Friday 29 August 2014

FINAL DEADLINE EXTENSION to September 5th: Workshop on accelerator programming using directives (WACCPD14)

Workshop on accelerator programming using directives (WACCPD14)

Website: http://www.openacc.org/WACCPD14
Monday November 17th,  2014
In conjunction with SC14: The International Conference for High
Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis
Nov 16-21, 2014
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
http://sc14.supercomputing.org


FINAL DEADLINE EXTENSION SEPTEMBER 5TH, 2014 


CALL FOR PAPERS

This workshop brings together leading researchers and software designers
at the forefront of the application of high-level directives to program
accelerator-based architectures. Using directives improve productivity,
and program portability with minimal changes to the applications while
achieving good power-efficiency and performance. HPC researchers and
programmers (including Energy, Climate, Oil & Gas, Computational
Chemistry, and Machine Learning) wishing to tap into the performance
benefits of commodity accelerators are starting to use directives to
program accelerators including OpenACC, OpenMP  and other similar
programming interfaces vigorously to tap into commodity accelerators and
speed up applications.
The goal of this workshop is to bring together users, vendors, and tools
providers to share their knowledge and experiences to program
heterogeneous systems using directive-based programming interfaces such as
OpenACC, OpenMP, etc to achieve good performance.  This year's workshop
will  also emphasize in the future direction of accelerator programming
using directives and how we can address better the user and
tools-ecosystem needs. Although, this is a workshop for accelerator
programming using directives, we welcome ideas used for other
languages/APIs that may be used to interoperate with directives, used to
translate the directives, or target the directives.

Submission topics

Topics of interest for workshop submissions include (but are not limited
to):

*Application experiences in any scientific domain using directives
*Compiler and runtime implementations of accelerator directives
*Extensions to and shortcomings of current accelerator directives APIs
*Experiences with hybrid heterogeneous or many-core programming using
 accelerator directives and other models (i.e. MPI, OpenSHMEM)
*Interoperability of Scientific libraries with accelerator directives
*Implementation experiences of accelerator directives on new architectures
*Performance evaluation and studies
*Extending the HPC tool chain (such as profiling, debugging, etc) to
 support directives
*Modeling and performance analysis tools
*Auto-tuning or optimization strategies
*Benchmarks and validation suites

Papers Submission Guidelines:

Papers should present original research and should provide sufficient
background material to make them accessible to the broader community.
Format: Submissions are limited to 10 pages in the IEEE format see
http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.htm
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The 10-page limit includes figures, tables, and appendices, but does
not include references, for which there is no page limit.

Submissions can be made through EasyChair:

https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=waccpd14
Proceedings will be published by ACM, and will be available to SIGHPC
members through the ACM Digital Library. Authors of accepted papers and
posters will be required to sign the ACM copyright form. Instructions for
preparing papers for the proceedings will be emailed to authors of
accepted papers.

Program Chair and Co-Chairs

Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Houston
Fernanda Foertter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory
Oscar Hernandez, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Steering Committee:

Barbara Chapman (University of Houston, cOMPunity)
Satoshi Matsuoka (Titech)
Duncan Poole (OpenACC)
Thomas Schulthess (CSCS)
Jeffrey Vetter (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

Program Committee


Pavan Balaji (Argonne National Laboratory)
Richard Barrett (Sandia National Laboratory)
David Bernholdt (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
James Beyer (Cray Inc)
Henri Calandra (Total)
Stéphane Chauveau(CAPS)
Romain Dolbeau (CAPS)
Markus Eisenbach (ORNL)
Mark Govett (NOAA)
Jeff Hammond (Intel Labs)
Si Hammond  (Sandia National Laboratory)
Michael Heroux (Sandia National Laboratory)
Henry Jin (NASA-Ames)
Wayne Joubert (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Guido Juckeland (TU Dresden)
Christos Kartsaklis (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
John Mellor-Crummey (Rice University)
Jeff Larkin (NVIDIA)
Seyong Lee (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
Chunhua Liao (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
Carl Ponder (NVIDIA)
Will Sawyer (CSCS)
Sameer Shende (University of Oregon)
Ray Sheppard (Indiana University)
Thomas Schwinge (Mentor Graphics)
Michael Wolfe (NVIDIA/PGI)
Xinmin Tian (Intel) 

Important Deadlines:
Submission deadline: August 22nd, 2014 (Midnight 12:00 Pacific TimeZone Extended Deadline Aug 29thth, 2014 
FINAL DEADLINE EXTENSION SEPTEMBER 5TH, 2014 
Author notification: September 22nd, 2014

Panel Session
A panel session dedicated to discussion of current open problems,
drawbacks and future evolutions of high-level directive approaches. A
roadmap for accelerator directives will also be discussed.

Best Paper Award


The papers will be peer-reviewed where invited submissions will be
candidates for a best paper award. Criterion for selection will be based
on originality, scientific impact, utility, and quality of presentation.

2014 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2014)

 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
       2014 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing
                                       (Cluster 2014)

http://www.cluster2014.org

                              September 22  - 26, 2014
                                         Madrid, Spain 

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The full program is online: http://www.cluster2014.org

Clusters are the base for building today's rapidly evolving cloud and HPC infrastructure, and are used to solve some of the most complex problems. The challenge to make them scalable, efficient, and more functional requires the common effort of the cluster community in the areas of cluster system design, management and monitoring -- at hardware, system, middleware, and application level. The Cluster conference has precisely this goal: to be a major venue for such collective effort.

This year’s conference acknowledges the recent birth of the Big Data phenomenon, strongly reflected in our keynotes and panels:

- Robert L. Grossman (University of Chicago and Open Data Group) discusses the goal of bringing efficient cluster support to data-intensive computing.

- Frédéric Desprez (Inria) highlights the challenges posed by accurate, large-scale experimentation, the instruments needed for performing such experiments, and the lessons learned from the Grid’5000 experience in this respect. 

- Dan Stanzione (Texas Advanced Computing Center) discusses open issues related to data analysis and management for the open science community. 

- A first panel addresses the question: will Big Data transform cluster architectures? A second panel discusses the issue of performance evolution: are clusters too powerful for our users?

We are happy to announce a rich, high-quality conference program with 29 research papers accepted out of 122 valid submissions that went through a selective reviewing process (over 450 reviews), resulting in 23.8% acceptance rate. In addition, 16 reviewed posters will be dedicated to promising emergent research directions. The conference also includes two industry sessions with talks from major players with high impact in the area of cluster computing (Bull, Mellanox, Nvidia, ParTec), two workshops, two panels and six tutorials. 

A novelty this year is the creation of the Student Mentoring Program. Today's Master and PhD students are our future colleagues. The future development of cluster, grid and cloud computing falls on their shoulders. The Cluster conference is proud to contribute to their education through a specific mentoring program all along the week.

The Organizing Committee is happy to welcome you to Madrid and hopes you find Cluster 2014 an exciting and intellectually stimulating event!


**** IMPORTANT DATES ****

Early Registration:               August 11, 2014
Tutorials:                              September 22, 2014
Main Conference:                September 23-25, 2014
Workshops:                          September 26, 2014

Registration Website:
http://www.cluster2014.org/index.php/registration-accommodation

What's Included

Full congress registration fees include: full conference, tutorials, workshops, poster, business lunches stated in program, reception and gala dinner. There is a separate workshops/tutorials only registration. 

Note the special « Bring a student with you! » package: IEEE Member + Student IEEE Member.

Visa Support Letters

Attendees needing visa letters may request a letter when validating their registration.
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Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
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Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS/ANL
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Chair:  IEEE/ACM MTAGS, ACM ScienceCloud
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Office:   1-312-567-5704
Email:    iraicu@cs.iit.edu
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Thursday 28 August 2014

CFP: ACM MTAGS 2014 @ SC14 -- deadline extension to September 8th & keynote speakers announced

The 7th Workshop on Many-Task Computing on Clouds, Grids, and Supercomputers (MTAGS) 2014
http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS14/
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November 16th, 2014
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA

Co-located with with IEEE/ACM International Conference for
High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis (SC14)
In cooperation with ACM SIGHPC

NEWS
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- Deadline extension to September 8th, 2014
- Confirmed keynote speakers:
  - Dr. Owen O'Malley, Co-founder Hortonworks Inc.
  - Mike Wilde, Fellow at University of Chicago and Software Architect at Argonne National Laboratory
- Call for Papers: Special Issue on Many-Task Computing in the Cloud, in the IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing -- papers due February 2015

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The 7th workshop on Many-Task Computing on Clouds, Grids, and Supercomputers (MTAGS) will provide the scientific community a dedicated forum for presenting new research, development, and deployment efforts of large-scale many-task computing (MTC) applications on large scale clusters, Grids, Supercomputers, and Cloud Computing infrastructure. MTC, the theme of the workshop encompasses loosely coupled applications, which are generally composed of many tasks (both independent and dependent tasks) to achieve some larger application goal.  This workshop will cover challenges that can hamper efficiency and utilization in running applications on large-scale systems, such as local resource manager scalability and granularity, efficient utilization of raw hardware, parallel file system contention and scalability, data management, I/O management, reliability at scale, and application scalability. We welcome paper submissions on all theoretical, simulations, and systems topics related to MTC, but we give special consideration to papers addressing petascale to exascale challenges. Papers will be peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as part of the ACM digital library (pending approval). The workshop will be co-located with the IEEE/ACM Supercomputing 2014 Conference in New Orleans on November 17th, 2014. For more information, please see http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS14/.

For more information on past workshops, please see MTAGS13, MTAGS12, MTAGS11, MTAGS10, MTAGS09, and MTAGS08. We also ran a Special Issue on Many-Task Computing in the IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems (TPDS) which appeared in June 2011; the proceedings can be found online at http://www.computer.org/portal/web/csdl/abs/trans/td/2011/06/ttd201106toc.htm. We, the workshop organizers, also published a highly relevant paper that defines Many-Task Computing which was published in MTAGS08, titled “Many-Task Computing for Grids and Supercomputers”; we encourage potential authors to read this paper, and to clearly articulate in your paper submissions how your papers are related to Many-Task Computing.


Topics
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We invite the submission of original work that is related to the topics below. The papers should be 6 pages, including all figures and references. We aim to cover topics related to Many-Task Computing on each of the three major distributed systems paradigms, Cloud Computing, Grid Computing and Supercomputing. Topics of interest include:
* Compute Resource Management
  * Scheduling
  * Job execution frameworks
  * Local resource manager extensions
  * Performance evaluation of resource managers in use on large scale systems
  * Dynamic resource provisioning
  * Techniques to manage many-core resources and/or GPUs
  * Challenges and opportunities in running many-task workloads on HPC systems
  * Challenges and opportunities in running many-task workloads on Cloud Computing infrastructure
* Storage architectures and implementations
  * Distributed file systems
  * Parallel file systems
  * Distributed meta-data management
  * Content distribution systems for large data
  * Data caching frameworks and techniques
  * Data management within and across data centers
  * Data-aware scheduling
  * Data-intensive computing applications
  * Eventual-consistency storage usage and management
* Programming models and tools
  * Map-reduce and its generalizations
  * Many-task computing middleware and applications
  * Parallel programming frameworks
  * Ensemble MPI techniques and frameworks
  * Service-oriented science applications
* Large-Scale Workflow Systems
  * Workflow system performance and scalability analysis
  * Scalability of workflow systems
  * Workflow infrastructure and e-Science middleware
  * Programming Paradigms and Models
* Large-Scale Many-Task Applications
  * High-throughput computing (HTC) applications
  * Data-intensive applications
  * Quasi-supercomputing applications, deployments, and experiences
  * Performance Evaluation
* Performance evaluation
  * Real systems
  * Simulations
  * Reliability of large systems


Paper Submission and Publication
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Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 6 pages of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per ACM 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines; document templates can be found athttp://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates. The final 6 page papers in PDF format must be submitted online athttps://cmt.research.microsoft.com/MTAGS2014/ before the deadline of September 8th, 2014 at 11:59PM PST. Papers will be peer-reviewed, and accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings as part of the ACM digital library (in cooperation with SIGHPC). Notifications of the paper decisions will be sent out by September 22nd, 2014. Accepted workshop papers will be eligible for additional post-conference publication as journal articles in the IEEE Transaction on Cloud Computing, Special Issue on Many-Task Computing in the Cloud (papers will be due in February 2015, http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/TCC-MTC15/index.html). Submission implies the willingness of at least one of the authors to register and present the paper. For more information, please see http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/MTAGS14/.


Important Dates
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*       Papers Due:                                     September 8th, 2014
*       Notification of Acceptance:     September 29th, 2014
*       Camera Ready Papers Due:        October  6th, 2014
*       Workshop Date:                          November 16th, 2014



Committee Members
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Workshop Chairs
*       Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology & Argonne National Laboratory
*       Justin Wozniak, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory
*       Ian Foster, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory
*       Yong Zhao, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China

Steering Committee
*       David Abramson, Monash University, Australia
*       Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA
*       Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA
*       Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA
*       Marc Snir, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
*       Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
*       Weimin Zheng, Tsinghua University, China

Technical Committee
*       Hasan Abbasi, Oak Ridge National Labs, USA
*       Tim Armstrong, University of Chicago, USA
*       Roger Barga, Microsoft, USA
*       Mihai Budiu, Microsoft Research, USA
*       Rajkumar Buyya University of Melbourne, Australia
*       Kyle Chard, University of Chicago, USA
*       Evangelinos Constantinos, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA
*       Catalin Dumitrescu, Fermi National Labs, USA
*       Haryadi Gunawi, University of Chicago, USA
*       Indranil Gupta, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, USA
*       Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands
*       Florin Isaila, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain & Argonne National Laboratory, USA
*       Kamil Iskra, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
*       Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago, USA
*       Jik-Soo Kim, Kristi, Korea
*       Scott A. Klasky, Oak Ridge National Labs, USA
*       Mike Lang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
*       Tonglin Li, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
*       Chris Moretti, Princeton University, USA
*       David O'Hallaron, Carnegie Mellon University, USA
*       Marlon Pierce, Indiana University, USA
*       Judy Qiu, Indiana University, USA
*       Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
*       Matei Ripeanu, University of British Columbia, Canada
*       Wei Tang, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
*       Edward Walker, Whitworth University, USA
*       Ke Wang, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
*       Matthew Woitaszek, Walmart Labs, USA
*       Rich Wolski, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
*       Zhifeng Yun, University of Houston, USA
*       Zhao Zhang, University of California at Berkeley, USA
*       Ziming Zheng, University of Chicago, USA


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Ioan Raicu, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
Guest Research Faculty, Argonne National Laboratory (ANL)
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Data-Intensive Distributed Systems Laboratory, CS/IIT
Distributed Systems Laboratory, MCS/ANL
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Editor: IEEE TCC, Springer Cluster, Springer JoCCASA
Chair:  IEEE/ACM MTAGS, ACM ScienceCloud
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Cel:      1-847-722-0876
Office:   1-312-567-5704
Email:    iraicu@cs.iit.edu
Web:      http://www.cs.iit.edu/~iraicu/
Web:      http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/
LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ioanraicu
Google:   http://scholar.google.com/citations?user=jE73HYAAAAAJ

CFP: NDM'14: Network-aware Data Management: papers due on Sep 7: ACM SIGHPC, IEEE/ACM SC'14

The 4th International Workshop on Network-aware Data Management
(NDM'14) in cooperation with ACM SIGHPC,
in conjunction with SC14: IEEE/ACM International Conference for High
Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis,
in New Orleans, LA, on  November 16, 2014.

Website: http://ndm-meeting.org
Abstract Registration:                       August 29, 2014
Paper Submission deadline:              September 07, 2014

PLEASE NOTE: NDM'14 has been moved to Sunday Nov 16, 2014 (from Friday
Nov 21, 2014)
Deadline extension: Paper submission deadline has been extended to
September 07, 2014. EasyChair submission system will be open till
midnight PST. Page limit is 8, including references and figures.
Please register your abstract by August 29, 2014.

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* Scope:
Data sharing and resource coordination among distributed teams are
becoming significant challenges every passing year. Networking is one
of the most crucial components in the overall system architecture of a
data centric environment. Many of the current solutions both in
industry and scientific domains depend on the underlying network
infrastructure and its performance. There is a need for efficient use
of the networking middleware to address increasing data and compute
requirements. Main scope of this workshop is to promote new
collaborations between data management and networking communities to
evaluate emerging trends and current technological developments, and
to discuss future design principles of network-aware data management.
We will seek contribution from academia, government, and industry to
address current research and development efforts in remote data access
mechanisms, end-to-end resource coordination, network virtualization,
analysis and management frameworks, practical experiences, data-center
networking, and performance problems in high-bandwidth networks.

* Topics of interest include but are not limited to:
Applications of software defined networking to large data flows
Experimental results from network applications
Design, implementation, and analysis of high-performance networking
Performance evaluation and network support for data-intensive computing
Dynamic resource provisioning and network virtualization
Operating system and virtualization support for networking
Network-aware data management tools and systems
Practical experiences and prototypes for network-aware data management
Requirements and issues for network quality of service (QoS)
Application pipelines and network-aware toolkits for data distribution
Data replication and re-configurable data-access frameworks
Network fault tolerant data distribution for large scientific datasets
Optimization and development of data transfer protocols
Scalable services and workflows for network-aware applications
Data center networking and network management for Cloud environments
Heterogeneous and distributed resource coordination and management

 * Important Dates:
 Abstract Registration:                  August 29, 2014 +
 Paper Submission deadline:         September 07, 2014 (midnight PST)
 Notification of acceptance:           September 23, 2014
 Camera-Ready version due:          October 6, 2014
 Workshop date:                            Nov 16, 2014

+: We  kindly request you to register your abstract by August 29,
2014. This is not a hard requirement. You will still be able to make a
new submission till paper submission deadline.

 * Web Site:    http://ndm-meeting.org

 * Workshop Organizers:
         Mehmet Balman, VMware, Inc. & Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
         Surendra Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
         Brian L. Tierney, Energy Sciences Network (ESnet) & Lawrence
Berkeley National Laboratory
* Program Committee:
   Ilya Baldin, Networking Research and Infrastructure RENCI/UNC
Chapel Hill, USA
   Amitabha Banerjee, VMware Inc., USA
   Jerry Chou, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
   Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, China
   Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida, USA
   Dipak Ghosal, University of California, Davis, USA
   Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago, New Zealand
   Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
   Raj Kettimuthu, Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago, USA
   Jinoh Kim, Texas A&M University-Commerce, USA
   Siva Kulasekaran, Texas Advance Computing Center, USA
   Malathi Veeraraghavan,  University of Virginia, USA
   Chen Wu, ICRAR, The University of Western Australia, Australia
   Wenji Wu, Fermilab, USA
   Lei Xia, VMware Inc., USA
   Esma Yildirim, Fatih University, Turkey

 * Submission Guidelines:
Please submit full papers (6-8 pages) in PDF format via the submission
 site (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ndm2014). No email
submission would be accepted. Accepted papers would be given a total
of 20-30 minutes for presentation and question time. The paper(s)
should be no longer than eight (8) pages, including references and
figures.  The page limit will be enforced strictly. Reviewing of the
full papers will be done by the program committee, assisted by
external referees.  At least one of the authors of an accepted paper
should register and present the paper.  Accepted papers will be
included  in the proceedings and will be available through  ACM DL and
IEEE Xplore.

 * Registration:  SC'14 workshop registration (including NDM'14) is
handled through the SC'14 system. Please visit
http://sc14.supercomputing.org/register for more information

 * This year, we are working on preparing a special issue on
Network-aware Data Management in a top-tier journal. High quality
papers from NDM workshops (including NDM'11, NDM'12, NDM'13, and
NDM'14) will be invited to submit their extended versions for the
special issue. Stay tuned for more details and deadlines.

 * If you have any further questions, please email Mehmet Balman,
Suren  Byna, Brian L. Tierney {mbalman,sbyna,bltierney} at lbl.gov