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[CFP] IA^3 2019 - 9th SC Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms
by Tumeo, Antonino 18 Jun '19

18 Jun '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] IA^3 2019 9th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 November 18, 2019 Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO In conjunction with SC19 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. Emerging supercomputing applications are moving towards a convergence of scientific simulation, data analytics, and learning algorithms, mixed in various ways. 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 and solutions that combine graph algorithms with machine learning) - Applications that integrate scientific simulation, data analytics, and learning, and require efficient execution of irregular workloads 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: August 28, 2019 Position or Regular Paper Submission: September 4, 2019 Notification: October 1, 2019 Camera-ready: October 10, 2019 Workshop: November 18, 2019 -------------------- Submissions -------------------- Submission site: 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 templates are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library through IEEE TCHPC. -------------------- 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://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/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 publicly (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 mailto:Flavio.Vella@unibz.it. -------------------- Organizers -------------------- Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), mailto:antonino.tumeo@pnnl.gov John Feo (PNNL), mailto:john.feo@pnnl.gov Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL), mailto:vitoGiovanni.castellana@pnnl.gov -------------------- Proceedings Chair -------------------- Marco Minutoli (PNNL and WSU), mailto:marco.minutoli@pnnl.gov -------------------- Artifact Evaluation Chair -------------------- Favio Vella (Free University of Bozen), mailto:Flavio.Vella@unibz.it -------------------- Technical Program Committee -------------------- Nesreen Ahmed, Intel, US Ashwin M. Aji, AMD, US Kubilay Atasu, IBM Zürich, CH Scott Beamer, University of California, Santa Cruz, US Jonathan Beard, ARM, US Michela Becchi, North Carolina State University, US Sanjukta Bhowmick, University of North Texas, US Erik Boman, Sandia National Laboratories, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Aydin Buluç, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Anastasiia Butko, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Tim Davis, Texas A&M University, US Assefaw Gebremedhin, Washington State University, US Rajiv Gupta, University of California, Riverside, US George Karypis, University of Minnesota, US Peter M. Kogge, Notre Dame University, US Manoj Kumar, IBM TJ Watson, US John Leidel, Tactical Computing Labs, US Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University, US José Moreira, IBM TJ Watson, US Walid Najjar, University of California, Riverside, US Maxim Naumov, Facebook, US Fanny Nina-Paravecino, Intel, US Roger Pearce, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Cynthia Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, US Keshav Pingali, University of Texas, Austin, US Alejandro Rico, ARM, US Jason Riedy, Georgia Tech, US John Shalf, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Edgar Solomonik, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, US Ruud van der Pas, Oracle, US Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, NL Jishen Zhao, University of California, San Diego, US Other members TBD

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[CFP - WORKSHOPS ESORICS 2019]: 24th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security (ESORICS 2019)
by Publicity Chair ESORICS 2019 18 Jun '19

18 Jun '19

====================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS, WORKSHOPS ESORICS 2019 24th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, September 23-27, 2019 Website: https://esorics2019.uni.lu/workshops/ ====================================================================== Overview ------------------------------------ ESORICS is the annual European research event in Computer Security. The Symposium started in 1990 and has been held in several European countries, attracting a wide international audience from both the academic and industrial communities. Papers are solicited for the workshops held in conjunction with ESORICS 2019. Find below the list of workshops and their respective websites. Workshops will publish accepted regular papers in the companion Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) proceedings of ESORICS 2019 by Springer Nature. - ADIot (Attacks and Defenses for Internet-of-Things) Web: http://adiot2019.compute.dtu.dk/ Deadline: June 30, 2019 - CBT (Cryptocurrencies and Blockchain Technology) Web: http://cbtworkshop.org/ Deadline: June 25, 2019 - CSITS (Cyber Security for Intelligent Transportation Systems) Web: https://cyber.bgu.ac.il/esorics_csits2019/ Deadline: June 20, 2019 - CyberICPS (Security of Industrial Control Systems and of Cyber-Physical Systems) Web: https://www.ds.unipi.gr/cybericps2019/ Deadline: June 24, 2019 - DPM (Data and Privacy Management) Web: http://deic.uab.cat/conferences/dpm/dpm2019/ Deadline: June 17, 2019 - ETAA (Emerging Technologies for Authorization and Authentication) Web: https://www.iit.cnr.it/etaa2019 Deadline: June 15, 2019 - FINSEC (Security for Financial Critical Infrastructures and Services) Web: https://sites.google.com/fbk.eu/finsec19 Deadline: June 28, 2019 - IOSEC (Information & Operational Technology (IT & OT) security systems) Web: http://iosec2019.ics.forth.gr/ Deadline: June 15, 2019 - ISSA (Interplay of Security, Safety and System/Software Architecture) Web: https://www.irit.fr/issa/ Deadline: June 21, 2019 - MSTEC (Simulation and Training Environments for Cybersecurity) Web: https://www.threat-arrest.eu/html/mstec/ Deadline: June 30, 2019 - SECPRE (SECurity and Privacy Requirements Engineering) Web: http://samosweb.aegean.gr/secpre2019/ Deadline: June 28, 2019 - SIoT (Secure Internet of Things) Web: http://siot-workshop.org Deadline: June 25, 2019 - SPOSE (Security, Privacy, Organizations, and Systems Engineering) Web: https://spose-ws.github.io Deadline: June 14, 2019 - STAST (Socio-Technical Aspects in SecuriTy) Web: http://www.stast.uni.lu/ Deadline: June 30, 2019 - STM (Security and Trust Management) Web: https://stm2019.uni.lu/ Deadline: June 17, 2019 ====================================================================== For further details, visit https://esorics2019.uni.lu/workshops/ or contact jgalfaro(a)ieee.org

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Research Fellow in Medical Data Mining
by Uwe Aickelin 18 Jun '19

18 Jun '19

Hi, We seek a Research Fellow for a two-year appointment with expertise in computational algorithms, machine learning driven analytics and advanced data mining approaches for medical and health data. You will be working closely with other researchers in biomedical datamining projects, in particular in the analysis of electronic healthcare records. Job no: 0048228 Work type: Full-time, Fixed Term for 2 years Location: Parkville – Melbourne - Australia Department/School: School of Computing and Information Systems Salary: the appointment for this position will be either at a Level A Research Fellow ($89,251- $95,800 p.a) or a Level B Research Fellow ($100,849 - $119,753 p.a), commensurate with experience relevant to the role, plus 9.5% superannuation. Applications close: 12 Jul 2019 11:55 PM AUS Eastern Standard Time Full details: http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/899634/research-fellow-in-medical-dat… To apply: https://secure.dc2.pageuppeople.com/apply/422/aw/applicationForm/initApplic… Uwe Aickelin Professor Uwe Aickelin | Head of School of Computing and Information Systems Melbourne School of Engineering Level 8, Doug McDonell Building, 168 Grattan Street The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia T: +61 3 8344 3635 E: uwe.aickelin(a)unimelb.edu.au<mailto:uwe.aickelin@unimelb.edu.au> http://aickelin.com/ | http://linkedin.com/in/aickelin I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which I work, and pay my respects to the Elders, past and present. CRICOS: 00116K This email and any attachments may contain personal information or information that is otherwise confidential or the subject of copyright. Any use, disclosure or copying of any part of it is prohibited. The University does not warrant that this email or any attachments are free from viruses or defects. Please check any attachments for viruses and defects before opening them. If this email is received in error, please delete it and notify us by return email. [signature_1111626909]<https://eng.unimelb.edu.au/about/join-mse/current-opportunities#current-opp…>

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Research Fellow position at Middlesex University, London, UK
by Ramona Trestian 17 Jun '19

17 Jun '19

=========================================================================== Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email =========================================================================== Research Fellow in Digital Twin Modeling for Automation, Maintenance and Monitoring in Industry 4.0 Smart Factory ** Deadline for applications: July 15th, 2019 ** The relevant information to apply is available in the following link: https://jobs.mdx.ac.uk/vacancy.aspx?ref=SCT244 The successful candidate is expected to work with a team at Middlesex University and collaborate with several other teams from the UK (Festo/Siemens) and India (Indian Institute of Information Technology Sri City) to conduct research in Digital Twin and machine learning technology to develop a digital counterpart (a Digital Twin model) of Industry 4.0 Smart Factory facilities to replicate their functionalities, data, communications, feedback, emergency and safety aspects. The proposed digital twin for industry 4.0 will also enable development towards self-correcting smart process control facility. Applicants will hold a PhD in a relevant area. The post will be a full-time role with fixed term contract of 18 months, based in Hendon, London. Middlesex University is working towards equality of opportunity. Applications from under-represented sections of the community are welcomed. Interested candidates can contact Associate Professor Dr Huan X Nguyen via email: H.Nguyen(a)mdx.ac.uk<mailto:b.barn@mdx.ac.uk> or phone +44 (0) 20 8411 4885 Kind Regards, Ramona Dr. Ramona Trestian Senior Lecturer in Computing and Communications Engineering Design, Engineering and Maths | Faculty of Science and Technology Middlesex University The Burroughs, Hendon London NW4 4BT Room: T115, Town Hall Tel: +44(0)20 8411 2901 Web: http://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/trestian-ramona Research Gate: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ramona_Trestian

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Deadline Approaching - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 2019
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 15 Jun '19

15 Jun '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this email Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC Paper Submission Deadline Approaching. KEY DATES: Abstract Submission: Friday, June 21, 2019 *Firm Extended Deadline* Paper Submission: Friday, June 28, 2019 *Firm Extended Deadline* Easychair Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019 ********************************************************************** HiPC 2019 CALL FOR PAPERS *** Paper Deadline Extended *** ********************************************************************** 26th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics December 17-20, 2019, Hyderabad, India https://hipc.org/ HiPC 2019 will be the 26th edition of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, Analytics and Data Science. 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. Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of high performance computing, and data science and analytics, covering all traditional areas and emerging topics including from machine learning, big data analytics and blockchain. Each submission should be submitted to one of the tracks listed under the two broad themes of High Performance Computing and Data Science. High Performance Computing tracks: Algorithms: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing new parallel and distributed computing algorithms, and related advances. Examples of topics that are of interest include (but not limited to): * New parallel and distributed algorithms and design techniques; * Advances in enhancing algorithmic properties or providing guarantees (e.g., fault tolerance, resilience, concurrency, data locality, communication-avoiding); * Classical and emerging computation models (e.g., parallel/distributed models, quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired models); * Provably efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for advanced scientific computing and irregular applications (e.g., numerical linear algebra, graph algorithms, computational biology); and * Algorithmic techniques for resource allocation and optimization (e.g., scheduling, load balancing, resource management); Architectures: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and evaluation of high performance computing architectures, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Design and evaluation of high performance processing architectures (e.g., reconfigurable, system-on-chip, manycores, vector processors); * Design and evaluation of networks for high performance computing platforms (e.g., interconnect topologies, network-on-chip); * Design and evaluation of memory, cache and storage architectures (e.g., 3D, photonic, Processing-In-Memory, NVRAM, burst buffers, parallel I/O); * Approaches to improve architectural properties (e.g., energy/power efficiency, reconfigurable, resilience/fault tolerance, security/privacy); and * Emerging computational architectures (e.g., quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired architectures). Applications: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and implementation of scalable applications for execution on parallel and distributed platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Design and implementation of shared and distributed memory parallel applications (e.g., scientific computing and industry applications, emerging applications in IoT and life sciences - biology, medicine, chemistry, etc.); * Design and simulation methodologies for scaling applications on peta- and exascale platforms (e.g., co-design approaches, hardware/software co-design, heterogeneous and hybrid programming); * Hardware acceleration of parallel applications (e.g., CPU/GPUs, multi-GPU clusters, FPGA, vector processors, manycore); and * Design of application benchmarks for parallel and distributed platforms. Systems Software: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design, implementation and evaluation of systems software for high performance computing platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Scalable systems and software architectures for high performance computing (e.g., middleware, operating systems, I/O services); * Techniques to enhance parallel performance (e.g., compiler/runtime optimization, learning from application traces, profiling); * Techniques to enhance parallel application development and productivity (e.g., Domain-Specific Languages, programming environments, performance/correctness checking and debugging); * Techniques to deal with uncertainties, hardware/software resilience, and fault tolerance; * Software for cloud, data center, and exascale platforms (e.g., middleware tools, schedulers, resource allocation, data migration, load balancing); and * Software and programming paradigms for heterogeneous platforms (e.g., libraries for CPU/GPU, multi-GPU clusters, and other accelerator platforms); Data Science tracks: Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable algorithms for data analysis at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * New scalable algorithms for fundamental data analysis tasks (supervised, unsupervised learning, and pattern discovery); * Scalable algorithms that are designed to address the characteristics of different data sources and settings (e.g., graphs, social networks, sequences, data streams); * Scalable algorithms and techniques to reduce complexity of large-scale data (e.g., streaming, sublinear data structures, summarization, compressive analytics); * Scalable algorithms that are designed to address requirements in different data-driven application domains (e.g., life sciences, business, agriculture); and * Scalable algorithms that ensure the transparency and fairness of the analysis. Scalable Systems and Software: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable systems and software for handling data at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): * Design of scalable system software to support various applications (e.g., recommendation systems, web search, crowdsourcing applications, streaming applications) * Design of scalable system software for various architectures (e.g., OpenPower, GPUs, FPGAs). * Architectures and systems software to support various operations in large data frameworks (e.g., storage, retrieval, automated workflows, data organization, visualization, visual analytics, human-in-the-loop); * Design and implementation of systems software for distributed data frameworks (e.g., distributed file system, virtualization, cloud services, resource optimization, scheduling); and * Standards and protocols for enhancing various aspects of data analytics (e.g., open data standards, privacy preserving and secure schemes). One or more best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: Friday, June 21, 2019 *Firm Extended Deadline* Paper Submission: Friday, June 28, 2019 *Firm Extended Deadline* Reviews for Rebuttals: Monday, July 29, 2019 Rebuttals due: Monday, August 5, 2019 Initial Submission Decision: Monday, August 19, 2019 Revisions Due: Friday, September 20, 2019 Author Notification: Monday, September 30, 2019 Camera Ready: Monday, October 14, 2019 Manuscript Guidelines Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See IEEE style templates at this page for details. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. Manuscripts must be received by the published paper submission deadline. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. Authors are highly encouraged to list the key contributions of their paper. This should be in a separate paragraph in the introduction to the paper. Please note that the review process is “single-blind” (i.e., authors can list their names on the paper). This year we are introducing a two-phase review process, in which the first round of reviews will be made available to the authors for a brief rebuttal. Based on the reviews and the rebuttal, an initial decision will be issued. Papers will be either accepted or rejected or recommended for a second round. Authors of papers recommended for a second round will be allowed to revise the paper to address the comments and suggestions made by the program committee. The revisions will undergo a second round of review before the final notification. 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. Authors may contact the Program Chairs of the respective tracks at their contact email addresses below for further information or clarification. Notification of review decisions will be emailed by September 30, 2019. Camera-ready papers are due by October 14, 2019. A published proceedings will be available at the conference. At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. Presentation of an accepted paper at the conference is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in IEEE Xplore. Easychair Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019 Journal Special Issue: Authors of selected high quality papers in HiPC 2019 will be invited to submit extended version of their papers for possible publication in a special issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. PLEASE NOTE: * Authors must register their paper and submit an abstract, typically a paragraph or two, by June 21, 2019 * Authors must then submit full versions of registered papers by June 28, 2019 * All deadlines are end of day ANYWHERE ON EARTH. * Links to EasyChair submissions: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019 PROGRAM CHAIRS Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA George Karypis, University of Minnesota, USA PROGRAM VICE-CHAIRS HPC Tracks: Algorithms: Bora Uçar, CNRS and École normale supérieure de Lyon, France Applications: Alba Cristina M.A. de Melo, University of Brasilia, Brazil Architecture: Smruti Ranjan Sarangi, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India System Software: Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Data Science Tracks: Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: Srinivasan Parthasarathy, Ohio State University, USA Scalable Systems and Software: Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University, USA Contact Information * High Performance Computing tracks: Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA, ananth(a)wsu.edu * Data Science tracks: George Karypis, University of Minnesota, USA, karypis(a)umn.edu ___________________________________________________ HiPC 2019 is co-sponsored by • IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) • HiPC Education Trust, India In cooperation with • ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) • ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH) • FIP Working Group on Concurrent Systems • Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT) • National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM)

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CFP: CloudCom 2019 (Cloud Computing Technology and Science), Dec. 2019, Sydney, Australia
by Jesson Butt 15 Jun '19

15 Jun '19

Call for papers: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2019) will be held in Sydney, Australia on 11-13 December 2019. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 10, 2019 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 15, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: October 8, 2019 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/submission.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 CloudCom is the premier conference on Cloud Computing worldwide, attracting researchers, developers, users, students and practitioners from the fields of big data, systems architecture, services research, virtualization, security and privacy, high performance computing, always with an emphasis on how to build cloud computing platforms with real impact. The conference is co-sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), is steered by the Cloud Computing Association, and draws on the excellence of its world-class Program Committee and its participants. Topics of interest of CloudCom 2019 include, but are not limited to: - Architecture, Storage and Virtualization - Cloud Services and Applications - Security, Privacy and Trust - Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud (1) Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization Chairs: Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil / Ivona Brandic, TU-Wien, Austria - Intercloud architecture models - Virtual Machines (VMs), containers, unikernels and microservices - Cloud services delivery models, campus integration & “last mile” issues - Virtualization technology and enablers (network virtualization, software-defined networking) - Networking technologies - Cloud system design with FPGAs, GPUs, APUs - Storage & file systems - Scalability & performance - Resource provisioning, monitoring, management & maintenance - Operational, economic & business models - Green data centers - Computational resources, storage & network virtualization - Resource monitoring - Virtual desktops - Resilience, fault tolerance, disaster recovery - Modeling & performance evaluation - Disaster recovery - Energy efficiency (2) Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications Chairs: Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy/ Beniamino Di Martino, Seconda Universita’ di Napoli, Italy - XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) - Cloud services models & frameworks - Service deployment and orchestration in the Cloud - Cloud service management - Cloud workflow management - Cloud services reference models & standardization - Cloud-powered services design - Cloud elasticity - Machine learning and systems interactions - Data management applications & services - Service for computing-intensive applications - Mining and analytics - Data-provisioning services - Cloud programming models, benchmarks, and tools - Cloud-based services & protocols - Fault-tolerance & availability of cloud services and applications - Application development and debugging tools - Business models & economics of cloud services (3) Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust Chairs: Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger, Norway /Barbara Carminati, Insubria, Italy - Accountability & audit - Authentication & authorization - Cloud integrity - Blockchain Cloud services - Cryptography in the Cloud - Hypervisor security - Identity management & security as a service - Prevention of data loss or leakage - Secure, interoperable identity management - Trust & credential management - Trust models for cloud services - Usable security Risk management in cloud computing environments - Privacy policy framework for clouds - Privacy-preserving data mining for clouds - Information sharing and data protection in the cloud - Cryptographic protocols against internal attacks in clouds - Privacy protection in cloud platforms - Energy/cost/efficiency of security in clouds (4) Track 4: Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud Chairs: Antonio Fernandez Anta, IMDEA, Spain / Sarunas Girdzijauskas, KTH, Sweden - Cloudlet-enabled applications - Distributed Cloud Infrastructure - Foundations and principles of distributed cloud computing - Architectural models, prototype implementations and applications - Cloud brokers and coordination across multiple resource managers - Interoperability and mobility - Software infrastructure for cloudlets - Dynamic resource, service and context management on edge computing - Fog Computing - IoT cloud architectures & models - Cloud-based context-aware IoT - Economics and pricing - Experience with and performance evaluation of existing deployments and measurements (public, private, hybrid, federated environments) (5) Short Papers, Posters, and Demo 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/2019/cloudcom/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the conference proceedings. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of selected journals. General Chairs Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Rajiv Rajan, Newcastle University, UK Workshops and Tutorials Chairs Xuyun Zhang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Short Papers, Posters, and Demo Chair Muneeb Hassan, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Phd Consortium Chair Deepak Puthal, Newcastle University, UK Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil Muhammad Usman, Federation University, Australia Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy James Zheng, Macquarie University, Australia Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger, Norway Li Li, Monash University, Australia Track 4: Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud Sarunas Girdzijauskas, KTH, Sweden Xiao Liu, Deakin University, Australia

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Call for Participation: 11th Women-in-HPC workshop at Supercomputing (SC)
by Mariam Umar 15 Jun '19

15 Jun '19

================================================================= 11th International Women in HPC workshop: Diversifying the HPC community and Engaging Male Allies Sunday November 17th 2019 — Denver, Colorado, USA Call for lightning talks https://womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc19/workshop ================================================================= Women-in-HPC will once again attend the Supercomputing conference to discuss diversity and inclusivity topics. Activities will bring together women and male allies from across the international HPC community, provide opportunities to network, showcase the work of inspiring women, and discuss how we can all work towards improving the under-representation of women in supercomputing. The 11th International Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) workshop at SC19 in Denver brings together the HPC community to discuss the growing importance of increasing diversity in the workplace. This workshop will recognize and discuss the challenges of improving the proportion of women in the HPC community, and is relevant for employers and employees throughout the supercomputing workforce who are interested in addressing diversity. Sessions will focus on the following areas: - Surviving difficult events and how to minimize the impact on your career - Managing and resolving imposter syndrome - Building an effective professional network - How to get a new job or promotion - Behaviors for inclusion: coping strategies for unconscious bias and micro-aggression - Being a parent, guardian and caregiver: dealing with the guilt - Pointers on making and engaging male allies at workplace Call for lightning talks: Now Open! Deadline for submissions: August 14th 2019 AOE As part of the workshop, we invite submissions from women in industry and academia to present their work as a lightning talk. This will promote the engagement of women in HPC research and applications, provide opportunities for peer to peer networking, and the opportunity to interact with female role models and employers. Submissions are invited on all topics relating to HPC from users and developers. All abstracts should emphasise the computational aspects of the work, such as the facilities used, the challenges that HPC can help address and any remaining challenges etc. For full details please see: https://womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc19/submit/ Workshop Committee - Workshop Chair: Misbah Mubarak, Argonne National Laboratory, USA - Co-chair: Gokcen Kestor, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA - General Chair: Toni Collis, Women-in-HPC co-founder and director - Poster and Lightning Talks Chair: Mariam Umar, Intel corporation, USA - Posters & Lightning Talks Vice Chair: Weronika Filinger, EPCC, University of Edinburgh,UK - Mentoring chair: Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh, University of Sheffield, UK Steering and Organisation Committee - Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA - Trish Damkroger, Intel, USA - Kelly Gaither, TACC, USA - Rebecca Hartman-Baker, NERSC, USA - Daniel Holmes, EPCC, UK - Adrian Jackson, EPCC, UK - Alison Kennedy, Hartree Centre, STFC, UK - Lorna Rivera, CEISMC, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Programme Committee (for early career lightning talks) - Elsa Gonsioworski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Raquell Holmes, Improvscience, USA - Elizabeth Bautista, NERSC, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Jo Adegbola, Amazon Web Services, USA - Mozghan Kabiri, University of Sheffield, UK - Karen Divine, Sandia National Laboratory, USA - Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA - Hadia Ahmed, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Debbie Bard, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Rosa Filgueira, EPCC, UK Regards, Mariam Umar

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CFP: 5th International Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing
by Ilia 12 Jun '19

12 Jun '19

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 5th International Symposium on Algorithmic Aspects of Cloud Computing (ALGOCLOUD 2019) co-located with ALGO 2019 9-10 September 2019, Munich, Germany Submission Deadline: June 28, 2019 https://algo2019.ak.in.tum.de/index.php/menue-algocloud/algocloud-overview ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ALGOCLOUD is an annual international forum bringing together researchers, students, and practitioners to present research activities and results on topics related to algorithmic, design, and development aspects of modern cloud-based systems. ALGOCLOUD 2019 is co-located with the ALGO 2019 (https://algo2019.ak.in.tum.de/) a leading international event of researchers working on algorithms and their engineering. ALGOCLOUD welcomes submissions on all theoretical, design, and implementation aspects of modern cloud-based systems. ALGOCLOUD is particularly interested in novel algorithms in the context of cloud computing, cloud architectures, as well as experimental work that evaluates contemporary cloud approaches and pertinent applications. ALGOCLOUD also welcomes demonstration manuscripts, which discuss successful elastic system developments, as well as experience/use-case articles and high-quality survey papers. Contributions may span a wide range of algorithms for modelling, practices for building and techniques for evaluating operations and services in a variety of systems, including but not limited to, virtualized infrastructures, cloud platforms, datacenters, cloud-storage options, cloud data management, non-traditional key-value stores on the cloud, HPC architectures, etc. TOPICS Submissions should focus on aspects of cloud-based systems and their algorithms, including (but not limited to) the following areas: - Analysis of Algorithms and Data Structures - Resource Management and Scheduling - Data Center and Infrastructure Management - Privacy, Security and Anonymization - Cloud-based applications - Virtualization and containers - Performance Models - Cloud deployment tools and their analysis - Novel programming models - Storage management - Fog and Edge Computing - Economic models and pricing - Energy and Power Management - Big Data and the Cloud - Network management and techniques - Caching and Load Balancing PROCEEDINGS Accepted papers will be included in the post-proceedings published by Springer in its Lecture Notes in Computer Science series. (http://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Submissions must have a length of up to 12 pages in LNCS format, excluding references and an optional appendix to be read at the discretion of the Program Committee. Papers should be submitted electronically via the EasyChair Submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=algocloud2019) By submitting a paper the authors acknowledge that in case of acceptance at least one of the authors must register and attend ALGO 2019 and/or ALGOCLOUD 2019, and present the paper. IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: 28 June 2019 - Author notification: 22 July 2019 - Symposium: 10 September 2019 INVITED SPEAKER (to be decided) COMMITTEES Program Committee Olivier Beaumont (INRIA Bordeaux, France) Luiz Fernando Bittencourt (University of Campinas, Brazil) Ivona Brandic (Vienna University of Technology, Austria) (co-chair) Valeria Cardellini (University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy) Alex Delis (University of Athens, Greece) Elisabetta Di Nitto (Politecnico di Milano, Italy) Katerina Doka (National Technical University of Athens, Greece) Fanny Dufosse (INRIA Grenoble, France) Thomas Fahringer (University of Innsbruck, Austria) Thiago Genez (University of Cambridge, UK) (co-chair) Sarunas Girdzijauskas (KTH, Sweden) Anastasios Gounaris (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece) Raffaele Montella (Parthenope University of Naples, Italy) George Pallis (University of Cyprus, Cyprus) Alessandro Papadopoulos (MDH, Sweden) Ilia Pietri (Intracom SA, Greece) Guido Proietti (University of L'Aquila, Italy) Krzysztof Rzadca (University of Warsaw, Poland) Rizos Sakellariou (University of Manchester, UK) (co-chair) Rafael Brundo Uriante (IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy) Steering Committee - Spyros Sioutas University of Patras, Greece) - Peter Triantafillou (University of Warwick, UK) - Christos D. Zaroliagis (University of Patras, Greece)

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ParCo2019 Symposium on Tools and Infrastructure for Reproducibility in Data-Intensive Applications
by Sandro Fiore 10 Jun '19

10 Jun '19

============================================================================ ParCo2019 Symposium on Tools and Infrastructure for Reproducibility in Data-Intensive Applications September 10, 2019 in Prague https://sites.google.com/cmcc.it/parco2019-reprod-symposium/home ============================================================================ Overview Meaningful advances in science and engineering are increasingly predicated on data-driven decision making. For these decisions to be valid, it is essential that the one not only record the process by which results were produced, but be able to reproduce the data involved at every step in the process. While we are all used to tracking source code revisions, and keeping track of program inputs and outputs, the increased complexity of end-to-end computing pipelines, coupled with new big-data and machine learning algorithms, imposes significant complexity on tracking all of the steps and associated data that went into producing a result. For example, keeping track of exactly what data use used for a training set vs. an evaluation set, what cleaning was done, what analysis was done on the results to evaluate performance, and what additional experiments were performed. With the ever-increasing number, size, and complexity of the data used in data-intensive applications, reproducing results from these types of investigations becomes increasingly difficult. While no-one deliberately sets out to create un-reproducible results, recent surveys of the literature shows that the ability to reproduce data-intensive results are the exception and not the rule. For these reasons, a symposium on issues, tools and infrastructure for data intensive applications is highly germane to the ParCo community. In this symposium, we propose to review current state of the art in reproducibility in data-intensive computing applications. We will cover three primary topic areas: - Reproducibility challenges that are specific to science and engineering activities that have data-intensive computing as a core aspect of the process - Infrastructure, tools and methods that are currently available for reproducible data-intensive applications, and gaps and challenges that need to be addressed. - How to increase the adoption of methods for reproducible data-intensive applications across the research community. Dates: - Submission of extended abstracts/draft papers: 31 July 2019 - Notification of acceptance for presentation at the Symposium: 10 August 2019 - Submission of full papers: 10 September 2019 - Symposium: 10 September, 2019 - Notification of acceptance of full papers for publication: 30 September 2019 - Deadline for submission of full papers for proceedings: 31 October 2019 Submission guidelines: - Extended abstracts should be ca. 2 pages. Full papers are allowed the same number of pages as all other papers included in the proceedings, i.e. 10 pages. - Contributions should be submitted by e-mail to the Symposium organisers at: sandro [dot] fiore [at] cmcc [dot] it , foster [at] uchicago [dot] edu , carl [at] isi [dot] edu - Please specify in the subject of your email: [Symposium contribution] Organizers: - Sandro Fiore Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change - Ian Foster University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory - Carl Kesselman University of Southern California Useful Information about ParCo2019 - Location and dates: Prague, Czech Republic, 10-13 September 2019 - Conference website: https://www.parco.org/ - Symposium page: https://www.parco.org/symposia.html *********************************************** Sandro Fiore, PhD Head of the Data Science and Learning Research Team Advanced Scientific Computing (ASC) Division Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC Foundation) Via Augusto Imperatore 16 - 73100 Lecce (Italy) http://www.cmcc.it/ email: sandro.fiore(a)cmcc.it Linkedin: https://it.linkedin.com/pub/sandro-fiore-ph-d/8/ba3/80 GScholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=VmTh7jcAAAAJ&hl=en ************************************************

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CFP: 14th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop
by Ilia 07 Jun '19

07 Jun '19

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email! ********** WORKS 2019 Workshop********** 14th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop http://works.cs.cardiff.ac.uk/ Sunday 17 November 2019, Denver, CO Held in conjunction with SC19, http://sc19.supercomputing.org/ Paper submission deadline: 15 July 2019 ***************************************** Call For Papers Data-intensive Workflows (a.k.a. scientific workflows) are routinely used in most scientific disciplines today, especially in the context of parallel and distributed computing. Workflows provide a systematic way of describing the analysis and rely on workflow management systems to execute the complex analyses on a variety of distributed resources. They are at the interface between end-users and computing infrastructures. With the dramatic increase of raw data volume in every domain, they play an even more critical role to assist scientists in organizing and processing their data and to leverage HPC or HTC resources, e.g., workflows played an important role in the discovery of Gravitational Waves. This workshop focuses on the many facets of data-intensive workflow management systems, ranging from job execution to service management and the coordination of data, service and job dependencies. The workshop therefore covers a broad range of issues in the scientific workflow lifecycle that include: data-intensive workflows representation and enactment; designing workflow composition interfaces; workflow mapping techniques that may optimize the execution of the workflow; workflow enactment engines that need to deal with failures in the application and execution environment; and a number of computer science problems related to scientific workflows such as semantic technologies, compiler methods, fault detection and tolerance. The topics of the workshop include but are not limited to: Big Data analytics workflows Data-driven workflow processing (including stream-based workflows) Workflow composition, tools, and languages Workflow execution in distributed environments (including HPC, clouds, and grids) Reproducible computational research using workflows Dynamic data dependent workflow systems solutions Exascale computing with workflows In Situ Data Analytics Workflows Interactive workflows (including workflow steering) Workflow fault-tolerance and recovery techniques Workflow user environments, including portals Workflow applications and their requirements Adaptive workflows Workflow optimizations (including scheduling and energy efficiency) Performance analysis of workflows Workflow debugging Workflow provenance ***************************************** Important Dates Papers due: 15 July 2019 Paper acceptance notification: 1 September 2019 E-copyright registration completed by authors: 1 October 2019 Camera-ready deadline: 1 October 2019 Submitted papers must be at most 10 pages long. The proceedings should be formatted according to the IEEE format (see https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) The 10-page limit includes figures, tables, appendices and references. WORKS papers will be published in cooperation with TCHPC and will be available from IEEE digital repository. ***************************************** WORKS 2019 Organizing Committee – PC Chairs Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Rafael Ferreira da Silva, University of Southern California, USA – General Chair Ian J. Taylor, Cardiff University, UK and University of Notre Dame, USA – Steering Committee David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia Malcolm Atkinson, University of Edinburgh, UK Ewa Deelman, USC, USA Michela Taufer, University of Tennessee, USA – Publicity Chairs Ilia Pietri, Intracom SA Telecom Solutions, Greece Hoang Anh Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia ***************************************** WORKS 2019 Program Committee(Tentative) Pinar Alper, University Luxembourg, LU Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Khalid Belhajjame, Universit. Paris-Dauphine, France Ivona Brandic, TU Wien, Austria Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Henri Casanova, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA Rafael Ferreira Da Silva, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Daniel Garijo, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Daniel Katz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Tamas Kiss, University of Westminster, UK Dagmar Krefting, HTW Berlin, Germany Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Anirban Mandal, Renaissance Computing Institute, USA Marta Mattoso, Federal Univ. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame, USA Hoang Anh Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia Daniel de Oliveira, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Frédéric Suter, CNRS, France Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, USA Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Chase Wu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

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