January 2022 - hpc-announce - mailman3.cels.anl.gov

Call for Pre-proposals to host the IEEE Cluster 2025 Conference
by Mohror, Kathryn 31 Jan '22

31 Jan '22

Dear Colleagues, IEEE Cluster is a highly successful conference series that has been ongoing for 20 years. With this email, we invite pre-proposals to host IEEE Cluster 2025. As per IEEE Cluster's traditional US-Europe-US-Asia rotation, we anticipate selection of a bid from Europe for Cluster 2025. However, this rotation is not a strict requirement, so proposals from other locations will also be considered without any bias. We are particularly interested in locations that do not fall under the traditional US-Europe-US-Asia model: Canada, Mexico, South America, Africa, Australia, and New Zealand. Pre-proposals are simple two-slide decks. The first slide introduces the location and the second slide introduces the key organizers (i.e., the General Chair(s) and the Program Chair(s)). For the selection process, the following are a subset of the steering committee's considerations: - Whether the location has been visited by IEEE Cluster in the recent past. New locations are encouraged, although older locations will also be considered, if the conference was not held there recently. The locations for the past editions of IEEE Cluster are available at http://clustercomp.org/ - Whether the location is reasonably favorable for travel for a majority of our attendees. Locations that have good flight connectivity and a good local presence of researchers working in the area of Cluster computing are better suited for the conference. - Whether the key organizing committee (i.e., the General Chair(s) and Program Chair(s)) has experience with organizing conferences and in particular with IEEE Cluster. If you have been involved with IEEE Cluster in the past (e.g., as an attendee, through publications, as a volunteer PC member or chair), the proposal would be given higher priority. Pre-proposals are due on March 1st, 2022, and the first round of decisions will be made by April 1st, 2022. All pre-proposals should be sent to the steering committee chair, Michela Taufer (taufer(a)gmail.com) for consideration. The intent is to accept a single pre-proposal, which would then be invited to submit a full proposal (example pre-proposals and full proposals can be provided upon request). However, the steering committee reserves the right to invite multiple pre-proposals to submit full proposals. Full proposals must be presented in person at the steering committee meeting during IEEE Cluster 2022 (https://clustercomp.org/2022/ Heidelberg,Germany), after which a formal vote by the steering committee will decide if the proposal is accepted. Thank you, and we look forward to your pre-proposals. Regards, Michela Taufer, IEEE Cluster Steering Committee Chair (on behalf of the IEEE Cluster Steering Committee)

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[DEADLINE EXTENSION] ESSA 2022: 3rd Workshop on Extreme-Scale Storage and Analysis
by Murali Emani 31 Jan '22

31 Jan '22

########################################################### ESSA 2022 : 3rd Workshop on Extreme-Scale Storage and Analysis Held in conjunction with IEEE IPDPS 2022 - June 3rd, 2022 https://sites.google.com/view/essa-2022/ ########################################################### ========== OVERVIEW: ========== We are organizing the third edition of the International Workshop on High Performance Storage (HPS) held in conjunction with IPDPS in 2020 and 2021 under a renewed name: ESSA - the International Workshop on Extreme-Scale Storage and Analytics (ESSA). The workshop is renamed to enlarge the scope of the HPS workshop mainly focused on storage to also more explicitly reflect our intention to also include topics related to data processing and analytics. Advances in storage are becoming increasingly critical because workloads on high performance computing (HPC) and cloud systems are producing and consuming more data than ever before, and the situation promises to only increase in future years. Additionally, the last decades have seen relatively few changes in the structure of parallel file systems, and limited interaction between the evolution of parallel file systems and I/O support systems that take advantage of hierarchical storage layers. However, recently the community has seen a large uptick in innovations in data storage and processing systems as well as in I/O support software for several reasons: - Technology: The availability of an increasing number of persistent solid-state storage and persistent storage-class memory technologies that can replace either memory or disk are creating new opportunities for the structure of storage systems. - Performance requirements: Disk-based parallel file systems cannot satisfy the performance needs of high-end systems. However, it is not clear how solid-state storage and storage-class memory can best be used to achieve the needed performance, so new approaches for using solid-state storage and storage-class memory in HPC systems are being designed and evaluated. - Application evolution: Data analysis applications, including graph analytics and machine learning, are becoming increasingly important both for scientific computing and for commercial computing. I/O is often a major bottleneck for such applications, both in cloud and HPC environments – especially when fast turnaround or integration of heavy computation and analysis are required. Consequently, data storage, I/O and processing requirements are evolving, as complex workflows involving computation, analytics and learning emerge. - Infrastructure evolution: HPC technology will not only be deployed in dedicated supercomputing centers in the future. "Embedded HPC", "HPC in the box", "HPC in the loop", "HPC in the cloud", "HPC as a service", and "near-to-real-time simulation" are concepts requiring new small-scale deployment environments for HPC. A federation of systems and functions with consistent mechanisms for managing I/O, storage, and data processing across all participating systems will be required to create what is called a "computing continuum". - Virtualization and disaggregation: As virtualization and disaggregation become broadly used in cloud and HPC computing, the issue of virtualized storage has increasing importance and efforts will be needed to understand its implications for performance. Our goals in the ESSA Workshop are to bring together expert researchers and developers in data-related areas such as storage, I/O, processing and analytics on extreme scale infrastructures including HPC systems, clouds, edge systems or hybrid combinations of these, to discuss advances and possible solutions to the new challenges we face. We expect the ESSA Workshop to result in lively interactions over a wide range of interesting topics, including: - Extreme-scale storage systems (on high-end HPC infrastructures, clouds, or hybrid combinations of them) - Extreme-scale parallel and distributed storage architectures - The synergy between different storage models (POSIX file system, object storage, key-value, row-oriented, and column-oriented databases) - Structures and interfaces for leveraging persistent solid-state storage and storage-class memory - High-performance I/O libraries and services - I/O performance in extreme-scale systems and applications (HPC/clouds/edge) - Storage and data processing architectures and systems for hybrid HPC/cloud/edge infrastructures, in support of complex workflows potentially combining simulation and analytics - Integrating computation into the memory and storage hierarchy to facilitate in-situ and in-transit data processing - I/O characterization and data processing techniques for application workloads relying on extreme-scale parallel/distributed machine-learning/deep learning - Tools and techniques for managing data movement among compute and data intensive components - Data reduction and compression - Failure and recovery of extreme-scale storage systems - Benchmarks and performance tools for extreme-scale I/O - Language and library support for data-centric computing - Storage virtualization and disaggregation - Ephemeral storage media and consistency optimizations - Storage architectures and systems for scalable stream-based processing - Study cases of I/O services and data processing architectures in support of various application domains (bioinformatics, scientific simulations, large observatories, experimental facilities, etc.) ============ SUBMISSIONS: ============ The workshop will accept traditional research papers (8-10 pages) for in-depth topics and short papers (4-8 pages) for work in progress on hot topics. Papers should present original research and provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. Paper format: single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. The submitted manuscripts should include author names and affiliations. The IEEE conference style templates for MS Word and LaTeX provided by IEEE eXpress Conference Publishing are available here: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Submission site: https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/?page=Submit&id=ESSAWorkshopFul… ================ IMPORTANT DATES: ================ Paper submission deadline: February 14th, 2022 (EXTENDED DEADLINE) Acceptance notification: March 7st, 2022 Camera-ready deadline: March 15th, 2022 Workshop date: June 3rd, 2022 ================= WORKSHOP CHAIRS: ================= Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba, Japan - Chair - tatebe(a)cs.tsukuba.ac.jp Gabriel Antoniu, Inria, France - Co-Chair - gabriel.antoniu(a)inria.fr ================ PROGRAM CHAIRS: ================ Kento Sato, RIKEN, Japan - Chair - kento.sato(a)riken.jp Murali Emani, ANL, USA - Co-Chair - memani(a)anl.gov ==================== PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ==================== Julien Bigot, CEA, France Angelos Bilas, Forth, Greece Suren Byna, LBNL, USA Franck Cappello, ANL, USA Toni Cortes, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Alexandru Costan, Inria, France Matthieu Dorier, ANL, USA Luanzheng Guo, University of California, Merced, PNNL, USA Hideyuki Kawashima, Keio University, Japan Kathryn Mohror, LLNL, USA Diana Moise, HPE, Switzerland Hiroki Ohtsuji, Fujitsu Ltd, Japan Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Michael Schoettner, Duesseldorf University, Germany Weikuan Yu, Florida State University, USA Thanks, Murali

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Extension of submission deadline for HCW 2022
by Friese, Ryan D 31 Jan '22

31 Jan '22

Dear all The paper submission deadline has been extended for HCW to Feb 11, 2022. Please see below for more details. Best regards, Jong-Kook TPC Chair, HCW 2022 ============================================================= HCW 2022 Call for Papers In conjunction with IPDPS 2022, May 30, 2022, Lyon, France Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society through the Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) Most modern computing systems are heterogeneous, either for organic reasons because components grew independently, as it is the case in desktop grids, or by design to leverage the strength of specific hardware, as it is the case in accelerated systems. In any case, all computing systems have some form of hardware or software heterogeneity that must been managed, leveraged, understood, and exploited. The Heterogeneity in Computing Workshop (HCW) is a venue to discuss and innovate in all theoretical and practical aspects of heterogeneous computing: design, programmability, efficient utilization, algorithms, modeling, applications, etc. The 2021 HCW is the 30th annual gathering of this workshop. TOPICS Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following areas: !!! SPECIAL TOPIC 1 !!! Heterogenous Integration of Quantum Computing: Future of computers will lead to a system that consists of both classical and Quantum computers for accelerated performance. Design, exploration, and analysis of architectures and software frameworks that enables and needs the heterogeneous integration of classical computing and Quantum computing. (e.g., heterogeneous quantum computers, error correction, heterogeneous applications that use both classical and quantum logic, benchmarks for heterogeneous quantum computers.) !!! SPECIAL TOPIC 2 !!! Heterogeneity and Interoperability in SW & Data systems: Design, exploration, and analysis of architectures and software frameworks for interoperability in SW and Data systems. (e.g., semantic based frameworks, interoperability for heterogeneous IoT systems, model-driven frameworks.) Heterogeneous multicore systems and architectures: Design, exploration, and experimental analysis of heterogeneous computing systems such as GPGPUs, heterogeneous systems-on-chip (SoC), accelerator systems (e.g., Intel Xeon Phi, AI chips such as Google's TPUs), FPGAs, big.LITTLE, and application-specific architectures. Heterogeneous parallel and distributed systems: Design and analysis of computing grids, cloud systems, hybrid clusters, datacenters, geo-distributed computing systems, and supercomputers. Deep-memory hierarchies: Design and analysis of memory hierarchies with SRAM, DRAM, Flash/SSD, and HDD technologies; NUMA architectures; cache coherence strategies; novel memory systems such as phase-change RAM, magnetic (e.g., STT) RAM, 3D Xpoint/crossbars, and memristors. On-chip, off-chip and heterogeneous network architectures: Network-on-chip (NoC) architectures and protocols for heterogeneous multicore applications; energy, latency, reliability, and security optimizations for NoCs; off-chip (chip-to-chip) network architectures and optimizations; heterogeneous networks (combination of NoC and off-chip) design, evaluation, and optimizations; large scale parallel and distributed heterogeneous network design, evaluation, and optimizations. Programming models and tools: Programming paradigms and tools for heterogeneous systems; middleware and runtime systems; performance-abstraction tradeoff; interoperability of heterogeneous software environments; workflows; dataflows. Resource management and algorithms for heterogeneous systems: Parallel algorithms for solving problems on heterogeneous systems (e.g., multicores, hybrid clusters, grids or clouds); strategies for scheduling and allocation on heterogeneous 2D and 3D multicore architectures; static and dynamic scheduling and resource management for large-scale and parallel heterogeneous systems. Modeling, characterization, and optimizations: Performance models and their use in the design of parallel and distributed algorithms for heterogeneous platforms, characterizations and optimizations for improving the time to solve a problem (e.g., throughput, latency, runtime), modeling and optimizing electric consumption (e.g., power, energy); modeling for failure management (e.g., fault tolerance, recovery, reliability); modeling for security in heterogeneous platforms. Applications on heterogeneous systems: Case studies; confluence of Big Data systems and heterogeneous systems; data-intensive computing; deep learning; scientific computing. IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: February 11, 2022 (final extension) Author notification: ~March 1, 2022 Camera Ready: ~March 14, 2022 PAPER SUBMISSIONS Papers are to be submitted through https://ssl.linklings.net/conferences/ipdps/<https://gcc02.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Furldefens…> Submissions for the Special Topic Session on DSAs: Please add (Special Topic Submission) to your paper title during the submission process. Papers submitted to HCW 2021 should not have been previously published or be under review for a different workshop, conference, or journal. It is required that all accepted papers will be presented at the workshop by one of the authors. WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION General Chair: Ryan D. Friese, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Program Chair: Jong-Kook Kim, Korea University, Korea Steering Committee: Behrooz Shirazi, Washington State University, USA (Chair) H. J. Siegel, Colorado State University, USA (Past Chair) John Antonio, University of Oklahoma, USA David Bader, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Anne Benoit, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin, UK Sudeep Pasricha, Colorado State University, USA Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA Yves Robert, École Normale Supérieure de Lyon, France Erik Saule, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Uwe Schwiegelshohn, TU Dortmund University, Germany Technical Program Committee: Jong-Kook Kim, Korea University, Korea (TPC Chair) Mohsen Amini, University of Louisiana Lafayette, USA David Bader, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Burcu Mutlu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Louis-Claude Canon, Université de Franche-Comté, France Daniel Cordeiro, University of São Paulo, Brazil Matthias Diener, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Diana Göhringer, Technische Universität Dresden, Germany Mahzabeen Islam, AMD, USA Krishna Kavi, University of North Texas, USA Georgios Keramidas, Aristotle University, Greece Joongheon Kim, Korea University, Korea Sung Il Kim, SK Hynix, Korea Hyoukjun Kwon, Facebook, USA Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin, Ireland Hatem Ltaief, KAUST, Saudi Arabia Tirthak Patel, Northeastern University, USA Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Laercio Lima Pilla, CNRS, France Sridhar Radhakrishnan, University of Oklahoma, USA Srishti Srivastava, University of Southern Indiana, USA Achim Streit, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Samuel Thibault, LaBRI, Université Bordeaux, France Cheng Wang, Microsoft, USA

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IEEE International Conference on Cloud Engineering 2022 - Call for Workshops
by Vincenzo De Maio 31 Jan '22

31 Jan '22

Call for Workshops Important Dates Workshop proposals due: March 14, 2022 Notification of proposal acceptance: March 21, 2022 Website: https://conferences.computer.org/IC2E/2022 Affiliated workshps are invited as part of the IEEE International Conferences on Cloud Engineering (IC2E) on topics likely to be of interest to the cloud engineering communities. The purpose of these workshops is to provide a forum for the exchange of ideas and preliminary results. Possible topics include, but are not limited to: Cloud infrastructure, management, services, and applications Programming models and tools for the cloud Software engineering for the cloud Middleware and resource management for cloud environments Virtualization and isolation technologies Fog, edge, and mobile cloud computing Benchmarking, testing, deployment, and monitoring Microservices and service orchestration/choreography DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code Software-defined systems (XaaS) Quality of service (e.g., performance, dependability) and service-level agreements Security, privacy, trust, and compliance Energy management and sustainable computing for clouds Big data in the cloud (storage, processing, analytics) Cloud and machine learning Cloud and the Internet of Things HPC and cloud Blockchains for and in the cloud Cloud economics and business models Submission Information Proposals should not exceed 3 pages and must include: Workshop name and an abstract of no more than 175 words describing the workshop, suitable for the conference website A (draft) Call for Papers. This should include the names, affiliations, and contact details of the workshop chair(s), publicity chair(s), a preliminary list of program committee members (with an indication of whether they already accepted the invitation), and a workshop URL (if a website exists already). Workshop format: duration (half or full-day), expected number of presentations, invited talks/panels, demonstrators, etc. An indication of expected popularity, timeliness of the topic, other related workshops/conferences, workshop history (if any), etc. Proposals must be emailed to the Workshops and Tutorials Chairs (lauritz.thamsen(a)tu-berlin.de and tian(a)wpi.edu) with the subject "IC2E 2022 Workshop Proposal". Contact The Workshops and Tutorials Chairs can be contacted with questions regarding the IC2E 2022 Workshops. You are also welcome to email an initial draft of a workshop idea before submitting the final proposal as described above. Please note that we will expect at least one of the organizers to attend the workshop. If this is problematic for you due to the conference being held in San Francisco, CA, USA, please consider looking for a co-organizer from the area. -- Dr. Vincenzo De Maio Vienna University of Technology Information Systems Engineering Favoritenstrasse 9-11/194-04 1040 Vienna, Austria Web: https://vincenzodemaio.info/

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EXTENDED PAPER DEADLINE (FEB 6TH):ASHES'22 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
by simon.garcia＠bsc.es 31 Jan '22

31 Jan '22

12TH INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP ON ACCELERATORS AND HYBRID EMERGING SYSTEMS (AsHES 2022) https://www.ashes-hpc.org/2022/index.html IMPORTANT DATES ================ - Paper Submission: 30TH JANUARY 2022 --------> 6TH FEBRUARY 2022 (NEW DEADLINE!) - Paper Notification: 6TH MARCH 2022 Collocated with IPDPS2022 (https://www.ipdps.org/) CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ===================== The current computing landscape has gone through an ever-increasing rate of change and innovation. This change has been driven by the relentless need to improve the energy-efficient, memory, and compute throughput at all levels of the architectural hierarchy. Although the amount of data that has to be organized by today's systems posed new challenges to the architecture, which can no longer be solved with classical, homogeneous design. Improvements in all of those areas have led Heterogeneous systems to become the norm rather than the exception. Heterogeneous computing leverages a diverse set of computing (CPU, GPU, FPGA, TPU ...) and Memory (HBM, Persistent Memory, Coherent PCI protocols, etc ..), hierarchical storage systems and units to accelerate the execution of a diverse set of applications. Emerging and existing areas such as AI, BigData, Cloud Computing, Edge-Computing, Real-time systems, High-Performance Computing, and others have seen a real benefit due to Heterogenous computer architectures. These new heterogeneous architectures often also require the development of new applications and programming models, in order to satisfy these new architectures and to fully utilize these capacities. This workshop focuses on understanding the implications of heterogeneous designs at all levels of the computing system stack, such as hardware, compiler optimizations, porting of applications, and developing programming environments for current and emerging systems in all the above-mentioned areas. It seeks to ground heterogeneous system design research through studies of application kernels and/or whole applications, as well as shed light on new tools, libraries and runtime systems that improve the performance and productivity of applications on heterogeneous systems. The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners who are at the forefront of Heterogeneous computing in order to learn the opportunities and challenges in future Heterogeneous system design trends and thus help influence the next trends in this area. Topics of interest for the full paper (8 - 10 pages) track submissions include (but are not limited to): - Applications for hybrid/heterogeneous systems. - Innovative use of heterogeneous computing in AI for science or optimizations for AI - Heterogeneous computing at Edge - Design and use of domain-specific functionalities on accelerators - Strategies for programming heterogeneous systems using high-level models such as OpenMP, OpenACC, SYCL, low-level models such as OpenCL, CUDA; - Methods and tools to tackle challenges from heterogeneity in AI/ML/DL, BigData, Cloud Computing, Edge-Computing, Real-time Systems, and High-Performance Computing; - Strategies for application behavior characterization and performance optimization for accelerators; - Techniques for optimizing kernels for execution on GPGPU, FPGA, TPU, and emerging heterogeneous platforms; - Models of application performance on heterogeneous and accelerated HPC systems; - Compiler Optimizations and tuning heterogeneous systems including parallelization, loop transformation, locality optimizations, Vectorization; - Implications of workload characterization in heterogeneous and accelerated architecture design; - Benchmarking and performance evaluation for heterogeneous systems at all level of the system stack; - Tools and techniques to address both performance and correctness to assist application development for accelerators and heterogeneous processors; - System software techniques to abstract application domain-specific functionalities for accelerators; A short paper track (maximum of 4 pages) has been added to this year's program to highlight early investigations of innovative ideas in emerging selected topics such as: - Innovative use of heterogeneous computing in AI for science or optimizations for AI - Heterogeneous computing at Edge - Design and use of domain-specific functionalities on accelerators - Hybrid neuromorphic computing systems - In-memory architectures. ORGANIZERS Program Chairs Simon Garcia de Gonzalo, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) Shintaro Iwasaki, Facebook AI, USA General Chair Lena Oden, FernUni Hagen

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CFP: IEEE Cloud '22, Barcelona, Spain
by Mohsen Amini 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

2022 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON CLOUD COMPUTING (CLOUD 2022) PART OF THE 2022 IEEE WORLD CONGRESS ON SERVICES (SERVICES 2022) UPDATED: July 10-16, 2022 (Hybrid) Barcelona, Spain, USA (Pending Travel and CDC Guidelines)https://conferences.computer.org/services/2022/https://conferenc… ***ABOUT IEEE CLOUD AND IEEE SERVICES CONGRESS*** The 2022 IEEE World Congress on Services will be held in a hybrid mode with physical presence in Barcelona, Spain. The Congress is solely sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society under the auspice of the Technical Committee on Services Computing (TCSVC). The scope of the Congress will cover all current or emerging aspects of services computing and applications. Centered around services computing, it covers various systems and networking research pertaining to cloud, edge and Internet-of-Things (IoT), as well as technologies for intelligent computing, learning, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and blockchain applications, addressing critical issues such as knowledge network, high performance, security, privacy, dependability, trustworthiness, and cost-effectiveness in the cloud. Particularly, 2022 Congress will welcome papers on the impact of COVID-19 on cloud services and corresponding infrastructure. In addition to co-located theme-topic conferences, the Congress will also include symposia and workshops supporting deep-dive discussions on emerging important topics, and complement the Congress program with industry and application presentations and panels. Authors are invited to submit original papers to IEEE CLOUD conference, symposia, and workshops at www.easychair.org. All submitted manuscripts will be peer-reviewed by at least three reviewers. Accepted and presented papers will appear in the conference proceedings published by the IEEE Computer Society Press. ***CLOUD - CALL FOR PAPERS*** IEEE CLOUD is a flagship conference focusing on innovative cloud computing across all "as a service" categories, including modeling, developing, publishing, monitoring, managing, delivering Everything-as-a-Service (XaaS) in the context of various types of cloud environments. IEEE CLOUD 2022 invites original papers addressing all aspects of cloud computing technology i.e., infrastructure, applications, management and security solved using technologies of Big Data, Artificial Intelligence, High Performance computing, Distributed computing etc.. Technical topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Cloud as a Service IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS Function as a Service Network as a Service Storage as a Service Everything as a Service Cloud Infrastructure Cloud Computing System and Architectures Edge Computing System and Architectures Cloud-centric Network Architectures Storage and Data Architectures Hybrid-clouds and Multi-clouds Integration Cloud Computing Virtualization/Containerization Cloud Applications Large Scale Cloud Applications Terminal-Edge-Cloud Applications 5G/6G Enhanced Edge/Cloud Applications Social and Mobile Cloud Applications Innovative Cloud Applications Microservice-based Cloud Applications Containerized Application Virtualisation Serverless Cloud Applications Cloud Management and Operations Distributed and Parallel Query Processing Resource, Energy, Data Management Cloud Metering and Monitoring Containers, Serverless Computing SDN, NFV, Data Center Network Cloud Service Adaptation and Automation Cloud Federation, Service Composition Sustainable Cloud Computing Cloud Security and Privacy Access Control, Authorization, Authentication Assurance, Audit, Certification, Compliance Fault Tolerance, High Availability, Reliability Cryptographic Algorithms and Protocols Privacy-aware data management Trusted Cloud Environments Application of Distributed Ledger Technologies to Cloud ***CLOUD ORGANIZERS***--change General Chair: Dejan Milojicic, Hewlett Packard Labs Program Chair: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne Program Chair: Gargi B Dasgupta, IBM Research, India Program Chair: Tuan Hoang Trong, IBM Research, USA ***PAPER SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS*** Please visit https://conferences.computer.org/services/2022/cfp/callforpapers.html for paper format and paper submission instructions for conferences being held under the IEEE Services Congress umbrella. The direct link for IEEE CLOUD paper submission can be found here: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecloud2022 ****IMPORTANT DATES*** *Abstract Submission (Encouraged but Optional): Feb 22, 2022 Full paper submission due: March 1, 2022 Final notification to authors: April 15, 2022 Camera-ready paper due: May 1, 2022 ***CONTACT INFORMATION*** For any questions regarding submissions, please email the IEEE CLOUD conference chairs at ieeecs.cloud(a)gmail.com. Please visit https://conferences.computer.org/cloud/2022/ for more information.

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Deadline Extension: Monterey Data Workshop 2022
by Hai Ah Nam 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

Monterey Data Workshop 2022 - Convergence of HPC & AI Deadline Extension for Submissions & Registration Open NOW ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- https://www.montereydataconference.org/workshop-2022 APRIL 20-21, 2022 | VIRTUAL + BERKELEY, CA ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION FORM: https://forms.gle/kcT5Bt2mRV1fdL7H7 REGISTRATION: https://forms.gle/AwwHtnjvkX6vCuU76 We are pleased to announce the 1st DOE Monterey Data Workshop 2022 to share the latest research in scientific artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) in preparation for the Fall 2022 Monterey Data Conference (https://www.montereydataconference.org/).The Monterey Data Workshop brings together researchers from DOE national laboratories, facilities, universities, and industry to share research in scientific artificial intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML). The workshop is designed to promote discussion and feedback. We plan to have a combination of technical talks, panel/breakout sessions, working lunches, and time for informal interactions with colleagues. ----------------------------- SUBMISSIONS ----------------------------- The meeting organizers are seeking speakers to give short (nominally 20 minutes) talks on progress, ideas, and/or challenges on AI/ML. We encourage talks from early career scientists and are prioritizing talks in the following topical areas: * Scalable and productive computing systems for AI * Interpretable, robust, science-informed AI methods * Novel scientific AI applications at large scale * AI for self-driving scientific facilities We are also soliciting ideas for breakout sessions and volunteers to lead these sessions related to the above topics. Potential speakers or session topic leaders are asked to submit a title and short abstract of their proposed session by January 31, 2022. The committee will review submissions and provide speakers and session leaders with a response by mid-February 2022. SUBMISSION FORM: https://forms.gle/kcT5Bt2mRV1fdL7H7 ----------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES ----------------------------- * Submissions Due: Deadline Extension - February 15, 2022 (11:59 p.m PDT) * Notifications: March 4, 2022 * Meeting: April 20-21, 2022 ----------------------------- LOGISTICS ----------------------------- Registration is required to attend this event. Register at: https://forms.gle/AwwHtnjvkX6vCuU76 The meeting will be held virtually and may provide an on-site venue at Berkeley Labs if possible. ---------------------------------------------------------- MONTEREY DATA CONFERENCE ---------------------------------------------------------- The best early career talks will be invited to present at the Fall Monterey Data Conference (MDC) Aug 29 - Sep 1, 2022 in Monterey, CA. The Monterey Data Conference is an annual invitation-only meeting in Monterey which brings together researchers from DOE national laboratories, facilities, universities, and industry to showcase and discuss the latest advances and open challenges in scientific data analysis and computing. ----------------------------- COMMITTEE ----------------------------- This workshop is organized by a committee led by LBNL. Questions can be directed to hnam at lbl.gov. Sudip Dosanjh Hai Ah Nam Wahid Bhimji Steven Farrell Becci Totzke Mariam Kiran Chin Guok Nicholas Choma Samuel Williams Petrus Zwart Talita Perciano Costa Leite

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4th International Workshop on Intelligent Systems for the Internet of Things (ISIoT 2022)
by Announce Announcements 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

4th International Workshop on Intelligent Systems for the Internet of Things (ISIoT 2022) Link: https://sites.google.com/view/isiot2022 Important Dates Paper Submission: 15 March 2022 Acceptance Notification: 10 April 2022 Camera Ready: 20 April 2022 Scope The Internet of Things is a paradigm that assumes a pervasive presence in the environment of many smart things, including sensors, actuators, embedded systems and other similar devices. The development of IoT, however, has reached a crossroads, which means that without intelligence, an IoT system will act as an ordinary information transfer system. Emerging IoT applications in various fields, including smart city, smart home, smart grid, e-health, intelligent transportation systems, etc., require trustworthy networking solutions that are resilient against high mobility, high density, disasters, infrastructure failures, cyber-attacks, and other disruptions. This interdisciplinary landscape of IoT applications demands researchers from different areas such as machine learning, computational intelligence, optimization, distributed computing, embedded systems, and big data to synergize their efforts in better understanding the untapped opportunities to produce highly efficient, deployable, intelligent IoT systems. Topics (Not limited to): Computational Intelligence for the IoT Performance evaluation for the IoT Machine Learning in IoT and Smart Systems Dependability and Fault Tolerance in Smart Systems Big Data and Data Mining for the IoT Intelligent Network Technologies for the IoT Swarm and Multi-Agent Models for IoT Embedded Multiagent Systems Collective and Collaborative Robotics Robotics for the IoT Applications of the IoT Smart Systems in Different industry verticals IoT platforms Blockchain for the IoT IoT Intrusion Detection Trust and Privacy in IoT Cloud Computing for the IoT Data Fusion from the IoT Chairs: Dr. Kyriakos Vamvoudakis, Georgia Institute of Technology Dr. Vasos Vassiliou, University of Cyprus and CYENS Research Center Dr. Zinon Zinonos, Municipality of Pafos and CYENS Research Center Submission instructions Authors are invited to submit original unpublished manuscripts reporting applied or technical research. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the same volume with the DCOSS 2022 conference proceedings. All papers will be reviewed by Technical Program Committee members and selected papers will be organized for presentation at the workshop. All submissions will be exclusively electronic with a maximum length of eight (8) printed pages including title, authors, abstract, figures, diagrams, references and attachments. Articles must be prepared in English following the IEEE two-column Manuscript Templates for Conference Proceedings and submitted in PDF format only. Submission link: https://easychair.org/conference?conf=isiot2022

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[iMACAW] In-Memory Computing Workshop @ DAC 2022 - Call for Papers
by Nima TaheriNejad 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

Dear colleagues, We cordially invite to submit attend and submit a paper to the In-Memory Architectures and Computing Applications Workshop (iMACAW) Co-Located with DAC 2022, at Moscone Center West in San Francisco, CA. The workshop will be held on Sunday, July 10, 2022 and aims at providing a forum to discuss In-Memory-Computing as an alternative architecture and its applications. We take a cross-technology approach covering works that use SRAM, DRAM, FLASH, RRAM, PCM, MRAM, and FeFET as their memory technology. The workshop features ten renowned speakers from academia and industry, plus a limited selection of best submissions. Areas of Interest (not limited): • In-memory computing devices, including but not limited to, MRAM, RRAM, PCM, FeFET, 2D, photonic, etc. • In-memory computing circuit designs based on CMOS or post-CMOS technologies • In-memory computing architecture, compiler • In-memory computing applications • In-memory computing software and hardware co-design Submission Requirements: Please submit an extended abstract up to 2 pages using the IEEE conference format to be considered for presenting your work as a poster and interact with workshop attendees during the poster sessions (alongside the lunch and coffee breaks). The submission should include authors name, organization, and email address. IEEE conference format: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Submission link: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=imacaw22# Timeline: Submission deadline: 15/March/2022 Notification of acceptance: 15/April/2022 Final poster submission: 5/July/2022 * All deadlines are until the end of that day, anywhere on earth Additional Information: DAC does require all attendees to pay the workshop fee. This workshop fee includes access to the following: • Exhibit Floor • Keynotes • Receptions (Sunday-Thursday) DAC will not produce proceedings for workshops, however, the workshop organizers collect the camera- ready submission and publish them on the workshop website. Additionally, the authors have the opportunity to submit an extension of their work to a special issue associated with the workshop (the specific journal and submission details will be announced later). Please note that DAC will not reimburse the organizer or presenters for any expenses and does not provide any printing services for workshop posters. The authors of accepted submission should print their posters prior to the conference and bring them to the venue. Organizers Contact Information: Nima Taherinejad (TU Wien): nima.taherinejad(a)tuwien.ac.at Alberto Bosio (École Central de Lyon): alberto.bosio(a)ec-lyon.fr Deliang Fan (Arizona State University), dfan(a)asu.edu Workshop Website: https://www.ict.tuwien.ac.at/staff/taherinejad/iMACAW/ We look forward to seeing you at iMACAW. Best regards, iMACAW organizing team -- ----------------------------------------------- Nima TaheriNejad, PhD Assistant Professor, TU Wien, Institute of Computer Technology, http://www.ict.tuwien.ac.at/staff/taherinejad/ Gusshausstrasse 27-29, Room CA0229 1040 Vienna, Austria, +43-1-58801-384-52 My latest publications (selected short list): SIXOR: Single-cycle In-memristor XOR @ IEEE TVLSI 2021 Self-aware Data Processing for Power Saving in Resource-Constrained IoT Cyber-Physical Systems @ IEEE Sensors 2022 Sorting in Memristive Memory @ ACM JETCS 2022

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Call for Contributions: ACM MMSys'22: Special Session, Demo & Industry, Open Dataset & Software, Doctoral Symposium & Grand Challenge Tracks
by Ooi Wei Tsang 29 Jan '22

29 Jan '22

===================================================================== CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS to: Special Session, Demo & Industry, Open Dataset & Software, Doctoral Symposium & Grand Challenge Tracks -= MMSys 2022 =- "Enabling New Horizons for the Media Ecosystem" Follow us for weekly updates on: https://twitter.com/acmmmsys | https://www.facebook.com/acmmmsys | https://www.instagram.com/acmmmsys | https://acmmmsys.slack.com/ MMSys2022 Conference website: https://mmsys2022.ie/ MMSys2022 Call for Support: https://mmsys2022.ie/supporting-mmsys ===================================================================== The 13th ACM Multimedia Systems Conference (and associated workshops: MMVE 2022 (https://www.mmve-workshop.org/) NOSSDAV 2022 (https://nossdav.org/2022/) GameSys 2022) will be held from 14th to 17th June 2022 in Athlone, Ireland. MMSys2022 will provide a warm welcome to leading experts from academia and industry to present and share their latest research findings in multimedia systems. While research about specific aspects of multimedia systems are regularly published in the various proceedings and transactions of the networking, operating systems, real-time systems, databases, mobile computing, distributed systems, computer vision, and middleware communities, MMSys aims to cut across these domains in the context of multimedia data types. This provides a unique opportunity to investigate the intersections and the interplay of the various approaches and solutions developed across these domains. MMSys is a venue for researchers who explore: * Complete multimedia systems that provide a new kind of multimedia experience or system whose overall performance improves the state-of-the-art through new research results in more than one component * Enhancements to one or more system components and/or aspects that provide improvements over the state-of-the-art traditional and next-generation media services * Evaluation studies, models and/or methodologies that provides added value to the multimedia systems community The organising committee are offering a number of opportunities to contribute to MMSys 2022 presented below which include Special Session, Demo & Industry Track, Open Dataset & Software Track, Mentoring - Doctoral Symposium & Postdoctoral Researchers and Grand Challenges. ===================================================================== MMSys2022 Special Session: "New Horizons in Multimedia Systems" https://mmsys2022.ie/authors/call-for-papers Innovations in multimedia systems have revolutionized the way we connect and communicate, reshaping the field in new, exciting ways by transforming how audio, visual, and multisensory contents are created, transmitted, and consumed. The MMSys community has always been at the forefront of such innovation, creating new paths for how multimedia systems are defined, designed, and implemented for the communication of the future. Recent advances in network technology, sensor design, and acquisition and rendering devices, reveal new possibilities for cutting-edge research in multimedia systems that can provide benefits in many different aspects (in terms of performance, perception, enabling new scenarios and services, reducing costs, etc.). This special session addresses recent technologies and latest advances, their benefits and challenges in defining, designing, implementing, and testing emerging multimedia systems. This includes multi-sensorial affective systems that go beyond audiovisual communication through the integration of human-centric, multi-modal inputs and outputs; and machine-to-machine multimedia systems (drones, autonomous systems, etc.) that deal with the challenges of computer-vision oriented optimization and transmission. This special session is focused on the following topics: * Affective Interactive systems. * Machine-to-machine multimedia systems Accepted papers after double blind review will be published in the ACM DL. Submission system: https://ssmmsys2022.hotcrp.com/ Submission Deadline: March 4th, 2022 Acceptance notification: April 8th, 2022 ===================================================================== MMSys2022 Demo & Industry Track: https://mmsys2022.ie/authors/call-for-papers The goal of the Demo and Industry Track is to bridge the gap between research and industry by showcasing demonstrations of innovative multimedia concepts. Researchers and industry partners will have the opportunity to share their prototypes and proof-of-concepts with MMSys'22 attendees. We encourage innovative demo and proof-of-concept proposals. Submissions are encouraged in all areas related to multimedia, as advertised in the general call for MMSys'22. Researchers are also encouraged to submit demo proposals that concretize their accepted research papers and have a chance to showcase technical aspects of their work. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM DL. Submission system: https://mmsys2022demo.hotcrp.com/ Submission Deadline: 25th February 2022 Acceptance notification: 4th April 2022 ===================================================================== MMSys2022 Open Dataset & Software Track: https://mmsys2022.ie/authors/call-for-papers Sharing data and code to allow others to replicate research results is the ideal way to advance the field. To reach this goal, the Open Dataset and Software Track provides an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to make their work available and citable as well as to increase the public awareness of their considerable efforts. Those who have created a new dataset or open-source software package that is relevant to the multimedia community should consider submitting it to this track. This includes, but is not limited to, software and datasets relevant to both traditional and emerging areas, traces reflecting network, user or application behaviour and performance, both real or synthetic, as well as software from all aspects of production, coding, transmission, use or analysis of multimedia systems. Together with the dataset or source code, authors are asked to also provide a short paper describing the motivation and design, and discussing the way it can be useful to the community. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM DL. Submission system: https://mmsys2022ods.hotcrp.com/ Submission Deadline: 25th February 2022 Acceptance notification: 4th April 2022 ===================================================================== MMSys2022 Mentoring - Doctoral Symposium https://mmsys2022.ie/authors/call-for-papers MMSys'22 Doctoral Symposium (DS) will be part of the conference in Ireland for people studying towards a doctoral degree in a field relevant to the themes of MMSys (refer to the calls for papers on the various tracks and workshops). If you are a doctoral candidate who has found yourself reading or referencing work presented at MMSys in the past, or if for you the scope of MMSys makes you feel that this is a community that you would benefit from being part of, then we would love for you to apply to join us in Ireland. The DS is a forum for you to share your work and ideas with fellow PhD students, and with more experienced researchers in your field. You will get the chance to present your plans, ideas, results and more excitingly, ask your questions and request advice from the MMsys community. The DS will take the form of a hybrid poster session, and you will briefly introduce your proposal to the participants in a plenary session. You will get feedback and suggestions from the community at large and a senior member of the MMSys community will give you in-depth feedback and address your questions. If you are successful in your application for a place in the DS, you will be invited to attend the rest of MMSys'22; the worldís leading international research conference on multimedia systems. MMSys is an inclusive, growing and interdisciplinary community, so if you are not sure whether the specifics of your research are in scope then (a) they probably are, and (b) please email the chairs and they will do their best to advise you. We invite ëmiddleí and ëearlyí stage PhD students, and for the first time, MMsys welcomes also early stage researchers who are currently preparing their PhD proposal to attend the DS. If you are still struggling with your PhD research questions, or if you have established your questions and have still got at least a year of work ahead of you before the submission of your dissertation, you can benefit from the DS. A proposal submission is required to apply for the DS. Your submissions will be peer reviewed. If accepted, you will be invited to present and discuss at the DS; either by attending physically or virtually. You can choose whether your proposal should be published as a paper in the ACM DL. Submission system: https://mmsys2022ds.hotcrp.com/ Submission Deadline: 4th April 2022 2022 Acceptance notification: 21st April 2022 ===================================================================== MMSys2022 Mentoring - Postdoctoral Researchers: https://mmsys2022.ie/authors/mentoring In addition to mentorship for PhD candidates (see Doctoral Symposium), MMSysí22 will also provide mentorship to support the development of early stage Postdoctoral researchers or those looking to develop their own independence as researchers. We are currently in the process of brainstorming ideas on things that might be useful to this section of the MMSys community. Submission system: details coming soon! Submission Deadline: 4th April 2022 2022 Acceptance notification: 21st April 2022 ===================================================================== MMSysí22 Grand Challenge on AI-based Video Production for Soccer: https://mmsys2022.ie/authors/grand-challenge Organized and sponsored by: * SimulaMet, Department of Holistic Systems * Forzasys Across different sports disciplines, soccer has a market share of about 45% of the 500 billion global sports industry. Soccer broadcasting and streaming are becoming increasingly popular, as the interest for viewing videos from soccer games grows day by day. In this respect, it is important to provide game summaries and highlights, as a large percent of audiences prefer to view only the main events in a game such as goals, cards, saves, and penalties. However, generating such summaries and event highlights requires expensive equipment and a lot of tedious, expensive, manual labour. Automating and making the entire end-to-end video analysis pipeline more intelligent is seen as the holy grail in sports video production, since it would allow for providing fast game highlights at a much lower cost. In this context, recent developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology have shown great potential, but state-of-the-art approaches are far from being good enough for a practical scenario that has demanding real-time requirements, as well as strict performance criteria (where at least the detection of official events such as goals and cards must be 100% accurate). Even though the event tagging operation has by far received the most attention, it is the easiest initial operation in an end-to-end analysis pipeline, which includes various other operations which also need to be addressed for the overall purpose of generating game highlights. The goal of this challenge is to assist the automatization of such a production pipeline using AI, assuming that the event is already detected and covered by other challenges like SoccerNet. In particular, we aim for algorithmic approaches for event clipping, thumbnail selection, and game summarization to be developed for soccer video streams. The challenge is open to any individual, academic or commercial institution. Please see the conference website for further details and information on prizes for different tasks within the challenge. Submission system: https://mmsys2022challenges.hotcrp.com/ Submission Deadline: 5th April 2022 Acceptance notification: 20th April 2022 ===================================================================== TECHNICAL SPONSOR: ------------------ * ACM SIGMM SUPPORTERS: ------------------ YouTube, Adobe, Zinkworks, Unified Streaming, DASH IF, Forzasys, Disney Research, Failte Ireland. General Chairs -------------- * Niall Murray (Technological University of the Shannon, Ireland) * Mylene Farias (University of Brasilia, Brazil) * Gwendal Simon (Synamedia, France) Technical Programme Chairs -------------------------- * Mario Montagud (University of Valencia and i2CAT Foundation, Spain) * Irene Viola (Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica, Netherlands) * Mohamed Hefeeda (Simon Fraser University, Canada) =====================================================================

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