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<div>Dear Colleague,</div>
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<div>The submission deadline of the International Workshop on Data-Intensive</div>
<div>Scalable Computing Systems (DISCS) at the ACM/IEEE Supercomputing</div>
<div>Conference (SC'13) is extended to **8/30/2013 (hard deadline)**. We</div>
<div>welcome your submissions, and please find a detailed call for papers</div>
<div>below. If you have any questions please don't hesitate to contact us at</div>
<div>discs2013@easychair.org.</div>
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<div>Thank You.</div>
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<div>DISCS-2013 Co-chairs</div>
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<div>The International Workshop on Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (DISCS)</div>
<div>http://ft.ornl.gov/discs-2013/</div>
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<div>November 18, 2013</div>
<div>Colorado Convention Center, Denver CO, USA</div>
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<div>Held in conjunction with SC13: The International Conference for</div>
<div>High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis</div>
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<div>In cooperation with ACM SIGHPC, http://sighpc.org</div>
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<div>CALL FOR PAPERS</div>
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<div>* Scope of the Workshop *</div>
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<div>Existing high performance computing (HPC) systems are designed primarily</div>
<div>for workloads requiring high rates of computation. However, the</div>
<div>widening performance gap between processors and storage, and trends</div>
<div>toward higher data intensity in scientific and engineering applications,</div>
<div>suggest there is a need to rethink HPC system architectures, programming</div>
<div>models, runtime systems, and tools with a focus on data intensive</div>
<div>computing. The Second International Workshop on Data Intensive Scalable</div>
<div>Computing Systems (DISCS) provides a forum for researchers and other</div>
<div>interested people in the areas of data intensive computing and high</div>
<div>performance parallel computing to exchange ideas and discuss approaches</div>
<div>for addressing the challenges facing Big Data or data intensive</div>
<div>computing at large scale.</div>
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<div>* Keynote *</div>
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<div>Dr. Lucy Nowell will deliver the keynote address for DISCS-2013. Dr.</div>
<div>Nowell is program manager for Data and Visualization within the Advanced</div>
<div>Scientific Computing Research program, Office of Science, U.S.</div>
<div>Department of Energy.</div>
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<div>* Topics of Interest *</div>
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<div>The topics of interest for the DISCS-2013 workshop include, but are not</div>
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<div>* HPC system architectures for data intensive applications</div>
<div> -> Data-centric system architectures</div>
<div> -> I/O systems and architectures</div>
<div> -> System area networks</div>
<div> -> Power efficient systems</div>
<div>* Programming models supporting data intensive applications</div>
<div> -> Data-centric programming models</div>
<div> -> MPI extensions for data intensive applications</div>
<div> -> GAS/PGAS programming model extensions for data intensive applications</div>
<div> -> Non-traditional programming languages/methodologies</div>
<div> -> Other programming models for data intensive applications</div>
<div>* Runtime systems supporting data intensive applications</div>
<div> -> Communication systems for supporting data intensive applications</div>
<div> -> Data compression and de-duplication</div>
<div> -> Caching and prefetching</div>
<div> -> Reliability and fault tolerance</div>
<div> -> Data integrity and consistency</div>
<div>* Productivity tools supporting data intensive applications</div>
<div> -> Data analytic tools</div>
<div> -> Tracing and trace analysis tools</div>
<div> -> Data mining and knowledge discovery tools</div>
<div> -> Computational, mathematical and statistical techniques</div>
<div> -> Data and tools supporting such techniques</div>
<div> -> Data visualization techniques and tools supporting such techniques</div>
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<div>* Journal Special Issue *</div>
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<div>The authors of papers accepted to the DISCS-2013 workshop will be</div>
<div>invited to submit manuscripts for a special issue of the journal</div>
<div>Parallel Computing: Systems & Applications, guest edited by the</div>
<div>DISCS-2013 workshop chairs. The manuscripts submitted to the journal</div>
<div>will be reviewed and selected based on the journal's acceptance</div>
<div>criteria. The target submission deadline for the journal papers is</div>
<div>January 18, 2014.</div>
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<div>* Submission Instructions *</div>
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<div>Submissions should be unpublished work. Submissions should be in PDF</div>
<div>format on US Letter sized paper (8.5"x11") with not more than 6 pages</div>
<div>(all inclusive) formatted according to the double-column format of the</div>
<div>ACM SIG Proceedings "Option 1: LaTeX2e - Strict Adherence to SIGS style"</div>
<div>template. Margins and fonts should not be modified from this style. All</div>
<div>accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings in the ACM</div>
<div>Digital Library.</div>
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<div>See the DISCS-2013 submission instruction page at</div>
<div>http://ft.ornl.gov/discs-2013/?q=submissions for submission details, a</div>
<div>link to the ACM formatting template, and a link to the EasyChair web</div>
<div>site for submitting papers.</div>
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<div>* Important Dates *</div>
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<div>Paper Submission: August 30, 2013</div>
<div>Author Notification: October 4, 2013</div>
<div>Camera-Ready Copy: October 15, 2013</div>
<div>Workshop Date: November 18, 2013</div>
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<div>* Organizers *</div>
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<div>STEERING COMMITTEE</div>
<div>William D. Gropp, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign</div>
<div>Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology</div>
<div>Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory</div>
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<div>PROGRAM CHAIRS</div>
<div>Yong Chen, Texas Tech University</div>
<div>Philip C. Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory</div>
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<div>TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE</div>
<div>Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory</div>
<div>Shane Canon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory</div>
<div>Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology</div>
<div>Yuqing Gao, IBM</div>
<div>Rong Ge, Marquette University</div>
<div>Robert Hanisch, Space Telescope Science Institute</div>
<div>Dries Kimpe, Argonne National Laboratory</div>
<div>Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory</div>
<div>Quincey Koziol, HDF5 Group</div>
<div>Mike Lang, Los Alamos National Laboratory</div>
<div>John Leidel, Convey Computer</div>
<div>Wei-keng Liao, Northwestern University</div>
<div>Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories</div>
<div>Teng Ma, NetApp</div>
<div>Carlos Maltzahn, University of California at Santa Cruz</div>
<div>Fabrizio Petrini, IBM</div>
<div>Ioan Raicu, Illinois Institute of Technology</div>
<div>Zhiqi Tao, Intel</div>
<div>Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory</div>
<div>Weijun Xiao, Virginia Commonwealth University</div>
<div>Weikuan Yu, Auburn University</div>
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<div>* Contact Us *</div>
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<div>If you have questions about DISCS-2013, please send the workshop</div>
<div>organizers an email message at discs2013@easychair.org</div>
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