University of Vienna * Martin Berzins, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, University of Utah * Saber Feki, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology * Guang R. Gao, University of Delaware * Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster, UK * William D. Gropp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign * Jeff Hammond, Intel Labs * Costin Iancu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory * Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory * CJ Newburn, NVIDIA * Guangming Tan, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China * Daniel Tian, The Portland Group * Sean Treichler, NVIDIA Corporation * Manjunath Gorentla Venkata, Oak Ridge National Laboratory * Abhinav Vishnu, AMD Research * Jeremiah Wilke, Sandia National Laboratory Further Information ------------------- See the ESPM2'18 website at http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/espm2/ Thanks, The ESPM2'18 Organizing Committee.

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Final Extension CFP: IEEE ISPA2018 (Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Jesson Butt 07 Sep '18

07 Sep '18

Final Extension on Call for papers: The 16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications (ISPA 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: September 14, 2018 (11:59pm HST, final extension as requested by some authors.) Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience =========== Introduction The IEEE ISPA 2018 (16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications) is a forum for presenting leading work on parallel and distributed computing and networking, including architecture, compilers, runtime systems, applications, reliability, security, parallel programming models and much more. During the symposium, scientists and engineers in both academia and industry are invited to present their work on concurrent and parallel systems (multicore, multithreaded, heterogeneous, clustered systems, distributed systems, grids, clouds, and large scale machines). The 16th IEEE ISPA follows the tradition of previous successful IEEE ISPA conferences in the years from 2003 to 2017 in Asia, Europe, Australia and North America. It will feature sessions of regular presentations, workshops, tutorials and keynote speeches. IEEE ISPA 2018 is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and the IEEE Computer Society. IEEE ISPA is particularly interested in research addressing heterogeneous computing with the use of accelerators, mobile computing, approximate computing, tools and methodologies to improve the quality of parallel programming and applying generic computing approaches to networks, in particular Software Defined networking and its applications. Scope and Topics *(1) Systems and Architectures Track* - Cloud computing and data center technology - Migration of computations - Multi-clouds environments, cloud federation, interoperability - Energy management and Green Computing - Wireless and mobile networks - Internet-Of-Things (IoT) - Social Networks, crowdsourcing, and P2P systems *(2) Technologies and Tools Track* - Building block processors: FPGA, multicore, GPU, NoC, SoC - Parallel and distributed algorithms - Tools/environments for parallel/distributed software development - Novel parallel programming paradigms - Programming models for cloud services and applications - Code generation and optimization - Compilers for parallel computers - Middleware and tools - Scheduling and resource management - Performance simulations, measurement, and evaluations - Reliability, fault tolerance, dependability, and security *(3) Applications Track* - High-performance scientific and engineering computing - Grid and cluster computing - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing - Databases, data mining, and data management - Big data and business analytics - Scientific cloud systems and services - Internet computing and web services - Application scenarios of IoT and ubiquitous computing - Experience with computational, workflow and data-intensive applications - Software Defined Networks and its applications Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. Honorary Chairs Wanlei Zhou, Deakin University, Australia Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia General Chairs Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Workshop Chairs Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China

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[CFP] FTXS 2018 @ SC18 (deadline reminder)
by Scott Levy 07 Sep '18

07 Sep '18

A reminder that the submission deadline for FTXS 2018 is Monday, September 10 (AoE). Scott. -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [CFP] FTXS 2018 @ SC18 (deadline extended) Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2018 13:33:17 -0600 From: Scott Levy <sllevy(a)sandia.gov> To: hpc-announce(a)mcs.anl.gov The deadline for submissions to FTXS 2018 has been extended to September 10, 2018. Additionally, please note that we have only placed a limit on the *maximum* number of pages that a submission may contain. Papers that are clear, coherent, and complete (with the understanding that the submission may represent a work-in-progress) but are shorter than this maximum are encouraged. Scott. CALL FOR PAPERS 8th Workshop on Fault-Tolerance for HPC at eXtreme Scale (FTXS 2018) In conjunction with The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC18) Dallas, Texas, USA November 11 - 16, 2018 https://sites.google.com/site/ftxsworkshop/home/ftxs-2018 Important Dates * Submissions open: July 1, 2018 * Submission of papers: September 10, 2018 * Author notification: September 27, 2018 * Camera-ready papers: TBA * Workshop: Friday, November 16, 2018 Authors are invited to submit original papers on the research and practice of fault-tolerance in extreme-scale distributed systems (primarily HPC systems, but including grid and cloud systems). Resilience and fault-tolerance remain a major concern for supercomputing and advances in this area are needed to allow applications to compute accurate (or within an acceptable error tolerance) answers in a timely and efficient manner in the presence of degradations or failures of platform components (both hardware and software). Topics include, but are not limited to: * Failure data analysis and field studies * Power, performance, resilience (PPR) assessments / tradeoffs * Novel fault-tolerance techniques and implementations * Emerging hardware and software technology for resilience * Silent data corruption (SDC) detection / correction techniques * Advances in reliability monitoring, analysis, and control of highly complex systems * Failure prediction, error preemption, and recovery techniques * Fault-tolerant programming models * Models for software and hardware reliability * Metrics and standards for measuring, improving, and enforcing effective fault-tolerance * Scalable Byzantine fault-tolerance and security from single-fault and fail-silent violations * Atmospheric evaluations relevant to HPC systems (terrestrial neutrons, temperature, voltage, etc.) * Near-threshold-voltage implications and evaluations for reliability * Benchmarks and experimental environments including fault injection * Frameworks and APIs for fault-tolerance and fault management PAPER SUBMISSIONS Submissions are solicited in the following categories: * Regular papers presenting innovative ideas improving the state of the art or discussing the issues seen on existing extreme-scale systems, including some form of analysis and evaluation. * Extended abstracts proposing disruptive ideas and challenging assumptions in the field, including some form of preliminary results. Extended abstracts will be evaluated separately and given shorter oral presentations. Submissions shall be sent electronically, must conform to SC18 proceedings style. Regular papers should not exceed ten (10) pages including all text, appendices, figures, and references. Extended abstract papers should not exceed six (6) pages. Papers should be submitted at: https://submissions.supercomputing.org. Our workshop has been accepted to have its proceedings published by IEEE TCHPC (and included in IEEE Xplore). Authors are encouraged to include reproducibility artifacts as described on the conference website: https://sc18.supercomputing.org/submit/sc-reproducibility-initiative Inclusion of reproducibility artifacts is optional. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Nathan DeBardeleben - Los Alamos National Laboratory Scott Levy - Sandia National Laboratories ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Keita Teranishi - Sandia National Laboratories John Daly - Laboratory for Physical Sciences PROGRAM COMMITTEE Rizwan Ashraf - Oak Ridge National Laboratory Marc Gamell Balmana - Intel Leonardo Bautista Gomez - Barcelona Supercomputing Center Aurelien Bouteiller - University of Tennessee Knoxville Robert Clay - Sandia National Laboratories James Elliott - Sandia National Laboratories Christian Engelmann -Oak Ridge National Laboratory Kurt B. Ferreira - Sandia National Laboratories Qiang Guan - Kent State University Sudhanva Gurumurthi -AMD Hideyuki Jitsumoto - Tokyo Institute of Technology Zhiling Lan - Illinois Institute of Technology Naoya Maruyama - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Bogdan Nicolae - Argonne National Laboratory Yves Robert - ENS Lyon & Univ. Tenn. Knoxville Vilas Sridharan - AMD Peter E. Strazdins - The Australian National University Abhinav Vishnu - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Panruo Wu - University of California at Riverside Questions? Contact Scott Levy (sllevy(a)sandia.gov)

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CfP Special Issue on Accelerator Virtualization, 2018
by Blesson Varghese 07 Sep '18

07 Sep '18

This special issue of Concurrency and Computation, Practice and Experience (CCPE) journal calls for submissions on Accelerator Virtualization. The call is open to all contributions, including technically sound research that produced negative results. Prospective authors are encouraged to informally express their interest to the guest editors. GUEST EDITORS Carlos Reaño, Queen's University Belfast, UK Blesson Varghese, Queen’s University Belfast, UK Federico Silla, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain TOPICS OF INTEREST Topics of interest, but not limited to: - Virtualization of FPGAs, GPUs or other accelerators - Use of accelerators in virtual machines - Quantum computing: offloading computation to accelerators or sharing accelerators among computers - Resource management and scheduling for accelerator virtualization in heterogeneous clusters - Communication methods for accelerator virtualization - Energy-aware accelerator virtualization techniques - Application-specific cluster and datacenter accelerator virtualization - Software cluster-level virtualization for consolidation purposes - Techniques for aggregation of virtual accelerators - Virtualization techniques and strategies for upcoming Fog/Edge computing and Internet of Things IoT systems INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS Submissions must follow these guidelines: - Please submit your paper to Manuscript central as ACCVI2018 special issue. - Submissions should be prepared for publication according to the journal submission guidelines. - We recommend using the Latex template provided by Wiley. - Submitted manuscripts may not exceed 25 pages using this format. - The submitted papers must have at least 50% different material beyond any other previously published work. IMPORTANT DATES Important dates are as follows: - Submission deadline: October 29 2018 - Notification: December 17, 2018 - Revision Due: January 21, 2019 - Final decision due: February 25, 2019 - Camera-ready paper due: March 12, 2019 - Electronic Publication: four months after all final papers submitted More information at http://mural.uv.es/caregon/accvi2018.html On behalf of the Guest Editors Blesson ---- Dr Blesson Varghese, http://www.blessonv.com Lecturer, Queen's University Belfast, UK ----

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CfP ARCS 2019
by Martin Schoeberl 07 Sep '18

07 Sep '18

ARCS 2019 - Call for Papers 32nd GI/ITG International Conference on Architecture of Computing Systems SCOPE The ARCS conferences series has over 30 years of tradition reporting leading edge research in computer architecture and operating systems. The focus of the 2019 conference will be on architectures for complex real-time systems like autonomous control systems, as well as safety and security critical systems. This includes upcoming architectures and technologies, exploitable architectural features, languages, and tooling. Conference website: http://arcs2019.itec.kit.edu/ The proceedings of ARCS 2019 will be published in the Springer Lecture Notes on Computer Science (LNCS) series. A best paper and best presentation award will be presented at the conference. CALL FOR PAPERS Paper submission: Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research papers on one or more of the following topics: Hardware Architectures - System-on-chip - Distributed systems - High performance systems - Heterogeneous multi- and many-core architectures - Architectures for real-time and mixed-criticality systems - Coarse- and fine-grained reconfigurable architectures - Flexible I/O support - Advanced computing architectures Programming models and runtime environments - Programming models for many-core and/or heterogeneous computing platforms. - Operating systems, hypervisors and middleware for homogeneous and heterogeneous multi-/many-core computing platforms. - System management including but not limited to scheduling, memory management, power/thermal management, and RTOS. Cross-sectional topics - Adaptive systems (energy aware, self-x technologies) - Pervasive systems - Approximate Computing - Autonomous systems - Support for safety and security SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All submitted manuscripts must conform to the Springer LNCS formatting requirements (https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…) and must not exceed 12 pages, including references and figures. Manuscripts must be submitted online via EasyChair via the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=arcs2019 IMPORTANT DATES: Paper submission deadline: December 10th, 2018 Notification: February 14th, 2019 Final paper version: March 1st, 2019 Conference: May 20-23, 2019 GENERAL CHAIRS Martin Schoeberl, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark Wolfgang Karl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany PROGRAM CHAIRS Sascha UHRIG, Airbus, Ottobrunn, Germany Juergen Brehm, University of Hannover, Germany WORKSHOP AND TUTORIAL CHAIR Carsten Trinitis, TU Munich, Germany PUBLICATION CHAIR Thilo Pionteck, University of Magdeburg, Germany TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE (to be completed) Hamid Amiri, ENIT Mladen Berekovic, C3E, Technical University of Braunschweig Juergen Brehm, University of Hannover Uwe Brinkschulte, University of Frankfurt Rainer Buchty, Technical University of Braunschweig Joao Cardoso, University of Porto Laura Carrington, San Diego Supercomputer Center/University of California, San Diego Martin Danek, daiteq s.r.o. Nikitas Dimopoulos, University of Victoria Ahmed El-Mahdy, Egypt-Japan University of Science and Technology (E-JUST) Dietmar Fey, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg William Fornaciari, Politecnico di Milano Roberto Giorgi, University of Siena Daniel Gracia Pérez, Thales Research & Technology Jan Haase, University of Luebeck Joerg Haehner, University of Augsburg Heiko Hamann, University of Luebeck Andreas Herkersdorf, Technical University of Munich Christian Hochberger, Technical University of Darmstadt Gert Jervan, Tallinn University of Technology Wolfgang Karl, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Joerg Keller, FernUniversitaet in Hagen Andreas Koch, Technical University of Darmstadt Dirk Koch, University of Manchester Hana Kubatova, FIT CTU in Prague Erik Maehle, University of Luebeck Alex Orailoglu, University of California San Diego Luis Miguel Pinho, CISTER Research Centre/ISEP Juergen Mottok, Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Regensburg, Germany Thilo Pionteck, Otto-von-Guericke Universitaet Magdeburg Pascal Sainrat, IRIT - University of Toulouse Luca Santinelli, ONERA Toshinori Sato, Fukuoka University Martin Schoeberl, Technical University of Denmark Wolfgang Schroeder-Preikschat, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Martin Schulz, Technical University of Munich Muhammad Shafique, Technical University of Vienna Leonel Sousa, University of Lisbon Benno Stabernack, Fraunhofer Institut fuer Nachrichtentechnik Heinrich Hertz Walter Stechele, Technical University of Munich Juergen Teich, Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Sven Tomforde, University of Kassel Eduardo Tovar, Polytechnic Institute of Porto Carsten Trinitis, Technical University of Munich Nicolas Tsiftes, RISE SICS Sascha Uhrig, Airbus Central Research and Technology Theo Ungerer, University of Augsburg Hans Vandierendonck, Queen's University Belfast Stephane Vialle, CentraleSupelec, Univ. Paris-Saclay Lucian Vintan, "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu Klaus Waldschmidt, Goethe University Frankfurt/Main Dominic Wist, Biotronik, Berlin, Germany Stephan Wong, Technical University of Delft Sungjoo Yoo, Seoul National University

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IEEE Fog Computing: Call for Contributions
by Flavia Delicato 05 Sep '18

05 Sep '18

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email.] ================================================================================= IEEE International Conference on Fog Computing (ICFC 2019) June 24-26, 2019 Prague, Czech Republic http://conferences.computer.org/ICFC/2019/ Colocated with the IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering (IC2E 2019) ================================================================================== Important Dates --------------- Paper registration and abstract: Nov 1st, 2018 Full paper submission due: Nov 8th, 2018 Notification of paper acceptance: Jan. 20th, 2019 Workshop and tutorial proposals due: Nov 11, 2018 Notification of proposal acceptance: Nov 18, 2018 Call for Contributions ---------------------- Fog computing is the extension of cloud computing into its edge and the physical world to meet the data volume and decision velocity requirements in many emerging applications, such as augmented and virtual realities (AR/VR), cyber-physical systems (CPS), intelligent and autonomous systems, and mission-critical systems. The boundary between centralized, powerful computing cloud and massively distributed, Internet connected sensors, actuators, and things is blurred in this new computing paradigm. The ICFC 2019 technical program will feature tutorials, workshops, and research paper sessions. We solicit high-quality contributions in the above categories. Details of submission is available on the conference Web site. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * System architecture for fog computing * Coordination between cloud, fog, and sensing/actuation endpoints * Connectivity, storage, and computation in the edge * Data processing and management for fog computing * Efficient and embedded AI in the fog * System and network manageability * Middleware and coordination platforms * Power, energy, and resource management * Device and hardware support for fog computing * Programming models, abstractions, and software engineering for fog computing * Security, privacy, and ethics issues related to fog computing * Theoretical foundations and formal methods for fog computing systems * Applications and experiences Organizing Committee -------------------- General Chairs: Hui Lei, IBM Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney PC Co-chairs: Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College London Jie Liu, Microsoft Research Tutorials and Workshops Chair: David Bermbach, TU Berlin Publicity Co-chairs: Flavia Delicato,Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Mathias Fischer, University Hamburg Publication Chair Javid Taheri, Karlstad University Webmaster Wei Li, The University of Sydney Steering Committee ------------------ Mung Chiang, Purdue University Erol Gelenbe, Imperial College London Christos Kozarakis, Stanford University Hui Lei, IBM Chenyang Lu, Washington University in St Louis Beng Chin Ooi, National University of Singapore Neeraj Suri, TU Darmstadt Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney -- Flávia Delicato Associate Professor Federal University of Rio de Janeiro ---

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