<div dir="ltr"><div style="font-size:12.8px">On behalf of the organizers, I would like to encourage everyone to review the following CFP and submit papers with the latest work on the relevant topics. We will also greatly appreciate your help if you share information about this brand-new venue among your colleagues who might be interested. Please do not hesitate to contact me or other organizers if you have any questions.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b><br></b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b>The First Workshop on the Science of High-Performance Cloud Systems (HPCloudSys) </b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Co-located with CloudCom 2016. Luxembourg, December 12, 2016</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Workshop page with the most up-to-date information:</div><a href="http://2016.cloudcom.org/conf/workshops/hpcloudsys.html" target="_blank" style="font-size:12.8px">http://2016.cloudcom.org/conf/<wbr>workshops/hpcloudsys.html</a><div style="font-size:12.8px"><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Scope</b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The First Workshop on the Science of High-Performance Cloud Systems (HPCloudSys) seeks to bring together researchers and practitioners who work at the intersection of HPC and Cloud Computing to foster conversations about the systems aspects of HPC computations in the cloud. While the cloud promises cheap, efficient, and elastic compute cycles, there are a number of challenges at a systems level to running efficient HPC computations in the cloud. There has been a significant interest in recent years in science and engineering research computing in cloud environments. Work on these topics (some are listed below) is necessary in order to ensure effective and efficient computation in the cloud. There also arise many methodological challenges, in terms of the ways that environments are built, computations are orchestrated, and data are collected, archived, and shared. Our motivation in running this workshop is to foster more conversation about clouds for research from the perspective of cloud computing and the core recognized strengths of cloud systems, rather than from a perspective of “HPC taken to the cloud.”</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Topics</b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Topics of interest include (but are not limited to):</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- Systems-level aspects of computing in the cloud, including:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> * Low-latency and low-jitter virtualization in the cloud</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> * Storage and network support for HPC applications in the cloud, including computation-aware resource provisioning</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> * Technologies for capturing execution environments, such as containers</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- Tools and methodologies for HPC in the cloud, including:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> * Orchestration of computation in the cloud</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> * Dealing with variability of computations in the cloud</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"> * Collecting, processing, archiving, and cataloging of results</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- Reproducibility and repeatability of science in the cloud</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b><br></b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Discussions at the Workshop</b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The workshop will facilitate exchange of experience in the following areas:</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- “HPC for the 99 Percent”, “Production Cloud”, “Deeply Programmable Cloud” – What do these slogans actually mean at this point in time? Our overall goal is to come up with a common understanding of the range of state-of-the-art technologies that allow to build systems that best satisfy researchers’ needs.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- Scale versus Functionality – Where are the discussed systems in this spectrum?</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Integration – How are these systems integrated with other campus and national cyberinfrastructures?</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- Return on investment - why should the NSF invest in clouds</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">- Lessons Learned – What major design and technology transformations have occurred since these systems have been proposed and deployed?</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">The workshop will feature two keynote speakers (TBD): one from academia, and one from industry. There will also be brief presentations from cloud facilities that are available to researchers, to help acquaint participants with facilities and technologies that may benefit their work. The remainder of the time will be used for presentation of accepted papers, with ample time reserved for discussion. Attendance will be open to all (not just authors).</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Important Dates</b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Paper submission:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>September 2, 2016</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Notification of acceptance: September 15, 2016</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Camera-ready version: September 21, 2016</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Workshop date: <span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>December 12, 2016</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">CloudCom conference dates:<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> </span>December 12-15, 2016</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b><br></b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Submissions</b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Submissions should be in the IEEE CS format (no longer than 5 pages). Submissions must be original and should not have been published previously or be under consideration for publication while being evaluated for this workshop.</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Accepted workshop papers will be published in a supplement of the Proceedings of IEEE CloudCom 2016, and submitted to IEEE Xplore (conditioned by the presentation at the workshop by the author).</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Authors are invited to submit papers through the conference submission system: <a href="https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpcloudsys16" target="_blank">https://easychair.org/<wbr>conferences/?conf=hpcloudsys16</a></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Organizers</b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Dmitry Duplyakin<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">, </span>University of Colorado</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Robert Ricci<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">, </span>University of Utah / CloudLab</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Craig Stewart, Indiana University / Jetstream</div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><br></div><div style="font-size:12.8px"><b>Program Committee</b></div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Jed Brown<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">, </span>University of Colorado, Boulder</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Matthew Woitaszek<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">, </span>Walmart Global eCommerce</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Daniel McDonald<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">, </span>Institute for Systems Biology</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Caleb Phillips<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">, </span>National Renewable Energy Laboratory</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Paul Ruth<span style="white-space:pre-wrap"> , </span>Renaissance Computing Institute</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Amy Apon<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">, </span>Clemson University</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Hari Sundar<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">, </span>University of Utah</div><div style="font-size:12.8px">Paul Müller<span style="white-space:pre-wrap">, </span>Technische Universität Kaiserslautern</div><div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Lucas Nussbaum, Université de Lorraine </span></div><div><span style="font-size:12.8px">Stig Telfer, StackHPC Ltd. </span></div></div></div></div><div><br></div>-- <br><div class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><br><div>Dmitry Duplyakin </div><div>PhD student, Computer Science Department at University of Colorado - Boulder</div></div></div>
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