Thursday 28 February 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS, IEEE 2013 7th International Workshop on Scientific Workflows: Advances in Workflows addressing the Big Data Challenge (SWF 2013)

CALL FOR PAPERS

       IEEE 2013 7th International Workshop on Scientific Workflows:
     Advances in Workflows addressing the Big Data Challenge (SWF 2013)
                http://www.servicescongress.org/2013/swf.html

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One day between June 27-July 2 2013, Santa Clara Marriott, CA, USA (Center of
Silicon Valley) within IEEE SERVICES 2013

+++++++++++++++
 Description
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Today, many science and engineering disciplines have become increasingly data-
intensive. Massively complex new instruments and simulators are generating
massive data sets that are described as big data. For example, in Physics, the
Large Hadron Collider will eventually generate about 15 petabytes (1 petabye is
about 1,000,000 gigabyes) of data per year. In neuroscience, a complete map of
the brain's neural circuitry would generate about 1000 exabytes (an exabyte is
about 1000 petabytes). The coming data deluge poses great challenges to the
whole lifecycle of data management, from data collection, data storage, to data
processing and visualization. In the meanwhile, workflow has become a popular
paradigm for scientists and engineers to formalize and structure complex
processes to solve increasingly data-intensive scientific and engineering
problems. The importance of workflow is well recognized by NSF as well as by
numerous workshops. As a recent Science article concluded, "In the future, the
rapidity with which any given discipline advances is likely to depend on how
well the community acquires the necessary expertise in database, workflow
management, visualization, and cloud computing technologies."

The theme of this year's SWF workshop is "Advances in Workflows addressing the
Big Data Challenge", recognizing the big data challenge in scientific workflows.
Built upon the successful history of SWF since 2007, this year, we broaden the
scope of SWF to include big data oriented workflows, soliciting papers to share
the challenges, experiences, and lessons in applying workflow technologies to
various data-driven science and engineering problems. Topics of interests
include, but are not limited to:

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 List of topics
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* Big-data workflows
* Data-driven workflows
* Event-driven workflows
* Scientific workflow provenance management and analytics
* Scientific workflow data, metadata, service, and task management
* Scientific workflow architectures, models, languages, systems, and algorithms
* Scientific workflow monitoring, debugging, exception handling, and
fault tolerance
* Streaming data processing in scientific workflows
* Pipelined, data, workflow, and task parallelism in scientific workflows
* Cloud, Service, Grid, or hybrid scientific workflows
* Data, metadata, compute, user-interaction, or
visualization-intensive scientific workflows
* Semantic techniques for scientific workflows
* Scientific workflow composition
* Security issues in scientific workflows
* Data integration and service integration in scientific workflows
* Scientific workflow mapping, optimization, and scheduling
* Scientific workflow modeling, simulation, analysis, and verification
* Scalability, reliability, extensibility, agility, and interoperability
* Scientific workflow applications and case studies
* Enterprise workflow management and services computing
* Enterprise workflow cooperation and collaboration

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 Important dates
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* Full Paper Submission Due Date: March 15, 2013
* Decision Notification (Electronic): April 4, 2013
* Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: April 15, 2013

Paper submission

Authors are invited to submit full papers (about 8 pages) or short papers (about
4 pages) as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines (download instruction). All
papers should be in PDF and submitted via at the submission system.

Website

http://www.servicescongress.org/2013/swf.html

Workshop chairs

* Liqiang Wang, wang@cs.uwyo.edu, University of Wyoming, U.S.A.
* Mike Wu, cwu@oakland.edu, Oakland University, U.S.A.

The 2013 ACM SIGPLAN X10 Workshop (X10'13) co-located with PLDI'13 in Seattle, WA

The 2013 ACM SIGPLAN X10 Workshop (X10'13)
  co-located with PLDI'13 in Seattle, WA

The concurrency and scale-out era is upon us. Application programmers
need to confront the architectural challenge of multiples cores and
accelerators, clusters and supercomputers. A central need is the
development of a usable programming model that can address these
challenges -- dealing with thousands of cores and peta-bytes of data.

The open-source X10 programming language is designed to address these
twin challenges of productivity and performance. It is organized
around four basic principles of asynchrony, locality, atomicity and
order, developed on a type-safe, class-based, object-oriented
foundation. This foundation is robust enough to support fine-grained
concurrency, Cilk-style fork-join programming, GPU programming, SPMD
computations, phased computations, active messaging, MPI-style
communicators and cluster programming. X10 implementations are
available on a wide range of systems ranging from laptops, to
clusters, to supercomputers.

The X10 Workshop is intended as a forum for X10 programmers,
developers, researchers, and educators. The program may include
presentation of invited and selected papers, panels and a late evening
X10 hackathon.

Original papers are invited on all aspects of X10, including theory,
design, implementation, practice, curriculum development and
experience, applications and tools. Accepted authors will have the
option of having their paper published in the workshop proceedings in
ACM Digital Library.

Important Dates
  Paper submission deadline: March 15, 2013
  Author Notification: April 10, 2013
  Workshop: Thu or Fri, June 20 or 21, 2013 (with PLDI '13)

Submission Information:
  Submissions must be in ACM proceedings format, 9-point type, and may
  not exceed 10 pages (all inclusive). Papers must describe unpublished
  work that is not currently submitted for publication elsewhere.

Program Committee:
  Jose Nelson Amaral (University of Alberta)
  David Grove (IBM Research) - PC Chair
  Dave Hudak (Ohio Supercomputer Center)
  Martha Kim (Columbia University)
  I-Ting Angelina Lee (MIT)
  Igor Peshansky (Google)
  Toyotaro Suzumura (IBM Research / Tokyo Institute of Technology)
  Olivier Tardieu (IBM Research)
  Eli Tilevich (Virginia Tech)
  Jisheng Zhao (Rice University)

For more information, please see the online call for papers at
http://x10-lang.org/workshop/workshop13.html.

GTC and GDC - A Great Combination

With the Game Developers Conference (GDC) so close to NVIDIA’s own GPU Technology Conference (GTC), we are often asked which event is better to attend. The answer is that both venues offer a unique opportunity to engage with NVIDIA graphics and game engineers, but each has several unique presentations that give you in-depth information on NVIDIA tools and hardware. Two of our guest presenters, Valve and Gearbox, have agreed to speak on the same topic at both events, but all other presentations are completely unique. Here’s our at-a-glance schedule for the main presentation days at both conferences:
GPU Technology Conference (GTC)
Game Development Track, March 21st
San Jose Convention Center, San Jose, CA
Game Developers Conference
NVIDIA Sponsored Sessions, March 28th
Moscone Center, San Francisco, CA
GPU Rigid Body Dynamics NVIDIA® Nsight™ Visual Studio Edition 3.0 - Catzilla Engine Development in DirectX 11 and OpenGL 4.2
OpenGL 4 and Beyond Post Mortem: GPU Accelerated Effects in Borderlands 2 (Also presented at GTC)
Porting Source to Linux: Valve’s Lessons Learned (Also presented at GDC) Porting Source to Linux: Valve’s Lessons Learned (Also presented at GTC)
Bringing PC and Console Games to Mobile: Tips and Tricks from the Trenches Enhancing Hawken and PlanetSide 2 Through Turbulence and Destruction
Post Mortem: GPU Accelerated Effects in Borderlands 2 (Also presented at GDC) NVIDIA® Project SHIELD and Tegra® 4: Redefining AFK
NVIDIA Graphics Technology Libraries for Real-time Rendering Moving Games into the Cloud, Technologies and Architectures
How to Sign Up
For GTC, it’s still not too late to take advantage of the 10% discount for the one-day pass or the full conference, just use code GM10ND when you register today.
For GDC, one week after GTC, our sponsored sessions are free for all attendees that have paid for a conference pass.
We hope to see you at both events!

Wednesday 27 February 2013

AMD Gaming Evolved Newsletter

Crysis 3 runs best on AMD Radeon, and it’s available now!
Late last month we brought word of the Crysis 3 beta, and ran through a full list of recommended settings for each AMD Radeon™ HD 7000 Series GPU. Today, we’ll do you one better: the full game is here to play, and we have a full breakdown of (almost) everything there is to know about running this sensational AMD Radeon™-optimized game.

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See some of the world’s most innovative PC mods, and the hottest PC games





See some of the world’s most innovative PC mods, and the hottest PC games.

Immerse yourself in an evening surrounded by jaw-dropping PC mods dreamed up by certifiably mad geniuses. Take advantage of this exclusive VIP invitation and plan to attend AMD Technograffiti at this year’s SXSW® Interactive Festival (SXSWi). If you can’t make it to Austin for this year’s SXSWi, but would like to stay informed about upcoming events in your area, let us know.
AMD Technograffiti is a kick-off event taking place in downtown Austin from 7:30 p.m. to Midnight on March 7th, the evening before SXSWi officially begins. This inspiring VIP evening will include
  • A collection of some of the coolest PC mods you’ll ever see—from a rocket-launching gaming PC to a popcorn machine HTPC
  • Play the hottest Never Settle Reloaded AAA games
  • The latest gaming technology
  • Master of ceremonies and Blogger extraordinaire Chris Pirillo
Drop by for a drink with AMD and explore how the PC is being reimagined and brought to the forefront of cool again.

10th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications (AICCSA 2013)

10th ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications
(AICCSA 2013)

May 27 - 30, Fez, Morocco

 <http://aiccsa.uic.edu> http://aiccsa.uic.edu

The ACS/IEEE International Conference on Computer Systems and Applications
is a premier Computer Science and Engineering Conference. It is an
international forum for researchers and practitioners interested in the
advances of computer systems and their applications. The 10th edition of
AICCSA will be held in Fez, Morocco, on May 27-30, 2013 (aiccsa.uic.edu).

We are pleased to invite you to submit your papers to AICCSA?13. Any
theoretical, conceptual, descriptive in nature, or a survey of the state of
the art contribution is welcome. All submissions will be reviewed on the
basis of relevance, originality, importance and clarity. Topics of interest
include but not limited to the following areas:

-       Cloud and Distributed Computing

-       Networking, sensor networks, mobile computing

-       IR, Data and knowledge management

-       BPM, Web Services, SOA

-       E-government, e-Commerce, e-Health

-       Social computing

-       Security, privacy

-       Semantic Web

-       Multimedia and Computer vision

-       Arabic/Amazigh/Farsi/Urdu language processing

-       Big Data, Business Intelligence, Analytics


Important Dates


-       Papers and Posters Submissions: March 1, 2013

-       Workshop, Tutorial and Panel Submissions: March 1, 2013

-       Notification of acceptance: April 12, 2013

-       Camera ready copy due: April 21, 2013

-       Author Registration: April 21, 2013


Proceedings


Papers selected for presentation will appear in the Conference Proceedings,
which will be published by the IEEE Computer Society and be available at
IEEE Xplore. Extended versions of selected papers will be considered for
possible publication in scholarly journals.


Regular Papers


Papers must be submitted electronically by the above deadline. Each paper
will be evaluated by at least three reviewers, and will be accepted based on
its originality, significance and clarity.

Submissions should not exceed 8 two-column, 8.5?11 inch pages (including
figures, tables, and references) in 10 point fonts. Please include 5-10
keywords, complete postal and e-mail address, and fax and phone numbers of
the corresponding author. If you have difficulties with electronic
submission, please contact Technical Program Co-Chairs. Papers must not be
published or under consideration to be published elsewhere.


Short Papers


Submitted papers that are deemed of good quality but could not be accepted
as regular papers will be accepted as short papers.


Workshops, Tutorials and Panels Submissions


Proposals for workshops, tutorials and panels should be submitted directly
to the program chair.


Posters and Doctoral Symposium


Research still in early stages and doctoral research proposals may be
submitted as extended abstracts that must not exceed 750 words. Accepted
abstracts will be included in a special poster session dedicated to doctoral
research proposals and related research.

Conference General Chair:

Aris M. Ouksel, aris@uic.edu

Conference General Co-Chair:

DrissKettani, d.kettani@aui.ma

Steering Committee Chair:

Salim Hariri, hariri02@gmail.com

Technical Program Co-Chairs:

BoualemBenatallah, boualem.benatallah@gmail.com

Ibrahim Kamel, kamel@sharjah.ac.ae

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Chaker El Amrani, Ph.D

Professor & Chair, Dept. of Computer Engineering

IEEE Senior Member

PPD, NATO SfP- MDEO

Abdelmalek Essaadi University

FST Tangier, PO Box 416, Tangier, 90000, Morocco

Tel.: +212 (0) 670470521

CALL FOR PAPERS, Sixth International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-end Computing (P2S2)


CALL FOR PAPERS
===============

Sixth International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models
and Systems Software for High-end Computing (P2S2)
Oct 1st, 2013

To be held in conjunction with ICPP-2013: The 42nd International
Conference on Parallel Processing, Oct. 1-4, 2013, Lyon, France

Website: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2/2013/

SCOPE
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The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and
practitioners in parallel programming models and systems software for
high-end computing systems. Please join us in a discussion of new ideas,
experiences, and the latest trends in these areas at the workshop.


TOPICS OF INTEREST
------------------
The focus areas for this workshop include, but are not limited to:

    *  Systems software for high-end scientific and enterprise computing
architectures
          o Communication sub-subsystems for high-end computing
          o High-performance file and storage systems
          o Fault-tolerance techniques and implementations
          o Efficient and high-performance virtualization and other
management
            mechanisms for high-end computing

    * Programming models and their high-performance implementations
          o MPI, Sockets, OpenMP, Global Arrays, X10, UPC, Chapel,
Fortress and others
          o Hybrid Programming Models

    * Tools for Management, Maintenance, Coordination and Synchronization
          o Software for Enterprise Data-centers using Modern
Architectures o Job scheduling libraries
          o Management libraries for large-scale system
          o Toolkits for process and task coordination on modern platforms

    * Performance evaluation, analysis and modeling of emerging computing
platforms


PROCEEDINGS
-----------
Proceedings of this workshop will be published in CD format and will be
available at the conference (together with the ICPP conference
proceedings).
The accepted papers will be included in and indexed by the IEEE digital
library.


JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE
---------------------
The best papers of P2S2-2013 will be included in a Special Issue on
Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software of the Journal of
Supercomputing (JoSC), edited by Abhinav Vishnu, Yong Chen, and Pavan
Balaji.

This special issue is dedicated for the papers accepted in the P2S2
workshop. The submission to this special issue is by invitation only, and
the submission deadline is July 28th, 2013.


SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS
-----------------------
Submissions should be in PDF format in U.S. Letter size paper. They should
not exceed 10 pages (all inclusive). Submissions will be judged based on
relevance, significance, originality, correctness and clarity. Please
visit workshop website at:

http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2/

for the submission link.


IMPORTANT DATES
---------------
Paper Submission:    March 15th, 2013
Author Notification: May 1st, 2013
Camera Ready:        July 12th, 2013
Workshop Date:       Oct 1st, 2013


PROGRAM CHAIRS
--------------
  * Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory
  * Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory
  * Yong Chen, Texas Tech University

PUBLICITY CHAIR
---------------
  * Qichang Liang, University of Otago


STEERING COMMITTEE
------------------
  * William D. Gropp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
  * Vijay Saraswat, IBM Research


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
-----------------
  * Ahmad Afsahi, Queen's University
  * Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratory
  * Darius Buntinas, Argonne National Laboratory
  * Surendra Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
  * Daniel Chavarria, Pacific Northwest National Lab
  * Bronis de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Lab
  * Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, China
  * Paul Hargrove, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab
  * Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand
  * Hai Jin, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. and Tech., China
  * Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology
  * Doug Lea, State University of New York at Oswego
  * Amith Rajith Mamidala, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
  * Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Queen's University of Belfast
  * Scott Pakin, Los Alamos National Laboratory
  * Guangming Tan, Chinese Academy of Sciences
  * Gabriel Tanase, IBM Research
  * Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory
  * Vinod Tipparaju, Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)
  * Jesper Traff, University of Vienna, Austria
  * Yunquan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences

If you have any questions, please contact us at p2s2-chairs@mcs.anl.gov

Tuesday 26 February 2013

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS, International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers *** ROSS 2013 ***

SECOND CALL FOR PAPERS
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International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers
                           ***  ROSS 2013  ***

                    In cooperation with ACM SIGHPC
                    --------------------------------
   Held in conjunction with ICS 2013, Eugene, OR, USA, June 10, 2013

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           http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/ross/2013/
=======================================================================

The complexity of node architectures in supercomputers increases as we
cross petaflop milestones on the way towards Exascale.  Increasing
levels of parallelism in multi- and many-core chips and emerging
heterogeneity of computational resources coupled with energy and memory
constraints force a reevaluation of our approaches towards operating
systems and runtime environments.

The ROSS workshop, to be held as a full-day meeting at the ICS 2013
conference in Eugene, Oregon, USA, focuses on principles and techniques
to design, implement, optimize, or operate runtime and operating systems
for supercomputers and massively parallel machines.


TOPICS OF INTEREST:
-------------------

- OS and runtime system scalability on many-node and multi/many-core
  systems
- specialized OSs for Supercomputing
- distributed/hybrid/partitioned OSs and runtime systems for
  Supercomputing
- fault tolerance
- system noise analysis and prevention
- interaction between middleware, runtime system, and the OS
- modeling and performance analysis of runtime systems
- I/O resource management and forwarding
- parallel job startup
- memory management and emerging memory technologies
- the role of OS and runtime system in minimizing power usage
- real-time considerations for Supercomputing

SCHEDULE AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURE:
----------------------------------

Submission deadline:    March 15, 2013
Author notification:    April 22, 2013
Final papers due:       May 10, 2013
Workshop date:          June 10, 2013

The ROSS workshop proceedings will be published electronically along
with the ICS conference proceedings via the ACM Digital Library.
Submitted manuscripts should be formatted using the ACM SIG proceedings
alternate format. Extensive documentation can be found at the ACM site
(http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). The
maximum length is 8 pages. All papers must be in English. Please visit
the workshop website for further instructions and the submission link.

The best papers of the workshop will be considered for inclusion in a
special issue of International Journal of High Performance Computing
Applications (IJHPCA).

WORKSHOP CHAIRS:
----------------

Torsten Hoefler      ETH Zurich, Switzerland
Kamil Iskra          Argonne National Laboratory, USA

PROGRAM COMMITTEE:
------------------

Patrick Bridges, University of New Mexico, USA
Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Franck Cappello, INRIA, France / UIUC, USA
Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA
Markus Geimer, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany
Roberto Gioiosa, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA
Yutaka Ishikawa, University of Tokyo, Japan
Larry Kaplan, Cray, Inc., USA
Bernd Mohr, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany
Raymond Namyst, University of Bordeaux 1, France
Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Pascale Rosse-Laurent, Bull, France
Martin Schulz, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Jesper Larsson Traeff, Vienna University of Technology, Austria
Robert Wisniewski, Intel, USA

Contact us at ross2013@easychair.org if you have any questions

CALL FOR PAPERS, IEEE 2013 7th International Workshop on Scientific Workflows: Advances in Workflows addressing the Big Data Challenge (SWF 2013)

CALL FOR PAPERS

       IEEE 2013 7th International Workshop on Scientific Workflows:
     Advances in Workflows addressing the Big Data Challenge (SWF 2013)
                http://www.servicescongress.org/2013/swf.html

##############################
#################################

One day between June 27-July 2 2013, Santa Clara Marriott, CA, USA (Center
of
Silicon Valley) within IEEE SERVICES 2013

+++++++++++++++
 Description
+++++++++++++++

Today, many science and engineering disciplines have become increasingly
data-
intensive. Massively complex new instruments and simulators are generating
massive data sets that are described as big data. For example, in Physics,
the
Large Hadron Collider will eventually generate about 15 petabytes (1
petabye is
about 1,000,000 gigabyes) of data per year. In neuroscience, a complete map
of
the brain's neural circuitry would generate about 1000 exabytes (an exabyte
is
about 1000 petabytes). The coming data deluge poses great challenges to the
whole lifecycle of data management, from data collection, data storage, to
data
processing and visualization. In the meanwhile, workflow has become a
popular
paradigm for scientists and engineers to formalize and structure complex
processes to solve increasingly data-intensive scientific and engineering
problems. The importance of workflow is well recognized by NSF as well as
by
numerous workshops. As a recent Science article concluded, "In the future,
the
rapidity with which any given discipline advances is likely to depend on
how
well the community acquires the necessary expertise in database, workflow
management, visualization, and cloud computing technologies."

The theme of this year's SWF workshop is "Advances in Workflows addressing
the
Big Data Challenge", recognizing the big data challenge in scientific
workflows.
Built upon the successful history of SWF since 2007, this year, we broaden
the
scope of SWF to include big data oriented workflows, soliciting papers to
share
the challenges, experiences, and lessons in applying workflow technologies
to
various data-driven science and engineering problems. Topics of interests
include, but are not limited to:

+++++++++++++++++
 List of topics
+++++++++++++++++

* Big-data workflows
* Data-driven workflows
* Event-driven workflows
* Scientific workflow provenance management and analytics
* Scientific workflow data, metadata, service, and task management
* Scientific workflow architectures, models, languages, systems, and
algorithms
* Scientific workflow monitoring, debugging, exception handling, and fault
tolerance
* Streaming data processing in scientific workflows
* Pipelined, data, workflow, and task parallelism in scientific workflows
* Cloud, Service, Grid, or hybrid scientific workflows
* Data, metadata, compute, user-interaction, or visualization-intensive
scientific workflows
* Semantic techniques for scientific workflows
* Scientific workflow composition
* Security issues in scientific workflows
* Data integration and service integration in scientific workflows
* Scientific workflow mapping, optimization, and scheduling
* Scientific workflow modeling, simulation, analysis, and verification
* Scalability, reliability, extensibility, agility, and interoperability
* Scientific workflow applications and case studies
* Enterprise workflow management and services computing
* Enterprise workflow cooperation and collaboration

+++++++++++++++++++
 Important dates
+++++++++++++++++++

* Full Paper Submission Due Date: March 15, 2013
* Decision Notification (Electronic): April 4, 2013
* Camera-Ready Copy Due Date & Pre-registration Due: April 15, 2013

Paper submission

Authors are invited to submit full papers (about 8 pages) or short papers
(about
4 pages) as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines (download instruction).
All
papers should be in PDF and submitted via at the submission system.

Website

http://www.servicescongress.org/2013/swf.html

Workshop chairs

* Liqiang Wang, wang@cs.uwyo.edu, University of Wyoming, U.S.A.
* Mike Wu, cwu@oakland.edu, Oakland University, U.S.A.

Monday 25 February 2013

Parallel Computing Training Dates from AccelerEyes



AccelerEyes
 has released dates for their upcoming CUDA and OpenCL training courses.

CUDA

OpenCL

More information can be found on the courses’ webpages.

CfP: Minisymposium on GPU Computing at PPAM (Warsaw, Sep 8-11, 2013)


GPU programming is now a much richer environment that it used to be a few years ago. On top of the two major programming languages, CUDA and OpenCL, libraries (e.g., cufft) and high level interfaces (e.g., thrust) have been developed that allow a fast access to the computing power of GPUs without detailed knowledge or programming of GPU hardware.

Annotation-based programming models (e.g., OpenACC), GPU plug-ins for existing mathematical software (e.g., Jacket in Matlab), GPU script languages (e.g., PyOpenCL), and new data parallel languages (e.g., Copperhead) bring GPU programming to a new level.
A major criticism of programming abstractions is that they look great on small examples but fail on practical problems. Therefore, this symposium invites, in particular, submissions that deal with practical applications that have successfully employed GPU libraries or high level programming tools. The focus may lie both on the development of the libraries or utilization of existing tools. Workshop topics include, but are not limited to:
  • GPU applications coded with high level programming tools
  • GPU library development and application
  • Comparison of different programming abstractions on the same/similar applications
  • Comparison of the same/similar programming abstractions on different applications
  • Performance and coding effort of high level tools against hand-coded approaches on the GPU
  • Performance and coding effort on multi-core CPUs against GPUs utilizing programming abstractions
  • Classification of different programming abstractions with respect to their best application area
The highest quality papers of the minisymposium will receive an invitation to a special issue of the journal “Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience”.
Full CFP: Minisymposium on GPU Computing at the 10th International Conference on Parallel Processing and Applied Mathematics (PPAM). Note that PPAM will also host a full-day tutorial on Advanced GPU Programming.

Amdahl Software announces the general availability of OpenCL CodeBench


Amdahl Software, a leading supplier of development tools for multi-core software, after extensive beta testing by evaluators over a dozen countries and numerous end-user application markets, today announced the production release of OpenCL CodeBench. OpenCL CodeBench is an OpenCL Code Creation tool. It simplifies parallel software development, enabling developers to rapidly generate and optimize OpenCL applications. Engineering productivity is increased through the automation of overhead tasks. The tools suite enables engineers to work at higher levels of abstraction, accelerating the code development process. OpenCL CodeBench benefits both expert and novice engineers through a choice of command line or guided, wizard-driven development methodologies. Close cooperation with IP, SOC and platform vendors will enable future releases of OpenCL CodeBench to more tightly optimize software for specific end user platforms and development environments.
OpenCL CodeBench is available for trial or purchase. For additional information, please visit www.amdahlsoftware.com.

Call for papers: ADBIS workshop on GPUs In Databases (GID 2013)


High performance of modern Graphics Processing Units may be utilized not only for graphics related application but also for general computing. This computing power has been utilized in new variants of many algorithms from almost every computer science domain. Unfortunately, while other application domains strongly benefit from utilizing the GPUs, databases related applications seem not to get enough attention. The main goal of the GPUs in Databases (GID) workshop is to fill this gap. This event is devoted to sharing the knowledge related to applying GPUs in Database environments and to discuss possible future development of this application domain. The list of topics of the GID workshop includes (but is not limited to):

  • Data compression on GPUs
  • GPUs in databases and data warehouses
  • Data mining using GPUs
  • Stream processing
  • Applications of GPUs in bioinformatics
  • Data oriented GPU primitives
For details please visit gid.us.to.

Lab4241 GP-GPU profiler


A free, pre-alpha release of Lab4241′s GPGPU profiler is now available at www.lab4241.com. It provides source-code-line performance profiling for C or C++ code and CUDA kernels in a non-intrusive way. The profiler enables the developer to a seamless evaluation of used GPU resources (execution counts, memory access, branch diversions, etc.) per source-line, along with result evaluation in a simple, intuitive GUI, similar as with known CPU profilers like Quantify or valgrind.

ICCCN 2013 Call for Papers The 22nd International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks

 ICCCN 2013 Call for Papers

                  The 22nd International Conference on Computer
                       Communications and Networks

                       http://www.icccn.org/icccn13/

                   Nassau, Bahamas, July 30 - August 2, 2013


Scope
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After a successful ICCCN in 2012, we are delighted to announce the 22nd ICCCN (International Conference on Computer Communications and Networks), 2013. ICCCN is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel ideas and fundamental advances in the fields of computer communications and networks. ICCCN serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners with a common interest in improving communications and networking through scientific and technological innovation. The primary focus of the conference is on new and original research results in the areas of design, implementation, and applications of computer communications and networks. Papers of special merit will be selected for possible fast track publication in the Computer Communications (COMCOM) journal. ICCCN is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society. The Proceedings of the ICCCN 2013 has already been accepted in the IEEE Conference Publication Program. Each accepted p
 aper must be presented at the conference or workshops by one of the authors, or it will be excluded from IEEE Xplore.


Topics
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ICCCN will bring together contributions which include but are not limited to the following areas:

   * Communication and Information Theory
   * Networking for Sustainability and Energy Efficiency
   * Network Science and Social Networks
   * Internet Services and Applications
   * Multimedia, QoS and Traffic Modeling
   * Network Architecture and Clean-Slate Designs
   * Grid and Cloud Computing
   * Cognitive Radio Networks
   * Network Algorithms and Performance Evaluation
   * Security, Privacy and Trust
   * Sensor Networks, Embedded Systems, and Pervasive Computing
   * Wireless Ad Hoc and Mesh Networks
   * Wireless LAN, Cellular, and Heterogeneous Networks
   * Wireless Communication



Registration and Submission Details
-----------------------------------

Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font) and must be submitted via EDAS (http://edas.info/) as PDF files (formatted for 8.5x11-inch paper). The manuscripts should be no longer than 7 pages. Up to two additional pages are permitted if the authors are willing to pay an over-length charge at the time of publication (manuscripts should not exceed 9 pages). Submitted papers should not be previously published in or be under consideration for publication in another journal or conference. The Program Committee reserves the right to not review papers that either exceed the length specification or have been submitted or published elsewhere. Submissions must include a title, abstract, keywords, author(s) and affiliation(s) with postal and e-mail address(es). A paper abstract must be registered on EDAS by the deadline indicated below.

Abstract Due (firm):       March 3, 2013
Paper Due (firm):          March 3, 2013
Acceptance Notification:   April 15, 2013
Camera Ready Due:          May 10, 2013

Workshops
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Six workshops will be held in conjunction with ICCCN 2013. All workshops have IEEE ComSoc Technical Co-Sponsorships and aim to explore special topics and provide international forums for scientists, engineers, and computer users to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results on hot and broad topics on computer communications and networks. Papers from industrial companies and papers on design and implementations of networking systems and services are very welcome. ICCCN is a premier international conference in the field. Accepted and registered workshop papers will be published in the ICCCN Proceedings. The Proceedings of the ICCCN 2013 has already been accepted in the IEEE Conference Publication Program.

Detailed information about workshops can be found at:
http://icccn.org/icccn13/workshops.html

Organising Committee
--------------------

General Chair: George Rouskas, North Carolina State University, USA
Program Chairs: Fan Zhai, Texas Instruments, USA
                Christian Poellabauer, University of Notre Dame, USA
Workshop Chairs: Kewei Sha, Oklahoma City University, USA
                Aaron Striegel, University of Notre Dame, USA

The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Dynamic Reconfigurable Network-on-Chip (DRNoC 2013) *CALL FOR PAPERS*

The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Dynamic Reconfigurable
Network-on-Chip
(DRNoC 2013)


*CALL FOR PAPERS*


As part of
The International Conference on High Performance Computing & Simulation
(HPCS 2013)
http://hpcs2013.cisedu.info/

July 1st ? July 5th 2013
Helsinki, Finland


*Submissions could be for full papers, short papers, or poster papers*


*IMPORTANT DATES*
Paper Submissions:  --------------------------------------March 01, 2013
Acceptance Notification: ---------------------------------March 30, 2013
Camera Ready Papers and Registration Due: ---April 18, 2013
Conference Dates: -----------------------------------------July 1 ? 5, 2013
*
SCOPE AND OBJECTIVES*
Network-on-chip (NoC) has been recently proposed for SoC applications
design to achieve better performance and lower energy consumption when
compared to conventional on-chip bus architectures.  Recently, there has
been a great deal of interest in the development of run-time approaches for
reconfigurable NoC. These approaches provide techniques that allow NoC to
autonomously adapt its structure and its behavior to system changes.

The Workshop topics of interest include (but are not limited to) the
following:

?    Topologies reconfiguration for NoC
?    Routing algorithms, switching techniques, and flow control schemes
?    Mapping and scheduling of tasks into NoC
?    Self-reconfiguration and self-optimization of NoC
?    Bio-inspired techniques for reconfigurable NoC
?    Analytical evaluation methods for designing reconfigurable NoC
?    Area, energy, and performance evaluation
?    Tools for design space exploration of reconfigurable NoC
?    Cases studies and FPGA-based implementation of reconfigurable NoC

Accepted papers will be published in the Conference proceedings.
Submission guidelines are available on the HPCS 2013 Conference web site at
http://hpcs2013.cisedu.info/.  If you have any questions about paper
submission or the workshop, please contact the workshop organizers.


--DRNoC chairs

Saturday 23 February 2013

IEEE P2P 2013 ,13th International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing and Decentralized Distributed Systems , CALL FOR PAPERS

 IEEE P2P 2013
           13th International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing
                    and Decentralized Distributed Systems
                               CALL FOR PAPERS
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                     September 9-11 2013, Trento (Italy)
                             http://www.p2p13.org

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# Papers due: *** April 12, 2013 ***                                        #
# Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings by IEEE   #
# Communications Society and will be available through IEEE-Xplore          #
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The IEEE Peer-to-Peer Computing conference is a forum to present and discuss
all aspects of mostly decentralized, large-scale distributed systems and
applications. We seek high-quality and original contributions that further
the state-of-the-art in the design and analysis of large-scale distributed
applications and systems, or that investigate real, deployed, applications or
systems. Topics of relevance are:

   * Large-scale infrastructure technology and protocols
   * P2P technologies for grids, clouds and data centers
   * Semantic overlay networks and semantic query routing
   * Experience with deployed (commercial) applications and systems
   * Information retrieval and query support
   * Security, privacy, anonymity, and anti-censorship
   * Policy enforcement, participation incentives, trust, and reputation
   * Cooperation, incentives, and fairness
   * P2P economics
   * Social networks and socially-informed infrastructures
   * New applications of peer-to-peer technologies
   * Overlay architectures and topologies
   * Overlay interaction with underlying infrastructure
   * Overlay monitoring and management
   * Self-organization and self-management
   * P2P applications and systems over mobile networks
   * Measurements and modeling of P2P and cloud systems
   * Performance, availability, robustness, and scalability
   * Volunteer computing

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Paper submission guidelines
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Papers can be submitted either as full papers or as short papers (following
the  IEEE single-spaced two-column format and a 10-point font size). Full
papers should not exceed 10 pages and short papers should not exceed 5 pages.
Short papers are expected to present work that is less mature but holds
promise, articulate a high-level vision, describe challenging future
directions or offer results that do not merit a full submission. Please note
that short papers also need evaluation results or analysis to corroborate the
claims of the paper and that a paper longer than 5 pages is treated as a full
paper.

Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through the
paper-submission website linked from the conference website. IEEE templates
for LaTeX and Microsoft Word, as well as related information, can be found at
the IEEE Digital Toolbox web page. The conference proceedings will be
published by the IEEE Communications Society.

All submissions will be evaluated using a double-blind review process. To
ensure blind reviewing, papers should be anonymized by removing author names
and affiliations, as well as by masking any information about projects and
bibliographic references, etc. that might reveal the authors' identities.
Papers that are not properly anonymized will be rejected without review.
Submitted papers should describe original and previously unpublished research
and are not allowed to be simultaneously submitted or under review elsewhere.

To be published in the IEEE P2P 2013 Conference Proceedings and IEEE Xplore,
an author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference at
the full (member or non-member) rate and the paper must be presented at the
conference. Non-refundable registration fees must be paid prior to uploading
the final IEEE formatted, publication-ready version of the paper. For authors
with multiple accepted papers, one full registration is valid for up to 2
papers. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the IEEE P2P 2013
Conference Proceedings and in IEEE Xplore.

*Note:* as in the previous year, P2P 2013 will have a two-phase reviewing
process and "open reviews" in order to provide additional feedback to authors
of submitted papers and make the overall reviewing process more transparent.
Specifically, all paper submissions will receive between 3 and 5 reviews each;
while all papers will receive at least 3 reviews, papers of sufficient quality
will undergo a second reviewing phase. In addition, the camera-ready version
of each accepted paper will be accompanied by a 1-page summary that consists
of the significant portions of the (anonymized) reviews that the paper
received during the reviewing process and a 1-paragraph summary by the authors
detailing how they addressed the reviewers' comments. The conference
proceedings as well as the conference website will include the camera-ready
version of each accepted paper together with the corresponding 1-page summary
review.

In addition to the main conference, IEEE P2P 2013 will have a poster and demo
session, and a conference best paper award. The demo/poster session will be
announced with a separate CFP. With authors' consent some short papers not
making it to the final program will be considered for Poster presentation.

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Important Dates
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

   * Abstract submission          : April 5, 2013
   * Submission deadline          : April 12, 2013
   * Notification                 : July 12, 2013
   * Author registration deadline : July 26, 2013
   * Camera-ready deadline        : August 2, 2013
   * Conference dates             : September 9-11, 2013

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Contact Information
++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

Adriana Iamnitchi and Pascal Felber (TPC Chairs)

Renato Lo Cigno (General Chair)
Email: Renato.LoCigno@unitn.it

--
Adriana Iamnitchi
Associate Professor
Computer Science and Engineering
University of South Florida
http://www.cse.usf.edu/~anda