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[MEDI 2021] Call for Workshops
by Samir ouchani 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Call for Workshops: 10th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI 2021) 21 - 23 June 2021, Tallinn, Estonia https://cs.ttu.ee/events/medi2021/ The MEDI Main Conference: ----------------------- The Tenth International Conference on Model & Data Engineering (MEDI) will be held from 21 to 23 June 2021 in Tallinn, Estonia. Its main objective is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote the interaction and collaboration between the models and data research communities. MEDI 2021 provides an international platform for the presentation of research on models and data theory, development of advanced technologies related to models and data and their advanced applications. This international scientific event, initiated by researchers from Euro-Mediterranean countries, also aims at promoting the creation of north-south scientific networks, projects and faculty/student exchanges. The conference is accompanied by satellite events, including demonstration papers and workshops. Workshops --------- Typically, workshops focus on multiple topics related to model and data engineering. For this edition, we would also like to encourage workshops focusing on practical applications of research in business/industry and on joint projects run by industry and research entities. The list of workshop topics is not limited to the aforementioned and we encourage representatives of research and business to submit workshop proposals promoting their achievements. Workshop Proposal Submission Procedure -------------------------------------- Workshop proposals should be emailed to the workshop chairs: · George Chernishev, Saint-Petersburg University, Russia: g.chernyshev(a)spbu.ru · Samir Ouchani, Lineact CESI Engineering School, France: souchani(a)cesi.fr · Antonio Corral, University of Almeria, Spain: acorral(a)ual.es · Jüri Vain, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia: juri.vain(a)taltech.ee The proposal should include: · Workshop title · Estimated length (one day or half day) · Names, affiliations, and e-mails of PC chairs · Short bios of the workshop PC chairs, including previous experience in organizing workshops or conferences (if applicable) · A (tentative) list of PC (if possible) · The main goals of the workshop · The list of workshop topics o Preliminary CFP o How information about the workshop will be disseminated and how papers will be solicited The organizers of accepted workshops are expected to organize the workshop's program committee, disseminate the workshop call for papers, solicit submissions, conduct the reviewing process, and prepare the final workshop program. The official language of workshops is English. Organizational Support ---------------------- Workshops will benefit from the MEDI 2021 organizational infrastructure and receive support w.r.t. registration, badges, lunches, coffee breaks, and publication of the workshop proceedings. Publication ----------- Workshop papers will be published by Springer in "Communications in Computer and Information Science". Best papers from all accepted workshops will be selected for a special issue. Important Dates --------------- • Submission of workshop proposals: March 30, 2021 • Workshop acceptance/rejection notification: April 9, 2021 • Camera-ready: June 9, 2021 • Workshops: June 21-22, 2021 A detailed workshop timeline, i.e., deadlines for submissions, reviews, camera-ready due, are proposed by the workshop PC chairs, in agreement with the MEDI 2021 workshop chairs. MEDI 2021 workshop chairs George Chernishev, Samir Ouchani, Corral Antonio, and Jüri Vain

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[MEDI 2021] Call for Workshops
by Samir ouchani 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Call for Workshops: 10th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI 2021) 21 - 23 June 2021, Tallinn, Estonia https://cs.ttu.ee/events/medi2021/ The MEDI Main Conference: ----------------------- The Tenth International Conference on Model & Data Engineering (MEDI) will be held from 21 to 23 June 2021 in Tallinn, Estonia. Its main objective is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote the interaction and collaboration between the models and data research communities. MEDI 2021 provides an international platform for the presentation of research on models and data theory, development of advanced technologies related to models and data and their advanced applications. This international scientific event, initiated by researchers from Euro-Mediterranean countries, also aims at promoting the creation of north-south scientific networks, projects and faculty/student exchanges. The conference is accompanied by satellite events, including demonstration papers and workshops. Workshops --------- Typically, workshops focus on multiple topics related to model and data engineering. For this edition, we would also like to encourage workshops focusing on practical applications of research in business/industry and on joint projects run by industry and research entities. The list of workshop topics is not limited to the aforementioned and we encourage representatives of research and business to submit workshop proposals promoting their achievements. Workshop Proposal Submission Procedure -------------------------------------- Workshop proposals should be emailed to the workshop chairs: · George Chernishev, Saint-Petersburg University, Russia: g.chernyshev(a)spbu.ru · Samir Ouchani, Lineact CESI Engineering School, France: souchani(a)cesi.fr · Antonio Corral, University of Almeria, Spain: acorral(a)ual.es · Jüri Vain, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia: juri.vain(a)taltech.ee The proposal should include: · Workshop title · Estimated length (one day or half day) · Names, affiliations, and e-mails of PC chairs · Short bios of the workshop PC chairs, including previous experience in organizing workshops or conferences (if applicable) · A (tentative) list of PC (if possible) · The main goals of the workshop · The list of workshop topics o Preliminary CFP o How information about the workshop will be disseminated and how papers will be solicited The organizers of accepted workshops are expected to organize the workshop's program committee, disseminate the workshop call for papers, solicit submissions, conduct the reviewing process, and prepare the final workshop program. The official language of workshops is English. Organizational Support ---------------------- Workshops will benefit from the MEDI 2021 organizational infrastructure and receive support w.r.t. registration, badges, lunches, coffee breaks, and publication of the workshop proceedings. Publication ----------- Workshop papers will be published by Springer in "Communications in Computer and Information Science". Best papers from all accepted workshops will be selected for a special issue. Important Dates --------------- • Submission of workshop proposals: March 30, 2021 • Workshop acceptance/rejection notification: April 9, 2021 • Camera-ready: June 9, 2021 • Workshops: June 21-22, 2021 A detailed workshop timeline, i.e., deadlines for submissions, reviews, camera-ready due, are proposed by the workshop PC chairs, in agreement with the MEDI 2021 workshop chairs. MEDI 2021 workshop chairs George Chernishev, Samir Ouchani, Corral Antonio, and Jüri Vain

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[MEDI 2021] Call for Workshops
by Samir ouchani 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Call for Workshops: 10th International Conference on Model and Data Engineering (MEDI 2021) 21 - 23 June 2021, Tallinn, Estonia https://cs.ttu.ee/events/medi2021/ The MEDI Main Conference: ----------------------- The Tenth International Conference on Model & Data Engineering (MEDI) will be held from 21 to 23 June 2021 in Tallinn, Estonia. Its main objective is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote the interaction and collaboration between the models and data research communities. MEDI 2021 provides an international platform for the presentation of research on models and data theory, development of advanced technologies related to models and data and their advanced applications. This international scientific event, initiated by researchers from Euro-Mediterranean countries, also aims at promoting the creation of north-south scientific networks, projects and faculty/student exchanges. The conference is accompanied by satellite events, including demonstration papers and workshops. Workshops --------- Typically, workshops focus on multiple topics related to model and data engineering. For this edition, we would also like to encourage workshops focusing on practical applications of research in business/industry and on joint projects run by industry and research entities. The list of workshop topics is not limited to the aforementioned and we encourage representatives of research and business to submit workshop proposals promoting their achievements. Workshop Proposal Submission Procedure -------------------------------------- Workshop proposals should be emailed to the workshop chairs: · George Chernishev, Saint-Petersburg University, Russia: g.chernyshev(a)spbu.ru · Samir Ouchani, Lineact CESI Engineering School, France: souchani(a)cesi.fr · Antonio Corral, University of Almeria, Spain: acorral(a)ual.es · Jüri Vain, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia: juri.vain(a)taltech.ee The proposal should include: · Workshop title · Estimated length (one day or half day) · Names, affiliations, and e-mails of PC chairs · Short bios of the workshop PC chairs, including previous experience in organizing workshops or conferences (if applicable) · A (tentative) list of PC (if possible) · The main goals of the workshop · The list of workshop topics o Preliminary CFP o How information about the workshop will be disseminated and how papers will be solicited The organizers of accepted workshops are expected to organize the workshop's program committee, disseminate the workshop call for papers, solicit submissions, conduct the reviewing process, and prepare the final workshop program. The official language of workshops is English. Organizational Support ---------------------- Workshops will benefit from the MEDI 2021 organizational infrastructure and receive support w.r.t. registration, badges, lunches, coffee breaks, and publication of the workshop proceedings. Publication ----------- Workshop papers will be published by Springer in "Communications in Computer and Information Science". Best papers from all accepted workshops will be selected for a special issue. Important Dates --------------- • Submission of workshop proposals: March 30, 2021 • Workshop acceptance/rejection notification: April 9, 2021 • Camera-ready: June 9, 2021 • Workshops: June 21-22, 2021 A detailed workshop timeline, i.e., deadlines for submissions, reviews, camera-ready due, are proposed by the workshop PC chairs, in agreement with the MEDI 2021 workshop chairs. MEDI 2021 workshop chairs George Chernishev, Samir Ouchani, Corral Antonio, and Jüri Vain

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Re: Special Issue on "Side-Channel Attacks on Mobile and IoT Devices for Cyber-Physical Systems"
by Eleonora Losiouk 09 Dec '20

09 Dec '20

Special Issue on "Side-Channel Attacks on Mobile and IoT Devices for Cyber-Physical Systems", Computer Networks CFP:https://www.journals.elsevier.com/computer-networks/call-for-papers/sid… Submission deadline: December, 31 2020 Guest Editors *Mauro Conti*, University of Padua, Italy,conti(a)math.unipd.it *Radha Poovendran*, University of Washington, Seattle, USA,rp3(a)uw.edu *Eleonora Losiouk*, University of Padua, Italy,elosiouk(a)math.unipd.it *Riccardo Spolaor*, Shandong University, Qingdao, China,rspolaor(a)sdu.edu.cn Best regards, Eleonora Losiouk

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Special issue on Parallel and Distributed Computing
by Massimo CAFARO 08 Dec '20

08 Dec '20

We apologize for multiple copies of this CfP. Journal: Future Internet Special Issue Title: Parallel and Distributed Computing Special Issue Editor: Prof. Massimo Cafaro Deadline: 30 April 2021 https://www.mdpi.com/journal/futureinternet/special_issues/PDGCP2P_C Summary Dear Colleagues, recent years have witnessed the growing interest for parallel and distributed computing not just for large scale processing of big data, but also in the context of several research trends such as Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, Data Mining, Wireless Sensor Networks, Internet of Things, Green Computing in Data Centers etc. The aim of the Special Issue is to address current research and trends in the field by focusing on theory, technologies and applications, highlighting both challenges and opportunities. The scope of the Special Issue is very broad, taking into account the interdisciplinarity of parallel and distributed computing. Among the topics of interest, there are (but the Special Issue is not strictly limited to these): - Parallel algorithms; - Distributed algorithms, including P2P algorithms; - Fault-tolerant algorithms; - Cloud and grid computing; - Architectures for parallel and distributed computing; - Green computing and data centers; - Middleware and libraries for parallel and distributed computing; - Scheduling and resource allocation. Prof. Massimo Cafaro Prof. Italo Epicoco Dr. Marco Pulimeno Guest Editors Keywords: parallel computing, distributed computing, grid computing, cloud computing, P2P. - ************************************************************************************ Massimo Cafaro, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Parallel Algorithms and Data Mining Dept. of Engineering for Innovation University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Via per Monteroni 73100 Lecce, Italy Voice/Fax +39 0832 297371 Web http://sara.unisalento.it/~cafaro Web https://www.unisalento.it/people/massimo.cafaro E-mail massimo.cafaro(a)unisalento.it E-mail cafaro(a)ieee.org E-mail cafaro(a)acm.org CMCC Foundation Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change Via Augusto Imperatore, 16 - 73100 Lecce massimo.cafaro(a)cmcc.it ************************************************************************************ --

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CfC 25th Ada-Europe Conf. on Reliable Software Technologies
by Dirk.Craeynest＠cs.kuleuven.be 06 Dec '20

06 Dec '20

----------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Contributions 25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2021) 7-11 June 2021, Santander, Spain www.ada-europe.org/conference2021 Organized by University of Cantabria and Ada-Europe in cooperation with ACM SIGAda, SIGPLAN, SIGBED and the Ada Resource Association (ARA) #AEiC2021 #AdaEurope #AdaProgramming ----------------------------------------------------------------------- *** General Information The 25th Ada-Europe International Conference on Reliable Software Technologies (AEiC 2021 aka Ada-Europe 2021) will take place in Santander, Spain, in the week of 7-11 June. The conference schedule includes a technical program, vendor exhibition, and parallel tutorials and workshops. Despite the COVID-19 situation which led to the cancellation of the previous edition of the conference, there is a firm commitment to celebrate the 2021 edition in any case. The initial goal is to have a mixed model with both in-person and remote participation. If the situation so requires it, the conference would be held as a full virtual event. The 2021 edition of the conference continues the major revamp of the in-person registration fees introduced in 2019, redesigned to extend participation from industry and academia, and to reward contributors, especially but not solely, students and post-doc researchers. *** Schedule 7 January 2021: Submission of journal-track papers, industrial presentation outlines, and tutorial and workshop proposals 19 March 2021: Notification of acceptance for journal-track papers, industrial presentations, tutorials and workshops 31 March 2021: Submission of Work-in-Progress (WiP) papers and Invited Presentation proposals 30 April 2021: Notification of acceptance for WiP papers and Invited Presentations *** Topics The conference is a leading international forum for providers, practitioners and researchers in reliable software technologies. The conference presentations will illustrate current work in the theory and practice of the design, development and maintenance of long-lived, high-quality software systems for a challenging variety of application domains. The program will allow ample time for keynotes, Q&A sessions and discussions, and social events. Participants include practitioners and researchers from industry, academia and government organizations active in the promotion and development of reliable software technologies. Should the situation allow it, the presenters will be given the choice of in-person or virtual participation. The topics of interest for the conference include but are not limited to: - Design and Implementation of Real-Time and Embedded Systems: Real-Time Scheduling, Design Methods and Techniques, Architecture Modelling, HW/SW Co-Design, Reliability and Performance; - Design and Implementation of Mixed-Criticality Systems: Scheduling Methods, Mixed-Criticality Architectures, Design Methods, Analysis Methods; - Theory and Practice of High-Integrity Systems: Medium to Large-Scale Distribution, Fault Tolerance, Security, Reliability, Trust and Safety, Languages Vulnerabilities; - Software Architectures for Reliable Systems: Design Patterns, Frameworks, Architecture-Centered Development, Component-based Design and Development; - Methods and Techniques for Quality Software Development and Maintenance: Requirements Engineering, Model-driven Architecture and Engineering, Formal Methods, Re-engineering and Reverse Engineering, Reuse, Software Management Issues, Compilers, Libraries, Support Tools; - Ada Language and Technologies: Compilation Issues, Runtimes, Ravenscar, Profiles, Distributed Systems, SPARK; - Mainstream and Emerging Applications with Reliability Requirements: Manufacturing, Robotics, Avionics, Space, Health Care, Transportation, Cloud Environments, Smart Energy Systems, Serious Games, etc; - Achieving and Assuring Safety in Machine Learning Systems; - Experience Reports in Reliable System Development: Case Studies and Comparative Assessments, Management Approaches, Qualitative and Quantitative Metrics; - Experiences with Ada: Reviews of the Ada 2012 language features, implementation and use issues, positioning in the market and in the software engineering curriculum, lessons learned on Ada Education and Training Activities with bearing on any of the conference topics. *** Call for Journal-Track Papers The journal-track papers submitted to the conference are full-length papers that must describe mature research work on the conference topics. They must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review. Accepted journal-track papers will get a presentation slot within a technical session of the conference and they will be published in an open-access special issue of the Journal of Systems Architecture (Q2 in the JCR and SJR ranks) with no additional costs to authors. The corresponding authors shall submit their work by 7 January 2021 via the Special Issue web page: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-architecture/ call-for-papers/special-issue-on-reliable-software-technologies-aeic2021 Submitted papers must follow the guidelines provided in the "Guide-for-Authors" of the JSA (https://www.elsevier.com/journals/ journal-of-systems-architecture/1383-7621/guide-for-authors). In particular, JSA does not impose any restriction on the format or extension of the submissions. *** Call for WiP-Track Papers The Work-in-Progress papers (WiP-track) are short (4-page) papers describing evolving and early-stage ideas or new research directions. They must be original and shall undergo anonymous peer review. The corresponding authors shall submit their work by 31 March 2021, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2021, strictly in PDF and following the Ada User Journal style (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/). Authors of accepted WiP-track papers will get a presentation slot within a regular technical session of the conference and will also be requested to present a poster. The papers will be published in the Ada User Journal as part of the proceedings of the Conference. The conference is listed in the principal citation databases, including DBLP, Scopus, Web of Science, and Google Scholar. The Ada User Journal is indexed by Scopus and by EBSCOhost in the Academic Search Ultimate database. *** Call for Industrial Presentations The conference seeks industrial presentations that deliver insightful information value but may not sustain the strictness of the review process required for regular papers. The authors of industrial presentations shall submit their proposals, in the form of a short (one or two pages) abstract, by 7 January 2021, via https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=aeic2021, strictly in PDF and following the Ada User Journal style (http://www.ada-europe.org/auj/). The Industrial Committee will review the submissions anonymously and make recommendations for acceptance. The abstract of the accepted contributions will be included in the conference booklet, and authors will get a presentation slot within a regular technical session of the conference. These authors will also be invited to expand their contributions into articles for publication in the Ada User Journal, as part of the proceedings of the Industrial Program of the Conference. *** Awards Ada-Europe will offer an honorary award for the best presentation. All journal-track and industrial presentations are eligible. *** Call for Invited Presentations The invited presentations are intended to allow researchers to present paramount research results that are relevant to the conference attendees. There will be no publication associated to these presentations, which may include previously published works, relevant new tools, methods or techniques. The invited presentations will be allocated a presentation slot. Presentations can be delivered remotely to facilitate the participation. The Program Committee will select invited presentation proposals that may be submitted by e-mail to one of the Program Chairs as a one-page summary of the proposed presentation, along with the information and/or links required to show the relevance of the covered topic. *** Call for Educational Tutorials The conference is seeking tutorials in the form of educational seminars including hands-on or practical demonstrations. Proposed tutorials can be from any part of the reliable software domain, they may be purely academic or from an industrial base making use of tools used in current software development environments. We are also interested in contemporary software topics, such as IoT and artificial intelligence and their application to reliability and safety. Tutorial proposals shall include a title, an abstract, a description of the topic, an outline of the presentation, the proposed duration (half day or full day), and the intended level of the tutorial (introductory, intermediate, or advanced). All proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the Educational Tutorial Chair. The authors of accepted full-day tutorials will receive a complimentary conference registration. For half-day tutorials, this benefit is halved. The Ada User Journal will offer space for the publication of summaries of the accepted tutorials. *** Call for Workshops Workshops on themes that fall within the conference scope may be proposed. Proposals may be submitted for half- or full-day events, to be scheduled at either end of the conference days. Workshop proposals should be submitted by e-mail to the Workshop Chair. The workshop organizer shall also commit to producing the proceedings of the event, for publication in the Ada User Journal. *** Call for Exhibitors The commercial exhibition will span the core days of the main conference. As an alternative to the traditional physical exhibition, virtual exhibition activities will be possible. Vendors and providers of software products and services should contact the Exhibition Chair for information and for allowing suitable planning of the exhibition space and time. *** Special Registration Fees Authors of accepted contributions and all students will enjoy reduced registration fees. In addition, there will be low registration fees for virtual participants. *** Venue Santander is a nice tourist city in the north of Spain, with a well-connected airport and at a 100 km drive from Bilbao airport. The conference venue and hotel is the Bahia Hotel in the city center and beside Santander bay. *** Organizing Committee * Conference Chair Michael González Harbour, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain mgh at unican.es * Program Chairs Mario Aldea Rivas, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain aldeam at unican.es J. Javier Gutiérrez, Universidad de Cantabria, Spain gutierjj at unican.es * Work-in-Progress Chair Kristoffer Nyborg Gregertsen, SINTEF Digital, Norway kristoffer.gregertsen at sintef.no * Tutorial & Workshop Chair Jorge Garrido Balaguer, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain jorge.garrido at upm.es * Industrial Chair Patricia Balbastre Betoret, Universitat Politècnica de València, Spain patricia at ai2.upv.es * Exhibition & Sponsorship Chair Ahlan Marriott, White Elephant GmbH, Switzerland software at white-elephant.ch * Publicity Chair Dirk Craeynest, Ada-Belgium & KU Leuven, Belgium dirk.craeynest at cs.kuleuven.be *** Previous Editions Ada-Europe organizes annual international conferences since the early 80's. This is the 25th event in the Reliable Software Technologies series, previous ones being held at Montreux, Switzerland ('96), London, UK ('97), Uppsala, Sweden ('98), Santander, Spain ('99), Potsdam, Germany ('00), Leuven, Belgium ('01), Vienna, Austria ('02), Toulouse, France ('03), Palma de Mallorca, Spain ('04), York, UK ('05), Porto, Portugal ('06), Geneva, Switzerland ('07), Venice, Italy ('08), Brest, France ('09), Valencia, Spain ('10), Edinburgh, UK ('11), Stockholm, Sweden ('12), Berlin, Germany ('13), Paris, France ('14), Madrid, Spain ('15), Pisa, Italy ('16), Vienna, Austria ('17), Lisbon, Portugal ('18), and Warsaw, Poland ('19). Information on previous editions of the conference can be found at http://www.ada-europe.org/confs/ae. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. Please circulate widely. Dirk Craeynest, AEiC 2021 Publicity Chair (aka Ada-Europe 2021) Dirk.Craeynest(a)cs.kuleuven.be *** 25th Ada-Europe Int'l. Conf. on Reliable Software Technologies *** June 7-11, 2021 * Santander, Spain * www.ada-europe.org/conference2021

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IEEE HiPC 2020 Call For Participation
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 30 Nov '20

30 Nov '20

*********************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics, HiPC 2020 https://hipc.org/ *********************************************************************** HiPC 2020 is the 27th edition of the IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics. The conference focus is not only HPC but also includes Data Science. Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this year the conference will be held virtually on December 16, 17, and 18. Each day of the three day event will open with a keynote talk, followed by two one-hour live remote sessions to present the technical program of thirty-three peer reviewed papers. All papers accepted for the conference will be published as part of the proceedings that will be available before, during, and after the week of the scheduled conference. The online publication will include both papers and presentations (slides) for each paper. Access to the online publication is part of the free registration to attend the virtual live sessions. See here (https://hipc.org/register2020/) to register. Below is the planned program schedule for the conference. Return regularly for updates and details on how to attend. All times below are India Standard Time (IST). Wednesday, December 16th Keynote Talk (9:00-10:00 AM IST) Kathy Yelick University of California at Berkeley and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Computing and Data Challenges in Climate Change Best Papers Session (10:10 AM IST – start time) SimGQ: Simultaneously Evaluating Iterative Graph Queries Chengshuo Xu, Abbas Mazloumi, Xiaolin Jiang and Rajiv Gupta WarpCore: A Library for fast Hash Tables on GPUs Daniel Jünger, Robin Kobus, André Müller, Kai Xu, Weiguo Liu, Christian Hundt and Bertil Schmidt Session 1: Applications (11:20 AM IST – start time) Towards High Performance, Portability, and Productivity: Lightweight Augmented Neural Networks for Performance Prediction Ajitesh Srivastava, Naifeng Zhang, Rajgopal Kannan and Viktor K. Prasanna. Performance Optimization and Scalability Analysis of the MGB Hydrological Model Henrique R. A. Freitas, Celso Luiz Mendes and Aleksandar Ilic Exploring Task Parallelism for the Multilevel Fast Multipole Algorithm Michael Lingg, H. Metin Aktulga, Balasubramaniam Shanker, Stephen Hughey and Doga Dikbayir SparsePipe: Parallel Deep Learning for 3D Point Clouds Keke Zhai, Pan He, Tania Banerjee, Anand Rangarajan and Sanjay Ranka HyPR: Hybrid Page Ranking on Evolving Graphs Hemant Kumar Giri, Mridul Haque and Dip Sankar Banerjee Distributing Sparse Matrix/Graph Applications in Heterogeneous Clusters -- an Experimental Study Charilaos Tzovas, Maria Predari and Henning Meyerhenke ************************************************************************************************ Thursday, December 17th Keynote Talk (9:00-10:00 AM IST) Animashree Anandkumar California Institute of Technology and Machine Learning Research, NVIDIA Role of HPC in next-generation AI Session 2: Scalable Data Science (10:10 AM IST – start time) Processor Pipelining Method for Efficient Deep Neural Network Inference on Embedded Devices Akshay Parashar, Arun Abraham, Deepak Chaudhary and Vikram Nelvoy Rajendiran Avoiding Communication in Logistic Regression Aditya Devarakonda and James Demmel A Parallel and Scalable Framework for Insider Threat Detection Abdoulaye Diop, Nahid Emad and Thierry Winter Blink: Towards Efficient RDMA-based Communication Coroutines for Parallel Python Applications Aamir Shafi, Jahanzeb Maqbool Hashmi, Hari Subramoni and Dhabaleswar K. Panda Content-defined Container Delivery Yuta Nakamura, Tanu Malik and Raza Ahmad Model Checking as a Service using Dynamic Resource Scaling Surya Teja, Yuvraj Singh, Adhish Singla, Suresh Purini and Venkatesh Choppella Session 3: Algorithms (11:20 AM IST – start time) Parallel Hierarchical Clustering using Rank-Two Nonnegative Matrix Factorization Lawton Manning, Grey Ballard, Ramakrishnan Kannan and Haesun Park Pipelined Preconditioned Conjugate Gradient Methods for Distributed Memory Systems Manasi Tiwari and Sathish Vadhiyar Fair Allocation of Asymmetric Operations in Storage Systems Thomas Keller and Peter Varman A GPU Algorithm for Earliest Arrival Time Problem in Public Transport Networks Chirayu Anant Haryan, G. Ramakrishna, Rupesh Nasre and Allam Dinesh Reddy 2D Static Resource Allocation Strategies for Load Balancing in Compressed Linear Algebra under Communication Constraints Olivier Beaumont, Lionel Eyraud-Dubois and Mathieu Verite Algorithms for Preemptive Co-scheduling of Kernels on GPUs Lionel Eyraud-Dubois and Cristiana Bentes ************************************************************************************ Friday, December 18th Keynote Talk (9:00-10:00 AM IST) Fabrizio Petrini Parallel Computing Lab Intel Corporation Breaking the Scalability Wall Session 4: Runtime Systems (10:10 AM IST – start time) Understanding HPC Application I/O Behavior Using System Level Statistics Arnab K. Paul, Olaf Faaland, Adam Moody, Elsa Gonsiorowski, Kathryn Mohror and Ali R. Butt AMCilk: A Framework for Multiprogrammed Parallel Workloads Zhe Wang, Chen Xu, Kunal Agrawal and Jing Li Extending SLURM for Dynamic Resource-Aware Adaptive Batch Scheduling Mohak Chadha, Jophin John and Michael Gerndt On the Marriage of Asynchronous Many Task Runtimes and Big Data: A Glance Joshua Suetterlein, Joseph Manzano, Andres Marquez and Gunag Gao Exposing data locality in HPC-based systems by using the HDFS backend Jose Rivadeneira, Felix Garcia-Carballeira, Jesus Carretero and Javier Garcia-Blas PufferFish: NUMA-Aware Work-stealing Library using Elastic Tasks Vivek Kumar Design and Study of Elastic Recovery in HPC Applications Kai Keller, Konstantinos Parasyris and Leonardo Bautista Session 5: System Software and Architecture (11:30 AM IST – start time) Accelerating Force-directed Graph Layout with Processing-in-Memory Architecture Ruihao Li, Shuang Song, Qinzhe Wu and Lizy K. John Nonblocking Persistent Software Transactional Memory Alan Beadle, Wentao Cai, Haosen Wen and Michael Scott GPU-FPtuner: Mixed-precision Auto-tuning for Floating-point Applications on GPU Ruidong Gu and Michela Becchi Batched Small Tensor-Matrix Multiplications On GPUs Keke Zhai, Tania Banerjee, Adeesha Wijayasiri and Sanjay Ranka Temporal Based Intelligent LRU Cache Construction Pavan Nittur, Anuradha Kanukotla and Narendra Mutyala Boosting LSTM Performance Through Dynamic Precision Selection Franyell Silfa, Jose Maria Arnau and Antonio González

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CFP: The 21th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021)
by Bahman Javadi 27 Nov '20

27 Nov '20

============================================================================== The 21th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021) May 10-13, 2021, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia http://cloudbus.org/ccgrid2021/ Sponsored by: IEEE Computer Society / Technical Committee on Scalable Computing ACM SIGARCH Hosted/Organised by: * Cloud Computing and Distributed Systems (CLOUDS) Laboratory, The University of Melbourne, Australia * University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA * INRIA, France * Macquarie University, Australia * Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA ============================================================================== Important Dates Paper Due (Abstract): 8 December 2020 Paper Due (Final submission) : 15 December 2020 Acceptance Notification: 8 February 2021 Camera Ready Papers Due: 3 March 2021 ============================================================================== 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. Best Paper Awards: ================== CCGrid will present Best Paper Awards to the author(s) of top three papers selected by the Program Committee. The award will be determined based on review comments and ratings, viewpoints of the technical and scientific merits, impact on the science and engineering of the research work and the clarity of presentation of the research contents in the paper. Journal Special Issue: ====================== Highly rated Top 5 papers from the CCGrid 2021 conference will be invited for submission of extended version for publication in a special issue of the "Software: Practice and Experience" Journal published by Wiley Press. ------------------------ 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 Vice Chairs: Internet Computing Frontiers: Edge, Fog, Serverless, Lambda, Streaming Jesus Carretero, Univ Carlos 3, Madrid, Spain Weifa Liang, Australian National University, Australia Architecture, Networking, Data Centers Dhabaleswar K. Panda, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA Di Wu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Storage, and I/O Systems Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab, USA Beomseok Nam, SungKyunKwan University, Korea Programming Models and Runtime Systems Cho-Li Wang, The University of Hong Kong Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia Scheduling and Resource Management Eddy Caron, ENS Lyon, France Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore, Singapore Performance Modeling and Evaluation Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Alba Cristina Magalhaes, University of Brasilia, Brazil Cyber-Security and Privacy Miguel Correia, University of Lisbon, Portugal Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia Sustainable and Green Computing Patricia Stolf, IRIT, Toulouse, France Wu Feng, Virginia Tech, USA Applications: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber-Physical Systems, etc. Paul Roe, QUT, Australia Susumu Date, Osaka University, Japan PC Members:: ============================================================ Young Choon Lee, Macquarie University, Australia Dhabaleswar Panda, The Ohio State University, USA Susumu Date, Osaka University, Japan Kazunori Nozaki, Osaka University, Japan Imdad Ullah, PSAU, Saudi Arabia Xingliang Yuan, Monash University, Australia Beomseok Nam, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia Chunghan Lee, Toyota Motor Corporation, Japan Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia Michela Taufer, The University of Tennessee, USA Issam Rais, UiT, Norway Daniel Balouek-Thomert, Rutgers University, USA Eddy Caron, ENS-Lyon, INRIA, France Yuuichi Teranishi, Osaka University, Japan Di Wu, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Hirotake Abe, University of Tsukuba, Japan Chonho Lee, Osaka University, Japan Stacy Patterson, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA Aravinda Rao, The University of Melbourne, Australia Wei Li, The University of Sydney, Australia Paul Roe, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Patricia Stolf, University of Toulouse, France Alba Cristina M. A. Melo, University of Brasilia (UnB), Brazil Wu-Chun Feng, Virginia Tech, USA Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Mohammad Shojafar, University of Surrey, UK Qingye Jiang, Amazon Web Services, Australia Yu Zhang, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Quan Chen, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Feng Zhang, Renmin University of China, China Shixuan Sun, National University of Singapore, Singapore Zeyi Wen, The University of Western Australia, Australia Bingsheng He, National University of Singapore, Singapore Yong Chen, Texas Tech University, USA Miguel Correia, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal C.L. Wang, The University of Hong Kong, China Sungjin Lee, DGIST (Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology), Korea Diana Moise, Cray Inc., USA Houjun Tang, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Anthony Kougkas, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Michael Kuhn, Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Germany Günther Pernul, Universität Regensburg, Germany Silvina Caíno-Lores, University of Tennessee, USA Helen Karatza, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece Xavier Martorell, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Valerio Schiavoni, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland Weifa Liang, The Australian National University, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Nezer Zaidenberg, College of management academic studies, Israel Pedro Inácio, Universidade da Beira Interior, Portugal Vlad Tiberiu,INSA Lyon, France Cristina Alcaraz, UMA, Spain Nuno Santos, INESC-ID / Instituto Superior Tecnico, Portugal Ruediger Kapitza, TU Braunschweig, Germany Fabio Martinelli, IIT-CNR, Italy Paolo Mori, IIT-CNR, Italy Carlos Maziero, UFPR, Brazil André Zúquete, University of Aveiro, Portugal Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA Rong Ge, Clemson University, USA Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Marcos Assuncao, Inria, France Qiang He, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Ligang He, The University of Warwick, UK Deze Zeng, The University of Aizu, Japan Alfredo Goldman, University of São Paulo, Brazil Philippe Navaux, UFRGS, Brazil Xuanhua Shi, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Xiao Liu, Deakin University, Australia Weiguo Liu, Shandong University, China Song Wu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Jidong Zhai, Tsinghua University, China Zichuan Xu, Dalian University of Technology, China Yinlong Xu, University of Science and Technology of China, China Qiufen Xia, Dalian University of Technology, China Rizos Sakellariou, The University of Manchester, UK Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Wenzheng Xu, Sichuan University, China Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Jorge G. Barbosa, University of Porto, Portugal Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Thomas Fahringer, University of Innsbruck, Austria Shadi Ibrahim, Inria,France Rodrigo N. Calheiros, Western Sydney University, Australia Felix Garcia-Carballeira, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Bronis de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Amelie Chi Zhou, Shenzhen University, China Diana Goehringer, TU Dresden, Germany Georges Da Costa, IRIT/Toulouse III, France Carlos Westphall, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina, Brazil Lei Liu, Shandong University, China Patrick P. C. Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, China Edgar Gabriel, University of Houston, USA Jose Moreira, IBM, USA Ali Anwar, IBM, USA Kalyana Chadalavada, Intel, USA Julian Martin Kunkel, University of Reading, UK Preeti Malakar, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India Dong Dai, UNC Charlotte, USA Bin Dong, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Alex Sim, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Anna Queralt, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Xiaoyi Lu, The Ohio State University, USA Philip Carns, Argonne National Laboratory, USA George Teodoro, University of Maryland, USA Jean-Marc Pierson, University of Toulouse, France Ioana Banicescu, Mississippi State University, USA Youngjae Kim, Sogang University, Korea Osamu Tatebe, University of Tsukuba, Japan Annette Bieniusa, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany Young-Ri Choi, UNIST, Korea Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Robert Hsu, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Xiaowen Chu, Hong Kong Baptist University, China Cheng-Zhong Xu, University of Macau, China Weikuan Yu, Florida State University, USA Woongki Baek, UNIST, Korea Dongseong Kim, The University of Queensland, Australia Yanmin Zhu, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Jaejin Lee, Seoul National University, Korea Bing Bing Zhou, The University of Sydney, Australia Sangheon Pack, Korea University, Korea Haikun Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Shuhao Zhang, TU Berlin, Germany Jiong He, Institute of High Performance Computing, Singapore Yao Chen, Advanced Digital Sciences Center, Singapore Pangfeng Liu, National Taiwan University, Taiwan Sheng Di, ANL, USA Jingling Xue, The University of New South Wales, Australia Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London, UK Ramin Yahyapour, GWDG - University of Göttingen, Germany Mohsen Amini Salehi, University of Louisiana Lafayette, USA Peng Li, The University of Aizu, Japan Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Lúcia Drummond, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil Massimo Villari, University of Messina, Italy Guangming Tan, Institute of Computing Technology,Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Lizhe Wang, China University of Geosciences, China Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg Azzedine Boukerche, University of Ottawa, Canada Javid Taheri, Karlstad University, Sweden Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA Jemal Abawajy, Deakin University, Australia Ashish Verma, IBM Research, USA Kimmy Mu, HDF group, USA Hyun-Wook Jin, Konkuk University, Korea Yongseok Son, Seoul National University, Korea Sebastien Lafond, Åbo Akademi University, Finland Demetris Trihinas, University of Nicosia, Cyprus Adrien Lèbre, Inria, France Mike Wittie, Montana State University, USA Jianfeng Zhan, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Hari Subramoni, The Ohio State University, USA Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Devesh Tiwari, Northeastern University, USA Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA Ryan E. Grant, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, USA Michela Becchi, North Carolina State University, USA Miao Hu, Sun Yat-sen University, China Abhinav Vishnu, AMD, USA Zhen Liu, Beijing Jiaotong University, China Tor Skeie, IFI/UIO, Norway Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India Shinichi Yamagiwa, University of Tsukuba, Japan Gabriele Mencagli, University of Pisa, Italy Anne-Cécile Orgerie, CNRS, France Romain Rouvoy, Univ. Lille / Inria / IUF, France Graham Kirby, University of St Andrews, UK Shrisha Rao, International Institute of Information Technology - Bangalore, India Vignesh Adhinarayanan, AMD Research, USA Lei Yang, South China University of Technology, China Francois Tessier, ETH, Switzerland Hongyang Sun, Vanderbilt University, USA Felix Garcia-Carballeria, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Shanika Karunasekera, The University of Melbourne, Australia Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Virginia Tech, USA Wayne Kelly, Queensland University of Technology, Australia Tian Guo, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, USA Ian Atkinson, James Cook University, Australia Jason Haga, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan Ousmane Thiare, Gaston Berger University, USA Heru Suhartanto, Universitas Indonesia, Indonesia Stefano Markidis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Frederic Suter, CC IN2P3 / CNRS, France Cedric Tedeschi, INRIA, France Carsten Trinitis, Technical University of Munich, Germany Christian Toinard, ENSI Bourges, France Barney Maccabe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Hidemoto Nakada, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), Japan Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Ritu Arora, University of Texas (UT) at Austin, USA Mirjana Ivanovic, University of Novi Sad, Serbia Dongkyun Kim, KISTI, Korea Bu Sung Lee, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Hyoungshick Kim, Sungkyunkwan University, Korea Shancang Li, University of the West of England, UK Vishwas Patil, IIT Bombay, India Shiva Raj Pokhrel, Deakin University, Australia Nitin Auluck, Indian Institute of Technology, Ropar, India Hagen Lauer, Fraunhofer SIT, Germany Yuan Hong, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Raghunath Raja Chandrasekar, Amazon Web Services, USA Chai Kiat Yeo, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore Andrew Wendelborn, The University of Adelaide, Australia Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Adel N. Toosi, Monash University, Australia Prapaporn Rattanatamrong, University of Florida, USA Daniel Sun, CSIRO, Australia Bruno Martin, Univ. Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France Julian Jang-Jaccard, Massey University, New Zealand ============================================================

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PDSEC 2021 Workshop - Call for Papers
by Shontz, Suzanne Michelle 20 Nov '20

20 Nov '20

(apologies for cross-postings) The 22nd IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific and Engineering Computing (PDSEC-21) (http://www.ieee-tcsc.org/2021/pdsec/) will be held on May 21, 2021 in Portland, Oregon in conjunction with IPDPS 2021. Given the pandemic, the conference organizers are planning for different potential scenarios, including a fully virtual conference. Deadline: PDSEC-21 deadline: 22 Jan 2021 (AoE) Scope and Interests: The technological trends in HPC system evolution indicates an increasing burden placed on application developers due to the management of the unprecedented complexity levels of hardware and its associated performance characteristics. Many existing scientific applications codes are unlikely to perform well on future systems without major modifications or even complete rewrites. In the future, it will be necessary to utilize, in concert, many characteristics such as multiple levels of parallelism, many lightweight cores, complex memory hierarchies, novel I/O technology, power capping, system-wide temporal/spatial performance heterogeneity and reliability concerns. The parallel and distributed computing (PDC) community has developed new programming models, algorithms, libraries and tools to meet these challenges in order to accommodate productive code development and effective system use. However, the scientific application community still needs to identify the benefit through practical evaluations. Thus, the focus of this workshop is on methodologies and experiences used in scientific and engineering applications and algorithms to achieve sustainable code development for better productivity, application performance and reliability. Important Dates: Paper submission due . . . . . . . . . . . . . . January 22, 2021 Notification of Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . February 28, 2021 Final camera-ready paper . . . . . . . . . . . . March 13, 2021 Workshop . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . May 21, 2021 General Chairs Raphael Couturier, University of Bourgogne Franche-Comte, France Peter Strazdins, The Australian National University, Australia Program Chairs Srishti Srivastava, University of Southern Indiana, USA Sabine Roller, University of Siegen, Germany Organizing Chair Neda Ebrahimi Pour, University of Siegen, Germany Publicity Chair Suzanne Shontz, University of Kansas, USA Steering Chairs Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis University, Canada Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany Gudula Runger, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany Web Chair Yihong Chen, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

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HPBench 2020 : Call for Demo Presentations
by Samar Aseeri 09 Nov '20

09 Nov '20

Call for Demos HPBench 2020 track http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/2-conference/special-sessions/session02-hpbench about HPC Benchmarking & Optimization is calling for demo related participations. The conference is going online, therefore it is an opportunity to have your contribution recorded online. Demos usually go for 25-30 minutes. The Demos page on the web site has more info about demos. http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-de…. Follow the submission guide in the page but mention in the email title that submission is for HPBench. The deadline for HPBench 2020 is 20 Nov. Best Regards -- Samar Aseeri, PhD Computational Scientist Extreme Computing Research Center (ECRC) Building 1 -Office: 0128 *King Abdullah University of Science & Technology* Thuwal, Saudi Arabia -- This message and its contents, including attachments are intended solely for the original recipient. If you are not the intended recipient or have received this message in error, please notify me immediately and delete this message from your computer system. Any unauthorized use or distribution is prohibited. Please consider the environment before printing this email.

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CFP: 19th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC 2021)
by Bahman Javadi 09 Nov '20

09 Nov '20

*19th Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC 2021)* AusPDC 2021 will be held online in conjunction with Australasian Computer Science Week (ACSW) <http://www.acsw.org.au/>, 1 - 5 February 2021. *Scope of the Symposium* In 2010, AusGrid event was broadened to include all aspects of parallel and distributed computing and hence was called as Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing (AusPDC). Following a couple of successful events, it comes to the 19th in 2021 in the series. In both New Zealand and Australia parallel and distributed computing has been recognised as strategic technologies for driving their moves towards knowledge economies. A number of projects and initiatives are underway in both countries in these areas. There is a natural interest in tools which support collaboration and access to remote resources given the challenges of the countries location and sparse populations. Topics of interest for the symposium include (but not limited to): - Cloud computing - Fog/edge computing - Grid and Cluster computing - Big Data processing and analytics - Virtualization, containers, unikernels, orchestration and other enablers - Security, trust and privacy in Clouds/Fog/Edge - Mobile, sensor networks and Internet of things - Data storage, placement and replication - Distributed Ledger Technologies and Blockchains - Multi-core systems - Peer-to-peer computing - GPUs and other forms of special-purpose processors - Service computing and workflow management - Managing large distributed data sets - Middleware and tools - Network function virtualisation and Software-defined networks - Performance evaluation and modelling - Datacentre and Interconnection networks - Performance accelerators - Problem-solving environments - Parallel programming models, languages and compilers - Operating systems and runtime systems - Resource scheduling and load balancing - Data mining and machine learning - Computational Science and Engineering - Agent-based computing - Reliability, security, privacy and dependability - e-Science and e-Health Applications The symposium is primarily targeted at researchers from Australia and New Zealand, however, in the spirit of parallel and distributed computing, which aims to enable collaboration of distributed virtual organisations, we encourage papers and participation from international researchers. *Paper Submission*The proceedings of the symposium will be published by ACM in conjunction with ACSW 2021. Papers should be formatted in double-column according to ACM conference paper formatting guidelines <https://www.acm.org/publications/taps/word-template-workflow> ACM SIG Proceedings Templates. The following guidelines must be met for all submissions: - Submissions must be in English. - Submissions must not exceed 10 pages for full papers, 4 pages for short papers and 2 pages for posters. - Submissions must be in PDF format. Other formats will not be accepted. - Submissions must clearly state the problem being addressed, the goal of the work, the results achieved, and the relation to other work. - Submissions must be original contributions that have not been published previously, nor already submitted to other conferences or journals in parallel with this conference. - Authors must choose the appropriate satellite conference or workshop for your submission. Papers are to be submitted via the ACSW 2021 Easy Chair Submission Site <https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=acsw2021>. Upon logging into the system, please select “New Submission”, then select "Australasian Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Computing" track and proceed through the steps for submission. Every submission will be reviewed by a minimum of three members of the program committee. *Awards* A selection commission chaired by the AusPDC technical programme committee will select and acknowledge the best paper and the best student paper to receive an award during the conference. *Committees:General Co-Chair*Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia *Program Committee Chairs* Adel N. Toosi, Monash University, Australia Irene Moser, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia *Steering Committee*Schahram Dustdar, Technical University of Vienna, Austria Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Salil Kanhere, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Javid Taheri, Karlstad University, Sweden Conference Website: https://sites.google.com/monash.edu/auspdc2021/

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CALL FOR WORKSHOPS - 17th IEEE eScience Conference 2021
by Vella Flavio 08 Nov '20

08 Nov '20

---------------------------------------------------------- Call for Proposals for WORKSHOPS - Due March 15, 2021 https://escience2021.org/call-for-workshops ---------------------------------------------------------- 17th IEEE eScience Conference September 20-23, 2021 Innsbruck, Austria https://escience2021.org/ https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=escience2021 ---------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR WORKSHOPS ---------------------------------------------------------- The 17th IEEE eScience Conference will be held in Innsbruck, Austria on September 20-23, 2021. eScience 2021 welcomes proposals for workshops to be held with the main conference on Monday, September 20 and Thursday, September 23, 2021. The eScience conference has a long history of hosting broad and well-attended workshops broadly related to eScience and co-located with the main conference. These workshops share the goal of bringing together leading international and interdisciplinary research communities, developers, and users of eScience applications and enabling IT technologies. Workshops play a crucial role in the conference by providing an opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself, and to have in-depth discussions of particular topics of interest to the community. Workshops may be focused on any eScience-related topic including, but not limited to, interdisciplinary research, advanced cyberinfrastructure, data science, and education. eScience 2021 accepts two types of workshop proposals: workshops with peer-reviewed papers and proceedings, and workshops with invited talks and no proceedings. Workshops with peer-reviewed papers and proceedings: Workshop organizers are responsible for establishing a program committee, paper submission system, collecting and evaluating submissions, notifying authors of acceptance or rejection in due time, ensuring a transparent and fair selection process, organizing selected papers into sessions, and assigning session chairs. Proposals showing clear focus and objectives in areas of emerging or developing interest will be prioritized. The proceedings of the workshops will be included in the eScience 2021 proceedings to be published by the IEEE Computer Society Press, USA and made available online through the IEEE Digital Library if the following criteria will be followed: * The solicitation for papers must be open. * All the papers must be peer-reviewed by a qualified Program Committee. * The workshops Program Committee must have an appropriate size for expected number of submissions. * The workshop proceedings must have at least 4 papers (for a half-day workshop) or 6 papers (for a full-day workshop), at a length of at least 6 pages and no longer than 10 pages (including figure, tables, and citations) in the IEEE conference format. For each paper selected for publication, at least one of the authors must be registered to eScience 2021 to present the paper in person. Workshop proposals should be submitted per email to: escience2021-workshops(a)uibk.ac.at A proposal should be submitted as a single PDF file (up to 5 pages). The proposal should include this information: * Workshop name and acronym * Workshop description (including its focus and goals) (max. 500 words) * Workshop length (half-day, e.g. 3 hours plus breaks, or full-day, e.g., 6 hours plus breaks) * Names and affiliations of the organizers and tentative composition of the committees (we invite the authors of the proposal to consider a diverse group of organizers and committee members in terms of e.g., race/ethnicity, gender, geographic areas) * Expected number of submissions/accepted papers * Prior history of this workshop, if any Workshops with invited talks and no proceedings: Workshop organizers are responsible for inviting the speakers, establishing a program in due time, organizing the selected talks into sessions, and assigning session chairs. Proposals gathering experts in areas of emerging or developing interest will be prioritized. Each speaker must be registered to eScience 2021 to present in a session. Workshop proposals should be submitted per email to escience2021-workshops(a)uibk.ac.at A proposal should be submitted as a single PDF file (up to 5 pages). The proposal should include this information: * Workshop name and acronym * Workshop description (including its focus and goals) (max. 500 words) * Workshop length (half-day, e.g. 3 hours plus breaks, or full-day, e.g., 6 hours plus breaks) * Names and affiliations of the organizers (we invite the authors of the proposal to consider a diverse group of organizers in terms of e.g., race/ethnicity, gender, geographic areas) * Expected number of talks and their length * Tentative list of speakers (we invite the authors of the proposal to consider a diverse group of speakers in terms of e.g., race/ethnicity, gender, geographic areas) * Prior history of this workshop, if any Key Dates: * Workshop Submissions Due: Monday March 15, 2021 * Workshop Acceptance Notification: Tuesday March 30, 2021 * All Camera-ready Submissions Due (for workshops with peer-reviewed papers and proceedings): Thursday July 22, 2021 * Program with list of speakers (for workshops with invited talks and no proceedings): Thursday July 22, 2021 * Conference Dates: September 20-23, 2021 * Workshop Dates: September 20 and September 23, 2021 Contact information: Michela Taufer - taufer(a)utk.edu Flavio Vella - Flavio.Vella(a)unibz.it

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Call for Papers: ScalA@SC 2017 - Papers due August 28
by Engelmann, Christian 04 Nov '20

04 Nov '20

We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- ScalA’17: 8th Workshop on Latest Advances in Scalable Algorithms for Large-Scale Systems held in conjunction with the SC17: The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis in cooperation with ACM SIGHPC November 13, 2017, Denver, CO, USA <http://www.csm.ornl.gov/srt/conferences/Scala/2017> Novel scalable scientific algorithms are needed in order to enable key science applications to exploit the computational power of large-scale systems. This is especially true for the current tier of leading petascale machines and the road to exascale computing as HPC systems continue to scale up in compute node and processor core count. These extreme-scale systems require novel scientific algorithms to hide network and memory latency, have very high computation/communication overlap, have minimal communication, and have no synchronization points. Scientific algorithms for multi-petaflop and exa-flop systems also need to be fault tolerant and fault resilient, since the probability of faults increases with scale. Resilience at the system software and at the algorithmic level is needed as a crosscutting effort. Finally, with the advent of heterogeneous compute nodes that employ standard processors as well as GPGPUs, scientific algorithms need to match these architectures to extract the most performance. This includes different system-specific levels of parallelism as well as co-scheduling of computation. Key science applications require novel mathematical models and system software that address the scalability and resilience challenges of current- and future-generation extreme-scale HPC systems. Submission Guidelines Authors are invited to submit manuscripts in English structured as technical papers not exceeding 8 letter size (8.5in x 11in) pages including figures, tables, and references using the ACM format for conference proceedings. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines may be returned without review. Reference style files are available at <http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates>. All manuscripts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality, technical strength, and significance, quality of presentation, and interest and relevance to the workshop attendees. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. At least one author of an accepted paper must register for and attend the workshop. Authors may contact the workshop program chair for more information. Papers should be submitted electronically at: <https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scala17>. Full papers will be published with the SC'17 workshop proceedings in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore. Selected papers will be invited for an extended version in a special issue of the Journal of Computational Science (JoCS). Important Dates - Full paper submission: August 28, 2017 - Notification of acceptance: September 11, 2017 - Final paper submission (firm): October 9, 2017 - Workshop/conference early registration: TBD - Workshop: November 13, 2017 Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Novel scientific algorithms that improve performance, scalability, resilience, and power efficiency - Porting scientific algorithms and applications to many-core and heterogeneous architectures - Performance and resilience limitations of scientific algorithms and applications at scale - Crosscutting approaches (system software and applications) in addressing scalability challenges - Scientific algorithms that can exploit extreme concurrency (e.g. 1 billion for exascale by 2020) - Naturally fault tolerant, self-healing, or fault oblivious scientific algorithms - Programming model and system software support for algorithm scalability and resilience Workshop Chairs - Vassil Alexandrov, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Al Geist, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Workshop Program Chair - Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Program Committee - Vassil Alexandrov, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain - Hartwig Anzt, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA - Rick Archibald, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Franck Cappello, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA - Zizhong Chen, University of California, Riverside, USA - James Elliott, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Nahid Emad, University of Versailles SQ, France - Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Wilfried Gansterer, University of Vienna, Austria - Michael Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Kirk E. Jordan, IBM T.J. Watson Research, USA - Dieter Kranzlmueller, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Germany - Ignacio Laguna, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Piotr Luszczek, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA - Michael Mascagni, Florida State University, USA - Ron Perrot, University of Oxford, UK - Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, France - Stuart Slattery, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA -- Christian Engelmann, Ph.D. R&D Staff Scientist Computer Science Research Group Computer Science and Mathematics Division Oak Ridge National Laboratory Mail: P.O. Box 2008, Oak Ridge, TN 37831-6173, USA Phone: +1 (865) 574-3132 / Fax: +1 (865) 576-5491 e-Mail: engelmannc(a)ornl.gov / Home: www.christian-engelmann.info

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Research Associate Position for 3 years, salary level E13, at Steinbuch Centre for Computing, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
by ivan.kondov＠kit.edu 03 Nov '20

03 Nov '20

Dear colleagues, We have an open position in the new project “Virtual Research Environment for Materials Modeling and Data Analysis” of the Joint Lab “Virtual Materials Design” starting in January 2021. Workflow management, data analysis and visualization in materials science rely currently on generic tools and frameworks and general-purpose languages that require from domain researchers programming and command-line skills, and significant learning, development, validation and maintenance efforts. The main task is to devise a use-case driven domain specific language covering common objects and frequent tasks in computational materials science. This language should allow expressions covering selected use cases and abstract from knowledge of the underlying workflow models and data analysis tools. The new language is expected to increase productivity of domain scientists and enable rapid prototyping. In addition, language processors (interpreter or generator) and supporting tools have to be developed and integrated into an interactive platform (JupyterLab) together with established generic workflow management, data analysis and visualization tools. The successful candidate should have a master degree in computer science or a similar discipline and a very good knowledge of at least one programming language, preferably Python. Good programming and software engineering skills, knowledge of DSL frameworks, for example Xtext, textX or JetBrains MPS, and/or modeling frameworks (for example EMF or PyEcore) will be beneficial. We offer a unique interdisciplinary working environment to provide IT services and perform research under one roof and the opportunity for a career step toward computational science with focus on materials science. Applications and inquiries should be sent via email to Dr. Ivan Kondov (ivan.kondov(a)kit.edu). With my best regards, Ivan Kondov -- Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) Steinbuch Centre for Computing (SCC) Dr. Ivan Kondov Scientific Computing and Mathematics Hermann-von-Helmholtz-Platz 1 76344 Eggenstein-Leopoldshafen Germany Phone: +49 721 608 28644 Fax: +49 721 608 24972 Email: ivan.kondov(a)kit.edu Web: www.scc.kit.edu Registered office: Kaiserstraße 12, 76131 Karlsruhe, Germany KIT – The Research University in the Helmholtz Association

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Call for Abstracts for the workshop: Multi-scale, Multi-physics and Coupled Problems on Highly Parallel Systems (MMCP) at HPC Asia 2021
by Ebrahimi Pour, Neda 03 Nov '20

03 Nov '20

Call for Abstract contribution - Deadline extension Submission deadline: 13th of November 2020 (extended) Workshop on Multi-scale, Multi-physics and Coupled Problems on Highly Parallel Systems (MMCP) at HPC Asia 2021, January 20-22, Jeju, South Korea This workshop will provide a platform for presentations and discussions on advances in numerical simulation for complex multi-scale, multi-physics and coupled problems. The goal of the workshop is to gather researchers (computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians, physicists, chemists, biologists, material sciences etc.) working on different disciplines but all facing challenges in multi-scale and multi-physics as well as coupled simulations on HPC systems. This workshop is the second event in the series; the first was held at HPCAsia 2020, in Fukuoka, Japan. The main focus will be set on computational issues regarding performance and suitability for high-performance computing. Furthermore, the underlying strategies to enable these simulations will be highlighted. Keeping these aims in mind, contributions from all aspects of engineering applications will be considered. Topics of applications will include (but not be limited to): - Multi-scale problems - Multi-physics problems - Molecular dynamics - Multi-domain/Concurrency - Multi-scale and/or multi-physics modelling for biomedical or biological systems - Novel approaches to combine different scales and physics models in one problem solution - Challenging applications in industry and academia, e.g. multiphase flows, fluid-structure interactions, chemical engineering, material science, biophysics, automotive industry, etc. - Load balancing - Adaptivity - Heterogeneous architectures - New algorithms for parallel-distributed computing, specific to this topic. More information about this workshop and the submission procedure can be found on our webpage: https://www.mb.uni-siegen.de/sts/workshops/mmcp2021/ If you have further questions, do not hesitate to contact us. We are looking forward to your contribution! Organizers: Neda Ebrahimi Pour Osni Marques Sabine Roller

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Call for Papers Research Topic on Prediction and Explanation in Biomedicine using Network-Based Approaches [Frontiers in Genetics]
by Alessio Martino 26 Oct '20

26 Oct '20

Dearest Colleagues, I am contacting you in my capacity as Guest Associate Editor for a Research Topic titled: "Prediction and Explanation in Biomedicine using Network-Based Approaches" to appear in Frontiers in Genetics: https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/17011 <https://www.mdpi.com/journal/entropy/special_issues/Hypergraphs> With this call for papers, I invite you and/or your co-authors to submit an original research paper, or a focused review, for our special issue. Deadline for abstract submissions: 25 January 2021 Deadline for manuscript submissions: 26 April 2021 Submitted papers will be peer reviewed and, upon acceptance, the paper will be published in open access form soon after professional editing. Thank you in advance for your consideration and I sincerely hope that you will accept this invitation to contribute to this Special Issue. If you believe that you will be able to submit a manuscript, I would also greatly appreciate if you could respond to this invitation at your earliest convenience. “Frontiers in Genetics” (ISSN 1664-8021, IF: 3.258) is an open access journal published online by Frontiers and indexed by Google Scholar, Scopus, PubMed, PubMed Central, amongst others. Best Regards Alessio Martino PostDoctoral Research Fellow University of Rome "La Sapienza" | Dept. of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications p: +39 0644585745 <tel:+39 0644585745> w: web.uniroma1.it/dip_diet/en <https://web.uniroma1.it/dip_diet/en> e: alessio.martino(a)uniroma1.it <mailto:alessio.martino@uniroma1.it> a: Via Eudossiana 18, 00184 Rome, Italy <https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alessio_Martino> <https://www.linkedin.com/in/alessioxmartino> <https://join.skype.com/invite/omvT1LoeWLcF> This email and its attachments may be confidential and are intended solely for the use of the intended recipient. If you are not the intended recipient of this email and its attachments, you must take no action based upon them, nor must you copy or show them to anyone. Please contact the sender if you believe you have received this email in error. Any views or opinions expressed are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of the University. -- ________________________________________________________ Le informazioni contenute in questo messaggio di posta elettronica sono strettamente riservate e indirizzate esclusivamente al destinatario. Si prega di non leggere, fare copia, inoltrare a terzi o conservare tale messaggio se non si è il legittimo destinatario dello stesso. Qualora tale messaggio sia stato ricevuto per errore, si prega di restituirlo al mittente e di cancellarlo permanentemente dal proprio computer. The information contained in this e mail message is strictly confidential and intended for the use of the addressee only. If you are not the intended recipient, please do not read, copy, forward or store it on your computer. If you have received the message in error, please forward it back to the sender and delete it permanently from your computer system. --

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CFP - 21th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2021)
by Bahman Javadi 25 Oct '20

25 Oct '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 on Evolutionary Algorithms in Artificial Intelligent Systems, open access special issue
by Valentina Franzoni 23 Oct '20

23 Oct '20

Deadline: 31 December 2020 Journal Mathematics (indexed on Scopus, WoS, JCR) https://www.mdpi.com/journal/mathematics/special_issues/Artificial_Intellig… Dear Colleagues, Evolutionary algorithms and metaheuristics are widely used to provide efficient and effective approximate solutions to computationally hard optimization problems. Successful early applications of the evolutionary computational approach can be found in the field of numerical optimization, while they have now become pervasive in applications for planning, scheduling, transportation and logistics, vehicle routing, packing problems, etc. With the widespread use of intelligent systems in recent years, evolutionary algorithms have been applied, beyond classical optimization problems, as components of intelligent systems for supporting tasks and decisions in the fields of machine vision, natural language processing, parameters optimization for neural networks (neuroevolution), and features selection in machine learning systems. Moreover, they are also applied in areas like complex networks dynamics, evolution and trend detection in social networks, emergent behaviour in multiagent systems and adaptive evolutionary user interfaces, to mention a few. In these systems, the evolutionary components are integrated into the overall architecture and they provide services, e.g., pattern matching services, to the specific algorithmic solutions. The aim of this Special Issue is to bring together recent theoretical and applicative research advancements in the area of evolutionary algorithms as components of intelligent systems, with a focus on solutions and methodologies that can be reused to solve subclasses of problems recurring in intelligent applications. Contributions are welcome on theoretical models and applications to intelligent systems of evolutionary algorithms for, but not limited to, single-objective and multiobjective optimization, numerical continuous nonlinear optimization, combinatorial optimization, graph matching and pattern matching, agents, and automata optimization. Evolutionary paradigms to be considered, non-exhaustively, include continuous and discrete differential evolution, genetic algorithms, memetic and foraging schemes, online evolutionary algorithms, genetic programming, co-evolution mechanisms, artificial immune systems, swarm-based approaches, ant colony optimization, and, more generally, nature and bio-inspired metaheuristics. The selection criteria will be primarily based on the formal and technical soundness, the experimental support, and the relevance of the contribution and its impact on the reusability of the results for solving subgroups of problems recurring in a class of intelligent applications. Prof. Dr. Alfredo Milani Dr. Valentina Franzoni *Guest Editors* ------------------------------ Valentina Franzoni, *Ph.D. Engineering for Computer Science* Sapienza University of Rome, Dept. of Computer, Control and Management Engineering *Research Fellow* University of Perugia, Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science Via Vanvitelli 1, 06123 Perugia, Italy --- The information transmitted is intended only for the person or entity to which it is addressed and may contain confidential or privileged material. Any review of, re-transmission, dissemination or other use of, or taking of any action in reliance upon, this information by persons or entities other than the intended recipient is prohibited. If you received this in error, please inform the sender by e-mail and delete the content.

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2-years position (INF/01) in Milan: Data integration and Artificial Intelligence for Life science
by Chiara Damiani 21 Oct '20

21 Oct '20

Dear colleagues, I am writing to advertise a research fellowship for a Data Scientist/Computational Biology at the Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences of the University of Milan-Bicocca, where I work as as fixed-term researcher and where I am starting a research group in Data Integration and Complex Systems. The lab collaborates actively with the Department of Computer Science and with the Joint Research Unit ISBE-it. The announcement of selection will be published soon on https://bandi.miur.it/ <https://bandi.miur.it/>. The deadline will be 30 days after the publication day. The position will start on January 1st 2021. You can find a description of the position and of the candidate we would like to attract in attachment or here <https://sites.google.com/view/chiaradamiani/job-opening> (https://sites.google.com/view/chiaradamiani/job-opening <https://sites.google.com/view/chiaradamiani/job-opening>). Please help me disseminate this post among your colleagues and students. Thanks for your attention, Chiara Damiani, ---------------------- Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences University of Milan Bicocca Building U4 - Room 4019 - Piazza Della Scienza 4 - Milan (MI) phone: +39 02 64483402 mail: chiara.damiani(a)unimib.it <mailto:chiara.damiani@unimib.it> Cari colleghi, vi scrivo per segnalare un assegno di ricerca in INF/01 per Data Scientist/Computational Biology al dipartimento di Biotecnologie e Bioscienze dell'Università di Milano-Bicocca, dove ho recentemente preso posizione come ricercatore (RTD-B in INF/01) e dove sto avviando un gruppo di ricerca in Data Integration and Complex Systems. Il laboratorio collabora attivamente con il Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione e con l’infrastruttura di ricerca ISBE-it. Il bando uscirà a giorni su https://bandi.miur.it/ <https://bandi.miur.it/> (con scadenza a 30gg) e la posizione decorrerà dal primo gennaio 2021. Trovate una breve descrizione della posizione del candidato che vorremmo attrarre in allegato o qui <https://sites.google.com/view/chiaradamiani/job-opening> (https://sites.google.com/view/chiaradamiani/job-opening <https://sites.google.com/view/chiaradamiani/job-opening>). Vi pregherei di segnalare il post a chi fosse interessato e di girarlo nelle vostre mailing lists di dottorandi, assegnisti, studenti. Grazie mille per l’attenzione, Chiara Damiani, ---------------------- Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences University of Milan Bicocca Building U4 - Room 4019 - Piazza Della Scienza 4 - Milan (MI) phone: +39 02 64483402 mail: chiara.damiani(a)unimib.it <mailto:chiara.damiani@unimib.it> Chiara Damiani, Ph.D. Department of Biotechnology and Biosciences University of Milan Bicocca Building U4 - Room 4019 - Piazza Della Scienza 4 - Milan (MI) phone: +39 02 64483402 mail: chiara.damiani(a)unimib.it <mailto:chiara.damiani@unimib.it>

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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. Twitter: IEEE Cloud Computing (https://twitter.com/ieeecloud). ------------------------------ To unsubscribe from the tccld-announce list, click the following link: https://cs-listserv.ieee.org/cgi-bin/wa?SUBED1=tccld-announce&A=1

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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. 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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[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. 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Maple Conference 2020 Registration
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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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CFP: Virtual/Online Conference Announcement and new dates for Virtualization in Machine Learning, High Performance Computing and Simulation
by Uday Kurkure 30 Jul '20

30 Jul '20

Dear All, 1. Covid-19 Announcement: 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. 2. The deadlines have been extended for the new dates for the conference. You can still make changes until the deadline. After the deadline, the paper will be reviewed by multiple reviewers. You will be notified about the final status of the paper. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------- 07 September 2020 - Extended Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- 28 September 2020 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ----------- 09 October 2020 Conference Dates: --------------------------------------------- 10-14 December 2020 3. Call for Papers: The Third Special Session on Virtualization in Machine Learning, High Performance Computing and Simulation (VIRT 2020) CALL FOR PAPERS & PARTICIPATION As part of The 18th International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020) 10 - 14 December 2020 Barcelona, Spain (Virtual/Online event) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 Paper Submission Deadline: 07 September 2020 - Extended Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, poster papers, or posters PURPOSE AND SCOPE Virtualization has become the foundation of cloud computing. The scale of cloud computing data centers is similar to the supercomputers used in High Performance Computing. Both involve millions of CPU cores, tens of thousands of accelerators like GPUs, FPGAs connected by high speed interconnects and different connection topologies. Studies have shown that the GPU utilization in HPC is often at 50%. Virtualization can be the key to increasing resource utilization and managing massive infrastructures efficiently. GPU vendors have introduced virtualized versions of GPUs. FPGAs are being deployed in virtual infrastructure. These and other developments in the field, along with future exascale systems, will provide increasing degree of virtualization within the systems. The goal of this special session is to be an opportunity to discuss and exchange research on the different virtualization technologies and how they can be efficiently applied in High Performance Computing. Theoretical research, engineering solutions dealing with practical tradeoffs, and complex system implementation papers are welcomed. The VIRT topics include (but are not limited to) the following: Virtualization in HPC o Energy efficient solutions for HPC applications in the cloud environment o High-availability based on system-level virtualization mechanisms for HPC o Fault tolerance mechanisms based on system-level virtualization mechanisms for HPC o Performance and evaluation of diverse HPC workloads in virtualization environment o Security Isolation, Resource Isolation and Data Isolation in Virtualized HPC o Flexibility and Ease of system administration and management for virtualized environments for HPC o Running diverse workloads o Running heterogeneous Operating Systems o Live Migration and Suspend/Resume of VMs to improve resource utilization and avoid downtime o Scheduling of resources and Workloads o Software Defined Data Centers (SDDC) o Hypervisors and other virtualization solutions tailored for HPC systems o Big Data and Analytics in Virtualized Environments o Enterprise High Performance Computing in Virtualized Environments Accelerators in Virtualized HPC Environments: o Virtualized GPUs o Scheduling of Virtual GPUs o Using FPGAs in Virtualization Stack o Dynamic Reconfiguration of FPGAs IO Virtualization o Network Virtualization o SR-IOV o Software Defined Networking (SDN) o Storage Virtualization o RDMA and vRDMA Containers in HPC o Isolation of Multiple User-Spaces o Running containers in Virtual Machines Tools o Virtualization solutions for dealing with heterogeneity in HPC environments o Compilers for heterogenous architectures involving GPUS, FPGAs, multi-core CPUs o Operating system support for virtualization in HPC systems o Debugging and/or profiling in virtual environments Algorithms o Distributed Resource Scheduling o Distributed Computing AI, Machine Learning and Deep Learning o Virtualization of Deep Learning Workloads o Deep Learning in HPC Simulations o Resource Allocation Using Machine Learning o Reinforcement Learning for Resource Allocation o Machine Learning to build tools for measurement & calibration Virtualization in Simulation INSTRUCTIONS FOR PAPER SUBMISSIONS You are invited to submit original and unpublished research works on above and other topics related to virtualization in high performance computing and simulation. Submitted papers must not have been published or simultaneously submitted elsewhere until it appears in HPCS proceedings, in the case of acceptance, or notified otherwise. Submission can be for - Regular papers, please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 8 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. - Short papers (up to 4 pages), please submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript, not to exceed 4 double-column formatted pages per template, and include up to 6 keywords and an abstract of no more than 400 words. Additional pages will be charged additional fee. Submission should include a cover page with authors' names, affiliation addresses, fax numbers, phone numbers, and all authors email addresses. Please, indicate clearly the corresponding author(s) although all authors are equally responsible for the manuscript. - Poster papers and Posters (please refer to http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/1-call-for-papers-and-participation/call-for-po… for posters submission details) will also be considered. Please specify the type of submission you have. Please include page numbers on all preliminary submissions to make it easier for reviewers to provide helpful comments. Submit a PDF copy of your full manuscript to the special session paper submission site at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/VIRT2020 . Acknowledgement will be sent within 48 hours of submission. Conference Policies Only PDF files will be accepted, uploaded to the submission link above. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, significance, technical clarity and soundness, presentation, language, and references. Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper, if accepted. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper will have to register and attend (virtually) the HPCS 2020 conference to present the paper at the special session as scheduled. By submitting the paper to the HPCS conference, all authors agree to abide by all HPCS conference paper submission, publication and presentation policies as well as following ethical and professional codes of conduct, including those of the professional co-sponsoring organizations. Contents of manuscripts submitted to the tracks program committees shall be regarded as privileged as well and handled in the same manner and standards. For more information, please refer to the Authors Info and Registration Info pages. Proceedings Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings. Instructions for final manuscript format and requirements will be posted on the HPCS 2020 Conference web site. It is our intent to have the proceedings formally published in hard and soft copies and be available at the time of the conference. The proceedings is projected to be included in the IEEE or ACM Digital Library and indexed in all major indexing services accordingly. SPECIAL ISSUE Plans are underway to have the best papers, in extended version, selected for possible publication in a reputable journal as special issue. Detailed information will soon be announced and will be made available on the conference website. If you have any questions about paper submission or the special session, please contact the special session organizers. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submissions: ------------------------------------------- 07 September 2020 - Extended Acceptance Notification: -------------------------------------- 28 September 2020 Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due by: ----------- 09 October 2020 Conference Dates: --------------------------------------------- 10-14 December 2020 SPECIAL SESSION ORGANIZERS Uday Kurkure VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Phone: +1 650-427-1179 Fax: +1 650- Email: uday(a)alumni.stanford.edu Hari Sivaraman VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Phone: +1 650-427-3681 Fax: +1 650- Email: hsivaraman(a)vmware.com Lan Vu VMware, Inc. 3401 Hillview Avenue Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA Phone: +1 650-427-1327 Fax: +1 650- Email: lanv(a)vmware.com Uday Kurkure, Lan Vu and Hari Sivaraman Co-Chairs of Virtualization in Machine Learning, High Performance Computing and Simulation

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CFP - The Sixth IEEE Workshop on Quantum Communications and Information Technology (QCIT’20)
by Peter Mueller 29 Jul '20

29 Jul '20

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

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Call for Nominations: 2020 IEEE CS TCHPC ECR Award for Excellence in HPC
by Vladimir Getov 20 Jul '20

20 Jul '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 Process (TCPP) • Technical Committee on Computer Communications (TCCC) • Technical Committee on Distributed Processing (TCDP) • Technical Committee on Cloud Computing (TCCLD) • Task Force on Rebooting Computing (TFRC) • Technical Committee on Computational Life Sciences (TCCLS) Nominations: A candidate must be nominated by member(s) of the community. An individual may nominate at most one candidate for this award. The nomination application must be submitted via email to tchpc-awards(a)computer.org as a single PDF file and should contain the following details: 1. Name/email of person making the nomination (self-nominations are not eligible). 2. Name/email of candidate for whom the award is recommended. 3. A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) as to why the nominee is highly deserving of the award. Note that since the award is for outstanding contributions, the statement and supporting letters should address what the contributions are and why they are both outstanding and significant. The nomination should also list the names and email of up to 3 persons who have provided letters supporting the nomination. 4. CV of the nominee. 5. Up to three letters of support from persons other than the nominator – 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 in Atlanta, GA, USA during November 15 – 20, 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 - Deadline Extended
by Juergen Gerhard 13 Jul '20

13 Jul '20

The deadline to submit a presentation proposal to the Maple Conference 2020 has been extended until 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 MS Word document or a PDF document. 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 See you at Maple Conference 2020! Sincerely, Rob Corless and Jürgen Gerhard, Maple Conference 2020 Program Chairs (c) 2020 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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CFP Deadline Extended - 2020 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench'20)
by gaowanling 13 Jul '20

13 Jul '20

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] CALL FOR PAPERS New Deadlines Registration of abstract (non-mandatory): July 15, 2020 Paper Submission: August 15, 2020 Acceptance Notification: September 15, 2020 ========================================================== 2020 BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench'20) http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench20/index.html Nov. 14th - Nov. 16th, 2020, Atlanta, Georgia, USA ========================================================== Introduction ---------------- Benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing are fundamental human activities. The organizing committee is pleased to invite you to take part in Bench'20 to be held in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. This symposium (Bench'20) is organized by the International Open Benchmarking Council (BenchCouncil). Bench'20 overlaps with SC 20 (same place and same time), but it is NOT affiliated with the SC conference. The main themes of Bench'20 are benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing systems and applications in the areas of big data, AI, block chain, HPC, datacenters, IoT, and edge computing. The Bench conference has three defining characteristics. First, it provides a highquality, single-track forum for presenting results and discussing ideas that further the knowledge and understanding of the benchmark community as a whole. Second, it is a multi-disciplinary conference. The past conferences attracted the researchers and practitioners from the architecture, systems, algorithms, and applications communities. Third, it includes both invited sessions and contributed sessions. Regularly, Bench'20 will present the BenchCouncil Achievement Award ($3000), the BenchCouncil Rising Star Award ($1000), and the BenchCouncil Best Paper Award ($1000). As its duty, BenchCouncil incubates and hosts benchmark projects, and further encourages reliable and reproducible research using the benchmarks from BenchCouncil or other organizations. To this end, we present the BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research to the papers using all publicly available benchmarks. Each winning paper earns a $100 prize, maximally up to 12 papers: 4 papers for each category of poster, spotlight, and oral. Call for papers ------------------------ Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following. **Synthetics or real-world data sets of: **Benchmark, measurement, and optimization of: **Benchmark specifications and open-source implementation reports of: ** Methodologies, abstractions, metrics, algorithms, and tools in benchmarking, measurement, and optimization for: ** Benchmark-driven domain-specific co-design of: ** Test methodologies and systems of: ** Workload characterization of: -Big data -AI -HPC -Machine learning -Big scientific data -Datacenters -Cloud -Warehouse-scale computing -Mobile robotics -Edge and fog computing -IoT -Block chain -Data management and storage -Medicine, finance and education Paper Submission ------------------------ Papers must be submitted in PDF. For a full paper, the page limit is 15 pages in the LNCS format, not including references. For a short paper, the page limit is 8 pages in LNCS format, not including references. The submissions will be judged based on the merit of the ideas rather than the length. After the conference, the proceeding will be published by Springer LNCS (Indexed by EI). Please note that the LNCS format is the final one for publishing. After the acceptance decisions are made, the presentation mode of each paper is determined based on the recommendations as poster, spotlight, or oral. All accepted papers, regardless of presentation mode, appear in the proceedings as full-length papers. At least one author must pre-register for the symposium, and at least one author must attend the symposium to present the paper. Papers for which no author is preregistered will be removed from the proceedings. Submission site: https://easychair.org/my/conference?conf=bench20# Improtant Dates --------------------- Registration of abstract (non-mandatory) July 15, 2020 Paper Submission August 15, 2020 Acceptance Notification September 15, 2020 Awards ---------- At Bench'20, several important awards will be given, which include: * BenchCouncil Achievement Award ($3,000) - This award recognizes a senior member who has made long-term contributions to benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. The winner is eligible for the status of a BenchCouncil Fellow. * BenchCouncil Rising Star Award ($1,000) - This award recognizes a junior member who demonstrates outstanding potential for research and practice in benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. * BenchCouncil Best Paper Award ($1,000) - This award recognizes a paper presented at the Bench conferences, which demonstrates potential impact on research and practice in benchmarking, measuring, and optimizing. * BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproduceable Research (Each winning paper earns a $100 prize, maximally up to 12 papers: 4 papers for each category of poster, spotlight, and oral) - BenchCouncil incubates and hosts benchmark projects, and further encourages reliable and reproducible research using the benchmarks from BenchCouncil or other organizations. To this end, we present the BenchCouncil Award for Excellence for Reproducible Research to the papers using all publicly available benchmarks. Organization ----------------- General Chairs Jianfeng Zhan (BenchCouncil and Chinese Academy of Sciences) TPC Chairs Felix Wolf (Technical University of Darmstadt) Wanling Gao (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Award Committees Lizy Kurian John (The University of Texas at Austin) D. K. Panda (The Ohio State University) Geoffrey Fox (Indiana University) Jianfeng Zhan (BenchCouncil and Chinese Academy of Sciences) Submission Chair Rui Ren (Cyberspace Security Research Institute Co., Ltd.) Publicity Chairs Ali Jannesari (Iowa State University) Akihiro Nomura (Tokyo Institute of Technology) Chen Zheng (Institute of Computing Technology, CAS) Zhen Jia (Amazon) Biwei Xie (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences) Technical Program Committee ---------------------------------------- Matthew Bachstein, University of Tennessee, Knoxville Woongki Baek, UNIST David Bermbach, TU Berlin Arne Berre, SINTEF Ben Blamey, Uppsala University K. Selcuk Candan, Arizona State University Florina Ciorba, University of Basel Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University Vladimir Getov, University of Westminster Ryan E. Grant, Sandia National Laboratories Cheol-Ho Hong, Chung-Ang University Yunyou Huang, Guangxi Normal University Sascha Hunold, TU Vienna Khaled Ibrahim, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Todor Ivanov, Frankfurt Big Data Lab, Goethe University Frankfurt Zhen Jia, Amazon Nikhil Jain, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Juby Jose, Intel Gwangsun Kim, POSTECH Huan Liu, Arizona State University Gang Lu, Huawei Xiaoyi Lu, The Ohio State University Piotr Luszczek, University of Tennessee Knoxville Lucas Mello Schnorr, UFRGS Benson Muite, University of Tartu Bin Ren, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Rui Ren, Cyberspace Security Research Institute Co., Ltd. Hyogi Sim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Shuaiwen Leon Song, The University of Sydney Salman Zubair Toor, Uppsala University Blesson Varghese, Queen's University Belfast, UK Feiyi Wang, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Lei Wang, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences Bo Wu, Colorado School of Mines Biwei Xie, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences Jungang Xu, College of Computer and Control Engineering, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences Chen Zheng, ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences Xiexuan Zhou, Max Plank Institute of Biochemistry

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HPBench 2020 - Deadline has been extended
by Samar Aseeri 07 Jul '20

07 Jul '20

Dear Sir, dear Madam, Please, can you pass this announcement also to interested colleagues. Kind regards ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS The 7th Special Session on High Performance Computing for Application Benchmarking and Optimization (HPBench 2020) As part of the International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation (HPCS 2020) http://hpcs2020.cisedu.info/ or http://conf.cisedu.info/rp/hpcs20 Barcelona, Spain ========================================================================== Benchmarking is an essential aspect of modern high performance computing and computational science, and as such, it provides a means for quantifying and comparing the performance of different computer systems. With a large combination of aspects to benchmark, all the way from the capability of a single core, to cluster configuration, and to various software configurations, the benchmarking process is more of an art than science. However, the results of this process drive modern science and are vital for the community to draw sensible conclusions on the performance of applications and systems. This special session focuses on research work aimed at benchmarking modern parallel and distributed systems for addressing a number of real world problems. As such, contributions concerning the definition of new open platforms, new benchmarks to match modern architectural evolutions, studies on the aspects of benchmarking different aspects of systems (from raw runtime performance to energy consumption to energy consumed per data movement) and mathematical foundations of benchmarking are sought. IMPORTANT DATES : Papers Due: 21 July 2020 Author Notification: 03 August 2020 Camera-Ready Submission: 15 August 2020 Conference Dates: 26-30 October 2020 TOPICS : The HPBench topics of interest include, but are not limited to -Open Platforms for Parallel and Distributed Application Benchmarking and Optimization -Benchmarking on the Cloud -Benchmarking of Clusters, Supercomputers, and large-scale systems -Benchmarking the Performance of I/O -Benchmarking of Energy and Energy Efficiency -Benchmarking Web Services -Virtualization for Distributed Benchmarking -Data Distribution for Benchmarking -Performance results of benchmarks on modern platforms -Scalability Aspects of Benchmarking Parallel Applications on Parallel and Distributed Systems -Benchmarking of Parallel Scientific and Business Applications -Performance of Benchmarking Applications (Eg: NAS parallel benchmarks) -Techniques, frameworks and results concerning the benchmarking of library packages -Tools and frameworks for performance modeling systems and applications -Tools and frameworks for simulation, measurement and monitoring -Performance Measurements, Monitoring, Modeling and Simulation -Domain-specific benchmarks and applications (such as image processing, pattern recognition, cryptography, biometrics, differential equation solvers, signal processing and alike) -Mathematical Foundations of Benchmarking, Metrics and Heuristics GENERAL CHAIRS : Samar Aseeri, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia Jordi Blasco, New Zealand eScience Infrastructure & Landcare Research, New Zealand Luigi Iapichino, Leibniz Supercomputing Centre (LRZ), Germany TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Cosimo Anglano, Universitá del Piemonte Orientale, Italy Fabio Baruffa, Intel, Germany Ben Blamey, Uppsala University, Sweden Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, California, USA Paul Carpenter, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain 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 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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