Tuesday 31 December 2013

2014 GPU Technology Conference (GTC)

Mark your calendar for the 2014 GPU Technology Conference (GTC), the world’s biggest, most important GPU developer conference.

Taking place in the heart of Silicon Valley from March 24 to 27, GTC 2014 offers unmatched opportunities to learn how to harness the latest GPU technology including:
  • 500 sessions by experts and peers
  • Hands-on developer labs and tutorials
  • 150+ research posters
  • Technology demos and expo
  • Face-to-face interaction with industry luminaries, NVIDIA technologists, and your peers from 50+ countries
Packed with the latest breakthroughs and discoveries, the GTC sessions will feature work happening in leading research institutions as well as industries, spanning a wide range of fields. Many of the conference sessions are now available online, and more will be added in the coming weeks – check out how others in your field are advancing their work with the power of the GPU.

GTC is a conference not to be missed. Register now to take advantage of early-bird pricing ending January 29, 2014. If you are a member of the academic and government community, an additional discount is also available.

Join us March 24-27 and see how you can take advantage of GPU technology to accelerate your results.

Saturday 28 December 2013

CALL FOR PAPERS Cloud Computing Projects and Initiatives: CCPI?14

CALL FOR PAPERS
Cloud Computing Projects and Initiatives: CCPI?14
Salerno, Italy, September 10, 2014 ? September 12, 2014
Colocated with:?The 5-th International Conference on Emerging Intelligent Data and Web Technologies EIDWT 2014


Workshop Chair
Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy

Cloud computing?represents one of the most challenging technological fields both for academic and business.
Several projects are contributing to its rapid development, witnessing the great interest of the research
community on one side, and of the users on the other. The workshop aims to be a forum for exchanging ideas on
different Cloud computing related topics and finding synergies between projects (expecially EC funded ones, but
not only) tackling similar challenges. Getting insight in on-going Cloud-related projects will facilitate the
exchanges of information among the researchers and will enhance the communication of research results.
Despite different backgrounds and challenging different issues, several topics are relevant for all projects and
strengthen their cooperation and joining the forces will hopefully be a valuable outcome of the CCPI Workshop,
now at its fourth edition.?

Important Dates
Paper submission: April 1st, 2014
Acceptance notification:?May 15th, 2014

Main topics:
- Clouds federation
- Clouds interoperability
- Cloud programming?
- Cloud computing standards
- HPC Cloud
- Cloud@Home
- Cloud delivery models
- Cloud-based applications
- Cloud middleware
- Cloud security
- Cloud semantics
- Agents and Clouds
- Porting Software, Applications and Data to Cloud
- Cloud Portability
Other topics related to Cloud are welcome as well.

Publication of papers
Accepted papers will be included in the main Conference proceedings, published by Conference Publishing Services.
Accepted papers will be given guidelines in preparing and submitting the final manuscript(s) together with the
notification of acceptance. Presented papers at EIDWT-2014 will be considered for publication in several
Special Issues in refereed International Journals. Papers submitted to special issues must be updated/expanded
prior to submission elsewhere.

Paper Submission Guidelines
Submit a full paper of at most 8 pages (IEEE Computer Society Proceedings Manuscripts style: two columns,
single-spaced), including figures and references, using 10 fonts, and number each page. Papers accepted for
publication must also be supplied in source form (Latex or Word).?For camera ready, please read the IEEE
instructions at the main conference website. If you?re interested to submit a paper, pls sign up now at the
Workshop?s website. You?ll receive updated informations (e.g. on possible deadline extension) directly.

Contact Information                                                        Website
Prof. Beniamino Di Martino, Second University of Naples, Italy          http://ccpi.unina2.it
mOSAIC Project Coordinator
Email: beniamino.dimartinoATunina.it

Friday 27 December 2013

International Conference on Supercomputing CALL FOR PAPERS, Posters and Participation in ACM Student Research Competition,

International Conference on Supercomputing
June 10-13, 2014 - Munich, Germany
(http://ics14.in.tum.de)
CALL FOR PAPERS
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ICS is the premier international forum for the presentation of research results in high-performance computing systems. ICS 2014 will be held in Munich, Germany, the heart of Bavaria.
Contributions to the technical program, workshops, and tutorials are sought covering a broad range of    research, development, and application of high-performance experimental and commercial systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:
* Computer architecture and hardware, including multicore and multiprocessor systems, accelerators, memory, interconnection network and storage and file systems;
* High-performance computational and programming models, including new languages and middleware for high performance computing, auto-tuning and function-specific code generators;
* High performance system software, including compilers, runtime systems, programming and development tools, performance tools, and operating systems;
* Hardware and software solutions for heterogeneity, reliability, and power efficiency;
* Languages, runtimes, and hardware for ?big data? scenarios with a focus on high-performance data analytics, including scalable data structures, dealing with large quantities of unstructured data, online monitoring and I/O, and parallel visualization;
* Computationally challenging scientific and commercial applications, particularly studies and experiences on large-scale systems, and supercomputing on big data problems;
* Large scale installations, including case studies to guide the design of future systems and solutions for efficiently scaling power, performance and reliability;
* Novel infrastructures for internet, grid and cloud computing;
* Performance evaluation studies and theoretical underpinnings of any of the above topics.
Of particular interest are papers on any aspects of extreme-scale and heterogeneous supercomputing systems, integrated HPC software stacks, and supercomputing applications in science and engineering.
Papers must not exceed 10 pages in the ACM format. The review process will include a rebuttal period. The important dates are given below:

IMPORTANT DATES
? Abstract submission:  January 10, 2014 (Friday) AOE
? Paper submission:     January 17, 2014 (Friday) AOE (NO EXTENSION PROVIDED!)
? Paper Author Rebuttal:        March 5?8, 2014
? Paper Author notification:    March 18, 2014 (Tuesday)
? Final paper submission:       April 7, 2014 (Monday) AOE
? Early registration deadline:  April 28, 2014 (Monday)
? Conference:   June 10?13, 2014
AOE (Anywhere on Earth) dates shown above mean the deadlines are at 11:59pm UTC-12:00 of the days. The above dates are tentative and subject to change. Consult the conference website for the most up-to-date scheduling information

WORKSHOP, TUTORIAL, POSTER SUBMISSIONS
Specific calls are available at http://ics14.in.tum.de

Conference Chairs
* Arndt Bode - TUM and LRZ, Germany
* Michael Gerndt - TUM, Germany

Program Chairs
* Per Stenstr?m - Computer Architecture
  Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
* Lawrence Rauchwerger - Compilers
  Texas A&M University, USA
* Barton Miller - System Software
  University of Wisconsin, USA
* Martin Schulz - Tools and Applications
  LLNL, USA

Workshop Chair
* Bernd Mohr - JSC, Germany

Tutorial Chair
* Michael Bader - TUM, Germany

Local Chair
* Josef Weidendorfer -TUM, Germany

Finance Chair
* Carsten Trinitis -TUM, Germany and University of Bedfordshire, United Kingdom

Sponsoring Chair
* Herbert Huber -LRZ, Germany

Publicity Chair
* Beniamino Di Martino - Seconda Universit? di Napoli, Italy

Proceedings Chair
* Shajulin Benedict - SXCCE, Anna University, India

Poster Chair
* Erwin Laure - KTH, Sweden











ICS 2014: Call for Posters and Participation in ACM Student Research Competition


The International Conference on Supercomputing (ICS) invites submissions of high-quality posters. The poster session is intended to showcase unpublished work in progress in the topics covered by ICS. The titles, abstracts, and authors of accepted posters will be listed in the conference proceedings. Eligible student posters will be also included into the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC).

General Poster Submission Requirements
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All poster participants must submit the following information:

? The title of the poster and a list of author names, affiliations, and the name of the academic advisor if it is a student poster.
? A camera-ready abstract of the poster, up to 100 words.
? A separate description outlining the content of the poster, up to 800 words, which describes the research problem, motivation and background, techniques and results, and the prospect for clearly and concisely conveying the work in a poster format. Further, it should emphasize the novel contributions of the work explicitly.
? Please indicate the eligibility for SRC of your poster & whether you are an undergraduate or graduate student. Entering the SRC is optional. Competition-eligible posters must be authored solely by an ACM student member, with student status as of March 14, 2014.

A panel of experts will evaluate the submissions based on novelty of approach, significance of contribution, and quality of work.

ACM Student Research Competition (SRC)
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Sponsored by ACM and Microsoft Research, the SRC is a forum for students to share research results, exchange ideas, and improve their communication skills while competing for prizes. Students accepted to participate in the SRC are entitled to a travel grant (up to $500) to help cover travel expenses. The top 3 undergraduate and graduate winners will receive the following prizes:

? Monetary prizes of $500, $300, and $200, respectively.
? A 2-year ACM Student membership with ACM Digital Library subscription.
? Winners' names & abstracts will be posted on ACM's SRC web site.
? The first place undergraduate and graduate winners from all SRCs for the program year receive invitations to compete in the Grand Finals

Please review the SRC website at http://src.acm.org/ for more details.


Important dates:

Poster submission: March 7, 2014 (Friday) AOE Student Research submission: March 7, 2014 (Friday) AOE Poster notification: March 28, 2014 (Friday) ACM Student research notification: March 28, 2014 (Friday) Final abstract submission:  April 7, 2014 (Monday) AOE Early registration deadline: April 28, 2014 (Monday)
Conference: 10?13 June 2014

AOE (Anywhere on Earth) dates shown above mean the deadlines are at 11:59pm UTC-12:00 of the days. The above dates are tentative and subject to change. Consult the conference website for the most up-to-date scheduling information.


ACM International Conference on Supercomputing
June 10-13, 2014
Munich, Germany
(ics14.in.tum.de)
Call for Workshop and Tutorial Proposals
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Tutorial and Workshop Day, June 10 2014
We are inviting workshop and tutorial proposals on topics related to all aspects of research,
development, and application of large-scale, high-performance experimental and commercial systems.
Topics include computer architecture and hardware, HPC programming models, system software, and applications, solutions for
heterogeneity, reliability, power efficiency, and "big data" issues, as well as internet, grid and cloud computing.
Please see ICS'14 CFP for a detailed topic list.
** IMPORTANT UPDATE FOR ICS 2014 **: This year we will make early acceptance decisions on a rolling basis up until the final
deadline. This change will give workshops and tutorials more time to advertise and prepare. Up to half of the final accepted
workshops and tutorials will be accepted early, but all proposals submitted by the final deadline will still receive full
consideration. If you would like your proposal to be considered for early acceptance, please submit it and then email the
Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs (see below). We strongly encourage workshop organizers to submit their proposal early so
that there is enough time to organize the workshop program before the conference.

Proposal submission deadline: January 24, 2014
Notification of acceptance: January 31, 2014

How to submit: Please email your proposals (PDF, 2-page maximum) to <ics2014-wstut@lists.lrz.de>.

Questions? Contact the Workshop and Tutorial Co-Chairs, Bernd Mohr <b.mohr@fz-juelich.de> and Michael Bader <bader@in.tum.de> for questions or issues.
Workshop proposals should include the following:
? Title of the workshop
? Organizers, their affiliations, and short bios
? Expected duration of the workshop (half day or full day)
? Expected workshop format (talk/keynote/panel)
? A description of the workshop and/or a proposed call for participation or papers, including the workshop's main objectives, topics, and expected program committee (if possible)
? If the workshop was previously held, the location (i.e., which conference), date, the number of published papers and attendees at the last workshop.
? Whether proceedings will be published.
Tutorial proposals should include the following:
* Title of the tutorial
* Organizers, presenters, their affiliations, and short bios
* Expected duration of the workshop (half day or full day)
* Expected tutorial format (talks/demo/exercise)
* Abstract of the tutorial, including the tutorial's main objectives, topics, target audience, and prerequisite knowledge
* If the tutorial was previously held, the location (i.e., which conference), date, and number of attendees at the last tutorial.

ICS Workshop and Tutorials Co-Chairs
         Bernd Mohr, JSC, Germany
         Michael Bader, TUM, Germany

CALL FOR PAPERS - HiCOMB 2014 13th IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology (In conjunction with the International Parallel and Distributed Processing Symposium - IPDPS)

CALL FOR PAPERS - HiCOMB 2014
13th IEEE International Workshop on High Performance Computational Biology
(In conjunction with the International Parallel and Distributed
Processing Symposium - IPDPS)
http://www.hicomb.org/
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Monday, May 19, 2014
Phoenix, Arizona, USA

High-performance computing became an integral part of research and
development in bioinformatics and computational biology. The large
size of biological data sets, inherent complexity of biological
problems and the ability to deal with error-prone data, all result in
large run-time and memory requirements. The goal of this workshop is
to provide a forum for discussion of latest research in developing
high-performance computing solutions to data-intensive and
compute-intensive problems arising from molecular biology and related
life sciences areas. We are especially interested in parallel and
distributed algorithms, memory-efficient algorithms, large scale data
mining techniques, including approaches for big data and cloud
computing, algorithms on multicores and GPUs, and design of
high-performance software for biological applications.

The workshop will feature contributed papers as well as invited talks
from reputed researchers in the field. Topics of interest include but
are not limited to:
      - Bioinformatic databases
      - Computational genomics and metagenomics
      - Computational proteomics and metaproteomics
      - DNA assembly, clustering, and mapping
      - Gene expression analysis with RNASeq and microarrays
      - Gene identification and annotation
      - Parallel algorithms for biological sequence analysis
      - Parallel architectures for biological applications
      - Molecular evolution and phylogenetic reconstruction algorithms
      - Protein structure prediction and modeling
      - Next Generation sequence data analysis
      - Parallel algorithms in chemical genetics and chemical informatics
      - High performance algorithms for systems biology
      - Cloud-enabled solutions for computational biology
      - Big Data Solutions for Systems Biology
      - Energy-aware High Performance Biological Applications

Submission guidelines
Papers reporting on original research (both theoretical and
experimental) in all areas of bioinformatics and computational biology
are sought. Surveys of important recent results and directions are
also welcome. The submission portal will be available in September.
Submitted manuscripts may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced
double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages
(IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references
(see IPDPS Call for Papers for more details). All papers will be
reviewed. IEEE CS Press will publish the IPDPS symposium and workshop
abstracts as a printed volume. The complete symposium and workshop
proceedings will also be published by IEEE CS Press on CD-ROM and will
also be available in the IEEE Digital Library.

Important Dates
Workshop papers due: January 3rd, 2014
Authors notification: February 21st, 2014
Camera-ready papers due: March 14th, 2014

Workshop Co-Chairs
Srinivas Aluru
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Phone: +1 404 385-1486
Email: aluru [at] cc.gatech.edu

David A. Bader
College of Computing
Georgia Institute of Technology
Atlanta, GA 30332, USA
Phone: +1 404 894-3152
Email: bader [at] cc.gatech.edu

Program Chair
Alba Cristina Magalhaes Alves de Melo
Department of Computer Science
University of Brasilia, Brazil
Brasilia-DF, 70910-900, Brazil
Phone: +55 61 31073662
Email: albamm [at] cic.unb.br

Program Committee
- Mario Cannataro, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy
- Umit Catalyurek, Ohio State University, USA
- Mark Clement, Brigham Young University, USA
- Wu-Chun Feng, Virginia Tech, USA
- Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA
- Marta Kasprsak, Poznan Institute of Technology, Poland
- Marta Mattoso, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- Folker Meyer, Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Bertil Schmidt, Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz, Germany
- Quinn Snell, Brigham Young University, USA
- Alexandros Stamatakis, HITS gGmbH, Germany
- Shannon Steinfadt, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA
- Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA
- James Taylor, Emory University, USA
- Denis Trystram, Grenoble Institute of Technology, France
- Yoshiki Yamaguchi, University of Tsukuba, Japan
- Jaroslaw Zola, Rutgers University, USA
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1st International Workshop on Scalable Computing For Real-Time Big Data Applications (SCRAMBL'14)

1st International Workshop on Scalable Computing For Real-Time Big Data Applications (SCRAMBL'14)
held in conjunction with CCGrid'14 in Chicago IL, USA, May 26-29, 2014

URL: http://losangeles.usc.edu/scrambl/

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DESCRIPTION:

The continuous growth of our society has lead to complex systems of behavior and also to the need to optimize certain aspects of our day to day activities. Time sensitive applications such as real time power management for smart grids, traffic control or network monitoring require on demand large scale information processing and real time responses. The data these applications gather on a regular basis from monitoring sensors exceeds the normal storage and capacity power of normal machines or even clusters. In addition, the complexities arising from handling large relational datasets include but are not limited to data heterogeneity (i.e. variability), data quality (missing/approximate), data temporality (i.e. high-velocity), data volume or data streaming. Traditional computing platforms and even storage/processing models cannot simultaneously address these efficiently. Advances in the state of art in scalable computing platforms such as clouds, offer an ideal environment for
  showcasing and advancing methods for modeling, management, mining and analysis of real-time big data. At the same time novel models that take into account all these complexities need to be designed on top of these scalable systems.

This workshop aims at providing a venue for designers, practitioners, researchers, developers, and industrial/governmental partners to come together, present and discuss leading research results, use cases, innovative ideas, challenges, and opportunities that arise from real-time big data applications.

SCRAMBL'14 is co-located with the 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2014) and will take place on May 26, 2014 in Chicago IL, USA.

We intend to have one invited speaker to set the broader picture and share their experience in scalable computing for real-time big data applications.

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TOPICS OF INTEREST:

Topics of interests include but are not limited to novel techniques for addressing modeling, storage, processing, mining and analysis real-time big data in secure scalable computing environments:

* Scalable Models
-Data representation and data structures
-Dynamic/temporal data
-Heterogeneous data
-Relational
-Linked Data
-Semantic integration
-Complex event processing
-Messaging and data flow
-Wokflows/processes

* Scalable Algorithms & Architectures
-Data extraction, cleaning, processing
-Machine learning
-Reasoning
-Scalable architectures: Grids, Clouds, HPC, Clusters
-Programming paradigms (e.g. MapReduce)

* Security & Privacy Aspects

* Real-time Big Data Applications and Usecases

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WORKSHOP ORGANIZATION (alphabetically)
the list will be updated as new members join:

Co-chairs:
* Charalampos Chelmis, University of Southern California, USA
* Marc Frincu, University of Southern California, USA
* Bogdan Nicolae, IBM Research, Ireland

Steering Committee:
* Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA
* Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Sciences, India
* Yinglong Xia, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA

Program Committee:
* Albert Bifet, University of Waikato, New Zeeland
* Charalampos Chelmis, University of Southern California, USA
* Marc Frincu, University of Southern California, USA
* Danny Lange, Microsoft Research, USA
* Adrien L?bre, Ecole des Mines, France
* Bogdan Nicolae, IBM Research, Ireland
* Anand Panangadan, University of Southern California, USA
* Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA
* Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA
* Shadi Ibrahim, INRIA, France
* Yogesh Simmhan, Indian Institute of Sciences, India
* Yinglong Xia, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA
* Liang Zhang, LinkedIn, USA
* Tao Zhu, Twitter, USA

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IMPORTANT DATES:

Paper submission deadline: 01/31/2014
Acceptance/rejection notification: 02/28/2014
Camera-ready version due: 03/14/2014 (hard deadline)

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PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES:

SCRAMBL'14 is a half day workshop conducted in a highly interactive manner. We envisage two presentations sessions followed by a general discussion. In addition to regular research papers, we accept real-world use cases and position papers to stimulate discussions including practitioners. Further, we will accept outrageous ideas statements, which may highlight controversial topics or visionary ideas, to further foster discussions.

Particularly, we welcome submissions in the form of:
* Outrageous ideas (up to 2 pages)
* Position papers (short papers up to 6 pages)
* Real-world use cases papers (up to 10 pages)
* Research papers (up to 10 pages)

Authors are invited to submit papers formatted according to the 2-column IEEE format (http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/CCGrid2014/IEEECS_confs_LaTeX.zip), via EasyChair at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=scrambl2014 . The review process will not be blind, therefore it is not necessary for submissions to be anonymized. Submitted manuscripts should not exceed 10 letter-size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings. Submissions not conforming to these guidelines or received after the due date will be returned without review. For the final camera-ready version, authors with accepted papers may purchase additional pages at the following rates: 100 USD for each of the first two additional pages; 200 USD for each of the third and fourth additional pages. Submitted papers must represent original and unpublished work, that is not currently under review. All manuscripts will be evaluated according to their si
 gnificance, originality, technical content, style, clarity, quality of presentation, and relevance to the workshop. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the workshop.