(CALL FOR PAPERS) PAW17: The 2nd Annual PGAS Applications Workshop

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PAW17: The 2nd Annual PGAS Applications Workshop 
http://sourceryinstitute.github.io/PAW/

Held in conjunction with SC 17:  The International Conference for 
High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis
http://sc17.supercomputing.org <http://sc17.supercomputing.org/>

In cooperation with SIGHPC


SUMMARY

The race towards Exascale computing is on, and a lot of stress is put
on researchers to break the boundaries of productivity and efficiency
imposed by traditional programming models. 
Partitioned Global Address Space (PGAS) languages are an
effective alternative, and the most promising path towards 
sustainable programming environments for exascale machines. 
Languages such as UPC, Fortran, Chapel, and X10 are now more widely
available than ever, thanks to increased support from vendors and
open-source communities. PGAS models also take the form of
meta-languages and libraries, such as Unified Parallel C++ (UPC++),
Co-Array C++, OpenSHMEM, MPI-3 and Global Arrays. 
These have the benefit of being integrated with existing languages,  
simplifying the learning curve for existing programmers.

Significant improvements in the availability of PGAS compilers and
support software have been achieved in the last few years; these
open up more opportunities than ever for researchers 
and developers to test new strategies and port applications to more
demanding requirements. 

Following on the success of PAW16, we invite you to take part 
in the second PGAS Application Workshop, and to join
its vibrant and diverse community of researchers and developers. 

SCOPE AND AIMS

The scope of the PAW workshop is to provide a forum for exhibiting
case studies of PGAS programming models in the context of real-world
applications as a means of better understanding practical
applications of PGAS technologies.  We encourage the submission of
papers and talks detailing practical PGAS applications, including
characterizations of scalability and performance, of expressiveness
and programmability, as well as any downsides or areas for
improvement in existing PGAS models. In addition to informing other
application programmers about the potential that is available through
PGAS programming, the workshop is designed to communicate these
experiences to compiler vendors, library developers, and system
architects in order to achieve broader support for PGAS programming
across the community. 

We also specifically encourage submissions covering big data
analytics, deep learning, and other novel and emerging application
areas, beyond traditional scientific HPC domains.  

Topics include, but are not limited to:

* Novel application development using the PGAS model.
* Real-world examples demonstrating performance, compiler
  optimization, error checking, and/or reduced software complexity.
* Applications from big data analytics, bioinformatics, and other
  novel areas. 
* Performance evaluation of applications running under PGAS.
* Algorithmic models enabled by PGAS model.
* Compiler and runtime environments.
* Libraries using/supporting PGAS and applications.
* Benefits of hardware abstraction and data 
  locality on algorithm implementation.

IMPORTANT DATES:
  * Submission Deadline: July 31, 2017 
  * Author Notification: September 1, 2017
  * Camera Ready:        October 1, 2017
  * Workshop Date:       November 13, 2017

SUBMISSIONS

Submissions are solicited in two categories:

  a) Full-length papers presenting novel research results:
    Full-length papers will be published in the workshop proceedings in
    cooperation with SIGHPC. Submitted papers must be original work that
    has not appeared in, and is not under consideration for, another 
    conference or a journal. Papers shall not exceed eight (8) pages 
    including text, appendices, and figures. References are not included.
  
  b) Extended abstracts summarizing published/preliminary results: 

    Extended abstracts will be evaluated separately and will
    not be included in the published proceedings; they are intended
    for timely communications of novel work that is going to be
    formally submitted elsewhere at a later stage, and/or of already
    published work that is nonetheless deemed appropriate for
    dissemination in this venue. 
    Extended abstracts shall not exceed four (4) pages. 
Submissions shall be submitted through EasyChair 
(https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=paw17); they must conform to 
ACM Guidelines (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). 
Accepted full-length papers will be given longer presentation 
slots at the workshop; extended abstracts will be given shorter time 
slots. 

WORKSHOP CHAIR
Karla Morris - Sandia National Laboratories 

ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
  * Bradford L. Chamberlain - Cray Inc.
  * Salvatore Filippone - Cranfield University 
  * Costin Iuaca - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory  
  * Bill Long - Cray Inc. 

PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIR and CO-CHAIR
  * Francesco Rizzi - Sandia National Laboratories (Chair)
  * Bill Long - Cray Inc. (Co-Chair)

PROGRAM COMMITTEE
  * Bradford L. Chamberlain - Cray Inc.
  * Bert de Jong - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  * James Dinan - Intel
  * Salvatore Filippone - Cranfield University, UK  
  * Jeff Hammond - Intel
  * Costin Iancu - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory  
  * Karla Morris - Sandia National Laboratories
  * Nicholas Park - U.S. Department of Defense
  * Anton Shterenlikht - University of Bristol
  * Min Si - Argonne National Laboratory
  * Lauren L. Smith - U.S. Department of Defense
  * Yili Zheng - Google

ADVISORY COMMITTEE
  * Katherine A. Yelick - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
  * Damian W. I. Rouson - Sourcery Institute

In case of questions please email us at: paw17@cranfield.ac.uk

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SSS 2017 Call for Papers

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SSS 2017 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

19th Annual International Symposium on Stabilization, Safety, and Security of Distributed Systems (SSS 2017)
November 5-8, 2017, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
http://bitly.com/SSS-2017

DATES

Submission deadline (firm): July 7, 2017
Acceptance notification: August 18, 2017
Camera-ready copy due: August 25, 2017

SCOPE

SSS is an international forum for researchers and practitioners in the design and development of distributed systems with a focus on systems that are able to provide guarantees on their structure, performance, and/or security in the face of an adverse operational environment.

Research in distributed systems is now at a crucial point in its evolution, marked by the importance and variety of dynamic distributed systems such as peer-to-peer networks, large-scale sensor networks, mobile ad-hoc networks, and cloud computing. Moreover, new applications such as grid and web services, distributed command and control, and a vast array of decentralized computations in a variety of disciplines has driven the need to ensure that distributed computations are self-stabilizing, performant, safe and secure.

The symposium takes a broad view of the self-managed distributed systems area and encourages the submission of original contributions spanning fundamental research and practical applications within its scope, covered by the three symposium tracks: (i) Stabilizing Systems: Theory and Practice, (ii) Distributed Computing and Communication Networks, as well as (iii) Computer Security and Information Privacy.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

Stabilizing Systems:
- Self-stabilizing systems,
- Practically-stabilizing systems,
- Self-* abstractions,
- Stabilization and self-* properties with relation to dependability of hardware, software and middleware,
- Self-stabilizing software defined infrastructure,
- Safety and self-stabilization,
- Self-stabilizing autonomous mobile agents

Distributed Computing and Communication Networks:
- Distributed and concurrent algorithms and data structures,
- Synchronization protocols,
- Shared and transactional memory,
- Formal Methods, validation, verification, and synthesis,
- Game-theory and economical aspects of distributed computing,
- Randomization in distributed computing,
- Biological distributed algorithms,
- Communication networks (protocols, architectures, services, applications),
- High-performance, cluster, cloud and grid computing,
- Mesh and ad-hoc networks (wireless, mobile, sensor),
- Location and context-aware systems,
- Mobile agents, robots, and rendezvous,
- Social systems,
- Peer-to-peer and overlay networks,
- Population protocols,
- Infection dynamics

Computer Security and Information Privacy:
- Network security,
- Privacy,
- Internet-of-Things Security,
- Secure cloud computing,
- Mobile sensor networks / ad-hoc networks security,
- Verifiable/fault-tolerant computing,
- Anomaly and networked malware detection,
- Cryptocurrencies and distributed consensus protocols,
- Secure multi-party computation/applied crypto


ORGANIZATION

General Chairs:
 Shlomi Dolev, Ben-Gurion Univ., Israel
 Jorge A. Cobb, Univ. of Texas at Dallas, USA

Program Chairs:
 Paul Spirakis, U. Liverpool, UK & CTI, Greece
 Philippas Tsigas, Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Sweden

Track Chairs:

Stabilizing Systems: Theory and Practice
 Chryssis Georgiou, University of Cyprus, Cyprus
 Elad M. Schiller, Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Sweden

Distributed Computing and Communication Networks
 Panagiota Fatourou, University of Crete, Greece
 Sergio Rajsbaum, UNAM, Mexico

Computer Security and Information Privacy
 Ari Trachtenberg, Boston University, USA
 Arkady B. Yerukhimovich, MIT Lincoln Laboratory, USA

Local Arrangements Chair:
 Ari Trachtenberg, Boston University, USA

Publicity Chairs:
 Elad M. Schiller, Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Sweden
 Joel Rybicki, University of Helsinki, Finland
 Iosif Salem, Chalmers Univ. of Technology, Sweden


CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS

Conference presentations will have two formats:

Regular presentations of 30 minutes accompanied by papers of up to 15 pages in the proceedings. This form is intended for contributions reporting on original research submitted exclusively to this conference.

Brief announcements of 10 minutes accompanied by 5 page abstracts in the proceedings. This format is a forum for brief communications and may be published in other conferences.


SUBMISSION

Papers are to be submitted electronically, following the guidelines available on the conference web page. Authors unable to submit electronically should contact the program co-chairs to receive instructions.

All submission must conform to the formatting instructions of Springer Verlag, LNCS series. Each submission must be in English, in PDF format, and include in the first page: (1) the title, (2) the names and affiliations of all authors, (3) contact author's email, address and telephone number, (4) a brief, one paragraph abstract of the paper, (5) indication whether the paper is a regular submission, or a brief announcement submission, (6) indication whether the submission is eligible to be considered for the best student paper award.

A regular submission must not exceed 15 pages (including the title, authors, abstract, figures, and references). Additional necessary details for an expert to verify the main claims of the submission should be included in a clearly marked appendix if extra space is needed. A brief announcement submission must not exceed 5 pages and should not include appendix. Any submission deviating from these guidelines will be rejected without consideration of its merit.

It is recommended that a regular submission begin with a succinct statement of the problem being addressed, a summary of the main results or conclusions, a brief explanation of their significance, a brief statement of the key ideas, and a comparison with related work, all tailored to a non-specialist. Technical development of the work, directed to the specialist, should follow. Papers outside of the conference scope will be rejected without review.

If requested by the authors on the cover page, a regular submission that is not selected for a regular presentation will also be considered for the brief announcement format. This will not affect consideration of the paper for a regular presentation.


PUBLICATION

Regular papers and brief announcements will be included in the conference proceedings.

Extended and revised versions of selected papers will be considered for a special issue of the journal Information and Computation.


PAPER AWARDS

Prizes will be given to the best paper and best student paper. A paper is eligible for the best student paper if at least one of its authors is a full-time student at submission time. This must be indicated in the cover page. The PC may decline to confer awards or may split awards.


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IWOMP 2017 - 13th International Workshop on OpenMP - Extended submission deadline

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CALL FOR PAPERS:

IWOMP 2017 - 13th International Workshop on OpenMP

September 20-22, 2017
Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY, USA
http://www.iwomp.org

== Background

For many years, the OpenMP API has provided a very rich and flexible
programming model for shared memory architectures. OpenMP 4.0 is a
major advance that adds new forms of parallelism: device constructs
for accelerators, SIMD constructs for vector units, and several
significant extensions for work-sharing, affinity, and task-based
parallelism. OpenMP 4.5 further enhances OpenMP support for today’s
complex heterogeneous architectures.  To the benefit of applications
using the API, a strong ecosystem of compilers, runtime systems, and
tools from various vendors and community partners has also emerged.

The International Workshop on OpenMP (IWOMP) is an annual workshop
dedicated to the promotion and advancement of all aspects of  parallel
programming with OpenMP. It is the premier forum to present and to
discuss issues, trends, recent research ideas, and results related to
parallel programming with OpenMP. We solicit quality submissions of
unpublished technical papers detailing innovative, original research
and development related to OpenMP.

== Topics

All topics related to OpenMP are of interest, including OpenMP
performance analysis and modeling, OpenMP performance and correctness
tools, proposed OpenMP extensions, and OpenMP applications in any
domain (e.g., scientific and numerical computation, video games,
computer graphics, multimedia, information retrieval, optimization,
text processing, data mining, finance, signal and image processing and
machine learning).

Advances in technologies, such as multi-core processors and OpenMP
devices (accelerators such as GPGPUs, DSPs or FPGAs), Multiprocessor
Systems on a Chip (MPSoCs), and recent developments in OpenMP itself
(e.g., devices) present new opportunities and challenges for software
and hardware developers. Recent advances in the C, C++ and Fortran
base languages also offer interesting opportunities and challenges to
the OpenMP programming model. IWOMP 2017 particularly solicits
submissions in these areas as well as ones that discuss how to apply
OpenMP to additional models of parallelism such as event loops.

== Paper Submission and Registration

Submitted papers for review should be limited to 12 pages and follow
LNCS guidelines. Submission deadline is April 28, 2017. Submit your
paper to: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwomp2017.
Authors of accepted papers will be asked to prepare a final paper of
up to 15 pages. As in previous years, IWOMP 2017 will publish formal
proceedings of the accepted papers in Springer Verlag's LNCS series.

== Important Dates

Paper Submission [Extended]:   May 5, 2017 (AOE)
Notification of acceptance:   May 25, 2017
Deadline for final version:   June 8, 2017

== Organizers

General Chair:
 - Abid Malik, Brookhaven National Laboratory

Program Committee Co-chairs:
 - Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
 - Stephen L. Olivier, Sandia National Laboratories

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Deadlines Extension: IEEE Cluster 2017

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Call for Papers
2017 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2017)
Organized in cooperation with SIGHPC
September 5-8, 2017
Honolulu, Hawaii, USA
https://cluster17.github.io/

Abstract deadline: May 7th, 2017 (Extended Deadline)
Full Papers due: May 15th, 2017 (Extended Deadline)
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IEEE Cluster 2017 is the 19th edition of the IEEE Cluster conference series, organized in
cooperation with SIGHPC.
Clusters are the primary architecture 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 a community effort in the
areas of cluster system design, management and monitoring, at the hardware, system,
middleware and application levels.
Following the successes of previous IEEE Cluster conferences (http://www.clustercomp.org/),
for IEEE Cluster 2017, which will be held September 05-08, 2016 in Hawaii USA, we again
solicit high-quality original work that advances the state-of-the-art in clusters and closely
related fields. All papers will be rigorously peer-reviewed for their originality, technical
depth and correctness, potential impact, relevance to the conference, and quality of
presentation. Research papers must clearly demonstrate novel research contributions while
papers reporting experiences must clearly describe lessons learned and impact, along with
the utility of the approach compared to previous ones.
2017 Highlight: Convergence of Big Data and High-Performance Computing. While the tools
and cultures for High-Performance Computing and Big Data Analytics have evolved in divergent
ways, both rely on cluster architectures. As we witness an increasing awareness that further
progress in scientific research depends on both areas, the interoperability and scaling
convergence of these two ecosystems is expected to be critical to the future. Therefore,
we have chosen this year to highlight research topics in all areas expected to bring progress
in understanding if, why and how clusters should support this convergence. Specific topics
are dedicated to this direction within all conference areas alongside more traditional topics.
Authors must indicate the primary area of preference out of the four areas below. They may
optionally rank the other areas. The paper may be accepted as a full 10-page paper, or the
committee might decide to accept it as a short paper with 4 pages in the proceedings.
Note: references are not counted in the above limits on the number of pages.
Area 1: Application, Algorithms, and Libraries
    HPC and Big Data application studies on large-scale clusters
    Applications at the boundary of HPC and Big Data
    New applications for converged HPC/Big Data clusters
    Performance modeling and measurement
    Novel algorithms on clusters
    Hybrid programming techniques (e.g., MPI+OpenMP)
    Cluster benchmarks
    Application-level libraries on clusters
    Effective use of clusters in novel applications
    Performance evaluation tools
Area 2: Architecture, Network/Communications, and Management
    Node and system architecture for HPC and Big Data clusters
    Architecture for converged HPC/Big Data clusters
    Energy-efficient cluster architectures
    Packaging, power and cooling
    Accelerators/ManyCores and heterogeneous clusters
    Interconnect/memory architectures
    Single system/distributed image clusters
    Administration, monitoring and maintenance tools

Area 3: Programming and System Software
    Cluster system software/operating systems
    Programming models for converged HPC/Big Data systems
    System software supporting the convergence of HPC and Big Data processing
    Cloud-enabling cluster technologies and virtualization
    Energy-efficient middleware
    Cluster system-level protocols and APIs
    Cluster security
    Resource and job management
    Programming and software development environments on clusters
    Fault tolerance and high-availability

Area 4: Data, Storage, and Visualization
    Cluster architectures for Big Data storage and processing
    Middleware for Big Data management
    Cluster-based cloud architectures for Big Data
    Storage systems supporting the convergence of HPC and Big Data processing
    File systems and I/O libraries
    Support and integration of non-volatile memory
    Visualization clusters and tiled displays
    Big data visualization tools
    Programming models for big data processing
    Big data application studies on cluster architectures

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.
 - Submissions must be in PDF format.
 - Submissions are required to be within 10 pages (Not counting references).
 - Submissions must be single-spaced, 2-column numbered pages in IEEE Xplore format
     (8.5x11-inch paper, margins in inches -- top:0.75, bottom:1.0, sides:0.625, and
     between columns:0.25, main text:10pt).
 - Submissions are NOT double-blind. Author information can be included on the submission
     and will be visible to the reviewers.
 - LaTeX and Word Templates are available here:
     http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html
 - Only web-based submissions are allowed.
 - Please submit your paper via the submission system:
     https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecluster2017
Important dates:
 - Abstract deadline: May 7th, 2017 (Extended Deadline)
 - Full Papers due: May 15th, 2017 (Extended Deadline)
 - Paper Acceptance Notification: June 30th, 2017
 - Camera-ready deadline: T.B.D.
 - Conference: September 5 - 8, 2017
 - Deadlines are Anywhere on Earth (AoE)
Organizers:
General Co-chairs:
    Naoya Maruyama, Riken, Japan
    Todd Gamblin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA
Program Co-chairs:
    Gabriel Antoniu, INRIA, France
    Richard Vuduc, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
Area Chairs
    Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA and Aparna Chandramowlishwaran, University of California, Irvine (Area 1)
    Frank Mueller, North Carolina State University, USA (Area 2)
    Kenjiro Taura, University of Tokyo, Japan (Area 3)
    Maria Perez, Universidad Politecnica de Madrid, Spain and Robert Sisneros, UIUC, USA (Area 4)
Local Arrangements Chairs:
    Henri Cassanova, University of Hawaii, USA
    Lipyoew Lim, University of Hawaii, USA
The complete committee list is available here:
    https://cluster17.github.io/committees/

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TNSM Special Issue on Advances in Big Data Analytics for Management (Submissions due in 2 weeks: 3 May 2017)

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IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management

Special Issue on Advances in Big Data Analytics for Management

http://www.comsoc.org/tnsm/cfp/si-bdm

(Submissions due: 3 May 2017)

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Cloud and network analytics can harness the immense stream of
operational data from clouds and networks, and can perform analytics
processing to improve reliability, configuration, performance, and
security management. In particular, we see a growing trend towards
using statistical analysis and machine learning to improve operations
and management of IT systems and networks.

Research is therefore needed to understand and improve the potential
and suitability of Big Data analytics in the context of systems and
network management. This will not only provide deeper understanding
and better decision making based on largely collected and available
operational data, but present opportunities for improving data
analysis algorithms and methods on aspects such as accuracy and
scalability. Moreover, there is an opportunity to define novel
platforms that can harness the vast operational data and advanced data
analysis algorithms to drive management decisions in networks, data
centers, and clouds.

IEEE Transactions on Network and Service Management (IEEE TNSM) is a
premier journal for timely publication of archival research on the
management of networks, systems, services and applications. Following
the success of TNSM special issue on Big Data Analytics for Management
(September 2016), this special issue of TNSM will focus on "Advances
in Big Data Analytics for Management," presenting recent, emerging
approaches and technical solutions that can exploit Big Data and
analytics in management solutions. We welcome submissions addressing
the underlying challenges of Big Data Analytics for Management and
presenting novel theoretical or experimentation results. Survey papers
that offer a perspective on related work and identify key challenges
for future research will be considered as well.

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Topics of Interest

Topics of interest for this special issue include, but are not
limited, to the following:

Big Data Analytics and Machine Learning
- Analysis, modelling and visualization
- Operational analytics and intelligence
- Event and log analytics
- Anomaly detection and prediction
- Monitoring and measurements for management
- Harnessing social data for management
- Predictive analytics and real-time analytics
- Data mining, statistical modeling, and machine learning for management

Application Domains and Management Paradigms
- Cloud and network analytics
- Data centric management of virtualized infrastructure, clouds and data centers
- Data centric management of storage resources and software defined networks
- Data centric management of Internet of Things and cyber-physical systems
- Platforms for analyzing and storing logs and operational data for
management tasks
- Applications of Big data analytics to traffic classification,
root-cause analysis, service quality assurance, IT service and
resource management
- Analytics and machine learning applications to cyber-security,
intrusion detection, threat analysis, and failure detection

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Paper Submission

All papers should be submitted through the IEEE Transactions on
Network and Service Management manuscript submission site at
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tnsm. Authors must indicate in the
submission cover letter that their manuscript is intended for the
"Advances in Big Data Analytics for Management" special issue. Each
submission will be limited to 14 pages in IEEE 2-column format.
Detailed author guidelines can be found at
http://www.comsoc.org/tnsm/author-guidelines.

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Important Dates

Submission Deadline: May 3, 2017
Author Notification: July 15, 2017
Revision Deadline: September 15, 2017
Final Decision: November 1, 2017
Camera Ready: December 1, 2017
Publication: March 2018

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Guest Editors

Giuliano Casale (Imperial College London, UK)
Yixin Diao (IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA)
Marco Mellia (Politecnico di Torino, Italy)
Rajiv Ranjan (Newcastle University, UK)
Nur Zincir-Heyood (Dalhousie University, Canada)
Albert Zomaya (University of Sydney, Australia)

For more information, please contact the guest editors at TNSM.SI.BDM@gmail.com.

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CFP: Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC) Special Issue - Keeping up with Technology: Teaching Parallel, Distributed and High-Performance Computing

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Dear Colleagues,

This will be the second special issue on this topic, open to all contributors, based on the topics of 2016 EduPar, EduHPC and Euro-EduPar workshops.  

The first volume is slated to be published in the upcoming July issue of JPDC. We had received 40 submissions and were able to accept 17 high quality papers.

Note an optional deadline for sending your proposed title and authors to one of the co-editors (your letter of intent) by this month end for our review planning purposes.  Full manuscripts are due on June 15, 2017.

Best regards,

Sushil Prasad

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Keeping up with Technology: Teaching Parallel, Distributed and High-Performance Computing Website: https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-parallel-and-distributed-computing/call-for-papers/keeping-up-with-technology-teaching-parallel-distributed GUEST EDITORS Sushil Prasad (Managing Editor), Georgia State University and National Science Foundation, sprasad@gsu.edu Sheikh Ghafoor, Tennessee Tech University, sghafoor@tntech.edu Christos Kaklamanis, University of Patras and CTI "Diophantus," kakl@ceid.upatras.gr Satish Puri, Marquette University, satish.puri@marquette.edu Ramachandran Vaidyanathan, Louisiana State University, vaidy@lsu.edu SCOPE This special issue is devoted to progress in one of the most important challenges facing education pertinent to computing technologies. The work published here is of relevance to those who teach computing technology at all levels, with greatest implications for undergraduate education.  Parallel and distributed computing (PDC) has become ubiquitous to the extent that even casual users depend on parallel processing. This necessitates that every programmer understands how parallelism and distributed programming affect problem solving. Thus, teaching only traditional, sequential programming is no longer adequate. For this reason, it is essential to impart a range of PDC and high performance computing (HPC) knowledge and skills at various levels within the educational fabric woven by Computer Science (CS), Computer Engineering (CE), and related computational science and engineering curricula. However, rapid changes in hardware platforms, languages, programming environments, and advances in research increasingly challenge educators to decide what to teach and how to teach it, in order to prepare students for their careers in technology.  In recognition of the importance of the issue coupled with its challenges, in 2012 the IEEE Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) released its Curriculum on Parallel and Distributed Computing for undergraduates following a preliminary version in 2010. The curriculum includes a list of core topics on parallelism for undergraduate studies.  In 2011, to facilitate sharing of findings and experiences and fostering the community, the EduPar workshop series was established at TCPP’s flagship IPDPS conference. Inaugurated in 2013, the EduHPC workshop series at SC conference, with greater emphasis on HPC, followed the success of EduPar. Reflecting the truly global nature of the community, in 2015 the workshops were expanded with the first Euro-EduPar, with an European orientation, at the EuroPar conference. In summary, there are now three workshops per year devoted to PDC and HPC Education. The workshops are very successful, which indicates community’s interest in Parallel and Distributed Computing, in accordance with the necessity of initiating today's students to a technology they will work with in their professional life. This special issue seeks high quality contributions in the fields of PDC and HPC education.  Submissions should be on the topics of EduPar 2016, Euro-EduPar 2016 and EduHPC 2016 workshops, but the submission is open to all. Submissions extending the regular and keynote presentations in these three workshops are particularly encouraged, with the expectation of at least 30% new material beyond the content presented at the workshops.  This is an opportunity for these authors, whose contributions were already found valuable to the advancement of computing education, to provide an update on their ongoing work and bring their contributions to the much broader audience of a prestigious archival journal.   Submissions are expected to address the evaluation of methods or tools proposed.  Submissions will be reviewed by the program committee members of the three 2016 workshops and other experts.  TOPICS: The topics are compilations of topics from EduPar, Euro-EduPar and EduHPC: ·       Curriculum design and models for incorporating PDC and HPC topics in core CS/CE curriculum ·       Experience with incorporating PDC and HPC topics into core CS/CE courses ·       Experience with incorporating PDC and HPC topics in the context of other applications learning ·       Pedagogical issues in incorporating PDC and HPC in undergraduate and graduate education, especially in core courses ·       Novel ways of teaching PDC and HPC topics, including informal learning environments ·       Pedagogical tools, programming environments, infrastructures, languages and projects for PDC and HPC ·       Education resources based on higher level programming languages such as PGAS, X10, Chapel, Haskell, Python and Cilk, and emerging environments such as CUDA, OpenCL, OpenACC, and Hadoop ·       Parallel and distributed models of programming/computation suitable for teaching, learning and workforce development ·       E-Learning, e-Laboratory, Massive Open Online Courses (MOOC), Small Private Online Courses (SPOC) ·       PDC and HPC experiences at non-university levels; secondary school, postgraduate, industry, diffusion of PDC and HPC ·       Employers’ experiences with and expectation of the level of PDC and HPC proficiency among new graduates ·       Issues and experiences to address gender gap and broadening participation of underrepresented groups (both students and educators) in PDC ·       Teaching of HPC and Big Data Analytics across STEM disciplines IMPORTANT DATES Letter of intent to submit (title/authors due to a Guest Editor): April 30, 2017 (optional) Submission of papers to the journal due: June 15th, 2017 First round review results: September 8th, 2017 Revised papers due for submission: October 13th, 2017 Second round review results: November 10th, 2017 Final version of accepted papers:  December 15th, 2017 Publication: Spring 2018 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES All manuscripts submission and review will be handled by Elsevier Editorial System http://ees.elsevier.com/jpdc.  All papers should be prepared according to JPDC Guide for Authors.  Manuscripts should be no longer than 40 double-spaced pages, not including the title page, abstract, or references.  It is important that authors select “VSI: Edu*-2016” when they reach the “Article Type” step in the submission process. For further questions or inquiries, please contact the Guest Editors.

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*** EuroMPI/USA 2017: Call for Papers
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The 24th European MPI Users' Group Meeting
September 25-28, 2017
https://www.mcs.anl.gov/eurompi2017/
Twitter: @eurompiconf

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Background
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EuroMPI is the preeminent meeting for users, developers and
researchers to interact and discuss new developments and applications
of message-passing parallel computing, in particular in and related to
the Message Passing Interface (MPI).

EuroMPI/USA 2017 will continue to focus on not just MPI, but also
extensions or alternative interfaces for high-performance
homogeneous/heterogeneous/hybrid systems, benchmarks, tools, parallel
I/O, fault tolerance, and parallel applications using MPI and other
interfaces. Through the presentation of contributed papers, poster
presentations and invited talks, attendees will have the opportunity
to share ideas and experiences to contribute to the improvement and
furthering of message-passing and related parallel programming paradigms.

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Topics
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Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

* Implementation Issues
- MPI implementation issues and improvements towards exascale
computing, such as manycores, GPGPU, and heterogeneous architectures.
- Interaction between message-passing software and hardware, in
particular new high-performance architectures.
- New MPI-IO mechanisms and I/O stack optimizations.
* Programming Models
- Extensions to and shortcomings of MPI.
- Hybrid and heterogeneous programming with MPI and other interfaces.
- MPI support for data-intensive parallel applications.
- Fault tolerance in message-passing implementations and systems.
- New programming paradigms implemented over MPI, like hierarchical
programming and global address spaces
- MPI parallel programming in clouds.
* Applications and Performance
- Performance evaluation for MPI and MPI-based applications.
- Automatic performance tuning of MPI applications and implementations.
- Verification of message-passing applications and protocols.
- Applications using message passing, in particular in computational
science and scientific computing.
- Parallel algorithms in the message-passing paradigm.
- MPI applications performance on clouds.

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Important Dates
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Full paper submission due: May 1, 2017
Authors notification: June 26, 2017
Camera-ready papers due: July 20, 2017
Conference dates: September 25-28, 2017

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Submission Instructions
=======================

To be considered, your paper must be formatted according to the ACM
SIG Proceedings Template and up to 10 pages in length. The page limit
includes figures, tables, and appendices, but does not include
references, for which there is no page limit. Margins and font sizes
should not be modified. Style files can be found at:
http://www.acm.org/publications/icps-instructions/
Authors should submit their work through the Euro MPI 2017 Submission
Site:
www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=eurompiusa2017

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Journal Special Issue
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Select papers will be invited to submit revised and extended versions
to be considered for inclusion in an invitation-only special issue of
the Elsevier Parallel Computing journal. The extended version of the
paper must have at least 30% additional content compared to the
version published at EuroMPI/USA 2017.

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Workshops and Symposia
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* Symposium Celebrating 25 Years of MPI
* Enhancing Parallel Scientific Applications with Accelerated HPC (ESAA)
  -> https://www.arcos.inf.uc3m.es/wp/esaa2017/
* Extending MPI for Resilience (EMPIRE)
  -> https://icl.utk.edu/workshops/EMPIRe2017
* Skills to Thrive: Second EuroMPI Careers in HPC Workshop
  -> http://www.womeninhpc.org/events/skills-to-thrive-careers-in-hpc/
* Programming Model Alternatives to Message Passing (PMAMP)
  -> https://memani1.github.io/pmamp17/

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Organization
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General Chair:
Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory
Program Co-chairs:
William Gropp, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory
Posters Chair:
Kathryn Mohror, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Workshops Chair:
Jesper Larsson Träff, Vienna University of Technology
Proceedings Chair:
Antonio J. Peña, Barcelona Supercomputing Center
Finance and Registrations Co-Chairs:
Sangmin Seo, Argonne National Laboratory
Min Si, Argonne National Laboratory
Web Chair:
Abdelhalim Amer, Argonne National Laboratory
Publicity Chair:
Masamichi Takagi, RIKEN
Marc-André Hermanns, Jülich Supercomputing Centre
Local Arrangements Chair:
Mary Dzielski, Argonne National Laboratory

The full list of the EuroMPI/USA 2017 Program Committee can be found
at: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/eurompi2017/pgc.htm

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Marc-Andre Hermanns
Jülich Aachen Research Alliance,
High Performance Computing (JARA-HPC)
Jülich Supercomputing Centre (JSC)

Wilhelm-Johnen-Str.
52425 Jülich
Germany

Phone: +49 2461 61 2509 | +49 241 80 24381
Fax: +49 2461 80 6 99753
www.jara.org/jara-hpc
email: m.a.hermanns@fz-juelich.de


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IEEE CloudCom 2017 (submissions due 30 June 2017)

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IEEE CloudCom 2017

9th IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology and Science Hong Kong, 11 - 14 December 2017

http://2017.cloudcom.org/

Important Dates

Full paper submission: 30 June 2017
Notification of acceptance: 7 September 2017

Call for Papers
The "Cloud" is a natural evolution of distributed computing and of the widespread adaption of virtualization and Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA). In Cloud Computing, IT-related capabilities and resources are provided as services, via the Internet and on-demand, accessible without requiring detailed knowledge of the underlying technology.

The IEEE International Conference on Cloud Computing Technology & Science 2017 (CloudCom 2017) will be the 9th in the series of conferences, steered by the Cloud Computing Association, that brings together researchers, developers and users interested in cloud computing systems to present and discuss the needs of, and innovations in, the area and related technologies.

Topics of interest of CloudCom 2017 include, but are not limited to:

Architecture and Virtualization
Cloud Services and Applications
IoT and Mobile on Cloud
Big Data
High Performance Computing in/with the Cloud Security and Privacy Distributed Cloud / Cloud Brokering / Edge and Fog Computing Track details are listed below.

Track 1: Architecture and Virtualization

Intercloud architecture models
Cloud services delivery models, campus integration & "last mile" issues Networking technologies Programming models & systems/tools Cloud system design with FPGAs, GPUs, APUs Storage & file systems Scalability & performance Resource provisioning, monitoring, management & maintenance Operational, economic & business models Green data centers Computational resources, storage & network virtualization Resource monitoring Virtual desktops Resilience, fault tolerance, disaster recovery Modeling & performance evaluation Disaster recovery Energy efficiency

Track 2: Cloud Services and Applications

Cloud services models & frameworks
Cloud services reference models & standardization Cloud-powered services design Business processes, compliance & certification Data management applications & services Application workflows & scheduling Application benchmarks & use cases Cloud-based services & protocols Fault-tolerance & availability of cloud services and applications Application development and debugging tools Business models & economics of cloud services Self-optimizing, self-protecting and self-configuring cloud systems

Track 3: IoT and Mobile on Cloud

IoT cloud architectures & models
Cloud-based dynamic composition of IoT
Cloud-based context-aware IoT
Mobile cloud architectures & models
Green mobile cloud computing
Resource management in mobile cloud environments Cloud support for mobility-aware networking protocols Multimedia applications in mobile cloud environments Cloud-based mobile networks and applications

Track 4: Big Data

Machine learning
Data mining
Approximate & scalable statistical methods Graph algorithms Querying & search Data lifecycle management Frameworks, tools & their composition Dataflow management & scheduling

Track 5: High Performance Computing in/with the Cloud

Load balancing
Middleware solutions
Scalable scheduling
HPC as a Service
Programming models
Use cases & experience reports
Cloud deployment systems
TCO analysis Cloud vs HPC

Track 6: Security and Privacy

Accountability & audit
Authentication & authorization
Cloud integrity
Cryptography for & in the cloud
Hypervisor security
Identity management & security as a service Prevention of data loss or leakage Secure, interoperable identity management Trust & credential management Trusted computing Usable security

Track 7: Distributed Cloud / Cloud Brokering / Edge and Fog Computing

Distributed Cloud Infrastructure
Cloud federation & hybrid cloud infrastructure Utility Computing (UC) Cloud Brokering Problem Edge Computing infrastructure Cloudlets Fog Computing Systems

** Submission Guidelines

Submitted papers must not substantially overlap papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Authors must submit their papers by the deadline indicated below, using the EasyChair submission system (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cloudcom2017).

Only PDF files will be accepted. Manuscripts need to be prepared according to the IEEE CS format. All regular paper submissions should be written in English with a maximum paper length of 8 pages. All submitted papers will be reviewed by at least three experts (expected acceptance rate: ~18%).

Accepted papers must be presented at the conference. At least one author of each accepted paper must register to the conference, by the early date indicated by the organizers, and present the paper.

The conference proceedings of CloudCom 2017 will be published by IEEE CS Press (IEEE Xplore) and indexed by EI and ISSN. Distinguished papers will be invited to be included within a number of special issues in prestigious international journals.

Important Dates

Full paper submission: 30 June 2017

Notification of acceptance: 7 September 2017

Final paper submission: 22 September 2017

Author registration deadline: 22 September 2017

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