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New Deadline July 17 for CFP for Virtualization in Machine Learning, High Performance Computing and Simulation
by Uday Kurkure 24 Jun '20

24 Jun '20

*The Third Special Session on Virtualization in Machine Learning, High Performance Computing and Simulation* *(VIRT 2020)* *CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION* *As part of * *The 18th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020)http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ <http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/> or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 <http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20>* *26 - 30 October* * 2020* *Barcelona, Spain* *(Tentative)* * Paper Submission Deadline: 17 July 2020 - Extended* *Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters* *PURPOSE AND SCOPE* Virtualization has become the foundation of cloud computing. The scale of cloud computing data centers is similar to the supercomputers used in High Performance Computing. Both involve millions of CPU cores, tens of thousands of accelerators like GPUs, FPGAs connected by high speed interconnects and different connection topologies. Studies have shown that the GPU utilization in HPC is often at 50%. Virtualization can be the key to increasing resource utilization and managing massive infrastructures efficiently. GPU vendors have introduced virtualized versions of GPUs. FPGAs are being deployed in virtual infrastructure. These and other developments in the field, along with future exascale systems, will provide increasing degree of virtualization within the systems. The goal of this special session is to be an opportunity to discuss and exchange research on the different virtualization technologies and how they can be efficiently applied in High Performance Computing. Theoretical research, engineering solutions dealing with practical tradeoffs, and complex system implementation papers are welcomed. *The VIRT topics include (but are not limited to) the following: * - *Virtualization in HPC* o Energy efficient solutions for HPC applications in the cloud environment o High-availability based on system-level virtualization mechanisms for HPC o Fault tolerance mechanisms based on system-level virtualization mechanisms for HPC o Performance and evaluation of diverse HPC workloads in virtualization environment o Security Isolation, Resource Isolation and Data Isolation in Virtualized HPC o Flexibility and Ease of system administration and management for virtualized environments for HPC o Running diverse workloads o Running heterogeneous Operating Systems o Live Migration and Suspend/Resume of VMs to improve resource utilization and avoid downtime o Scheduling of resources and Workloads o Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) o Hypervisors and other virtualization solutions tailored for HPC systems o Big Data and Analytics in Virtualized Environments o Enterprise High Performance Computing in Virtualized Environments - *Accelerators in Virtualized HPC Environments:* o Virtualized GPUs o Scheduling of Virtual GPUs o Using FPGAs in Virtualization Stack o Dynamic Reconfiguration of FPGAs - * IO Virtualization* o Network Virtualization o SR-IOV o Software Defined Networking (SDN) o Storage Virtualization o RDMA and vRDMA - - Containers in HPC o Isolation of Multiple User-Spaces o Running containers in Virtual Machines - *Tools* o Virtualization solutions for dealing with heterogeneity in HPC environments o Compilers for heterogenous architectures involving GPUS, FPGAs, multi-core CPUs o Operating system support for virtualization in HPC systems o Debugging and/or profiling in virtual environments - *Algorithms* o Distributed Resource Scheduling o Distributed Computing - *AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning* o Virtualization of Deep Learning Workloads o Deep Learning in HPC Simulations o Resource Allocation Using Machine Learning o Reinforcement Learning for Resource Allocation o Machine Learning to build tools for measurement & calibration - *Virtualization in Simulation* *INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS * You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to *virtualization in high performance computing and simulation*. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere until it appears in HPCS proceedings, in the case of acceptance, or notified otherwise. Submission can be for *- Regular papers*, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. *- Short papers* (up to 4 pages), please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 4 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. *- Poster papers* and *Posters* (please refer to http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po… for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the special session paper submission site at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/VIRT2020 . Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. *Conference Policies* Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and soundness, presentation, language, and references. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend the HPCS 2020 conference to present the paper at the special session as scheduled. By submitting the paper to the HPCS conference, all authors agree to abide by all HPCS conference paper submission, publication and presentation policies as well as following ethical and professional codes of conduct, including those of the professional co-sponsoring organizations. Contents of manuscripts submitted to the tracks program committees shall be regarded as privileged as well and handled in the same manner and standards. For more information, please refer to the *Authors Info* and *Registration Info* pages. *Proceedings* Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2020 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE or ACM Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly. *SPECIAL ISSUE* Plans are underway to have the best papers, in extended version, selected for possible publication in a reputable journal as special issue. Detailed information will soon be announced and will be made available on the conference website. If you have any questions about paper submission or the special session, please contact the special session organizers. *IMPORTANT DATES* *Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------- 17 July 2020 - Extended* *Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- 02 August 2020* *Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ----------- 15 August 2020* *Conference Dates: -------------------------------------------- 26-30 October 2020* *SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZERS* *Uday Kurkure * VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Phone: +1 650-427-1179 Fax: +1 650- Email: uday(a)alumni.stanford.edu *Hari Sivaraman * VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Phone: +1 650-427-3681 Fax: +1 650- Email: hsivaraman(a)vmware.com *Lan Vu * VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Phone: +1 650-427-1327 Fax: +1 650- Email: lanv(a)vmware.com *International Program Committee*: * All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the special session technical program committee members following similar criteria used in HPCS 2020 and will be published as part of the HPCS 2020 Proceedings. - *Cristina Boeres*, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil - *François Diakhaté,* CEA, France - *Isaac Gelado*, Nvidia Corp., Santa Clara, California, USA - *Kyle Hale*, Illinois Institute of Technology, Illinois, USA - *Giuseppe Lettieri,* University of Pisa, Italy - *Xiaoyi Lu*, The Ohio State University - Columbus, Ohio, USA - *Carlos Reano*, Queen's University Belfast, U.K. - *Federico Silla*, Universitat Politecnica de Valencia, Spain - *Alex Sim*, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA - *Giang Son Tran*, University of Science and Technology of Hanoi, Hanoi, Vietnam - *Blesson Varghese*, Queen's University Belfast, U.K. - *Dong Ping Zhang*, AMD Inc., San Jose, California, USA - *Jie Zhang*, Amazon Inc., Washington, USA - *Yongli Zhao*, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing, China

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Open PhD student position at KIT
by Kondov, Ivan (SCC) 23 Jun '20

23 Jun '20

Dear all, We are inviting applicants for the following open position (see below). With my best regards, Ivan Kondov PhD Student Position (3 years 75% salary level E13) Enhancing e-mobility with artificial intelligence and uncertainty quantification Courses: Mathematics, Computer Science, Physics Topic The ability to quickly charge car batteries plays a key role in the acceptance of e-mobility. Furthermore, besides fulfilling all of the driver’s requirements, batteries should retain long life times. These challenges in e-mobility are tackled by the battery management system (BMS). To satisfactory meet all requirements, the BMS needs detailed information on battery function. Since this information is limited during operation, the BMS currently works with high safety margins that can significantly reduce battery performance. The plan of this project is to apply machine learning to the battery cells as well as the BMS to achieve an intelligent, individualized cell management that at any point uses each cell at its optimum performance based on extensive lifetime data. Initial training of an AI on a particular battery design is done in the lab using advanced equipment, collecting as much data as possible for subsequent retraining and optimization. In a second step, the BMS AI shall be implemented on simple hardware, where sufficient data is collected and stored such that the AI can be continuously improved individually for each battery cell. One key task of this thesis is to set up a model of the battery by using Gaussian Process Regression. This model (or digital twin) is used by the AI BMS. While providing efficient insight into the dynamics of the battery cell, Gaussian Process Regression enables the use of uncertainty quantification, which is then employed to obtain a more sophisticated idea of the dynamics of the developed model. In order to quantify how the cell behavior is affected by uncertainties, efficient uncertainty propagation models have to be developed and applied to the digital twin. Requirements Knowledge or experience in at least one of these methodological fields will be an advantage for the candidate: machine learning, artificial intelligence, or uncertainty quantification. Partners This project is one of 19 AI pilot projects of the Helmholtz Association. It is a joint project of Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, TU München and Forschungszentrum Jülich, and the PhD student will closely collaborate with both partners. Contacts Prof. Dr. Martin Frank Faculty of Mathematics Steinbuch Centre for Computing Karlsruhe Institute of Technology www.scc.kit.edu martin.frank(a)kit.edu Dr. Ivan Kondov Steinbuch Centre for Computing Karlsruhe Institute of Technology www.scc.kit.edu ivan.kondov(a)kit.edu

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CFP - Workshop on Quantum Communications and Information Technology at IEEE Globecom 2020
by Peter Mueller 23 Jun '20

23 Jun '20

Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------ The sixth workshop on Quantum Communications and Information Technology (QCIT’20) http://qcit.committees.comsoc.org/ At IEEE Globecom’20, Taipei, Taiwan, 7-11 December 2020 http://globecom2020.ieee-globecom.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Scope of the workshop: Recent experimental results confirm feasibility of real applications in quantum communications, computing, security, and sensing. Companies and governments started to invest significant amounts of funding in research and development of quantum technologies. These developments are offering numerous opportunities to contribute to the research and engineering aspects of quantum technologies. On the scientific side, the workshop also addresses novel ideas in the fields of quantum communications and information processing, which contribute to the general know-how of quantum technologies. The following topics are key to the workshop, but not exclusive: - Quantum communications - Entanglement distillation & swapping - Quantum state discrimination - Quantum sensing & metrology - Quantum coding theory - Homomorphic applications - Quantum networks - Quantum algorithms - Error Correction for quantum systems - Interconnection and complexity theory - Modeling and simulation - Optimized algorithms and applications - Quantum eco-system - Other topics related to quantum communications and information processing Submission info for camera-ready manuscripts: Original and unpublished regular papers are solicited from the above-mentioned areas. Regular papers have a length of 4 to 6 pages with an optional payable 7th page. All manuscripts will be peer reviewed and published in the workshop proceedings and after presentation in IEEE Xplore. Templates for the manuscripts can be downloaded from: https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.ht… The formatted manuscript should be electronically submitted as pdf via EDAS: https://edas.info/N27538 Further information is available in the Globecom 2020 webpages: http://globecom2020.ieee-globecom.org Important dates: Manuscript submission due date: 17. July 2020 Notification date: 17. August 2020 Final manuscript due date: 1. October 2020 QCIT’20 workshop date: 7. December 2020 (Afternoon) Globecom’20 conference date: 7.-11. December 2020 Workshop organizers: Andrea Conti, University of Ferrara, Italia Lajos Hanzo, University of Southampton, United Kingdom Peter Mueller, IBM Research Zurich Laboratory, Switzerland Michael Ng, University of Southampton, United Kingdom

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CFP - HPBench2020
by Samar Aseeri 23 Jun '20

23 Jun '20

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

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Job Opening: Professor / Associate Professor / Assistant Professor (Computer Science) at Hong Kong Baptist University
by COMP HKBU 22 Jun '20

22 Jun '20

The Department of Computer Science at Hong Kong Baptist University, presently offers BSc, MSc, MPhil, and PhD programmes, is now seeking outstanding applicants for the following faculty positions on tenure-track. *Professor / Associate Professor / Assistant Professor (Computer Science) (PR0311/18-19)* The appointees will perform high-impact research; to teach and supervise students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels, as well as to contribute to professional and institutional services. Collaboration with other faculty members in research and teaching is also expected. They will be encouraged to collaborate with colleagues within the Department to contribute to two special thematic applications including (a) health informatics and (b) secure and privacy-aware computing, and to pursue new strategic research initiatives under the Department/Faculty/University. Applicants should possess PhD degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Information Systems, or a related field, and sufficiently demonstrate abilities to conduct high-quality research in areas including but not limited to: Internet of things, Cyber-security, High-performance computing, Big data analytics, and Financial technologies. Applicants should also show strong commitment to undergraduate and postgraduate teaching in computer science and/or information systems, possess track record of innovative research and high-impact publications, and be able to bid for and pursue externally-funded research programmes. The above positions are on tenure-track with initial appointment on three-year fixed-term contracts. Re-appointment thereafter will be subject to mutual agreement. For enquiry, please contact Dr. William Cheung, Head of Department (email: william(a)comp.hkbu.edu.hk) More information about the Department can be found at http://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk. Those who have responded to the advertisement posted in December 2019 need not re-apply. *Rank and 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. They 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 4 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 posts advertised, and the appointment will be made according to the terms and conditions applicable at the time of offer. *Closing Date: 31 July 2020 (or until the positions are filled)* URL: https://www.comp.hkbu.edu.hk/v1/?page=job_vacancies&id=503

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HPCS 2020 - The 18th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation
by Waleed Smari 21 Jun '20

21 Jun '20

Please Post. Thank you. [Sorry if you get multiple copies of this message] *Call for Papers and Participation** **** ****The 2020 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference** ****(HPCS 2020)** **** ****26-30 October, 2020** ****Barcelona, Spain** **** ****http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20** **** ****In Cooperation with the ACM, IEEE, IFIP** **** ****(Main Track Paper Submission Deadline: 17 July 2020 - Extended)** ****(Other Conference tracks have different submission deadlines - Please check the specific track of interest.)* HPCS Proceedings are to be published in IEEE XPLORE (pending) and indexed by all major indexing services, including SCOPUS, EI, Sci, dblp, etc. Twitter: @HPCS Conference FaceBook: HPCS Conference LinkedIn: HPCS Conference You are cordially invited to participate in this conference through paper submission to main track, symposium, workshop or special session, a tutorial, an invited speech, a demo, a poster, an exhibit, a panel discussion, a doctoral dissertation, whichever sounds more appropriate and convenient to you. The conference will include invited presentations by experts from academia, industry, and government as well as contributed paper presentations describing original work on the current state of research in high performance and large scale computing systems, their use in modeling and simulation, their design, performance and use, and their applications. There will also be tutorial sessions, workshops, special sessions, demos, posters, panel discussions, doctoral colloquium, and exhibits. Conference sponsorships are welcomed. In addition to the main track, the conference will have the following refereed archived symposia, workshops and special sessions: (some still need co-organizers; please let us know if you are interested) Symposia: (all refereed archival papers. Have different deadlines) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/2-conference/symposia-hpcs2020 SYM01: Cloud Computing and Services for HPC Systems (InterClouds-HPC 2020) SYM04: Big Data Principles, Architectures & Applications (BDAA 2020) SYM03: High Performance Mobile Computing and Wireless Networks (MCWN 2020) SYM04: Information Systems and Engineering (ISE 2020) SYM05: Formal Approaches to Parallel and Distributed Systems (4PAD 2020) Workshops: (all refereed archival papers. Have different deadlines) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops-hpcs2020 W01: Dependable and Resilient Many-Core and Exascale Computing (DRMEC 2020) W02: Optimization of Energy Efficient High Performance and Distributed Computing Systems (OPTIM 2020) W03: Exploitation of Hardware Accelerators (WEHA 2020) W04: High Performance Interconnection Networks and Interconnects (HPINI 2020) W05: High Performance Platform Management (HPPM 2020) W06: Advances in Parallel Programming Models and Frameworks for the Multi-/Many-core Era (APPMM 2020) W07: Synergy of Parallel Computing, Optimization and Simulation (PaCOS 2020) W08: Peer-to-Peer Architectures, Networks and Systems (PANS 2020) W09: Autonomic High Performance Computing (AHPC 2020) W10: Security and High Performance Computing Systems (SHPCS 2020) W11: Security and Performance in Cloud Computing (SPCLOUD 2020) W12: High-Performance and Distributed Computing for Business Analytics and Financial Applications (HPC-BAFA 2020) W13: Computational Intelligence and Parallel Evolutionary Computation (CIPEC 2020) W14: Machine Learning, Pattern Recognition and Applications (MLPRA 2020) W15: High Performance Computing for Weather, Climate, and solid Earth Sciences (HPC-WCES 2020) W16: HPC Systems for Biomedical, Bioinformatics, and Life Sciences (BILIS 2020) W17: High Performance Dynamic Reconfigurable Systems and Networks (DRSN 2020) W18: Architecture-aware Simulation and Computing (AASC 2020) W19: Modeling and Simulation of Parallel and Distributed Systems (MSPDS 2020) W20: Parallel Computations for Neural Networks (PCNN 2020) W21: Cellular Automata Algorithms & Architectures (CAAA 2020) W22: Location-based Services and Applications in Ubiquitous Computing (LSAUC 2020) Special Sessions: (all refereed archival papers. Have different deadlines) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/2-conference/special-sessions SS01: Virtualization in High Performance Computing and Simulation (VIRT 2020) SS02: Benchmarking and High Performance Computing for Applications and Optimization (HPBench 2020) SS03: Biologically Inspired Parallel and Distributed Computing, Algorithms and Solutions (BICAS 2020) SS04: Compiler Architecture, Design and Optimization (CADO 2020) SS05: High Performance Services Computing and Internet Technologies (SerCo 2020) SS06: Trusted Ubiquitous Networks & Multimedia Contents Protection (TUN-MM 2020) SS07: Digital Home Networks & Ambient Intelligence (DHN-AmI 2020) SS08: High Performance Parallel and Distributed Data Mining (PDDM 2020) SS09: Internet of Things and HPC: Devices, Networks, and Applications (IoT-HPC 2020) SS10: High Performance Mission Critical System Development (HiPMiC 2020) SS11: Advances in Computational Methods in Electromagnetics (ACME 2020) SS12: Fuzzy-based Simulation Approaches in Science and Engineering (FSASE 2020) SS13: High Performance Computing and Modeling & Simulation Education (HPCEd 2020) ============================================================== *Important Dates:** ** ** Main Track Paper and Poster Paper Submission Deadline 17 July 2020 - Extended** ** Tutorial/Demo/Panel/Poster Proposal Deadline 25 July 2020** ** Notification of Acceptance starts 07 August 2020** ** Registration & Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due 19 August 2020** ** Conference Dates 26-30 October 2020* ============================================================== For further details and updates, please consult the conference web site at URL: http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 or contact one of the organizers. Please stay safe and healthy. We look forward to your contributions and seeing you in Barcelona, Spain in October. Thank you very much. Best Regards. HPCS 2020 Organizers

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VHPC Zoom 25th of June Call for Participation: 15th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing
by Michael Alexander 18 Jun '20

18 Jun '20

We cordially invite you to participate online in the 15th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '20) Keynote: RedHat on Podman (a Docker alternative) for HPC Talks include: Google on Autopilot (Google internally used autoscaler) This year's focus is on: Orchestration (Kubernetes) Resource efficiency via auto-scaling (Autopilot / Google) Containers for HPC (Podman) Lightweight Virtualization / Unikernels The Workshop is being held online via Zoom. Participation is free with registration at https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_vC5pwmgbQ6ypJEfyQ8nHIg

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Expert Sessions: Projection Methods in Feasibility, Superiorization and Optimization – Theory and Practice
by Aviv Gibali 15 Jun '20

15 Jun '20

Dear all; Due to the Corona pandemic we had to cancel our June 24-26, 2020 planned workshop on “Projection Methods in Feasibility, Superiorization and Optimization – Theory and Practice” organized by the division of Optimization of the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics (ITWM) in Kaiserslautern, Germany. In order to keep in touch with our friends and colleagues in the scientific community, we establish a weekly Expert Session Webinar focusing on Projection Methods in Feasibility, Superiorization and Optimization - Theory and Practice. For more details please visit our webpage: https://www.leistungszentrum-simulation-software.de/en/news-events/Fairs_co… We hope that this initiative will help to explore and discuss opportunities for joint research projects. If you are interested please register at the above webpage to receive announcements and links of the talks. Aviv Gibali, Dirk Lorenz, Francisco Javier Aragón Artacho and Karl-Heinz Küfer (Organizers) ================================================== Assoc. Prof. Aviv Gibali Department of Mathematics, ORT Braude College<http://www.braude.ac.il/english/>, P.O. Box 78, Karmiel 2161002, Israel & The Center for Mathematics and Scientific Computation<http://math.haifa.ac.il/ccmsc/>, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel Homepage: https://w3.braude.ac.il/lecturer/assoc-prof-aviv-gibali/ Office: +972-4-9086404 ==================================================

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[CFP] 15th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS20)
by Hoang Nguyen 11 Jun '20

11 Jun '20

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email!!! ======================================================================== Call For Papers 15th Workshop on Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science (WORKS20) to be held in conjunction with SC 2020 and in cooperation with IEEE TCHPC Sun Nov 15, Atlanta, GA, USA https://works-workshop.org ======================================================================== Scientific workflows have been almost universally used across scientific domains and have underpinned some of the most significant discoveries of the past several decades. Workflow management systems (WMSs) provide abstraction and automation which enable a broad range of researchers to easily define sophisticated computational processes and to then execute them efficiently on parallel and distributed computing systems. As workflows have been adopted by a number of scientific communities, they are becoming more complex and require more sophisticated workflow management capabilities. A workflow now can analyze terabyte-scale data sets, be composed of one million individual tasks, require coordination between heterogeneous tasks, manage tasks that execute for milliseconds to hours, and can process data streams, files, and data placed in object stores. The computations can be single core workloads, loosely coupled computations, or tightly all within a single workflow, and can run in dispersed computing platforms. This workshop focuses on the many facets of scientific workflow management systems, ranging from actual execution to service management and the coordination and optimization of data, service, and job dependencies. The workshop covers a broad range of issues in the scientific workflow lifecycle that include: scientific workflows representation and enactment; workflow scheduling techniques to optimize the execution of the workflow on heterogeneous infrastructures; 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, scheduling and fault detection and tolerance. WORKS20 will be held in conjunction with the SuperComputing (SC20), Atlanta, Georgia, USA, at Georgia World Congress Center (GWCC). Topics ------ WORKS20 welcomes original submissions in a range of areas, including but 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 * Workflow optimizations (including scheduling and energy efficiency) * Performance analysis of workflows * Workflow debugging * Workflow provenance * Machine Learning workflows Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient background material to make them accessible to the broader community. Important Dates --------------- Full paper deadline: August 15, 2020 Paper acceptance notification: September 15, 2020 E-copyright registration completed by authors: October 1, 2020 Camera-ready deadline: October 1, 2020 Workshop: November 15, 2020 --------------------------------- Submission Guidelines: Submissions are limited to 8 pages in the IEEE format (see https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) The 8-page limit includes figures, tables, appendices, and references. WORKS papers this year will be published in cooperation with TCHPC and will be available from IEEE digital repository. All submitted papers will undergo a rigorous review process and each will have at least three reviews by members of the program committee. Papers will be accepted based on their technical contributions. --------------------------------- Organizing Committee - Rafael Ferreira da Silva, University of Southern California, USA - Rosa Filgueira, University of Edinburgh, UK General Chair - Ian Taylor, Cardiff University, UK, University of Notre Dame, USA Steering Committee - David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia - Malcolm Atkinson, University of Edinburgh, UK - Ewa Deelman, University of Southern California, USA - Michela Taufer, University of Tennessee Publicity Chair - Hoang Anh Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia Program Committee (tentative) - Pinar Alper – King's College London, UK - Ilkay Altintas – SDSC, USA - Khalid Belhajjame Universit. Paris-Dauphine, France - Ivona Brandic – TU Wien, Austria - Kris Bubendorfer – VUW, New Zealand - Jesus Carretero – Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain - Henri Casanova – University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA - Rafael Ferreira da Silva – USC/ISI, USA - Daniel Garijo – USC/ISI, USA - Sandra Gesing – University of Notre Dame, USA - Tristan Glatard – Concordia University, Canada - Daniel Katz – UIUC, USA - Tamas Kiss – University of Westminster, UK - Dagmar Krefting – HTW Berlin, Germany - Maciej Malawski – AGH UST, Poland - Anirban Mandal – RENCI, USA - Marta Mattoso – UFRJ, Brazil - Paolo Missier – Newcastle University, UK - Hoang Anh Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia - Jarek Nabrzyski – University of Notre Dame, USA - Daniel de Oliveira – UFF, Brazil - Ilia Pietri, Intracom SA Telecom Solutions, Greece - Loic Pottier – USC/ISI, USA - Radu Prodan – University of Innsbruck, Austria - Omer Rana – Cardiff University, UK - Ivan Rodero – Rutgers University, USA - Rizos Sakellariou – University of Manchester, UK - Frédéric Suter – CNRS, France - Andrew Stephen Mcgough – Newcastle University, UK - Domenico Talia – University of Calabria, Italy - Douglas Thain – University of Notre Dame, USA - Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz – Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain - Chase Wu – NJ Institute of Technology, USA

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CFP: Resilience@Euro-Par 2020 - Papers due June 12 (REMINDER)
by Thomas Naughton 08 Jun '20

08 Jun '20

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 13th Workshop on Resiliency in High Performance Computing (Resilience) in Clusters, Clouds, and Grids <https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2020> in conjunction with the 26th International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par), Warsaw, Poland August 24 - 28, 2020 <http://2020.euro-par.org> 2020 Workshop Format: Due to the exceptional situation of COVID-19, this year Euro-Par and its workshops will be organized as an all-virtual event. This includes the main conference and workshops. The accepted workshop papers must be presented by one of the authors in order to be included in the proceedings. There will be a single minimal registration fee for each accepted paper in order to cover expenses associated with organization and proceedings publication. Only one author per paper needs to register (150 euros). Lastly, the preferred presentation format for the workshop will be via a streaming presentation, with slides and pre-recorded video presentations used in exceptional situations. Overview: Resilience is a critical challenge as high performance computing (HPC) systems continue to increase component counts, individual component reliability decreases (such as due to shrinking process technology and near-threshold voltage (NTV) operation), hardware complexity increases (such as due to heterogeneous computing) and software complexity increases (such as due to complex data- and workflows, real-time requirements and integration of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies with traditional applications). Correctness and execution efficiency, in spite of faults, errors, and failures, is essential to ensure the success of the HPC systems, cluster computing environments, Grid computing infrastructures, and Cloud computing services. The impact of faults, errors, and failures in such HPC systems can range from financial losses due to system downtime (sometimes several tens-of-thousands of Dollars per lost system-hour), to financial losses due to unnecessary overprovision (acquisition and operating costs), to financial losses and legal liabilities due to erroneous or delayed output. The emergence of AI technology opens up new possibilities, but also new problems. Using AI technology for operational intelligence that enables resilience in HPC systems and centers is a complex control problem, while designing resilient AI technology for HPC applications is a difficult algorithmic problem. Resilience for HPC systems encompasses a wide spectrum of fundamental and applied research and development, including theoretical foundations, error/failure and anomaly detection, monitoring and control, end-to-end data integrity, enabling infrastructure, and resilient algorithms. This workshop brings together experts in the community to further research and development in HPC resilience and to facilitate exchanges across the computational paradigms of extreme-scale HPC, cluster computing, Grid computing, and Cloud computing. Submission Guidelines: Authors are invited to submit papers electronically in English in PDF format. Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and BETWEEN 10 AND 12 PAGES, including figures, tables and references, using Springer's Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) format at <http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0>. Papers with less than 10 or more than 12 pages will not be accepted due to publisher guidelines. Submissions should include abstract, key words and the e-mail address of the corresponding author. Papers not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. All manuscripts will be reviewed and will be judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the conference attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. The proceedings will be published in Springer's LNCS as post-conference proceedings. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop for inclusion in the proceedings. Authors may contact the workshop program chairs for more information. Important websites: - Resilience 2020 Website: <https://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Resilience/2020> - Resilience 2020 Submissions: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2020workshop> - Euro-Par 2020 website: <http://2020.euro-par.org> Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Theoretical foundations for resilience: - Metrics and measurement - Statistics and optimization - Simulation and emulation - Formal methods - Efficiency modeling and uncertainty quantification - Experience reports - Error/failure/anomaly detection and reliability/dependability modeling: - Statistical analyses - Machine learning and artificial intelligence - Digital twins - Data collection and aggregation - Information visualization - Monitoring and control for resilience: - Center, system and application monitoring and control - Reliability, availability, serviceability and performability - Tunable fidelity and quality of service - Automated response and recovery - Operational intelligence to enable resilience - End-to-end integrity: - Fault tolerant design of centers, systems and applications - Forward migration and verification - Degraded operation - Error propagation, failure cascades, and error/failure containment - Testing and evaluation, including fault/error/failure injection - Enabling infrastructure for resilience: - Reliability, availability, serviceability systems - System software and middleware - Resilience extensions for programming models - Tools and frameworks - Support for resilience in heterogeneous architectures - Resilient algorithms: - Algorithmic detection and correction - Resilient solvers and algorithm-based fault tolerance - Fault tolerant numerical methods - Robust iterative algorithms - Resilient artificial intelligence Important Dates: - Workshop papers due: June 12, 2020 (extended) - Workshop author notification: July 21, 2020 - Workshop author registration: TBA - Workshop paper (for informal workshop proceedings): July 21, 2020 - Workshop date: August 24 or 25, 2020 - Workshop camera-ready papers: September 11, 2020 (after the conference) General Co-Chairs: - Stephen L. Scott Tennessee Tech University, USA scottsl(a)ornl.gov - Christian Engelmann Oak Ridge National Laboratory , USA engelmannc(a)ornl.gov Program Co-Chairs: - Ferrol Aderholdt Middle Tennessee State University, USA ferrol.aderholdt(a)mtsu.edu - Thomas Naughton Oak Ridge National Laboratory , USA naughtont(a)ornl.gov Workshop Chair Emeritus: - Chokchai (Box) Leangsuksun Louisiana Tech University, USA box(a)latech.edu Program Committee: - Wesley Bland, Intel Corporation, USA - Hans-Joachim Bungartz, Technical University of Munich, Germany - Marc Casas, Barcelona Supercomputer Center, Spain - Zizhong Chen, University of California at Riverside, USA - Robert Clay, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Nathan DeBardeleben, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA - James Elliott, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Kurt Ferreira, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Saurabh Hukerikar, NVIDIA, USA - Ignacio Laguna, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Scott Levy, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Rolf Riesen, Intel Corporation, USA - Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, France - Thomas Ropars, Universite Grenoble Alpes, France - Martin Schulz, Technical University of Munich, Germany - Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA _________________________________________________________________________ Thomas Naughton naughtont(a)ornl.gov Research Associate (865) 576-4184

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