Saturday 28 February 2015

IEEE TrustCom-15

The 14th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom-15)
http://comnet.aalto.fi/Trustcom2015/

20-22 August 2015, Helsinki, Finland

Latest news:
6 Keynotes, 7 workshops and 1 tutorial announced

Important Dates
Workshop Proposal: February 1, 2015
Submission Deadline: 11:59PM (UTC/GMT+3 hours) March 31, 2015
Authors Notification: May 31, 2015
Final Manuscript Due: July 1, 2015

With the rapid development and increasing complexity of computer systems and communication networks, user requirements for trust, security and privacy are becoming more and more demanding. Therefore, there is a grand challenge that traditional security technologies and measures may not meet user requirements in open, dynamic, heterogeneous, mobile, wireless, and distributed computing environments. As a result, we need to build systems and networks in which various applications allow users to enjoy more comprehensive services while preserving trust, security and privacy at the same time. As useful and innovative technologies, trusted computing and communications are attracting researchers with more and more attention.

The 14th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications (IEEE TrustCom-15) will be held in Helsinki, Finland on 20-22 August 2015. The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the world working on trusted computing and communications, with regard to trust, security, privacy, reliability, dependability, survivability, availability, and fault tolerance aspects of computer systems and networks, and providing a forum to present and discuss emerging ideas and trends in this highly challenging research field.

Topics of interest include, but not limited to

Trust Track
 - Trust semantics, metrics and models
 - Trusted computing platform
 - Trusted network computing
 - Trusted operating systems
 - Trusted software and applications
 - Trust in social networks
 - Trust in e-commerce and e-government
 - Trust in mobile and wireless communications
 - Risk and reputation management
 - Survivable computer systems/networks
 - Trust of 5G
 - Miscellaneous trust issues

Security Track
 - Network security
 - Computer security
 - Database security
 - Web applications security
 - Security policy, model and architecture
 - Security in social networks
 - Security in parallel and distributed systems
 - Security in mobile and wireless communications
 - Security in grid/cloud/pervasive computing
 - Authentication, authorization and accounting
 - Security of 5G
 - Miscellaneous security issues

Privacy Track
 - Privacy in Web-based applications and services
 - Privacy in database systems
 - Privacy in parallel and distributed systems
 - Privacy in grid/cloud/pervasive computing
 - Privacy in mobile and wireless communications
 - Privacy in e-commerce and e-government
 - Privacy in network deployment and management
 - Privacy and trust
 - Privacy and security
 - Privacy and anonymity
 - Privacy preservation in 5G
 - Miscellaneous privacy issues


Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 8 pages, including tables, figures, references and appendixes, in IEEE Computer Society proceedings format with Portable Document Format (.pdf). Please submit your paper at https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/Trustcom2015/paper_submission.html

Papers will be selected based on their originality, timeliness, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Accepted and presented papers will be included in the IEEE CPS Proceedings. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be recommended to high quality international journals.


Keynotes (in alphabetical order)
 Prof. Robert H. Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore
 Mr. Mikko Hyppönen, Chief Research Officer, F-Secure, Finland
 Mr. Lauri Oksanen, VP Research and Technology, Nokia Networks
 Prof. Yi Pan, Georgia State University, USA
 Prof. Witold Pedrycz, IEEE fellow, EiC of Information Sciences Canada Research Chair
 Prof. Vincenzo Piuri, IEEE fellow, IEEE Vice President on Technical Activities, EiC of IEEE Systems Journal

Workshops and Symposia
- TrustSoft 2015 (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/Trustcom2015/trustsoft2015/)
    The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Trustworthy Software Systems
- TSCloud 2015 (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/Trustcom2015/tscloud2015/)
    The 5th IEEE International Symposium on Trust and Security in Cloud Computing
- SpaIoT 2015 (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/Trustcom2015/spaiot2015/)
    The 8th IEEE International Symposium on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Internet of Things
- UbiSafe 2015 (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/Trustcom2015/ubisafe2015/)
    The 7th IEEE International Symposium on UbiSafe Computing
- TrustWSN 2015 (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/Trustcom2015/trustwsn2015/)
    The 1st IEEE International Workshop on Trust and Security in Wireless Sensor Networks
- EFINS 2015 (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/Trustcom2015/efins2015/)
    The 2nd IEEE International Workshop on the Emerging Future Internet and Network Security
- IW5GS 2015 (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/Trustcom2015/iw5gs2015/)
    The 1st IEEE International Workshop on 5G Security
Tutorial: Privacy Engineering Tutorial (https://research.comnet.aalto.fi/Trustcom2015/tutorials/pets.html)


Organisation Committee

General Chairs
    Valtteri Niemi, University of Turku, Finland
    Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland

Program Chair
    Zheng Yan, Xidian University, China
    Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich, Switzerland

Program Vice-Chairs
    Trust Track Chair
    Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China
   
    Security Track Chair
    Xiangjian (Sean) He, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia

    Privacy Track Chair
    Marinella Petrocchi, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, CNR, Italy

Steering Committee
Steering Co-Chairs
    Guojun Wang, Central South University, China (Chair)
    Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair)

Publicity Chairs
    Ioanna Dionysiou, University of Nicosia, Cyprus
    Jin Li, Guangzhou University, China
    Marinella Petrocchi, Istituto di Informatica e Telematica, CNR, Italy
    Tanveer A Zia, Charles Sturt University, Australia

Workshop Chairs
    Matti Hämäläinen, Digile, Finland
    Xinyi Huang, Fujian Normal University, China
    Igor Kotenko, SPIIRAS, Russia

Finance Chair
    Raimo Kantola, Aalto University, Finland

Web Chair
    Jesús Llorente Santos, Aalto University, Finland

Steering Committee
    Please see http://comnet.aalto.fi/Trustcom2015/

CFP [Deadline Extended]: International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP) 2015

  ICPP 2015
             International Conference on Parallel Processing
                              Sept. 2015
                            Beijing, China
                   http://icpp2015.tsinghua.edu.cn/
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The 44th International Conference on Parallel Processing (ICPP-2015) will be held in Beijing, China, during September 1-4, 2015.

Scope:
       Parallel and distributed computing is a central topic in science, engineering and society. ICPP, the International Conference on Parallel Processing, provides a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry and government to present their latest research findings in all aspects of parallel and distributed computing. ICPP 2015 will be organized around the following tracks:

      Algorithms
      Applications
      Architectures
      Compilers
      Cloud Computing and Big Data Analytics
      Networking
      Performance Modeling, Analysis, and Evaluation
      Programming Models and Systems Software

Important Dates:
      Paper Submission Deadline: Extended to March 24, 2015, 11:59 PM, Anywhere on Earth, Hard Deadline
      Author Notification: May 9, 2015
      Final Manuscript Due: June 15, 2015

Paper Submission:
      Paper submissions should be formatted according to the CPS standard double-column format with a font size 10 pt or larger. Each paper is strictly limited to 10 pages in length. Submissions should represent original, substantive research results. See the link for electronic paper submission instructions.

Proceedings:
      Proceedings of the conference and workshops will be available on CD or USB at the conference and will be submitted to IEEE Xplore and CSDL for EI indexing.  No-show Policy: Accepted paper which is not presented in the conference will be excluded from the final proceedings submitted to IEEE Xplore and CSDL.

Student Travel Grant Awards:
      There will be travel grant awards from NSF to support US based students to attend ICPP 2015. Each awardee will be given $1,000.

Organizing Committee:

General Co-Chairs:
      Yuanyuan Yang (Stony Brook University, USA)
      Jianping Wu (Tsinghua University, China)

Program Co-Chairs:
      Pavan Balaji (Argonne National Laboratory, USA)
      Mingwei Xu (Tsinghua University, China)

Steering Committee Chair:
      David Du (University of Minnesota, USA)

Sponsor:
      Sponsored by The International Association for Computers and Communications (IACC) in cooperation with Tsinghua University, Beijing, China.

GPU Hackathon Call for Teams Deadline March 6th

**Call for teams closes March 6th**

Building on the success of last year's OLCF Hackathon, we are
pleased to announce three GPU Hackathons for 2015.  The first
will be hosted April 20-24 by the National Center for
Supercomputing Applications on the UIUC Campus.  The second will
be hosted by the Swiss National Supersomputing Centre in Lugano,
Switzerland from July 6-10.  The final one will be hosted by the
Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility on October 19-23.

There will be intensive mentoring during these hands-on
workshops.  The goal is for teams to leave either with
applications running on GPUs or with a clear roadmap of how to
get there.  Mentors will come from national laboratories,
universities, and vendors.  Many of them develop OpenACC capable
compilers and help define the OpenACC standard in addition to
having extensive OpenACC programming experience.

More information on these events, including registration pages
for the first two is now available at http://bit.ly/2015GPUHack.
If you have any questions, they may be directed to Fernanda
Foertter (foertterfs@ornl.gov<mailto:foertterfs@ornl.gov>).




Happy Computing!
Fernanda

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Fernanda Foertter
National Center for Computational Sciences
HPC User Assistance and Outreach Group
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
O: 865-576-9391 F: 865-241-2850
foertterfs@ornl.gov<mailto:foertterfs@ornl.gov>



Happy Computing!
Fernanda

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Fernanda Foertter
National Center for Computational Sciences
HPC User Assistance and Outreach Group
Oak Ridge National Laboratory
O: 865-576-9391 F: 865-241-2850
foertterfs@ornl.gov<mailto:foertterfs@ornl.gov>

Friday 27 February 2015

13th Charm++ Workshop Call for Papers/Talks - May 7-8 2015

 Call for Papers/Talks
13th Workshop on Charm++ and its  Applications
              May 7-8, 2015 
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois, USA


Authors are invited to submit abstracts describing research and development in the broad themes of parallel processing emphasized by Charm++ and AMPI, including message-driven execution, automated resource management, and compositionality. Some specific topics of interest include:

   - Parallel computing algorithms and applications
   - Tools and techniques for performance analysis and tuning
   - Parallel discrete event simulation techniques and applications
   - Parallel libraries and frameworks
   - Extensions and new features in Charm++
   - Tools and techniques for application development and debugging
   - Massively parallel processing on future machines
   - Fault tolerance and resilience
   - Novel parallel programming models and abstractions
   - Adaptive runtime systems
   - Runtime management of power, energy, and heat

Submissions should be in the form of extended abstracts from one to three pages. The *presentations* will be posted at the workshop website, but there will be no published proceedings. Authors are encouraged to publish them in other conferences.

Please send submissions to Yanhua Sun(sun51@illinois.edu) by the deadline below.

**Important Dates

Abstracts Due               March 25th, 2015
Notification of Acceptance  March 30th, 2015
Workshop                    May 7-8th,  2015

Early submission is welcome and will expedite the reviewing process. Authors of early submissions will be notified of their acceptance as soon as possible.

Please forward this invitation to any colleagues who may be interested.


Contact Information

If you have any question about the submission, please email to sun51@illinois.edu

Call for Papers: GTMC2015 USA

 The Global Technology Management Conference (GTMC2015)

July 15 - 17, 2015 » Minnesota, USA

http://sdiwc.net/conferences/gtmc2015/

gtmc15@sdiwc.net

All registered papers will be included in SDIWC Digital Library


The conference aims to enable researchers build connections between different digital applications. The event will be held over three days, with presentations delivered by researchers from the international community, including presentations from keynote speakers and state-of-the-art lectures.

The conference welcome papers on the following (but not limited to) research topics:

***Information Technology
Information and Data Management
The Management of IT Investments
Data Management in Mobile Peer-to-Peer Networks
Enterprise Architecture Management
Ubiquitous Computing, Services and Applications
Information Ethics
Information Security and Cryptography
Information Content Security
Computational Intelligence
Information Management
The Management of “Green” IT
Web Services Security
Quality of Service, Scalability and Performance
Data Stream Processing in Mobile/Sensor Networks

***Computer Science
Biometrics Technologies
Computer Security
Distributed and Parallel Applications
Cloud Computing
Network Security
Multimedia Computing
Computer Architecture
Information Retrieval
Computer Forensics
Data Mining
Wireless Communications
Access Control
Digital Signal and Image Processing
Computer Animation
Artificial Intelligence
Natural Language Processing

***Business, and Technology In Education   
Educational Technology
Mobile Computing
Mobile Learning
E-commerce Business Models
E- Learning
Debugging Tools and Learning
Computer-aided Systems
Education In Computational Science
Business Intelligence and Web Services
Future Development of E-Business
E-Government
E-Business Applications and Software

***Manufacturing Systems
Design and Manufacturing
Human-Machine Interface
Modeling and Design
Automation
Intelligent Processing of Materials
Computer-Aided Design, Manufacturing, and Engineering
Design and Green Manufacturing
Networks Design, Protocols and Management

***Engineering Technology
Bioinformatics & Biomedical Imaging
Globalization of Engineering
Industrial Engineering
Robotics and Mobile Machines
Robotics and Atomization Engineering
Applications of AI Techniques in Design and Manufacturing
Biomedical Signal Processing
Computer Architecture for Intelligent Machines

All the submitted papers will be reviewed by a minimum of two reviewers. The published proceedings will be indexed in ResearchBib, ProQuest, and Google Scholar Databases, in addition they will be submitted for POSSIBLE inclusion within the INSPEC, EI, DBLP, Microsoft Academic Research, and ResearchGate. In addition, BEST registered papers will be published in one of the following special issues provided that the author do major improvements and extension within the time frame that will be set by the conference and his/her paper is approved by the chief editor:

International Journal of New Computer Architectures and their Applications (IJNCAA)
International Journal of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (IJDIWC)
International Journal of Cyber-Security and Digital Forensics (IJCSDF)
International Journal of E-Learning and Educational Technologies in the Digital Media (IJEETDM)

LOCATION: 

GTMC2015 will be organized by Bemidji State University, Minnesota, USA; cooperation with
The Society of Digital Information and Wireless Communications (SDIWC). All the 
activities of the conference will take place in USA.

PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

1. Submitted paper should not exceed 15 pages, including illustrations.
2. Papers must be without page numbers
3. Papers should be submitted electronically as pdf format without author(s) name(s).
4. All papers will be fully refereed by a minimum of two specialized referees. 
    Before final acceptance, all referees comments must be considered. 
    Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings.
5. If you have any problems with the above web submission form, you can send the manuscript by email to gtmc15@sdiwc.netwith
    subject: 
         GTMC2015 Paper Submission, 
     Please provide following information in your email: 
        Names, complete address details of all authors, email addresses and the title of the submission.
 6. Paper submission link: http://tinyurl.com/lk2ezxr
 
All the accepted papers will be published in one of the following proceedings of the conference. In addition, all accepted papers will be published in one of the special issues listed in the conference website provided that the author do improvements and extension within the time frame that will be set by the conference and his/her paper is approved by the chief editor.

IMPORTANT DATES:

Submission Date                    Open from now until  June 15, 2015
Notification of Acceptance       4 weeks from the submission date
Camera Ready Submission      Open from now until July 05, 2015
Last Day for Registration         It is recommended before July 05, 2015
Conference Dates                   July 15 - 17, 2015


For more information please visit : http://tinyurl.com/kfgn3af  email at: gtmc15@sdiwc.net



Janielle
Conference Manager
SDIWC

CFP: ACM e-Energy Workshop on Energy-efficient Data Centres - deadline March, the 15th

Due to a number of requests, the deadline of E2DC 2015 has been postponed for few days.
New deadline: March, the 15th

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4th international workshop on Energy-efficient Data Centres
Co-located with ACM e-Energy 2015
14 july, 2015 - Bangalore, India

http://www.dc4cities.eu/e2dc_15.html

One challenge of society is to reach the United Nation’s max 2°C-climate change goal, which means to reduce at least 80% of anthropogenic CO2 emissions. With an increasing share of global industry’s carbon footprint data centres have a high responsibility towards this goal. Innovations like new efficient and energy proportional server generations, energy-aware workload management, or highly responsive data center designs have contributed to slowing down the formerly sharp increase of data centres’ energy demand. However, the ongoing global digitization is counteracting this development. E2DC offers the opportunity for researchers of all data centre domains to commonly advance the potential of yet unknown innovations in order to continue the race for sustainability in and by data centers.

The first E2DC workshop was focused on optimizing energy consumption within a data center, the second brought the energy system as new stakeholder into play by suggesting demand response schemes with data centers, and the third opened up further to integrate smart data centers into smart cities. In 2015 E2DC will include an additional perspective: What are the specific energy challenges for data centers in emerging markets? Are there technical and business solutions aimed at the specific characteristics of emerging markets?

Topics will not be confined to technical solutions, but extend to economic issues of the proposed solutions, addressing researchers from both industry and academia. Topics include, but are not limited to:

        - Novel green ICT business models and data centres
        - Emerging Markets and data centre energy procurement
                o Demand response strategies integrating data centres
                o Optimizing the use of renewable energy sources in data centres
        - Smart cities and data centre integration
        - Energy awareness by applications and service architectures
                o Communication and network solutions
                o Infrastructure and architectures management
                o Cloud and high performance computing
                o Big data and large scale simulations
                o Data storages and reservoirs
                o Software defined data centre, storage, network, ...
        - Metrics and KPIs for green data centres
        - Standardization and eco-efficient data centres

IMPORTANT DATES

        Paper submission:                                  March 15, 2015
        Notification of acceptance:                        April 20, 2015
        Submission of camera-ready papers:                 May 15, 2015

PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION

Submission page: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=e2dc2015

The workshop invites original papers of 6 pages that were not previously published and are not currently under review for publication elsewhere.Manuscripts will be published in the ACM proceedings and must adhere to ACM format. Submission implies the willingness of at least one author to register and present the paper at E2DC. The organizers reserve the right to exclude a paper from publication if it is not presented.

WORKSHOP CHAIRS

        Sonja Klingert             University of Mannheim, Germany
        Gunnar Schomaker           Software Innovation Campus Paderborn, Germany
        Fabien Hermenier           University Nice Sophia Antipolis, France

For more information please contact klingert@informatik.uni-mannheim.de

IEEE PRDC'15 Industry Track Call

The 21st IEEE Pacific Rim International Symposium on 
Dependable Computing (PRDC 2015)

Zhangjiajie, China, November 18-20, 2015

Call for Industry Contributions

The Industry Track provides a forum for researchers and practitioners from 
industry to present and debate R&D challenges, practical solutions, 
demonstration, case studies, and discuss reliability issues.
IEEE PRDC 2015 is the twenty-first event in the series of symposia started 
in 1989 that are devoted to dependable and fault-tolerant computing. PRDC 
is recognized as the main event in the Pacific area that covers many 
dimensions of dependability and fault tolerance, encompassing theoretical 
basics, practical experimental projects, and commercial components and 
systems. As applications of computing systems have permeated into all 
aspects of daily life, the dependability of computing and control systems 
has become increasingly critical. This Industry Track provides a forum for 
researchers and practitioners from industry of countries around the Pacific 
Rim, but also other areas of the world to exchange ideas for improving the 
dependability of computing and control systems.

Topics of interest include (but not limited to):
1.  Software and hardware reliability, testing, verification, and validation
2.  Dependability measurement, modeling, evaluation, and tools
3.  Self-healing, self-protecting, and fault-tolerant systems
4.  Software aging and rejuvenation
5.  Safety-critical systems and software
6.  Architecture and system design for dependability
7.  Fault-tolerant algorithms and protocols
8.  Reliability in cloud computing, Internet, and web systems and applications
9.  Cloud and Internet Information security
10. Dependability issues in computer networks and communications
11. Dependability issues in distributed and parallel systems
12. Dependability issues in real-time systems, database, and transaction 
    processing Systems
13. Dependability issues in autonomic computing
14. Dependability issues in aerospace and embedded systems
15. Dependability issues in cyber-physical systems
16. Dependability issues in socio-technical systems

Submission Information:
Industry track submissions should be a maximum of 6 pages using standard 
two-column IEEE format. Templates can be downloaded from:
Industry Track manuscripts should include a 150-word abstract, five keywords, 
authors' names and affiliations, and a line specifying that the submission is 
an Industry Track Paper. The full mailing address, phone, fax, and email address 
of the corresponding author should be specified.
All submissions must be made electronically (in PDF format) on the submission 
web site: 
Submissions will be reviewed by the Industry Track program committee and 
evaluated for their relevance to PRDC, the probably interest to the community, 
and their potential for stimulating further research. Submission of a 
contribution to the track indicates agreement to have one author present the 
work, if accepted, at the conference.

Important Dates:
- Paper Submission Deadline:  July 22, 2015 (11:59 PM Beijing Time)
- Author Notification:        August 15, 2015
- Camera-ready Papers Due:    September 15, 2015
- Conference Dates:           November 18-20, 2015

Further information is available on:

Committee: 
Industrial Track Chair - Peter Mueller, 
IBM Zurich Research, Switzerland, email: pmu@zurich.ibm.com
General Co-Chairs - Guojun Wang, Central South University, China; 
Sy-Yen Kuo, National Taiwan University, Taiwan
Program Co-Chairs - Dong Xiang, Tsinghua University, China; 
Tatsuhiro Tsuchiya, Osaka University, Japan

Thursday 26 February 2015

Call for papers: IEEE CG&A Special Issue on High Performance Visualization and Analysis

CFP URL: http://www.computer.org/web/computingnow/cgacfp3

IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications

IEEE CG&A Special Issue on High Performance Visualization and Analysis

Final submissions due: 1 September 2015
Publication date: May/June 2016

In the 27 years since the groundbreaking report by McCormick, DeFanti, and Brown that coined the phrase “visualization in scientific computing,” we have witnessed a dramatic growth in our ability to collect and generate data. Concurrently, computing technology has rapidly evolved from single-processor systems to large scale, multi-petaflop systems comprised of 10Ks to 100Ks processors, with processors having upwards of 100s of cores per chip. The confluence of larger HPC systems, data sets of unprecedented size and complexity, and complex lines of inquiry, gives rise to diverse and difficult research challenges and opportunities for visualization and analysis that were only dimly visible at the dawn of the field of scientific visualization.

We define high performance visualization and analysis as those methods that are, by their design, capable of taking advantage of modern computational platforms, either in whole or in part. “In whole” refers to techniques that are capable of effectively using all computational resources on today’s largest computational platforms. “In part” refers to techniques that are specifically designed and implemented to take advantage of new processor or system architectures in one way or another.

The upcoming Special Issue of IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications will focus on High Performance Visualization and Analysis (HPVA). For this special issue, we solicit papers presenting original research that span a diversity of visualization and analysis topics including:

New algorithms and methods for knowledge discovery suitable for use on modern computational platforms, methods that leverage the extreme-scale concurrency of these platforms to solve a problem of extreme scale or complexity.
Examples of new methods for visualization and analysis that are designed to take advantage of new architectural features, such as deepening memory hierarchies, extreme-scale concurrency, etc.; methods that overcome the challenges inherent to modern HPC platforms where, for example, it is increasingly expensive to move data through the memory hierarchy and increasingly intractable to save full-resolution data to persistent storage for subsequent analysis.
Case studies/applications of HPVA methods to solve knowledge discovery problems in physical or social science, engineering, medicine, etc. where there is a thematic element of size and/or complexity that is made tractable through the use of new scalable methods making use of modern HPC-class platforms.

See http://www.computer.org/web/computingnow/cgacfp3 for additional information.

-- 
Wes Bethel -- voice (510) 486-7353 -- fax (510) 486-5812 -- vis.lbl.gov

HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference March 23 - 25, 2015 CALL FOR PARTICIPATION

*CALL FOR PARTICIPATION*
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The sixth HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference on High Performance Computing


The HPC Advisory Council and the Swiss Supercomputing Centre will host the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference 2015 in the Lugano Convention Centre, Lugano, Switzerland, from March 23 - March 25, 2015.

The conference will focus on High-Performance Computing essentials, new developments and emerging technologies, best practices and hands-on training. The conference will focus on the following topics:

High Speed Networks
High Performance and Parallel I/O
Communication libraries: MPI, SHMEM, PGAS GPU computing, CUDA Big Data High-Performance Clouds Advanced topics / Technologies / development / the road to Exascale
Hands-on: clustering, network, troubleshooting, tuning, optimizations

*Call for presentations is still open.

This is an excellent training and educational opportunity for European-based, HPC and data center IT professionals.
Attendance to the 3-day conference is 80CHF. The 3-day conference will include coffee breaks and lunch courtesy of the HPC Advisory Council.


For any inquiries, please contact info@hpcadvisorycouncil.com

CFP - Deadline Approaching: MSST 2015, March 6, 2015

31st International Conference on Massive Storage Systems and Technologies 
MSST 2015

Santa Clara, California, USA 

June 1 - 5, 2015 
Storage Research Track June 4-5, 2015 


Sponsored by Santa Clara University 
Technically Co-Sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society 

Conference Chair: Dr. Sam Coleman 
Tutorial Chair: Sean Roberts 
Program Chair: Matthew O’Keefe 
Research Track Program Committee Chairs: James Hughes, Peter Desnoyers
SCU Arrangements: Ahmed Amer 
Vendor Chair: Ben Kobler 

Abstracts Deadline March 6, 2015
Paper Submission: March 13, 2015 
Notifications: April 24, 2015 
Final papers due: May 14, 2015 
Research Track: June 4 - 5, 2015 

The 31st International Conference on Massive Storage systems and Technologies (MSST 2015) will be held at Santa Clara University in the midst of Silicon Valley. The conference offers a full week dedicated to storage technology. As on previous occasions, the conference will include a two-day research track of peer-reviewed papers on the design, analysis, and implementation of and experience with storage systems.

We encourage the submission of research papers on the implementation, design, and analysis of file and storage systems. Specific areas of interest for the MSST 2014 Research Track include (but are not limited to): 
Performance modeling and analysis of storage systems 
Experiences with real-world systems and data storage challenges 
Management of new and upcoming storage technologies 
Cloud storage systems and global-scale storage 
Exascale storage architecture and design 
Network storage architectures and their evaluation 
Data protection and recovery 
Data archiving 
Storage in virtualized environments 
Storage systems modeling and evaluation 
Techniques for building extremely scalable and distributed storage systems 
Parallel and distributed file systems 
Scalable metadata management 
Storage security and privacy
Auditing and Provenance
Long-term data preservation and management 
File and storage systems for cold data
File systems for shingled magnetic recording drives 
File systems for solid state storage 
New solid state disk APIs: Object storage, key value store, memory mapping and other 
Non-volatile memory based storage class memory devices and systems 
Power and energy aspects of storage systems
Coding for large and distributed storage systems
Mobile and other specialized storage application domains

As is traditional, MSST will have short and full papers. Short papers are to be 4 - 6 pages in length, whereas full papers are 8 - 14 pages in length (not including references). Accepted full papers will be presented in a 30 minute session, short papers will be presented in a poster session with short (7 minutes) presentations.

Papers should be prepared in IEEE conference format. To minimize the amount of formatting work between submission and camera-copy drafts, authors may use the templates available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html

Details about the program committee, the submission process and rules, and the conference organization, will be available at the conference website: http://www.storageconference.us/


Program Committee

Xiaosong Ma, Qatar Computing Research Institute
Dan Feng, HUST (China)
Sam Noh, Hongik University (Korea)
Raju Rangaswami, FIU
Jin-soo Kim, SKKU (Korea)
Haryadi Gunawi, U Chicago
Nisha Talegala, Sandisk
Phillip Spillane, EMC
Yiying Zhang, UCSD postdoc
Myoungsoo Jung, UT Dallas
Feng Chen, LSU
Thomas Schwarz, Uruguay / Santa Clara U
Meghan Wingate McClelland, Seagate
H. Howie Huang, George Washington University
Qing Yang, URI
Sudharshan Vazhkudai, ORNL
Xubin He, Virginia Commonwealth U
María S. Pérez, U Politecnica de Madrid (UPM)
Hong Jiang, U Nebraska
Mahesh Balakrishnan, VMware
A. L. Narasimha Reddy, Texas A&M University
Stergios V. Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina
James Lentini, NetApp
Zvonimir Bandic, HGST
Vasily Tarasov, IBM
Danny Harnik, IBM
Gala Yagdar, Technion
Phil Carns, Argonne National Laboratory