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[Call for Paper - late-breaking] VHPC'24: June 7th submission deadline
by Remo Andreoli 22 May '24

22 May '24

==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 19th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '24) held in conjunction with the European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Aug 26-30, 2024, Madrid, Spain. (Springer LNCS Proceedings) ==================================================================== Paper submission deadline: June 7th, 2024 AoE (extended) Date: August 26, 27, 2024 Workshop URL: vhpc dot org To submit an abstract or paper, please follow the link provided in the Call for Papers (CfP) announcement at the end of this message. Call for Papers Containers and virtualization technologies constitute key enabling factors for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need to manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads and hosted applications customers deploy. Similarly, HPC environments have been increasingly adopting techniques that enable flexible management of vast computing and networking resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Various virtualization-containerization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e., containerization), with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their co-existence within the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of responsiveness and performance; lastly, unikernels provide for manyvirtualization benefits with a minimized OS/library surface. I/O virtualization, in turn, allows physical network interfaces to exchange traffic with multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays independently from the underlying physical topology, is another fundamental enabling technology for Cloud/HPC infrastructures. Last, storage virtualization needs to evolve to support increasingly demanding requirements in terms of performance and reliability for the managed application data. Publication Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS proceedings volume. Topics of Interest The VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions related to virtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus on the intersection of HPC, containers/ virtualization and cloud computing. Each topic encompasses aspects related to design/architecture, management, performance management, modeling and\ configuration/tooling: Design / Architecture: - Containers and OS-level virtualization (LXC, Docker/Podman, Nitro/Firecracke, Singularity) - Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, NPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.) - GPU hypervisor memory virtualization in support of high-memory LLM training workloads - Hypervisor extensions to mitigate side-channel attacks ([micro-]architectural timing attacks, privilege escalation) - Use of Risc-V related technologies for cloud, virtualized and HPC use-cases - VM & Container trust and security models - Multi-environment coupling, system software supporting in-situ analysis with HPC simulation - Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance and high-availability - Cloud-based quantum compute services - Energy-efficient and power-aware virtualization - Containers inside VMs with hypervisor isolation - Virtualization support for emerging memory and storage technologies - Lightweight/specialized operating systems in conjunction with virtual machines - Unikernels and use cases for virtualized HPC environments - Formal definition and verification of hypervisors and virtualization system properties - ARM-based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensions Management: - Container and VM management for HPC and cloud environments - Virtualized/Cloudified instances to support Lambda / Function-as-a- Service (FaaS) Paradigms - HPC services integration, services to support HPC - Service and on-demand scheduling & resource management - Dedicated workload management with VMs or containers - Workflow coupling with VMs and containers - Unikernels and lightweight VM application management - Environments and tools for operating containerized environments (batch, orchestration) - Models for non-HPC workload provisioning on HPC resources Performance Measurements and Modeling: - Performance improvements for or driven by unikernels - Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms and hypervisors - Scalability analysis of VMs and/or containers at large scale - Performance measurement, modeling and monitoring of virtualized/ cloud workloads - Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, HPC in the cloud with an emphasis on AI GPUs/TPUs/NPUs - Energy-efficient deployment of high-performance, ultra-low latency and real-time workloads in cloud infrastructures - Modeling, control and isolation of end-to-end performance for parallel & distributed cloud/HPC applications, including the use of cloud functions / FaaS Configuration / Tooling: - Tool support for unikernels: configuration/build environments, debuggers, profilers - Job scheduling/control/policy and container placement in virtualized environments - Measuring and controlling "OS/Virtualization noise" - Operating MPI in containers/VMs and Unikernels - GPU virtualization operationalization This year, we are calling the timely topic of virtualization in support of high-memory LLM training workloads including, but not limited to: - GPU hypervisor memory virtualization: Techniques for virtualizing GPU memory to allow flexible and efficient allocation across multiple workloads, enabling higher utilization of GPU resources - Flat CPU/GPU memory page tables/TLB: Unified virtual memory spaces and page table structures that allow both GPUs to address CPU memory mapped to accelerator global memory space - Storage/filesystem to virtual memory mapped approaches - Distributed memory virtualization - Memory compression and reduction techniques: approaches for compressing model parameters, activations, and gradients to reduce memory requirements during training - Out-of-core training algorithms - Efficient memory allocation and management: Techniques for optimizing memory allocation, reducing fragmentation, and improving memory utilization during training - Memory-efficient data formats and processing: Data formats and processing techniques that minimize memory overhead while maintaining training efficiency - Benchmarking and profiling tools: Tools and methodologies for measuring, analyzing, and optimizing memory usage in LLM training workloads - Case studies and applications: Real-world examples and applications of virtualization techniques in LLM training scenarios The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. Important Dates Rolling abstract submission Jun 7th, 2024 AoE (extended) - Paper submission deadline Jun 20th, 2024 - Acceptance notification Jul 1st, 2024 - Camera-ready due Aug 26th-27th, 2024 - Workshop Day(s) Chair Michael Alexander (chair), Austrian Academy of Sciences Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), Nubificus Ltd., UK Tommaso Cucinotta (co-chair), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy Publicity chair Remo Andreoli, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy Technical Program Committee - Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece - Gabriele Ara, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna - Jakob Blomer, CERN, Switzerland - Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain - Taylor Childers, Argonne National Laboratory, USA - François Diakhaté, CEA DAM, France - Roberto Giorgi, University of Siena, Italy - Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA - Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy - Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France - Amer Qouneh, Western New England University, USA - Carlos Reaño, Queen’s University Belfast, UK - Riccardo Rocha, CERN, Switzerland - Lutz Schubert, University of Ulm, Germany - Jonathan Sparks, Cray, USA - Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden - John Walters, USC ISI, USA - Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan - Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Paper Submission-Publication Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions should include abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 12 pages, including tables and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 points. 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 papers will be published in a Springer LNCS volume. Initial submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide source files. Lightning Talks Lightning Talks are in a non-paper track, synoptical in nature and are strictly limited to 5 minutes. They can be used to gain early feedback on ongoing research, for demonstrations, to present research results, early research ideas, perspectives and positions of interest to the community. Submit abstracts via the main submission link. General Information The workshop will be held in conjunction with the International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing on Aug 26-30, 2024, Madrid, Spain. Please contact ahead of time for presenting remotely via video. Abstract, Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=31582 LNCS Format Guidelines: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… Follow VHPC Updates on X: https://twitter.com/VHPCworkshop

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RT-Cloud 2024 - The third International Workshop on Real-Time Cloud Systems (Extended submission deadline: 16th May)
by Remo Andreoli 11 May '24

11 May '24

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The third International Workshop on Real-Time Cloud Systems (RT-Cloud 2024) www.ecrts.org/rt-cloud-2024/<http://www.ecrts.org/rt-cloud-2024/> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- While most cloud services operate on a best-effort basis and provide no timing guarantees, there is a growing interest in cloud technologies for industrial and critical applications. Edge computing is a recent paradigm that brings processing and storage resources closer to the user. As a result, it provides benefits such as low latency and high bandwidth while still providing the benefits of cloud computing, making it lucrative for low-latency, real-time / safety-critical applications. However, a higher degree of determinism is desired for cloud and edge technologies to be fully embraced by the real-time / safety-critical industry. This calls for new techniques and methodologies to design predictable and reliable cloud/edge technologies and applications. The 3rd International Workshop on Real-Time Cloud Systems (RT-Cloud) aims to bring together industrial and academic researchers and become a forum for discussing topics (including ideas, open and upcoming challenges, use cases, initiatives, calls to action, and projects, regulations and standards, future research directions, etc.) related to real-time cloud/ edge/fog computing and virtualization techniques. This year, the workshop will have a focus on industrial cloud use cases. The workshop also welcomes short and full papers that consider: - New technologies, innovative approaches/ideas, including work-in-progress - Open problems and upcoming challenges - Regulations and standards - Demos and tutorials, especially, for open-source projects - Call to actions - Experimental reports on existing technologies, including negative ones Original full and short papers on all aspects of real-time/safety-critical cloud/edge/fog and virtualization are welcome. Researchers are encouraged (but not limited) to submit papers regarding the following: 1. Use cases and applications for RT-cloud - Use of cloud computing principles to improve performance/safety/ security in existing real-time systems/use cases - Real-time cloud and edge applications -- Industrial use cases and requirements -- Experiments and experiences with RT-cloud -- Real-time / safety-critical applications as a cloud-based service -- Real-time extension to existing cloud-computing technologies -- Decomposition between the edge, fog, and cloud 2. Virtualization and cloud computing technologies/models for RT-cloud - Development Operations (DevOps) for RT-cloud - Deterministic hypervisors and cloud execution environments, including containers and WASM - Real-time Saas, Paas, Iaas, and XaaS (anything as a service model) - Execution and deployment models for RT-Cloud, including serverless computing - Microservices Architectures for real-time system - Modeling of network and cloud, execution stacks, and applications - Adaptive SLAs for RT-cloud 3. Resource management (including monitoring, scheduling) and orchestration for RT-cloud -- Predictable orchestration and cloud operation -- Tools and techniques for resource sharing and isolation -- End-to-end resource management and scheduling in edge-cloud continuum -- Co-scheduling of virtual network and compute resources -- Edge-cloud-IoT continuum and interaction/interfacing -- QoS mechanisms and isolation guarantees -- Autonomous monitoring systems 4. Safety and Security for RT-cloud - Assurance in RT-cloud, deterministic scaling, fail-over, migration, etc. - Trusted RT-Cloud/edge environment -- Considering security and privacy together with safety -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: May 16, 2024 (AoE) Notification of Acceptance: June 6, 2024 RT-Cloud Workshop: July 9, 2024 ECRTS 2024: July 9-12, 2024 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Manuscripts must present original work. They must be written in English, using the IEEE format, and submitted through easychair. There are no strict rules about the number of pages, but the recommended length for full papers is 6 to 8 pages, and for short papers is 3-4 pages. Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rtcloud2024 All submissions will be reviewed by the technical program committee members, and accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, which will be available online on the workshop website. Papers will not be assigned a DOI to enable authors to submit a full/extended paper later on to a conference or a journal. For every accepted paper, at least one author is expected to register for the workshop and present the paper. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS - Johan Eker (Lund University/Ericsson) - Luca Abeni (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna - luca.abeni(a)santannapisa.it) - Gautam Gala (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau - gala(a)eit.uni-kl.de) PUBLICITY CHAIR - Remo Andreoli (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna - remo.andreoli(a)santannapisa.it)

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VHPC'24: HPC Virtualization CfP extension: May 20 submission deadline
by Remo Andreoli 11 May '24

11 May '24

==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 19th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '24) held in conjunction with the European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Aug 26-30, 2024, Madrid, Spain. (Springer LNCS Proceedings) ==================================================================== Paper submission deadline: May 20th, 2024 AoE (extended) Date: August 26, 27, 2024 Workshop URL: vhpc dot org To submit an abstract or paper, please follow the link provided in the Call for Papers (CfP) announcement at the end of this message. Call for Papers Containers and virtualization technologies constitute key enabling factors for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need to manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads and hosted applications customers deploy. Similarly, HPC environments have been increasingly adopting techniques that enable flexible management of vast computing and networking resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Various virtualization-containerization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e., containerization), with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their co-existence within the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of responsiveness and performance; lastly, unikernels provide for manyvirtualization benefits with a minimized OS/library surface. I/O virtualization, in turn, allows physical network interfaces to exchange traffic with multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays independently from the underlying physical topology, is another fundamental enabling technology for Cloud/HPC infrastructures. Last, storage virtualization needs to evolve to support increasingly demanding requirements in terms of performance and reliability for the managed application data. Publication Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS proceedings volume. Topics of Interest The VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions related to virtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus on the intersection of HPC, containers/ virtualization and cloud computing. Each topic encompasses aspects related to design/architecture, management, performance management, modeling and\ configuration/tooling: Design / Architecture: - Containers and OS-level virtualization (LXC, Docker/Podman, Nitro/Firecracke, Singularity) - Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, NPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.) - GPU hypervisor memory virtualization in support of high-memory LLM training workloads - Hypervisor extensions to mitigate side-channel attacks ([micro-]architectural timing attacks, privilege escalation) - Use of Risc-V related technologies for cloud, virtualized and HPC use-cases - VM & Container trust and security models - Multi-environment coupling, system software supporting in-situ analysis with HPC simulation - Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance and high-availability - Cloud-based quantum compute services - Energy-efficient and power-aware virtualization - Containers inside VMs with hypervisor isolation - Virtualization support for emerging memory and storage technologies - Lightweight/specialized operating systems in conjunction with virtual machines - Unikernels and use cases for virtualized HPC environments - Formal definition and verification of hypervisors and virtualization system properties - ARM-based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensions Management: - Container and VM management for HPC and cloud environments - Virtualized/Cloudified instances to support Lambda / Function-as-a- Service (FaaS) Paradigms - HPC services integration, services to support HPC - Service and on-demand scheduling & resource management - Dedicated workload management with VMs or containers - Workflow coupling with VMs and containers - Unikernels and lightweight VM application management - Environments and tools for operating containerized environments (batch, orchestration) - Models for non-HPC workload provisioning on HPC resources Performance Measurements and Modeling: - Performance improvements for or driven by unikernels - Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms and hypervisors - Scalability analysis of VMs and/or containers at large scale - Performance measurement, modeling and monitoring of virtualized/ cloud workloads - Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, HPC in the cloud with an emphasis on AI GPUs/TPUs/NPUs - Energy-efficient deployment of high-performance, ultra-low latency and real-time workloads in cloud infrastructures - Modeling, control and isolation of end-to-end performance for parallel & distributed cloud/HPC applications, including the use of cloud functions / FaaS Configuration / Tooling: - Tool support for unikernels: configuration/build environments, debuggers, profilers - Job scheduling/control/policy and container placement in virtualized environments - Measuring and controlling "OS/Virtualization noise" - Operating MPI in containers/VMs and Unikernels - GPU virtualization operationalization This year, we are calling the timely topic of virtualization in support of high-memory LLM training workloads including, but not limited to: - GPU hypervisor memory virtualization: Techniques for virtualizing GPU memory to allow flexible and efficient allocation across multiple workloads, enabling higher utilization of GPU resources - Flat CPU/GPU memory page tables/TLB: Unified virtual memory spaces and page table structures that allow both GPUs to address CPU memory mapped to accelerator global memory space - Storage/filesystem to virtual memory mapped approaches - Distributed memory virtualization - Memory compression and reduction techniques: approaches for compressing model parameters, activations, and gradients to reduce memory requirements during training - Out-of-core training algorithms - Efficient memory allocation and management: Techniques for optimizing memory allocation, reducing fragmentation, and improving memory utilization during training - Memory-efficient data formats and processing: Data formats and processing techniques that minimize memory overhead while maintaining training efficiency - Benchmarking and profiling tools: Tools and methodologies for measuring, analyzing, and optimizing memory usage in LLM training workloads - Case studies and applications: Real-world examples and applications of virtualization techniques in LLM training scenarios The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. Important Dates Rolling abstract submission May 20th, 2024 AoE (extended) - Paper submission deadline Jun 20th, 2024 - Acceptance notification Jul 1st, 2024 - Camera-ready due Aug 26th-27th, 2024 - Workshop Day(s) Chair Michael Alexander (chair), Austrian Academy of Sciences Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), Nubificus Ltd., UK Tommaso Cucinotta (co-chair), Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy Publicity chair Remo Andreoli, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy Technical Program Committee - Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece - Gabriele Ara, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna - Jakob Blomer, CERN, Switzerland - Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain - Taylor Childers, Argonne National Laboratory, USA - François Diakhaté, CEA DAM, France - Roberto Giorgi, University of Siena, Italy - Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA - Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy - Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France - Amer Qouneh, Western New England University, USA - Carlos Reaño, Queen’s University Belfast, UK - Riccardo Rocha, CERN, Switzerland - Lutz Schubert, University of Ulm, Germany - Jonathan Sparks, Cray, USA - Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden - John Walters, USC ISI, USA - Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan - Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Paper Submission-Publication Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions should include abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 12 pages, including tables and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 points. 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 papers will be published in a Springer LNCS volume. Initial submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide source files. Lightning Talks Lightning Talks are in a non-paper track, synoptical in nature and are strictly limited to 5 minutes. They can be used to gain early feedback on ongoing research, for demonstrations, to present research results, early research ideas, perspectives and positions of interest to the community. Submit abstracts via the main submission link. General Information The workshop will be held in conjunction with the International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing on Aug 26-30, 2024, Madrid, Spain. Please contact ahead of time for presenting remotely via video. Abstract, Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=31582 LNCS Format Guidelines: https://www.springer.com/gp/computer-science/lncs/conference-proceedings-gu… Follow VHPC Updates on X: https://twitter.com/VHPCworkshop

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[CALL FOR PAPER] RT-Cloud 2024 - The third International Workshop on Real-Time Cloud Systems
by Remo Andreoli 21 Apr '24

21 Apr '24

-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The third International Workshop on Real-Time Cloud Systems (RT-Cloud 2024) www.ecrts.org/rt-cloud-2024/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- While most cloud services operate on a best-effort basis and provide no timing guarantees, there is a growing interest in cloud technologies for industrial and critical applications. Edge computing is a recent paradigm that brings processing and storage resources closer to the user. As a result, it provides benefits such as low latency and high bandwidth while still providing the benefits of cloud computing, making it lucrative for low-latency, real-time / safety-critical applications. However, a higher degree of determinism is desired for cloud and edge technologies to be fully embraced by the real-time / safety-critical industry. This calls for new techniques and methodologies to design predictable and reliable cloud/edge technologies and applications. The 3rd International Workshop on Real-Time Cloud Systems (RT-Cloud) aims to bring together industrial and academic researchers and become a forum for discussing topics (including ideas, open and upcoming challenges, use cases, initiatives, calls to action, and projects, regulations and standards, future research directions, etc.) related to real-time cloud/ edge/fog computing and virtualization techniques. This year, the workshop will have a focus on industrial cloud use cases. The workshop also welcomes short and full papers that consider: - New technologies, innovative approaches/ideas, including work-in-progress - Open problems and upcoming challenges - Regulations and standards - Demos and tutorials, especially, for open-source projects - Call to actions - Experimental reports on existing technologies, including negative ones Original full and short papers on all aspects of real-time/safety-critical cloud/edge/fog and virtualization are welcome. Researchers are encouraged (but not limited) to submit papers regarding the following: 1. Use cases and applications for RT-cloud - Use of cloud computing principles to improve performance/safety/ security in existing real-time systems/use cases - Real-time cloud and edge applications -- Industrial use cases and requirements -- Experiments and experiences with RT-cloud -- Real-time / safety-critical applications as a cloud-based service -- Real-time extension to existing cloud-computing technologies -- Decomposition between the edge, fog, and cloud 2. Virtualization and cloud computing technologies/models for RT-cloud - Development Operations (DevOps) for RT-cloud - Deterministic hypervisors and cloud execution environments, including containers and WASM - Real-time Saas, Paas, Iaas, and XaaS (anything as a service model) - Execution and deployment models for RT-Cloud, including serverless computing - Microservices Architectures for real-time system - Modeling of network and cloud, execution stacks, and applications - Adaptive SLAs for RT-cloud 3. Resource management (including monitoring, scheduling) and orchestration for RT-cloud -- Predictable orchestration and cloud operation -- Tools and techniques for resource sharing and isolation -- End-to-end resource management and scheduling in edge-cloud continuum -- Co-scheduling of virtual network and compute resources -- Edge-cloud-IoT continuum and interaction/interfacing -- QoS mechanisms and isolation guarantees -- Autonomous monitoring systems 4. Safety and Security for RT-cloud - Assurance in RT-cloud, deterministic scaling, fail-over, migration, etc. - Trusted RT-Cloud/edge environment -- Considering security and privacy together with safety -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Submission deadline: May 9, 2024 (AoE) Notification of Acceptance: June 6, 2024 RT-Cloud Workshop: July 9, 2024 ECRTS 2024: July 9-12, 2024 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS Manuscripts must present original work. They must be written in English, using the IEEE format, and submitted through easychair. There are no strict rules about the number of pages, but the recommended length for full papers is 6 to 8 pages, and for short papers is 3-4 pages. Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=rtcloud2024 All submissions will be reviewed by the technical program committee members, and accepted papers will be included in the workshop proceedings, which will be available online on the workshop website. Papers will not be assigned a DOI to enable authors to submit a full/extended paper later on to a conference or a journal. For every accepted paper, at least one author is expected to register for the workshop and present the paper. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- WORKSHOP CHAIRS - Johan Eker (Lund University/Ericsson) - Luca Abeni (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna - luca.abeni(a)santannapisa.it) - Gautam Gala (University of Kaiserslautern-Landau - gala(a)eit.uni-kl.de) PUBLICITY CHAIR - Remo Andreoli (Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna - remo.andreoli(a)santannapisa.it)

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VHPC'24 - 19th Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing Workshop - Call for Papers
by Remo Andreoli 07 Apr '24

07 Apr '24

VHPC'24<https://vhpc.org>: August 26th-27th, Madrid, Spain, co-located with Euro-Par 2024. Papers due: May 6th. The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC<https://vhpc.org>) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in HPC/Cloud scenarios in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems. The workshop features paper presentations, discussion sessions, and lightning talks. Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS volume (indexed by Scopus and others). Focus Topics This year, we are calling the timely topic of virtualization in support of high-memory LLM training workloads including, but not limited to: * GPU hypervisor memory virtualization: Techniques for virtualizing GPU memory to allow flexible and efficient allocation across multiple workloads, enabling higher utilization of GPU resources * Flat CPU/GPU memory page tables/TLB: Unified virtual memory spaces and page table structures that allow both GPUs to address CPU memory mapped to accelerator global memory space * Storage/filesystem to virtual memory mapped approaches * Distributed memory virtualization * Memory compression and reduction techniques: approaches for compressing model parameters, activations, and gradients to reduce memory requirements during training * Out-of-core training algorithms * Efficient memory allocation and management: Techniques for optimizing memory allocation, reducing fragmentation, and improving memory utilization during training * Memory-efficient data formats and processing: Data formats and processing techniques that minimize memory overhead while maintaining training efficiency * Benchmarking and profiling tools: Tools and methodologies for measuring, analyzing, and optimizing memory usage in LLM training workloads * Case studies and applications: Real-world examples and applications of virtualization techniques in LLM training scenarios In addition to regular topics: * Container Platforms (Kubernetes, Docker, Nitro/Firecracker, Singularity, Shifter, rkt, …) and Unikernel Frameworks * Composable Lightweight Application Components and Lambda / Function-as-a-Service Paradigms * Latency Control, Warm/Cold-start issues and Data/Container Placement in Heterogeneous HPC Virtualized Environments * Energy-efficiency and Service Orchestration in Virtualized Cloud & HPC Infrastructures The call for papers is also available in PDF Format<https://vhpc.github.io/VHPC-CfP.pdf>. The workshop will be composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sessions, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. For more information and detailed paper submission instructions, refer to the VHPC'24 webpage<https://vhpc.org/>. Important Dates (AoE) * May 6th, 2024: Paper submission deadline (Springer LNCS) * Jun 20th, 2024: Acceptance notification * Jul 1st, 2024: Camera-ready version due * Aug 26th-27th, 2024: Workshop Day General Chairs * Michael Alexander, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria * Anastassios Nanos, Nubificus Ltd., UK * Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy Publicity Chairs * Remo Andreoli, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy General Information The workshop will be held in conjuction with the International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing (Euro-Par 2024)<https://2024.euro-par.org>, on Aug 26th-27th, 2024, in Madrid, Spain. The VHPC co-chairs

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Elsevier JSA Special Issue on VHPC
by Tommaso Cucinotta 15 Jun '23

15 Jun '23

[feel free to forward to possible interested colleagues, apologies for cross-posting] Dear all, the International Workshop on “Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing” (VHPC), just recently completed on May in co-location with the ISC High Performance 2023 conference in Hamburg, has come to its *18th successful edition*. Therefore, we're glad to celebrate the "maturity" of the VHPC series of workshops, by accompanying this year edition with a *Special Issue of the Elsevier Journal of Systems Architecture (JSA), focusing on VHPC-related research topics*: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-systems-architecture/about… (Q1 journal in Scimago SJR/CiteScore rankings) Papers for the JSA Special Issue on VHPC are due on *September 29th, 2023*. Authors of accepted papers at VHPC 2023 and previous recent editions of the workshop are invited to submit extended versions of their VHPC papers to the JSA Special Issue. These will undergo a new peer-reviewing process, to meet the high standards required for publishing on JSA. Extended papers need to provide significant unpublished novel contents, compared to the already published workshop papers (check the guide for authors for details). The *JSA VHPC Special Issue call for papers is also open to any other submission dealing with topics within the VHPC scope*, e.g., virtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus on the intersection among HPC, Containerization/Virtualization and Cloud/Edge Computing, encompassing aspects related to design/architecture, management & orchestration, performance & fault-tolerance, modeling and configuration/tooling. For more information, submission guidelines, and the submission link, please, refer to the *official page about the JSA Special Issue on VHPC*: https://www.sciencedirect.com/journal/journal-of-systems-architecture/about… Kind regards, The JSA VHPC Special Issue Guest Editors. Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Pisa, Italy Michael Alexander, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria, and Scilytics Anastassios Nanos, Nubificus, Ltd., UK -- Tommaso Cucinotta, Computer Engineering PhD Associate Professor at the Real-Time Systems Laboratory (ReTiS) Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy http://retis.sssup.it/people/tommaso

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VHPC'23 - 18th Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing Workshop - Call for Papers
by Tommaso Cucinotta 31 Jan '23

31 Jan '23

[apologies for cross-postings] The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) <https://vhpc.org/> is an international forum bringing together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in HPC/Cloud scenarios, in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. The 18th edition of VHPC will be held on May 25th, 2023, jointly with the ISC High-Performance 2023 <https://www.isc-hpc.com/> conference and exhibition in Hamburg (Germany), and it welcomes contributions on the research topics detailed below. Paper submissions are due on April 19th. Accepted papers will be published on Springer LNCS series, and indexed by Scopus, among others. Workshop Overview Containers and virtualization technologies constitute key enabling factors for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need to seamlessly manage complex infrastructures, to support the highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads customers deploy. Similarly, HPC environments have been increasingly adopting techniques that enable flexible management of vast computing and networking resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Various virtualization-containerization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e., containerization), with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their coexistence within the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of responsiveness and performance; lastly, unikernels provide for many virtualization benefits with a minimized OS/library surface. I/O virtualization, in turn, allows physical network interfaces to exchange traffic with multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays independently from the underlying physical topology, is another fundamental enabling technology for Cloud/HPC infrastructures. Last, storage virtualization needs to evolve to support increasingly demanding requirements in terms of performance and reliability for the managed application data. *Topics of Interest* The VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions related to virtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus on the intersection of HPC, containers-virtualization and cloud computing, focusing on the following major topics: * HPC on Containers and VMs; * Containerized applications with OS-level virtualization; * Lightweight applications with Unikernels; * HPC-as-a-Service. Each of these major topics encompasses design/architecture, management, performance management, modeling and configuration/tooling, leading to the following detailed, but non-necessarily exhaustive, list of topics of interest: Design / Architecture: * Containers and OS-level virtualization (LXC, Docker, rkt, Singularity, Shifter, i.a.) * Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.) * Hypervisor extensions to mitigate side-channel attacks([micro-]architectural timing attacks, privilege escalation) * VM & Container trust and security models * Multi-environment coupling, system software supporting in-situ analysis with HPC simulation * Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance and high-availability * Cloud-based quantum compute services * Energy-efficient and power-aware virtualization * Containers inside VMs with hypervisor isolation * Virtualization support for emerging memory and storage technologies * Lightweight/specialized operating systems in conjunction with virtual machines * Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.) * Unikernels and use cases for virtualized HPC environments * Formal definition and verification of hypervisors and virtualization system properties * ARM-based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensions Management: * Container and VM management for HPC and cloud environments * HPC services integration, services to support HPC * Service and on-demand scheduling & resource management * Dedicated workload management with VMs or containers * Workflow coupling with VMs and containers * Unikernels and lightweight VM application management * Environments and tools for operating containerized environments (batch, orchestration) * Models for non-HPC workload provisioning on HPC resources Performance Measurements and Modeling: * Performance improvements for, or driven by, unikernels * Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms and hypervisors * Scalability analysis of VMs and/or containers at large scale * Performance measurement, modeling and monitoring of virtualized/cloud workloads * Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, HPC in the cloud * Energy-efficient deployment of high-performance, ultra-low latency and real-time workloads in cloud infrastructures * Modeling, control and isolation of end-to-end performance for parallel & distributed cloud/HPC applications Configuration / Tooling: * Tool support for unikernels: configuration/build environments, debuggers, profilers * Job scheduling/control/policy and container placement in virtualized environments * Measuring and controlling "OS/Virtualization noise" * Operating MPI in containers/VMs and Unikernels * GPU virtualization operationalization *Organization* The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. For more information and detailed paper submission instructions, refer to the VHPC'23 webpage: https://vhpc.org/ *Important Dates* * *Mar 12th, 2023*: Abstract registration (/rolling abstract registrations//always open/) * *Mar 19th, 2023*: Paper submission deadline (/Springer LNCS/) * *Apr 15th, 2023*: Acceptance notification * *May 25th, 2023*: Workshop Day * *Jun TBA, 2023*: Camera-ready version due (/post-workshop/) *General Chairs* * Michael Alexander, Institute of Science and Technology, Austria * Anastassios Nanos, Nubificus Ltd., UK * Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Italy -- Tommaso Cucinotta, Associate Professor of Computer Engineering, PhD Head of the Real-Time Systems Laboratory (ReTiS) Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy http://retis.sssup.it/~tommaso/eng/research.html

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Email address
by ken gibleski 16 Sep '22

16 Sep '22

Here is my email address for confirmation to the subscription: kgibleski(a)gmail.com Sent from my iPad

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Has OpenStack been integrated into Rocks HPC Cluster 7.0 Manzanita (CentOS 7.4)?
by Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming 04 Aug '22

04 Aug '22

Subject: Has OpenStack been integrated into Rocks HPC Cluster 7.0 Manzanita (CentOS 7.4)? Good day from Singapore, Has OpenStack been integrated into Rocks HPC Cluster 7.0 Manzanita (CentOS 7.4)? So that I can use it out of the box? Thank you. Regards, Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming Targeted Individual in Singapore 5 Aug 2022 Friday Blogs: https://tdtemcerts.blogspot.com https://tdtemcerts.wordpress.com

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CFP: HLPP 2022 - Submission Date Extended to May 6, 2022 ** Hard Deadline **
by Carlos 18 Apr '22

18 Apr '22

--------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- HLPP 2022 The 15th International Symposium on High-level Parallel Programming and Applications Porto, Portugal, 7-8 July, 2022 https://hlpp2022.dcc.fc.up.pt/ ---------------------- Aims and scope of HLPP ---------------------- As processor and system manufacturers increase the amount of both inter- and intra-chip parallelism it becomes crucial to provide the software industry with high-level, clean and efficient tools for parallel programming. Parallel and distributed programming methodologies are currently dominated by low-level techniques such as send/receive message passing, or equivalently unstructured shared memory mechanisms. Higher-level, structured approaches offer many possible advantages and have a key role to play in the scalable exploitation of ubiquitous parallelism. Since 2001 the HLPP series of workshops/symposia has been a forum for researchers developing state-of-the-art concepts, tools and applications for high-level parallel programming. The general emphasis is on software quality, programming productivity and high-level performance models. The 15th Symposium on High-Level Parallel Programming and Applications will be held in the Porto, Portugal. ------ Topics ------ HLPP 2022 invites papers on all topics in high-level parallel programming, its tools and applications including, but not limited to, the following aspects: * High-level programming, performance models (BSP, CGM, LogP, MPM, etc.) and tools * Declarative parallel programming methodologies * Algorithmic skeletons and constructive methods * Declarative parallel programming languages and libraries: semantics and implementation * Verification of declarative parallel and distributed programs * Software synthesis, automatic code generation for parallel programming * Model-driven software engineering with parallel programs * High-level programming models for heterogeneous/hierarchical platforms * High-level parallel methods for large structured and semi-structured datasets * Applications of parallel systems using highÂ-level languages and tools * Formal models of timing and real-time verification for parallel systems ------------------ Program Chairs ------------------ Inês Dutra, University of Porto, Portugal Jorge Barbosa, University of Porto, Portugal Miguel Areias, University of Porto, Portugal ------------------ Publicity Chair ------------------ Carlos Ferreira, Polytechnic Institute of Porto ----------------- Program Committee ----------------- Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy Murray Cole, The University of Edinburgh, UK Iacopo Colonnelli, University of Torino, Italy Frédéric Dabrowski, LIFO - Université d'Orléans, France Marco Danelutto University of Pisa, Italy João Gama, University of Porto, Portugal Arturo Gonzalez-Escribano, The University of Valladolid, Spain Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Dalvan Griebler, PUCRS/SETREM, Brasil Gaétan Hains, Huawei Paris Research Center, France Ali Jannesari, Iowa State University, USA Christoph Kessler, Linköping University, Sweden Peter Kilpatrick, Queen's University Belfast, UK Herbert Kuchen, University of Münster, German Kiminori Matsuzaki, Kochi University of Technology, Japan Virginia Niculescu, Babeș-Bolyai University, Romania Aleksandar Prokopec, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Nuno Roma, University of Lisbon, Portugal Kostis Sagonas, Uppsala University, Sweden João Sobral, University of Minho, Portugal Massimo Torquati, University of Pisa, Italy ---------------- Important dates ---------------- Submission deadline: May 6, 2022(AoE) *** Hard Deadline *** Author notification: June 3, 2022 Camera-ready for draft proceedings: July 1, 2022 Early registration deadline: June 8, 2022 Symposium: July 7-8 (Thursday/Friday) IJPP (HLPP special issue) submission deadline: October 28, 2022 IJPP (HLPP special issue) camera-ready for journal publication: December 2, 2022 ---------------- Paper submission ---------------- Papers submitted to HLPP 2022 must describe original research results and must not have been published or simultaneously submitted anywhere else. Manuscripts must be prepared with the Springer IJSS latex macro package using the single column option (\documentclass[smallextended]{svjour3}) and submitted via the EasyChair Conference Management System as one pdf file. The strict page limit for initial submission and camera-ready version is 20 pages in the aforementioned format. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews by members of the international technical program committee. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, technical clarity and quality of presentation. After the symposium the authors of the accepted papers will have ample time to revise their papers and to incorporate the potential comments and remarks of their colleagues. We expect the HLPP 2022 special issue of the International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP) to appear online-first by the end of the year and the printed edition in mid-2023. ----------- Proceedings ----------- Accepted papers will be distributed as informal draft proceedings during the symposium and will be published by Springer in a special issue of the International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP). ----- Venue ----- HLPP 2022 will be hosted by the Dept. of Computer Science (GPS coords 41.152545, -8.640758) of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP). Participants may reserve rooms in several of the nearby Hotels. As the symposium will be held in the tourist season, the organizers recommend a timely reservation of rooms. Carlos Ferreira ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

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CFP: HLPP 2022: International Symposium on International Symposium on High-Level Parallel Programming and Applications
by Carlos 14 Mar '22

14 Mar '22

--------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- HLPP 2022 The 15th International Symposium on High-level Parallel Programming and Applications Porto, Portugal, 7-8 July, 2022 https://hlpp2022.dcc.fc.up.pt/ ---------------------- Aims and scope of HLPP ---------------------- As processor and system manufacturers increase the amount of both inter- and intra-chip parallelism it becomes crucial to provide the software industry with high-level, clean and efficient tools for parallel programming. Parallel and distributed programming methodologies are currently dominated by low-level techniques such as send/receive message passing, or equivalently unstructured shared memory mechanisms. Higher-level, structured approaches offer many possible advantages and have a key role to play in the scalable exploitation of ubiquitous parallelism. Since 2001 the HLPP series of workshops/symposia has been a forum for researchers developing state-of-the-art concepts, tools and applications for high-level parallel programming. The general emphasis is on software quality, programming productivity and high-level performance models. The 15th Symposium on High-Level Parallel Programming and Applications will be held in the Porto, Portugal. ------ Topics ------ HLPP 2022 invites papers on all topics in high-level parallel programming, its tools and applications including, but not limited to, the following aspects: * High-level programming, performance models (BSP, CGM, LogP, MPM, etc.) and tools * Declarative parallel programming methodologies * Algorithmic skeletons and constructive methods * Declarative parallel programming languages and libraries: semantics and implementation * Verification of declarative parallel and distributed programs * Software synthesis, automatic code generation for parallel programming * Model-driven software engineering with parallel programs * High-level programming models for heterogeneous/hierarchical platforms * High-level parallel methods for large structured and semi-structured datasets * Applications of parallel systems using highÂ-level languages and tools * Formal models of timing and real-time verification for parallel systems ------------------ Program Chairs ------------------ Inês Dutra, University of Porto, Portugal Jorge Barbosa, University of Porto, Portugal Miguel Areias, University of Porto, Portugal ------------------ Publicity Chair ------------------ Carlos Ferreira, Polytechnic Institute of Porto ----------------- Program Committee ----------------- TBA ---------------- Important dates ---------------- Submission deadline: April 1, 2022(AoE) Author notification: June 3, 2022 Camera-ready for draft proceedings: July 1, 2022 Early registration deadline: June 8, 2022 Symposium: July 7-8 (Thursday/Friday) IJPP (HLPP special issue) submission deadline: October 28, 2022 IJPP (HLPP special issue) camera-ready for journal publication: December 2, 2022 ---------------- Paper submission ---------------- Papers submitted to HLPP 2022 must describe original research results and must not have been published or simultaneously submitted anywhere else. Manuscripts must be prepared with the Springer IJSS latex macro package using the single column option (\documentclass[smallextended]{svjour3}) and submitted via the EasyChair Conference Management System as one pdf file. The strict page limit for initial submission and camera-ready version is 20 pages in the aforementioned format. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews by members of the international technical program committee. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, technical clarity and quality of presentation. After the symposium the authors of the accepted papers will have ample time to revise their papers and to incorporate the potential comments and remarks of their colleagues. We expect the HLPP 2022 special issue of the International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP) to appear online-first by the end of the year and the printed edition in mid-2023. ----------- Proceedings ----------- Accepted papers will be distributed as informal draft proceedings during the symposium and will be published by Springer in a special issue of the International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP). ----- Venue ----- HLPP 2022 will be hosted by the Dept. of Computer Science (GPS coords 41.152545, -8.640758) of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP). Participants may reserve rooms in several of the nearby Hotels. As the symposium will be held in the tourist season, the organizers recommend a timely reservation of rooms. Carlos Ferreira ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

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Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC 2022) - Call for Papers
by Tommaso Cucinotta 02 Feb '22

02 Feb '22

[apologies for cross-postings] The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) <vhpc.org/> is an international forum bringing together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in HPC/Cloud scenarios, in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. The 17th edition of VHPC will be held on June 2nd, jointly with the ISC High-Performance 2022 <https://www.isc-hpc.com/> conference and exhibition in Hamburg (Germany), and will feature two excellent industrial _/keynote speakers/_ * “rtla: finding the sources of OS noise on Linux”, Daniel Bristot De Oliveira, Senior Principal Software Engineer in the real-time kernel team at Red Hat * “DynamoDB: NoSQL database services for predictable HPC workloads”, Akshat Vig, Principal Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS). In addition to the general research topics mentioned below, VHPC'22 encourages particularly contributions on the following _/focus topics/_: * Container Platforms (Kubernetes, Docker, Singularity, Shifter, rkt, …) for Scientific Workflows * Composable Lightweight Applications and Unikernel Frameworks * Latency Control and Data/Container Placement in Heterogeneous HPC Virtualized Environments * Energy-efficiency and Service Orchestration in Virtualized Cloud & HPC Infrastructures *Workshop Overview* Containers and virtualization technologies constitute key enabling factors for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need to manage complex and heterogeneous infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly dynamic and diverse workloads and applications customers deploy. Similarly, HPC environments have been increasingly adopting techniques that enable flexible management of vast computing and networking resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. More recently, Function as a Service (Faas) and Serverless computing, leveraging on lightweight virtualizaton and containerization solutions, widens the spectrum of applications that can be deployed in a cloud environment, especially in an HPC context. Here, HPC-provided services can become accessible to distributed workloads outside of large cluster environments. Various virtualization-containerization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e., containerization), with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their coexistence within the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with bare-metal responsiveness and performance; lastly, unikernels provide for many virtualization benefits with a minimized OS/library surface. I/O Virtualization in turn allows physical network interfaces to take traffic from multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of the underlying physical topology is furthermore enabling virtualization of HPC infrastructures. *Topics of Interest* The VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions related to virtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus on the intersection of HPC, containers-virtualization and cloud computing. Each topic encompasses aspects related to design/architecture, management, performance management, modeling and configuration/tooling: Design / Architecture: * Containers and OS-level virtualization (LXC, Docker, rkt, Singularity, Shifter) * Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.) * Hypervisor extensions to mitigate side-channel attacks ([micro-]architectural timing attacks, privilege escalation) * VM & Container trust and security models * Multi-environment coupling, system software supporting in-situ analysis with HPC simulation * Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance and high-availability * Energy-efficient and power-aware virtualization * Containers inside VMs with hypervisor isolation * Virtualization support for emerging memory technologies * Lightweight/specialized operating systems in conjunction with virtual machines * Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.) * Novel unikernels and use cases for virtualized HPC environments * ARM-based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensions Management: * Container, VM and data management for HPC and cloud environments * HPC services integration, services to support HPC * Service and on-demand scheduling & resource management * Dedicated workload management with VMs or containers * Workflow coupling with VMs and containers * Unikernels and lightweight VM application management * Environments and tools for operating containerized environments (batch, orchestration) * Novel models for non-HPC workload provisioning on HPC resources Performance Measurements and Modeling: * Performance improvements for or driven by unikernels * Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms and hypervisors * Scalability analysis of VMs and/or containers at large scale * Performance measurement, modeling and monitoring of virtualized/cloud workloads * Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, HPC in the cloud * Energy-efficient deployment of high-performance, ultra-low latency and real-time workloads in cloud infrastructures * Modeling, control and isolation of end-to-end performance for parallel & distributed cloud/HPC applications Configuration / Tooling: * Tool support for unikernels: configuration/build environments, debuggers, profilers * Job scheduling/control/policy and container placement in virtualized environments * Measuring and controlling “OS/Virtualization noise” * Operating MPI in containers/VMs and Unikernels * GPU virtualization operationalization The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. For more information and detailed paper submission instructions, refer to the VHPC'22 webpage <https://vhpc.org/>: https://vhpc.org/ *Important Dates* * *Apr 12th, 2022*: Abstract submission (opens /Feb 14th, 2022/) * *Apr 19th, 2022*: Paper submission deadline (Springer LNCS) * *May 3rd, 2022*: Acceptance notification * *Jun 2nd, 2022*: Workshop Day * *Jul 10th, 2022*: Camera-ready version due (post-workshop) *General Chairs* * Michael Alexander, BOKU Vienna, Austria * Anastassios Nanos, Nubificus Ltd., UK * Tommaso Cucinotta, Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna, Ital -- Tommaso Cucinotta, Associate Professor of Computer Engineering, PhD Head of the Real-Time Systems Laboratory (ReTiS) Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna, Pisa, Italy http://retis.sssup.it/~tommaso/eng/research.html

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CFP: HLPP 2022: International Symposium on International Symposium on High-Level Parallel Programming and Applications
by Carlos 14 Jan '22

14 Jan '22

--------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- HLPP 2022 The 15th International Symposium on High-level Parallel Programming and Applications Porto, Portugal, 7-8 July, 2022 https://hlpp2022.dcc.fc.up.pt/ ---------------------- Aims and scope of HLPP ---------------------- As processor and system manufacturers increase the amount of both inter- and intra-chip parallelism it becomes crucial to provide the software industry with high-level, clean and efficient tools for parallel programming. Parallel and distributed programming methodologies are currently dominated by low-level techniques such as send/receive message passing, or equivalently unstructured shared memory mechanisms. Higher-level, structured approaches offer many possible advantages and have a key role to play in the scalable exploitation of ubiquitous parallelism. Since 2001 the HLPP series of workshops/symposia has been a forum for researchers developing state-of-the-art concepts, tools and applications for high-level parallel programming. The general emphasis is on software quality, programming productivity and high-level performance models. The 15th Symposium on High-Level Parallel Programming and Applications will be held in the Porto, Portugal. ------ Topics ------ HLPP 2022 invites papers on all topics in high-level parallel programming, its tools and applications including, but not limited to, the following aspects: * High-level programming, performance models (BSP, CGM, LogP, MPM, etc.) and tools * Declarative parallel programming methodologies * Algorithmic skeletons and constructive methods * Declarative parallel programming languages and libraries: semantics and implementation * Verification of declarative parallel and distributed programs * Software synthesis, automatic code generation for parallel programming * Model-driven software engineering with parallel programs * High-level programming models for heterogeneous/hierarchical platforms * High-level parallel methods for large structured and semi-structured datasets * Applications of parallel systems using highÂ-level languages and tools * Formal models of timing and real-time verification for parallel systems ------------------ Program Chairs ------------------ Inês Dutra, University of Porto, Portugal Jorge Barbosa, University of Porto, Portugal Miguel Areias, University of Porto, Portugal ------------------ Publicity Chair ------------------ Carlos Ferreira, Polytechnic Institute of Porto ----------------- Program Committee ----------------- TBA ---------------- Important dates ---------------- Submission deadline: April 1, 2022(AoE) Author notification: June 3, 2022 Camera-ready for draft proceedings: July 1, 2022 Early registration deadline: June 8, 2022 Symposium: July 7-8 (Thursday/Friday) IJPP (HLPP special issue) submission deadline: October 28, 2022 IJPP (HLPP special issue) camera-ready for journal publication: December 2, 2022 ---------------- Paper submission ---------------- Papers submitted to HLPP 2022 must describe original research results and must not have been published or simultaneously submitted anywhere else. Manuscripts must be prepared with the Springer IJSS latex macro package using the single column option (\documentclass[smallextended]{svjour3}) and submitted via the EasyChair Conference Management System as one pdf file. The strict page limit for initial submission and camera-ready version is 20 pages in the aforementioned format. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews by members of the international technical program committee. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, technical clarity and quality of presentation. After the symposium the authors of the accepted papers will have ample time to revise their papers and to incorporate the potential comments and remarks of their colleagues. We expect the HLPP 2022 special issue of the International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP) to appear online-first by the end of the year and the printed edition in mid-2023. ----------- Proceedings ----------- Accepted papers will be distributed as informal draft proceedings during the symposium and will be published by Springer in a special issue of the International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP). ----- Venue ----- HLPP 2022 will be hosted by the Dept. of Computer Science (GPS coords 41.152545, -8.640758) of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP). Participants may reserve rooms in several of the nearby Hotels. As the symposium will be held in the tourist season, the organizers recommend a timely reservation of rooms. Carlos Ferreira ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

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CFP: HLPP 2022: International Symposium on International Symposium on High-Level Parallel Programming and Applications
by Carlos 14 Dec '21

14 Dec '21

--------------- CALL FOR PAPERS --------------- HLPP 2022 The 15th International Symposium on High-level Parallel Programming and Applications Porto, Portugal, 7-8 July, 2022 https://hlpp2022.dcc.fc.up.pt/ ---------------------- Aims and scope of HLPP ---------------------- As processor and system manufacturers increase the amount of both inter- and intra-chip parallelism it becomes crucial to provide the software industry with high-level, clean and efficient tools for parallel programming. Parallel and distributed programming methodologies are currently dominated by low-level techniques such as send/receive message passing, or equivalently unstructured shared memory mechanisms. Higher-level, structured approaches offer many possible advantages and have a key role to play in the scalable exploitation of ubiquitous parallelism. Since 2001 the HLPP series of workshops/symposia has been a forum for researchers developing state-of-the-art concepts, tools and applications for high-level parallel programming. The general emphasis is on software quality, programming productivity and high-level performance models. The 15th Symposium on High-Level Parallel Programming and Applications will be held in the Porto, Portugal. ------ Topics ------ HLPP 2022 invites papers on all topics in high-level parallel programming, its tools and applications including, but not limited to, the following aspects: * High-level programming, performance models (BSP, CGM, LogP, MPM, etc.) and tools * Declarative parallel programming methodologies * Algorithmic skeletons and constructive methods * Declarative parallel programming languages and libraries: semantics and implementation * Verification of declarative parallel and distributed programs * Software synthesis, automatic code generation for parallel programming * Model-driven software engineering with parallel programs * High-level programming models for heterogeneous/hierarchical platforms * High-level parallel methods for large structured and semi-structured datasets * Applications of parallel systems using highÂ-level languages and tools * Formal models of timing and real-time verification for parallel systems ------------------ Program Chairs ------------------ Inês Dutra, University of Porto, Portugal Jorge Barbosa, University of Porto, Portugal Miguel Areias, University of Porto, Portugal ------------------ Publicity Chair ------------------ Carlos Ferreira, Polytechnic Institute of Porto ----------------- Program Committee ----------------- TBA ---------------- Important dates ---------------- Submission deadline: April 1, 2022(AoE) Author notification: June 3, 2022 Camera-ready for draft proceedings: July 1, 2022 Early registration deadline: June 8, 2022 Symposium: July 7-8 (Thursday/Friday) IJPP (HLPP special issue) submission deadline: October 28, 2022 IJPP (HLPP special issue) camera-ready for journal publication: December 2, 2022 ---------------- Paper submission ---------------- Papers submitted to HLPP 2022 must describe original research results and must not have been published or simultaneously submitted anywhere else. Manuscripts must be prepared with the Springer IJSS latex macro package using the single column option (\documentclass[smallextended]{svjour3}) and submitted via the EasyChair Conference Management System as one pdf file. The strict page limit for initial submission and camera-ready version is 20 pages in the aforementioned format. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews by members of the international technical program committee. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, technical clarity and quality of presentation. After the symposium the authors of the accepted papers will have ample time to revise their papers and to incorporate the potential comments and remarks of their colleagues. We expect the HLPP 2022 special issue of the International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP) to appear online-first by the end of the year and the printed edition in mid-2023. ----------- Proceedings ----------- Accepted papers will be distributed as informal draft proceedings during the symposium and will be published by Springer in a special issue of the International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP). ----- Venue ----- HLPP 2022 will be hosted by the Dept. of Computer Science (GPS coords 41.152545, -8.640758) of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP). Participants may reserve rooms in several of the nearby Hotels. As the symposium will be held in the tourist season, the organizers recommend a timely reservation of rooms. Carlos Ferreira ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

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NetSciX 2022 - Final Call for Submissions: December 8
by Carlos 06 Dec '21

06 Dec '21

** (Last Call for Submissions) ** ** We have extended the submission deadline for a ** ** few more days until the 8th of December, 2021 ** ================================== International School and Conference on Network Science NetSci-X 2022 Porto, Portugal February 8-11, 2022 https://netscix.dcc.fc.up.pt/ ================================== Important Dates ----------------------------- Full Paper/Abstract Submission: December 8, 2021 (23:59:59 AoE) Author Notification: December 28, 2021 Keynote Speakers ----------------------------- Jure Leskovec, Stanford University, USA Jurgen Kurths, Humboldt University Berlin, Germany Manuela Veloso, JP Morgan AI Research & CMU, USA Stefano Boccaletti, Institute for Complex Systems, Florence, Italy Tijana Milenkovic, University of Notre Dame, USA Tiziana Di Matteo, King's College London, UK Invited Speakers ----------------------------- Angélica Sousa de Mata, Universidade Federal de Lavras, Brazil Francisco Santos, University of Lisbon, Portugal Marcus Kaiser, University of Nottingham, UK Maria Angeles Serrano, University of Barcelona, Spain Marta C. González, University of California, Berkeley, USA Sune Lehmann, TU Denmark / University of Copenhagen, Denmark Tracks ----------------------------- We are welcoming submissions to the Abstracts or Proceedings Track. All submissions will undergo a peer-review process. Abstracts Track: extended abstracts should not exceed 3 pages, including figures and references. Abstracts will be accepted for oral or poster presentation, and will appear in the book of abstracts only. Proceedings Track: full papers should have between 8 and 14 pages and follow the Springer Proceedings format. Accepted full papers will be presented at the conference and published by Springer. Only previously unpublished, original submissions will be accepted. Description ----------------------------- NetSci-X is the Network Science Society‘s signature winter conference. It extends the popular NetSci conference series (https://netscisociety.net/events/netsci) to provide an additional forum for a growing community of academics and practitioners working on formal, computational, and application aspects of complex networks. The conference will be highly interdisciplinary, spanning the boundaries of traditional disciplines. Specific topics of interest include (but are not limited to): Models of Complex Networks Structural Network Properties Algorithms for Network Analysis Graph Mining Large-Scale Graph Analytics Epidemics Resilience and Robustness Community Structure Motifs and Subgraph Patterns Link Prediction Multilayer/Multiplex Networks Temporal and Spatial Networks Dynamics on and of Complex Networks Network Controllability Synchronization in Networks Percolation, Resilience, Phase Transitions Network Geometry Network Neuroscience Network Medicine Bioinformatics and Earth Sciences Applications Mobility and Urban Networks Computational Social Sciences Rumor and Viral Marketing Economics and Financial Networks Instructions for Submissions ----------------------- All papers and abstracts should be submitted electronically in PDF format. The website includes detailed information about the submission process. General Chairs Fernando Silva, University of Porto, Portugal José Mendes, University of Aveiro, Portugal Rosário Laureano, Lisbon University Institute (ISCTE), Portugal Program Chair Pedro Ribeiro, Universidade do Porto, Portugal School Chairs Manuel Pita, CICANT, Universidade Lusofona, Portugal Andreia Sofia Teixeira, University of Lisbon, Portugal Main Contact for NetSci-X 2022 netscix(a)dcc.fc.up.pt Carlos Ferreira ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

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is the HPC , discussion mailing list active
by KK CHN 11 Jul '21

11 Jul '21

Hello list members, I am new to openstack.. Kindly guide me which mailining list is active and addresses the queries related to OpenStack S/W stack and advanced Infrastructure setup such as HA , Failover DC and DR site with OpenStack software components. Kindly share the list names for the above purpose where i can get response related to queries listed above. Alos which IRC chat channel supports day to day OpenStack S/W stack related discussions happen. Kindly advise me, as a newbie I would like to get some directions to this. Regards, Kris

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VM fail over mechanism to Remote DR site
by KK CHN 09 Jul '21

09 Jul '21

Members, I am using OpenStack Ussuri for our datacentre for virtualization requirements. we are using KVM hypervisor on Debian . We are in a requirement that our DR site is 200+ KMs apart from our office premises and connectivity over WAN. This DR site also going to deploy with Ussuri version. How we can setup the DR site so effectively so that, when VMs or Physical hosts in our DC clusters crashes or abruptly power to one physical machine got break due to electrical wire pulled out/unplugged , then how automatic failover to the DR site which is 300 miles away from our DC . what will be the solution for this setup so that automatically the VMs crashed in our DC will be served from our DR site with minimum latency or zero downtime (is zero down time possible ? kindly enlight on this or how to achieve near zero down time ) using OpenStack without any data loss ( is this possible no Data Loss ?). How ? Whats the best architecture for this using openstack, what all are the tools components need to be used ? and what type of solutions need to be deployed for the above requirement. VMs are nearly 100 nos and Linux and Windows majority of them with around 100 GB to 200 GB size for each VM. Kindly share your thoughts and expertise in this regard and enlighten me on what techniques / components of OpenStack need to be employed for achieving this. Any hints and tips and reference links highly appreciated. Thanks in advance, Kris

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[held online] Summer School on Machine Learning and Big Data with Quantum Computing, 7-8 September 2020
by Carlos Ferreira 02 Jul '20

02 Jul '20

Summer School on Machine Learning and Big Data with Quantum Computing (SMBQ 2020) Porto, Portugal, September 7-8, 2020 Web page: https://smbq2020.dcc.fc.up.pt/ ##################################### Machine Learning (ML) is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) branch, that focuses on developing algorithms to teach how computers learn from data to make decisions or predictions. Deep Learning (DL) is part of a broader family of ML algorithms, that is based on artificial neural networks. Arguably, DL techniques demand for big amounts of data and, as such, they require huge computational resources and advanced processing techniques. Cloud Computing is a well-known alternative to deal with big amounts of data, since its elasticity allows for an efficient scalability of huge computational resources, such as, data storage and processing power. On the other hand, Quantum Computing is an advanced processing technique, that uses the fundamentals of quantum mechanics to accelerate the process of solving highly complex problems. SMBQ 2020 addresses the current trends in AI and in the computational techniques that deal with big data demands, together with, a powerful processing technique that will shape the future of computation. During 2 days, from 7-8 September 2020, we will introduce concepts, discuss the current trends and provide direct practical experience in hands-on lessons. ##################################### Registration: Attendance is free, but it is required that participants register in advance by filling a form until 15 August, 2020. Prior to the event, information regarding the access of the live sessions will be sent to all registrants via email. https://smbq2020.dcc.fc.up.pt/#registration The number of participants is limited, thus the registration process closes once the limit is reached. For any further information, please send a message to SMBQ2020. ##################################### Contact Persons: Carlos Ferreira, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, LIAAD - INESC TEC, E-mail: cgf(a)isep.ipp.pt Miguel Areias, University of Porto, CRACS - INESC TEC, E-mail: miguel-areias(a)dcc.fc.up.pt Carlos Ferreira ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

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[held online] CFP: Big Data & Deep Learning in HPC (IEEE Xplore) - Extended deadline: June 28, 2020
by Carlos Ferreira 16 Jun '20

16 Jun '20

Workshop on BIG DATA & DEEP LEARNING in HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (BDL2020) (https://sbac2020.dcc.fc.up.pt/bdl2020/) in conjunction with the IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2020) (https://sbac2020.dcc.fc.up.pt/) September 9, 2020, Porto, Portugal BDL2020 will be held online (synchronous and/or asynchronous) ------------------------------------ KEY DATES ------------------------------------ Deadline for paper submission: ***June 28, 2020*** Author notification: July 22, 2020 Camera-ready version of papers: July 25, 2020 Carlos Ferreira ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

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CFP: IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD2020) - Deadline Extended (June 28, 2020)
by Carlos Ferreira 16 Jun '20

16 Jun '20

SBAC-PAD 2020 32nd IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing September 8-11, 2020 Porto, Portugal sbac2020(a)dcc.fc.up.pt https://sbac2020.dcc.fc.up.pt/ http://www2.sbc.org.br/sbac/ (Historical acceptance rate). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** NEW ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SBAC-PAD2020 deadline postponed to June 28, 2020 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the recommendations/guidelines from the World Health Organization (WHO), regarding the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, SBAC-PAD2020 will be converted to an online event. However, the outbreak's impact led to several requests for postponing significantly the deadlines. Following those requests, the SBAC-PAD2020's organization decided to postpone the deadline for the abstract/paper submission to June 28, 2020. Stay safe! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aims and Scope ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SBAC-PAD is an international symposium, started in 1987, which has continuously presented an overview of new developments, applications, and trends in parallel and distributed computing technologies. SBAC-PAD is open for faculty members, researchers, specialists and graduate students around the world. In this edition, the symposium will be held at the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. The city of Porto is famous for its Port wine and beautiful scenery, architecture and cultural events. More information about the conference can be found at https://sbac2020.dcc.fc.up.pt/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts on a wide range of high-performance computing areas, including computer architecture, systems software, languages and compilers, algorithms and applications. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): -Application-specific systems -Architecture and Programming Support for Emerging Domains (Big Data, Deep Learning) -Benchmarking, performance measurements, and analysis -Cloud, Grid, cluster, and peer-to-peer systems -Embedded and pervasive systems -GPUs, FPGAs and other accelerator architectures -Languages, compilers, and tools for parallel and distributed programming -Modeling and simulation methodology -Operating systems and virtualization -Parallel and distributed systems, algorithms, and applications -Power and energy-efficient systems -Processor, cache, memory, storage, and network architecture -Real-world applications and case studies -Reconfigurable, resilient and fault-tolerant systems Submissions must be in English, 8 pages maximum, following the IEEE conference formatting guidelines. To be published in the conference proceedings and to be eligible for publication at the IEEE Xplore, at least one of the authors must register at the full rate and present her/his work. Authors may not use a single registration for multiple papers. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication on the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. Paper submission will be done through EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbacpad2020 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract deadline: June 28, 2020 Paper deadline: June 28, 2020 Reviewing period: June 29 - July 15, 2020 Rebuttal period: July 15 - July 19, 2020 Author notification: July 22, 2020 Camera-ready submission: July 25, 2020 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizing Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chairs InÃªs Dutra,ines(a)dcc.fc.up.pt (University of Porto, Portugal) Jorge Barbosa,jbarbosa(a)fe.up.pt (University of Porto, Portugal) Miguel Areias,miguel-areias(a)dcc.fc.up.pt (University of Porto, Portugal) Program Co-chairs Jorge Barbosa (University of Porto, Portugal) Laurent LefÃ©vre (Inria, ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France) Lucia Drummond (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil) Track Chairs Computer Architecture Chair: JosÃ© Moreira, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA Edson Borin, University of Campinas, Brazil Felipe FranÃ§a, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Gabriel FalcÃ£o, University of Coimbra, Portugal Jairo Panetta, Aeronautics Institute of Technology, Brazil Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of California, USA Jose Cano, University of Glasgow, UK Leandro Santiago, Federal Fluminense University, Brazil Lluc Alvarez, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Nuno Roma, University of Lisbon, Portugal Peter Hofstee, IBM Austin Research Laboratory, USA Rodolfo Azevedo, University of Campinas, Brazil Serif Yesil, University of Illinois, USA Wagner Meira, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Networking and Distributed Systems Chair: JesÃºs Carretero, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin, Ireland Angelos Bilas, FORTH-ICS and University of Crete, Greece Bruno Schulze, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), Brazil Carla Osthoff Barros, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), Brazil Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Emmanuel Jeannot, INRIA, France Jose Luis Gonzalez, Instituto TecnolÃ³gico de Ciudad Valles (ITV), MÃ©xico Leonel Sousa, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy Silvina Caino, University of Tennessee, USA Parallel Applications and Algorithms Chair: Alba Melo, University of BrasÃlia, Brazil Alfredo Goldman, University of SÃ£o Paulo, Brazil Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA Anne Benoit, ENS Lyonâ€LIP, France Antonio J. PeÃ±a, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Bertil Schmidt, University of Mainz, Germany Cristiana Bentes, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Cristina Boeres, Federal Fluminense University, Brazil Edson Caceres, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil George Teodoro, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Gianfranco Bilardi, University of Padova, Italy Jose Nelson Amaral, University of Alberta, Canada Luciana Arantes, UniversitÃ© Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris, France Ricardo Rocha, University of Porto, Portugal Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA Performance Evaluation Chair: Ariel Oleksiak, PoznaÅ„ Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland Altino Sampaio, Instituto PolitÃ©cnico do Porto, Portugal AurÃ©lien Cavelan, University of Basel, Switzerland Frederic Suter, French National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, France Georges Da Costa, Universite Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, France Giovanni Agosta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Hamid Arabnejad, Brunel University, UK Hongyang Sun, Vanderbilt University, USA Lucas Schnorr, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Martin Schulz Technical University of Munich, Germany System Software Chair: Jidong Zhai, Tsinghua University, China Ang Li, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Chi Zhou, Shenzhen University, China Christoph Kessler, LinkÃ¶ping University, Sweden Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Dandan Song, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Dazhao Cheng, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Feng Zhang, Renmin University of China, China Guangyu Sun, Peking University, China Haikun Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Mingyu Gao, Tsinghua University, China Philippe Navaux, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Pradeep Kumar, William & Mary, USA Quan Chen, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Shanjiang Tang, Tianjin University, China Shigang Li, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Teng Yu, Tsinghua University, China Vinod Rebello, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil Zeyi Wen, National University of Singapore, Singapore Zhaoguo Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Carlos Ferreira ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

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[held online] CFP: Big Data & Deep Learning in HPC (IEEE Xplore) - Extended deadline: June 28, 2020
by Carlos Ferreira 06 Jun '20

06 Jun '20

Workshop on BIG DATA & DEEP LEARNING in HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (BDL2020) (https://sbac2020.dcc.fc.up.pt/bdl2020/) in conjunction with the IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2020) (https://sbac2020.dcc.fc.up.pt/) September 9, 2020, Porto, Portugal ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** NEW ** BDL2020 will be held online (synchronous and/or asynchronous) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are monitoring the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak and following the recommendations/guidelines from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). The safety of all conference participants is our main priority. In this perspective, regardless of the outbreak outcomes in September, we will make BDL2020 an online (synchronous and/or asynchronous) event and we will maintain the regular publication activities, i.e., accepted papers will be eligible for publication at the IEEE Xplore. The Workshop fee is now 200 euros. ------------------------------------ WORKSHOP ON BIG DATA & DEEP LEARNING IN HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING ------------------------------------ The number of very large data repositories (big data) is increasing in a rapid pace. Analysis of such repositories using the "traditional" sequential implementations of ML and emerging techniques, like deep learning, that model high-level abstractions in data by using multiple processing layers, requires expensive computational resources and long running times. Parallel or distributed computing are possible approaches that can make analysis of very large repositories and exploration of high-level representations feasible. Taking advantage of a parallel or a distributed execution of a ML/statistical system may: i) increase its speed; ii) learn hidden representations; iii) search a larger space and reach a better solution or; iv) increase the range of applications where it can be used (because it can process more data, for example). Parallel and distributed computing is therefore of high importance to extract knowledge from massive amounts of data and learn hidden representations. The workshop will be concerned with the exchange of experience among academics, researchers and the industry whose work in big data and deep learning require high performance computing to achieve goals. Participants will present recently developed algorithms/systems, on going work and applications taking advantage of such parallel or distributed environments. ------------------------------------ LIST OF TOPICS ------------------------------------ All novel data-intensive computing techniques, data storage and integration schemes, and algorithms for cutting-edge high performance computing architectures which targets Big Data and Deep Learning are of interest to the workshop. Examples of topics include but not limited to: - parallel algorithms for data-intensive applications; - scalable data and text mining and information retrieval; - using Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, Storm, Streaming to analyze Big Data; - energy-efficient data-intensive computing; - deep-learning with massive-scale datasets; - querying and visualization of large network datasets; - processing large-scale datasets on clusters of multicore and manycore processors, and accelerators; - heterogeneous computing for Big Data architectures; - Big Data in the Cloud; - processing and analyzing high-resolution images using high-performance computing; - using hybrid infrastructures for Big Data analysis. - New algorithms for parallel/distributed execution of ML systems; - applications of big data and deep learning to real-life problems. ------------------------------------ KEY DATES ------------------------------------ Deadline for paper submission: ***June 28, 2020*** Author notification: July 22, 2020 Camera-ready version of papers: July 25, 2020 ------------------------------------ SUBMISSION ------------------------------------ We invite authors to submit original work to BDL. All papers will be peer reviewed and accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore. Submissions must be in English, limited to 8 pages in the IEEE conference format (see https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) All submissions should be made electronically through the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdl2020 ------------------------------------ REGISTRATION ------------------------------------ A full registration to the workshop and presentation are needed in order to have your paper included in the workshop proceedings. The Workshop fee is 200 euros. Registration system available in https://sbac2020.dcc.fc.up.pt/bdl2020/registration.html ------------------------------------ ORGANIZATION ------------------------------------ Carlos Ferreira (LIAAD - INESC TEC LA and Polytechnic Institute of Porto) João Gama (LIAAD - INESC TEC LA and University of Porto) Albert Bifet (Telecom ParisTech) Miguel Areias (CRACS - INESC TEC LA and University of Porto) Rui Camacho (LIAAD -INESC TEC LA and University of Porto) Carlos Ferreira ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

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CFP: IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD2020) - Deadline Extended (June 28, 2020)
by Carlos Ferreira 27 May '20

27 May '20

SBAC-PAD 2020 32nd IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing September 8-11, 2020 Porto, Portugal sbac2020(a)dcc.fc.up.pt https://sbac2020.dcc.fc.up.pt/ http://www2.sbc.org.br/sbac/ (Historical acceptance rate). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** NEW ** ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SBAC-PAD2020 deadline postponed to June 28, 2020 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Following the recommendations/guidelines from the World Health Organization (WHO), regarding the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak, SBAC-PAD2020 will be converted to an online event. However, the outbreak's impact led to several requests for postponing significantly the deadlines. Following those requests, the SBAC-PAD2020's organization decided to postpone the deadline for the abstract/paper submission to June 28, 2020. Stay safe! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aims and Scope ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SBAC-PAD is an international symposium, started in 1987, which has continuously presented an overview of new developments, applications, and trends in parallel and distributed computing technologies. SBAC-PAD is open for faculty members, researchers, specialists and graduate students around the world. In this edition, the symposium will be held at the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. The city of Porto is famous for its Port wine and beautiful scenery, architecture and cultural events. More information about the conference can be found at https://sbac2020.dcc.fc.up.pt/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts on a wide range of high-performance computing areas, including computer architecture, systems software, languages and compilers, algorithms and applications. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): -Application-specific systems -Architecture and Programming Support for Emerging Domains (Big Data, Deep Learning) -Benchmarking, performance measurements, and analysis -Cloud, Grid, cluster, and peer-to-peer systems -Embedded and pervasive systems -GPUs, FPGAs and other accelerator architectures -Languages, compilers, and tools for parallel and distributed programming -Modeling and simulation methodology -Operating systems and virtualization -Parallel and distributed systems, algorithms, and applications -Power and energy-efficient systems -Processor, cache, memory, storage, and network architecture -Real-world applications and case studies -Reconfigurable, resilient and fault-tolerant systems Submissions must be in English, 8 pages maximum, following the IEEE conference formatting guidelines. To be published in the conference proceedings and to be eligible for publication at the IEEE Xplore, at least one of the authors must register at the full rate and present her/his work. Authors may not use a single registration for multiple papers. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication on the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. Paper submission will be done through EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbacpad2020 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract deadline: June 28, 2020 Paper deadline: June 28, 2020 Reviewing period: June 29 - July 15, 2020 Rebuttal period: July 15 - July 19, 2020 Author notification: July 22, 2020 Camera-ready submission: July 25, 2020 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizing Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chairs InÃªs Dutra,ines(a)dcc.fc.up.pt (University of Porto, Portugal) Jorge Barbosa,jbarbosa(a)fe.up.pt (University of Porto, Portugal) Miguel Areias,miguel-areias(a)dcc.fc.up.pt (University of Porto, Portugal) Program Co-chairs Jorge Barbosa (University of Porto, Portugal) Laurent LefÃ©vre (Inria, ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France) Lucia Drummond (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil) Track Chairs Computer Architecture Chair: JosÃ© Moreira, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA Edson Borin, University of Campinas, Brazil Felipe FranÃ§a, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Gabriel FalcÃ£o, University of Coimbra, Portugal Jairo Panetta, Aeronautics Institute of Technology, Brazil Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of California, USA Jose Cano, University of Glasgow, UK Leandro Santiago, Federal Fluminense University, Brazil Lluc Alvarez, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Nuno Roma, University of Lisbon, Portugal Peter Hofstee, IBM Austin Research Laboratory, USA Rodolfo Azevedo, University of Campinas, Brazil Serif Yesil, University of Illinois, USA Wagner Meira, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Networking and Distributed Systems Chair: JesÃºs Carretero, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin, Ireland Angelos Bilas, FORTH-ICS and University of Crete, Greece Bruno Schulze, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), Brazil Carla Osthoff Barros, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), Brazil Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Emmanuel Jeannot, INRIA, France Jose Luis Gonzalez, Instituto TecnolÃ³gico de Ciudad Valles (ITV), MÃ©xico Leonel Sousa, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy Silvina Caino, University of Tennessee, USA Parallel Applications and Algorithms Chair: Alba Melo, University of BrasÃlia, Brazil Alfredo Goldman, University of SÃ£o Paulo, Brazil Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA Anne Benoit, ENS Lyonâ€LIP, France Antonio J. PeÃ±a, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Bertil Schmidt, University of Mainz, Germany Cristiana Bentes, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Cristina Boeres, Federal Fluminense University, Brazil Edson Caceres, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil George Teodoro, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Gianfranco Bilardi, University of Padova, Italy Jose Nelson Amaral, University of Alberta, Canada Luciana Arantes, UniversitÃ© Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris, France Ricardo Rocha, University of Porto, Portugal Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA Performance Evaluation Chair: Ariel Oleksiak, PoznaÅ„ Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland Altino Sampaio, Instituto PolitÃ©cnico do Porto, Portugal AurÃ©lien Cavelan, University of Basel, Switzerland Frederic Suter, French National Institute of Nuclear and Particle Physics, France Georges Da Costa, Universite Toulouse III - Paul Sabatier, France Giovanni Agosta, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Hamid Arabnejad, Brunel University, UK Hongyang Sun, Vanderbilt University, USA Lucas Schnorr, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Martin Schulz Technical University of Munich, Germany System Software Chair: Jidong Zhai, Tsinghua University, China Ang Li, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Chi Zhou, Shenzhen University, China Christoph Kessler, LinkÃ¶ping University, Sweden Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Dandan Song, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Dazhao Cheng, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Feng Zhang, Renmin University of China, China Guangyu Sun, Peking University, China Haikun Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Mingyu Gao, Tsinghua University, China Philippe Navaux, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil Pradeep Kumar, William & Mary, USA Quan Chen, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Shanjiang Tang, Tianjin University, China Shigang Li, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Teng Yu, Tsinghua University, China Vinod Rebello, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil Zeyi Wen, National University of Singapore, Singapore Zhaoguo Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Carlos Ferreira ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

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[held online] Summer School on Machine Learning and Big Data with Quantum Computing, 7-8 September 2020
by Carlos Ferreira 22 May '20

22 May '20

Summer School on Machine Learning and Big Data with Quantum Computing (SMBQ 2020) Porto, Portugal, September 7-8, 2020 ##################################### Machine Learning (ML) is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) branch, that focuses on developing algorithms to teach how computers learn from data to make decisions or predictions. Deep Learning (DL) is part of a broader family of ML algorithms, that is based on artificial neural networks. Arguably, DL techniques demand for big amounts of data and, as such, they require huge computational resources and advanced processing techniques. Cloud Computing is a well-known alternative to deal with big amounts of data, since its elasticity allows for an efficient scalability of huge computational resources, such as, data storage and processing power. On the other hand, Quantum Computing is an advanced processing technique, that uses the fundamentals of quantum mechanics to accelerate the process of solving highly complex problems. SMBQ 2020 addresses the current trends in AI and in the computational techniques that deal with big data demands, together with, a powerful processing technique that will shape the future of computation. During 2 days, from 7-8 September 2020, we will introduce concepts, discuss the current trends and provide direct practical experience in hands-on lessons. For more information visit: https://smbq2020.dcc.fc.up.pt/ ##################################### Registration: Attendance is free, but it is required that participants register in advance by filling a form until 15 August, 2020. Prior to the event, information regarding the access of the live sessions will be sent to all registrants via email. The number of participants is limited, thus the registration process closes once the limit is reached. For any further information, please send a message to SMBQ2020. ##################################### Contact Persons: Carlos Ferreira, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, LIAAD - INESC TEC, E-mail: cgf(a)isep.ipp.pt Miguel Areias, University of Porto, CRACS - INESC TEC, E-mail: miguel-areias(a)dcc.fc.up.pt Carlos Ferreira ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

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CFP [Extended Deadline] : IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD2020) - Deadline Extended (May 22, 2020)
by Carlos Ferreira 15 May '20

15 May '20

SBAC-PAD 2020 32nd IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing September 8-11, 2020 Porto, Portugal sbac2020(a)dcc.fc.up.pt http://www2.sbc.org.br/sbac/ (Historical acceptance rate). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** NEW ** SBAC-PAD2020 will be held online (synchronous and/or asynchronous) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are monitoring the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak and following the recommendations/guidelines from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). The safety of all conference participants is our main priority. In this perspective, regardless of the outbreak outcomes in September, we will make SBAC-PAD2020 an online (synchronous and/or asynchronous) event and we will maintain the regular publication activities, i.e., accepted papers will be eligible for publication at the IEEE Xplore and the authors of the selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for publication on the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC). The assessment of the outbreak's impact will be done until July, 31st. By that time, we will make an announcement, on the SBAC-PAD2020's webpage, about its schedulement. Stay safe! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aims and Scope ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SBAC-PAD is an international symposium, started in 1987, which has continuously presented an overview of new developments, applications, and trends in parallel and distributed computing technologies. SBAC-PAD is open for faculty members, researchers, specialists and graduate students around the world. In this edition, the symposium will be held at the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. The city of Porto is famous for its Port wine and beautiful scenery, architecture and cultural events. More information about the conference can be found at https://sbac2020.dcc.fc.up.pt/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts on a wide range of high-performance computing areas, including computer architecture, systems software, languages and compilers, algorithms and applications. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): -Application-specific systems -Architecture and Programming Support for Emerging Domains (Big Data, Deep Learning) -Benchmarking, performance measurements, and analysis -Cloud, Grid, cluster, and peer-to-peer systems -Embedded and pervasive systems -GPUs, FPGAs and other accelerator architectures -Languages, compilers, and tools for parallel and distributed programming -Modeling and simulation methodology -Operating systems and virtualization -Parallel and distributed systems, algorithms, and applications -Power and energy-efficient systems -Processor, cache, memory, storage, and network architecture -Real-world applications and case studies -Reconfigurable, resilient and fault-tolerant systems Submissions must be in English, 8 pages maximum, following the IEEE conference formatting guidelines. To be published in the conference proceedings and to be eligible for publication at the IEEE Xplore, at least one of the authors must register at the full rate and present her/his work. Authors may not use a single registration for multiple papers. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication on the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. Paper submission will be done through EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbacpad2020 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract deadline: May 22, 2020 Paper deadline: May 29, 2020 Reviewing period: May 30 - June 28, 2020 Rebuttal period: June 29 - July 4, 2020 Author notification: July 6, 2020 Camera-ready submission: July 13, 2020 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizing Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chairs Inês Dutra, ines(a)dcc.fc.up.pt (University of Porto, Portugal) Jorge Barbosa, jbarbosa(a)fe.up.pt (University of Porto, Portugal) Miguel Areias, miguel-areias(a)dcc.fc.up.pt (University of Porto, Portugal) Program Co-chairs Jorge Barbosa (University of Porto, Portugal) Laurent Lefévre (Inria, ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France) Lucia Drummond (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil) Track Chairs Computer Architecture Chair: José Moreira, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA Edson Borin, University of Campinas, Brazil Felipe França, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Gabriel Falcão, University of Coimbra, Portugal Jairo Panetta, Aeronautics Institute of Technology, Brazil Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of California, USA Jose Reyes, University of Glasgow, UK Leandro Santiago, Federal Fluminense University, Brazil Lluc Alvarez, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Nuno Roma, University of Lisbon, Portugal Peter Hofstee, IBM Austin Research Laboratory, USA Rodolfo Azevedo, University of Campinas, Brazil Serif Yesil, University of Illinois, USA Wagner Meira, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Networking and Distributed Systems Chair: Jesús Carretero, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin, Ireland Angelos Bilas, FORTH-ICS and University of Crete, Greece Bruno Schulze, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), Brazil Carla Osthoff Barros, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), Brazil Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy Emmanuel Jeannot, INRIA, France Jose Luis Gonzalez, Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Valles (ITV), México Leonel Sousa, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy Silvina Caino, University of Tennessee, USA Parallel Applications and Algorithms Chair: Alba Melo, University of Brasília, Brazil Alfredo Goldman, University of São Paulo, Brazil Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA Anne Benoit, ENS Lyon‐LIP, France Antonio J. Peña, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain Bertil Schmidt, University of Mainz, Germany Cristiana Bentes, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Cristina Boeres, Federal Fluminense University, Brazil Edson Caceres, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil George Teodoro, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil Gianfranco Bilardi, University of Padova, Italy Jose Nelson Amaral, University of Alberta, Canada Luciana Arantes, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris, France Ricardo Rocha, University of Porto, Portugal Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA Performance Evaluation Chair: Ariel Oleksiak, Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland TBA System Software Chair: Jidong Zhai, Tsinghua University, China Ang Li, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Chi Zhou, Shenzhen University, China Christoph Kessler, Linköping University, Sweden Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Dandan Song, Beijing Institute of Technology, China Dazhao Cheng, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA Feng Zhang, Renmin University of China, China Guangyu Sun, Peking University, China Haikun Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Mingyu Gao, Tsinghua University, China Pradeep Kumar, William & Mary, USA Quan Chen, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Shanjiang Tang, Tianjin University, China Shigang Li, ETH Zurich, Switzerland Teng Yu, Tsinghua University, China Zeyi Wen, National University of Singapore, Singapore Zhaoguo Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Carlos Ferreira ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

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[held online] CFP: Big Data & Deep Learning in HPC (IEEE Xplore) @Porto, Portugal
by Carlos Ferreira 13 May '20

13 May '20

Workshop on BIG DATA & DEEP LEARNING in HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (BDL2020) (https://sbac2020.dcc.fc.up.pt/bdl2020/) in conjunction with the IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2020) (https://sbac2020.dcc.fc.up.pt/) September 9, 2020, Porto, Portugal ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** NEW ** BDL2020 will be held online (synchronous and/or asynchronous) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are monitoring the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak and following the recommendations/guidelines from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). The safety of all conference participants is our main priority. In this perspective, regardless of the outbreak outcomes in September, we will make BDL2020 an online (synchronous and/or asynchronous) event and we will maintain the regular publication activities, i.e., accepted papers will be eligible for publication at the IEEE Xplore. The Workshop fee is now 200 euros. ------------------------------------ WORKSHOP ON BIG DATA & DEEP LEARNING IN HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING ------------------------------------ The number of very large data repositories (big data) is increasing in a rapid pace. Analysis of such repositories using the "traditional" sequential implementations of ML and emerging techniques, like deep learning, that model high-level abstractions in data by using multiple processing layers, requires expensive computational resources and long running times. Parallel or distributed computing are possible approaches that can make analysis of very large repositories and exploration of high-level representations feasible. Taking advantage of a parallel or a distributed execution of a ML/statistical system may: i) increase its speed; ii) learn hidden representations; iii) search a larger space and reach a better solution or; iv) increase the range of applications where it can be used (because it can process more data, for example). Parallel and distributed computing is therefore of high importance to extract knowledge from massive amounts of data and learn hidden representations. The workshop will be concerned with the exchange of experience among academics, researchers and the industry whose work in big data and deep learning require high performance computing to achieve goals. Participants will present recently developed algorithms/systems, on going work and applications taking advantage of such parallel or distributed environments. ------------------------------------ LIST OF TOPICS ------------------------------------ All novel data-intensive computing techniques, data storage and integration schemes, and algorithms for cutting-edge high performance computing architectures which targets Big Data and Deep Learning are of interest to the workshop. Examples of topics include but not limited to: - parallel algorithms for data-intensive applications; - scalable data and text mining and information retrieval; - using Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, Storm, Streaming to analyze Big Data; - energy-efficient data-intensive computing; - deep-learning with massive-scale datasets; - querying and visualization of large network datasets; - processing large-scale datasets on clusters of multicore and manycore processors, and accelerators; - heterogeneous computing for Big Data architectures; - Big Data in the Cloud; - processing and analyzing high-resolution images using high-performance computing; - using hybrid infrastructures for Big Data analysis. - New algorithms for parallel/distributed execution of ML systems; - applications of big data and deep learning to real-life problems. ------------------------------------ KEY DATES ------------------------------------ Deadline for paper submission: May 25, 2020 Author notification: July 1, 2020 Camera-ready version of papers: July 25, 2020 ------------------------------------ SUBMISSION ------------------------------------ We invite authors to submit original work to BDL. All papers will be peer reviewed and accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore. Submissions must be in English, limited to 8 pages in the IEEE conference format (see https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) All submissions should be made electronically through the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdl2020 ------------------------------------ REGISTRATION ------------------------------------ A full registration to the workshop and presentation are needed in order to have your paper included in the workshop proceedings. The Workshop fee is 200 euros. Registration system available in https://sbac2020.dcc.fc.up.pt/bdl2020/registration.html ------------------------------------ VENUE ------------------------------------ Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto Rua do Campo Alegre 1021/1055 4169-007 Porto, Portugal The city of Porto is famous for its Port wine and beautiful scenery, architecture and cultural events. Portugal has again been awarded the best European Tourist Destination by the World Travel Awards, the Oscars equivalent in the field of tourism. ------------------------------------ ORGANIZATION ------------------------------------ Carlos Ferreira (LIAAD - INESC TEC LA and Polytechnic Institute of Porto) João Gama (LIAAD - INESC TEC LA and University of Porto) Albert Bifet (Telecom ParisTech) Miguel Areias (CRACS - INESC TEC LA and University of Porto) Rui Camacho (LIAAD -INESC TEC LA and University of Porto) Carlos Ferreira ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

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CFP: SBAC-PAD 2020 (Submission due: May 15th, 2020) IEEE International, Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing
by Carlos Ferreira 04 May '20

04 May '20

SBAC-PAD 2020 32nd IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing September 8-11, 2020 Porto, Portugal sbac2020(a)dcc.fc.up.pt http://www2.sbc.org.br/sbac/ (Historical acceptance rate). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ** NEW ** SBAC-PAD2020 will be held online (synchronous and/or asynchronous) ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- We are monitoring the Coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak and following the recommendations/guidelines from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). The safety of all conference participants is our main priority. In this perspective, regardless of the outbreak outcomes in September, we will make SBAC-PAD2020 an online (synchronous and/or asynchronous) event and we will maintain the regular publication activities, i.e., accepted papers will be eligible for publication at the IEEE Xplore and the authors of the selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work for publication on the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (JPDC). The assessment of the outbreak's impact will be done until July, 31st. By that time, we will make an announcement, on the SBAC-PAD2020's webpage, about its schedulement. Stay safe! ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aims and Scope ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- SBAC-PAD is an international symposium, started in 1987, which has continuously presented an overview of new developments, applications, and trends in parallel and distributed computing technologies. SBAC-PAD is open for faculty members, researchers, specialists and graduate students around the world. In this edition, the symposium will be held at the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. The city of Porto is famous for its Port wine and beautiful scenery, architecture and cultural events. More information about the conference can be found at https://sbac2020.dcc.fc.up.pt/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paper Submission ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit original manuscripts on a wide range of high-performance computing areas, including computer architecture, systems software, languages and compilers, algorithms and applications. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Application-specific systems - Architecture and Programming Support for Emerging Domains (Big Data, Deep Learning) - Benchmarking, performance measurements, and analysis - Cloud, Grid, cluster, and peer-to-peer systems - Embedded and pervasive systems - GPUs, FPGAs and other accelerator architectures - Languages, compilers, and tools for parallel and distributed programming - Modeling and simulation methodology - Operating systems and virtualization - Parallel and distributed systems, algorithms, and applications - Power and energy-efficient systems - Processor, cache, memory, storage, and network architecture - Real-world applications and case studies - Reconfigurable, resilient and fault-tolerant systems Submissions must be in English, 8 pages maximum, following the IEEE conference formatting guidelines. To be published in the conference proceedings and to be eligible for publication at the IEEE Xplore, at least one of the authors must register at the full rate and present her/his work. Authors may not use a single registration for multiple papers. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication on the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. Paper submission will be done through EasyChair: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sbacpad2020 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important Dates ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract deadline: May 15th, 2020 Paper deadline: May 22nd, 2020 Reviewing period: May 24-Jun 21, 2020 Author notification: June 26th, 2020 Camera-ready submission: July 3rd, 2020 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Organizing Committee ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chairs - Inês Dutra,ines(a)dcc.fc.up.pt (University of Porto, Portugal) - Jorge Barbosa,jbarbosa(a)fe.up.pt (University of Porto, Portugal) - Miguel Areias,miguel-areias(a)dcc.fc.up.pt (University of Porto, Portugal) Program Co-chairs - Jorge Barbosa (University of Porto, Portugal) - Laurent Lefévre (Inria, ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France) - Lucia Drummond (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil) Track Chairs - Computer Architecture - Chair: José Moreira, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA - TBA - Networking and Distributed Systems - Chair: Jesús Carretero, University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain - Alexey Lastovetsky, University College Dublin, Ireland - Angelos Bilas, FORTH-ICS and University of Crete, Greece - Bruno Schulze, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), Brazil - Carla Osthoff Barros, National Laboratory for Scientific Computing (LNCC), Brazil - Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy - Emmanuel Jeannot, INRIA, France - Jose Luis Gonzalez, Instituto Tecnológico de Ciudad Valles (ITV), México - Leonel Sousa, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal - Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy - Silvina Caino, University of Tennessee, USA - Parallel Applications and Algorithms - Chair: Alba Melo, University of Brasília, Brazil - Alfredo Goldman, University of São Paulo, Brazil - Ananth Kalyanaraman, Washington State University, USA - Anne Benoit, ENS Lyon‐LIP, France - Antonio J. Peña, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), Spain - Bertil Schmidt, University of Mainz, Germany - Cristiana Bentes, State University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Cristina Boeres, Federal Fluminense University, Brazil - Edson Caceres, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil - George Teodoro, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil - Gianfranco Bilardi, University of Padova, Italy - Jose Nelson Amaral, University of Alberta, Canada - Luciana Arantes, Université Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris, France - Ricardo Rocha, University of Porto, Portugal - Viktor Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA - Performance Evaluation - Chair: Ariel Oleksiak, Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Center, Poland - TBA - System Software - Chair: Jidong Zhai, Tsinghua University, China - Ang Li, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA - Chi Zhou, Shenzhen University, China - Christoph Kessler, Linköping University, Sweden - Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands - Dandan Song, Beijing Institute of Technology, China - Dazhao Cheng, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA - Feng Zhang, Renmin University of China, China - Guangyu Sun, Peking University, China - Haikun Liu, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China - Mingyu Gao, Tsinghua University, China - Pradeep Kumar, William & Mary, USA - Quan Chen, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China - Shanjiang Tang, Tianjin University, China - Shigang Li, ETH Zurich, Switzerland - Teng Yu, Tsinghua University, China - Zeyi Wen, National University of Singapore, Singapore - Zhaoguo Wang, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Carlos Ferreira ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

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CFP: HLPP2020 - Deadline Extended *** May, 4th (AoE) ***
by Carlos Ferreira 14 Apr '20

14 Apr '20

HLPP 2020 The 13th International Symposium on High-level Parallel Programming and Applications Porto, Portugal, 9-10 July, 2020 https://hlpp2020.dcc.fc.up.pt/ hlpp2020(a)dcc.fc.up.pt ---------------------- *** NEW *** Covid‑19 (Coronavirus) ---------------------- We are monitoring the ongoing outbreak, and following recommendations and guidelines from the World Health Organization (WHO) and the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC). The safety of all conference participants is our main priority. In this perspective, regardless of the outbreak outcomes in July, we will make HLPP2020 an online (synchronous and/or asynchronous) event and we will maintain the regular publication activities, i.e., accepted papers will be selected for IJPP. Moreover, we have also extended the submission deadline to May, 4th (AoE). The assessment of the outbreak's impact in HLPP2020 will be done at June, 15th. By that time, we will make an announcement, on HLPP2020's webpage, about its new format (schedulement, registration values, etc). Stay safe! ---------------------- Aims and scope of HLPP ---------------------- As processor and system manufacturers increase the amount of both inter- and intra-chip parallelism it becomes crucial to provide the software industry with high-level, clean and efficient tools for parallel programming. Parallel and distributed programming methodologies are currently dominated by low-level techniques such as send/receive message passing, or equivalently unstructured shared memory mechanisms. Higher-level, structured approaches offer many possible advantages and have a key role to play in the scalable exploitation of ubiquitous parallelism. Since 2001 the HLPP series of workshops/symposia has been a forum for researchers developing state-of-the-art concepts, tools and applications for high-level parallel programming. The general emphasis is on software quality, programming productivity and high-level performance models. The 13th Symposium on High-Level Parallel Programming and Applications will be held in the Porto, Portugal. ------ Topics ------ HLPP 2020 invites papers on all topics in high-level parallel programming, its tools and applications including, but not limited to, the following aspects: * High-level programming, performance models (BSP, CGM, LogP, MPM, etc.) and tools * Declarative parallel programming methodologies * Algorithmic skeletons and constructive methods * Declarative parallel programming languages and libraries: semantics and implementation * Verification of declarative parallel and distributed programs * Software synthesis, automatic code generation for parallel programming * Model-driven software engineering with parallel programs * High-level programming models for heterogeneous/hierarchical platforms * High-level parallel methods for large structured and semi-structured datasets * Applications of parallel systems using high-level languages and tools * Formal models of timing and real-time verification for parallel systems ------------------ Local Organization ------------------ Inês Dutra, University of Porto, Portugal Miguel Areias, University of Porto, Portugal Ricardo Rocha, University of Porto, Portugal ----------------- Program Committee ----------------- Agostino Dovier, University of Udine, Italy Aleksandar Prokopec, Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Christoph Kessler, Linköping University, Sweden Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Dalvan Griebler, PUCRS/SETREM, Brasil Frank Pfenning, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Frederic Loulergue, Northern Arizona University, USA Frédéric Dabrowski, LIFO - Université d'Orléans, France Gaetan Hains, Huawei Paris Research Center, France Herbert Kuchen, University of Münster, Germany Joel Falcou, Univeristé Paris Sud, France Kiminori Matsuzaki, Kochi University of Technology, Japan Kostis Sagonas, Uppsala University, Sweden Marco Aldinucci, University of Torino, Italy Massimo Torquati, University of Pisa, Italy Michel Steuwer, University of Glasgow, UK Murray Cole, The University of Edinburgh, UK Peter Kilpatrick, Queen's University Belfast, UK ---------------- Important dates ---------------- Submission deadline: May, 4th (AoE) Author notification: June, 4th Camera-ready for draft proceedings: July, 1st Early registration deadline: June, 10th Symposium: July, 9th-10th (Thursday/Friday) IJPP (HLPP special issue) submission deadline: October, 1st IJPP (HLPP special issue) camera-ready for journal publication: December, 1st ---------------- Paper submission ---------------- Papers submitted to HLPP 2020 must describe original research results and must not have been published or simultaneously submitted anywhere else. Manuscripts must be prepared with the Springer IJSS latex macro package using the single column option (\documentclass[smallextended]{svjour3}) and submitted via the EasyChair Conference Management System as one pdf file. The strict page limit for initial submission and camera-ready version is 20 pages in the aforementioned format. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews by members of the international technical program committee. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, technical clarity and quality of presentation. After the symposium you have ample time to revise the paper incorporating potential comments and remarks of your colleagues. We expect the the HLPP 2020 special issue of the International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP) to appear online-first by the end of the year and the printed edition in mid-2021. ----------- Proceedings ----------- Accepted papers will be distributed as informal draft proceedings during the symposium. Accepted papers will be published by Springer in a special issue of the International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP). Carlos Ferreira ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

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CFP: International Symposium on High-level Parallel Programming and Applications (HLPP 2020) @Porto, Portugal
by Carlos Ferreira 01 Apr '20

01 Apr '20

HLPP 2020 The 13th International Symposium on High-level Parallel Programming and Applications Porto, Portugal, 9-10 July, 2020 https://hlpp2020.dcc.fc.up.pt/ hlpp2020(a)dcc.fc.up.pt Aims and scope of HLPP ---------------------- As processor and system manufacturers increase the amount of both inter- and intra-chip parallelism it becomes crucial to provide the software industry with high-level, clean and efficient tools for parallel programming. Parallel and distributed programming methodologies are currently dominated by low-level techniques such as send/receive message passing, or equivalently unstructured shared memory mechanisms. Higher-level, structured approaches offer many possible advantages and have a key role to play in the scalable exploitation of ubiquitous parallelism. Since 2001 the HLPP series of workshops/symposia has been a forum for researchers developing state-of-the-art concepts, tools and applications for high-level parallel programming. The general emphasis is on software quality, programming productivity and high-level performance models. The 13th Symposium on High-Level Parallel Programming and Applications will be held in the Porto, Portugal. Topics ------ HLPP 2020 invites papers on all topics in high-level parallel programming, its tools and applications including, but not limited to, the following aspects: * High-level programming, performance models (BSP, CGM, LogP, MPM, etc.) and tools * Declarative parallel programming methodologies * Algorithmic skeletons and constructive methods * Declarative parallel programming languages and libraries: semantics and implementation * Verification of declarative parallel and distributed programs * Software synthesis, automatic code generation for parallel programming * Model-driven software engineering with parallel programs * High-level programming models for heterogeneous/hierarchical platforms * High-level parallel methods for large structured and semi-structured datasets * Applications of parallel systems using high-level languages and tools * Formal models of timing and real-time verification for parallel systems Local Organization ------------------ Inês Dutra Miguel Areias Ricardo Rocha Important dates: ---------------- Submission deadline: 6th, April (anywhere on earth) Author notification: 4th, June Camera-ready for draft proceedings: 1st, July Early registration deadline: 10th, June Symposium: 9th-10th, July (Thursday/Friday) IJPP (HLPP special issue) submission deadline: 1st, October IJPP (HLPP special issue) camera-ready for journal publication: 01st, December Paper submission ---------------- Papers submitted to HLPP 2020 must describe original research results and must not have been published or simultaneously submitted anywhere else. Manuscripts must be prepared with the Springer IJSS latex macro package using the single column option (\documentclass[smallextended]{svjour3}) and submitted via the EasyChair Conference Management System as one pdf file. The strict page limit for initial submission and camera-ready version is 20 pages in the aforementioned format. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews by members of the international technical program committee. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, technical clarity and quality of presentation. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the HLPP 2020 symposium and present the paper. After the symposium you have ample time to revise the paper incorporating potential comments and remarks of your colleagues. We expect the the HLPP 2020 special issue of the International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP) to appear online-first by the end of the year and the printed edition in mid-2021. Proceedings ------------ Accepted papers will be distributed as informal draft proceedings during the symposium. Accepted papers will be published by Springer in a special issue of the International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP). Venue ----- HLPP 2020 will be hosted by the Dept. of Computer Science (GPS coords 41.152545, -8.640758) of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP). Participants may reserve rooms in several of the nearby Hotels. As the symposium will be held in the tourist season, the organizers recommend a timely reservation of rooms. The city of Porto is famous for its Port wine and beautiful scenery, architecture and cultural events. Portugal has again been awarded the best European Tourist Destination by the World Travel Awards, the Oscars equivalent in the field of tourism. Carlos Ferreira ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

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CFP: Big Data & Deep Learning in HPC (IEEE Xplore) @Porto, Portugal
by Carlos Ferreira 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

Workshop on BIG DATA & DEEP LEARNING in HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING (https://sbac2020.dcc.fc.up.pt/bdl2020/) in conjunction with the IEEE 32nd International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing (SBAC-PAD 2020) (https://sbac2020.dcc.fc.up.pt/) September 9, 2020, Porto, Portugal The city of Porto is famous for its Port wine and beautiful scenery, architecture and cultural events. Portugal has again been awarded the best European Tourist Destination by the World Travel Awards, the Oscars equivalent in the field of tourism. ------------------------------------ WORKSHOP ON BIG DATA & DEEP LEARNING IN HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING ------------------------------------ The number of very large data repositories (big data) is increasing in a rapid pace. Analysis of such repositories using the "traditional" sequential implementations of ML and emerging techniques, like deep learning, that model high-level abstractions in data by using multiple processing layers, requires expensive computational resources and long running times. Parallel or distributed computing are possible approaches that can make analysis of very large repositories and exploration of high-level representations feasible. Taking advantage of a parallel or a distributed execution of a ML/statistical system may: i) increase its speed; ii) learn hidden representations; iii) search a larger space and reach a better solution or; iv) increase the range of applications where it can be used (because it can process more data, for example). Parallel and distributed computing is therefore of high importance to extract knowledge from massive amounts of data and learn hidden representations. The workshop will be concerned with the exchange of experience among academics, researchers and the industry whose work in big data and deep learning require high performance computing to achieve goals. Participants will present recently developed algorithms/systems, on going work and applications taking advantage of such parallel or distributed environments. ------------------------------------ LIST OF TOPICS ------------------------------------ All novel data-intensive computing techniques, data storage and integration schemes, and algorithms for cutting-edge high performance computing architectures which targets Big Data and Deep Learning are of interest to the workshop. Examples of topics include but not limited to: - parallel algorithms for data-intensive applications; - scalable data and text mining and information retrieval; - using Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, Storm, Streaming to analyze Big Data; - energy-efficient data-intensive computing; - deep-learning with massive-scale datasets; - querying and visualization of large network datasets; - processing large-scale datasets on clusters of multicore and manycore processors, and accelerators; - heterogeneous computing for Big Data architectures; - Big Data in the Cloud; - processing and analyzing high-resolution images using high-performance computing; - using hybrid infrastructures for Big Data analysis. - New algorithms for parallel/distributed execution of ML systems; - applications of big data and deep learning to real-life problems. ------------------------------------ KEY DATES ------------------------------------ Deadline for paper submission: May 25, 2020 Author notification: July 1, 2020 Camera-ready version of papers: July 25, 2020 ------------------------------------ SUBMISSION ------------------------------------ We invite authors to submit original work to BDL. All papers will be peer reviewed and accepted papers will be published in IEEE Xplore. Submissions must be in English, limited to 8 pages in the IEEE conference format (see https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html) All submissions should be made electronically through the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdl2020 ------------------------------------ REGISTRATION ------------------------------------ A full registration to the workshop and presentation are needed in order to have your paper included in the workshop proceedings. The Workshop fee is 300 euros. Registration system available in https://sbac2020.dcc.fc.up.pt/bdl2020/registration.html ------------------------------------ VENUE ------------------------------------ Department of Computer Science, Faculty of Sciences, University of Porto Rua do Campo Alegre 1021/1055 4169-007 Porto, Portugal The city of Porto is famous for its Port wine and beautiful scenery, architecture and cultural events. Portugal has again been awarded the best European Tourist Destination by the World Travel Awards, the Oscars equivalent in the field of tourism. ------------------------------------ ORGANIZATION ------------------------------------ Carlos Ferreira (LIAAD - INESC TEC LA and Polytechnic Institute of Porto) João Gama (LIAAD - INESC TEC LA and University of Porto) Albert Bifet (Telecom ParisTech) Miguel Areias (CRACS - INESC TEC LA and University of Porto) Rui Camacho (LIAAD -INESC TEC LA and University of Porto) Carlos Ferreira ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

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CFP: SBAC - PAD 2020 - IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing
by Carlos Ferreira 31 Mar '20

31 Mar '20

SBAC - PAD 2020 - IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing Department of Computer Science, School of Sciences, University of Porto Porto, Portugal Web page: https://sbac2020.dcc.fc.up.pt E-mail: sbac2020(a)dcc.fc.up.pt Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SBAC-PAD is an international symposium, started in 1987, which has continuously presented an overview of new developments, applications, and trends in parallel and distributed computing technologies. SBAC-PAD is open for faculty members, researchers, specialists and graduate students around the world. In this edition, the symposium will be held at the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. The city of Porto is famous for its Port wine and beautiful scenery, architecture and cultural events. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts on a wide range of high-performance and distributed computing areas. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Application-specific systems * Architecture and programming support for emerging domains (Big Data, Deep Learning, Machine learning, Cognitive Systems) * Benchmarking, performance measurements, and analysis * Cloud, cluster, and edge/fog computing systems * Embedded and pervasive systems * GPUs, FPGAs and accelerator architectures * Languages, compilers, and tools for parallel and distributed programming * Modeling and simulation methodology * Operating systems and virtualization * Parallel and distributed systems, algorithms, and applications * Power and energy-efficient systems * Processor, cache, memory, storage, and network architecture * Real-world applications and case studies * Reconfigurable, resilient and fault-tolerant systems Paper Submission ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Submissions must be in English, 8 pages maximum, following the IEEE conference formatting guidelines. To be published in the conference proceedings and to be eligible for publication at the IEEE Xplore, at least one of the authors must register at the full rate and present her/his work. Authors may not use a single registration for multiple papers. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication on the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. The call will be open and will follow the normal journal submission procedure. Important Dates ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Abstract deadline: May 15th, 2020 Paper deadline: May 22nd, 2020 Reviewing period: May 24-Jun 21, 2020 Author notification: June 26th, 2020 Camera-ready submission: July 3rd, 2020 Organizing Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- General Chairs * InêsDutra.ines(a)dcc.fc.up.pt <mailto:ines@dcc.fc.up.pt>(University of Porto, Portugal) * Jorge Barbosa,jbarbosa(a)fe.up.pt <mailto:jbarbosa@fe.up.pt>(University of Porto, Portugal) * Miguel Areias,miguel-areias(a)dcc.fc.up.pt <mailto:miguel-areias@dcc.fc.up.pt>(University of Porto, Portugal) Program Co-chairs * Jorge Barbosa (University of Porto, Portugal) * Laurent Lefèvre (Inria, ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France) * Lucia Drummond (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil) Track Chairs * Computer Architecture o Chair: José Moreira (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA) * Networking and Distributed Systems o Chair: Jesús Carretero (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain) * Parallel Applications and Algorithms o Chair: Alba Melo (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) * Performance Evaluation o Chair: Ariel Oleksiak (Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Cente, Poland) * System Software o Chair: Jidong Zhai (Tsinghua University, China) Publicity Chairs * Carlos Ferreira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia, Portugal * Miguel Areias, University of Porto, Portugal * Feng Zhang, Renmin University of China Workshop Chairs * Miguel Areias, University of Porto, Portugal * Iván Carrera, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Equador and University of Porto, Portugal Publications Chairs * IEEE - Proceedings o Rui Camacho, University of Porto, Portugal o Iván Carrera, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Equador and University of Porto, Portugal * JPDC - Special Issue o Jorge Barbosa, University of Porto, Portugal Carlos Ferreira ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

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CFP: International Symposium on High-level Parallel Programming and Applications (HLPP 2020) @Porto, Portugal
by Carlos Ferreira 18 Feb '20

18 Feb '20

HLPP 2020 The 13th International Symposium on High-level Parallel Programming and Applications Porto, Portugal, 9-10 July, 2020 https://hlpp2020.dcc.fc.up.pt/ hlpp2020(a)dcc.fc.up.pt Aims and scope of HLPP ---------------------- As processor and system manufacturers increase the amount of both inter- and intra-chip parallelism it becomes crucial to provide the software industry with high-level, clean and efficient tools for parallel programming. Parallel and distributed programming methodologies are currently dominated by low-level techniques such as send/receive message passing, or equivalently unstructured shared memory mechanisms. Higher-level, structured approaches offer many possible advantages and have a key role to play in the scalable exploitation of ubiquitous parallelism. Since 2001 the HLPP series of workshops/symposia has been a forum for researchers developing state-of-the-art concepts, tools and applications for high-level parallel programming. The general emphasis is on software quality, programming productivity and high-level performance models. The 13th Symposium on High-Level Parallel Programming and Applications will be held in the Porto, Portugal. Topics ------ HLPP 2020 invites papers on all topics in high-level parallel programming, its tools and applications including, but not limited to, the following aspects: * High-level programming, performance models (BSP, CGM, LogP, MPM, etc.) and tools * Declarative parallel programming methodologies * Algorithmic skeletons and constructive methods * Declarative parallel programming languages and libraries: semantics and implementation * Verification of declarative parallel and distributed programs * Software synthesis, automatic code generation for parallel programming * Model-driven software engineering with parallel programs * High-level programming models for heterogeneous/hierarchical platforms * High-level parallel methods for large structured and semi-structured datasets * Applications of parallel systems using high-level languages and tools * Formal models of timing and real-time verification for parallel systems Local Organization ------------------ Inês Dutra Miguel Areias Ricardo Rocha Important dates: ---------------- Submission deadline: 6th, April (anywhere on earth) Author notification: 4th, June Camera-ready for draft proceedings: 1st, July Early registration deadline: 10th, June Symposium: 9th-10th, July (Thursday/Friday) IJPP (HLPP special issue) submission deadline: 1st, October IJPP (HLPP special issue) camera-ready for journal publication: 01st, December Paper submission ---------------- Papers submitted to HLPP 2020 must describe original research results and must not have been published or simultaneously submitted anywhere else. Manuscripts must be prepared with the Springer IJSS latex macro package using the single column option (\documentclass[smallextended]{svjour3}) and submitted via the EasyChair Conference Management System as one pdf file. The strict page limit for initial submission and camera-ready version is 20 pages in the aforementioned format. Each paper will receive a minimum of three reviews by members of the international technical program committee. Papers will be selected based on their originality, relevance, technical clarity and quality of presentation. At least one author of each accepted paper must register for the HLPP 2020 symposium and present the paper. After the symposium you have ample time to revise the paper incorporating potential comments and remarks of your colleagues. We expect the the HLPP 2020 special issue of the International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP) to appear online-first by the end of the year and the printed edition in mid-2021. Proceedings ------------ Accepted papers will be distributed as informal draft proceedings during the symposium. Accepted papers will be published by Springer in a special issue of the International Journal of Parallel Programming (IJPP). Venue ----- HLPP 2020 will be hosted by the Dept. of Computer Science (GPS coords 41.152545, -8.640758) of the Faculty of Sciences of the University of Porto (FCUP). Participants may reserve rooms in several of the nearby Hotels. As the symposium will be held in the tourist season, the organizers recommend a timely reservation of rooms. The city of Porto is famous for its Port wine and beautiful scenery, architecture and cultural events. Portugal has again been awarded the best European Tourist Destination by the World Travel Awards, the Oscars equivalent in the field of tourism. Carlos Ferreira ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

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CFP: SBAC - PAD 2020 - IEEE International Symposium on Computer Architecture and High Performance Computing
by Carlos Ferreira 10 Feb '20

10 Feb '20

SBAC-PAD 2020 Department of Computer Science, School of Sciences, University of Porto Porto, Portugal https://sbac2020.dcc.fc.up.pt <https://sbac2020.dcc.fc.up.pt/> sbac2020(a)dcc.fc.up.pt <mailto:sbac2020@dcc.fc.up.pt> Call for Papers ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ SBAC-PAD is an international symposium, started in 1987, which has continuously presented an overview of new developments, applications, and trends in parallel and distributed computing technologies. SBAC-PAD is open for faculty members, researchers, specialists and graduate students around the world. In this edition, the symposium will be held at the University of Porto, Porto, Portugal. The city of Porto is famous for its Port wine and beautiful scenery, architecture and cultural events. Authors are invited to submit manuscripts on a wide range of high-performance and distributed computing areas. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Application-specific systems * Architecture and programming support for emerging domains (Big Data, Deep Learning, Machine learning, Cognitive Systems) * Benchmarking, performance measurements, and analysis * Cloud, cluster, and edge/fog computing systems * Embedded and pervasive systems * GPUs, FPGAs and accelerator architectures * Languages, compilers, and tools for parallel and distributed programming * Modeling and simulation methodology * Operating systems and virtualization * Parallel and distributed systems, algorithms, and applications * Power and energy-efficient systems * Processor, cache, memory, storage, and network architecture * Real-world applications and case studies * Reconfigurable, resilient and fault-tolerant systems Paper Submission Submissions must be in English, 8 pages maximum, following the IEEE conference formatting guidelines. To be published in the conference proceedings and to be eligible for publication at the IEEE Xplore, at least one of the authors must register at the full rate and present her/his work. Authors may not use a single registration for multiple papers. Authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers for publication on the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. The call will be open and will follow the normal journal submission procedure. Important Dates Abstract deadline: *May 15th, 2020* Paper deadline: *May 22nd, 2020* Reviewing period: *May 24-Jun 21, 2020* Author notification: *June 26th, 2020* Camera-ready submission: *July 3rd, 2020* Organizing Committee General Chairs * InêsDutra.ines(a)dcc.fc.up.pt <mailto:ines@dcc.fc.up.pt>(University of Porto, Portugal) * Jorge Barbosa,jbarbosa(a)fe.up.pt <mailto:jbarbosa@fe.up.pt>(University of Porto, Portugal) * Miguel Areias,miguel-areias(a)dcc.fc.up.pt <mailto:miguel-areias@dcc.fc.up.pt>(University of Porto, Portugal) Program Co-chairs * Jorge Barbosa (University of Porto, Portugal) * Laurent Lefèvre (Inria, ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France) * Lucia Drummond (Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil) Track Chairs * /*Computer Architecture*/// o *Chair*: José Moreira (IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center, USA) * *Networking and Distributed Systems* o *Chair*: Jesús Carretero (University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain) * *Parallel Applications and Algorithms* o *Chair*: Alba Melo (Universidade de Brasília, Brazil) * *Performance Evaluation* o *Chair*: Ariel Oleksiak (Poznań Supercomputing and Networking Cente, Poland) * *System Software* o *Chair*: Jidong Zhai (Tsinghua University, China) Publicity Chairs * Carlos Ferreira, Instituto Superior de Engenharia, Portugal * Miguel Areias, University of Porto, Portugal * Feng Zhang, Renmin University of China Workshop Chairs * Miguel Areias, University of Porto, Portugal * Iván Carrera, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Equador and University of Porto, Portugal Publications Chairs * IEEE - Proceedings o Rui Camacho, University of Porto, Portugal o Iván Carrera, Escuela Politécnica Nacional, Quito, Equador and University of Porto, Portugal * JPDC - Special Issue o Jorge Barbosa, University of Porto, Portugal Carlos Ferreira ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

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CfP VHPC20: HPC Containers-Kubernetes
by VHPC 20 19 Dec '19

19 Dec '19

==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERSa 15th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC 20) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance, June 21-25, 2020, Frankfurt, Germany. (Springer LNCS Proceedings) ==================================================================== Date: June 25, 2020 Workshop URL: vhpc[dot]org Abstract registration Deadline: Jan 31st, 2020 Paper Submission Deadline: Apr 05th, 2020 Springer LNCS Call for Papers Containers and virtualization technologies constitute key enabling factors for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need to manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads and hosted applications customers deploy. Similarly, HPC environments have been increasingly adopting techniques that enable flexible management of vast computing and networking resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Most recently, Function as a Service (Faas) and Serverless computing, utilizing lightweight VMs-containers widens the spectrum of applications that can be deployed in a cloud environment, especially in an HPC context. Here, HPC-provided services can be become accessible to distributed workloads outside of large cluster environments. Various virtualization-containerization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e., containerization), with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their coexistence within the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of responsiveness and performance; lastly, unikernels provide for many virtualization benefits with a minimized OS/library surface. I/O Virtualization in turn allows physical network interfaces to take traffic from multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of the underlying physical topology is furthermore enabling virtualization of HPC infrastructures. Publication Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS proceedings volume. Topics of Interest The VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions related to virtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus on the intersection of HPC, containers-virtualization and the cloud. Major Topics: - HPC workload orchestration (Kubernetes) - Kubernetes HPC batch - HPC Container Environments Landscape - HW Heterogeneity - Container ecosystem (Docker alternatives) - Networking - Lightweight Virtualization - Unikernels / LibOS - State-of-the-art processor virtualization (RISC-V, EPI) - Containerizing HPC Stacks/Apps/Codes: Climate model containers each major topic encompassing design/architecture, management, performance management, modeling and configuration/tooling. Specifically, we invite papers that deal with the following topics: - HPC orchestration (Kubernetes) - Virtualizing Kubernetes for HPC - Deployment paradigms - Multitenancy - Serverless - Declerative data center integration - Network provisioning - Storage - OCI i.a. images - Isolation/security - HW Accelerators, including GPUs, FPGAs, AI, and others - State-of-practice/art, including transition to cloud - Frameworks, system software - Programming models, runtime systems, and APIs to facilitate cloud adoption - Edge use-cases - Application adaptation, success stories - Kubernetes Batch - Scheduling, job management - Execution paradigm - workflow - Data management - Deployment paradigm - Multi-cluster/scalability - Performance improvement - Workflow / execution paradigm - Podman: end-to-end Docker alternative container environment & use-cases - Creating, Running containers as non-root (rootless) - Running rootless containers with MPI - Container live migration - Running containers in restricted environments without setuid - Networking - Software defined networks and network virtualization - New virtualization NICs/Nitro alike ASICs for the data center? - Kubernetes SDN policy (Calico i.a.) - Kubernetes network provisioning (Flannel i.a.) - Lightweight Virtualization - Micro VMMs (Rust-VMM, Firecracker, solo5) - Xen - Nitro hypervisor (KVM) - RVirt - Cloud Hypervisor - Unikernels / LibOS - HPC Storage in Virtualization - HPC container storage - Cloud-native storage - Hypervisors in storage virtualization - Processor Virtualization - RISC-V hypervisor extensions - RISC-V Hypervisor ports - EPI - Composable HPC microservices - Containerizing Scientific Codes - Building - Deploying - Securing - Storage - Monitoring - Use case for containerizing HPC codes: Climate model containers for portability, reproducibility, traceability, immutability, provenance, data & software preservation The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. Important Dates Jan 31st, 2020 - Abstract Apr 5th, 2020 - Paper submission deadline (Springer LNCS) Apr 26th, 2020 - Acceptance notification June 25th, 2020 - Workshop Day July 10th, 2020 - Camera-ready version due Chair Michael Alexander (chair), BOKU, Vienna, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), Sunlight.io, UK Program committee Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Paolo Bonzini, Redhat, Italy Jakob Blomer, CERN, Europe Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Taylor Childers, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Stephen Crago, USC ISI, USA Tommaso Cucinotta, St. Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy François Diakhaté CEA DAM Ile de France, France Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Brian Kocoloski, Washington University, USA John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy Klaus Ma, Huawei, China Alberto Madonna, Swiss National Supercomputing Center, Switzerland Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France Anup Patel, Western Digital, USA Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Amer Qouneh, Western New England University, USA Carlos Reaño, Queen’s University Belfast, UK Adrian Reber, Redhat, Germany Riccardo Rocha, CERN, Europe Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Jonathan Sparks, Cray, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden John Walters, USC ISI, USA Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Paper Submission-Publication Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions should include abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. 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 papers will be published in a Springer LNCS volume. The format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide source files. Abstract, Paper Submission Link: edas[dot]info/newPaper.php?c=26973 Lightning Talks Lightning Talks are non-paper track, synoptical in nature and are strictly limited to 5 minutes. They can be used to gain early feedback on ongoing research, for demonstrations, to present research results, early research ideas, perspectives and positions of interest to the community. Submit abstract via the main submission link. General Information The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance (ISC) 2019, June 21-25, Frankfurt, Germany.

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CfP VHPC19: HPC Virtualization-Containers: Paper due May 1, 2019 (extended)
by VHPC 19 03 Apr '19

03 Apr '19

==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 14th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '19) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance, June 16-20, 2019, Frankfurt, Germany. (Springer LNCS Proceedings) ==================================================================== Date: June 20, 2019 Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org Paper Submission Deadline: May 1, 2019 (extended) Springer LNCS, rolling abstract submission Abstract/Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25685 Call for Papers Containers and virtualization technologies constitute key enabling factors for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need to manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads and hosted applications customers deploy. Similarly, HPC environments have been increasingly adopting techniques that enable flexible management of vast computing and networking resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Various virtualization-containerization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e., containerization), with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their coexistence within the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of responsiveness and performance; lastly, unikernels provide for many virtualization benefits with a minimized OS/library surface. I/O Virtualization in turn allows physical network interfaces to take traffic from multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of the underlying physical topology is furthermore enabling virtualization of HPC infrastructures. Publication Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS proceedings volume. Topics of Interest The VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions related to virtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus on the intersection of HPC, containers-virtualization and the cloud. Major Topics: - HPC on Containers and VMs - Containerized applications with OS-level virtualization - Lightweight applications with Unikernels - HP-as-a-Service each major topic encompassing design/architecture, management, performance management, modeling and configuration/tooling: Design / Architecture: - Containers and OS-level virtualization (LXC, Docker, rkt, Singularity, Shifter, i.a.) - Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.) - Hypervisor extensions to mitigate side-channel attacks ([micro-]architectural timing attacks, privilege escalation) - VM & Container trust and security models - Multi-environment coupling, system software supporting in-situ analysis with HPC simulation - Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance and high-availability - Energy-efficient and power-aware virtualization - Containers inside VMs with hypervisor isolation - Virtualization support for emerging memory technologies - Lightweight/specialized operating systems in conjunction with virtual machines - Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.) - Novel unikernels and use cases for virtualized HPC environments - ARM-based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensions Management: - Container and VM management for HPC and cloud environments - HPC services integration, services to support HPC - Service and on-demand scheduling & resource management - Dedicated workload management with VMs or containers - Workflow coupling with VMs and containers - Unikernel, lightweight VM application management - Environments and tools for operating containerized environments (batch, orchestration) - Novel models for non-HPC workload provisioning on HPC resources Performance Measurements and Modeling: - Performance improvements for or driven by unikernels - Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms and hypervisors - Scalability analysis of VMs and/or containers at large scale - Performance measurement, modeling and monitoring of virtualized/cloud workloads - Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, HPC in the cloud Configuration / Tooling: - Tool support for unikernels: configuration/build environments, debuggers, profilers - Job scheduling/control/policy and container placement in virtualized environments - Operating MPI in containers/VMs and Unikernels - Software defined networks and network virtualization - GPU virtualization operationalization The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. Important Dates May 1, 2019 - Abstract/Paper extended submission deadline (Springer LNCS) May 20, 2019 - Acceptance notification June 20th, 2019 - Workshop Day July 10th, 2019 - Camera-ready version due Chair Michael Alexander (chair), University of Vienna, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), SunLight.io, UK Andrew Younge (co-chair), Sandia National Laboratories Program committee Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Jakob Blomer, CERN, Europe Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Taylor Childers, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Stephen Crago, USC ISI, USA Tommaso Cucinotta, St. Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy Christoffer Dall, Columbia University, USA François Diakhaté, CEA, France Patrick Dreher, MIT, USA Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Bob Killen, University of Michigan, USA Brian Kocoloski, Washington University, USA John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy Qing Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Amer Qouneh, Western New England University, USA Carlos Reaño, Queen’s University Belfast, UK Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Jonathan Sparks, Cray, USA Joe Stubbs, Texas Advanced Computing Center, USA Anata Tiwari, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden John Walters, USC ISI, USA Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Na Zhang, VMware, USA Paper Submission-Publication Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions should include abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. 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 papers will be published in a Springer LNCS volume. The format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide source files. Format Guidelines: ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/llncs2e.zip Abstract, Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25685 Lightning Talks Lightning Talks are non-paper track, synoptical in nature and are strictly limited to 5 minutes. They can be used to gain early feedback on ongoing research, for demonstrations, to present research results, early research ideas, perspectives and positions of interest to the community. Submit abstract via the main submission link. General Information The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance (ISC) 2019, June 16-20, Frankfurt, Germany.

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Openstack Ansible AIO Power9 MariaDB Issue
by Jimmy Griffin 20 Feb '19

20 Feb '19

Hello, I'm trying to install Ubuntu Openstack AIO on a Power9, but I getting the following error. fatal: [aio1_utility_container-4aaa3f66]: FAILED! => {"attempts": 5, "cache_update_time": 1550694044, "cache_updated": false, "changed": false, "msg": "'/usr/bin/apt-get -y -o \"Dpkg::Options::=--force-confdef\" -o \"Dpkg::Options::=--force-confold\" install 'mariadb-client-core-10.2'' failed: E: Failed to fetch http://downloads.mariadb.com/MariaDB/mariadb-10.2.17/repo/ubuntu/pool/main/… 404 Not Found [IP: 51.255.85.11 80]\nE: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?\n", "rc": 100, "stderr": "E: Failed to fetch http://downloads.mariadb.com/MariaDB/mariadb-10.2.17/repo/ubuntu/pool/main/… 404 Not Found [IP: 51.255.85.11 80]\nE: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?\n", "stderr_lines": ["E: Failed to fetch http://downloads.mariadb.com/MariaDB/mariadb-10.2.17/repo/ubuntu/pool/main/… 404 Not Found [IP: 51.255.85.11 80]", "E: Unable to fetch some archives, maybe run apt-get update or try with --fix-missing?"], "stdout": "Reading package lists...\nBuilding dependency tree...\nReading state information...\nThe following additional packages will be installed:\n libreadline5 mariadb-common mysql-common\nThe following NEW packages will be installed:\n libreadline5 mariadb-client-core-10.2 mariadb-common mysql-common\n0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.\nNeed to get 736 kB/840 kB of archives.\nAfter this operation, 8914 kB of additional disk space will be used.\nErr:1 http://downloads.mariadb.com/MariaDB/mariadb-10.2.17/repo/ubuntu bionic/main ppc64el mariadb-client-core-10.2 ppc64el 1:10.2.17+maria~bionic\n 404 Not Found [IP: 51.255.85.11 80]\n", "stdout_lines": ["Reading package lists...", "Building dependency tree...", "Reading state information...", "The following additional packages will be installed:", " libreadline5 mariadb-common mysql-common", "The following NEW packages will be installed:", " libreadline5 mariadb-client-core-10.2 mariadb-common mysql-common", "0 upgraded, 4 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.", "Need to get 736 kB/840 kB of archives.", "After this operation, 8914 kB of additional disk space will be used.", "Err:1 http://downloads.mariadb.com/MariaDB/mariadb-10.2.17/repo/ubuntu bionic/main ppc64el mariadb-client-core-10.2 ppc64el 1:10.2.17+maria~bionic", " 404 Not Found [IP: 51.255.85.11 80]"]} Where can I change this? Thanks -- Jimmy Griffin The information contained in this email may be confidential and/or legally privileged. It has been sent for the sole use of the intended recipient(s). If the reader of this message is not an intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorized review, use, disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication, or any of its content, is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please contact the sender by reply email and destroy all copies of the original message. Thank you.

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CfP for VHPC ‘19: HPC Virtualization Paper Registration due January 25, 2019 - 14th Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing Workshop@ISC
by VHPC 19 20 Dec '18

20 Dec '18

Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers ==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 14th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '19) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance, June 16-20, 2019, Frankfurt, Germany. (Springer LNCS Proceedings) ==================================================================== Date: June 20, 2019 Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org Abstract Submission Deadline: January 25, 2019 Springer LNCS, rolling abstract submission Abstract/Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25685 Call for Papers Containers and virtualization technologies constitute key enabling factors for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need to manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads and hosted applications customers deploy. Similarly, HPC environments have been increasingly adopting techniques that enable flexible management of vast computing and networking resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Various virtualization-containerization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e., containerization), with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their coexistence within the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of responsiveness and performance; lastly, unikernels provide for many virtualization benefits with a minimized OS/library surface. I/O Virtualization in turn allows physical network interfaces to take traffic from multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of the underlying physical topology is furthermore enabling virtualization of HPC infrastructures. Publication Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS proceedings volume. Topics of Interest The VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions related to virtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus on the intersection of HPC, containers-virtualization and the cloud. Major Topics: - HPC on Containers and VMs - Containerized applications with OS-level virtualization - Lightweight applications with Unikernels - HP-as-a-Service each major topic encompassing design/architecture, management, performance management, modeling and configuration/tooling: Design / Architecture: - Containers and OS-level virtualization (LXC, Docker, rkt, Singularity, Shifter, i.a.) - Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.) - Hypervisor extensions to mitigate side-channel attacks ([micro-]architectural timing attacks, privilege escalation) - VM & Container trust and security models - Multi-environment coupling, system software supporting in-situ analysis with HPC simulation - Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance and high-availability - Energy-efficient and power-aware virtualization - Containers inside VMs with hypervisor isolation - Virtualization support for emerging memory technologies - Lightweight/specialized operating systems in conjunction with virtual machines - Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.) - Novel unikernels and use cases for virtualized HPC environments - ARM-based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensions Management: - Container and VM management for HPC and cloud environments - HPC services integration, services to support HPC - Service and on-demand scheduling & resource management - Dedicated workload management with VMs or containers - Workflow coupling with VMs and containers - Unikernel, lightweight VM application management - Environments and tools for operating containerized environments (batch, orchestration) - Novel models for non-HPC workload provisioning on HPC resources Performance Measurements and Modeling: - Performance improvements for or driven by unikernels - Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms and hypervisors - Scalability analysis of VMs and/or containers at large scale - Performance measurement, modeling and monitoring of virtualized/cloud workloads - Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, HPC in the cloud Configuration / Tooling: - Tool support for unikernels: configuration/build environments, debuggers, profilers - Job scheduling/control/policy and container placement in virtualized environments - Operating MPI in containers/VMs and Unikernels - Software defined networks and network virtualization - GPU virtualization operationalization The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. Important Dates January 25, 2019 - Abstract Registration deadline Apr 19th, 2019 - Paper submission deadline (Springer LNCS) May 3, 2019 - Acceptance notification June 20th, 2019 - Workshop Day July 10th, 2019 - Camera-ready version due Chair Michael Alexander (chair), University of Vienna, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), SunLight.io, UK Andrew Younge (co-chair), Sandia National Laboratories Program committee Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Jakob Blomer, CERN, Europe Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Stephen Crago, USC ISI, USA Tommaso Cucinotta, St. Anna School of Advanced Studies, Italy Christoffer Dall, Columbia University, USA Patrick Dreher, MIT, USA Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Brian Kocoloski, Washington University, USA John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy Qing Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Amer Qouneh, Western New England University, USA Carlos Reaño, Queen’s University Belfast, UK Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Joe Stubbs, Texas Advanced Computing Center, USA Anata Tiwari, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Na Zhang, VMware, USA Paper Submission-Publication Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions should include abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. 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 papers will be published in a Springer LNCS volume. The format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide source files. Format Guidelines: ftp://ftp.springernature.com/cs-proceeding/llncs/llncs2e.zip Abstract, Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=25685 Lightning Talks Lightning Talks are non-paper track, synoptical in nature and are strictly limited to 5 minutes. They can be used to gain early feedback on ongoing research, for demonstrations, to present research results, early research ideas, perspectives and positions of interest to the community. Submit abstract via the main submission link. General Information The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance (ISC) 2019, June 16-20, Frankfurt, Germany.

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FedCSIS 2019 - CALL FOR EVENTS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 03 Nov '18

03 Nov '18

Call for Events Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems Leipzig, Germany, 1-4 September, 2019 www.fedcsis.org <http://www.fedcsis.org/> The 2019 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems cordially invites you to consider contributing an Event (conference, symposium, workshop, consortium meeting, project dissemination meeting, special session, etc.). The FedCSIS multi-conference consists of a significant number of recurring Events and it welcomes proposals for new Events until November 20, 2018. The Events can run over any span of time within the conference dates; from half-day to three days. Invitation is extended also to existing events that would like to join the vibrant FedCSIS ecosystem. The FedCSIS Events provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, and academia to present and discuss ideas, challenges, and potential solutions on established or emerging topics related to research and practice in computer science and information systems. The Events will be selected based on the scientific/technical interest and/or their relevance to practitioners in their topics, the clarity of the proposal in addressing the requested information, the innovativeness of the Event topics, and the fit with the FedCSIS multi-conference program. The FedCSIS 2018 – held in Poznań, Poland – attracted 349 papers, of which 74 were accepted as regular full papers (acceptance rate of approximately 21%). Some events accepted additionally regular short, position and communication papers. FedCSIS 2018 regular full and short papers are being submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, while position and communication papers have been published in a separate volumes of the Annals of Computer Science and Information systems series. Regular and short papers are submitted for indexation in Clarivate Web of Science (where they have been indexed since 2012), as well as to other indexing services, e.g. Scopus, DBLP, etc. Publications As in previous years, FedCSIS preprints will be published on a USB memory stick given to FedCSIS participants. *Only* papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library (or will appear as position papers, published in a separate volume, which will not be submitted to the IEEE), and posted at the conference WWW site. The IEEE DL proceedings will be published with an ISBN, ISSN, IEEE Catalog and DOI numbers, under a nonexclusive copyright. Such copyright implies that Events' organizers can and, indeed, are strongly encouraged to invite extended and revised papers for post-conference publications in high-quality journals, edited volumes, etc. Position and Communication Paper volumes (separate as each category) will be published with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers. Event Proposals Event proposals should include the following information (2 pages maximum): 1.The nature of the Event. 2.The title of the Event, and a clear description of the topic, including a brief justification. 3.The complete contact information of the Event organizers, including a link to their personal websites, and an overview of previous experiences with organization of scientific events. 4.Preliminary list of PC members who have agreed to join. 5.Indication of the expected number of papers/attendees to attend the Event. 6.Information of expected post-Event publications, of extended and revised papers, in high-quality journals, edited volumes, etc. Event organizers should email their proposals (in a single pdf file) by November 20, 2018 to the FedCSIS Secretariat at: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org <mailto:secretariat@fedcsis.org> More information concerning Event organization can be found at: http://www.fedcsis.org/cfe

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Fwd: Call for papers, lightning talks, and panel topics: 2nd International Workshop on Data Center Automation, Analyitcs, and Control
by Sill, Alan 04 Sep '18

04 Sep '18

I’d like to announce the following workshop to this list. I believe it is well within scope for list participants. Please note the formats for participation have recently been extended to include lightning talks and panel topic proposals or participation. Please let me know if you have ideas that would help with this workshop. Please also feel free to forward this to others you may know who might want to participate. We are aiming this event at those who actually operate, manage, or are interested in improving data center operations and tools. All topics related to data center provisioning, automation, infrastructure management (including energy efficiency and measurement) and data center analytics and control are in scope for this workshop to be held at Supercomputing 2018 in Dallas. See links below for more information. Alan -------------------- DAAC 2018 (http://daac-workshop.org<http://daac-workshop.org/>) Monday, November 12 at the SuperComputing 2018 conference<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsc18.supercomputing.org&sa=D&snt…> in Dallas, Texas The 2nd International Industry/University Workshop on Data-center Automation, Analytics, and Control This workshop is the continuation of a highly successful series introduced in 2017 at the 10th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC)<http://www.google.com/url?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.depts.ttu.edu%2Fcac%2Fconferen…> conference held in Austin, Texas. The DAAC workshop series is focused on fostering discussion among industry, academic, and national laboratory participants and promoting collaboration on solutions for automated data centers and associated data center analytics and control issues. The objective is to promote and stimulate community's interactions to address some of most critical challenges in automation, analytics, and control specifically aimed for the needs of large-scale data centers in high-performance and other forms of highly scaled computing. * Submission Deadline: September 17, 2018 * Author Notification: October 1, 2018 * Camera-ready Submission: October 15, 2018 Manuscript submissions must be received by the announced submission deadline. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigour in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper. Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Further details on the publication instructions and registration information will be published on the DAAC website. Format: Papers: * Authors are requested to submit papers electronically. * Submissions are limited to 5 pages using 10 pt fonts in the IEEE format (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ieee.org%2Fconferences%2Fpub…>). * The 5-page limit includes figures, tables, references and appendices. Lightning Talks: * Short talks covering recently breaking topics may be submitted for presentation only. * Journal publication will not be guaranteed for these talks if accepted, but slides will be accepted to be made available online. * Submit an abstract and up to one-page description using the templates linked above and the submission link below. Panel Participation and Topics: * Submit a proposal for a panel topic, or volunteer to participate on a panel, using the submission link below. * Prepare an abstract and up to one-page description using the templates linked above and the submission link below, or contact the organizers<mailto:info@daac-workshop.org> for additional information. * All topics related to the main theme of the workshop are in scope. Submission Link: Submissions should be made on the submissions.supercomputing.org<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsubmissions.supercomputing.org&s…>web site. To submit your paper, please use the following link, or click on the DAAC link on the "submission Forms" tab there, after logging in to that site: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/?page=Submit&id=SC18WorkshopDAAC&sit…<https://www.google.com/url?q=https%3A%2F%2Fsubmissions.supercomputing.org%2…> Journal Special Issue: All the accepted DAAC-2018 workshop papers will be invited to extend the manuscripts to be considered for a Special Issue on Data-center Automation, Analytics, and Control of the Springer Cluster Computing: the Journal of Networks, Software Tools and Applications (Impact Factor 2.04 in 2016). This special issue is dedicated for the papers accepted in the DAAC workshop. The submission to this special issue is by invitation only. This workshop will provide a forum to discuss fundamental issues on real-time operation of highly automated data centers, including methods to provision, debug, analyze and control data center equipment and to improve how machines are operated, monitored, and used. Topics to be covered will include how software stacks are deployed and provisioned, how data is processed and transferred in real time from the data center to the cloud as well as challenges in design and implementation of novel automated data center architectures and systems. New methods, techniques, hardware, software, and standards for data center automation and control will be discussed and in scope. * Design and implementation of hardware for large-scale data center operation * Artificial intelligence methods to detect and respond to shifting workloads * Integration of cloud software stack design and data center operations * Real-time monitoring architectures and systems * Data analytics infrastructures for data centers * Data movement within and between large-scale data center implementations * Debugging operational issues in multi-level data centers * Data collection, analytics, security and management for data centers * Techniques for on-demand virtual machine image or container provisioning * Mining sensor data collected from large-scale sensing deployments * Big data analytics in large data center sensor networks * Sensor systems for remote and real-time monitoring of data center equipment * Scheduling for distributed systems within and among data centers * Optimizing energy use in multi-tenant data center deployments * Emergency response methods for automated protection of equipment * Control software frameworks for handling large numbers of machines * Custom design of software and hardware to optimize operation in data centers General Chairs: * Alan Sill (Texas Tech University) * Yong Chen (Texas Tech University) Industrial Chairs: * Jon Hass (Dell) * Jeff Hilland (HPE) Program Chairs: * Dong Dai (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) * Tim Cockerill (Texas Advanced Computing Center) Publicity Chair: * Elham Hojati (Texas Tech University) Proceeding Chair: * Mai Zheng (Iowa State University) Contact: * info(a)daac-workshop.org<mailto:nfo@daac-workshop.org> Technical Program Committee: * Dmitry Duplyakin (University of Utah) * Raj Kettimuthu (Argonne National Laboratory) * Devesh Tiwari (Northeastern University) * Hiroya Matsuba (RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Japan) * Hirotaka Ogawa (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan) * Shin-ichiro Takizawa (National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Japan) * Zhengchun Liu (University of Chicago) * Xiaoli Gong (Nankai University, China) * Shuibing He (Wuhan University, China) * Dazhao Cheng (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) * Jin Xiong (Institute of Computing Technology, China) * Keiji Yamamoto (RIKEN Center for Computational Science, Japan) * Lingfang Zeng (Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China) * Bing Xie (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)

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FedCSIS 2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 28 Feb '18

28 Feb '18

CALL FOR PAPERS 2018 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) Poznan, Poland, 9 - 12 September, 2018 www.fedcsis.org Strict submission deadline: May 15, 2018, 23:59:59 pm HST (no extensions) www.fedcsis.org (FedCSIS on www.ieee.org: https://tinyurl.com/FedCSIS2018onIEEE) FedCSIS an annual international multi-conference, this year organized jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw University of Economics, Warsaw University of Technology and Adam Mickiewicz University, in technical cooperation with: IEEE Region 8, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics, IEEE Czechoslovakia Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section (Gdansk) Computer Society Chapter, IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence, IEEE Poland Section SMC Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section Control System Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, International Federation for Information Processing, Committee of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT. Please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. The mission of the FedCSIS Conference Series is to provide a highly acclaimed multi-conference forum in computer science and information systems. The forum invites researchers from around the world to contribute their research results and participate in Events focused on their scientific and professional interests in computer science and information systems. Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference are indexed in the Web of Science, SCOPUS and other indexing services. This includes already Proceedings of FedCSIS 2017. FedCSIS EVENTS The FedCSIS 2018 consists of the following Events, grouped into five conference areas. * AAIA'18 - 13th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications --- AIMaViG'18 - 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Machine Vision and Graphics --- AIMA'18 - 8th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications --- AIRIM'18 - 3rd International Workshop on AI aspects of Reasoning, Information, and Memory --- ASIR'18 - 8th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval --- DMGATE'18 - 1st International Workshop on AI Methods in Data Mining Challenges --- SEN-MAS'18 - 6th International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi-Agent Systems --- WCO'18 - 11th International Workshop on Computational Optimization --- VICML'18 - 5th Workshop Visual Information Coding Meets Machine Learning: Large-Scale Challenges * CSS - Computer Science & Systems --- 4A'18 - 1st Workshop on Actors, Agents, Assistants, Avatars --- AIPC'18 - 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Image Processing and Colorization --- BEDA'18 - 1st International Workshop on Biomedical & Health Engineering and Data Analysis --- BigDAISy'18 - 1st Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Information Security --- CANA'18 - 11th Workshop on Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms --- C&SS'18 - 5th International Conference on Cryptography and Security Systems --- CPORA'18 - 3rd Workshop on Constraint Programming and Operation Research Applications --- DaSCA'18 - 1st International Symposium on Big Data in Cloud and Services Computing Applications --- LTA'18 - 3rd International Workshop on Language Technologies and Applications --- MMAP'18 - 11th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing --- WSC'18 - 10th Workshop on Scalable Computing * iNetSApp - International Conference on Innovative Network Systems and Applications --- CAP-NGNCS'18 - 1st International Workshop on Communications Architectures and Protocols for the New Generation of Networks and Computing Systems --- INSERT'18 - 2nd International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Trust --- IoT-ECAW'18 - 2nd Workshop on Internet of Things - Enablers, Challenges and Applications --- WSN'18 - 7th International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks * IT4MBS - Information Technology for Management, Business & Society --- AITM'18 - 15th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management --- AITSD'18 - 1st International Workshop on Applied Information Technologies for Sustainable Development --- ISM'18 - 13th Conference on Information Systems Management --- IT4L'18 - 6th Workshop on Information Technologies for Logistics --- KAM'18 - 24rd Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management --- TEMHE'18 - 1st Workshop on Technology Enhanced Medical and Healthcare Education * SSD&A - Software Systems Development & Applications --- MDASD'18 - 5th Workshop on Model Driven Approaches in System Development --- MIDI'18- 6th Conference on Multimedia, Interaction, Design and Innovation --- LASD'18 - 2nd International Conference on Lean and Agile Software Development --- SEW-38 & IWCPS-5 - Joint 38th IEEE Software Engineering Workshop (SEW-38) and 5th International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (IWCPS-5) * DS-RAIT'18 - 5th Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Mehmet Aksit, Chair Software Engineering, Formal Methods and Tools Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Twente - Jan Bosch, Director of the Software Center, Professor at Chalmers University Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden - Włodzisław Duch, Professor at Department of Informatics, and NeuroCognitive Laboratory, Center for Modern Interdisciplinary Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University - Rory V. O'Connor, Professor at Dublin City University, Ireland, Head of Delegation (for Ireland) to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers should be submitted by May 15, 2018 (strict deadline, no extensions). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers, will posted within the conference Web portal. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc., and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events, or by contacting Chairs of said events). IMPORTANT DATES • Paper submission (strict deadline): May 15 2018 23:59:59 pm HST (there will be no extension) • Position paper submission: June 12, 2018 • Authors notification: June 24, 2018 • Final paper submission and registration: July 03, 2018 • Final deadline for discounted fee: August 01, 2018 • Conference dates: September 9-12, 2018 CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS at: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: https://tinyurl.com/FedCSISonLinkedIN FedCSIS on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FedCSIS FedCSIS on XING: http://preview.tinyurl.com/FedCSISonXING

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FedCSIS 2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 07 Feb '18

07 Feb '18

CALL FOR PAPERS 2018 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) Poznan, Poland, 9 - 12 September, 2018 www.fedcsis.org Strict submission deadline: May 15, 2018, 23:59:59 pm HST (no extensions) www.fedcsis.org (FedCSIS on www.ieee.org: https://tinyurl.com/FedCSIS2018onIEEE) FedCSIS an annual international multi-conference, this year organized jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw University of Economics, Warsaw University of Technology and Adam Mickiewicz University, in technical cooperation with: IEEE Region 8, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics, IEEE Czechoslovakia Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section (Gdansk) Computer Society Chapter, IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence, IEEE Poland Section SMC Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section Control System Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, International Federation for Information Processing, Committee of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT. Please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. The mission of the FedCSIS Conference Series is to provide a highly acclaimed multi-conference forum in computer science and information systems. The forum invites researchers from around the world to contribute their research results and participate in Events focused on their scientific and professional interests in computer science and information systems. Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference are indexed in the Web of Science, SCOPUS and other indexing services. This includes already Proceedings of FedCSIS 2017. FedCSIS EVENTS The FedCSIS 2018 consists of the following Events, grouped into five conference areas. * AAIA'18 - 13th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications --- AIMaViG'18 - 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Machine Vision and Graphics --- AIMA'18 - 8th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications --- AIRIM'18 - 3rd International Workshop on AI aspects of Reasoning, Information, and Memory --- ASIR'18 - 8th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval --- DMGATE'18 - 1st International Workshop on AI Methods in Data Mining Challenges --- SEN-MAS'18 - 6th International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi-Agent Systems --- WCO'18 - 11th International Workshop on Computational Optimization * CSS - Computer Science & Systems --- 4A'18 - 1st Workshop on Actors, Agents, Assistants, Avatars --- AIPC'18 - 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Image Processing and Colorization --- BEDA'18 - 1st International Workshop on Biomedical & Health Engineering and Data Analysis --- BigDAISy'18 - 1st Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Information Security --- CANA'18 - 11th Workshop on Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms --- C&SS'18 - 5th International Conference on Cryptography and Security Systems --- CPORA'18 - 3rd Workshop on Constraint Programming and Operation Research Applications --- DaSCA'18 - 1st International Symposium on Big Data in Cloud and Services Computing Applications --- LTA'18 - 3rd International Workshop on Language Technologies and Applications --- MMAP'18 - 11th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing --- WSC'18 - 10th Workshop on Scalable Computing * iNetSApp - International Conference on Innovative Network Systems and Applications --- CAP-NGNCS'18 - 1st International Workshop on Communications Architectures and Protocols for the New Generation of Networks and Computing Systems --- INSERT'18 - 2nd International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Trust --- IoT-ECAW'18 - 2nd Workshop on Internet of Things - Enablers, Challenges and Applications --- WSN'18 - 7th International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks * IT4MBS - Information Technology for Management, Business & Society --- AITM'18 - 15th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management --- AITSD'18 - 1st International Workshop on Applied Information Technologies for Sustainable Development --- ISM'18 - 13th Conference on Information Systems Management --- IT4L'18 - 6th Workshop on Information Technologies for Logistics --- KAM'18 - 24rd Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management --- TEMHE'18 - 1st Workshop on Technology Enhanced Medical and Healthcare Education * SSD&A - Software Systems Development & Applications --- MDASD'18 - 5th Workshop on Model Driven Approaches in System Development --- MIDI'18- 6th Conference on Multimedia, Interaction, Design and Innovation --- LASD'18 - 2nd International Conference on Lean and Agile Software Development --- SEW-38 & IWCPS-5 - Joint 38th IEEE Software Engineering Workshop (SEW-38) and 5th International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (IWCPS-5) * DS-RAIT'18 - 5th Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Mehmet Aksit, Chair Software Engineering, Formal Methods and Tools Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Twente - Jan Bosch, Director of the Software Center, Professor at Chalmers University Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden - Włodzisław Duch, Professor at Department of Informatics, and NeuroCognitive Laboratory, Center for Modern Interdisciplinary Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University - Rory V. O'Connor, Professor at Dublin City University, Ireland, Head of Delegation (for Ireland) to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers should be submitted by May 15, 2018 (strict deadline, no extensions). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers, will posted within the conference Web portal. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc., and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events, or by contacting Chairs of said events). IMPORTANT DATES • Paper submission (strict deadline): May 15 2018 23:59:59 pm HST (there will be no extension) • Position paper submission: June 12, 2018 • Authors notification: June 24, 2018 • Final paper submission and registration: July 03, 2018 • Final deadline for discounted fee: August 01, 2018 • Conference dates: September 9-12, 2018 CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS at: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: https://tinyurl.com/FedCSISonLinkedIN FedCSIS on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FedCSIS FedCSIS on XING: http://preview.tinyurl.com/FedCSISonXING

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CfP 13th Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing Workshop (VHPC '18)
by VHPC 18 06 Feb '18

06 Feb '18

*====================================================================CALL FOR PAPERS 13th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '18)held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance,June 24-28, 2018, Frankfurt, Germany.(Springer LNCS Proceedings) ====================================================================Date: June 28, 2018Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org <http://vhpc.org>Paper Submission Deadline: April 23, 2018, Springer LNCS, rolling abstract submissionAbstract/Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=24355 <https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=24355>Special Track: GPU - Accelerator Virtualization Call for PapersVirtualization technologies constitute a key enabling factor for flexible resource managementin modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need tomanage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly dynamic andheterogeneous workloads and hosted applications customers deploy. Similarly, HPCenvironments have been increasingly adopting techniques that enable flexible managementof vast computing and networking resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which isunprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing.Various virtualization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machinevirtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers withheterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate afully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamicways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e., containerization), with itscapability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their coexistencewithin the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of responsiveness and performance; I/O Virtualization allows physical network interfaces to take traffic from multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of theunderlying physical topology is furthermore enabling virtualization of HPC infrastructures. PublicationAccepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS proceedings volume.Topics of InterestThe VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions related tovirtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus on the intersection of HPCand the cloud.Major Topics- Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, HPC in the cloud and grids- OS-level virtualization and containers (LXC, Docker, rkt, Singularity, Shifter, i.a.)- Lightweight/specialized operating systems in conjunction with virtual machines- Novel unikernels and use cases for virtualized HPC environments- Performance improvements for or driven by unikernels- Tool support for unikernels: configuration/build environments, debuggers, profilers- Hypervisor extensions to mitigate side-channel attacks ([micro-]architectural timing attacks, privilege escalation)- VM & Container trust and security- Containers inside VMs with hypervisor isolation- GPU virtualization operationalization- Approaches to GPGPU virtualization including API remoting and hypervisor abstraction- Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms and hypervisors- Hypervisor support for heterogeneous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.)- Virtualization support for emerging memory technologies- Virtualization in enterprise HPC and microvisors- Software defined networks and network virtualization- Management, deployment of virtualized environments and orchestration (Kubernetes i.a.)- Workflow-pipeline container-based composability - Checkpointing facilitation utilizing containers and VMs - Emerging topics including multi-kernel approaches and NUMA in hypervisors- Operating MPI in containers/VMs and Unikernels - Virtualization in data intensive computing (big data) - HPC convergence- Adaptation of HPC technologies in the cloud (high performance networks, RDMA, etc.)- Performance measurement, modelling and monitoring of virtualized/cloud workloads- Latency-and jitter sensitive workloads in virtualized/containerized environments- I/O virtualization (including applications, SR-IOV, i.a.) - Hybrid local facility + cloud compute and based storage systems, cloudbursting- FPGA and many-core accelerator virtualization- Job scheduling/control/policy and container placement in virtualized environments- Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance and high-availability- QoS and SLA in virtualized environments- IaaS platforms, cloud frameworks and APIs- Energy-efficient and power-aware virtualization- Configuration management tools for containers (including in OpenStack, Ansible, i.a.)- ARM-based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensionsSpecial Track: GPU - Accelerator VirtualizationGPU virtualization technologies, performance and benchmarking, integration withworkflow scheduling systems, integration to cluster managers.GPUs are taking on many HPC workload areas, especially in deep learning withinmachine learning. In addition, a lot of workload is being pushed to elastic environments utilizing various virtualization technologies on different levels like hypervisors (e.g. VMWare, Xen, KVM), kernel (Docker, Kubernetes) or on the resource managerlevel (YARN, Mesos). In this track we invite submissions addressing these problems. Suggested Themes and Topics:Technology - What technologies and best practices exist for GPU - hardware accelerator virtualization and usage of hardware accelerators in virtual environments on the hypervisor, kernel or resource manager levelDevelopers - Real-life experience when addressing HPC/ML/DL problems with GPUs or hardware accelerators in virtual environmentsPerformance - Performance comparisons between different technologies / solutionsThe Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims tobring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchangeof knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novelsolutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow.The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, eachfollowed by 10 min discussion sections, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes.Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations.Important DatesFebruary 23, 2018 (AoE) - Abstract SubmissionApril 23, 2018 (AoE) - Paper submission deadline (Springer LNCS)May 30, 2018 - Acceptance notification June 28, 2018 - Workshop DayJuly 12, 2018 - Camera-ready version dueChairMichael Alexander (chair), Institute of Science and Technology, AustriaAnastassios Nanos (co-chair), OnApp, UKRomeo Kienzler (co-chair), IBM, SwitzerlandProgram committeeStergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Jakob Blomer, CERN, Europe Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, SpainStephen Crago, USC ISI, USATommaso Cucinotta, St. Anna School of Advanced Studies, ItalyChristoffer Dall, Columbia University, USAFrançois Diakhaté, CEA, FrancePatrick Dreher, MIT, USA Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Brian Kocoloski, University of Pittsburgh, USAUday Kurkure, VMware, USAJohn Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USAGiuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, ItalyQing Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USANikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, FranceKevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USAAmer Qouneh, Western New England University, USA Carlos Reaño, Technical University of Valencia, SpainBorja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Anata Tiwari, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USAKurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, JapanChao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Andrew Younge, Sandia National Laboratory, USANa Zhang, VMware, USAPaper Submission-PublicationPapers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least twomembers of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissionsshould include abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of thecorresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tablesand figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. Submissionof a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paperbe accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend theconference to present the work. Accepted papers will be published in aSpringer LNCS volume. . The format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initialsubmissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requestedto provide source files.Format Guidelines:ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip <ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip>Abstract, Paper Submission Link:https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=24355 <https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=24355>Lightning Talks Lightning Talks are non-paper track, synoptical in nature and are strictly limited to 5 minutes.They can be used to gain early feedback on ongoing research, for demonstrations, to present research results, early research ideas, perspectives and positions of interest to the community. Submit abstract via the main submission link. General InformationThe workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with the InternationalSupercomputing Conference - High Performance (ISC) 2018, June 18-22, Frankfurt, Germany.*

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heat resume Vms and run from SNAPSHOT
by Charls D. Chap 11 Oct '17

11 Oct '17

heat resume Vms and run from SNAPSHOT: I have a stack of VMs (nova servers). The commands i execute are the following: openstack stack create openstack stack suspend openstack stack snapshot create At this point stack_state is in status SNAPSHOT_COMPLETED and vms_state is in status SUSPENDED How can i resume stack, with VMs be active and in Running state, LAUNCING the SNAPSHOTTED image. I can't resume the stack, because the VMs are in SNAPSHOTTED state. How Heat deals with it? How can you resume a stack with status SNAPSHOT_COMPLETED and VMs suspended to vm_state = unning for all the VMs of the stack

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openstack heat multi tenant scenario
by Charls D. Chap 11 Oct '17

11 Oct '17

Scenario: -DomainA (TenantA, TenantB) -TenantA(userA) -TenantB(userB) - A template which start OS:NOVA:SERVERS 1. Is it possible two run simultaneously the same openstack stack create command? 2. a. how can i specify that i want, in the first case, the VMs of the stack, beloging to TenantA and in the second case to TenantB b. for the OS::NOVA::SERVER as fas as i can see there is no such property to Distinguish project names c. I want to achieve something like this openstack stack create "mystack" for TenantA openstack stack create "mystack" for TenantB openstack server list for TenantA VM1 RUNNING VM2 RUNNING .... openstack server list for TenantB VM1 RUNNING VM2 RUNNING .... So THE SAME VMs for both Tenants! 3. In the end, how is multi-tenancy achieved? So far, I have achieved it, by having two different stack names, tenantA and tenantB correspondingly, which take as input the same template, with the same parameters.

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CfP - VHPC at ISC extension - Papers due May 2
by VHPC 17 18 Apr '17

18 Apr '17

==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 12th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '17) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance, June 18-22, 2017, Frankfurt, Germany. (Springer LNCS Proceedings) ==================================================================== Date: June 22, 2017 Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org Paper Submission Deadline: May 2, 2017 (extended), Springer LNCS, rolling abstract submission Abstract/Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23179 Keynotes: Satoshi Matsuoka, Professor of Computer Science, Tokyo Institute of Technology and John Goodacre, Professor in Computer Architectures University of Manchester, Director of Technology and Systems ARM Ltd. Research Group and Chief Scientific Officer Kaleao Ltd. Call for Papers Virtualization technologies constitute a key enabling factor for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need to manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads and hosted applications customers deploy. Similarly, HPC environments have been increasingly adopting techniques that enable flexible management of vast computing and networking resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Various virtualization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e., containerization), with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their coexistence within the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of responsiveness and performance; I/O Virtualization allows physical NICs/HBAs to take traffic from multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of the underlying physical topology and IP addressing, provides the fundamental ground on top of which evolved network services can be realized with an unprecedented level of dynamicity and flexibility; the increasingly adopted paradigm of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) promises to extend this flexibility to the control and data planes of network paths. Publication Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS proceedings volume. Topics of Interest The VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions related to virtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus on the intersection of HPC and the cloud. Major Topics - Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, HPC in the cloud and grids - OS-level virtualization and containers (Docker, rkt, Singularity, Shifter, i.a.) - Lightweight/specialized operating systems, unikernels - Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms and hypervisors - Hypervisor support for heterogenous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.) - Virtualization support for emerging memory technologies - Virtualization in enterprise HPC and microvisors - Software defined networks and network virtualization - Management, deployment of virtualized environments and orchestration (Kubernetes i.a.), - Workflow-pipeline container-based composability - Performance measurement, modelling and monitoring of virtualized/cloud workloads - Virtualization in data intensive computing and Big Data processing - HPC convergence - Adaptation of HPC technologies in the cloud (high performance networks, RDMA, etc.) - ARM-based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensions - I/O virtualization and cloud based storage systems - GPU, FPGA and many-core accelerator virtualization - Job scheduling/control/policy and container placement in virtualized environments - Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance and high-availability - QoS and SLA in virtualized environments - IaaS platforms, cloud frameworks and APIs - Large-scale virtualization in domains such as finance and government - Energy-efficient and power-aware virtualization - Container security - Configuration management tools for containers (including CFEngine, Puppet, i.a.) - Emerging topics including multi-kernel approaches and,NUMA in hypervisors The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. Important Dates Rolling Abstract Submission May 2, 2017 - Paper submission deadline (extended) May 30, 2017 - Acceptance notification June 22, 2017 - Workshop Day July 18, 2017 - Camera-ready version due Chair Michael Alexander (chair), scaledinfra technologies, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), NTUA, Greece Balazs Gerofi (co-chair), RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science, Japan Program committee Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Jakob Blomer, CERN, Europe Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Julian Chesterfield, OnApp, UK Stephen Crago, USC ISI, USA Christoffer Dall, Columbia University, USA Patrick Dreher, MIT, USA Robert Futrick, Cycle Computing, USA Maria Girone, CERN, Europe Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Romeo Kinzler, IBM, Switzerland Brian Kocoloski, University of Pittsburgh, USA Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA Che-Rung Lee, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy Qing Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Amer Qouneh, University of Florida, USA Carlos Reaño, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Thomas Ryd, CFEngine, Norway Na Zhang, VMWare, USA Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Craig Stewart, Indiana University, USA Anata Tiwari, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan Nicholas Wright, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Paper Submission-Publication Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions should include abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. 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 papers will be published in a Springer LNCS volume. . The format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide source files. Format Guidelines: ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip Abstract, Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23179 Lightning Talks Lightning Talks are non-paper track, synoptical in nature and are strictly limited to 5 minutes. They can be used to gain early feedback on ongoing research, for demonstrations, to present research results, early research ideas, perspectives and positions of interest to the community. Submit abstract via the main submission link. General Information The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance (ISC) 2017, June 18-22, Frankfurt, Germany.

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CANA 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= 10th Workshop on Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms (CANA'17) Prague, Czech Republic, 3 - 6 September, 2017 www.fedcsis.org E-mail: cana2017(a)fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to CANA’17 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2017). FedCSIS an annual international multi-conference, this year organized jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), Poland Section Computer Society Chapter and Czech Technical University in Prague, in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Chechoslovakia Section, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics, IEEE Czechoslovakia Section Computer Society Chapter, Poland Section (Gdansk) Computer Society Chapter, IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence, Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, Lodz (Poland) ACM Chapter, Committee of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Polish Cluster of Research and Development of Internet of Things, Mazovia Cluster ICT. The workshop is devoted to numerical algorithms with the particular attention to the latest scientific trends in this area and to problems related to implementation of libraries of efficient numerical algorithms. The goal of the workshop is meeting of researchers from various institutes and exchanging of their experience, and integrations of scientific centers. TOPICS ======================================= - Parallel numerical algorithms - Novel data formats for dense and sparse matrices - Libraries for numerical computations - Numerical algorithms testing and benchmarking - Analysis of rounding errors of numerical algorithms - Languages, tools and environments for programming numerical algorithms - Numerical algorithms on coprocesors (GPU, Intel Xeon Phi, etc.) - Paradigms of programming numerical algorithms - Contemporary computer architectures - Heterogeneous numerical algorithms - Applications of numerical algorithms in science and technology PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ======================================= Papers should be submitted by May 10, 2017 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events). IMPORTANT DATES ======================================= - Paper submission: May 10, 2017 (strict deadline, there will be no extensions) - Position paper submission: May 31, 2017 - Acceptance decision: June 14, 2017 - Final version of paper submission: June 28, 2017 - Final deadline for discounted fee: August 1, 2017 - Conference dates: September 3-6, 2017 EVENT CHAIRS ======================================= - Bylina, Beata, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland - Bylina, Jaroslaw, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland - Stpiczynski, Przemysław, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS AT: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN

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ABC:MI 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 17 Mar '17

17 Mar '17

CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= 11th Workshop on Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation (ABC:MI'17) Prague, Czech Republic, 3 - 6 September, 2017 www.fedcsis.org E-mail: abcmi2017(a)fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to ABC:MI’17 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2017). FedCSIS an annual international multi-conference, this year organized jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), Poland Section Computer Society Chapter and Czech Technical University in Prague, in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Chechoslovakia Section, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics, IEEE Czechoslovakia Section Computer Society Chapter, Poland Section (Gdansk) Computer Society Chapter, IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence, Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, Lodz (Poland) ACM Chapter, Committee of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Polish Cluster of Research and Development of Internet of Things, Mazovia Cluster ICT. TOPICS ======================================= The Workshop primarily focuses on all aspects of the process that leads from the model of the problem domain to the actual agent-based solution. These aspects will cover both principled approaches and established practices of software engineering aimed at producing high quality software. In this context, research into the application of agent-based solutions to key challenges faced by software engineering (e.g. reduction of costs and delivery times, coping with a larger diversity of problems) will be of primary importance. ABC:MI Workshop welcomes submissions of original papers concerning all aspects of software agent engineering. Topics include but are not limited to: - Methodologies for design of agent systems - Multi-agent systems product lines - Modeling agent systems - Agent architectures - Agent-based simulations - Simulating and verifying agent systems - Agent benchmarking and performance measurement - Agent communication, coordination and cooperation - Agent languages - Agent learning and planning - Agent mobility - Agent modeling, calculi, and logic - Agent security - Agents and Service Oriented Computing - Agents in the Semantic Web - Applications and Experiences PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ======================================= Papers should be submitted by May 10, 2017 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events). Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will be published as Special Issue(s) of: - Scalable Computing; Practice and Experience - Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling (publication fee waiver for the papers that are going to be selected is expected) - Multiagent and Grid Systems - Computer Science Journal (7 points in current ranking of MNiSW - this is something cryptic to the outsiders, but will be clear for scientists from Poland) IMPORTANT DATES ======================================= - Paper submission: May 10, 2017 (strict deadline, there will be no extensions) - Position paper submission: May 31, 2017 - Acceptance decision: June 14, 2017 - Final version of paper submission: June 28, 2017 - Final deadline for discounted fee: August 1, 2017 - Conference dates: September 3-6, 2017 EVENT CHAIRS ======================================= - Badica, Costin, University of Craiova, Romania - Ganzha, Maria, University of Gdansk and Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland - Paprzycki, Marcin, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland - Rahimi, Shahram, Southern Illinois University, United States CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS AT: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN

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FedCSIS 2017 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 09 Feb '17

09 Feb '17

CALL FOR PAPERS 2017 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) Prague, Czech Republic, 3 - 6 September, 2017 Strict submission deadline: May 10, 2017 www.fedcsis.org (FedCSIS on www.ieee.org: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSIS-on-IEEE-2017) FedCSIS an annual international multi-conference, this year organized jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), Poland Section Computer Society Chapter and Czech Technical University in Prague, in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Chechoslovakia Section, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics, IEEE Czechoslovakia Section Computer Society Chapter, Poland Section (Gdansk) Computer Society Chapter, IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence, Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, Lodz (Poland) ACM Chapter, Committee of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Polish Cluster of Research and Development of Internet of Things, Mazovia Cluster ICT. Please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. The FedCSIS Multi-conference consists of Events (conferences, symposia, workshops, dissemination events, special sessions). Each Event may run over any span of time within the conference dates (from half-day to four days). The FedCSIS Events provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, and academia to present and discuss ideas, challenges and potential solutions on established or emerging topics related to research and practice in computer science and information systems. In the past, FedCSIS Proceedings have been published in IEEE DL and indexed in Thomson Reuters Web of Science, SCOPUS, DBLP and other indexing engines. FedCSIS organizers will endeavor the same, as well as additional indexations for the 2017 Proceedings. FedCSIS EVENTS The FedCSIS multi-conference consists of EVENTS (conferences, workshops, consortia, tutorials, etc.), grouped into seven conference areas. * AAIA'17 - 12th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications --- AIMaVIG'17 - 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Machine Vision and Graphics --- AIMA'17 - 7th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications --- AIRIM'17 - 2nd International Workshop on AI aspects of Reasoning, Information, and Memory --- ASIR'17 - 7th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval --- LTA'17 - 2nd International Workshop on Language Technologies and Applications --- WCO'17 - 10th International Workshop on Computational Optimization * CSS - Computer Science & Systems --- AIPC'17 - 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Image Processing and Colorization --- BigDAISy'17 - 1st Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Information Security --- CANA'17 - 10th Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms --- C&SS'17 - 4th International Conference on Cryptography and Security Systems --- CPORA'17 - 2nd Workshop on Constraint Programming and Operation Research Applications --- MMAP'17 - 10th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing --- WAPL'17 - 6th Workshop on Advances in Programming Languages --- WSC'17 - 9th Workshop on Scalable Computing * iNetSApp - International Conference on Innovative Network Systems and Applications --- CAP-NGNCS'17 - 1st International Workshop on Communications Architectures and Protocols for the New Generation of Networks and Computing Systems --- INSERT'17 - 1st International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Trust --- IoT-ECAW'17 - 1st Workshop on Internet of Things - Enablers, Challenges and Applications --- SoFAST-WS'17 - 6th International Symposium on Frontiers in Network Applications, Network Systems and Web Services --- WSN'17 - 6th International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks * IT4MBS - Information Technology for Management, Business & Society --- ABICT'17 - 8th International Workshop on Advances in Business ICT --- AITM'17 - 15th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management --- ISM'17 - 12th Conference on Information Systems Management --- IT4L'17 - 5th Workshop on Information Technologies for Logistics --- KAM'17 - 23rd Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management --- TAMHE'17 - 1st Workshop on Technology Enhanced Medical and Healthcare Education --- UHH'17 - 3rd International Workshop on Ubiquitous Home Healthcare --- WGSEE'17 - 1st Workshop on Gamification Software for Education and Enterprises * JAWS - Joint Agent-oriented Workshops in Synergy --- ABC:MI'17 - 11th Workshop on Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation --- MAS&S'17 - 11th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulations --- SEN-MAS'17 - 5th International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi-Agent Systems * SSD&A - Software Systems Development & Applications --- IoTM'17 - 1st Workshop on Internet of Things, Process Modelling and Microservices --- IWCPS'17 - 4th International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems --- LASD'17 - 1st International Conference on Lean and Agile Software Development --- MIDI'17- 4th Conference on Miltimedia, Interaction, Design and Innovation --- SEW-37 - The 37th IEEE Software Engineering Workshop * DS-RAIT'17 - 4th Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Giancarlo Guizzardi, Professor of Computer Science, Free University of Bolzano-Bozen, Italy and Senior Member of the Ontology and Conceptual Modeling Research Group (NEMO), Brazil, Keynote title: Carving Reality at its Digital Joints: The Role of Ontology-Driven Conceptual Modeling in Next-Generation Information Systems Engineering - Marjan Mernik, Professor, University of Maribor, Slovenia, Keynote title: Domain-Specific Languages: A Systematic Mapping Study - Zbigniew Michalewicz, Chief Scientist, Complexica, Australia, Keynote title: How to sell more at a higher margin - Peter Palensky, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, Keynote title: Modeling and Simulation of Intelligent Electrical Power Grids - Jan Vitek, Professor, Computer Science, Northeastern University, USA, Keynote title: Data Analysis for the Masses PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers should be submitted by May 10, 2017 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events). IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: May 10, 2017 (strict deadline, there will be no extensions) - Position paper submission: May 31, 2017 - Acceptance decision: June 14, 2017 - Final version of paper submission: June 28, 2017 - Final deadline for discounted fee: August 1, 2017 - Conference dates: September 3-6, 2017 CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS at: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN FedCSIS on Twitter: https://twitter.com/FedCSIS

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CfP 12th Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing Workshop (VHPC '17)
by VHPC 17 31 Jan '17

31 Jan '17

==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 12th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '17) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance, June 18-22, 2017, Frankfurt, Germany. (Springer LNCS Proceedings) ==================================================================== Date: June 22, 2017 Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org Abstract Submission Deadline: February 28, 2017 Paper Submission Deadline: April 25, 2017 (Springer LNCS) Abstract/Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23179 Call for Papers Virtualization technologies constitute a key enabling factor for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need to manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads and hosted applications customers deploy. Similarly, HPC environments have been increasingly adopting techniques that enable flexible management of vast computing and networking resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Various virtualization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e., containerization), with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their coexistence within the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of responsiveness and performance; I/O Virtualization allows physical NICs/HBAs to take traffic from multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of the underlying physical topology and IP addressing, provides the fundamental ground on top of which evolved network services can be realized with an unprecedented level of dynamicity and flexibility; the increasingly adopted paradigm of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) promises to extend this flexibility to the control and data planes of network paths. Publication Accepted papers will be published in a Springer LNCS proceedings volume. Topics of Interest The VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions related to virtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus on the intersection of HPC and the cloud. Major Topics - Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, HPC in the cloud and grids - OS-level virtualization and containers (Docker, rkt, Singularity, Shifter, i.a.) - Lightweight/specialized operating systems, unikernels - Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms and hypervisors - Hypervisor support for heterogenous resources (GPUs, co-processors, FPGAs, etc.) - Virtualization support for emerging memory technologies - Virtualization in enterprise HPC and microvisors - Software defined networks and network virtualization - Management, deployment of virtualized environments and orchestration (Kubernetes i.a.), - Workflow-pipeline container-based composability - Performance measurement, modelling and monitoring of virtualized/cloud workloads - Virtualization in data intensive computing and Big Data processing - HPC convergence - Adaptation of HPC technologies in the cloud (high performance networks, RDMA, etc.) - ARM-based hypervisors, ARM virtualization extensions - I/O virtualization and cloud based storage systems - GPU, FPGA and many-core accelerator virtualization - Job scheduling/control/policy and container placement in virtualized environments - Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance and high-availability - QoS and SLA in virtualized environments - IaaS platforms, cloud frameworks and APIs - Large-scale virtualization in domains such as finance and government - Energy-efficient and power-aware virtualization - Container security - Configuration management tools for containers (including CFEngine, Puppet, i.a.) - Emerging topics including multi-kernel approaches and,NUMA in hypervisors The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. Important Dates February 28, 2017 - Abstract Submission Deadline April 25, 2017 - Paper submission deadline May 30, 2017 - Acceptance notification June 22, 2017 - Workshop Day June 25, 2017 - Camera-ready version due Chair Michael Alexander (chair), scaledinfra technologies, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), NTUA, Greece Balazs Gerofi (co-chair), RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science, Japan Program committee Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Jakob Blomer, CERN, Europe Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Eduardo César, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona, Spain Julian Chesterfield, OnApp, UK Stephen Crago, USC ISI, USA Christoffer Dall, Columbia University, USA Patrick Dreher, MIT, USA Robert Futrick, Cycle Computing, USA Maria Girone, CERN, Europe Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Romeo Kinzler, IBM, Switzerland Brian Kocoloski, University of Pittsburgh, USA Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA Che-Rung Lee, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy Qing Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Amer Qouneh, University of Florida, USA Carlos Reaño, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Thomas Ryd, CFEngine, Norway Josh Simons, VMWare, USA Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Craig Stewart, Indiana University, USA Anata Tiwari, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan Nicholas Wright, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Paper Submission-Publication Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions should include abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. 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 papers will be published in a Springer LNCS volume. . The format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide source files. Format Guidelines: ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip Abstract, Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=23179 Lightning Talks Lightning Talks are non-paper track, synoptical in nature and are strictly limited to 5 minutes. They can be used to gain early feedback on ongoing research, for demonstrations, to present research results, early research ideas, perspectives and positions of interest to the community. Submit abstract via the main submission link. General Information The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance (ISC) 2017, June 18-22, Frankfurt, Germany.

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Call for Dissemination Events - FedCSIS 2017
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 24 Nov '16

24 Nov '16

Call for Dissemination Events Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems Prague, Czech Republic, 3-6 September, 2017 www.fedcsis.org The 2017 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems cordially invites you to consider contributing a “Dissemination Event.” A number of grant mechanisms (in particular, EU / NATO-funded research / coordination actions) involve dissemination of results in the form of workshops, symposia, etc. Since the FedCSIS multi-conference consists of a significant number of events related to various areas of ICT, it is a natural place for organization of grant-related events. Proposals for new Dissemination Events are going to be accepted until January 10, 2017. The Events can run over any span of time within the conference dates; from half-day to four days. Publications Dissemination Events are offered an opportunity to publish an individual volume in the Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems (ACSIS) series (http://annals-csis.org/) Publication will have ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers and will be submitted to citation indexing engines (including SCOPUS, DBLP and Google Scholar). Maximum length of individual contributions to be included in such volume will be established between event organizers and Chairs of the FedCSIS conference series. Dissemination Event Proposals Dissemination event proposals should include the following information (2 pages maximum): 1. The nature of the Event (name of the grant/action/activity it is associated with). 2. The title of the Event, and a clear description of the topic. 3. The complete contact information of the Event organizers, including a link to their personal websites. 4. Indication of the expected number of papers/attendees to attend the Event. 6. Information about requested services related to promotion / marketing of the event / grant. Event organizers should email their proposals (in a single pdf file) by January 10, 2017, to the FedCSIS Secretariat at: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org

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FedCSIS 2017 - CALL FOR EVENTS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 08 Oct '16

08 Oct '16

Call for Events Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems Prague, Czech Republic, 4-7 September, 2017 www.fedcsis.org The 2017 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems cordially invites you to consider contributing an Event (conference, symposium, workshop, consortium meeting, research dissemination meeting, special session). The FedCSIS multi-conference consists of a significant number of recurring Events and it welcomes proposals for new Events until November 2, 2016. The Events can run over any span of time within the conference dates; from half-day to three days. The FedCSIS Events provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, and academia to present and discuss ideas, challenges, and potential solutions on established or emerging topics related to research and practice in computer science and information systems. The Events will be selected based on the scientific/technical interest and/or their relevance to practitioners in their topics, the clarity of the proposal in addressing the requested information, the innovativeness of the Event topics, and the fit with the FedCSIS multi-conference program. The FedCSIS 2016 - held in Gdańsk, Poland – attracted 512 papers, of which 130 were accepted as full papers (acceptance rate of approximately 25%). Some events accepted additionally short and position papers. FedCSIS 2014 full and short papers are being submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, while position papers are being published in a separate volume of the Annals of Computer Science and Information systems series (publication process will be completed by October 30, 2016). Publications As in previous years, FedCSIS preprints will be published on a USB memory stick given to FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library (or will appear as position papers, published in a separate volume, which will not be submitted to the IEEE), and posted at the conference WWW site. The IEEE DL proceedings will be published with an ISBN, ISSN, IEEE Catalog and DOI numbers, under a nonexclusive copyright. Such copyright implies that Events' organizers can and, indeed, are strongly encouraged to invite extended and revised papers for post-conference publications in high-quality journals, edited volumes, etc. Position Papers volume will be published with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers. Event Proposals Event proposals should include the following information (2 pages maximum): 1. The nature of the Event. 2. The title of the Event, a clear description and justification of the theme, and a short list of topics. 3. The complete contact information of the Event organizers, including a link to their personal websites, and an overview of previous experiences with organization of scientific events. 4. Preliminary list of PC members who have agreed to join. 5. Indication of the expected number of papers/attendees to attend the Event. 6. Information of expected post-Event publications, of extended and revised papers, in high-quality journals, edited volumes, etc. Event organizers should email their proposals (in a single pdf file) by November 2, 2016, to the FedCSIS Secretariat at: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org More information concerning Event organization can be found at: http://www.fedcsis.org/cfe

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Re: [openstack-hpc] What's the state of openstack-hpc now?
by Blair Bethwaite 06 Oct '16

06 Oct '16

Hi, Apologies for top-posting but I don't intend to answer all the historical project points you've raised. Regarding old things floating around on github, your mileage may vary, but I doubt at this point you want to be looking at any of that in great detail. You haven't really explained what you mean by or want from HPC in this context, so I'm guessing a little based on your other questions... OpenStack is many things to different people and organisations, but at the software core is a very flexible infrastructure provisioning framework. HPC requires infrastructure (compute, network, storage), and OpenStack can certainly deliver it - make your deployment choices to suit your use-cases. A major choice would be whether you will use full system virtualisation or bare-metal or containers or <insert next trend> - that choice largely depends on your typical workloads and what style of cluster you want. Beyond that, compared to "typical" cloud hardware - faster CPUs, faster memory, faster network (probably with much greater east-west capacity), integration of a suitable parallel file-system. However, OpenStack is not a HPC management / scheduling / queuing / middleware system - there are lots of those already and you should pick one that fits your requirements and then (if it helps) run it atop an OpenStack cloud (it might help, e.g., if you want to run multiple logical clusters on the same physical infrastructure, if you want to mix other more traditional cloud workloads in, if you're just doing everything with OpenStack like the other cool kids). There are lots of nuances here, e.g., where one scheduler might lend itself better to more dynamic infrastructure (adding/removing instances), another might be lighter-weight for use with a Cluster-as-a-Service deployment model, whilst another suits a multi-user managed service style cluster. I'm sure there is good experience and opinion hidden on this list if you want to interrogate those sorts of choices more specifically. Most of the relevant choices you need to make with respect to running HPC workloads on infrastructure that is provisioned through OpenStack will come down to your hypervisor choices. My preference for now is to stick with the OpenStack community's most popular free OS and hypervisor (Ubuntu and KVM+Libvirt) - when I facilitated the hypervisor-tuning ops session at the Vancouver summit (with a bunch of folks interested in HPC on OpenStack) there was no-one in the room running a different hypervisor, though several were using RHEL. With the right tuning KVM can get you to within a hair's breadth of bare-metal performance for a wide range of CPU, memory and inter-process comms benchmarks, plus you can easily make use of PCI passthrough for latency sensitive or "difficult" devices like NICs/HCAs and GPGPUs. And the "right tuning" is not really some arcane knowledge, it's mainly about exposing host CPU capabilities, pinning vCPUs to pCPUs, and tuning or pinning and exposing NUMA topology - most of this is supported directly through OpenStack-native features now. To answer the GPU question more explicitly - yes you can do this. Mainly you need to ensure you're getting compatible hardware (GPU and relevant motherboard components) - most of the typical GPGPU choices (e.g. K80, K40, M60) will work, and you should probably be wary of PCIe switches unless you know exactly what you're doing (recommend trying before buying). At the OpenStack level you just define the PCI devices you want OpenStack Nova to provision and you can then define custom instance-types/flavors that will get a GPU passed through. Similar things go for networking. Lastly, just because you can do this doesn't make it a good idea... OpenStack is complex, HPC systems are complex, layering one complicated thing on another is a good way to create tricky problems that hide in the interface between the two layers. So make sure you're gaining something from having OpenStack in the mix here. HTH, Blair On 15 March 2016 at 23:00, <openstack-hpc-request(a)lists.openstack.org> wrote: > Message: 1 > Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2016 19:05:38 +0800 > From: "me,apporc" <appleorchard2000(a)gmail.com> > To: openstack-hpc(a)lists.openstack.org > Subject: [openstack-hpc] What's the state of openstack-hpc now? > Message-ID: > <CAOBTi0sftGTG-fscM-C5wLu6bTgZMaLaM2eXBJpa0a=vkPDusg(a)mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Hi, all > > I found this etherpad[1] which was created long time ago, inside which > there are some blueprints: support-heterogeneous-archs[2], > heterogeneous-instance-types[3] > and schedule-instances-on-heterogeneous-architectures[4] . > But those blueprints had been obselete since year 2014, and some of its > patches were abandoned. > There however is a forked branch github[5] or launchpad[6], which is > diverged far away from nova/trunk, and not updated since 2014 too. > > Is that we just abandoned those blueprints in openstack or else? > > Besides, there is a CaaS[7] project called Senlin[8], which refered to the > word "HPC" in its wiki. But it seems like not really related. "Cluster" can > mean many things, but hpc is some kind different. > > I can not get the status of GPU support in nova. As the case of network, > SR-IOV[9] seems ok. For storage, i don't know what the word "mi2" means in > etherpad[1]. > > According to what i got above, it seems we can not use hpc in openstack > now. But there are some videos here[10], here[11] and here[12].Since we can > not get GPU in nova instance, are they just building traditional hpcs > without GPU? > > > I need more information, thanks in advance. > > 1. https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/HVHsTqOQGc > 2. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/support-heterogeneous-archs > 3. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/heterogeneous-instance-types > 4. > https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/schedule-instances-on-heterogen… > 5. https://github.com/usc-isi/nova > 6. https://code.launchpad.net/~usc-isi/nova/hpc-trunk > 7. https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/CaaS > 8. https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Senlin > 9. https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/SR-IOV-Passthrough-For-Networking > 10. > https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2015/summit-videos/presentation/… > 11. > https://www.openstack.org/summit/tokyo-2015/videos/presentation/hpc-on-open… > 12. > https://www.openstack.org/summit/tokyo-2015/videos/presentation/canonical-h… > -- > Regards, > apporc >

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VECPAR 2016: conference program available
by Carlos Ferreira 21 Jun '16

21 Jun '16

The conference program is ready! Please, find a copy attached. This will be available soon in the conference web page. We look forward to meeting you in Porto! We have an exciting program ahead with four invited talks, two workshops, a course and 20 technical communications. We hope you enjoy Porto and also our social program that includes a visit to one of the most famous Port wine cellars in Porto, and a dinner afterwards. The forecast predicts a sunny weather during the conference days with temperatures ranging from 22 to 24 degrees Celsius. See you soon! Best regards, The VECPAR 2016 Organizing Committee Carlos Ferreira [http://www2.isep.ipp.pt/assinatura_email/EMAIL_ISEP.png] ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt<http://www.isep.ipp.pt>

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FedCSIS 2016 - CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 24 May '16

24 May '16

Call for Position Papers 2016 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) Gdansk, Poland, 11-14 September, 2016 www.fedcsis.org (FedCSIS on www.ieee.org: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSIS-on-IEEE-2016) The FedCSIS 2016 Federated Conference invites submissions of POSITION PAPERS to its respective events. Position papers must not exceed 8 pages and they should relate to an ongoing research or experience. Position papers will be presented by the authors alongside regular papers. Position papers may be also submitted as DEMO PAPERS and presented as demonstrations of software tools and products. They should describe non-for-profit software tools in a prototype-, alpha-, or beta-version. We invite TWO TYPES OF POSITION PAPERS: EMERGING RESEARCH PAPERS present preliminary research results from work-in-progress based on sound scientific approach but presenting work not completely validated as yet. They must describe precisely the research problem and its rationale. They must also define the intended future work including the expected benefits from solution to the tackled problem. CHALLENGE PAPERS propose and describe research challenges in theory or practice of computer science and information systems. The papers in this category must be based on deep understanding of existing research or industrial problems and should be defining new promising research directions. Paper publication: Position papers will be published as a SEPARATE ELECTRONIC VOLUME (of the Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems series; annals-csis.org) WITH an ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers. These papers will NOT be placed in the IEEE Digital Library and will NOT be submitted to Thomson Reuters Web of Science. However, they will be indexed in the CrossRef, BazEkon, J-Gate, and submitted for indexing to: SCOPUS, Inspec, DBLP Computer Science Bibliography and Google Scholar. Paper submission: Authors should submit a position paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference website ought to be used for all submitted papers. The required submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check, and carefully follow, the instructions and templates provided. Papers that are out of scope of the selected event, or that contain any form of (self)plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. All position papers will be refereed before inclusion in the conference program. About FedCSIS 2016: FedCSIS 2016 is organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, Lodz ACM Chapter, Committee of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, European Alliance for Innovation, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Eastern Cluster ICT and Mazovia Cluster ICT. Chairs of FedCSIS Conference Series Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki Contact FedCSIS at secretariat(a)fedcsis.org

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VECPAR 2016: Summer School in Advanced Scientific Computing
by Carlos Ferreira 21 May '16

21 May '16

The VECPAR 2016 organizing committee has the pleasure to announce that an associated summer school will be held in Braga during the week previous to the conference: Summer School in Advanced Scientific Computing, to be held from June 20 to June 23, in Braga (UMinho, Campus de Gualtar, Auditorium at School Engineering), in conjunction with VECPAR 2016. Summer School website: http://www.di.uminho.pt/SS-AdvSciComp16/ Hope to see you there! Best regards, The VECPAR 2016 organizing committee Carlos Ferreira ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

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VECPAR 2016: Registration is open
by Carlos Ferreira 03 May '16

03 May '16

The registration link is available! Please check at: http://vecpar.fe.up.pt/2016 Regarding accommodation, you can reserve it by yourself choosing any of the suggested hotels or you can request accommodation in the registration form. Besides hosting VECPAR, Portugal has some special attractions in June: June 23rd: St. John's day celebration, Porto (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festa_de_S%C3%A3o_Jo%C3%A3o_do_Porto) June 23rd to June 26th: Medieval Fair, Guimarães (http://www.guimaraesturismo.com/pages/283?geo_article_id=3226) Hope to see you soon! The VECPAR 2016 Organizing Committee. Carlos Ferreira ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

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FedCSIS 2016 - FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 20 Apr '16

20 Apr '16

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 2016 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) Gdansk, Poland, 11 - 14 September, 2016 www.fedcsis.org (FedCSIS on www.ieee.org: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSIS-on-IEEE-2016) FedCSIS a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, Lodz ACM Chapter, Committee of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, European Alliance for Innovation, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society - POSRS, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT. Please also forward the announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. The FedCSIS Multi-conference consists of Events (conferences, symposia, workshops, dissemination events, special sessions). Each Event may run over any span of time within the conference dates (from half-day to four days). The FedCSIS Events provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, and academia to present and discuss ideas, challenges and potential solutions on established or emerging topics related to research and practice in computer science and information systems. Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference have been indexed in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science. FedCSIS EVENTS The FedCSIS multi-conference consists of EVENTS (conferences, workshops, consortia, tutorials, etc.), grouped into seven conference areas. * AAIA'16 - 11th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications --- AIMaVIG'16 - 2nd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Machine Vision and Graphics --- AIMA'16 - 6th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications --- AIRIM'16 - 1st International Workshop on AI aspects of Reasoning, Information, and Memory --- ASIR'16 - 6th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval --- DSTUI'16 - 6th International Workshop on Dealing with Spatial and Temporal Uncertainty and Imprecision --- LTA'16 - 1st International Workshop on Language Technologies and Applications --- WCO'16 - 9th International Workshop on Computational Optimization * CSS - Computer Science & Systems --- AIPC'16 - 1st International Workshop on Advances in Image Processing and Colorization --- BCPC'16 - 2nd International Workshop on Biological, Chemical and Physical Computations --- CANA'16 - 9th Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms --- CPORA'16 - 1st Workshop on Constraint Programming and Operation Research Applications --- IWCPS'16 - 3rd International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems --- MMAP'16 - 9th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing --- WSC'16 - 8th Workshop on Scalable Computing * ECRM - Education, Curricula & Research Methods --- IEES'16 - 1st International E-education Symposium - Education of the Future --- DS-RAIT'16 - 3rd Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology * iNetSApp'16 - 4th International Conference on Innovative Network Systems and Applications --- EAIS'16 - 3rd Workshop on Emerging Aspects in Information Security --- SoFAST-WS'16 - 5th International Symposium on Frontiers in Network Applications, Network Systems and Web Services --- WSN'16 - 5th International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks * IT4MBS - Information Technology for Management, Business & Society --- ABICT'16 - 7th International Workshop on Advances in Business ICT --- AITM'16 - 14th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management --- APICSS'16 - 1st Workshop on Autopoiesis Perspective on Information, Communication and Social Systems --- ASEG'16 - 1st Workshop on Advanced Systems for e-Governance and e- Democratization --- ISM'16 - 11th Conference on Information Systems Management --- IT4L'16 - 5th Workshop on Information Technologies for Logistics --- KAM'16 - 22nd Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management --- MIQH'16 - 1st Workshop on M-Health Innovations for Quality in Healthcare --- UHH'16 - 2nd International Workshop on Ubiquitous Home Healthcare * JAWS - Joint Agent-oriented Workshops in Synergy --- ABC:MI'16 - 11th Workshop on Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation --- MAS&S'16 - 10th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulations --- SEN-MAS'16 - 4th International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi-Agent Systems * SSD&A - Software Systems Development & Applications --- BTMSPA'16 - 1st Symposium on Balancing Traditional and Modern Software Process Approaches --- MDASD'16 - 4th Workshop on Model Driven Approaches in System Development --- MIDI'16 - 4th Conference on Miltimedia, Interaction, Design and Innovation --- SEW-36 - The 36th IEEE Software Engineering Workshop --- WASE'16 - 1st International Workshop on Affective Software Engineering KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Frederik Ahlemann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Keynote title : How enterprise architecture management improves IS capabilities - Results from a multiple case study - Stan Matwin, Dalhousie University, University of Ottawa, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Science, Keynote title : Big Water Meets Big Data: Analytics of the AIS Ship Tracking Data - Michael Segal, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Keynote title : Location always matters: how to improve performance of dynamic networks? - Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft, Redmond, WA, US, Keynote title: Service focus and focused service composition PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers should be submitted by May 9, 2016 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events). IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: May 9, 2016 (strict deadline) - Position paper submission: May 30, 2016 - Acceptance decision: June 13, 2016 - Final version of paper submission: July 4, 2016 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2016 - Conference dates: September 11-14, 2016 CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS AT: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN

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VECPAR 2016: Call for Participation
by Carlos Ferreira 19 Apr '16

19 Apr '16

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PARTICIPATION 12th International Meeting on High-Performance Computing for Computational Science (VECPAR 2016) University of Porto, Porto, Portugal June 28 - 30, 2016 http://vecpar.fe.up.pt/2016/ Porto has been crowned the BEST EUROPEAN DESTINATION of 2014 for its postcard-perfect views, friendly locals and gastronomy. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This year the VECPAR conference will have a very exciting program with 19 papers from 10 countries. We have a varied selection of paper subjects ranging from distributed to shared and hybrid parallel algorithms and systems, but with a strong focus on computational science applications. Examples are epidemic modeling and word searching. Parallel libraries is also a popular subject this year. Platforms range from clouds to multi-core, many-core, and GPUs. The conference will include invited talks by 4 prominent speakers, very interesting workshops and a crash course, and a fantastic social dinner including Port wine tasting. A list of accepted papers can be found at: http://vecpar.fe.up.pt/2016/papers.html Please, check the conference web site (http://vecpar.fe.up.pt/2016/) for updates and more detailed information. Registrations will be opening soon! Please, check at: http://vecpar.fe.up.pt/2016. We look forward to seeing you soon! The VECPAR 2016 Organizing Committee. Carlos Ferreira ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

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Extended Deadline (April 12) CFP: Big Data & Deep Learning in HPC (Springer LNCS)
by Carlos Ferreira 28 Mar '16

28 Mar '16

------------------------------------ First Workshop on Big Data & Deep Learning in High Performance Computing (http://bigdatadeeplearning2016.inesctec.pt/) in conjunction with VECPAR 2016 - High Performance Computing for Computational Science (http://vecpar.fe.up.pt/2016/) Porto, Portugal June 30, 2016 Porto has been crowned the BEST EUROPEAN DESTINATION of 2014 for its postcard-perfect views, friendly locals and gastronomy. Paper New SUBMISSION DEADLINE: *** April 12, 2016 **** ------------------------------------ ------------------------------------ WORKSHOP ON BIG DATA & DEEP LEARNING IN HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING ------------------------------------ The number of very large data repositories (big data) is increasing in a rapid pace. Analysis of such repositories using the "traditional" sequential implementations of ML and emerging techniques, like deep learning, that model high-level abstractions in data by using multiple processing layers, requires expensive computational resources and long running times. Parallel or distributed computing are possible approaches that can make analysis of very large repositories and exploration of high-level representations feasible. Taking advantage of a parallel or a distributed execution of a ML/statistical system may: i) increase its speed; ii) learn hidden representations; iii) search a larger space and reach a better solution or; iv) increase the range of applications where it can be used (because it can process more data, for example). Parallel and distributed computing is therefore of high importance to extract knowledge from massive amounts of data and learn hidden representations. The workshop will be concerned with the exchange of experience among academics, researchers and the industry whose work in big data and deep learning require high performance computing to achieve goals. Participants will present recently developed algorithms/systems, on going work and applications taking advantage of such parallel or distributed environments. ------------------------------------ LIST OF TOPICS ------------------------------------ All novel data-intensive computing techniques, data storage and integration schemes, and algorithms for cutting-edge high performance computing architectures which targets Big Data and Deep Learning are of interest to the workshop. Examples of topics include but not limited to: - parallel algorithms for data-intensive applications; - scalable data and text mining and information retrieval; - using Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, Storm, Streaming to analyze Big Data; - energy-efficient data-intensive computing; - deep-learning with massive-scale datasets; - querying and visualization of large network datasets; - processing large-scale datasets on clusters of multicore and manycore processors, and accelerators; - heterogeneous computing for Big Data architectures; - Big Data in the Cloud; - processing and analyzing high-resolution images using high-performance computing; - using hybrid infrastructures for Big Data analysis. - New algorithms for parallel/distributed execution of ML systems; - applications of big data and deep learning to real-life problems. ------------------------------------ SUBMISSION ------------------------------------ Papers submitted to this workshop should not exceed 12 pages in length. The papers should be formatted according to the rules of the Springer Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). All accepted papers will be published by Springer in the series entitled Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The proceedings will be distributed in electronic format to participants of VECPAR 2016. You should make your submissions through the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdl2016 ------------------------------------ REGISTRATION ------------------------------------ All participants must attend the VECPAR 2016 conference. http://vecpar.fe.up.pt/2016/registration.html ------------------------------------ ORGANIZATION ------------------------------------ Carlos Ferreira (LIAAD - INESC TEC LA and Polytechnic Institute of Porto) João Gama (LIAAD - INESC TEC LA and University of Porto) Albert Bifet (Telecom ParisTech) Vítor Santos Costa (CRACS - INESC TEC LA and University of Porto) Rui Camacho (LIAAD -INESC TEC LA and University of Porto) Carlos Ferreira ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

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Final CFP: Big Data & Deep Learning in HPC (Springer LNCS)
by Carlos Ferreira 24 Mar '16

24 Mar '16

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Porto, Portugal June 30, 2016 Workshop on Big Data & Deep Learning in High Performance Computing (http://bigdatadeeplearning2016.inesctec.pt/) in conjunction with VECPAR 2016 - High Performance Computing for Computational Science (http://vecpar.fe.up.pt/2016/) Paper Submission Deadline: 27 March 2016 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------ WORKSHOP ON BIG DATA & DEEP LEARNING IN HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING ------------------------------------ The number of very large data repositories (big data) is increasing in a rapid pace. Analysis of such repositories using the "traditional" sequential implementations of ML and emerging techniques, like deep learning, that model high-level abstractions in data by using multiple processing layers, requires expensive computational resources and long running times. Parallel or distributed computing are possible approaches that can make analysis of very large repositories and exploration of high-level representations feasible. Taking advantage of a parallel or a distributed execution of a ML/statistical system may: i) increase its speed; ii) learn hidden representations; iii) search a larger space and reach a better solution or; iv) increase the range of applications where it can be used (because it can process more data, for example). Parallel and distributed computing is therefore of high importance to extract knowledge from massive amounts of data and learn hidden representations. The workshop will be concerned with the exchange of experience among academics, researchers and the industry whose work in big data and deep learning require high performance computing to achieve goals. Participants will present recently developed algorithms/systems, on going work and applications taking advantage of such parallel or distributed environments. ------------------------------------ LIST OF TOPICS ------------------------------------ All novel data-intensive computing techniques, data storage and integration schemes, and algorithms for cutting-edge high performance computing architectures which targets Big Data and Deep Learning are of interest to the workshop. Examples of topics include but not limited to: - parallel algorithms for data-intensive applications; - scalable data and text mining and information retrieval; - using Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, Storm, Streaming to analyze Big Data; - energy-efficient data-intensive computing; - deep-learning with massive-scale datasets; - querying and visualization of large network datasets; - processing large-scale datasets on clusters of multicore and manycore processors, and accelerators; - heterogeneous computing for Big Data architectures; - Big Data in the Cloud; - processing and analyzing high-resolution images using high-performance computing; - using hybrid infrastructures for Big Data analysis. - New algorithms for parallel/distributed execution of ML systems; - applications of big data and deep learning to real-life problems. ------------------------------------ SUBMISSION ------------------------------------ Papers submitted to this workshop should not exceed 12 pages in length. The papers should be formatted according to the rules of the Springer Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). All accepted papers will be published by Springer in the series entitled Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The proceedings will be distributed in electronic format to participants of VECPAR 2016. You should make your submissions through the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdl2016 ------------------------------------ REGISTRATION ------------------------------------ All participants must attend the VECPAR 2016 conference. http://vecpar.fe.up.pt/2016/registration.html ------------------------------------ ORGANIZATION ------------------------------------ Carlos Ferreira (LIAAD - INESC TEC LA and Polytechnic Institute of Porto) João Gama (LIAAD - INESC TEC LA and University of Porto) Albert Bifet (Telecom ParisTech) Vítor Santos Costa (CRACS - INESC TEC LA and University of Porto) Rui Camacho (LIAAD -INESC TEC LA and University of Porto) Carlos Ferreira ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

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CfP 11th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '16)
by VHPC 16 18 Mar '16

18 Mar '16

==================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS 11th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '16) held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance, June 19-23, 2016, Frankfurt, Germany. ==================================================================== Date: June 23, 2016 Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org Paper Submission Deadline: April 25, 2016 Call for Papers Virtualization technologies constitute a key enabling factor for flexible resource management in modern data centers, and particularly in cloud environments. Cloud providers need to manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion to support the highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads and hosted applications customers deploy. Similarly, HPC environments have been increasingly adopting techniques that enable flexible management of vast computing and networking resources, close to marginal provisioning cost, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Various virtualization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple underutilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization (i.e., containerization), with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their coexistence within the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of responsiveness and performance; I/O Virtualization allows physical NICs/HBAs to take traffic from multiple VMs or containers; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of the underlying physical topology and IP addressing, provides the fundamental ground on top of which evolved network services can be realized with an unprecedented level of dynamicity and flexibility; the increasingly adopted paradigm of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) promises to extend this flexibility to the control and data planes of network paths. Topics of Interest The VHPC program committee solicits original, high-quality submissions related to virtualization across the entire software stack with a special focus on the intersection of HPC and the cloud. Topics include, but are not limited to: - Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, cloud HPC and grids - OS-level virtualization including container runtimes (Docker, rkt et al.) - Lightweight compute node operating systems/VMMs - Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms, hypervisors - QoS and SLA in hypervisors and network virtualization - Cloud based network and system management for SDN and NFV - Management, deployment and monitoring of virtualized environments - Virtual per job / on-demand clusters and cloud bursting - Performance measurement, modelling and monitoring of virtualized/cloud workloads - Programming models for virtualized environments - Virtualization in data intensive computing and Big Data processing - Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance, high-availability and security - Heterogeneous virtualized environments, virtualized accelerators, GPUs and co-processors - Optimized communication libraries/protocols in the cloud and for HPC in the cloud - Topology management and optimization for distributed virtualized applications - Adaptation of emerging HPC technologies (high performance networks, RDMA, etc..) - I/O and storage virtualization, virtualization aware file systems - Job scheduling/control/policy in virtualized environments - Checkpointing and migration of VM-based large compute jobs - Cloud frameworks and APIs - Energy-efficient / power-aware virtualization The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, plus lightning talks that are limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. Important Dates April 25, 2016 - Paper submission deadline May 30, 2016 Acceptance notification June 23, 2016 - Workshop Day July 25, 2016 - Camera-ready version due Chair Michael Alexander (chair), TU Wien, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), NTUA, Greece Balazs Gerofi (co-chair), RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science, Japan Program committee Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Costas Bekas, IBM Research, Switzerland Jakob Blomer, CERN Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Roberto Canonico, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy Julian Chesterfield, OnApp, UK Stephen Crago, USC ISI, USA Christoffer Dall, Columbia University, USA Patrick Dreher, MIT, USA Robert Futrick, Cycle Computing, USA Robert Gardner, University of Chicago, USA William Gardner, University of Guelph, Canada Wolfgang Gentzsch, UberCloud, USA Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Marcus Hardt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Krishna Kant, Templte University, USA Romeo Kinzler, IBM, Switzerland Brian Kocoloski, University of Pittsburgh, USA Kornilios Kourtis, IBM Research, Switzerland Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA Nikos Parlavantzas, IRISA, France Kevin Pendretti, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Che-Rung Roger Lee, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy Qing Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Paul Mundt, Adaptant, Germany Amer Qouneh, University of Florida, USA Carlos Reaño, Technical University of Valencia, Spain Seetharami Seelam, IBM Research, USA Josh Simons, VMWare, USA Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Dieter Suess, TU Wien, Austria Craig Stewart, Indiana University, USA Anata Tiwari, San Diego Supercomputer Center, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Amit Vadudevan, Carnegie Mellon University, USA Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan Nicholas Wright, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan Gianluigi Zanetti, CRS4, Italy Paper Submission-Publication Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions should include abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. 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. The format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide source files. Format Guidelines: ftp://ftp.springer.de/pub/tex/latex/llncs/latex2e/llncs2e.zip Abstract, Paper Submission Link: https://edas.info/newPaper.php?c=21801 Lightning Talks Lightning Talks are non-paper track, synoptical in nature and are strictly limited to 5 minutes. They can be used to gain early feedback on ongoing research, for demonstrations, to present research results, early research ideas, perspectives and positions of interest to the community. Submit abstract via the main submission link. General Information The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with the International Supercomputing Conference - High Performance (ISC) 2016, June 19-23, Frankfurt, Germany.

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What's the state of openstack-hpc now?
by me,apporc 15 Mar '16

15 Mar '16

Hi, all I found this etherpad[1] which was created long time ago, inside which there are some blueprints: support-heterogeneous-archs[2], heterogeneous-instance-types[3] and schedule-instances-on-heterogeneous-architectures[4] . But those blueprints had been obselete since year 2014, and some of its patches were abandoned. There however is a forked branch github[5] or launchpad[6], which is diverged far away from nova/trunk, and not updated since 2014 too. Is that we just abandoned those blueprints in openstack or else? Besides, there is a CaaS[7] project called Senlin[8], which refered to the word "HPC" in its wiki. But it seems like not really related. "Cluster" can mean many things, but hpc is some kind different. I can not get the status of GPU support in nova. As the case of network, SR-IOV[9] seems ok. For storage, i don't know what the word "mi2" means in etherpad[1]. According to what i got above, it seems we can not use hpc in openstack now. But there are some videos here[10], here[11] and here[12].Since we can not get GPU in nova instance, are they just building traditional hpcs without GPU? I need more information, thanks in advance. 1. https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/HVHsTqOQGc 2. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/support-heterogeneous-archs 3. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/heterogeneous-instance-types 4. https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/schedule-instances-on-heterogen… 5. https://github.com/usc-isi/nova 6. https://code.launchpad.net/~usc-isi/nova/hpc-trunk 7. https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/CaaS 8. https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/Senlin 9. https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/SR-IOV-Passthrough-For-Networking 10. https://www.openstack.org/summit/vancouver-2015/summit-videos/presentation/… 11. https://www.openstack.org/summit/tokyo-2015/videos/presentation/hpc-on-open… 12. https://www.openstack.org/summit/tokyo-2015/videos/presentation/canonical-h… -- Regards, apporc

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CFP [Springer LNCS]: Workshop on Big Data & Deep Learning in HPC
by Carlos Ferreira 01 Mar '16

01 Mar '16

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Porto, Portugal June 30, 2016 First Workshop on Big Data & Deep Learning in High Performance Computing (http://bigdatadeeplearning2016.inesctec.pt/) in conjunction with VECPAR 2016 - High Performance Computing for Computational Science (http://vecpar.fe.up.pt/2016/) Paper Submission Deadline: 27 March 2016 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------ WORKSHOP ON BIG DATA & DEEP LEARNING IN HIGH PERFORMANCE COMPUTING ------------------------------------ The number of very large data repositories (big data) is increasing in a rapid pace. Analysis of such repositories using the "traditional" sequential implementations of ML and emerging techniques, like deep learning, that model high-level abstractions in data by using multiple processing layers, requires expensive computational resources and long running times. Parallel or distributed computing are possible approaches that can make analysis of very large repositories and exploration of high-level representations feasible. Taking advantage of a parallel or a distributed execution of a ML/statistical system may: i) increase its speed; ii) learn hidden representations; iii) search a larger space and reach a better solution or; iv) increase the range of applications where it can be used (because it can process more data, for example). Parallel and distributed computing is therefore of high importance to extract knowledge from massive amounts of data and learn hidden representations. The workshop will be concerned with the exchange of experience among academics, researchers and the industry whose work in big data and deep learning require high performance computing to achieve goals. Participants will present recently developed algorithms/systems, on going work and applications taking advantage of such parallel or distributed environments. ------------------------------------ LIST OF TOPICS ------------------------------------ All novel data-intensive computing techniques, data storage and integration schemes, and algorithms for cutting-edge high performance computing architectures which targets Big Data and Deep Learning are of interest to the workshop. Examples of topics include but not limited to: - parallel algorithms for data-intensive applications; - scalable data and text mining and information retrieval; - using Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, Storm, Streaming to analyze Big Data; - energy-efficient data-intensive computing; - deep-learning with massive-scale datasets; - querying and visualization of large network datasets; - processing large-scale datasets on clusters of multicore and manycore processors, and accelerators; - heterogeneous computing for Big Data architectures; - Big Data in the Cloud; - processing and analyzing high-resolution images using high-performance computing; - using hybrid infrastructures for Big Data analysis. - New algorithms for parallel/distributed execution of ML systems; - applications of big data and deep learning to real-life problems. ------------------------------------ SUBMISSION ------------------------------------ Papers submitted to this workshop should not exceed 12 pages in length. The papers should be formatted according to the rules of the Springer Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS). All accepted papers will be published by Springer in the series entitled Lecture Notes in Computer Science. The proceedings will be distributed in electronic format to participants of VECPAR 2016. You should make your submissions through the EasyChair system: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bdl2016 ------------------------------------ REGISTRATION ------------------------------------ All participants must attend the VECPAR 2016 conference. http://vecpar.fe.up.pt/2016/registration.html ------------------------------------ ORGANIZATION ------------------------------------ Carlos Ferreira (LIAAD - INESC TEC LA and Polytechnic Institute of Porto) João Gama (LIAAD - INESC TEC LA and University of Porto) Albert Bifet (Telecom ParisTech) Vítor Santos Costa (CRACS - INESC TEC LA and University of Porto) Rui Camacho (LIAAD -INESC TEC LA and University of Porto) Carlos Ferreira ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt

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CANA 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 13 Feb '16

13 Feb '16

CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= 9th Workshop on Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms (CANA'16) Gdansk, Poland, 11 - 14 September, 2016 WWW: http://fedcsis.org/cana E-mail: cana2016(a)fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to CANA 2016 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2016). FedCSIS a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, Lodz ACM Chapter, European Alliance for Innovation, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society - POSRS, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT. The CANA workshop is devoted to numerical algorithms with the particular attention to the latest scientific trends in this area and to problems related to implementation of libraries of efficient numerical algorithms. The goal of the workshop is meeting of researchers from various institutes and exchanging of their experience, and integrations of scientific centers. TOPICS ======================================= - Parallel numerical algorithms - Novel data formats for dense and sparse matrices - Libraries for numerical computations - Numerical algorithms testing and benchmarking - Analysis of rounding errors of numerical algorithms - Languages, tools and environments for programming numerical algorithms - Numerical algorithms on coprocesors (GPU, Intel Xeon Phi, etc.) - Paradigms of programming numerical algorithms - Contemporary computer architectures - Heterogeneous numerical algorithms - Applications of numerical algorithms in science and technology PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ======================================= Papers should be submitted by April 18, 2016 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events). IMPORTANT DATES ======================================= - Paper submission: April 18, 2016 (strict deadline) - Position paper submission: May 30, 2016 - Acceptance decision: June 13, 2016 - Final version of paper submission: July 4, 2016 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2016 - Conference dates: September 11-14, 2016 EVENT CHAIRS ======================================= - Bylina, Beata, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland - Bylina, Jaroslaw, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland - Stpiczyński, Przemysław, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far) ======================================= - Amodio, Pierluigi, Università di Bari, Italy - Anastassi, Zacharias, Qatar University, Qatar - Brugnano, Luigi, Universita' di Firenze, Italy - Czachorski, Tadeusz, IITiS - Gansterer, Wilfried, University of Vienna, Austria - Georgiev, Krassimir, IICT - BAS, Bulgaria - Kucaba-Pietal, Anna, Politechnika Rzeszowska, Poland - Lirkov, Ivan, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies , Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria - Marowka, Ami, Bar-Ilan University, Israel - Satco, Bianca-Renata, Stefan cel Mare University of Suceava, Romania - Sedukhin, Stanislav, The University of Aizu, Japan - Shishkina, Olga, Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Germany - Srinivasan, Natesan, Indian Institute of Technology, India - Tudruj, Marek, Inst. of Comp. Science Polish Academy of Sciences/Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Poland - Tůma, Miroslav, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic - Vazhenin, Alexander, University of Aizu, Japan CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS AT: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN

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FINAL CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: VECPAR 2016 - High Performance Computing for Computational Science
by Carlos Ferreira 10 Feb '16

10 Feb '16

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS 12th International Meeting on High-Performance Computing for Computational Science (VECPAR 2016) University of Porto, Porto, Portugal June 27 - 30, 2016 http://vecpar.fe.up.pt/2016/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- As part of the 12th VECPAR International Meeting on High Performance Computing for Computational Science, we are seeking proposals for affiliated workshops. The workshops should be focused in fresh topics related to parallel and distributed computational science, from theory to practice, where new ideas, subjects, open problems and works on progress can be discussed and explored. The accepted workshops will be held on 1st of July 2016 and may be organized as half- or full-day. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for workshop proposals: February 15th, 2016 Notification of acceptance: February 19th, 2016 Deadline for paper submission: To be defined by the chairs Author notification: To be defined by the chairs Camera-ready version of papers: May 15th, 2016 PROPOSALS GUIDELINES Workshop title and acronym; Workshop description (150-200 words) to be included in the VECPAR website; Name and short bio of the workshop proponents; A list of the tentative program committee. Responsibilities of the Workshop Chairs: Prepare a dedicated call for papers; Maintain the workshop website; Define the workshop program committee; Select the papers by a peer review process. PROCEEDINGS The papers of the workshops will be published under the Springer LNCS series. The authors may be asked to revise the paper after the conference in order to meet the series requirements. BUDGET VECPAR 2016 will not pay for travel or other arrangements for workshop organizers or any of their invited guests. HOW TO SUBMIT The workshop proposals should be sent by email to the Workshops Chair: João Manuel R. S. Tavares Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal tavares(a)fe.up.pt Carlos Ferreira [http://www2.isep.ipp.pt/assinatura_email/EMAIL_ISEP.png] ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt<http://www.isep.ipp.pt>

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FINAL CFP: VECPAR 2016 - High Performance Computing for Computational Science
by Carlos Ferreira 01 Feb '16

01 Feb '16

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS 12th International Meeting on High-Performance Computing for Computational Science (VECPAR 2016) University of Porto, Porto, Portugal June 27 - 30, 2016 http://vecpar.fe.up.pt/2016/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: (EXTENDED DEADLINES!) Deadline for submission: *** February 5th, 2016 *** Notification of acceptance: March 20th, 2016 Camera ready version: May 2nd, 2016 The International Meeting on High Performance Computing for Computational Science (VECPAR) is the premier venue for presenting and discussing the latest research and practice in high end computer modeling and complex systems. VECPAR encourages submission of research contributions from academia, research laboratories and industry to address pressing issues in computational science resulting from applications of interest to society and hardware innovations. VECPAR'16, the 12th edition of the VECPAR series of conferences is organized by the University of Porto, Portugal, and will be held at the Department of Computer Science, School of Sciences. An award is planned for best student papers. Contributions are solicited in all areas of computational science and engineering (CS&E), including (but not limited to) the following topics: * Large scale Simulations in CS&E * Parallel and Distributed Computing * Parallel Algorithms * Numerical Algorithms on Multicore, GPUs and Emerging Architectures * Symbolic algorithms on Multicore, GPUs and Emerging Architectures * Support Tools and Environments * Scheduling and Load Balancing * Performance Analysis, Evaluation and Tuning You should make your submissions through EasyChair at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vecpar2016 Submitted papers must be formatted according to the rules of the Springer Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS): http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Please note that papers (for conference presentation) must not exceed 8 pages in length, using the LNCS format. Accepted papers will be distributed in electronic format to participants of VECPAR'16. Printed versions of the invited talks and a set of selected papers will be published by Springer in the series entitled Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Selected papers will be limited to 14 pages and will be judged based on relevance, significance, originality, correctness and clarity. More information about this process will be sent to interested authors after the conference. Carlos Ferreira [http://www2.isep.ipp.pt/assinatura_email/EMAIL_ISEP.png] ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt<http://www.isep.ipp.pt>

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SEN-MAS 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 29 Jan '16

29 Jan '16

CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= 5th International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi-Agent Systems (SEN-MAS'16) Gdansk, Poland, 11 - 14 September, 2016 WWW: http://fedcsis.org/sen-mas E-mail: sen-mas2016(a)fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to SEN-MAS 2016 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2016). FedCSIS a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, Lodz ACM Chapter, European Alliance for Innovation, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society - POSRS, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT. TOPICS ======================================= The SEN-MAS'16 Workshop aims at providing a forum for presenting and discussing recent advances and experiences in building and using multi-agent systems for modelling, simulation and management of smart energy networks. In particular, it includes (but is not limited to) the following topics of interest: - Experiences of Smart Grid implementations by using MAS - Applications of Smart Grid technologies - Management of distributed generation and storage - Islands Power Systems, Microgrid Applications - Real time configurations of energy networks - Distributed planning process for energy networks by using MAS - Self-configuring or self-healing energy systems - Load modelling and control with MAS - Simulations of Smart Energy Networks - Software Tools for Smart Energy Networks - Energy Storage - Electrical Vehicles - Interactions and exchange between networks for electricity, gas and heat - Stability in Energy Networks - Distributed Optimization in Energy Networks PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ======================================= Papers should be submitted by April 18, 2016 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will be published as Special Issue(s) of: - Scalable Computing; Practice and Experience - Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling (publication fee waiver for the papers that are going to be selected is expected) - Multiagent and Grid Systems - Computer Science Journal (7 points in current ranking of MNiSW - this is something cryptic to the outsiders, but will be clear for scientists from Poland) IMPORTANT DATES ======================================= - Paper submission: April 18, 2016 (strict deadline) - Position paper submission: May 30, 2016 - Acceptance decision: June 13, 2016 - Final version of paper submission: July 4, 2016 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2016 - Conference dates: September 11-14, 2016 EVENT CHAIRS ======================================= - Derksen, Christian, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany - Kowalczyk, Ryszard, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia STEERING COMMITTEE ======================================= - Derksen, Christian, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany - Lehnhoff, Sebastian, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Germany - Kowalczyk, Ryszard, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Nahorski, Zbigniew, Systems Research Institute - Polish Academy of Science, Poland PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far) ======================================= - Moench, Lars, FernUniversität Hagen, Germany - Ossowski, Sascha, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain - Renz, Wolfgang, HAW Hamburg - Sonnenschein, Michael, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany - Sudeikat, Jan, Hamburg Energie GmbH, Germany CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS AT: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN

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CALL FOR WORKSHOP PROPOSALS: VECPAR 2016 - High Performance Computing for Computational Science
by Carlos Ferreira 22 Jan '16

22 Jan '16

As part of the 12th VECPAR International Meeting on High Performance Computing for Computational Science, we are seeking proposals for affiliated workshops. The workshops should be focused in fresh topics related to parallel and distributed computational science, from theory to practice, where new ideas, subjects, open problems and works on progress can be discussed and explored. The accepted workshops will be held on 1st of July 2016 and may be organized as half- or full-day. IMPORTANT DATES Deadline for workshop proposals: February 15th, 2016 Notification of acceptance: February 19th, 2016 Deadline for paper submission: To be defined by the chairs Author notification: To be defined by the chairs Camera-ready version of papers: May 15th, 2016 PROPOSALS GUIDELINES Workshop title and acronym; Workshop description (150-200 words) to be included in the VECPAR website; Name and short bio of the workshop proponents; A list of the tentative program committee. Responsibilities of the Workshop Chairs: Prepare a dedicated call for papers; Maintain the workshop website; Define the workshop program committee; Select the papers by a peer review process. PROCEEDINGS The papers of the workshops will be published under the Springer LNCS series. The authors may be asked to revise the paper after the conference in order to meet the series requirements. BUDGET VECPAR 2016 will not pay for travel or other arrangements for workshop organizers or any of their invited guests. HOW TO SUBMIT The workshop proposals should be sent by email to the Workshops Chair: João Manuel R. S. Tavares Faculty of Engineering of the University of Porto, Portugal tavares(a)fe.up.pt Carlos Ferreira [http://www2.isep.ipp.pt/assinatura_email/EMAIL_ISEP.png] ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt<http://www.isep.ipp.pt>

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MMAP 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 19 Jan '16

19 Jan '16

CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= 9th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing (MMAP'16) Gdansk, Poland, 11 - 14 September, 2016 WWW: http://fedcsis.org/mmap E-mail: mmap2016(a)fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to MMAP 2016 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2016). FedCSIS a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, Lodz ACM Chapter, European Alliance for Innovation, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society - POSRS, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT. MMAP 2016 is organized by Software Engineering Department, Faculty of Automation, Computers and Electronics, University of Craiova, Romania "Multimedia Applications Development" Research Centre. It is a major forum for researchers and practitioners from academia, industry, and government to present, discuss, and exchange ideas that address real-world problems with real-world solutions. The MMAP 2016 Symposium welcomes submissions of original papers concerning all aspects of multimedia domain ranging from concepts developments to advanced technologies and innovative and theoretical applications. MMAP invites original previously unpublished contributions that are not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference. Papers acceptance and publication will be judged based on their relevance to the symposium theme, clarity of presentation, originality and accuracy of results and proposed solutions. TOPICS ======================================= Topics of interest are related to Multimedia Processing and Applications including, but are not limited to the following areas: - Audio, Image and Video Processing - Animation, Virtual Reality, 3D and Stereo Imaging - Big Data Science and Multimedia Systems - Cloud Computing and Multimedia Applications - Machine Learning, Data Mining, Information Retrieval in Multimedia Applications - Multimedia File Systems and Databases: Indexing, Recognition and Retrieval - Multimedia in Internet and Web Based Systems - E-Learning, E-Commerce and E-Society Applications - Human Computer Interaction and Interfaces in Multimedia Applications - Multimedia in Medical Applications - Entertainment and games - Security in Multimedia Applications: Authentication and Watermarking - Distributed Multimedia Systems - Network and Operating System Support for Multimedia - Mobile Network Architecture - Intelligent Multimedia Network Applications - Future Trends in Computing System Technologies and Applications PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ======================================= Papers should be submitted by April 18, 2016 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will be published as Special Issue(s): - currently, a special issue of the Computer Science and Information Systems journal (ISI Indexed) is being prepared on the basis of selected papers from the MMAP 2015; it will be published in 2016 - special issue, based on the selected MMAP 2016 submissions is also planned for the Journal of Computer Science & Applications - similarly, in 2016, special issues of these two journals are going to be considered - furthermore, we are in active negotiations for additional Special Issue(s) based on the papers accepted for the MMAP 2016 -- special issues proposals should be submitted to MMAP'16 organizers IMPORTANT DATES ======================================= - Paper submission: April 18, 2016 (strict deadline) - Position paper submission: May 30, 2016 - Acceptance decision: June 13, 2016 - Final version of paper submission: July 4, 2016 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2016 - Conference dates: September 11-14, 2016 EVENT CHAIRS ======================================= - Brezovan, Marius, University of Craiova - Burdescu, Dumitru Dan, University of Craiova, Romania STEERING COMMITTEE ======================================= - Amy Neustein, Boston University, USA, Editor of Speech Technology - Lakhmi C. Jain, University of South Australia and University of Canberra, Australia - Ioannis Pitas, University of Thessaloniki, Greece - Costin Badica, University of Craiova, Romania - Borko Furht, Florida Atlantic University, USA - Harald Kosch, University of Passau, Germany - Vladimir Uskov, Bradley University, USA - Thomas M. Deserno, Aachen University, Germany PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far) ======================================= - Badica, Amelia, University of Craiova, Romania - Böszörmenyi, Laszlo, Klagenfurt University, Austria - Burlea Schiopoiu, Adriana, University of Craiova - Camacho, David, Universidad Autonoma de Madrid, Spain - Cretu, Vladimir, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Romania - Debono, Carl James, University of Malta, Malta - Fabijańska, Anna, Lodz University of Technology, Poland - Institute of Applied Computer Science, Poland - Fomichov, Vladimir, National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia., Russia - Giurca, Adrian, Brandenburg University of Technology, Germany - Grosu, Daniel, Wayne State University, United States - Groza, Voicu, University of Ottawa, Canada - Kabranov, Ognian, Cisco Systems, United States - Kannan, Rajkumar, Bishop Heber College Autonomous, India - Korzhik, Valery, State University of Telecommunications, Russia - Kotenko, Igor, St. Petersburg Institute for Informatics and Automation of the Russian Academy of Science, Russia - Kriksciuniene, Dalia, Vilnius University, Lithuania - Lau, Rynson, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong S.A.R., China - Lloret, Jaime, Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain - Logofatu, Bogdan, University of Bucharest, Romania - Mangioni, Giuseppe, DIEEI - University of Catania, Italy - Mannens, Erik, Ghent University - Mihaescu, Cristian, University of Craiova, Reunion - Mocanu, Mihai, University of Craiova, Romania - Morales-Luna, Guillermo, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico - Ohzeki, Kazuo, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan - Popescu, Dan, CSIRO, Sydney, Australia, Australia - Querini, Marco, Department of Civil Engineering and Computer Science Engineering - RUTKAUSKIENE, Danguole, Kaunas University of Technology - Salem, Abdel-Badeeh M., Ain Shams University, Egypt - Sari, Riri Fitri, University of Indonesia, Indonesia - Stanescu, Liana, University of Craiova - Tejera, Mario Hernández, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain - Trausan-Matu, Stefan, Politehnica University of Bucharest, Romania - Trzcielinski, Stefan, Poznan University of Technology, Poland - Tsihrintzis, George, University of Piraeus, Greece - Vega-Rodríguez, Miguel A., University of Extremadura, Spain - Velastin, Sergio, Kingston University, United Kingdom - Virvou, Maria, University of Piraeus, Greece - Watanabe, Toyohide, University of Nagoya - Wotawa, Franz, Technische Universitaet Graz, Austria - Zurada, Jacek, University of Louisville, United States CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS AT: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN

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AAIA 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 17 Jan '16

17 Jan '16

CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= 11th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications (AAIA'16) Gdansk, Poland, 11 - 14 September, 2016 www.fedcsis.org E-mail: aaia2016(a)fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to AAIA - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2016). FedCSIS a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, Lodz ACM Chapter, European Alliance for Innovation, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society - POSRS, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT. The AAIA'16 will bring researchers, developers, practitioners, and users to present their latest research, results, and ideas in all areas of artificial intelligence. We hope that theory and successful applications presented at the AAIA'15 will be of interest to researchers and practitioners who want to know about both theoretical advances and latest applied developments in Artificial Intelligence. As such AAIA'16 will provide a forum for the exchange of ideas between theoreticians and practitioners to address the important issues. TOPICS ======================================= Papers related to theories, methodologies, and applications in science and technology in this theme are especially solicited. Topics covering industrial issues/applications and academic research are included, but not limited to: - Decision Support - Machine Learning - Fuzzy Sets and Fuzzy Arithmetics (see also AAIA’16 Plenary Panel) - Rough Sets and Approximate Reasoning - Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery - Data Modeling and Feature Engineering - Data Integration and Information Fusion - Hybrid and Hierarchical Intelligent Systems - Neural Networks and Deep Learning - Bayesian Networks and Bayesian Reasoning - Case-based Reasoning and Similarity - Web Mining and Social Networks - AI in Business Intelligence and Online Analytics - AI in Robotics and Cyber-Physical Systems - AI-centered Systems and Large-Scale Applications PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ======================================= Papers should be submitted by April 18, 2016 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events). IMPORTANT DATES ======================================= - Paper submission: April 18, 2016 (strict deadline) - Position paper submission: May 30, 2016 - Acceptance decision: June 13, 2016 - Final version of paper submission: July 4, 2016 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2016 - Conference dates: September 11-14, 2016 EVENT CHAIRS ======================================= - Janusz, Andrzej, University of Warsaw, Poland - Ślęzak, Dominik, University of Warsaw & Infobright Inc., Poland PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far) ======================================= - Artiemjew, Piotr, University of Warmia and Mazury, Poland - Bartkowiak, Anna, Wroclaw University (retired profersor UWr), Poland - Bazan, Jan, University of Rzeszów, Poland - Bordogna, Gloria - Błaszczyński, Jerzy, Poznan University of Technology, Poland - Cetnarowicz, Krzysztof, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland - Chakraverty, Shampa, Netaji Subhas Institute of Technology, India - Chen, Phoebe - Cheung, William, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong S.A.R., China - Cyganek, Boguslaw, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland - Czarnowski, Ireneusz, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland - Czyżewski, Andrzej, Electronics, Telecommunications, and Informatics Faculty, Gdansk University of Technology - Dardzinska, Agnieszka, Bialystok University of Technology, Poland - Dey, Lipika, Tata Consulting Services, India - do Carmo Nicoletti, Maria - Duentsch, Ivo, Computer Science Department, Brock University, Canada - Eklund, Patrik, Umea University, Sweden - Froelich, Wojciech, Institute of Computer Science, University of Silesia, Poland - Gao, Xiaoying - Holzinger, Andreas, Graz University of Technology, Austria - Jin, Xiaolong, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China - Kayakutlu, Gulgun, Istanbul Technical University, Turkey - King, Irwin - Korbicz, Józef, University of Zielona Gora, Poland - Krasuski, Adam, The Main School of Fire Service (SGSP), Poland - Kryszkiewicz, Marzena, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - Lopes, Lucelene, PUCRS, Brazil - Marek, Victor, University of Kentucky, United States - Matson, Eric T., Purdue University, United States - Menasalvas, Ernestina, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain - Mercier-Laurent, Eunika, University Jean Moulin Lyon3, France - Mirkin, Boris, Birkbeck University of London UK and NRU Higher School of Economics Moscow RF, Russia - Miyamoto, Sadaaki, University of Tsukuba, Japan - Moshkov, Mikhail, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, Saudi Arabia - Musiał-Gabryś, Katarzyna - Myszkowski, Pawel, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland - Nourani, Cyrus F., Akdmkrd-DAI TU Berlin, CBS Copenhagen-TansMedia GmbH, Munich, and SFU Burnaby, Canada - Nowostawski, Mariusz, Norwegian University of Technology and Science NTNU, Norway - Ohsawa, Yukio, The University of Tokyo, Japan - Peters, Georg, Munich University of Applied Sciences, Germany - Porta, Marco, University of Pavia, Italy - Przybyła-Kasperek, Małgorzata, University of Silesia, Poland - Raghavan, Vijay, Univ. of Louisiana at Lafayette, United States - Rao, Raghavendra - Rauch, Jan - Reformat, Marek, University of Alberta, Canada - Ruta, Dymitr, EBTIC, Khalifa University, UAE - Ryżko, Dominik - Santofimia, Maria Jose, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain - Schaefer, Gerald, Loughborough University, United Kingdom - Shang, Lin - Sikora, Marek, Silesian University of Technology, Poland - Sydow, Marcin, Polish Academy of Sciences and Polish-Japanese Acad. of IT, Poland - Szczęch, Izabela, Poznan University of Technology, Poland - Szpakowicz, Stan, EECS, University of Ottawa, Canada - Szwed, Piotr, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland - Tsay, Li-Shiang, North Carolina A&T State University, United States - Unold, Olgierd, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland - Wang, Xin, University of Calgary, Canada - Weber, Richard, Universidad de Chile, Chile - Wieczorkowska, Alicja, Polish Japanese Academy of Information Technology, Poland - Wilbik, Anna - Wozniak, Michal, Wroclaw University of Technology, Poland - Zadrozny, Slawomir, Systems Research Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland - Zakrzewska, Danuta, Lodz University of Technology, Poland - Zielosko, Beata, University of Silesia, Poland - Ziolko, Bartosz, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS AT: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN

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Extended Deadlines: VECPAR 2016 - High Performance Computing for Computational Science
by Carlos Ferreira 16 Jan '16

16 Jan '16

------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ CALL FOR PAPERS 12th International Meeting on High-Performance Computing for Computational Science (VECPAR 2016) University of Porto, Porto, Portugal June 27 - 30, 2016 http://vecpar.fe.up.pt/2016/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES: (EXTENDED DEADLINES!) Deadline for submission: *** February 5th, 2016 *** Notification of acceptance: March 20th, 2016 Camera ready version: May 2nd, 2016 The International Meeting on High Performance Computing for Computational Science (VECPAR) is the premier venue for presenting and discussing the latest research and practice in high end computer modeling and complex systems. VECPAR encourages submission of research contributions from academia, research laboratories and industry to address pressing issues in computational science resulting from applications of interest to society and hardware innovations. VECPAR'16, the 12th edition of the VECPAR series of conferences is organized by the University of Porto, Portugal, and will be held at the Department of Computer Science, School of Sciences. An award is planned for best student papers. Contributions are solicited in all areas of computational science and engineering (CS&E), including (but not limited to) the following topics: * Large scale Simulations in CS&E * Parallel and Distributed Computing * Parallel Algorithms * Numerical Algorithms on Multicore, GPUs and Emerging Architectures * Symbolic algorithms on Multicore, GPUs and Emerging Architectures * Support Tools and Environments * Scheduling and Load Balancing * Performance Analysis, Evaluation and Tuning You should make your submissions through EasyChair at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vecpar2016 Submitted papers must be formatted according to the rules of the Springer Series Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS): http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0 Please note that papers (for conference presentation) must not exceed 8 pages in length, using the LNCS format. Accepted papers will be distributed in electronic format to participants of VECPAR'16. Printed versions of the invited talks and a set of selected papers will be published by Springer in the series entitled Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Selected papers will be limited to 14 pages and will be judged based on relevance, significance, originality, correctness and clarity. More information about this process will be sent to interested authors after the conference. Carlos Ferreira [http://www2.isep.ipp.pt/assinatura_email/EMAIL_ISEP.png] ISEP | Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto Rua Dr. António Bernardino de Almeida, 431 4249-015 Porto - PORTUGAL tel. +351 228 340 500 | fax +351 228 321 159 mail(a)isep.ipp.pt | www.isep.ipp.pt<http://www.isep.ipp.pt>

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ABC:MI 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 15 Jan '16

15 Jan '16

CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= 11th Workshop on Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation (ABC:MI'16) Gdansk, Poland, 11 - 14 September, 2016 WWW: https://fedcsis.org/abcmi E-mail: abcmi2016(a)fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to ABC:MI - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2016). FedCSIS a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, Lodz ACM Chapter, European Alliance for Innovation, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society - POSRS, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT. The field of agent technology is rapidly maturing. One of key factors that influence this process is the gathered body of knowledge that allows in-depth reflection on the very nature of designing and implementing agent systems. As a result, there is now significant knowledge on how to design and implement them. There is also a deeper understanding of the most important issues to be addressed in the process. Therefore, on the top-most level a progress in development of methodologies for design of agent-based systems can be seen. Furthermore, these methodologies are usually supported by tools that allow not only top level conceptualization but guide the process towards implementation (e.g. by generating at least some code). Next, it can seen that new languages for agent based systems are created, e.g. AML or API Calculus. Separately, tools/platforms/environments that can be used for design and implementation of agent systems have been through a number of releases, eliminating problems and adding new, important features. Resulting products are becoming truly robust and flexible. Furthermore, open source products (e.g. JADE) are surrounded by user communities, which often generate powerful add-on components, further increasing value of existing solutions. TOPICS ======================================= The Workshop primarily focuses on all aspects of the process that leads from the model of the problem domain to the actual agent-based solution. These aspects will cover both principled approaches and established practices of software engineering aimed at producing high quality software. In this context, research into the application of agent-based solutions to key challenges faced by software engineering (e.g. reduction of costs and delivery times, coping with a larger diversity of problems) will be of primary importance. ABC:MI Workshop welcomes submissions of original papers concerning all aspects of software agent engineering. Topics include but are not limited to: - Methodologies for design of agent systems - Multi-agent systems product lines - Modeling agent systems - Agent architectures - Agent-based simulations - Simulating and verifying agent systems - Agent benchmarking and performance measurement - Agent communication, coordination and cooperation - Organization and self-organization of agent systems - Agent languages - Agent learning and planning - Agent mobility - Agent modeling, calculi, and logic - Agent security - Agents and Service Oriented Computing - Agents in the Semantic Web - Applications and Experiences PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ======================================= Papers should be submitted by April 18, 2016 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will be invited to the Special Issue of: - Scalable Computing; Practice and Experience - Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling (publication fee waiver for the papers that are going to be selected is expected) - Multiagent and Grid Systems - Computer Science Journal IMPORTANT DATES ======================================= - Paper submission: April 18, 2016 (strict deadline) - Position paper submission: May 30, 2016 - Acceptance decision: June 13, 2016 - Final version of paper submission: July 4, 2016 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2016 - Conference dates: September 11-14, 2016 EVENT CHAIRS ======================================= - Badica, Costin, University of Craiova, Romania - Ganzha, Maria, University of Gdańsk and Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland - Paprzycki, Marcin, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland - Rahimi, Shahram, Southern Illinois University, United States PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far) ======================================= - Agotnes, Thomas, University of Bergen, Norway - Ambroszkiewicz, Stanislaw, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland - Barseghyan, Artak, Yerevan, Armenia - Botía, Juan, Universidad de Murcia, Spain - Braubach, Lars, University of Hamburg, Germany - Budimac, Zoran, Faculty of Sciences, Univ. of Novi Sad, Serbia - Byrski, Aleksander, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland - Cabri, Giacomo, University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, Italy - Cervenka, Radovan, Whitestein Technologies AG, Slovakia - Cetnarowicz, Krzysztof, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland - Fernández, Alberto, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Spain - Florea, Adina, University POLITEHNICA of Bucharest, Romania - Ivanović, Mirjana, University of Novi Sad, Serbia - Jedrzejowicz, Piotr, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland - Jezic, Gordan, University of Zagreb, Croatia - Kaleta, Mariusz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - Kruczkiewicz, Zofia, Wrocław University of Technology, Poland - Kusek, Mario, University of Zagreb, Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Croatia - Leszczyna, Rafal, Gdansk University of Technology, Poland - Letia, Ioan Alfred, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Romania - Morge, Maxime, Université Lille 1, France - Negru, Viorel, West University of Timisoara, Romania - Neruda, Roman, Institute of Computer Science, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic - Niazi, Muaz, COMSATS Institute of IT, Pakistan - Oliveira, Eugenio, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal - Omicini, Andrea, Alma Mater Studiorum–Universita di Bologna, Italy - Oren, Nir, University of Aberdeen, United Kingdom - Ouedraogo, Moussa, Public Research Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg - Paik, Incheon, University of Aizu, Japan - Poggi, Agostino, DII - University of Parma, Italy - Pokahr, Alexander, University of Hamburg, Germany - Rimassa, Giovanni, Whitestein Technologies AG, Switzerland - Rykowski, Jarogniew, Poznan University of Economics, Poland - Sakellariou, Ilias, Dept. of Applied Informatics, University of Macedonia, Greece - Santoro, Corrado, University of Catania, Italy - Schaefer, Robert, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland - Senatore, Sabrina, University of Salerno, Italy - Tang, Yuqing, Carnegie Mellon University, United States - Thimm, Matthias, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany - Venticinque, Salvatore, Second University of Naples, Italy - Vouros, George, University of Piraeus, Greece - Wahjudi, Paulus, Marshall Unviersity, United States CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS AT: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN

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DS-RAIT 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 13 Jan '16

13 Jan '16

CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= 3rd Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology (DS-RAIT'16) Gdansk, Poland, 11 - 14 September, 2016 www.fedcsis.org/ds-rait E-mail: ds-rait2016(a)fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to DS-RAIT - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2016). FedCSIS a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, Lodz ACM Chapter, European Alliance for Innovation, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society - POSRS, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT. The aim of this meeting is to provide a platform for exchange of ideas between early-stage researchers, in Computer Science, PhD students in particular. Furthermore, the symposium will provide all participants an opportunity to get feedback on their studies from experienced members of the IT research community invited to chair all DS-RAIT thematic sessions. Therefore, submission of research proposals with limited preliminary results is strongly encouraged. Besides receiving specific advice for their contributions all participants will be invited to attend plenary lectures on conducting high-quality research studies, excellence in scientific writing and issues related to intellectual property in IT research. Authors of the two most outstanding submissions will have a possibility to present their papers in a form of short plenary lecture. TOPICS ======================================= DS-RAIT 2016 invites the submission of papers on all aspects of Information Technology including, but not limited to: - Automatic Control and Robotics - Bioinformatics - Cloud, GPU and Parallel Computing - Cognitive Science - Computer Networks - Computational Intelligence - Cryptography - Data Mining and Data Visualization - Database Management Systems - Expert Systems - Image Processing and Computer Animation - Information Theory - Machine Learning - Natural Language Processing - Numerical Analysis - Operating Systems - Pattern Recognition - Scientific Computing - Software Engineering PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ======================================= Papers should be submitted by April 18, 2016 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events). IMPORTANT DATES ======================================= - Paper submission: April 18, 2016 (strict deadline) - Position paper submission: May 30, 2016 - Acceptance decision: June 13, 2016 - Final version of paper submission: July 4, 2016 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2016 - Conference dates: September 11-14, 2016 EVENT CHAIRS ======================================= - Kowalski, Piotr Andrzej, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences; AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland - Lukasik, Szymon, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far) ======================================= - Arabas, Jaroslaw, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - Atanassov, Krassimir T., Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria - Balazs, Krisztian, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Hungary - Bronselaer, Antoon, Department of Telecommunications and Information at Ghent University, Belgium - Castrillon-Santana, Modesto, University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain - Charytanowicz, Malgorzata, Catholic University of Lublin, Poland - Corpetti, Thomas, University of Rennes, France - Courty, Nicolas, University of Bretagne Sud, France - De Tré, Guy, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture at Ghent University, Belgium - Fournier-Viger, Philippe, University of Moncton, Canada - Gil, David, University of Alicante, Spain - Herrera Viedma, Enrique, University of Granada, Spain - Hu, Bao-Gang, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China - Koczy, Laszlo, Szechenyi Istvan University, Hungary - Kokosinski, Zbigniew, Cracow University of Technology, Poland - Krawiec, Krzysztof, Poznan University of Technology, Poland - Kulczycki, Piotr, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland - Lilik, Ferenc, Szechenyi Istvan University, Hungary - Lovassy, Rita, Obuda University, Hungary - Mesiar, Radko, Slovak University of Technology, Slovakia - Noguera i Clofent, Carles, Institute of Information Theory and Automation (UTIA), Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic - Petrik, Milan, Masaryk University, Czech Republic - Sachenko, Anatoly, Ternopil State Economic University, Ukraine - Samotyj, Volodymyr, Lviv Polytechnic National University - Szafran, Bartlomiej, Faculty of Physics and Applied Computer Science, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland - Tormasi, Alex, Szechenyi Istvan University, Hungary - Wei, Wei, School of Computer science and engineering, Xi'an University of Technology, China - Wysocki, Marian, Rzeszow University of Technology, Poland - Yang, Yujiu, Tsinghua University, China - Zadrozny, Slawomir, Systems Research Institute, Poland - Zajac, Mieczyslaw, Cracow University of Technology, Poland CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS AT: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN

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FedCSIS 2016 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 03 Jan '16

03 Jan '16

CALL FOR PAPERS 2016 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) Gdansk, Poland, 11 - 14 September, 2016 www.fedcsis.org (FedCSIS on www.ieee.org: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSIS-on-IEEE-2016) We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to the FedCSIS 2016 - an annual international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, Lodz ACM Chapter, European Alliance for Innovation, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society - POSRS, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT. Please also forward the announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. The FedCSIS Multi-conference consists of Events (conferences, symposia, workshops, dissemination events, special sessions). Each Event may run over any span of time within the conference dates (from half-day to four days). The FedCSIS Events provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, and academia to present and discuss ideas, challenges and potential solutions on established or emerging topics related to research and practice in computer science and information systems. Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference have been indexed in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science. FedCSIS EVENTS The FedCSIS multi-conference consists of EVENTS (conferences, workshops, consortia, tutorials, etc.), grouped into seven conference areas. * AAIA'16 - 11th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications --- AIMaVIG'16 - 2nd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Machine Vision and Graphics --- AIMA'16 - 6th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications --- AIRIM'16 - 1st International Workshop on AI aspects of Reasoning, Information, and Memory --- ASIR'16 - 6th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval --- DSTUI'16 - 6th International Workshop on Dealing with Spatial and Temporal Uncertainty and Imprecision --- LTA'16 - 1st International Workshop on Language Technologies and Applications --- WCO'16 - 9th International Workshop on Computational Optimization * CSS - Computer Science & Systems --- AIPC'16 - 1st International Workshop on Advances in Image Processing and Colorization --- BCPC'16 - 2nd International Workshop on Biological, Chemical and Physical Computations --- CANA'16 - 9th Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms --- CPORA'16 - 1st Workshop on Constraint Programming and Operation Research Applications --- IWCPS'16 - 3rd International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems --- MMAP'16 - 9th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing --- WSC'16 - 8th Workshop on Scalable Computing * ECRM - Education, Curricula & Research Methods --- IEES'16 - 1st International E-education Symposium - Education of the Future --- DS-RAIT'16 - 3rd Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology --- iNetSApp'16 - 4th International Conference on Innovative Network Systems and Applications --- EAIS'16 - 3rd Workshop on Emerging Aspects in Information Security --- SoFAST-WS'16 - 5th International Symposium on Frontiers in Network Applications, Network Systems and Web Services --- WSN'16 - 5th International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks * IT4MBS - Information Technology for Management, Business & Society --- ABICT'16 - 7th International Workshop on Advances in Business ICT --- AITM'16 - 14th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management --- APICSS'16 - 1st Workshop on Autopoiesis Perspective on Information, Communication and Social Systems --- ASEG'16 - 1st Workshop on Advanced Systems for e-Governance and e- Democratization --- ISM'16 - 11th Conference on Information Systems Management --- IT4L'16 - 5th Workshop on Information Technologies for Logistics --- KAM'16 - 22nd Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management --- MIQH'16 - 1st Workshop on M-Health Innovations for Quality in Healthcare --- UHH'16 - 2nd International Workshop on Ubiquitous Home Healthcare * JAWS - Joint Agent-oriented Workshops in Synergy --- ABC:MI'16 - 11th Workshop on Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation --- MAS&S'16 - 10th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulations --- SEN-MAS'16 - 4th International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi-Agent Systems * SSD&A - Software Systems Development & Applications --- BTMSPA'16 - 1st Symposium on Balancing Traditional and Modern Software Process Approaches --- MDASD'16 - 4th Workshop on Model Driven Approaches in System Development --- MIDI'16 - 4th Conference on Miltimedia, Interaction, Design and Innovation --- SEW-36 - The 36th IEEE Software Engineering Workshop --- WASE'16 - 1st International Workshop on Affective Software Engineering KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Frederik Ahlemann, University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany, Keynote title : How enterprise architecture management improves IS capabilities - Results from a multiple case study - Stan Matwin, Dalhousie University, University of Ottawa, Institute of Computer Science, Polish Academy of Science, Keynote title : Big Water Meets Big Data: Analytics of the AIS Ship Tracking Data - Michael Segal, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Keynote title : Location always matters: how to improve performance of dynamic networks? - Clemens Szyperski, Microsoft, Redmond, WA, US, Keynote title: Service focus and focused service composition PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers should be submitted by April 18, 2016 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events). IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: April 18, 2016 (strict deadline) - Position paper submission: May 30, 2016 - Acceptance decision: June 13, 2016 - Final version of paper submission: July 4, 2016 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2016 - Conference dates: September 11-14, 2016 CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS AT: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN

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FedCSIS 2016 - CALL FOR DISSEMINATION EVENTS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 08 Nov '15

08 Nov '15

Call for Dissemination Events Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems Gdansk, Poland, 11-14 September, 2016 _www.fedcsis.org_ <file:///C:/Users/Kasia/www.fedcsis.org> The 2016 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems cordially invites you to consider contributing a “Dissemination Event.” A number of grant mechanisms (in particular, EU / NATO-funded research / coordination actions) involve dissemination of results in the form of workshops, symposia, etc. Since the FedCSIS multi-conference consists of a significant number of events related to various areas of ICT, it is a natural place for organization of grant-related events. Proposals for new Dissemination Events are going to be accepted until December 15, 2015. The Events can run over any span of time within the conference dates; from half-day to four days. Publications Dissemination Events are offered an opportunity to publish an individual volume in the Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems (ACSIS) series (_http://annals-csis.org/_) Publication will have ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers and will be submitted to citation indexing engines (including SCOPUS, DBLP and Google Scholar). Dissemination Event Proposals Dissemination event proposals should include the following information (2 pages maximum): 1. The nature of the Event (name of the grant/action/activity it is associated with). 2. The title of the Event, and a clear description of the topic. 3. The complete contact information of the Event organizers, including a link to their personal websites. 4. Indication of the expected number of papers/attendees to attend the Event. 5. Information about requested services related to promotion / marketing of the event / grant. Event organizers should email their proposals (in a single pdf file) by December 15, 2015, to the FedCSIS Secretariat at: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org

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FedCSIS 2016 - CALL FOR EVENTS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems 06 Oct '15

06 Oct '15

CALL FOR EVENTS Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems Gdansk, Poland, 11-14 September, 2016 www.fedcsis.org The 2016 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems cordially invites you to consider contributing an Event (conference, symposium, workshop, consortium meeting, project dissemination meeting, special session, etc.). The FedCSIS multi-conference consists of a significant number of recurring Events and it welcomes proposals for new Events until October 30, 2015. The Events can run over any span of time within the conference dates; from half-day to three days. The FedCSIS Events provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, and academia to present and discuss ideas, challenges, and potential solutions on established or emerging topics related to research and practice in computer science and information systems. The Events will be selected based on the scientific/technical interest and/or their relevance to practitioners in their topics, the clarity of the proposal in addressing the requested information, the innovativeness of the Event topics, and the fit with the FedCSIS multi-conference program. The FedCSIS 2015 - held in Lodz, Poland - attracted 379 papers, of which 86 were accepted as full papers (acceptance rate of approximately 23%). Some events accepted additionally short and position papers. FedCSIS 2015 full and short papers are being submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, while position papers are being published in a separate volume of the Annals of Computer Science and Information systems series (publication process will be completed by November 30, 2015). PUBLICATIONS As in previous years, FedCSIS preprints will be published on a USB memory stick given to FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE Xplore Digital Library (or will appear as position papers, published in a separate volume), and posted at the conference WWW site. The IEEE DL proceedings will be published with an ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers (and, an IEEE Catalog number), under a nonexclusive copyright. Such copyright implies that Events' organizers can and, indeed, are strongly encouraged to invite extended and revised papers for post-conference publications in high-quality journals, edited volumes, etc. EVENT PROPOSALS Event proposals should include the following information (2 pages maximum): 1. The nature of the Event. 2. The title of the Event, and a clear description of the topic, including a brief justification. 3. The complete contact information of the Event organizers, including a link to their personal websites, and an overview of previous experiences with organization of scientific events. 4. Preliminary list of PC members who have agreed to join. 5. Indication of the expected number of papers/attendees to attend the Event. 6. Information of expected post-Event publications, of extended and revised papers, in high-quality journals, edited volumes, etc. Event organizers should email their proposals (in a single pdf file) by October 30, 2015, to the FedCSIS Secretariat at: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org More information concerning Event organization can be found at: http://www.fedcsis.org/2016/cfe

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List suggestions
by Tim Bell 10 Jun '15

10 Jun '15

During the summit HPC discussions (https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/YVR-ops-hpc) there was a general feeling that the dedicated HPC list was not reaching a critical level and that we would attract a larger discussion base using a tag on the openstack-operators list. I would therefore propose that future HPC discussions take place on the openstack-operators list with the "[hpc]" tag in the subject line and that we close this list at the end of July. Feel free to discuss further if you feel otherwise, Tim

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CFP - Special Issue on High Performance Computing Solutions for Complex Problems
by Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience 23 May '15

23 May '15

CALL FOR PAPERS Scalable Computing: Practice and Experience (www.scpe.org) Special Issue: High Performance Computing Solutions for Complex Problems In the last decades, the complexity of the current and upcoming scientific/engineering problems has increased considerably. Computations involved in numerical and physical simulations, molecular dynamics, fluid dynamics, bio-informatics, image processing, information retrieval, or big data analysis are just a few examples of such problems. At the same time, improvements in high performance computing (HPC) systems are mainly associated with an increased complexity of computer architectures, resulting in increasing challenges in code optimization. This results in an increasing gap between the general scientific / engineering user community (in need of easy access to efficient high performance computations) and the HPC programmers community (who design codes for narrow sub-classes of problems). As a result, development of user-friendly codes for non-HPC-trained user community becomes a big challenge. As a matter of fact, effective use of HPC centers requires specialized / individual training for each user group. The aim of this special issue report on efforts to reduce this gap by means of bringing new ways to face the growing complexity of problems that are to be solved. Specifically, we would like to address challenges involved in implementing large and complex problems on current and upcoming platforms, composed of a high number of computational cores. Thus, the issues to be addressed should deal with communication, programming, heterogeneous architectures, load balancing, benchmarking, etc. However, the overall goal should be development of solutions that are going to be usable by non-HPC-trained domain specialists. TOPICS Authors are invited to submit manuscripts which present original and unpublished research in all areas related with complex problems solving via parallel and distributed processing, i.e., works focused on emerging solutions to face with big computing challenges on HPC systems are specially welcome. Relevant topics include, but are not limited to: - Benchmarking, performance and scalability of algorithms, data structures, tools, etc - Code adapting to take advantages of latest computational features. - New strategies to improve performance. - Adaptive self-tuning computing systems. - New transparent, portable, and hardware diagnostic programming paradigms. - Advances in current or upcoming HPC tools. - Communication, synchronization, load balancing. IMPORTANT DATES - Submission: September 19, 2015 - Author notification: January 31, 2016 - Revised papers: February 15, 2016 - Author notification: March 1, 2016 - Camera Ready papers due: March 15, 2016 - Publication: March 31, 2016 SUBMISSION DETAILS Original and unpublished works on any of the topics aforementioned or related are welcome. The SCPE journal has a rigorous peer-reviewing process and papers will be reviewed by at least three S.C. referees. All submitted papers must be formatted according to the journal's instructions, which can be found at: http://www.scpe.org/index.php/scpe/about/submissions#authorGuidelines SPECIAL ISSUE EDITORS - Dr. Pedro Valero Lara, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM), Bilbao, Spain. - Prof. Dr. Fernando L. Pelayo, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain. - Prof. Dr. Johan Jansson, Basque Center for Applied Mathematics (BCAM), Bilbao, Spain and KTH, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. SCALABLE COMPUTING PRACTICE AND EXPERIENCE The journal focus on algorithm development, implementation and execution on parallel and distributed architectures, as well on application of parallel and distributed computing to the solution of real-life problems. SCPE provides immediate open access to its content. The journal is submitted for indexation in Scopus SciVerse, The Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies, Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), EBSCO, dblp - Computer Science Bibliography, CiteFactor, Index Copernicus, Open Access Library, J-Gate, ZDB, AcademicKeys, BibNet Project at University of Utah, ZENODO, Journal Click. In 2013, the SCPE's SNIP (Scopus Source Normalized Impact per Paper) was 0.619 and SCPE's SJR (Scimago Journal Ranking) was 0.151 (previous year values where: SNIP 0.376 and SJR 0.105). SCPE's SJIF factor was 2.785 in 2012.

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Event streaming
by Geert Geurts 14 May '15

14 May '15

Hello all! I was wondering... are there any plans on streaming the event? I have great interest in this event, but unfortunately it is held too far away. Best regards, Geert

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Re: [openstack-hpc] +1 for OpenStack for HPC/HTC workloads at Vancouver
by Tim Bell 14 May '15

14 May '15

Anyone who would like to help out with the session organisation are welcome to add themselves to the Helpers list on https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/YVR-ops-hpc. I’ve had a number of productive discussions in the past summits where cloud/HPC/HTC folk get together and having something very interactive is the aim. Equally, feel free to add topics you’d like to find out if others have found solutions for to the etherpad…. We may not find solutions on the day but getting together people who share the same problems is already a major step forward. Tim From: <Villeneuve>, Donald H <donald.h.villeneuve(a)intel.com<mailto:donald.h.villeneuve@intel.com>> Date: Tuesday, April 28, 2015 at 7:13 PM To: "openstack-hpc(a)lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-hpc@lists.openstack.org>" <openstack-hpc(a)lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-hpc@lists.openstack.org>> Subject: [openstack-hpc] +1 for OpenStack for HPC/HTC workloads at Vancouver Following Tim Bell’s request, I’m sending this email to confirm my interest to meet folks running OpenStack for HPC purpose. Please keep posted with time and locations details. If I can help by actually doing something, let me know. Donald

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NUMA config
by Blair Bethwaite 05 May '15

05 May '15

Hi all, Just reading over the docs describing NUMA scheduler filter testing (http://docs.openstack.org/developer/nova/devref/testing/libvirt-numa.html#t…) Somewhat confused by the scenario at the end, which seems to call for a guest with 1 NUMA node but looks like it gets created with 2... I'm obviously misunderstanding something in the resultant XML, but there's no topology info shown from inside the guest, so I'm not sure. Anyone tried this? -- Cheers, ~Blairo

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+1 for OpenStack for HPC/HTC workloads at Vancouver
by Villeneuve, Donald H 28 Apr '15

28 Apr '15

Following Tim Bell's request, I'm sending this email to confirm my interest to meet folks running OpenStack for HPC purpose. Please keep posted with time and locations details. If I can help by actually doing something, let me know. Donald

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Re: [openstack-hpc] [Openstack-operators] OpenStack HPC/HTC operator session
by Tim Bell 28 Apr '15

28 Apr '15

The slot is on Wednesday morning. Details are at https://libertydesignsummit.sched.org/event/66d9c49676797d30ae7815a7f1753ae… Tim From: Tim Bell Sent: 28 April 2015 08:52 To: 'Steven Carter (stevenca)'; openstack-hpc(a)lists.openstack.org Subject: RE: [Openstack-operators] OpenStack HPC/HTC operator session The current scheduling is planned for an HPC session on the Wednesday during the Ops working sessions. I'll try to get the exact time. Agenda being built up at https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/YVR-ops-hpc so feel free to add any items you'd like to discuss there. Tim From: Tim Bell <Tim.Bell(a)cern.ch<mailto:Tim.Bell@cern.ch>> Date: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 3:10 AM To: "openstack-operators(a)lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org>" <openstack-operators(a)lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org>> Subject: [Openstack-operators] OpenStack HPC/HTC operator session There is an opportunity for a get-together of the people running OpenStack for HPC/HTC workloads at Vancouver. Getting the best of out of the cloud while at the same time meeting the needs of the user communities is a challenging job so sharing experiences for an hour would be really useful. We're collecting +1s for attendance on openstack-hpc(a)lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-hpc@lists.openstack.org> so please reply there if you'd be interested. Tim

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Re: [openstack-hpc] [Openstack-operators] OpenStack HPC/HTC operator session
by Tim Bell 27 Apr '15

27 Apr '15

The current scheduling is planned for an HPC session on the Wednesday during the Ops working sessions. I'll try to get the exact time. Agenda being built up at https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/YVR-ops-hpc so feel free to add any items you'd like to discuss there. Tim From: Tim Bell <Tim.Bell(a)cern.ch<mailto:Tim.Bell@cern.ch>> Date: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 3:10 AM To: "openstack-operators(a)lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org>" <openstack-operators(a)lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org>> Subject: [Openstack-operators] OpenStack HPC/HTC operator session There is an opportunity for a get-together of the people running OpenStack for HPC/HTC workloads at Vancouver. Getting the best of out of the cloud while at the same time meeting the needs of the user communities is a challenging job so sharing experiences for an hour would be really useful. We're collecting +1s for attendance on openstack-hpc(a)lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-hpc@lists.openstack.org> so please reply there if you'd be interested. Tim

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FedCSIS 2015 - FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS
by Katarzyna Wasielewska 27 Apr '15

27 Apr '15

FINAL CALL FOR PAPERS 2015 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) Lodz, Poland, 13 - 16 September, 2015 www.fedcsis.org (FedCSIS on www.ieee.org: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSIS-on-IEEE-2015) We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to the FedCSIS 2015 - an annual international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE-CIS Poland Section Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, ACM Lodz Chapter, IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence, European Alliance for Innovation, Committee of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, and Mazovia Cluster ICT. Please also forward the announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. The FedCSIS Multi-conference consists of Events (conferences, symposia, workshops, special sessions). Each Event may run over any span of time within the conference dates (from half-day to four days). The FedCSIS Events provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, and academia to present and discuss ideas, challenges and potential solutions on established or emerging topics related to research and practice in computer science and information systems. Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference have been indexed in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science. FedCSIS EVENTS The FedCSIS multi-conference consists of EVENTS (conferences, workshops, consortia, tutorials, etc.), grouped into six conference areas. * AAIA'15 - 10th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications --- AIMaVIG'15 -1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Machine Vision and Graphics --- AIMA'15 - 5th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications --- ASIR'15 - 5th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval --- CEIM'15 - 2nd Workshop on Complex Events and Information Modelling --- LQMR'15 - 1st Workshop on Logics for Qualitative Modelling and Reasoning --- WCO'15 - 8th Workshop on Computational Optimization * CSS - Computer Science & Systems --- BCPC'15 - 1st International Workshop on Biological, Chemical and Physical Computations --- CANA'15 - 8th Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms --- IWCPS'15 - 2nd International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems --- MMAP'15 - 8th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing --- WAPL'15 - 5th Workshop on Advances in Programming Languages * ECRM - Education, Curricula & Research Methods --- DS-RAIT'15 - 2nd Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology --- WmL'15 - 1st International Workshop on Mobile Learning * iNetSApp'15 - 3rd International Conference on Innovative Network Systems and Applications --- EAIS'15 - 2nd Workshop on Emerging Aspects in Information Security --- SoFAST-WS'15 - 4th International Symposium on Frontiers in Network Applications, Network Systems and Web Services --- WSN'15 - 4th International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks * IT4MBS - Information Technology for Management, Business & Society --- ABICT'15 - 6th International Workshop on Advances in Business ICT --- AITM'15 - 13th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management --- ISM'15 - 10th Conference on Information Systems Management --- IT4L'15 - 4th Workshop on Information Technologies for Logistics --- KAM'15 - 21st Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management * JAWS - Joint Agent-oriented Workshops in Synergy --- ABC:MI'15 - 10th Workshop on Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation --- MAS&S'15 - 9th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulations --- SEN-MAS'15 - 4th International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi-Agent Systems KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - John F. Sowa, VivoMind Research, LLC: The Cognitive Cycle - Wojtek Kozaczynski, Microsoft, Redmond, WA, US: What has gone wrong in the cloud? Monitoring cloud infrastructure and things that run in it - Erik Proper, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology: Managed organisational self-creation through Business Informatics - Mohammed Atiquzzaman, School of Computer Science, University of Oklahoma: Extending the Internet to Space PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers should be submitted by May 8, 2015 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events). IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: May 8, 2015; midnight HST (strict deadline) - Acceptance decision: June 15, 2015 - Final version of paper submission: July 1, 2015 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 1, 2015 - Conference dates: September 13-16, 2015 CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS AT: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN

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CfP Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing Workshop (VHPC '15)
by VHPC 15 24 Apr '15

24 Apr '15

================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS 10th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '15) held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2015, August 24-28, Vienna, Austria (Springer LNCS) ================================================================= Date: August 25, 2015 Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org Paper Submission Deadline: May 22, 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS Virtualization technologies constitute a key enabling factor for flexible resource management in modern data centers, cloud environments, and increasingly in HPC as well. Providers need to dynamically manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion for varying workloads and hosted applications, independently of the customers deploying software or users submitting highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads. Thanks to virtualization, we have the ability to manage vast computing and networking resources dynamically and close to the marginal cost of providing the services, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Docker et al. OS-level virtualization, with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments allows for their co-existence within the same OS kernel. It promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of responsiveness and performance; coupled with lightweight OSs it forms a potent architecture with promise to become a mainstream environment for HPC workloads. Machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple under-utilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; I/O Virtualization allows physical network adapters to take traffic from multiple VMs; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of the underlying physical topology and IP addressing, provides the fundamental ground on top of which evolved network services can be realized with an unprecedented level of dynamicity and flexibility; These technologies have to be inter-mixed and integrated in an intelligent way, to support workloads that are increasingly demanding in terms of absolute performance, responsiveness and interactivity, and have to respect well-specified Service- Level Agreements (SLAs), as needed for industrial-grade provided services. The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, and lightning talks, limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, cloud HPC and grids - OS-level virtualization including container runtimes (Docker, rkt et al.) - Lightweight compute node operating systems/VMMs - Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms, hypervisors and - Hypervisor and network virtualization QoS and SLAs - Cloud based network and system management for SDN and NFV - Management, deployment and monitoring of virtualized environments - Performance measurement, modelling and monitoring of virtualized/cloud workloads - Programming models for virtualized environments - Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance, high-availability and security - Heterogeneous virtualized environments, virtualized accelerators, GPUs and co-processors - Optimized communication libraries/protocols in the cloud and for HPC in the cloud - Topology management and optimization for distributed virtualized applications - Cluster provisioning in the cloud and cloud bursting - Adaptation of emerging HPC technologies (high performance networks, RDMA, etc..) - I/O and storage virtualization, virtualization aware file systems - Job scheduling/control/policy in virtualized environments - Checkpointing and migration of VM-based large compute jobs - Cloud frameworks and APIs - Energy-efficient / power-aware virtualization Important Dates April 29, 2015 - Abstract registration May 22, 2015 - Full paper submission June 19, 2015 - Acceptance notification October 2, 2015 - Camera-ready version due August 25, 2015 - Workshop Date TPC CHAIR Michael Alexander (chair), TU Wien, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), NTUA, Greece Balazs Gerofi (co-chair), RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science, Japan PROGRAM COMMITTEE Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Costas Bekas, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Jakob Blomer, CERN Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Roberto Canonico, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy Julian Chesterfield, OnApp, UK Patrick Dreher, MIT, USA William Gardner, University of Guelph, Canada Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Marcus Hardt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Iftekhar Hussain, Infinera, USA Krishna Kant, Temple University, USA Eiji Kawai, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Romeo Kinzler, IBM, Switzerland Kornilios Kourtis, ETH, Switzerland Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Massimo Lamanna, CERN Che-Rung Roger Lee, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan William Magato, University of Cincinnati, USA Helge Meinhard, CERN Jean-Marc Menaud, Ecole des Mines de Nantes France Christine Morin, INRIA, France Amer Qouneh, University of Florida, USA Seetharami Seelam, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Josh Simons, VMWare, USA Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan PAPER SUBMISSION-PUBLICATION Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions should include abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. 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 papers will be published in the Springer LNCS series - the format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide source files. Format Guidelines: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2015ws GENERAL INFORMATION The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2015, 24-28 August, Vienna, Austria

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Re: [openstack-hpc] CPU intensive apps on OpenStack
by Blair Bethwaite 23 Apr '15

23 Apr '15

Hi Tim, What's your reference on disabling EPT? I can find some fairly old stuff on this, but I thought newer processors had improved performance here to lower page fault overheads... so I guess I'm wondering if you've seen a recent evaluation somewhere? Re. NUMA etc, it seems like the most important thing if you're running large memory apps inside your guests is to make sure the guest is pinned (both CPU and NUMA wise) and sees a NUMA topology that matches how it is pinned on the host. I haven't had a chance to try it yet but I thought this was all now possible Juno. Beyond that you probably want the guest kernel to be NUMA sassy as well, so it needs (IIRC) Linux 3.13+ to get the numa_balancing (nee autonuma) goodies. I'm not sure if for such cases you might actually want to disable numa balancing on the host or whether the pinning would effectively remove any overhead there anyway... PS: +1 on the meetup suggestion -- Cheers, ~Blairo

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+1 for HPC meeting in Vancouver
by Villeneuve, Donald H 17 Apr '15

17 Apr '15

Hi, New to this list, I would like to attend any HPC oriented meetings or presentation there may be in Vancouver. If to attend, some confirmation needs to be sent, please advise. I've been tasked to look into the provision of cluster with large node count. So far many ideas to make it happen. But I'm still learning my way around OpenStack. I'll be able to provide more details as a measure of success is achieved. Regards, Donald Villeneuve -----Original Message----- From: openstack-hpc-request(a)lists.openstack.org [mailto:openstack-hpc-request@lists.openstack.org] Sent: Thursday, April 16, 2015 10:36 PM To: openstack-hpc(a)lists.openstack.org Subject: OpenStack-HPC Digest, Vol 23, Issue 4 Send OpenStack-HPC mailing list submissions to openstack-hpc(a)lists.openstack.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-hpc or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to openstack-hpc-request(a)lists.openstack.org You can reach the person managing the list at openstack-hpc-owner(a)lists.openstack.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of OpenStack-HPC digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: +1 for attendance to the HPC get-together in Vancouver. (Tim Bell) 2. Re: +1 for attendance to the HPC get-together in Vancouver. (Matt Jarvis) 3. Re: +1 for attendance to the HPC get-together in Vancouver. (Matt Jarvis) 4. Re: CPU intensive apps on OpenStack (Blair Bethwaite) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 13:02:17 +0000 From: Tim Bell <Tim.Bell(a)cern.ch> To: Matt Jarvis <matt.jarvis(a)datacentred.co.uk>, "openstack-hpc(a)lists.openstack.org" <openstack-hpc(a)lists.openstack.org> Subject: Re: [openstack-hpc] +1 for attendance to the HPC get-together in Vancouver. Message-ID: <5D7F9996EA547448BC6C54C8C5AAF4E501029CF555(a)CERNXCHG43.cern.ch> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Can you send round the slides URL ? Thanks Tim From: Matt Jarvis [mailto:matt.jarvis@datacentred.co.uk] Sent: 16 April 2015 12:28 To: openstack-hpc(a)lists.openstack.org Subject: [openstack-hpc] +1 for attendance to the HPC get-together in Vancouver. Hi, new to this list, but we're running ATLAS workloads for the University of Lancaster on our OpenStack public cloud in the UK, and actively looking to run more HPC/HTC type workloads. Would be interested in attending a session in Vancouver. Peter Love from Lancaster University recently presented at HEPIX in Oxford on some of the challenges around his work on our cloud, with comparison to grid sites. I'd be happy to share the slides if anyone is interested. -- Matt Jarvis Head of Cloud Computing DataCentred Office: (+44)0161 8703985 Mobile: (+44)07983 725372 Email: matt.jarvis(a)datacentred.co.uk<mailto:matt.jarvis@datacentred.co.uk> Website: http://www.datacentred.co.uk DataCentred Limited registered in England and Wales no. 05611763

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+1 for attendance to the HPC get-together in Vancouver.
by Matt Jarvis 16 Apr '15

16 Apr '15

Hi, new to this list, but we're running ATLAS workloads for the University of Lancaster on our OpenStack public cloud in the UK, and actively looking to run more HPC/HTC type workloads. Would be interested in attending a session in Vancouver. Peter Love from Lancaster University recently presented at HEPIX in Oxford on some of the challenges around his work on our cloud, with comparison to grid sites. I'd be happy to share the slides if anyone is interested. -- Matt Jarvis Head of Cloud Computing DataCentred Office: (+44)0161 8703985 Mobile: (+44)07983 725372 Email: matt.jarvis(a)datacentred.co.uk Website: http://www.datacentred.co.uk -- DataCentred Limited registered in England and Wales no. 05611763

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Re: [openstack-hpc] [Openstack-operators] OpenStack HPC/HTC operator session
by Steven Carter (stevenca) 16 Apr '15

16 Apr '15

+1 From: Tim Bell <Tim.Bell(a)cern.ch<mailto:Tim.Bell@cern.ch>> Date: Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 3:10 AM To: "openstack-operators(a)lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org>" <openstack-operators(a)lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-operators@lists.openstack.org>> Subject: [Openstack-operators] OpenStack HPC/HTC operator session There is an opportunity for a get-together of the people running OpenStack for HPC/HTC workloads at Vancouver. Getting the best of out of the cloud while at the same time meeting the needs of the user communities is a challenging job so sharing experiences for an hour would be really useful. We’re collecting +1s for attendance on openstack-hpc(a)lists.openstack.org<mailto:openstack-hpc@lists.openstack.org> so please reply there if you’d be interested. Tim

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Re: [openstack-hpc] [Openstack-operators] OpenStack HPC/HTC operator session
by Bartosz Chojnicki 16 Apr '15

16 Apr '15

+1 On Thu, Apr 16, 2015 at 12:10 PM, Tim Bell <Tim.Bell(a)cern.ch> wrote: > > > There is an opportunity for a get-together of the people running OpenStack > for HPC/HTC workloads at Vancouver. > > > > Getting the best of out of the cloud while at the same time meeting the > needs of the user communities is a challenging job so sharing experiences > for an hour would be really useful. > > > > We’re collecting +1s for attendance on openstack-hpc(a)lists.openstack.org > so please reply there if you’d be interested. > > > > Tim > > > > _______________________________________________ > OpenStack-operators mailing list > OpenStack-operators(a)lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-operators > > -- Pozdrawiam Bartosz Chojnicki

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[Openstack-operators] OpenStack HPC/HTC operator session
by Krzysztof Kowalik 16 Apr '15

16 Apr '15

+1 -- Pozdrawiam/Best Regards Krzysztof

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Re: [openstack-hpc] CPU intensive apps on OpenStack
by Jake Carroll 15 Apr '15

15 Apr '15

Hi. As an aside, I¹d like to add a +1 for a meet up to discuss such things in Vancouver. It would be cool if we could get a meeting room with a few of us together as a focus group Thanks. -jc From: Tim Bell <Tim.Bell(a)cern.ch> Date: Wednesday, 15 April 2015 22:30 To: "openstack-hpc(a)lists.openstack.org" <openstack-hpc(a)lists.openstack.org> Subject: [openstack-hpc] CPU intensive apps on OpenStack Has anyone got suggestions on tuning KVM/OpenStack for running CPU/memory intensive workloads ? There seem to be some standard recommendations like disable EPT in intel-kvm but finding the right combinations of CPU pinning / numa passthrough to get the best performance from the underlying processor has many alternatives. Tim _______________________________________________ OpenStack-HPC mailing list OpenStack-HPC(a)lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-hpc

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CPU intensive apps on OpenStack
by Tim Bell 15 Apr '15

15 Apr '15

Has anyone got suggestions on tuning KVM/OpenStack for running CPU/memory intensive workloads ? There seem to be some standard recommendations like disable EPT in intel-kvm but finding the right combinations of CPU pinning / numa passthrough to get the best performance from the underlying processor has many alternatives. Tim

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Vancouver meetup ?
by Tim Bell 07 Apr '15

07 Apr '15

Would there be interest in trying to get a session at the ops design summit on HPC ? The sessions are being accumulated at https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/YVR-ops-meetup so I would propose we try to get a small working group on OpenStack HPC into the parallel sessions if there is interest. I have put a few ideas down in the etherpad (search for HPC working group) and feel free to add those items you think would be worth discussing. Tim

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FedCSIS 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies 15 Mar '15

15 Mar '15

CALL FOR PAPERS 2015 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) Lodz, Poland, 13 - 16 September, 2015 www.fedcsis.org (FedCSIS on www.ieee.org: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSIS-on-IEEE-2015) We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to the FedCSIS 2015 - an annual international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Computer Society, IEEE Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE-CIS Poland Section Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, ACM Lodz Chapter, IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence, European Alliance for Innovation, Committee of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, and Mazovia Cluster ICT. Please also forward the announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. The FedCSIS Multi-conference consists of Events (conferences, symposia, workshops, special sessions). Each Event may run over any span of time within the conference dates (from half-day to four days). The FedCSIS Events provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, and academia to present and discuss ideas, challenges and potential solutions on established or emerging topics related to research and practice in computer science and information systems. Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference have been indexed in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science. FedCSIS EVENTS The FedCSIS multi-conference consists of EVENTS (conferences, workshops, consortia, tutorials, etc.), grouped into six conference areas. * AAIA'15 - 10th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications --- AIMaVIG'15 -1st International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Machine Vision and Graphics --- AIMA'15 - 5th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications --- ASIR'15 - 5th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval --- CEIM'15 - 2nd Workshop on Complex Events and Information Modelling --- LQMR'15 - 1st Workshop on Logics for Qualitative Modelling and Reasoning --- WCO'15 - 8th Workshop on Computational Optimization * CSS - Computer Science & Systems --- BCPC'15 - 1st International Workshop on Biological, Chemical and Physical Computations --- CANA'15 - 8th Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms --- IWCPS'15 - 2nd International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems --- MMAP'15 - 8th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing --- WAPL'15 - 5th Workshop on Advances in Programming Languages * ECRM - Education, Curricula & Research Methods --- DS-RAIT'15 - 2nd Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology --- WmL'15 - 1st International Workshop on Mobile Learning * iNetSApp'15 - 3rd International Conference on Innovative Network Systems and Applications --- EAIS'15 - 2nd Workshop on Emerging Aspects in Information Security --- SoFAST-WS'15 - 4th International Symposium on Frontiers in Network Applications, Network Systems and Web Services --- WSN'15 - 4th International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks * IT4MBS - Information Technology for Management, Business & Society --- ABICT'15 - 6th International Workshop on Advances in Business ICT --- AITM'15 - 13th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management --- ISM'15 - 10th Conference on Information Systems Management --- IT4L'15 - 4th Workshop on Information Technologies for Logistics --- KAM'15 - 21st Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management * JAWS - Joint Agent-oriented Workshops in Synergy --- ABC:MI'15 - 10th Workshop on Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation --- MAS&S'15 - 9th International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulations --- SEN-MAS'15 - 4th International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi-Agent Systems KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - John F. Sowa, VivoMind Research, LLC: The Cognitive Cycle - Wojtek Kozaczynski, Microsoft, Redmond, WA, US: What has gone wrong in the cloud? Monitoring cloud infrastructure and things that run in it - Erik Proper, Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology: Managed organisational self-creation through Business Informatics - Mohammed Atiquzzaman, School of Computer Science, University of Oklahoma: Extending the Internet to Space PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers should be submitted by April 24, 2015 (strict deadline). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc. and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events). IMPORTANT DATES - Paper submission: April 24, 2015 (strict deadline) - Position paper submission: June 1, 2015 - Acceptance decision: June 15, 2015 - Final version of paper submission: July 1, 2015 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 1, 2015 - Conference dates: September 13-16, 2015 CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS AT: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN

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CfP 10th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '15)
by VHPC 15 10 Mar '15

10 Mar '15

================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS 10th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '15) held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2015, August 24-28, Vienna, Austria (Springer LNCS) ================================================================= Date: August 25, 2015 Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org Paper Submission Deadline: May 22, 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS Virtualization technologies constitute a key enabling factor for flexible resource management in modern data centers, cloud environments, and increasingly in HPC as well. Providers need to dynamically manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion for varying workloads and hosted applications, independently of the customers deploying software or users submitting highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads. Thanks to virtualization, we have the ability to manage vast computing and networking resources dynamically and close to the marginal cost of providing the services, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Various virtualization technologies contribute to the overall picture in different ways: machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple under-utilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; OS-level virtualization, with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments and to allow for their co-existence within the same OS kernel, promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of responsiveness and performance; I/O Virtualization allows physical network adapters to take traffic from multiple VMs; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of the underlying physical topology and IP addressing, provides the fundamental ground on top of which evolved network services can be realized with an unprecedented level of dynamicity and flexibility; These technologies have to be inter-mixed and integrated in an intelligent way, to support workloads that are increasingly demanding in terms of absolute performance, responsiveness and interactivity, and have to respect well-specified Service- Level Agreements (SLAs), as needed for industrial-grade provided services. Indeed, among emerging and increasingly interesting application domains for virtualization, we can find big-data application workloads in cloud infrastructures, interactive and real-time multimedia services in the cloud, including real-time big-data streaming platforms such as used in real-time analytics supporting nowadays a plethora of application domains. Distributed cloud infrastructures promise to offer unprecedented responsiveness levels for hosted applications, but that is only possible if the underlying virtualization technologies can overcome most of the latency impairments typical of current virtualized infrastructures (e.g., far worse tail-latency). The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, and lightning talks, limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, cloud HPC and grids - Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms, hypervisors and OS-level virtualization - Hypervisor and network virtualization QoS and SLAs - Cloud based network and system management for SDN and NFV - Management, deployment and monitoring of virtualized environments - Performance measurement, modelling and monitoring of virtualized/cloud workloads - Programming models for virtualized environments - Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance, high-availability and security - Heterogeneous virtualized environments, virtualized accelerators, GPUs and co-processors - Optimized communication libraries/protocols in the cloud and for HPC in the cloud - Topology management and optimization for distributed virtualized applications - Cluster provisioning in the cloud and cloud bursting - Adaptation of emerging HPC technologies (high performance networks, RDMA, etc..) - I/O and storage virtualization, virtualization aware file systems - Job scheduling/control/policy in virtualized environments - Checkpointing and migration of VM-based large compute jobs - Cloud frameworks and APIs - Energy-efficient / power-aware virtualization Important Dates April 29, 2015 - Abstract registration May 22, 2015 - Full paper submission June 19, 2014 - Acceptance notification October 2, 2014 - Camera-ready version due August 25, 2014 - Workshop Date TPC CHAIR Michael Alexander (chair), TU Wien, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), NTUA, Greece Balazs Gerofi (co-chair), RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science, Japan PROGRAM COMMITTEE Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Costas Bekas, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Jakob Blomer, CERN Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Roberto Canonico, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy Julian Chesterfield, OnApp, UK Patrick Dreher, MIT, USA William Gardner, University of Guelph, Canada Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Marcus Hardt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Iftekhar Hussain, Infinera, USA Krishna Kant, Temple University, USA Eiji Kawai, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Romeo Kinzler, IBM, Switzerland Kornilios Kourtis, ETH, Switzerland Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Massimo Lamanna, CERN Che-Rung Roger Lee, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Helge Meinhard, CERN Jean-Marc Menaud, Ecole des Mines de Nantes France Christine Morin, INRIA, France Amer Qouneh, University of Florida, USA Seetharami Seelam, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Josh Simons, VMWare, USA Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan PAPER SUBMISSION-PUBLICATION Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions should include abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. 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 papers will be published in the Springer LNCS series - the format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide source files. Format Guidelines: http://www.springer.de/comp/lncs/authors.html Submission Link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2015ws GENERAL INFORMATION The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2015, 24-28 August, Vienna, Austria

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HPC Prize - Conference Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP) 2015: 2-4 Sep Malta
by George Azzopardi 02 Mar '15

02 Mar '15

Dear All, We are pleased to announce a special award (EUR400) by Juelich Supercomputing Center (http://www.fz-juelich.de) for a best paper presented in the conference Computer Analysis of Images and Patterns (CAIP’2015) that concerns research in which high performance computing is an enabling technology for solving a pattern recognition problems. The submission deadline is 22 March. For further details please visit the conference website: http://caip.eu.org/caip2015/ CAIP'2015 is the sixteenth in the CAIP series of biennial international conferences devoted to all aspects of computer vision, image analysis and processing, pattern recognition, and related fields. This year it will be organized in 2-4 September, Malta. Previous conferences were held in York, Seville, Münster, Vienna, Paris, Groningen, etc. The scientific program of the conference will consist of three plenary lectures and contributed papers presented in a single track. Poster presentations will allow expert discussions of specialized research topics. The proceedings of the conference will be published in the Springer LNCS series. Special Issue On 15 September authors of a selection (some 20%) from all accepted and presented papers will be invited to extend their paper to a journal paper and submit it by 15 November to a special issue of the journal Machine Vision and Applications (Springer) dedicated to CAIP. That issue of MVA is planned to appear in 2016. More Prizes Best 3 papers 1. EUR500 for the 1st best paper 2. EUR350 for the 2nd best paper 3. EUR200 for the 3rd best paper (donated by the Malta Council for Science & Technology: http://www.mcst.gov.mt) Best regards, George Azzopardi Nicolai Petkov Chairs of CAIP'2015

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Re: [openstack-hpc] How are you using OpenStack for your HPC workflow? (We're looking at Ironic!)
by Gilbert, Chuck 16 Jan '15

16 Jan '15

At Penn State we are working on deploying a multi-phased effort. Our first phase, deploys a partial Openstack and "Traditional" HPC split system, which gives us time to deploy and tune the Openstack configuration and then expand to a full Openstack governed infrastructure once Ironic is released supported in April. The traditional HPC piece allows users that require access to new cores now, continue to work as we finalize the deployment of our research cloud. The two follow-on hardware/software deployments, expands the infrastructure to support bare-metal as well as virtualized workloads, and eventually rolls the remaining "Traditional HPC" systems under the same Openstack umbrella giving more control to our researchers and a choice of consumption models to meet the broad needs of our community. ________________________________ Chuck Gilbert Systems Architect and Systems Team Lead for Advanced CyberInfrastructure Institute for Cyberscience The Pennsylvania State University Phone: 814.867.4575 Email: cjg23(a)psu.edu ________________________________________ From: openstack-hpc-request(a)lists.openstack.org [openstack-hpc-request(a)lists.openstack.org] Sent: Friday, January 16, 2015 7:00 AM To: openstack-hpc(a)lists.openstack.org Subject: OpenStack-HPC Digest, Vol 21, Issue 6 Send OpenStack-HPC mailing list submissions to openstack-hpc(a)lists.openstack.org To subscribe or unsubscribe via the World Wide Web, visit http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-hpc or, via email, send a message with subject or body 'help' to openstack-hpc-request(a)lists.openstack.org You can reach the person managing the list at openstack-hpc-owner(a)lists.openstack.org When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of OpenStack-HPC digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Re: How are you using OpenStack for your HPC workflow? (We're looking at Ironic!) (Jure Pe?ar) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2015 15:37:17 +0100 From: Jure Pe?ar <pegasus(a)nerv.eu.org> To: Tim Bell <Tim.Bell(a)cern.ch> Cc: openstack-hpc(a)lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [openstack-hpc] How are you using OpenStack for your HPC workflow? (We're looking at Ironic!) Message-ID: <20150115153717.09212d3a.pegasus(a)nerv.eu.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 On Wed, 14 Jan 2015 06:24:31 +0000 Tim Bell <Tim.Bell(a)cern.ch> wrote: > We're starting to have a look at bare metal and containers too. Using OpenStack as an overall resource allocation system to ensure all compute usage is accounted and managed is of great interest. The highlighted items above will remain but hopefully we are work with others in the community to address them (as we are with nested projects) Take a look at Mesos (mesos.apache.org, mesosphere.com) I did some thinking on openstack+hpc topic but didn't like the conclusions I arrived at so I went shopping for alternatives. Mesos+docker looks like the best one so far. https://jure.pecar.org/2014-12-22/spirals -- Jure Pe?ar http://jure.pecar.org ------------------------------ _______________________________________________ OpenStack-HPC mailing list OpenStack-HPC(a)lists.openstack.org http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-hpc End of OpenStack-HPC Digest, Vol 21, Issue 6 ********************************************

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How are you using OpenStack for your HPC workflow? (We're looking at Ironic!)
by Jonathon A Anderson 15 Jan '15

15 Jan '15

Hi, everybody! We at CU-Boulder Research Computing are looking at using OpenStack Ironic for our HPC cluster(s). I’ve got a sysadmin background, so my initial goal is to simply use OpenStack to deploy our traditional queueing system (Slurm), and basically use OpenStack (w/Ironic) as a replacement for Cobbler, xcat, perceus, hand-rolled PXE, or whatever else sysadmin-focused PXE-based node provisioning solution one might use. That said, once we have OpenStack (and have some competency with it), we’d presumably be well positioned to offer actual cloud-y virtualization to our users, or even offer baremetal instances for direct use for some of our (presumably most trusted) users. But how about the rest of you? Are you using OpenStack in your HPC workloads today? Are you doing “traditional” virtualization? Are you using the nova-compute baremetal driver? Are you using Ironic? Something even more exotic? And, most importantly, how has it worked for you? I’ve finally got some nodes to start experimenting with, so I hope to have some real hands-on experience with Ironic soon. (So far, I’ve only been able to do traditional virtualization on some workstations.) ~jonathon

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SEN-MAS 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies 07 Jan '15

07 Jan '15

CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= 4th International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi-Agent Systems (SEN-MAS'15) Lodz, Poland, September 13-16, 2015 WWW: http://fedcsis.org/sen-mas E-mail: sen-mas2015(a)fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to SEN-MAS 2015 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2015). FedCSIS a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, European Alliance for Innovation, Lodz ACM Chapter, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society - POSRS, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT (further technical collaborations will be announced shortly). TOPICS ======================================= The SEN-MAS'15 Workshop aims at providing a forum for presenting and discussing recent advances and experiences in building and using multi-agent systems for modelling, simulation and management of smart energy networks. In particular, it includes (but is not limited to) the following topics of interest: - Experiences of Smart Grid implementations by using MAS - Applications of Smart Grid technologies - Management of distributed generation and storage - Islands Power Systems, Microgrid Applications - Real time configurations of energy networks - Distributed planning process for energy networks by using MAS - Self-configuring or self-healing energy systems - Load modelling and control with MAS - Simulations of Smart Energy Networks - Software Tools for Smart Energy Networks - Energy Storage - Electrical Vehicles - Interactions and exchange between networks for electricity, gas and heat - Stability in Energy Networks - Distributed Optimization in Energy Networks PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ======================================= Papers should be submitted by April 24, 2015. Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN and ISSN numbers will posted at the conference WWW site. Extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will be published as Special Issue(s) of: - Scalable Computing; Practice and Experience - Complex Adaptive Systems Modeling (publication fee waiver for the papers that are going to be selected is expected) - Multiagent and Grid Systems - Computer Science Journal (7 points in current ranking of MNiSW - this is something cryptic to the outsiders, but will be clear for scientists from Poland) IMPORTANT DATES ======================================= - Paper submission: April 24, 2015 - Position paper submission: June 1, 2015 - Acceptance decision: June 15, 2015 - Final version of paper submission: July 1, 2015 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 1, 2015 - Conference dates: September 13-16, 2015 EVENT CHAIRS ======================================= - Derksen, Christian, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany - Kowalczyk, Ryszard, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia STEERING COMMITTEE ======================================= - Derksen, Christian, University Duisburg-Essen, Germany - Lehnhoff, Sebastian, OFFIS - Institute for Information Technology, Germany - Kowalczyk, Ryszard, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Nahorski, Zbigniew, Systems Research Institute - Polish Academy of Science, Poland PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far) ======================================= - Andrew, Lachlan - Braubach, Lars, University of Hamburg, Germany - Klusch, Matthias, German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI, Germany - Linnenberg, Tobias, Helmut Schmidt University, Germany - Moench, Lars, FernUniversität Hagen, Germany - Ossowski, Sascha, University Rey Juan Carlos, Spain - Sonnenschein, Michael, Carl von Ossietzky University, Oldenburg, Germany - Sudeikat, Jan, Hamburg Energie GmbH, Germany - Unland, Rainer, Universität Duisburg-Essen, Germany - Weber, Christoph - Werner, Andrej, University of Leipzig, Germany CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS AT: secretariat(a)fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN

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