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Euro-Par 2020: Call for Workshop Proposals -- deadline extended to Feb 14
by Bartosz Balis 10 Feb '20

10 Feb '20

(Apologies if you are receiving multiple copies of this CFW. Please do forward it to interested colleagues.) ***************************************************************************** **** EURO-PAR 2020: CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS **** ***************************************************************************** Euro-Par 2020 26th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Warsaw, Poland, August 24-25, 2020 http://www.euro-par.org Important Dates For Workshop Organizers ================================= * Workshop proposal due: *extended to February 14, 2020* * Workshop notifications: extended to February 21, 2020 * Workshop website online and launches of Call for Workshop Papers: March 20, 2020 * Workshop dates: August 24-25, 2020 * Workshop management report due: September 11, 2020 Scope ===== Euro-Par is the prime European conference covering all aspects of parallel and distributed processing, ranging from theory to practice, from small to the largest parallel and distributed systems and infrastructures, from fundamental computational problems to full-fledged applications, from architecture, compiler, language and interface design and implementation, to tools, support infrastructures, and application performance aspects. To provide a meeting point for researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas and hot topics related to parallel and distributed computing, Euro-Par 2020 will co-locate workshops with the main conference and invites proposals for the workshop program. More details and guidelines for submission of proposals are available at the web site: https://2020.euro-par.org/calls/call-for-workshops General Workshop Co-Chairs ======================= - Bartosz Balis, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland - Dora Blanco Heras, University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain

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eScience2020 Call for Tutorial Proposals
by ABE Hirotake / 阿部洋丈 09 Feb '20

09 Feb '20

----------------------------------------------------------------- eScience 2020 Call for Tutorial Proposals ----------------------------------------------------------------- We invite proposals for half and full-day tutorials to be held at eScience 2020 on September 8, 2020. The eScience 2020 Tutorial Program is intended to disseminate information to conference attendees on recently emerging topics and trends in eScience, provide surveys and overviews of related digital technologies, and teach new and/or state-of-the art tools and techniques relevant to the eScience audience. We encourage submissions that fall in the area of the conference, and specially those that have a practical (hands-on) part that help attendees on learning the new technologies presented in the tutorial. Please send any inquiries to [escience2020-tutorials(a)cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp] eScience 2020 Tutorials Program Co-Chairs: Atsuko Takefusa, National Institute of Informatics, Japan Fang-Pang Lin, National Center for High-performance Computing, Taiwan / Schedule / Tutorial Submissions Due: Friday April 10, 2020 Tutorial Acceptance Notification: Friday June 12, 2020 Tutorial Date: Tuesday September 08, 2020 / Submission Guidelines / Tutorial proposals should be submitted via email to escience2020-tutorials(a)cmc.osaka-u.ac.jp. Submissions should include a cover sheet and an extended abstract. The cover sheet should include the following elements – Title and length (either half-day, e.g. 3 hours plus breaks, or full day, e.g., 6 hours plus breaks) of the tutorial – Short abstract (300 words) – Intended audience (introductory, intermediate, advanced) and prerequisite knowledge or skills required – Previous offerings of the tutorial if any – Detailed contact information of all presenters (and indication of the main contact person) – Brief biography (max. 2 paragraphs) for each presenter, highlighting relevant teaching experience The extended abstract (no longer than 2 pages) should include the following sections – Motivation – Brief outline of the topics to be covered – Detailed agenda of the tutorial – Links to related resources – Type of support materials to be supplied to attendees

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[DEADLINE EXTENDED] 29th HCW Workshop; collocated with IPDPS 2020
by Mohsen Amini 09 Feb '20

09 Feb '20

*Call for Papers* *In conjunction with IPDPS 2020, May 18 2020, New Orleans, Louisiana USA* http://hcw.oucreate.com/ Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society through the Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) *SUMMARY* Most modern computing systems are heterogeneous, either for organic reasons because components grew independently, as it is the case in desktop grids, or by design to leverage the strength of specific hardware, as it is the case in accelerated systems. In any case, all computing systems have some form of hardware or software heterogeneity that must been managed, leveraged, understood, and exploited. HCW is a venue to discuss and innovate in all theoretical and practical aspects of heterogeneous computing: design, programmability, efficient utilization, algorithms, modeling, applications, etc. The 2020 HCW is the 29th annual gathering of this workshop. *IMPORTANT DATES*Paper submission: January 27, 2020 Extended to: *February 10, 2020* Author notification: March 2, 2020 Camera Ready: March 17, 2020 *TOPICS*Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas: *!!! NEW SPECIAL TOPIC !!!* Domain specific architectures (DSAs): Design, programming, and exploration of domain specific computing architectures, i.e., heterogeneous computing architectures that provide a significant performance improvement for a specific application domain, such as AI, image processing, and audio processing. Well known examples are Google’s TPU, Microsoft’s Catapult, and Intel’s Movidius. Submissions in the following areas are very welcome: Designing and programming of domain specific computing architectures (e.g., ASIPs, DSPs, GPUs, FPGAs, or TPUs), exploration and benchmarking of domain specific computing architectures. Heterogeneous multicore systems and architectures: Design, exploration, and experimental analysis of heterogeneous computing systems such as GPGPUs, heterogeneous systems-on-chip (SoC), accelerator systems (e.g., Intel Xeon Phi, AI chips such as Google’s TPUs), FPGAs, big.LITTLE, and application-specific architectures. Heterogeneous parallel and distributed systems: Design and analysis of computing grids, cloud systems, hybrid clusters, datacenters, geo-distributed computing systems, and supercomputers. Deep-memory hierarchies: Design and analysis of memory hierarchies with SRAM, DRAM, Flash/SSD, and HDD technologies; NUMA architectures; cache coherence strategies; novel memory systems such as phase-change RAM, magnetic (e.g., STT) RAM, 3D Xpoint/crossbars, and memristors. On-chip, off-chip and heterogeneous network architectures: Network-on-chip (NoC) architectures and protocols for heterogeneous multicore applications; energy, latency, reliability, and security optimizations for NoCs; off-chip (chip-to-chip) network architectures and optimizations; heterogeneous networks (combination of NoC and off-chip) design, evaluation, and optimizations; large scale parallel and distributed heterogeneous network design, evaluation, and optimizations. Programming models and tools: Programming paradigms and tools for heterogeneous systems; middleware and runtime systems; performance-abstraction tradeoff; interoperability of heterogeneous software environments; workflows; dataflows. Resource management and algorithms for heterogeneous systems: Parallel algorithms for solving problems on heterogeneous systems (e.g., multicores, hybrid clusters, grids or clouds); strategies for scheduling and allocation on heterogeneous 2D and 3D multicore architectures; static and dynamic scheduling and resource management for large-scale and parallel heterogeneous systems. Modeling, characterization, and optimizations: Performance models and their use in the design of parallel and distributed algorithms for heterogeneous platforms, characterizations and optimizations for improving the time to solve a problem (e.g., throughput, latency, runtime), modeling and optimizing electric consumption (e.g., power, energy); modeling for failure management (e.g., fault tolerance, recovery, reliability); modeling for security in heterogeneous platforms. Applications on heterogeneous systems: Case studies; confluence of Big Data systems and heterogeneous systems; data-intensive computing; deep learning; scientific computing. *PAPER SUBMISSIONS*Papers are to be submitted through Linklings. Papers submitted to HCW 2020 should not have been previously published or be under review for a different workshop, conference, or journal. It is also required that all accepted papers will be presented at the workshop by one of the authors. *WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION* General Chair: John Antonio, University of Oklahoma, USA Program Chair: Florina M. Ciorba, University of Basel, Switzerland (TPC Chair) Special Topic Session Chair: Diana Göhringer (Technische Universität Dresden, Germany) Publicity Chair: Mohsen Amini (University of Louisiana Lafayette, USA) *Steering Committee:*Behrooz Shirazi, Washington State University, USA (Chair) H. J. Siegel, Colorado State University, USA (Past Chair) John Antonio, University of Oklahoma, USA David Bader, Georgia Tech, USA Anne Benoit, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin, UK Sudeep Pasricha, Colorado State University, USA Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA Yves Robert, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France Erik Saule, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Uwe Schwiegelshohn, TU Dortmund University, Germany *Technical Program Committee:*Florina M. Ciorba, University of Basel, Switzerland (TPC Chair) Mohsen Amini, University of Louisiana Lafayette, USA Ioana Banicescu, Mississippi State University, USA Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA Louis-Claude Canon, Université de Franche-Comté, France Daniel Cordeiro, University of São Paulo, Brazil Matthias Diener, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Ryan Friese, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Diana Göhringer, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Nicolas Grounds, MSCI, Inc., USA Krishna Kavi, University of North Texas, USA Jong-Kook Kim, Korea University, Korea Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin, Ireland Hatem Ltaief, KAUST, Saudi Arabia Mahdi Nikdast, Colorado State University, USA Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Laercio Lima Pilla, CNRS, France Sridhar Radhakrishnan, University of Oklahoma, USA Srishti Srivastava, University of Southern Indiana, USA Achim Streit, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Samuel Thibault, LaBRI, Université Bordeaux, France Devesh Tiwari, Northeastern University, USA

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[Final extension] SIoTEc 2020 - 1st edition of IEEE Workshop on Secure IoT, Edge and Cloud systems
by angalletta＠ieee.org 09 Feb '20

09 Feb '20

Dear colleague, due to further requests arrived in the last week, and also encouraged by the CCGRID organizers, we inform you that we have extended the regular papers' submission deadline of SIoTEC workshop to February 16th. We invite you to submit a paper by using the following link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=siotec2020 Please, for any question email us at siotec2020(a)googlegroups.com =========================================================================== SIoTEc 2020 - 1st edition of IEEE Workshop on Secure IoT, Edge and Cloud systems The Langham - Melbourne, Australia May 11 - 14, 2020 - http://siotec2020.netsons.org/ in conjunction with the 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2020) =========================================================================== MISSION: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Cloud/Edge paradigm fosters the deployment of digital services over multiple physical (both private and public) infrastructures even across different administrative boundaries. In its turn, the IoT advent has determined the proliferation of smart devices connected to the Internet and injecting into it a vast amount of data that may traverse several network boundaries and undergo many computational stages before they get consumed. If, on the one hand, the benefits brought by these technologies are well known, it is clear as well that, in the envisaged scenario, the exposure of data, services and infrastructures to malicious attacks has definitely grown. Even a single breach on any of the links of the data-service-infrastructure chain may seriously compromise the security of the end-user application. With such a wide attack surface, security must definitely approached in a holistic way and addressed in any layer where concerns may potentially arise. The workshop solicits novel and innovative ideas, proposals, positions and best practices that address the modelling, design, implementation, and enforcement of the security in Cloud/Edge/IoT environments. TOPICS: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ - Blockchain-based tools and services - Data security across multiple domains and countries - Federated IoT, Edge and Cloud systems - Security in Osmotic Computing - Security on Cyber-physical systems - Anonymous and certified communications - Metrics and performance of secure interdomain protocols - Attack detection and prevention - Authentication protocols and key management - Availability and survivability of secure services and systems - Biometric security - Trust models and security modeling in Cloud/Edge/IoT scenarios - Security and privacy in the cloud and fog/edge infrastructure, services and storage - Machine learning applied to security applications - Emerging and disruptive technologies for security, privacy, trust and forensics - Security systems and protocols for Drones - Drone communication and communication security - Security in e-health - Security in Smart cities - Security in Networks including SDN The use of Soft Computing/Computational Intelligence methods in facing problems in the above topics is highly welcome, although not compulsory. PAPER SUBMISSION: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Authors are invited to submit their papers written in English in IEEE double-column format (IEEE standard conference templates). Papers can be either full, with a maximum length of eight (8) printed pages, or short, with a maximum length of four (4) printed pages. In both cases, the number of pages includes figures, tables & references. Submissions should contain original material and not be previously published, or currently submitted for consideration elsewhere. All papers will be reviewed for scientific quality by the Technical Program Committee. All papers should be submitted via EDAS using the following link https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=siotec2020 Paper submission implies the willingness of at least one author to register, at the regular rate (non-student), and present the paper. The Workshop Proceedings will be part of the CCGrid 2020 Proceedings and will be submitted for inclusion in IEEE Xplore Digital Library. The IEEE SIoTEC Workshop is using the EDAS Conference Management System to manage the paper submission process. BEST PAPER AWARD: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ A "Best Paper Award" Certificate will be conferred on the author(s) of a paper presented at the workshop, selected by the Chairs based on scientific significance, originality and outstanding technical quality of the paper, as assessed also by the evaluations of the members of the Program Committee. IMPORTANT DATES: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission deadline: February 16th, 2020 Notification of paper acceptance: February 24th, 2020 Submission of camera-ready papers: MArch 2nd, 2020 VENUE: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Langham - Melbourne, Australia http://melbourne.langhamhotels.com.au/ CHAIRS: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Prof. Massimo Villari, University of Messina, mvillari(a)unime.it Prof. Javid Tahery, Karlstad University, javid.taheri(a)kau.se Dr. Maria Fazio, University of Messina, mfazio(a)unime.it Dr. Giuseppe Di Modica, University of Catania, dimodica(a)unict.it Mr. Antonino Galletta, University of Messina, angalletta(a)unime.it FOR ANY OTHER INFORMATION http://siotec2020.netsons.org/ or email us at siotec2020(a)googlegroups.com

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Deadline Extended (Firm Deadline): High-Performance Big Data and Cloud Computing (HPBDC) 2020 Call for Papers (with IPDPS-20)
by Shi, Haiyang 09 Feb '20

09 Feb '20

============================================================== The 6th IEEE International Workshop on High-Performance Big Data and Cloud Computing (HPBDC) http://web.cse.ohio-state.edu/~luxi/hpbdc2020 In conjunction with the 34th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2020) New Orleans, Louisiana USA, Monday, May 18th, 2020 ============================================================== WORKSHOP DESCRIPTION --------------------------------------- Managing and processing large volumes of data, or Big Data, and gaining meaningful insights is a significant challenge facing the parallel and distributed computing community. This has significant impact in a wide range of domains including health care, bio-medical research, Internet search, finance and business informatics, and scientific computing. As data-gathering technologies and data sources witness an explosion in the amount of input data, it is expected that in the future massive quantities of data in the order of hundreds or thousands of petabytes will need to be processed. Thus, it is critical that data-intensive computing middleware (such as Hadoop, Spark, Flink, etc.) to process such data are diligently designed, with high performance and scalability, in order to meet the growing demands of such Big Data applications. The explosive growth of Big Data has caused many industrial firms to adopt High Performance Computing (HPC) technologies to meet the requirements of huge amount of data to be processed and stored. The convergence of HPC, Big Data, and Deep Learning is becoming the next game-changing business opportunity. Apache Hadoop, Spark, gRPC/TensorFlow, and Memcached are becoming standard building blocks in handling Big Data oriented processing and mining. Modern HPC bare-metal systems and Cloud Computing platforms have been fueled with the advances in multi-/many-core architectures, RDMA-enabled networking, NVRAMs, and NVMe-SSDs during the last decade. However, Big Data and Deep Learning middleware (such as Hadoop, Spark, Flink, and gRPC) have not embraced such technologies fully. These disparities are taking HPC, Big Data, and Deep Learning into divergent trajectories. International Workshop on High-Performance Big Data, Deep Learning, and Cloud Computing (HPBDC), aims to bring HPC, Big Data processing, Deep Learning, and Cloud Computing into a convergent trajectory. The workshop provides a forum for scientists and engineers in academia and industry to present their latest research findings in major and emerging topics for 'HPC + Big Data + Deep Learning over HPC Clusters and Clouds'. HPBDC 2020 will be held in conjunction with the 34th IEEE International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium (IPDPS 2020). HPBDC 2020 welcomes original submissions in a range of areas, including but not limited to: * High-Performance Big Data analytics, Deep Learning, and Cloud Computing frameworks, programming models, and tools * Performance optimizations for Big Data, Deep Learning, and Cloud Computing systems and applications with HPC technologies * High-Performance in-memory computing technologies and abstractions * Performance modeling and evaluation for emerging Big Data processing, Deep Learning, and Cloud Computing technologies * Big Data processing and Deep Learning on HPC, Cloud, and Grid computing infrastructures * Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability for high-performance Big Data computing, Deep Learning, and Cloud Computing * Green Big Data computing, Deep Learning, and HPC Clouds * Scheduling and provisioning data analytics on HPC and Cloud infrastructures * Scientific computing with Big Data and Deep Learning on HPC Clusters and/or Clouds * Case studies of Big Data and Deep Learning applications on HPC systems and Clouds * High-Performance streaming data processing architectures and technologies * High-Performance graph processing with Big Data * High-Performance SQL and NoSQL data management technologies Papers should present original research. As the fields of Big Data, Deep Learning, and Cloud Computing span many disciplines, papers should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. One outstanding paper will be selected for the Best Paper Award. SUBMISSION INFORMATION ---------------------------------------- All submissions should follow the IEEE standard 8.5x11 two-column format. The workshop will accept traditional research papers (8-10 pages) for in-depth topics and short papers (4 pages) for works in progress on hot topics. - Long papers: 8-10 pages, with a full problem description, background and related work, design, and evaluation. - Short papers: 4 pages, for works in progress on hot topics. All the papers should be submitted through https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/?page=Submit&id=HPBDCWorkshopFu…. All papers will be carefully reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers should not be submitted in parallel to any other conference or journal. The proceedings of this workshop will be published together with the proceedings of other IPDPS 2020 workshops by the IEEE Computer Society Press. Proceedings of the workshops are distributed at the conference and are submitted for inclusion in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library after the conference. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a participant of the workshop and present the paper at the workshop, in order to have the paper published in the proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES ---------------------------- - Abstract submission deadline (optional): January 16th, 2020 (Anywhere on Earth) - Paper submission deadline (firm deadline): February 14th, 2020 (Anywhere on Earth) - Acceptance notification: March 1st, 2020 - Camera-ready deadline: March 15th, 2020 - Workshop: May 18th, 2020 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS -------------------------------------- Xiaoyi Lu, The Ohio State University Jianfeng Zhan, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China PUBLICITY CHAIR ------------------------------------ Haiyang Shi, The Ohio State University PROGRAM COMMITTEE (Confirmed So far) ------------------------------------------------------------ Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas, Brazil Yong Chen, Texas Tech University Jong Youl Choi, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Shadi Ibrahim, Inria, France Hyun-Wook Jin, Konkuk University, Korea Jithin Jose, Microsoft Zengxiang Li, Institute Of High Performance Computing, Singapore Mingzhe Li, Facebook Suzanne McIntosh, New York University Manoj Nambiar, Tata Consultancy Services Ltd., India Md. Wasi-ur Rahman, Intel Juan Touriño, University of A Coruña, Spain Yunquan Zhang, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China

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CfP VHPC'20: HPC Containers-Kubernetes
by Michael Alexander 07 Feb '20

07 Feb '20

Call for Papers ==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 15th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC 20) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance, June 21-25, 2020, Frankfurt, Germany. (Springer LNCS Proceedings) ==================================================================== Date: June 25, 2020 Workshop URL: https://vhpc.org Rolling Abstract Registration (extended) Paper Submission Deadline: Apr 05th, 2020 Springer LNCS Call for Papers Containers and virtualization technologies constitute key enabling factors for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need to manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads and hosted applications customers deploy. Similarly, HPC environments have been increasingly adopting techniques that enable flexible management of vast computing and networking resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Most recently, Function as a Service (Faas) and Serverless computing, utilizing lightweight VMs-containers widens the spectrum of applications that can be deployed in a cloud environment, especially in an HPC context. Here, HPC-provided services become accessible to distributed workloads outside of large cluster environments. Various virtualization-containerization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e., containerization), with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their coexistence within the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of responsiveness and performance; lastly, unikernels provide for many virtualization benefits with a minimized OS/library surface. I/O Virtualization in turn allows physical network interfaces to take traffic from multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of the underlying physical topology is furthermore enabling virtualization of HPC infrastructures. Publication Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS proceedings volume. Topics of Interest The VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions related to virtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus on the intersection of HPC, containers-virtualization and the cloud. Major Topics: - HPC workload orchestration (Kubernetes) - Kubernetes HPC batch - HPC Container Environments Landscape - HW Heterogeneity - Container ecosystem (Docker alternatives) - Networking - Lightweight Virtualization - Unikernels / LibOS - State-of-the-art processor virtualization (RISC-V, EPI) - Containerizing HPC Stacks/Apps/Codes: Climate model containers each major topic encompassing design/architecture, management, performance management, modeling and configuration/tooling. Specifically, we invite papers that deal with the following topics: - HPC orchestration (Kubernetes) - Virtualizing Kubernetes for HPC - Deployment paradigms - Multitenancy - Serverless - Declerative data center integration - Network provisioning - Storage - OCI i.a. images - Isolation/security - HW Accelerators, including GPUs, FPGAs, AI, and others - State-of-practice/art, including transition to cloud - Frameworks, system software - Programming models, runtime systems, and APIs to facilitate cloud adoption - Edge use-cases - Application adaptation, success stories - Kubernetes Batch - Scheduling, job management - Execution paradigm - workflow - Data management - Deployment paradigm - Multi-cluster/scalability - Performance improvement - Workflow / execution paradigm - Podman: end-to-end Docker alternative container environment & use-cases - Creating, Running containers as non-root (rootless) - Running rootless containers with MPI - Container live migration - Running containers in restricted environments without setuid - Networking - Software defined networks and network virtualization - New virtualization NICs/Nitro alike ASICs for the data center? - Kubernetes SDN policy (Calico i.a.) - Kubernetes network provisioning (Flannel i.a.) - Lightweight Virtualization - Micro VMMs (Rust-VMM, Firecracker, solo5) - Xen - Nitro hypervisor (KVM) - RVirt - Cloud Hypervisor - Unikernels / LibOS - Performance, efficiency, utilization, security - Build procedure, application porting, re-use of existing components, and tooling - Monitoring, running, orchestrating, live cycle management - Deployment and operational costs - Architecture and platform ports, for instance - hypervisors, lightweight VMMs, bare-metal - Hardware virtualization and accelerators with Unikernels/LibOSes - Use cases and experiences, for instance: - edge services (e.g., vNFs, AI, IoT) - microservices - Stub and driver domains (disaggregation) - bare-metal (e.g., HPC) - HPC Storage in Virtualization - HPC container storage - Cloud-native storage - Hypervisors in storage virtualization - Processor Virtualization - RISC-V hypervisor extensions - RISC-V Hypervisor ports - EPI - Composable HPC microservices - Containerizing Scientific Codes - Building - Deploying - Securing - Storage - Monitoring - Use case for containerizing HPC codes: Climate model containers for portability, reproducibility, traceability, immutability, provenance, data & software preservation The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. Important Dates Apr 5th, 2020 - Paper submission deadline (Springer LNCS) Apr 26th, 2020 - Acceptance notification June 25th, 2020 - Workshop Day July 10th, 2020 - Camera-ready version due Chair Michael Alexander (chair), BOKU, Vienna, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), Sunlight.io, UK Program committee Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Paolo Bonzini, Redhat, Italy Jakob Blomer, CERN, Europe Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Taylor Childers, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Stephen Crago, USC ISI, USA Tommaso Cucinotta, St. Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy François Diakhaté CEA DAM Ile de France, France Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Brian Kocoloski, Washington University, USA Simon Kuenzer, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy Klaus Ma, Huawei Technologies, China Alberto Madonna, Swiss National Supercomputing Center, Switzerland Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France Anup Patel, Western Digital, USA Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Amer Qouneh, Western New England University, USA Carlos Reaño, Queen’s University Belfast, UK Adrian Reber, Redhat, Germany Riccardo Rocha, CERN, Europe Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Jonathan Sparks, Cray, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden John Walters, USC ISI, USA Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Paper Submission-Publication Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions should include abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS volume. The format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide source files. Abstract, Paper Submission Link: edas[dot]info/newPaper.php?c=26973 Lightning Talks Lightning Talks are non-paper track, synoptical in nature and are strictly limited to 5 minutes. They can be used to gain early feedback on ongoing research, for demonstrations, to present research results, early research ideas, perspectives and positions of interest to the community. Submit abstract via the main submission link. General Information The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance (ISC) 2019, June 21-25, Frankfurt, Germany.

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Euro-Par 2020: deadline extended to 10 Feb (abstracts) / 21 Feb (full papers)
by Krzysztof Rzadca 07 Feb '20

07 Feb '20

Euro-Par 2020 26th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Warsaw, Poland, 24-28 August 2020 https://2020.euro-par.org/ 2020(a)euro-par.org Important Dates * Abstract Submission: *extended to 10 February, 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE)* *final extension* * Paper Submission Deadline: *extended to 21 February, 23:59 Anywhere on Earth (AoE)* *final extension* * Author Notification: 30 April 2020 * Camera-Ready Papers: 5 June 2020 Euro-Par is the prime European conference covering all flavors of parallel and distributed processing: * from theory to practice, * from multi-core processors to accelerators, supercomputers and clouds, * from fundamental algorithmic problems to systems and tools, * from applications in computational sciences to machine learning and artificial intelligence. Euro-Par proceedings are published by Springer in the LNCS series. The main audience of Euro-Par are the researchers in academic institutions, government laboratories and industrial organisations. Euro-Par's objective is to be the primary choice of such professionals for the presentation of new results in their specific areas. Euro-Par's unique organization into topics provides an excellent forum for focused technical discussion, as well as interaction with a large, broad and diverse audience. In addition, Euro-Par conferences provide a platform for a number of accompanying, technical workshops for smaller and emerging communities. This call for conference papers will be followed by a separate call for workshop papers (in February 2020) and for posters for the doctoral symposium (in March 2020). Chairs: Maciej Malawski (AGH University of Science and Technology), Krzysztof Rzadca (University of Warsaw) Submission Guidelines Submit your papers through EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2020 * Papers must be in PDF format and should not exceed 14 pages (including references) and 7500 words. * Papers must be formatted in the Springer LNCS style: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… * Papers that don't meet these requirements might be rejected without a review. * Only contributions that are not submitted elsewhere or currently under review will be considered. * All submitted papers will be checked for originality by Springer iThenticate. Papers which show an insufficient originality might be rejected without a review. Topics We invite submissions of high-quality, novel and original research results in areas of parallel and distributed computing covered by the List of Topics. See https://2020.euro-par.org/calls/ for a detailed scope of each topic. Topic 1: Support Tools and Environments Global Chair: Michael Gerndt, Technical University of Munich, Germany Local Chair: Mariusz Sterzel, Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet AGH, Krakow, Poland Topic 2: Performance and Power Modeling, Prediction and Evaluation Global Chair: Arnaud Legrand, Univ. Grenoble Alpes, Inria, CNRS, France Local Chair: Ariel Oleksiak, Poznan Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland Topic 3: Scheduling and Load Balancing Global Chair: Sascha Hunold, Technical University Wien, Austria Local Chair: Joanna Berlinska, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland Topic 4: High Performance Architectures and Compilers Global Chair: Leonel Sousa, INESC-ID, IST, University of Lisbon, Portugal Local Chair: Pawel Czarnul, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland Topic 5: Data Management, Analytics and Machine Learning Global Chair: Morris Riedel, Forschungszentrum Juelich, Germany Local Chair: Jacek Sroka, University of Warsaw, Poland Topic 6: Cluster, Cloud and Edge Computing Global Chair: Maria S. Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain Local Chair: Lukasz Dutka, Academic Computer Centre Cyfronet AGH, Kraków, Poland Topic 7: Theory and Algorithms for Parallel and Distributed Processing Global Chair: Ben Moseley, Carnegie-Mellon University, UA Local Chair: Marek Klonowski, University of Wroclaw, Poland Topic 8: Parallel and Distributed Programming, Interfaces, and Languages Global Chair: Phil Trinder, University of Glasgow, United Kingdom Local Chair: Wojciech Turek, AGH University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland Topic 9: Multicore and Manycore Parallelism Global Chair: Arturo Gonzalez, Universidad de Valladolid, Spain Local Chair: Witold Rudnicki, University of Bialystok, Poland Topic 10: Parallel Numerical Methods and Applications Global Chair: Hatem Ltaief, KAUST, Saudi Arabia Local Chair: Erin Carson, Charles University, Prague, Czechia Topic 11: Accelerator Computing Global Chair: Alba Cristina Melo, University of Brasilia, Brasil Local Chair: Lukasz Kuczynski, Czestochowa University of Technology, Poland

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Deadline Extension: iWAPT2020 (IPDPS 2020 workshop, International Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning)
by Kazuhiko Komatsu 07 Feb '20

07 Feb '20

Deadline is extended to Feb. 21, 2020. ============================================================== :: iWAPT 2020 :: CALL FOR PAPERS The 15th International Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning http://www.iwapt.org/2020/ May 18-22, 2020 at Hilton New Orleans Riverside, New Orleans, Louisiana USA The iWAPT 2020 will be held in conjunction with IPDPS 2020. http://www.ipdps.org/ =============================================================== # Important dates Submission closes: Friday, Feb. 21, 2020 (AOE) Author notification: Friday, Mar. 6, 2020 Camera-ready: Friday, Mar. 13, 2020 Workshop: To be decided Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwapt2020 (If you do not have an EasyChair account, please create it first.) # About iWAPT iWAPT (International Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning) is a series of workshops that focus on research and techniques that address performance sustainability issues. It provides an opportunity for researchers and users of automatic performance tuning (AT) technologies to exchange ideas and experiences while applying such technologies to improve the performance of algorithms, libraries, and applications; in particular, on cutting edge computing platforms. The full-day workshops consist of invited keynote speaker presentations and 30-minute presentations of well-founded papers. Occasionally, exploratory papers are also accepted. Topics of interest include performance modeling, adaptive algorithms, autotuned numerical algorithms, libraries and scientific applications, empirical compilation, automated code generation, frameworks and theories of AT and software optimization, autonomic computing, and context-aware computing. We are particularly interested in autotuning and its relationship to the following areas (the list is not exhaustive): * Applying machine learning to autotuning * Machine-adaptive algorithms * Automatic program generation * Performance analysis and modeling * Adaptive numerical algorithms and libraries * Multi- and manycore systems, heterogeneous architectures challenges * Compilation strategies (e.g. iterative and empirical compilers) * Programming models * Runtime systems * Empirical search heuristics * Power- and/or energy-aware computing # Paper Submission guidelines 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. See style templates for details: LaTex Package (ZIP): http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_LaTeX_Letter_2Col.zip Word Template (ZIP): http://www.ipdps.org/templates/IEEECS_CPS_8.5x11x2.zip Files should be submitted by following the instructions available at the EasyChair portal. http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwapt2020 Authors must ensure that electronically submitted files are formatted in PDF format for 8.5x11 inch paper. Accepted submissions will be included in the IPDPSW proceedings. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. The authors may use PDF eXpress, the IEEE online file converter and validation tool, to complete the final paper submission process. More details about camera-ready will also be announced when notification of the paper. # Program Committee PC Chair: I-Hsin Chung, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA PC Vice-Chair: Kazuhiko Komatsu, Tohoku University, Japan Jose Gracia, High-Performance Computing Center Stuttgart, Germany Takeshi Fukaya, Hokkaido University, Japan Satoshi Ohshima, Nagoya University, Japan Akihiro Fujii, Kogakuin University, Japan Daisuke Takahashi, University of Tsukuba, Japan Osni Marques, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Boyana Norris, University of Oregon, USA Che-Rung Lee, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Takahiro Katagiri, Nagoya University, Japan Jakub Kurzak, University of Tennessee, USA Michael Gerndt, Technical University of Munich, Germany Richard Vuduc, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Teruo Tanaka, Kogakuin University, Japan Louis-Noel Pouchet, The Ohio State University, USA Ray-Bing Chen, National Cheng Kung University, Taiwan Weichung Wang, National Taiwan University, Taiwan # Organizing Committee * General Chair: Osni Marques, LBNL, USA * General Vice-Chair: Reiji Suda, The University of Tokyo, Japan * PC Chair: I-Hsin Chung, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA * Finance Chair: Yusaku Yamamoto, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan * SC liaison: Takahiro Katagiri, Nagoya University, Japan * Web Chair: Hisayasu Kuroda, Ehime University, Japan * Publicity Chair: Satoshi Ohshima, Kyushu University, Japan # Contact iwapt2020(a)iwapt.org ===============================================================

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DEADLINE EXTENSION - Joint Call for Papers - DisCoTec2020
by Kiko Fernandez Reyes 06 Feb '20

06 Feb '20

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email.] The abstract submission deadline has been extended to February 17. The paper submission deadline has been extended to February 28. ************************************************************************ Joint Call for Papers 15th International Federated Conference on Distributed Computing Techniques DisCoTec 2020 Valletta, Malta, 15-19 June 2020 https://www.discotec.org/2020 ************************************************************************ DisCoTec 2020 is one of the major events sponsored by the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). It gathers conferences and workshops that cover a broad spectrum of distributed computing subjects, ranging from theoretical foundations and formal description techniques to systems research issues. * Main Conferences * - COORDINATION (https://www.discotec.org/2020/coordination) 22st IFIP International Conference on Coordination Models and Languages PC Chairs: Simon Bliudze (Inria Lille – Nord Europe, France) and Laura Bocchi (University of Kent, UK) - DAIS (https://www.discotec.org/2020/dais) 20th IFIP International Conference on Distributed Applications and Interoperable Systems PC Chairs: Anne Remke (University of Münster, Germany) and Valerio Schiavoni (University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) - FORTE (https://www.discotec.org/2020/forte) 40th IFIP International Conference on Formal Techniques for Distributed Objects, Components and Systems PC Chairs: Alexey Gotsman (IMDEA Software Institute, Spain) and Ana Sokolova (University of Salzburg, Austria) * Important Dates (for all main conferences) * - February 17, 2020: Submission of abstract -- extended - February 28, 2020: Submission of papers -- extended - April 10, 2020: Notification of accepted papers - April 24, 2020: Camera ready - June 15-19, 2020: Conferences and Workshops * Keynote Speakers * - Nathalie Bertrand, INRIA Rennes Bretagne-Atlantique - Holger Hermanns, Saarland University - Ken McMillan, Microsoft Research, Redmond - Peter Kriens, OSGi Alliance * Submission Categories * COORDINATION: Full papers (up to 15 pages + 2 pages references), Short papers (up to 6 pages + 2 pages references), Survey papers (up to 25 pages + 2 pages references), Tool papers (up to 6 pages + 2 pages references + 10min demo video). DAIS Full papers (up to 15 pages + 2 pages references). Full practical experience reports (up to 15 pages + 2 pages references) Work-in-progress (up to 6 pages + 2 pages references) FORTE Full papers (page limit: up to 15 pages + 2 pages references) Short papers (page limit: up to 6 pages + 2 pages references) (Rough diamonds, Tool (demonstration) papers, Position papers) “Journal First” papers (page limit: up to 2 pages, including references) More information is available on the conference website. * Proceedings * The proceedings of DisCoTec 2020 main conferences will be published in Springer's LNCS-IFIP volumes. * Special issue * The individual conferences will organise special issues of extended and selected papers in reputable journals such as Logical Methods in Computer Science and Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. More information is available at the conference website. * Submission Instructions * Authors are invited to submit their contributions electronically in PDF using a two-phase online submission process. Registration of the paper information and abstract (max. 250 words) must be completed before February 3, 2020. Submission of the manuscript is due no later than February 14, 2020. Submissions are handled through the EasyChair conference management system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=coordination2020 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dais2020 https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=forte20 Contributions must be written in English and report on original, unpublished work not submitted for publication elsewhere (cf. IFIP's Author Code of Conduct, see http://www.ifip.org/ under Publications/Links). The submissions must not exceed the total page number limit, including figures and references, prepared using Springer’s LNCS style. Submissions not adhering to the above specified constraints may be rejected without review. DisCoTec conferences welcome contributions in theoretical models and foundations of coordination, concurrency, programming languages, practical and conceptual aspects of distributed computations as well as models and formal specification, testing and verification methods for distributed computing. Detailed information about the topics, the submission categories and the corresponding page limits are available at the conference website. For each accepted paper, one of the authors must register to DisCoTec 2020 and attend the corresponding conference to present the paper. * Organising Committee * Adrian Francalanza (University of Malta, Malta - General chair) Davide Basile (ISTI CNR Pisa, Italy - Publicity chair) Kiko Fernández-Reyes (Uppsala University, Sweden - Publicity chair) Antonis Achilleos (Reykjavik University, Iceland - Workshops chair) Duncan Attard (University of Malta, Malta - Workshops chair) Ornela Dardha (University of Glasgow, United Kingdom - Workshops chair) Lucienne Bugeja (University of Malta, Malta - Logistics) * Steering Committee * Rocco De Nicola (IMT Lucca, Italy) Pascal Felber ( University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland) Kurt Geihs (University of Kasel, Germany) Kostas Magoutis (ICS-FORTH, Greece) Elie Najm (Telecom Paris Tech, France — Chair) Manuel Núñez (Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain) Rui Oliveira (University of Minho, Portugal) Jean-Bernard Stefani (INRIA Grenoble, France) Gianluigi Zavattaro (University of Bologna, Italy) Alberto Lluch Lafuente (DTU, Denmark) * Advisory Board * Alain Girault (INRIA Grenoble, France) Uwe Nestmann (TU Berlin, Germany) Michele Loreti (University of Camerino, Italy) Jim Dowling (RISE & KTH, Sweden) Marjan Sirjani (University of Malarden, Sweden) Frank de Boer (CWI, The Netherlands) Farhad Arbab (CWI, The Netherlands) Lea Kutvonen (University of Helsinki, Finland) John Derrick (University of Sheffield, UK) To receive live, up to date information, follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/DisCoTecConf När du har kontakt med oss på Uppsala universitet med e-post så innebär det att vi behandlar dina personuppgifter. För att läsa mer om hur vi gör det kan du läsa här: http://www.uu.se/om-uu/dataskydd-personuppgifter/ E-mailing Uppsala University means that we will process your personal data. For more information on how this is performed, please read here: http://www.uu.se/en/about-uu/data-protection-policy

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SC20 workshop proposals due soon
by Roth, Philip 06 Feb '20

06 Feb '20

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement] Call for SC20 Workshop Proposals ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Want to hold a workshop at SC20? Now is the time to submit your proposal! SC Workshops are half- or full-day events for presentations, discussion, and interaction covering various fields of interest, from the avant-garde to the tried-and-true. Hardware, software, data analysis, machine learning, containers, performance, correctness, urgent computing, education, quantum and anything else that might be of interest to SC attendees is fair game. Proposals for workshops about new topics as well as veteran sessions are equally encouraged. Workshops typically take one of the following formats: * Workshops centered around published technical papers * “Mini-symposia” centered around panelists and discussion * Invited workshops for working groups, centered around already-published work but any format will be considered with sufficient justification in the proposal. Regardless of format, SC20 will not publish workshop proceedings. Proposals are peer-reviewed and selected with a preference for submissions that inspire deep and interactive dialogue on compelling topics within the HPC community. SC20 will be held November 15-20, 2020, at the Georgia World Congress Center, Atlanta Georgia, USA. Workshops will be held on Sunday, Monday, and Friday of the conference. These sessions are open to SC20 attendees with a Workshops registration. Important dates --------------- Submissions open: 02 January 2020, 8:00 AM AOE Submissions due: 14 February 2020, 11:59 PM AOE Notifications: 20 March 2020 Important addresses ------------------- Submission details: https://sc20.supercomputing.org/submit/workshop-submissions/ Submission site (including sample submission form): https://submissions.supercomputing.org SC20 web site: https://sc20.supercomputing.org/ Email address for questions: workshops(a)info.supercomputing.org --- Philip C. Roth, +1 865 241 1543

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