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Compiler Construction (CC) 2021 - Call for Participation
by Delphine Demange 29 Jan '21

29 Jan '21

ACM SIGPLAN 2021 International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC 2021) Co-located with CGO, HPCA and PPoPP Sat 27 February - Wed 3 March 2021 https://conf.researchr.org/home/CC-2021 The International Conference on Compiler Construction (CC) is interested in work on processing programs in the most general sense: analyzing, transforming or executing input that describes how a system operates, including traditional compiler construction as a special case. CC 2021 is the 30th edition of the conference. CC is now an ACM SIGPLAN conference, and implements guidelines and procedures recommended by SIGPLAN (https://www.sigplan.org) IMPORTANT INFORMATION Registration is now open! CC Conference date : 2-3 March 2021 CC 2021 will be held virtually and co-located with CGO, PPoPP, and HPCA, on the Whova platform. Any person registering for CC can attend any of the co-located workshops and conferences. Register for the conference at: https://conf.researchr.org/attending/CC-2021/registration PROGRAM and VENUE INFORMATION List of Accepted Papers: https://conf.researchr.org/track/CC-2021/cc-research-papers#event-overview Program: https://conf.researchr.org/track/CC-2021/cc-research-papers#program For more information, please visit the CC 2021 conference web site at: https://conf.researchr.org/home/CC-2021 SPONSORS AND SUPPORTERS ACM - Association for Computing Machinery SIGPLAN - ACM Special Interest Group on Programming Languages The University of Edinburgh, School of Informatics ICSA - Institute for Computing Systems Architecture

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[Call for Papers] INDIS 2020 Special Journal Issue - Submissions due March 31, 2021
by Sarah M. Neuwirth 29 Jan '21

29 Jan '21

**[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email]** Dear Colleagues, As one of the Guest Editors, I cordially invite you to submit a manuscript for consideration and possible publication in the Special Issue on "Innovating the Network for Data-Intensive Science (INDIS 2020)" to be published in Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications (https://www.springer.com/journal/10586) Manuscript submission deadline is March 31, 2021. For submission details, please see below or refer to our website: https://scinet.supercomputing.org/community/indis/cfp-journal/. Kind regards, Sarah Neuwirth on behalf of the INDIS 2020 Guest Editors ================================ Scope, Aims, and Topics ================================ Many fields of science have been experiencing and continue to experience a large influx of data. Managing, transporting, and architecting systems, as well as building tools to deal with the delivery of these data have become increasingly important. Additionally, the ecosystem of information and communication systems is becoming more complex. Wide area networks are now an integral and essential part of this data-driven supercomputing ecosystem connecting information sources, data stores, processing, simulation, visualization and user communities together. Furthermore, networks are required to connect research instruments such as photon sources and large visualization displays. Networks for data-intensive science have more extreme requirements than general-purpose networks. These requirements not only closely impact the design of processor interconnects in supercomputers and cluster computers, but they also impact campus networks, regional networks and national backbone networks. The developments in network technologies are tremendous. Speeds of many hundreds of Gigabits and deep programmability of network infrastructure are now common. This enables a fundamentally different approach of integrating networks in supercomputing applications. The INDIS 2020 workshop (https://scinet.supercomputing.org/community/indis/) held virtually in conjunction with the Supercomputing Conference in November 2020, provided a venue for the exchange of ideas on the above topics. For this special issue to be published in Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications (https://www.springer.com/journal/10586) related to the INDIS workshop, we encourage research papers that address one or more of the following networking research challenges; and developments that are essential in the information systems infrastructure for the scientific discovery process. Participants to the workshop are invited to submit extended versions of their accepted papers. We also welcome new paper submissions on related topics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Data-intensive distributed application architectures - Software-defined networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) in service of data science applications - High-performance data transfer applications and techniques - Science DMZs and other campus network architecture constructs - Requirements and issues for network quality of service (QoS) or experience (QoE) - Multi-domain networking, including hybrid clouds, multi-domain authorization, data sharing, and data privacy - Network monitoring and traffic analytics, autonomous network control - Network management: diagnostics, troubleshooting, fault management, performance monitoring, configuration management, and scheduling - High-performance network protocols and network architectures - Securing high-speed networks - Cross-layer network architectures and concepts ================================ Submission Guidelines ================================ Accepted papers will be published in Cluster Computing: The Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications. Please follow the submission guidelines for Cluster Computing when preparing your manuscript for the INDIS 2020 special issue: https://www.springer.com/journal/10586/submission-guidelines Special issue papers must be submitted electronically at https://www.editorialmanager.com/clus/default.aspx and must use Springer’s LaTeX macro package (choose the formatting option “twocolumn”), which can be found here: https://www.springer.com/journal/10586/submission-guidelines. When starting a new submission, please select the special issue INDIS-2020 from the drop down list. For extended workshop papers, the paper should have a new title, a new abstract, and about 40-50% of new content in comparison to the original workshop paper. ================================ Projected Timeline ================================ - Submissions due: Wednesday, March 31, 2021 - Completion of first round of reviews: Monday, May 31, 2021 - Deadline for revised manuscripts: Saturday, July 31, 2021 - Completion of the review and revision process: Thursday, September 30, 2021 ================================ Guest Editors ================================ - Michelle Zhu, Montclair State University, USA - Sarah M. Neuwirth, Heidelberg University, Germany - Mariam Kiran, ESnet, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA ================================ Contact information: ================================ For questions, please email us at: scinet-workshop(a)scinet.supercomputing.org Please refer to our INDIS 2020 website for the latest updates: https://scinet.supercomputing.org/community/indis/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dr. Sarah M. Neuwirth Heidelberg University Institute of Computer Engineering (ZITI) Computer Architecture Group Im Neuenheimer Feld 368, 5th Floor 69120 Heidelberg, Germany Web: https://ra.ziti.uni-heidelberg.de/ -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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EGPGV 2021 Call for Papers (regular deadlines)
by Markus Hadwiger 29 Jan '21

29 Jan '21

*Please note the new abstract+paper submission deadlines below, which are not the same deadlines as the previous CfP for early submissions* EGPGV 2021 -- Call for Papers The Eurographics Symposium on Parallel Graphics and Visualization (EGPGV) aims to foster the exchange of experiences and knowledge on exploiting and defining new trends in parallel graphics and visualization. This area is of growing importance due to the rapidly increasing availability of multi-core CPUs, GPUs, and cluster systems. Computationally demanding and data-intensive applications in graphics and visualization are strongly affected by this trend and require novel, efficient parallel solutions. EGPGV 2021 will take place on June 14, 2021, and be co-located with EuroVis 2021, held June 14-18, 2021, in Zurich, Switzerland. The proceedings of EGPGV will be published in the Eurographics Proceedings Series and in the Eurographics Digital Library. Best papers from the EGPGV symposium will be invited to submit an extended journal version to IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics. EGPGV seeks papers on graphics and visualization that involve any type of parallel computing, and/or focus on very large data sets. Papers on techniques, data structures, algorithms, systems, and applications are welcomed. Parallel computing is broadly defined, including high-performance computing and cloud environments, (multi-)GPU computing and heterogeneous, hybrid architectures, and shared and/or distributed memory architectures. Further, papers focused on processing very large data sets (either for visualization or graphics) are welcomed, even if they do not have a particular focus on parallelism. Typical symposium topics include: - Computationally and data-intensive rendering - Scientific visualization (e.g., volume, flow, and tensor visualization) - Information visualization and visual analytics - In situ analytics and in situ visualization - Out-of-core processing of large data sets for visualization or graphics - Simulations for virtual environments (physics-based animation, collision detection, acoustics) - Mesh processing, level-of-detail, and geometric methods - Visual computing (image- and video-based rendering, image processing and exploitation, segmentation) - Scheduling, memory management, and data coherence - Parallelization approaches and algorithms, such as MapReduce - Database-related methods, algorithms or approaches, and query-based visualization - Advanced hardware for data handling or visualization - Large and high-resolution displays, virtual environments - Scientific, engineering, and industrial applications - Data analytics on large scientific data sets - Machine learning as applied to parallel graphics, visualization and/or large data analytics In general, appropriate topics for the symposium fall into one of four categories: (1) parallel graphics, (2) rendering of very large data sets, (3) parallel visualization and analytics, and (4) processing of large data sets for visualization or analytics. We already had an early submission deadline last December, and we are now asking for submissions to the regular submission deadline given below. Please notice also that this year there is again an abstract submission deadline one week in advance to the paper submission deadline. For additional information regarding paper submission and publication, please contact the program chairs. EGPGV again calls for Full Papers (8 to 10 pages) and Short Papers (up to 4 pages) in Eurographics format. The EGPGV webpage (https://www.egpgv.org) will be updated soon with more details on submission. Important Dates: Feb 26, 2021 - Abstract Submission Deadline Mar 05, 2021 - Paper Submission Deadline Apr 12, 2021 - Notification For additional information, please contact us via papers(a)egpgv.org. EGPGV Leadership: Symposium Chair: Markus Hadwiger, KAUST, Saudi Arabia Program Co-Chair: Matthew Larsen, Lawrence Livermore, USA Program Co-Chair: Filip Sadlo, Heidelberg University, Germany -- This message and its contents, including attachments are intended solely for the original recipient. If you are not the intended recipient or have received this message in error, please notify me immediately and delete this message from your computer system. Any unauthorized use or distribution is prohibited. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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GoodIT 2021- Call for Special Track Proposal
by Michienzi Andrea 28 Jan '21

28 Jan '21

=== GoodIt 2021 Call for Special Tracks proposals (deadline officially extended) === GoodIT 2021 will feature special tracks whose aim is to focus on a specific topic of interest for the overall scope of the conference. ### Scope We solicit proposals for special tracks to be held within the main conference. Tracks proposals should highlight current topics related to experiences with the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of IT technologies for the social good. ### Publication Papers submitted to each track must be based on original works and must not have been previously published. They have to be peer-reviewed by its own program committee (at least 3 reviews per submitted paper is required). The paper format must follow the one of the main conference (http://www.grc.upv.es/goodit2021/authors/) At least one of the authors' of all accepted papers must register and present the work at the conference. All accepted and presented papers will be included in the ACM Digital Library. ### Track Proposal Format A special track proposal must contain the following information: - Title of the track - The names of the organizers (indicatively, two) with affiliations, contact information, and a brief bio. - A brief description of the scope and topics of the track (max 1/2 page) and a brief explanation of: (1) why the topic is timely and important; (2) why the topic is related to the conference; (3) why the track may attract a significant number of submissions of good quality. - Indication if a journal special issue is associated with the track - The advertising plan to increase paper submissions (a list of emailing-lists will help) - A tentative program committee lists - A draft call for papers (max 1 page) ### Special Track Proposal Submission Guidelines The proposal should be submitted as a unique PDF file to the special tracks chairs: catia.prandi2[AT]unibo.it and marco.furini[AT]unimore.it. The subject of the e-mail must be: “GoodIT 2021 – special track proposal”. ### Important Dates -> Proposal Submission Deadline: 15 February 2021 -> Notification of Selection: 19 February 2021 ### Contacts (Special Tracks Chairs) > Prof. Marco Furini (University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy) > Dr. Catia Prandi (University of Bologna, Italy)

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Call for Papers - 20th WPerformance
by Samuel Xavier de Souza 28 Jan '21

28 Jan '21

Call for Papers 20th WPerformance - http://www.sbc.org.br/csbc2021/eventos/wperformance The Workshop on Computer and Communication Systems Performance, known as WPerformance (Workshop em Desempenho de Sistemas Computacionais e de Comunicação, in Portuguese), is a forum for discussion and dissemination of methods, models, techniques and tools for evaluating the performance of computer and communication systems. WPerformance proposes to receive papers in Portuguese or English related to performance problems in the most diverse areas of hardware, software and computing applications (for example, computer architecture, computer networks, distributed and parallel systems, cyber-physical systems, databases and operating systems). Nineteen consecutive editions of WPerformance have already been held by the community, from 2002 to 2020, all in conjunction with the annual Brazilian Computer Society Conference (CSBC). In 2021, in its 20th edition, WPerformance will be held in the city of Florianópolis, capital of the state of Santa Catarina, Brazil. As computing systems become increasingly larger and more complex, it is necessary to evaluate their performance using empirical approaches and / or mathematical models. The current diversity of computer and communication systems involves several parameters that have direct and indirect impacts on their performance. The study of these systems via measurement, emulation, simulation and modeling allows not only their best understanding, but also their optimization. Topics of Interest Topics of interest to WPerformance 2021 include, but are not limited to: 1. Performance evaluation of systems in the following areas: Computer Architecture Operating Systems Distributed and Parallel Systems Embedded Systems Cloud or Fog Computing Tradeoff between energy consumption and performance Internet of Things and Cyber-physical systems Robotics Mobile Computing Database Software Engineering Middleware Computer Networks Cognitive Radio Networks Multimedia Systems Real-time Systems Mobile and Wireless Communication Social Networks Smart Grids Smart Cities Internet of the Future 2. Development of techniques, algorithms, methods, tools and models in the following topics: Performance evaluation of systems Performance evaluation of algorithms Queue models Stochastic models Verification and validation of performance models Hybrid models Systems monitoring and measurement Workload characterization Simulation and emulation Measurement and modeling of energy consumption Scalability of computing and communication systems Submission Instructions The workshop accepts submissions of full papers and short papers, not exceeding 12 and 6 pages, respectively, written in Portuguese or English. The submissions must follow the Code of Conduct for publications of Brazilian Computer Society (SBC). Submissions should follow the template of the Brazilian Computer Society (SBC). The templates for submission are available in http://www.sbc.org.br/documentos-da-sbc/summary/169-templates-para-artigos-… The paper submission will be, exclusively, through the JEMS system in “CSBC 2021 - WPerformance” (https://jems.sbc.org.br/home.cgi?c=3735) Accepted papers will be published in the proceedings of the event, which will be made available online at SBC OpenLib, SBC's content portal, in the Proceedings of the Workshop em Desempenho de Sistemas Computacionais e de Comunicação (ISSN 2595-6167). All papers will be indexed with DOI. The registration of at least one author of the paper is mandatory to insert the paper in the proceedings. Authors with more than one accepted paper, in any event, may pay a single registration fee, plus an “extra publication fee” per additional paper. The WPerformance reserves the right to not include in the proceedings those papers that, during the workshop, are not presented by one of their authors or by a designated presenter. Presentation can be in Portuguese or English. The event will select the 3 best papers according to the evaluations made by the reviewers. The best papers will receive certificates issued by the coordination of the event. Important Dates Full and Short Paper Submission: March 12, 2021 Notification: April 30, 2021 Authors Registration: May 14, 2021 Final Version: May 14, 2021 Program Chairs Henrique Cota de Freitas (PUC Minas) - cota(a)pucminas.br Samuel Xavier de Souza (UFRN) - samuel(a)dca.ufrn.br

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Auto-DaSP workshop deadline extended 31st Jan, 2021
by Gabriele Mencagli 28 Jan '21

28 Jan '21

Call for Papers ------------- ************************************************************************** Auto-DaSP 2021: ICPE 2021 International Workshop Autonomic Solutions for Parallel and Distributed Data Stream Processing Date: 19-23, April 2021 Location: Rennes, France Workshop web page: http://calvados.di.unipi.it/auto-dasp-21/ ICPE 2021 web page: https://icpe2021.spec.org/ ************************************************************************** * Call for Papers The increasing availability of smart devices and sensors has been producing large data volumes in the form of streams, which need to be processed in real-time to extract actionable intelligence. In this context, there is a continuous demand for High-Performance Data Stream Processing Systems to cover a wide spectrum of applications with high socio-economic impact, like systems for healthcare, emergency management, surveillance, intelligent transportation, and many others. 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 platforms and heterogeneous systems equipped with GPU and FPGA co-processors. The capacity of these heterogeneous computing platforms has grown remarkably over the years, offering tens of thousands of heterogeneous cores and multiple terabytes of aggregated RAM that is reaching computing, memory and storage capacity of a large warehouse-scale cluster of just few years ago. The Auto-DaSP 2021 workshop aims at collecting scientific contributions from the community working in the Data Stream Processing (DSP) domain at different levels, both experts in streaming algorithms and applications and researchers working on stream processing frameworks and support tools. The focus is on parallel and autonomic models and practical implementations of DSP applications on parallel hardware and distributed systems, performance management and optimizations with runtime in parallel/distributed environments. The expected outcome has a twofold nature: stimulating scientific questions on the interrelations among the three core parts of the workshop, i.e. autonomic computing, high-performance, and data stream processing; cross-fertilizing the parallel/distributed computing and performance engineering domains with the DSP research area. A partial list of topics of this workshop is as follows: - Performance characterization and modeling of streaming applications and systems - Highly parallel models for streaming applications - Streaming parallel patterns - Strategies for dynamic operator and query placement - Autonomic solutions for load management, elasticity, and reconfiguration - Integration of elasticity and fault tolerance in stream processing systems - Stream processing on heterogeneous and reconfigurable hardware - Streaming state management - Techniques to deal with out-of-order data streams - Benchmarking of parallel/distributed stream processing systems - Energy- and power-aware management of stream processing systems - Applications and use cases in various domains including Smart Cities, Internet of Things, Finance, Social Media, and Healthcare * COVID-related Issues The workshop is co-located with the ICPE 2021 conference, to be held in Rennes, France (19-23 April, 2021). However, due to the uncertainty around the COVID pandemic, we cannot guarantee that the workshop will be a live event. Further instructions will be given as soon as possible. * Submission Instructions From 6 to 10 pages double column in ACM format. Easychair link is available in the website of the workshop. * Special Issue The workshop will be supported by a Special Issue in a top-ranked journal. The venue will be announced soon. * Important Dates January 31st, 2021 Paper submission deadline (extended and firm) February 15th, 2021 Paper acceptance notifications February 22nd, 2021 Camera-ready due April 19-20, 2021 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 Looking forward to receiving your excellent submissions soon. Best regards, Valeria Cardellini, Gabriele Mencagli and Massimo Torquati

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ISFPGA 2021 Call for (Virtual) Participation, Feb 28 - March 2
by Dustin Alexander Richmond 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

** Please Distribute Widely *** Registration Begins January 27 at isfpga.org/registration The 29th ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA) 2021 is a virtual conference, February 28 - March 2, 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The virtual conference will feature a two-day main program and six interesting workshops/tutorials. There is no fee for students, but registration is required to access the conference web sites. The technical program will be held on March 1st and 2nd from 8:00 AM PST to 12:30 PM PST. Presentations will consist of 20-minute pre recorded presentations, available before the conference, and authors will give a 7-minute oral presentation, followed by a 5-minute Q&A during the event. Posters will be available on dedicated pages before the conference begins, and chat rooms will be available to schedule conversations with authors. The program for the conference is available at isfpga.org/program. In addition to the technical sessions, six tutorials and workshops will be run on Sunday, February 28. Registration and further details on these workshops can be found on the tutorials section of the website page: isfpga.org/workshops-tutorials/. Questions about this call should be directed to the program chair, Michael Adler (programchair(a)isfpga.org)

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[CfP] VHPC 21 - HPC Virtualization (Springer LNCS)
by Michael Alexander 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 16th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC 21) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance, June 24 - July 2, 2021, Zoom Online Event. (Springer LNCS Proceedings) ==================================================================== Date: July 2, 2021 Workshop URL: vhpc[dot]org Online Zoom Event registration [free, limited slots] https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1Ux8jRopGhCYku3Z_FFMfud3RLwMg4-DABE_EeqlLmAQ Abstract Registration Deadline: February 15, 2021 Paper Submission Deadline: April 5, 2021 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 widen 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 Rootless Container Environments Landscape - HW Heterogeneity - Container ecosystem - 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 - Declarative 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, Multi-cluster/scalability, performance, Workflow / execution paradigm) - End-to-end rootless 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 (SDN / NVF, SR-IOV, Network Slicing & provisioning, polling, federated learning OS abstractions). - Lightweight Virtualization (Micro VMMs: Rust-VMM / AWS Firecracker / solo5, Xen, KVM, Nitro, RVirt, Rust based hypervisors / Cloud Hypervisor / Novel hypervisors - Unikernels / LibOS - HPC Storage in Virtualization - HPC container storage - Cloud-native storage - Hypervisors in storage virtualization - Processor Virtualization - RISC-V (hypervisor extensions / ports / IOMMU specification) - EPI - Composable HPC microservices - Merging of high throughput computing and HPC - Novel schedulers for job to data placement - Containerizing Scientific Codes (Building / Deploying / Securing / Storage / Monitoring) - High performance containers - Portability of containers/images, impact on performance - 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 February 15, 2021 - Abstract registration deadline April 5, 2021 - Paper submission deadline (Springer LNCS) May 3, 2021 - Acceptance notification July 2, 2021 - Workshop Day July 10th, 2021 - Camera-ready version due Chair Michael Alexander (chair), BOKU, Vienna, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), Nubis, Greece Program committee Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Paolo Bonzini, Red Hat, 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 Balazs Gerofi, RIKEN, Japan Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Brian Kocoloski, Washington University, USA Simon Kuenzer, NEC Laboratories Europe, Germany 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 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=28004 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) 2021, June 24 - July 2.

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Deadline extended: iWAPT 2021 (IPDPS2021 Workshop, Deadline: Feb. 8)
by Satoshi Ohshima 27 Jan '21

27 Jan '21

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email.] ============================================================== :: iWAPT 2021 :: CALL FOR PAPERS The 16th International Workshop on Automatic Performance Tuning http://www.iwapt.org/2021/ May 21, 2021 To be held virtually (online) The iWAPT 2021 will be held in conjunction with IPDPS 2021. http://www.ipdps.org/ =============================================================== # Important dates Paper submission due: February 8, 2021 (AOE) Author Notification: March 1, 2021 Camera ready papers: March 12, 2021 Conference sessions: May 21, 2021 Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwapt2021 (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=iwapt2021 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: Kazuhiko Komatsu, Tohoku University, Japan PC Vice-Chair: Che-Rung Lee, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan # Organizing Committee * General Chair: Osni Marques, LBNL, USA * General Vice-Chair: Reiji Suda, The University of Tokyo, Japan * PC Chair: Kazuhiko Komatsu, Tohoku University, Japan * Finance Chair: Yusaku Yamamoto, The University of Electro-Communications, Japan * SC liaison: Hiroyuki Takizawa, Tohoku University, Japan * Web Chair: Hisayasu Kuroda, Ehime University, Japan * Publicity Chair: Satoshi Ohshima, Nagoya University, Japan # Contact iwapt2021(a)iwapt.org =============================================================== -- Satoshi OHSHIMA e-mail: ohshima(a)cc.nagoya-u.ac.jp Associate Professor High Performance Computing Division Information Technology Center Nagoya University

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MedComNet 2021 - Call for Papers - Deadline 11 Feb
by christian vitale 26 Jan '21

26 Jan '21

Due to the continuing Coronavirus pandemic in the world, the organizers will hold the conference online. More details will be shared in the following weeks. MedComNet 2021 - Call for Papers 19th Mediterranean Communication and Computer Networking Conference 15-17 June 2021, Online https://www.medcomnet.org/ MedComNet 2021 continues the tradition of the MedHocNet conference series that started in Sardinia in 2002 and was held annually in beautiful locations on the shores of the Mediterranean. MedComNet is a forum for the presentation of new research results in the broad area of wired and wireless communication and computer networking. All aspects of the networking research area will be welcome. MedComNet has requested the Technical Co-Sponsorship of the IEEE, and accepted papers will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore. Extended versions of the best papers presented at the conference will be considered, by invitation and upon additional review, for publication in Elsevier Computer Communications journal. The best paper in the conference will be awarded the Mario Gerla Best Paper Award. Topics include but are not limited to: - Wireless networks - Cellular networks including 5G and 6G - Vehicular networks - Dynamic spectrum sharing - Interference management and mitigation - Medium access control - MIMO-based networking - mmWave, THz, VLC networking - Mobile sensing and applications - Mobility management and models - Innovative Internet architectures - Internet of Things and Cyber-physical systems - Router and switch design - Routing and multicast - Software-defined Networking and Radio - Optical networks - Overlay and peer-to-peer networks - Age of Information - Energy efficiency in networks - Machine Learning and AI for networks - Edge and fog computing - Datacenter networking - Localization and location-based services - Multimedia networking - Network economics and pricing - Network management - Network measurement and analysis - Network security and privacy - Network virtualization Important information --------------------- Paper submission deadline: Feb. 11, 2021 Acceptance notification: April 28 Registration (authors and early birds): May 19, 2021 Camera Ready Papers due: May 19, 2021 Conference: June 15-17, 2021 Instructions for authors: https://www.medcomnet.org/authors-instructions/ Submission page: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=27922 Keynotes --------------------- Jari Arkko, Ericsson Research, Finland. “Successes and challenges in the Internet architecture”. Christophe Diot, Google, United States. “Reaching the end of Moore’s law: challenges in cloud networking”. Magnus Frodigh, Head of Ericsson Research, Sweden. “The technology Journey towards 6G”. Leonard Kleinrock, UCLA, United States. TBD. No-show policy -------------- Submission to the conference implies willingness to present. No-shows will be excluded from the proceedings. No-show papers are defined as papers submitted by authors who subsequently did not present the paper at the technical meeting. Presentations by proxies are not allowed. No refund of the paid fees can be claimed by the no-show author. Exceptions to this policy can only be made by the Technical Program Chairs and only if there is evidence that the no-show occurred because of unanticipated events beyond the control of the authors, and every option available to the authors to present the paper was exhausted. Organizing Committee -------------------- General Chairs Vincenzo Mancuso, IMDEA Networks, Spain Gonzalo Camarillo, Ericsson Finland TPC Chairs Antonio de La Oliva, UC3M, Spain Ilenia Tinnirello, University of Palermo, Italy EDAS Chair Edgar Arribas, CEU San Pablo, Spain Publication Chair Cise Midoglu, Simula Research Lab, Norway Treasurers Nicola Blefari-Melazzi, CNIT, Italy Paola Magri, CNIT, Italy Publicity Chairs Antonio Fernandez, IMDEA Networks, Spain Andres Garcia, NEC Europe, Germany Christian Vitale, KIOS, Cyprus Chuan Xu, INRIA Sophia Antipolis, France Panel Chairs Anna Brunstrom, Karlstad University, Sweden Andra Lutu, Telefonica, Spain Web Chair Michele Segata, Free University of Bolzano, Italy Virtualization Chair Christiana Ioannou, RISE, Cyprus Steering Committee -------------------- Marco Ajmone Marsan, Politecnico di Torino, Italy (Chair) Ian F. Akyildiz, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Edmundo De Souza e Silva, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Luigi Fratta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Farouk Kamoun, ENSI, Tunisia Giovanni Pau, Sorbonne Université, France Guy Pujolle, Sorbonne Université, France Vasos Vassiliou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus

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