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CFP: 2nd North American Workshop on Silicon Photonics for High Performance Computing (SPHPC19)
by Mahdi Nikdast 31 Mar '19

31 Mar '19

**Call For Participation** 2nd North American Workshop on High Performance Computing for High Performance Computing (SPHPC19) http://www.engr.colostate.edu/SPHPC/ May 29-30 2019 Stanley Hotel, Estes Park (Gateway to Rocky Mountains), Colorado **Registration** http://www.engr.colostate.edu/SPHPC/registration/ (Please see below for Student Travel Grant Opportunity) --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **About SPHPC** Silicon photonics technology has emerged as a promising solution to realize high performance computing (HPC) systems. Having various applications, including HPC, data centers, sensors and bio-sensing, aerospace, etc., it has attracted researchers and industries from various fields and backgrounds to explore potential benefits and overcome the challenges of this technology. As an emerging area, it demands multidisciplinary collaborations and contributions, from material engineering to realize low-loss CMOS compatible components to software design tools to explore the design space of the resulting complex devices and systems. The 2ndNorth American Workshop on Silicon Photonics for High Performance Computing (SPHPC) is bringing together experts in Silicon Photonics and in High Performance Computing (HPC architects, interconnect architects, HPC systems modeling) to discuss the needs for Silicon Photonics-based HPC interconnects, as well as the main challenges that must be addressed to accelerate their development. It is comprised of invited talks of the highest caliber from both academia and industry from different disciplines. This is the event for meeting professionals in the field while exchanging and exploring new ideas. **Keynotes** Tom Daspit, Mentor Graphics, USA Michael Haney, DoE/ARPA-E, USA Di Liang, HPE, USA **Confirmed Speakers (Complete list on the webpage: http://www.engr.colostate.edu/SPHPC/)** Benoit Charbonnier, CEA-LETI, France Tian Gu, MIT, USA Ian Karlin, LLNL, USA Seth Kruger, AIM Photonics, USA Takahiro Nakamura, PETRA, Japan James Pond, Lumerical, Canada Armin Tajalli, University of Utah, USA Jelena Vuckovic, Stanford, USA Mark Wade, Ayar Labs, USA Chi Xiong, IBM Watson Research, USA S. J. Ben Yoo, UC Davis, USA Aaron Zilkie, Rockley Photonics, USA Alireza Samani, UBC, Canada **Student Travel Grant and Poster Presentation (Sub. Deadline: April 10, 2019)** SPHPC19 welcomes Graduate Students and Postdoctoral Fellows working in the area of Silicon Photonics and High Performance Computing to attend the workshop. SPHPC19 will provide 10 student travel grants with free registrations. All the travel grant awardees will be invited to present a poster at SPHPC19. Please find more information on SPHPC19 webpage: http://www.engr.colostate.edu/SPHPC/student-travel-grant/ --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- **Organizing Committee** Mahdi Nikdast, Colorado State U, USA (Contact: Mahdi.Nikdast(a)colostate.edu) Sudeep Pasricha, Colorado State U, USA Gabriela Nicolescu, Polytech Montreal, CA Ashkan Seyedi, HPE Labs., USA Meisam Bahadori, U of Illinois, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mahdi Nikdast Assistant Professor Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering C103A - Walter Scott Jr. College of Engineering Colorado State University Fort Collins, CO 80523-1373 Office: +1 (970) 491-6401 Email: Mahdi.Nikdast(a)colostate.edu Homepage: http://www.engr.colostate.edu/~mnikdast/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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[CFP] ISPEC 2019: The 15th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience
by Shifeng Sun 31 Mar '19

31 Mar '19

Dear Colleagues, I hope this email finds you well. We cordially invite you to share your recent ideas by submitting your new research results to ISPEC 2019, which will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on November 26-28, 2019. We apologize for possible cross posting, and thanks for distributing the ISPEC'19 CFP to your colleagues/students. ========================= # ISPEC 2019 # 15th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience # http://ccs.research.utar.edu.my/ispec2019/ ========================= *Call for Papers:* The 15th International Conference on Information Security Practice and Experience (ISPEC 2019) will be held in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia on November 26-28, 2019. The conference will be organised by Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman (UTAR). The main goal of the conference is to promote research on new information security technologies, including their applications and their integration with IT systems in various vertical sectors. Previous ISPEC has taken place in Singapore (2005), Hangzhou, China (2006), Hong Kong, China (2007), Sydney, Australia (2008), Xi'an, China (2009), Seoul, Korea (2010), Guangzhou, China (2011), Hangzhou, China (2012), Lanzhou, China (2013), Fuzhou, China (2014), Beijing, China (2015), Zhangjiajie, China (2016), Melbourne, Australia (2017) and Tokyo, Japan (2018). For all sessions, the conference proceedings were published by Springer in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. Areas of interest for ISPEC 2019 include, but are not limited to: - Cryptology - Applied cryptography - Mobile security - Cloud security - Access control - Privacy enhanced technology - Viruses and malware - Software security - Database security - Web security - Operating system security - Intrusion detection - Big data security and privacy - Biometric Security - Implementation - Network security - Key management - Security and privacy in ubiquitous computing - Formal methods for security - Digital forensics - Security for critical infrastructures - Embedded systems security - Lightweight security - Smart grid security - Cyber security for urban transportation - Cyber-physical security - Cryptocurrency *Important Dates:* Submission Deadline: 8 June 2019 (15:59 UTC) Acceptance Notification: 29 July 2019 Camera-ready Copy Due: 3 September 2019 Conference: 26-28 November 2019 *Instructions for Authors:*Authors are invited to submit original papers. Submissions must not substantially duplicate work that any of the authors has published elsewhere or has submitted in parallel for consideration of any other conference with proceeding or any journal. The submission must be anonymous, with no author names, affiliations, acknowledgements, or obvious references. Original contributions are invited up to 16 pages in length (single column) excluding the bibliography and appendices and up to 20 pages in total, using at least 11-point fonts and with reasonable margins. Submissions not meeting the submission guidelines risk rejection without consideration of their merits. Authors of accepted papers must guarantee that at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present their work. Submitted papers should follow the formatting instructions of the Springer LNCS Style. Please kindly refer to Springer LNCS Author Information < https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… > for style and formatting guidelines. *Conference Proceedings:* The conference proceedings will be published by Springer-Verlag in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. *Journal Special Issues: * Selected papers presented at the ISPEC 2019 will be invited to consider submission (after significant extension) for special issues in the following journals: (TBC) *Honored Chair* Bok-Min Goi, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia *General Chair* Wun-She Yap, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia *Organization Committee* Local Chair: Denis C.K. Wong, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia Finance Chair: Yee-Kai Tee, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia Sponsorship Chair: Wai-Kong Lee, Universiti Tunku Abdul Rahman, Malaysia Web Chair: Ji-Jian Chin, Multimedia University, Malaysia Publicity Co-Chairs: Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Donghong Qin, Guangxi University for Nationalities, China Shifeng Sun, Monash University, Australia *Program Co-Chairs* Swee-Huay Heng, Multimedia University, Malaysia Javier Lopez, University of Malaga, Spain *Program Committee:* Man Ho Au, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong Joonsang Baek, University of Wollongong, Australia Aniello Castiglione, University of Salerno, Italy David Chadwick, University of Kent, UK Jiageng Chen, Central China Normal University, China Xiaofeng Chen, Xidian University, China Kim-Kwang Raymond Choo, The University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Sherman S. M. Chow, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Josep Domingo-Ferrer, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Catalonia Jose Maria de Fuentes, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Carmen Fernández-Gago, University of Malaga, Spain José M. Fernandez, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada Dieter Gollmann, Hamburg University of Technology, Germany & National University of Singapore, Singapore Dimitris Gritzalis, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Stefanos Gritzalis, University of the Aegean, Greece Gerhard Hancke, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Debiao He, Wuhan University, China Shoichi Hirose, University of Fukui, Japan Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China Julian Jang-Jaccard, Massey University, Nеw Zеаlаnd Hiroaki Kikuchi, Meiji University, Japan Kwangjo Kim, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Noboru Kunihiro, The University of Tokyo, Japan Miroslaw Kutylowski, Wroclaw University of Science and Technology, Poland Costas Lambrinoudakis, University of Piraeus, Greece Albert Levi, Sabanci University, Turkey Shujun Li, University of Kent, UK Tieyan Li, Huawei International Pte Ltd, Singapore Yingjiu Li, Singapore Management University, Singapore Kaitai Liang, University of Surrey, UK Joseph Liu, Monash University, Australia Zhe Liu, Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics, China Giovanni Livraga, University of Milan, Italy Jiqiang Lu, Beihang University, China Rongxing Lu, University of New Brunswick, Canada Tzu-Chuen Lu, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taiwan Di Ma, University of Michigan, USA Weizhi Meng, Technical University of Denmark, Denmark Chris Mitchell, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK David Naccache, École Normale Supérieure, France Takeshi Okamoto, Tsukuba University of Technology, Japan Kazumasa Omote, University of Tsukuba, Japan Pedro Peris-Lopez, Carlos III University of Madrid, Spain Günther Pernul, Universität Regensburg, Germany Raphael C.-W. Phan, Multimedia University, Malaysia Josef Pieprzyk, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Geong Sen Poh, Singtel, Singapore C. Pandu Rangan, Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Na Ruan, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Sushmita Ruj, Indian Statistical Institute, India Pierangela Samarati, University of Milan, Italy Jun Shao, Zhejiang Gongshang University, China Miguel Soriano, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Chunhua Su, University of Aizu, Japan Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Syh-Yuan Tan, Newcastle University, UK Qiang Tang, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Cong Wang, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Ding Wang, Peking University, China Guilin Wang, Huawei International Pte Ltd, Singapore Qianhong Wu, Beihang University, China Shouhuai Xu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Toshihiro Yamauchi, Okayama University, Japan Wei-Chuen Yau, Xiamen University Malaysia, Malaysia Kuo-Hui Yeh, National Dong Hwa University, Taiwan Xun Yi, RMIT University, Australia Yong Yu, Shaanxi Normal University, China Tsz Hon Yuen, The University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Yuexin Zhang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Jianying Zhou, Singapore University of Technology and Design, Singapore Sencun Zhu, The Pennsylvania State University, USA ========================= Best regards, -- Dr. Shi-Feng Sun (孙士锋) Email: shifeng.sun(a)monash.edu Phone: +61-3-99058074 Cybersecurity Lab, https://www.monash.edu/cybersecurity-lab Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University, Clayton, VIC 3800 Australia

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IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics - Call for Workshop Proposals
by Sanmukh Kuppannagari 31 Mar '19

31 Mar '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** Call for Workshop Proposals for HiPC 2019 ********************************************************************** 26th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics December 17-20, 2019, Hyderabad, India https://hipc.org/ HiPC 2019 Call for Workshop Proposals The 26th annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2019) will be held in Hyderabad, India, December 17-20, 2019. Complementing the main technical program, HiPC workshops serve to broaden the technical scope of the conference in emerging areas of high performance computing, networking, data analytics, and their applications. Held on the first day of the conference, HiPC workshops will typically be half-day events although proposals for full-day workshops will also be considered. The papers accepted for presentation at the HiPC 2019 workshops will be included in the workshops volume of the conference proceedings with a separate ISBN (HiPCW 2019), and will be distributed online. Post-conference, papers presented at the conference and eligible for inclusion will be made available to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Deadlines and Important Dates * Workshop proposal submissions: April 8, 2019 * Workshop proposal notifications: April 30, 2019 * Workshop Website and CFP: May 15, 2019 Workshop organizers should further note the deadlines for their workshop organization to coordinate the proceedings of the main conference: * Notification of Workshop papers accepted October 14th, 2019 * Workshop Camera ready October 28th, 2019 * Final submission of workshop program and materials and full workshop websites online: November 7, 2019 * Workshop date: December 17, 2019 WHAT/WHERE TO SUBMIT Potential HiPC workshop organizers should submit a workshop proposal that contains the items listed below. The proposal should also specify steps to be taken to develop a high quality program committee and attract high quality submissions to place the workshop(s) in a competitive international landscape. Workshops will be held on the first day of the conference, i.e., December 17th. Workshops may be proposed as a half day program, running for 3 hours in the morning or afternoon, or as a full day program. In case of the latter, organizers should explain how they will attract sufficient participation to develop a full day program of peer reviewed papers. Proposals to organize a workshop at HiPC 2019 should include: * Description: title; topics to be addressed; goals; relevance and significance to the main conference. * Names, affiliations and contact information for organizers. * Plans for soliciting submissions, and the process for selecting papers to be presented at the workshop and included in the workshop proceedings. * Tentative names of Keynote/ invited speakers * Tentative PROGRAM outline identifying key elements such as panels, discussion sessions, poster sessions, invited talks, etc. * Tentative list of PC members to be recruited * Detailed timeline of the peer-review process Workshop Themes ==================== The topics of the proposed workshop should complement those listed in the main conference call for papers.Each workshop should be centered around a coherent theme or topic related to HPC and/or scalable data science; We particularly encourage workshop themes that relate to emerging areas and/or emerging application contexts of societal value (e.g., agriculture, energy, sustainability, workforce development). Workshop proposals will need to clearly state the purpose and the applications of the techniques in the abstract. Workshop proposers will also need to clearly identify how they are going to attract papers and speakers. The proposal should not exceed three pages and should be submitted as a pdf file to the HiPC Workshops Chairs at workshops(a)hipc.org . For additional information about organizing an HiPC workshop, see the FAQs sheet on the website. WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS Vandana Janeja, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Antonino Tumeo Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

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CFP: 1st Workshop on Legacy Software Refactoring for Performance (co-held with ISC19)
by Mohamed Wahib 31 Mar '19

31 Mar '19

REFAC’19 First International Workshop on Legacy Software Refactoring for Performance (REFAC 2019) https://refac-ws.gitlab.io/2019/ CALL FOR PAPERS The First International Workshop on Legacy Software Refactoring for Performance (REFAC 2019) will be held in conjunction with The ISC High Performance Conference (ISC 2019), https://www.isc-hpc.com Messe Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany June 16-20 2019 Final submission Deadline: April 30, 2019 SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES The first International Workshop on Legacy Software REFACtoring for Performance is the first event of its kind that is dedicated to the much-needed shift in focus from hardware to software to achieve performance gains. Modernizing hardware has too long been the primary method of accelerating legacy software, and close to half of the expected performance improvement in legacy codes can be attributed to improve processor technology. More than half of this improvement was based on Moore’s law and its observation that transistors will continue to become smaller every few (originally two) years. The remaining hardware improvements came from architectural innovations, such as deeper cache hierarchies, the migration to more exotic architectures (e.g. GPUs), or the utilization of larger and wider vector-units (SIMD), as well as scaling the HPC systems up by giving them more processors and cores. Unfortunately, we are no longer seeing the consistent technology scaling that Gordon Moore observed. Instead, the technology scaling has significantly slowed down, and is expected to continue only for a few more years. Consequently, in the so-called Post-Moore era, the "performance road" forks three-ways, yielding the following alternatives: (1) architectural innovations will attempt to close the performance gap, and an explosion of diverging architectures tailored for specific science domains will emerge, (2) alternative materials and technologies (e.g. non-CMOS technologies) allow the spirit of Moore’s law to continue for a foreseeable future, or (3) we abandon the von-Neumann paradigm together and move to a neuromorphic or quantum-like computer (which, in time, might or might not become practical). Independent on what direction we will end up taking in the future, the following will hold: software and algorithmic optimization will be transferable to the first two out of the three identified directions. It is these architecture-oblivious software optimizations that are the primary scope of the proposed workshop. The REFAC Workshop interdisciplinary topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - All types of general-purpose processor legacy-software optimizations for HPC, - Changes to (collective) communication algorithms or implementations to enable the use of different numerical methods (for example: Lagrangian vs. Eulerian), - Accelerating of pre-/post-processing in scientific workflows or axillary tools used in HPC environments, - Improved maintainability and performance through the use of existing production libraries, - Revisiting and applying modern compiler techniques, performance analysis tools, moderate usage of OpenMP pragmas, etc., for performance gains, - Manual code refactoring, such as loop transformations or changing of data structures, to acknowledge the shifting ratio in memory vs. compute capabilities of modern architectures, and - Using approximate computing, mixed precision, or adaptive precision wherever possible. INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above topics. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. The submitted paper must not exceed 10 pages (inclusive of figures and references) and must be formatted according to the Springer LNCS (Lecture Notes in Computer Science) rules. Guidelines and templates can be found at the URL: http://www.springer.com/it/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gui… To submit a paper, please use the link to EasyChair (starting from April 1st) which will be posted on: https://refac-ws.gitlab.io/2019/ under the Submission tab. Only papers submitted through the electronic system and strictly adhering to the relevant format will be considered for reviewing and publication. If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organizers. IMPORTANT DATES April 18, 2019: Deadline for paper submission May 10, 2019: Notification of Acceptance. May 31, 2019: Submission deadline for the camera-ready version June 16-20, 2019: ISC 2019 Conference WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Mohamed Wahib AIST/Tokyo Open Innovation Laboratory, Tokyo, Japan Email: mohamed.attia(a)aist.go.jp Jens Domke RIKEN-CCS, Kobe, Japan Email: domke.j.aa(a)m.titech.ac.jp Artur Podobas RIKEN-CCS, Kobe, Japan Email: artur.podobas(a)riken.jp Technical Program Committee: Andreas Knüpfer ZIH, TUD Anshu Dubey ANL, U. Chicago Barna Bihari LC (LLNL) Bernd Mohr JSC, FZJ Dali Wang CCSI, ORNL Daniel Molka DLR Didem Unat Koç University Guido Juckeland HZDR Hisashi Yashiro RIKEN-CCS Saurabh Chawdhary ANL Seyong Lee ORNL

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Auto-DaSP 2019 Workshop at Euro-Par 2019
by Valeria Cardellini 31 Mar '19

31 Mar '19

************************************************************************** Auto-DaSP 2019: Euro-Par 2019 International Workshop Autonomic Solutions for Parallel and Distributed Data Stream Processing Date: 26-27, August 2019 Location: Gottingen, Germany Workshop web page: http://www.di.unipi.it/auto-dasp-19/ Euro-Par web page: http://2019.euro-par.org/ ************************************************************************** * Call for Papers The ever-growing expansion of smart devices and sensors increases the amount of data flows that have to be processed in real-time. This extends to a wide spectrum of applications with high socio-economic impact, like systems for healthcare, emergency management, surveillance, intelligent transportation and many others. Data Stream Processing systems (DSPs) usually get in input high-volume of data at high frequency, and process the application queries by respecting strict performance requirements in terms of throughput and response time. The maintenance of these constraints is often fundamental despite an unplanned or unexpected workload variability or changes due to the dynamism of the execution environment. High-volume data streams can be efficiently handled through the adoption of novel high-performance solutions targeting today's highly parallel hardware. This comprises multicore-based platforms and heterogeneous systems equipped with GPU and FPGA co-processors, aggregated at rack level by low-latency/high-bandwidth networks. The capacity of these highly-dense/highly-parallel rack-scale solutions has grown remarkably over the years, offering tens of thousands of heterogeneous cores and multiple terabytes of aggregated RAM reaching computing, memory and storage capacity of a large warehouse-scale cluster of just few years ago. However, despite this large computing power, high-performance data streaming solutions need to be equipped with flexible and autonomic logics in order to adapt the framework/application configuration to rapidly changing execution conditions and workloads. This turns out in mechanisms and strategies to adapt the queries and operator placement policies, intra-operator parallelism degree, scheduling strategies, load shedding rate and so forth, and fosters novel interdisciplinary approaches that exploit Control Theory and Artificial Intelligence methods. The Auto-DaSP workshop is willing to attract contributions in the area of Data Stream Processing with particular emphasis on supports for highly parallel platforms and autonomic features to deal with variable workloads. A partial list of interesting topics of this workshop is the following: - Parallel models for streaming applications - Parallel sliding-window query processing - Streaming parallel patterns - Autonomic intra-operator parallel solutions - Strategies for dynamic operator and query placement - Elastic techniques to cope with burstiness and workload variations - Integration of elasticity support in stream processing frameworks - Stream processing on heterogeneous and reconfigurable hardware - Stream scheduling strategies and load balancing - Adaptive load shedding techniques - Techniques to deal with out-of-order data streams - Power- and energy-aware management of parallel stream processing systems - Applications and use cases in various domains including Smart Cities, IoT, Finance, Social Media, and Healthcare * Submission Instructions Submissions in PDF format should be between 10-12 pages in the Springer LNCS style, which can be downloaded from the Springer Web site. The 12 pages limit is a hard limit while the minimum bound of 10 pages is needed to see the paper published in the formal Springer proceedings. It includes everything (text, figures, references) and will be strictly enforced by the submission system. Complete LaTeX sources must be provided for accepted papers. All submitted research papers will be peer-reviewed. Only contributions that are not submitted elsewhere or currently under review will be considered. Accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, published by Springer in the ARCoSS/LNCS series. Authors of accepted papers will have to sign a Springer copyright form. * Papers have to be submitted through EasyChair. * Special Issue To be announced. * Important Dates May 10, 2019 Paper submission deadline June 28, 2019 Paper acceptance notifications July 22, 2019 Camera-ready due (informal proceedings) September 27, 2019 Camera-ready due August 26-27, 2019 Workshop days (exact date not decided, yet) * Workshop Co-Chairs - Valeria Cardellini, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy - Gabriele Mencagli, University of Pisa, Italy - Massimo Torquati, University of Pisa, Italy If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organizers. Best regards, Valeria Cardellini, Gabriele Mencagli and Massimo Torquati

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[Deadline extended to Apr. 3] The First International Workshop on Network Meets Intelligent Computations (NMIC)
by lrd＠nict.go.jp 31 Mar '19

31 Mar '19

The First International Workshop on Network Meets Intelligent Computations (NMIC) https://www.eee.hku.hk/~kcleung/service/NMIC/2019/cfp.html Organized in conjunction with The 39th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems (ICDCS 2019), 7 July - 10 July 2019, Dallas, Texas, USA The new computation technologies, such as big data analytics, modern machine learning technology, artificial intelligence (AI), blockchain, and security processing, have the great potential to be embedded into network to enable it to be intelligent and trustworthy. On the other hand, Information-Centric Networking (ICN), software-defined network ( SDN), network function virtualization (NFV), network slicing, and data center network have emerged as the novel networking paradigms for fast and efficient delivering and retrieving data. Against this backdrop, there is a strong trend to move the computations from the cloud to not only the edges but also the resource-sufficient networking nodes, which triggers the convergence between the emerging networking concepts and the new computation technologies. The ultimate goals for networking researches include intelligence, trust, and efficiency, which can be enhanced by or benefit for the intelligent computations. There are many open challenges for the emerging network concepts to meet the intelligent computations: what computations should be embedded; which node should be enforced with the computation; how can the computations, such as big data analytics, security, AI, machine learning, blockchain, be seamlessly embedded into the network and enable it to be efficient, trustworthy and accountable; how to fast locate the required and suitable computation nodes; how to efficiently transfer data through series of computation nodes; how to efficiently collect and process the big networking data; how to design networking architectures and protocols to easily support the efficient and diverse computations; how to achieve ultra-low latency communications with distributed computations; and how to migrate from the Internet to the computation- enabled network. The NMIC workshop 2019 solicits the papers that address the technical challenges and applications of the distributed computations for networking, the intelligent computations supported by the novel networking technologies, and the enforcement of series of computations. The areas of interests include, but are not limited to, the following: Networking architecture and protocols for integrating caching, computation, and communications Machine learning, data mining and big data analytics in networking In-network computation for future networks, inter-data center networking and 5G Information-centric networking with/for computations Intelligent Internet edge integrating edge, fog, and mobile edge computing with networking Intelligent service function/computation chaining Security, privacy, trust, accountability for/with intelligent computation networking Collection and processing for big network data Distributed computations for network anomaly detection and security Integrating Blockchain with networking Network function virtualization, software-defined network, and network slicing for distributed computations Networking computations for big data, streaming, IoT, and AR/VR In-network data computations for network measurement and management Distributed artificial intelligence with/for networking Data modelling and applications of networking Big data networking in healthcare, V2V, smart cities, industry and other applications Selected papers will be recommended to EURASIP Journal on Wireless Communications and Networking or IEEE Network Magazine for potential publications. Submission Procedure All submissions should follow the IEEE 8.5? x 11? Two-Column Format. Each submission can have up to 6 pages. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their papers at the workshop. Submission link: https://easychair.org/cfp/ICDCS2019 Submission Method 1. Click the ICDCS 2019 CFP webpage: https://easychair.org/cfp/ICDCS2019 2. Click the submission link 3. Login and then click "enter as an author" 4. Select "Network Meets Intelligent Computations" Committee: Technical Program Chairs: Dijiang Huang, Arizona State University, USA Ruidong Li, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan Michele Nogueira, Federal University of Paraná, Brazil Web Chair Ka-cheong Leung, Hongkong University Publicity Chair Moayad Aloqaily, Gnowit Inc. Ottawa, Canada Ouns Bouachir, Zayed University, UAE Steering Committee: Jie Li, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Nirwan Ansari, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Hitoshi Asaeda, NICT, Japan Xiaoming Fu, University of Gottingen, Germany Important Dates New Paper submission deadline: April 3, 2019 Author notification: April 25, 2019 Camera ready: May 10, 2019 Conference and Workshops: July 7-10, 2019

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Call For Papers [Extended Deadline - April 10]: Fifth International Workshop on Communication Architectures for HPC, Big Data, Deep Learning and Clouds at Extreme Scale (ExaComm 2019)
by Hari Subramoni 30 Mar '19

30 Mar '19

======================================================================== Call For Papers Fifth International Workshop on Communication Architectures for HPC, Big Data, Deep Learning and Clouds at Extreme Scale (ExaComm 2019) to be held in conjunction with ISC 2019, June 16 - 20, 2019 Frankfurt, Germany http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/exacomm/ ======================================================================== Extreme Scale computing in HPC, Big Data, Deep Learning, and Clouds are marked by multiple-levels of hierarchy and heterogeneity ranging from the compute units (many-core CPUs, GPUs, APUs etc) to storage devices (NVMe, NVMe over Fabrics etc) to the network interconnects (InfiniBand, High-Speed Ethernet, Omni-Path etc). Owing to the plethora of heterogeneous communication paths with different cost models expected to be present in extreme scale systems, data movement is seen as the soul of different challenges for exascale computing. On the other hand, advances in networking technologies such as NoCs (like NVLink2 and Stormlake), RDMA enabled networks and the likes are constantly pushing the envelope of research in the field of novel communication and computing architectures for extreme scale computing. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and software/hardware designers from academia, industry and national laboratories who are involved in creating network-based computing solutions for extreme scale architectures. The objectives of this workshop will be to share the experiences of the members of this community and to learn the opportunities and challenges in the design trends for exascale communication architectures. ExaComm 2019 will be held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing (ISC 2019), Frankfurt, Germany. Topics ------ ExaComm 2019 welcomes original submissions in a range of areas, including but not limited to: * Scalable communication protocols * High-performance networks * Runtime/middleware designs * Impact of high-performance networks on Deep Learning / Machine Learning * Impact of high-performance networks on Big Data * Novel hardware/software co-design * High-performance communication solutions for accelerator-based computing * Power-aware techniques and designs * Performance evaluations * Quality of Service (QoS) * Resource virtualization and SR-IOV Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. Important Dates --------------- Technical paper submission deadline : 11:59 PM AoE Friday, April 10, 2019 Author notification : Wednesday, May 1, 2019 Conference-ready deadline : Friday, June 14, 2019 Workshop : Thursday, June 20, 2019 Camera-ready deadline : Monday, July 22, 2019 Paper Submission and Registration --------------------------------- Abstracts and papers need to be submitted via the EasyChair conference system. EasyChair URL for ExaComm'19: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=exacomm2019 We request the authors to use the LNCS style (single column format) using either the LaTeX document class or Word template. For details on the author guidelines, please refer to Springer's website (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) Incorrectly formatted papers will be excluded from the reviewing process. Submission must be made as a single PDF file which includes all figures and bibliography. Submissions are accepted under the following two categories: Full Paper : 12 pages with all figures and bibliography in the LNCS format Short Paper : 8 pages with all figures and bibliography in the LNCS format 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. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a participant in the workshop and present the paper at the workshop. 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; and f) Relevance to Workshop. Every effort will be made to ensure that each paper receives multiple reviews. The papers accepted to be presented in ExaComm'19 will be published in a separate post-conference joint workshop proceeding volume, published online with Springer Publishing. The camera-ready versions need to be submitted via the EasyChair conference management system. The link to the submission site will be provided soon. Please contact the Program Chairs for any questions/clarifications Proceedings Information ----------------------- The papers accepted to be presented in ExaComm'19 will be published in a separate, post-conference joint ISC workshop proceedings volume, published online with Springer Publishing. It serves the purpose to share your paper during the workshop day and to foster discussions. These PDFs will be deleted a week after the conference. You may adjust your paper for the camera-ready version after the workshop day and improve it based on the feedback received. The process for preparing the conference-ready and camera-ready versions of accepted papers are described below. A) Deadlines ------------ There are two deadlines you have to consider: Conference-ready deadline : Friday, June 14, 2019 Camera-ready deadline : Monday, July 22, 2019 The conference-ready paper version will be hosted during the conference and the link will be shared with workshop attendees. It serves the purpose to share your paper during the workshop day and to foster discussions. These PDFs will be deleted a week after the conference. You may adjust your paper for the camera-ready version after the workshop day and improve it based on the feedback received. The camera-ready version will be prepared for publication with Springer. B) Formatting Guidelines for camera-ready submission ---------------------------------------------------- Papers need to be formatted according to Springer's single column LNCS style (see http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 for LaTeX and Word templates). For the camera-ready version, the copyright must be transferred to Springer (see D) C) Preparation of the conference-ready proceedings -------------------------------------------------- The papers must be uploaded to EasyChair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iscworkshops2019) by the deadline. When registering your paper, select your workshop and enter the proper title. You have to fill all author information properly as this field will be used to automatically create the proceedings. You may fill a dummy into the keywords. For the conference-ready version, only the PDF is needed. The proceeding chairs will then download the PDFs for the conference-ready publication. D) Preparation of the camera-ready proceedings ---------------------------------------------- After the conference, the proceedings chairs will modify the proceeding settings on EasyChair and contact you directly using the email function from EasyChair to instruct the final steps. For the camera-ready version, the copyright must be transferred to Springer; an adjusted copyright form will be provided to you after the conference. - In particular, it allows authors self-archiving of the paper Please contact the Program Chairs for any questions/clarifications. ExaComm'19 Workshop Organizers ------------------------------ Hari Subramoni, The Ohio State University Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, The Ohio State University Program Committee ----------------- * Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories * Hans Eberle, NVIDIA * Brice Goglin, INRIA, France * Dror Goldenberg, Mellanox Technologies * R. Govindarajan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India * Ryan Grant, Sandia National Laboratories * Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China * Sven Karlsson, Technical University of Denmark, Lyngby, Denmark * Takeshi Nanri, University of Kyushu, Japan * Sebastien Rumley, Columbia University * Martin Schulz, Technical University of Munich, Munich, Germany * John M. Shalf, NERSC/LBL * Tor Skeie, Simula Research Laboratory, Norway * Xin Yuan Florida State University * Jidong Zhai, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Further Information ------------------- See the ExaComm'19 website at http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/exacomm/ Thanks, The ExaComm'19 Organizing Committee.

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2nd Call for Papers: EuroMPI 2019, Zürich, Switzerland
by Martin Schulz 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

EuroMPI 2019 Zuerich, Switzerland, September 10-13, 2019 Deadline: April 15th, 2019 Call for Papers =============== EuroMPI 2019 will continue to focus on not just MPI, but also extensions or alternative interfaces for high-performance homogeneous/heterogeneous/hybrid systems, benchmarks, tools, parallel I/O, fault tolerance, and parallel applications using MPI and other interfaces. Through the presentation of contributed papers, posters and invited talks, the meeting will provide ample opportunities for attendees to interact and share ideas and experiences to contribute to the improvement and furthering of message-passing and related parallel programming paradigms. We invite high-quality, full paper submissions on all topics related to message-passing parallel programming with MPI and related or competing models. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Implementation Issues and Algorithms: Efficient and scalable implementations of message-passing constructs. * Architectures and systems, Towards exascale computing, Efficient use of accelerators and other features of modern, large-scale systems, Hardware-software interaction. * Programming models and paradigms for large-scale, parallel, distributed memory systems, hiearchical and hybrid models, partitioned global address space (PGAS) models. * Extensions to and shortcomings of MPI, alternative interfaces and solutions. * New, parallel (MPI-)I/O mechanisms optimizations. * Hybrid and heterogeneous programming with MPI and other interfaces. * Message passing interface support for data-intensive parallel applications. * Fault tolerance in message-passing implementations and systems. * MPI parallel programming in clouds and non-dedicated systems. * Applications and Performance: Performance evaluation for MPI and MPI-based applications * Automatic performance tuning of applications and implementations. * Verification of message-passing applications and protocols. * Applications using message passing, in particular in computational science and scientific computing. * Parallel algorithms in the message-passing paradigm. Papers accepted for presentation as full papers will be published by ACM and appear in separate proceedings the ACM Digital Library. We also invite submissions of short papers on the same topics that are suitable for poster presentation at the conference. Papers that are not accepted for presentation as full papers may be recommended for poster presentation. Poster papers will be published informally but are not intended to appear in the regular ACM Digital Library proceedings. Papers will be reviewed for quality, originality, clarity, correctness, technical strength, and relevance to the topics of the meeting. Each paper will receive at least 3 reviews from members of the program committee. Reviews are blind (but not double-blind), the names of the authors will be seen by the program committee. Among the papers selected for presentation, a few of the best papers will, as has been the tradition for the last couple of years, be selected by the programme comittee and recommended for publication in a EuroMPI 2019 Special Issue of the Parallel Computing journal, see https://www.journals.elsevier.com/parallel-computing/. These papers will go through a separate round of reviews, and are intended as extended, more polished archival versions of the conference versions. Important Dates =============== Submission server opens: January 14th, 2019 Full paper Submission: April 15th, 2019 (AOE) Notification: July 1st, 2019 Camera-ready: August 5th, 2019 Conference dates: September 11th-13th, 2019 See http://eurompi19.inf.ethz.ch/call for updates. Submission Guidelines ===================== To be considered, papers must be formatted according to the "sigconf" style in the ACM 2017 Template and up to 10 pages in length (shorter papers are welcome) in pdf-format. The recommended length of poster papers is two pages. Submissions (regular papers and posters) will be handled via easychair. The page limit includes figures, tables, and appendices, but does not include references, for which there is no page limit. Margins and font sizes should not be modified. Authors should submit their work through the Euro MPI 2019 Submission Site at easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eurompi2019. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by ACM-ICPS.

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[CFP] [EXTENDED_DEADLINE] DRMEC@HPCS2019 (International Workshop on Dependable and Resilient Many-Core and Exascale Computing)
by Thomas Ropars 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

## CALL FOR PAPERS [We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] 11th International Workshop on Dependable and Resilient Many-Core and Exascale Computing (DRMEC 2019: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops/workshop01-drmc) Organized as part of the 17th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2019: http://hpcs2019.cisedu.info/home) ### Important dates: * Paper Submission Deadline: April 8, 2019. [Last extension] * Acceptance Notification: April 22, 2019. * Conference Dates: July 15 - 19, 2019. ### Scope Computing systems with a large number of processing units are increasingly common, both in the form of processors employing multiple execution cores (e.g., multi-core CPUs, GPUs, accelerators), or computing clusters with a large number of nodes. These many-core architectures bring up new capabilities, opportunities, as well as challenges. As the number of cores increases, so does the probability to have faults, both due to hardware issues (e.g., physical defects introduced during fabrication), software problems (e.g., a single crashed process bringing down the whole computation) or communication issues in the network infrastructure. The same can be said about the anticipated exascale computing systems. This workshop focuses on software and/or hardware solutions to dependability, resilience, and fault-tolerance in multi- and many-core systems as well as in exascale computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Dependable, Fault-Tolerant and resilient Many-Core Design * Hardware and Software Debug Facilities * Many-Core Programming and Optimization for Dependability * Formal Techniques for Dependable HW/SW Design * Fault-tolerant Many-Core Runtime Systems * Fault-tolerant Programming Models for Many-Core Systems * Case Studies of HW/SW failures in Many-Core systems * Silent Error Detection and Mitigation in Many-Core Systems * Solutions Based on Non-Volatile Memory for Many-Core Dependability * Dependability, Resilience and Fault Tolerance in Exascale Systems * Virtualization/Containers for Dependability * Fault-Tolerant HW/SW Co-Design * Algorithmic-based Fault Tolerance for Many-Core systems * System-level Approaches to Error Detection and Fault Tolerance at Large Scale ### Instructions for paper submission - Paper submissions must be in PDF format and should not exceed 8 double-column pages (including references). - 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. Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. ### Organization Committee - Leonardo Bautista-Gomez, BSC - Esteban Meneses, CeNAT & TEC - Thomas Ropars, UGA ### Program Committee - Max Baird, Heriot-Watt University. - Prasanna Balaprakash, MCS Division, Argonne National Laboratory. - Julien Bigot, Maison de la Simulation, CEA. - Amina Guermouche, Telecom Sud-Paris. - Ignacio Laguna, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. - Nuria Losada, Universidade da Coruña. - Harshitha Menon, Lawrence Livermore National Lab. - Xiang Ni, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign. - Konstantinos Parasyris, Barcelona Supercomputing Center. - Laércio L. Pilla, LRI, Univ. Paris-Sud - CNRS.

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Call for Papers: IEEE SC2 2019 (Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Nov. 18-21, 2019) (Early submission due - May 30, 2019)
by C.-H. Hsu 29 Mar '19

29 Mar '19

The 9th IEEE International Symposium on Cloud and Service Computing Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Nov. 18-21, 2019 http://www.cs.ccu.edu.tw/~conference/sc2-2019/ Dear Colleagues: We cordially invite you to share your latest research results related to big data analytics and intelligence at the IEEE SC2 2019 conference. --------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------------------- The 'Cloud' is a natural evolution of distributed computing and the widespread adaption of virtualization and Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA). Services computing is a new cross-discipline subject that covers the science and technology needed to bridge the gap between business services and IT services. In cloud computing, IT-related capabilities and resources are provided as services, via the Internet and on-demand, accessible without requiring detailed knowledge of the underlying technology. SC2 2019 is an important forum for researchers and industry practitioners to exchange information regarding advancements in the state of art and practice of IT-driven cloud computing technologies and services, as well as to identify emerging research topics and define the future directions of cloud and services computing. IEEE SC2 2019 welcomes paper submissions on innovative work from researchers in academia industry and government describing original research work in Big Data. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version (with at least 30% new material) for review and publication in special issues of international journals. IEEE SC2 2019 will be held on Nov. 18-21, 2019, co-located with IEEE DataCom 2019, IEEE SOCA 2019 and IOV 2019, in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cloud architecture - Cloud OS, middleware, and toolkits - Fog / Edge computing - Blockchain, Cryptocurrencies and Contracts - Cloud storage architecture - Big data infrastructure, systems, methodologies, and applications - Virtualization techniques - Resource provision, monitoring, and scheduling - Privacy and access control for cloud computing - Performance evaluation and modeling measurement for cloud computing - Programming models for building cloud applications - Networking in cloud computing - Security, privacy and trustworthy in clouds - Security, privacy and trustworthy for service oriented architectures and systems - Energy efficient hardware and software solutions - High availability and reliability - Large scale cloud applications - Internet/web computing and data mining - Volunteer and utility computing - Green and pervasive computing - Service oriented architecture - Discovery of services and data in cloud computing infrastructures - Foundations of services computing - Services-centric business models - Business process integration and management --------------------------------------- PUBLICATION HIGHLIGHTS --------------------------------------- IEEE CS proceedings, indexed by - IEEE Xplore - Scopus - Compendex EI - ACM Digital Library - DBLP - Google Scholar Extended version of the selected papers will be invited for publication in prestigious international journals. ---------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- Tutorial/Workshop/Special Session Proposal Due: April 30, 2019 Research Article (early track): Paper Submission May 30, 2019 Author Notification June 15, 2019 Research Article (regular track): Paper Submission July 20, 2019 Author Notification August 31, 2019 Poster/Special Session: Paper Submission September 10, 2019 Author Notification September 26, 2019 Registration Due: October 10, 2019 Camera ready submission: October 20, 2019 Official Invitation Letter will be issued upon completion of registration ------------------------------------------ PAPER FORMAT AND SUBMISSION ------------------------------------------ Authors are invited to submit their original research work that has not previously been submitted or published in any other venue. Papers should be prepared in IEEE CS format and submitted via The EasyChair system. IEEE formatting information: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html - Proposals for organizing tutorials, workshops and special sessions need to be submitted to the Workshops Chair of the conference. A proposal should include title, theme, scope and main presenters/organizers. - Research paper (8 pages) should explore a specific technology problem and propose a complete solution to it, with experimental results. - Works-in-Progess (WIP) (6 pages) papers are expected to present either work currently in progress or less developed but highly innovative ideas. - Demo/Poster papers (4 pages) must describe working systems and be related to SC2. These systems may be innovative prototype implementations or mature systems that use related technology. Papers/proposals need to be submitted to the Demo/Poster Chair. - Workshop and Special Session papers need to be submitted to the corresponding workshops and special sessions Chairs. All accepted papers in the main tracks, workshops, special sessions and demos/posters will be published in an IEEE Computer Society proceedings. Extended versions of selected excellent papers will be considered for publication in special issues of prestige journals (SCI/EI indexed). ------------------------------- BEST PAPER AWARDS ------------------------------- The award committee will select Best Paper/Poster Award(s) and present the winners with an actual frame Award Certificate at the conference banquet. ---------------------------------- ORGANIZING COMMITTEES ---------------------------------- GENERAL CHAIRS Pangfeng Liu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Patrick C. K. Hung, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Canada PROGRAM CHAIRS Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Zibin Zheng, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Workshop Chairs Zhikui Chen, Dalian University of Technology, China Demo & Poster Chair Wen-Hua Liao, Tatung University, Taiwan Publication Chair Li-Hsing Yen, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan Award Chair Yu-Shang Chang, National Taipei University, Taiwan Publicity Chair Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan Yuri Demchenko, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Richard Lomotey, Penn State University, USA Sheng-Lung Peng, National Dong Hua University, Taiwan Advisory Committee Anna Kobusinska, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Shu Tao, IBM Research, USA Shangguang Wang, BUPT, China Lizhe Wang, China University of Geosciences, China Saeid Abolfazli, University of Malaya, Malaysia Pascal Bouvry, Univ. of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Keqin Li, State University of New York, USA Ren-Hung Hwang, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Daqing Zhang, Institute Mines-Télécom/Télécom SudParis, France Chung-Nan Lee, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Taiwan Michael Sheng, Macquarie University, Australia Hong Shen, University of Adelaide, Australia Steering Committee Hamid Arabnia, The University of Georgia, USA Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Chung-Ta King, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Robert Hsu, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan H. J. Siegel, Colorado State University, USA Philip Yu, University of Illinois at Chicago, USA Christophe Cérin, Université Paris 13, France Omer Rana, Cardiff university, UK

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