<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0px; line-height: normal;" class="">========================================================================================</div></div><div><div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Call for Submissions </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""> Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BOFs)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC16)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">========================================================================================</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">SC16 Birds-of-a-Feather Sessions (BOFs)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Submissions due July 31, 2016</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Don't just observe, ENGAGE! Engage in conversations that will ultimately improve our lives and our world! The Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions are among the most interactive, popular, and well-attended sessions of the SC Conference Series. The BOF sessions provide a non-commercial, dynamic venue for conference attendees to openly discuss current topics of focused mutual interest within the HPC community with a deep emphasis on audience-guided discussion, professional networking and grassroots participation. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">SC16 will continue this tradition with a full schedule of exciting, informal, interactive sessions focused around a variety of special topics of mutual interest.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">BOF sessions are an excellent opportunity to connect and interact with other attendees with whom you share a mutual interest. SC16 will feature BOF sessions covering a range of topics in the following areas: algorithms, applications, architectures and networks, clouds and distributed computing, data analytics, visualization and storage, education, outreach, performance measurement, modeling and tools, programming models and software systems, as well as the “state-of-the-practice”.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Important Dates</div><div class=""> Web Submissions Open: February 16, 2016</div><div class=""> Submission Deadline: July 31, 2016</div><div class=""> Notification Sent: September 1, 2016</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Questions: <a href="mailto:bofs@info.supercomputing.org" class="">bofs@info.supercomputing.org</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Submissions: <a href="https://submissions.supercomputing.org/" class="">https://submissions.supercomputing.org/</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">SC16 Birds-of-a-feather Chair:</div><div class=""> Manish Parashar (Rutgers University)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">SC16 Birds-of-a-feather Vice Chair:</div><div class=""> Amy Apon (Clemson University)</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">
<div style="letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">=============================================================<br class="">Ivan Rodero, Ph.D.<br class="">Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2) <br class="">NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC)<br class="">Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey <br class="">Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 624 <br class="">96 Frelinghuysen Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019<br class="">Phone: (732) 993-8837<br class="">=============================================================</div></div></div></div>
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