August 2018 - computational.science

Call for Papers: ScalA@SC 2017 - Papers due August 28
by Engelmann, Christian 04 Nov '20

04 Nov '20

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ScalA’17: 8th Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems held in conjunction with the SC17: The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis in cooperation with ACM SIGHPC November 13, 2017, Denver, CO, USA <http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Scala/2017> 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. 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 not exceeding 8 letter size (8.5in x 11in) pages including figures, tables, and references using the ACM format for conference proceedings. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. Reference style files are available at <http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates>. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, and significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the workshop attendees. 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. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop. Authors may contact the workshop program chair for more information. Papers should be submitted electronically at: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scala17>. Full papers will be published with the SC'17 workshop proceedings in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore. Selected papers will be invited for an extended version in a special issue of the Journal of Computational Science (JoCS). Important Dates - Full paper submission: August 28, 2017 - Notification of acceptance: September 11, 2017 - Final paper submission (firm): October 9, 2017 - Workshop/conference early registration: TBD - Workshop: November 13, 2017 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 - Crosscutting approaches (system software and applications) in addressing scalability challenges - Scientific algorithms that can exploit extreme concurrency (e.g. 1 billion for exascale by 2020) - Naturally fault tolerant, self-healing, or fault oblivious scientific algorithms - Programming model and system software support for algorithm scalability and resilience Workshop Chairs - Vassil Alexandrov, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Al Geist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Workshop Program Chair - Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Program Committee - Vassil Alexandrov, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Hartwig Anzt, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA - Rick Archibald, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Franck Cappello, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA - Zizhong Chen, University of California, Riverside, USA - James Elliott, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Nahid Emad, University of Versailles SQ, France - Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Wilfried Gansterer, University of Vienna, Austria - Michael Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Kirk E. Jordan, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA - Dieter Kranzlmueller, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany - Ignacio Laguna, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Piotr Luszczek, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA - Michael Mascagni, Florida State University, USA - Ron Perrot, University of Oxford, UK - Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, France - Stuart Slattery, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA -- Christian Engelmann, Ph.D. R&D Staff Scientist Computer Science Research Group 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 / Home: www.christian-engelmann.info

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CFP: Resilience@Euro-Par 2017 - Papers due May 5
by Christian Engelmann 08 May '19

08 May '19

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 10th Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance Computing (Resilience) in Clusters, Clouds, and Grids <http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2017> in conjunction with the 23rd International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par), Santiago de Compostela, Spain, August 28 - September 1, 2017 <http://europar2017.usc.es> Overview: Resilience is a critical challenge as high performance computing (HPC) systems continue to increase component counts, individual component reliability decreases (such as due to shrinking process technology and near-threshold voltage (NTV) operation), and software complexity increases. Application correctness and execution efficiency, in spite of frequent faults, errors, and failures, is essential to ensure the success of the extreme-scale HPC systems, cluster computing environments, Grid computing infrastructures, and Cloud computing services. While a fault (e.g., a bug or stuck bit) is the cause of an error, its manifestation as a state change is considered an error (e.g., a bad value or incorrect execution), and the transition to an incorrect service is observed as a failure (e.g., an application abort or system crash). A failure in a computing system is typically observed through an application abort or a full/partial service or system outage. A detectable correctable error is often transparently handled by hardware, such as a single bit flip in memory that is protected with single-error correction double-error detection (SECDED) error correcting code (ECC). A detectable uncorrectable error (DUE) typically results in a failure, such as multiple bit flips in the same addressable word that escape SECDED ECC correction, but not detection, and ultimately cause an application abort. An undetectable error (UE) may result in silent data corruption (SDC), e.g., an incorrect application output. There are many other types of hardware and software faults, errors, and failures in computing systems. Resilience for HPC systems encompasses a wide spectrum of fundamental and applied research and development, including theoretical foundations, fault detection and prediction, monitoring and control, end-to-end data integrity, enabling infrastructure, and resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance. This workshop brings together experts in the community to further research and development in HPC resilience and to facilitate exchanges across the computational paradigms of extreme-scale HPC, cluster computing, Grid computing, and Cloud computing. Submission Guidelines: Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in English in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and BETWEEN 10 AND 12 PAGES, including figures, tables and references, using Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format at <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0>. Papers with less than 10 or more than 12 pages will not be accepted due to publisher guidelines. Submissions should include abstract, key words and the e-mail address of the corresponding author. Papers not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. 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 or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. The proceedings will be published in Springer's LNCS as post-conference proceedings. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop for inclusion in the proceedings. Authors may contact the workshop program chairs for more information. Important websites: - Resilience 2017 Website: <http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2017> - Resilience 2017 Submissions: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2017workshops> - Euro-Par 2017 website: <http://europar2017.usc.es> Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical foundations for resilience: - Metrics and measurement - Statistics and optimization - Simulation and emulation - Formal methods - Efficiency modeling and uncertainty quantification - Fault detection and prediction: - Statistical analyses - Machine learning - Anomaly detection - Data and information collection - Visualization - Monitoring and control for resilience: - Platform and application monitoring - Response and recovery - RAS theory and performability - Application and platform knobs - Tunable fidelity and quality of service - End-to-end data integrity: - Fault tolerant design - Degraded modes - Forward migration and verification - Fault injection - Soft errors - Silent data corruption - Enabling infrastructure for resilience: - RAS systems - System software and middleware - Programming models - Tools - Next-generation architectures - Resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance: - Algorithmic detection and correction of hard and soft faults - Resilient algorithms - Fault tolerant numerical methods - Robust iterative algorithms - Scalability of resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance Important Dates: - Workshop papers due: May 5, 2017 - Workshop author notification: June 16, 2017 - Workshop early registration: TBD - Workshop paper (for informal workshop proceedings): July 21, 2017 - Workshop camera-ready papers: October 3, 2017 General Co-Chairs: - Stephen L. Scott Senior Research Scientist - Systems Research Team Tennessee Tech University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA scottsl(a)ornl.gov - Chokchai (Box) Leangsuksun, SWEPCO Endowed Associate Professor of Computer Science Louisiana Tech University, USA box(a)latech.edu Program Co-Chairs: - Patrick G. Bridges University of New Mexico, USA bridges(a)cs.unm.edu - Christian Engelmann Oak Ridge National Laboratory , USA engelmannc(a)ornl.gov Program Committee: - Ferrol Aderholdt, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Dorian Arnold, University of New Mexico, USA - Rizwan Ashraf, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Wesley Bland, Intel Corporation, USA - Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Technical University of Munich, Germany - Franck Cappello, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA - Marc Casas, Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Spain - Zizhong Chen, University of California at Riverside, USA - Robert Clay, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Miguel Correia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal - Nathan DeBardeleben, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA - James Elliott, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Kurt Ferreira, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Michael Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Saurabh Hukerikar, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Dieter Kranzlmueller, Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich, Germany - Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA - Ignacio Laguna, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Scott Levy, University of New Mexico, USA - Kathryn Mohror, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Christine Morin, INRIA Rennes, France - Dirk Pflueger, University of Stuttgart, Germany - Nageswara Rao, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Alexander Reinefeld, Zuse Institute Berlin, Germany - Rolf Riesen, Intel Corporation, USA - Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, France - Thomas Ropars, Universite Grenoble Alpes, France - Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA -- Christian Engelmann, Ph.D. R&D Staff Scientist Computer Science Research Group 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 / Home: www.christian-engelmann.info

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IEEE HPCS Workshop on High Performance Computing Systems for Bioinformatics and Life Sciences (BILIS 2017) - Ext Deadline
by Mario Cannataro 03 Oct '18

03 Oct '18

I apologize for any cross-posting of this announcement. ======================================================================================== Int. Workshop on High Performance Computing Systems for Bioinformatics and Life Sciences (BILIS 2017) http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/conference/workshops---hpcs2017/workshop17-bilis July 17 – July 21, 2017 Genoa, Italy held in conjunction with International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2017) http://hpcs17.cisedu.info/ ======================================================================================== * * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * * EXTENDED Submission Deadline: April 15, 2017 Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters ======================================================================================== IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: --------------------------------- April 15, 2017 - Extended Acceptance Notification: --------------------------- April 28, 2017 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ------- May 11, 2017 Conference Dates: --------------------------------- July 17 – 21, 2017 ======================================================================================== SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES Incorporating new advancements of Information Technology (IT) in general and High Performance Computing (HPC) in particular in the domain of Life Sciences and Biomedical Research continues to receive tremendous attention of researchers, biomedical institutions and the rest of the biomedical community. Although medical instruments have benefited a great deal from the technological advances of the couple of decades, the impact of integrating IT advancements in addressing critical problems in biomedical research remains limited and the process of penetrating IT tools in the medical profession continues to be a very challenging problem. For example, the use of electronic medical records and Hospital Information Systems in improving health care remains fragmented. Similarly, the use of advanced computational tools seamlessly in the biomedical research cycle continues to be minimal. Due to the computational intensive problems in life sciences, the marriage between the Bioinformatics domain and high performance computing is critical to the advancement of Biosciences. In addition, the problems in this domain tend to be highly parallelizable and deal with large datasets, hence using HPC is a natural fit. The Bioinformatics domain is rich in applications that require extracting useful information from very large and continuously growing sequence of databases. Most methods used for analyzing DNA/Protein sequences are known to be computationally intensive, providing motivation for the use of powerful computational systems with high throughput characteristics. Moreover, high-throughput wet lab platforms such as next generation sequencing, microarray and mass spectrometry, are producing a huge amount of experimental "omics" data. The increasing availability of omics data poses new challenges to bioinformatics applications that need to face in a semi-automatic way an overwhelming availability of raw data. Main challenges regard: 1) the efficient storage, retrieval and integration of experimental data; 2) their efficient and high-throughput preprocessing and analysis; 3) the building of reproducible "in silico" experiments; 4) the integration of analysis results with pre-existing knowledge usually stored into ontologies. As the storage, preprocessing and analysis of raw experimental data is becoming the main bottleneck of the analysis pipeline, parallel computing is playing an important role in all steps of the life sciences research pipeline, from raw data management and processing, to data integration and analysis, and to data exploration and visualization. Moreover, Cloud Computing is becoming the key technology to hide the complexity of computing infrastructures, to reduce the cost of the data analysis task, and especially to change the overall business model of biomedical research and health provision. Considering the complex analysis pipeline of the biomedical research, the bottleneck is more and more moving toward the storage, integration, and analysis of experimental data, as well as their correlation and integration with publicly available data banks In such a scenario, large-scale distributed databases and parallel bioinformatics tools are key tools for organizing and exploring biological and biomedical data with the aim to discover new knowledge in biology and medicine. In the current Information age, further progress of Medical Sciences requires successful integration with Computational and Information Sciences. The workshop attempts to attract innovative ways of how such integration can be achieved via Bioinformatics and Biomedical Informatics research, particularly in taking advantage of the new advancements in HPC systems. The focus of data analysis and data mining tools in biomedical research highlights the current state of research in the key biomedical research areas such as bioinformatics, medical informatics and biomedical imaging. Addressing performance concerns in managing and accessing medical data, while facilitating the ability to integrate and correlate different biomedical databases remains an outstanding problem in biomedical research. The amount of available biomedical data continues to grow in an exponential rate; however, the impact of utilizing such resources remains minimal. The development of innovative tools in HPC environments to integrate, analyze and mine such data sources is a key step towards achieving large impact levels. The workshop focuses on topics related to the utilization of HPC systems and new models of parallel computing and cloud computing in problems related to Biomedical Informatics and Life Sciences, along with the use of data integration and data mining tools to support biomedical research and Health Care. The BILIS Workshop topics include (but are not limited to) the following: HPC for the Analysis of Biological Data Bioinformatics Tools for Health Care Parallel Algorithms for Bioinformatics Applications Ontologies in Biology and Medicine Integration and Analysis of Molecular and Clinical Data Parallel Bioinformatics Algorithms Algorithms and Tools for Biomedical Imaging and Medical Signal Processing Energy Aware Scheduling Techniques for Large Scale Biomedical Applications HPC for analyzing Biological Networks Next Generation Sequencing and Advanced Tools for DNA Assembly HPC for Gene, Protein/RNA Analysis and Structure Prediction Identification of Biomarkers Biomedical Visualization Tools Efficient Clustering and Classification Algorithms Correlation Networks in Biomedical Research Data Mining Techniques in Biomedical Applications Heterogeneous Data Integration HPC systems for Ontology and Database Integration Pattern Recognition and Search Tools in Biological and Clinical Databases Ubiquitous Medical Knowledge Discovery and Exchange HPC for Monitoring and Treatment Facilities Drug Design and Modeling Computer Assisted Surgery and Medical Procedures Remote Patient Monitoring, Homecare Applications Mobile and Wireless Healthcare and Biomedical Applications Cloud Computing for Bioinformatics, Medicine, and Health Systems INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to HPC for Bioinformatics, Healthcare and Life Sciences. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere. For Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. Short papers (up to 4 pages), poster papers and posters (please refer to http://hpcs2017.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po… for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the workshop organizers via email as attachments to Hesham Ali: hali(a)unomaha.edu, Mario Cannataro: cannataro(a)unicz.it. Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and presentation, language, and references. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS 2017 conference to present the paper at the workshop. PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2017 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE or ACM Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly. SPECIAL ISSUE Plans are underway to have the best papers, in extended version, selected for possible publication in a journal as special issue. Detailed information will soon be announced and will be made available on the conference website. If you have any questions about paper submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organizers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------ April 15, 2017 - Extended Acceptance Notification: ------------------------------ April 28, 2017 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ---------- May 11, 2017 Conference Dates: ------------------------------------ July 17 – 21, 2017 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Prof. Hesham H. Ali Department of Computer Science College of Information Science and Technology University of Nebraska at Omaha Omaha, NE 68182 USA Email: hesham(a)unomaha.edu Prof. Mario Cannataro Department of Medical and Surgical Sciences University "Magna Græcia" of Catanzaro Viale Europa (Località Germaneto) 88100 Catanzaro, Italy Email: cannataro(a)unicz.it

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Now accepting student applications for Broader Engagement program at SIAM CSE19
by Mary Ann Leung, Ph.D. 27 Aug '18

27 Aug '18

We are pleased to announce we are now accepting applications for travel grants for participation in the Broader Engagement program and the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) 2019 Computational Science and Engineering (CSE19) conference held in Spokane, Washington on February 25 - March 1, 2019. Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics 2019 Computational Science and Engineering Conference Broader Engagement February 24 - March 1, 2019 Spokane Convention Center Spokane, Washington, USA The Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) 2019 Computational Science and Engineering (CSE19) conference Broader Engagement (BE) program will provide a rich scientific program, mentoring, and career and professional development to students from underrepresented and under-privileged backgrounds who aspire to broaden their experience in research-based professional activities. Women, racial and ethnic minorities, people with disabilities, first generation scholars, and others from under-privileged backgrounds are encouraged to apply. Conference Themes • Computational science and machine learning • Data science, analytics, and visualization • Statistical modeling, methods, and computation • Applications in science, engineering, and industry • Multiscale, multiphysics, and multilevel methods • Biological and biomedical computations • High performance software: packages and design • Scientific simulation and uncertainty • Algorithms at extreme scales • Numerical optimization: methods and applications • Tensor Computations • Reduced order modeling • High-order methods, novel discretizations, and scalable solvers • Emerging trends in CS&E education and training Come and join the community, advance your career, and explore your future possibilities. Benefits and Activities include: Travel support and conference registration Full technical program High Performance Computing Tutorials Community building activities Mentor Protégé Program Guided affinity groups to increase learning Professional and career development Application deadline: Friday, September 21, 2018 For more information, and to apply visit: http://shinstitute.org/siam-cse19-be-program/ -- A brighter scientific future is on the horizon... ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~ Mary Ann Leung, Ph.D. President Sustainable Horizons Institute 36101 Bob Hope Drive, Suite E-5170 Rancho Mirage, CA 92270 515-450-8190 office mleung(a)shinstitute.org http://www.shinstitute.org ~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~.~

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CALL FOR PAPERS: ITNAC 2018, UNW, SYDNEY, SUBMISSION DEADLINE 30 AUG 2018
by Kashinath Basu 27 Aug '18

27 Aug '18

CALL FOR PAPERS: ITNAC 2018 ============================================================== The 28th International Telecommunication Networks and Application Conference (ITNAC 2018) November 21-23, 2018 in Sydney, Australia http://www.itnac.org.au ============================================================== Technically co-sponsored by IEEE. Papers published on IEEE Xplore. Indexed by Ei COMPENDEX Paper Submission opens in January 2018 Full paper submission deadline: August 30, 2018 *SCOPE* With the increasing number of emerging robust networks, the challenges to design new networking protocols, techniques, and applications are never ending. With the imminent deployment of 4G and 5G on the horizon, the demand for better service and quality has never been greater. ITNAC is a leading forum for researchers and engineers to present and discuss topics related to advanced telecommunication network technologies, services and applications. ITNAC 2018 seeks to address and capture highly innovative and state-of-the-art research from academia, communications industry and standardisation bodies that covers applications for and analysis of distributed, mobile, cognitive and cloud computing, computer and data communications, local and metropolitan networks, optical, wired and wireless telecommunication networks and applications. Contributions are welcome on all advanced research and particularly (but not limited to) the following topics: Mobile & Wireless Networks - Modelling and Simulation - Wireless access and routing protocols - Cross-layer design optimisation - Green, low power, energy efficient and sustainable networking - Nature and bio-inspired approaches to networking - Network-based mobile positioning and tracking systems - Cognitive and cooperative principles for networking - Mobile social and ambient networks - Delay tolerant networks - Mobile and fixed wireless broadband access networks - 4G/5G networks - Wireless sensor networks - Vehicular Ad-hoc networks - Cognitive networks - Wireless mesh networks Internet Technologies and Applications - Network Modelling and Simulation - Software defined networking - Smart Cities and Smart Grids - Content-centric networks - Traffic engineering, congestion and admission control - Datacenter networks and Cloud Computing - Peer-to-peer networks and overlays - Novel network-enabled applications and services - Future Internet routing schemes or transport concepts - IPv6 and its derivatives - High performance network virtualisation - Networking standards and regulations - QoS/QoE provisioning and resource management - Novel network-enabled applications and services Network Management, Privacy and Security - Next generation network regulation - Broadband network management - Intrusion detection and prevention - Key distribution and management - Large-scale attacks and defense - Security and privacy in wireless networks - Network security policy, theory and tools - Secure Mobile Agents and Mobile Code - Trusted computing and management - World Wide Web security - Network resiliency and network security - Cyber security Optical Networking and Applications - Modelling and Simulation - Optical switching and routing - Optical Network on Chips - Visible light communication - Optical Ethernet, EPON/GPON, 100Gb/s Ethernet - WDM Access Networks, WDM-PON - Wired/wireless convergence, Telecom/broadcast convergence, IPTV - Hybrid optical-wireless access networks, Radio-over-fiber - Large capacity optical transmission, WDM, OTDM - OFDM and advanced modulation formats in photonics - Energy efficient optical networks *SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS* Submitted manuscripts should be written in English conforming to IEEE conference proceedings format (template available at http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html ). We invite the following two types of submissions: - Full Papers (6 pages complementary, and up to 8 pages with over length charge) - Short Papers (3 pages complementary and up to 4 pages with over length charge). All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through EDAS *PUBLICATIONS* Accepted papers from this conference will be published in the proceedings (indexed by EI Compendex). Distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for possible publication in SCI & EI indexed special issues of prestigious international journals. By submitting a paper to the conference, authors assure that if the paper is accepted, at least one author will attend the conference and present the paper. *IMPORTANT DATES* Paper submission: 30 August, 2018 Acceptance Notification: 2 September, 2018 Camera-ready due: 15 October, 2018 Registration due: 1 November, 2018 Conference: 21-23 November, 2018 *CONFERENCE COMMITTEES* General Co-Chairs Mark Gregory, RMIT University, AU Vijay Sivaraman - UNSW, AU Program Chairs Khandakar Ahmed, Victoria University, AU Keshav Sood, Deakin University, AU Leith Campbell, Melbourne University, AU Publicity Chair Shui Yu, Deakin University, AU Nazmus Nafi, Victoria Institute of Technology, AU Local Organising Committee Chair Vijay Sivaraman - UNSW, AU Steering Committee Ron Addie, University of Southern Queensland, AU Adnan Al-Anbuky, Auckland University of Technology, NZ Franco Davoli, University of Genova, Italy Mark Gregory, RMIT University, Melbourne, AU Krys Pawlikowski, University of Canterbury, NZ Richard Harris, Massey University, NZ Phuoc Tran-Gia, University of Wuerzburg, Germany ITNAC 2018 is pleased to announce there will be 10 AUD$600 travel assistance grants.

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6th Special Session on HPC in Modelling and Simulation - PDP 2019 - Pavia, Italy
by William Spataro 27 Aug '18

27 Aug '18

(sorry for cross postings) ************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: Sixth Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS) Within PDP 2019 (www.pdp2019.eu) The 27th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, and Network-Based Computing Pavia, Italy 13-15 February 2019 https://www.pdp2019.eu/hpcms.html Deadline: September 15th, 2018 Contact: William Spataro - spataro(a)unical.it ************************************************************************* AIMS AND SCOPE The development of models through which computers can simulate the evolution of artificial and natural systems is fundamental for the advancement of Science. In the last decades, the increasing power of computers has allowed to considerably extend the application of computing methodologies in research and industry, but also to the quantitative study of complex phenomena. This has permitted a broad application of numerical methods for differential equation systems (e.g., FEM, FDM, etc.) on one hand, and the application of alternative computational paradigms, such as Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural networks, Swarm Intelligence, etc., on the other. These latter have demonstrated their effectiveness for modelling purposes when traditional simulation methodologies have proven to be impracticable. Following the success of our past HPCMS workshops we are glad to invite you to our sixth edition which will take place in Pavia (Italy). An important mission of the HPCMS Workshop is to provide a platform for a multidisciplinary community composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, practitioners and experts from world leading Universities, Institutions, Agencies and Companies in Computational Science, and thus in the High Performance Computing for Modelling and Simulation field. HPCMS intent is to offer an opportunity to express and confront views on trends, challenges, and state-of-the art in diverse application fields, such as engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, medicine, ecology, sociology, traffic control, economy, etc. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - High-performance computing in computational science: intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research applications - Complex systems modelling and simulation - Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural networks, Swarm Intelligence implementations - Integrated approach to optimization and simulation - MPI, OpenMP, GPGPU applications in Computational Science - Optimization algorithms, modelling techniques related to optimization in Computational Science - High-performance Software developed to solve science (e.g., biological, physical, and social), engineering, medicine, and humanities problems - Hardware approaches of high performance computing in modeling and simulation IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: 20 September 2018 Acceptance notification: 20 October 2018 Camera ready due: 18 November 2018 Conference: 13 – 15 February 2019 Submission guidelines Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the IEEE Conference proceedings format (IEEEtran, double-column, 10pt). Double-bind review: the first page of the paper should contain only the title and abstract; in the reference list, references to the authors’ own work should appear as "omitted for blind review" entries. For submission, please use the following link and select the HPCMS session: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdp2019 Manuscript submission Publication All accepted papers will be included in the same volume, published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS). The Final Paper Preparation and Submission Instructions will be published after the notification of acceptance. Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the Conference. Conference proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in Xplore and the CSDL, and for indexing, among others, to DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge. Special Issue As for previous editions, organizers of the HPCMS session are planning a Special Issue of an important international ISI Journal, based on distinguished papers that will be accepted for the session. Organizers William Spataro – University of Calabria, Italy Georgios Sirakoulis - Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Giuseppe A. Trunfio – University of Sassari, Italy Program Committee Gihan R. Mudalige, University of Warwick, UK Angelos Amanatiadis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Donato D’Ambrosio, University of Calabria, Italy Pawel Topa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Gianluigi Folino, ICAR-CNR, Italy Lou D’Alotto, York College/CUNY, New York, USA Alessio De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy Antonios Gasteratos, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy Mario Cannataro, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy Ioakeim Georgoudas, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Marco Beccutti, University of Torino, Italy Rolf Hoffmann, Darmstadt University, Germany Ioannis Karafyllidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Yaroslav Sergeyev, University of Calabria, Italy Antisthenis Tsompanas, University of the West of England, UK Rocco Rongo, University of Calabria, Italy Georgios Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece William Spataro, University of Calabria, Italy Giuseppe A. Trunfio, University of Sassari, Italy Marco Villani, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Jaroslaw Was, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Davide Spataro, University of Calabria, Italy -- °-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-° William Spataro Department of Mathematics & Computer Science High Performance Computing Center University of Calabria I-87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS) Italy Phone(s) : +39.0984.49.3691 / 4875 / 6464 Fax : +39.0984.493570 Member of the OpenCAL Team (https://github.com/OpenCALTeam) Web: www.mat.unical.it/spataro Email: spataro(a)unical.it -°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-° -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Il banner è generato automaticamente dal servizio di posta elettronica dell'Università della Calabria <http://www.unical.it/ammissione>

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Final CFP: IEEE SustainCom2018 (Sustainable Computing and Communications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia
by Andrew Clashe 26 Aug '18

26 Aug '18

Final Call for papers: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications (IEEE SustainCom2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/sustaincom/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/sustaincom/submissi on.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience =========== Introduction Sustainable Computing and Communications refers to principles that embrace a range of policies, procedures, programs, and attitudes that run the length and breadth of any use of information and communication technologies. It is a holistic approach that stretches from power to waste to purchasing to education and is a life-cycle management approach to the deployment of IT across an organization. It includes designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of information and communication systems with minimal or no impact on the environment. SustainCom (Sustainable Computing and Communications) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Sustainable Computing andCommunications as well as innovative applications. Scope and Topics Track 1: Sustainable Computing and Communications · Theoretical Aspect of Energy, Power, and Temperature · Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat · Power-aware Design of Software, Middleware and Systems · Power-aware Networking · Real-time systems · Power-efficient Computing Architectures · Efficient Circuit Design for Energy Harvesting · Power Management in Memory, Disk, Storage and other peripheral Devices · Configurable and Renewable Energy · Low Power Electronics · Energy Efficient Network Hardware · Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols · Low power Communication Technologies · Embedded Systems, ASICs and FPGSs · Power Leakage and Dissipation · Code Profiling and Transformation for Power Management · Power-aware Scheduling and Resource Allocation · Energy-efficient Wireless/Mobile/Sensor Systems and Networks · Security and Privacy · Wearable Computing · Ecological Monitoring, Analytics and Visualization · Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks · Green Data Centres and Enterprise Computing · QoS and Green Computing · Integration of Smart Appliances · Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools · Virtualization Impact for Green Computing · Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications · Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms Track 2: Sustainable Systems and Technologies · Sustainable Architectures for Smart Grids · Smart Grid Security, Reliability and Load Balancing · Energy Management Systems (EMS) · Economic Models of Energy Efficiency · Energy Monitoring, Profiling and Measurement · Renewable Energy Systems and Harvesting Energy (e.g. Solar, Wind) · Greener Systems Planning and Design · Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption · Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications · Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies · Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption · Reliability of Power-aware Computers · Runtime Systems that Assist in Power Saving · Models for Collective Optimization of Power and Performance · Monitoring Tools for Power and Performance of Parallel and Distributed Systems · Use of Sensors for Environmental Monitoring · Smart Control for Eco-friendly Buildings Track 3: Sustainable Methodologies and Applications · Smart City (Sustainable Design, Models, Frameworks, Policies and Strategies) · Smart City (Sustainable Integration and Optimization of Comprehensive Resources and information Flows - energy, emissions, people, goods and services) · Sustainable Energy Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Delivery · Smart Buildings and Urban Infrastructures · Smart Grid for Energy Generation, Transmission, Monitoring and Management · Open Government, Open Data Policies, Urban-Scale Data Sharing, Information Security and Privacy · Smart Logistics and Sustainable Supply Chain Management · Smart People, Smart Living and Smart Citizen Engagement · Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management · Smart Energy-efficient Sensor Networks and Internet of Things · Smart Home, Smart Healthcare and Ageing Population support · e-Mobility, e-Work and e-Business Applications · Sustainable Urban Mobility and Smart Vehicle Management · Smart Resource Support and Demand Management and Optimization · User-Centred Services and Systems · Open Big City Data, Cloud Computing, Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services for Sustainability · Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments · Mechanisms for Motivating Behavior Change · Advanced Data Analytics for Smart Cities · IS Architecture Design and Platform for Sustainability · Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Sustainability Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/sustaincom/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Laurent Lefevre, Inria, LIP Lab., ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Program Chairs Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS, IRISA, France Trung Q. Duong, Queen’s University Belfast, UK

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Invitation for the submission of extended version of the earlier published research papers/chapters for possible inclusion in the Book on Advanced Research on Cloud Computing, Big Data, and the IoT, IGI Global
by Brij Gupta 26 Aug '18

26 Aug '18

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] Greetings! We trust this e-mail finds you well. We are currently in the process of editing a forthcoming publication that will be a summation of chapters from the extended version of the earlier published research papers. With the goal of creating a quality publication, we would like to invite you to enhance your research paper/chapter, for possible inclusion in this publication, Book on *Advanced Research on Cloud Computing, Big Data, and the IoT*. This will be a wonderful opportunity for you as the article author, to further develop your work and have your content benefit from increased exposure and recognition in the research community. It is imperative that your chapter be substantially enhanced in order to allow the readers (researchers and your academic peers) to benefit from the latest innovations/advancements that have taken place in the topic area since the first publication of your article. Should you accept this invitation, as the paper author, you will be expected to enhance the following aspects of your earlier published chapter/paper: · The reference and literature review sections so that they include the most current research findings related to the subject of your article. · Augment any discussions of the issues in the original article to include any recent findings on the coverage of the topic, in order to ensure that they are up-to-date. · Review and update any tables/graphs/figures that you find necessary to improve the discussion, and incorporate any new information. · Change the title of the article to incorporate and reflect the changes that you have made. · Modify the abstract to reflect the enhanced content. · Ensure that the paper adheres to IGI Global’s book chapter formatting guidelines. · You are also welcome to directly cite research content from* International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing (IJCAC) *within the text and in your reference and additional reading sections. Please kindly notify us of your decision regarding this invitation no later than *September 02, 2018.* Kind Regards, B. B. Gupta (National Institute of Technology Kurukshtra, India) Dharma P. Agrawal (University of Cincinnati, USA) Editor-in-Chief International Journal of Cloud Applications and Computing (IJCAC)

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Bench'18 (Co-located with IEEE Big Data 2018) Call for Papers
by gaowanling 25 Aug '18

25 Aug '18

---Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP--- Bench'18 (2018 International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing) Call for Papers URl: http://prof.ict.ac.cn/Bench18 Co-located with IEEE Big Data 2018 December 10-13, 2018, Seattle, WA, USA Introduction Benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing are fundamental activities in human being’s lives. This symposium (Bench 18) is dedicated to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing complex systems, including (but not limited to) Big Data, AI, chainblock, datacenter, cloud and warehouse-scale computing, high performance computing, Mobile Robotics, edge and frog computing，Big Scientific data, IoT, and the other miscellaneous things, i.e., education systems, financial systems, and power systems. In addition, we encourage publishing benchmark specifications and the summaries of the open-source benchmarking projects. Improtant Dates TimeEvent Sep 20, 2018Electronic submission of full papers Nov 9, 2018Notification of paper acceptance Nov 25, 2018Camera-ready of accepted papers Dec 10-12, 2018Conference Paper Submission https://wi-lab.com/cyberchair/2018/bigdata18/scripts/submit.php?subarea=SP0… Papers should be no more than 10 pages, and be formatted to IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscript Formatting Guidelines (see link to "formatting instructions" below). Formatting Instructions 8.5" x 11" (DOC,PDF) LaTex Formatting Macros Topics of Interest We solicit papers in all areas related to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing systems. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Big data domains Artificial intelligence NewSQL and distributed database systems Blockchain Datacenter, cloud and warehouse-scale computing High performance computing Mobile Robotics Edge and fog computing Big scientific data Internet of Things (IoT) Education, financial and power system Program Committee Lizy K. John, The University of Texas at Austin USA Vijay Janapa Reddi, University of Texas at Austin USA and Google Wenguang Chen, Tsinghua University China Yunji Chen, ICT, CAS China Piotr Luszczek, University of Tennessee USA Rui Hou, Institute of Information Engineering, CAS China Yueguo Chen, Renmin University of China H. Peter Hofstee, IBM USA Cheqing Jin, East China Normal University China Junzhao Du, Xidian University China Hyogi Sim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory USA Weining Qian, East China Normal University China Zheng Cao, Alibaba China Matthias Nicola, IBM Germany Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University China Bin Ren, College of William and Mary USA Hua Chen, ICT, CAS China Jiaquan Gao, Nanjing Normal University China Jiannan Ouyang, Facebook USA Xueming Si, Fudan University China Yanjun Wu, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences China Lucas Mello Schnorr, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS) Brazil Yunquan Zhang, ICT, CAS China Shengzhong Feng, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, CAS China Zhen Jia, Princeton University USA Zhibin Yu, Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology, CAS China Dapeng Wang, Institute of Software Chinese Academy of Sciences China Bo Wu, Colorado School of Mines USA Shaoliang Peng, National University of Defense Technology China Yong Qi, Xi'an jiaotong University China Gwangsun Kim, Arm Inc., Austin, Texas USA Zujie Ren, Hangzhou Dianzi University China Xiaoyi Lu, The Ohio State University USA Lei Wang, ICT, CAS China Jianhui Li, Computer Network Information Center, CAS China Jianwu Wang, University of Maryland, Baltimore County USA Kenli Li, Hunan University China Rui Han, ICT, CAS China Jungang Xu, Chinese academy of sciences China Xu Liu, College of William and Mary USA Tong Wu, National Institute of Metrology, China Li ZHA, University of the Chinese Academy of Sciences Lei Liu, ICT, CAS China

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[CFP] IA^3 2018 - Deadline extended to September 5
by Tumeo, Antonino 22 Aug '18

22 Aug '18

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] — NEWS: DUE TO NUMEROUS REQUESTS, WE HAVE EXTENDED THE DEADLINE FOR ABSTRACTS AND PAPERS TO SEPTEMBER 5! — IA^3 2018 8th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 In Conjuction with SC18 Sponsored by IEEE TCHPC -------------------- Call for Papers -------------------- Irregular applications occur in many subject matters. While inherently parallel, they exhibit highly variable execution performance at a local level due to unpredictable memory access patterns and/or network transfers, divergent control structures, and data imbalances. Moreover, they often require fine-grain synchronization and communication on large-data structures such as graphs, trees, unstructured grids, sparse matrices, deep nets, tables, and their combinations (such as, for example, attributed graphs). They have a significant degree of latent parallelism, which however is difficult to exploit due to their complex behavior. Current high performance architectures rely on data locality and regular computation to reduce access latencies, and often do not cope well with the requirements of these applications. Furthermore, irregular applications are difficult to scale on current supercomputing machines, due to their limits in fine-grained synchronization and small data transfers. Irregular applications pertain both to well established and emerging fields, such as machine learning, social network analysis, bioinformatics, semantic graph databases, Computer Aided Design (CAD), and computer security. Many of these application areas also process massive sets of unstructured data, which keep growing exponentially. Addressing the issues of irregular applications on current and future architectures will become critical to solve the challenges in science and data analysis of the next few years. This workshop seeks to explore solutions for supporting efficient execution of irregular applications in the form of new features at the level of the micro- and system-architecture, network, languages and libraries, runtimes, compilers, analysis, algorithms. Topics of interest, of both theoretical and practical significance, include but are not limited to: - Micro- and System-architectures, including multi- and many-core designs, heterogeneous processors, accelerators (GPUs, vector processors, Automata processor), reconfigurable (coarse grained reconfigurable and FPGA designs) and custom processors - Network architectures and interconnect (including high-radix networks, optical interconnects) - Novel memory architectures and designs (including processors-in memory) - Impact of new computing paradigms on irregular workloads (including neuromorphic processors and quantum computing) - Modeling, simulation and evaluation of novel architectures with irregular workloads - Innovative algorithmic techniques - Combinatorial algorithms (graph algorithms, sparse linear algebra, etc.) - Impact of irregularity on machine learning approaches - Parallelization techniques and data structures for irregular workloads - Data structures combining regular and irregular computations (e.g., attributed graphs) - Approaches for managing massive unstructured datasets (including streaming data) - Languages and programming models for irregular workloads - Library and runtime support for irregular workloads - Compiler and analysis techniques for irregular workloads - High performance data analytics applications, including graph databases Besides regular papers, papers describing work-in-progress or incomplete but sound, innovative ideas related to the workshop theme are also encouraged. We solicit both 8-page regular papers and 4-page position papers. Authors of exciting but not mature enough regular papers may be offered the option of a short 4-page paper and related short presentation. -------------------- Important Dates -------------------- Abstract Submission: September 5, 2018 (EXTENDED) Position or Regular Paper Submission: September 5, 2018 (EXTENDED) Notification: September 28, 2018 Camera-ready: October 10, 2018 Workshop: November 12, 2018 Submissions Submission site: https://submissions.supercomputing.org<https://submissions.supercomputing.org/> Submitted manuscripts may not exceed eight (8) pages in length for regular papers and four (4) pages for position papers including figures, tables and references. Authors of regular papers will be able to provide up to one (1) additional pages for the Artifact Description (AD) appendix and, after paper acceptance, up to two (2) additional pages for the Artifact Evaluation (AE) appendix. The workshop proceedings will be published through IEEE TCHPC and will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library. The templates are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. -------------------- Artifact Description & Evaluation -------------------- This edition of the workshop invites authors of regular papers to follow a reproducibility initiative like the main SC Conference, with specific appendices for the Artifact Description (AD) and the Artifact Evaluation (AE). Please refer to the SC reproducibility page for further details on the rationale behind AD and AE: https://sc18.supercomputing.org/submit/sc-reproducibility-initiative/. Authors of regular papers will be able to use up to one (1) additional page to provide an Artifact Description (AD) Appendix, describing the details of their software environments and computational experiments to the extent that an independent person could replicate their results. This additional page is voluntary, and must focus only on details on software environments and methods to execute the experiments. It should not add details on the proposed technical approaches. If a paper has no computational results, the appendix only needs to mention that computational results are not part of the paper. Additionally, authors of accepted regular papers will be invited to formally submit their supporting materials to the Artifact Evaluation (AE) process. The process is voluntary, but authors that will participate in the AE will be eligible for the Best Paper Award of the workshop. Supporting materials for the AE include access to the actual software artifact, shared pubblicly (for example, through the CK - Collective Knowledge - https://github.com/ctuning/ck format), and two (2) further additional pages of the paper that details how to reproduce the results of the paper. For details on how to submit supporting materials to the AE process, please refer to: http://ctuning.org/ae/submission.html. Authors participating in the AE will receive an assessment of the artifact, and the related badge on their paper. For any additional question on the AD and the AE please contact the Artifact Evaluation Chair Flavio Vella at flavio(a)dividiti.com<mailto:flavio@dividiti.com>. -------------------- ACM TOPC Special Issue -------------------- Authors interested in the topics of the workshop are also invited to submit papers to the thematic Special Issue on Innovations in Systems for Irregular Applications of ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing (TOPC). We invite, in particular, authors of papers accepted to previous editions of the workshop, as well as authors of accepted papers to the upcoming edition, to submit exteded versions of their paper. Deadline for the submission to the special issue is October 31, 2018, i.e., after the notification for this year edition of the workshop, but slightly before the workshop itself. For more information on the TOPC Special Issue on Innovations in Systems for Irregular Applications, including details on submissions and important dates, please consult the following link: http://hpc.pnl.gov/TOPCSI/. -------------------- Organizers -------------------- Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), antonino.tumeo(a)pnnl.gov<mailto:antonino.tumeo@pnnl.gov> John Feo (PNNL/NIAC), john.feo(a)pnnl.gov<mailto:john.feo@pnnl.gov> Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL), vitoGiovanni.castellana(a)pnnl.gov<mailto:vitoGiovanni.castellana@pnnl.gov> -------------------- Proceedings Chair -------------------- Marco Minutoli (PNNL and WSU), marco.minutoli(a)pnnl.gov<mailto:marco.minutoli@pnnl.gov> -------------------- Artifact Evaluation Chair -------------------- Favio Vella (DIVIDITI), flavio(a)dividiti.com<mailto:flavio@dividiti.com> -------------------- Technical Program Committee -------------------- Nesreen Ahmed, Intel, US Kubilay Atasu, IBM Zurich, CH Scott Beamer, University of California, Santa Cruz, and LBNL, US Michela Becchi, North Carolina State University, US Sanjukta Bhowmick, University of Nebraska Omaha, US Erik Boman, SNL, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Aydin Buluc, LBNL, US Joe Eaton, NVIDIA, US Rajiv Gupta, UC Riverside, US Arif Khan, PNNL, US Farzad Khorasani, Georgia Tech, US Peter M. Kogge, University of Notre Dame, US Manoj Kumar, IBM TJ Watson, US John Leidel, Tactical Computing Labs, US Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University, US Naoya Maruyama, LLNL, US Miquel Moretó, Barçelona Supercomputing Center, ES Maxim Naumov, Facebook, US Fanny Nina-Paravecino, Northeastern University, US Sreepathi Pai, Rochester University, US Roger Pearce, LLNL, US Miquel Pericas, Chalmers University of Technology, SE Keshav Pingali, University of Texas at Austin, US Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, US Jason Riedy, Georgia Tech, US John Shalf, LBNL, US Shaden Smith, Intel, US Edgar Solomonik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US Bora Uçar, French National Center for Scientific Research, FR Ruud van der Pas, Oracle, NL Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, NL Cheng Wang, Microsoft, US Jishen Zhao, University of California, San Diego, US

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