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SC19 Call for Papers
by Scott Pakin 31 Jan '19

31 Jan '19

SC19: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis November 17-22, 2019, Denver, Colorado, USA https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/paper-submissions/ March 1, 2019 - Submissions open April 2, 2019 - Deadline for abstracts April 10, 2019 - Full paper deadline (firm deadline, no extensions) The SC Papers program is the leading venue for presenting high-quality original research, groundbreaking ideas, and compelling insights on future trends in high performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis. Technical papers are peer-reviewed and an Artifact Description (to aid in reproducibility) is now mandatory for all papers submitted to SC19. Submissions will be considered on any topic related to high performance computing within the ten tracks below. A new track on machine learning and HPC has been added this year. Algorithms: The development, evaluation and optimization of scalable, general-purpose, high performance algorithms. Applications: The development and enhancement of algorithms, parallel implementations, models, software and problem-solving environments for specific applications that require high performance resources. Architecture and Networks: All aspects of high-performance hardware including the optimization and evaluation of processors and networks. Clouds and Distributed Computing: All software aspects of clouds and distributed computing that are related to HPC systems, including software architecture, configuration, optimization and evaluation. Data Analytics, Visualization, and Storage: All aspects of data analytics, visualization, storage, and storage I/O related to HPC systems. Submissions on work done at scale are highly favored. Machine Learning and HPC: The development and enhancement of algorithms, systems, and software for scalable machine learning utilizing high-performance and cloud computing platforms. Performance Measurement, Modeling, and Tools: Novel methods and tools for measuring, evaluating, and/or analyzing performance for large scale systems. 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 HPC architectures. State of the Practice: All R&D aspects of the pragmatic practices of HPC, including operational IT infrastructure, services, facilities, large-scale application executions and benchmarks. System Software: Operating system (OS), runtime system and other low-level software research & development that enables allocation and management of hardware resources for HPC applications and services. Technical Program Chairs Chair: Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory Deputy Chair: Irene Qualters, Los Alamos National Laboratory Vice Chair: Antonio J. Pena, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Polytechnic University of Catalonia Technical Papers Chairs Scott Pakin, Los Alamos National Laboratory Michelle Mills Strout, University of Arizona, Computer Science Track Chairs Algorithms X. Sherry Li, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Hatem Ltaief, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Applications Michael Bader, Technical University of Munich Suzanne Shontz, University of Kansas Architectures & Networks Jonathan Beard, ARM Ltd Brian Towles, D.E. Shaw Research Clouds & Distributed Computing Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, UC San Diego; Halicioglu Data Science Institute, UC San Diego Gabriel Antoniu, French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) Data Analytics, Visualization & Storage John Bent, DataDirect Networks Suzanne McIntosh, New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Machine Learning and HPC Maryam Mehri Dehnavi, University of Toronto Robert Patton, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Performance Lauren L. Smith, National Security Agency Nathan Tallent, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Programming Systems Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Xipeng Shen, North Carolina State University State of the Practice Sadaf R. Alam, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre Wu Feng, Virginia Tech System Software Patrick Bridges, University of New Mexico Dilma Da Silva, Texas A&M University Full committee at https://sc19.supercomputing.org/planning-committee/#Technical%20Program

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CFP InterCloud-HPC 2019 - International Symposium on Cloud Computing and Services for High Performance Computing Systems
by Dalvan Griebler 31 Jan '19

31 Jan '19

----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- International Symposium on Cloud Computing and Services for High Performance Computing Systems (InterCloud-HPC 2019) July 15 - 19, 2019 - Dublin, Ireland Website: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/2-conference/symposia/symp01-intercloudhpc ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- *IMPORTANT DATES* Paper Submissions: ---------------------------------------------------------- 01 March 2019 Acceptance Notification: ---------------------------------------------------- 29 March 2019 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ------------------- 19 April 2019 Conference Dates: ------------------------------------------------------------ 15 - 19 July 2019 *SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES* “Cloud” is a common metaphor for an Internet accessible infrastructure, hiding most of the implementation and deployment details of the system from users. Cloud computing delivers IT-related capabilities as services over the Internet, allowing resources to be managed and accessed on an Internet scale. Cloud computing has been envisaged to be one of the main-stream powering technologies of future IT systems. This symposium focuses on techniques, experiences, applications, and lessons learned for interoperable services in the cloud, particularly in the realms of high performance computing. For instance, HPC may be used for the construction of mathematical models and numerical solutions and techniques for solving scientific, socio-scientific and engineering problems. It often requires a huge number of computing and storage resources to perform large-scale analyses and experiments. Users could get access to their own virtualized HPC cluster in a self-service, dynamically scalable and fully configurable environment. Cloud computing can address many of the aforementioned concerns. Such a computing paradigm shift provides a flexible high performance computing environment. The symposium aims at providing a forum to bring together researchers and scientists to share and exchange cloud computing related research, technologies, experiences, and lessons for building various types clouds with interoperability and coordination capabilities in a high performance and high availability setting. The InterCloud-HPC Symposium topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - Cloud Architectures - Fog and Edge Computing - Cloud Interoperability and Federation Protocols - Programming Models for HPC Clouds - Semantic Web Services Definitions for Clouds - Directory of Services for Clouds - Middleware Frameworks - Management of Interoperability and Federation for Clouds - Interoperable and Federated Cloud Security and Trust - Cloud Interoperability and Federation Governance and Regulatory - HPC Cloud-based Services - QoS/SLA in Interoperable and Federated Clouds - Converged Implementations of Clouds and Grids - Geo-balancing in Interoperable and Federated Clouds - Common Programming Models across Clouds - Cloud Broker, Exchange, Arbitrage architectures - Semantic Web for Clouds - Cloud Protocols - Virtualization Technologies and Techniques - Virtualization Techniques for HPC GPU/Multicore Systems - Management of Clouds - Performance Evaluation and Monitoring of HPC Clouds - Scalable Fault Resilience Techniques for HPC Clouds - Cloud Application - Experiences and Lessons *PAPER SUBMISSIONS* You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to Cloud Computing and Services for High Performance Computing Systems. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere until it appears in HPCS proceedings, in the case of acceptance, or notified otherwise. For Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged an additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po… for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the symposium paper submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=intercloudhpc2019. Acknowledgment will be sent within 48 hours of submission. Conference Policies Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and presentation, language, and references. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS 2019 conference to present the paper at the symposium as scheduled. By submitting the paper to the HPCS conference, all authors agree to abide by all HPCS conference paper submission, publication and presentation policies as well as following ethical and professional codes of conduct, including those of the professional co-sponsoring organizations. For more information, please refer to the Authors Info and Registration Info pages. The symposium policy and professional ethics require that referees treat the contents of papers under review as privileged information not to be disclosed to others before publication. It is expected that no one with access to a manuscript under review will make any inappropriate use of the special knowledge which that access provides. Proceedings Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2019 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings are projected to be included in the IEEE or ACM Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly. *SPECIAL ISSUE* Plans are underway to have the best papers, an extended version, selected for possible publication in a reputable journal as a special issue. Detailed information will soon be announced and will be made available on the conference website. *SYMPOSIUM ORGANIZERS* - Dalvan Griebler, Pontifical Catholic University of Rio Grande do Sul (PUCRS) and Três de Maio Faculty (SETREM), Brazil - Horacio González-Vélez, Cloud Competency Centre, National College of Ireland, Dublin, Ireland - Anthony Simonet, Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2), Piscataway, New Jersey, USA - Daniel Balouek-Thomert, Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2), Piscataway, New Jersey, USA Kind regards, -- *Dr. Dalvan Griebler* Postdoc researcher in Computer Science (GMAP <https://gmap.pucrs.br/> - PPGCC <http://www.pucrs.br/politecnica/programa-de-pos-graduacao-em-ciencia-da-com…> - PUCRS <http://www.pucrs.br/>) Professor and research coordinator (LARCC <http://larcc.setrem.com.br/> - SETREM <http://www.setrem.com.br/>) Curriculum Lattes: http://lattes.cnpq.br/1989039890812573 Home Page: https://www.dalvangriebler.com Av. Ipiranga, 6681 - CEP: 90619-900 - Porto Alegre - RS - Brazil Building 32 - Faculdade de Informática <http://www.pucrs.br/facin/> - Cabinet 633 Phone: +55 51 33538633

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ROME 2019 | Extended Deadline: February 10 | IPDPS Workshop on Runtime, Operating Systems and Middleware towards Exascale
by Carsten Clauss 31 Jan '19

31 Jan '19

Extended Deadline for CfP: February 10 ======================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS The IPDPS Workshop on Runtime, Operating Systems and Middleware towards Exascale (ROME 2019) May 24, 2019, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil held in conjunction with IPDPS 2019, May 20 - May 24, 2019 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil https://wrome.github.io/rio2019/ ======================================================================= Topics and Call for Papers -------------------------- Authors from all related disciplines are invited to submit unpublished papers regarding their work on software research regarding operating systems and runtime environments in the domain of high-performance and parallel computing. The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - New approaches for operating systems on novel (heterogeneous) architectures - Lightweight/specialized operating systems, unikernels and hypervisors - Virtualization techniques (e. g. containers) for high-performance computing - Management, deployment of virtualized environments and orchestration - Extensions for operating systems to support emerging memory technologies - System software for enabling parallelism at an extreme scale - Bare-metal programming and system software for massive parallel systems - Many-core/multi-node aware runtime support for large-scale applications - Message-passing interfaces and middleware for extreme scale computing - Heterogeneity-, modularity- and/or hierarchy-aware middleware for HPC - Software stacks for new concepts of compute acceleration - Middleware for performance and power analysis on massive parallel systems - Runtime and kernel extensions for power-aware high-performance computing - System noise analysis and prevention for massive parallel systems Important Dates --------------- - February 10, 2019: Submission deadline (extended) - February 22, 2019: Notification of acceptance - March 15, 2019: Camera-ready deadline - May 24, 2019: ROME Workshop Paper Submission, Paper Style, and Proceedings ---------------------------------------------- Submitted manuscripts may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. Shorter papers must be at minimum 6 pages in length. The submitted manuscripts should include author names and affiliations. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rome2019 Program Committee (tentative) ----------------- - Jens Breitbart, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany - Balazs Gerofi, University of Tokyo, Japan - Brice Goglin, INRIA, France - Carsten Clauss, ParTec GmbH, Germany - Stefan Lankes, RWTH Aachen University, Germany - Jörg Nolte, BTU Cottbus, Germany - Lena Oden, FernUniversität Hagen, Germany - Swann Perarnau, Argonne National Laboratory, USA - Juan Carlos Saez, Complutense University of Madrid, Spain - Oliver Sinnen, University of Auckland, New Zealand - Christian Terboven, RWTH Aachen University, Germany - Josef Weidendorfer, TU München, Germany - Carsten Weinhold, TU Dresden, Germany - Robert Wisniewski, Intel Corporation, USA Workshop Organizers ------------------- - Jens Breitbart, Robert Bosch GmbH, Germany - Carsten Clauss, IUBH University of Applied Sciences, Germany / ParTec GmbH, Germany - Stefan Lankes, Institute for Automation of Complex Power Systems, E.ON Energy Research Center, RWTH Aachen University, Germany https://wrome.github.io/rio2019/index.html#contact

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[CFP] GrAPL 2019 - DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 8
by Tumeo, Antonino 30 Jan '19

30 Jan '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ----------------------------- !!!!! DEADLINE EXTENDED TO FEBRUARY 8, 2019 !!!!! ----------------------------- GrAPL 2019: Workshop on Graphs, Architectures, Programming, and Learning http://hpc.pnl.gov/grapl Co-Located with IPDPS 2019 May 20, 2019 Hilton Rio De Janeiro Brazil ----------------------------- GrAPL is the result of the combination of two IPDPS workshops: GABB: Graph Algorithms Building Blocks GraML: Workshop on The Intersection of Graph Algorithms and Machine Learning ----------------------------- Data analytics is one of the fastest growing segments of computer science. Much of the recent focus in Data Analytics has emphasized machine learning. This is understandable given the success of deep learning over the last decade. However, many real-world analytic workloads are a mix of graph and machine learning methods. Graphs play an important role in the synthesis and analysis of relationships and organizational structures, furthering the ability of machine-learning methods to identify signature features. Given the difference in the parallel execution models of graph algorithms and machine learning methods, current tools, runtime systems, and architectures do not deliver consistently good performance across data analysis workflows. In this workshop we are interested in Graphs, how their synthesis (representation) and analysis is supported in hardware and software, and the ways graph algorithms interact with machine learning. The workshop’s scope is broad which is a natural outgrowth of the wide range of methods used in large-scale data analytics workflows. The objectives of this workshop are as follows: * Understand data analytics workflows and the mix of graph and machine learning algorithms they require * Understand the synergies between evolving device technology and graph analytics applications to drive: 1) the direction of emerging hardware and software architecture, 2) new graph analytics algorithms that better exploit the emerging hardware; and 3) application workflows that mix the large graph synthesis and analytics and machine learning. * Explore different frameworks, languages and libraries to support programming graph analytics and machine learning algorithms * Evaluate the performance and scalability of integrated platforms for large graph synthesis and analysis, and machine learning While each of these topics on their own are well addressed in other workshops, we are particularly interested in the cross-cutting synergies. For example, hardware and software architectures specialized for machine learning (and in particular deep learning) may be poorly suited for graph algorithms. Can we understand these conflicting needs and perhaps find an architecture jointly optimized for both? This workshop seeks papers on the theory, model-based analysis, simulation, and analysis of operational data for graph analytics and related machine learning applications. We are particularly interested in papers that: * Discuss hardware platforms specialized for addressing large, dynamic, multi-attributed graphs and associated machine learning; * Discuss programming models and associated frameworks such as Pregel, Galois, Boost, GraphBLAS, GraphChi, etc., for building large multi-attributed graphs; * Discuss how frameworks for building graph algorithms interact with those for building machine learning algorithms; * Discuss the problem domains and problems addressable with graph methods, machine learning methods, or both; * Provide tractability performance analysis in terms of complexity, time-to-solution, problem size, and quality of solution for systems that deal with mixed data analytics workflows. Besides regular papers, papers describing work-in-progress or incomplete but sound, innovative ideas related to the workshop theme are also encouraged. ----------------------------- Important Dates ----------------------------- Position or full paper submission: February 8, 2019 (EXTENDED) Notification: February 28, 2019 Camera-ready: March 15, 2019 Workshop: May 20, 2019 ----------------------------- Submissions ----------------------------- Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=grapl2019 Submitted manuscripts may not exceed ten (10) pages, single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. The templates are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. ----------------------------- Organization ----------------------------- General co-Chairs Tim Mattson (Intel), timothy.g.mattson(a)intel.com Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), antonino.tumeo(a)pnnl.gov Program co-Chairs Ananth Kalyanaraman (WSU), ananth(a)wsu.edu Manoj Kumar (IBM), manoj1(a)us.ibm.com Steering Committe David A. Bader (Georgia Institute of Technology) Aydın Buluç (LBNL) John Feo (PNNL) John Gilbert (UC Santa Barbara) Mahantesh Halappanavar (PNNL) Jeremy Kepner (MIT Lincoln Laboratory) Technical Program Committee Aydin Buluç, LBNL, US Timothy A. Davis, University of Florida, US Jana Doppa, Washington State University, US John Gilbert, University of California at Santa Barbara, US Oded Green, Georgia Institute of Technology & NVIDIA, US Jeremy Kepner, MIT, US Arif Khan, PNNL, US Hao Lu, ORNL, US Kamesh Madduri, The Pennsylvania State University, US Rupesh Nasre, IIT Madras, IN John Owens, University of California, Davis, US Arnau Prat, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, ES Jason Riedy, Georgia Institute of Technology, US P. Sadayappan, The Ohio State University, US A. Erdem Sarıyüce, University at Buffalo, US Arun Sathanur, PNNL, US Brian Van Essen, LLNL, US Flavio Vella, Free University of Bozen, IT Yangzihao Wang, Tencent, CN Marinka Zitnik, Stanford University, US Jaroslaw Zola, University at Buffalo, US

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Deadline Extension (Feb 15) IPDPS Workshop: SNACS
by Taylor Groves 30 Jan '19

30 Jan '19

********************************************************************** The 1st IEEE Workshop on Scalable Networks for Advanced Computing Systems (SNACS 2018) https://sites.google.com/site/snacsworkshop/home held in conjunction with the 33rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS'2019) May 20-24, 2019 Rio de Janeiro, Brazil http://www.ipdps.org ********************************************************************** A one week extension has been granted, with a new submission deadline of February 15th. Scope: The Workshop on Scalable Networks for Advanced Computing Systems is a venue for discussions in the networks community that encompasses the full networks stack, ranging from high-level tools and interfaces, down to low-level hardware. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers to present research on the next-generation of large scale interconnects for scientific applications. In particular, our aim is to provide a venue for discussion of the full network stack from user level interfaces (i.e. MPI, PGAS) to the hardware level (i.e. network offload, hardware support for active messages, routing protocols). Workshop topics include: networks for exascale systems, networks for multi-facility workflows, new communication models and architectures for large scale systems, and network interface and hardware co-design.Topics: ======= Topics of interest (but are not limited to): * Networks for exascale systems * Network software implementation and user interfaces * Networks for multi-facility workflows * New communication models and architectures for large scale systems * Network interface and hardware co-design ======= Paper submission and publication: Research paper submissions are limited to 10 (including figures, tables and references) using a 10-point on 8.5x11-inch pages (US Letter) in the IEEE conference style. Templates can be found at: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Papers should be submitted electronically at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=snacs2019 Papers will be published in the IPDPS Workshop proceedings ======= Important dates: Paper Submissions close: February 15th Paper Notification: March 8th Final camera ready version: TBA ==================================== General Chairs: Matthew G. F. Dosanjh, Sandia National Laboratories Ryan E. Grant, Sandia National Laboratories Taylor Groves, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratories ==================================== Steering Committee: Dorian Arnold, Emory University Trilce Estrada, University of New Mexico Martin Schulz, Technische Universität München ==================================== Program Committee: Abhinav Bhatele - Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories George Bosilca - University of Tennessee James Dinan - Intel Manjunath Gorentla Venkata - Mellanox Technologies Chin Guok - ESNet Nathan Hjelm - Los Alamos National Laboratories Dan Holmes - The University of Edinburgh Oscar H. Mondragon - Universidad Autónoma de Occidente Hari Subramoni - Ohio State University Artur Ziviani - National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC) ======== Contact: For questions regarding the Workshop, please contact: mdosanj(a)sandia.gov ReplyForward

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CFP - Deadline extended for CCGRID 2019 Doctoral Symposium to 31 January 2019
by Sandra Gesing 30 Jan '19

30 Jan '19

**************************************************** *** CCGrid 2019 Doctoral Symposium *** https://www.ccgrid2019.org/pages/doctoral.html *** Papers due 31 January 2019 (extended) *** 14-17 May 2019 in Larnaca, Cyprus ***************************************************** The Doctoral Symposium of the 19th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid2019) provides a forum for students in all areas of Cluster, Grid and Cloud research to obtain visibility, feedback and advice on their Ph.D. dissertation topics and on their research careers. The Symposium promotes fruitful interactions and networking between student researchers at a similar stage in their careers. The program committee consists of experts in the field and will provide their valuable feedback to the ongoing research work of participating students. Selected students will present their work in front of an audience of both their peer and researchers and will also be invited to present their work as a poster in the poster exhibition of CCGrid. The proceedings of the doctoral symposium will be published as part of CCGrid 2019 Proceedings through the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore for EI indexing. What is the Doctoral Symposium? The Doctoral Symposium is a venue to provide a supportive setting in which PhD students can present their work at any stage (just started, partially finished, or almost finished) and obtain visibility, feedback and advice from established or other student researchers. The objective is to host as many motivated students as possible in the program. What does a paper for the Doctoral Symposium contain? The paper should focus on the research problem in your dissertation. You can include your partial or even preliminary ideas, results as well as the proposed solution of your problem, or a high-level summary of your published work. Each submitted paper will receive detailed reviews with friendly feedbacks. Deadline: 31 January 2019 Author notification: 15 February 2019 Doctoral Symposium Chairs: Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Jens Krüger, University of Tübingen, Germany Sponsorship and Student Travel Awards Program Chair Eliezer Dekel, Huawei, Germany Program Committee Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota Manuele Kirsch Pinheiro, Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne Esteban Mocskos, UBA Jia Rao, University of Texas at Arlington Angelo Steffenel, Université de Reims Champagne-Ardenne Andrei Tchernykh, CICESE Research Center Chase Wu, Dept of Computer Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Sandra Gesing Research Assistant Professor, Department of Computer Science and Engineering Computational Scientist, Center for Research Computing University of Notre Dame http://www3.nd.edu/~sgesing ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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CDER Center: Grant and training opportunity for instructors to add parallel and distributed computing to early courses
by Alan Sussman 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

Greetings from the CDER Center, We have an opportunity we are offering to help instructors incorporate parallel and distributed computing (PDC) into lower division undergraduate courses. Through an NSF CyberTraining grant, we are able to offer grants to support instructors in PDC curriculum development work. Although our nearly 150 prior grants were quite successful, this time we are hoping to do even more by doubling the amount of each award (to $5000), and coupling it with training during the week of August 5, 2019 that will cover both course content and the evaluation methodology needed to enable publication of findings from experimental course offerings. The program will support 20 grants this year, and there is also funding for another 10 people to just attend the training. We also anticipate supporting travel to our EduPar and EduHPC workshops to present results. In addition to asking you to think about applying for a grant, we are asking for your help to publicize the grants. Please forward this invitation to anyone you know who teaches courses in the first two years of the curriculum. More information about the grants and the workshop can be found at https://grid.cs.gsu.edu/~tcpp/curriculum/?q=node/21620 . The application deadline is April 1, and notification will be April 15. Applications are brief and simple, and are submitted via EasyChair. As you know, modern systems nearly all employ PDC. Our effort has been directed toward modernizing the curriculum to treat PDC as a fundamental aspect of computational thinking. We hope that this new program will help many departments take new steps toward this goal. The CDER Center Team Chip Weems, U. Massachusetts Alan Sussman, U. Maryland Arny Rosenberg, U. Massachusetts Anshul Gupta, IBM Martina Barnas, Indiana U. Ramachandran Vaidyanathan, Louisiana State U.

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Extended Deadline for PDSEC workshop at IPDPS to February 11 - CFP for PDSEC '19 Workshop
by Srivastava, Srishti 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

Dear All: The 20th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing Workshop (PDSEC '19) (http://cse.stfx.ca/~pdsec19/) will be held on May 24, 2019 in Rio De Janeiro, Brazil. The workshop is affiliated with the 33rd IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2019). The deadline to submit papers to the workshop has been extended to February 11, 2019. Sincerely, -- Srishti Srivastava, Ph.D. PC member, PDSEC 2019 Assistant Professor, Computer Science University of Southern Indiana

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ISC 2019 Call for Tutorials
by Wienke, Sandra 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

############################################################## ISC HIGH PERFORMANCE 2019 - CALL FOR TUTORIALS SUBMISSION DUE February 6, 2019 ############################################################## Are you interested in presenting a tutorial at the ISC High Performance conference? If so, please be advised that the submissions page is open for tutorials and the deadline for submission is February 6, 2019. The ISC tutorials are interactive courses focusing on key topics of high performance computing, networking, storage, and data science. Renowned experts in their respective fields will give attendees a comprehensive introduction to the topic as well as providing a closer look at specific problems. Tutorials are encouraged to include a "hands-on" component to allow attendees to practice prepared materials. Submitted tutorial proposals will be reviewed by the ISC 2019 Tutorials Committee, which is headed by Dr. Sandra Wienke, RWTH Aachen University, with Dr. Janine Bennett, Sandia National Laboratories, as Deputy Chair. The tutorials will be held on Sunday, June 16, 2019 and will be either half-day (9:00 am - 1:00 pm or 2:00 pm - 6:00 pm) or full-day (9:00 am - 6:00 pm). IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline - Wednesday, February 6, 2019, 11:59 pm AoE Notification of Acceptance - Wednesday, March 13, 2019 Working Materials for Tutorial Attendees due - Monday, June 10, 2019 Tutorials - Sunday, June 16, 2019 Final Presentation Slides in PDF due - Friday, June 21, 2019 SUBMISSION & REVIEW PROCESS Tutorial proposals need to be submitted via the ISC 2019 submission site https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/isc_hpc/ by Wednesday, February 6, 2019. Additional information, including guidelines for proposal preparation and details regarding travel support, can be found at https://www.isc-hpc.com/tutorials-2019.html. The Tutorials Committee will review and evaluate all submitted tutorial proposals based on their originality, significance, quality and clarity. Each proposal will be reviewed by at least three reviewers. The Tutorials Committee will select the tutorials (with the objective of covering the largest variety of topics) and allocate selected tutorials' time slots. The Tutorials Committee reserves a right to assign a shepherd to some accepted submissions in order to ensure quality standards. CONTACT AND FURTHER INFORMATION If you have any questions, please send an e-mail to tutorials-2019(a)isc-events.com For further information please visit https://www.isc-hpc.com/tutorials-2019.html ISC 2019 Tutorials Chair Sandra Wienke, RWTH Aachen University ISC 2019 Tutorials Vice Chair Janine Bennett, Sandia National Laboratories ABOUT ISC HIGH PERFORMANCE First held in 1986, ISC High Performance is the world's oldest and Europe's most important conference and networking event for the HPC community. It offers a strong five-day technical program focusing on HPC technological development and its application in scientific fields, as well as its adoption in commercial environments. ISC High Performance attracts engineers, IT specialists, system developers, vendors, scientists, researchers, students, journalists, and other members of the HPC global community. The exhibition draws decision-makers from automotive, finance, defense, aeronautical, gas & oil, banking, pharmaceutical and other industries, as well those providing hardware, software and services for the HPC community. Attendees will learn firsthand about new products and applications, in addition to the latest technological advances in the HPC industry.

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CfP VECoS 2019
by Denis Poitrenaud 29 Jan '19

29 Jan '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message ***************************************************************** VECoS 2019 Call for Papers 13th International Conference on Verification and Evaluation of Computer and Communication Systems October 7-9, 2019, Porto, Portugal Co-located with 23rd International Symposium on Formal Methods (FM 2019 – 3rd World Congress on Formal Methods) http://vecos-world.org/2019/ ***************************************************************** -- INVITED SPEAKERS -- * Ahmed Bouajjani, Université Paris Diderot (Paris VII), IRIF Laboratory, France * Ali Mili, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, USA -- IMPORTANT DATES -- All the deadlines are AoE (Anywhere on Earth) * Abstract deadline: 23 April 2019 * Papers deadline: 8 May 2019 * Paper notification: 11 June 2019 * Camera-ready deadline: 28 June 2019 * Conference: 7–9 October 2019 -- ABOUT VECoS -- The VECoS conference series focuses on the analysis of computer and communication systems, where functional and extra-functional properties are inter-related. VECoS encourages the cross-fertil- ization between the various formal verification and evaluation approaches, methods and techniques, especially those developed for concurrent and distributed hardware/software systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Abstraction techniques * Compositional verification * Correct-by-construction design * Rigorous system design * Equivalence checking * Model-checking * Parameterized verification * Performance and robustness evaluation * Probabilistic verification * QoS evaluation, planning and deployment * Dependability assessment techniques * RAMS (Reliability-Availability-Maintainability-Safety) assessment * Model-based Security assessment * Security protocols verification * Discrete-event and hybrid systems Modeling and Simulation * Supervisory control * Verification & validation of IoT * Verification & validation of safety-critical systems * Assessment for real-time systems * Worst-case execution time analysis Application areas of interest to VECoS include: adaptive systems, communication protocols, computer-supported collaborative work systems, cloud computing, cyber-physical systems, high-performance computing, internet of things, logistics systems, manufacturing of the future, mixed criticality systems, mobile and wireless networking, operations research, programming languages, real-time and embedded operating systems, service-oriented systems, telecommunication systems, ubiquitous systems, web services, wireless sensor networks and workflow systems. An overview of previous VECoS conferences can be found at: http://vecos-world.org/ VECoS 2019 will be held in October 7-9 in Porto, Portugal and will be co-located with the International Symposium on Formal Methods, FM 2019. -- GENERAL INFORMATION ON SUBMISSIONS -- Submitted papers must be no longer than 15 pages (including bibliography), written in English, presenting original work and not be submitted for publication elsewhere. Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vecos2019) using the LNCS format (version 2.20 or above). Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings. At least one author of each accepted paper must attend the conference and present the paper. The conference proceedings will be published in the Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions for a special issue of the Selected papers from the Conference will be considered for publication in extended and revised form in a special issue of an indexed international journal (ISSE: Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering or IJCCBS: International Journal of Critical Computer-Based Systems) -- ORGANIZATION -- Program Chairs * Pierre Ganty, IMDEA Software Institute, Madrid, Spain * Mohamed Kaaniche, LAAS-CNRS, Toulouse, France Publicity Chairs * Belgacem Ben Hedia, CEA-LIST, Saclay, France * Vladimir-Alexandru Paun, ENSTA ParisTech, Palaiseau, France For additional information, visit the conference website: http://vecos-world.org/2019/ ================================================================

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