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ICPP workshop CFP: the 17th SRMPDS, Chicago, USA [deadline extended to May 14th]
by Liu, Zhengchun 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

CALL FOR PAPERS || The 17th SRMPDS || Chicago, USA, Aug. 9th, 2021 SCOPE ================== The 17th International Workshop on Scheduling and Resource Management for Parallel and Distributed Systems (SRMPDS’21, https://srmpds.github.io) will be held in conjunction with the ICPP'21 - 50th International Conference on Parallel Processing in Chicago, USA, August 9, 2021. Resource management and scheduling is a crucial task on large-scale computing systems. It plays an essential role in the optimization of resources usage. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners working in the areas of resource scheduling and resource management to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and latest research results on all aspects of scheduling and resource management in parallel and distributed systems including Grids and Clouds. SUBMISSIONS ================== Papers should not exceed 10 pages in the ACM format located at: https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template Papers should be submitted via https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/icpp/ All accepted papers will be published in ICPP Workshop proceedings together with the ICPP conference proceedings in Vol. 2. After the workshop, the extended version of top few papers will be invited to publish on the Journal of Cluster Computing (2019 Impact Factor: 3.458). IMPORTANT DATES ================== * Submissions Due: May 1, 2021 => May 14, 2021 * Review Decisions: June 23, 2021 * Final Manuscript Due: June 28, 2021 * Workshop Date: Aug. 9, 2021 TOPICS ================== Topics of interest for the workshop include but are not limited to: * Resource allocation and management * Advance resource reservation and scheduling * Load sharing and Load balancing techniques * Network resource allocation * Fault-tolerant resource management approaches * Data access and management * Scheduling data intensive jobs * Scheduling on heterogeneous nodes * Time slicing, gang, or co-scheduling * Fairness, priorities, and accounting Issues * Performance implications of scheduling strategies * Performance metrics to compare scheduling schemes * Virtualization of resources ORGANIZERS ==================== Program committees * Ramin Yahyapour (University of Göttingen, Germany) * Achim Streit (Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany) * Alfredo Goldman (University of São Paulo, Brazil) * Xiao Qin (Auburn University, USA) * Massimiliano Caramia (University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy) * Shubbhi Taneja (Auburn University, USA) * Maciej Drozdowski (Poznan University of Technology, Poland) * Suren Byna (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) * Philipp Wieder (GWDG, Germany) * Chanik Park (POSTECH, South Korea) * Eun-Sung Jung, (Hongik University, South Korea) * Aleardo Manacero (Sao Paulo State University - UNESP, Brazil) * Shikharesh Majumdar (Carleton University, Canada) * Jonas Markussen, (Simula Research Laboratory and University of Oslo, Norway) * Abdelhafid Mazouz, (Atos, France) * Beau Johnston, (Australian National University, Australia) * Yongwei Wu, (Tsinghua University, China) * Rajdeep Bhowmik, (Cisco Systems, Inc.) * Gokarna Sharma, (Kent State University, USA) * Johnnie Baker, (Kent State University, USA) * Nandini Mukherjee, (Jadavpur University, India) Organizing committees * Zhengchun Liu (Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago, USA) * Rajkumar Kettimuthu (Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago, USA) CONTACT ==================== For further details and updates, please consult the workshop web site at URL: https://srmpds.github.io/ or contact to srmpds(a)anl.gov.

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Cfp for the second workshop on Machine Learning on HPC Systems (an ISC 2021 workshop)
by Durillo Barrionuevo, Juan 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

The second workshop on Machine Learning on HPC Systems is an online event, held in conjunction with the ISC 2021 (July 2nd). Over the last few years, Machine Learning (and in particular Deep Learning) (ML / DL) has become an important research topic in the High Performance Computing (HPC) community. This comes along with new users and data intensive applications on HPC systems, which increasingly affects the design and operation of compute infrastructures. Bringing new users and data intensive applications on HPC systems, ML/DL methods are increasingly affecting the design and operation of compute infrastructures. On the other hand, the ML/DL community is just getting started to utilize the performance of HPC, leaving out many opportunities for better parallelization and scalability. The intent of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners from all communities to discuss three key topics in the context of High Performance Computing and learning methods: parallelization and scaling of ML / DL algorithms, ML/DL applications on HPC systems, and HPC systems design and optimization for ML / DL workloads. Date: in conjunction with the ISC 2021 online conference ISC’21 is held from June 24th until July 2nd Workshop date: July 2nd Topics / Scope The aim of the workshop is to provide a platform for technical discussions and the presentation of work in progress, as well as, unsolved problems, which is complementary to the “Machine Learning Day” in the main conference program. Unsolved problems in ML / DL on HPC systems Scalable ML / DL algorithms Parallelization techniques Libraries for ML / DL Tools + workflows for ML / DL on HPC systems Optimized HPC systems design and setup for efficient ML / DL ML / DL applications on HPC Systems Call for Paper MLPCS ‘21 has a two stage submission process: submit a 1-2 page extended abstract to contribute with a talk to MLHPCS. Additionally, authors optionally can submit a post-conference paper for publication in LNCS. Abstract submission Extended abstracts are due by NEW DEADLINE: May 14th (end of day anywhere on earth) Full paper MLHPCS paper will be published in the Springer LNCS post Conference Proceedings of the ISC. Full papers of accepted abstracs are due by July 10th and will undergo a full review process. Additional information can be found here: https://keuperj.github.io/MLHPCS/

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[DEADLINE EXTENSION] Call for Papers| EuroMPI'21: 28th European MPI Users' Group Meeting
by Marc-André Hermanns 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

EuroMPI'21: 28th European MPI Users' Group Meeting Garching, Germany, September 7, 2021 https://www.eurompi21.lrz.de/ Summary ======= The EuroMPI conference is the preeminent meeting for users, developers and researchers to interact and discuss new developments and applications of the Message Passing Interface (MPI). This includes new proposed concepts and extensions to the MPI standard, libraries and languages built in top of MPI, interfaces to other standards in parallel programming, applications and optimizations to new architectures and networks, novel algorithms, and tools, with particular focus on quality, portability, performance, and scalability. The annual meeting has a long, rich tradition, and has been held since 1994. EuroMPI will be co-scheduled with the MPI Forum meeting and all participants are invited to extend their participation to join the meeting. Important Dates =============== Abstracts due: May 14, 2021 Submissions due: May 17, 2021 Author notification: June 28, 2021 Final submissions due: August 14, 2021 COVID-19 Situation ================== The organizing committee is monitoring the world-wide covid situation closely. We are currently planning for an in-person conference, but may switch to a hybrid in-person/virtual or full virtual format should the situation in September 2021 require it, to make EuroMPI'21 a safe and productive meeting. Topics ====== EuroMPI 2021 will have a renewed focus on new developments and applications of the Message Passing Interface (MPI). This includes new proposed concepts and extensions to the MPI standard, libraries and languages built on top of MPI, interfaces to other standards in parallel programming, applications and optimizations to new architectures and networks, novel algorithms, and tools, with particular focus on quality, portability, performance, and scalability. We invite high-quality, full and short paper submissions on all topics related to MPI. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Efficient and scalable implementations of MPI libraries. - Scalability of MPI for Exascale and beyond - Interactions of MPI with accelerators (including GPUs, FPGAs and Quantum Systems) - Support in MPI for modern network hardware and in network compute - Extensions to MPI, alternative interfaces and solutions. - New, parallel MPI-I/O mechanisms optimizations, incl. near storage compute. - Hybrid and heterogeneous programming with MPI and other interfaces. - Interactions between MPI and other parallel programming standards - MPI-based concepts for new workloads, including AI and data-intensive applications. - Fault tolerance in and with MPI - MPI parallel programming in clouds and non-dedicated systems. - Performance evaluation for MPI libraries and MPI-based applications. - Automatic performance tuning of MPI applications and implementations. - Verification of message-passing applications, implementations and protocols. Papers will be reviewed for quality, originality, clarity, correctness, technical strength, and relevance to the topics of the meeting. Reviews are blind (but not double-blind), the names of the authors will be seen by the program committee. Paper Submission ================ To be considered, papers must be formatted according to the "sigconf" style in the ACM 2017 Template and - up to 10 pages in length (full paper) or - up to 5 pages in length (short and position papers) in PDF format, however shorter papers are welcome. The page limit includes figures, tables, and appendices, but does not include references, for which there is no page limit. Margins and font sizes should not be modified. Submissions will be handled via EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eurompi21 Organization ============ General Chair: Martin Schulz, Technical University Munich, Germany Program Chair: Marc-Andre Hermanns, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Poster Chair: Anthony Skjellum, University of Tennessee Chattanooga, USA Program Committee: - Hartwig Anzt,University of Tennessee Knoxville, USA - Claudia Blaas-Schenner,Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Marc Casas,Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Adrián Castelló,Universitat Jaume I, Spain - Taru Doodi,Intel Corp., USA - Bengisu Elis,Technical University of Munich, Germany - Javier Garcia Blas,Carlos III University, Germany - Richard Graham,NVIDIA, USA - Ryan E. Grant,Sandia National Laboratories, USA - William Gropp,University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA - Dan Holmes,Collis Holmes Innovations Ltd., Scotland - Sergio Iserte,Universitat Jaume I, Spain - Tanzima Islam,Texas State University, USA - Nikhil Jain,NVIDIA, USA - Stefano Markidis,KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden - Guillaume Mercier,INRIA, France - Bogdan Nicolae,Argonne National Laboratory, USA - Lena Oden,Fernuniversität Hagen, Germany - Rolf Rabenseifner,University of Stuttgart, USA - Ken Raffenetti,Argonne National Laboratory, USA - Raghunath Raja Chandrasekar,Amazon Web Services, USA - Kento Sato,RIKEN R-CCS, Japan - Jeff Squyres,Cisco, USA - Hari Subramoni,The Ohio State University, USA - Rajeev Thakur,Argonne National Laboratory, USA - Jesper Larsson Träff,Vienna University of Technology, Austria -- Dr. rer. nat. Marc-André Hermanns IT Center Group: High Performance Computing Division: Computational Science and Engineering RWTH Aachen University Seffenter Weg 23 52074 Aachen Phone: +49 241 80-24381 hermanns(a)itc.rwth-aachen.de www.itc.rwth-aachen.de Social Media Kanäle des IT Centers: https://blog.rwth-aachen.de/itc/ https://www.facebook.com/itcenterrwth https://www.linkedin.com/company/itcenterrwth https://twitter.com/ITCenterRWTH https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKKDJJukeRwO0LP-ac8x8rQ

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CCGrid - Call for Participants - "Live" Keynote and Best Papers Award papers Session (Free registration)
by Rajkumar Buyya 30 Apr '21

30 Apr '21

========================================================================== The 20th and 21st IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2020 and 2021) May 11-13, 2021, Melbourne, Australia Website: http://clouds.cis.unimelb.edu.au/ccgrid2021/ ------------------- NOTE: This is a "FREE" registration for those who have NOT registered with IEEE as paper authors. ------------------- The IEEE/ACM international Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (http://cloudbus.org/ccgrid2021/) is a leading forum to disseminate and discuss research activities and results on a broad range of topics in distributed systems, ranging from computing clusters to widely distributed Clouds and emerging Internet computing paradigms such as Fog/Edge Computing for Internet of Things (IoT)/Big Data applications. The online conference will host several keynotes and live presentation of "Best Paper" award paper from 20th and 21st (CCGrid 2020 and CCGrid 2021). More information about keynote talks, and accepted papers are available on the conference website (2020, 2021). For conference overall program, please see: http://clouds.cis.unimelb.edu.au/ccgrid2021/ http://clouds.cis.unimelb.edu.au/ccgrid2021/ccgrid2021-overall-program.html The video presentations of all accepted papers from 2020 and 2021 will be available on the conference website and a dedicated YouTube channel. This live virtual conference of 20th and 21st IEEE/ACM international Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing will be running during 11-13 May, 2-4 PM, AEST (two hours for everyday) facilitating keynote talks and presentation of "best papers". The plan for the event on 11-13 May 2021 is as follows: --------------------------------------------- We are scheduling 3 keynote ("live" talks) using Zoom 2pm-3pm (Melbourne Australia time, AEST) Keynote 1 (May 11/Tuesday)- Title: "Human-centric Software Engineering for Next Generation Cloud-and Edge-based Applications" by John Grundy (Monash University, Australia) Keynote 2 (May 12/Wednesday)- Title: "At the Synergistic Intersection of Scalable Computing, Data Analytics, and Machine Learning" by Wu FENG (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, USA) Keynote 3 (May 13/Thursday)- Title: "Edge Intelligence – Understanding the convergence of Edge, Fog, and Cloud " by Schahram Dustdar (Vienna University of Technology, TU Wien, Austria) --------------------------------------------- 3pm-4pm (Melbourne Australia time, AEST) Best paper live presentations from CCGrid 2020 and 2021. --------------------------------------------- The registration to the event will be closed on May 9. The link for joining the webinar will be made available on May 10 (will be sent to your registered emails). Kindly use your institute affiliated email address. We look forward to seeing you, and thank you in advance for your participation. CCGrid (Free) Registration Link: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/ccgrid-2020-ccgrid-2021-registration-for-no… ==========================================

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[Bench'21] CFP - 2021 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing
by Chen Liu 29 Apr '21

29 Apr '21

Bench’21 Call for Papers 2021 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench’ 21) http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench21/index.html November 14-16, 2021, Virtual Conference Important Dates: Abstracts: July 16, 2021 Full Papers: July 30, 2021 Notification: September 15, 2021 Final Papers Due: October 11, 2021 The Bench conference encompasses a wide range of topics in benchmarking, measurement, evaluation methods and tools. Bench’s multi-disciplinary emphasis provides an ideal environment for developers and researchers from the architecture, system, algorithm, and application communities to discuss practical and theoretical work covering workload characterization, benchmarks and tools, evaluation, measurement and optimization, and dataset generation. Manuscripts describing original work in the area of benchmarking, evaluation methods and tools in Big Data, AI, HPC and Computing Architectures on one of the following topics are welcome. - Benchmark and standard specifications, implementations, and validations. - Dataset Generation and Analysis. - Workload characterization, quantitative measurement, design and evaluation studies. - Methodologies, abstractions, metrics, algorithms and tools. - Measurement and evaluation. Please refer to the long version of the call for papers for more details (https://www.benchcouncil.org/bench21/cfp.html ). Paper Submission: The full version of the paper should be submitted as a PDF file following the submission guidelines available at the conference website at : https://www.benchcouncil.org/bench21/guideline.html. Submission issues should be directed to the program chairs (wanglei_2011(a)ict.ac.cn, axel.ngonga(a)uni-paderborn.de, cliu(a)clarkson.edu) Please consult the Bench’21 website for additional information about the conference and submission details. Publication: All accepted papers will be presented at the Bench’21 conference and will be published in a special issue of the BenchCouncil Transactions on Benchmarks, Standards and Evaluation (TBench). Awards: Bench’21 conference will present the BenchCouncil Achievement Award ($3000), the BenchCouncil Rising Star Award ($1000), the BenchCouncil Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award ($1000)，and the BenchCouncil Best Paper Award ($1000). To encourage reliable and reproducible research using the benchmarks from all organizations, the Bench conference presents the BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research to the papers using publicly available benchmarks. Each article receives a $100 prize, for up to 12 articles. Please check the conference webpage for more information. Steering Committee: Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee), Geoffrey Fox (Indiana University), D. K. Panda (The Ohio State University), Felix Wolf (TU Darmstadt), Xiaoyi Lu (University of California, Merced), Wanling Gao (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences & UCAS), Jianfeng Zhan (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences & BenchCouncil). General Chairs: Resit Sendag (University of Rhode Island, USA), Arne J. Berre (SINTEF Digital, Norway). Program Chairs: Lei Wang (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Axel Ngonga (Paderborn University), Chen Liu (Clarkson University). Special Session Chair: Xiaoyi Lu (The University of California, Merced) Publications Chair: Chunjie Luo (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Registration Chair: Fanda Fan (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Technical Support Chair: Ke Liu (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Publicity Chairs: Chen Zheng (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Zhen Jia (Amazon), Biwei Xie (Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences), Pengfei Chen (Sun Yat-sen University). Web Chair: Guoxin Kang (Chinese Academy of Sciences)

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FMEC 2021 CFP: The Sixth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing
by Stanley Ewenike 29 Apr '21

29 Apr '21

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this invitation] The Sixth International Conference on Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC 2021) http://emergingtechnet.org/FMEC2021/index.php Gandia, Spain. December 6-9, 2021 *FMEC 2021 CFP:* Cloud computing provides a large range of services and virtually unlimited available resources for users. New applications, such as virtual reality and smart building control, have emerged due to the large number of resources and services brought by cloud computing. However, the delay-sensitive applications face the problem of large latency, especially when several smart devices and objects are getting involved in human’s life such as the case of smart cities or the Internet of Things. Therefore, cloud computing is unable to meet the requirements of low latency, location awareness, and mobility support. To solve this problem, researchers have introduced a trusted and dependable solution through the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC) to put the services and resources of the cloud closer to users, which facilitates the leveraging of available services and resources in the edge networks. By this, we are moving from the core (cloud data centers) to the edge of the network closer to the users. FMEC dependability is based on providing user centric service. The purpose of Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing is to run the heavy real-time applications at the network edge directly using the billions of connected mobile devices. Several features enable the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing to be a perfect paradigm to the aforementioned purpose, which are the dense geographical deployment of servers, supporting mobility and the closeness to users. As in every new technology, some challenges face the vision of the Fog and the Mobile Edge Computing, which are the administrative policies and security concerns (i.e. secure data storage, secure computation, network security, data privacy, usage privacy, location privacy, etc). FMEC 2021 conference aims to investigate the opportunities and requirements for Mobile Edge Computing dominance. In addition, it seeks for novel contributions that help mitigating Mobile Edge Computing challenges. That is, the objective of FMEC 2021 is to provide a forum for scientists, engineers, and researchers to discuss and exchange new ideas, novel results and experience on all aspects of Fog and Mobile Edge Computing (FMEC). FMEC 2021 is Technically Co-Sponsored by IEEE Spain Section. Researchers are encouraged to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include, but not limited to: * Mobile Cloud Computing Systems. * FMEC Security and Privacy Issues. * FMEC Pricing and billing models. * FMEC support for VANETS and MANETS * Cloudlet based computing * Dew based computing * Lightweight authentication mechanisms in FMEC architecture. * Access Control models in FMEC. * Identification of incentives for FMEC service providers. * The future perspective for FMEC: Challenges and Open Issues. * FMEC Quality of Service (QoS) improvements techniques. * FMEC architecture features and evolution. * FMEC Real-time communication interfaces and protocols. * FMEC Resource scheduling that enhances the reliability and scalability. * FMEC Resources monitoring mechanism and utilization measuring mechanism. * FMEC resources allocation and management. * Real-time load prediction model to optimize the user satisfaction. * FMEC virtualization. * Data storage, processing, and management at FMEC platform. * Cyber hacking, next generation firewall of FMEC. * Deployment strategies of FMEC Servers * Admission control for FMEC. * Social engineering, insider threats, advance spear phishing. * Incident Handling and Penetration Testing. * Forensics of Virtual and FMEC Environments. * Security protocols in FMEC. * Security and privacy of mobile cloud computing * Security, privacy and reliability issues of MCC and IoT * Security and privacy of IoT * Security and privacy management in MCC * MCC intrusion detection systems * Security of pricing and billing for mobile cloud computing services * Security of mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive services in clouds * Security of mobile commerce and mobile Internet of Things * Security of mobile social networks * Security and privacy in smartphone devices * Security and privacy in social applications and networks * Security of Mobile, peer-to-peer and pervasive services in clouds * Security of Mobile commerce and mobile internet of things * Security of Operating system and middleware support for mobile computing * Security and privacy in sensor networks * Security and privacy in social applications and networks * Web service security * Security of 3G/4G systems, Wi-MAX, Ad-hoc * Security of Mobile social networks * Near field communication services * Service-oriented architectures, service portability, P2P * Network virtualization and cloud-based radio access networks *Submissions Guidelines and Proceedings* Manuscripts should be prepared in 10-point font using the IEEE 8.5" x 11" two-column format. All papers should be in PDF format, and submitted electronically at Paper Submission Link. A full paper can be up to 8 pages (including all figures, tables and references). Submitted papers must present original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines may be rejected without review. Also submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair for further information or clarification. All submissions are peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted papers will appear in the FMEC Proceeding, and be published by the IEEE Computer Society Conference Publishing Services and be submitted to IEEE Xplore for inclusion. Submitted papers must include original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Submission of regular papers up to 8 pages and must follow the IEEE paper format. Please include up to 7 keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of the corresponding author. Authors of accepted papers are expected to present their work at the conference. Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but that could not be accepted as regular papers will be accepted as short papers. Length of short papers can be between 4 to 6 pages. *Important Dates* Submission Date: 15 July, 2021 Notification to Authors: 30 September, 2021 Camera Ready Submission: 15 October, 2021 *Contact:* Please send any inquiry on FMEC 2021 to Emerging Tech. Network Team at: emergingtechnetwork(a)gmail.com

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[Deadline Extended] Call for Participation: PUMPS+AI Summer School 2021 (online)
by Antonio J. Peña 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

[New deadline: May 15, 2021] http://pumps.bsc.es On its 11th edition, the Programming and tUning Massively Parallel Systems + Artificial Intelligence summer school (PUMPS+AI) offers researchers and graduate students a unique opportunity to improve their skills with cutting-edge techniques and hands-on experience in developing and tuning applications for many-core processors with massively parallel computing resources like GPU accelerators, with a special focus on AI. - PUMPS 2021 Distinguished Lecturer: Wen-mei Hwu (UIUC and NVIDIA) The summer school is oriented towards advanced programming and optimizations, and thus previous experience in basic GPU programming will be considered in the selection process. We will also consider the current parallel applications and numerical methods you are familiar with, and the specific optimizations you would like to discuss. Some of the topics that will be covered during the course are: * DEEP Learning * High-level programming models * CUDA Algorithmic Optimization Strategies * Dealing with Sparse and Dynamic data * Efficiency in Large Data Traversal * Reducing Output Interference * Controlling Load Imbalance and Divergence * Acceleration of Collective Operations * Dynamic Parallelism and HyperQ * Debugging and Profiling CUDA Code * Multi-GPU Execution * Architecture Trends and Implications * Introduction to OmpSs and to the Paraver analysis tools * OmpSs: Leveraging GPU Programming * Hands-on Labs Participants will have access to GPU servers and will learn to program and optimize applications and AI techniques in languages such as CUDA and OmpSs. Teaching Assistants will be available to help with your hands-on lab assignments. At poster and hackathon sessions you may show your current work and applications you are optimizing. NVIDIA will award the best poster presentation. - Important Dates: Applications due: May 15, 2021 Notification of acceptance: May 31, 2021 Summer school: July 6-9, 2021 (tentative) Early application is strongly recommended. You may also be suggested to attend an online prerequisite training on basic CUDA programming before joining PUMPS. - Location: online - Complete information, program and registration: http://pumps.bsc.es PUMPS is organized by the Barcelona Supercomputing Center, the University of Illinois, the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, the HiPEAC Network of Excellence, and the PRACE Advanced Training Centre. Looking forward to see you at the PUMPS Summer School, - PUMPS Co-Directors: Mateo Valero (BSC-UPC) and Wen-mei Hwu (Univ. of Illinois) - Local Organization Chair: Antonio J. Peña (BSC) - Contact: pumps(a)bsc.es http://bsc.es/disclaimer

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NAS 2021: Call for Papers
by Ashutosh Pattnaik 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

The 15th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture and Storage (NAS 2021, sponsored by the IEEE) Riverside Convention Center, CA, October 24-26, 2021 http://www.nas-conference.org ###################################################### The International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage provide a high-quality international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research on networking, high-performance computer architecture, and parallel and distributed data storage technologies. NAS 2021 will expose participants to the most recent developments in the interdisciplinary areas. We invite submissions on a wide range of research topics, including, but not limited to: - Accelerator-based architectures - Ad hoc and sensor networks - Application-specific, reconfigurable or embedded architectures - Architecture for handheld or mobile devices - Architecture, networking or storage modeling and simulation methodologies - Big Data infrastructure - Big Data services and analytics - Cloud and grid computing - Cloud storage - Data-center scale architectures - Effects of circuits and emerging technology on architecture - Energy-aware storage - File systems, object-based storage - GPU architecture and programming - HW/SW co-design and trade offs - Mobile and wireless networks - Network applications and services - Network architecture and protocols - Network information theory - Network modeling and measurement - Network security - Non-volatile memory technologies - Parallel and multi-core architectures - Parallel I/O - Power and energy efficient architectures and techniques - Processor, cache, memory system architectures - Software defined networking - Software defined storage - SSD architecture and applications - Storage management - Storage performance and scalability - Storage virtualization and security - Virtual and overlay networks ###################################################### Each submission can have up to 8 pages, including all text, figures, tables, footnotes, appendices, references, etc. Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished work for possible presentation at the conference. The program committee will nominate the best papers for recognition in the three conference topic areas. All papers will be evaluated based on their novelty, fundamental insight, experimental evaluation, and potential for long-term impact; new-idea papers are encouraged. All accepted papers will be published in the IEEE digital library. Selected and extended papers will be recommended for journal publications. Important Dates: Paper Submission Deadline: May 9, 2021 Author Notification: July 15, 2021 Camera-ready Paper: August 15, 2021 Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nas21 ###################################################### Organizing Committee General Chair: Laxmi N. Bhuyan, University of California, Riverside Program Co-Chairs: Chita Das, Penn State University Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island Dipak Ghosal, University of California, Davis Hong Jiang, University of Texas, Arlington Vice Program Chairs: Networking: Yan Luo, UMass Lowell Architecture: E.J. Kim, Texas A&M Storage: Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine Industry panel/track chair: Asit Mishra, NVIDIA Local Arrangement Chair: John Dung Vu, California State University, San Bernardino Finance Chair: John Zhiyong Xu, Suffolk University Registration Co-Chairs: Yun Tian: California State University, Fullerton Xiaorong Zhang, San Francisco State University Industry Sponsorship co-chairs: Ravi Iyer, Intel Changsheng Xie, Huazhong University of Sc. and Tech., China Sibabrata Ray, Google Publication Co-Chairs: Weijun Xiao, Virginia Commonwealth University Jun Wang, University of Central Florida Publicity Co-Chairs: Adwait Jog, William & Mary Chentao Wu, Shanghai Jiaotong U. Ashutosh Pattnaik, ARM Web Chair: Jianhui Yue, Michigan Tech University Steering Committee: Xubin He, Chair, Temple Univ. Laxmi N Bhuyan, UCR Chita Das, Penn State Hong Jiang, UT Arlington Changsheng Xie, HUST, China Qing Yang, U of Rhode Island

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(CALL FOR PAPERS) PAW-ATM: Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI+X
by Rosa M. Badia 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

************************************************ Call for Papers PAW-ATM 2021: Parallel Applications Workshop, Alternatives To MPI+X Held in conjunction with SC21, St. Louis, MO <http://sourceryinstitute.github.io/PAW/> ************************************************ Summary Architectural hierarchy and heterogeneity makes programming supercomputers challenging. In practice, HPC applications tend to be written using a mix of programming models—like C++, MPI, CUDA, and/or OpenMP—each of which is becoming more complex over time. This negatively impacts the costs of developing, maintaining, and porting HPC applications. Meanwhile, alternative HPC programming models strive to improve things by raising the level of abstraction; incorporating modern features; and/or leveraging the respective strengths of programmers, compilers, and runtimes. These alternatives take the form of new languages (e.g., Chapel, Regent, XcalableMP), frameworks for large-scale data science (e.g., Arkouda, Dask, Spark), or extensions to existing languages (e.g., Charm++, COMPSs, Fortran, Legion, UPC++). PAW-ATM is a forum for discussing HPC applications written in alternatives to MPI+X. Its goal is to bring together application experts and proponents of high-level languages to present concrete example uses of such alternatives, describing their benefits and challenges. Scope and Aims The PAW-ATM workshop aims to serve as a forum for exhibiting parallel applications developed using high-level parallel programming models that serve as alternatives to MPI+X-based programming. We encourage the submission of papers and talks from the community detailing practical distributed-memory applications written using alternatives to MPI+X, including characterizations of scalability and performance, expressiveness and programmability, as well as any downsides or areas for improvement in such models. In doing so, our hope is to create a setting in which application authors, language designers, and architects can present and discuss the state of the art in alternative scalable programming models while also wrestling with how to increase their effectiveness and adoption. Beyond well-established HPC scientific simulations, we also encourage submissions exploring artificial intelligence, big data analytics, machine learning, and other emerging application areas. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Novel application development using high-level parallel programming languages and frameworks. * Examples that demonstrate performance, compiler optimization, error checking, and reduced software complexity. * Applications from artificial intelligence, data analytics, bioinformatics, and other novel areas. * Performance evaluation of applications developed using alternatives to MPI+X and comparisons to standard programming models. * Novel algorithms enabled by high-level parallel abstractions. * Experience with the use of new compilers and runtime environments. * Libraries using or supporting alternatives to MPI+X. * Benefits of hardware abstraction and data locality on algorithm implementation. Papers that include description of applications that demonstrate the use of alternative programming models will be given higher priority. Submissions Submissions are solicited in two categories: 1) Full-length papers presenting novel research results: * Full-length papers will be published in the workshop proceedings (+). Submitted papers must describe original work that has not appeared in, nor is under consideration for, another conference or journal. Papers shall be eight (8) pages minimum and not exceed ten (10) including text, appendices, and figures. Appendix pages related to the reproducibility initiative dependencies, namely the Artifact Description (AD) and Artifact Evaluation (AE), are not included in the page count. + The specific publisher of the proceedings is TBA pending acceptance of our proposal to the proceedings publisher. 2) Extended abstracts summarizing preliminary/published results: * Extended abstracts will be evaluated separately and will not be included in the published proceedings; they are intended to propose timely communications of novel work that will be formally submitted elsewhere at a later stage, and/or of already published work that would be of interest to the PAW-ATM audience in terms of topic and timeliness. Extended abstracts shall not exceed four (4) pages. When deciding between submissions with similar merit, submissions whose focus relates more directly to the key themes of the workshop (application studies, computing at scale, high-level alternatives to MPI+X) will be given priority over those that don't. In addition, full-length paper submissions will be given preference over extended abstracts. Submissions shall be submitted through Linklings: https://submissions.supercomputing.org Submissions must use 10pt font in the IEEE format: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html PAW-ATM follows the reproducibility initiative of SC21. For more information, please refer to: https://sc21.supercomputing.org/submit/reproducibility-initiative/ http://sourceryinstitute.github.io/PAW/ WORKSHOP CHAIR * Karla Morris - Sandia National Laboratories ORGANIZING COMMITTEE * Rosa M. Badia - Barcelona Supercomputing Center * Michael Ferguson - Hewlett Packard Enterprise PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS * Bill Long - Hewlett Packard Enterprise * Sean Treichler - NVIDIA PROGRAM COMMITTEE * Vicenç Bertran - Barcelona Supercomputing Center * Dan Bonachea - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory * Peter Braam - University of Oxford * Harold Castro - Los Andes University (Colombia) * Bradford L. Chamberlain - Hewlett Packard Enterprise * John Feo - Pacific Northwest National Laboratory * Michael Ferguson - Hewlett Packard Enterprise * Salvatore Filippone - University of Rome Tor Vergata * Fernanda Foertter - The BioTeam, Inc. * Max Grossman - Georgia Institute of Technology * Hideto Iwashita - HPFPC * Daniel S. Katz - University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign * Wonchan Lee - Stanford University * Daniele Lezzi - Barcelona Supercomputing Center * Bill Long - Hewlett Packard Enterprise * Karla Morris - Sandia National Laboratories * Irene Moulitsas - Cranfield University * Mitsuhisa Sato - RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science * Sean Treichler - NVIDIA ADVISORY COMMITTEE * Bradford L. Chamberlain - Hewlett Packard Enterprise * Damian W. I. Rouson - Sourcery Institute * Katherine A. Yelick - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory IMPORTANT DATES * Submissions deadline: July 23, 2021 * Manuscripts review period: August 6-20, 2021 * Rebuttal submission: September 3, 2021 * Building consensus: September 4-10, 2021 * Notification to authors: September 13, 2021 * Final program: September 15, 2021 * Camera-ready papers due from authors: October 1, 2021 * Workshop date: November 14|15|19, 2021 -- Rosa M Badia Barcelona Supercomputing Center +34 93 413 4075 http://bsc.es/disclaimer

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[REMINDER] IWOMP 2021 - 17th International Workshop on OpenMP - CFP -- Deadline May 14th (AoE)
by Klinkenberg, Jannis 28 Apr '21

28 Apr '21

CALL FOR PAPERS: ----------------------------------------- + IWOMP 2021 + 17th International Workshop on OpenMP + September 15-17, 2021 + University of Bristol, UK + https://www.iwomp.org + Submission deadline: May 14, 2021 (AoE) ----------------------------------------- The International Workshop on OpenMP (IWOMP) is the annual workshop dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of parallel programming with OpenMP. This pioneering workshop has been attracting an International audience of leading academic and industrial experts since 2005 and is the premier forum to present and discuss issues, trends, recent research ideas, and results related to parallel programming with OpenMP. We solicit quality submissions of unpublished technical papers that detail innovative, original research and development related to OpenMP. IWOMP 2021 will be hosted by the High Performance Computing research group at the University of Bristol, UK. BACKGROUND ------------ As computing hardware has evolved from simple core reproduction to advanced SIMD units, deeper memories, and heterogeneous computing, OpenMP has also evolved and extended its application interface to harness new capabilities throughout the spectrum of hardware advances. New features and extensions of the OpenMP 5.0 interface have taken major steps to provide control of the parallelism within the paradigms and complexity of modern C/C++ and Fortran programming languages. OpenMP enhancements range from operational aspects deep within the vector execution units, up through the cores and memory, and beyond, to offloading across accelerator devices. Advances in technologies, such as multi-core processors and OpenMP devices (accelerators such as GPGPUs, DSPs or FPGAs), Multiprocessor Systems on a Chip (MPSoCs), and recent developments in OpenMP itself (e.g., metadirectives and variants for selecting device- and architecture-specific directives) present new opportunities and challenges for software and hardware developers. Recent advances in the C, C++ and Fortran base languages also offer interesting opportunities and challenges to the OpenMP programming model. Theme for 2021: OpenMP: Enabling Massive Node-Level Parallelism ---------------------------------------------------------------- We now have CPU-only nodes with 128 cores or even 160 cores (before we get started on hardware threads), and of course GPUs add to this too. This year’s theme highlights the massive node-level parallelism we now have available and papers relating to this theme are particularly welcome. TOPICS ------------ The topics include but are not limited to the following: + Vectorization + Offloading to devices + Memory model + Memory policies and management + Tasking + Performance portability + Runtime environment + Performance analysis and modeling + Tools + Proposed OpenMP extensions + OpenMP applications in any domain + Scientific and numerical computations, machine learning, computer graphics, multimedia, information retrieval, optimization, text processing, data mining, finance, signal and image processing and video games. SUBMISSIONS ------------ Submitted papers for review should be limited to 12 pages (not counting references). Authors of accepted papers will be asked to prepare a final paper of up to 15 pages (including references). + Submission deadline: Monday 14 May 2021 (AoE) + Acceptance Notifications: Monday 14 June 2021 (AoE) + Camera Ready Copy Deadline: Friday 9 July 2021 (AoE) + Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwomp2021 + Check for Updates: https://www.iwomp.org Submitted papers should follow LNCS Guidelines found at: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… PROCEEDINGS ------------ As in previous years, IWOMP 2021 will publish formal proceedings of the accepted papers in Springer’s Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE --------------------- General Chair: Simon McIntosh-Smith, University of Bristol Program Chair: Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL) Tutorial Chairs: Tom Deakin, University of Bristol, and Yun (Helen) He, NERSC Publications Chair: Jannis Klinkenberg, RWTH Aachen University Local Organiser Chair: Tim Lewis, University of Bristol STEERING COMMITTEE -------------------- Matthias S. Müller, RWTH Aachen University, Germany (Chair) Eduard Ayguadé, BSC, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Mark Bull, EPCC, University of Edinburgh, UK Barbara Chapman, Stony Brook University, USA Rudolf Eigenmann, University of Delaware William Gropp, University of Illinois, USA Michael Klemm, AMD, Germany Kalyan Kumaran, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Lawrence Meadows, Intel, USA Dieter an Mey, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Stephen L. Olivier, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Ruud van der Pas, University of Delaware, USA Alistair Rendell, Flinders, University, Australia Mitsuhisa Sato, RIKEN R-CCS, Japan Sanjiv Shah, Intel, USA Oliver Sinnen, University of Auckland, New Zealand Josemar Rodrigues de Souza, SENAI Unidade CIMATEC, Brazil Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Christian Terboven, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Matthijs van Waveren, OpenMP ARB & CS Group PROGRAM COMMITEE ------------------- Patrick Atkinson, NVIDIA Eduard Ayguade, Technical University of Catalunya Mark Bull, University of Edinburgh Florina Ciorba, University of Basel Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware Tom Deakin, University of Bristol Johannes Doerfert, Argonne National Laboratory Alex Duran, Intel Deepak Eachempati, Hewlett Packard Enterprise Jini Susan George, AMD Oscar Hernandez, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Paul Kelly, Imperial College London Jannis Klinkenberg, RWTH Aachen University Michael Kruse, Argonne National Laboratory Kelvin Li, IBM Chunhua Liao, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Will Lovett, Arm Larry Meadows, Intel Stephen Olivier, Sandia National Laboratories Joachim Protze, RWTH Aachen University Mitsuhisa Sato, RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science Adrian Tate, NAG Terry Wilmarth, Intel Justs Zarins, EPCC.

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