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ICITS'22 | Costa Rica | Deadline: September 13
by ML 31 Aug '21

31 Aug '21

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ICITS'22 - The 2022 International Conference on Information Technology & Systems San Carlos, Costa Rica, 9 - 11 February 2022 http://icits.me <http://icits.me/> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE ICITS'22 - The 2022 International Conference on Information Technology & Systems (http://icits.me <http://icits.me/>), to be held in Tecnológico de Costa Rica, Campus de San Carlos, Costa Rica, 9 - 11 February 2022, is an international forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss the most recent innovations, trends, results, experiences and concerns in the several perspectives of Information Technology & Systems. We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to ICITS'22. They can be written in English, Spanish or Portuguese. All submissions will be reviewed on the basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. TOPICS Submitted papers should be related with one or more of the main themes proposed for the Conference: A) Information and Knowledge Management (IKM); B) Organizational Models and Information Systems (OMIS); C) Software and Systems Modeling (SSM); D) Software Systems, Architectures, Applications and Tools (SSAAT); E) Multimedia Systems and Applications (MSA); F) Computer Networks, Mobility and Pervasive Systems (CNMPS); G) Intelligent and Decision Support Systems (IDSS); H) Big Data Analytics and Applications (BDAA); I) Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); J) Ethics, Computers and Security (ECS) K) Health Informatics (HIS); L) Information Technologies in Education (ITE); M) Media, Applied Technology and Communication (MATC). SUBMISSION and DECISION Submitted papers written in English (until 10-page limit) must comply with the format of the Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems series (see Instructions for Authors at Springer Website), must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors’ identification. Therefore, the authors’ names and affiliations should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Scientific Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word or Latex format and also in PDF format. These files must be accompanied by the Consent to Publish form filled out, in a ZIP file, and uploaded at the conference management system. Submitted papers written in Spanish or Portuguese (until 15-page limit) must comply with the format of RISTI - Revista Ibérica de Sistemas e Tecnologias de Informação (download instructions/template for authors in Spanish or Portuguese), must not have been published before, not be under review for any other conference or publication and not include any information leading to the authors’ identification. Therefore, the authors’ names and affiliations should not be included in the version for evaluation by the Scientific Committee. This information should only be included in the camera-ready version, saved in Word. These files must be uploaded at the conference management system in a ZIP file. All papers will be subjected to a “double-blind review” by at least two members of the Scientific Committee. Based on Scientific Committee evaluation, a paper can be rejected or accepted by the Conference Chairs. In the later case, it can be accepted as paper or poster. The authors of papers accepted as posters must build and print a poster to be exhibited during the Conference. This poster must follow an A1 or A2 vertical format. The Conference can include Work Sessions where these posters are presented and orally discussed, with a 7 minute limit per poster. The authors of accepted papers will have 15 minutes to present their work in a Conference Work Session; approximately 5 minutes of discussion will follow each presentation. PUBLICATION and INDEXING Papers accepted as posters are not published; they are only exhibited, presented and discussed during the conference. To ensure that a paper accepted as paper is published, at least one of the authors must be fully registered by the 5th of November 2021, and the paper must comply with the suggested layout and page-limit. Additionally, all recommended changes must be addressed by the authors before they submit the camera-ready version. No more than one paper per registration will be published. An extra fee must be paid for publication of additional papers, with a maximum of one additional paper per registration. One registration permits only the participation of one author in the conference. Papers written in English and accepted and registered will be published in Proceedings by Springer, in a book of the Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems series, will be submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, WoS, Google Scholar, SCImago, among others, and will be available in the SpringerLink Digital Library. Papers written in Spanish or Portuguese and accepted and registered will be published in a Special Issue of RISTI and will be submitted for indexation by SCOPUS, among others. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: September 13, 2021 Notification of Acceptance: October 17, 2021 Payment of Registration, to ensure the inclusion of an accepted paper in the conference proceedings: November 5, 2021. Camera-ready Submission: November 5, 2021 Website of ICITS'22: http://icits.me <http://icits.me/> ICITS'22 Team http://icits.me <http://icits.me/> -- This email has been checked for viruses by AVG. https://www.avg.com

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CANOPIE-HPC@SC21 - Deadline Extension
by Patrick Bridges 31 Aug '21

31 Aug '21

****************************************************************************** The Third International Workshop on Containers And New Orchestration Paradigms for Isolated Environments in HPC (CANOPIE-HPC) at Supercomputing 2021 ****************************************************************************** CANOPIE-HPC is a workshop focusing on containerization, virtualization, and other methods to implement user-defined, bring-your-own, or isolated software environments. Submissions will be peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in IEEE https://tc.computer.org/tchpc/ (TCHPC). Website: https://canopie-hpc.org Submission opens: July 9, 2021 Submission closes: September 8, 2021 (FINAL DEADLINE) Decisions: September 24, 2021 Camera ready due: October 8, 2021 Workshop date: November 14, 2021 Note: Items are due at 23:59 “anywhere on Earth” on the specified date. PROGRAM CHAIRS Patrick Bridges, University of New Mexico Carlos Eduardo Arango Gutierrez, Red Hat OVERVIEW Technologies such as containers and virtual machines enable users to define and build their own software environments, and then run them on different resources in a portable, reproducible manner. These new workflows, with users directly participating in creating and managing isolated environments with tools are a transformational capability. In addition to greater flexibility and agility for users, other benefits include greater portability and reduced system administration costs. In particular, they make tractable a much-desired paradigm shift in software deployment, enabling an HPC application and its environment to be moved between platforms ranging from development laptops and desktops to exascale HPC systems. There are numerous questions regarding best practices, foundational concepts, tools, and standards for using containers in HPC systems. Our goal is to promote and accelerate the adoption and impact of these new ecosystems to better address HPC use cases. This workshop serves as a key venue for presenting late-breaking research, sharing experiences and best practices, and fostering collaboration in this field. SCOPE The scope of this workshop is to better understand and improve user-defined, bring-your-own, isolated, and related software environments for HPC. The most well-known approaches are containers and virtualization, but anything to further these goals is welcome. Topics include research and practical experience reports in areas including but not limited to: • Container runtimes, virtual machines, architectures, and related technologies • Orchestration, resource management, and scheduling • Expressive container information, including labels, build state, and other metadata • Containers and orchestration tools for HPC infrastructure management • Portability, reproducibility, and testing approaches in HPC • HPC in the cloud and/or cloud in the HPC • Hardware considerations, including GPUs, accelerators, and interconnects • Security and trust models • Image management, including distribution, archiving, and registries • In-situ visualization and/or analysis • Container-based data management approaches • New container workflows, architectures, and applications, including hybrid traditional/non-traditional jobs, checkpoint/restart, and resource partitioning • New interaction techniques such as web apps (Jupyter, RStudio, etc.) and DevOps WORKSHOP FORMAT CANOPIE-HPC will follow a relatively traditional format based on several other previously successful workshops at SC, consisting of approximately four sessions separated by breaks and lunch. We will have an introduction and welcoming remarks, technical talks, panels, a keynote, and a brief wrap-up discussion. The content of technical sessions will be driven by the curated mix of accepted submissions. In the event of a virtual SC21, CANOPIE-HPC will follow remote guidance from the SC21 organizers, with the goal of simulating an in-person workshop as closely as practical. DIVERSITY AND INCLUSION The CANOPIE-HPC organizers embrace diversity and inclusion. We are committed to equal opportunity for everyone, regardless of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, gender identity, sexual orientation, or status as a parent, among other things. We understand that today’s workforce is more diverse than ever and that the nation’s best and brightest represent an endless variety of cultural, geographical, and educational backgrounds; life experiences; and perspectives. We welcome this because we recognize that workforce diversity, when fully leveraged, leads to the inclusion of more ideas and viewpoints, which in turn leads to more creativity and innovation. When individuals are able to bring their whole selves to work, they thrive and HPC thrives. SUBMISSION PROCEDURE Accepted manuscripts will be published in IEEE https://tc.computer.org/tchpc/. Manuscripts should use the IEEE Transactions format; https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html are available for Microsoft Word and LaTeX (though note that the IEEEtran class comes with most LaTeX installations). Manuscripts must be at least 6 pages in the IEEE Transactions format, including figures, tables, and references. There is no maximum, but writing should be concise, and manuscript length must be commensurate with contribution size. We enthusiastically welcome original, high-quality submissions within the scope above. These may describe complete studies; work-in-progress research; position papers on controversial, emerging, or hot topics; state of the practice; or any other manuscript the authors believe should be included in the CANOPIE-HPC program. We encourage submissions from academia, industry, government, and/or any other type of institution. Each manuscript will be assessed using peer review by program committee members (or outside reviewers, if needed) on the basis of scientific validity, impact to the field, reproducibility, inclusivity, and opportunity for useful and lively discussion at the workshop. Review will be single-masked; i.e., reviewers will know authors’ identities, but not vice versa. Authors should not anonymize their manuscripts. In conjunction with the SC Reproducibility Initiative, submissions should be transparent as possible regarding all methods, and when appropriate, they should provide reproducibility artifacts such as reproduction instructions, source code, build recipes, and/or container images. These should be presented in a manner convenient for readers; e.g., prose instructions might fit well as an appendix in the submitted PDF, while source code or an image repository URLs could go in a footnote. The program committee will discuss the submissions and their reviews and select the program over a video conference meeting. Submissions will be assessed as-is, with no expectation of substantive revision after peer review, though some submissions may be accepted conditional on specified changes (“shepherded”). Submit your manuscript using the SC21 web system: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/?page=Submit&id=SC21WorkshopCANOPIEH…

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ESPM2@SC21 - Deadline Extension: Papers due Sept 10
by Shafi, Aamir 31 Aug '21

31 Aug '21

======================================================================== Call For Papers (Deadline Extension Announcement) Sixth International Workshop on Extreme Scale Programming Models and Middleware (ESPM2 2021) to be held in conjunction with SuperComputing 2021, November 15, 2021 St. Louis, Missouri http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/espm2/ ======================================================================== Next-generation architectures and systems being deployed are characterized by high concurrency, low memory per-core, and multiple levels of hierarchy and heterogeneity. These characteristics bring out new challenges in energy efficiency, fault-tolerance, and scalability. It is commonly believed that software has the biggest share of the responsibility to tackle these challenges. In other words, this responsibility is delegated to the next generation programming models and their associated middleware/runtimes. This workshop focuses on different aspects of programming models such as task-based parallelism (Charm++, OCR, Habanero, Legion, X10, HPX, etc), PGAS (OpenSHMEM, UPC, CAF, Chapel, UPC++, etc.), BigData (Hadoop, Spark, Dask etc), Machine Learning (NVIDIA RAPIDS, Scikit-learn etc.), Deep Learning (Caffe, Microsoft CNTK, Google TensorFlow, Facebook PyTorch), directive-based languages (OpenMP, OpenACC) and Hybrid MPI+X, etc. It also focuses on their associated middleware (unified runtimes, interoperability for hybrid programming, tight integration of MPI+X, and support for accelerators/FPGAs) for next-generation systems and architectures. The ultimate objective of the ESPM2 workshop is to serve as a forum that brings together researchers from academia and industry working in the areas of programming models, runtime systems, compilation, and languages, and application developers. ESPM2 2021 will be held as a full-day workshop in conjunction with SuperComputing (SC 2021) in St. Louis, Missouri, USA. Topics ------ ESPM2 2021 welcomes original submissions in a range of areas, including but not limited to: * New programming models, languages and constructs for exploiting high concurrency and heterogeneity * Experience with and improvements for existing parallel languages and run-time environments such as: - MPI - PGAS (OpenSHMEM, UPC, CAF, Chapel, UPC++, etc.) - Directive-based programming (OpenMP, OpenACC) - Asynchronous Task-based models (Charm++, OCR, Habanero, Legion, X10, HPX, etc) - Hybrid MPI+X models - BigData (Hadoop, Spark, Dask etc.) - Machine Learning (NVIDIA RAPIDS, Scikit-learn etc.) - Deep Learning (Microsoft CNTK, TensorFlow, PyTorch) * Parallel compilers, programming tools, and environments * Software and system support for extreme scalability including fault tolerance * Programming environments for heterogeneous multi-core systems and accelerators such as KNL, OpenPOWER, ARM, GPUs, FPGAs, MICs, and DSPs Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. Keynote Speakers ---------------- Details coming soon. Panel Information ----------------- Details coming soon! Paper Submission and Registration --------------------------------- Abstracts and papers need to be submitted via the Linklings conference system (https://submissions.supercomputing.org) After logging in, please select the "Make a New Submission" tab on the top. Click on the "SC21 Workshop: ESPM2 2021" link among the available options to submit your work. Submissions should not exceed 8 pages using IEEE conference format with 10pt font. Each submission must be a single PDF file (see https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) Papers must be submitted in PDF format (readable by Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 and higher) and formatted for 8.5" x 11" (U.S. Letter). Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. It should not be submitted in parallel to any other conference or journal. Reproducibility Initiative -------------------------- For all technical papers submitted to ESPM2'21, we request the authors to include an "Artifact Description Appendix". Please use the following Artifact Description Template template to create the appendix (https://collegeville.github.io/sc-reproducibility/ArtifactDescriptionAppend…) The appendix can be uploaded as a separate PDF document in the submission site. Please note the following: 1. The completed appendix must be at most 2 pages 2. The appendix is meant to provide information about the computing environment you used to produce your results, reducing barriers for future replication of your results by others in the community. 3. If a new software package is developed as part of the publication, it software must be downloadable by anyone without restriction to enable replication of your results by others in the community. - Note that this does not require you to make your code available in an open source manner. 4. A paper cannot be disqualified based on information provided or not provided in this appendix, nor if the appendix is not available. 5. The availability and quality of an appendix can be used in ranking a paper. In particular, if two papers are of similar quality, the existence and quality of the appendices can be part of the evaluation process. Proceedings Information ----------------------- The workshop proceedings will be published through IEEE TCHPC and included in the the IEEE Xplore digital library. Each research paper will be taken through a comprehensive peer review process by an internationally recognized group of experts in the field. Papers will be evaluated along the metrics of a) Quality of Presentation; b) Novelty / Originality; c) Relation to State of the Art; d) Technical Strength; e) Significance of Work; f) Relevance to Workshop; and g) Availability and quality of the "Artifact Description Appendix". Every effort will be made to ensure that each paper receives multiple reviews. 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. Please contact the Program Chairs for any questions/clarifications Important Dates --------------- Full paper submission deadline : 11:59 PM, AoE, Aug 27, 2021 (11:59 PM, AoE, Sept 10, 2021) Author notification : October 1, 2021 Camera-ready deadline : 11:59 PM, AoE, October 7, 2021 Workshop : Monday, November 15th, 2021 ESPM2'21 Workshop Organizers ---------------------------- Hari Subramoni, The Ohio State University Aamir Shafi, The Ohio State University Karl Schulz, University of Texas at Austin Dhabaleswar K. (DK) Panda, The Ohio State University Program Committee (Confirmed so far) ------------------------------------ * Ritu Arora, University of Texas at San Antonio * Samar Aseeri, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology * Martin Berzins, Scientific Computing and Imaging Institute, Universityof Utah * Mahdieh Ghazmirsaeed, AMD * Jeff Hammond, NVIDIA * Nusrat Islam, Intel Corporation * Tanzima Islam, Texas State University * Antonio J. Pena, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain * Sean Treichler, NVIDIA Corporation * Abhinav Vishnu, AMD Research Further Information ------------------- See the ESPM2'21 website at http://nowlab.cse.ohio-state.edu/espm2/ Thanks, The ESPM2'21 Organizing Committee.

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(CALL FOR WIP TALKS) PDSW@SC21 - Abstract due September 16, 2021
by Thomas Lambert 31 Aug '21

31 Aug '21

######### Important Dates for WIP talks ########################### - Submissions due (One-page abstract): Sep. 16, 2021, 11:59PM AoE - Notification: On or Before Sep. 20, 2021 ################################################################### ======================================================================================= Call for WIP talks: PDSW’21 The 6th International Parallel Data Systems Workshop http://www.pdsw.org/ Monday, November 15, 2021 9:00am - 5:30pm (CST) Held in conjunction with SC21, St. Louis, MO In cooperation with: IEEE TCHPC ======================================================================================= We are pleased to announce the 6th International Parallel Data Systems Workshop (PDSW’21). PDSW'21 will be hosted in conjunction with SC21: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. Efficient data storage and data management are crucial to scientific productivity in both traditional simulation-oriented HPC environments and Big Data analysis environments. This issue is further exacerbated by the growing volume of experimental and observational data, the widening gap between the performance of computational hardware and storage hardware, and the emergence of new data-driven algorithms in machine learning. The goal of this workshop is to facilitate research that addresses the most critical challenges in scientific data storage and data processing. We therefore encourage the community to submit original manuscripts that: - introduce and evaluate novel algorithms or architectures - inform the community of important scientific case studies or workloads - validate the reproducibility of previously published work Special attention will be given to issues in which community collaboration is crucial for problem identification, workload capture, solution interoperability, standardization, and shared tools. We also strongly encourage papers to share complete experimental environment information (software version numbers, benchmark configurations, etc.) to facilitate collaboration. Topics of interest include the following: - Scalable architectures for data storage, archival, and virtualization - Performance benchmarking, resource management, and workload studies - Programmability of storage systems - Parallel file systems, metadata management, and complex data management - Alternative data storage models, including object stores and key-value stores - Programming models and frameworks for data intensive computing - Techniques for data integrity, availability, reliability, and fault tolerance - Productivity tools for data intensive computing, data mining, and knowledge discovery - Application of emerging big data frameworks towards scientific computing and analysis - Enabling cloud and container-based models for scientific data analysis - Data filtering/compressing/reduction techniques - Tools and techniques for managing data movement among compute and data intensive components - Integrating computation into the memory and storage hierarchy to facilitate in-situ and in-transit data processing Work-in-progress (WIP) Submissions -------------------------------------------------- We have a WIP session where presenters provide short talks on their on-going work, with fresh problems/solutions. WIP content is typically material that may not be mature or complete enough for a full paper submission and will not be included in the proceedings. A one-page abstract is required for the submission. Please email your submission as a PDF attachment of the one-page abstract to Kento Sato and Amelie Chi Zhou. Put "PDSW 2021 WIP" as the first part of the message subject. To verify your submission a reply will be made indicating official submission. If you do not receive such an email within 2 hours of the above deadline, please forward the original submission again. Important Dates ---------------------- Work in Progress (WIP) - Submissions due: Sep. 16, 2021, 11:59PM AoE - WIP Notification: On or Before Sep. 20, 2021 Workshop Organizers ------------------------------ General Chair: - Shadi Ibrahim, Inria, France Program Co-Chairs - Kento Sato, RIKEN R-CCS, Japan - Amelie Chi Zhou, Shenzhen University, China Reproducibility Co-Chairs: - Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, Santa Cruz - Alexandru Uta, Leiden University, Netherlands Publicity Chair: - Thomas Lambert, Inria, France Web and Proceedings Chair - Joan Digney, Carnegie Mellon University

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Call for Papers - 13th HiPC Student Research Symposium (SRS)
by Sanmukh Kuppannagari 31 Aug '21

31 Aug '21

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this email. Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** 13th HiPC Student Research Symposium (SRS) www.hipc.org/srs in conjunction with the 28th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, DATA, and ANALYTICS (HIPC 2021) December 17-20, 2021 | Virtual Event, INDIA | www.hipc.org OVERVIEW HiPC 2021 will feature the 13th Student Research Symposium on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HPC) aimed at stimulating and fostering student research, and providing an international forum to highlight student research accomplishments. The symposium will also provide exposure to students in the best practices in HPC in academia and industry. The symposium will feature student posters and provide students with other enriching experiences, such as workshops, industry exhibits, and demos. The Conference Reception and multiple Student Symposium Poster Exhibit sessions will provide an opportunity for students to interact with HPC researchers and practitioners (and recruiters) from academia and industry. Awards for Best Poster, sponsored by IEEE Computer Society – Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) – will be presented at the symposium. An online book containing the resumes of the students participating in the symposium will be compiled and made available to the sponsors of the HiPC 2021 conference. TOPICS Papers are solicited in all areas of high-performance computing, data, and analytics, including but not limited to topics mentioned below. High-Performance Computing Algorithms: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing new parallel and distributed computing algorithms, and related advances. Examples of topics that are of interest include (but not limited to): - New parallel and distributed algorithms and design techniques; - Advances in enhancing algorithmic properties or providing guarantees (e.g., fault tolerance, resilience, concurrency, data locality, communication-avoiding); - Classical and emerging computation models (e.g., parallel/distributed models, quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired models); - Provably efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for advanced scientific computing and irregular applications (e.g., numerical linear algebra, graph algorithms, computational biology); and - Algorithmic techniques for resource allocation and optimization (e.g., scheduling, load balancing, resource management). Architectures: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and evaluation of high-performance computing architectures, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): - Design and evaluation of high-performance processing architectures (e.g., reconfigurable, system-on-chip, many cores, vector processors); - Design and evaluation of networks for high-performance computing platforms (e.g., interconnect topologies, network-on-chip); - Design and evaluation of memory, cache and storage architectures (e.g., 3D, photonic, Processing-In-Memory, NVRAM, burst buffers, parallel I/O); - Approaches to improve architectural properties (e.g., energy/power efficiency, reconfigurable, resilience/fault tolerance, security/privacy); and - Emerging computational architectures (e.g., quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired architectures). Applications: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and implementation of scalable applications for execution on parallel and distributed platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): - Design and implementation of shared and distributed memory parallel applications (e.g., scientific computing and industry applications, emerging applications in IoT and life sciences – biology, medicine, chemistry, etc.); - Design and simulation methodologies for scaling applications on peta and exascale platforms (e.g., co-design approaches, hardware/software co-design, heterogeneous and hybrid programming); - Hardware acceleration of parallel applications (e.g., CPU/GPUs, multi-GPU clusters, FPGA, vector processors, manycore); and - Design of application benchmarks for parallel and distributed platforms. Systems Software: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design, implementation, and evaluation of systems software for high-performance computing platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): - Scalable systems and software architectures for high-performance computing (e.g., middleware, operating systems, I/O services); - Techniques to enhance parallel performance (e.g., compiler/runtime optimization, learning from application traces, profiling); - Techniques to enhance parallel application development and productivity (e.g., Domain-Specific Languages, programming environments, performance/correctness checking and debugging); - Techniques to deal with uncertainties, hardware/software resilience, and fault tolerance; - Software for the cloud, data center, and exascale platforms (e.g., middleware tools, schedulers, resource allocation, data migration, load balancing); and - Software and programming paradigms for heterogeneous platforms (e.g., libraries for CPU/GPU, multi-GPU clusters, and other accelerator platforms). Data Science Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable algorithms for data analysis at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): - New scalable algorithms for fundamental data analysis tasks (supervised, unsupervised learning, and pattern discovery); - Scalable algorithms that are designed to address the characteristics of different data sources and settings (e.g., graphs, social networks, sequences, data streams); - Scalable algorithms and techniques to reduce the complexity of large-scale data (e.g., streaming, sublinear data structures, summarization, compressive analytics); - Scalable algorithms that are designed to address requirements in different data-driven application domains (e.g., life sciences, business, agriculture); and - Scalable algorithms that ensure the transparency and fairness of the analysis. Scalable Systems and Software: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable systems and software for handling data at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): - Design of scalable system software to support various applications (e.g., recommendation systems, web search, crowdsourcing applications, streaming applications); - Design of scalable system software for various architectures (e.g., OpenPower, GPUs, FPGAs); - Architectures and systems software to support various operations in large data frameworks (e.g., storage, retrieval, automated workflows, data organization, visualization, visual analytics, human-in-the-loop); - Design and implementation of systems software for distributed data frameworks (e.g., distributed file system, virtualization, cloud services, resource optimization, scheduling); and - Standards and protocols for enhancing various aspects of data analytics (e.g., open data standards, privacy-preserving, and secure schemes). IMPORTANT DATES Aug 19, 2021 > Submission Opens Sep 17, 2021 > Submission Deadline Nov 1, 2021 > Accept/Reject Decision Notification Dec 17-20, 2021 > Symposium ELIGIBILITY Submissions should have at least one author who is a student during any part of the calendar year 2021. Submissions may have multiple student or non-student co-authors. Submissions must mark student authors with an asterisk (*). SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS In order to be considered for a poster at the Student Research Symposium, authors must submit papers/extended abstracts, not exceeding five (5) letter size (8.5in x 11in) pages, in 11 or 12 point font, single-spaced, with 1'' margins on all sides. Papers are to be submitted online in PDF format through Easychair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2021 The papers will be used to select posters, but will NOT be published in the conference proceedings. This will provide students the flexibility to publish an extended version of their paper at other venues, after benefiting from reviewer feedback from the symposium. Papers submitted to the symposium are expected to be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. Papers will be judged on technical merit, quality, relevance to the symposium, and related parameters. Plagiarism, in any form, especially verbatim reproduction from other published works, is prohibited. Papers that are plagiarized will be rejected, and the corresponding department and institution will be notified. Facilities for displaying posters will be made available, and the exact specifications of the poster size will be provided later. At least one student author of each paper that is accepted must register and attend the conference to present their work. Papers with no-shows will be retroactively rejected. SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS Ashok Srinivasan, University of West Florida, USA Dip Sankar Banerjee, IIT Jodhpur, India CONTACT Contact student_symposium at hipc dot org for more details.

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[deadline extended] UCC 2021 - the 14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing
by angalletta＠ieee.org 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

Dear users of Hpc-Announce mailing list, 14th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2021) December 6-9, 2021 - Leicester, UK - Call for Papers Website: http://ucc-conference.org/ CALL FOR PAPERS The digital transformation of all areas of life is accelerated in this decade by novel cloud services, e-infrastructures, data platforms and cyber-physical system integration. This broader scope of cloud computing calls for technically sound contributions that combine scale with convenience and reliability. Society and economy depend on cloud applications delivering compute power on demand in every location along data paths as a general service to the public, in analogy to conventional utilities. The engineering of such systems and applications calls for scientifically proven approaches, methods, tools and technologies. Providing a forum to review and discuss possible solutions, UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference for areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility where leading researchers and practitioners in this important and growing field gather on an annual basis. This will be the 14th UCC in a successful conference series of community-driven events. Previous events were held in Shanghai, China (Cloud 2009), Melbourne, Australia (Cloud 2010 & UCC 2011), Chennai, India (UCC 2010), Chicago, USA (UCC 2012), Dresden, Germany (UCC 2013), London, UK (UCC 2014), Limassol, Cyprus (UCC 2015), Shanghai, China (UCC 2016), Austin, Texas, USA (UCC 2017), Zurich, Switzerland (UCC 2018), Auckland, New Zealand (UCC 2019) and online during the pandemic (UCC 2020). UCC 2021 will be hosted at the University of Leicester. The city of Leicester is a major city in the middle of country and is well connected to the rest of the world with road, rail and air networks. UCC 2021 offers a technical programme, workshops, tutorials, and a doctoral symposium. The event will have a co-located 8th International Conference on Big Data Computing Applications and Technologies (BDCAT 2021). Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished research manuscripts in all areas of Cloud and Utility Computing and related computing paradigms such as Fog/Edge, Serverless and Distributed Computing. NEW in 2021: UCC submissions continue to use a double column format for review based on the new single-column template to facilitate the new ACM production process; the details are described in separate submission instructions. Also NEW in 2021: Authors of accepted papers can opt into reproducible research decoration; the details are described below. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: - Formal and qualitative aspects of Cloud technology - Security, trust and privacy in Clouds, and Cloud-hosted Blockchains - Architectural models and patterns to achieve Utility in Clouds - Cloud business and legal implications beyond technology - Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and services at all layers (XaaS) - Cloud large-scale foundations for Big Data, IoT, and real-time analytics - Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, and monitoring - Cloud-native application design, engineering and serverless/microservice implementation - Cloud, Fog and edge/mobile devices management, hierarchy models, and business models - Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid, federated, aggregated - Economic and business models of Clouds and services - High Performance Computing and the Cloud - Innovative cloud applications and experiences - Integration of Cloud systems with Fog/edge and IoT devices, continuum computing - Leading edge topics such as hybrid quantum clouds, coded computing and FHE - Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds - Networking for clouds and data centres - Performance analysis and modelling of cloud systems and applications - Policy languages and programming models - Principles and theoretical foundations of Utility Computing - Resource management and scalability: brokering, scheduling, capacity planning, and elasticity - Utility-driven platforms for Clouds - Utility-driven models and mechanisms for interclouds / federations - Virtualization, containerization, composition, orchestration and other enablers Important Dates (all AoE - Anywhere on Earth): Paper submissions due: September 5, 2021 Notification of acceptance: October 10, 2021 Camera ready papers due: October 31, 2021 Early registration deadline: October 31, 2021 Check separate UCC calls for workshops, tutorials and other tracks. Reproducibility: The authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit supporting materials to be made publicly available as 'source materials' in the ACM Digital Library. The materials (data, code, models etc.) will be vetted by an evaluation process run by a separate committee. This submission is voluntary but encouraged for better highlighting the contributions that facilitate high-quality research. Papers that pass through the process successfully will receive badges printed on them. Awards and Special Issues: A selection commission chaired by the UCC 2021 technical programme committee will select and acknowledge the best paper and the best student paper to receive an award during the conference. Authors of highly rated papers from UCC 2021 will be invited to submit an extended version to special issues of prestigious journals, including the SpringerOpen Journal of Cloud Computing. Program Committee Chairs: - Ivona Brandic, Vienna University of Technology, Austria - Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK - Josef Spillner, Zurich University of Applied Sciences, Switzerland

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Call for Participation - International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2021)
by Miguel Areias 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

========================================================================= CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ========================================================================= The 37th International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP 2021) https://iclp2021.dcc.fc.up.pt/ ========================================================================= The virtual edition of ICLP 2021 will run from September 20 until September 27, 2021. The conference will be held online and we strongly encourage all interested people to register to access the event and interact with other participants. The registration conditions are available at https://iclp2021.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.html#registration The main program is available at https://iclp2021.dcc.fc.up.pt/index-program.html This year's edition includes five outstanding talks by William Cohen (Google AI), John Hooker (CMU), Phokion Kolaitis (UC Santa Cruz and IBM Almaden), Stuart Russell (UC Berkeley) and Jeff Ullman (Stanford University) https://iclp2021.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.html#keynotes and eight affiliated events https://iclp2021.dcc.fc.up.pt/index.html#affiliatedevents Looking forward to meet you in the ICLP 2021 virtual conference. Miguel Areias (on behalf of ICLP 2021 Chairs). ========================================================================= Any additional question can be directed towards ICLP 2021 Chairs: iclp2021(a)easychair.org =========================================================================

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FPGA 2022: Call for Papers (III) -- DEADLINE EXTENDED
by Dustin Alexander Richmond 30 Aug '21

30 Aug '21

*** Paper Submission Deadline extended to September 13 *** Call for Papers - FPGA 2022 30th ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays http://www.isfpga.org February 27 - March 1, 2022 Submission Website: https://fpga22.hotcrp.com/ Abstract Submission Deadline: September 6, 2021 (No extensions) Paper Submission Deadline: September 13, 2021 (No further extensions) All submission deadlines are with respect to 11:59 pm Anywhere on Earth (UTC -12) The ACM/SIGDA International Symposium on Field-Programmable Gate Arrays is a premier conference for presentation of advances in FPGA technology. Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings and available in the ACM Digital Library. Types of Submissions Sought 1. Research Papers (with and without Artifacts) We solicit research papers related to the following areas: - FPGA Architecture: Architectures for programmable logic fabrics or their components, including routing, flexible logic cells, embedded blocks (memory, DSP, processors), and I/O interfaces. Novel commercial architectures and architectural features. - FPGA Circuit Design: Circuits and layout techniques for the design of FPGAs. Impact of future process and design technologies on FPGAs as well as novel memory or nano-scale devices. Methods for analyzing and improving static and dynamic power consumption, power and clock distribution, yield, manufacturability, security, reliability, and testability. - CAD for FPGAs: Algorithms for synthesis, technology mapping, logic and timing optimization, clustering, placement, and routing of FPGAs. Novel design software for system-level partitioning, debug, and verification. Algorithms for modeling, analysis and optimization of timing and power. - High-Level Abstractions and Tools for FPGAs: General-purpose and domain-specific languages, tools, and techniques to facilitate the design, debugging and verification of FPGA-based applications and systems. Novel hardware/software co-design and high-level synthesis methodologies enabling digital signal processing, compute acceleration, networking, machine learning, and embedded systems. - FPGA-based and FPGA-like Computing Engines: Systems and software for compiled accelerators, reconfigurable/adaptive computing, and rapid-prototyping. Programmable overlay architectures implemented using FPGAs. - Applications and Design Studies: Implementation of novel designs on FPGAs establishing state-of-the-art in high-performance, low-power, security, or high-reliability. Designs leveraging unique capabilities of FPGA architectures or demonstrating significant improvements over alternative programmable technologies (e.g., CPU, GPU). Design studies or architecture explorations enabling improvement of FPGA architectures. Research submissions can be in either of two categories: - Regular — at most 10 pages (excluding references), for a presentation at the conference. - Short — at most 6 pages (excluding references), for a brief presentation. A paper submitted as either regular or short will only be considered in that category and may include artifacts if desired (see below for more details on artifact submission and evaluation). 2. Tutorial Papers on Emerging Applications / Methodologies The conference will include a Sunday workshop oriented toward users of FPGAs: be it deep learning implementations, computer security or other emerging topics of interest. For this category, we solicit tutorial papers describing effective design techniques and design flows. The ideal submission will enable beginning researchers to enter the area, current researchers to broaden their scope, and practitioners to gain new insights and applicable skills. Tutorial submissions need not present novel research results, but should integrate expert practical and/or research knowledge related to FPGAs for a broader audience. This may include: - Technical descriptions of new commercial or academic design tools of general interest. - Insightful summaries of the state-of-the-art that suggest open research problems. - In-depth design tutorials and design experiences. Tutorial submissions are at least 4 and at most 10 pages. Accepted submissions are published in the proceedings and allocated a presentation time of up to one hour, appropriate to the content. 3. Panel Discussion Proposals We also solicit proposals for the panel discussion at the conference banquet. The submission should outline the topic, questions to be addressed, and suggested speakers. Submission Process Submissions of all types should be made in the form of an English language PDF file. Papers should use the sigconf ACM format template posted at http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template/. LaTeX users should use the format used in the sample-sigconf.pdf file under the Samples folder of the zipped master file (available through the LATEX (Version 1.78) link). Microsoft Word users can download the file Interim layout.docx under the Word Authors section of the page. Abstract and paper submissions in PDF must be received by 11:59 PM AoE (Anywhere-on-Earth time zone). Submissions will be considered for acceptance as regular or short papers, workshop papers, or posters. Regular submissions related to the workshop topic may be scheduled for presentation during the workshop. Regular or workshop submissions will also be considered for acceptance as a poster. A paper submitted to the regular or short paper category will only be considered in that category. Once a paper has been submitted, its authorship list is considered to be fixed and final. Double Blind Policy The FPGA Symposium uses a double-blind reviewing system. Manuscripts must not identify authors or their affiliations; those that do will not be considered. References to the authors’ prior work should be made in the 3rd person, in the same way one would reference work by others. If necessary to maintain anonymity, citations may be shown as “Removed for blind review,” but consider that this may impede a thorough review if the removed citation is crucial to understanding the submission. When necessary, authors should cite widely-available Open Source software website(s) without claiming ownership. Grant numbers and other government markings should also be blinded during the review process. Placing a preliminary version of the unpublished paper on arXiv is not disqualifying, but it is also not encouraged. Similarly, if a paper can be unblinded by active search, this is not considered to undermine the spirit of the double-blind review. However, there are resources to blind open-source repositories for review, including: https://github.com/tdurieux/anonymous_github.) If you have questions about how to meet these guidelines, please contact the program chair before the submission deadline. Reviewer Conflict Policy During paper submission, all author(s) conflicts must be registered with all possible program committee members. Conflicts are defined as all relationships that would prevent a reviewer from objectively evaluating the submitted work. This includes, but is not limited to, having within the past 5 years, 1) co-authored a publication, or 2) shared a funding award, and 3) shared at least one institutional affiliation. Note: if a conflict is declared (or left undeclared) in an attempt to manipulate the review process, the submission may be rejected. For more information about the ACM Conflict of Interest Policy, see: https://www.acm.org/publications/policies/conflict-of-interest Originality of Submissions Papers submitted are guaranteed by the authors to be unique manuscripts and not previously published, currently accepted or under consideration for acceptance at another venue. They cannot be substantially similar to any other current/future conference, journal, or workshop submission(s) unless the content appeared at a venue that does not have archived proceedings. Rebuttal Process he conference review process includes a rebuttal phase for authors to provide an optional response to reviewers’ questions and comments. This information is considered during the final deliberation process. Author Participation For inclusion in the ACM digital library, at least one of the authors of each accepted submission is required to present the work. Accommodations will be made in the event of travel restrictions and/or a virtual conference. Best Paper Award Authors of this year’s best manuscripts will be eligible for the conference’s best paper awards. They will also be invited to extend their work for consideration in a special issue of ACM’s Transactions on Reconfigurable Technology and Systems (TRETS). Artifact Evaluation The conference will allow authors to submit accompanying artifacts for their paper submissions for evaluation. This process will allow ACM recognized badges to be associated with the final publication. The inclusion of artifacts with a submission is not required for a paper submission nor will any preference be given to submissions with artifacts over those without. Papers and artifacts will be subjected to separate and independent review processes. Artifact evaluation must NOT interfere with the double blind reviewing process of their accompanying papers, so all accompanying links in the paper to the artifacts should be blinded. All authors will be required at the time of paper submission to indicate if there will also be associated artifacts for evaluation. If artifacts will be included, a descriptor of their nature will be required. For more information, see: https://isfpga.org/artifact-evaluation/ Diversity and Inclusion The open exchange of ideas and the freedom of thought and expression are central to the aims and goals of the conference. The organizers aim and commit to providing a harassment-free accessible and pleasant conference experience with equity in rights for all. We want every participant to feel welcome, included, and safe at the conference. For more information, see: https://isfpga.org/statement-on-diversity-and-inclusion/ Important dates Abstract Submissions Due: September 6, 2021 (No Extensions) Paper Submissions Due: September 13, 2021 (No Further Extensions) Author Paper Rebuttals Due: October 31, 2021 Notification of Acceptance: Late November, 2021 Camera-ready Papers Due: Early December, 2021 All submission deadlines are with respect to 11:59 pm Anywhere on Earth (UTC -12) Organizing Committee - General Chair: Michael Adler, Intel, generalchair(a)isfpga.org - Program Chair: Paolo Ienne, EPFL, programchair(a)isfpga.org - Publications Chair: Zhiru Zhang, Cornell University, publicationschair(a)isfpga.org - Finance Chair: Lesley Shannon, Simon Fraser University, financechair(a)isfpga.org - Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair: Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University, artifactevaluationchair(a)isfpga.org - Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair: Suhaib Fahmy, KAUST, artifactevaluationchair(a)isfpga.org - Artifact Evaluation Co-Chair: Eli Bozorgzadeh, UC Irvine, artifactevaluationchair(a)isfpga.org - Publicity Chair: Dustin Richmond, University of Washington, publicitychair(a)isfpga.org

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Call for Abstracts || Doctoral Symposium 2021|| Free Registration || Last Date: October 15, 2021
by Anu Bajaj 29 Aug '21

29 Aug '21

** Call for Abstracts - please circulate this CFA to your colleagues and networks ** ************************************************************ ********************* *** MIR Labs, USA, 2021 - Doctoral Symposium: December 16, 2021 *** ************************************************************ ********************* -- Free Registration for presenting your PhD related research -- In conjunction with: -- The 21st International Conference on Intelligent Systems Design and Applications (ISDA’21) –- -- The 21st International Conference on Hybrid Intelligent Systems (HIS'21) -- -- 13th World Congress on Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing (NaBIC 2021) -- -- The 12th International Conference on Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications (IBICA'21) -- -- 17th International Conference on Information Assurance and Security (IAS 2021) -- -- The 11th World Congress on Information and Communication Technologies (WICT'21) -- -- 13th International Conference on Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition (SoCPaR 2021) -- *16 December, 2021 * on the world wide web http://mirlabs.org/ds2021/ http://mirlabs.net/ds2021/ ** Important Dates ** ------------------------------------------------------------ *Abstract submission due: October 15, 2021* Notification of acceptance: November 07, 2021 Final abstract due: November 22, 2021 Doctoral Symposium: December 16, 2021 - GMT 09:00-13:00 hrs ** About MIR Labs Doctoral Symposium 2021** ------------------------------------------------------------ Machine Intelligence Research Labs (MIR Labs) provides an international forum to share the latest research results, ideas and experiences in intelligent systems design and applications; soft computing; information assurance and security; nature-inspired computing, pattern recognition; and information and communication technologies by bringing together the leading communities in this research space. MIR Labs doctoral symposium is built on a solid history, through ISDA to WICT, connecting young researchers with highly experienced peers to forge connections, which can last for many years. The main goal of this doctoral symposium is to provide a supportive environment in which PhD students at different stages in their research will present and discuss their problem statement, objectives, methods, and results to a diverse audience of leading experts in the field. They gain insightful feedback and discussion points around their research and the invaluable experience of presenting new findings to an international audience. The forum seeks to offer students helpful guidance on various aspects of their study from established researchers and other PhD students working in research areas related to their field. Additionally, the international forum aims to enable PhD students to interact with other participants to stimulate an exchange of ideas, suggestions and experiences. The symposium welcomes submissions by PhD students with a two-page abstract and another page for references, which should use the below format to describe the fundamental motivation of their research, the significant contribution (either actual or expected, depending on the research stage), discuss their methodology and present the current status of the study. Accepted submissions will lead to a presentation during the doctoral symposium. They may additionally provide an opportunity to present a poster at the leading conference, offering a vast audience for their research. Students at any stage of their PhD are welcome to submit. Reviews, feedback, and expectations will be adapted appropriately to the relative phase of each submission. ** Mentoring Program ** ------------------------------------------------------------- The Doctoral Symposium will also employ a mentoring program, in which every author of an accepted paper will be paired with an experienced mentor from the community. Mentors will help introduce the student to the community, offer extended discussion of their research objectives and career opportunities, and will host their students throughout the event to help gain the best experience from an international conference. ** Topics (not limited to) ** -------------------------------------------------------------- Intelligent Systems and Applications Hybrid Intelligent Systems Soft Computing and Pattern Recognition Nature and Biologically Inspired Computing Innovations in Bio-Inspired Computing and Applications Information and Assurance Security Innovations in Information and Communication Technologies ** Submission Guidelines ** --------------------------------------------------------------- Submission of an abstract should be made through the submission page from the symposium web page. Abstract format will be available on the website. Please refer to the symposium web page for guidelines to prepare your manuscript. **Symposium Organisers** -------------------------------------------------------------- Chair Dr. Giovanna Castellano, University of Bari, Italy Co-Chairs Dr. Katarzyna Kaczmarek-Majer, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland Dr. Gennaro Vessio, University of Bari, Italy -------------------------------------------------------------- Informal Enquiries about the Symposium may be directed to: Dr. Anu Bajaj Email: anu.bajaj(a)mirlabs.org

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Deadline Extension ScalA@SC: 12th Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems - Papers due September 19
by Engelmann, Christian 28 Aug '21

28 Aug '21

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ScalA21: 12th Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems held in conjunction with the SC21: The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis in cooperation with the IEEE Computer Society Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing (TCHPC) November 19, 2021, St. Louis, MO, USA <http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Scala/2021> Novel scalable scientific algorithms are needed in order to enable key science applications to exploit the computational power of large-scale systems. This is especially true for the current tier of leading petascale machines and the road to exascale computing as HPC systems continue to scale up in compute node and processor core count. These extreme-scale systems require novel scientific algorithms to hide network and memory latency, have very high computation/communication overlap, have minimal communication, and have no synchronization points. With the advent of Big Data and AI in the past few years the need of such scalable mathematical methods and algorithms able to handle data and compute intensive applications at scale becomes even more important. Scientific algorithms for multi-petaflop and exa-flop systems also need to be fault tolerant and fault resilient, since the probability of faults increases with scale. Resilience at the system software and at the algorithmic level is needed as a crosscutting effort. Finally, with the advent of heterogeneous compute nodes that employ standard processors as well as GPGPUs, scientific algorithms need to match these architectures to extract the most performance. This includes different system-specific levels of parallelism as well as co-scheduling of computation. Key science applications require novel mathematical models and system software that address the scalability and resilience challenges of current- and future-generation extreme-scale HPC systems. Submission Guidelines --------------------- Authors are invited to submit manuscripts in English structured as technical papers at a length of at least 6 letter size (8.5in x 11in) pages and not exceeding 8 pages, including figures, tables, and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Reference style files are available at <http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html>. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Papers should be submitted electronically at <https://submissions.supercomputing.org>. All manuscripts will be peer-reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, and significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the workshop attendees. Accepted papers will be published with the IEEE Computer Society as part of the SC21 workshop proceedings in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and present the paper at the workshop. Authors may contact the workshop program chair, Christian Engelmann at engelmannc(a)ornl.gov<mailto:[email protected]>, for more information. Transparency and Reproducibility Initiative ------------------------------------------- As part of a major initiative that aims to increase the level of reproducibility and replicability of results, ScalA20 invites authors of technical papers to submit optional appendix information that can promote better reproducibility of computational results. Authors are highly encouraged to provide a 2-page Artifact Description Appendix, which will not count toward the page limit of the submission. Notes: - A paper cannot be disqualified based on information provided or not provided in this appendix, nor if the appendix is not available. - The availability and quality of an appendix can be used in ranking a paper. In particular, if two papers are of similar quality, the existence and quality of the appendices can be part of the evaluation process. - Appendices should not be used to circumvent the page limit. Further information about the SC Transparency and Reproducibility Initiative can be found at <https://sc21.supercomputing.org/submit/transparency-reproducibility-initiat…>. Important Web Sites ------------------- - ScalA21 Website: <https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Scala/2021> - ScalA21 Submissions: <https://submissions.supercomputing.org> - SC21 website: <http://sc21.supercomputing.org/> Important Dates --------------- - Full paper submission: September 19, 2021 - Notification of acceptance: October 1, 2021 - IEEE e-Copyright submission (firm): October 7, 2021 - Final paper submission (firm): October 11, 2021 - Workshop/conference early registration: October 15, 2021 - Workshop: 8:30am - 12pm CST, November 19, 2021 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: --------------------------------------------------- - Novel scientific algorithms that improve performance, scalability, resilience, and power efficiency - Porting scientific algorithms and applications to many-core and heterogeneous architectures - Performance and resilience limitations of scientific algorithms and applications at scale, including Data Science approaches in dealing with Big Data - Crosscutting approaches (system software and applications) in addressing scalability challenges - Scientific algorithms that can exploit extreme concurrency (e.g. 1 billion for exascale by 2023) - Naturally fault tolerant, self-healing, or fault oblivious scientific algorithms - Programming model and system software support for algorithm scalability and resilience (including ones enabling Big Data processing) Workshop Chairs --------------- - Vassil Alexandrov, Hartree Centre, Science and Technology Facilities Council, UK - Al Geist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Workshop Program Chair ---------------------- - Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Contact at engelmannc(a)ornl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> Program Committee ----------------- - Hartwig Anzt, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA - Rick Archibald, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Marco Berghoff, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany - Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Technical University of Munich, Germany - Florina M. Ciorba, University of Basel, Switzerland - James Elliott, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Nahid Emad, University of Versailles SQ, France - Wilfried Gansterer, University of Vienna, Austria - Yasuhiro Idomura, Japan Atomic Energy Agency, Japan - Kirk E. Jordan, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA - Dieter Kranzlmueller, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany - Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA - Paul Lin, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Kengo Nakajima, RIKEN, Japan - Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, France - Stuart Slattery, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Valerie Taylor, Argonne National Laboratory, USA - Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA -- Christian Engelmann, Ph.D. Senior Scientist & Group Leader Intelligent Systems and Facilities Group Advanced Computing Systems Research Section Computer Science and Mathematics Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Mail: P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6173, USA Phone: +1 (865) 574-3132 / Fax: +1 (865) 576-5491 e-Mail: engelmannc(a)ornl.gov<mailto:[email protected]> / Home: www.christian-engelmann.info

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