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2020 IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing (TCCLD) Awards - Call for Nominations
by IEEE TCCLD 05 Oct '20

05 Oct '20

Dear all, [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] As a friendly reminder, please nominate qualified candidates for the 2020 IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing (TCCLD) awards listed below by 2020-10-20. Please also help with distributing the call for nominations. - *TCCLD Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award. * TCCLD Outstanding Ph.D. thesis award is presented to a researcher whose Ph.D. thesis has the potential of a very high impact in cloud computing or gives direct evidence of such an impact. Only a Ph.D. degree obtained in 2019/2020 is considered for this award. *Chair*: Prof. Xiaochun Cheng <https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/cheng-xia…>. Email: x.cheng(a)mdx.ac.uk - *TCCLD Rising Star Award (within 5 years of receiving Ph.D degree)* It recognizes outstanding young scientists and engineers who have demonstrated exceptional capabilities and made a significant contribution to the field of cloud computing. Only candidates who receive their Ph.D. within 5 years are eligible. *Chair:* Prof. Ling Liu. Email: ling.liu(a)cc.gatech.edu - *TCCLD Research Innovation Award.* Anyone or one group of collaborators whose outstanding technical innovations are in the field of cloud computing. The contributors must have a long-term impact on advancing the theory and practice in cloud computing. *Chair:* Prof. Yo-Ping Huang Email: yphuang(a)ntut.edu.tw - *TCCLD Outstanding Leadership Award* This award recognizes one individual for her/his outstanding leadership contributions in the field of cloud computing. Also, the outstanding contributions in the application of cloud computing which affect and improve global business and help organizations and individuals are considered. *Chair:* Prof. Beniamino Di Martino. Email: beniamino.dimartino(a)unicampania.it - *TCCLD Outstanding Service Award* This award recognizes one individual who has outstanding services to building the cloud computing community with significant and persistent volunteer efforts, such as services to IEEE TCCLD activities worldwide, annual related events. *Chair*: Martin Gilje Jaatun. Email: martin.g.jaatun(a)sintef.no - *TCCLD Women in Cloud Computing Award* It recognizes women leaders who have made outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field of cloud computing and solve real problems. *Chair*: Prof. YuanYuan Yang. Email: yuanyuan.yang(a)stonybrook.edu - *TCCLD Impact Award* It recognizes senior researchers or educators for her/his significant/distinguished contribution in the field of cloud computing. *Chair*: Prof. Christophe Cérin. Email: c.cerin(a)computer.org. *Details on the awards and the nomination process are available at * https://tc.computer.org/tccld/awards/ . *Eligible applicants* 1. The TCCLD members. Join TCCLD Now <https://www.ieee.org/membership-catalog/productdetail/showProductDetailPage…> 2. Qualified candidates except for the IEEE TCCLD chairs, TCCLD executive committee members, and the past IEEE TCCLD awardees. 3. Nominees that have not been recognized for the TCCLD award will be reviewed with higher priority. 4. In terms of the TCCLD Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award, the Ph.D. degree should have been obtained in 2019/2020. *Nomination Process* o Anyone in the field can nominate one person. Self-nominations are not accepted. o Nominations should include a proposed citation (up to 25 words), a detailed statement to justify the nomination (500 words or less), and personal/team web page URL of the nominee. o Two supporting letters are required for each nomination. The letters should address the significance of the contributions cited in the nomination. o Nominations that did not result in an award can be resubmitted or updated in subsequent years. o The Awards Committee will evaluate all nominations and decide on zero or more winners for each award category. *Important Dates:* - Oct. 20: Nomination due - Nov. 20: Selection results. (Internal) - Nov. 30: Announcement of Winners (Web & CloudCom 2020) CloudCom 2020 <https://2020.cloudcom.org/> *Submission Link* All nominations should be sent through the following link. All the files should be merged into one PDF file. The submission link is as follow. * TCCLD Award Nomination <https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfJ7k-ruXSTUUrjHdWlfRk0b6f10wILgHN…>* Note: If you require further information, feel free to contact ieeetccld(a)gmail.com <ieeetccld(a)gmail.com> *Awards committee chairs* - Prof. Xiaochun Cheng <https://www.mdx.ac.uk/about-us/our-people/staff-directory/profile/cheng-xia…>, Middlesex University, UK.* ( TCCLD Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis Award Chair.) * Email: x.cheng(a)mdx.ac.uk - Prof. Yo-Ping Huang, National Taipei University of Technology, Taiwan.* (TCCLD Research Innovation Award Chair)*. - Email: yphuang(a)ntut.edu.tw - Prof. Christophe Cérin, University of Paris XIII, France. (TCCLD Impact Award Chair) - Email: c.cerin(a)computer.org - Prof. Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli, Italy. *( TCCLD Outstanding Leadership Award Chair)* - Email: beniamino.dimartino(a)unicampania.it - Prof. Ling Liu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA. *(TCCLD Rising Star Award Chair) * - Email: ling.liu(a)cc.gatech.edu - Prof. YuanYuan Yang, Stony Brook University, USA. *(TCCLD Women in Cloud Computing Awar Chair) * - Email: yuanyuan.yang(a)stonybrook.edu - Martin Gilje Jaatun, SINTEF, Norway *(TCCLD Outstanding Service Award Chair) * - Email: martin.g.jaatun(a)sintef.no Meanwhile, Awardees will be publicized through TCCLD social media channels as follow. I. Facebook: IEEE Cloud Computing ( https://www.facebook.com/ieeecloudcomputing/) II. 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CFP - Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS)
by William Spataro 30 Sep '20

30 Sep '20

(sorry for cross postings) ************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS) Within PDP 2021 (www.pdp2021.org/) The 29th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, and Network-Based Computing Valladolid (Spain) (online) 10-12 March 2021 https://www.pdp2021.org/specialsessions/hpcms/hpcms.html New Extended Deadline: October 21th, 2020 Contact: William Spataro - spataro(a)unical.it ************************************************************************* AIMS AND SCOPE The development of models through which computers can simulate the evolution of artificial and natural systems is fundamental for the advancement of Science. In the last decades, the increasing power of computers has allowed to considerably extend the application of computing methodologies in research and industry, but also to the quantitative study of complex phenomena. This has permitted a broad application of numerical methods for differential equation systems (e.g., FEM, FDM, etc.) on one hand, and the application of alternative computational paradigms, such as Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural networks, Swarm Intelligence, etc., on the other. These latter have demonstrated their effectiveness for modelling purposes when traditional simulation methodologies have proven to be impracticable. Following the success of our past HPCMS workshops at PDP (since 2014), we are glad to invite you to our seventh edition which will take place in Valladolid (Spain). An important mission of the HPCMS Workshop is to provide a platform for a multidisciplinary community composed of scholars, researchers, developers, educators, practitioners and experts from world leading Universities, Institutions, Agencies and Companies in Computational Science, and thus in the High Performance Computing for Modelling and Simulation field. HPCMS intent is to offer an opportunity to express and confront views on trends, challenges, and state-of-the art in diverse application fields, such as engineering, physics, chemistry, biology, geology, medicine, ecology, sociology, traffic control, economy, etc. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - High-performance computing in computational science: intra-disciplinary and multi-disciplinary research applications - Complex systems modelling and simulation - Cellular Automata, Genetic Algorithms, Neural networks, Swarm Intelligence implementations - Integrated approach to optimization and simulation - MPI, OpenMP, GPGPU applications in Computational Science - Optimization algorithms, modelling techniques related to optimization in Computational Science - High-performance Software developed to solve science (e.g., biological, physical, and social), engineering, medicine, and humanities problems - Hardware approaches of high performance computing in modeling and simulation IMPORTANT DATES (Extended) Paper submission: 21 October 2020 Acceptance notification: 23 December 2020 Camera ready due: 17 January 2021 Conference: 10 - 12 March 2021 Submission guidelines Prospective authors should submit a full paper not exceeding 8 pages in the IEEE Conference proceedings format (IEEEtran, double-column, 10pt). Double-bind review: the first page of the paper should contain only the title and abstract; in the reference list, references to the authors own work should appear as "omitted for blind review" entries. For submission, please use the following link and select the HPCMS session: http://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pdp2021 and select the "High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation" track. Manuscript submission Publication All accepted papers will be included in the same volume, published by the Conference Publishing Services (CPS). The Final Paper Preparation and Submission Instructions will be published after the notification of acceptance. Authors of accepted papers are expected to register and present their papers at the Conference. Conference proceedings will be submitted for inclusion in Xplore and the CSDL, and for indexing, among others, to DBLP, Scopus ScienceDirect, and ISI Web of Knowledge. Special Issue As for previous editions, organizers of the HPCMS session are planning a Special Issue of an important international ISI Journal, based on distinguished papers that will be accepted for the session. Organizers William Spataro - University of Calabria, Italy Georgios Sirakoulis - Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Giuseppe A. Trunfio - University of Sassari, Italy Rocco Rongo, University of Calabria, Italy Andrea Giordano, ICAR-CNR, Italy Program Committee Angelos Amanatiadis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Donato D'Ambrosio, University of Calabria, Italy Pawel Topa, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Gianluigi Folino, ICAR-CNR, Italy Lou D'Alotto, York College/CUNY, New York, USA Antonios Gasteratos, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Ioakeim Georgoudas, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Marco Beccutti, University of Torino, Italy Rolf Hoffmann, Darmstadt University, Germany Ioannis Karafyllidis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Yaroslav Sergeyev, University of Calabria, Italy Antisthenis Tsompanas, University of the West of England, UK Rocco Rongo, University of Calabria, Italy Georgios Sirakoulis, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece William Spataro, University of Calabria, Italy Giuseppe A. Trunfio, University of Sassari, Italy Marco Villani, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy Jaroslaw Was, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Davide Spataro, ASML, The Netherlands Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Italy Andrea Giordano, ICAR-CNR, Italy Mario Cannataro, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy Gihan R. Mudalige, University of Warwick, UK Alessio De Rango, University of Calabria, Italy -- °-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-° William Spataro Department of Mathematics & Computer Science High Performance Computing Center University of Calabria I-87036 Arcavacata di Rende (CS) Italy Phone(s) : +39.0984.496464 Fax : +39.0984.493570 Web: www.mat.unical.it/spataro Email: spataro(a)unical.it -°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-° -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Il banner è generato automaticamente dal servizio di posta elettronica dell'Università della Calabria <https://www.unical.it/portale/portaltemplates/view/view.cfm?100061>

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HPBench CFP - Don't miss this opportunity! Today is last day
by Samar Aseeri 28 Sep '20

28 Sep '20

Dear Sir, dear Madam, The event is going online! We accept papers, short papers, poster papers and posters (see below submission guidelines). There will be outstanding paper and poster awards as well. Usually, proceedings are published at IEEE digital library, see proceedings of last year at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9183768/proceeding 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 (Virtual/Online event) ========================================================================== 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: 28 September 2020 - Extended Author Notification: 06 October 2020 Camera-Ready Submission: 16 October 2020 Conference Dates: 10-14 December 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 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to benchmarking and high performance computing systems, including applications and cloud computing for benchmarking. 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 an 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 an 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://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpbench2020. An acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. 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 Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 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 Vasileios Karakasis, CSCS Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Switzerland Bok Jik Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Sebastian Lührs, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany 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. 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HPBench 2020 Online Special Session CFP - 3 days to deadline
by Samar Aseeri 25 Sep '20

25 Sep '20

Dear Sir, dear Madam, The event is going online! We accept papers, short papers, poster papers and posters (see below submission guidelines). There will be outstanding paper and poster awards as well. Usually, proceedings are published at IEEE digital library, see proceedings of last year at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9183768/proceeding 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 (Virtual/Online event) ========================================================================== 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: 28 September 2020 - Extended Author Notification: 06 October 2020 Camera-Ready Submission: 16 October 2020 Conference Dates: 10-14 December 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 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to benchmarking and high performance computing systems, including applications and cloud computing for benchmarking. 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 an 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 an 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://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpbench2020. An acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. 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 Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 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 Vasileios Karakasis, CSCS Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Switzerland Bok Jik Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Sebastian Lührs, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany 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. 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2021 Luis W. Alvarez Postdoc Fellowship and Admiral Grace Hopper Postdoc Fellowship at Berkeley Lab
by Esmond G. Ng 16 Sep '20

16 Sep '20

Berkeley Lab is now accepting applications for the 2021 Luis W. Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellowship and Admiral Grace Hopper Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Computing Sciences Area. Apply now for these two prestigious fellowships! Researchers in computer science, mathematics, or any computational science discipline who have received their Ph.D. within the last three years are encouraged to apply. The successful applicants will receive a competitive salary, professional travel allowance, relocation assistance, excellent benefits, and an opportunity to work in the San Francisco Bay Area. Since its founding in 2002, the Luis W. Alvarez Fellowship has cultivated exceptional young scientists who have gone on to make outstanding contributions to computational and computing sciences. The Admiral Grace Hopper Fellowship was established in 2015. Additional information on the Luis W. Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Admiral Grace Hopper Postdoctoral Fellowship can be found at https://cs.lbl.gov/careers/computing-fellowships/. Berkeley Lab's Computing Sciences Area researches, develops, and deploys new tools and technologies to meet these needs and to advance research in our core capabilities of computer science, mathematics, and computational science. In addition to fundamental advances in our core capabilities, we impact such areas as materials science, chemistry, biology, astrophysics, climate change, combustion, and fusion energy. Research areas in Computing Sciences include: * Developing scientific applications and software technologies for extreme-scale and energy-efficient computing * Developing mathematical modeling for complex scientific problems * Designing algorithms to improve the performance of scientific applications * Researching digital and post-digital computer architectures for science * Advancing extreme-scale scientific data management, analysis, and machine-learning * Developing next-generation machine learning and AI approaches for science * Advancing quantum computing technologies, software, algorithms and applications * Evaluating or developing new and promising HPC systems and networking technologies * Researching methods to control and manage dynamic circuit networks * Developing large-scale visualization and analytics technologies * Managing scientific data in distributed environments Application Process: For consideration applications are due November 9, 2020. Letters of Reference are due November 16, 2020. Details of the application process can be found at https://lbl.referrals.selectminds.com/jobs/2021-alvarez-hopper-postdoctoral….

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HPBench 2020 Online Special Session CFP - Deadline has been Extended
by Samar Aseeri 16 Sep '20

16 Sep '20

Dear Sir, dear Madam, The event is going online! We accept papers, short papers, poster papers and posters (see below submission guidelines). There will be outstanding paper and poster awards as well. Usually, proceedings are published at IEEE digital library, see proceedings of last year at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/conhome/9183768/proceeding 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 (Virtual/Online event) ========================================================================== 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: 28 September 2020 - Extended Author Notification: 06 October 2020 Camera-Ready Submission: 16 October 2020 Conference Dates: 10-14 December 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 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to benchmarking and high performance computing systems, including applications and cloud computing for benchmarking. 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 an 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 an 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://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpbench2020. An acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. 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[HPCS 2020] High Performance Computing and its applications (Core-B quality). Deadline: 25th sept of Workshop MSPDS (Modeling and Simulation of and by Parallel and Distributed Systems)
by JOSE LUIS GUISADO LIZAR 15 Sep '20

15 Sep '20

Dear Colleague, Deadline of the 6th International Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of and by Parallel and Distributed Systems (MSPDS 2020) is approaching (September, 25th): http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/2-conference/workshops-hpcs2020/workshop19-mspds This Workshop is to be hold within the 2020 International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020, 18th Annual Meeting) in 10 - 14 December 2020, Barcelona, Spain (Virtual/Online event): http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 We want to highlight your attention for the following reasons: 1. HPCS congress is one of the most important conferences in High Performance Computing and its applications (classified as Core-B according to http://portal.core.edu.au/conf-ranks/653/ ). 2. Best papers related with the topics of the Special Collection on Parallel Computing in Evolutionary Bioinformatics, https://journals.sagepub.com/page/evb/collections/special-collections/paral…, are to be selected for their possible publication in the journal "Evolutionary Bioinformatics" (1.018 JCR impact factor in 2019). Moreover, plans are underway to have the best papers, in extended version, selected for possible publication in other reputable journals as special issue. Detailed information will soon be announced and will be made available on the conference website. 3. The goal of this workshop is very specific: to promote the discussion and presentation of new research and development in the area of simulation and modeling of large parallel and distributed systems as well as simulation and modeling of applications that use HPC systems. Please note that this workshop deadline (25th of September) is one week later than that of the Main Track Full Paper Submission Deadline. If you have any questions about paper submission or the Workshop, please contact the Workshop's organizers. Please find attached the CFP for a complete information. Kind regards, Fernando Diaz-del-Rio Jose Luis Guisado-Lizar University of Seville (Spain) The 6th International Workshop on Modeling and Simulation of and by Parallel and Distributed Systems (MSPDS 2020) CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION As part of The 18th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 10 - 14 December 2020 Barcelona, Spain (Virtual/Online event) Paper Submission Deadline: 25 September 2020 Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES Large parallel systems have become mainstream of both commercial and scientific computing. At the same time, high performance computing (HPC) has 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. Shared-memory systems with hundreds of processors are commercially available, while a new generation of massively parallel systems have pushed the limits of scalability to unprecedented levels. Designing and understanding these systems requires new simulation and modeling approaches that can be effective at those scales. New software- and hardware-based simulation techniques have been developed to cope with those challenges. The goal of this workshop is to promote the discussion and presentation of new research and development in the area of simulation and modeling of large parallel and distributed systems as well as simulation and modeling of applications that use HPC systems. We encourage original contributions from work on the following areas: MSPDS Topics of interest include, but are not restricted to the following areas: * Simulation of Exascale Systems * Simulation of Interconnection Architectures and Technologies * Workload Characterization to help Simulation Studies * Parallel and Distributed Simulators * Hardware accelerators for simulating parallel systems * Bootstrapping: Using a current generation system to design the next generation * Modeling and simulation at the data centers level * Use of reconfigurable logic for simulation of parallel systems * Parallel and Distributed Discrete-Event Simulation * Machine learning for developing models of parallel systems * New and novel approaches to modeling and simulation of large and complex systems * Modeling techniques, including reuse of models, modeling languages, agent-based M&S, and spatially explicit M&S * M&S to manage and/or optimize operational systems and methodological challenges arising from these applications such as online simulation, symbiotic simulation, dynamic data-driven, real-time and embedded simulation, and emulation of real systems. * Simulation of breaking technologies (e.g. quantum computing, wireless photonics, etc) * Simulation and modeling of applications that use HPC systems * Modeling of HPC systems and components * Modeling in various domains of knowledge using HPC and parallel systems and algorithms, including (but not limited to) parallel models of complex systems, multiscale models, multi-agent systems, P-systems models, cellular automata and stencil computation, neuromorphic models, etc. * Modeling and Evaluation Methods and Studies INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to modeling and simulation of high performance parallel and distributed computing systems and applications. 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 Workshop's paper submission site at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mspds2020. 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 (virtually) the HPCS 2020 conference to present the paper at the Symposium 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. 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 Best papers related with the topics of the Special Collection on Parallel Computing in Evolutionary Bioinformatics, https://journals.sagepub.com/page/evb/collections/special-collections/paral… are to be selected for their possible publication in the journal "Evolutionary Bioinformatics" (1.018 JCR impact factor in 2019). Plans are underway to have the best papers related with the rest of topics, in extended version, selected for possible publication in a reputable journal as special issue. Additional detailed information will soon be announced and will be made available on the conference website. If you have any questions about paper submission or the Workshop, please contact the Workshop's organizers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------- 25 September 2020 Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- 09 October 2020 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ----------- 16 October 2020 Conference Dates: --------------------------------------------- 10-14 December 2020 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Fernando Díaz-del-Rio Department of Computer Architecture and Technology University of Seville, Seville, Spain Phone: +34 954 55 61 47 Fax: +34 954 55 28 99 Email: fdiaz(a)us.es<mailto:fdiaz@us.es> José-Luis Guisado-Lizar Computer Architecture and Technology Department University of Seville, Seville, Spain Phone: +34 954 55 62 41 Fax: +34 954 55 28 99 Email: jlguisado(a)us.es<mailto:jlguisado@us.es> International Program Committee*: All submitted papers will be rigorously reviewed by the Workshop's technical program committee members following similar criteria used in HPCS 2020 and will be published as part of the HPCS 2020 Proceedings. Coming Soon (* Committee formation is pending and will be finalized shortly.) For information or questions about Conference's paper submission, tutorials, posters, workshops, special sessions, exhibits, demos, panels and forums organization, doctoral colloquium, and any other information about the conference location, registration, paper formatting, etc., please consult the Conference’s web site at URL: http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 or contact one of the Conference's organizers. Dr. José Luis Guisado Lizar Profesor Titular de Universidad (Associate Professor, tenured) Depto. de Arquitectura y Tecnología de Computadores E.T.S. Ingeniería Informática, Universidad de Sevilla 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<https://twitter.com/jlguisado> [https://sic.us.es/sites/default/files/servicios/correo/Archivos/us_logo.jpg] www.us.es<http://www.us.es/> Por favor considere el medio ambiente antes de imprimir este correo electrónico. - Este correo electrónico y, en su caso, cualquier fichero anexo al mismo, contiene información de carácter confidencial exclusivamente dirigida a su destinatario o destinatarios. Si no es Vd. el destinatario del mensaje, le ruego lo destruya sin hacer copia digital o física, comunicando al emisor por esta misma vía la recepción del presente mensaje. Gracias

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HPCS 2020 going online - The 18th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation
by Waleed Smari 14 Sep '20

14 Sep '20

Please Post. Thank you kindly. [Sorry if you get multiple copies of this message] *Call for Papers and Participation** ** **The 2020 High Performance Computing & Simulation Conference** **(HPCS 2020)** ** **10-14 December, 2020** **Barcelona, Spain (fully virtual/online)** ** **http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20** * *In Cooperation with (Forthcoming)** ** **(Main Track Paper Submission Deadline: 17 September 2020 - Final Extension)** **(Other Conference tracks have different submission deadlines - Please check the specific track of interest web page.)** * Twitter: @HPCS Conference FaceBook: HPCS Conference LinkedIn: HPCS Conference Covid-19 Announcement 2: Under the extenuating circumstances due to the international pandemic, HPCS 2020 is going fully virtual/online. Accepted and presented papers in the HPCS 2020 will be published in the conference proceedings as usual and submitted for inclusion in the Digital Library after they are successfully presented at the virtual conference. Information and instructions on how to prepare for the virtual presentation will be posted on the conference website and sent separately. Registration fees for the HPCS 2020 will be adjusted accordingly and posted on the HPCS 2020 website as well. *INVITATION:* You are cordially invited to contribute and 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) W23: Parallel Optimization using/for Multi and Many-core High Performance Computing (POMCO 2020) W24: HPC and Collaborative Networking for Real Time Agricultural Applications (AgrApps 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) SS14: Quantum Computing (QuanC 2020) SS15: Smart Cities and Systems in the Era of HPC (SCS-HPC 2020) *Proceedings* All accepted papers in the conference and its tracks are required to be presented and will be included in the conference proceedings. The plan is to have the proceedings formally published and be available at the time of the conference. The accepted & presented proceedings papers will subsequently be included in the Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services, including SCOPUS, EI, Sci, dblp, etc.. *Journals Opportunities* Plans are underway to have the best accepted papers be selected for publication in some journal special issue(s). Detailed information will soon be announced, and will be made available on the official conference website. ============================================================== *Important Dates:** * * Main Track Paper and Poster Paper Submission Deadline 17 September 2020 - Final Extension** ** Other Tracks Paper & Poster Paper Submission Deadline Please check the track** ** Tutorial/Demo/Panel/Poster Proposal Deadline 25 September 2020** ** Main Track Notifications of Acceptance start 09 October 2020** ** Registration & Camera-Ready Manuscripts Due 19 October 2020** ** Conference Dates 10-14 December 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 meeting you virtually in December. Thank you very much. Best Regards. HPCS 2020 Organizers

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CFP - 21th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021)
by Bahman Javadi 07 Sep '20

07 Sep '20

============================================================================== The 21th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021) May 10-13, 2021, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia cloudbus.org/ccgrid2021/ ============================================================================== Call For Papers The 21st IEEE/ACM international Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021) is a leading forum to disseminate and discuss research activities and results on a broad range of topics in distributed systems, ranging from computing Clusters to widely distributed Clouds and emerging Internet computing paradigms such as Fog/Edge Computing for Internet of Things (IoT)/Big Data applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations and the ICFEC 2021 conference. In 2021, IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2021 will be ‘self-colocated’ with its postponed 2020 edition, in Melbourne, Australia. We will jointly celebrate the 20th and 21st anniversary of the conference ! We solicit original contributions on all aspects of distributed systems and applications in the context of Cluster, Cloud, and Internet computing environments. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Internet Computing Frontiers: Edge, Fog, Serverless, Lambda, Streaming, Highly decentralized approaches to cloud computing. Edge/Fog computing, sensor data streaming and computation on the edges of the network. Function as a Service (Faas), Backend as a Service (BaaS), serverless computing, lambda computing. Architecture, Networking, Data Centers: Service oriented architectures. Utility computing models. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, *aaS paradigms. Service composition and orchestration. Software-Defined Network-enabled Systems. Micro-datacenter, cloudlet, edge, or fog computing infrastructure. Virtualized hardware: GPUs, tensor processing units, FPGAs. Storage and I/O Systems: Distributed storage, cloud storage, Storage as a Service, data locality techniques for in-memory processing, storage in the edge. Programming Models and Runtime Systems: Programming models, languages, systems and tools/environments. Virtualization, containers, and middleware technologies. Actors, agents, programming decentralized computing systems. Resource Management and Scheduling: Resource allocation algorithms, profiling, modeling. Cluster, cloud, and internet computing scheduling and meta-scheduling techniques. Performance Modelling and Evaluation: Performance models. Monitoring and evaluation tools. Analysis of system/application performance. Cyber-Security, Privacy and Resilient Distributed Systems: Distributed Systems security and trust. Access control. Data privacy and integrity. Regulation. Resiliency of service attacks. Sustainable and Green Computing: Environment friendly computing ecosystems. Hardware/software/application energy efficiency. Power, cooling and thermal awareness. Applications: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cyber-Physical Systems, e-Health, Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled Smart Systems and Applications. ------------------------ Chairs and Committees ------------------------ General Chairs: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Program Committee Co-Chairs: Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Stacy Patterson, RPI, USA Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia Important Dates Paper Due: 8 December 2020 (Final paper submission : 15 December) Acceptance Notification: 8 February 2021 Camera Ready Papers Due: 3 March 2021 ==============================================================================

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CFP: Parallel Computational Technologies 2021 (Volgograd, Russia, March 30 – April 1, 2021)
by Цымблер Михаил Леонидович 03 Sep '20

03 Sep '20

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Parallel Computational Technologies (PCT’2021), 15th International Scientific Conference, March 30 – April 1, 2021, Volgograd, Russia http://agora.guru.ru/pavt/eng https://link.springer.com/conference/pct Conference founders: Russian Academy of Sciences (http://www.ras.ru) HPC Consortium of Russian Universities (http://hpc-russia.ru) Sponsored by Russian Foundation for Basic Research (http://www.rfbr.ru/rffi/eng) WELCOME Russian Academy of Sciences, High-Performance Computing Consortium of Russian Universities, Moscow State University, Volgograd State Technical University, and South Ural State University are jointly organizing the 15th International Scientific Conference on Parallel Computational Technologies (PCT’2021) to be held in Volgograd, Russia, March 30 – April 1, 2021. The main purpose of the PCT’2021 conference is to provide an opportunity to report and discuss the results achieved by leading research groups in solving practical issues using supercomputer and neural network technologies. The scope of the conference covers all aspects of the application of cloud, supercomputer and neural network technologies in science and technology such as applications, hardware and software, specific languages and packages. The 34th edition of Top50 of the CIS's most powerful computers will be announced on the first day of the conference. On working days of the conference, a supercomputer exhibition will be organized, where leading manufacturers of hardware and software present their latest products in the field of high performance computing. LANGUAGE The official languages of the Conference are Russian and English. SCOPE The scope of the conference includes, but not limited to, the following topics: * Parallel and distributed computing technologies * Cloud computing * Prospective multiprocessor architectures * Parallel and distributed database systems * High performance data mining * Artificial neural networks and deep learning * Management, administration, monitoring and testing of multiprocessor systems * Computational Mathematics * Computational Physics * Computational Chemistry * Gas hydrodynamics and heat transfer * High nonlinear and rapid processes in mechanics * Bioinformatics and medicine * Nanotechnology * Geoinformatics * Cryptography * Image processing and visualization * Computer algebra * Supercomputer education. CALL FOR PAPERS PCT’2021 admits papers presenting original contribution that have not been previously published and are not being submitted to another conference or journal. There are three categories of submissions: * Full paper describes the results of completed scientific research (12 to 15 pages in the LNCS one-column page format). * Short paper reports preliminary results of uncompleted scientific research (up to 12 pages in the LNCS one-column page format). * Abstract of the poster contains information about plans and initial results of recently started scientific research (one standard A4 page). Papers may be prepared in LaTeX or MS Word according to the LNCS one-column page format (see guidelines at the conference website http://agora.guru.ru/pavt2021/, "For Authors" section). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format through EasyChair system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pct2021 by December 1, 2020. Each paper will be reviewed by three Program Committee members and/or invited experts to ensure high quality and relevance to the conference. At least one author of the accepted paper must attend the conference and present the paper. PROCEEDINGS All accepted full papers will be published in Springer’s Communications in Computer and Information Science series (https://link.springer.com/conference/pct, indexed in Web of Science and Scopus), final approval pending. All accepted short papers and posters will be published electronically and indexed in Russian Science Index. The best short papers in English will be recommended for publication in Supercomputing Frontiers and Innovations (http://superfri.org, indexed in Scopus, Q2). The best short papers in Russian will be published (after further revision) in Computational Mathematics and Software Engineering series of the Bulletin of the South Ural State University (http://vestnikvmi.susu.ru/) IMPORTANT DATES * Submission of abstracts: November 2, 2020 * Submission of the papers: December 1, 2020 * Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2021 * Camera-ready version: February 15, 2021 * Registration for participation in supercomputer exhibition: February 25, 2021 * Registration of participants (non-speakers): March 25, 2021 * Conference: March 29: arrival date March 30 – April 1, 2021: conference work dates April 2: departure date CONTACT INFORMATION WEB PAGES Conference web site: http://agora.guru.ru/pavt/eng Submission web site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pct2021. Leonid Sokolinsky, DSc., Prof. (SUSU, Chelyabinsk) Co-chair of the PCT Program Committee E-mail: Leonid.Sokolinsky(a)susu.ru Tel.: (+7-351) 272 35 00 Mikhail Zymbler, CSc., Assoc. Prof. (SUSU, Chelyabinsk) Academic secretary of the PCT Program Committee E-mail: mzym(a)susu.ru Tel.: (+7-351) 267 90 06, ext. 112 PROGRAM COMMITTEE Chairman of the Program Committee: Viktor Sadovnichiy, academician of RAS, Moscow State University (Russia) Co-chairs of the Program Committee: Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee (USA) Leonid Sokolinsky, South Ural State University (Russia) Vladimir Voevodin, corresponding member of RAS, Moscow State University (Russia) Academic secretary of the Program Committee: Mikhail Zymbler, South Ural State University (Russia) Members of the Program Committee: S.V. Ablameyko, Belarusian State University (Republic of Belarus) A.P. Afanasiev, Institute for Systems Analysis RAS (Russia) E.N. Akimova, Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics UrB RAS (Russia) A. Andrzejak, Heidelberg University (Germany) P. Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory (USA) Y.Ya. Boldyrev, Saint-Petersburg Polytechnic University (Russia) J. Carretero, Carlos III University of Madrid (Spain) R.K. Gazizov, Ufa State Aviation Technical University (Russia) V.P. Gergel, State University of Nizhny Novgorod (Russia) B.M. Glinsky, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics SB RAS (Russia) V.D. Goryachev, Tver State Technical University (Russia) V.P. Il'in, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics SB RAS (Russia) H. Kobayashi, Tohoku University (Japan) J. Kunkel, University of Hamburg (Germany) J. Labarta, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (Spain) A. Lastovetsky, University College Dublin (Ireland) T. Ludwig, German Climate Computing Center (Germany) V.N. Lykosov, Institute of Numerical Mathematics RAS (Russia) D. Mallmann, Julich Supercomputing Centre (Germany) M. Michalewicz, A*STAR Computational Resource Centre (Singapore) V.E. Malyshkin, Institute of Computational Mathematics and Mathematical Geophysics SB RAS (Russia) V.Ya. Modorsky, Perm Polytechnic University (Russia) A.V. Shamakina, High Performance Computing Center in Stuttgart (Germany) P. Shumyatsky, University of Brasilia (Brazil) H. Sithole, Centre for High Performance Computing (Republic of South Africa) A.V. Starchenko, Tomsk State University (Russia) T. Sterling, Indiana University (USA) M. Taufer, University of Delaware (USA) V.E. Turlapov, State University of Nizhny Novgorod (Russia) R. Wyrzykowski, Czestochowa University of Technology (Poland) M.V. Yakobovsky, Institute for Mathematical Modelling RAS (Russia) Y. Yamazaki, Federal University of Pelotas (Brazil)

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UMBC Postdoctoral Fellows for Faculty diversity
by Sanjay Purushotham 01 Sep '20

01 Sep '20

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) is now accepting applications for Cohort VI (2021-2023) of the Postdoctoral Fellowship for Faculty Diversity. All application materials must be received by October 2 2020 via Interfolio, to start fellowships in July 2021. UMBC’s Postdoctoral Fellowship for Faculty Diversity is a 2-year in-residence fellowship that supports promising scholars who are committed to diversity and inclusive excellence in the academy and to prepare those scholars for possible tenure-track appointments at UMBC. During the two-year appointment, UMBC provides fellows with teaching and research mentors, and professional development opportunities across campus. Fellowship recipients are provided with a stipend, health benefits, office space, library, and additional funding for conference travel. The Department of Information Systems at UMBC offers a supportive environment for Postdoctoral Fellows with a strong focus on mentoring, and will supplement the base stipend and conference travel allowances for Postdoctoral Fellows working with mentors in the department. The Department of Information Systems is a research-intensive department with thriving graduate and undergraduate programs (http://is.umbc.edu) Our faculty are engaged in cutting-edge multidisciplinary research, including the following areas: -AI and Machine Learning -Data Science -Health Informatics -Human-Computer Interaction -Software Engineering We welcome applications for study in any field represented within Information Systems and in particular interdisciplinary fields and emerging fields. UMBC is a national model for diversity and inclusive excellence in STEM through its Meyerhoff Scholars program (http://meyerhoff.umbc.edu/) Center for Women in Technology Scholars program (http://cwit.umbc.edu/) and PROMISE: Maryland’s AGEP and LSAMP Bridge to the Doctorate programs to widen access for groups which have been traditionally underrepresented in careers in STEM. More information about the Postdoctoral Fellowship for Faculty Diversity program can be found at https://coeit.umbc.edu/postdoctoral-fellows-program/, or by contacting Dr. Autumn Reed (autumn2(a)umbc.edu)

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[CFP] IA^3 2020 - NEW DEADLINE SEPTEMBER 10th
by Tumeo, Antonino 29 Aug '20

29 Aug '20

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] !!!!!!!!! NEWS: DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 10th !!!!!!!! IA^3 2020 10th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 November 11, 2020 Virtual Workshop In conjunction with SC20 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: September 10, 2020 (AoE) Position or Regular Paper Submission: September 10, 2020 (AoE) Notification: September 28, 2020 Artifact Evaluation: September 28, 2020 - October 10, 2020 Camera-ready: October 10, 2020 Workshop: November 11, 2020 -------------------- 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 (excluding 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://sc20.supercomputing.org/submit/transparency-reproducibility-initiat… 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. Note that differently from the main conferene, this additional page is voluntary (not mandatory - i.e., if a paper has no computational results, do not attach it) for the workshop, 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. 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, Biagio Cosenza, at bcosenza(a)unisa.it. -------------------- Special Issue -------------------- Authors of papers accepted to the workshop will also be invited to submit extended version of their papers to a Special Issue of the journal of Parallel Computing (ParCO) on Hardware/Software Co-design for Sparse and Irregular Applications. Submissions for the special issue with open December 1, 2020 and will close on March 1, 2021. For more information on this special issue, please visit the special issue page and/or contact the guest co-editors, Flavio Vella (flavio.vella(a)unibz.it) and Antonino Tumeo (antonino.tumeo(a)pnnl.gov) https://www.journals.elsevier.com/parallel-computing/call-for-papers/hardwa… -------------------- Organizers -------------------- Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), antonino.tumeo(a)pnnl.gov John Feo (PNNL), john.feo(a)pnnl.gov Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL), vitoGiovanni.castellana(a)pnnl.gov -------------------- Proceedings Chair -------------------- Marco Minutoli (PNNL and WSU), marco.minutoli(a)pnnl.gov -------------------- Artifact Evaluation Chair -------------------- Biagio Cosenza (University of Salerno), bcosenza(a)unisa.it -------------------- Technical Program Committee -------------------- Nesreen Ahmed, Intel, US Johnathan Alsop, AMD, US Eishi Arima, University of Tokyo, JP 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, SNL, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Prerna Budhkar, Intel, US Aydin Buluc, LBNL, US Anastasiia Butko, LBNL, US Assefaw Gebremedhin, Washington State University, US Cat Graves, HPE, US Rajiv Gupta, University of California, Riverside, US Peter M. Kogge, Notre Dame University, US John Leidel, Tactical Computing Lab, US Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University José Moreira, IBM Research, US Miquel Moretó, Barçelona Supercomputing Center, ES Maxim Naumov, Facebook, US Fanny Nina-Paravecino, Microsoft, US Roger Pearce, LLNL, US Keshav Pingali, University of Texas, Austin, US Alejandro Rico, ARM, US Jason Riedy, Georgia Tech, US Thomas B. Rolinger, University of Maryland, US Kentaro Sano, RIKEN, JP John Shalf, LBNL, US Shaden Smith, Microsoft, US Tyler Sorensen, University of California, Santa Cruz, US Ruud van der Pas, Oracle, NL Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, NL Flavio Vella, Free University of Bozen, IT Other members TBD

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CFP HiPar20: submission deadline. extended to Sept. 7th
by Rizzi, Francesco NMN 28 Aug '20

28 Aug '20

--- Submission deadline extended to Sept. 7th --- ******************************************************************** Call for Participation Workshop on Hierarchical Parallelism for Exascale Computing ---HiPar20--- Held in conjunction with SC20 - virtual event In cooperation with: IEEE and TCHPC. www.hipar.net ******************************************************************** ================================ Summary ================================ High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms are evolving towards having fewer but more powerful nodes, driven by the increasing number of physical cores in multiple sockets and accelerators. The boundary between nodes and networks is starting to blur, with some nodes now containing tens of compute elements and memory sub-systems connected via a memory fabric. The immediate consequence is an increase in complexity due to ever more complex architectures (e.g., memory hierarchies), novel accelerator designs, and energy constraints. Spurred largely by this trend, hierarchical parallelism is gaining momentum. This approach embraces, rather than avoiding, the intrinsic complexity of current and future HPC systems by exploiting parallelism at all levels: compute, memory and network. This workshop focuses on hierarchical parallelism. It aims to bring together application, hardware, and software practitioners proposing new strategies to fully exploit computational hierarchies, and examples to illustrate their benefits to achieve extreme scale parallelism. ================================ Scope and Aims ================================ HiPar20 is designed to showcase new studies, approaches, and cutting-edge ideas on hierarchical parallelism for extreme-scale computing. We welcome papers and talks from the HPC community addressing the use of emerging architectures — focusing particularly on those characterized by fewer but more powerful nodes as well as systems with hierarchical network with tiered communication semantics. Specifically, the emphasis is on the design, implementation, and application of programming models for multi-level parallelism, including abstractions for hierarchical memory access, heterogeneity, multi-threading, vectorization, and energy efficiency, as well as scalability and performance studies thereof. Of particular interest are models addressing these concerns portably: providing ease of programming and maintaining performance in the presence of varied accelerators, hardware configurations, and execution models. Studies that explore the merits of specific approaches to addressing these concerns, such as generic programming or domain specific languages, are also in scope. The workshop is not limited to the traditional HPC software community. As one example, another key topic is the use of hierarchical parallelism in dealing with the challenges arising in machine learning due to the growing importance of this field, the large scale of systems tackled in that area, and the increasing interest from more traditional HPC areas. A goal of HiPar20 is to highlight not just success stories but also discuss drawbacks and challenges. HiPar20 welcomes HPC practitioners from all areas, ranging from hardware and compiler experts to algorithms and software developers, to present and discuss the state of the art in emerging approaches to utilize multi-level parallelism for extreme scale computing. ================================ Topics ================================ Submissions are encouraged in, but not limited to the following areas: * Hierarchical work scheduling and execution; * Hardware, software, and algorithmic advances for efficient use of memory hierarchies, multi-threading and vectorization; * Efficient use of nested parallelism, for example CUDA dynamic parallelism, for large scale simulations; * Programming heterogeneous nodes; * Leading-edge programming models, for example fully distributed task-based models and hybrid MPI+X, with X representing shared memory parallelism via threads, vectorization, tasking or parallel loop constructs. * Implementations of algorithms that are natural fits for nested work (for example approaches that use recursion); * Challenges and successes in managing computing hierarchies; * Examples demonstrating effective use of the combination of inter-node and intra-node parallelism; * Novel approaches leveraging asynchronous execution to maximize efficiency; * Challenges and successes of porting of existing applications to many-core and heterogeneous platforms; * Recent developments in compiler optimizations for emerging architectures; * Applications of hierarchical programming models from emerging AI fields, for example deep learning and extreme-scale data analytics. ================================ Submission Guidelines ================================ We solicit submissions in the following categories: (a) Regular research papers: Intended for submissions describing original work and ideas that have not appeared in another conference or journal, and are not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Regular papers must be at least (6) and must not exceed (10) letter size pages (U.S. letter – 8.5"x11"). Accepted regular papers will be published in the workshop proceedings in cooperation with IEEE TCHPC. (b) Short papers: Intended for material that is not mature enough for a full paper, to present novel, interesting ideas or preliminary results that will be formally submitted elsewhere. Short papers must not exceed four (4) pages. Short papers will NOT be included in the proceedings. Please note that: - The page limits above only apply to the core text, content-related appendices, and figures. References and reproducibility appendix do not count against the page limit. - When deciding between submissions with comparable evaluations, priority will be given to those with higher quality of presentation and whose focus relates more directly to the workshop themes. - Papers must be submitted electronically at https://submissions.supercomputing.org/ and must follow the IEEE format: www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html ================================ Reproducibility Initiative ================================ HiPar20 follows the SC20 reproducibility and transparency initiative. The SC20 details can be found at: https://sc20.supercomputing.org/submit/transparency-reproducibility-initiat…. HiPar20 requires all submission to include an Artifact Description (AD) Appendix. Note that the AD will be auto-generated from author responses to a form embedded in the online submission system. The Artifact Evaluation (AE) remains optional. We also encourage authors to follow the transparency initiative for two reasons: (a) it helps the authors themselves with the actual writing and structuring of the paper to express the research process; (b) it helps readers understand the thinking process used by the authors to plan, obtain and explain their results. ================================ HiPar20 will be virtual ================================ SCC20 will be fully virtual: https://sc20.supercomputing.org/2020/07/27/sc20-virtual-event-announced-by-… Please refer to our website www.hipar.net for latest updates. ================================ Important dates ================================ Submission Deadline: September 7th, 2020 (AoE) Author Notification: September 23, 2020 Camera Ready: October 5, 2020 Final Program: October 9, 2020 Virtual Workshop Date: November 11, 2020 (10am-6.30pm EST) ================================ Chairs and Committees ================================ Workshop chair: - Francesco Rizzi NexGen Analytics Organizing Committee: - D.S. Hollman Sandia National Labs - Lee Howes Facebook - Xiaoye Sherry Li Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Program Committee Chairs: - Christian Trott Sandia National Labs - Filippo Spiga NVIDIA Program Committee: - Mark Bull EPCC - Carlo Cavazzoni CINECA - Benjamin Cumming CSCS - Chris Forster NVIDIA - Marta Garcia Gasulla BSC - Anja Gerbes Goethe Uni.Frankfurt - Mark Hoemmen Stellar Science - Toshiyuki Imamura RIKEN - Guido Juckeland Helmholtz Center - Hartmut Kaiser LSU - Vivek Kale Brookhaven Labs - Jonathan Lifflander Sandia National Labs - James Lin Shanghai J.Tong Univ. - Aram Markosyan Xilinx - Rui Oliveira INESC TEC - Philippe Pebay NexGen Analytics - Zhiqi Tao Intel - Flavio Vella Univ. of Bozen - Michèle Weiland EPCC - Jeremiah Wilke Sandia National Labs ================================ Contact information: ================================ For questions, please email us at: hiparws(a)gmail.com

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HPBench 2020 (10 days to deadline! )
by Samar Aseeri 27 Aug '20

27 Aug '20

Dear Sir, dear Madam, The event is going online this year. We accept papers, short papers, poster papers and posters (see below submission guidelines). There will be outstanding paper and poster awards as well. 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 (Virtual/Online event) ========================================================================== 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: 07 September 2020 - Extended Author Notification: 28 September 2020 Camera-Ready Submission: 09 October 2020 Conference Dates: 10-14 December 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 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to benchmarking and high performance computing systems, including applications and cloud computing for benchmarking. 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 an 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 an 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://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpbench2020. An acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. 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 Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 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 Vasileios Karakasis, CSCS Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Switzerland Bok Jik Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Sebastian Lührs, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany 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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Maple Conference 2020 Registration
by Juergen Gerhard 25 Aug '20

25 Aug '20

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CFP: HiPar20 Workshop co-located with SC20 - Submission deadline August 31st
by Rizzi, Francesco NMN 21 Aug '20

21 Aug '20

Apologies for the multiple copies of this. ******************************************************************** Call for Participation Workshop on Hierarchical Parallelism for Exascale Computing ---HiPar20--- Held in conjunction with SC20 - virtual event In cooperation with: IEEE and TCHPC. www.hipar.net ******************************************************************** ================================ Summary ================================ High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms are evolving towards having fewer but more powerful nodes, driven by the increasing number of physical cores in multiple sockets and accelerators. The boundary between nodes and networks is starting to blur, with some nodes now containing tens of compute elements and memory sub-systems connected via a memory fabric. The immediate consequence is an increase in complexity due to ever more complex architectures (e.g., memory hierarchies), novel accelerator designs, and energy constraints. Spurred largely by this trend, hierarchical parallelism is gaining momentum. This approach embraces, rather than avoiding, the intrinsic complexity of current and future HPC systems by exploiting parallelism at all levels: compute, memory and network. This workshop focuses on hierarchical parallelism. It aims to bring together application, hardware, and software practitioners proposing new strategies to fully exploit computational hierarchies, and examples to illustrate their benefits to achieve extreme scale parallelism. ================================ Scope and Aims ================================ HiPar20 is designed to showcase new studies, approaches, and cutting-edge ideas on hierarchical parallelism for extreme-scale computing. We welcome papers and talks from the HPC community addressing the use of emerging architectures — focusing particularly on those characterized by fewer but more powerful nodes as well as systems with hierarchical network with tiered communication semantics. Specifically, the emphasis is on the design, implementation, and application of programming models for multi-level parallelism, including abstractions for hierarchical memory access, heterogeneity, multi-threading, vectorization, and energy efficiency, as well as scalability and performance studies thereof. Of particular interest are models addressing these concerns portably: providing ease of programming and maintaining performance in the presence of varied accelerators, hardware configurations, and execution models. Studies that explore the merits of specific approaches to addressing these concerns, such as generic programming or domain specific languages, are also in scope. The workshop is not limited to the traditional HPC software community. As one example, another key topic is the use of hierarchical parallelism in dealing with the challenges arising in machine learning due to the growing importance of this field, the large scale of systems tackled in that area, and the increasing interest from more traditional HPC areas. A goal of HiPar20 is to highlight not just success stories but also discuss drawbacks and challenges. HiPar20 welcomes HPC practitioners from all areas, ranging from hardware and compiler experts to algorithms and software developers, to present and discuss the state of the art in emerging approaches to utilize multi-level parallelism for extreme scale computing. ================================ Topics ================================ Submissions are encouraged in, but not limited to the following areas: * Hierarchical work scheduling and execution; * Hardware, software, and algorithmic advances for efficient use of memory hierarchies, multi-threading and vectorization; * Efficient use of nested parallelism, for example CUDA dynamic parallelism, for large scale simulations; * Programming heterogeneous nodes; * Leading-edge programming models, for example fully distributed task-based models and hybrid MPI+X, with X representing shared memory parallelism via threads, vectorization, tasking or parallel loop constructs. * Implementations of algorithms that are natural fits for nested work (for example approaches that use recursion); * Challenges and successes in managing computing hierarchies; * Examples demonstrating effective use of the combination of inter-node and intra-node parallelism; * Novel approaches leveraging asynchronous execution to maximize efficiency; * Challenges and successes of porting of existing applications to many-core and heterogeneous platforms; * Recent developments in compiler optimizations for emerging architectures; * Applications of hierarchical programming models from emerging AI fields, for example deep learning and extreme-scale data analytics. ================================ Submission Guidelines ================================ We solicit submissions in the following categories: (a) Regular research papers: Intended for submissions describing original work and ideas that have not appeared in another conference or journal, and are not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Regular papers must be at least (6) and must not exceed (10) letter size pages (U.S. letter – 8.5"x11"). Accepted regular papers will be published in the workshop proceedings in cooperation with IEEE TCHPC. (b) Short papers: Intended for material that is not mature enough for a full paper, to present novel, interesting ideas or preliminary results that will be formally submitted elsewhere. Short papers must not exceed four (4) pages. Short papers will NOT be included in the proceedings. Please note that: - The page limits above only apply to the core text, content-related appendices, and figures. References and reproducibility appendix do not count against the page limit. - When deciding between submissions with comparable evaluations, priority will be given to those with higher quality of presentation and whose focus relates more directly to the workshop themes. - Papers must be submitted electronically at https://submissions.supercomputing.org/ and must follow the IEEE format: www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html ================================ Reproducibility Initiative ================================ HiPar20 follows the SC20 reproducibility and transparency initiative. The SC20 details can be found at: https://sc20.supercomputing.org/submit/transparency-reproducibility-initiat…. HiPar20 requires all submission to include an Artifact Description (AD) Appendix. Note that the AD will be auto-generated from author responses to a form embedded in the online submission system. The Artifact Evaluation (AE) remains optional. We also encourage authors to follow the transparency initiative for two reasons: (a) it helps the authors themselves with the actual writing and structuring of the paper to express the research process; (b) it helps readers understand the thinking process used by the authors to plan, obtain and explain their results. ================================ HiPar20 will be virtual ================================ SCC20 will be fully virtual: https://sc20.supercomputing.org/2020/07/27/sc20-virtual-event-announced-by-… Please refer to our website www.hipar.net for latest updates. ================================ Important dates ================================ Submission Deadline: August 31, 2020 (AoE) Author Notification: September 14, 2020 Camera Ready: October 5, 2020 Final Program: October 9, 2020 Workshop Date: November 11-13, 2020 (details TBD) ================================ Chairs and Committees ================================ Workshop chair: - Francesco Rizzi NexGen Analytics Organizing Committee: - D.S. Hollman Sandia National Labs - Lee Howes Facebook - Xiaoye Sherry Li Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Program Committee Chairs: - Christian Trott Sandia National Labs - Filippo Spiga NVIDIA Program Committee: - Mark Bull EPCC - Carlo Cavazzoni CINECA - Benjamin Cumming CSCS - Chris Forster NVIDIA - Marta Garcia Gasulla BSC - Anja Gerbes Goethe Uni.Frankfurt - Mark Hoemmen Stellar Science - Toshiyuki Imamura RIKEN - Guido Juckeland Helmholtz Center - Hartmut Kaiser LSU - Vivek Kale Brookhaven Labs - Jonathan Lifflander Sandia National Labs - James Lin Shanghai J.Tong Univ. - Aram Markosyan Xilinx - Rui Oliveira INESC TEC - Philippe Pebay NexGen Analytics - Zhiqi Tao Intel - Flavio Vella Univ. of Bozen - Michèle Weiland EPCC - Jeremiah Wilke Sandia National Labs ================================ Contact information: ================================ For questions, please email us at: hiparws(a)gmail.com

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Using Artificial Intelligence to read the mind of pets!
by Uwe Aickelin 20 Aug '20

20 Aug '20

Have you ever wondered what your pet is thinking? Researchers at the University of Melbourne’s School of Computing and Information Systems have developed an app for that!! It is called HappyPets and uses artificial intelligence (convolutional neural networks) to analyse and interpret the facial expressions of pets. And, yes, dogs are easier to read than cats! You can read more about how it works here: https://pursuit.unimelb.edu.au/articles/ever-wondered-what-your-pet-is-thin… And download the free app here: IOS: https://apps.apple.com/au/app/happy-pets/id1515202735 Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.edu.unimelb.eresearch.happ… A bit of fun, but perhaps also a good example for teaching the wide capabilities of AI?! Professor Uwe Aickelin | Head of School of Computing and Information Systems Melbourne School of Engineering Level 8, Doug McDonell Building, 168 Grattan Street The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010 Australia T: +61 3 8344 3635 E: uwe.aickelin(a)unimelb.edu.au<mailto:uwe.aickelin@unimelb.edu.au> http://aickelin.com/ | http://linkedin.com/in/aickelin I acknowledge the Traditional Owners of the land on which I work, and pay my respects to the Elders, past and present. CRICOS: 00116K This email and any attachments may contain personal information or information that is otherwise confidential or the subject of copyright. Any use, disclosure or copying of any part of it is prohibited. The University does not warrant that this email or any attachments are free from viruses or defects. Please check any attachments for viruses and defects before opening them. If this email is received in error, please delete it and notify us by return email. [signature_1111626909]<https://eng.unimelb.edu.au/about/join-mse/current-opportunities#current-opp…>

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CfPart: European Dependable Computing Conference - EDCC 2020
by Alexander Romanovsky 17 Aug '20

17 Aug '20

The 16th European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC 2020) September 7-10, 2020 Virtual Event - Call for Participation http://edcc.dependability.org/ A unique opportunity to learn more about the current work on dependability at no cost! The European Dependable Computing Conference (EDCC) is a leading venue for presenting and discussing the latest research, industrial practice and innovations in dependable and secure computing. The EDCC is a unique forum for researchers and practitioners to present and discuss their latest research results on theory, techniques, systems, and tools for the design, validation, operation and evaluation of dependable and secure computing systems. Intel and Fraunhofer IKS are covering the cost of the proceedings and all organisational expenses. Hence, the participation is free of charge. But you will need to register at http://edcc.dependability.org/registration.html. The EDCC technical program spans over three half days (Sept 8-10, 14h -17h45). It includes three invited talks: - Towards Universal Safety Guarantees of Decision Making in Automated Vehicles. Ignacio Alvarez. Intel Labs. - Safety of Autonomous Driving Systems. Alex Haag. AID GmbH. - Public Transport: Challenges and Opportunities for Dependability. Martin Rothfelder. Siemens AG. and twenty one technical presentations selected by the Program Committee. More information about the program could be found here: http://edcc.dependability.org/program.html Five EDCC workshops are organised on September 7: - AI4RAILS - 1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for RAILwayS - DREAMS - Dynamic Risk managEment for Autonomous Systems - DSOGRI - 2nd International Workshop on Dependable SOlutions for Intelligent Electricity Distribution GRIds - SERENE - 12th International Workshop on Software Engineering for Resilient Systems - TAIWAN-DCC - 1st International Workshop on Technology of AI and Wireless Advanced Networking: Dependable Computing and Communication General chairs: Michael Paulitsch, Intel Mario Trapp, Fraunhofer Program Committee chair: Elena Troubitsyna, KTH Sweden Steering Committee chair: Karama Kanoun, LAAS Workshop chair: Simona Bernardi, University of Zaragoza Publicity chair: Alexander Romanovsky, Newcastle University Publication chair: Miguel Pardal, Universidade de Lisboa Local Organization chairs: Veronika Seifried, Fraunhofer IKS Kerstin Alexander, Intel For more information, visit: http://edcc.dependability.org/

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HPBench 2020 Online Special Session CFP
by Samar Aseeri 17 Aug '20

17 Aug '20

Dear Sir, dear Madam, We accept papers, short papers, poster papers and posters (see below submission guidelines). There will be outstanding paper and poster awards as well. 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 (Virtual/Online event) ========================================================================== 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: 07 September 2020 - Extended Author Notification: 28 September 2020 Camera-Ready Submission: 09 October 2020 Conference Dates: 10-14 December 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 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES: You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to benchmarking and high performance computing systems, including applications and cloud computing for benchmarking. 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 an 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 an 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://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpbench2020. An acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. 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 Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 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 Vasileios Karakasis, CSCS Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Switzerland Bok Jik Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Sebastian Lührs, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany 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. 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[CFP] IA^3 2020 - 10th SC Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms - UPDATED
by Tumeo, Antonino 14 Aug '20

14 Aug '20

[Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message.] !!!!!!!!! NEWS: WORKSHOP GOING VIRTUAL; PARCO SPECIAL ISSUE !!!!!!!! IA^3 2020 10th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 November 11, 2020 Virtual Workshop In conjunction with SC20 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, 2020 (AoE) Position or Regular Paper Submission: September 4, 2020 (AoE) Notification: September 28, 2020 Artifact Evaluation: September 28, 2020 - October 10, 2020 Camera-ready: October 10, 2020 Workshop: November 11, 2020 -------------------- 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 (excluding 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://sc20.supercomputing.org/submit/transparency-reproducibility-initiat… 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. Note that differently from the main conferene, this additional page is voluntary (not mandatory - i.e., if a paper has no computational results, do not attach it) for the workshop, 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. 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, Biagio Cosenza, at bcosenza(a)unisa.it. -------------------- Special Issue -------------------- Authors of papers accepted to the workshop will also be invited to submit extended version of their papers to a Special Issue of the journal of Parallel Computing (ParCO) on Hardware/Software Co-design for Sparse and Irregular Applications. Submissions for the special issue with open December 1, 2020 and will close on March 1, 2021. For more information on this special issue, please visit the special issue page and/or contact the guest co-editors, Flavio Vella (flavio.vella(a)unibz.it) and Antonino Tumeo (antonino.tumeo(a)pnnl.gov) https://www.journals.elsevier.com/parallel-computing/call-for-papers/hardwa… -------------------- Organizers -------------------- Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), antonino.tumeo(a)pnnl.gov John Feo (PNNL), john.feo(a)pnnl.gov Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL), vitoGiovanni.castellana(a)pnnl.gov -------------------- Proceedings Chair -------------------- Marco Minutoli (PNNL and WSU), marco.minutoli(a)pnnl.gov -------------------- Artifact Evaluation Chair -------------------- Biagio Cosenza (University of Salerno), bcosenza(a)unisa.it -------------------- Technical Program Committee -------------------- Nesreen Ahmed, Intel, US Johnathan Alsop, AMD, US Eishi Arima, University of Tokyo, JP 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, SNL, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Prerna Budhkar, Intel, US Aydin Buluc, LBNL, US Anastasiia Butko, LBNL, US Assefaw Gebremedhin, Washington State University, US Cat Graves, HPE, US Rajiv Gupta, University of California, Riverside, US Peter M. Kogge, Notre Dame University, US John Leidel, Tactical Computing Lab, US Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University José Moreira, IBM Research, US Miquel Moretó, Barçelona Supercomputing Center, ES Maxim Naumov, Facebook, US Fanny Nina-Paravecino, Microsoft, US Roger Pearce, LLNL, US Keshav Pingali, University of Texas, Austin, US Alejandro Rico, ARM, US Jason Riedy, Georgia Tech, US Thomas B. Rolinger, University of Maryland, US Kentaro Sano, RIKEN, JP John Shalf, LBNL, US Shaden Smith, Microsoft, US Tyler Sorensen, University of California, Santa Cruz, US Ruud van der Pas, Oracle, NL Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, NL Flavio Vella, Free University of Bozen, IT Other members TBD

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REMINDER - Call for Nominations: 2020 IEEE CS TCHPC ECR Award for Excellence in HPC
by Vladimir Getov 12 Aug '20

12 Aug '20

Call for Nominations: 2020 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 Processing (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 – these should be collected by the nominator and included in the nomination. Important Dates: •Nomination Deadline: August 15, 2020 •Results Notification: September 15, 2020 Award Selection Committee: The award selection committee consists of: •Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain •Tom Conte, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA •Yufei Ding, University of California Santa Barbara, USA •Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster, UK (Chair) •Xu Liu, College of William & Mary, USA •Guillaume Pallez, Inria, France •Happy Sithole, National Integrated Cyber-Infrastructure (NICIS), South Africa 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 SC20 conference that will be held virtually during November 9 – 19, 2020. Details of the conference can be found at http://sc20.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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Maple Conference 2020 - Reminder
by Juergen Gerhard 10 Aug '20

10 Aug '20

The deadline to submit a presentation proposal to the Maple Conference 2020 is coming up quickly! Proposals are due on Aug. 16, 2020. Please see the Call for Presentations, below, for details. Call for Presentations Maple Conference 2020 invites submissions of proposals for presentations on a range of topics related to Maple, falling into three broad categories: Maple in Education Topics could include, but are not limited to: * Effective ways to use Maple as a tool to support remote learning or hybrid courses * Innovative uses of Maple in the classroom (new ways to approach old problems, methods for using Maple to teach courses outside of traditional core math, impact on the curriculum, etc.) * Measurable improvements in student performance after integrating Maple into a course * Classroom tips and techniques/best practices drawn from experience Algorithms and Software Topics could include, but are not limited to: * Symbolic and symbolic-numeric methods for solving mathematical problems, from any field * Algorithm optimization and performance tuning techniques * Effective use of types and data representations for particular problems or domains * User interfaces for mathematical problem solving Applications of Maple Topics could include, but are not limited to: * Applications that use Maple in unusual settings or in unusual ways * Applications that push or extend the limit of what Maple can do * Applications that explore critical world problems * Applications that combine Maple with other technology All presentation proposals will be reviewed by the conference organizing committee. If the proposal is accepted, the submitter will be invited to present their work at the conference. After the conference, all presenters and invited speakers will be invited to submit a full paper for inclusion in the conference proceedings. These submissions will undergo peer-review, and the decision about acceptance or rejection lies with the Maple Conference 2020 Program Committee<https://www.maplesoft.com/mapleconference/Papers-and-Presentations.aspx>. Presentation Proposals Your presentation proposal should be in the form of a title and abstract for your proposed talk. Abstracts should be under one page/400 words in length, and must be in English. If your presentation proposal is accepted, at least one author is expected to attend the conference to present the paper. All presentations are to be given in English. Papers (optional) After the conference, all presenters and invited speakers will be invited to submit a full paper on the work they presented. These papers will undergo peer-review, and if accepted, will appear in the conference proceedings. Papers should not duplicate work published or submitted for consideration elsewhere. Papers must be in English and should be 6-15 pages in length. Please follow the Springer LNCS conference proceedings author instructions<https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu…>. Authors should download the .zip file: "LaTeX2e Proceedings Templates." Submission Instructions Proposals should be in the form of a Word doc or a PDF. Submission is via EasyChair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=maple2020 Conference Details and Important Dates Conference Date: November 2-6, 2020 Location: The conference will be held online. Program Chairs: Robert M. Corless, Western University, and Jürgen Gerhard, Maplesoft Submission Deadlines Abstract submission: July 15, 2020 Extended to August 16, 2020 Notification of acceptance/rejection of presentation proposal: August 31, 2020 September 18, 2020 Paper submission: December 31, 2020 Notification of paper acceptance/rejection: February 28, 2021 Camera-ready copy due: March 31, 2021 We look forward to reviewing your proposal. See you at Maple Conference 2020! Sincerely, Rob Corless and Jürgen Gerhard, Maple Conference 2020 Program Chairs (c) Maplesoft, a division of Waterloo Maple Inc., 615 Kumpf Drive Waterloo ON Canada N2V1K8; customerservice(a)maplesoft.com<mailto:customerservice@maplesoft.com>. All trademarks are property of their respective owners. To manage subscriptions or to opt out of all commercial email communications from Maplesoft, please click here<%25%25unsubscribe%25%25>.

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HPBench 2020 is going online and accordingly dates has changed
by Samar Aseeri 06 Aug '20

06 Aug '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 (Virtual/Online event) ========================================================================== 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: 07 September 2020 - Extended Author Notification: 28 September 2020 Camera-Ready Submission: 09 October 2020 Conference Dates: 10-14 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 Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, 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 Vasileios Karakasis, CSCS Swiss National Supercomputing Centre, Switzerland Bok Jik Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Sebastian Lührs, Jülich Supercomputing Centre, Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, Jülich, Germany 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. 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CFP - 21th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021)
by Bahman Javadi 04 Aug '20

04 Aug '20

============================================================================== The 21th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021) May 10-13, 2021, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia cloudbus.org/ccgrid2021/ ============================================================================== Call For Papers The 21st IEEE/ACM international Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021) is a leading forum to disseminate and discuss research activities and results on a broad range of topics in distributed systems, ranging from computing Clusters to widely distributed Clouds and emerging Internet computing paradigms such as Fog/Edge Computing for Internet of Things (IoT)/Big Data applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations and the ICFEC 2021 conference. In 2021, IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2021 will be ‘self-colocated’ with its postponed 2020 edition, in Melbourne, Australia. We will jointly celebrate the 20th and 21st anniversary of the conference ! We solicit original contributions on all aspects of distributed systems and applications in the context of Cluster, Cloud, and Internet computing environments. Specific topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: Internet Computing Frontiers: Edge, Fog, Serverless, Lambda, Streaming, Highly decentralized approaches to cloud computing. Edge/Fog computing, sensor data streaming and computation on the edges of the network. Function as a Service (Faas), Backend as a Service (BaaS), serverless computing, lambda computing. Architecture, Networking, Data Centers: Service oriented architectures. Utility computing models. IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, *aaS paradigms. Service composition and orchestration. Software-Defined Network-enabled Systems. Micro-datacenter, cloudlet, edge, or fog computing infrastructure. Virtualized hardware: GPUs, tensor processing units, FPGAs. Storage and I/O Systems: Distributed storage, cloud storage, Storage as a Service, data locality techniques for in-memory processing, storage in the edge. Programming Models and Runtime Systems: Programming models, languages, systems and tools/environments. Virtualization, containers, and middleware technologies. Actors, agents, programming decentralized computing systems. Resource Management and Scheduling: Resource allocation algorithms, profiling, modeling. Cluster, cloud, and internet computing scheduling and meta-scheduling techniques. Performance Modelling and Evaluation: Performance models. Monitoring and evaluation tools. Analysis of system/application performance. Cyber-Security, Privacy and Resilient Distributed Systems: Distributed Systems security and trust. Access control. Data privacy and integrity. Regulation. Resiliency of service attacks. Sustainable and Green Computing: Environment friendly computing ecosystems. Hardware/software/application energy efficiency. Power, cooling and thermal awareness. Applications: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Cyber-Physical Systems, e-Health, Internet of Things (IoT)-enabled Smart Systems and Applications. ------------------------ Chairs and Committees ------------------------ General Chairs: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Program Committee Co-Chairs: Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Stacy Patterson, RPI, USA Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia Important Dates Paper Due: 8 December 2020 (Final paper submission : 15 December) Acceptance Notification: 8 February 2021 Camera Ready Papers Due: 3 March 2021 ==============================================================================

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CFP: HiPar20 - Papers due August 31st - SC20 Going Virtual
by Rizzi, Francesco NMN 01 Aug '20

01 Aug '20

******************************************************************** Call for Participation Workshop on Hierarchical Parallelism for Exascale Computing ---HiPar20--- Held in conjunction with SC20 - virtual event In cooperation with: IEEE and TCHPC. www.hipar.net ******************************************************************** ================================ Summary ================================ High Performance Computing (HPC) platforms are evolving towards having fewer but more powerful nodes, driven by the increasing number of physical cores in multiple sockets and accelerators. The boundary between nodes and networks is starting to blur, with some nodes now containing tens of compute elements and memory sub-systems connected via a memory fabric. The immediate consequence is an increase in complexity due to ever more complex architectures (e.g., memory hierarchies), novel accelerator designs, and energy constraints. Spurred largely by this trend, hierarchical parallelism is gaining momentum. This approach embraces, rather than avoiding, the intrinsic complexity of current and future HPC systems by exploiting parallelism at all levels: compute, memory and network. This workshop focuses on hierarchical parallelism. It aims to bring together application, hardware, and software practitioners proposing new strategies to fully exploit computational hierarchies, and examples to illustrate their benefits to achieve extreme scale parallelism. ================================ Scope and Aims ================================ HiPar20 is designed to showcase new studies, approaches, and cutting-edge ideas on hierarchical parallelism for extreme-scale computing. We welcome papers and talks from the HPC community addressing the use of emerging architectures — focusing particularly on those characterized by fewer but more powerful nodes as well as systems with hierarchical network with tiered communication semantics. Specifically, the emphasis is on the design, implementation, and application of programming models for multi-level parallelism, including abstractions for hierarchical memory access, heterogeneity, multi-threading, vectorization, and energy efficiency, as well as scalability and performance studies thereof. Of particular interest are models addressing these concerns portably: providing ease of programming and maintaining performance in the presence of varied accelerators, hardware configurations, and execution models. Studies that explore the merits of specific approaches to addressing these concerns, such as generic programming or domain specific languages, are also in scope. The workshop is not limited to the traditional HPC software community. As one example, another key topic is the use of hierarchical parallelism in dealing with the challenges arising in machine learning due to the growing importance of this field, the large scale of systems tackled in that area, and the increasing interest from more traditional HPC areas. A goal of HiPar20 is to highlight not just success stories but also discuss drawbacks and challenges. HiPar20 welcomes HPC practitioners from all areas, ranging from hardware and compiler experts to algorithms and software developers, to present and discuss the state of the art in emerging approaches to utilize multi-level parallelism for extreme scale computing. ================================ Topics ================================ Submissions are encouraged in, but not limited to the following areas: * Hierarchical work scheduling and execution; * Hardware, software, and algorithmic advances for efficient use of memory hierarchies, multi-threading and vectorization; * Efficient use of nested parallelism, for example CUDA dynamic parallelism, for large scale simulations; * Programming heterogeneous nodes; * Leading-edge programming models, for example fully distributed task-based models and hybrid MPI+X, with X representing shared memory parallelism via threads, vectorization, tasking or parallel loop constructs. * Implementations of algorithms that are natural fits for nested work (for example approaches that use recursion); * Challenges and successes in managing computing hierarchies; * Examples demonstrating effective use of the combination of inter-node and intra-node parallelism; * Novel approaches leveraging asynchronous execution to maximize efficiency; * Challenges and successes of porting of existing applications to many-core and heterogeneous platforms; * Recent developments in compiler optimizations for emerging architectures; * Applications of hierarchical programming models from emerging AI fields, for example deep learning and extreme-scale data analytics. ================================ Submission Guidelines ================================ We solicit submissions in the following categories: (a) Regular research papers: Intended for submissions describing original work and ideas that have not appeared in another conference or journal, and are not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Regular papers must be at least (6) and must not exceed (10) letter size pages (U.S. letter – 8.5"x11"). Accepted regular papers will be published in the workshop proceedings in cooperation with IEEE TCHPC. (b) Short papers: Intended for material that is not mature enough for a full paper, to present novel, interesting ideas or preliminary results that will be formally submitted elsewhere. Short papers must not exceed four (4) pages. Short papers will NOT be included in the proceedings. Please note that: - The page limits above only apply to the core text, content-related appendices, and figures. References and reproducibility appendix do not count against the page limit. - When deciding between submissions with comparable evaluations, priority will be given to those with higher quality of presentation and whose focus relates more directly to the workshop themes. - Papers must be submitted electronically at https://submissions.supercomputing.org/ and must follow the IEEE format: www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html ================================ Reproducibility Initiative ================================ HiPar20 follows the SC20 reproducibility and transparency initiative. The SC20 details can be found at: https://sc20.supercomputing.org/submit/transparency-reproducibility-initiat…. HiPar20 requires all submission to include an Artifact Description (AD) Appendix. Note that the AD will be auto-generated from author responses to a form embedded in the online submission system. The Artifact Evaluation (AE) remains optional. We also encourage authors to follow the transparency initiative for two reasons: (a) it helps the authors themselves with the actual writing and structuring of the paper to express the research process; (b) it helps readers understand the thinking process used by the authors to plan, obtain and explain their results. ================================ HiPar20 will be virtual ================================ SC20 will be fully virtual: https://sc20.supercomputing.org/2020/07/27/sc20-virtual-event-announced-by-… Please refer to our website www.hipar.net for latest updates. ================================ Important dates ================================ Submission Deadline: August 31, 2020 (AoE) Author Notification: September 14, 2020 Camera Ready: October 5, 2020 Final Program: October 9, 2020 Workshop Date: November 11-13, 2020 (details TBD) ================================ Chairs and Committees ================================ Workshop chair: - Francesco Rizzi NexGen Analytics Organizing Committee: - D.S. Hollman Sandia National Labs - Lee Howes Facebook - Xiaoye Sherry Li Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Program Committee Chairs: - Christian Trott Sandia National Labs - Filippo Spiga NVIDIA Program Committee: - Mark Bull EPCC - Carlo Cavazzoni CINECA - Benjamin Cumming CSCS - Chris Forster NVIDIA - Marta Garcia Gasulla BSC - Anja Gerbes Goethe Uni.Frankfurt - Mark Hoemmen Stellar Science - Toshiyuki Imamura RIKEN - Guido Juckeland Helmholtz Center - Hartmut Kaiser LSU - Vivek Kale Brookhaven Labs - Jonathan Lifflander Sandia National Labs - James Lin Shanghai J.Tong Univ. - Aram Markosyan Xilinx - Rui Oliveira INESC TEC - Philippe Pebay NexGen Analytics - Zhiqi Tao Intel - Flavio Vella Univ. of Bozen - Michèle Weiland EPCC - Jeremiah Wilke Sandia National Labs ================================ Contact information: ================================ For questions, please email us at: hiparws(a)gmail.com

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