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by Master in HPC 02 Jun '20

02 Jun '20

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Release 0.11 of SARL agent programming language
by Stéphane Galland 02 Jun '20

02 Jun '20

Dear Colleagues. I'm glade to announce the major release of SARL version 0.11 ( www.sarl.io).SARL is a statically-typed agent-programming language. SARL aims at providing the fundamental abstractions for dealing with concurrency, distribution, interaction, decentralization, reactivity, autonomy and dynamic reconfiguration for multiagent systems. In addition to the traditional bug fixes, four major changes are available, and are briefly explained below. 1. Janus version 3Janus is the official SARL run-time environment (aka. SARL virtual machine). This release of SARL provides a MAJOR NEW IMPLEMENTATION of Janus with its version 3. In the past, the change from version 1 to version 2 was due to a total re-implementation of Janus in order to follow and support the SARL metamodel. This time, Version 3 of Janus is a total re-implementation with the SARL language, i.e. we have written the code with SARL not anymore with Java. The major benefits of the new implementation with the SARL language are: * Direct usage of the SARL concepts and statements; * Ability to generate the same SRE to different target platforms (Java, Python, etc.); * Proof-of-concept related to the capabilities of the SARL language to cover complex application’s implementation. In addition to the total re-implementation with SARL language, the software architecture of Janus was re-thinking and optimized in order to improve the global run-time performances of the SRE, and to be more modular in order to extend modules of Janus with new third-party modules (based on Bootique modules). 2. New types of participants in spacesFrom the SARL metamodel, spaces are entities in which the agents are able to interact or communicate. The agents that are part of a space are named participants. From our experience during the past years, different types of participants may be involved into a space. First, the agents constitute the largest part of these participants. Second, external software, such as an graphical user interface (GUI), may have to listen for events or emit them into a space in order to setup an interaction with the agents. Nevertheless, having only a single type of participant defined causes issues into the SARL run-time environment (SRE) when it is time to decide if a space should be destroyed or not. Indeed, the SRE is in charge of destroying the spaces when they are not used anymore (usually when there is no more agent inside). A problem occurs when all the agents have leaved the space, and only GUI remain. In this case, the SRE was not able to detect this case and to destroy the space. This issue could be seen because the SRE never stops to run, even when all the agents were killed. In order to solve this issue, two types of participants are defined: * Strong Participant: it corresponds to the regular meaning of a participant (and the default one). When a strong participant is involved into a space, the SRE cannot destroy the space. Typical strong participants are the application agents. * Weak Participant: it is a participant that is considered as optional by the SRE. In order words, when a space has only weak participants, it is considered as releasable by the SRE. Typical weak participants are GUI objects. Whatever the type of participant, they have the same level of abilities for using the space. For example, in the case of an event space, the strong and weak participants have all the abilities to emit events, and receive them. 3. New agent spawning APIThe spawning functions of the agents have encountered a big change: they are not replying anymore the unique identifier of the just spawned agents. Now, the spawning functions return void. This change was forced by the need to execute in parallel the different spawning processes when multiple agents are spawned at the same time. In this case, it is almost impossible to retreive the unique identifiers of the agents before returning from the spawning function. 4. New tool for SARL contributors: an Eclipse DSL with embedded SARLIn past, it was not so easy to install and set-up an complete and working development environment for the SARL contributors. It was due to the usage of different technologies such as Eclipse DSL, Java, Maven and Xtext. In order to have a ready-to-use environment, as much as possible, a specific Eclipse product is now available into the SARL project: sarl- dsl. This new product includes: * Regular Eclipse framework for domain specific language implementation, that includes: 1. Eclipse environment,Java development environment,Maven integration into Eclipse, andXtext libraries; * SARL compiler integration into Eclipse; * Janus run-time environment; * Eclipse Checkstyle. Enjoy SARL 0.11! -- Laboratoire Connaissance et Intelligence Artificielle Distribuées CIAD UMR 7533 Prof. Dr. Stéphane GALLAND Full Professor of Computer Science and Multiagent Systems Deputy Director of CIAD French Head of ARFITEC ARF-17-10 "Energy, Transport, Industry, Challenges for tomorrow" Senior member of the Multiagent Group Member of AFIA Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard - UBFC 13, rue Ernest Thierry-Mieg 90010 Belfort Cedex, FRANCE CIAD Lab: www.ciad-lab.fr Web: www.ciad-lab.fr/author-10836 Phone: +33 384 583 418 (work office) Mobile: +33 662 274 442 (private)

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Call for Papers: The 6th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization & Data Science – July 19-23, 2020 – Certosa di Pontignano, Siena, Italy - Paper Submission Deadline: June 4 (this Thursday)
by Ludovico Montalcini 01 Jun '20

01 Jun '20

Dear Colleague, Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please kindly help forward it to potentially interested authors/attendees. The 6th International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science – July 19-23, 2020 – Certosa di Pontignano, Siena – Tuscany, Italy An multidisciplinary Conference: Machine Learning, Optimization, Big Data & Artificial Intelligence without Borders From 2015, the LOD Conference brings academics, researchers and industrial researchers together in a unique multidisciplinary community to discuss the state of the art and the latest advances in the integration of machine learning, optimization and data science to provide the scientific and technological foundations for interpretable, explainable and trustworthy AI adopting, from 2017, the Asilomar AI Principles. The 6th Annual Conference on machine Learning, Optimization and Data science (LOD) is a international conference on machine learning, computational optimization, data science that includes invited talks, tutorial talks, special sessions, industrial tracks, demonstrations and oral and poster presentations of refereed papers. The International Conference on Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science (LOD) has established itself as a premier interdisciplinary conference in machine learning, computational optimization and data science. It provides an international forum for presentation of original multidisciplinary research results, as well as exchange and dissemination of innovative and practical development experiences. We invite submissions of papers, abstracts, posters and demos on all topics related to Machine learning, Optimization and Data Science including real-world applications for the Conference proceedings – Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science. LOD 2020 an On-Site & On-Line Conference! After numerous discussions, we have concluded that holding the event this year in mixed form both in presence (like previous editions) and virtual is more advantageous than postponing it until next year. In order to accommodate a large number of situations and constraints, we are offering the option for either physical presence or virtual participation. We would be delighted if all authors and participants manage to attend, but are aware that special circumstances are best handled by having flexible options. The Conference, hence, will be held in presence with virtual rooms for authors and participants using remote connection (e.g., Zoom or MS Teams). The online lectures (e.g., live presentations and/or recorded ones) will be made possible. W: https://lod2020.icas.xyz E: lod(a)icas.cc EC: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lod2020 FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2236577489686309/ News: https://lod2020.icas.xyz/category/news/ Important Date: * Paper Submission Deadline: June 4 – Anywhere on Earth. * Early Registration: June 30 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: * Pierre Baldi, University of California Irvine, USA Talk: TBA * Yoshua Bengio, Université de Montréal, Canada - A.M. Turing Award 2018 LOD 2020 Satellite Workshop on "Biologically Plausible Learning" on July 19 Talk: TBA * Nando de Freitas, Google DeepMind, London, UK & Oxford University, UK Talk: TBA * Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy Talk: TBA * Marta Kwiatkowska, University of Oxford, UK Talk: TBA (online talk) * Jan Peters, Technische Universitaet Darmstadt & Max-Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Germany Talk: Machine Learning of Robot Skills (online talk) * Panos Pardalos, University of Florida, USA Talk: Inverse Combinatorial Optimization Problems * Tomaso Poggio, MIT, USA LOD 2020 Satellite Workshop on "Biologically Plausible Learning" on July 19 Talk: TBA * Raniero Romagnoli, Almawave, Italy Talk: NLP for Close Domain Applications with Real World Data: an hybrid approach to jointly leverage prior domain knowledge, reasoning techniques and deep learning * Cristina Savin, Center for Neural Science, New York University, USA LOD 2020 Satellite Workshop on "Biologically Plausible Learning" on July 19 Talk: TBA * Tali Tishby, The Hebrew University, Israel LOD 2020 Satellite Workshop on "Biologically Plausible Learning" on July 19 Talk: TBA More Keynote Speakers Coming soon! Tutorial Speakers * Chip Huyen, Stanford University, USA 4-hour tutorial on "TensorFlow 2.0 for Deep Learning Research" * Vincenzo Sciacca, Almawave, Italy Tutorial on "Natural Language Processing and Deep Learning" More Tutorial Speakers Coming soon! SATELLITE WORKSHOPS I) Satellite Workshop on "Biologically Plausible Learning" on July 19 https://lod2020.icas.xyz/workshop-on-biologically-plausible-learning/ Chair: Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy Keynote Speaker: * Pierre Baldi, University of California Irvine, USA * Yoshua Bengio, Université de Montréal, Canada - A.M. Turing Award 2018 * Tomaso Poggio, MIT, USA * Cristina Savin, Center for Neural Science, New York University, USA * Tali Tishby, The Hebrew University, Israel Paper Submission Deadline: June 4 – Anywhere on Earth. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lod2020 II) Workshop on “Integrative Machine Learning” Chair: Marco Gori, University of Siena, Italy https://lod2020.icas.xyz/workshop-on-integrative-machine-learning/ Paper Submission Deadline: June 4 – Anywhere on Earth. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lod2020 SPECIAL SESSIONS: https://lod2020.icas.xyz/special-sessions/ * Big data in Economics and Finance Organized by the Big Data and Forecasting of Economic Developments project (bigNOMICS) of the Centre for Advanced Studies of the European Commission, Joint Research Centre. Chairs: Sergio Consoli, Luca Barbaglia, Luca Tiozzo Pezzoli * Industrial Session Chairs: Vincenzo Sciacca – Almawave, Giovanni Giuffrida – Neodata. * Special Session on Explainable Artificial Intelligence Explainability is essential for users to effectively understand, trust, and manage powerful artificial intelligence applications. https://robotics.sciencemag.org/content/4/37/eaay7120 * Multi-Objective Optimization (MOO) & Multi Criteria Decision Aiding (MCDA) * The 7 Special Sessions on Machine Learning Multi-Task Learning Reinforcement Learning Deep Learning Generative Adversarial Networks Deep Neuroevolution Networks with Memory Learning from Less Data and Building Smaller Models * The 7 Special Session on Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Simulation Environments to understand how AI Systems Learn Chatbots and Conversational Agents Data Science at Scale & Data in the Cloud Urban Informatics & Data-Driven Modelling of Complex Systems Data-centric Engineering Data Security, Traceability of Information & GDPR Economic Data Science Special Session Paper Submission Deadline: June 4 – Anywhere on Earth. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=lod2020 BEST PAPER AWARD Springer sponsors the LOD 2020 Best Paper Award with a cash prize of 1,000 Euro. https://lod2020.icas.xyz/best-paper-award/ PROGRAM COMMITTEE 500+ confirmed PC members! Breaking the record of the last edition of LOD! https://lod2020.icas.xyz/program-committee/ BIG DATA CHALLENGE Our sponsor, Neodata Lab, will offer a prize of €2000 to the applicant who develops the most accurate algorithm to process the following problem. https://lod2020.icas.xyz/lod-2020-challenge/ See you in Siena next July! Best regards, LOD 2020 Organizing Committee W: https://lod2020.icas.xyz E: lod(a)icas.cc EC: https://easychair.org/cfp/LOD2020 FB: https://www.facebook.com/groups/2236577489686309/ T: https://twitter.com/TaoSciences L: https://www.linkedin.com/groups/12092025/ News: https://lod2020.icas.xyz/category/news/ * Apologies for multiple copies. Please forward to anybody who might be interested * Past Editions https://lod2020.icas.xyz/past-editions/

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Updates : HiPC 2020 going virtual due to COVID-19 pandemic - Revised Timeline
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 30 May '20

30 May '20

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2020 VIRTUAL CONFERENCE - REVISED TIMELINE ********************************************************************* IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC) serves as a forum to present current work by researchers from around the world as well as highlight activities in Asia in the areas of high performance computing and data science. The meeting focuses on all aspects of high performance computing systems, and data science and analytics, and their scientific, engineering, and commercial applications. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 27th edition of HiPC - HiPC 2020 will be held VIRTUALLY this year. The registration fees for authors will be reduced and details regarding the same will be communicated later. We are also working with the sponsors to offer complimentary access to the online publications as well as the virtual meeting. The updated timeline for HiPC 2020 is as follows: Abstract Registration: July 1, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: July 8, 2020 Rebuttal Period: August 31 - September 2, 2020 Decisions Communicated: September 15, 2020 Deadline for Revised Papers: October 10, 2020 Final Notifications: October 25, 2020 Camera Ready Due: November 10, 2020 For more details, please visit: https://hipc.org/ Call for Papers can be found at https://hipc.org/call-for-papers/

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CFP - HPBench 2020
by Samar Aseeri 29 May '20

29 May '20

Dear Sir, dear Madam, Please, can you pass this announcement also to interested colleagues. Kind regards ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th Special Session on High Performance Computing for Application Benchmarking and Optimization (HPBench 2020) As part of the International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 Barcelona, Spain ========================================================================== Benchmarking is an essential aspect of modern high performance computing and computational science, and as such, it provides a means for quantifying and comparing the performance of different computer systems. With a large combination of aspects to benchmark, all the way from the capability of a single core, to cluster configuration, and to various software configurations, the benchmarking process is more of an art than science. However, the results of this process drive modern science and are vital for the community to draw sensible conclusions on the performance of applications and systems. This special session focuses on research work aimed at benchmarking modern parallel and distributed systems for addressing a number of real world problems. As such, contributions concerning the definition of new open platforms, new benchmarks to match modern architectural evolutions, studies on the aspects of benchmarking different aspects of systems (from raw runtime performance to energy consumption to energy consumed per data movement) and mathematical foundations of benchmarking are sought. IMPORTANT DATES : Papers Due: 1 July 2020 Author Notification: 22 July 2020 Camera-Ready Submission: 10 August 2020 Conference Dates: 26-30 October 2020 TOPICS : The HPBench topics of interest include, but are not limited to -Open Platforms for Parallel and Distributed Application Benchmarking and Optimization -Benchmarking on the Cloud -Benchmarking of Clusters, Supercomputers, and large-scale systems -Benchmarking the Performance of I/O -Benchmarking of Energy and Energy Efficiency -Benchmarking Web Services -Virtualization for Distributed Benchmarking -Data Distribution for Benchmarking -Performance results of benchmarks on modern platforms -Scalability Aspects of Benchmarking Parallel Applications on Parallel and Distributed Systems -Benchmarking of Parallel Scientific and Business Applications -Performance of Benchmarking Applications (Eg: NAS parallel benchmarks) -Techniques, frameworks and results concerning the benchmarking of library packages -Tools and frameworks for performance modeling systems and applications -Tools and frameworks for simulation, measurement and monitoring -Performance Measurements, Monitoring, Modeling and Simulation -Domain-specific benchmarks and applications (such as image processing, pattern recognition, cryptography, biometrics, differential equation solvers, signal processing and alike) -Mathematical Foundations of Benchmarking, Metrics and Heuristics GENERAL CHAIRS : Samar Aseeri, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Luigi Iapichino, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), Germany TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Cosimo Anglano, Universitá del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Fabio Baruffa, Intel, Germany Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA Paul Carpenter, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Douglas Doerfler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand Clay Hughes, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Aleksandar Ilic, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Bok Jik Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Ravi Reddy Manumachu, University College Dublin, Ireland Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA ********************************************************************* For more information see http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20/2-conference/special-sessions/session02-h… Kind Regards -- Samar Aseeri, PhD Computational Scientist Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) Building 1 -Office: 0128 *King Abdullah University of Science & Technology* Thuwal, Saudi Arabia -- This message and its contents, including attachments are intended solely for the original recipient. If you are not the intended recipient or have received this message in error, please notify me immediately and delete this message from your computer system. Any unauthorized use or distribution is prohibited. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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CFP - HPBench 2020
by Samar Aseeri 29 May '20

29 May '20

Dear Sir, dear Madam, Please, can you pass this announcement also to interested colleagues. Kind regards ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th Special Session on High Performance Computing for Application Benchmarking and Optimization (HPBench 2020) As part of the International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 Barcelona, Spain ========================================================================== The Special Session on Compiler Architecture, Design and Optimization provides a premier venue to bring together systems researchers working on compiler architecture, design and code optimization of high performance computing systems, particularly for many-core, GPU, and accelerators. The track spans the spectrum from compiler performance to energy optimization, and from purely static to fully dynamic approaches. IMPORTANT DATES : Papers Due: 1 July 2020 Author Notification: 22 July 2020 Camera-Ready Submission: 3 August 2020 Conference Dates: 26-30 October 2020 TOPICS : The HPBench topics of interest include, but are not limited to -Open Platforms for Parallel and Distributed Application Benchmarking and Optimization -Benchmarking on the Cloud -Benchmarking of Clusters, Supercomputers, and large-scale systems -Benchmarking the Performance of I/O -Benchmarking of Energy and Energy Efficiency -Benchmarking Web Services -Virtualization for Distributed Benchmarking -Data Distribution for Benchmarking -Performance results of benchmarks on modern platforms -Scalability Aspects of Benchmarking Parallel Applications on Parallel and Distributed Systems -Benchmarking of Parallel Scientific and Business Applications -Performance of Benchmarking Applications (Eg: NAS parallel benchmarks) -Techniques, frameworks and results concerning the benchmarking of library packages -Tools and frameworks for performance modeling systems and applications -Tools and frameworks for simulation, measurement and monitoring -Performance Measurements, Monitoring, Modeling and Simulation -Domain-specific benchmarks and applications (such as image processing, pattern recognition, cryptography, biometrics, differential equation solvers, signal processing and alike) -Mathematical Foundations of Benchmarking, Metrics and Heuristics GENERAL CHAIRS : Samar Aseeri, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Luigi Iapichino, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), Germany TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Cosimo Anglano, Universitá del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Fabio Baruffa, Intel, Germany Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA Paul Carpenter, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Douglas Doerfler, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand Clay Hughes, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Aleksandar Ilic, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Bok Jik Lee, Gwangju Institute of Science and Technology, Korea Ravi Reddy Manumachu, University College Dublin, Ireland Dana Petcu, West University of Timisoara, Romania Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA ********************************************************************* For more information see http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20/2-conference/special-sessions/session02-h… Kind Regards -- Samar Aseeri, PhD Computational Scientist Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) Building 1 -Office: 0128 *King Abdullah University of Science & Technology* Thuwal, Saudi Arabia -- This message and its contents, including attachments are intended solely for the original recipient. If you are not the intended recipient or have received this message in error, please notify me immediately and delete this message from your computer system. Any unauthorized use or distribution is prohibited. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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GECON 2020, Final Call, Submission Deadline Extended to June 7th, 17th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems & Services
by Jörn ALTMANN 26 May '20

26 May '20

=========================================================== 17th International Conference on Economics of Grids, Clouds, Systems & Services Extended Deadline: June 7th, 2020 =========================================================== ONLINE CONFERENCE with high interaction between participants WWW: http://2020.gecon-conference.org Dates: 15-17 September 2020 Proceedings: Springer LNCS =========== / NOTICES! / =========== Extended Deadlines: Extended abstract Submission deadline: May 31st, 2020 Full papers deadline: June 7th, 2020 The organizing committee of GECON 2020 has decided all sessions will be held exclusively online! We consider the new online format to offer opportunities for exploring new ways of improving the interaction and feedback of the audience with speakers and promoting networking among the conference participants. The registration fee of the online conference has been reduced to 250€ for one author of each publication, 100 € for participants, and 50€ for students. The selection process will run as planned. The timely publication of accepted papers in the proceedings of GECON 2020 will be published in the LNCS series of Springer as announced. Due to the new online format, GECON maintains open the proposal for special sessions. With the objective of encouraging alternative forms of participation that can increase discussions of technical topics and new ideas. We solicit new topics and birds-of-a-feather session proposals. Deadline for proposals is August 15th, 2020. ======== / SCOPE / ======== GECON 2020 builds upon the very successful tradition of the conference previous editions (http://www.gecon-conference.org) since 2003. GECON solicits contributions that are interdisciplinary, combining business and economic aspects with engineering and computer science related themes. ============== / Important Dates / ============== Deadlines: Extended abstract submission deadline: May 31st, 2020 Full papers deadline: June 7th, 2020 Notification of acceptance: July 6th, 2020 Camera Ready deadline: July 13th, 2020 Poster Submission for accepted papers: July 20th, 2020 Birds of a feather session proposals: August 15th, 2020 ============================== / Publication and Submission Guidelines / ============================== Original full papers and work-in-progress papers, which are not currently under review by another conference, will be considered. Manuscripts will be reviewed based on technical merit, originality, and relevance. Past acceptance rates have been around 30 per cent in recent years. Full papers, work-in-progress (WIP) papers, and wild-and-crazy-ideas (WACI) papers shall be submitted using the Springer LNCS format. Submitted full papers should not exceed 12 pages, WIP papers should not exceed 8 pages (including references and appendices) and WACI papers (4 pages). For further details, visit the GECON 2020 web page. Paper submissions are managed through EasyChair at (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=gecon2020) The proceedings will be published by Springer LNCS. Extended versions of up to 10 accepted papers in the Computer Science field will be invited for publication in a special issue of the: - Elsevier Journal of Future Generation Computing Systems. For papers targeting mainly business and economic aspects, a special issue of the - Springer Electronic Markets Journal or - Elsevier Electronic Commerce and Applications with up to 5 papers is foreseen. ============== / Topics of Interest / ============== As a global market for infrastructures, platforms, and software services emerge, the need to understand and deal with its implications and its interdisciplinary challenges is quickly growing. To address this, GECON encourages the submission of papers, which combine at least one economic/legal area and one technologic area. GECON list of areas includes, but is not limited to: -Economics- Incentive design, strategic behavior & game theory Market mechanisms, auctions models, and bidding languages Economic efficiency Techno-economic analysis and modelling Pricing schemes and revenue models Metering, accounting, and billing Cost-benefit analysis Automated trading and bidding support tools Trust, reputation, security, and risk management Performance monitoring, optimization, and prediction Reports on industry test-beds and operational markets Energy efficiency Sustainability Business models and strategies Decision support Open source ecosystems -Law and Legal Aspects- Standardization, interoperability, and legal aspects Service level agreements (SLAs), negotiation, Monitoring and enforcement Governance of ecosystems Privacy -Clouds, Grids, Systems and Services- IaaS, SaaS, PaaS and Federation of resources Vertical scaling, burstable computing, vertical elasticity Resource management: allocation, sharing, scheduling Capacity planning Virtualization and containers Service science, management and engineering (SSME) Software engineering Security -Technologies Transforming the Economy- Smart grids, smart cities, and smart buildings Energy-aware infrastructures and services Fog, edge, osmosis computing Micro-services, serverless computing Internet-of-Things Blockchains Community networks Social networks Social computing Big data Data stream ingestion and complex event processing Additionally, the following special topic sessions have been lined up (a detailed description is available on the GECON 2020 submission web site): -Digital Infrastructures to Support Decision Making for Pandemic Response and Countermeasures- Contact: GECON 2020 Chairs, gecon2020(a)easychair.org -Decentralising Clouds to Deliver Intelligence at the Edge- Contact: Seugwoo Kum, Korean Electronics Technology Institute, Korea, seungwoo.kum(a)gmail.com; Domenico Siracusa, Fondazione Bruno Kessler, Italy, dsiracusa(a)fbk.eu. -Sustainability of Digital Infrastructures: Social, Economic, and Policy Aspects for Material Resources Supporting the Digital World- Contact: Leandro Navarro Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain, leandro(a)ac.upc.edu; Felix Freitag Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Spain, felix(a)ac.upc.edu -Business and Economic Aspects of Machine Learning, Cognitive Systems and Data Science- Contact: Aurilla Aurelie Arntzen University of South-Eastern, Norway, aurilla.aurelie.arntzen(a)usn.no ==================== / Conference Organization / ==================== Conference Chair Vlado Stankovski (University of Ljubljana,Slovenia) Conference Vice-Chairs Karim Djemame (University of Leeds, UK) Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda (University of Haifa, Israel) Jorn Altmann (Seoul National University, South-Korea) Jose Angel Banares (Zaragoza University, Spai Steering Committee Karim Djemame (University of Leeds, UK) Jorn Altmann (Seoul National University, South-Korea) Jose Angel Banares (Zaragoza University, Spain) Orna Agmon Ben-Yehuda (Technion, Israel) Steven Miller (Singapore Management University, Singapore) Omer F. Rana (Cardiff University, UK) Gheorghe Cosmin Silaghi (Babes-Bolyai University, Romania) Konstantinos Tserpes (Harokopio University, Greece) Maurizio Naldi (Universita di Roma, Italy) Contact for Questions: gecon2020(a)easychair.org @&@#^%&*%$@*#*&%#%^&$#@^@^&@%$@*^#&@ @%#&#@^*$@@#*%&%#@*$*&^@#$%@#%&$&%@ Prof. Dr. Jörn ALTMANN office 37-305 Technology Management, Economics, and Policy Program Departmentof Industrial Engineering Collegeof Engineering Seoul National University 1 Gwanak-Ro, Gwanak-Gu, 08826 Seoul, South-Korea phone: +82 70 7678 6676 phone: +49 4155 129333 phone: +1 510 962 3062 phone: +44 20 32393134 fax: +1 610 956 4404 email: jorn.altmann(a)acm.org www: http://altmann.my-groups.de/

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CFP for Virtualization in Machine Learning, High Performance Computing and Simulation
by Uday Kurkure 24 May '20

24 May '20

*The Third Special Session on Virtualization in Machine Learning, High Performance Computing and Simulation* *(VIRT 2020)* *CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION* *As part of * *The 18th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020)http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ <http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/> or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 <http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20>* *26 - 30 October* * 2020* *Barcelona, Spain* *(Tentative)* * Paper Submission Deadline: 17 June 2020* *Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters* *PURPOSE AND SCOPE* Virtualization has become the foundation of cloud computing. The scale of cloud computing data centers is similar to the supercomputers used in High Performance Computing. Both involve millions of CPU cores, tens of thousands of accelerators like GPUs, FPGAs connected by high speed interconnects and different connection topologies. Studies have shown that the GPU utilization in HPC is often at 50%. Virtualization can be the key to increasing resource utilization and managing massive infrastructures efficiently. GPU vendors have introduced virtualized versions of GPUs. FPGAs are being deployed in virtual infrastructure. These and other developments in the field, along with future exascale systems, will provide increasing degree of virtualization within the systems. The goal of this special session is to be an opportunity to discuss and exchange research on the different virtualization technologies and how they can be efficiently applied in High Performance Computing. Theoretical research, engineering solutions dealing with practical tradeoffs, and complex system implementation papers are welcomed. *The VIRT topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * - *Virtualization in HPC* o Energy efficient solutions for HPC applications in the cloud environment o High-availability based on system-level virtualization mechanisms for HPC o Fault tolerance mechanisms based on system-level virtualization mechanisms for HPC o Performance and evaluation of diverse HPC workloads in virtualization environment o Security Isolation, Resource Isolation and Data Isolation in Virtualized HPC o Flexibility and Ease of system administration and management for virtualized environments for HPC o Running diverse workloads o Running heterogeneous Operating Systems o Live Migration and Suspend/Resume of VMs to improve resource utilization and avoid downtime o Scheduling of resources and Workloads o Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) o Hypervisors and other virtualization solutions tailored for HPC systems o Big Data and Analytics in Virtualized Environments o Enterprise High Performance Computing in Virtualized Environments - *Accelerators in Virtualized HPC Environments:* o Virtualized GPUs o Scheduling of Virtual GPUs o Using FPGAs in Virtualization Stack o Dynamic Reconfiguration of FPGAs - * IO Virtualization* o Network Virtualization o SR-IOV o Software Defined Networking (SDN) o Storage Virtualization o RDMA and vRDMA - - Containers in HPC o Isolation of Multiple User-Spaces o Running containers in Virtual Machines - *Tools* o Virtualization solutions for dealing with heterogeneity in HPC environments o Compilers for heterogenous architectures involving GPUS, FPGAs, multi-core CPUs o Operating system support for virtualization in HPC systems o Debugging and/or profiling in virtual environments - *Algorithms* o Distributed Resource Scheduling o Distributed Computing - *AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning* o Virtualization of Deep Learning Workloads o Deep Learning in HPC Simulations o Resource Allocation Using Machine Learning o Reinforcement Learning for Resource Allocation o Machine Learning to build tools for measurement & calibration - *Virtualization in Simulation* *INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS * You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to *virtualization in high performance computing and simulation*. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere until it appears in HPCS proceedings, in the case of acceptance, or notified otherwise. Submission can be 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), please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 4 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. *- Poster papers* and *Posters* (please refer to http://hpcs2020.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 special session paper submission site at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/VIRT2020 . Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. *Conference Policies* 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 soundness, 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 2020 conference to present the paper at the special session as scheduled. By submitting the paper to the HPCS conference, all authors agree to abide by all HPCS conference paper submission, publication and presentation policies as well as following ethical and professional codes of conduct, including those of the professional co-sponsoring organizations. Contents of manuscripts submitted to the tracks program committees shall be regarded as privileged as well and handled in the same manner and standards. For more information, please refer to the *Authors Info* and *Registration Info* pages. *Proceedings* Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2020 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 reputable 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 special session, please contact the special session organizers. *IMPORTANT DATES* *Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------- 17 June 2020* *Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- 10 July 2020* *Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ----------- 03 August 2020* *Conference Dates: -------------------------------------------- 26-30 October 2020* *SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZERS* *Uday Kurkure * VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Phone: +1 650-427-1179 Fax: +1 650- Email: uday(a)alumni.stanford.edu *Hari Sivaraman * VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Phone: +1 650-427-3681 Fax: +1 650- Email: hsivaraman(a)vmware.com *Lan Vu * VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Phone: +1 650-427-1327 Fax: +1 650- Email: lanv(a)vmware.com *International Program Committee*: * All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the special session technical program committee members following similar criteria used in HPCS 2020 and will be published as part of the HPCS 2020 Proceedings. - *Cristina Boeres*, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil - *Isaac Gelado*, Nvidia Corp., Santa Clara, California, USA - *Kyle Hale*, Illinois Institute of Technology, Illinois, USA - *Xiaoyi Lu*, The Ohio State University - Columbus, Ohio, USA - *Carlos Reano*, Queen's University Belfast, U.K. - *Federico Silla*, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain - *Alex Sim*, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA - *Giang Son Tran*, University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam - *Blesson Varghese*, Queen's University Belfast, U.K. - *Dong Ping Zhang*, AMD Inc., San Jose, California, USA - *Jie Zhang*, Amazon Inc., Washington, USA - *Yongli Zhao*, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

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Postdoc Position at Berkeley Lab in Ice Sheet Modeling
by Esmond G. Ng 21 May '20

21 May '20

Berkeley Lab's Computational Research Division has an opening for a Postdoctoral Scholar to work on the BISICLES Ice Sheet Model. The Applied Numerical Algorithms Group (ANAG), in partnership with the Universities of Bristol and Swansea in the UK, is a home of BISICLES, an open-source adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) ice sheet model under development as a part of the U.S. Department of Energy-funded ProSPect SciDAC partnership (see http://bisicles.lbl.gov) You will join an interdisciplinary team of scientists and engineers in extending the current BISICLES capabilities while applying the model to a range of idealized and realistic problems. ANAG develops advanced numerical algorithms and software for partial differential equations integrated with the application of the software to problems of independent scientific and engineering interest. The primary focus of our work is in the development of high-resolution and adaptive finite difference methods for partial differential equations in complex geometries with applications to DOE-mission applications including porous media flows, magnetohydrodynamics, industrial problems, climate, and fusion energy. Details, including how to apply, can be found here: https://jobs.lbl.gov/jobs/bisicles-ice-sheet-model-postdoctoral-scholar-2616

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CFP: Resilience@Euro-Par 2020 - Papers due June 12 (deadline extended)
by Thomas Naughton 20 May '20

20 May '20

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13th Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance Computing (Resilience) in Clusters, Clouds, and Grids <https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2020> in conjunction with the 26th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par), Warsaw, Poland August 24 - 28, 2020 <http://2020.euro-par.org> 2020 Workshop Format: Due to the exceptional situation of COVID-19, this year Euro-Par and its workshops will be organized as an all-virtual event. This includes the main conference and workshops. The accepted workshop papers must be presented by one of the authors in order to be included in the proceedings. There will be a single minimal registration fee for each accepted paper in order to cover expenses associated with organization and proceedings publication. Only one author per paper needs to register (150 euros). Lastly, the preferred presentation format for the workshop will be via a streaming presentation, with slides and pre-recorded video presentations used in exceptional situations. 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), hardware complexity increases (such as due to heterogeneous computing) and software complexity increases (such as due to complex data- and workflows, real-time requirements and integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies with traditional applications). Correctness and execution efficiency, in spite of faults, errors, and failures, is essential to ensure the success of the HPC systems, cluster computing environments, Grid computing infrastructures, and Cloud computing services. The impact of faults, errors, and failures in such HPC systems can range from financial losses due to system downtime (sometimes several tens-of-thousands of Dollars per lost system-hour), to financial losses due to unnecessary overprovision (acquisition and operating costs), to financial losses and legal liabilities due to erroneous or delayed output. The emergence of AI technology opens up new possibilities, but also new problems. Using AI technology for operational intelligence that enables resilience in HPC systems and centers is a complex control problem, while designing resilient AI technology for HPC applications is a difficult algorithmic problem. Resilience for HPC systems encompasses a wide spectrum of fundamental and applied research and development, including theoretical foundations, error/failure and anomaly detection, monitoring and control, end-to-end data integrity, enabling infrastructure, and resilient algorithms. 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 2020 Website: <https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2020> - Resilience 2020 Submissions: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2020workshop> - Euro-Par 2020 website: <http://2020.euro-par.org> 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 - Experience reports - Error/failure/anomaly detection and reliability/dependability modeling: - Statistical analyses - Machine learning and artificial intelligence - Digital twins - Data collection and aggregation - Information visualization - Monitoring and control for resilience: - Center, system and application monitoring and control - Reliability, availability, serviceability and performability - Tunable fidelity and quality of service - Automated response and recovery - Operational intelligence to enable resilience - End-to-end integrity: - Fault tolerant design of centers, systems and applications - Forward migration and verification - Degraded operation - Error propagation, failure cascades, and error/failure containment - Testing and evaluation, including fault/error/failure injection - Enabling infrastructure for resilience: - Reliability, availability, serviceability systems - System software and middleware - Resilience extensions for programming models - Tools and frameworks - Support for resilience in heterogeneous architectures - Resilient algorithms: - Algorithmic detection and correction - Resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance - Fault tolerant numerical methods - Robust iterative algorithms - Resilient artificial intelligence Important Dates: - Workshop papers due: June 12, 2020 (extended) - Workshop author notification: July 21, 2020 - Workshop author registration: TBA - Workshop paper (for informal workshop proceedings): July 21, 2020 - Workshop date: August 24 or 25, 2020 - Workshop camera-ready papers: September 11, 2020 (after the conference) General Co-Chairs: - Stephen L. Scott Tennessee Tech University, USA scottsl(a)ornl.gov - Christian Engelmann Oak Ridge National Laboratory , USA engelmannc(a)ornl.gov Program Co-Chairs: - Ferrol Aderholdt Middle Tennessee State University, USA ferrol.aderholdt(a)mtsu.edu - Thomas Naughton Oak Ridge National Laboratory , USA naughtont(a)ornl.gov Workshop Chair Emeritus: - Chokchai (Box) Leangsuksun Louisiana Tech University, USA box(a)latech.edu Program Committee: - Wesley Bland, Intel Corporation, USA - Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Technical University of Munich, Germany - Marc Casas, Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Spain - Zizhong Chen, University of California at Riverside, USA - Robert Clay, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Nathan DeBardeleben, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA - James Elliott, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Kurt Ferreira, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Saurabh Hukerikar, NVIDIA, USA - Ignacio Laguna, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Scott Levy, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Rolf Riesen, Intel Corporation, USA - Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, France - Thomas Ropars, Universite Grenoble Alpes, France - Martin Schulz, Technical University of Munich, Germany - Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA _________________________________________________________________________ Thomas Naughton naughtont(a)ornl.gov Research Associate (865) 576-4184

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