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MMAP 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies 05 Jan '15

05 Jan '15

CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= 8th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing (MMAP'15) Lodz, Poland, September 13-16, 2015 WWW: http://fedcsis.org/mmap E-mail: mmap2015(a)fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to MMAP 2015 - held as a part of the Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS 2014). 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). MMAP 2015 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 2015 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 MMAP invites original previously unpublished contributions that are not submitted concurrently to a journal or another conference.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 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. Moreover, 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 2014; it will be published in 2015 - special issue, based on the selected MMAP 2014 submissions is also planned for the Journal of Computer Science & Applications - similarly, in 2015, 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 2015 -- special issues proposals should be submitted to MMAP'15 organizers IMPORTANT DATES ======================================= - Paper submission: April 11, 2014 - Position paper submission: May 12, 2014 - Acceptance decision: May 19, 2014 - Final version of paper submission: June 17, 2014 - Final deadline for discounted fee: July 31, 2014 - Conference dates: September 7-10, 2014 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 - Cano, Alberto, University of Cordoba, Spain - Cardoso, Jaime S., Universidade do Porto, Portugal - 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 - Grundspenkis, Janis, Riga Technical University, Latvia - 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 - Lamas, David, Tallin University, Estonia - 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 - Luna, Jose, University of Cordoba, Spain - Mangioni, Giuseppe, DIEEI - University of Catania, Italy - Mannens, Erik, Ghent University - Mihaescu, Cristian, University of Craiova - Mocanu, Mihai, University of Craiova, Romania - Morales-Luna, Guillermo, Centro de Investigación y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, Mexico - Ogiela, Marek, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland - Ohzeki, Kazuo, Shibaura Institute of Technology, Japan - Õunapuu, Enn, Tallinn University of Technology, Estonia - Paltoglou, Georgios, University of Wolverhampton, United Kingdom - 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 - Smedberg, Asa, Stockholm University, Sweden - 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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DS-RAIT 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies 30 Dec '14

30 Dec '14

CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= 2nd Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology (DS-RAIT'15) Lodz, Poland, September 13-16, 2015 WWW: https://fedcsis.org/ds-rait E-mail: ds-rait2015(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 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). 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 2015 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 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. 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 - 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 ======================================= - Gołuńska, Dominika, Cracow University of Technology, Poland - Kowalski, Piotr Andrzej, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland - Lukasik, Szymon, Systems Research Institute, Polish Academy of Sciences, 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 - 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 - Fournier-Viger, Philippe, University of Moncton, Canada - Gil, David, University of Alicante, 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 - 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 - Samotyj, Volodymyr, Lviv Polytechnic National University - Tormasi, Alex, Szechenyi Istvan University, Hungary - 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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CANA 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies 22 Dec '14

22 Dec '14

CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= 8th Workshop on Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms (CANA'15) Lodz, Poland, September 13-16, 2015 WWW: https://fedcsis.org/cana E-mail: cana2015(a)fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to CANA - 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). Numerical algorithms are widely used by scientists engaged in various areas. There is a special need of highly efficient and easy-to-use scalable tools for solving large scale problems. 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 GPUs - 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 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. 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 - 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 ======================================= - Bylina, Jaroslaw, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland - Bylina, Beata, 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 - Banaś, Krzysztof, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland - Barán, Benjamín, Universidad Nacional del Este - Brugnano, Luigi, Universita' di Firenze, Italy - Filippone, Salvatore, University Rome Tor Vergata, Italy - Filote, Constantin - Fourneau, Jean-Michel - Gansterer, Wilfried, University of Vienna, Austria - Georgiev, Krassimir, IICT - BAS, Bulgaria - Gimenez, Domingo, University of Murcia, Spain - Gravvanis, George, Democritus University of Thrace, Greece - Kucaba-Pietal, Anna, Politechnika Rzeszowska, Poland - Lirkov, Ivan, Institute of Information and Communication Technologies , Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Bulgaria - Maksimov, Vyacheslav, Institute of Mathematics and Mechanics, Russia - Marowka, Ami, Bar-Ilan University, Israel - Petcu, Dana, West University of Timisoara, Romania - 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 - Szadkowski, Zbigniew, University of Lodz, Poland - 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 - Ustimenko, Vasyl, Marie Curie-Sklodowska University, Poland - Wójcik, Grzegorz M., Institute of Computer Science, 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 2015 - CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies 18 Dec '14

18 Dec '14

CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= 10th Workshop on Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation (ABC:MI) Lodz, Poland, September 13-16, 2015 WWW: https://fedcsis.org/abcmi E-mail: abcmi2015(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 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). 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 - 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 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 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 (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 ======================================= - 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 - Balke, Tina, University of Surrey, United Kingdom - 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 - Gams, Matjaz, Jozef Stefan Institute, Slovenia - Gomez Sanz, Jorge, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain - Goncalves, Ricardo, Uninova, Portugal - Hinchey, Mike, Lero-the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Ireland - Ivanović, Mirjana, University of Novi Sad, Serbia - Jamroga, Wojtek, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Jedrzejowicz, Piotr, Gdynia Maritime University, Poland - Jezic, Gordan, University of Zagreb, Croatia - Kaleta, Mariusz, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - Khorasani, Elham, University of Illinois at Springfield, United States - Koukam, Abder, IRTES-SeT Université de Technologie de Belfort Montbéliard, France - 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 - Ngoc-Thanh, Nguyen - Niazi, Muaz, Bahria University, Pakistan - Novak, Peter, Dept. of Computer Science and Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic - Nowostawski, Mariusz, University of Otago, Information Science Department, New Zealand - Oliveira, Eugenio, Faculty of Engineering, University of Porto, Portugal - Omicini, Andrea, Alma Mater Studiorum–Università 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 - Slavkovik, Marija, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg - Stanek, Stanislaw, General Tadeusz Kosciuszko Military Academy of Land Forces in Wrocław, Poland - Tang, Yuqing, Carnegie Mellon University, United States - Thimm, Matthias, University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany - Trcek, Denis, University of Ljubljana, Slovenia - Troquard, Nicolas, ISTC-CNR, Italy - Tucci, Salvatore, University of Rome at Torvergata, Italy - Venticinque, Salvatore, Second University of Naples, Italy - Vouros, George, University of Piraeus, Greece - Wahjudi, Paulus, Marshall Unviersity, United States - Yazdani, Samaneh, Islamic Azad University, Science and Research branch, Iran 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 2015 - PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS
by Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies 14 Dec '14

14 Dec '14

PRELIMINARY 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/FedCSIS2015onIEEE) We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to the FedCSIS 2015 - a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, European Alliance for Innovation, Lodz ACM Chapter, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT (further technical collaborations will be announced shortly). Please forward the announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. The FedCSIS Multiconference 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 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. 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 on Programming Languages ECRM - Education, Curricula & Research Methods ---- DS-RAIT'15 - 2nd Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology ---- ISEC'15 - 4th Information Systems Education & Curricula Workshop ---- 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 List of keynote speakers will be announced shortly. 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. 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 - 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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Final Call for Participation: UCC 2014 London UK
by Ashiq Anjum 02 Dec '14

02 Dec '14

Dear All, The final conference programme for UCC 2014, being held in London from December 8-11 2014, is available at: http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2014/conference-programme/ http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2014/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/UCC-2014-Co… We have some very interesting keynote speakers, tutorials and workshops this year. The notable names and their talks include the following: 1. Enabling Cloud Computing at Hyper-Scale: Kenji Takeda, Microsoft 2. Cloud Native Cost Optimization: Adrian Cockcroft, Battery Ventures (prev. Netflix, eBay, Sun) 3. A Few Control Issues in Warehouse-scale Computing: John Wilkes, Google 4. Rack-Scale Computers and the Cloud: Ant Rowstron, Microsoft 5. Joe Baguley, Chief Technology Officer, EMEA, VMware 6. Professor Yike Guo, Imperial College London 7. Actors in the Cloud: Supporting Security, Scalability and Availability , Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 8. Clinical Intelligence & Integration: Tackling Large Data Analytics in Real-Time, Oliver Vettel and Andreas Koop, Roche Diagnostics Panel Discussion: How adaptive should our infrastructure (networks, data centres etc.) be to support next generation Clouds? Alan Sill; Open Grid Forum (OGF) Joe Baguley; VMWare John Wilken; Google Erik Elmroth; Umeå University (UMU) Gul Agha; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UCC 2014 Tutorials 1. Azure Machine Learning for Research, Kenji Takeda 2. Model-Driven Management of Multi-Cloud Applications, Danilo Ardagna 3. The Intercloud Architecture and Project, David R. Bernstein 4. Distributed Data Storage: From Dispersed Files to Stealth Databases, Josef Spillner, Johannes Müller, 5. Software Development in Cloud: An Experiential Study with CMS, Chandra Sekaran K, 6. Data Analysis with R, Shruti Kohli, Shruti Kohli 6. Microsoft Azure for Research, Kenji Takeda 7. Autonomic Clouds, Omer Rana and Manish Parashar, Omer F. Rana 8. Help Clinical Intelligence take the next step using state-of-the art in-memory analytics, Oliver Vettel and Andreas Koop 9. CRISTAL : Designing Traceable Cloud-based Systems, Richard McClatchey, Andrew Branson UCC 2014 Workshops 1. International Symposium on Big Data Computing 2014 – BDC 2014 2. 6th Cloud Control Workshop – CloudControl6 3. Cloud Federation Management: Identity, Resources and Applications Workshop – CFM 2014 4. Workshops on Standards and Pre-Standards Topics in Clouds, Big Data and Data Analytics – SCBDA 2014 5. ITaaU Network+ Symposium – ITaaU 2014 6. Clouds and eScience Applications Management Workshop – CloudAM 2014 7. Crowdsourcing and Gamification in the Cloud Workshop – CGCloud 2014 8. Re-computability in the Cloud Workshop – Re-computability 2014 9. Advances in CC Legislation, Accountability, Security and Privacy Workshop – CLASP 2014 10. Trust in Cloud Computing Workshop – IWTCC 2014 11. Green Cloud Computing Workshop – GCC 2014 12. Smart City Clouds: Technologies, Systems and Applications Workshop – SCCTSA 2014 13. Cloud Automation, Intelligent Management and Scalability Workshop – CAIMS 2014 14. Cyber-physical Cloud Computing Workshop – CPCC 2014 15. Network Virtualization and SDN for Cloud Data Centres Workshop 16. Big Data, Intelligence Management and Analytics Workshop – BDIMA 17. Big Data and Social Networking Management and Security Workshop 18. Education in the Cloud Workshop – EC 2014 19. EGI Federated Cloud Workshop 20. Plugfest: Cloud Interoperability Event UCC 2014 Registration To register please visit: http://www.derby.ac.uk/enterprisecentre/events/ucc/book/ Best regards Ashiq Anjum Organising Chair UCC 2014 -- http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2014/ Dr. Ashiq Anjum Reader in Distributed Computing Distributed and Intelligent Systems (DISYS) research centre School of Computing and Mathematics University of Derby Room E510 Kedleston Road Derby, UK DE22 1GB ashiq.anjum(a)cern.ch & a.anjum(a)derby.ac.uk +44 (0) 1332 591881 & 44 (0) 772 4017071 http://www.derby.ac.uk/staff/ashiq-anjum/

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Fwd: Scheduler Bypass
by Phab Lucky 25 Nov '14

25 Nov '14

Hi, all. I'm new to OpenStack, so I apologize in advance if my question lacks relevance or sense. We are trying to build a cluster orchestrator for Big Data processing and one of the key requirements is the ability to place each computing task in each physical server. We have been trying to leverage this development with OpenStack, but, as far as I can see by the on-line documentation, the Nova interface does not allow users to specify the physical location (host) where VMs (servers) are created. Instead, this task is performed by the Scheduler, which has its own algorithms and policies. Even though we can try to customize the Scheduler, I was wondering if I could simply bypass it and tell Nova to create a VM on host X. I know this sounds like bad design, as we are violating the location transparency that OpenStack attempts to deliver, but this seems to me the only way to bring the computation to where the data is. Any thoughts? Thanks a lot. Phab

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UCC 2014 London UK-- Conference Programme is now available
by Ashiq Anjum 10 Nov '14

10 Nov '14

Dear All, The conference programme for UCC 2014, being held in London from December 8-11 2014, is available at: http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2014/conference-programme/ We have some very interesting keynote speakers this year. The notable names and their talks include the following: 1. Enabling Cloud Computing at Hyper-Scale: Kenji Takeda, Microsoft 2. Cloud Native Cost Optimization: Adrian Cockcroft, Battery Ventures (prev. Netflix, eBay, Sun) 3. A Few Control Issues in Warehouse-scale Computing: John Wilkes, Google 4. Rack-Scale Computers and the Cloud: Ant Rowstron, Microsoft 5. Joe Baguley, Chief Technology Officer, EMEA, VMware 6. Professor Yike Guo, Imperial College London 7. Actors in the Cloud: Supporting Security, Scalability and Availability , Gul Agha, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA 8. Clinical Intelligence & Integration: Tackling Large Data Analytics in Real-Time, Oliver Vettel and Andreas Koop, Roche Panel Discussion: How adaptive should our infrastructure (networks, data centres etc.) be to support next generation Clouds? Alan Sill; Open Grid Forum (OGF) Joe Baguley; VMWare John Wilken; Google Erik Elmroth; Umeå University (UMU) Gul Agha; University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign UCC 2014 Tutorials 1. Azure Machine Learning for Research, Kenji Takeda 2. Model-Driven Management of Multi-Cloud Applications, Danilo Ardagna 3. The Intercloud Architecture and Project, David R. Bernstein 4. Distributed Data Storage: From Dispersed Files to Stealth Databases, Josef Spillner, Johannes Müller, 5. Software Development in Cloud: An Experiential Study with CMS, Chandra Sekaran K, 6. Data Analysis with R, Shruti Kohli, Shruti Kohli 6. Microsoft Azure for Research, Kenji Takeda 7. Autonomic Clouds, Omer Rana and Manish Parashar, Omer F. Rana 8. Help Clinical Intelligence take the next step using state-of-the art in-memory analytics, Oliver Vettel and Andreas Koop 9. CRISTAL : Designing Traceable Cloud-based Systems, Richard McClatchey, Andrew Branson UCC 2014 Workshops 1. International Symposium on Big Data Computing 2014 – BDC 2014 2. 6th Cloud Control Workshop – CloudControl6 3. Cloud Federation Management: Identity, Resources and Applications Workshop – CFM 2014 4. Workshops on Standards and Pre-Standards Topics in Clouds, Big Data and Data Analytics – SCBDA 2014 5. ITaaU Network+ Symposium – ITaaU 2014 6. Clouds and eScience Applications Management Workshop – CloudAM 2014 7. Crowdsourcing and Gamification in the Cloud Workshop – CGCloud 2014 8. Re-computability in the Cloud Workshop – Re-computability 2014 9. Advances in CC Legislation, Accountability, Security and Privacy Workshop – CLASP 2014 10. Trust in Cloud Computing Workshop – IWTCC 2014 11. Green Cloud Computing Workshop – GCC 2014 12. Smart City Clouds: Technologies, Systems and Applications Workshop – SCCTSA 2014 13. Cloud Automation, Intelligent Management and Scalability Workshop – CAIMS 2014 14. Cyber-physical Cloud Computing Workshop – CPCC 2014 15. Network Virtualization and SDN for Cloud Data Centres Workshop 16. Big Data, Intelligence Management and Analytics Workshop – BDIMA 17. Big Data and Social Networking Management and Security Workshop 18. Education in the Cloud Workshop – EC 2014 19. EGI Federated Cloud Workshop 20. Plugfest: Cloud Interoperability Event UCC 2014 Registration To register please visit: http://www.derby.ac.uk/enterprisecentre/events/ucc/book/ Best regards Ashiq Anjum Organising Chair UCC 2014 -- http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2014/ Dr. Ashiq Anjum Reader in Distributed Computing Distributed and Intelligent Systems (DISYS) research centre School of Computing and Mathematics University of Derby Room E510 Kedleston Road Derby, UK DE22 1GB ashiq.anjum(a)cern.ch & a.anjum(a)derby.ac.uk +44 (0) 1332 591881 & 44 (0) 772 4017071 http://www.derby.ac.uk/staff/ashiq-anjum/

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SCPE - Special Issue on Modeling and Simulation Applications of Software Agents
by Katarzyna Wasielewska 09 Nov '14

09 Nov '14

SCALABLE COMPUTING: PRACTICE AND EXPERIENCE - Volume 15, Issue 3 (2014) Scientific International Journal for Parallel and Distributed Computing ISSN 1895-1767 www.scpe.org SCPE is an electronic journal. It provides immediate open access to its content following the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Special Issue on Modeling and Simulation Applications of Software Agents Full texts available at http://www.scpe.org/index.php/scpe/issue/view/122 TABLE OF CONTENTS * Introduction to the Special Issue on Modeling and Simulation Applications of Software Agents - Costin Badica, Mirjana Ivanovic * A system supporting the evaluation of the operational effectiveness of naval tasks based on agent simulation - Davide Anghinolfi, Alberto Capogrosso, Massimo Paolucci, Perra Francesco * Formal modelling and simulation of a multi-agent nano-robotic drug delivery system - Marina Ntika, Petros Kefalas, Ioanna Stamatopoulou * ABVE-construct: an agent-based virtual entreprise model for civil engineering - Mihaela Oprea * Portability in clouds: approaches and research opportunities - Dana Petcu, Athanasios V. Vasilakos * Fariness of task scheduling in high performance computing environments - Art Sedighi, Yuefan Deng, Peng Zhang

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IEEE UCC 2014, December 8-11, 2014, London, UK
by Ashiq Anjum 02 Jul '14

02 Jul '14

Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP ************************************************************************************* 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2014) December 8-11, 2014, London, UK http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2014/ Context and Scope Cloud Computing promises to deliver computational resources on demand as services that are commoditised and delivered as in traditional utilities such as electricity, gas, water and telephony. Utility with Cloud services can already be achieved for compute, storage and communication resources but also for hosted software and data. UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility. There is also increasing interest from commercial providers to offer business and revenue models around the services they offer. Understanding how these model could be used to provide utility for both users, intermediary brokers (aggregators) and providers will also be of interest for this conference. This will be the 7th UCC in a successful conference series. Previous events were held in Shanghai, China (Cloud 2009), Melbourne, Australia (Cloud 2010 & UCC 2011), Chennai, India (UCC 2010), Chicago, USA (UCC 2012), and Dresden, Germany (UCC2013). UCC 2014 happens while cloud providers worldwide add new services and increase utility at an accelerated pace and is therefore of high relevance for both academic and industrial research. Topics of interest include: * Big Data and Analytics * Principles and theoretical foundations of Utility Computing, including pricing and service models * Policy languages and Programming models * Architectural models to achieve Utility in Clouds * Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid, federated, aggregated * Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and services at all layers (XaaS) * Virtualisation technologies and other enablers * Economic models and scenarios of use * Scalability and resource management: brokering, scheduling, capacity planning, parallelism and elasticity, as well as marketplaces * Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, performance models and monitoring * Applications: games, social networks, scientific computing (e-science) and business * Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds * Beyond technology: Cloud business and legal implications, such as security, privacy, trust and jurisdiction especially in Utility contextsImportant Dates Paper Submissions Due: 18 July, 2014 Tutorial Proposals Due: 18 July, 2014 Cloud Challenge Proposals Due: 15th August, 2014 Notification of Acceptance:29 August, 2014 Early Registration Deadline:29 September, 2014 Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit papers electronically through EasyChair(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc2014) . Manuscripts may not exceed 8 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings (print area of 6-1/2 inches (16.51 cm) wide by 8-7/8 inches (22.51 cm) high, two-column format with a 3/8 inch (0.81 cm) space between them, single-spaced 10-point Times fully justified text). Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society, USA, and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library. Chairs and Committees Conference Co-Chairs Nikos Antonopoulos, University of Derby, UK (n.antonopoulos(a)derby.ac.uk) Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK (o.f.rana(a)cs.cardiff.ac.uk) Programme Committee Co-Chairs Shrideep Pallickara, Colorado State University, USA Chunming Rong, University of Stavanger, Norway Organising Chair Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK (a.anjum(a)derby.ac.uk) Workshops Chair Josef Spillner, TU Dresden, Germany Publications Chairs Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK Lee Gillam, University of Surrey, UK Workshops We encourage high quality workshops from the community, which relate to one or more of the topics identified above. Individuals interested in organising a workshop are encouraged to consult the separate Call for Workshops. Venue UCC 2014 will take place in the Hilton London Paddington, in the centre of the lively capital of United Kingdom.

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Proposal: FairShareScheduler.
by Tim Bell 30 Jun '14

30 Jun '14

FYI, During some earlier discussions at the OpenStack summit, some people in the community had mentioned the need for a fair share scheduler/queue. INFN have put a description of some work they're doing on the openstack-dev list to find others with similar use cases and get input. Follow up there with comments... Tim

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London Openstack next week?
by John Hearns 18 Jun '14

18 Jun '14

Is anyone from this list intending to be at the London Openstack meeting on 4th June? John Hearns

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Open nominations for Cray, Fernbach and Kennedy Awards (SC14) ** Deadline 1 July **
by Milagros Lovos 18 Jun '14

18 Jun '14

*NOMINATIONS ARE SOLICITED FOR **THE 2014 * *SEYMOUR CRAY, SIDNEY FERNBACH & KEN KENNEDY AWARDS* *Deadline is 1 July 2014* *Nomination Site: http://awards.computer.org/ <http://awards.computer.org/>* *Award Presentation: SC14, New Orleans, LA <http://sc14.supercomputing.org/> - Nov. 16-21, 2014HPC MATTERS* *Open to All, see qualifications below:* *SEYMOUR CRAY COMPUTER ENGINEERING AWARD <http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/seymourcray> *- Established in late 1997 in memory of Seymour Cray, the Seymour Cray Award is awarded to recognize innovative contributions to high performance computing systems best exemplify the creative spirit demonstrated by Seymour Cray. The award consists of a crystal memento and honorarium of $10,000. * This award requires 3 endorsements.* *SIDNEY FERNBACH MEMORIAL AWARD* <http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/sidney> - Established in 1992 by the Board of Governors of the IEEE Computer Society. It honors the memory of the late Dr. Sidney Fernbach, one of the pioneers on the development and application of high performance computers for the solution of large computational problems. The award, which consists of a certificate and a $2,000 honorarium, is presented annually to an individual for “an outstanding contribution in the application of high performance computers using innovative approaches.” *This award requires 3 endorsements.* *ACM / IEEE-CS KEN KENNEDY AWARD* <http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/kennedy> - Established in memory of Ken Kennedy, the founder of Rice University's nationally ranked computer science program and one of the world's foremost experts on high-performance computing. A certificate and $5,000 honorarium are awarded jointly by the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society for outstanding contributions to programmability or productivity in high-performance computing together with significant community service or mentoring contributions. * This award requires 2 endorsements.* For nomination queries, please write to awards(a)computer.org or visit our FAQ's page: http://www.computer.org/portal/web/awards/faq Regards, -- *Milagros (Millie) Lovos* *IEEE Computer Society* 2001 L Street N.W., Suite 700 Washington, DC 20036 Phone: +1-202-371-0101 www.computer.org

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7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2014) December 8-11, 2014, London, UK
by Ashiq Anjum 12 May '14

12 May '14

Please accept our apologies if you received multiple copies of this CFP ************************************************************************************* 7th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2014) December 8-11, 2014, London, UK http://computing.derby.ac.uk/ucc2014/ Context and Scope Cloud Computing promises to deliver computational resources on demand as services that are commoditised and delivered as in traditional utilities such as electricity, gas, water and telephony. Utility with Cloud services can already be achieved for compute, storage and communication resources but also for hosted software and data. UCC is the premier IEEE/ACM conference covering all areas related to Cloud Computing as a Utility. There is also increasing interest from commercial providers to offer business and revenue models around the services they offer. Understanding how these model could be used to provide utility for both users, intermediary brokers (aggregators) and providers will also be of interest for this conference. This will be the 7th UCC in a successful conference series. Previous events were held in Shanghai, China (Cloud 2009), Melbourne, Australia (Cloud 2010 & UCC 2011), Chennai, India (UCC 2010), Chicago, USA (UCC 2012), and Dresden, Germany (UCC2013). UCC 2014 happens while cloud providers worldwide add new services and increase utility at an accelerated pace and is therefore of high relevance for both academic and industrial research. Topics of interest include: * Big Data and Analytics * Principles and theoretical foundations of Utility Computing, including pricing and service models * Policy languages and Programming models * Architectural models to achieve Utility in Clouds * Designs and deployment models for Clouds: private, public, hybrid, federated, aggregated * Cloud Computing middleware, stacks, tools, delivery networks and services at all layers (XaaS) * Virtualisation technologies and other enablers * Economic models and scenarios of use * Scalability and resource management: brokering, scheduling, capacity planning, parallelism and elasticity, as well as marketplaces * Cloud management: autonomic, adaptive, self-*, SLAs, performance models and monitoring * Applications: games, social networks, scientific computing (e-science) and business * Mobile and energy-efficient use of Clouds * Beyond technology: Cloud business and legal implications, such as security, privacy, trust and jurisdiction especially in Utility contextsImportant Dates Workshop Proposals: 12 May, 2014 Paper Submissions Due: 18 July, 2014 Notification of Acceptance:29 August, 2014 Early Registration Deadline:29 September, 2014 Paper Submission Authors are invited to submit papers electronically through EasyChair(https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ucc2014) . Manuscripts may not exceed 8 letter size (8.5 x 11) pages including figures, tables and references using the IEEE format for conference proceedings (print area of 6-1/2 inches (16.51 cm) wide by 8-7/8 inches (22.51 cm) high, two-column format with a 3/8 inch (0.81 cm) space between them, single-spaced 10-point Times fully justified text). Submitted papers must represent original unpublished research that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. The proceedings will be published by the IEEE Computer Society, USA, and will be made available online through the IEEE Digital Library. Chairs and Committees Conference Co-Chairs Nikos Antonopoulos, University of Derby, UK (n.antonopoulos(a)derby.ac.uk) Omer F. Rana, Cardiff University, UK (o.f.rana(a)cs.cardiff.ac.uk) Programme Committee Co-Chairs Shrideep Pallickara, Colorado State University, USA Chunming Rong, University of Stavanger, Norway Organising Chair Ashiq Anjum, University of Derby, UK (a.anjum(a)derby.ac.uk) Workshops Chair Josef Spillner, TU Dresden, Germany Publications Chairs Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Nik Bessis, University of Derby, UK Lee Gillam, University of Surrey, UK Workshops We encourage high quality workshops from the community, which relate to one or more of the topics identified above. Individuals interested in organising a workshop are encouraged to consult the separate Call for Workshops. Venue UCC 2014 will take place in the Hilton London Paddington, in the centre of the lively capital of United Kingdom.

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[VHPC’14] LAST Call for Papers - Deadline in 4 weeks
by VHPC 14 12 May '14

12 May '14

================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS 9th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '14) held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2014, August 25-29, Porto, Portugal (Springer LNCS) ================================================================= Date: August 26, 2014 Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org Paper Submission Deadline: June 9, 2014 (extended) Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratory Hobbes: Using Virtualization to Enable Exascale Applications and Helge Meinhard, CERN 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 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 NICs/HBAs 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; the increasingly adopted paradigm of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) promises to extend this flexibility to the control and data planes of network paths. 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). What is more, in data communications Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is becoming a key technology enabling a shift from supplying hardware-based network functions, to providing them in a software-based and elastic way. In conjunction with (public and private) cloud technologies, NFV may be used for constructing the foundation for cost-effective network functions that can easily and seamlessly adapt to demand, still keeping their major carrier-grade characteristics in terms of QoS and reliability. 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: - Management, deployment and monitoring of virtualized environments - Language-process virtual machines - Performance monitoring for virtualized/cloud workloads - Virtual machine monitor platforms - Topology management and optimization for distributed virtualized applications - Paravirtualized I/O - Improving I/O and network virtualization including use of RDMA, Infiniband, PCIe - Improving performance in VM access to GPUs, GPU clusters, GP-GPUs - HPC storage virtualization - Virtualized systems for big-data and analytics workloads - Optimizations and enhancements to OS virtualization support - Improving OS-level virtualization and its integration within cloud management - Performance modelling for virtualized/cloud applications - Heterogeneous virtualized environments - Parallel virtualized - virtualization aware file systems - Network virtualization - Software defined networking - Network function virtualization - Hypervisor and network virtualization QoS and SLAs - Cloudbursting - Evolved European grid architectures including such based on network virtualization - Workload characterization for VM-based environments - Optimized communication libraries/protocols in the cloud - System and process/bytecode VM convergence - Cloud frameworks and APIs - Checkpointing/migration of VM-based large compute jobs - Job scheduling/control/policy with VMs - Instrumentation interfaces and languages - VMM performance (auto-)tuning on various load types - Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance, and security - Research, industrial and educational use cases - Virtualization in cloud, cluster and grid environments - Cross-layer VM optimizations - Cloud HPC use cases including optimizations - Services in cloud HPC - Hypervisor extensions and tools for cluster and grid computing - Cluster provisioning in the cloud - Performance and cost modelling - Languages for describing highly-distributed compute jobs - VM cloud and cluster distribution algorithms, load balancing - Instrumentation interfaces and languages - Energy-aware virtualization Important Dates Rolling Paper registration June 9, 2014 - Full paper submission (extended) July 4, 2014 - Acceptance notification October 3, 2014 - Camera-ready version due August 26, 2014 - Workshop Date TPC CHAIR Michael Alexander (chair), TU Wien, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), NTUA, Greece Tommaso Cucinotta (co-chair), Bell Labs, Dublin, Ireland PROGRAM COMMITTEE Costas Bekas, IBM Jakob Blomer, CERN Roberto Canonico, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy Piero Castoldi, Sant'Anna School of Advanced Studies Paolo Costa, MS Research Cambridge, England Jorge Ejarque Artigas, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain William Gardner, University of Guelph, USA Balazs Gerofi, University of Tokyo, Japan Krishna Kant, Temple University, USA Romeo Kinzler, IBM Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy Jean-Marc Menaud, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France Christine Morin, INRIA, France Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Queen's University of Belfast, UK Herbert Poetzl, VServer, Austria Luigi Rizzo, University of Pisa, Italy Josh Simons, VMware, USA Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Vangelis Tasoulas, Simula Research Lab, Norway Yoshio Turner, HP Labs, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden 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 EasyChair Abstract Submission Link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2014ws GENERAL INFORMATION The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2014, 25-29 August, Porto, Portugal

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Atlanta Summit
by McMillan, Scott A 08 May '14

08 May '14

Hi, Are there any plans for HPC focused sessions (official or unofficial) or meetups during the May OpenStack Summit in Atlanta? Thanks, Scott

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Questions about porting StarCluster to OpenStack
by Jonathan Proulx 19 Apr '14

19 Apr '14

Hi All, For those who don't know me I deployed and run the OpenStack cloud at MIT CSAIL (http://www.csail.mit.edu) I'm currently working with Justin Riley (address in the "To" header of this email) who's the primary developer for StarCluster [http://star.mit.edu/cluster/index.html] on porting StarCluster to OpenStack. We have some operational and use case questions before we get too far down the implementation rathole^H^H^H^H^H^H^H path. I've sent this to openstack-hpc and some select bcc's to get a sense of who might be interest and what opinions you have about how the port should be implemented. What is it? If your not familiar, StarCluster is is an open source cluster-computing toolkit for Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) released under the LGPL license. It has been designed to automate and simplify the process of building, configuring, and managing clusters of virtual machines on Amazon’s EC2 cloud. StarCluster allows anyone to easily create a cluster computing environment in the cloud suited for distributed and parallel computing applications and systems. It's main target audience is domain scientists who want to setup a SGE, Condor, Hadoop, and a few other sorts of cluster in "the cloud". Its current implementation is basically a config file driven CLI that uses locally stored ssh keys for managing running the cluster. It has a fair sized user community and people seem to like it, which is why one of my users introduced Justin and I so I could provide a place for Justin to work and my user could get StarCluster on our private cloud. Were is it at? The CLI "basically works" on OpenStack now, though so far no end-users have touched it so not quite ready for public beta. If you're really interested in early code I'm sure Justin will be happy to share if you ask nicely. He has also been working on a Horizon dashboard which would be an additional feature for the OpenStack version (there is no EC2 GUI). The BIG QUESTIONS? Do you think this is something that would be useful to your users? To enable full functionality in the Horizon dashboard the dashboard app needs access to a private key to access the running (virtual) cluster nodes as root. Waving hands over implementation details, and assuming you're interested in this functionality of you're this far into the email. Is storing key material a show stopper in your environment? In other words would you rather just fall back to the CLI with it's local ~/.ssh/id_rsa (or equivalent) for privileged operations? My Opinion... I don't like centrally storing crypto keys, but my horizon runs on my controller node so it is already a fairly privileged zone, and I don't necessarily trust my users to store their key material even as well as this could be done. So while a bit cautious about the details I think it is an acceptable risk in my (admittedly permissive) environment. Thoughts? -Jon

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Fwd: HPC topics in the operators summit
by Brian Schott 14 Apr '14

14 Apr '14

Rather than cross-post, here is what I just posted on the operators list. ------------------------------------------------- Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.schott(a)nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 Begin forwarded message: > From: Brian Schott <brian.schott(a)nimbisservices.com> > Subject: HPC topics in the operators summit > Date: April 14, 2014 at 10:58:23 AM EDT > To: openstack-operators(a)lists.openstack.org > > We just got turned down for an HPC-specific session in Atlanta and found the ops unconference after Thierry mentioned it. > https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/ATL-ops-unconference-RFC > > Would there be space/interest for a few HPC topics in the operator's summit? > https://etherpad.openstack.org/p/juno-hpc-unconference > http://summit.openstack.org/cfp/details/227 > > Thanks, > brian > > ------------------------------------------------- > Brian Schott, CTO > Nimbis Services, Inc. > brian.schott(a)nimbisservices.com > ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 > > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: Thierry Carrez <thierry(a)openstack.org> >> Subject: Re: [DesignSummit] Status change on your session proposal >> Date: April 14, 2014 at 10:33:21 AM EDT >> To: Brian Schott <brian.schott(a)nimbisservices.com>, russell(a)russellbryant.net >> >> Brian Schott wrote: >>> Will there be any other opportunities for HPC folks to get meeting >>> space? It wasn't clear from the web what the unconference setup would >>> be this year. >> >> There is no "unconference" this time. You might want to see if the >> Operators summit would have room to discuss HPC. To discuss specific >> contributions, you should engage with each project and try to get space >> in their project tracks. >> >> Regards, >> >> -- >> Thierry Carrez (ttx) >

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CfP 9th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '14)
by VHPC 14 19 Mar '14

19 Mar '14

we apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CfP ================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS 9th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '14) held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2014, August 25-29, Porto, Portugal (Springer LNCS) ================================================================= Date: August 26, 2014 Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org Paper Submission Deadline: May 30, 2014 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 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 NICs/HBAs 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; the increasingly adopted paradigm of Software-Defined Networking (SDN) promises to extend this flexibility to the control and data planes of network paths. 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). What is more, in data communications Network Function Virtualization (NFV) is becoming a key technology enabling a shift from supplying hardware-based network functions, to providing them in a software-based and elastic way. In conjunction with (public and private) cloud technologies, NFV may be used for constructing the foundation for cost-effective network functions that can easily and seamlessly adapt to demand, still keeping their major carrier-grade characteristics in terms of QoS and reliability. 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: - Management, deployment and monitoring of virtualized environments - Language-process virtual machines - Performance monitoring for virtualized/cloud workloads - Virtual machine monitor platforms - Topology management and optimization for distributed virtualized applications - Paravirtualized I/O - Improving I/O and network virtualization including use of RDMA, Infiniband, PCIe - Improving performance in VM access to GPUs, GPU clusters, GP-GPUs - HPC storage virtualization - Virtualized systems for big-data and analytics workloads - Optimizations and enhancements to OS virtualization support - Improving OS-level virtualization and its integration within cloud management - Performance modelling for virtualized/cloud applications - Heterogeneous virtualized environments - Network virtualization - Software defined networking - Network function virtualization - Hypervisor and network virtualization QoS and SLAs - Cloudbursting - Evolved European grid architectures including such based on network virtualization - Workload characterization for VM-based environments - Optimized communication libraries/protocols in the cloud - System and process/bytecode VM convergence - Cloud frameworks and APIs - Checkpointing/migration of VM-based large compute jobs - Job scheduling/control/policy with VMs - Instrumentation interfaces and languages - VMM performance (auto-)tuning on various load types - Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance, and security - Research, industrial and educational use cases - Virtualization in cloud, cluster and grid environments - Cross-layer VM optimizations - Cloud HPC use cases including optimizations - Services in cloud HPC - Hypervisor extensions and tools for cluster and grid computing - Cluster provisioning in the cloud - Performance and cost modelling - Languages for describing highly-distributed compute jobs - VM cloud and cluster distribution algorithms, load balancing - Instrumentation interfaces and languages - Energy-aware virtualization Important Dates Rolling Paper registration May 30, 2014 - Full paper submission July 4, 2014 - Acceptance notification October 3, 2014 - Camera-ready version due August 26, 2014 - Workshop Date TPC CHAIR Michael Alexander (chair), TU Wien, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), NTUA, Greece Tommaso Cucinotta (co-chair), Bell Labs, Dublin, Ireland PROGRAM COMMITTEE Costas Bekas, IBM Jakob Blomer, CERN Roberto Canonico, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy Paolo Costa, MS Research Cambridge, England Jorge Ejarque Artigas, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain William Gardner, University of Guelph, USA Balazs Gerofi, University of Tokyo, Japan Krishna Kant, Temple University, USA Romeo Kinzler, IBM Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Giuseppe Lettieri, University of Pisa, Italy Jean-Marc Menaud, Ecole des Mines de Nantes, France Christine Morin, INRIA, France Dimitrios Nikolopoulos, Queen's University of Belfast, UK Herbert Poetzl, VServer, Austria Luigi Rizzo, University of Pisa, Italy Josh Simons, VMWare, USA Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Vangelis Tasoulas, Simula Research Lab, Norway Yoshio Turner, HP Labs, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden 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 EasyChair Abstract Submission Link: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=europar2014ws GENERAL INFORMATION The workshop is one day in length and will be held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2014, 25-29 August, Porto, Portugal

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Fwd: Call for panelists on "HPC in the Cloud"
by Brian Schott 14 Feb '14

14 Feb '14

Sorry for the cross posting, but traffic on the openstack main list is hard to filter. ------------------------------------------------- Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.schott(a)nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 Begin forwarded message: > From: Brian Schott <brian.schott(a)nimbisservices.com> > Subject: Call for panelists on "HPC in the Cloud" > Date: February 11, 2014 at 9:43:52 PM EST > To: openstack(a)lists.openstack.org > Cc: Ron Minnich <rminnich(a)gmail.com> > > My friend Ron Minnich from Google is looking for panelists on "HPC in the Cloud". I know the OpenStack community is doing everything from bare-metal HPC systems, to virtualized machines with SRIOV interconnects, to hybrid cloud front-end management nodes with traditional HPC batch backend systems. I think all would be interesting. If you are interested in representing the OpenStack community at this event, please contact Ron Minnich <rminnich(a)gmail.com>. > > http://hpcs2014.cisedu.info/2-conference/symposia/symp01-intercloudhpc > > International Symposium on Cloud Computing and Services for > High Performance Computing Systems > (InterCloud-HPC 2014) > July 21 – July 25, 2014 > The Savoia Hotel Regency > Bologna, Italy > > Submission Deadline: March 11, 2014 > > Thanks! > Brian > > ------------------------------------------------- > Brian Schott, CTO > Nimbis Services, Inc. > brian.schott(a)nimbisservices.com > ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 > > >

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Fake Conferences CSCI and WORLDCOMP of Hamid Arabnia
by hailybrown＠hushmail.com 30 Jan '14

30 Jan '14

Fake Conferences CSCI and WORLDCOMP of Hamid Arabnia If you have any thought of attending the world’s biggest fake conference in computer science, WORLDCOMP http://www.world-academy-of-science.org you must visit any websites below https://sites.google.com/site/worlddump1 or https://sites.google.com/site/dumpconf https://sites.google.com/site/moneycomp1 https://sites.google.com/site/worlddump4 The organizer of this conference is Hamid Arabnia http://www.cs.uga.edu/~hra a professor from University of Georgia, Athens, US. The primary goal of this conference is to collect registration fee by accepting all submitted papers. Several fake papers were published in the conference proceedings. He already earned millions of dollars from the registration fee and is using part of the money for anti-Christmas greetings campaign. http://worldcomp-fake-bogus.blogspot.com has additional information on this campaign. He recently started another new conference CSCI due to his hunger for money http://www.americancse.org Hamid Arabnia failed to reveal the reviews and reviewers' information for all the papers he received, despite repeated requests and challenges. The reason for his failure is there were no reviews and reviewers and he just cheated the research community for more than a decade by announcing that each draft paper is reviewed by two experts. We challenge him to publish these details at the conference website. Where are these experts? Where are these reviews? Soon he comes up with a story that he lost all the reviews and reviewers’ information because of computer crash or theft. DBLP stopped indexing these conferences since 2011 and displayed an explicit message; The DBLP Advisory Board decided to discontinue indexing of this conference series. Visit http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/biocomp/index.html as a sample. He was forced to remove his name, the university of Georgia name, and university of Georgia email address from the conference’s contact page because the University has banned him from doing that. Do not spoil your resume by publishing in this bogus conference. Wikipedia’s comments on Hamid Arabnia are at http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Hamid_Arabnia&oldid Additional information on this conference bogus conference is available by searching internet using the keywords worldcomp fake or Hamid Arabnia fake Apologies for posting to multiple mailing lists. Spreading the news is the only way to stop this conference from harming innocent researchers. Respectfully, Many researchers cheated by Hamid Arabnia’s fake conferences

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Data management
by Theodore Omtzigt 12 Dec '13

12 Dec '13

We are working on an OpenStack-based HPC on-demand service, but run into data management problems. We are working in the context of a hybrid cloud configuration, tailored to collaborative HPC, and are looking for similar minded folks and projects, to solve data management, and in particular data migration services for said hybrid clouds. Theo Stillwater Supercomputing, Inc. "/Accelerating Innovation"/

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Testing
by Dave Ojika 12 Dec '13

12 Dec '13

Testing: checking to see if list works. No mail has hit my inbox yet. I am excited about openstack for HPC.

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FW: Internet2 + HPC
by Dave Ojika 07 Dec '13

07 Dec '13

> I am a Ph.D student at university of florida with research interest in > HPC and multi-core systems. I am wondering how I can explore more > about openstack in the area of high-performance computing in order to > possibly kick start research. -----Original Message----- From: Stefano Maffulli [mailto:stefano@openstack.org] Sent: Friday, December 06, 2013 5:38 PM To: Dave Ojika Subject: Re: Internet2 + HPC Hi Dave, you wrote to the owner of the list. I'd suggest you to write to the list itself: openstack-hpc(a)lists.openstack.org Cheers, stef On Fri 06 Dec 2013 12:24:09 AM PST, Dave Ojika wrote: > I am a Ph.D student at university of florida with research interest in > HPC and multi-core systems. I am wondering how I can explore more > about openstack in the area of high-performance computing in order to > possibly kick start research in this area for my independent study > after I discuss with my advisor. thank you -- Ask and answer questions on https://ask.openstack.org

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Vote now for speakers
by John Paul Walters 07 Nov '13

07 Nov '13

Hi folks, We have submitted for two speaking slots in the upcoming design summit summit. Now is the time to vote for them, if it's something that you're interested in. The first link, is a overview of the state of the art in HPC within OpenStack, featuring Tim Bell, Gegor von Laszewski, Patrick Petit, and myself. http://www.openstack.org/rate/Presentation/technical-computing-with-opensta… The second is a technical discussion about VM access to devices like GPUs and Infiniband interfaces featuring Andrew Younge, a visiting researcher at ISI. http://www.openstack.org/rate/Presentation/building-high-performance-clouds… Voting ends Aug. 25. Please consider voting for these so that HPC is well represented at the Hong Kong summit. best, JP

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Fwd: Re: [openstack-dev] GPU passthrough support blueprints for OpenStack
by Brian Schott 16 Aug '13

16 Aug '13

Don't know if you caught this on the main dev list. — Sent from Mailbox for iPhone ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: "Brian Schott" <brian.schott(a)nimbisservices.com> Date: Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 9:53 AM Subject: Re: [openstack-dev] GPU passthrough support blueprints for OpenStack To: "OpenStack Development Mailing List" <openstack-dev(a)lists.openstack.org> > Thanks for the pointers. I'll try to work with the UCS-ISI team that currently maintains those stories and see if we can reconcile or close the old blueprints. > ------------------------------------------------- > Brian Schott, CTO > Nimbis Services, Inc. > brian.schott(a)nimbisservices.com > ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 > On Aug 14, 2013, at 6:03 AM, Bob Ball <bob.ball(a)citrix.com> wrote: >> Hi Brian, >> >> Instead of specific GPU pass-through there are blueprints for generic PCI pass through at https://blueprints.launchpad.net/nova/+spec/pci-passthrough-base - these are being worked on for Havana and we're hopeful they will get in (possibly libvirt only) >> >> In terms of vGPU rather than whole-GPU pass through, the slides are correct that XenServer support is very nearly here: http://www.xenserver.org/discuss-virtualization/q-and-a/nvidia-vgpu-on-xens… >> >> Support for static allocation of vGPU is likely going to be the first phase - and adding it as a resource similar to RAM/CPU isn't likely to be proposed until a second phase. >> >> As such, I think the integration should be very similar to PCI pass through above. >> >> >> Bob >> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: Brian Schott [mailto:brian.schott@nimbisservices.com] >>> Sent: 13 August 2013 23:07 >>> To: openstack-dev(a)lists.openstack.org >>> Subject: [openstack-dev] GPU passthrough support blueprints for OpenStack >>> >>> Are there more recent blueprints related to adding GPU pass-through >>> support? All that I can find are some stale blueprints that I created around >>> the Cactus timeframe (while wearing a different hat) that are pretty out of >>> date. >>> >>> I just heard a rumor that folks are doing Nvidia GRID K2 GPU passthrough >>> with KVM successfully using linux 3.10.6 kernel with RHEL. >>> >>> In addition, Lorin and I did some GPU passthrough testing back in the spring >>> with GRID K2 on HyperV, libvirt+xen, and XenServer. Slides are here: >>> http://www.slideshare.net/bfschott/nimbis-schott- >>> openstackgpustatus20130618 >>> >>> The virtualization support for GPU-enabled virtual desktops and GPGPU >>> seems to have stabilized this year for server deployments. How is this going >>> to be supported in OpenStack? >>> >>> Brian >>> >>> ------------------------------------------------- >>> Brian Schott, CTO >>> Nimbis Services, Inc. >>> brian.schott(a)nimbisservices.com >>> ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 >>> >>> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> OpenStack-dev mailing list >> OpenStack-dev(a)lists.openstack.org >> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-dev

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Looking for practical Openstack + Ceph guidance for shared HPC
by Joshua Dotson 29 Jul '13

29 Jul '13

Hello. A contingent of my organization, the Kno.e.sis Center @ Wright State University <http://www.knoesis.org/>, recently received a grant award which we intend to use to support a handful of mid-size HPC-style workloads (MPI <-- definitely, GPGPU <-- if possible/plausible) in addition to many mid-size IaaS-style workloads (MongoDB, Storm, Hadoop, many others). As a third layer, I'm playing with the idea of evaluating an elastic OpenShift Origin atop the same infrastructure. Approximately $400k to $500k will hopefully be available for this deployment, though exact numbers are not yet available to me. While I'm prepared to build a home-grown small-to-mid-size "classical" HPC, using modern hardware, and a smaller silo for home-grown Openstack for the minority stakeholders, I am hoping to find ways of making proponents of both workloads simultaneously happy, or close to it. That is, I would like to give my computer scientist users a friendly method of running their HPC-style jobs on a combined performance-tuned silo of Openstack. Doing so would load-balance the procured hardware and infrastructure with the users who want a Tomcat or a Virtuoso instance. I see a number of serious issues realizing such a goal. For example, the state of Infiniband vs. Openstack seems not quite ready/available/documented/accessible for such use in production, unless I'm just blind to the right blogs. The added myriad abstractions and latency virtualization might impose on an HPC task, not to mention cloud software defined networking (Quantum, especially when sans hardware acceleration), seem likely to really get in the way of practicality, economics and efficiency. That said, most of what we do here isn't HPC, so I believe such trade-offs can be agreed upon, if a reasonable job scheduling and workload management mechanism can be found and agreed upon by all stake holders, grant proposal majority (HPC) and minority (IaaS) alike. I get the impression from my readings that HPC-style deployment (separate from job queuing) against the EC2 API should work. I don't have a good feeling that the experience would be particularly friendly, however, without paying for closed source applications. I'm thinking a high-performance Ceph install would help bring up the storage end of things in a modern open-source CoTS way. I've not done specific research on Lustre + Openstack, but no reports of such a setup have presented themselves to me, either. These blue sky ideas matter nil, it seems, if a sufficiently-large high-performance production-quality Openstack deployment is beyond the funds to be allotted, which is something else I'm working on. I've built smallish but useful virt-manager, oVirt and Openstack environments here already, but none of them are enough for the very-important HPC job proposed for this grant. The scientist running the proposed computation gave me following information to clarify what would parity (for his job only) his experience running the computation with an external HPC service provider. - MPI - 20 Gbps Infiniband compute interconnect - 600 cores (those currently used are probably G4 Opteron 2.4 Ghz) - 4 GB RAM per core - at lest 2 TB shared storage, though I'm thinking we need much more for use by our general community - unsure of the storage networking topology We're in the shopping phase for this grant award and are still playing with ideas. It seems likely to snap back into an old-school HPC, at this time. I've fielded communication about our needs to a number of Openstack and hardware providers, on the hope that they can bring something helpful to the table. Please let know if you can point me in the right direction(s). I'm up to reading whatever text is thrown at me on this topic. :-) Thanks, Joshua -- Joshua M. Dotson Systems Administrator Kno.e.sis Center Wright State University - Dayton, OH

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Re: [openstack-hpc] Looking for OpenStack workload management
by Tim Bell 26 Jul '13

26 Jul '13

At CERN, we have similar interests and aims as you describe. We're running LSF on top of the cloud to allow legacy batch applications to use cloud resources as well as those who are talking directly to the cloud APIs. To track resources, we are setting up a dedicated batch project in OpenStack. These resources are accounted to the IT department. We then use the batch system accounting records to work out who has used what resources inside the 'virtual batch' system. We've also been experimenting with submitting batch accounting records into ceilometer in order to consolidate the reporting into a single technology. Where we are trying to find a good solution is regarding how to use spot market resources in our cloud. If we allocate out a quota to a project but they do not use the full resources, we want to be able to offer that quota to others on a low SLA (killed with little warning). This allows us to get our resource utilisation up while ensuring that projects can get the resources they're entitled to when there is a need. This is an interesting area to be getting a few sites together to share solutions. Tim From: Di Pe [mailto:dipeit@gmail.com] Sent: 26 July 2013 08:48 To: openstack-hpc(a)lists.openstack.org Subject: Re: [openstack-hpc] Looking for practical Openstack + Ceph guidance for shared HPC All, one issue Joshua touched on was options for workload management. While IB and GPU seem to frequently discussed when it comes to openstack and HPC they are not so relevant in our HPC environment (3000 ish cores, each node connected via 1G, scaleout NAS storage, biomedical research, genomics, proteomics, statistics) ..... many other midsize shops may be have similar setups. We are just starting to look at openstack for a for a potential deployment with Ubuntu 14.04. We have good experiences using KVM for some of our resources. Some of the things we are hoping to get from openstack in the future are: * flexible partitioning of resources for special sauce software (hadoop, interactive HPC software) * self service for developers and scientists * allow research group that spans multiple research organizations (internal / external) controlled access to an isolated (virtual) datacenter (potentially with fisma compliance) * save images that researchers built for later use (reproducible in case someone asks how they got to this result) * chargeback for HPC resources for internal and external users * usage of idle resources for testing in Enterprise IT, VDI ,etc * compute fencing (as we are heading to 24 cores per box most of our multi threaded code can still only take advantage of 4-6 cores. This either leaves stuff idle or users step on each other on shared nodes ....cgroups is a bit of a pain to maintain. * checkpointing and restarting long running jobs (for prioritization and better protection against job failures). perhaps LXC containers as alternative to KVM (we use BLCR today but that community is quite small) * standardization of our infrastructure * potential participation in futuregrid, XSEDE, etc That's perhaps a lot to ask but we would be looking at a 2-3 year time frame. What I don't quite unterstand, how would one handle workload management. Currently we see people using SGE, moab, LSF and some slurm in classic HPC. Concepts like backfill, preemption fair share and such things are probably unknown to openstack? If so it would perhaps be acceptable to run a workload manager on a subset of always-on KVM systems or even baremetal for classic HPC. But how does one consolidate the reporting, billing, chargeback of 2 separate systems? Are there any efforts to integrate workload managers directly into nova? SGE and Slurm are both open source and would support everything we require. Or are folks thinking about writing something from scratch in python? Thanks dipe On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 6:22 PM, Narayan Desai <narayan.desai(a)gmail.com <mailto:narayan.desai@gmail.com> > wrote: Brian's right. You will end up doing a lot of work; nova isn't ready for this out of the box. The key problems are: - drivers for virtualization (either via SR-IOV or device passthrough) for net + gpu - IO architecture There is apparently SR-IOV support for IB, provided that you have the right hardware, firmware, and driver, though I haven't managed to make it work. This provides a pkey isolated multi-tenant environment. THat is basically a mellanox only solution. Like Brian said, Xen is the only way to go for GPU virtualization. You can do some really interesting things with the I/O architecture. We've been experimenting with both glusterfs and ceph. Both seem to perform decently well; we've managed to get the glusterfs setup going at 60 GB/s in aggregate with a pile of clients. There isn't good integration of all of the capabilities yet in mainline openstack, but this looks promising. Ceph looks like the mainline integration is better, but we haven't tried those things out yet. At the end of the day, you need to ask yourself why you want to accomplish this. If you're running a workload that is well suited to an HPC cluster, you should probably use one. If you need multi-tenancy, user control of system software, or need to run a workload poorly suited for a traditional cluster, then it is worth thinking strongly about. You'll end up needing to do a bunch of work though. In our case, the reason that we pursued this course is because we have workloads and developers that benefit from the cloud control plane. hth. -nld On Thu, Jul 25, 2013 at 3:30 PM, Brian Schott <brian.schott(a)nimbisservices.com <mailto:brian.schott@nimbisservices.com> > wrote: Joshua, It is something those of us working the gap between HPC and cloud have struggled with. We lack a strong project team within OpenStack IMHO, although there are several small groups doing HPC with OpenStack. Hopefully others will chime in on some other topics, such as Infiniband support, but we did some testing with a GRID K2 card for GPU pass-through with different hypervisors. A talk I gave at the OpenStack DC meetup is here: http://www.slideshare.net/bfschott/nimbis-schott-openstackgpustatus20130618 The short GPU answer is that it is possible with Xen, XenCenter, and XCP to passthrough GPUs today, but OpenStack doesn't have support by default in Nova. This is still in a roll-your-own mode for deployment. Brian ------------------------------------------------- Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.schott(a)nimbisservices.com <mailto:brian.schott@nimbisservices.com> ph: 443-274-6064 <tel:443-274-6064> fx: 443-274-6060 <tel:443-274-6060> On Jul 25, 2013, at 4:06 PM, Joshua Dotson <josh(a)knoesis.org <mailto:josh@knoesis.org> > wrote: Hello. A contingent of my organization, the Kno.e.sis Center @ Wright State University <http://www.knoesis.org/> , recently received a grant award which we intend to use to support a handful of mid-size HPC-style workloads (MPI <-- definitely, GPGPU <-- if possible/plausible) in addition to many mid-size IaaS-style workloads (MongoDB, Storm, Hadoop, many others). As a third layer, I'm playing with the idea of evaluating an elastic OpenShift Origin atop the same infrastructure. Approximately $400k to $500k will hopefully be available for this deployment, though exact numbers are not yet available to me. While I'm prepared to build a home-grown small-to-mid-size "classical" HPC, using modern hardware, and a smaller silo for home-grown Openstack for the minority stakeholders, I am hoping to find ways of making proponents of both workloads simultaneously happy, or close to it. That is, I would like to give my computer scientist users a friendly method of running their HPC-style jobs on a combined performance-tuned silo of Openstack. Doing so would load-balance the procured hardware and infrastructure with the users who want a Tomcat or a Virtuoso instance. I see a number of serious issues realizing such a goal. For example, the state of Infiniband vs. Openstack seems not quite ready/available/documented/accessible for such use in production, unless I'm just blind to the right blogs. The added myriad abstractions and latency virtualization might impose on an HPC task, not to mention cloud software defined networking (Quantum, especially when sans hardware acceleration), seem likely to really get in the way of practicality, economics and efficiency. That said, most of what we do here isn't HPC, so I believe such trade-offs can be agreed upon, if a reasonable job scheduling and workload management mechanism can be found and agreed upon by all stake holders, grant proposal majority (HPC) and minority (IaaS) alike. I get the impression from my readings that HPC-style deployment (separate from job queuing) against the EC2 API should work. I don't have a good feeling that the experience would be particularly friendly, however, without paying for closed source applications. I'm thinking a high-performance Ceph install would help bring up the storage end of things in a modern open-source CoTS way. I've not done specific research on Lustre + Openstack, but no reports of such a setup have presented themselves to me, either. These blue sky ideas matter nil, it seems, if a sufficiently-large high-performance production-quality Openstack deployment is beyond the funds to be allotted, which is something else I'm working on. I've built smallish but useful virt-manager, oVirt and Openstack environments here already, but none of them are enough for the very-important HPC job proposed for this grant. The scientist running the proposed computation gave me following information to clarify what would parity (for his job only) his experience running the computation with an external HPC service provider. * MPI * 20 Gbps Infiniband compute interconnect * 600 cores (those currently used are probably G4 Opteron 2.4 Ghz) * 4 GB RAM per core * at lest 2 TB shared storage, though I'm thinking we need much more for use by our general community * unsure of the storage networking topology We're in the shopping phase for this grant award and are still playing with ideas. It seems likely to snap back into an old-school HPC, at this time. I've fielded communication about our needs to a number of Openstack and hardware providers, on the hope that they can bring something helpful to the table. Please let know if you can point me in the right direction(s). I'm up to reading whatever text is thrown at me on this topic. :-) Thanks, Joshua -- Joshua M. Dotson Systems Administrator Kno.e.sis Center Wright State University - Dayton, OH _______________________________________________ OpenStack-HPC mailing list OpenStack-HPC(a)lists.openstack.org <mailto:OpenStack-HPC@lists.openstack.org> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-hpc _______________________________________________ OpenStack-HPC mailing list OpenStack-HPC(a)lists.openstack.org <mailto:OpenStack-HPC@lists.openstack.org> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-hpc _______________________________________________ OpenStack-HPC mailing list OpenStack-HPC(a)lists.openstack.org <mailto:OpenStack-HPC@lists.openstack.org> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-hpc

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Call for Presentations: SC13 Dissertation Research Showcase and Early Research Showcase
by Wojtek James Goscinski 07 Jul '13

07 Jul '13

Submissions are now being accepted for the two tracks of the Doctoral Showcase program: • The Dissertation Research Showcase track for Ph.D. students who will be graduating in the next 12 months, and • The Early Research Showcase track for Ph.D. and master’s students who are in the early stages of their research. Applications for Doctoral Showcase due July 31, 2013 Dissertation Research Showcase The dissertation research of Ph.D. students in high performance computing, networking, storage and analysis will be spotlighted in the Doctoral Showcase program. This track provides a venue for Ph.D. students who will be graduating in the next 12 months to present a summary of their latest and systematic dissertation research. It provides an opportunity to educate junior graduate students working in high performance computing areas. This program also provides an ideal opportunity for prospective employers in academia, research laboratories and industry to interact with prospective Ph.D.s. Students are asked to submit a two-page summary of their research, publications list and three slides on their major results for consideration by the Doctoral Showcase committee. These accepted Ph.D. students will be invited for presentations at the SC13 conference. Everyone attending the conference is encouraged to attend this program. Come to see the latest and greatest dissertation work done by tomorrow’s HPC experts. Early Research Showcase The Early Research Showcase track provides early-stage research students with an opportunity to present their research and engage with the SC community. This track allows students in the first three years of their Ph.D. to present promising early-stage research, while encouraging conversations with HPC experts. The format of this track is a lightening presentation round and a poster exhibition that will be co-scheduled with the Dissertation Research Showcase. The showcase invites both students who are researching computational techniques and high performance computing, and students applying computational techniques to their scientific domain. Students are asked to submit a one-page summary of their research. Participating students are encouraged to use the poster session as a forum to introduce new approaches, discuss new technology, learn about relevant literature or define future research goals. Everyone attending the conference is encouraged to attend this program to engage with future HPC experts and provide valuable feedback and learn about future research developments. The Early Research Showcase is an evolution of the Early Adopters Ph.D. Workshops (SC09 to SC11). Visit the SC13 Doctoral Showcase webpage: http://sc13.supercomputing.org/content/doctoral-showcase-program And the submissions site: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/ Questions: doc-showcase(a)info.supercomputing.org

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[HPC] Anyone interested in an HPC-themed unconference?
by John Paul Walters 16 Apr '13

16 Apr '13

Hi, We missed the deadline for an HPC related design summit session, but there's still time to sign up for an unconference if anyone's interested. Anyone interested? I'd propose one of the Wednesday slots. best, JP

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Re: [openstack-hpc] Infiniband + Openstack?
by John Paul Walters 25 Jan '13

25 Jan '13

Álvaro, I had tried to use straight PCI passthrough with our hardware and didn't succeed in getting the stock OFED drivers to initialize properly. It could be that because our cards have the updated SR-IOV firmware on them, that it was breaking this functionality. But no, we don't yet have anything we can share. I hope that we have it soon, and I'll certainly let everyone know when we do. best, JP On Jan 25, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Álvaro López García <alvaro.lopez.garcia(a)cern.ch> wrote: > Hello there, John. > > On Wed 23 Jan 2013 (16:02), John Paul Walters wrote: >> Z, >> >> We're working on integrating IB into OpenStack via SR-IOV. It's not quite there yet, but we expect to have it working within a month or so. Right now, I'm unaware of anyone who has IB working inside of a VM, that's what we're developing. To do this, you need a few things: 1) a host that supports SR-IOV, 2) a ConnectX-2 or ConnectX-3 IB card, and 3) Alpha SR-IOV-enabled firmware for the cards as well as the corresponding SR-IOV-enabled OFED. Both of those (the firmware and OFED) need to come from Mellanox at the moment - they're not yet released. We've so far been successful in getting RDMA working inside of the VM; however, oddly, IPoIB doesn't work (the ports are recognized as being connected). We hope that this will get worked out in later firmware/OFED releases. > > We've IB inside our VMs since long, using direct passthrough of the device > into the VM without SR-IOV (so we only can run 1 VM per card). > >> Be aware that this isn't a Quantum integration, at least not yet. We're going to manage SR-IOV VIFs as resources and schedule accordingly. I know that there are folks using IB for image distribution and perhaps also for block storage. Our target is to get IB into the VM. > > In our group we're really interested on this. We had some work done in > the past about that (setting the card as a resource that could be attached > to the machines directly) but we had to abandon it because of lack of > time. Do you have something working? > > For us this worked independetly of SR-IOV, since in our PoC we only > specified the resources that could be used for each of the compute nodes > (i.e. the PCI addresses) and add them to a pool. Then the user could > request resources from this pool. > > Regards, > -- > Álvaro López García aloga(a)ifca.unican.es > Instituto de Física de Cantabria http://devel.ifca.es/~aloga/ > Ed. Juan Jordá, Campus UC tel: (+34) 942 200 969 > Avda. de los Castros s/n > 39005 Santander (SPAIN) > _____________________________________________________________________ > "I am always doing that which I cannot do, in order that I may learn > how to do it." -- Pablo Picasso

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Infiniband + Openstack?
by zebra z zebra 24 Jan '13

24 Jan '13

Hi. I've been trying to get some simple/straight answers on IB for OpenStack for a few days now. It could well be that I've just been posting to the wrong list! ;) I'm considering a reasonably sized OpenStack deployment shortly (several thousand cores). One of the decisions I need to make centres around the type of interconnect I will use to connect the compute nodes, Swift objectstorage, shared storage, swift proxies et al. I have been heavily considering FDR infiniband for this task, but, from what I can see, IB has only recently become something one might consider stable for use in OpenStack. My peers are suggesting to me that I should just stick with 10GbE interconnects and be happy. In doing some background reading, it looks like somebody asked similar questions a year or two ago, and the general sentiment is that it'd work in IPoIB mode as just a very fast ethernet device, but it wouldn't really have any of the benefits of RDMA communication, or any such capability - and the issue at the time was that no python libraries had any understanding or concept of it. I'd like to hear the experiences of people who have or are using IB, or who have experiences with IB deployments. Thank you. --z

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High bandwidth networking with openstack
by Narayan Desai 28 Nov '12

28 Nov '12

I've finally finished my writeup describing the experiments that we performed using Openstack to drive a wide area 100 gigabit network. I've included all of the details for configuration and tuning, as well as speculation why we're seeing such good numbers. tl;dr: you can push a whole lot of network bandwidth out of an openstack deployment with kvm/virtio; we hit 98 gigabits peak with 10 instances across 50 ms of latency. The post is here: http://buriedlede.blogspot.com/2012/11/driving-100-gigabit-network-with.html I'm happy to discuss this in more detail, if there are additional questions. -nld

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Ceph + Nova
by JuanFra Rodríguez Cardoso 21 Nov '12

21 Nov '12

Hi everyone: I'd like to know your opinion as nova experts: Would you recommend CephFS as shared storage in /var/lib/nova/instances? Another option it would be use GlusterFS or MooseFS for /var/lib/nova/instances directory and Ceph RBD for Glance and Nova volumes, don't you think? Thanks for your attention. Best regards, JuanFra

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Lunch today at the summit
by Tim Bell 18 Oct '12

18 Oct '12

I'll be meeting up with John Paul Waters from ISI at 12:40 today (Thursday). Others who are interested in an HPC/HTC chat over lunch are welcome to join us. We'll meet at the registration area on the 2nd floor and then we can go and find a queue. Tim

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HPC session during upcoming Design Summit
by David Kang 15 Oct '12

15 Oct '12

Hi all, We will have a design summit session during next week's OpenStack Summit in San Diego. It'll at 11:00 am Tuesday, October 16. Its title is "Scheduler for HPC with OpenStack". We have asked to change the title to "HPC for OpenStack". We will cover wide range of HPC for OpenStack including * HPC extension current state * Accelerator support * Baremetal * Networking * IB * HPFS (e.g. Lustre) * Scheduler extensions * Community Requests/Open Discussion Please suggest other interesting topics and share your thoughts in the etherpad. (http://etherpad.openstack.org/GrizzlyHPC) Hope to see you there. Thanks, David ---------------------- Dr. Dong-In "David" Kang Computer Scientist USC/ISI

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[HPC] monthly telecon
by John Paul Walters 28 Sep '12

28 Sep '12

Hi All, The monthly HPC telecon is postponed until we have a better sense of the sessions that will be scheduled for the Grizzly Design Summit. We'll shoot for holding the telecon on Monday, Oct. 8 in the hopes that we'll know whether our HPC sessions were accepted. If the decisions aren't yet made, we'll re-evaluate. The intent of this month's telecon will be to prepare for the Grizzly Summit. best, JP

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Re: [openstack-hpc] [Openstack] [HPC] Monthly telecon
by Patrick Petit 11 Sep '12

11 Sep '12

Hi JP, Sorry, I won't be able to join on the 10th. I think it'll be useful to take an action to make sure the HPC extensions (i.e. extra specs extensions and capabilities filtering) pushed into Folsom are properly documented in the OpenStack Admin Guide. I think it's not the case right now especially around how to specify off specs capabilities (nova.conf versus not nova.conf ?). For example, it's been said that key values for things like capabilities can be defined via host aggregates but it's not described how... Discussions and info around these topics are scattered and also the documentation is incomplete and lacking practical details. Thanks Patrick 2012/9/3 John Paul Walters <jwalters(a)isi.edu> > Hi, > > The HPC telecon, normally scheduled for the first Monday of the month, > will instead be held on Monday, Sep. 10 due to the Labor Day holiday in the > US. It'll be held at 12:00 noon Eastern Time. I'll follow up with an > agenda near the end of next week. If there's anything that others would > like to place on the agenda, please let me know. > > Separately, I'd like to bring to your attention that Brian Schott has > succeeded in getting a dedicated HPC mailing list started. For anyone > interested, please sign up here: > > openstack-hpc(a)lists.openstack.org > http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-hpc > > best, > JP > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~openstack > Post to : openstack(a)lists.launchpad.net > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~openstack > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > > -- *"Give me a place to stand, and I shall move the earth with a lever"*

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[HPC] Reminder monthly telecon Sep. 10
by John Paul Walters 10 Sep '12

10 Sep '12

Hi, This is a reminder that we'll hold our next monthly HPC telecon this coming Monday, Sep. 10 and 12:00 noon Eastern Time. We'll use webex (details below). The agenda is somewhat open. Our default will be to start the conversation about HPC features that folks are interested in adding to the Grizzly release. If anyone has any other specific agenda items, they're welcome to propose them. I'm unable to attend, so my colleague David Kang will be hosting this meeting. We look forward to talking to you! best, JP John Paul Walters invites you to attend this online meeting. Topic: HPC Monthly Telecon Date: Monday, September 10, 2012 Time: 12:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00) Meeting Number: 927 246 497 Meeting Password: hpcmonthly ------------------------------------------------------- To join the online meeting (Now from mobile devices!) ------------------------------------------------------- 1. Go to https://openstack.webex.com/openstack/j.php?ED=203524102&UID=1431607857&PW=… 2. If requested, enter your name and email address. 3. If a password is required, enter the meeting password: hpcmonthly 4. Click "Join". To view in other time zones or languages, please click the link: https://openstack.webex.com/openstack/j.php?ED=203524102&UID=1431607857&PW=…

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weex address for today's meeting
by Joseph Suh 10 Sep '12

10 Sep '12

All, Today's hpc meeting will be at https://usc-isi.webex.com/mw0306ld/mywebex/default.do?siteurl=usc-isi Password is dodcs. Thanks, Joseph ---- (w) 703-248-6160 (c) 571-340-2434 (f) 703-812-3712 http://www.east.isi.edu/~jsuh Information Sciences Institute University of Southern California 3811 N. Fairfax Drive Suite 200 Arlington, VA, 22203, USA

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Re: [openstack-hpc] openstack-hpc list now available
by Brian Schott 07 Sep '12

07 Sep '12

Still waiting to hear on the BOF application. Will send out a note when we hear for sure. Brian ------------------------------------------------- Brian Schott, CTO Nimbis Services, Inc. brian.schott(a)nimbisservices.com ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 On Sep 7, 2012, at 9:51 AM, Jean-Pierre Dion <jean-pierre.dion(a)bull.net> wrote: > Don't think I will be at SC12. > > Sure there will be some Bull guys from our HPC team, > we are working closely with them. > > jp > __________________________________________ > Jean-Pierre Dion > Bull SAS > Innovative Products - Open cloud solutions > +33(0)4 76 29 72 34 > > Le 30/08/2012 17:53, Brian Schott a écrit : >> I need to announce it on the main list. Don't know if you will be at SC12, but we have a request in for an OpenStack BOF at SC12. Should hear if it was approved by mid September. >> >> Brian >> >> ------------------------------------------------- >> Brian Schott, CTO >> Nimbis Services, Inc. >> brian.schott(a)nimbisservices.com >> ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 >> >> >> >> On Aug 30, 2012, at 11:20 AM, Jean-Pierre Dion <jean-pierre.dion(a)bull.net> wrote: >> >>> Hi Brian, >>> >>> thank you for notifying me ! >>> >>> Sure it is a useful list for this topic of high interest for us at Bull. >>> >>> Regards, >>> Jean-Pierrre >>> >>> __________________________________________ >>> Jean-Pierre Dion >>> Bull SAS >>> Innovative Products - Open cloud solutions >>> +33(0)4 76 29 72 34 >>> >>> Le 29/08/2012 21:01, Brian Schott a écrit : >>>> We've created an openstack-hpc(a)lists.openstack.org mailman list. I'll send out an announcement to the main list, but it might make sense to pass this on to those you think would benefit. >>>> http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-hpc >>>> >>>> Any news on the SC12 BOF request? Also, next telecon? >>>> >>>> Regards, >>>> Brian >>>> >>>> ------------------------------------------------- >>>> Brian Schott, CTO >>>> Nimbis Services, Inc. >>>> brian.schott(a)nimbisservices.com >>>> ph: 443-274-6064 fx: 443-274-6060 >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >> >

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