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[CFP] IA^3 2019 - 9th SC Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms
by Tumeo, Antonino 11 Aug '19

11 Aug '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 Zurich, 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 Buluc, 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 Miquel Moretó, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, ES 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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Reminder: Call for nomination deadline Aug. 15 - 2019 IEEE CS Early Career Researcher Award in HPC
by Vladimir Getov 09 Aug '19

09 Aug '19

Call for Nominations: 2019 IEEE CS TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High Performance Computing The IEEE Computer Society TCHPC Early Career Researchers Award for Excellence in High Performance Computing recognizes up to 3 individuals who have made outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field of high-performance computing within 5 years of receiving their PhD degree as of January 01 of the year of the award. It is sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing (TCHPC) and its member Technical Committees: - Technical Committee on Parallel Process (TCPP) - Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) - Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) - Technical Committee on Cloud Computing (TCCLD) - Task Force on Rebooting Computing (TFRC) - Technical Committee on Computational Life Sciences (TCCLS) Nominations: A candidate must be nominated by member(s) of the community. An individual may nominate at most one candidate for this award. The nomination application must be submitted via email to tchpc-awards(a)computer.org as a single PDF file and should contain the following details: 1. Name/email of person making the nomination (self-nominations are not eligible). 2. Name/email of candidate for whom the award is recommended. 3. A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) as to why the nominee is highly deserving of the award. Note that since the award is for outstanding contributions, the statement and supporting letters should address what the contributions are and why they are both outstanding and significant. The nomination should also list the names and email of up to 3 persons who have provided letters supporting the nomination. 4. CV of the nominee. 5. Up to three letters of support from persons other than the nominator +IBM- these should be collected by the nominator and included in the nomination. Important Dates: - Nomination Deadline: August 15, 2019 - Results Notification:September 15, 2019 Award Selection Committee: The award selection committee consists of: - Lin Gan, Tsinghua University and National Supercomputing Center in Wuxi, China - Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster, UK (Chair) - Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China - Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA - Christine Morin, Inria, France - Irene Qualters, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA - Satoshi Sekiguchi, National Institute of Industrial Science and Technology, Japan - Min Si, Argonne National Laboratory, USA - Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India - Edgar Solomonik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Note that members of the selection committee cannot be nominators or provide support letters. Award Presentation Note: Awardees will be presented a plaque and will be recognized by IEEE Computer Society and TCHPC websites, newsletters and archives. The awards will be presented at the SC19 conference that will be held in Denver, CO, USA during November 18-21, 2019. Details of the conference can be found at http://sc19.supercomputing.org/. For more information, please send email to tchpc-awards(a)computer.org. The University of Westminster is a charity and a company limited by guarantee. Registration number: 977818 England. Registered Office: 309 Regent Street, London W1B 2HW. This message and its attachments are private and confidential. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and remove it and its attachments from your system.

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[DEADLINE EXTENDED] CFP: 14th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop
by Pietri Ilia 09 Aug '19

09 Aug '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: 26 August 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: 26 August 2019 (EXTENDED) Paper acceptance notification: 20 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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Challenges in HPC workshop, Canberra Sep 2-6: final call
by Peter Strazdins 09 Aug '19

09 Aug '19

Registration closes Mon Aug 19, Abstracts for contributed talks close Fri Aug 16 for: Challenges in High Performance Computing 2-6 September 2019 Location: Hanna Neumann Building (145), The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia Website: https://maths.anu.edu.au/news-events/events/challenges-high-performance-com… About: Scientific computing is often termed as the "third way to do science", alongside theory and experiments. The focus of the workshop is to investigate the current challenges of solving large scale problems on high performance computers. To achieve optimal performance it is critical to incorporate techniques that are at the forefront of both the mathematical and computer sciences. Consequently, the workshop has a strong multidisciplinary focus covering the five important areas of: Algorithms, Applications, Middleware, Resilience and Software. Each day of the conference will address one of these topics. A review lecture will be given in the morning by an eminent researcher in that area. Participants are invited to give more specialised talks in the afternoon, followed by a discussion session. The major aim of the workshop is to foster cooperation and communication between members of each of these five different communities, as well as to strongly encourage student participation. Invited Speakers: Algorithms: David Keyes, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology Resilience: Ulrich Ruede,Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nuremberg Software: Lois Curfman McInnes, Argonne National Laboratory Applications: Raquel Salmeron, Airservices Australia Middleware: George Boscila, University of Tennessee Organising committee: Brendan Harding, University of Adelaide Stuart Hawkins, Macquarie University Lilia Ferrario, Australian National University Linda Stals, Australian National University Peter Strazdins, Australian National University Contact: Brittany Joyce admin.research.msi(a)anu.edu.au Part of the Special Year 2019: Computational Mathematics https://maths.anu.edu.au/news-events/event-series/special-year-2019-computa… -- Regards, Peter ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Peter Strazdins, PhD GCHE, SIEEE SFHEA Research School of Computer Science ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science CSIT Building 108, North Rd The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 2601 AUSTRALIA T: +61 2 6125 5140 F: +61 2 6125 0010 W: http://cs.anu.edu.au/~Peter.Strazdins E: Peter.Strazdins(a)cs.anu.edu.au ------------------------------------------------------------------------

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JoDS Special Issue on Big Data Semantics
by Paolo Ceravolo 05 Aug '19

05 Aug '19

# JOURNAL ON DATA SEMANTICS ## SPECIAL ISSUE: BIG DATA SEMANTICS https://homes.di.unimi.it/ceravolo/Call-BDS-JDS.pdf ### Call for papers The complexity of Big Data applications in conjunction with the lack of standards for representing their components, computations, and processes, have made the design of data-intensive applications a failure prone and resource-intensive activity. One of the reasons behind it can be identified in a lack of sound modeling practices. Indeed, multiple components and procedures must be coordinated to ensure a high level of data quality and accessibility for the application layers, e.g. data analytics and reporting. We believe that a major challenges of Big Data research requires - even more than developing new analytics - devising innovative data management techniques capable to deliver functional and non-functional properties like among others: data quality, data integration, metadata discovery, reconciliation and augmentation, model compliance, or regulatory compliance. Data Semantics research can address such challenges in future research according to the FAIR principles, for implementing design procedures that generate Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable data. Methods, principles, and perspectives developed by the Data Semantics community can significantly contribute to this goal. Solutions for integrating and querying schema-less data, for example, have received much attention. Standards for metadata management have been proposed to improve data integration among silos and to make data more discoverable and accessible through heterogeneous infrastructures. A further level of application of Data Semantics principles into Big Data technologies involves Representing Processes, i.e. representing the entire pipeline of technologies connected to achieve a specific solution and make this representation shareable and verifiable to support a mature implementation of the Big Data production cycle. This special issue of the Journal on Data Semantics aims at sharing research and practical achievements in the field of Big Data integration, storage, and processing. Topics of interest for submission include, but are not limited to: • Big Data Management • Metadata Management • Big Data Persistence and Preservation • Big Data Quality and Provenance Control • Big Data Storage and Retrieval • Big Data Integration Architectures and Techniques • Data Source Discovery • Big Data Profiling and Semantics Discovery • Querying Heterogeneous Big Data Repositories • Caching and Materializing Query Results • Quality of Big Data Services • Big Data Service Performance Evaluation • Big Data Service Reliability and Availability • Reproducibility of Big Data Services • Verifiability of Big Data Services • Assurance in Big Data Services • Big Data Visualization • Real Time Visualisation • Visualization Analytics for Big Data • Big Social Media Mining • Big Data Security and Privacy • Big Data System Security and Integrity • Big Data Information Security • Privacy-Preserving Big Data Analytics • Usable Security and Privacy for Big Data • Performance of Big Data Architectures • Query Optimization • Optimal Selection of Analytics • Physical Structures ## Guest Editors Paolo Ceravolo, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy Robert Wrembel, Poznan University of Technology, Poland Sylvio Barbon Junior, State University of Londrina, Brazil ## Editorial Board Antonia Azzini, Consortium for the Technology Transfer (C2T), Italy Clodis Boscarioli, State University of West Paraná - UNIOESTE, Brazil Fadila Bentayeb, Université Lyon 2, France Omar Boussaid, Université Lyon 2, France Philippe Cudre-Mauroux, University of Fribourg, Switzerland Jerome Darmont, Université Lyon 2, France Luke Immes, University of Massachusetts Lowell, USA Maurice van Keulen, University of Twente, The Netherlands Mariangela Lazoi, University of Salento, Italy Marcello Leida, StrabioDB, Spain M. Teresa Gómez López, University of Seville, Spain Azzam Mourad, Lebanese American University of Beirut, Lebanon Jaroslav Pokorny, Charles University, Czech Republic Kai-Uwe Sattler, TU Ilmenau, Germany Darja Solodovnikova, University of Latvia, Latvia Sean Wolfgand Matsui Siqueira, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro State, Brazil Fadi Zaraket, American University of Beirut, Lebanon Bruno Bogaz Zarpelão, State University of Londrina, Brazil ## Timetable: - 10 Nov 2019 - paper submission - 25 Jan 2020 - author notification - 15 Mar 2020 - revision submission - 25 Apr 2020 - final acceptance notification - 10 Jun 2020 - camera-ready submission ##Submission Guidelines JoDS is looking for high-quality papers on any topic relevant to the journal, including regular papers, survey papers, industry papers, short papers, position papers, and reports. Submissions should contain original material that has not been submitted or published elsewhere. The submission should include an abstract and keywords, authors, and specify which author serves as contact author. All submissions will be carefully reviewed by at least three experts. Submissions have to be formatted according to the journal’s guidelines at http://www.springer.com/13740 and have to be uploaded into Springer’s Electronic Management System at https://www.editorialmanager.com/jods JoDS is abstracted/indexed in: Google Scholar, DBLP, OCLC, Summon by ProQuest. Selected sample articles are available at http://www.springer.com/13740 ISSN: 1861-2032 (print version) ISSN: 1861-2040 (electronic version) Any questions should be addressed to the Guest Editors Paolo Ceravolo, paolo.ceravolo(a)unimi.it Robert Wrembel, robert.wrembel(a)cs.put.poznan.pl Sylvio Barbon Junior, barbon(a)uel.br

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Job Opening: Research Assistant Professor in Data Science and Engineering at Hong Kong Baptist University
by COMP HKBU 05 Aug '19

05 Aug '19

The Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University, presently offering BSc, MSc, MPhil, and PhD programmes, invites outstanding applicants for the following position. *Research Assistant Professor in Data Science and Engineering (PR0059/19-20)* The Research Assistant Professor position is created and funded as part of the strategic research development initiatives in the Department. The appointee will be provided with a conducive research environment, and will work within an established group of faculty in the Department. He/she is also expected to perform group-based high-impact research and to undertake some teaching duties. Applicants should possess a PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, and demonstrate abilities to conduct high-quality research in one of the following areas: (i) data analytics and information management; (ii) data security and privacy. Initial appointment will be made on a fixed-term contract of two to three years. Re-appointment thereafter will be subject to mutual agreement. For enquiry, please contact Prof Jianliang Xu (email: xujl(a)comp.hkbu.edu.hk. More information about the Department can be found on its website ( http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk) *Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.* *Application Procedure:* Applicants are invited to submit their applications at the HKBU e-Recruitment System (jobs.hkbu.edu.hk) with samples of publications, preferably three best ones out of their most recent publications/works. Applicants should also request two referees to send in confidential letters of reference, with *PR* number (stated above) quoted on the letters, to the Personnel Office (Email: recruit(a)hkbu.edu.hk) direct. Those who are not invited for interview four months after the closing date may consider their applications unsuccessful. All application materials including publication samples, scholarly/creative works will be disposed of after completion of the recruitment exercise. Details of the University's Personal Information Collection Statement can be found at http://pers.hkbu.edu.hk/pics. The University reserves the right not to make an appointment for the post advertised, and the appointment will be made according to the terms and conditions then applicable at the time of offer. *Closing date: 30 August 2019 (or until the position is filled)* URL: https://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/v1/?page=job_vacancies&id=532

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CfP: 5th Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H2RC 2019) at SC19: Submission Deadline Aug. 15
by BAKOS, JASON 02 Aug '19

02 Aug '19

========================================================================== ** Call for Papers ** ========================================================================== Fifth International Workshop on Heterogeneous High-performance Reconfigurable Computing (H^2RC 2019) ========================================================================== Held in conjunction with Supercomputing 2019 and In cooperation with the IEEE Technical Consortium on High Performance Computing (TCHPC) ========================================================================== Sunday, November 17, 2019 (ALL DAY) Denver, CO http://h2rc.cse.sc.edu ========================================================================== Submission Deadline: August 15, 2019 (4- and 8- page papers) Accepted 8-page manuscripts published/archived by IEEE (See below for descriptions of submission tracks.) ========================================================================== As conventional von-Neumann architectures are suffering from rising power densities, we are facing an era with power, energy efficiency, and cooling as first-class constraints for scalable HPC. FPGAs can tailor the hardware to the application, avoiding overheads and achieving higher hardware efficiency than general-purpose architectures. Leading FPGA manufacturers have recently made a concerted effort to provide a range of higher-level, easier-to-use high-level programming models for FPGAs. Much of the work in FPGA-based deep learning is built on these frameworks. Such initiatives are already stimulating new interest within the HPC community around the potential advantages of FPGAs over other architectures. With this in mind, this workshop, now in its fifth year, brings together HPC and heterogeneous-computing researchers to demonstrate and share experiences on how newly-available high-level programming models, including OpenCL, are already empowering HPC software developers to directly leverage FPGAs, and to identify future opportunities and needs for research in this area. ========================================================================== Submission Tracks and Contribution Selection: ========================================================================== Submissions are solicited for two tracks: Track 1: Full-length papers (8 pages) for 25-minute oral presentation and publication in proceedings archived by IEEE TCHPC. Track 2: Extended abstracts (4 pages) for 15-minute oral presentation without publication. Track 1 is targeted at technical papers containing a high level of implementation detail and analysis discussion of experimental results. Track 1 is suited for members of the academic and national lab community who prefer to have their work peer-reviewed, indexed and archived by IEEE. Track 2 is targeted at industrial contributions that describe new capabilities and opportunities offered by emerging technologies and products, or work in progress presentations by the academic and national lab community. The emphasis of this track is to initiate a discussion with the audience. All submissions are reviewed and evaluated by at least three members of our technical program committee. From the TPC evaluation of each submission, the organizing committee will select papers for presentation based on a criteria that equally weighs scientific merit and level of interest and relevance to the HPC community. ========================================================================== Topics: ========================================================================== 1. Improvement of performance or efficiency of HPC or data center applications with FPGAs 2. System integration of FPGAs in clouds and HPC systems 3. Leveraging reconfigurability 4. Benchmarks 6. Programming languages, tools, and frameworks 7. Future-gazing ========================================================================== Important dates: ========================================================================== Submission Deadline: August 15, 2019 Acceptance Notification: September 15, 2019 Camera-ready Manuscripts Due: October 11, 2019 Workshop Date: November 17, 2019 ========================================================================== Organizing Committee: ========================================================================== Jason D. Bakos, University of South Carolina Michaela Blott, Xilinx Franck Cappello, Argonne National Lab Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich Christian Plessl, Paderborn University, Germany ========================================================================== Technical Program Committee: ========================================================================== David Andrews, University of Arkansas Rizwan Ashraf , Oak Ridge National Laboratory Paul Chow, University of Toronto Hans Eberle, Nvidia Ken Eguro, Microsoft Research Xin Fang, Northeastern University Alan George, University of Pittsburgh Christoph Hagleitner, IBM Martin Herbordt, Boston University Zheming Jin, Argonne National Laboratory Andreas Koch, TU Darmstadt Miriam Leeser, Northeastern University Tiffany Mintz, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California Yaman Umuroglu, Xilinx Research -- Jason D. Bakos, Ph.D. Professor Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering Univ. of South Carolina 301 Main St., Suite 3A01L Columbia, SC 29208 803-777-8627 (voice), 803-777-3767 (fax) http://www.cse.sc.edu/~jbakos jbakos(a)cse.sc.edu

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[DEADLINE EXTENDED] CFP: 14th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop
by Ilia 01 Aug '19

01 Aug '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: 5 August 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: 5 August 2019 (EXTENDED) 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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SC'19: Posters Deadlines Extended!
by Stefano Markidis 30 Jul '19

30 Jul '19

SC19 Posters Deadlines Extended New Deadlines AoE: ACM Student Research Competition Posters 11:59pm (UTC-12) Aug 7, 2019 Doctoral Showcase Posters 11:59pm (UTC-12) Aug 7, 2019 Research Posters 11:59pm (UTC-12) Aug 7, 2019 Scientific Visualization & Data Analytics Showcase 11:59pm (UTC-12) Aug 14, 2019 The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis, November 17-22, 2019 Denver, CO, USA. https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/ <https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/> We invite submissions of posters for Supercomputing 2019. Posters offer an excellent opportunity for undergraduate students, graduate students, doctoral students, and researchers to present their work and get feedback from your peers in the community. SC19 posters consist of four different submission types based on the type of content and student status. Awards and travel support may be available for selected students. ACM Student Research Competition: SC hosts the ACM Student Research Competition, an opportunity for undergraduate and graduate students to showcase original research. https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/acm-student-resea… <https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/acm-student-resea…> Research Posters: SC’s Research Posters is an opportunity for researchers in industry, academia (including students), and government to present cutting-edge research ideas and late-breaking results. https://sc19.supercomputing.org/research-poster-submissions <https://sc19.supercomputing.org/research-poster-submissions> Scientific Visualization & Data Analytics Showcase (SciViz): SC’s SciViz provides a venue for sharing the most instrumental videos in expressing the latest in HPC. https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/scientific-visual… <https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/scientific-visual…> Doctoral Showcase (DS): SC’s DS is a forum for students nearing completion of doctoral program to present a summary of their dissertation work through a thesis canvas (poster) and a talk. https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/doctoral-showcase… <https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/doctoral-showcase…> The authors of accepted submissions will be invited to display and present their posters at the SC Conference. Partial travel support for students may also be available. Visit the SC19 Posters page for details: https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/ <https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/poster-submissions/> Submit now!

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CFP Special Collection: Parallel Computing in Evolutionary Bioinformatics, SAGE Journal, JCR 2.203 (Q2)
by José Luis Guisado 29 Jul '19

29 Jul '19

[Apologies for any cross posting] CALL FOR PAPERS ===================================================================== SPECIAL COLLECTION: PARALLEL COMPUTING IN EVOLUTIONARY BIOINFORMATICS https://journals.sagepub.com/page/evb/collections/special-collections/paral… Journal: Evolutionary Bioinformatics JCR Impact Factor (2018): 2.203 (Q2) Publisher: SAGE Publishing, USA Accepted papers will be published continuously from Aug. 2019 to Aug 31, 2020. Publication in approximately 4-5 weeks after final acceptance. ===================================================================== In the last decade, the omics revolution and the application of deep AI technologies to evolutionary bioinformatics have significantly boosted the computing power and storage demands of this field. At the same time, high performance computing (HPC) has also witnessed a revolution that has turned it into a jungle populated by very different types of parallel computing systems exploiting parallelism at different levels. They include multi- and many-core CPUs, GPUs, FPGAs, TPUs or heterogeneous systems joining together several of those types of devices. In addition, cloud computing techniques can also contribute to foster the application of bioinformatics algorithms by turning them into a service (Bioinformatics as a Service, BaaS). The aim of this Special Collection is to present the state of the art on the emerging challenges and achievements regarding the use of parallel computing hardware and software techniques applied to evolutionary bioinformatics and computational evolutionary biology. TOPICS: Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the application of the following hardware or software techniques to accelerate evolutionary bioinformatics applications: • Multicore and manycore CPUs • Clusters • Emerging hardware accelerators: GPUs, FPGAs, TPUs • Cloud computing • Grid computing • Parallel deep learning • Neuromorphic computing • Unconventional computing techniques GUEST EDITORS: Dr. José Luis Guisado Lizar, University of Seville, Spain. Email: jlguisado(a)us.es Dr. Juan Antonio Gómez Pulido, University of Extremadura, Spain. Email: jangomez(a)unex.es Dr. Fernando Díaz del Río, University of Seville, Spain. Email: fdiaz(a)us.es ABOUT SPECIAL COLLECTIONS: A Special Collection is an opportunity for an open access journal to cultivate a collection of articles around a specific topic, meeting/conference, or a newsworthy development, much in the way a Special Issue functions for a subscription journal. Special Collections are highlighted on the homepage for increased visibility and in most cases receive their own dedicated marketing efforts. OPEN ACCESS ARTICLE PROCESSING CHARGE (APC) INFORMATION: 50% off of the current standing APC. Evolutionary Bioinformatics is an open access, peer-reviewed journal. Each article accepted by peer review is made freely available online immediately upon publication, is published under a Creative Commons license and will be hosted online in perpetuity. There is no fee for submitting an article. If, after peer review, your manuscript is accepted for publication, a one-time article processing charge (APC) is payable. Articles invited to submit to a Special Collection are eligible for a discounted Article Processing Charge (APC). Should your article be accepted, you will receive 50% off of the current standing APC, which you can find listed on the journal homepage. MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION AND SUBMISSION: Please select the Special Collection title when prompted during the submission process to indicate your interest in publishing in this Special Collection. Follow the guidelines in the Special Collection web page: https://journals.sagepub.com/page/evb/collections/special-collections/paral… --- Dr. José Luis Guisado Associate Professor, tenured (Profesor Titular de Universidad) Computer Architecture and Technology Department School of Computer Engineering University of Seville Avda. Reina Mercedes, S/N 41012-Sevilla, Spain Tel.: (+34) 954 55 62 41 E-mail: jlguisado(a)us.es Web: http://personal.us.es/jlguisado Twitter: @JLGuisado

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