CUDA Week in Review (GPU Tech Conference; Spotlight on Quantum Chemistry)

CUDA Pro Tip: In CUDA 5.5, a new racecheck analysis mode presents a more human-readable analysis of your code, even reporting which source lines conflict with other lines. Learn more at Parallel Forall.

GPU TECHNOLOGY CONFERENCE Register today for GTC 2014! The GPU Tech Conference (March 24-27) will feature 500 sessions, tutorials, labs and opportunities for interaction with experts and peers. Registration (20% discount code: GM20CD) Call for posters (open through Jan. 31)

CUDA SPOTLIGHT
CUDA-Accelerated Quantum Chemistry This week’s Spotlight features Professor Todd Martinez of Stanford. His research lies in the area of theoretical chemistry, emphasizing development of new methods which accurately capture quantum mechanical effects. These effects are crucial in understanding chemical bonding, molecular transformations and reactions involving light. Read the Spotlight.
CUDA NEWS
New CUDA Fellow Bin Zhou is an adjunct research professor at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC), where he established a CUDA Teaching Center and trained 500+ developers and students in CUDA programming. Read the announcement. New Beta from Mellanox Mellanox announced the GPUDirect RDMA Beta. This new technology provides a significant decrease in GPU-GPU communication latency and completely offloads the CPU, removing it from GPU-GPU communications across the network. Melanox is a supplier of high-performance, end-to-end interconnect solutions. New Licensing from ANSYS ANSYS, a provider of engineering simulation products, updated its HPC/GPU licensing with ANSYS 15.0 to enable users to more easily take advantage of both CPUs and GPUs in ANSYS Mechanical and ANSYS Fluent simulations. InsideHPC Interview with Rob Farber In this podcast, Rob Farber and Rich Brueckner discuss NVIDIA Tegra K1 and the future of HPC
CUDA TRAINING AND EDUCATION	back to the top
Need CUDA training or advice? See list of worldwide CUDA trainers and consultants. Want to learn about parallel programming? Sign up for Udacity CS344.
UPCOMING GPU WEBINARS	back to the top
Jan. 30: Debugging CUDA Fortran using Allinea, B. Paisley, Allinea Feb. 5: OpenMM - Accelerating and Customizing MD Simulations on GPUs, V. Pande, Stanford Feb. 25: GPUs for Visualization and Analysis of MD Simulations with VMD, J. Stone, Univ. of Illinois
UPCOMING GPU MEETUPS	back to the top
Feb. 1: Minneapolis Feb. 19: Singapore Feb. 24: Silicon Valley Note: New GPU Meetups have launched in Russia and Norway.

Call for Abstracts EASC2014 - Exascale Applications and Software Conference 2014

Call for Abstracts

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EASC2014 - Exascale Applications and Software Conference 2014

http://www.pdc.kth.se/easc2014

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April 2-3, 2014

Stockholm, Sweden

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Exascale computing power will likely be reached in the next decade. While
the precise system architectures are still evolving, one can safely assume
that they will be largely based on deep hierarchies of multicore CPUs with
similarly-deep memory hierarchies, potentially also supported by
accelerators. The challenge of designing, implementing, monitoring existing
and new applications running efficiently at large scale on these platforms
involves application, numerical library, programming, development
environment developers.

The aim of this conference is to bring together all the developers and
researchers involved in solving the software challenges of the exascale
era. The conference focuses on issues of applications for exascale and the
associated tools, software programming models and libraries.


Topics of interest (but are not limited to)

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* Design, implementation and optimization of applications for exascale

* Large-scale simulations on petascale supercomputers

* Implementation of disruptive algorithms in applications

* Implementation of energy-efficient algorithms in applications

* Performance monitoring tools

* Debuggers and correctness checkers

* Auto-tuning frameworks

* Run-time systems

* Parallel communication libraries

* Parallel numerical libraries

* Porting and optimization of application/numerical libraries on hybrid
architectures

* Parallel pre- and post-processing tools


Abstract Submission and Presentation

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Authors are invited to submit original research and experience in all areas
associated with developing applications for exascale and the associated
tools, software programming models and libraries. Accepted abstracts will
be presented at the EASC2014 conference.

There are two abstract submission categories:

- Hot topic abstract. Submission of an extended abstract up to two pages at
10pt font. These submissions target work-in-progress research. If accepted,
the submission will be presented as a talk at the EASC2014 conference.

- Poster. Submission of an abstract up to one page at 10pt font.

All abstracts will be reviewed and judged on correctness, originality,
technical strength, and significance, quality of presentation, and interest
and relevance to the conference attendees.  At least one author of an
accepted abstract must register for and attend the conference. Abstracts
should be submitted electronically at: <
https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=easc2014>.


Important Dates

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* Abstract submission: January 31, 2014

* Acceptance notification: February 16, 2014


EASC2014 steering group

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* Erwin Laure, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

* Stefano Markidis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden

* William D. Gropp, University of Illinois, USA

* Mark Parsons, EPCC, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

* Lorna Smith, EPCC, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK

* Bastian Koller, HLRS, Germany

Manuscript Due Date Extended to March 1, 2014, for the Special Issue on Energy-Aware Resource Management and Scheduling (EARMS) in the Elsevier journal Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (SUSCOM)

Manuscript Due Date Extended to March 1, 2014, for the Special Issue on Energy-Aware Resource Management and Scheduling (EARMS) in the Elsevier journal Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (SUSCOM)



CALL FOR PAPERS ? Special Issue of Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems (SUSCOM) on

Energy-Aware Resource Management and Scheduling (EARMS)


Scope: The growing scale of High Performance Computing (HPC) systems and data centers has made issues related to power consumption, air conditioning, and cooling infrastructures critical concerns in terms of efficiency, operational cost, reliability, energy conservation, and environmental impact. High-end HPC systems today consume several megawatts of power, enough to power small towns, and are, in fact, soon approaching the limits of the power available to them. Furthermore, the costs of powering these HPC systems runs into millions of dollars per year, and are increasing as these systems target sustained petascale and plan for exascale. Adding to the concerns due to power and cooling requirements and associated costs, empirical data show that every 10 degree Celsius increase in temperature results in a doubling of the system failure rate, which reduces the reliability of these expensive systems. At the same time, the increasing proliferation of virtualization technologies a
 nd the consolidation of computing platforms for data- and compute-intensive applications are providing new opportunities to use advanced scheduling and resource management techniques for higher utilization and energy savings. As a result, resource management policies that consider the tradeoffs between energy usage and performance, throughput, and other QoS requirements, have become important research challenges that must be addressed.

In this special issue, we seek original work focused on addressing new research and development challenges, consisting of developing new scheduling techniques and advanced resource management solutions in green computing for HPC systems.

Specific topics include, but not limited to, the following:

?              Energy-aware task scheduling heuristics
?              Energy-aware resource management infrastructures
?              Thermal-aware task scheduling heuristics
?              Thermal-aware resource management infrastructures
?              Energy and thermal-aware scheduling for fault-tolerance
?              Enhanced performance, energy, and thermal models for energy-aware schedulers
?              Resource management in power/energy constrained systems
?              Energy efficiency and virtualization
?              Energy, performance, quality of service, and other resource tradeoffs
?              Energy-aware scheduling for heterogeneous systems
?              Energy-aware scheduling for parallel and distributed systems
?              Energy-efficient scheduling of hardware accelerators (FPGAs, GPUs, etc.)
?              Energy-aware scheduling for different computing paradigms: cluster, grid, cloud, and datacenters


Submission Details:

General information for submitting papers to SUSCOM can be found at http://ees.elsevier.com/suscom/ (please note the ?Guide for Authors? link).  Submissions to this Special Issue (SI) should be made using Elsevier's editorial system at the journal website (http://ees.elsevier.com/suscom/, under the ?submit paper? link).  Please make sure to select the ?SI: En. Aware Sched.? option for the type of the paper during the submission process.  All submissions must be original and may not be under review.  A submission based on one or more papers that appeared elsewhere has to include major value-added extensions over what appeared previously (at least 30% new conceptual material). Authors are requested to attach to the submitted paper such earlier articles and a summary document explaining the enhancements made in the journal version. All submitted papers will be peer reviewed using the normal standards of SUSCOM.  By submitting a paper to this special issue, the authors agree to r
 eview at least one paper within the time frame of the SI.



Important Dates:

?              Title and keywords due date (by email to EARMS@colostate.edu): February 15, 2014
?              Manuscript due date (on http://ees.elsevier.com/suscom/): March 01, 2014
?              First decision notification: June 01, 2014
?              Revised manuscript due date: July 01, 2014
?              Final decision notification: August 01, 2014
?              Tentative publication schedule: November 2014

Special Issue Guest Editors:
                Anne Benoit, ENS-Lyon, France
                Ryan Friese, Colorado State University, U.S.A
                H.J. Siegel, Colorado State University, U.S.A

Questions may be sent to EARMS@colostate.edu

--
Anne Benoit, ENS Lyon et IUF
http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/~abenoit/

11th International Meeting on High-Performance Computing for Computational Science (VECPAR 2014)

 ** CALL FOR PAPERS **

  11th International Meeting on High-Performance Computing
         for Computational Science (VECPAR 2014)

  University of Oregon and Hilton Conference Center
                 Eugene, Oregon, USA
                June 30 - July 3, 2014
                http://www.vecpar.org/
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### IMPORTANT DATES & PAPER SUBMISSION ###
Paper Submission Due (8-pages): February 12, 2014 (extended)
Author Notification:            March    20, 2014

Contributions are solicited in all areas of computational science
and engineering (CS&E), including (but not limited to) the following
topics of interest:

  * Large-scale Simulations in CS&E
  * Parallel and Distributed Computing
  * Numerical Algorithms for CS&E
  * Multiscale and Multiphysics Problems
  * Data Intensive Computing
  * Imaging and Graphics
  * Performance Analysis

You should make your submissions through EasyChair
at:https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vecpar2014

The submitted paper must be camera-ready and formatted according to
the rules of the Springer Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science
(LNCS): http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0

Detailed information about paper submission will be found at
http://www.vecpar.org/.


### VECPAR 2014 at Eugene, Oregon ###

VECPAR provides an opportunity for researchers and practitioners
in branches of science that require computer modeling and simulation
to get together and discuss techniques and technologies that can
contribute to the effective analysis of complex systems and
physical phenomena.

VECPAR seeks to engage participants from academia, research lab's and
industry to address pressing issues in computational science resulting from
applications of interest to society and hardware innovations.

VECPAR 2014 is back to USA, and will be held in Eugene, Oregon.


### Proceedings of VECPAR 2014 ###

Please note that papers (for conference presentation)
must not exceed 8 pages in length, when typeset using the LNCS format.
Accepted papers will be distributed in electronic format to
participants of VECPAR2014.

Printed versions of the invited talks and a set of selected papers
will be published by Springer in the series entitled
Lecture Notes in Computer Science, according with all manuscripts
must be formatted.

Selected papers will be limited to 14 pages and will be judged
based on relevance, significance, originality, correctness and clarity.
More information about this process will be sent to interested authors
after VECPAR 2014.

## CONTACT

If you have any further questions, please contact:

Kengo Nakajima, Scientific Committee Chair
Supercomputing Division, Information Technology Center
The University of Tokyo
FAX: +81-3-5841-2708
e-mail: nakajima(at)cc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

We are looking forward to your submissions !!

Yours Sincerely,

Kengo Nakajima, Scientific Committee Chair
Allen D. Malony, General Chair
Sameer Shende, Local Arrangements Chair
Osni Marques, Steering Committee Chair

## Steering Committee
 Osni Marques (Lawrence Berkeley Natl. Lab., USA) - Chair
 Alvaro Coutinho (COPPE/UFRJ, Brazil)
 Michel Dayde (ENSEEIHT, France)
 Jack Dongarra (University of Tennessee, USA)
 Ines Dutra (University of Porto, Portugal)
 Kengo Nakajima (The University of Tokyo, Japan)
 Sameer Shende (University of Oregon, USA)

## Organizing Committee (Tentative)
 Allen D. Malony (University of Oregon, USA) - General Chair
 Sameer Shende (University of Oregon, USA) - Local Arrangements Chair
 Peter Beckman (Argonne National Laboratory, USA) - Industry Chair
 Kevin Huck (University of Oregon, USA) - Web Chair

## Scientific Committee
 Kengo Nakajima (The University of Tokyo, Japan) - Chair
 Yifeng Cui (San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA) - Vice Chair

 Reza Akbarinia (INRIA)
 William Barth (TACC/University of Texas at Austin)
 Taisuke Boku (University of Tsukuba)
 Jed Brown (Argonne National Laboratory)
 Xiao-Chuan Cai (University of Colorado)
 Xing Cai (Simula Research Laboratory)
 Christophe Calvin (CEA)
 Andrew Canning (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
 Lucia Catabriga (Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo)
 Li Chen (Tsinghua University)
 Edmond  Chow (Georgia Institute of Technology)
 Olivier Coulaud (INRIA)
 Alvaro Coutinho (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
 Yifeng Cui (San Diego Supercomputer Center)
 Jose Cuminato (Universidade de Sao Paulo)
 Jose Cunha (Universidade Nova de Lisboa)
 Claudio Curotto (Federal University of Parana)
 Michel Dayde (ENSEEIHT)
 Frederic  Desprez (INRIA)
 Philippe Devloo (UNICAMP)
 Tony Drummond (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
 Ines Dutra (University of Porto)
 Akihiro Fujii (Kogakuin University)
 Luc Giraud (CERFACS)
 Jorge Gonzalez-Dominguez (Universidade da Coru?a)
 Ronan Guivarch (ENSEEIHT)
 Daniel Hagimont (ENSEEIHT)
 Abdelkader Hameurlain (IRIT)
 Hidehiko Hasegawa (University of Tsukuba)
 Mark Hoemmen (Sandia National Laboratories)
 Toshiyuki Imamura (RIKEN AICS)
 Takeshi Iwashita (Kyoto University)
 Jean-Pierre Jessel (IRIT)
 Zhong Jin (Chinese Academy of Sciences)
 Takahiro Katagiri (University of Tokyo)
 Harald Koestler (Universitat Erlangen-Nurnberg)
 Jakub Kurzak (University of Tennessee)
 Stephane Lanteri (INRIA)
 Julien Langou (University of Colorado at Denver)
 Jean-Yves L'Excellent (INRIA ENS Lyon)
 Sherry Li (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
 Paul Lin (Sandia National Laboratories)
 Thomas Ludwig (German Climate Computing Center (DKRZ)
 Piotr Luszczek (University of Tennessee)
 Osni Marques (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)
 Naoya Maruyama (RIKEN AICS)
 Kengo Nakajima (University of Tokyo)
 Hiroshi Nakashima (Kyoto University)
 Satoshi Ohshima (University of Tokyo)
 Hiroshi Okuda (University of Tokyo)
 Kenji Ono (RIKEN AICS)
 Christian Perez (INRIA)
 Serge Petiton (Universite des Sciences et Technologies de Lille)
 Francois-Henry Roeut (ENSEEIHT)
 Tetsuya Sakurai (University of Tsukuba)
 Sameer Shende (University of Oregon)
 Augusto Sousa (University of Porto)
 Reiji Suda (University of Tokyo)
 Frederic Suter (IN2P3 ENS Lyon)
 Daisuke Takahashi (University of Tsukuba)
 Osamu Tatebe (University of Tsukuba)
 Keita Teranishi (Sandia National Laboratories)
 Miroslav Tuma (Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic)
 Paulo Vasconcelos (University of Porto)
 Xavier Vasseur (CERFACS)
 Rich Vuduc (Georgia Institute of Technology)
 Weichung Wang (National Taiwan University)
 Roland Wismuller (Universitat Siegen)
 Rio Yokota (KAUST)

Call for Papers, Workshops and Tutorials 2014 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2014)

Call for Papers, Workshops and Tutorials
 2014 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing
                                           (Cluster 2014)
                                  http://www.cluster2014.org<http://www.cluster2014.org/>
                                  September 22  - 26, 2014
                                            Madrid, Spain
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Clusters have become the workhorse for computational science and engineering research, powering innovation and discovery that advance science and society. They are the base for building today's rapidly evolving cloud and HPC infrastructures, and are used to solve some of the most complex problems. The challenge to make them scalable, efficient, and more functional requires the joint effort of the cluster community in the areas of cluster system design, management and monitoring, at hardware, system, middleware, and application level.
2014 Highlight: Cluster Support for Big Data. The evolution of cluster technologies is expected to substantially impact emerging research areas, such as the increasingly important Data Science field. Therefore, we have chosen this year to highlight research topics expected to bring substantial progress in the way clusters can help in addressing Big Data challenges. Specific topics are dedicated to this direction within all conference tracks alongside more traditional topics. In addition, special tutorials and workshops will focus on cluster technologies for Big Data storage and processing.
New this year: Student Mentoring Track. Today's Master and PhD students are our future colleagues. The future development of cluster, grid and could computing falls on their shoulders. The Cluster conference is proud to contribute to their education through a specific mentoring program all along the week. This program will include a Poster Master Class delivered by renowned researchers, to improve their poster making and presentation skills. It will also include specific VIP scientific sessions, delivered by first-class lecturers introducing them to their vision of the field, and private question quarters, to give them a chance to ask their questions to plenary speakers after their keynotes. Also, a special ?Looking to my future? session will be organized with cluster-oriented company VIPs to tell students the latest opportunities for positions in this area, and how to earn them. Last by not least, special student socializing events will be organized, and various Best-*-Award
 s offered.
Cluster 2014 is hosted in Madrid, Spain. Attendees will have access to the latest developments in cluster computing technologies and practices. Join the cluster computing community, and discuss new directions, opportunities and ideas that will influence its future. Cluster 2014 welcomes paper submissions on innovative work from researchers and practitioners in academia, government, and industry that describe original research and development efforts in cluster computing.
All papers will be evaluated for their originality, technical depth and correctness, potential impact, relevance to the conference, and quality of presentation. Research papers must clearly demonstrate research contributions and novelty, while experience reports must clearly describe lessons learned and demonstrate impact.
Major topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  *   Track 1: Cluster Design, Configuration and Administration
  *   Chair: Michela Taufer, University of Delaware
     *   Cluster Architecture for Big Data storage and processing
     *   Energy-efficient cluster architectures
     *   Node and system architecture
     *   Packaging, power and cooling
     *   Visualization clusters and tiled displays
     *   GPU and hybrid CPU/GPU clusters
     *   Interconnect/memory architectures
     *   Single system image clusters
     *   Administration and maintenance tools

  *   Track 2: Cluster Software, Middleware, Tools
  *   Chair: Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology
     *   Middleware for Big Data management
     *   Big Data visualization tools
     *   Performance modeling for Big Data processing
     *   Performance evaluation, analysis and optimization
     *   Cloud-enabling cluster technologies and virtualization
     *   Energy-efficient middleware
     *   Protocols, libraries, and interfaces
     *   Lightweight communication protocols
     *   Security
     *   Resource and job management
     *   Scheduling and load balancing
     *   Reliability and high-availability architecture
     *   Fault tolerance, checkpointing and recovery
     *   Cost and performance implications of reliability
     *   Software environments and tools

  *   Track 3: Cluster Storage and File Systems
  *   Chair: Michael Sch?ttner, University of D?sseldorf
     *   Cluster support for Big Data processing
     *   Cloud storage for Big Data
     *   Storage support for Data-intensive computing
     *   Storage cluster architectures
     *   File systems and I/O libraries

  *   Track 4: Cluster Applications
  *   Chair: Venkat Vishwanath, Argonne National Laboratory
     *   Programming models for Big Data processing
     *   Big Data Application studies on cluster architectures
     *   HPC Applications on GPUs
     *   Programming languages and environments
     *   Hybrid programming techniques (MPI+OpenMP, MPI+OpenCL, etc.)
     *   Benchmarking & profiling tools
     *   Performance prediction & modeling
Paper Submission
Paper Format: Since the camera-ready version of accepted papers must be compliant with the IEEE Xplore format for publication, submitted papers must conform to the following Xplore layout, page limit, and font size.

  *   PDF files only are accepted.
  *   Maximum 9 pages for Technical Papers, maximum 5 pages for Student Papers submitted to the Student Mentoring Track.
  *   Single-spaced, 2-column numbered pages in IEEE Xplore format (8.5?11-inch paper, margins in inches? top: 0.75, bottom: 1.0, sides:0.625, and between columns:0.25, main text: 10pt ).
  *   LaTeX and Word Templates are available here: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html.
  *   Only web-based submission is accepted: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecluster2014
Important dates

  *   Abstracts (required) due: April 24, 2014
  *   Full Papers Due: May 2, 2014
  *   Paper Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2014
Social Networks

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?         Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ieee.cluster
Organization
Mar?a S. P?rez, UPM, Madrid, General Chair
Gabriel Antoniu, INRIA, Rennes, Program Chair
Kate Keahey, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Program Co-Chair
Jos? M. Pe?a, CeSViMa, Madrid, Financial Chair
Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA, Workshop Chair
Christine Morin, INRIA, Rennes, France, Tutorial Chair
Thomas Ludwig, University of Hamburg, Germany, Sponsors/Exhibits Chair
Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain, Sponsors/Exhibits Chair
Andre Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg-Universit?t Mainz, Germany, Posters and panel Chair
Luc Boug?, INRIA, Rennes, France, Educational Track Chair
Alberto S?nchez, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain, Proceedings Chair
Faith Singer-Villalobos, Texas Advanced Computing Center, USA, Publicity Chair
Junwei Cao, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Publicity Chair
Adrien Lebre, INRIA, Nantes, France, Publicity Chair
John Lockman, Texas Advanced Computing Center, Texas, USA, Competition Chair
Jes?s Montes, CeSViMa, UPM, Madrid, Spain, Local Chair
Alexandru Costan, INRIA, Rennes, France, Submission Chair
Toni Cortes, BSC, Barcelona, Spain, Advisory Board
Angelos Bilas, FORTH, Crete, Greece, Advisory Board
Jos? L. V?zquez-Poletti, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Social Network Chair
Santiago Gonz?lez-Tortosa, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Social Network Chair

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DEADLINE EXTENSION: PDSEC-14: papers now due Jan 31

DEADLINE EXTENSION: PDSEC-14: papers now due Jan 31
  The 15th IEEE International Workshop on Parallel and Distributed Scientific
  and Engineering Computing, May 23, 2014, Phoenix, Arizona USA
  to be held in conjunction with IPDPS 2014. http://cse.stfx.ca/~pdsec14

Scope and Interests:
  The field of high performance computing has been prominent since the
  1940s, and has become increasingly significant as recent advances in
  electronic and integrated circuit technologies have made it more
  widely accessible. The hardware is becoming faster, less expensive
  and more cost effective, which will result in a proliferation in the
  application of parallel and distributed systems. Scientific and
  engineering application domains play a key role in shaping future
  research and development activities in academia and industry,
  especially when the solution of large and complex problems must cope
  with tight timing constraints.  This workshop will bring together
  computer scientists, applied mathematicians and researchers to
  present, discuss and exchange ideas, results, work in progress and
  experiences in the area of parallel and distributed computing for
  problems in science and engineering applications and
  inter-disciplinary applications.

Topics of interest and Paper Submission Guidelines
  (see http://cse.stfx.ca/~pdsec14)

Important Dates:
  Paper submission due . . . . . . . . . . . . . . January 31, 2014 (extended)
  Notification of Acceptance . . . . . . . . . . . March 01, 2014
  Final camera-ready paper . . . . . . . . . . . . March 14, 2014

General Chairs
  Peter Strazdins, Australian National University, Australia
  Raphael Couturier, University of Franche-Comte, France
Program Chairs
  Michelle Mills Strout, Colorado State University, USA
  Keita Teranishi, Sandia National Laboratories, USA
Steering Committee
  Thomas Rauber, University of Bayreuth, Germany
  Gudula Runger, Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany
  Laurence T. Yang (Chair), St. Francis Xavier University, Canada

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Regards, Peter

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        The Australian National University, Canberra ACT 0200 AUSTRALIA
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        E: Peter.Strazdins@cs.anu.edu.au

Call for Papers : ExtremeGreen 2014 Workshop : Extreme Green & Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems

Call for Papers :

ExtremeGreen 2014 Workshop : Extreme Green & Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems

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May 26-29, 2014 -- Chicago, IL, USA
during CCGrid 2014: the 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on
Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing
http://avalon.ens-lyon.fr/extremegreen


Important dates :
 ? Papers due on : February 15th, 2014
 ? Author Notification : March 1st, 2014
 ? Final Papers Due : March 14th, 2014
 ? ExtremeGreen Workshop: May 26, 2014

Workshop co-chairs:

 ? Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, Laboratoire LIP, Ecole Normale Superieure of Lyon, France
 ? Marcos Dias de Assuncao, IBM Research, Brazil
 ? Wu-Chun Feng, Virginia Tech, USA
 ? Anne-C?cile Orgerie, CNRS, France
 ? Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
 ? Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA

Workshop description :

Improving the energy efficiency of large-scale distributed systems (e.g.
data centres and Clouds) is a key challenge for both academic and
industrial organizations. Although the topic has gained lots of
attention over the past years, some of the proposed solutions often seem
conservative and not easily applicable to large-scale systems. Their
impact at large-scale remains to be proved. Hence, this workshop aims to
provide a venue for discussion of ideas that can demonstrate "more than
small % solution" to energy efficiency and their applicability to "real
world".

After the success of ExtremGreen2013 workshop, the ExtremeGreen2014 workshop will focus on scientific and
industrial approaches and solutions that could have a large impact in
terms of energy savings and energy efficiency. Clean-slate approaches
and innovative solutions breaking conventional approaches are welcome.
The workshop also welcomes submissions of work-in-progress papers on
ideas that can have a large impact on improving the energy efficiency of
large-scale distributed systems. The papers must provide preliminary
results that demonstrate the originality and possible impact of the
proposed solutions. Submissions will be reviewed by an international
group of experts in distributed systems and energy efficiency.

Topics of interests :

 ? Green clouds
 ? Energy efficiency of data centers
 ? Green Grids
 ? Green networks for large scale distributed systems
 ? Energy efficiency of storage solutions
 ? Energy-aware design and programming
 ? Energy-efficient hardware and software architectures
 ? Sustainable solutions in large scale distributed systems
 ? Energy-efficient resource management tools
 ? Energy-efficient scalable approaches
 ? Experimental results of Green solutions

Papers submission :

Submitted papers must be 8 pages long maximum. Authors must submit their articles through the submission system :

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=extremegreen2014


Program Committee (TBC):

 ? Cosimo Anglano, Universit?? del Piemonte Orientale, Italy
 ? Silvia Bianchi, IBM Research, Brazil
 ? George Bosilca, Innovative Computing Laboratory - University of Tennessee, USA
 ? Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg
 ? Georges Da Costa, IRIT/Toulouse III, France
 ? Bronis De Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
 ? Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani, University of Leeds, UK
 ? Jean-Patrick Gelas, Universite de Lyon / INRIA, France
 ? Yiannis Georgiou, BULL, France
 ? Olivier Gluck, Universit?? de Lyon, France
 ? Zhiyi Huang, Univ of Otago, NEw Zealand
 ? Thomas Ludwig, University of Hamburg, Germany
 ? Hiroshi Nakamura, University of Tokyo, Japan
 ? Marco Netto, IBM Research, Brazil
 ? Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
 ? Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT, France
 ? Enrique S. Quintana-Orti, Universidad Jaume I, Spain
 ? Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University / CAC, USA
 ? Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy
 ? Jordi Torres, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) - Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain
 ? Xavier Vigouroux, BULL, France
 ? Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia

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Ivan Rodero, Ph.D.
Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2)
NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC)
Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 625
94 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058
Phone: (732) 993-8837
Fax:   (732) 445-0593
Email: irodero at rutgers dot edu
WWW: http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu/people/irodero

The 23rd Intl. Conf. on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN '14) CALL FOR PAPERS

 The 23rd Intl. Conf. on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN '14) *
*                             CALL FOR PAPERS                             *
*               August 4 to August 7, 2014.  Shanghai, China              *
*                    http://www.icccn.org/icccn14/                        *
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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 computer communications
and networking through scientific and technological innovation. ICCCN 2014
is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Communication Society.

Scope:
=====
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. Topics of interest include, but are
not limited to, the following:

- Cognitive, Cellular and Mobile Networks (CCM)
- Comm. Architecture, Algorithms, Modeling and Evaluation (CAAME)
- Data Centers and Big Data Computing (DCBC)
- Green Networks and Sustainable Computing (GREEN)
- Grid, Cloud, Internet and Peer-to-peer Computing and Comm. (GCIP)
- Multimedia and Real-Time Networking (MRN)
- Security, Privacy, and Trust (SPT)
- Sensor/Embedded Networks and Pervasive Computing (SNPC)
- Software Defined Networks and Network Testing and Deployment (SDN)
- Wireless LAN, Ad Hoc, and Mesh Networks (WAM)

Instructions for Authors:
==================
Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready
format (double-column, 10-pt font) and must be submitted via EasyChair
(http://www.easychair.org/) as PDF files (formatted for 8.5x11-inch
paper). The review version should be no longer than 8pages. The
camera-ready version can have up to two additional pages if the
authors pay an over-length charge at the time of publication
(camera-ready manuscripts should not exceed 10 pages in total).
Submitted papers should not be previously published in or be under
consideration for publication in another conference or journal.
Paper titles and/or author names cannot be changed and/or added to
the papers once papers are submitted to ICCCN 2014 for review. 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) and phone number(s). A paper abstract must be
registered on EasyChair by the deadline indicated below.

Review and Publication of Manuscripts:
=============================
Submitted papers will be reviewed by the TPC and judged on
originality, technical correctness, relevance, and quality of
presentation. An accepted paper must be presented at the conference
venue by one of the authors registered at the full registration
rate. Each full registration covers up to two papers authored by
the registered author. Accepted and presented papers will be
published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE
Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases.
Note that each accepted paper must be presented by one of authors.
Papers of special merit will be selected for possible fast track
publication in the Computer Communications (COMCOM) journal.
Sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation, a number of
travel assistance grants will be available for ICCCN 2014 student
authors.

Workshops:
========
Please note that the page limit for the workshop program is
different. The review version should be no longer than 6 pages. The
camera-ready version can have up to two additional pages if the
authors pay an over-length charge at the time of publication
(camera-ready manuscripts should not exceed 8 pages in total). The
detailed info can be found in the workshop Call for Papers. For any
questions or additional information, please contact the General,
TPC, or Workshop Chairs. If you are interested in organizing a
workshop, please contact the workshop chairs.

Important dates:
============
Abstract Due: February 17, 2014
Paper Due: February 24, 2014
Acceptance Notification: April 23, 2014
Camera Ready Due: May 12, 2014

General Chairs:
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Changjun Jiang, Tongji University, China
Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA

Program Chairs:
============
Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
Lisong Xu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA

Workshop Chairs:
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Aaron Striegel, University of Notre Dame, USA
Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, China