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Deadline Approaching - HiPC 2019 Women In Computing
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 27 Sep '19

27 Sep '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2019 Women In Computing Held in conjunction with the 26th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, DATA, and ANALYTICS (HIPC 2019) December 18, 2019 | Hyderabad, INDIA | www.hipc.org Paper Submission Deadline Approaching. Important Dates Paper Submission: September 30, 2019 Notification to Authors: October 20, 2019 Camera-ready submissions: October 31, 2019 For more information, please visit: https://hipc.org/women-in-computing/

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Deadline Approaching - HiPC 2019 Student Research Symposium (SRS)
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 27 Sep '19

27 Sep '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** 12th HiPC Student Research Symposium (SRS) Held in conjunction with the 26th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, DATA, and ANALYTICS (HIPC 2019) December 17-20, 2019 | Hyderabad, INDIA | www.hipc.org Paper Submission Deadline Approaching. Updated Important Dates Aug 19, 2019: Submission Opens Sep 30, 2019: Submission Deadline *extended deadline* Nov 9, 2019: Accept/Reject Decision Notification Dec 17-20, 2019: Symposium For more information, please visit: https://hipc.org/students-research-symposium/

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Final Call - HiPC Workshop 2019 - Data Science for Future Energy Systems
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 27 Sep '19

27 Sep '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** Data Science for Future Energy Systems - HiPC Workshop 2019 https://hipc.org/dsfes 17 December 2019 Hyderabad, India Final Call. Paper Submission Deadline Approaching. Important Dates Sep 30, 2019: Submission Deadline *extended deadline* Oct 14, 2019: Accept/Reject Decision Notification Oct 28, 2019: Workshop camera ready For more information, please visit: https://hipc.org/dsfes

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INSIGHT 2020 - Call for Submission
by Brandstoetter, Mathias 26 Sep '19

26 Sep '19

Dear Colleagues, It is my pleasure to announce this year's call for submission of the INSIGHT 2020 Exhibition. The next INSIGHT Exhibition will take place in April 2020 in Vienna (Austria). Please find the call and more information at www.insight2020.at<http://www.insight2020.at>. The application process is really simple. The main idea is still that scientific data is being visualized and presented in pictures that are a) aesthetic and b) insightful (i.e. help the understanding of the underlying problem / data) Here a few example pictures from previous exhibitions: [cid:image001.jpg@01D574B4.39CE62E0] Kind regards, Mathias Brandstötter --- Dr. Mathias Brandstötter Deputy Director _________________________________________________________________ JOANNEUM RESEARCH Forschungsgesellschaft mbH ROBOTICS - Institute for Robotics and Mechatronics Lakeside B08a, 9020 Klagenfurt am Wörthersee, Austria phone: +43 316 876-2005 mobil: +43 664 602 876-2005 fax: +43 316 8769-2005 e-mail: mathias.brandstoetter(a)joanneum.at<mailto:mathias.brandstoetter@joanneum.at> web: www.joanneum.at/robotics<http://www.joanneum.at/robotics> _________________________________________________________________ This message and any attached files are confidential and intended solely for the addressee(s). Any publication, transmission or other use of the information by a person or entity other than the intended addressee(s) is prohibited. If you receive this in error please contact the sender and delete the material. The sender does not accept liability for any errors or omissions as a result of the transmission. Please consider the environment before printing this page.

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CFP: The 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2020)
by Bahman Javadi 26 Sep '19

26 Sep '19

===================================================================== The 20th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Internet Computing (CCGrid 2020) May 11-14, 2020, Melbourne, Australia Website: http://cloudbus.org/ccgrid2020/ ===================================================================== Call for Papers Tremendous advances in processing, communication and systems/middle-ware technologies are leading to new paradigms and platforms for computing, 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. CCGrid is a series of very successful conferences, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and ACM (Association for Computing Machinery), with the overarching goal of bringing together international researchers, developers, and users and to provide an international forum to present leading research activities and results on a broad range of topics related to these platforms and paradigms and their applications. The conference features keynotes, technical presentations, posters, workshops, tutorials, as well as the SCALE challenge featuring live demonstrations and the ICFEC 2020 conference. In 2020, CCGrid will return to Melbourne, Australia, to celebrate its 20th anniversary. CCGrid 2020 will have a special focus on three important issues that are significantly influencing all aspects of Cluster, Cloud, and Internet computing: Adaptive Elastic Computing, Green Computing, and Cyber-Physical Computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Internet Computing Frontiers: Edge, Fog, Serverless, Lambda, Streaming, etc. More decentralized approaches to cloud computing. Edge/fog/mist 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. 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 and Privacy: Cloud security and trust. Access control. Data privacy and integrity. Regulation. Sustainable and Green Computing: Environment friendly computing ecosystems. Hardware/software/application energy efficiency. Power, cooling and thermal awareness. Applications: Data Science, Artificial Intelligence, Cyber-Physical Systems, etc. Applications to real and complex problems in science, engineering, business and society. User studies. Experiences with large-scale deployments systems and data science applications. Distributed AI/Machine Learning on the cloud. Data streaming analytics for intelligent transportation systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Chairs and Committees ------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chair: Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia. General Vice Chairs: Dhabaleswar Panda, Ohio State University, USA Jin Hai, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Massimo Villari, The University of Messina, Italy Program Committee Co-Chairs: Carlos A Varela, RPI, USA Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, France Workshops Co-Chairs: George Pallis, The University of Cyprus, Cyprus Borja Sotomayor, The University of Chicago, USA Doctoral Symposium Chairs : Anne-Cecile Orgerie, Inria, France Ivan Rodero, The State University of New Jersey, USA Posters Co-Chairs : Hari Subramoni, Ohio State University, USA Joanna Kolodziej, National Research Institute (NASK), Poland Student Travel Awards Chair: Lena Mashayekhy, University of Delaware, USA SCALE Challenge Chair : Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Science, India Research/Product Demonstrations Chairs : Rodrigo Calheiros, Western Sydney University, Australia Proceedings Co-Chair : Omer Rana, Cardiff University, UK Adel N. Toosi, Monash University, Australia Publicity Co-Chairs: Jithin Jose, Microsoft, USA Stefan Schulte, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Bahman Javadi, Western Sydney University, Australia Mohsen Amini, The University of Louisiana at Lafayette, USA Ching-Hsien Hsu, National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Carlos Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Cyber Chair : Mohammad Goudarzi, The University of Melbourne, Australia Important Dates Paper Due: 10 December 2019 Acceptance Notification: 30 January 2020 Camera Ready Papers Due: 25 February 2020 =====================================================================

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Call for Workshop Proposals: The 2020 International Conference on Parallel Processing
by Tarek Abdelrahman 20 Sep '19

20 Sep '19

[Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email] Call for Workshop proposals for ICPP 2020 conference 49th International Conference on Parallel Processing http://www.icpp-conf.org Parallel and distributed computing is a central topic in science, engineering and society. ICPP, the International Conference on Parallel Processing, provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to exchange ideas and present results of on-going research in most state-of-the-art in all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. The Workshops Committee of ICPP 2020 welcomes proposals for half or full day workshops affiliated with the conference, on topics of interest to ICPP 2020 attendees. The purpose of these workshops is to create new opportunities for presenting novel ideas in particular topics of interest, creating an specialized forum that may open new opportunities of collaboration and discussion. The 49th ICPP will be held in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada on August 17-20, 2020. Workshops will be held on Monday August 17th. Important Dates Workshop proposal submissions: November 4, 2019 Workshop proposal notifications: November 11, 2019 Workshop proposal guidelines The proposals should include the following information: 1. Title/Acronym for the workshop. 2. Short biography of the Workshop organizers (5-10 lines). 3. Abstract on the workshop theme. 4. Discussion of the topic's relevance and workshop goals. 5. A description of the target audience. 6. Expected length (half-day or full-day). 7. Publicity plan for attracting submissions. 8. If applicable, details on previous instantiations of the workshop. All workshop proposals will be evaluated by the ICPP Workshops Committee. The decision will be made based on the overall quality of the proposal and its match with the topics of interest to ICPP 2020. It is highly recommended that workshop proposals with similar scopes only submit a joint proposal. Workshop Proposal Submission Workshop proposals (in pdf format) should be sent by email to one of the workshops chairs Federico Silla <fsilla(a)upv.es)>. Please do not hesitate to contact the workshop chairs Federico Silla <fsilla(a)upv.es> or Tarek Abdelrahman <tsa(a)ece.utoronto.ca>, for any inquiry.

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HiPC Workshop 2019 - Data Science for Future Energy Systems - Paper Deadline Extended
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 19 Sep '19

19 Sep '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** Data Science for Future Energy Systems - HiPC Workshop 2019 https://hipc.org/dsfes 17 December 2019 Hyderabad, India Paper Submission Deadline Extended. Updated Important Dates Sep 30, 2019: Submission Deadline *extended deadline* Oct 14, 2019: Accept/Reject Decision Notification Oct 28, 2019: Workshop camera ready For more information, please visit: https://hipc.org/dsfes

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SDM 2020 Call for Papers
by Alfredo Cuzzocrea 17 Sep '19

17 Sep '19

20th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining May 7 - May 9, 2020, Cincinnati, OH, USA ======================================== SDM 2020 - http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm20 Call for Papers Scope ===== Data mining is the computational process for discovering valuable knowledge from data - the core of modern Data Science. It has enormous application in numerous fields, including science, engineering, healthcare, business, and medicine. Typical datasets in these fields are large, complex, and often noisy. Extracting knowledge from these datasets requires the use of sophisticated, high-performance, and principled analysis techniques and algorithms, which are based on sound theoretical and statistical foundations. These techniques in turn require implementations on high performance computational infrastructure that are carefully tuned for performance. Powerful visualization technologies along with effective user interfaces are also essential to make data mining tools appealing to researchers, analysts, data scientists and application developers from different disciplines, as well as usable by stakeholders. The SDM conference provides a venue for researchers who are addressing these problems to present their work in a peer-reviewed forum. It also provides an ideal setting for graduate students and others new to the field to learn about cutting-edge research by hearing outstanding invited speakers and attending presentations and tutorials (included with conference registration). A set of focused workshops is also held on the last day of the conference. The proceedings of the conference are published in archival form and are also made available on the SIAM web site. Topics of Interest ================== *Methods and Algorithms -Anomaly & Outlier Detection -Big Data & Large-Scale Systems -Classification & Semi-Supervised Learning -Clustering & Unsupervised Learning -Data Cleaning & Integration -Deep Learning & Representation Learning -Frequent Pattern Mining -Feature Extraction, Selection and Dimensionality Reduction -Mining Data Streams -Mining Graphs & Complex Data -Mining on Emerging Architectures & Data Clouds -Mining Semi Structured Data -Mining Spatial & Temporal Data -Mining Text, Web & Social Media -Online Algorithms -Optimization Methods -Parallel and Distributed Methods -Probabilistic & Statistical Methods -Scalable & High-Performance Mining -Other Novel Methods *Applications -Astronomy & Astrophysics -Automation & Process Control -Climate / Ecological / Environmental Science -Customer Relationship Management -Data Science -Drug Discovery -Finance -Genomics & Bioinformatics -Healthcare Management -High Energy Physics -Intelligence Analysis -Internet of Things -Intrusion & Fraud detection -Logistics Management -Recommendation -Risk Management -Social Network Analysis -Supply Chain Management -Other Emerging Applications *Human Factors and Social Issues -Ethics of Data Mining -Intellectual Ownership -Interestingness & Relevance -Privacy and Fairness Models -Privacy Preserving Data Mining -Risk Analysis and Risk Management -Transparency and Algorithmic Bias -User Interfaces and Visual Analytics -Other Human and Social Issues Submission URL ============== https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SDM2020 Workshop and Tutorials ====================== The conference will feature workshops and tutorials on several special topics. Please see the SDM 2020 website for submission requirements. Examples of workshops and tutorials are available through the SDM 2019 website, http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm19/ Organization ============ GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame, USA Carlotta Domeniconi, George Mason Univeristy, USA PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Yan Liu, University of Southern California, USA Sriraam Natarajan, University of Texas at Dallas, USA WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS Yuxiao Dong, Microsoft Research, USA Gregor Stiglic, University of Maribor, Slovenia TUTORIALS CHAIR Danai Koutra, University of Michigan, USA DOCTORAL FORUM CHAIRS Matteo Riondato, Amherst College, USA Brandeis Marshall, Spelman College, USA PANELS CHAIR Zhenhui Jessie Li, Penn State University, USA PUBLICITY CHAIRS Xiang Ren, University of Southern California, USA Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy Sourangshu Bhattacharya, IIT, Kharagpur, India AWARDS CHAIR TBA STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR Zoran Obradovic, Temple University, USA LOCAL CHAIR Ping Zhang, Ohio State University, USA Important Dates (tentative) =========================== Abstract Submission: October 4, 2019 11:59pm (US Eastern Time) Paper Submission: October 11, 2019 11:59pm (US Eastern Time) Workshop Proposals: October 4, 2019 11:59pm (US Eastern Time) Tutorial Proposals: October 4, 2019 11:59pm (US Eastern Time)

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CFP - Extended Deadline - Special Session at PDP 2020 on HPC in M&S (HPCMS) in Västerås (Sweden)
by William Spataro 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

(sorry for cross postings) ************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS) Within PDP 2020 (www.pdp2020.com) The 28th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, and Network-Based Computing Västerås (Sweden) 11-13 March 2020 http://www.pdp2020.com/specialsessions/hpcms/hpcms.html New Extended Deadline: October 12th, 2019 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 sixth edition which will take place in Vasteras (Västerås) (Sweden). 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: 12 October 2019 Acceptance notification: 30 October 2019 Camera ready due: 11 December 2019 Conference: 11 - 13 March 2020 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=pdp2020 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) : +39.0984.49.3691 / 4875 / 6464 Fax : +39.0984.493570 Member of the OpenCAL Team (https://github.com/OpenCALTeam) Web: www.mat.unical.it/spataro Email: spataro(a)unical.it -°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°

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HiPC 2019 Student Research Symposium - Paper Deadline Extended
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 16 Sep '19

16 Sep '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** 12th HiPC Student Research Symposium (SRS) Held in conjunction with the 26th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, DATA, and ANALYTICS (HIPC 2019) December 17-20, 2019 | Hyderabad, INDIA | www.hipc.org Paper Submission Deadline Extended. Updated Important Dates Aug 19, 2019: Submission Opens Sep 30, 2019: Submission Deadline *extended deadline* Nov 9, 2019: Accept/Reject Decision Notification Dec 17-20, 2019: Symposium For more information, please visit: https://hipc.org/students-research-symposium/

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[Call for AI Challenges] 2019 BenchCouncil International AI System and Algorithm Challenges (Award Presentation on Bench 19, Nov 14-16 at Denver, Colorado, USA)
by gaowanling＠ict.ac.cn 13 Sep '19

13 Sep '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] CALL FOR CHALLENGES ========================================================== 2019 BenchCouncil International AI System and Algorithm Challenges http://www.benchcouncil.org/competition/index.html Awards: 500,000 CNY (about 70,000 US dollar) ========================================================== Introduction ------------------------ BenchCouncil 2019 International AI system and algorithm challenges are organized by International Open Benchmark Council (BenchCouncil), and the main purpose is to advance the state-of-the-art and state-of-the-practice algorithms on different systems or architectures, i.e., RISC-V, Cambrian chip, and X86_64, and solicit new approaches to advance the state-of-the-art or state-of-the-practice algorithms. The challenge tracks use AIBench as baseline, which is publicly available from http://www.benchcouncil.org/AIBench/index.html . BenchCouncil provides the tesbed for reproducing performance numbers. The competition team can apply for nodes through http://www.benchcouncil.org/testbed/index.php . 2019 AI challenges have four tracks: • International AI System Challenge based on RISC-V • International AI System Challenge based on Cambrian Chip • International AI System Challenge based on X86 Platform • International 3D Face Recognition Algorithm Challenge Challenges manuals ------------------------ http://www.benchcouncil.org/competition/handbook-en.pdf Communication Tool ------------------------ The discussion groups are hosted on Xinxiu---a dedicated communication tool for science and education. Discussion group site: https://app.ic3i.com/org/benchcouncil/en/ Important Dates ------------------------ Now the AI challenge is beginning! Registration deadline: Sep. 15, 2019, anywhere on earth Performance numbers finalized: October 1, 2019, anywhere on earth The code should be submitted to BenchHub for reproducing performance numbers and code review. Submission site: http://125.39.136.212:8090 Preliminary paper version submitted: October 15, 2019, anywhere on earth Paper submission： https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=competition2019 Camera-ready version submitted: November 10, 2019 Awards ------------------------ Special Award (Only one): 100,000 CNY The First Prize: • 30,000 CNY (one for every track) The Second Prize: • 20,000 CNY (two for every track) The Third Prize: • 10,000 CNY (three for every track) Awards Presentation ------------------------ The award presentation is on Bench 19 conference ( http://www.benchcouncil.org/bench19/index.html ), which will be held on Nov 14-16 at Denver, Colorado, USA. Every team should submit their paper to BenchCouncil International Symposium on Benchmarking, Measuring and Optimizing (Bench 19). The award-winners must submit a paper to Bench 19 conference and give a presentation. Bench19 Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=competition2019 Award committees • Lizy John (University of Texas at Austin) • D. K. Panda (OSU) • Geoffrey Fox (Indianan University) • Wanling Gao (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences) • XIaoyi Lu (OSU) • Jianfeng Zhan (ICT, Chinese Academy of Sciences) AI Challenge Tracks ------------------------ (1) International AI System Competition based on RISC-V Goal • The implementation and optimization of CNN-based image classification task on RISC-V, using Cifar-10 dataset and ResNet-50 model Targets • Implement the forward calculation stage • Minimize external dependences (e.g., OpenMP, Boost) • Guarantee the original model accuracy (deviation<0.05%) Metrics • Maximize the execution performance (number of instructions) • Minimize the binary file, e.g., compiled executable file (2) International AI System Competition based on Cambrian Chip Goal • The implementation and optimization of CNN-based image classification task on Cambrian, using Cifar-10 dataset and ResNet-50 model Target • Implement the forward calculation stage • Guarantee the original model accuracy (deviation<0.05%) Metric • Maximize the execution performance---the shorter the prediction time on test data, the better the performance (3) International AI System Competition based on X86 Platform Goal • The implementation and optimization of matrix decomposition based collaborative filtering task on X86 platform, using MovieLens dataset and ALS-WR algorithm Target • Implement ALS-WR training algorithm • Can use external libraries supported by the platform Metric • Maximize the execution performance-reduce training time (30 rounds) (4) International 3D Face Recognition Algorithm Competition Goal • Innovative algorithm for 3D Face Recognition Targets • The competitors need to submit the model file and test file • Description file, source code • External data for training is allowed, but need description Metrics • ROC and AUC value

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DEADLINE 9/17: Diversity Focused Opportunity for Faculty to Explore Research Collaborations with Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences
by Mary Ann Leung, Ph.D. 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

Don't miss this opportunity to visit Berkeley Lab to explore potential research collaboration for the summer of 2020 for faculty and students from underrepresented backgrounds APPLICATION DEADLINE EXTENDED TO TUESDAY, SEPT 17, 2019! What: Sustainable Research Pathways Matching Workshop Description: Matching workshop for faculty working with undergraduate and graduate students from underrepresented backgrounds to explore research collaborations with Berkeley Lab Computing Sciences staff. Matched and funded faculty and/or their students conduct research at Berkeley Lab during the summer of 2020. Workshop applicants must be a full-time faculty member at an accredited U.S. degree-granting institution of higher education. We are especially interested in working with minority serving institutions, community, women’s, and liberal arts colleges, as well as high research institutions. Many teams have presented their research at major computational science and engineering conferences, won awards, and continued their collaborations in subsequent years. For more information, visit: http://shinstitute.org/srp-application/

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HiPC 2019 Women In Computing - Call for Papers
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 12 Sep '19

12 Sep '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2019 WOMEN IN COMPUTING https://hipc.org/women-in-computing/ 18 December 2019 – Hyderabad, India Computing has become a ubiquitous influence in current times and is set to have an ever-increasing presence in the coming years. This will have a huge impact on the kind of technology that is going to be available to the layman. Given the young population, an emerging economy like India has, it is important that they are aware of the various technological advances that are being done, the huge amount of compute power that is available now and the means to leverage the two to resolve significant social issues that exist in the country. The goal of the “Women in Computing” event is to provide a platform for technology enthusiasts who are using compute power to design and invent solutions to problems pertaining to social good, and for women technologists, both current and prospective, to participate, present their work and popularize opportunities, challenges, and solutions, in the realm of responsible use of computing. The participants will have the opportunity to interact with experts in HPC and Data Science, leverage their expertise and form collaborations. CALL FOR PAPERS Computing has become a ubiquitous influence in current times and is set to have an ever increasing presence in the coming years. This will have a huge impact on the kind of technology that is going to be available to the layman. Given the young population, an emerging economy like India has, it is important that they are aware of the various technological advances that are being done, the huge amount of compute power that is available now and the means to leverage the two to resolve significant social issues that exist in the country. The goal of the “Women in Computing” event is to provide a platform for technology enthusiasts who are using compute power to design and invent solutions to problems pertaining to social good, and for women technologists, both current and prospective, to participate, present their work and popularize opportunities, challenges, and solutions, in the realm of responsible use of computing. The participants will have the opportunity to interact with experts in HPC and Data Science, leverage their expertise and form collaborations. We invite submissions of papers on original work in interdisciplinary domains with methodologies spanning across data science and high-performance computing. Topics of interest related to methodologies include, but are not limited to the following: * IoT-based, and/or data-driven analysis, * Real-time decision making for edge computing, * Visual analytics for large-scale and/or high-dimensional data, * Machine learning or deep learning algorithms or systems, * Artificial intelligence and/or robotics, * Distributed and cloud-based systems. These methodologies must be used in solutions stemming from unique ideas to solve pertinent socially relevant problem scenarios. Scenarios in interdisciplinary domains of interest include, but are not limited to the following: * Traffic planning and control, * Monitoring infant health in primary health centers, * Large-scale medical diagnosis for reducing the requirement of skilled doctors, * Low-cost ways of determining air/water quality and improving the quality, * Food processing methods that reduce wastage of produce, * Methods to reduce pesticide usage, * Solid waste collection, and management, * Women safety, * Accessibility and differently-abled inclusivity. MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed six (6) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5 × 11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See IEEE style templates at this page at this page for details. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, the relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. 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. Presentation of an accepted paper at the event is a requirement of publication. Papers will be selected for full-paper and short-paper types. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in the proceedings of HiPC Workshops. We require that the submission include at least one female author. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: September 30, 2019 Notification to Authors: October 20, 2019 Camera-ready submissions: October 31, 2019 SUBMISSION PORTAL Easychair Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019 After entering the above-mentioned Easychair page, use the hyperlink on “enter as an author”, which will redirect to a list of tracks in HiPC. Choose “Women in Computing” to make your submission. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Dr. Nitya Hariharan, Intel Technology India Pvt. Ltd. Dr. Chitra P, Thiagarajar College of Engineering Dr. Jaya Sreevalsan Nair, International Institute of Information Technology, Bangalore Please contact wichipc2019(a)gmail.com for any queries.

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Student Research Symposium (SRS) HiPC 2019 - Submission Deadline Approaching
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

*********************************************************************************************** STUDENT RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM (SRS) HIPC 2019 DEADLINE APPROACHING *********************************************************************************************** *** 12th HiPC Student Research Symposium (SRS) *** Held in conjunction with the 26th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, DATA, and ANALYTICS (HIPC 2019) December 17-20, 2019 | Hyderabad, INDIA | www.hipc.org OVERVIEW HiPC 2019 will feature the 12th Student Research Symposium on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HPC) aimed at stimulating and fostering student research, and providing an international forum to highlight student research accomplishments. The symposium will also provide exposure to students in the best practices in HPC in academia and industry. The symposium will feature student posters and provide students with other enriching experiences, such as workshops, industry exhibits, and demos. The Conference Reception and multiple Student Symposium Poster Exhibit sessions will provide an opportunity for students to interact with HPC researchers and practitioners (and recruiters) from academia and industry. Awards for Best Poster, sponsored by IEEE Computer Society – Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) – will be presented at the symposium. An online book containing the resumes of the students participating in the symposium will be compiled and made available to the sponsors of the HiPC 2019 conference. TOPICS Papers are solicited in all areas of high-performance computing, data, and analytics, including but not limited to topics mentioned below. High-Performance Computing Algorithms: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing new parallel and distributed computing algorithms, and related advances. Examples of topics that are of interest include (but not limited to): • New parallel and distributed algorithms and design techniques; • Advances in enhancing algorithmic properties or providing guarantees (e.g., fault tolerance, resilience, concurrency, data locality, communication-avoiding); • Classical and emerging computation models (e.g., parallel/distributed models, quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired models); • Provably efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for advanced scientific computing and irregular applications (e.g., numerical linear algebra, graph algorithms, computational biology); and • Algorithmic techniques for resource allocation and optimization (e.g., scheduling, load balancing, resource management). Architectures: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and evaluation of high-performance computing architectures, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): • Design and evaluation of high-performance processing architectures (e.g., reconfigurable, system-on-chip, many cores, vector processors); • Design and evaluation of networks for high-performance computing platforms (e.g., interconnect topologies, network-on-chip); • Design and evaluation of memory, cache and storage architectures (e.g., 3D, photonic, Processing-In-Memory, NVRAM, burst buffers, parallel I/O); • Approaches to improve architectural properties (e.g., energy/power efficiency, reconfigurable, resilience/fault tolerance, security/privacy); and • Emerging computational architectures (e.g., quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired architectures). Applications: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and implementation of scalable applications for execution on parallel and distributed platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): • Design and implementation of shared and distributed memory parallel applications (e.g., scientific computing and industry applications, emerging applications in IoT and life sciences – biology, medicine, chemistry, etc.); • Design and simulation methodologies for scaling applications on peta and exascale platforms (e.g., co-design approaches, hardware/software co-design, heterogeneous and hybrid programming); • Hardware acceleration of parallel applications (e.g., CPU/GPUs, multi-GPU clusters, FPGA, vector processors, manycore); and • Design of application benchmarks for parallel and distributed platforms. Systems Software: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design, implementation, and evaluation of systems software for high-performance computing platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): • Scalable systems and software architectures for high-performance computing (e.g., middleware, operating systems, I/O services); • Techniques to enhance parallel performance (e.g., compiler/runtime optimization, learning from application traces, profiling); • Techniques to enhance parallel application development and productivity (e.g., Domain-Specific Languages, programming environments, performance/correctness checking and debugging); • Techniques to deal with uncertainties, hardware/software resilience, and fault tolerance; • Software for the cloud, data center, and exascale platforms (e.g., middleware tools, schedulers, resource allocation, data migration, load balancing); and • Software and programming paradigms for heterogeneous platforms (e.g., libraries for CPU/GPU, multi-GPU clusters, and other accelerator platforms). Data Science Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable algorithms for data analysis at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): • New scalable algorithms for fundamental data analysis tasks (supervised, unsupervised learning, and pattern discovery); • Scalable algorithms that are designed to address the characteristics of different data sources and settings (e.g., graphs, social networks, sequences, data streams); • Scalable algorithms and techniques to reduce the complexity of large-scale data (e.g., streaming, sublinear data structures, summarization, compressive analytics); • Scalable algorithms that are designed to address requirements in different data-driven application domains (e.g., life sciences, business, agriculture); and • Scalable algorithms that ensure the transparency and fairness of the analysis. Scalable Systems and Software: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable systems and software for handling data at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): • Design of scalable system software to support various applications (e.g., recommendation systems, web search, crowdsourcing applications, streaming applications); • Design of scalable system software for various architectures (e.g., OpenPower, GPUs, FPGAs); • Architectures and systems software to support various operations in large data frameworks (e.g., storage, retrieval, automated workflows, data organization, visualization, visual analytics, human-in-the-loop); • Design and implementation of systems software for distributed data frameworks (e.g., distributed file system, virtualization, cloud services, resource optimization, scheduling); and • Standards and protocols for enhancing various aspects of data analytics (e.g., open data standards, privacy-preserving, and secure schemes). IMPORTANT DATES Aug 19, 2019 > Submission Opens Sep 16, 2019 > Submission Deadline Nov 9, 2019 > Accept/Reject Decision Notification Dec 17-20, 2019 > Symposium ELIGIBILITY Submissions should have at least one author who is a student during any part of the calendar year 2019. Submissions may have multiple student or non-student co-authors. Submissions must mark student authors with an asterisk (*). SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS In order to be considered for a poster at the Student Research Symposium, authors must submit papers, not exceeding five (5) letter size (8.5in x 11in) pages, in 11 or 12 point font, single-spaced, with 1'' margins on all sides. Papers are to be submitted online in PDF format through Easychair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019. The papers will be used to select posters, but will NOT be published in the conference proceedings. This will provide students the flexibility to publish an extended version of their paper at other venues, after benefiting from reviewer feedback from the symposium. Papers submitted to the symposium are expected to be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. Papers will be judged on technical merit, quality, relevance to the symposium, and related parameters. Plagiarism, in any form, especially verbatim reproduction from other published works, is prohibited. Papers that are plagiarized will be rejected, and the corresponding department and institution will be notified. Facilities for displaying posters will be made available, and the exact specifications of the poster size will be provided later. At least one student author of each paper that is accepted must register and attend the conference to present their work. Papers with no-shows will be retroactively rejected. TRAVEL SUPPORT We expect to provide a travel scholarship to at least one student author of each accepted submission from an Indian university, subject to availability of funding. This scholarship will cover partial expenses for attending the conference. Further details on this scholarship and the application process will be provided later. SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS Ashok Srinivasan, University of West Florida, USA Ramakrishna Upadrasta, IIT Hyderabad, India SYMPOSIUM VICE-CHAIR Dip Sankar Banerjee, IIIT Guwahati, India CONTACT Contact student_symposium at hipc dot org for more details.

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Data Science for Future Energy Systems (HiPCW 2019) Submission Deadline Approaching
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** Paper Deadline in 10 Days - Data Science for Future Energy Systems - HiPC Workshop 2019 https://hipc.org/dsfes 17 December 2019 Hyderabad, India CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPER An Energy System is defined as a system primarily designed to supply energy services to end users. Such systems form the backbone of modern economy and include power grids, oilfields, heating/cooling systems, etc. The design of efficient, reliable and scalable Energy Systems for the future requires making them smarter and transitioning them into Future Energy Systems via novel data driven solutions built on top of the existing monitoring and control infrastructure. The goal of this workshop is to highlight and encourage discussions regarding novel applications of data science and data analytics techniques in the domain of Energy Systems such as smart (power) grids, smart oilfields, smart heating/cooling systems etc. Data driven techniques enabling transition to Future Energy Systems via improved sustainability and electrification of the energy systems, Uberization of the energy systems, mobility changes due to future energy systems, etc. are solicited. This workshop seeks submissions related to the following topic areas as applicable to the domain of future energy systems: * Discovery of knowledge and insights using data * Data Analytics Applications: Learning, prediction, anomaly detection, pattern recognition, search, mining, etc. * Data management/infrastructure * Data privacy/security * Data driven modeling * Data driven decision making * Data driven techniques enabling energy transition for improved sustainability and electrification * Uberization of energy systems enabling peer-to-peer transactions, minimizing distance between the producer and consumers, user rating system for quality of service, etc. * Mobility changes due to future energy systems MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed six (6) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5 x 11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See IEEE style templates at this page for details. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. 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. Presentation of an accepted paper at the workshop is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: September 20th, 2019 Notification to Authors: October 14th, 2019 Workshop camera-ready: October 28th, 2019 SUBMISSION PORTAL Easychair Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dsfes2019 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Sanmukh R. Kuppannagari, University of Southern California, USA Chayan Sarkar, TCS Research, India PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS Ram Balachandran, India Charalampos Chelmis, University of Albany, USA Sanmukh R. Kuppannagari (organizer), University of Southern California, USA Akshay Uttama Nambi, Microsoft Research, India Anand Panangadan, California State University, USA Laks Raghupati, Shell, India Kiran Sajjanshetty, Voyage Auto Inc., USA Chayan Sarkar (organizer), TCS Research & Innovation, India Ajitesh Srivastava, University of Southern California, USA Mahima Agumbe Suresh, San Jose State University, USA

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HiPC 2019 Workshop Submission Deadlines Approaching
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 09 Sep '19

09 Sep '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2019 WORKSHOP PAPER SUBMISSION DEADLINE APPROACHING ********************************************************************** The 26th annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2019) will be held at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Hyderabad, India, during 17-20 December 2019. Complementing the main technical program, HiPC workshops serve to broaden the technical scope of the conference in emerging areas of high performance computing, communication, data and analytics and their applications. Below is the listing of the workshops to be held on the first day of the conference, December 17th. Please follow the links below for a detailed description and the Call for Papers of each workshop. Paper Submission: September 20, 2019 * Multi-tier Big Data Pipelines from Edge to the Cloud Data Centers - https://hipc.org/bigdata/ * Workshop on Data Science for Future Energy Systems - https://hipc.org/dsfes/ * Workshop on Memory and Storage Systems 2019 (WoMSS) - http://hipc.org/womss/ Abstract Submission: September 22, 2019 Paper Submission: September 30, 2019 * Workshop on Education for High Performance Computing (EduHiPC) - https://hipc.org/eduhipc-2018 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS * Vandana Janeja, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA * Antonino Tumeo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Workshops co-chairs may be contacted at workshops(a)hipc.org.

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CFP: Parallel Computational Technologies 2020 (Perm, Russia, March 31 – April 2, 2020)
by Цымблер Михаил Леонидович 07 Sep '19

07 Sep '19

FIRST ANNOUNCEMENT AND CALL FOR PAPERS Parallel Computational Technologies (PCT’2020), 14th International Scientific Conference, March 31 – April 2, 2020, Perm, 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, Perm National Research Polytechnic University, and South Ural State University are jointly organizing the 14th International Scientific Conference on Parallel Computational Technologies (PCT’2020) to be held in Perm, Russia, March 31 – April 2, 2020. The main purpose of the PCT’2020 conference is to provide an opportunity to discuss the future of parallel computing as well as to report the results achieved by leading research groups in solving science and equipment issues using supercomputer technologies. The scope of the conference includes all aspects of high performance computing in science and technology such as applications, hardware and software, programming languages, etc. The 32th 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’2020 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 (cf. guidelines at the conference website http://agora.guru.ru/pavt2020/, "For Authors" section). Papers should be submitted electronically in PDF format through EasyChair system https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pct2020 by December 1, 2019. 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 1, 2019 * Submission of the papers: December 2, 2019 * Notification of acceptance: January 15, 2020 * Camera-ready version: February 15, 2020 * Registration for participation in supercomputer exhibition: February 25, 2020 * Registration of participants (non-speakers): March 25, 2020 * Conference: March 30: arrival date March 31 – April 2, 2020: conference work dates April 3: departure date CONTACT INFORMATION WEB PAGES Conference web site: http://agora.guru.ru/pavt/eng Submission web site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pct2020. 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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CFP for book "A Closer Look at Differential Evolution"
by José Santos Reyes 31 Aug '19

31 Aug '19

The submission of one or more original research or review chapter(s) for the upcoming hardcover edited collection entitled "A Closer Look at Differential Evolution" is open. The book is edited by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. (novapublishers.com) Topics of interest include (but are not restricted to): • New DE schemes. • Automatic control of diversity and fast convergence with DE. • New approaches for self-adaptation of DE parameters. • Hybrid approaches between DE and other metaheuristics. • Niching techniques integrated with DE for multimodal optimization. • Dynamic optimization problems with DE. • DE in combinatorial optimization, in discrete and binary optimization problems. • DE for constrained optimization problems. • DE approaches for multi-objective optimization. • Parallel approaches of DE. • Optimization of real-world applications with DE. The deadline for the abstract is September 10, 2019 and for the completed chapter December 10, 2019. Please send the abstract and the chapter to Stella Rosa at nova.main(a)novapublishers.com (with copy to jose.santos(a)udc.es) Inclusion in Nova's edited collections is without charge to authors. The only exceptions are color figures if required and an English editing fee if it is determined to be necessary. Regards, José Santos University of A Coruña

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N2Women Fellowship Available for DySpan 2019
by 俞嘉地 31 Aug '19

31 Aug '19

Dear Chairs, I am reaching out to you on behalf of the N2Women Fellowship Board. The N2Women community has been holding meeting events at Networking conferences that are organized by N2Women fellows and we are excited that this year we will be to fund a fellow to organize an event at DySpan 2019. The N2Women fellowship provides $1000 to a young female researcher, who is in turn responsible for organizing the event. If possible we would like the following call[1] to: 1. be forwarded to the authors of accepted papers and posters. 2. be forwarded to all travel grant applicants (since this can be an alternate/complimentary source of funding) 3. be publicized on the conference web site. The submission deadline is on Oct 7th 2019, and we would appreciate if you could help us to spread the word. We thank you in advance for your help. Please let us know if you require any further information. Best regards, Mariam Kiran, Niky Riga, Chelsea Dobbins, and Yanjiao Chen N2Women Fellowship Co-chairs http://n2women.comsoc.org/ < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__na01.safelinks.protect… > [1] Fellowship call: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- N2Women is pleased to announce the continuation of our N2Women Young Researcher Fellowship awards. N2Women considers you a young researcher if you are currently a student, working as a post-doc, or in the 1st or 2nd year of your new research career. These awards will partially cover a young researcher’s travel cost (up to $1000) to a meeting where an N2Women event will be held. In exchange, the young researcher must help organize the N2Women meeting. The benefit of doing the organization, in addition to the travel funds, is for the young researcher to connect with the organizers of the conference who are, typically, leaders in the research field. We will arrange for a faculty or research member of N2Women to assist/mentor the young researcher in this task. Support for these N2Women Young Researcher Fellowship awards has been generously provided by ACM SIGMOBILE, ACM SIGCOMM, IEEE ComSoc, IEEE CS TCCC, Microsoft Research, HP Labs, Google Research and Facebook. To apply for a fellowship or for more information, please see: http://n2women.comsoc.org/ < https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__na01.safelinks.protect… > and click the Fellowships link. *The deadline for applications for DySpan is* **** Oct 7th 2019 **** ---------------

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The 35th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC 2020)
by Peter Mueller 29 Aug '19

29 Aug '19

CALL FOR PAPERS ********************************************************* The 35th ACM Symposium On Applied Computing (SAC2020) Brno, Czech Republic, March 30-April 3, 2020 http://www.di.ubi.pt/sac2020/ ********************************************************* For the past thirty four years the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing (SAC) has been a primary and international forum for applied computer scientists, computer engineers and application developers to gather, interact and present their work. The ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing (SIGAPP) is the sole sponsor of SAC. Authors are invited to contribute original papers in all areas of experimental computing and application development for the technical sessions. For additional information, please check the SAC web page: https://www.sigapp.org/sac/sac2020/ TRACK ON NETWORKING ******************* A special track on Networking will be held at SAC 2020. This track aims to be a forum for scientists, engineers and practitioners, in academia and industry, to share new ideas, experiences and results, and to present their latest findings in all aspects of computer communications, networks and services. Original and unpublished papers and tutorials (half or full day) are invited in all areas of networking. The Track will emphasize on the design, implementation, management and applications of computer communications, networks and services. Topics of theoretical nature are also welcome, provided there is a clear practical potential in applying the results of such work. Major topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: - 5G networks and beyond - Big data for networking - Cloud computing/Mobile cloud computing - Cognitive radio networks - Content-based network services - Cross-layer optimization and control - Cyber-physical systems - Datacenter networking - Edge and fog computing/networking - Energy efficient network infrastructures - Network fault tolerance, reliability and survivability - Green communications - High-speed networks - Internet of Things - Internet services and Applications - Machine learning for networks - Middleware support for networking - Mobility management - Multimedia communications - Network architectures - Network control and management - Network measurements and analysis - Network modeling and simulations - Network performance - Network protocols - Network security and privacy - Network virtualization and softwarization - Optical networks - Protocols, architectures and applications for the Internet of Vehicles - Quality of service and quality of experience - Resource allocation and management - Routing and switching - Security and privacy issues in Internet of Vehicles - Self-organizing networks - Social computing and networks - Software defined networking - Technologies for V2X communications (DSRC/WAVE, 5G, LTE, Wifi, others) - Traffic engineering and characterization - Transport protocols - Ubiquitous networks - Vehicular ad-hoc networks - Virtual and overlay networks - Wireless sensor networks GUIDELINES FOR SUBMISSION: Original and unpublished papers are solicited from the above-mentioned areas. The file format should be PDF. The author(s) name(s) and address(es) must not appear in the paper, and self-references should be written in the third person tense, in order to allow double blind review. Only the title should be shown at the first page without the author's information. Papers must be formatted according to the template which is available at the SAC 2020 website. Paper size is limited to eight pages (covered by the registration fee) plus two additional pages (at extra charge), resulting in the total of ten pages maximum according to the above mentioned template. For papers accepted as posters, the length is three pages (covered by the registration fee) plus one additional page (at extra charge), resulting in the total of four pages maximum. A few key words should be provided. A paper cannot be sent to more than one track. Original manuscripts should be submitted in an electronic format through the conference web site: Online Submission Procedure for Regular Papers: https://www.softconf.com/j/sac2020 Paper registration is required, allowing the inclusion of the paper/poster in the conference proceedings. An author or a proxy attending SAC MUST present the paper: This is a requirement for the paper/poster to be included in the ACM/IEEE digital library. No-show of scheduled papers and posters will result in excluding them from the ACM/IEEE digital library. For any other question regarding this Track, please contact the Chairs at sac2020(a)di.ubi.pt IMPORTANT DATES: September 15, 2019: Paper Submission Deadline November 10, 2019: Author Notification November 25, 2019: Camera-Ready Paper Due STUDENT RESEARCH COMPETITION (SRC) PROGRAM The SAC 2020 SRC program provides graduate students the opportunity to meet and exchange ideas with researchers and practitioners in their areas of interest. Active graduate students seeking feedback from the scientific community on their research ideas are invited to submit abstracts of their original unpublished and in-progress research work in areas of experimental computing and application development related to SAC 2020 Tracks. This program is open for graduate students currently enrolled in University or College and having active ACM and SIGAPP student membership. Abstracts must be authored by students only. Faculty advisor(s) cannot be listed as authors on the submission or on the final poster presentation. No group projects are allowed. The work must not be submitted to any another SRC program, journal or conference while it is under consideration for SAC 2020 SRC Program. Students are invited to submit abstracts (maximum of 4 pages in ACM camera-ready format) of their original unpublished and in-progress research work in the above areas covered by the Track on Networking. Accepted abstracts are limited to 4 pages in ACM camera-ready format, no additional pages. Submission of the same abstract to multiple tracks is not allowed. The abstracts are reviewed by reviewers who review paper submissions to that track. The Track Chairs (TCs) manage the review process. Upon the review results, The SRC Chair and Program Committee select the best abstracts and invite their authors to participate in SAC 2020. For more details, please visit SAC 2020 website (Student Research Competition). Student research abstracts can be submitted through the SAC 2020 webpage: Online Submission Procedure for SRC Papers: https://www.softconf.com/j/sac-src2020 Important Dates for SRC Program: September 15, 2019: SRC Abstract Submission November 10, 2019: SRC Author Notification November 25, 2019: SRC Camera-Ready Paper Due TRACK CHAIRS: Mário M. Freire Instituto de Telecomunicações e Departamento de Informática, University of Beira Interior Covilhã, Portugal mario(a)di.ubi.pt http://www.di.ubi.pt/~mario Marília Curado Department of Informatics Engineering, University of Coimbra Coimbra, Portugal marilia(a)dei.uc.pt https://www.cisuc.uc.pt/people/show/2122 Ivan Ganchev University of Limerick, Ireland / University of Plovdiv “Paisii Hilendarski”, Bulgaria Ivan.Ganchev(a)ul.ie https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ivan_Ganchev Mohamed Mosbah LaBRI, Bordeaux INP, France mohamed.mosbah(a)u-bordeaux.fr https://www.labri.fr/perso/mosbah/index-english.html PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Alexandre Santos, University of Minho, Portugal André Aquino, Universidade Federal de Alagoas, Brazil Bruno Sousa, University of Coimbra, Portugal Carlos Becker Westphall, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil Edmundo Monteiro, University of Coimbra, Portugal Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou, University of New Mexico, USA Eva Hladká, Masaryk University, Czech Republic Fernando Boavida, University of Coimbra, Portugal Fernando Ramos, University of Lisboa, Portugal Giacomo Tanganelli, University of Pisa, Italy Giovanni Giambene, Universita' degli Studi di Siena, Italy Imen Jemili, University of Carthage, Tunisia Joaquim Arnaldo Martins, University of Aveiro, Portugal José Luís Oliveira, University of Aveiro, Portugal Jose Neuman de Souza, Federal University of Ceará, Brazil Leandro Villas, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Brazil Marco Roccetti, Università di Bologna, Italy Máirtín O’Droma, University of Limerick, Ireland Marie-José Montpetit, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Mohamed Mosbah, LaBRI, Bordeaux INP, France Nicolas Hautière, IFSTTAR, France Pedro Inácio, University of Beira Interior, Portugal Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Qin Xin, University of the Faroe Islands, Faroe Islands Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada Roberto Canonico, University of Napoli "Federico II", Italy Roger Immich, University of Campinas, Brazil Rossitza Goleva, New Bulgarian University, Bulgaria Rui Valadas, IST, University of Lisboa, Portugal Saverio Mascolo, Politecnico di Bari, Italy Torsten Braun, University of Berne, Switzerland Vinicius Borges, Federal University of Goiás, Brazil Xavi Masip, Technical University of Cataluña, Spain Zoubir Mammeri, Université Paul Sabatier, France

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PACT 2019 - FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
by Tumeo, Antonino 29 Aug '19

29 Aug '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] FINAL CALL FOR PARTICIPATION : PACT 2019 http://www.pactconf.org The organizing committee of PACT'19 invites you to join us in Seattle from September 23-25, 2019 for the 28th International Conference on Parallel Architectures and Compilation Techniques (PACT 2019). ----------------------------------------------------------------------- EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE EXTENSION The early registration deadline has been extended to September 3, 2019. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- CONFERENCE PROGRAM PACT is a long-running conference at the intersection of classical parallel architectures and compilers that brings together researchers from architecture, compilers, programming languages, and applications to present and discuss their latest research results. This year's program reflects many of the exciting advances being made in our field, particularly around topics related to heterogeneity: The continuing evolution of general-purpose accelerators and the rise (the return?) of domain-specific/ special-purpose hardware. The program also features a machine learning as a driving application class for architectural innovation. See the full program at https://pactconf.org/conf-program/ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- KEYNOTE SPEAKERS Kathryn McKinley, Google, Resource Efficiency and Performance in the Cloud Luis Ceze, University of Washington and OctoML Bridging the Gap Between Deep Learning Models and “the Metal” with Apache TVM & VTA Peter Kogge, University of Notre Dame The 3rd Wall and the need for Innovation in Architectures ----------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOPS AND TUTORIALS In addition to the main conference program, tutorials on selected topics will be offered Sep 21-22, including o) Programming with Lightweight Threads: Argobots o) Bambu: Productive FPGA Programming for Complex Parallel Applications o) GPU Programming with OpenMP o) Introduction to the Kokkos C++ Parallel Programming Framework o) The Structural Simulation Toolkit Further information can be found https://pactconf.org/wt-program/ (and be sure to check back at this site for any additional tutorials). ---------------------------------------------------------------- STUDENT TRAVEL GRANTS Through the generosity of Pacific Northwest National Lab and Sandia National Lab, funds are available to help defray the costs for students attending PACT'19. Information about the application process can be found on the conference website at https://pactconf.org/travel-grants/. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- ORGANIZATION General Chair: Andrew Lumsdaine, PNNL and the University of Washington Program Chair: Saday Sadayappan, University of Utah ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SPONSORSHIP IEEE Computer Society (in cooperation with ACM). -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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[CFP] IA^3 2019 - DEADLINE EXTENDED!
by Tumeo, Antonino 29 Aug '19

29 Aug '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] !!!!NEWS!!!! - DEADLINE EXTENDED TO SEPTEMBER 9, 2019 AoE IA^3 2019 9th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 November 18, 2019 Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO In conjunction with SC19 Sponsored by IEEE TCHPC -------------------- Call for Papers -------------------- Irregular applications occur in many subject matters. While inherently parallel, they exhibit highly variable execution performance at a local level due to unpredictable memory access patterns and/or network transfers, divergent control structures, and data imbalances. Moreover, they often require fine-grain synchronization and communication on large-data structures such as graphs, trees, unstructured grids, sparse matrices, deep nets, tables, and their combinations (such as, for example, attributed graphs). They have a significant degree of latent parallelism, which however is difficult to exploit due to their complex behavior. Current high performance architectures rely on data locality and regular computation to reduce access latencies, and often do not cope well with the requirements of these applications. Furthermore, irregular applications are difficult to scale on current supercomputing machines, due to their limits in fine-grained synchronization and small data transfers. Irregular applications pertain both to well established and emerging fields, such as machine learning, social network analysis, bioinformatics, semantic graph databases, Computer Aided Design (CAD), and computer security. Many of these application areas also process massive sets of unstructured data, which keep growing exponentially. Emerging supercomputing applications are moving towards a convergence of scientific simulation, data analytics, and learning algorithms, mixed in various ways. Addressing the issues of irregular applications on current and future architectures will become critical to solve the challenges in science and data analysis of the next few years. This workshop seeks to explore solutions for supporting efficient execution of irregular applications in the form of new features at the level of the micro- and system-architecture, network, languages and libraries, runtimes, compilers, analysis, algorithms. Topics of interest, of both theoretical and practical significance, include but are not limited to: - Micro- and System-architectures, including multi- and many-core designs, heterogeneous processors, accelerators (GPUs, vector processors, Automata processor), reconfigurable (coarse grained reconfigurable and FPGA designs) and custom processors - Network architectures and interconnect (including high-radix networks, optical interconnects) - Novel memory architectures and designs (including processors-in memory) - Impact of new computing paradigms on irregular workloads (including neuromorphic processors and quantum computing) - Modeling, simulation and evaluation of novel architectures with irregular workloads - Innovative algorithmic techniques - Combinatorial algorithms (graph algorithms, sparse linear algebra, etc.) - Impact of irregularity on machine learning approaches - Parallelization techniques and data structures for irregular workloads - Data structures combining regular and irregular computations (e.g., attributed graphs) - Approaches for managing massive unstructured datasets (including streaming data) - Languages and programming models for irregular workloads - Library and runtime support for irregular workloads - Compiler and analysis techniques for irregular workloads - High performance data analytics applications (including graph databases and solutions that combine graph algorithms with machine learning) - Applications that integrate scientific simulation, data analytics, and learning, and require efficient execution of irregular workloads Besides regular papers, papers describing work-in-progress or incomplete but sound, innovative ideas related to the workshop theme are also encouraged. We solicit both 8-page regular papers and 4-page position papers. Authors of exciting but not mature enough regular papers may be offered the option of a short 4-page paper and related short presentation. -------------------- Important Dates -------------------- Abstract Submission: September 9, 2019 (EXTENDED!) Position or Regular Paper Submission: September 9, 2019 (EXTENDED) Notification: October 1, 2019 Camera-ready: October 10, 2019 Workshop: November 18, 2019 -------------------- Submissions -------------------- Submission site: https://submissions.supercomputing.org Submitted manuscripts may not exceed eight (8) pages in length for regular papers and four (4) pages for position papers including figures, tables and references. Authors of regular papers will be able to provide up to one (1) additional pages for the Artifact Description (AD) appendix and, after paper acceptance, up to two (2) additional pages for the Artifact Evaluation (AE) appendix. The templates are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library through IEEE TCHPC. -------------------- Artifact Description & Evaluation -------------------- This edition of the workshop invites authors of regular papers to follow a reproducibility initiative like the main SC Conference, with specific appendices for the Artifact Description (AD) and the Artifact Evaluation (AE). Please refer to the SC reproducibility page for further details on the rationale behind AD and AE: https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/reproducibility-initiative/. Authors of regular papers will be able to use up to one (1) additional page to provide an Artifact Description (AD) Appendix, describing the details of their software environments and computational experiments to the extent that an independent person could replicate their results. This additional page is voluntary, and must focus only on details on software environments and methods to execute the experiments. It should not add details on the proposed technical approaches. If a paper has no computational results, the appendix only needs to mention that computational results are not part of the paper. Additionally, authors of accepted regular papers will be invited to formally submit their supporting materials to the Artifact Evaluation (AE) process. The process is voluntary, but authors that will participate in the AE will be eligible for the Best Paper Award of the workshop. Supporting materials for the AE include access to the actual software artifact, shared publicly (for example, through the CK - Collective Knowledge - https://github.com/ctuning/ck format), and two (2) further additional pages of the paper that details how to reproduce the results of the paper. For details on how to submit supporting materials to the AE process, please refer to: http://ctuning.org/ae/submission.html. Authors participating in the AE will receive an assessment of the artifact, and the related badge on their paper. For any additional question on the AD and the AE please contact the Artifact Evaluation Chair Flavio Vella at mailto:Flavio.Vella@unibz.it. -------------------- Organizers -------------------- Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), mailto:antonino.tumeo@pnnl.gov John Feo (PNNL), mailto:john.feo@pnnl.gov Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL), mailto:vitoGiovanni.castellana@pnnl.gov -------------------- Proceedings Chair -------------------- Marco Minutoli (PNNL and WSU), mailto:marco.minutoli@pnnl.gov -------------------- Artifact Evaluation Chair -------------------- Favio Vella (Free University of Bozen), mailto:Flavio.Vella@unibz.it -------------------- Technical Program Committee -------------------- Nesreen Ahmed, Intel, US Ashwin M. Aji, AMD, US Kubilay Atasu, IBM Zurich, CH Scott Beamer, University of California, Santa Cruz, US Jonathan Beard, ARM, US Michela Becchi, North Carolina State University, US Sanjukta Bhowmick, University of North Texas, US Erik Boman, Sandia National Laboratories, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Aydin Buluc, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Anastasiia Butko, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Tim Davis, Texas A&M University, US Assefaw Gebremedhin, Washington State University, US Rajiv Gupta, University of California, Riverside, US George Karypis, University of Minnesota, US Peter M. Kogge, Notre Dame University, US Manoj Kumar, IBM TJ Watson, US John Leidel, Tactical Computing Labs, US Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University, US José Moreira, IBM TJ Watson, US Miquel Moreto, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, ES Walid Najjar, University of California, Riverside, US Maxim Naumov, Facebook, US Fanny Nina-Paravecino, Intel, US Roger Pearce, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Cynthia Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, US Keshav Pingali, University of Texas, Austin, US Alejandro Rico, ARM, US Jason Riedy, Georgia Tech, US John Shalf, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Edgar Solomonik, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, US Ruud van der Pas, Oracle, US Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, NL Jishen Zhao, University of California, San Diego, US Other members TBD

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SDM 2020 Call for Papers
by Alfredo Cuzzocrea 28 Aug '19

28 Aug '19

20th SIAM International Conference on Data Mining May 7 - May 9, 2020, Cincinnati, OH, USA ======================================== SDM 2020 - http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm20 Call for Papers Scope ===== Data mining is the computational process for discovering valuable knowledge from data - the core of modern Data Science. It has enormous application in numerous fields, including science, engineering, healthcare, business, and medicine. Typical datasets in these fields are large, complex, and often noisy. Extracting knowledge from these datasets requires the use of sophisticated, high-performance, and principled analysis techniques and algorithms, which are based on sound theoretical and statistical foundations. These techniques in turn require implementations on high performance computational infrastructure that are carefully tuned for performance. Powerful visualization technologies along with effective user interfaces are also essential to make data mining tools appealing to researchers, analysts, data scientists and application developers from different disciplines, as well as usable by stakeholders. The SDM conference provides a venue for researchers who are addressing these problems to present their work in a peer-reviewed forum. It also provides an ideal setting for graduate students and others new to the field to learn about cutting-edge research by hearing outstanding invited speakers and attending presentations and tutorials (included with conference registration). A set of focused workshops is also held on the last day of the conference. The proceedings of the conference are published in archival form and are also made available on the SIAM web site. Topics of Interest ================== *Methods and Algorithms -Anomaly & Outlier Detection -Big Data & Large-Scale Systems -Classification & Semi-Supervised Learning -Clustering & Unsupervised Learning -Data Cleaning & Integration -Deep Learning & Representation Learning -Frequent Pattern Mining -Feature Extraction, Selection and Dimensionality Reduction -Mining Data Streams -Mining Graphs & Complex Data -Mining on Emerging Architectures & Data Clouds -Mining Semi Structured Data -Mining Spatial & Temporal Data -Mining Text, Web & Social Media -Online Algorithms -Optimization Methods -Parallel and Distributed Methods -Probabilistic & Statistical Methods -Scalable & High-Performance Mining -Other Novel Methods *Applications -Astronomy & Astrophysics -Automation & Process Control -Climate / Ecological / Environmental Science -Customer Relationship Management -Data Science -Drug Discovery -Finance -Genomics & Bioinformatics -Healthcare Management -High Energy Physics -Intelligence Analysis -Internet of Things -Intrusion & Fraud detection -Logistics Management -Recommendation -Risk Management -Social Network Analysis -Supply Chain Management -Other Emerging Applications *Human Factors and Social Issues -Ethics of Data Mining -Intellectual Ownership -Interestingness & Relevance -Privacy and Fairness Models -Privacy Preserving Data Mining -Risk Analysis and Risk Management -Transparency and Algorithmic Bias -User Interfaces and Visual Analytics -Other Human and Social Issues Submission URL ============== https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/SDM2020 Workshop and Tutorials ====================== The conference will feature workshops and tutorials on several special topics. Please see the SDM 2020 website for submission requirements. Examples of workshops and tutorials are available through the SDM 2019 website, http://www.siam.org/meetings/sdm19/ Organization ============ GENERAL CO-CHAIRS Nitesh Chawla, University of Notre Dame, USA Carlotta Domeniconi, George Mason Univeristy, USA PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS Yan Liu, University of Southern California, USA Sriraam Natarajan, University of Texas at Dallas, USA WORKSHOPS CO-CHAIRS Yuxiao Dong, Microsoft Research, USA Gregor Stiglic, University of Maribor, Slovenia TUTORIALS CHAIR Danai Koutra, University of Michigan, USA DOCTORAL FORUM CHAIRS Matteo Riondato, Amherst College, USA Brandeis Marshall, Spelman College, USA PANELS CHAIR Zhenhui Jessie Li, Penn State University, USA PUBLICITY CHAIRS Xiang Ren, University of Southern California, USA Alfredo Cuzzocrea, University of Calabria, Italy Sourangshu Bhattacharya, IIT, Kharagpur, India AWARDS CHAIR TBA STEERING COMMITTEE CHAIR Zoran Obradovic, Temple University, USA LOCAL CHAIR Ping Zhang, Ohio State University, USA Important Dates (tentative) =========================== Abstract Submission: October 4, 2019 11:59pm (US Eastern Time) Paper Submission: October 11, 2019 11:59pm (US Eastern Time) Workshop Proposals: October 4, 2019 11:59pm (US Eastern Time) Tutorial Proposals: October 4, 2019 11:59pm (US Eastern Time)

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11th International Women in HPC workshop at SC'19
by Mariam Umar 28 Aug '19

28 Aug '19

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

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Final CFP - CloudCom 2019 (Cloud Computing Technology and Science), Dec. 2019, Sydney, Australia
by Jesson Butt 26 Aug '19

26 Aug '19

Final Call for papers: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2019) will be held in Sydney, Australia on 11-13 December 2019. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2019 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2019 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Pattern Recognition Letters. =========== Introduction CloudCom is the premier conference on Cloud Computing worldwide, attracting researchers, developers, users, students and practitioners from the fields of big data, systems architecture, services research, virtualization, security and privacy, high performance computing, always with an emphasis on how to build cloud computing platforms with real impact. The conference is co-sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), is steered by the Cloud Computing Association, and draws on the excellence of its world-class Program Committee and its participants. Topics of interest of CloudCom 2019 include, but are not limited to: - Architecture, Storage and Virtualization - Cloud Services and Applications - Security, Privacy and Trust - Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud (1) Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization - Intercloud architecture models - Virtual Machines (VMs), containers, unikernels and microservices - Cloud services delivery models, campus integration & “last mile” issues - Virtualization technology and enablers (network virtualization, software-defined networking) - Networking technologies - Cloud system design with FPGAs, GPUs, APUs - Storage & file systems - Scalability & performance - Resource provisioning, monitoring, management & maintenance - Operational, economic & business models - Green data centers - Computational resources, storage & network virtualization - Resource monitoring - Virtual desktops - Resilience, fault tolerance, disaster recovery - Modeling & performance evaluation - Disaster recovery - Energy efficiency (2) Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications - XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) - Cloud services models & frameworks - Service deployment and orchestration in the Cloud - Cloud service management - Cloud workflow management - Cloud services reference models & standardization - Cloud-powered services design - Cloud elasticity - Machine learning and systems interactions - Data management applications & services - Service for computing-intensive applications - Mining and analytics - Data-provisioning services - Cloud programming models, benchmarks, and tools - Cloud-based services & protocols - Fault-tolerance & availability of cloud services and applications - Application development and debugging tools - Business models & economics of cloud services (3) Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust - Accountability & audit - Authentication & authorization - Cloud integrity - Blockchain Cloud services - Cryptography in the Cloud - Hypervisor security - Identity management & security as a service - Prevention of data loss or leakage - Secure, interoperable identity management - Trust & credential management - Trust models for cloud services - Usable security Risk management in cloud computing environments - Privacy policy framework for clouds - Privacy-preserving data mining for clouds - Information sharing and data protection in the cloud - Cryptographic protocols against internal attacks in clouds - Privacy protection in cloud platforms - Energy/cost/efficiency of security in clouds (4) Track 4: Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud - Cloudlet-enabled applications - Distributed Cloud Infrastructure - Foundations and principles of distributed cloud computing - Architectural models, prototype implementations and applications - Cloud brokers and coordination across multiple resource managers - Interoperability and mobility - Software infrastructure for cloudlets - Dynamic resource, service and context management on edge computing - Fog Computing - IoT cloud architectures & models - Cloud-based context-aware IoT - Economics and pricing - Experience with and performance evaluation of existing deployments and measurements (public, private, hybrid, federated environments) (5) Short Papers, Posters, and Demo Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the conference proceedings. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of selected journals. General Chairs Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy Workshops and Tutorials Chairs Xuyun Zhang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Short Papers, Posters, and Demo Chair Muneeb Hassan, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Phd Consortium Chair Deepak Puthal, Newcastle University, UK Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil Muhammad Usman, Federation University, Australia Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy James Zheng, Macquarie University, Australia Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger, Norway Li Li, Monash University, Australia Track 4: Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud Sarunas Girdzijauskas, KTH, Sweden Xiao Liu, Deakin University, Australia

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Doreen Thomas Postdoctoral Fellowships for Women
by Uwe Aickelin 26 Aug '19

26 Aug '19

The Melbourne School of Engineering has introduced the Doreen Thomas Postdoctoral Fellowships to attract, or to retain, outstanding female doctoral graduates and provide a career pathway to a global Teaching and Research academic career at the University of Melbourne. We are currently looking for accomplished, enthusiastic, and interested early-career female doctoral graduates for multiple fellowships within the three schools of MSE: * Computing and Information Systems * Chemical and Biomedical Engineering * Electrical, Mechanical and Infrastructure Engineering More details can be found here: LinkedIn<https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/1441685438> Seek<https://www.seek.com.au/job/39782535?searchrequesttoken=9e11c449-42dd-4296-…> University of Melbourne Careers<http://jobs.unimelb.edu.au/caw/en/job/900626/doreen-thomas-postdoctoral-fel…> Applications close Sunday 13 October 2019. About Doreen Thomas “Professor Emeritus Doreen Thomas is a leading academic whose work has spanned the fields of mathematics and electrical and mechanical engineering. Her career at the University of Melbourne has lasted over 40 years and practical applications of her research have had significant commercial impact. Doreen is a powerful advocate for women in engineering and mathematics. She chairs the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) Education Forum at the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. While at the University of Melbourne’s School of Engineering, she helped create nine research fellowships to launch and accelerate the careers of female academics. In 2006, she was appointed the University of Melbourne’s first female professor in engineering. She was the first woman at the university to become head of each of the departments she led, and the first woman in Victoria to become head of two different university departments. Doreen’s long and distinguished career has been inspirational for other women in mathematics and science. She has made significant contributions to knowledge with real-world impact, promoted the next generation of women in STEM disciplines, and taught mathematics to generations of engineering students.” – Vic.gov.au 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

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[CFP] IA^3 2019 - Deadline approaching!
by Tumeo, Antonino 25 Aug '19

25 Aug '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] IA^3 2019 9th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 November 18, 2019 Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO In conjunction with SC19 Sponsored by IEEE TCHPC Proceedings published in the IEEE Digital Library through IEEE TCHPC. -------------------- Important Dates -------------------- Abstract Submission: August 28, 2019 Position or Regular Paper Submission: September 4, 2019 Notification: October 1, 2019 Camera-ready: October 10, 2019 Workshop: November 18, 2019 -------------------- 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. -------------------- Submissions -------------------- Submission site: https://submissions.supercomputing.org Submitted manuscripts may not exceed eight (8) pages in length for regular papers and four (4) pages for position papers including figures, tables and references. Authors of regular papers will be able to provide up to one (1) additional pages for the Artifact Description (AD) appendix and, after paper acceptance, up to two (2) additional pages for the Artifact Evaluation (AE) appendix. The templates are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library through IEEE TCHPC. -------------------- Artifact Description & Evaluation -------------------- This edition of the workshop invites authors of regular papers to follow a reproducibility initiative like the main SC Conference, with specific appendices for the Artifact Description (AD) and the Artifact Evaluation (AE). Please refer to the SC reproducibility page for further details on the rationale behind AD and AE: https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/reproducibility-initiative/. Authors of regular papers will be able to use up to one (1) additional page to provide an Artifact Description (AD) Appendix, describing the details of their software environments and computational experiments to the extent that an independent person could replicate their results. This additional page is voluntary, and must focus only on details on software environments and methods to execute the experiments. It should not add details on the proposed technical approaches. If a paper has no computational results, the appendix only needs to mention that computational results are not part of the paper. Additionally, authors of accepted regular papers will be invited to formally submit their supporting materials to the Artifact Evaluation (AE) process. The process is voluntary, but authors that will participate in the AE will be eligible for the Best Paper Award of the workshop. Supporting materials for the AE include access to the actual software artifact, shared publicly (for example, through the CK - Collective Knowledge - https://github.com/ctuning/ck format), and two (2) further additional pages of the paper that details how to reproduce the results of the paper. For details on how to submit supporting materials to the AE process, please refer to: http://ctuning.org/ae/submission.html. Authors participating in the AE will receive an assessment of the artifact, and the related badge on their paper. For any additional question on the AD and the AE please contact the Artifact Evaluation Chair Flavio Vella at mailto:Flavio.Vella@unibz.it. -------------------- Organizers -------------------- Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), mailto:antonino.tumeo@pnnl.gov John Feo (PNNL), mailto:john.feo@pnnl.gov Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL), mailto:vitoGiovanni.castellana@pnnl.gov -------------------- Proceedings Chair -------------------- Marco Minutoli (PNNL and WSU), mailto:marco.minutoli@pnnl.gov -------------------- Artifact Evaluation Chair -------------------- Favio Vella (Free University of Bozen), mailto:Flavio.Vella@unibz.it -------------------- Technical Program Committee -------------------- Nesreen Ahmed, Intel, US Ashwin M. Aji, AMD, US Kubilay Atasu, IBM Zurich, CH Scott Beamer, University of California, Santa Cruz, US Jonathan Beard, ARM, US Michela Becchi, North Carolina State University, US Sanjukta Bhowmick, University of North Texas, US Erik Boman, Sandia National Laboratories, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Aydin Buluc, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Anastasiia Butko, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Tim Davis, Texas A&M University, US Assefaw Gebremedhin, Washington State University, US Rajiv Gupta, University of California, Riverside, US George Karypis, University of Minnesota, US Peter M. Kogge, Notre Dame University, US Manoj Kumar, IBM TJ Watson, US John Leidel, Tactical Computing Labs, US Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University, US José Moreira, IBM TJ Watson, US Miquel Moretó, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, ES Walid Najjar, University of California, Riverside, US Maxim Naumov, Facebook, US Fanny Nina-Paravecino, Intel, US Roger Pearce, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Cynthia Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, US Keshav Pingali, University of Texas, Austin, US Alejandro Rico, ARM, US Jason Riedy, Georgia Tech, US John Shalf, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Edgar Solomonik, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, US Ruud van der Pas, Oracle, US Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, NL Jishen Zhao, University of California, San Diego, US Other members TBD

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Paper Deadline in Less Than 1 Month - Data Science for Future Energy Systems HiPC Workshop 2019
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 23 Aug '19

23 Aug '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** Paper Deadline in Less Than 1 Month - Data Science for Future Energy Systems - HiPC Workshop 2019 https://hipc.org/dsfes 17 December 2019 Hyderabad, India CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPER An Energy System is defined as a system primarily designed to supply energy services to end users. Such systems form the backbone of modern economy and include power grids, oilfields, heating/cooling systems, etc. The design of efficient, reliable and scalable Energy Systems for the future requires making them smarter and transitioning them into Future Energy Systems via novel data driven solutions built on top of the existing monitoring and control infrastructure. The goal of this workshop is to highlight and encourage discussions regarding novel applications of data science and data analytics techniques in the domain of Energy Systems such as smart (power) grids, smart oilfields, smart heating/cooling systems etc. Data driven techniques enabling transition to Future Energy Systems via improved sustainability and electrification of the energy systems, Uberization of the energy systems, mobility changes due to future energy systems, etc. are solicited. This workshop seeks submissions related to the following topic areas as applicable to the domain of future energy systems: * Discovery of knowledge and insights using data * Data Analytics Applications: Learning, prediction, anomaly detection, pattern recognition, search, mining, etc. * Data management/infrastructure * Data privacy/security * Data driven modeling * Data driven decision making * Data driven techniques enabling energy transition for improved sustainability and electrification * Uberization of energy systems enabling peer-to-peer transactions, minimizing distance between the producer and consumers, user rating system for quality of service, etc. * Mobility changes due to future energy systems MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed six (6) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5 x 11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See IEEE style templates at this page for details. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. 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. Presentation of an accepted paper at the workshop is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: September 20th, 2019 Notification to Authors: October 14th, 2019 Workshop camera-ready: October 28th, 2019 SUBMISSION PORTAL Easychair Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dsfes2019 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Sanmukh R. Kuppannagari, University of Southern California, USA Chayan Sarkar, TCS Research, India PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS Ram Balachandran, India Charalampos Chelmis, University of Albany, USA Sanmukh R. Kuppannagari (organizer), University of Southern California, USA Akshay Uttama Nambi, Microsoft Research, India Anand Panangadan, California State University, USA Laks Raghupati, Shell, India Kiran Sajjanshetty, Voyage Auto Inc., USA Chayan Sarkar (organizer), TCS Research & Innovation, India Ajitesh Srivastava, University of Southern California, USA Mahima Agumbe Suresh, San Jose State University, USA

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HiPC 2019 Workshops' Paper Deadlines in Less Than 1 Month
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 17 Aug '19

17 Aug '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2019 WORKSHOP PAPER DEADLINES ********************************************************************** The 26th annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2019) will be held at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Hyderabad, India, during 17-20 December 2019. Complementing the main technical program, HiPC workshops serve to broaden the technical scope of the conference in emerging areas of high performance computing, communication, data and analytics and their applications. Below is the listing of the workshops with deadlines to be held on the first day of the conference, December 17th. Please follow the links below for a detailed description and the Call for Papers of each workshop. SEPTEMBER 15, 2019 * Workshop on Education for High Performance Computing (EduHiPC) - https://hipc.org/eduhipc-2019 SEPTEMBER 20, 2019 * Multi-tier Big Data Pipelines from Edge to the Cloud Data Centers - https://hipc.org/bigdata/ * Workshop on Data Science for Future Energy Systems - https://hipc.org/dsfes/ * Workshop on Memory and Storage Systems 2019 (WoMSS) - http://hipc.org/womss/ WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS * Vandana Janeja, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA * Antonino Tumeo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Workshops co-chairs may be contacted at workshops(a)hipc.org.

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Call For Papers - 12th HiPC Student Research Symposium (SRS)
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 14 Aug '19

14 Aug '19

*** 12th HiPC Student Research Symposium (SRS) *** Held in conjunction with the 26th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING, DATA, and ANALYTICS (HIPC 2019) December 17-20, 2019 | Hyderabad, INDIA | www.hipc.org OVERVIEW HiPC 2019 will feature the 12th Student Research Symposium on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HPC) aimed at stimulating and fostering student research, and providing an international forum to highlight student research accomplishments. The symposium will also provide exposure to students in the best practices in HPC in academia and industry. The symposium will feature student posters and provide students with other enriching experiences, such as workshops, industry exhibits, and demos. The Conference Reception and multiple Student Symposium Poster Exhibit sessions will provide an opportunity for students to interact with HPC researchers and practitioners (and recruiters) from academia and industry. Awards for Best Poster, sponsored by IEEE Computer Society – Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) – will be presented at the symposium. An online book containing the resumes of the students participating in the symposium will be compiled and made available to the sponsors of the HiPC 2019 conference. TOPICS Papers are solicited in all areas of high-performance computing, data, and analytics, including but not limited to topics mentioned below. High-Performance Computing Algorithms: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing new parallel and distributed computing algorithms, and related advances. Examples of topics that are of interest include (but not limited to): • New parallel and distributed algorithms and design techniques; • Advances in enhancing algorithmic properties or providing guarantees (e.g., fault tolerance, resilience, concurrency, data locality, communication-avoiding); • Classical and emerging computation models (e.g., parallel/distributed models, quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired models); • Provably efficient parallel and distributed algorithms for advanced scientific computing and irregular applications (e.g., numerical linear algebra, graph algorithms, computational biology); and • Algorithmic techniques for resource allocation and optimization (e.g., scheduling, load balancing, resource management). Architectures: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and evaluation of high-performance computing architectures, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): • Design and evaluation of high-performance processing architectures (e.g., reconfigurable, system-on-chip, many cores, vector processors); • Design and evaluation of networks for high-performance computing platforms (e.g., interconnect topologies, network-on-chip); • Design and evaluation of memory, cache and storage architectures (e.g., 3D, photonic, Processing-In-Memory, NVRAM, burst buffers, parallel I/O); • Approaches to improve architectural properties (e.g., energy/power efficiency, reconfigurable, resilience/fault tolerance, security/privacy); and • Emerging computational architectures (e.g., quantum computing, neuromorphic and other bioinspired architectures). Applications: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design and implementation of scalable applications for execution on parallel and distributed platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): • Design and implementation of shared and distributed memory parallel applications (e.g., scientific computing and industry applications, emerging applications in IoT and life sciences – biology, medicine, chemistry, etc.); • Design and simulation methodologies for scaling applications on peta and exascale platforms (e.g., co-design approaches, hardware/software co-design, heterogeneous and hybrid programming); • Hardware acceleration of parallel applications (e.g., CPU/GPUs, multi-GPU clusters, FPGA, vector processors, manycore); and • Design of application benchmarks for parallel and distributed platforms. Systems Software: This track invites papers that describe original research on the design, implementation, and evaluation of systems software for high-performance computing platforms, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): • Scalable systems and software architectures for high-performance computing (e.g., middleware, operating systems, I/O services); • Techniques to enhance parallel performance (e.g., compiler/runtime optimization, learning from application traces, profiling); • Techniques to enhance parallel application development and productivity (e.g., Domain-Specific Languages, programming environments, performance/correctness checking and debugging); • Techniques to deal with uncertainties, hardware/software resilience, and fault tolerance; • Software for the cloud, data center, and exascale platforms (e.g., middleware tools, schedulers, resource allocation, data migration, load balancing); and • Software and programming paradigms for heterogeneous platforms (e.g., libraries for CPU/GPU, multi-GPU clusters, and other accelerator platforms). Data Science Scalable Algorithms and Analytics: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable algorithms for data analysis at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): • New scalable algorithms for fundamental data analysis tasks (supervised, unsupervised learning, and pattern discovery); • Scalable algorithms that are designed to address the characteristics of different data sources and settings (e.g., graphs, social networks, sequences, data streams); • Scalable algorithms and techniques to reduce the complexity of large-scale data (e.g., streaming, sublinear data structures, summarization, compressive analytics); • Scalable algorithms that are designed to address requirements in different data-driven application domains (e.g., life sciences, business, agriculture); and • Scalable algorithms that ensure the transparency and fairness of the analysis. Scalable Systems and Software: This track invites papers that describe original research on developing scalable systems and software for handling data at scale, and related advances. Examples of topics of interest include (but not limited to): • Design of scalable system software to support various applications (e.g., recommendation systems, web search, crowdsourcing applications, streaming applications); • Design of scalable system software for various architectures (e.g., OpenPower, GPUs, FPGAs); • Architectures and systems software to support various operations in large data frameworks (e.g., storage, retrieval, automated workflows, data organization, visualization, visual analytics, human-in-the-loop); • Design and implementation of systems software for distributed data frameworks (e.g., distributed file system, virtualization, cloud services, resource optimization, scheduling); and • Standards and protocols for enhancing various aspects of data analytics (e.g., open data standards, privacy-preserving, and secure schemes). IMPORTANT DATES Aug 19, 2019 > Submission Opens Sep 16, 2019 > Submission Deadline Nov 9, 2019 > Accept/Reject Decision Notification Dec 17-20, 2019 > Symposium ELIGIBILITY Submissions should have at least one author who is a student during any part of the calendar year 2019. Submissions may have multiple student or non-student co-authors. Submissions must mark student authors with an asterisk (*). SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS In order to be considered for a poster at the Student Research Symposium, authors must submit papers, not exceeding five (5) letter size (8.5in x 11in) pages, in 11 or 12 point font, single-spaced, with 1'' margins on all sides. Papers are to be submitted online in PDF format through Easychair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hipc2019. The papers will be used to select posters, but will NOT be published in the conference proceedings. This will provide students the flexibility to publish an extended version of their paper at other venues, after benefiting from reviewer feedback from the symposium. Papers submitted to the symposium are expected to be reviewed by at least three independent reviewers. Papers will be judged on technical merit, quality, relevance to the symposium, and related parameters. Plagiarism, in any form, especially verbatim reproduction from other published works, is prohibited. Papers that are plagiarized will be rejected, and the corresponding department and institution will be notified. Facilities for displaying posters will be made available, and the exact specifications of the poster size will be provided later. At least one student author of each paper that is accepted must register and attend the conference to present their work. Papers with no-shows will be retroactively rejected. TRAVEL SUPPORT We expect to provide a travel scholarship to at least one student author of each accepted submission from an Indian university, subject to availability of funding. This scholarship will cover partial expenses for attending the conference. Further details on this scholarship and the application process will be provided later. SYMPOSIUM CO-CHAIRS Ashok Srinivasan, University of West Florida, USA Ramakrishna Upadrasta, IIT Hyderabad, India SYMPOSIUM VICE-CHAIR Dip Sankar Banerjee, IIIT Guwahati, India CONTACT Contact student_symposium at hipc dot org for more details.

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

11 Aug '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] IA^3 2019 9th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 November 18, 2019 Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO In conjunction with SC19 Sponsored by IEEE TCHPC -------------------- Call for Papers -------------------- Irregular applications occur in many subject matters. While inherently parallel, they exhibit highly variable execution performance at a local level due to unpredictable memory access patterns and/or network transfers, divergent control structures, and data imbalances. Moreover, they often require fine-grain synchronization and communication on large-data structures such as graphs, trees, unstructured grids, sparse matrices, deep nets, tables, and their combinations (such as, for example, attributed graphs). They have a significant degree of latent parallelism, which however is difficult to exploit due to their complex behavior. Current high performance architectures rely on data locality and regular computation to reduce access latencies, and often do not cope well with the requirements of these applications. Furthermore, irregular applications are difficult to scale on current supercomputing machines, due to their limits in fine-grained synchronization and small data transfers. Irregular applications pertain both to well established and emerging fields, such as machine learning, social network analysis, bioinformatics, semantic graph databases, Computer Aided Design (CAD), and computer security. Many of these application areas also process massive sets of unstructured data, which keep growing exponentially. Emerging supercomputing applications are moving towards a convergence of scientific simulation, data analytics, and learning algorithms, mixed in various ways. Addressing the issues of irregular applications on current and future architectures will become critical to solve the challenges in science and data analysis of the next few years. This workshop seeks to explore solutions for supporting efficient execution of irregular applications in the form of new features at the level of the micro- and system-architecture, network, languages and libraries, runtimes, compilers, analysis, algorithms. Topics of interest, of both theoretical and practical significance, include but are not limited to: - Micro- and System-architectures, including multi- and many-core designs, heterogeneous processors, accelerators (GPUs, vector processors, Automata processor), reconfigurable (coarse grained reconfigurable and FPGA designs) and custom processors - Network architectures and interconnect (including high-radix networks, optical interconnects) - Novel memory architectures and designs (including processors-in memory) - Impact of new computing paradigms on irregular workloads (including neuromorphic processors and quantum computing) - Modeling, simulation and evaluation of novel architectures with irregular workloads - Innovative algorithmic techniques - Combinatorial algorithms (graph algorithms, sparse linear algebra, etc.) - Impact of irregularity on machine learning approaches - Parallelization techniques and data structures for irregular workloads - Data structures combining regular and irregular computations (e.g., attributed graphs) - Approaches for managing massive unstructured datasets (including streaming data) - Languages and programming models for irregular workloads - Library and runtime support for irregular workloads - Compiler and analysis techniques for irregular workloads - High performance data analytics applications (including graph databases and solutions that combine graph algorithms with machine learning) - Applications that integrate scientific simulation, data analytics, and learning, and require efficient execution of irregular workloads Besides regular papers, papers describing work-in-progress or incomplete but sound, innovative ideas related to the workshop theme are also encouraged. We solicit both 8-page regular papers and 4-page position papers. Authors of exciting but not mature enough regular papers may be offered the option of a short 4-page paper and related short presentation. -------------------- Important Dates -------------------- Abstract Submission: August 28, 2019 Position or Regular Paper Submission: September 4, 2019 Notification: October 1, 2019 Camera-ready: October 10, 2019 Workshop: November 18, 2019 -------------------- Submissions -------------------- Submission site: https://submissions.supercomputing.org Submitted manuscripts may not exceed eight (8) pages in length for regular papers and four (4) pages for position papers including figures, tables and references. Authors of regular papers will be able to provide up to one (1) additional pages for the Artifact Description (AD) appendix and, after paper acceptance, up to two (2) additional pages for the Artifact Evaluation (AE) appendix. The templates are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library through IEEE TCHPC. -------------------- Artifact Description & Evaluation -------------------- This edition of the workshop invites authors of regular papers to follow a reproducibility initiative like the main SC Conference, with specific appendices for the Artifact Description (AD) and the Artifact Evaluation (AE). Please refer to the SC reproducibility page for further details on the rationale behind AD and AE: https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/reproducibility-initiative/. Authors of regular papers will be able to use up to one (1) additional page to provide an Artifact Description (AD) Appendix, describing the details of their software environments and computational experiments to the extent that an independent person could replicate their results. This additional page is voluntary, and must focus only on details on software environments and methods to execute the experiments. It should not add details on the proposed technical approaches. If a paper has no computational results, the appendix only needs to mention that computational results are not part of the paper. Additionally, authors of accepted regular papers will be invited to formally submit their supporting materials to the Artifact Evaluation (AE) process. The process is voluntary, but authors that will participate in the AE will be eligible for the Best Paper Award of the workshop. Supporting materials for the AE include access to the actual software artifact, shared publicly (for example, through the CK - Collective Knowledge - https://github.com/ctuning/ck format), and two (2) further additional pages of the paper that details how to reproduce the results of the paper. For details on how to submit supporting materials to the AE process, please refer to: http://ctuning.org/ae/submission.html. Authors participating in the AE will receive an assessment of the artifact, and the related badge on their paper. For any additional question on the AD and the AE please contact the Artifact Evaluation Chair Flavio Vella at mailto:Flavio.Vella@unibz.it. -------------------- Organizers -------------------- Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), mailto:antonino.tumeo@pnnl.gov John Feo (PNNL), mailto:john.feo@pnnl.gov Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL), mailto:vitoGiovanni.castellana@pnnl.gov -------------------- Proceedings Chair -------------------- Marco Minutoli (PNNL and WSU), mailto:marco.minutoli@pnnl.gov -------------------- Artifact Evaluation Chair -------------------- Favio Vella (Free University of Bozen), mailto:Flavio.Vella@unibz.it -------------------- Technical Program Committee -------------------- Nesreen Ahmed, Intel, US Ashwin M. Aji, AMD, US Kubilay Atasu, IBM Zurich, CH Scott Beamer, University of California, Santa Cruz, US Jonathan Beard, ARM, US Michela Becchi, North Carolina State University, US Sanjukta Bhowmick, University of North Texas, US Erik Boman, Sandia National Laboratories, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Aydin Buluc, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Anastasiia Butko, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Tim Davis, Texas A&M University, US Assefaw Gebremedhin, Washington State University, US Rajiv Gupta, University of California, Riverside, US George Karypis, University of Minnesota, US Peter M. Kogge, Notre Dame University, US Manoj Kumar, IBM TJ Watson, US John Leidel, Tactical Computing Labs, US Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University, US José Moreira, IBM TJ Watson, US Miquel Moretó, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, ES Walid Najjar, University of California, Riverside, US Maxim Naumov, Facebook, US Fanny Nina-Paravecino, Intel, US Roger Pearce, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Cynthia Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, US Keshav Pingali, University of Texas, Austin, US Alejandro Rico, ARM, US Jason Riedy, Georgia Tech, US John Shalf, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Edgar Solomonik, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, US Ruud van der Pas, Oracle, US Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, NL Jishen Zhao, University of California, San Diego, US Other members TBD

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Reminder: Call for nomination deadline Aug. 15 - 2019 IEEE CS Early Career Researcher Award in HPC
by Vladimir Getov 09 Aug '19

09 Aug '19

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

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

09 Aug '19

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email! ********** WORKS 2019 Workshop ********** 14th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop http://works.cs.cardiff.ac.uk/ Sunday 17 November 2019, Denver, CO Held in conjunction with SC19, http://sc19.supercomputing.org/ Paper submission deadline: 26 August 2019 ***************************************** Call For Papers Data-intensive Workflows (a.k.a. scientific workflows) are routinely used in most scientific disciplines today, especially in the context of parallel and distributed computing. Workflows provide a systematic way of describing the analysis and rely on workflow management systems to execute the complex analyses on a variety of distributed resources. They are at the interface between end-users and computing infrastructures. With the dramatic increase of raw data volume in every domain, they play an even more critical role to assist scientists in organizing and processing their data and to leverage HPC or HTC resources, e.g., workflows played an important role in the discovery of Gravitational Waves. This workshop focuses on the many facets of data-intensive workflow management systems, ranging from job execution to service management and the coordination of data, service and job dependencies. The workshop therefore covers a broad range of issues in the scientific workflow lifecycle that include: data-intensive workflows representation and enactment; designing workflow composition interfaces; workflow mapping techniques that may optimize the execution of the workflow; workflow enactment engines that need to deal with failures in the application and execution environment; and a number of computer science problems related to scientific workflows such as semantic technologies, compiler methods, fault detection and tolerance. The topics of the workshop include but are not limited to: Big Data analytics workflows Data-driven workflow processing (including stream-based workflows) Workflow composition, tools, and languages Workflow execution in distributed environments (including HPC, clouds, and grids) Reproducible computational research using workflows Dynamic data dependent workflow systems solutions Exascale computing with workflows In Situ Data Analytics Workflows Interactive workflows (including workflow steering) Workflow fault-tolerance and recovery techniques Workflow user environments, including portals Workflow applications and their requirements Adaptive workflows Workflow optimizations (including scheduling and energy efficiency) Performance analysis of workflows Workflow debugging Workflow provenance ***************************************** Important Dates Papers due: 26 August 2019 (EXTENDED) Paper acceptance notification: 20 September 2019 E-copyright registration completed by authors: 1 October 2019 Camera-ready deadline: 1 October 2019 Submitted papers must be at most 10 pages long. The proceedings should be formatted according to the IEEE format (see https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) The 10-page limit includes figures, tables, appendices and references. WORKS papers will be published in cooperation with TCHPC and will be available from IEEE digital repository. ***************************************** WORKS 2019 Organizing Committee – PC Chairs Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Rafael Ferreira da Silva, University of Southern California, USA – General Chair Ian J. Taylor, Cardiff University, UK and University of Notre Dame, USA – Steering Committee David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia Malcolm Atkinson, University of Edinburgh, UK Ewa Deelman, USC, USA Michela Taufer, University of Tennessee, USA – Publicity Chairs Ilia Pietri, Intracom SA Telecom Solutions, Greece Hoang Anh Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia ***************************************** WORKS 2019 Program Committee (Tentative) Pinar Alper, University Luxembourg, LU Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Khalid Belhajjame, Universit. Paris-Dauphine, France Ivona Brandic, TU Wien, Austria Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Henri Casanova, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA Rafael Ferreira Da Silva, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Daniel Garijo, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Daniel Katz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Tamas Kiss, University of Westminster, UK Dagmar Krefting, HTW Berlin, Germany Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Anirban Mandal, Renaissance Computing Institute, USA Marta Mattoso, Federal Univ. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame, USA Hoang Anh Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia Daniel de Oliveira, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Frédéric Suter, CNRS, France Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, USA Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Chase Wu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

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Challenges in HPC workshop, Canberra Sep 2-6: final call
by Peter Strazdins 09 Aug '19

09 Aug '19

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

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

05 Aug '19

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

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

05 Aug '19

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

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

02 Aug '19

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

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

01 Aug '19

Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this email! ********** WORKS 2019 Workshop********** 14th Workflows in Support of Large-Scale Science Workshop http://works.cs.cardiff.ac.uk/ Sunday 17 November 2019, Denver, CO Held in conjunction with SC19, http://sc19.supercomputing.org/ Paper submission deadline: 5 August 2019 ***************************************** Call For Papers Data-intensive Workflows (a.k.a. scientific workflows) are routinely used in most scientific disciplines today, especially in the context of parallel and distributed computing. Workflows provide a systematic way of describing the analysis and rely on workflow management systems to execute the complex analyses on a variety of distributed resources. They are at the interface between end-users and computing infrastructures. With the dramatic increase of raw data volume in every domain, they play an even more critical role to assist scientists in organizing and processing their data and to leverage HPC or HTC resources, e.g., workflows played an important role in the discovery of Gravitational Waves. This workshop focuses on the many facets of data-intensive workflow management systems, ranging from job execution to service management and the coordination of data, service and job dependencies. The workshop therefore covers a broad range of issues in the scientific workflow lifecycle that include: data-intensive workflows representation and enactment; designing workflow composition interfaces; workflow mapping techniques that may optimize the execution of the workflow; workflow enactment engines that need to deal with failures in the application and execution environment; and a number of computer science problems related to scientific workflows such as semantic technologies, compiler methods, fault detection and tolerance. The topics of the workshop include but are not limited to: Big Data analytics workflows Data-driven workflow processing (including stream-based workflows) Workflow composition, tools, and languages Workflow execution in distributed environments (including HPC, clouds, and grids) Reproducible computational research using workflows Dynamic data dependent workflow systems solutions Exascale computing with workflows In Situ Data Analytics Workflows Interactive workflows (including workflow steering) Workflow fault-tolerance and recovery techniques Workflow user environments, including portals Workflow applications and their requirements Adaptive workflows Workflow optimizations (including scheduling and energy efficiency) Performance analysis of workflows Workflow debugging Workflow provenance ***************************************** Important Dates Papers due: 5 August 2019 (EXTENDED) Paper acceptance notification: 1 September 2019 E-copyright registration completed by authors: 1 October 2019 Camera-ready deadline: 1 October 2019 Submitted papers must be at most 10 pages long. The proceedings should be formatted according to the IEEE format (see https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) The 10-page limit includes figures, tables, appendices and references. WORKS papers will be published in cooperation with TCHPC and will be available from IEEE digital repository. ***************************************** WORKS 2019 Organizing Committee – PC Chairs Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Rafael Ferreira da Silva, University of Southern California, USA – General Chair Ian J. Taylor, Cardiff University, UK and University of Notre Dame, USA – Steering Committee David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia Malcolm Atkinson, University of Edinburgh, UK Ewa Deelman, USC, USA Michela Taufer, University of Tennessee, USA – Publicity Chairs Ilia Pietri, Intracom SA Telecom Solutions, Greece Hoang Anh Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia ***************************************** WORKS 2019 Program Committee(Tentative) Pinar Alper, University Luxembourg, LU Ilkay Altintas, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Khalid Belhajjame, Universit. Paris-Dauphine, France Ivona Brandic, TU Wien, Austria Kris Bubendorfer, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Jesus Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Henri Casanova, University of Hawaii at Manoa, USA Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA Rafael Ferreira Da Silva, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Daniel Garijo, USC Information Sciences Institute, USA Sandra Gesing, University of Notre Dame, USA Daniel Katz, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA Tamas Kiss, University of Westminster, UK Dagmar Krefting, HTW Berlin, Germany Maciej Malawski, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland Anirban Mandal, Renaissance Computing Institute, USA Marta Mattoso, Federal Univ. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Jarek Nabrzyski, University of Notre Dame, USA Hoang Anh Nguyen, University of Queensland, Australia Daniel de Oliveira, Fluminense Federal University, Brazil Radu Prodan, University of Klagenfurt, Austria Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA Rizos Sakellariou, University of Manchester, UK Frédéric Suter, CNRS, France Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, USA Rafael Tolosana-Calasanz, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Chase Wu, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA

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SC'19: Posters Deadlines Extended!
by Stefano Markidis 30 Jul '19

30 Jul '19

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

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

29 Jul '19

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

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EuroMPI 2019, Zurich, Switzerland - Call for Posters
by HOLMES Daniel 25 Jul '19

25 Jul '19

** Submission deadline is the end of this week ** ===================================== || EuroMPI 2019 - Call for Posters || ===================================== http://eurompi19.inf.ethz.ch/node/13 Important Dates Posters submissions due date: 27th July 2019 (AOE) Posters notification date: 11th August 2019 Conference dates: 11th-13th September 2019 The poster session at the EuroMPI 2019 conference is an excellent opportunity to engage with the community by discussing new ideas and latest results that are not yet ready to be full papers. We are soliciting poster submissions for EuroMPI 2019 that show-case work on the Message Passing Interface (MPI) or work that is related to message-passing parallel computing. We particularly encourage graduate students to publicise their ongoing work. We invite submissions from users of MPI, developers of MPI, and researchers in the broader field of message-passing parallel computing. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Implementation Issues * Implementation improvements towards exascale computing, such as many-core, GPGPU, and heterogeneous architectures. * Performance bugs in MPI implementations. * Interaction between message-passing software and new high-performance hardware architectures. * New MPI-IO mechanisms and I/O stack optimizations. * Programming Models * API limitations of MPI; extensions to MPI. * Hybrid and heterogeneous programming; combining MPI with other interfaces. * MPI support for data-intensive parallel applications. * Fault tolerance in message-passing implementations and systems. * New programming paradigms implemented over MPI, like hierarchical programming and global address spaces. * MPI parallel programming in clouds. * Applications and Performance * Performance evaluation for MPI or MPI-based applications on HPC machines or using cloud resources. * Automatic performance tuning of MPI applications and implementations. * Verification of message-passing applications and protocols. * Applications using message passing, for example, in computational science and scientific computing. * New parallel algorithms expressed in the message-passing paradigm. Submission Instructions http://eurompi19.inf.ethz.ch/node/13 Poster submissions should be submitted to the EuroMPI 2019 poster chairs via email to: Daniel Holmes <d.holmes(a)epcc.ed.ac.uk> and to Stefano Markidis <markidis(a)kth.se>. All poster submissions must include: * A short abstract (175 word maximum). * An extended abstract (3 pages maximum, including figures and references, and formatted according to the "sigconf" style in the ACM 2017 Template (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template)) * A poster draft. Note that complete results are not necessary. It is acceptable to have placeholders for last-minute results. * Poster format should be A0 page size (either portrait or landscape). See the attached size guide instructions for more details. The abstracts and posters will NOT be published in the conference proceedings by ACM-ICPS. In case of acceptance, posters will be presented at the conference and, if the authors agree, they will be published on the EuroMPI'19 poster web page. --------------------------------------------------------------------- We would appreciate if you could forward this email to interested colleagues. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The University of Edinburgh is a charitable body, registered in Scotland, with registration number SC005336.

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[CFP] First international workshop on HPC for Urgent Decision making (UrgentHPC)
by Tumeo, Antonino 23 Jul '19

23 Jul '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ======================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS First international workshop on HPC for Urgent Decision making (UrgentHPC) In conjunction with SC19: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Sunday afternoon November 17, 2019, Denver, Colorado, USA. In cooperation with IEEE TCHPC. https://www.urgenthpc.com ======================================================================== Paper submission deadline: August 14, 2019 (AoE) Author notification: September 10, 2019 Camera ready deadline: September 30, 2019 Scope ===== Responding to disasters such as wildfires, hurricanes, extreme flooding, earthquakes, tsunamis, winter weather conditions, and accidents; technological advances are creating exciting new opportunities that have the potential to move HPC well beyond traditional computational workloads. Whilst HPC has a long history of simulating disasters, whatís missing to support emergency, urgent, decision making is fast, real-time acquisition of data and the ability to guarantee time constraints. Our ability to capture data continues to grow very significantly, and combining high velocity data and live analytics with HPC models can aid in urgently responding to real-world problems, ultimately saving lives and reducing economic loss. It's not just responding to disasters, but also making urgent decisions addressing more general issues such as human health emergencies and global diseases. The challenges here are significant, but if HPC can be proven as a tool in responding to these real-world issues, the impact for our community is huge. Leveraging HPC for urgent decision making requires expertise in a wide range of areas, from dealing with real-time data, to experience in generating results within a specific time frame (real-time constraints), and generating visualizations enabling front-line decision makers to make correct choices first time, every time. It isn't just technical challenges, but also policy issues that also need to be considered such as utilizing our HPC machines in a more interactive manner to enable the urgent exploration of numerous disaster responses. This workshop will bring together stakeholders, researchers and practitioners from across the HPC community to identify and tackle issues involved in using HPC for urgent decision making. Success stories, case-studies and challenges will be shared, with the goal of further building up a community around leveraging HPC as an important tool in urgently responding to disasters and societal challenges. Call for Papers ============ We invite you to submit both full and hot-topic research papers detailing original work in the area of using HPC for making urgent decisions. Topics of interest for workshop submissions include (but are not limited to): * Example use-cases and case-studies that use HPC for urgent decision making * Techniques for integrating HPC workflows with real-time data * Approaches to verify and validate unreliable real-time data, for instance from sensors, IoT and satellites * System design for data reduction and pre-processing at source, for instance using edge computing and heterogeneous resources such as FPGAs * The use of data formats and conversion techniques to support the handling of data from numerous and diverse sources * Algorithmic techniques to guarantee result generation in specific time frames, such as result refinement which generates more accurate results as time progresses * Studies of leveraging HPC for workloads with real-time time constraints * Changes to existing HPC technologies and policies that are required to support using HPC interactively * The ability for HPC codes to adapt their resource requirements dynamically, for instance via elastic compute * Visualization and presentation techniques to support rapid and accurate urgent decision making by the end user * Reduction and feature extraction of results to highlight critical issues of interest * Complimenting results with provenance data for additional context and certainty * Data analysis techniques for making urgent decisions in response to disasters Paper Submission Guidelines ====================== * Papers should be submitted electronically via the SC19 Submission Page (https://submissions.supercomputing.org) * All papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers published via IEEE TCHPC * Papers will be published via IEEE TCHPC and as such they must follow the IEEE formatting, templates available athttp://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.h… * Full paper submissions are limited to 10 pages and hot-topic submissions 4 pages. The page limit includes figures, tables, and appendices, but does not include references, for which there is no page limit. * Submitted papers should not have appeared in or be under consideration for a different workshop, conference or journal. * In submitting the paper, the authors acknowledge that at least one author of an accepted submission will register for and attend the workshop. Questions? ========= There is more information available at https://www.urgenthpc.com and please feel free to email any questions to Nick Brown (n.brown(a)epcc.ed.ac.uk<mailto:n.brown@epcc.ed.ac.uk>) Organizers ========== * Nick Brown (EPCC at the University of Edinburgh) * Vinay Amatya (PNNL, DoE) * Deidre Brucker (NCAR) * Thierry Goubier (CEA) * Vyacheslav Olshevsky (KTH) Program Committee ================= * Guillaume Colin de Verdière (CEA) * Robert Rallo (PNNL) * Antonino Tumeo (PNNL) * Gerald Baumgartner, Louisiana State University * Gordon Gibb, EPCC at the University of Edinburgh * Stefano Markidis, KTH * Andreas Gerndt, DLR * Johannes Guenther, Intel * Sabri Pllana, Linnaeus University * Peter Messmer, NVIDIA * John Feo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory * Steven W.D. Chien, KTH * Sergio Rivas-Gomez, KTH * Piero Poletti, FBK * Giorgio Guzzetta, FBK Supporting projects & organizations =================================== This workshop is supported by the VESTEC and LEXIS EU FET H2020 projects, along with PNNL and NCAR

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[CFP] IA^3 2019 - 9th SC Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms
by Tumeo, Antonino 23 Jul '19

23 Jul '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ======================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS First international workshop on HPC for Urgent Decision making (UrgentHPC) In conjunction with SC19: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Sunday afternoon November 17, 2019, Denver, Colorado, USA. In cooperation with IEEE TCHPC. https://www.urgenthpc.com ======================================================================== Paper submission deadline: August 14, 2019 (AoE) Author notification: September 10, 2019 Camera ready deadline: September 30, 2019 Scope ===== Responding to disasters such as wildfires, hurricanes, extreme flooding, earthquakes, tsunamis, winter weather conditions, and accidents; technological advances are creating exciting new opportunities that have the potential to move HPC well beyond traditional computational workloads. Whilst HPC has a long history of simulating disasters, whatís missing to support emergency, urgent, decision making is fast, real-time acquisition of data and the ability to guarantee time constraints. Our ability to capture data continues to grow very significantly, and combining high velocity data and live analytics with HPC models can aid in urgently responding to real-world problems, ultimately saving lives and reducing economic loss. It's not just responding to disasters, but also making urgent decisions addressing more general issues such as human health emergencies and global diseases. The challenges here are significant, but if HPC can be proven as a tool in responding to these real-world issues, the impact for our community is huge. Leveraging HPC for urgent decision making requires expertise in a wide range of areas, from dealing with real-time data, to experience in generating results within a specific time frame (real-time constraints), and generating visualizations enabling front-line decision makers to make correct choices first time, every time. It isn't just technical challenges, but also policy issues that also need to be considered such as utilizing our HPC machines in a more interactive manner to enable the urgent exploration of numerous disaster responses. This workshop will bring together stakeholders, researchers and practitioners from across the HPC community to identify and tackle issues involved in using HPC for urgent decision making. Success stories, case-studies and challenges will be shared, with the goal of further building up a community around leveraging HPC as an important tool in urgently responding to disasters and societal challenges. Call for Papers ============ We invite you to submit both full and hot-topic research papers detailing original work in the area of using HPC for making urgent decisions. Topics of interest for workshop submissions include (but are not limited to): * Example use-cases and case-studies that use HPC for urgent decision making * Techniques for integrating HPC workflows with real-time data * Approaches to verify and validate unreliable real-time data, for instance from sensors, IoT and satellites * System design for data reduction and pre-processing at source, for instance using edge computing and heterogeneous resources such as FPGAs * The use of data formats and conversion techniques to support the handling of data from numerous and diverse sources * Algorithmic techniques to guarantee result generation in specific time frames, such as result refinement which generates more accurate results as time progresses * Studies of leveraging HPC for workloads with real-time time constraints * Changes to existing HPC technologies and policies that are required to support using HPC interactively * The ability for HPC codes to adapt their resource requirements dynamically, for instance via elastic compute * Visualization and presentation techniques to support rapid and accurate urgent decision making by the end user * Reduction and feature extraction of results to highlight critical issues of interest * Complimenting results with provenance data for additional context and certainty * Data analysis techniques for making urgent decisions in response to disasters Paper Submission Guidelines ====================== * Papers should be submitted electronically via the SC19 Submission Page (https://submissions.supercomputing.org) * All papers will be peer-reviewed and accepted papers published via IEEE TCHPC * Papers will be published via IEEE TCHPC and as such they must follow the IEEE formatting, templates available athttp://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.h… * Full paper submissions are limited to 10 pages and hot-topic submissions 4 pages. The page limit includes figures, tables, and appendices, but does not include references, for which there is no page limit. * Submitted papers should not have appeared in or be under consideration for a different workshop, conference or journal. * In submitting the paper, the authors acknowledge that at least one author of an accepted submission will register for and attend the workshop. Questions? ========= There is more information available at https://www.urgenthpc.com and please feel free to email any questions to Nick Brown (n.brown(a)epcc.ed.ac.uk<mailto:n.brown@epcc.ed.ac.uk>) Organizers ========== * Nick Brown (EPCC at the University of Edinburgh) * Vinay Amatya (PNNL, DoE) * Deidre Brucker (NCAR) * Thierry Goubier (CEA) * Vyacheslav Olshevsky (KTH) Program Committee ================= * Guillaume Colin de Verdière (CEA) * Robert Rallo (PNNL) * Antonino Tumeo (PNNL) * Gerald Baumgartner, Louisiana State University * Gordon Gibb, EPCC at the University of Edinburgh * Stefano Markidis, KTH * Andreas Gerndt, DLR * Johannes Guenther, Intel * Sabri Pllana, Linnaeus University * Peter Messmer, NVIDIA * John Feo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory * Steven W.D. Chien, KTH * Sergio Rivas-Gomez, KTH * Piero Poletti, FBK * Giorgio Guzzetta, FBK Supporting projects & organizations =================================== This workshop is supported by the VESTEC and LEXIS EU FET H2020 projects, along with PNNL and NCAR

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[CFP] IA^3 2019 - 9th SC Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms
by Tumeo, Antonino 23 Jul '19

23 Jul '19

[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] IA^3 2019 9th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 November 18, 2019 Colorado Convention Center, Denver, CO In conjunction with SC19 Sponsored by IEEE TCHPC Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library through IEEE TCHPC. -------------------- Call for Papers -------------------- Irregular applications occur in many subject matters. While inherently parallel, they exhibit highly variable execution performance at a local level due to unpredictable memory access patterns and/or network transfers, divergent control structures, and data imbalances. Moreover, they often require fine-grain synchronization and communication on large-data structures such as graphs, trees, unstructured grids, sparse matrices, deep nets, tables, and their combinations (such as, for example, attributed graphs). They have a significant degree of latent parallelism, which however is difficult to exploit due to their complex behavior. Current high performance architectures rely on data locality and regular computation to reduce access latencies, and often do not cope well with the requirements of these applications. Furthermore, irregular applications are difficult to scale on current supercomputing machines, due to their limits in fine-grained synchronization and small data transfers. Irregular applications pertain both to well established and emerging fields, such as machine learning, social network analysis, bioinformatics, semantic graph databases, Computer Aided Design (CAD), and computer security. Many of these application areas also process massive sets of unstructured data, which keep growing exponentially. Emerging supercomputing applications are moving towards a convergence of scientific simulation, data analytics, and learning algorithms, mixed in various ways. Addressing the issues of irregular applications on current and future architectures will become critical to solve the challenges in science and data analysis of the next few years. This workshop seeks to explore solutions for supporting efficient execution of irregular applications in the form of new features at the level of the micro- and system-architecture, network, languages and libraries, runtimes, compilers, analysis, algorithms. Topics of interest, of both theoretical and practical significance, include but are not limited to: - Micro- and System-architectures, including multi- and many-core designs, heterogeneous processors, accelerators (GPUs, vector processors, Automata processor), reconfigurable (coarse grained reconfigurable and FPGA designs) and custom processors - Network architectures and interconnect (including high-radix networks, optical interconnects) - Novel memory architectures and designs (including processors-in memory) - Impact of new computing paradigms on irregular workloads (including neuromorphic processors and quantum computing) - Modeling, simulation and evaluation of novel architectures with irregular workloads - Innovative algorithmic techniques - Combinatorial algorithms (graph algorithms, sparse linear algebra, etc.) - Impact of irregularity on machine learning approaches - Parallelization techniques and data structures for irregular workloads - Data structures combining regular and irregular computations (e.g., attributed graphs) - Approaches for managing massive unstructured datasets (including streaming data) - Languages and programming models for irregular workloads - Library and runtime support for irregular workloads - Compiler and analysis techniques for irregular workloads - High performance data analytics applications (including graph databases and solutions that combine graph algorithms with machine learning) - Applications that integrate scientific simulation, data analytics, and learning, and require efficient execution of irregular workloads Besides regular papers, papers describing work-in-progress or incomplete but sound, innovative ideas related to the workshop theme are also encouraged. We solicit both 8-page regular papers and 4-page position papers. Authors of exciting but not mature enough regular papers may be offered the option of a short 4-page paper and related short presentation. -------------------- Important Dates -------------------- Abstract Submission: August 28, 2019 Position or Regular Paper Submission: September 4, 2019 Notification: October 1, 2019 Camera-ready: October 10, 2019 Workshop: November 18, 2019 -------------------- Submissions -------------------- Submission site: https://submissions.supercomputing.org Submitted manuscripts may not exceed eight (8) pages in length for regular papers and four (4) pages for position papers including figures, tables and references. Authors of regular papers will be able to provide up to one (1) additional pages for the Artifact Description (AD) appendix and, after paper acceptance, up to two (2) additional pages for the Artifact Evaluation (AE) appendix. The templates are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. Accepted papers will be published in the IEEE Digital Library through IEEE TCHPC. -------------------- Artifact Description & Evaluation -------------------- This edition of the workshop invites authors of regular papers to follow a reproducibility initiative like the main SC Conference, with specific appendices for the Artifact Description (AD) and the Artifact Evaluation (AE). Please refer to the SC reproducibility page for further details on the rationale behind AD and AE: https://sc19.supercomputing.org/submit/reproducibility-initiative/. Authors of regular papers will be able to use up to one (1) additional page to provide an Artifact Description (AD) Appendix, describing the details of their software environments and computational experiments to the extent that an independent person could replicate their results. This additional page is voluntary, and must focus only on details on software environments and methods to execute the experiments. It should not add details on the proposed technical approaches. If a paper has no computational results, the appendix only needs to mention that computational results are not part of the paper. Additionally, authors of accepted regular papers will be invited to formally submit their supporting materials to the Artifact Evaluation (AE) process. The process is voluntary, but authors that will participate in the AE will be eligible for the Best Paper Award of the workshop. Supporting materials for the AE include access to the actual software artifact, shared publicly (for example, through the CK - Collective Knowledge - https://github.com/ctuning/ck format), and two (2) further additional pages of the paper that details how to reproduce the results of the paper. For details on how to submit supporting materials to the AE process, please refer to: http://ctuning.org/ae/submission.html. Authors participating in the AE will receive an assessment of the artifact, and the related badge on their paper. For any additional question on the AD and the AE please contact the Artifact Evaluation Chair Flavio Vella at mailto:Flavio.Vella@unibz.it. -------------------- Organizers -------------------- Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), mailto:antonino.tumeo@pnnl.gov John Feo (PNNL), mailto:john.feo@pnnl.gov Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL), mailto:vitoGiovanni.castellana@pnnl.gov -------------------- Proceedings Chair -------------------- Marco Minutoli (PNNL and WSU), mailto:marco.minutoli@pnnl.gov -------------------- Artifact Evaluation Chair -------------------- Favio Vella (Free University of Bozen), mailto:Flavio.Vella@unibz.it -------------------- Technical Program Committee -------------------- Nesreen Ahmed, Intel, US Ashwin M. Aji, AMD, US Kubilay Atasu, IBM Zürich, CH Scott Beamer, University of California, Santa Cruz, US Jonathan Beard, ARM, US Michela Becchi, North Carolina State University, US Sanjukta Bhowmick, University of North Texas, US Erik Boman, Sandia National Laboratories, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Aydin Buluç, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Anastasiia Butko, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Tim Davis, Texas A&M University, US Assefaw Gebremedhin, Washington State University, US Rajiv Gupta, University of California, Riverside, US George Karypis, University of Minnesota, US Peter M. Kogge, Notre Dame University, US Manoj Kumar, IBM TJ Watson, US John Leidel, Tactical Computing Labs, US Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University, US José Moreira, IBM TJ Watson, US Miquel Moretó, Barcelona Supercomputing Center and Universitat Politècnica de Catalunia, ES Walid Najjar, University of California, Riverside, US Maxim Naumov, Facebook, US Fanny Nina-Paravecino, Microsoft, US Roger Pearce, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Cynthia Phillips, Sandia National Laboratories, US Keshav Pingali, University of Texas, Austin, US Alejandro Rico, ARM, US Jason Riedy, Georgia Tech, US John Shalf, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Edgar Solomonik, University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign, US Ruud van der Pas, Oracle, US Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, NL Jishen Zhao, University of California, San Diego, US

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CFP - Special Session at PDP 2020 on HPC in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS) in Västerås (Sweden)
by William Spataro 22 Jul '19

22 Jul '19

(sorry for cross postings) ************************************************************************** CALL FOR PAPERS: Special Session on High Performance Computing in Modelling and Simulation (HPCMS) Within PDP 2020 (www.pdp2020.com) The 28th Euromicro International Conference on Parallel, and Network-Based Computing Västerås (Sweden) 11-13 March 2020 http://www.pdp2020.com/specialsessions/hpcms/hpcms.html Deadline: September 15th, 2019 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 sixth edition which will take place in Vasteras (Västerås) (Sweden). 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 Paper submission: 15 September 2019 Acceptance notification: 20 October 2019 Camera ready due: 11 December 2019 Conference: 11 - 13 March 2020 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=pdp2020 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) : +39.0984.49.3691 / 4875 / 6464 Fax : +39.0984.493570 Member of the OpenCAL Team (https://github.com/OpenCALTeam) Web: www.mat.unical.it/spataro Email: spataro(a)unical.it -°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°-°

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Call For Papers - Data Science for Future Energy Systems - HiPC 2019 Workshop
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 20 Jul '19

20 Jul '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call for Papers Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** First Workshop on Data Science for Future Energy Systems - HiPC Workshop 2019 https://hipc.org/dsfes 17-20 December 2019 Hyderabad, India CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPER An Energy System is defined as a system primarily designed to supply energy services to end users. Such systems form the backbone of modern economy and include power grids, oilfields, heating/cooling systems, etc. The design of efficient, reliable and scalable Energy Systems for the future requires making them smarter and transitioning them into Future Energy Systems via novel data driven solutions built on top of the existing monitoring and control infrastructure. The goal of this workshop is to highlight and encourage discussions regarding novel applications of data science and data analytics techniques in the domain of Energy Systems such as smart (power) grids, smart oilfields, smart heating/cooling systems etc. Data driven techniques enabling transition to Future Energy Systems via improved sustainability and electrification of the energy systems, Uberization of the energy systems, mobility changes due to future energy systems, etc. are solicited. This workshop seeks submissions related to the following topic areas as applicable to the domain of future energy systems: * Discovery of knowledge and insights using data * Data Analytics Applications: Learning, prediction, anomaly detection, pattern recognition, search, mining, etc. * Data management/infrastructure * Data privacy/security * Data driven modeling * Data driven decision making * Data driven techniques enabling energy transition for improved sustainability and electrification * Uberization of energy systems enabling peer-to-peer transactions, minimizing distance between the producer and consumers, user rating system for quality of service, etc. * Mobility changes due to future energy systems MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed six (6) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5 x 11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See IEEE style templates at this page for details. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. 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. Presentation of an accepted paper at the workshop is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in proceedings. IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: September 20th, 2019 Notification to Authors: October 14th, 2019 Workshop camera-ready: October 28th, 2019 SUBMISSION PORTAL Easychair Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dsfes2019 ORGANIZING COMMITTEE Sanmukh R. Kuppannagari, University of Southern California, USA Chayan Sarkar, TCS Research & Innovation, India PROGRAM COMMITTEE MEMBERS Ram Balachandran, India Charalampos Chelmis, University of Albany, USA Sanmukh R. Kuppannagari (organizer), University of Southern California, USA Akshay Uttama Nambi, Microsoft Research, India Anand Panangadan, California State University, USA Laks Raghupati, Shell, India Kiran Sajjanshetty, Voyage Auto Inc., USA Chayan Sarkar (organizer), TCS Research & Innovation, India Ajitesh Srivastava, University of Southern California, USA Mahima Agumbe Suresh, San Jose State University, USA

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Call for Workshop Papers - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 2019
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 19 Jul '19

19 Jul '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this message Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2019 CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS ********************************************************************** The 26th annual IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics (HiPC 2019) will be held at the Hyderabad International Convention Centre, Hyderabad, India, during 17-20 December 2019. Complementing the main technical program, HiPC workshops serve to broaden the technical scope of the conference in emerging areas of high performance computing, communication, data and analytics and their applications. Below is the listing of the workshops to be held on the first day of the conference, December 17th. Please follow the links below for a detailed description and the Call for Papers of each workshop. * Multi-tier Big Data Pipelines from Edge to the Cloud Data Centers - https://hipc.org/bigdata/ * Workshop on Data Science for Future Energy Systems - https://hipc.org/dsfes/ * Workshop on Memory and Storage Systems 2019 (WoMSS) - http://hipc.org/womss/ IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission Deadline: September 20, 2019 WORKSHOP CO-CHAIRS * Vandana Janeja, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, USA * Antonino Tumeo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Workshops co-chairs may be contacted at workshops(a)hipc.org.

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Call for IRUS Session Leads - IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing, Data, and Analytics 2019
by sanmukh＠hipc.org 18 Jul '19

18 Jul '19

********************************************************************** We apologize if you received multiple copies of this Call Please feel free to distribute it to those who might be interested ********************************************************************** HiPC 2019 CALL FOR IRUS Session Leads ********************************************************************** BACKGROUND ON CONFERENCE HiPC, Data and Analytics is Asia's premier IEEE international annual conference on computational and data sciences. The 26th edition (https://hipc.org/) of this conference will be held in Hyderabad during December 17-20. BACKGROUND ON SYMPOSIUM Industry Research and User Symposium (IRUS) brings together solution providers and users of HPC, cloud and data platforms, providing a venue where they can share their challenges and successes and discuss relevant technology issues related to computational and data sciences. Previous IRUS sessions* had tremendous participation from conference attendees and included senior speakers from industry like Amazon, Flipkart, Intel, Microsoft, Shell and Xilinx, academia like CERN, IISC and TIFR and start-ups such as Khosla Labs and Forus Health. *PREVIOUS IRUS SESSION LINKS 2018: https://hipc.org/hipc2018/industry-research-and-user-symposium/ 2017: https://hipc.org/hipc2017/industry-research-and-user-symposium/ 2016: https://www.hipc.org/hipc2016/irus.php CALL FOR IRUS SESSION Leads We are looking for Leaders from industry or academia to help put together a great IRUS session on a relevant topic in computational and data sciences. As a session lead, you are responsible to organize an IRUS session (~2 hours) during a suitable slot in the conference duration. You will have freedom on the contents and panelists you wish to invite – you will be supported by the HiPC team in local logistics. WHAT'S THERE FOR YOU? * Opportunity to lead session in an area of your interest within computational and data science * Help shape the agenda amongst leading industry practitioners and academic experts from around the world * Engage with student and young researchers showcase your ideas and develop as a thought leader HOW TO APPLY (LAST DATE: JULY 31, 2019) Drop a line to: Chiranjib Sur (HiPC 2019 Conference General Chair) – sur.chiranjib(a)hipc.org Laks Raghupathi (HiPC 2019 IRUS Chair) – laks.aarthi(a)gmail.com

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CFP - CloudCom 2019 (Cloud Computing Technology and Science), Dec. 2019, Sydney, Australia
by Jesson Butt 17 Jul '19

17 Jul '19

Call for papers: The 11th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science (CloudCom 2019) will be held in Sydney, Australia on 11-13 December 2019. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 10, 2019 (11:59pm UTC/GMT) Notification: September 15, 2019 Final Manuscript Due: October 8, 2019 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Pattern Recognition Letters. =========== Introduction CloudCom is the premier conference on Cloud Computing worldwide, attracting researchers, developers, users, students and practitioners from the fields of big data, systems architecture, services research, virtualization, security and privacy, high performance computing, always with an emphasis on how to build cloud computing platforms with real impact. The conference is co-sponsored by the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), is steered by the Cloud Computing Association, and draws on the excellence of its world-class Program Committee and its participants. Topics of interest of CloudCom 2019 include, but are not limited to: - Architecture, Storage and Virtualization - Cloud Services and Applications - Security, Privacy and Trust - Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud (1) Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization - Intercloud architecture models - Virtual Machines (VMs), containers, unikernels and microservices - Cloud services delivery models, campus integration & “last mile” issues - Virtualization technology and enablers (network virtualization, software-defined networking) - Networking technologies - Cloud system design with FPGAs, GPUs, APUs - Storage & file systems - Scalability & performance - Resource provisioning, monitoring, management & maintenance - Operational, economic & business models - Green data centers - Computational resources, storage & network virtualization - Resource monitoring - Virtual desktops - Resilience, fault tolerance, disaster recovery - Modeling & performance evaluation - Disaster recovery - Energy efficiency (2) Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications - XaaS (everything as a service including IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS) - Cloud services models & frameworks - Service deployment and orchestration in the Cloud - Cloud service management - Cloud workflow management - Cloud services reference models & standardization - Cloud-powered services design - Cloud elasticity - Machine learning and systems interactions - Data management applications & services - Service for computing-intensive applications - Mining and analytics - Data-provisioning services - Cloud programming models, benchmarks, and tools - Cloud-based services & protocols - Fault-tolerance & availability of cloud services and applications - Application development and debugging tools - Business models & economics of cloud services (3) Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust - Accountability & audit - Authentication & authorization - Cloud integrity - Blockchain Cloud services - Cryptography in the Cloud - Hypervisor security - Identity management & security as a service - Prevention of data loss or leakage - Secure, interoperable identity management - Trust & credential management - Trust models for cloud services - Usable security Risk management in cloud computing environments - Privacy policy framework for clouds - Privacy-preserving data mining for clouds - Information sharing and data protection in the cloud - Cryptographic protocols against internal attacks in clouds - Privacy protection in cloud platforms - Energy/cost/efficiency of security in clouds (4) Track 4: Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud - Cloudlet-enabled applications - Distributed Cloud Infrastructure - Foundations and principles of distributed cloud computing - Architectural models, prototype implementations and applications - Cloud brokers and coordination across multiple resource managers - Interoperability and mobility - Software infrastructure for cloudlets - Dynamic resource, service and context management on edge computing - Fog Computing - IoT cloud architectures & models - Cloud-based context-aware IoT - Economics and pricing - Experience with and performance evaluation of existing deployments and measurements (public, private, hybrid, federated environments) (5) Short Papers, Posters, and Demo Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2019/cloudcom/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the conference proceedings. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of selected journals. General Chairs Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK Aniello Castiglione, University of Naples Parthenope, Italy Workshops and Tutorials Chairs Xuyun Zhang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand Short Papers, Posters, and Demo Chair Muneeb Hassan, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Phd Consortium Chair Deepak Puthal, Newcastle University, UK Track 1: Architecture, Storage and Virtualization Luiz F. Bittencourt, University of Campinas (UNICAMP), Brazil Muhammad Usman, Federation University, Australia Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications Laura Ricci, University of Pisa, Italy James Zheng, Macquarie University, Australia Track 3: Security, Privacy and Trust Martin Gilje Jaatun, University of Stavanger, Norway Li Li, Monash University, Australia Track 4: Edge Computing and Distributed Cloud Sarunas Girdzijauskas, KTH, Sweden Xiao Liu, Deakin University, Australia

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ParCo2019 Symposium on Tools and Infrastructure for Reproducibility in Data-Intensive Applications
by Sandro Fiore 08 Jul '19

08 Jul '19

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

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