From invitation at iariaevent.org Fri Jan 3 03:40:49 2014 From: invitation at iariaevent.org (SMART 2014) Date: Fri, 03 Jan 2014 03:40:49 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] 2nd CfP: SMART 2014 || July 20 - 24, 2014 - Paris, France Message-ID: <1388738449697.291@iariaevent.org> INVITATION: ================= Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to SMART 2014. The submission deadline is February 28, 2014. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== SMART 2014 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS SMART 2014, The Third International Conference on Smart Systems, Devices and Technologies July 20 - 24, 2014 - Paris, France General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SMART14.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPSMART14.html - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitSMART14.html Submission deadline: February 28, 2014 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options. The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels. Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html SMART 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) Future cities Digital cities Senseable city networks Smart houses Dynamic urban communications Knowledge on urban economy Public display and search Indoor communications SHUI (Smart Home User Interfaces) Smart mobility Pervasive urban applications Ubiquitous computing in digital cities Mobile crowdsourcing applications Rural communications Ambient assisted living Smart multimedia services Smart antennas Smart urban electric cars Smart atmospheric and population migration measurements Smart energy and optimal consumption Smartphones Smart spaces Micro-payments and Ticketing by NFC mobile device Ecological cities Interactions between smart cities Health informatics in smart cities Mobility monitoring and control in smart environments Navigating in smart environments Smart information processing Smart analytics Internet of things in smart environments Social networking in smart environments Use Cases for Smart Homes/Cities Sociocultural challenges in smart environments Costs associated with smart cities Citizen tracking systems Animal tracking systems Smart systems for animals behavior Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComSMART14.html ================================================ To stop receiving notices about SMART, please reply with "DROP SMART storage-research-list at ece.cmu.edu" in the subject field. 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From danilo.ansaloni at usi.ch Tue Jan 7 15:21:38 2014 From: danilo.ansaloni at usi.ch (danilo.ansaloni at usi.ch) Date: Tue, 7 Jan 2014 20:21:38 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] ICPE 2014 - Deadline approaching Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS ICPE 2014 5th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering Dublin, Ireland, March 23-26, 2014 http://icpe2014.ipd.kit.edu/ A Joint Meeting of WOSP/SIPEW sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS and ACM SIGSOFT in Cooperation with SPEC. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Research Papers closed Industrial / Experience Papers closed Tutorial Proposals closed Work-in-Progress and Vision Papers Jan. 13, 2014 Poster and Demo Papers Jan. 13, 2014 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- SCOPE AND TOPICS The goal of the International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) is to integrate theory and practice in the field of performance engineering by providing a forum for sharing ideas and experiences between industry and academia. ICPE is a joint meeting of the ACM Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP) and the SPEC International Performance Evaluation Workshop (SIPEW). The conference brings together researchers and industry practitioners to share and present their experience, to discuss challenges, and to report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on performance engineering. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Performance and software development processes Performance modeling and prediction Performance measurement, and experimental analysis Benchmarking, configuration, sizing, and capacity planning System management/optimization Performance in Cloud, virtualized and multi-core systems Performance and power Performance modeling and evaluation in other domains For more details, please visit: http://icpe2014.ipd.kit.edu/call_for_papers/ Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers that are not being considered in another forum. A variety of contribution styles for papers are solicited including: basic and applied research, industrial experience reports, and work-in-progress/vision papers. Different acceptance criteria apply for each category, please refer to the website for details. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the conference and present the paper. Only the accepted and presented papers will be published in the ICPE 2014 conference proceedings that will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs Klaus-Dieter Lange, Hewlett-Packard, USA John Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland Program Chairs Walter Binder, University of Lugano, Switzerland Jose Merseguer, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Industrial Chair Raghunath Nambiar, Cisco Systems, USA Tutorial Chair Alexandru Iosup, TU Delft, Netherlands Demos and Posters Chairs Kirk W. Cameron, Virginia Tech, USA Anthony Ventresque, University College Dublin, Ireland Publication Chair Kevin Casey, Dublin City University, Ireland Finance Chair Anja Bog, SAP, USA Publicity Chairs Danilo Ansaloni, University of Lugano, Switzerland Bob Cramblitt, Cramblitt & Company, USA Registration Chair Nicola Stokes, University College Dublin, Ireland Awards Chairs Samuel Kounev, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Meikel Poess, Oracle, USA Local Organization Chair Patrick McDonagh, Dublin City University, Ireland Web Chair Cathy Sandifer, SPEC, USA RESEARCH PAPERS - PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jose Nelson Amaral, University of Alberta, Canada Alberto Avritzer, Siemens Corporate Research, USA Steffen Becker, University of Paderborn, Germany Simona Bernardi, Centro Universitario de la Defensa, Spain Steve Blackburn, Australian National University, Australia Andre Bondi, Siemens Corporate Research, USA Edson Borin, Universidade de Campinas, Brazil Thouraya Bouabana-Tebibel, ESI, Algeria Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK Lydia Chen, IBM Research Zurich Lab, Switzerland Shigeru Chiba, The University of Tokyo, Japan Vittorio Cortellessa, Universita' di L'Aquila, Italy Tony Field, Imperial College London, UK Vincenzo Grassi, University of Roma "Tor Vergata", Italy Lars Grunske, TU Kaiserslautern, Germany Wilhelm Hasselbring, University of Kiel, Germany Matthias Hauswirth, University of Lugano, Switzerland Alexandru Iosup, TU Delft, Netherlands Carlos Juiz, University of the Balearic Islands, Spain Jorge Julvez, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain David Kaeli, Northeastern University, USA Samuel Kounev, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Anne Koziolek, University of Zurich, Switzerland Heiko Koziolek, ABB Corporate Research, Germany Diwakar Krishnamurthy, University of Calgary, Canada Doug Lea, SUNY Oswego, USA Yan Liu, Concordia University, Canada Stefano Marrone, Seconda Universita di Napoli, Italy Daniel Menasce, George Mason University, USA Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy David Pearce, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand Diego Perez-Palacin, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Dorina Petriu, Carleton University, Canada Jerry Rolia, HP Labs, Canada Giuseppe Serazzi, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Catia Trubiani, Universita' di L'Aquila, Italy Petr Tuma, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Murray Woodside, Carleton University, Canada Peng Wu, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA Thomas Wuerthinger, Oracle Labs, Austria Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware, USA INDUSTRY PAPERS - PROGRAM COMMITTEE Jeremy A. Arnold, IBM, USA Anirban Basu, Computer Society of India, India Jeffrey J. Blessing, Milwaukee School of Engineering, USA Hansfried Block, Fujitsu, Germany Andrew Bond, Red Hat, USA Wen Chen, University of North Dakota, USA Mathew Colgrove, The Portland Group, USA Malte Dreyer, Humboldt University, Germany Debo Dutta, Cisco Systems, USA Diwakar Krishnamurthy, University of Calgary, Canada Qais Noorshams, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Kamesh Raghavendra, NetApp, USA Lisa Roderick, VMware, USA David Schmidt, Hewlett-Packard, USA Sanjay Sharma, Intel, USA Cloyce Spradling, Oracle, USA Mike Tricker, Microsoft, USA Jeff Underhill, ARM, USA SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers that are not being considered in another forum. A variety of contribution styles for papers are solicited including: basic and applied research, industrial and experience reports, and work-in-progress/vision papers. Different acceptance criteria apply for each category; please visit: http://icpe2014.ipd.kit.edu/ for details. At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register at the full rate, attend the conference and present the paper. Presented papers will be published in the ICPE 2014 conference proceedings that will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. After the conference there will be a call for a Special Issue on Automation in Software Performance Engineering of the Springer Automated Software Engineering Journal. For submission instructions, please visit: http://icpe2014.ipd.kit.edu/ From k.wasielewska at fedcsis.org Tue Jan 7 17:53:14 2014 From: k.wasielewska at fedcsis.org (Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS))) Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2014 23:53:14 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP - 2014 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) Message-ID: <52CC855A.5070004@fedcsis.org> CALL FOR PAPERS 2014 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) Warsaw, Poland, 7 - 10 September, 2014 http://www.fedcsis.org We would like to cordially invite you to consider contributing a paper to the FedCSIS 2014 - a yearly international multi-conference organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, IEEE-CIS Poland Section Chapter, Asociaci?n de T?cnicos de Inform?tica, Committee of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Society for Business Informatics, Polish Chamber of Information Technology and Telecommunications, Polish Chamber of Commerce for High Technology and Eastern Cluster ICT Poland. Please also 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. Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference are indexed in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science. FedCSIS EVENTS The FedCSIS multi-conference consists of EVENTS (conferences, workshops, consortia, tutorials, etc.), grouped into seven conference areas. AAIA'14 - 9th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications ---- AIMA'14 - 4th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications ---- ASIR'14 - 4th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval ---- CEIM'14 - 1st Complex Events and Information Modelling ---- TAIE'14 - 1st Workshop on Trends and Applications in Intelligent Environments ---- WCO'14 - 7th Workshop on Computational Optimization CSS - Computer Science & Systems ---- CANA'14 - 7th Workshop on Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms ---- MMAP'14 - 7th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing ---- SCoDiS-LaSCoG'14 - 3nd Workshop on Scalable Computing in Distributed Systems and 8th Workshop on Large Scale Computations on Grids ECRM - Education, Curricula & Research Methods ---- DS-RAIT'14 - 2nd Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology ---- ISEC'14 - 3rd Information Systems Education & Curricula Workshop iNetSApp - Innovative Network Systems and Applications ---- EAIS'14 - 1st Workshop on Emerging Aspects in Information Security ---- SoFAST-WS'14 - 3rd International Symposium on Frontiers in Network Applications, Network Systems and Web Services ---- SDN'14 - 1st Workshop on Software Defined Networking ---- TAMOCO'14 - 3rd Techniques and Applications for Mobile Communications & Commerce ---- WSN'14 - 3rd International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks IT4MBS - Information Technology for Management, Business & Society ---- ABICT'14 - 5th International Workshop on Advances in Business ICT ---- AITM'14 - 12th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management ---- ISM'14 - 9th Conference on Information Systems Management ---- IT4L'14 - 3rd Workshop on Information Technologies for Logistics ---- KAM'14 - 20th Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management ---- SS4SI'14 - 1st International Symposium on Service Systems for Social Innovation JAWS - 4th Joint Agent-oriented Workshops in Synergy ---- ABC:MI-Agent Day'14 - 10th Workshop on Agent Based Computing: from Model to Implementation and 8th AgentDay ---- MAS&M'14 - 1st International Workshop on Multi-Agent Systems and Simulation ---- SEN-MAS'14 - 3rd International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi-Agent Systems SSD&A - Software Systems Development & Applications ---- ATSE'14 - 5th International Workshop Automating Test Case Design, Selection and Evaluation ---- MDASD'14 - 3rd Workshop on Model Driven Approaches in System Development ---- PBDA'14 - 2nd Workshop on Performance of Business Database Applications ---- SOAD-MT'14 - 1st International Workshop on Service-Oriented Applications Development: Methodologies and Tools KEYNOTE SPEAKERS (to be extended) - Marco Aiello, University of Groningen: EmPowering the Power Grid through ICT - Irvin King, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, title to be announced - Jan Marco Leimeister, University of St Gallen, Switzerland and Kassel University, Germany: Designing Innovative Service Systems - Michael Luck, King's College London: Toward Electronic Order PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers should be submitted by April 11, 2014. Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick given to FedCSIS participants. Papers presented during the conference will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library proceedings, and posted at the conference WWW site. The IEEE proceedings will be published under an ISBN and ISSN numbers (and an IEEE Catalog number), under a nonexclusive copyright. 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 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 CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS AT: secretariat at fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISLinkedIN From jianhui.yue at gmail.com Thu Jan 9 09:21:17 2014 From: jianhui.yue at gmail.com (Jianhui Yue) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 09:21:17 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] NAS2014 Call For Papers: 9th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage Message-ID: **************************************************************** THE 9TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NETWORKING, ARCHITECTURE,AND STORAGE 2014 AUGUST 6-8, 2014 TIANJIN, CHINA http://www.nas-conference.org/ **************************************************************** Overview International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2014) will be held on August 6-8, 2014 in Tianjin, China. It will serve as an international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research on networking, high-performance computer architecture, and parallel and Distributed data storage technologies. IMPORTANT DATES - Deadline for Paper Submission: March 21st, 2014 - Notification of Paper Acceptance: May 19th, 2014 - Camera-ready Paper and Author Registration: June 9th, 2014 General Co-Chairs - Guangming Liu, NSCC-TJ, China - Jizhong Han, CAS/IIE, China - Ce Yu, Tianjin U, China Program Co-Chairs - Zhao Zhang, ISU, USA - Songqing Chen, GMU, USA Vice Program Chairs: Networking Track - Yang Guo, Bell Labs, USA - Yonggang Wen, NTU, Singapore Architecture Track - Youtao Zhang, U Pittsburg, USA - Lixin Zhang, CAS/ICT, China Storage Track - Howie Huang, GWU, USA - Yu Hua, HUST, China Publicity Co-Chairs - Diana G?hringer, RUB, Germany - Christian Pilato, Columbia U, USA - Jianhui Yue, U Maine, USA Local Arrangement Chair - Wenrui Dong, NSCC-TJ, China Publication Chair - Wei Zhou, CAS/IIE, China Chair for Industrial Panel and International Forum - Xiangfei Meng, NSCC-TJ, China Reg. and Finance Chair - Xia Zijun, NSCC-TJ, China Steering Committee - Xubin He, VCU, USA - Hong Jiang, UNL, USA - Changsheng Xie, HUST, China - Qing Yang, URI, USA - Andr?? Brinkmann, JGU, GER - Jian Li, IBM Research, USA - Tao Li, UFL, USA - Marco Santambrogio, POLIMI, Italy - Hongbin Sun, Xi'An Jiaotong, China TOPICS The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cloud and grid computing - Network applications and services - Ad hoc and sensor networks - Networks and protocols - Network architectures - Virtual and overlay networks - Network modeling and measurement - Network security - Mobile and wireless network - Network information theory & network coding - Processor architectures - Parallel architectures - Cache and memory systems - Emerging technology and architecture - GPU architecture and programming - HW/SW co-design&tradeoff - Power and energy efficient architectures and techniques - Storage management - Storage performance and scalability - File systems, object-based storage and block storage - Energy-aware storage - Architecture and applications of solid state disks - Cloud storage - Storage virtualization SUBMISSION NAS 2014 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. All accepted papers will be Included in the IEEE digital library and indexed by EI. CONTACT Please contact Professor Zhao Zhang and Professor Songqing Chen for any questions, or check our conference website at http://www.nas-conference.org for updates. SPONSORS NAS 2014 is sponsored by NSCC-TJ (National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin), Tianjin University, and IEEE. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From liqzhang at iusb.edu Thu Jan 9 10:31:05 2014 From: liqzhang at iusb.edu (Zhang, Liqiang) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 15:31:05 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] ICCCN 2014: call for papers Message-ID: -- Please accept our apologies if multiple copies of this message are received - ****************************************************************** * The 23rd Intl. Conf. on Computer Communication and Networks (ICCCN '14) * * CALL FOR PAPERS * * August 4 - August 7, 2014. Shanghai, China * * http://www.icccn.org/icccn14/ * ****************************************************************** ICCCN is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel ideas and fundamental advances in the fields of computer communications and networks. ICCCN serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners with a common interest in improving computer communications and networking through scientific and technological innovation. ICCCN 2014 is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Communication Society. Scope: ===== The primary focus of the conference is on new and original research results in the areas of design, implementation, and applications of computer communications and networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Cognitive, Cellular and Mobile Networks (CCM) - Comm. Architecture, Algorithms, Modeling and Evaluation (CAAME) - Data Centers and Big Data Computing (DCBC) - Green Networks and Sustainable Computing (GREEN) - Grid, Cloud, Internet and Peer-to-peer Computing and Comm. (GCIP) - Multimedia and Real-Time Networking (MRN) - Security, Privacy, and Trust (SPT) - Sensor/Embedded Networks and Pervasive Computing (SNPC) - Software Defined Networks and Network Testing and Deployment (SDN) - Wireless LAN, Ad Hoc, and Mesh Networks (WAM) Instructions for Authors: ================== Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font) and must be submitted via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/) as PDF files (formatted for 8.5x11-inch paper). The manuscripts should be no longer than 8 pages. Up to two additional pages are permitted if the authors are willing to pay an over-length charge at the time of publication (manuscripts should not exceed 10 pages in total). Submitted papers should not be previously published in or be under consideration for publication in another conference or journal. Paper titles and/or author names cannot be changed and/or added to the papers once papers are submitted to ICCCN 2014 for review. The Program Committee reserves the right to not review papers that either exceed the length specification or have been submitted or published elsewhere. Submissions must include a title, abstract, keywords, author(s) and affiliation(s) with postal and e-mail address(es) and phone number(s). A paper abstract must be registered on EasyChair by the deadline indicated below. Review and Publication of Manuscripts: ============================= Submitted papers will be reviewed by the TPC and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance, and quality of presentation. An accepted paper must be presented at the conference venue by one of the authors registered at the full registration rate. Each full registration covers up to two papers authored by the registered author. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. Note that each accepted paper must be presented by one of authors. Papers of special merit will be selected for possible fast track publication in the Computer Communications (COMCOM) journal. Workshops: ======== Please note that the page limit for the workshop program is different. It should be no longer than 6 pages with up to two extra pages given the authors are willing to pay an over-length charge per extra page. The detailed info can be found in the workshop Call for Papers. For any questions or additional information, please contact the General, TPC, or Workshop Chairs. If you are interested in organizing a workshop, please contact the workshop chairs. 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URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Thu Jan 9 09:42:45 2014 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Thu, 9 Jan 2014 16:42:45 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Second CFP: The 7th International Conference for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development (ICEIRD 2014) Message-ID: *** Second Call for Papers *** The 7th International Conference for Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Development (ICEIRD 2014) 5-6 June 2014, Hilton Hotel | Nicosia, Cyprus https://iceird2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy DEADLINES: Abstract submission, January 20, 2014 Full paper submission, March 1, 2014 Conference Themes: Igniting Regional Economies - Knowledge, Innovation and Entrepreneurship in South East Europe Energy Enabled: The Innovation and Cooperation Hotbed of South Eastern Europe In the face of fragile economic recovery following the economic and financial crisis of 2008, many firms all around the world continue to invest in growth-enhancing activities to achieve a sustainable development. While the crisis has heavily hit all aspects of business vested interests, investments in innovation, entrepreneurship and regional partnership have been the key priority to ensuring a strong and stable economic growth. The objective of the conference is to gather decision makers (government, ministries and state agencies), innovation experts (universities, research and development centres, technology transfer centres, start-up centres) and practitioners (smes, business incubators and business support organisations) to generate discussion and exchange on the potential of entrepreneurship promotion and innovation to national and regional competitiveness. CONFERENCE TOPICS OF INTEREST Creativity, Complexity and Competitiveness Issues for Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) in SEE vs. other regions (EU and other) * Leveraging e-skills for innovation in the knowledge society * Managing and Leveraging Complexity, Creativity and Innovation in SMEs * Trust, Respect, Culture and Collaboration Issues for SMEs in SEE vs. other regions (EU and other) * Leadership and Management practices that can be applied to SMEs * SME Knowledge management and technology transfer * SME Business process modeling * New Technology Ventures Financing * Business incubation management and leadership * Human Resources Practices for promoting innovation for SMEs South East European Entrepreneurial Innovation Clusters * SMEs' Entrepreneurship as an Innovation Driver * Opportunities and barriers for closer cooperation between South East European SMEs in Innovation & Entrepreneurship: Strategic Integration vs. Flexibility and SME Competitiveness * Innovation Clusters, Technology Transfer and Social Entrepreneurship * Social Networking as Driver of EICs formation * Science & Technology Parks and EICs * Young and Women Entrepreneurs development via EICs * Benchmarking of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Best Practices in the region * Innovation policy in SMEs Technology Innovation, Transfer and Commercialization across Governement, University, Industry domains * The role of the State and Public Policy with regards to SME Innovation and Entrepreneurship * Governmental and regional policies on entrepreneurship and innovation * Entrepreneurial Universities and Entrepreneurial Innovation Clusters * Entrepreneurship education * University - Industry collaboration * ICT and SME Regional competitiveness * SMEs and the role of the Innovation Zone (business centers and incubators) * Intangibles Valuation and Intellectual Property Rights * Innovative Supply Chain Management practices in SEE * Innovative Supply Chains * Information Technology proliferation in SEE SMEs ICEIRD 2014 invites submissions of papers related to all the topics of interest of the conference. Papers that address collaborations between industry and academia, case studies as well as experience reports on any of the conference themes are welcome. For more information on the conference topics, visit the ICEIRD 2014 webpage (https://iceird2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy). SUBMISSIONS *Abstract submission Authors are first requested to submit an about 100 words long abstract by January 20, 2014. Upon acceptance of the abstract by January 31, 2014 the authors should proceed to submit a full paper as per the instructions below. * Full Papers (for review) Authors are requested to submit a full paper of 6-10 pages in either Microsoft Word or Adobe PDF format using the template found on the ICEIRD 2014 webpage (https://iceird2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy). The template has all the styles required for formatting the text. The easiest way to prepare the camera ready is to download the template, delete all exixting text, add your unformatted text and use the styles (top-left drop down menu) to format it. Only papers in this format will be published. Submitted papers, which will go under blind review by at least two referees, must be submitted electronically through the EasyChair Conference System: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iceird2014. * Camera Ready Papers (after acceptance) Following acceptance, authors are requested to sumbit a camera-ready paper using the template found on the website (https://iceird2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy) to the secretariat of ICEIRD2014 by email (iceird2014 at seerc.org) in both Microsoft Word or PDF format. * Guidelines for Presentations Each presentation will last 20 minutes (15 + 5 minutes for questions). All rooms are fully equiped. Presenters will be requested to upload their presentation at least 15 minutes before the start of their session. Presenters could also use their own laptop. Techinal support will be provided. * Proceedings The Conference Proceedings, including all papers presented, will be published as a SEERC book edited by the Conference Chairs. * Post-Conference Special Journal Issues Selected high quality papers from the conference will be recommended for publication in the special issues of international journals. For more information please visit the ICEIRD 2014 webpage (https://iceird2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy) The official language of the conference is English. Publication is dependent on at least one author registering to attend ICEIRD 2014. 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URL: From laurent.lefevre at ens-lyon.fr Fri Jan 10 07:59:22 2014 From: laurent.lefevre at ens-lyon.fr (Laurent Lefevre) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 13:59:22 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP : ExtremeGreen 2014 Workshop : Extreme Green & Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems, during CCGrid2014, Chicago, USA, May 2014 In-Reply-To: <529481EA.5020508@ens-lyon.fr> References: <5278E843.9020804@ens-lyon.fr> <002801cee538$735172d0$59f45870$@edu> <9C16EDF7-0F6C-4036-AF52-4700EB46C5C6@rutgers.edu> <529481EA.5020508@ens-lyon.fr> Message-ID: <52CFEEAA.6080301@ens-lyon.fr> =========================== Call for Papers : ExtremeGreen 2014 Workshop : Extreme Green & Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems =========================== May 26-29, 2014 -- Chicago, IL, USA during CCGrid 2014: the 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing http://avalon.ens-lyon.fr/extremegreen Important dates : ? Papers due on : February 15th, 2014 ? Author Notification : March 1st, 2014 ? Final Papers Due : March 14th, 2014 ? ExtremeGreen Workshop: May 26, 2014 Workshop co-chairs: ? Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, Laboratoire LIP, Ecole Normale Superieure of Lyon, France ? Marcos Dias de Assuncao, IBM Research, Brazil ? Wu-Chun Feng, Virginia Tech, USA ? Anne-C?cile Orgerie, CNRS, France ? Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA ? Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA Workshop description : Improving the energy efficiency of large-scale distributed systems (e.g. data centres and Clouds) is a key challenge for both academic and industrial organizations. Although the topic has gained lots of attention over the past years, some of the proposed solutions often seem conservative and not easily applicable to large-scale systems. Their impact at large-scale remains to be proved. Hence, this workshop aims to provide a venue for discussion of ideas that can demonstrate "more than small % solution" to energy efficiency and their applicability to "real world". After the success of ExtremGreen2013 workshop, the ExtremeGreen2014 workshop will focus on scientific and industrial approaches and solutions that could have a large impact in terms of energy savings and energy efficiency. Clean-slate approaches and innovative solutions breaking conventional approaches are welcome. The workshop also welcomes submissions of work-in-progress papers on ideas that can have a large impact on improving the energy efficiency of large-scale distributed systems. The papers must provide preliminary results that demonstrate the originality and possible impact of the proposed solutions. Submissions will be reviewed by an international group of experts in distributed systems and energy efficiency. Topics of interests : ? Green clouds ? Energy efficiency of data centers ? Green Grids ? Green networks for large scale distributed systems ? Energy efficiency of storage solutions ? Energy-aware design and programming ? Energy-efficient hardware and software architectures ? Sustainable solutions in large scale distributed systems ? Energy-efficient resource management tools ? Energy-efficient scalable approaches ? Experimental results of Green solutions Papers submission : Submitted papers must be 8 pages long maximum. Authors must submit their articles through the submission system : https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=extremegreen2014 Program Committee (TBC): ? Cosimo Anglano, Universit?? del Piemonte Orientale, Italy ? Silvia Bianchi, IBM Research, Brazil ? George Bosilca, Innovative Computing Laboratory - University of Tennessee, USA ? Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg ? Georges Da Costa, IRIT/Toulouse III, France ? Bronis De Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA ? Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani, University of Leeds, UK ? 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Science and Information Conference 2014 will feature presentations of contributed papers and posters, project demonstrations as well as tutorial sessions and super charging Plenary Talks. Science and Information Conference 2014 is hosted by the The Science and Information Organization, and is being organized in cooperation with Springer and IEEE. The conference is Technically Co-Sponsored by ????????? IEEE Computer Chapter, UKRI Section ????????? IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, UKRI Section ? Important Dates?- Early Bird Submission: ? Paper Submission : January 15, 2014 (Extended) ? Acceptance Notification : February 15, 2014 ? Author Registration : March 01, 2014 ? Camera Ready Submission : April 15, 2014 ? Conference Dates : August 27-29, 2014 Regular Submission ? Paper Submission : March 01, 2014 ? Acceptance Notification : April 01, 2014 ? Author Registration : May 01, 2014 ? Camera Ready Submission : May 15, 2014 ? Conference Dates : August 27-29, 2014 All SAI Conference 2014 registered papers will also be submitted to IEEE Xplore and various international databases. Authors of selected outstanding papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers, for consideration of publication in the Springer Book Series - Studies in Computational Intelligence and many other international journals. Submission system is accessible through the following link:??http://thesai.org/SAIConference2014/Submit Some recent updates about SAI Conference 2014: ? Latest video at http://thesai.org/SAIConference2014/Gallery (Looking Back @ Science and Information Conference 2013) ? Dr. Ann Cavoukian and Helen Papagiannis to deliver the keynotes at SAI Conference 2014, http://thesai.org/SAIConference2014/Speakers ? Professor David Stupples, Professor Mischa Dohler, Professor Frank Zhigang Wang to deliver invited talks at SAI Conference 2014 ? The conference is Technically Co-Sponsored by 2 IEEE units, check : http://thesai.org/SAIConference2014/Sponsors ? Springer to publish extended versions of best papers originating at SAI Conference. http://thesai.org/SAIConference2014/CallforPapers Check the conference committee at : http://thesai.org/SAIConference2014/Committees. ?Please consider submitting your research work at the most dynamic event of 2014; and kindly circulate this e-mail among your colleagues and students. ?Participants can register for the conference at :?http://thesai.org/SAIConference2014/Register ? Hope to see you at SAI Conference 2014! ? Regards, Conference Team Science and Information Conference 2014 www.conference.thesai.org?|?conference at thesai.org From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Fri Jan 10 10:27:01 2014 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 17:27:01 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] MEDI 2014: First Call for Papers Message-ID: <2FQZQDLN-155D-PN13-OGVL-KH31GG4Y67M3@cs.ucy.ac.cy> *** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *** 4th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON MODEL & DATA ENGINEERING (MEDI 2014) Lordos Beach Hotel, Larnaca, Cyprus 24-26 September, 2014 http://medi2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy/ The main objective of the conference is to provide a forum for the dissemination of research accomplishments and to promote the interaction and collaboration of research communities issued from modelling and system modelling on the one hand and data and data modelling on the other hand. MEDI 2014 provides an international infrastructure for the presentation of research results and experimentations on models and data theory, development of advanced technologies related to models and data and their advanced applications and case studies. This international scientific event, initiated by researchers from Euro-Mediterranean countries, aims also at promoting the creation of north-south scientific networks, projects and faculty/student exchanges and of other parts of the world as well. Aim and Scope Specific areas of interest to MEDI'2014 include but are not limited to: Modelling and Models Engineering: - Design of General-purpose Modelling Languages and Related Standards - Model Driven Engineering, Modelling Languages, Meta-modelling, Model Transformation, Model Evolution: - Formal Modelling, Verification and Validation, Analysis, Testing - Ontology Based Modelling, Role of Ontologies in Modelling Activities - Model Manipulation and models as first objects - Heterogeneous modelling, model integration and interoperability - Applications and case studies Data Engineering: - Heterogeneous data, data Integration and Interoperability - Distributed, Parallel, Grid, Peer to Peer, Cloud Databases - Data Warehouses and OLAP, Data Mining - Database System Internals, Performance, Self-tuning Benchmarking and Testing - Database Security, Personalization, Recommendation - Web Databases, Ontology Based Databases, PDMS - Applications and case studies Modeling for Data Management: - New Models and Architectures for Databases and Data Warehouses - Modeling and Quality of Data - Modeling for Enhancing Sharing Data - Models for Explicit and Implicit Semantics based Data Optimization - Model Reification, Model Repositories - Modeling Non Functional Properties of Systems - Data as models and Models as Data - Service based data management and service oriented applications - Models for data Monitoring - Urbanization of Database Applications Applications and tooling: - Industry transfer, experiences - Data and Model manipulation and tooling - Modelling tools and experimentation Conference Location Lordos Beach Hotel, Larnaca https://www.lordosbeach.com.cy/en/ Submission Guidelines and Instructions Authors are invited to submit research and application papers representing original, previously unpublished work. Papers should be submitted in PDF or Word format. Submissions must conform to Springer's LNCS format and should not exceed 12 pages (including all text, figures, references and appendices). Authors who want to buy extra pages may submit a paper up to 15 pages with the indication that the authors will purchase extra pages if the paper is accepted. Submissions which do not conform to the LNCS format and/or which do exceed 12 pages (or up to 15 pages with the extra page purchase commitment) will be rejected without reviews. Submitted papers will be carefully evaluated based on originality, significance, technical soundness, and clarity of exposition. All accepted papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer-Verlag. Duplicate submissions are not allowed. A submission is considered to be a duplicate submission if it is submitted to other conferences/workshops/journals or it has been already accepted to be published in other conferences/workshops/journals. Duplicate submissions thus will be automatically rejected without reviews. Submissions require explicit consent from all listed authors. Important Dates Abstract submission: April 14, 2014 Full-paper submission: April 21, 2014 Acceptance notification: June 16, 2014 Camera Ready: July 7, 2014 Paper Publication All accepted papers will be published in Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) by Springer-Verlag. Best papers will be invited for submission in a special issue of a recognized international journals (under discussion). Keynotes Speakers Mukesh MOHANIA, IBM, INDIA : Data and Data models Dominique MERY, Loria, Nancy, France: Models and system modelling Conference Organization General Chairs Ladjel Bellatreche, ENSMA, Poitiers University, France George A. Papadopoulos, Department of Computer Science, University of Cyprus Programme Committee Chair Yamine A?t Ameur, ENSEEIHT/IRIT, Toulouse, France Local Organizing Chair Mr. Petros Stratis (EasyConferences, LTD), Finance Chair Program Committee TBA For further inquiries, contact the MEDI 2014 PC Chair: Yamine A?t Ameur (yamine at n7.fr) -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is not SPAM. If you want to be removed from this list, please send an email to [announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy] with the single word 'remove' in the subject of the email. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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The industrial track will be held on Wednesday, June 18th, 2014 and consist of presentations and discussions. For more details concerning ICSOB 2014 please visit http://www.icsob.org. Special sessions this year * Industry 4.0 includes e.g. cyber-physical systems, Internet of Things, computerization of traditional industries such as manufacturing * Speeding up time-to-market: towards continuous value delivery * Business models in game and entertainment software Submission Proposals for presentations in form of abstracts (up to 3 pages) or industrial papers (up to 10 pages) should be submitted online at the following URL: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsobid2014 The best industrial contributions will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer as a volume in Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series (if at least one author of the paper attends the conference and presents the paper). All other industrial contributions will be included in the ICSOB post-proceedings (probably published in Springer's CCIS series). Note: Presentation without publishing the accepted contribution is possible as well. Important Dates Submission deadline: February 7th, 2014 Notification: March 7th, 2014 Camera-Ready: April 7th, 2014 Industry Day: June 18th, 2014 Organizers / Program committee Georg Herzwurm, Universit?t Stuttgart, Germany George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus, Cyprus Olaf Mackert, SAP AG, Germany Arnd Simon, Microsoft, Germany Tobias Tauterat, Universit?t Stuttgart, Germany Contact Please do not hesitate to contact industry at icsob.org for further information. -------------------------------------------------------------------- This is not SPAM. 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URL: From marialemos72 at gmail.com Sat Jan 11 13:31:02 2014 From: marialemos72 at gmail.com (ML) Date: Sat, 11 Jan 2014 18:31:02 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CISTI'2014: List of Workshops Message-ID: <20140111183108.3E08B27F@osgood.ece.cmu.edu> ********************************** WORKSHOPS ******************************************* CISTI'2014 - 9th Iberian Conference on Information Systems and Technologies Barcelona, Spain, June 18 - 21, 2014 http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2014/index.php/en/workshops **************************************************************************************** List of Workshops to be held in the CISTI'2014 context: - ARWC 2014 - 1st Workshop on Augmented Reality and Wearable Computing - ASDACS 2014 - 1st Workshop on Applied Statistics and Data Analysis using Computer Science - IoT 2014 - 1st Workshop on Internet of Things - SGaMePlay 2014 - 4th Iberian Workshop on Serious Games and Meaningful Play - TICAMES 2014 - 2nd Workshop on Information and Communication Technology in Higher Education: Learning Mathematics - WICTA 2014 - 1st Workshop on ICT for Audit - WISA 2014 - 6th Workshop on Intelligent Systems and Apllications - WLA 2014 - 1st Workshop on Learning Analytics - WNIS 2014 - 1st Workshop on Networks, Information and Society Detailed information about these workshops is available at http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2014/index.php/en/workshops Best regards, CISTI'2014 Team http://www.aisti.eu/cisti2014/index.php/en From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Sun Jan 12 06:50:50 2014 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 13:50:50 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] KICSS 2014: Preliminary Call for Papers Message-ID: *** PRELIMINARY CALL FOR PAPERS *** 9th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON KNOWLEDGE, INFORMATION AND CREATIVITY SUPPORT SYSTEMS (KICSS 2014) Elias Beach Hotel, Limassol, Cyprus 6-8 November, 2014 http://kicss2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy/ (Proceedings will be published by Springer) Following the tradition of previous conferences on Knowledge, Information and Creativity Support Systems, KICSS 2014 will cover all aspects of knowledge management, knowledge engineering, intelligent information systems, and creativity in an information technology context, including computational creativity and its cognitive and collaborative aspects. Papers reporting original unpublished research results on theoretical foundations, IT implementations of decision support and expert systems, as well as case studies of successful applications of the above- mentioned ideas in various fields are equally solicited. The list of conference topics includes but is not limited to: Anticipatory networks, systems, and decisions Autonomous creative systems Cognitive foundations of knowledge Cognitive and psychological issues in creativity research Cognitive foundations of knowledge Collaborative activities in Living Labs Collaborative idea generation and creativity Collaborative knowledge creation Collaborative working environments fostering creativity Complex system modelling Computer supported creativity Creative approaches to model technological evolution Creative business models Creative conflict resolution Creative coordination and cooperation mechanisms Creative decision processes Creative interaction techniques Creative model building Creative reasoning and decision making Creative research environments and their performance Creative social computing Creative visualisation of data and knowledge Creativity in finance Creativity in augmented reality Creativity in health care Creativity in mobile applications Creativity in social media Creativity in the Cloud Creativity measurement Creativity support systems Creativity transfer and stimulation Creativity vs. rationality Creativity-enhancing interfaces Creativity-oriented information system architectures Decision sciences Decision support systems (DSS) Discovering opportunities, threats and challenges Foresight support systems (FSS) Future Internet and knowledge-based society Future exploration and modelling Future perspectives of knowledge, information, and creativity support Game-theoretical aspects of knowledge General creative systems (GCS) Group recommendation, and advise Heuristics and general problem solving Identifying real options in complex business environments Information fusion Information quality Intelligent analysis of Big Data Knowledge extraction, creation, and acquisition Knowledge in multi-agent systems Knowledge integration Knowledge management in business, industry, and administration Knowledge representation and reasoning Knowledge verification and validation Living Lab support systems (LLSS) Machine learning and creativity Malicious creativity in the web, its discovery and remedy Mathematical models of creative processes Multi- and interdisciplinary approaches in creativity research Multicriteria decision making Natural language analysis Non-monotonic reasoning Ontology creation and management Open innovation Organizational learning Preference modelling Reasoning about knowledge Recommender systems Scientific information management Search for a compromise in multicriteria decision making and collaborative games Social Computing Social factors of collaborative creativity Software-based stimulation of creativity Supervised and semi-supervised learning Trust modeling Uncertainty modelling Virtual environment design Visual Analytics and Intelligent User Interfaces Web intelligence tools World models Important Dates Paper Submission Deadline: June 20, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: August 8, 2014 Camera-Ready Version Due: September 8, 2014 Research-in-Progress Report Submission Deadline: September 5, 2014 Research-in-Progress Reports Author Notification Due: September 12, 2014 Research-in-Progress Reports Camera-Ready Versions Due: September 19, 2014 Submission Regular papers on all conference topics should be formatted according to the Springer CS Proceedings (LNCS) format and should not exceed 12 pages. Short and industrial/demo papers as well as research-in-progress reports should not exceed 6 pages according to the above format. Up to 2 additional pages may be allowed at extra charge. The KICSS 2014 papers can be submitted via Easychair. Submissions that overlap substantially with any other papers printed, submitted, or accepted for publication or presentation elsewhere are not allowed. Special session proposals may be submitted by email to the KICSS Organizing Committee. Although there is no formal template for such a proposal, the proposers should nevertheless specify the title of the session, describe briefly its essential content and relation to the conference topics, and specify the expected number of contributions, and titles, if already known. 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URL: From invitation at iariaprogram.org Fri Jan 10 21:01:59 2014 From: invitation at iariaprogram.org (ICSNC 2014) Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2014 21:01:59 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] 1st CfP: ICSNC 2014 || October 12 - 16, 2014 - Nice, France Message-ID: <1389405719565.3499@iariaprogram.org> INVITATION: ================= Please consider to contribute to and/or forward to the appropriate groups the following opportunity to submit and publish original scientific results to ICSNC 2014. The submission deadline is May 16, 2014. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== ICSNC 2014 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS ICSNC 2014, The Ninth International Conference on Systems and Networks Communications October 12 - 16, 2014 - Nice, France General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ICSNC14.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/CfPICSNC14.html - regular papers - short papers (work in progress) - posters Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/SubmitICSNC14.html Submission deadline: May 16, 2014 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options. The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels. Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html ICSNC 2014 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) WINET: Wireless networks 3G/4G integration; Wireless protocols, architectural and design concepts; Design and implementation of mobile information systems; Wireless communications and mechanisms; Antenna and RF subsystems; Coding & modulation & equalization; Channel modeling and characterization; Equalization/Synchronization; Wireless technologies; Wireless applications & services; IP Multimedia subsystems (IMS); Wireless and mobility; Wireless-wireline convergence; Radio communications systems; Specialized wireless networks; Management of wireless networks; Position on standards & fora on wireless networks; Business models on wireless networks; Communications regulations, Spectrum management; Software-Defined Radio (SDR) [ architectures, hardware, software, signal processing and smart antennas, etc.] HSNET: High speed networks Technologies, protocols, and applications for high speed networks; Voice over high speed networks; Services and interconnections of high speed networks; Technologies for High speed optical networks; Optical burst switching; End-to-end applications; Optical control plan; Advanced optical technology architectures; Design of high speed systems and networks; Methodologies and development tools for high speed networks; Management and control of high speed networks; Performance in high speed networks; Security aspects in high speed networks; QoS/SLA in high speed networks; Diagnosing high speed networks; High speed networks and NGN SENET: Sensor networks Architectures and protocols for wired and wireless sensor networks; Design of sensor networks; Instrumentation and models for deployment of sensors networks; Power in sensor networks; Ad hoc and wireless sensor networks; Management and control of sensor networks; Performance in sensor networks; Security and reliability aspects in sensor networks; Information assurance in sensor networks; QoS/SLA in sensor networks; Applications, case studies and prototypes with sensor networks MHNET: Mobile and Ad hoc networks Mobile technology and fundamentals; Analytical and validation models for mobility; Architecture and routing protocols for mobile networks; Architectures, frameworks, fundamentals on ad hoc networks; Energy efficient design, cross-layer design, scalability; MAC protocols for ad-hoc and sensor networks (801.11, Bluetooth, etc.); Data, information, and signal processing in mobile networks; Complexity analysis of mobile algorithms and protocols; Software platforms and development tools supporting mobility; QoS/SLA, access control and security in mobile and ad hoc networks; Location and mobility management; Location and service discovery in ad hoc networks; Planning, provisioning, and deployment mobility features; Directional and smart antennas for mobile and ad-hoc networks; Performance and security in ad hoc and mobile networks; Self-organization, synchronization and stability in ad hoc networks; Self-management in ad hoc and mobile networks; Ad hoc and mobile networks and auton omic computing; Mobile ad hoc platforms, systems and tools; Applications over ad hoc networks; Standards evolution on mobility and ad hoc networks AP2PS: Advances in P2P Systems Architectures and protocols; Gossip-based and epidemic protocols; Integration with network operators and service providers; Autonomic computing and networking; Semantic P2P; Opportunistic networking; Content delivery networks; Applications; Prototypes and simulations; Implementations; Comparative performance analysis; Dependability, resilience and availability; Benchmarking and optimization; Quality of experience; Security, trust and reputation; Digital rights management; Content filtering; P2P and wireless convergence; Integrated approaches; Energy efficiency MESH: Advances in Mesh Networks Architectures and algorithms; Wireless interference models; Large-scale networks; Real-time and non-real-time communications; Centralized and distributed scheduling; Service differentiation; Security, Privacy, and Trust; Protocol interference models; Single-channel multihop/multichannel routing; Quality of Services routing; Multimedia-centric routing; Cross-layer multicast routing; QoS-based access protocols for mesh networks; Multichannel access protocols; Applications; Multimedia services; Home IPTV; WiMax; Broadband home networking communications; Smart buildings; Broadband Internet access VENET: Vehicular networks Communication technologies in vehicular networks; Frameworks and architectures for vehicular networks; Interoperability with Internet and other networks; Vehicle-infrastructure communications; Vehicle-to-vehicle communications; Emerging inter/intra-vehicle and infrastructure-to-vehicle wireless technologies; Cross-layer design and optimization for vehicular networks; Middleware and service architectures for vehicular networks; Propagation issues Vehicular sensors and data collection and process; On-drive diagnostics and repair technologies and systems; Protocol features /MAC, QoS, routing, multicast, addressing, identity/; Mobility and hand-off ; Properties /security, privacy, performance, robustness, real-time, etc./; Control and management in vehicular networks; Driver-oriented support systems /assistance, active&passive safety, etc./; Case studies and fields trials on vehicular networks; Applications across vehicular networks /content distribution, alerting, etc./; Standar dization /802.11p, DSRC, etc./ and standard platforms /JasPar, AUTOSTAR, etc./ RFID: Radio-frequency identification systems Fundamentals for RFID systems; Communications in RFID systems; Next generation RFID Technologies; RFID middleware design and architecture; Antenna design for RFID; System design and deployment; Circuits and architecture; RFID ans sensor networks; Bridging RFID networks in heterogeneous networks; Collision, proximity, speed; Security, privacy, trust; Monitoring and control of RFID systems; Localization and tracking; Inventory tracking; Testing and verification; Planing and executing RFID systems; RFID pilot projects; Use cases in deploying and operating /finance, manufacture, agriculture, transportation, etc./; Tools for supporting the design and deployment of RFID systems SESYS: Security systems Security analysis methodologies; Middleware and distributed systems security; Cryptography, certificates, information hiding, access control; Protection, risk, vulnerabilities, attacks, authorization/authentication; Access control, wireless access control, broadband access control; Biometrics, smart cards, identification and trust methodologies; Certification, accreditation anonymity, and audit; Security management, emergency contingency planning, identify theft, life safety; Wireless and mobile security; Fast security associations; Electronic surveillance and e-commerce protocols; Security and trust in web-services-based applications; Peer-to-peer security, denial of services; Information survivability, insider threat protection, integrity; Intellectual property rights, privacy, legal and regulatory issues; Criminal exploitation of technology; Commercial and industrial security; Viruses, hackers, worms, spam, and other malicious code MCSYS: Multimedia communications systems Technologies, protocols, and mechanisms for multimedia communications; Multimedia compression mechanisms and information representation; Multimedia encoding and compression, MPEG-1 to MPEG-4, Wavelet and fractal; Multimedia frameworks, communications, and middleware; Next generation multimedia communications; Mobile multimedia communications; Methodologies and development tools for multimedia communications systems; Wireless mobile multimedia communications; Ad hoc multimedia networks; IP-based Multimedia Subsystems (IMS); QoS/SLA in mobile multimedia services and applications; Mechanisms for interactive multimedia applications; Designing and implementing interactive applications; Multimedia authoring, publishing, and right securing; Security and performance for multimedia communications; Management, QoS, and security aspects in streaming over wireless ad hoc networks; Management and control of multimedia systems; Standards protocols for multimedia communications POSYS: Policy-based systems Policy for automation control; Trusting policy control commands; Policy-driven autonomic organizations; Policy-based control scalability; Policy sensors for feedback control; Policy conflict detection and conflict resolution; Context-aware policy-driven adaptive frameworks; Policy integrity, trust and negotiations; Policy-based software applications; Policing pervasive computing environments; Policing on-demand systems and services PESYS: Pervasive education system Learning and teaching systems; E-learning methods and e-learning scenarios; Tools and architectures for mobile/ubiquitous e-learning; Cooperative learning and working; Mobile technology and education; Distance learning and education; Computers and arts; Education in developing regions; Reflection in learning software and hardware; Social impact metrics on distance learning; Methodologies and processes for education; Curriculum projects and experiences; Intelligent support; Multimedia environment for teaching; E-market place for higher education; Embedded systems education; Wearable computers and education Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2014/ComICSNC14.html ================================================ To stop receiving notices about ICSNC, please reply with "DROP ICSNC storage-research-list at ece.cmu.edu" in the subject field. 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Selected papers from the proceedings will be published in leading international journals such as IJCINI, IJSSCI, and JAMA. Paper submission site is at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iccicc2014 . We look forward to having an opportunity to meet you at IEEE ICCI*CC'14. All the best to 2014, Prof. Yingxu Wang IEEE ICCI*CC'14 Co-Chair http://www.ucalgary.ca/icic/ From jianhui.yue at maine.edu Sun Jan 12 09:46:03 2014 From: jianhui.yue at maine.edu (Jianhui Yue) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 09:46:03 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: The 9th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2014) Message-ID: [Apologies if you received multiple copies of this email. ] CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************** THE 9TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NETWORKING, ARCHITECTURE, AND STORAGE??NAS 2014?? AUGUST 6-8, 2014, TIANJIN, CHINA http://www.nas-conference.org/ ********************************************************************* Overview International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2014) will be held on August 6-8, 2014 in Tianjin, China. It will serve as an international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research on networking, high-performance computer architecture, and parallel and Distributed data storage technologies. IMPORTANT DATES - Deadline for Paper Submission: March 21st, 2014 - Notification of Paper Acceptance: May 19th, 2014 - Camera-ready Paper and Author Registration: June 9th, 2014 General Co-Chairs - Guangming Liu, NSCC-TJ, China - Jizhong Han, CAS/IIE, China - Ce Yu, Tianjin U, China Program Co-Chairs - Zhao Zhang, ISU, USA - Songqing Chen, GMU, USA Vice Program Chairs: Networking Track - Yang Guo, Bell Labs, USA - Yonggang Wen, NTU, Singapore Architecture Track - Youtao Zhang, U Pittsburg, USA - Lixin Zhang, CAS/ICT, China Storage Track - Howie Huang, GWU, USA - Yu Hua, HUST, China Publicity Co-Chairs - Diana G?hringer, RUB, Germany - Christian Pilato, Columbia U, USA - Jianhui Yue, U Maine, USA Local Arrangement Chair - Wenrui Dong, NSCC-TJ, China Publication Chair - Wei Zhou, CAS/IIE, China Chair for Industrial Panel and International Forum - Xiangfei Meng, NSCC-TJ, China Reg. and Finance Chair - Xia Zijun, NSCC-TJ, China Steering Committee - Xubin He, VCU, USA - Hong Jiang, UNL, USA - Changsheng Xie, HUST, China - Qing Yang, URI, USA - Andr?? Brinkmann, JGU, GER - Jian Li, IBM Research, USA - Tao Li, UFL, USA - Marco Santambrogio, POLIMI, Italy - Hongbin Sun, Xi'An Jiaotong, China TOPICS The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cloud and grid computing - Network applications and services - Ad hoc and sensor networks - Networks and protocols - Network architectures - Virtual and overlay networks - Network modeling and measurement - Network security - Mobile and wireless network - Network information theory & network coding - Processor architectures - Parallel architectures - Cache and memory systems - Emerging technology and architecture - GPU architecture and programming - HW/SW co-design&tradeoff - Power and energy efficient architectures and techniques - Storage management - Storage performance and scalability - File systems, object-based storage and block storage - Energy-aware storage - Architecture and applications of solid state disks - Cloud storage - Storage virtualization SUBMISSION NAS 2014 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. All accepted papers will be Included in the IEEE digital library and indexed by EI. CONTACT Please contact Professor Zhao Zhang and Professor Songqing Chen for any questions, or check our conference website at http://www.nas-conference.org for updates. SPONSORS NAS 2014 is sponsored by NSCC-TJ (National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin), Tianjin University, and IEEE. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From daniele.gianni at gmail.com Sun Jan 12 17:02:16 2014 From: daniele.gianni at gmail.com (Daniele Gianni) Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 23:02:16 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CfP: 4th IEEE Track on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation (Comets 2014) - WETICE 2014 Message-ID: (Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message) ################################################################# IEEE WETICE 2014 4th IEEE Track on Collaborative Modeling and Simulation (Comets 2014) in cooperation with INCOSE Italia (to be confirmed) MIMOS (Italian Association for M&S) CALL FOR PAPERS ################################################################# June 23-25, 2014, Parma (Italy) http://www.sel.uniroma2.it/comets14 ################################################################# # Papers Due: March 7, 2014 # Accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings # by the IEEE Computer Society Press and indexed by EI. ################################################################# Modeling and Simulation (M&S) is increasingly becoming a central activity in the design of new systems and in the analysis of existing systems because it enables designers and researchers to investigate systems behavior through virtual representations. For this reason, M&S is gaining a primary role in many industrial and research fields, such as space, critical infrastructures, manufacturing, emergency management, biomedical systems and sustainable future. However, as the complexity of the investigated systems increases and the types of investigations widens, the cost of M&S activities increases for the more complex models and for the communications among a wider number and variety of M&S stakeholders (e.g., sub-domain experts, simulator users, simulator engineers, and final system users). To address the increasing costs of M&S activities, collaborative technologies must be introduced to support these activities by fostering the sharing and reuse of models, by facilitating the communications among M&S stakeholders, and more generally by integrating processes, tools and platforms. Aside from seeking applications of collaborative technologies to M&S activities, the track seeks innovative contributions that deal with the application of M&S practices in the field of collaborative engineering platforms. These platforms are continuously becoming more complex, and therefore their design requires systematic approaches to meet the required quality of collaboration. This is important for two reasons: to reduce rework activities on the actual collaborative environment, and to maximize the productivity and the quality of the process the collaborative environment supports. M&S offers the methodologies and tools for such investigations and therefore it can be used to improve the quality of collaborative environments. A non-exhaustive list of topics of interest includes: * collaborative requirements modeling * collaborative environments for M&S * collaborative Systems of Systems M&S * business proces modeling for collaborative environments * agent-based M&S * collaborative distributed simulation * collaborative component-based M&S * net-centric M&S * web-based M&S * model sharing and reuse * model building and evaluation * modeling and simulation of business processes * modeling for collaboration * simulation-based performance analysis of collaborative engineering platforms * model-driven approaches for collaborative engineering * domain specific languages for collaborative M&S * databases and repositories for M&S * distributed virtual environments * virtual research environment for M&S * collaborative DEVS M&S * multi-method M&S To stimulate creativity, however, the track maintains a wider scope and invites interested researchers to present contributions that offer original perspectives on collaboration and M&S. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ On-Line Submissions and Publication +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ CoMetS'14 intends to bring together researchers and practitioners to discuss key issues, approaches, open problems, innovative applications and trends in the track research area. This year, we will accept submissions in two forms: (1) papers (2) poster and industrial presentations (1) Papers should contain original contributions not published or submitted elsewhere. Papers up to six pages (including figures, tables and references) can be submitted. Papers should follow the IEEE format, which is single spaced, two columns, 10 pt Times/Roman font. All submissions should be electronic (in PDF) and will be peer-reviewed by at least three program committee members. Accepted full papers will be included in the proceedings and published by the IEEE Computer Society Press (IEEE approval pending). Please note that at least one author for each accepted paper should register to attend WETICE 2014 (http://www.wetice.org) to have the paper published in the proceedings. (2) Posters should describe a practical, on-the-field, experience in any domain area using collaborative M&S. The poster submission requires the submission of an abstract for evaluation from the organizers. Accepted abstract must be followed by the submission of a poster which will be displayed at conference time. With the poster submission, a short (15 minutes) slot might be allocated for oral presentation illustrating the industrial case. The presentation may also include a live demo, but it should not include commercial details. Interested authors and participants may contact the organizers for expression of interests and content appropriateness at any time. Papers and posters can be submitted in PDF format at the conference submission site (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wetice2014), by selecting the CoMetS track. Please feel free to contact the track chairs (dambro at uniroma2.it, danielegmail-comets at yahoo.it) if you experience problems with the EasyChair Web site. +++++++++++++++ Important Dates +++++++++++++++ * Submission Deadline: March 7, 2014 * Notification to authors: March 28, 2014 * Camera Ready to IEEE: April 11, 2014 * Conference date: June 23 - June 24, 2014 +++++++++++++++++ Program co-chairs +++++++++++++++++ Andrea D'Ambrogio, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy Daniele Gianni, Guglielmo Marconi University, Italy Joachim Fuchs, European Space Agency, The Netherlands Giuseppe Iazeolla, Guglielmo Marconi University, Italy +++++++++++++++++ Program Committee +++++++++++++++++ Paolo Bocciarelli, University of Roma TorVergata, Italy Alain Kerbrat, CollESys - AFIS, France Cristiano Leorato, Rhea, The Netherlands Steve McKeever, Uppsala University, Sweden David Nickerson, Auckland Bioengineering Institute, NZ Wolfgang Prinz, Fraunhofer FIT and RWTH Aachen, Germany Jos? L. Risco-Martin, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Spain Volker Schaus, DLR, Germany Sara Tucci, CEA/List, France Gabriel Wainer, Carleton University, Canada Quirien Wijnand, European Space Agency, The Netherlands Justyna Zander, Harvard University, USA, and Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS, Germany Gregory Zacharewicz, University of Bordeaux, France Heming Zhang, Tsinghua University, China *** Contact Information *** Andrea D'Ambrogio (track co-chair) Email: dambro at uniroma2.it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From supriya.kapoor at thesai.org Mon Jan 13 01:41:01 2014 From: supriya.kapoor at thesai.org (Supriya Kapoor) Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2014 12:11:01 +0530 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for papers: IEEE Technically Co-Sponsored Science and Information (SAI) Conference 2014 Message-ID: <035201cf102a$9825aaf0$c87100d0$@thesai.org> Deadline fast approaching: three days to the early bird submission! ================================================= Call for Papers IEEE Technically Co-Sponsored Science and Information (SAI) Conference 2014 August 27-29, 2014 | London, UK more info at www.conference.thesai.org ================================================= Science and Information (SAI) Conference is a premier venue for researchers and industry practitioners to share their new ideas, original research results and practical development experiences from Computer Science, Electronics, Communication and related areas. Science and Information Conference 2014 will feature presentations of contributed papers and posters, project demonstrations as well as tutorial sessions and super charging Plenary Talks. Science and Information Conference 2014 is hosted by the The Science and Information Organization, and is being organized in cooperation with Springer and IEEE. The conference is Technically Co-Sponsored by . IEEE Computer Chapter, UKRI Section . IEEE Computational Intelligence Society, UKRI Section Important Dates - Early Bird Submission: * Paper Submission : January 15, 2014 (Extended) * Acceptance Notification : February 15, 2014 * Author Registration : March 01, 2014 * Camera Ready Submission : April 15, 2014 * Conference Dates : August 27-29, 2014 Regular Submission . Paper Submission : March 01, 2014 . Acceptance Notification : April 01, 2014 . Author Registration : May 01, 2014 . Camera Ready Submission : May 15, 2014 . Conference Dates : August 27-29, 2014 All SAI Conference 2014 registered papers will also be submitted to IEEE Xplore and various international databases. Authors of selected outstanding papers will be invited to submit extended versions of their papers, for consideration of publication in the Springer Book Series - Studies in Computational Intelligence and many other international journals. Submission system is accessible through the following link: http://thesai.org/SAIConference2014/Submit Some recent updates about SAI Conference 2014: . Latest video at http://thesai.org/SAIConference2014/Gallery (Looking Back @ Science and Information Conference 2013) . Dr. Ann Cavoukian and Helen Papagiannis to deliver the keynotes at SAI Conference 2014, http://thesai.org/SAIConference2014/Speakers . Professor David Stupples, Professor Mischa Dohler, Professor Frank Zhigang Wang to deliver invited talks at SAI Conference 2014 . The conference is Technically Co-Sponsored by 2 IEEE units, check : http://thesai.org/SAIConference2014/Sponsors . Springer to publish extended versions of best papers originating at SAI Conference.http://thesai.org/SAIConference2014/CallforPapers Check the conference committee at : http://thesai.org/SAIConference2014/Committees. Please consider submitting your research work at the most dynamic event of 2014; and kindly circulate this e-mail among your colleagues and students. Participants can register for the conference at : http://thesai.org/SAIConference2014/Register Hope to see you at SAI Conference 2014! Check out the Conference Page on Facebook!!! Regards, Conference Team Science and Information Conference 2014 www.conference.thesai.org | conference at thesai.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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See the call for papers in the following link: http://www.systor.org/2014/cfp.html Regards, Eliezer Dekel, SYSTOR General Chair Link: http://www.systor.org/2014/ "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication" Leonardo DaVinci _________________________________________________________ Eliezer Dekel, Senior Technical Staff Member Chief Architect - Distributed Systems IBM Research - Haifa Fax: +972-4-829-6112 Phone: +972-4-829-6234 Cell Phone: +972-54-697-6234 E-Mail: dekel at il.ibm.com Web site: http://researcher.ibm.com/person/il-dekel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pmu at zurich.ibm.com Tue Jan 14 11:56:37 2014 From: pmu at zurich.ibm.com (Peter Mueller) Date: Tue, 14 Jan 2014 17:56:37 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] 4th IEEE International Workshop on Data Center Performance (DCPerf'14) Message-ID: Call for Papers - Submission Due Date: January 24, 2014 The 4th IEEE International Workshop on Data Center Performance (DCPerf'14) Madrid, Spain, June 30 - July 3, 2014 http://www.zurich.ibm.com/dcperf14 in conjunction with ICDCS'14: The 34th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems http://lsd.ls.fi.upm.es/icdcs2014 Data centers have become an integral part of the backbone infrastructure for information technology. In particular, they provide a cost efficient solution for provisioning a wide range of computing resources in diverse environments such as business, scientific, and mobile. Due to the rapid growth of user- defined and user-generated programs, applications and content, the complexity of deploying and operating data centers continues to increase. Considering the high volume of mixed workloads, the diversity of services offered, and the increasing mobility of users across geographically distributed areas, the performance optimization of data centers has become ever more necessary and challenging, especially in view of criteria such as scalability, reliability, manageability, power efficiency, area density, and operating costs. The goal of this workshop is to promote a community-wide discussion to find and identify suitable strategies to enable effective and scalable data center performance optimizations. We are looking for papers that present new techniques, introduce new methodologies, propose new research directions, or discuss strategies for resolving open performance problems of data centers. Topics of Interest ================== Topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - System performance Hardware & software architecture Resource management & middleware Evaluation / modeling methodologies Empirical studies - Communication performance Intra- / inter-DC communication Open-flow based networks DC network architecture & protocols - Storage and I/O performance Storage architecture I/O scalability and performance - DC power and thermal issues Power and thermal modeling Power-constrained performance - Security and robustness Performance of security solutions Intrusion & misconfiguration monitoring Variability & reliability modeling - Virtualization and cloud computing Hypervisors & HW virtualization support Virtualized networking and storage Outsourcing issues Cloud scalability and management - Performance of DC applications Cloud computing Content distribution Hadoop applications Real-time analytics Important Dates =============== Paper submission: January 24, 2014 Notification of acceptance: March 7, 2014 Final manuscript due: March 21, 2014 Submission Guideline ==================== Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5"?11" double-column format. Accepted papers will be published in the combined ICDCS 2014 workshop proceedings and will be available through IEEE Xplore. Manuscripts should be submitted via https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dcperf14 General Chair ============= Dilip Krishnaswamy, IBM Research Labs Bangalore, India TPC Chairs ========== Robert Birke, IBM Research Zurich Lab, Switzerland Len Wisniewski, IQSS, Harvard University, USA Publicity Chair =============== Marco Beccuti, Universit? di Torino, Italy Program Committee ================= Souheib Baarir, Universit? Pierre et Marie Curie, France Gianfranco Balbo, Universit? degli Studi di Torino, Italy Gergely Bicz?k, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway Luca Bortolussi, University of Trieste, Italy Andrea Bracciali, University of Stirling, UK Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London, UK Herve Chabanne, Morpho, France Salvatore Distefano, University of Messina, Italy Victor Govindaswamy, Texas A&M University-Texarkana, USA Peng He, Ciena, USA Jeong-Hyon Hwang, State University of New York - Albany, USA Samee Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Masayuki Murata, Osaka University, Japan Panagiotis Papadimitriou, Leibniz University of Hannover, Germany Juan F. Perez, Imperial College London, UK Alma Riska, College of William and Mary, USA Roberto Rojas-Cessa, New Jersey Institute of Technology, USA Sriram Sankar, Microsoft, USA Sanjeev Setia, George Mason University, USA Seonghan Shin, AIST, Japan Marko Vukoli?, Eurecom, France Miki Yamamoto, Kansai University, Japan Yanjiang Yang, Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore Shucheng Yu, University of Arkansas at Little Rock, USA Steering Committee ================== Jian-Nong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Alok Choudhary, Northwestern University, USA Peter Mueller, IBM Research Zurich Lab, Switzerland Martin Schmatz, IBM Research Zurich Lab, Switzerland Anand Sivasubramaniam, Penn State University, USA Larry Xue, Arizona State University, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Science and Information Conference 2014 will feature presentations of contributed papers and posters, project demonstrations as well as tutorial sessions and super charging Plenary Talks. Science and Information Conference 2014 is hosted by the The Science and Information Organization, and is being organized in cooperation with Springer and IEEE. We invite you to submit your work for SAI Conference 2014 which is due by March 01, 2014. Submissions may include Research Papers, Survey Papers, Poster Papers or Demo Presentation Proposals. More detailed information, including past conference programs, can be found at the conference website: www.conference.thesai.org Call for Papers: http://thesai.org/SAIConference2014/CallforPapers Best Paper Award is presented to the individual(s) to have written the best paper appearing in the annual conference proceedings. Recipients are given discounted registration voucher for the subsequent conference, including the presentation of a trophy and certificate that describes the award and an award sponsored by Springer. Keynote Speakers ( http://thesai.org/SAIConference2014/Speakers) 1. Dr. Ann Cavoukian 2. Helen Papagiannis Invited Speakers 1. Professor David Stupples 2. Professor Mischa Dohler 3. Professor Frank Wang Conference Chairs 1. Abdelhamid Mellouk, University of Paris-Est (UPEC), France 2. Kohei Arai, Saga University, Japan Check the complete conference committee at: http://thesai.org/SAIConference2014/Committees Kindly circulate this e-mail among your colleagues and students. Looking forward to see you at the conference. Regards, Supriya Kapoor Conference Manager Science and Information Conference www.conference.thesai.org | conference at thesai.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jfineman at cs.georgetown.edu Wed Jan 15 15:39:45 2014 From: jfineman at cs.georgetown.edu (Jeremy Fineman) Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2014 15:39:45 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] SPAA 2014 - final call for papers Message-ID: Update: previous announcements said 10-point font, but a 9-point font is allowed. ====================================================== SPAA 2014 Call for Papers ====================================================== 26th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA 2014) June 23-25, 2014 Prague, Czech Republic http://www.spaa-conference.org This year, the submissions format differs from recent years. There will also be a rebuttal period. ====================================================== Important Dates: Submission deadlines: - Abstract: January 22, 11:59pm EST - Full versions: January 25, 11:59pm EST Rebuttal period: March 12-16 Notification: March 31 Camera-ready: April 30 ====================================================== Contributed papers are sought in all areas of parallel algorithms and architectures, encompassing any computation system that can perform multiple operations or tasks simultaneously. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - parallel and distributed algorithms - parallel and distributed data structures - green computing & power-efficient architectures - management of massive data sets - parallel complexity theory - parallel and distributed architectures - multi-core architectures - instruction level parallelism and VLSI - compilers and tools for concurrent programming - supercomputing architecture and computing - transactional memory hardware and software - the internet and the world wide web - game theory and collaborative learning - routing and information dissemination - resource management and awareness - peer-to-peer systems - mobile, ad-hoc, and sensor networks - robustness, self-stabilization, and security - synergy of parallelism in algorithms, programming, and architecture Conference presentations will have two formats: Regular presentations will be allotted a 25-minute talk and up to 10 pages in the proceedings. This format is intended for contributions reporting original research, submitted exclusively to this conference. Brief announcements will be allotted a 10-minute talk and a 2-page abstract in the proceedings. This format is a forum for brief communications, which may be published later in other conferences. Every regular paper is eligible for the best paper award. The program committee may decline to make this award or may split the award among multiple papers. Submission: Authors of contributed papers are encouraged to submit their manuscript electronically. To submit electronically, visit http://www.spaa-conference.org for instructions. This is the preferred method of submission. Authors unable to submit electronically should contact the program chair Peter Sanders at sanders at kit.edu to receive instructions on how to proceed. Submissions for regular presentations should include an introduction understandable to a nonspecialist including motivation and previous work, and a technical exposition directed to a specialist. A submission should not exceed 10 double-column pages in 9-point font, including figures, tables, and references. More details may be supplied in a clearly marked appendix to be read at the discretion of the program committee. A submission for brief announcements should be no longer than two double-column pages in 9-point font. Rebuttal Period: There will be a rebuttal period in which the authors can point out misunderstandings or comment on critical questions that PC members may have. The rebuttal period will take place on March 12-16. ====================================================== Program Committee: Susanne Albers, Technische Universit?t M?nchen, Germany Gianfranco Bilardi, Padua University, Italy Phillip Gibbons, Intel Labs Pittsburg, USA Martin Hoefer, MPI Informatics Saarbr?cken, Germany Dariusz Kowalski, University of Liverpool, UK Fredrik Manne, University of Bergen, Norway Ulrich Meyer, Goethe University Frankfurt/M., Germany Friedhelm Meyer auf der Heide, University of Paderborn, Germany Seth Pettie, University of Michigan, USA Vijaya Ramachandran, University of Texas at Austin, USA Christian Scheideler, University of Paderborn, Germany Oded Schwartz, UC Berkeley, USA Sandeep Sen, IIT Delhi, India Jiri Sgall, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic Nodari Sitchinava, University of Hawaii, Manoa, USA Alexander Tiskin, University of Warwick, UK Jesper Tr?ff, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Phiilippas Tsigas, Chalmers University Gothenburg, Sweden Roger Wattenhofer, ETH Z?rich, Switzerland ====================================================== Conference Committee: Program Chair Peter Sanders, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany General Chair Guy Blelloch, Carnegie Mellon University Secretary Christian Scheideler, University of Paderborn Treasurer David Bunde, Knox College Publicity Chair Jeremy Fineman, Georgetown University Local Arrangements Chair Petr Kolman, Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Youssef.Iraqi at kustar.ac.ae Wed Jan 15 23:29:24 2014 From: Youssef.Iraqi at kustar.ac.ae (Youssef Iraqi) Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2014 04:29:24 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Healthcom 2014 Call for Workshops Message-ID: <59E8FEA9B8CA4749B19E34AEFA4FAAC626A23F@KU-SH-MBX02.kustar.ac.ae> | Please accept our apology for multiple posting. THANK YOU | CALL FOR WORKSHOPS 16th IEEE International Conference on e-Health Networking, Application & Services (IEEE HEALTHCOM 2014) Natal, RN Brazil ? October 15-18, 2014 http://www.ieee-healthcom.org OVERVIEW IEEE HEALTHCOM 2014 is fully sponsored by the IEEE Communications Society. It aims at bringing together interested parties from around the world working in the health care field to exchange ideas, to discuss innovative and emerging solutions, and to develop collaborations. eHealth is defined as the cost-effective and secure use of information and communications technologies in support of health and the related fields, including health-care related services, surveillance, literature, education, knowledge, and research, both at the local site and at a distance. It will make personalized medicine possible and affordable in the near future. The adoption of eHealth technologies in medical fields creates huge opportunities yet lots of challenges still need to be resolved to build reliable, secure, and efficient networks or platforms with great flexibility. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS The conference organizers ask for full-day workshop proposals on the eHealth area. A workshop should focus on a specific theme of current interest that can attract high-quality submissions. A proposal should include the following information: 1. Title of the workshop 2. Significance and timeliness 3. Full contact and a short bio of the workshop organizers 4. Planned format for the full-day workshop with expected paper submission volume 5. A tentative list of TPC members 6. A draft of Call for Papers 7. Advertisement plan for the Call for Papers 8. History of the workshop (if applicable) PROPOSAL SUBMISSION Workshop proposals should be sent to the workshop chairs, Dr. Youssef Iraqi (Youssef.iraqi at kustar.ac.ae) and Dr. Honggang Wang (hwang1 at umassd.edu). IMPORTANT DATES Proposal submission January 31, 2014 Notification of approval February 10, 2014 Workshop Paper Submission April 30, 2014 Workshop Paper Acceptance June 30, 2014 Workshop Camera-Ready Paper August 31, 2014 Dr. Youssef Iraqi Associate Professor, Electrical and Computer Engineering Department (Sharjah Campus) Khalifa University of Science, Technology & Research (KUSTAR) P.O. Box: 573, Sharjah, UAE T : +971-(0)6-5978826 F : +971-(0)6-5611789 E : Youssef.Iraqi at kustar.ac.ae [cid:logo_2013_v171abc0] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Modern business applications process large amounts of persistent data. Thus, a key aspect infuencing the speed of such applications is the query processing time. This time can be optimized in a variety of ways, ranging from classic - such as automatic query rewriting or the usage of a variety of indexing techniques, through the variety of cashing techniques, automated database tuning, etc. On the other hand, application maintenance costs are closely related to the quality of the application architecture. Together, both those aspects lead to the search for optimization techniques that integrate with different intermediate layers and the use of alternative data persistence solutions. The development of graphics processing units and their unique computing power-price ratio also suggests searching for the acceleration of data processing based on GPUs. In addition to universal optimization techniques it is also worth looking into the use of domain knowledge in optimization mechanisms. The proposed workshop is planned to review the research on this broader query optimization process. TOPICS ======================================= Topics include (but are not limited to): - Extending the capabilities of object relational mappings - Usage of the GPUs in query processing - Indexing techniques - Usage of metadata and domain knowledge in optimization processes - Usage of fuzzy sets and rough sets in databases - Cashing techniques - Data snapshots - Non-relational DBMS - Column-oriented DBMS - Hybrid DBMS - Storage and analysis of time series - Automated database tuning - ETL optimization - Business Intelligence optimization PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ======================================= Papers should be submitted by April 11, 2014. Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick given to FedCSIS participants. Papers presented during the conference will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library proceedings, and posted at the conference WWW site. The IEEE proceedings will be published under an ISBN and ISSN numbers (and an IEEE Catalog number), under a nonexclusive copyright. Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference are indexed in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science. Moreover, extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will be published as Special Issue(s). 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 ======================================= - Wisniewski, Piotr, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far) ======================================= - Bala, Piotr, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland - Bhalla, Subhash, University of Aizu, Japan - Burzanska, Marta, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland - Cortesi, Agostino, Universit? Ca? Foscari, Venezia, Italy - Fischer, Simon, Rapid-I GmbH, Germany - Kaczmarski, Krzysztof, Warsaw University of Technology, Poland - Slezak, Dominik, University of Warsaw From k.wasielewska at fedcsis.org Fri Jan 17 18:36:34 2014 From: k.wasielewska at fedcsis.org (Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS)) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 00:36:34 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] =?utf-8?q?CFP_-_20th_Conference_on_Knowle?= =?utf-8?q?dge_Acquisition_and_Management=2Cand=2C2nd_Workshop_on_Artifici?= =?utf-8?q?al_Intelligence_for_Knowledge_Management_=28KAM=26AI4KM?= =?utf-8?b?4oCZMTQp?= Message-ID: <52D9BE82.2080300@fedcsis.org> CALL FOR PAPERS ======================================= Collaborative Human-Machine Intelligence 20th Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management and 2nd Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge Management (KAM&AI4KM?14) Warsaw, Poland, September 7-10, 2014 WWW: http://fedcsis.org/kam E-mail: kam2014 at fedcsis.org We have the pleasure to invite you to contribute to and to participate in the conference "Knowledge Acquisition and Management" and 2nd Workshop on ?Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge Management? (KAM&AI4KM'14). The predecessor of the KAM conference has been organized for the first time in 1992, as a venue for scientists and practitioners to address different aspects of usage of advanced information technologies in management, with focus on intelligent techniques and knowledge management. In 2003 the conference changed somewhat its focus and was organized for the first under its current name. Furthermore, the KAM conference became an international event, with participants from around the world. In 2012 we?ve joined to Federated Conference on Computer Science and Systems becoming one of the oldest event. The ?Artificial Intelligence for Knowledge Management? Workshop was initiated by IFIP Group TC12.6 in 2012 as the separate event during European Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Montpellier (ECAI?2012). From the beginning the workshop aims in bringing together researchers and practitioners involved in Knowledge Management using the methods and techniques of AI for building and improving all aspects of KM and of knowledge flow, among others, improvement of the innovation process. This year both teams KAM and AI4KM, have decided to join efforts in the FedCSIS framework with common challenge: ?Collaborative Human-Machine Intelligence? under IFIP supporting. The aim of this common event is to create possibility of presenting and discussing approaches, techniques and tools in the knowledge acquisition and other knowledge management areas with focus on contribution of artificial intelligence for improvement of human-machine intelligence and face the challenges of this century. We expect that the conference&workshop will enable exchange of information and experiences, and delve into current trends of methodological, technological and implementation aspects of knowledge management processes. TOPICS ======================================= The following group topics, concerning both theory and applications, will be included (unavoidably incomplete): - Knowledge discovery from databases and data warehouses - Methods and tools for knowledge acquisition - New emerging technologies for management - Organizing the knowledge centers and knowledge distribution - Knowledge creation and validation - Knowledge dynamics and machine learning - Distance learning and knowledge sharing - Knowledge representation models - Management of enterprise knowledge versus personal knowledge - Knowledge managers and workers - Knowledge coaching and diffusion - Knowledge engineering and software engineering - Managerial knowledge evolution with focus on managing of best practice and cooperative activities - Knowledge grid and social networks - Knowledge management for design, innovation and eco-innovation process - Business Intelligence environment for supporting knowledge management - Knowledge management in virtual advisors and training - Management of the innovation and eco-innovation process - Human-machine interfaces and knowledge visualization PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION ======================================= Papers should be submitted by April 11, 2014. Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick given to FedCSIS participants. Papers presented during the conference will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library proceedings, and posted at the conference WWW site. The IEEE proceedings will be published under an ISBN and ISSN numbers (and an IEEE Catalog number), under a nonexclusive copyright. Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference are indexed in the Thomson Reuters Web of Science. Moreover, extended versions of selected papers presented during the conference will be published as Special Issue(s). 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 ======================================= - Hauke, Krzysztof, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland - Nycz, Malgorzata, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland - Owoc, Mieczyslaw, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland - Pondel, Maciej, Wroclaw University of Economics, Poland PROGRAM COMMITTEE (confirmed so far) ======================================= - Abramowicz, Witold, Poznan University of Economics, Poland - Andres, Frederic, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan - Chmielarz, Witold, Warsaw University, Poland - Christozov, Dimitar, American University in Bulgaria, Bulgaria - Ligeza, Antoni, AGH University of Science and Technology, Poland - Mach-Kr?l, Maria, University of Economics in Katowice, Poland - Mercier-Laurent, Eunika, IAE Lyon3, France From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Sat Jan 18 06:31:01 2014 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 13:31:01 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Last Mile: Fifth International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB 2014) Message-ID: *** Last Mile *** Fifth International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB 2014) Azia Resort and Spa, Paphos Cyprus June 15-18, 2014 http://www.icsob.org Online submission: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icsob2014 Extended Deadline for submissions: February 1, 2014 Conference Theme Shortening the time-to-market: from short cycle times to continuous value delivery Advancements in the software industry have had a substantial impact not only on productivity and on GDP growth globally, but also on our daily work and lives. Moreover there is a noticeable spillover within other industries (e.g. manufacturing, entertainment industry) enabling new business models: companies bundle their physical products and software services into solutions (e.g. using subscription models or in-app purchases) and start to sell independent software products in addition to physical products. Software business refers to commercial activities in and around the software industry, aimed at generating income from the delivery of software products and software services. Although the software business shares common features with other international knowledge-intensive businesses, it carries many inherent features making it a challenging domain for research. In particular software companies have to depend on one another to deliver a unique value proposition to their customers or a unique experience to their users. Moreover recent developments like the emerging app economy offer a variety of opportunities for entrepreneurs or start-up companies. The recent acquisition of the three-year old Finnish mobile game startup Supercell with the total value of 2.2 billion Euros shows that the future of software is not only in utility and but also in entertainment and increasing freetime of people globally. This will have a profound effect on software business and requires novel business models and new approaches to software product development as well. ICSOB 2014 addresses researchers and practitioners, who are concerned with software business in different ways as well as the start-up community, which is increasingly focusing on mobile and social software. The main theme of 2014 focuses on speeding up the time from idea to value delivery, towards continuous delivery of added value. Conference Topics You are invited to submit papers addressing contemporary issues emerging at the intersection of the software and business domains, broadly defined. Both papers reporting research results and industrial experiences are welcome. Invited are original submissions on the topics listed below, including but not limited to: Special sessions this year: * Speeding up time-to-market: towards continuous value delivery * Business models in game and entertainment software Regular themes of the conference series: * Software Platforms and Ecosystems * Corporate networks between software companies / Software Supply Networks * Business impacts and business models of Cloud Computing * Software Product Management * Software business in the future * Licensing, Intellectual Property and Patent Issues (IP modularity) * Business models for software startups and existing software companies * App Economy * Productization, Servification, and Servitization * Impact of Megatrends on software business (e.g. Customization) * Effects of business models on software development * Global and cultural aspects of software business * Mobile software business trends Submission Instructions Full research papers (15 pages), short papers (6 pages), industrial track presentations (abstract) and posters are all welcome. Accepted full papers and short papers will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer as a volume in Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing (LNBIP) series (if at least one author of the paper attends the conference and presents the paper). Extended versions of the best papers selected from ICSOB 2014 will be published in a special issue of Journal of Systems and Software (http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-systems-and-software/). PhD students are invited to submit research abstracts and present and discuss their work at the Doctoral Symposium. A separate CFP for the Doctoral Symposium will be published later. You may also submit workshop proposals to the conference. For details and updates visit http://www.icsob.org. Important Dates Paper Submission: February 1, 2014 (extended deadline) Notification: March 10, 2014 Camera-Ready: April 7, 2014 Conference: June 15-18, 2014 Conference Officers General Chair Tiziana Margaria, University of Potsdam Program Chairs Casper Lassenius, Aalto University Kari Smolander, Lappeenranta University of Technology Local Organization Chair George Angelos Papadopoulos, University of Cyprus Industry Chair Georg Herzwurm, Universit?t Stuttgart Workshops Chair Krzysztof Wnuk, Lund University Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs Anna-Lena Lamprecht, University of Potsdam Tobias Tauterat, University of Stuttgart Publicity Chair Eetu Luoma, University of Jyv?skyl? Steering Committee Slinger Jansen, Utrecht University Michael Cusumano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Pasi Tyrv?inen, University of Jyv?skyl? Bj?rn Regnell, Lund University Inge van de Weerd, Utrecht University Tiziana Margaria, University of Potsdam Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University Jan Bosch, Chalmers University Georg Herzwurm, University of Stuttgart Program Committee Sergey Avdoshin, Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russia Jan Bosch, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Sjaak Brinkkemper, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Peter Buxmann, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany Michael Cusumano, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Torgeir Dings?yr, SINTEF, Norway Brian Fitzgerald, University of Limerick / Lero, Ireland Samuel Fricker, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Peter Gloor, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Georg Herzwurm, Universit?t Stuttgart, Germany Thomas Hess, LMU Munich, Germany Slinger Jansen, Utrecht University, The Netherlands Philippe Kruchten, University of British Columbia, Canada Thomas Kude, University of Mannheim, Germany Olli Kuivalainen, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Patricia Lago, VU University Amsterdam, The Netherlands Ulrike Lechner, Universit?t der Bundeswehr M?nchen, Germany Andrey Maglyas, Lappeenranta University of Technology, Finland Tiziana Margaria, University of Potsdam, Germany Rory O'Connor, Dublin City University, Ireland Samuli Pekkola, Tampere University of Technology, Finland Wolfram Pietsch, FH Aachen, Germany Bj?rn Regnell, Lund University, Sweden Dirk Riehle, Friedrich-Alexander-Universit?t, Germany Matti Rossi, Aalto University, Finland G?nther Ruhe, University of Calgary, Canada Stefan Seidel, University of Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein Klaus-Dieter Thoben, Universit?t Bremen, Germany Pasi Tyrv?inen, University of Jyv?skyl?, Finland Krzysztof Wnuk, Lund University, Sweden Updated information and further details are available at http://www.icsob.org. 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URL: From announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy Sun Jan 19 07:02:33 2014 From: announce at cs.ucy.ac.cy (Announce Announcements) Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 14:02:33 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] ICTAI 2014: First Call for Papers Message-ID: <7MUGVY2U-C0S-83XT-LRXI-1XUKF6RW88GZ@cs.ucy.ac.cy> *** FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS *** 26th IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence ICTAI 2014 (pending IEEE approval) November 10-12, 2014, Limassol, Cyprus http://ictai2014.cs.ucy.ac.cy Aim & Scope The annual IEEE International Conference on Tools with Artificial Intelligence (ICTAI) provides a major international forum where the creation and exchange of ideas related to artificial intelligence are fostered among academia, industry, and government agencies. The conference facilitates the cross-fertilization of these ideas and promotes their transfer into practical tools, for developing intelligent systems and pursuing artificial intelligence applications. The ICTAI encompasses all technical aspects of specifying, developing and evaluating the theoretical underpinnings and applied mechanisms of the AI-based components of computer tools such as algorithms, architectures and languages. Topics (not limited to) AI Foundations - Evolutionary computing, Bayesian and Neural Networks - Decision/Utility Theory and Decision Optimization - Search, SAT, and CSP - Description Logic and Ontologies AI in Domain Specific Applications - AI in Natural Language Processing and Understanding - AI in Computational Biology, Medicine and Biomedical Applications - AI in WWW, Communication, Social Networking, Recommender Systems, Games and E-Commerce - AI in Finance and Risk Management AI in Computer Systems - AI in Robotics, Computer Vision and Games - AI in Software Engineering, Real-Time and Embedded Applications, and Sensor Networks - AI in Cloud Computing, Data-Intensive Applications and Online/Streaming and Multimedia Systems - AI in Web search and Information Retrieval - AI in Computer Security, Data Privacy, and Information Assurance AI in Data Analytics and Big Data - Visualization Analytics for Big Data - Computational Modeling for Big Data - Large-scale Recommendation and Social Media Systems - Cloud/Grid/Stream Data Mining for Big Velocity Data - Semantic-based Big Data Mining Machine Learning and Data Mining - Data pre-processing, reduction and feature selection - Learning Graphical Models and Complex Networks - Active, Cost-Sensitive, Semi-Supervised, Multi-Instance, Multi-Label and Multi-Task Learning - Transfer/Adaptive, Rational and Structured Learning - Preference/Ranking, Ensemble, and Reinforcement Learning Knowledge Representation, Reasoning and Cognitive Modelling - Knowledge Representation, Reasoning - Knowledge Extraction, Management and Sharing - Case-Based Reasoning and Knowledge-based Systems - Cognitive Modelling and Semantic Web AI and Decision Systems - Decision Guidance and Support Systems - Optimization-based recommender systems - Group, distributed, and collaborative decisions - Crowd-sourcing and collective intelligence decision making - Strategic, tactical and operational level decisions - Decision making in social and mobile networks Uncertainty in AI - Uncertainty and Fuzziness Representation and Reasoning - Approximate/Exact Probabilistic Inference - Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining for Uncertain Data Paper Submission The submissions should contain original, high quality, not submitted or published elsewhere work. Papers should be submitted electronically through the EasyChair system in pdf format and should conform to IEEE specifications (single-spaced, double-column, 10-point font size, up to 8 pages). Paper Presentation Each accepted paper should be presented by one of the authors and accompanied by at least one full registration fee payment, to guarantee publication in the proceedings. All accepted papers will be included in proceedings of ICTAI 2014 that will be published by the IEEE Computer Society. IJAIT special issue Extended versions of the best papers of the conference will be invited for publication in a special issue of the International Journal on Artificial Intelligence Tools (IJAIT) (SCI Indexed). Important Dates Paper submission: June 30, 2014 Paper notification: July 30, 2014 Camera-ready paper: August 30, 2014 Point of Contact George A. 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URL: From geoff at cs.hmc.edu Sun Jan 19 19:39:40 2014 From: geoff at cs.hmc.edu (Geoff Kuenning) Date: Sun, 19 Jan 2014 16:39:40 -0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Last Mile: Fifth International Conference on Software Business (ICSOB 2014) In-Reply-To: (Announce Announcements's message of "Sat, 18 Jan 2014 13:31:01 +0200") References: Message-ID: How do others on the storage research list feel about the ever-increasing number of announcements for conferences that are completely unrelated to storage? -- Geoff Kuenning geoff at cs.hmc.edu http://www.cs.hmc.edu/~geoff/ An Internet that is not Open represents a potentially grave risk to freedoms of many sorts -- freedom of speech and other civil liberties, freedom of commerce, and more -- and that openness is what we must so diligently work to both preserve and expand. -- Lauren Weinstein From supriya.kapoor at thesai.org Mon Jan 20 01:50:36 2014 From: supriya.kapoor at thesai.org (Supriya Kapoor) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:20:36 +0530 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Special Issue on Natural Language Processing- IJACSA Message-ID: <072601cf15ac$15d3e440$417bacc0$@thesai.org> Call for papers: Special Issue on Natural Language Processing 2014 INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED COMPUTER SCIENCE AND APPLICATIONS ISSN : 2156-5570(Online), ISSN : 2158-107X(Print) DOI : 10.14569/issn.2156-5570 http://thesai.org/Publications/NLP2014 Scope of this Special Issue This special issue of IJACSA aims to bring together articles that report advances in Natural Language Processing, both experimental as well practical applications, related to the exploitation and distillation of textual material for information access and knowledge creation. We are therefore calling for contributions in the areas of Automatic Text Summarization, Adaptable Information Extraction and Knowledge Population, Knowledge Induction from Text, Text Simplification, Text Entailment and Learning by Reading, and Natural Language Processing for the Social Media. Paper submission Manuscripts should be submitted via email to editorijacsa at thesai.org. Subject line should be: "NLP_SpecialIssue: Paper Title". Research articles, review articles as well as communications are invited. Authors may submit their manuscripts as per the following schedule: . Submission Deadline: February 01, 2014 . Review Notification: February 15, 2014 . Registration Deadline: March 01, 2014 . Camera Ready Submission: March 15, 2014 . Final publication: April 01, 2013 This issue will be submitted for indexing in various databases, for more information please visit: http://thesai.org/Publications/Citations?code=IJACSA. 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URL: From slim.ben.mahmoud at recherche.enac.fr Mon Jan 20 06:06:15 2014 From: slim.ben.mahmoud at recherche.enac.fr (Slim Ben Mahmoud) Date: Mon, 20 Jan 2014 12:06:15 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [CFP] IEEE WASCOM 2014, 21-25 July 2014, Vasteras, Sweden Message-ID: <52DD0327.3050300@recherche.enac.fr> (Please accept our apologies for multiple copies of this E-mail) /**/ *WASCOM 2014: 1th IEEE International Workshop on Adaptive Systems for Communication Networks in conjuction with IEEE COMPSAC July 22-24 2014, V?steras, Sweden* *Workshop Schedule and Important Due Dates:* /Deadline for paper submission:/March 23, 2014 /Notification of acceptance:/April 20, 2014 /Camera ready due and registration deadline:/ April 28, 2014 /Submission:/Papers must be submitted electronically via the WASCOM 2014 Submission Page : http://compsac.cs.iastate.edu/wascom2014.php The format of submitted papers should follow the guidelines for the IEEE conference proceedings. All papers will be carefully reviewed by at least three reviewers. Papers should be no more than 6 pages. Accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings of COMPSAC 2014, by the IEEE Computer Society Press. At least one of the authors of each accepted paper must register as a participant of the workshop and present the paper at the workshop, in order to have the paper published in the proceedings. *About WASCOM 2014:* The 38th Annual International Computers, Software & Applications Conference, sponsored by the IEEE Computer Society and the IEEE Cloud Computing Initiative, will be held in Vasteras, Sweden from 21st - 25th July 2014. It is one of the major international forums for academia, industry, and government to discuss research results, advancements, and future trends in computer, software technology, and applications. The 2014 Workshop on Adaptive Systems for Communication Networks (WAS'COM 2014) will be co-located with the main conference. *Goal of the Workshop:* The aim of this workshop is to discuss and advance the state of the art, research and development in the area of adaptive systems, technologies, and mechanisms for communication networks, and to promote the study of both fundamental and practical aspects of their relevance to a smart environment. The workshop addresses researchers from different disciplines in academia and industry, as well as practitioners, who share interests in adaptive protocols, algorithms, and network services. The focus will be on techniques and experiences drawn from current, as well as on emergent topics. *Theme of the Workshop:* Internet is continuously increasing in size and complexity. At the very beginning, it has been originally designed for fixed networks, where few agents and services were deployed. With the introduction of mobile and heterogeneous systems (e.g. networks, services), the properties of Internet are no longer adapted to this type of dynamic architectures. Thus, these heterogeneity and mobility properties are becoming an important challenge from a performance and network management point of view. Adaptive techniques for communication networks seem to represent an interesting approach in order to deal with the heterogeneity and mobility of new and future services. The sphere of adaptive systems can be also extended to enhance intelligent system performances by providing new flexible algorithms for communication and network management. This workshop emphasizes the recent research advances in terms of new protocols, algorithms or services dedicated to communication networks that embrace an adaptive behavior. WASCOM 2014 calls for submissions that address smart mechanisms for networks such as collaborative agents, adaptive routing, or intelligent network resource allocation. Besides, these topics could be investigated from a network service or usage point of view. Another interesting property of adaptive mechanisms is the trade-off of several parameters (e.g. quality of service, security, energy consumption) in order to optimize their mutual impact and provide the best service to the final user. *Scope of the Workshop:* This workshop aims at soliciting high quality, original and unpublished work in the field of adaptive communication networking. Topics of interests include (but are not limited to): ? Adaptive agents (self adaptive, context aware agents, user aware agents, etc) ? Trust model, privacy, and security in adaptive agents ? Adaptive applications for smart environment ? Adaptive virtualization ? Adaptive monitoring systems ? Fault tolerant adaptive systems ? Adaptive topologies in ad hoc wireless networks ? Collaborative agents: applications to networking and communication networks ? Trade-off between Quality of Service (QoS), security and energy ? Cross-layering approaches for network communication optimization ? Smooth integration of heterogeneous services ? Resource aware networks, models and architectures ? Adaptive network resource sharing and allocation techniques ? Adaptive congestion control and scalability issues ? Adaptive routing ? Adaptive handover (fast handover, vertical handover) ? Mobility and traffic models of adaptive systems and environment ? Modeling and performance assessment of adaptive protocols and architectures ? State of the art of any of the topics listed above. *Program Committee: * Laurent Gallon University of Pau, France Laurent Franck T?l?com Bretagne, France Ernesto Damiani University of Milan, Italy Haitham Cruickshank University of Surrey, UK Hella Kaffel Ben Ayed Faculty of Science of Tunis, Tunisia Abdelmalek Ben Zekri IRIT, Toulouse, France Isabelle Gu?rin Lassous University of Lyon, France Congduc Pham University of Pau, France Pascal Lorenz University of Haute Alsace, France Muaz Niazi Bahria University, Pakistan B?atrice Paillassa IRIT, Toulouse, France Fr?d?ric Guinand University of Le Havre, France Athanasios Vasilakos University of Western Macedonia, Greece Francis Lepage University of Lorraine, France Habib Abdulrab INSA Rouen, France Yann Labit LAAS, Toulouse, France Andreas Pitsillides University of cyprus, Cyprus Farouk Kamoun SESAME, Tunisia Masato Tsuru Kyushu Institute of Technology, Japan *WASCOM Program Chairs:* Mohamed Slim BEN MAHMOUD, French Civil Aviation University, France Email: slim.ben.mahmoud (at) recherche.enac.fr Nicolas LARRIEU, French Civil Aviation University, France Email: nicolas.larrieu (at) enac.fr Please feel free to contact us if you have any question. 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URL: From irodero at cac.rutgers.edu Tue Jan 21 03:03:59 2014 From: irodero at cac.rutgers.edu (Ivan Rodero) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 03:03:59 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Bigsystem 2014 at HPDC - Call for Papers In-Reply-To: <79403393-1690-4DCB-855A-1EE231D5ED2B@rutgers.edu> References: <51EC7783-DCAD-4364-B1DC-576C726BAA31@rutgers.edu> <6F339279-23CD-4553-95DF-B1F906F948E3@rutgers.edu> <0957F75F-5AB9-4144-B62D-87D225B34E42@rutgers.edu> <22CF346C-98EC-4D5B-9500-D0B9FE60551A@rutgers.edu> <99D17D7E-34C0-47B7-B641-C756E67D169A@rutgers.edu> <87202061-93AC-4066-89E7-77976097AFAB@rutgers.edu> <79403393-1690-4DCB-855A-1EE231D5ED2B@rutgers.edu> Message-ID: <5D63B8C8-3FD3-4241-9021-CBD7F84DCAA7@rutgers.edu> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- =================== BigSystem 2014 =================== International Workshop on Software-Defined Ecosystems (BigSystem 2014) http://2014.bigsystem.org/ (co-located with ACM HPDC 2014, Vancouver, Canada, June 23-27, 2014) With the emerging technology breakthrough in computing, networking, storage, mobility, and analytics, the boundary of systems is undergoing fundamental change and is expected to logically disappear. It is the time to rethink system design and management without boundaries towards software-defined ecosystems, the Big System. The basic principles of software-defined mechanisms and policies have witnessed great success in clouds and networking. We are expecting broader, deeper, and greater evolution and confluence towards holistic software-defined ecosystems. BigSystem 2014 provides an open forum for researchers, practitioners, and system builders to exchange ideas, discuss, and shape roadmaps towards such big systems in the era of big data. Topics of Interest =================== * Architecture of software-defined ecosystems * Management of software-defined ecosystems * Software-defined principles * Software-defined computing * Software-defined networking * Software-defined storage * Software-defined security * Software-defined services * Software-defined mobile computing/cloud * Software-defined cyber-physical systems * Interaction and confluence of software-defined modalities * Virtualization * Hybrid systems, cross-layer design and management * Security, privacy, reliability, trustworthiness * Grand challenges in big systems * Big data infrastructure and engineering * HPC, big data, and computational science & engineering applications * Autonomic computing * Cloud computing and services * Emerging technologies Paper Submission Guidelines =================== Authors are invited to submit technical papers of at most 8 pages in PDF format, including figures and references. Short position papers (4 pages) are also encouraged. Papers should be formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style (double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch page, http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and submitted via EasyChair submission site. No changes to the margins, spacing, or font sizes as specified by the style file are allowed. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, and will be incorporated into the ACM Digital Library. A limited number of papers will be accepted as posters. Selected distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered a special issue in a high quality journal. EasyChair submission site, https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigsystem2014 Important Dates =================== * Papers Due Feb. 15th, 2014 * Notification Mar. 30th, 2014 * Camera-Ready April 15th, 2014 =================== Organization =================== Steering Committee =================== Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne Jeff Chase, Duke Univeristy Jose Fortes, University of Florida Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Chung-Sheng Li, IBM Research Xiaolin (Andy) Li, University of Florida Manish Parashar, Rutgers University General Chairs =================== Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University Manish Parashar, Rutgers University Program Chairs =================== Chung-Sheng Li, IBM Research Xiaolin (Andy) Li, University of Florida Publicity Chairs =================== Yong Chen, Texas Tech University Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University Web Chair =================== Ze Yu, University of Florida Technical Program Committee (to be announced) ============================================================= Ivan Rodero, Ph.D. Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2) NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 625 94 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058 Phone: (732) 993-8837 Fax: (732) 445-0593 Email: irodero at rutgers dot edu WWW: http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu/people/irodero ============================================================= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Shanghai, China * * http://www.icccn.org/icccn14/ * *************************************************************************** ICCCN is one of the leading international conferences for presenting novel ideas and fundamental advances in the fields of computer communications and networks. ICCCN serves to foster communication among researchers and practitioners with a common interest in improving computer communications and networking through scientific and technological innovation. ICCCN 2014 is technically co-sponsored by the IEEE Communication Society. Scope: ===== The primary focus of the conference is on new and original research results in the areas of design, implementation, and applications of computer communications and networks. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following: - Cognitive, Cellular and Mobile Networks (CCM) - Comm. Architecture, Algorithms, Modeling and Evaluation (CAAME) - Data Centers and Big Data Computing (DCBC) - Green Networks and Sustainable Computing (GREEN) - Grid, Cloud, Internet and Peer-to-peer Computing and Comm. (GCIP) - Multimedia and Real-Time Networking (MRN) - Security, Privacy, and Trust (SPT) - Sensor/Embedded Networks and Pervasive Computing (SNPC) - Software Defined Networks and Network Testing and Deployment (SDN) - Wireless LAN, Ad Hoc, and Mesh Networks (WAM) Instructions for Authors: ================== Submitted manuscripts must be formatted in standard IEEE camera-ready format (double-column, 10-pt font) and must be submitted via EasyChair (http://www.easychair.org/) as PDF files (formatted for 8.5x11-inch paper). The review version should be no longer than 8pages. The camera-ready version can have up to two additional pages if the authors pay an over-length charge at the time of publication (camera-ready manuscripts should not exceed 10 pages in total). Submitted papers should not be previously published in or be under consideration for publication in another conference or journal. Paper titles and/or author names cannot be changed and/or added to the papers once papers are submitted to ICCCN 2014 for review. The Program Committee reserves the right to not review papers that either exceed the length specification or have been submitted or published elsewhere. Submissions must include a title, abstract, keywords, author(s) and affiliation(s) with postal and e-mail address(es) and phone number(s). A paper abstract must be registered on EasyChair by the deadline indicated below. Review and Publication of Manuscripts: ============================= Submitted papers will be reviewed by the TPC and judged on originality, technical correctness, relevance, and quality of presentation. An accepted paper must be presented at the conference venue by one of the authors registered at the full registration rate. Each full registration covers up to two papers authored by the registered author. Accepted and presented papers will be published in the conference proceedings and submitted to IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. Note that each accepted paper must be presented by one of authors. Papers of special merit will be selected for possible fast track publication in the Computer Communications (COMCOM) journal. Sponsored by the U.S. National Science Foundation, a number of travel assistance grants will be available for ICCCN 2014 student authors. Workshops: ======== Please note that the page limit for the workshop program is different. The review version should be no longer than 6 pages. The camera-ready version can have up to two additional pages if the authors pay an over-length charge at the time of publication (camera-ready manuscripts should not exceed 8 pages in total). The detailed info can be found in the workshop Call for Papers. For any questions or additional information, please contact the General, TPC, or Workshop Chairs. If you are interested in organizing a workshop, please contact the workshop chairs. Important dates: ============ Abstract Due: February 17, 2014 Paper Due: February 24, 2014 Acceptance Notification: April 23, 2014 Camera Ready Due: May 12, 2014 General Chairs: =========== Changjun Jiang, Tongji University, China Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, USA Program Chairs: ============ Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Lisong Xu, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, USA Workshop Chairs: ============= Aaron Striegel, University of Notre Dame, USA Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, China -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From simsong at acm.org Tue Jan 21 10:42:12 2014 From: simsong at acm.org (Simson Garfinkel) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 10:42:12 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Time to change this list In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <675F4847-4823-422F-9C84-70C63DBC7653@acm.org> All, Given the increase in conference spam, as exemplified by the last message (below) I think that it?s time to change the email address for Storage-research-list at ece.cmu.edu. Is the manager of this list still available? Easiest would be to simply rename the list. But failing that, we can move it elsewhere. Regards, Simson > From: "Zhang, Liqiang" > Subject: [Storage-research-list] ICCCN 2014: call for papers > Date: January 21, 2014 at 10:18:43 AM EST > To: "mycolleagues at mailman.ufsc.br" , "cfp at grid.chu.edu.tw" , "storage-research-list at ece.cmu.edu" , "mm-interest at listserv.acm.org" , "mmve-public at lists.sourceforge.net" , "mobicom at acm.org" , "multicomm at comsoc.org" , "podc-related at acm.org" , "assyst at icst.org" , "wg7_3 at cs.umass.edu" , "ifip-tc6 at informatik.rwth-aachen.de" , "sigmm at pi4.informatik.uni-mannheim.de" , "tcgn at ieee.org" , "performance at merlot.usc.edu" , "qest-announce at iti.uiuc.edu" , "prozessoren at listserv.uni-augsburg.de" , "publicity at hipeac.net" , "conference-services at ieee.org" , "hpc-announce at mcs.anl.gov" , "micro_publicity at crhc.uiuc.edu" , "tccn at comsoc.org" , "icec at listserver.tue.nl" , "SIGCOMM-MEMBERS at acm.org" , "sigmetrics-bb at merlot.usc.edu" , "siam-sc at siam.org" , "tcpp-announce at cc.gatech.edu" , "cloud-computing at googlegroups.com" , "tcdp-announce-request at ml.comp.polyu.edu.hk" > > -- Please accept our apologies if multiple copies of this message are received -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From garth at cs.cmu.edu Tue Jan 21 13:28:01 2014 From: garth at cs.cmu.edu (Garth Gibson) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 13:28:01 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Time to change this list Message-ID: The list does have managers at Carnegie Mellon University. Over the last decade, this list has not been badly abused, although the traffic doubled 2011 to 2012 and again 2012 to 2013. I agree that mass mailings like the example below shows that someone thinks that this list should be used for almost any call for papers, and that if this trend continues we will have too many inappropriate postings. Perhaps some of you 1) would like stronger moderation of the postings, and 2) would volunteer to share the moderation duties? Post your willingness to moderate and we?ll try to maintain a sufficiently large pool of moderators. Note also that you can unsubscribe (if you remember the email address you used to subscribe) by visiting https://sos.ece.cmu.edu/mailman/listinfo/storage-research-list garth gibson, www.cs.cmu.edu/~garth ________________________________ From: storage-research-list-bounces at ece.cmu.edu [storage-research-list-bounces at ece.cmu.edu] on behalf of Simson Garfinkel [simsong at acm.org] Sent: Tuesday, January 21, 2014 10:42 AM To: Storage-research-list at ece.cmu.edu Subject: [Storage-research-list] Time to change this list All, Given the increase in conference spam, as exemplified by the last message (below) I think that it?s time to change the email address for Storage-research-list at ece.cmu.edu. Is the manager of this list still available? Easiest would be to simply rename the list. But failing that, we can move it elsewhere. Regards, Simson From: "Zhang, Liqiang" > Subject: [Storage-research-list] ICCCN 2014: call for papers Date: January 21, 2014 at 10:18:43 AM EST To: "mycolleagues at mailman.ufsc.br" >, "cfp at grid.chu.edu.tw" >, "storage-research-list at ece.cmu.edu" >, "mm-interest at listserv.acm.org" >, "mmve-public at lists.sourceforge.net" >, "mobicom at acm.org" >, "multicomm at comsoc.org" >, "podc-related at acm.org" >, "assyst at icst.org" >, "wg7_3 at cs.umass.edu" >, "ifip-tc6 at informatik.rwth-aachen.de" >, "sigmm at pi4.informatik.uni-mannheim.de" >, "tcgn at ieee.org" >, "performance at merlot.usc.edu" >, "qest-announce at iti.uiuc.edu" >, "prozessoren at listserv.uni-augsburg.de" >, "publicity at hipeac.net" >, "conference-services at ieee.org" >, "hpc-announce at mcs.anl.gov" >, "micro_publicity at crhc.uiuc.edu" >, "tccn at comsoc.org" >, "icec at listserver.tue.nl" >, "SIGCOMM-MEMBERS at acm.org" >, "sigmetrics-bb at merlot.usc.edu" >, "siam-sc at siam.org" >, "tcpp-announce at cc.gatech.edu" >, "cloud-computing at googlegroups.com" >, "tcdp-announce-request at ml.comp.polyu.edu.hk" > -- Please accept our apologies if multiple copies of this message are received -- -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From irodero at cac.rutgers.edu Tue Jan 21 12:53:12 2014 From: irodero at cac.rutgers.edu (Ivan Rodero) Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2014 12:53:12 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP : ExtremeGreen 2014 Workshop : Extreme Green & Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems, with CCGrid2014, Chicago, USA, May 2014 In-Reply-To: <8569604B-1ABF-4E84-80DF-02604DF42043@rutgers.edu> References: <51EC7783-DCAD-4364-B1DC-576C726BAA31@rutgers.edu> <6F339279-23CD-4553-95DF-B1F906F948E3@rutgers.edu> <0957F75F-5AB9-4144-B62D-87D225B34E42@rutgers.edu> <22CF346C-98EC-4D5B-9500-D0B9FE60551A@rutgers.edu> <99D17D7E-34C0-47B7-B641-C756E67D169A@rutgers.edu> <87202061-93AC-4066-89E7-77976097AFAB@rutgers.edu> <79403393-1690-4DCB-855A-1EE231D5ED2B@rutgers.edu> <5D63B8C8-3FD3-4241-9021-CBD7F84DCAA7@rutgers.edu> <8569604B-1ABF-4E84-80DF-02604DF42043@rutgers.edu> Message-ID: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- =========================== Call for Papers : ExtremeGreen 2014 Workshop : Extreme Green & Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems =========================== May 26-29, 2014 -- Chicago, IL, USA during CCGrid 2014: the 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing http://avalon.ens-lyon.fr/extremegreen Important dates : ? Papers due on : February 15th, 2014 ? Author Notification : March 1st, 2014 ? Final Papers Due : March 14th, 2014 ? ExtremeGreen Workshop: May 26, 2014 Workshop co-chairs: ? Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, Laboratoire LIP, Ecole Normale Superieure of Lyon, France ? Marcos Dias de Assuncao, IBM Research, Brazil ? Wu-Chun Feng, Virginia Tech, USA ? Anne-C?cile Orgerie, CNRS, France ? Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA ? Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA Workshop description : Improving the energy efficiency of large-scale distributed systems (e.g. data centres and Clouds) is a key challenge for both academic and industrial organizations. Although the topic has gained lots of attention over the past years, some of the proposed solutions often seem conservative and not easily applicable to large-scale systems. Their impact at large-scale remains to be proved. Hence, this workshop aims to provide a venue for discussion of ideas that can demonstrate "more than small % solution" to energy efficiency and their applicability to "real world". After the success of ExtremGreen2013 workshop, the ExtremeGreen2014 workshop will focus on scientific and industrial approaches and solutions that could have a large impact in terms of energy savings and energy efficiency. Clean-slate approaches and innovative solutions breaking conventional approaches are welcome. The workshop also welcomes submissions of work-in-progress papers on ideas that can have a large impact on improving the energy efficiency of large-scale distributed systems. The papers must provide preliminary results that demonstrate the originality and possible impact of the proposed solutions. Submissions will be reviewed by an international group of experts in distributed systems and energy efficiency. Topics of interests : ? Green clouds ? Energy efficiency of data centers ? Green Grids ? Green networks for large scale distributed systems ? Energy efficiency of storage solutions ? Energy-aware design and programming ? Energy-efficient hardware and software architectures ? Sustainable solutions in large scale distributed systems ? Energy-efficient resource management tools ? Energy-efficient scalable approaches ? Experimental results of Green solutions Papers submission : Submitted papers must be 8 pages long maximum. Authors must submit their articles through the submission system : https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=extremegreen2014 Program Committee (TBC): ? Cosimo Anglano, Universit?? del Piemonte Orientale, Italy ? Silvia Bianchi, IBM Research, Brazil ? George Bosilca, Innovative Computing Laboratory - University of Tennessee, USA ? Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg ? Georges Da Costa, IRIT/Toulouse III, France ? Bronis De Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA ? Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani, University of Leeds, UK ? Jean-Patrick Gelas, Universite de Lyon / INRIA, France ? Yiannis Georgiou, BULL, France ? Olivier Gluck, Universit?? de Lyon, France ? Zhiyi Huang, Univ of Otago, NEw Zealand ? Thomas Ludwig, University of Hamburg, Germany ? Hiroshi Nakamura, University of Tokyo, Japan ? Marco Netto, IBM Research, Brazil ? Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA ? Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT, France ? Enrique S. Quintana-Orti, Universidad Jaume I, Spain ? Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University / CAC, USA ? Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy ? Jordi Torres, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) - Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain ? Xavier Vigouroux, BULL, France ? Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia ============================================================= Ivan Rodero, Ph.D. Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2) NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 625 94 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058 Phone: (732) 993-8837 Fax: (732) 445-0593 Email: irodero at rutgers dot edu WWW: http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu/people/irodero ============================================================= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From radu at dps.uibk.ac.at Wed Jan 22 03:47:09 2014 From: radu at dps.uibk.ac.at (Radu Prodan) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 2014 09:47:09 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Tutorials @ IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2014 Message-ID: <52DF858D.6050103@dps.uibk.ac.at> ***************************************************************** * 14th IEEE/ACM Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2014) * * Chicago, IL, USA, May 26-29, 2014 * ***************************************************************** ================== CALL FOR TUTORIALS ================== Experts in cluster, cloud and grid computing areas are invited to share their expertise with the community by submitting proposals for tutorials to be presented at the CCGrid '14 conference to be held in Chicago, USA from May 26-29. The CCGrid '14 tutorials program will give attendees the opportunity to explore a wide variety of important topics related to cluster, cloud and grid computing and other related aspects. CCGrid '14 invites proposals for introductory, intermediate, and advanced tutorials, either full-day (six hours) or half-day (three hours). SUBMISSION LINK --------------- Tutorials can be submitted at: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccgrid2014tutorials SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS ----------------------- Tutorial submissions should contain the following information: 1. Title and Presenter(s) 2. Abstract (200 words max) 3. Intended audience (beginner, intermediate, advanced) and prerequisites 4. Detailed description (3 pages maximum) 5. Statement on if this tutorial has been given before and if so how this presentation will be different. 6. Resume or Curriculum Vitae for each presenter (2 page maximum each) 7. Duration It is expected that tutorials will have at most two presenters. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Tutorial proposals due: February 28, 2014 Notifications to tutorial proposers: March 14, 2014 TUTORIAL CHAIRS --------------- Radu Prodan, University of Innsbruck, Austria Kate Keahey, Argonne National Laboratory, USA From faith at tacc.utexas.edu Thu Jan 23 15:33:19 2014 From: faith at tacc.utexas.edu (Faith Singer-Villalobos) Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2014 20:33:19 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] 2nd Reminder -- 2014 IEEE Cluster: Call for Papers, Workshops & Tutorials Message-ID: <9006530F67DFAB409A08E2A0C08F165D3106B486@EXMBX04.austin.utexas.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers, Workshops and Tutorials 2014 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2014) http://www.cluster2014.org September 22 - 26, 2014 Madrid, Spain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clusters have become the workhorse for computational science and engineering research, powering innovation and discovery that advance science and society. They are the base for building today's rapidly evolving cloud and HPC infrastructures, and are used to solve some of the most complex problems. The challenge to make them scalable, efficient, and more functional requires the joint effort of the cluster community in the areas of cluster system design, management and monitoring, at hardware, system, middleware, and application level. 2014 Highlight: Cluster Support for Big Data. The evolution of cluster technologies is expected to substantially impact emerging research areas, such as the increasingly important Data Science field. Therefore, we have chosen this year to highlight research topics expected to bring substantial progress in the way clusters can help in addressing Big Data challenges. Specific topics are dedicated to this direction within all conference tracks alongside more traditional topics. In addition, special tutorials and workshops will focus on cluster technologies for Big Data storage and processing. New this year: Student Mentoring Track. Today's Master and PhD students are our future colleagues. The future development of cluster, grid and could computing falls on their shoulders. The Cluster conference is proud to contribute to their education through a specific mentoring program all along the week. This program will include a Poster Master Class delivered by renowned researchers, to improve their poster making and presentation skills. It will also include specific VIP scientific sessions, delivered by first-class lecturers introducing them to their vision of the field, and private question quarters, to give them a chance to ask their questions to plenary speakers after their keynotes. Also, a special ?Looking to my future? session will be organized with cluster-oriented company VIPs to tell students the latest opportunities for positions in this area, and how to earn them. Last by not least, special student socializing events will be organized, and various Best-*-Awards offered. Cluster 2014 is hosted in Madrid, Spain. Attendees will have access to the latest developments in cluster computing technologies and practices. Join the cluster computing community, and discuss new directions, opportunities and ideas that will influence its future. Cluster 2014 welcomes paper submissions on innovative work from researchers and practitioners in academia, government, and industry that describe original research and development efforts in cluster computing. All papers will be evaluated for their originality, technical depth and correctness, potential impact, relevance to the conference, and quality of presentation. Research papers must clearly demonstrate research contributions and novelty, while experience reports must clearly describe lessons learned and demonstrate impact. Major topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Track 1: Cluster Design, Configuration and Administration * Chair: Michela Taufer, University of Delaware * Cluster Architecture for Big Data storage and processing * Energy-efficient cluster architectures * Node and system architecture * Packaging, power and cooling * Visualization clusters and tiled displays * GPU and hybrid CPU/GPU clusters * Interconnect/memory architectures * Single system image clusters * Administration and maintenance tools * Track 2: Cluster Software, Middleware, Tools * Chair: Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology * Middleware for Big Data management * Big Data visualization tools * Performance modeling for Big Data processing * Performance evaluation, analysis and optimization * Cloud-enabling cluster technologies and virtualization * Energy-efficient middleware * Protocols, libraries, and interfaces * Lightweight communication protocols * Security * Resource and job management * Scheduling and load balancing * Reliability and high-availability architecture * Fault tolerance, checkpointing and recovery * Cost and performance implications of reliability * Software environments and tools * Track 3: Cluster Storage and File Systems * Chair: Michael Sch?ttner, University of D?sseldorf * Cluster support for Big Data processing * Cloud storage for Big Data * Storage support for Data-intensive computing * Storage cluster architectures * File systems and I/O libraries * Track 4: Cluster Applications * Chair: Venkat Vishwanath, Argonne National Laboratory * Programming models for Big Data processing * Big Data Application studies on cluster architectures * HPC Applications on GPUs * Programming languages and environments * Hybrid programming techniques (MPI+OpenMP, MPI+OpenCL, etc.) * Benchmarking & profiling tools * Performance prediction & modeling Paper Submission Paper Format: Since the camera-ready version of accepted papers must be compliant with the IEEE Xplore format for publication, submitted papers must conform to the following Xplore layout, page limit, and font size. * PDF files only are accepted. * Maximum 9 pages for Technical Papers, maximum 5 pages for Student Papers submitted to the Student Mentoring Track. * Single-spaced, 2-column numbered pages in IEEE Xplore format (8.5?11-inch paper, margins in inches? top: 0.75, bottom: 1.0, sides:0.625, and between columns:0.25, main text: 10pt ). * LaTeX and Word Templates are available here: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. * Only web-based submission is accepted: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecluster2014 Important dates * Abstracts (required) due: April 24, 2014 * Full Papers Due: May 2, 2014 * Paper Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2014 Social Networks ? Twitter: @IEEECluster ? Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/IEEE-International-Conference-on-Cluster-7428925 ? Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ieee.cluster Organization Mar?a S. P?rez, UPM, Madrid, General Chair Gabriel Antoniu, INRIA, Rennes, Program Chair Kate Keahey, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Program Co-Chair Jos? M. Pe?a, CeSViMa, Madrid, Financial Chair Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA, Workshop Chair Christine Morin, INRIA, Rennes, France, Tutorial Chair Thomas Ludwig, University of Hamburg, Germany, Sponsors/Exhibits Chair Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain, Sponsors/Exhibits Chair Andre Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg-Universit?t Mainz, Germany, Posters and panel Chair Luc Boug?, INRIA, Rennes, France, Educational Track Chair Alberto S?nchez, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain, Proceedings Chair Faith Singer-Villalobos, Texas Advanced Computing Center, USA, Publicity Chair Junwei Cao, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Publicity Chair Adrien Lebre, INRIA, Nantes, France, Publicity Chair John Lockman, Texas Advanced Computing Center, Texas, USA, Competition Chair Jes?s Montes, CeSViMa, UPM, Madrid, Spain, Local Chair Alexandru Costan, INRIA, Rennes, France, Submission Chair Toni Cortes, BSC, Barcelona, Spain, Advisory Board Angelos Bilas, FORTH, Crete, Greece, Advisory Board Jos? L. V?zquez-Poletti, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Social Network Chair Santiago Gonz?lez-Tortosa, Universidad Polit?cnica de Madrid, Social Network Chair Faith Singer-Villalobos Public Relations, CMD Group Texas Advanced Computing Center The University of Texas at Austin Direct: 512.232.5771 [TACC Website] Connect With TACC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Yet, we still treat an increasingly important subsystem of computers largely as a fixed-program computer: file and storage systems. Among the key reasons for this history is the justified fear that (1) any interface changes in file and storage systems will make legacy data inaccessible and locks the data to a particular system and (2) programmability will increase the probability of data loss. Yet with the advent of open source file systems a new usage pattern emerges: users isolate subsystems of these file systems and put them in contexts not foreseen by original designers. Examples are: (1) an object-based storage back end gets a new RESTful front end to become a Amazon Web Service's S3 compliant key value store, (2) a data placement function is used as a placement function for customer accounts, and (3) the HDF5 scientific data access library is embedded into parallel storage systems. This trend shows a desire for the ability to use existing file system services and compose them to implement new services ? a desire, however, that is frequently stumped by the difficulty of bringing new services of advanced functionality up to production quality and sufficiently low probability of data loss. At the same time government and industry are heavily investing into the development of new, extremely scalable, and highly efficient, distributed I/O stacks that largely abandon traditional file and storage system interfaces. Designing programmability into file and storage systems has the following benefits: (1) we are achieving greater separation of storage performance engineering from storage reliability engineering, making it possible to optimize storage systems in a wide variety of ways without risking years of investments into code hardening; (2) we are creating an environment that encourages people to create a new stack of storage systems abstractions, both domain-specific and across domains, including sophisticated optimizers that rely on machine learning techniques; (3) we are informing commercial parallel file system vendors on the design of low-level APIs for their products so that they match the versatility of open source storage systems without having to release their entire code into open source; and (4) we are using this historical opportunity to leverage the tension between the versatility of open source storage systems and the reliability of proprietary systems to lead the community of storage system designers. GOAL This one-day workshop focusses on frameworks that allow the programmability of file and storage systems while addressing the risks of data interface change. The workshop aims to serve as a venue for leaders in the file system and storage community to exchange ideas outside the tradition of half a century of classic file and storage systems research which focussed on a small set of unchanging interfaces. PAPER SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 8 pages of double column text using single-spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages (including all text, figures, references, and appendices), as per ACM 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines (document templates can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Electronic submissions in pdf format are received at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pfsw2014 at the submission deadline. TOPICS Addressing programmability of the non-volatile part of the memory hierarchy, the workshop seeks contributions on relevant topics, included but not limited to: - Programming models - Data interface change management and isolation - Interface metadata management and propagation - Compile-time and runtime storage optimization - Data and task placement in large-scale storage stack - Local and distributed performance management and isolation - Nonstop storage system evolution IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers: February 21, 2014, 11:59 PM PST Author notification: March 18, 2014 Camera-ready papers: April 15. 2014 Workshop: One day during June 23-27, 2014 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Carlos Maltzahn - University of California, Santa Cruz Patrick McCormick - Los Alamos National Laboratory PROGRAM COMMITTEE (still waiting for additional confirmations) John Bent, EMC Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University Maya Gokhale, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory Dean Hildebrand, IBM Almaden Dries Kimpe, Argonne National Laboratory Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratory Barney Maccabe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Carlos Maltzahn, University of California at Santa Cruz Adam Manzanares, HGST Pat McCormick, Los Alamos National Laboratory Sage Weil, Inktank Storage -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Yet, we still treat an increasingly important subsystem of computers largely as a fixed-program computer: file and storage systems. Among the key reasons for this history is the justified fear that (1) any interface changes in file and storage systems will make legacy data inaccessible and locks the data to a particular system and (2) programmability will increase the probability of data loss. Yet with the advent of open source file systems a new usage pattern emerges: users isolate subsystems of these file systems and put them in contexts not foreseen by original designers. Examples are: (1) an object-based storage back end gets a new RESTful front end to become a Amazon Web Service's S3 compliant key value store, (2) a data placement function is used as a placement function for customer accounts, and (3) the HDF5 scientific data access library is embedded into parallel storage systems. This trend shows a desire for the ability to use existing file system services and compose them to implement new services ? a desire, however, that is frequently stumped by the difficulty of bringing new services of advanced functionality up to production quality and sufficiently low probability of data loss. At the same time government and industry are heavily investing into the development of new, extremely scalable, and highly efficient, distributed I/O stacks that largely abandon traditional file and storage system interfaces. Designing programmability into file and storage systems has the following benefits: (1) we are achieving greater separation of storage performance engineering from storage reliability engineering, making it possible to optimize storage systems in a wide variety of ways without risking years of investments into code hardening; (2) we are creating an environment that encourages people to create a new stack of storage systems abstractions, both domain-specific and across domains, including sophisticated optimizers that rely on machine learning techniques; (3) we are informing commercial parallel file system vendors on the design of low-level APIs for their products so that they match the versatility of open source storage systems without having to release their entire code into open source; and (4) we are using this historical opportunity to leverage the tension between the versatility of open source storage systems and the reliability of proprietary systems to lead the community of storage system designers. GOAL This one-day workshop focusses on frameworks that allow the programmability of file and storage systems while addressing the risks of data interface change. The workshop aims to serve as a venue for leaders in the file system and storage community to exchange ideas outside the tradition of half a century of classic file and storage systems research which focussed on a small set of unchanging interfaces. PAPER SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 8 pages of double column text using single-spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages (including all text, figures, references, and appendices), as per ACM 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines (document templates can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Electronic submissions in pdf format are received at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pfsw2014 at the submission deadline. TOPICS Addressing programmability of the non-volatile part of the memory hierarchy, the workshop seeks contributions on relevant topics, included but not limited to: - Programming models - Data interface change management and isolation - Interface metadata management and propagation - Compile-time and runtime storage optimization - Data and task placement in large-scale storage stack - Local and distributed performance management and isolation - Nonstop storage system evolution IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers: February 21, 2014, 11:59 PM PST Author notification: March 18, 2014 Camera-ready papers: April 15. 2014 Workshop: One day during June 23-27, 2014 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Carlos Maltzahn - University of California, Santa Cruz Patrick McCormick - Los Alamos National Laboratory PROGRAM COMMITTEE (still waiting for additional confirmations) John Bent, EMC Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University Maya Gokhale, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory Dean Hildebrand, IBM Almaden Dries Kimpe, Argonne National Laboratory Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratory Barney Maccabe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Carlos Maltzahn, University of California at Santa Cruz Adam Manzanares, HGST Pat McCormick, Los Alamos National Laboratory Sage Weil, Inktank Storage -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From pmu at zurich.ibm.com Sun Jan 26 13:02:26 2014 From: pmu at zurich.ibm.com (Peter Mueller) Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2014 19:02:26 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] IEEE Intl. Workshop on Data Center Performance (DCPerf'14) Message-ID: **************************************************************************** Call for Papers - Submission Due Date (Extended): February 7, 2014 The 4th IEEE International Workshop on Data Center Performance (DCPerf'14) Madrid, Spain, June 30 - July 3, 2014 http://www.zurich.ibm.com/dcperf14 in conjunction with ICDCS'14: The 34th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems http://lsd.ls.fi.upm.es/icdcs2014 Data centers have become an integral part of the backbone infrastructure for information technology. In particular, they provide a cost efficient solution for provisioning a wide range of computing resources in diverse environments such as business, scientific, and mobile. Due to the rapid growth of user- defined and user-generated programs, applications and content, the complexity of deploying and operating data centers continues to increase. Considering the high volume of mixed workloads, the diversity of services offered, and the increasing mobility of users across geographically distributed areas, the performance optimization of data centers has become ever more necessary and challenging, especially in view of criteria such as scalability, reliability, manageability, power efficiency, area density, and operating costs. The goal of this workshop is to promote a community-wide discussion to find and identify suitable strategies to enable effective and scalable data center performance optimizations. We are looking for papers that present new techniques, introduce new methodologies, propose new research directions, or discuss strategies for resolving open performance problems of data centers. Topics of Interest ================== Topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - System performance Hardware & software architecture Resource management & middleware Evaluation / modeling methodologies Empirical studies - Communication performance Intra- / inter-DC communication Open-flow based networks DC network architecture & protocols - Storage and I/O performance Storage architecture I/O scalability and performance - DC power and thermal issues Power and thermal modeling Power-constrained performance - Security and robustness Performance of security solutions Intrusion & misconfiguration monitoring Variability & reliability modeling - Virtualization and cloud computing Hypervisors & HW virtualization support Virtualized networking and storage Outsourcing issues Cloud scalability and management - Performance of DC applications Cloud computing Content distribution Hadoop applications Real-time analytics Important Dates =============== Paper submission (extended): February 7, 2014 Notification of acceptance: March 7, 2014 Final manuscript due: March 21, 2014 Submission Guideline ==================== Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5"?11" double-column format. 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Assists and collaborates with computational scientists in applying state-of-the-art software and approaches in storage and parallel analysis of scientific data to improve performance at scale and scientists' productivity. Works as a member of a team and, as appropriate, may be assigned on a project basis as the project's technical lead. More information about the position is available online: http://www.anl.gov/careers/apply-job/external-applicants The requisition number is 321761. Please don't hesitate to contact me for further information. Thanks, Dries From carlosm at soe.ucsc.edu Sat Feb 1 15:48:40 2014 From: carlosm at soe.ucsc.edu (Carlos Maltzahn) Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 12:48:40 -0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] 2nd CFP: 1st Programmable File Systems Workshop (PFSW at HPDC'14) Message-ID: <039F840F-1832-4C32-BC37-5C385E5E6721@cs.ucsc.edu> [Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this email] 1st Programmable File Systems Workshop (PFSW?14) in conjunction with The 23rd International ACM Symposium on High Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC 2014) Vancouver, BC, Canada on June 23-27, 2014 (workshop is one day TBD) http://www.cs.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/PFSW/ WORKSHOP ABSTRACT A major milestone in the evolution of digital computers was the development of the stored-program concept and the design of Turing-complete machines as opposed to fixed-program computers. Yet, we still treat an increasingly important subsystem of computers largely as a fixed-program computer: file and storage systems. Among the key reasons for this history is the justified fear that (1) any interface changes in file and storage systems will make legacy data inaccessible and locks the data to a particular system and (2) programmability will increase the probability of data loss. Yet with the advent of open source file systems a new usage pattern emerges: users isolate subsystems of these file systems and put them in contexts not foreseen by original designers. Examples are: (1) an object-based storage back end gets a new RESTful front end to become a Amazon Web Service's S3 compliant key value store, (2) a data placement function is used as a placement function for customer accounts, and (3) the HDF5 scientific data access library is embedded into parallel storage systems. This trend shows a desire for the ability to use existing file system services and compose them to implement new services ? a desire, however, that is frequently stumped by the difficulty of bringing new services of advanced functionality up to production quality and sufficiently low probability of data loss. At the same time government and industry are heavily investing into the development of new, extremely scalable, and highly efficient, distributed I/O stacks that largely abandon traditional file and storage system interfaces. Designing programmability into file and storage systems has the following benefits: (1) we are achieving greater separation of storage performance engineering from storage reliability engineering, making it possible to optimize storage systems in a wide variety of ways without risking years of investments into code hardening; (2) we are creating an environment that encourages people to create a new stack of storage systems abstractions, both domain-specific and across domains, including sophisticated optimizers that rely on machine learning techniques; (3) we are informing commercial parallel file system vendors on the design of low-level APIs for their products so that they match the versatility of open source storage systems without having to release their entire code into open source; and (4) we are using this historical opportunity to leverage the tension between the versatility of open source storage systems and the reliability of proprietary systems to lead the community of storage system designers. GOAL This one-day workshop focusses on frameworks that allow the programmability of file and storage systems while addressing the risks of data interface change. The workshop aims to serve as a venue for leaders in the file system and storage community to exchange ideas outside the tradition of half a century of classic file and storage systems research which focussed on a small set of unchanging interfaces. PAPER SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 8 pages of double column text using single-spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages (including all text, figures, references, and appendices), as per ACM 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines (document templates can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Electronic submissions in pdf format are received at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pfsw2014 at the submission deadline. TOPICS Addressing programmability of the non-volatile part of the memory hierarchy, the workshop seeks contributions on relevant topics, included but not limited to: - Programming models - Data interface change management and isolation - Interface metadata management and propagation - Compile-time and runtime storage optimization - Data and task placement in large-scale storage stack - Local and distributed performance management and isolation - Nonstop storage system evolution IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers: February 21, 2014, 11:59 PM PST Author notification: March 18, 2014 Camera-ready papers: April 15, 2014 Workshop: One day during June 23-27, 2014 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Carlos Maltzahn - University of California, Santa Cruz Patrick McCormick - Los Alamos National Laboratory PROGRAM COMMITTEE (pending additional confirmations) John Bent, EMC Andr? Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg-Universit?t Mainz Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University Phil Carns, Argonne National Laboratory Yong Chen, Texas Tech University Toni Cortes, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya Evan Felix, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Maya Gokhale, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory Dean Hildebrand, IBM Almaden Dries Kimpe, Argonne National Laboratory Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Quincey Koziol, HDF Group Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratory Barney Maccabe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Carlos Maltzahn, University of California at Santa Cruz Adam Manzanares, HGST Pat McCormick, Los Alamos National Laboratory Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Amazon.com Neoklis Polyzotis, University of California at Santa Cruz Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory Sage Weil, Inktank Storage Jon Woodring, Los Alamos National Laboratory -- Carlos Maltzahn Associate Adjunct Professor Computer Science Department University of California, Santa Cruz http://www.cs.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov Mon Feb 3 12:55:31 2014 From: Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov (Tumeo, Antonino) Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2014 17:55:31 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [CFP] Special Issue of JPDC on: Architectures and Algorithms for Irregular Applications Message-ID: <8BFC735F-653C-4034-8507-40A722758207@pnnl.gov> Call for papers Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing: Special Issue on: Architectures and Algorithms for Irregular Applications Motivation There is an emergence of data intensive, irregular applications for knowledge discovery in such diverse fields as cybersecurity, bioinformatics, Computer Aided Design, machine learning, and the semantic analysis of complex social, transportation, and communication networks. Knowledge discovery applications operate on web-scale data sets best represented as graphs using pointer- or linked list based data structures. Consequently, these applications are irregular in both data and control flow. For the most part, they generate concurrent activity per data element and unpredictable, fine-grain communication requests. Since extent supercomputing systems are built with hardware components and software stacks optimized for data locality and regular computation, developing irregular applications for these systems demands a substantial effort and still results in poor execution performance and scalability. New designs are needed to address irregular application challenges impacting all aspects of the computer hardware and software stack, including micro- and system-architectures, runtime systems, compilers, languages, libraries, and algorithms. Only collaborative efforts among researchers with different expertise can lead to significant breakthroughs. The objective of this special issue is to collect the most novel approaches for irregular applications and to establish a foundation on which future solutions can be built. This special issue will catalyze the surging interest in irregular applications. We will accept both novel unpublished work, as well as published, but significantly extended, work. Articles may address any aspect of the hardware and software stack listed above. Call for Papers There is an emergence of data intensive, irregular applications for knowledge discovery in such diverse fields as cybersecurity, bioinformatics, Computer Aided Design, machine learning, and the semantic analysis of complex social, transportation, and communication networks. Knowledge discovery applications operate on web-scale data sets best represented as graphs using pointer- or linked list based data structures. While these applications have a significant degree of latent parallelism, they are difficult to scale on current high-performance computer systems because of their fine-grain, irregular, and unpredictable data accesses. Moreover, their data sets are difficult to partition and generate load imbalances. Current high performance architectures rely on data locality, regular computations, structured data, and assume datasets that are easy to partitioned. Consequently, they do not support the requirements of irregular applications. Addressing these requirements throughout the hardware and software stack of current and future system architectures will become critical to solving the scientific challenges of the next decade. This special issue seeks to explore solutions for supporting efficient design, development, and execution of irregular applications in the form of new features for micro- and system- architectures, runtime systems, compilers, languages, libraries, and algorithms. Topics of interest, of both theoretical and practical significance, include but are not limited to: * Micro- and System-architectures * Network and memory architectures * Manycore, hybrid, heterogeneous and custom architectures (Tilera, GPUs, FPGAs) Modeling, evaluation and characterization of architectures for memory intensive and irregular applications * Innovative algorithmic techniques * Combinatorial (graph) algorithms and their applications Parallelization techniques and data structures Languages and programming models * Library and runtime support * Compiler and analysis techniques * Case studies of irregular applications (e.g. Semantic Graph Databases, Data Mining, Security, Bioinformatics This special issue solicits novel, unpublished work, and previously published, but significantly extended, work. Submission Format The submitted papers must be written in English and describe original research which is not published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. Author guidelines for preparation of manuscripts can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-parallel-and-distributed-computing/0743-7315/guide-for-authors. For more information, please contact Antonino Tumeo (antonino.tumeo at pnnl.gov). Submission Guidelines All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Elsevier Editorial System (EES). The authors must select ??Special Issue: AAIA?? when they reach the ??Article Type?? step in the submission process. The EES website is located at: http://ees.elsevier.com/jpdc. Important Dates Paper submission: November 15, 2013 to February 24, 2014 Acceptance notification: May 26, 2014 Final papers: August 29, 2014 Guide for Authors This site will guide you stepwise through the creation and uploading of your article. The Guide for Authors can be found on the JPDC journal homepage (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jpdc). Guest Editors: John T. Feo, PNNL Antonino Tumeo, PNNL Timothy G. Mattson, Intel Oreste Villa, NVIDIA Simone Secchi, Universit? di Cagliari -- Best Regards, Antonino Tumeo Research Scientist High Performance Computing Pacific Northwest National Laboratory antonino.tumeo at pnnl.gov From danilo.ansaloni at usi.ch Wed Feb 5 04:59:16 2014 From: danilo.ansaloni at usi.ch (danilo.ansaloni at usi.ch) Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2014 09:59:16 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] ICPE 2014 - Advance Registration Message-ID: REGISTRATIONS ARE OPEN! ICPE 2014 5th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering Dublin, Ireland, March 23-26, 2014 http://icpe2014.ipd.kit.edu/ A Joint Meeting of WOSP/SIPEW sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS and ACM SIGSOFT in Cooperation with SPEC. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Advance registration is available now through 21 February at http://icpe2014.ipd.kit.edu/registration/. Highlights of ICPE 2014 include: - First-day workshops on hot topics in cloud service scalability and large-scale testing. - First-day tutorials on topics such as energy efficiency benchmarking framework, pattern-driven performance engineering for multicore systems, Kieker monitoring framework, performance unit testing, GPUs plus CPUs, and network performance engineering. - Major keynotes by: * Toyotaro Suzumura - IBM Research (Tokyo), a leading researcher of highly scalable graph search algorithms on supercomputers. * Petr Tuma - Charles University (Czech Republic), who leads a research group that has made major contributions to performance evaluation in areas such as middleware, regression testing and benchmark accuracy. * Xiaoyun Zhu - VMware (U.S.), who develops automated resource and performance management solutions for virtualized datacenters and applications in cloud environments. - Papers from leading researchers and practitioners who share their experience, discuss challenges, and report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on performance engineering of software and systems. - A world-class venue in the exciting city of Dublin at the beginning of Spring. For complete information, visit: http://icpe2014.ipd.kit.edu/icpe2014/ From pmu at zurich.ibm.com Thu Feb 6 15:58:56 2014 From: pmu at zurich.ibm.com (Peter Mueller) Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2014 21:58:56 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Final call: IEEE Intl. Workshop on Data Center Performance (DCPerf'14) Message-ID: **************************************************************************** Call for Papers - Submission Due Date (Extended): February 7, 2014 The 4th IEEE International Workshop on Data Center Performance (DCPerf'14) Madrid, Spain, June 30 - July 3, 2014 http://www.zurich.ibm.com/dcperf14 in conjunction with IEEE ICDCS'14: The 34th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems http://lsd.ls.fi.upm.es/icdcs2014 Data centers have become an integral part of the backbone infrastructure for information technology. In particular, they provide a cost efficient solution for provisioning a wide range of computing resources in diverse environments such as business, scientific, and mobile. Due to the rapid growth of user- defined and user-generated programs, applications and content, the complexity of deploying and operating data centers continues to increase. Considering the high volume of mixed workloads, the diversity of services offered, and the increasing mobility of users across geographically distributed areas, the performance optimization of data centers has become ever more necessary and challenging, especially in view of criteria such as scalability, reliability, manageability, power efficiency, area density, and operating costs. The goal of this workshop is to promote a community-wide discussion to find and identify suitable strategies to enable effective and scalable data center performance optimizations. We are looking for papers that present new techniques, introduce new methodologies, propose new research directions, or discuss strategies for resolving open performance problems of data centers. Topics of Interest ================== Topics include (but are not limited to) the following: - System performance Hardware & software architecture Resource management & middleware Evaluation / modeling methodologies Empirical studies - Communication performance Intra- / inter-DC communication Open-flow based networks DC network architecture & protocols - Storage and I/O performance Storage architecture I/O scalability and performance - DC power and thermal issues Power and thermal modeling Power-constrained performance - Security and robustness Performance of security solutions Intrusion & misconfiguration monitoring Variability & reliability modeling - Virtualization and cloud computing Hypervisors & HW virtualization support Virtualized networking and storage Outsourcing issues Cloud scalability and management - Performance of DC applications Cloud computing Content distribution Hadoop applications Real-time analytics Important Dates =============== Paper submission (extended): February 7, 2014 Notification of acceptance: March 7, 2014 Final manuscript due: March 21, 2014 Submission Guideline ==================== Manuscripts must be limited to 6 pages in IEEE 8.5"?11" double-column format. 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URL: From irodero at cac.rutgers.edu Sat Feb 8 18:24:32 2014 From: irodero at cac.rutgers.edu (Ivan Rodero) Date: Sat, 8 Feb 2014 18:24:32 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Bigsystem 2014 at HPDC - Call for Papers (Papers due Feb 15) In-Reply-To: <5D63B8C8-3FD3-4241-9021-CBD7F84DCAA7@rutgers.edu> References: <51EC7783-DCAD-4364-B1DC-576C726BAA31@rutgers.edu> <6F339279-23CD-4553-95DF-B1F906F948E3@rutgers.edu> <0957F75F-5AB9-4144-B62D-87D225B34E42@rutgers.edu> <22CF346C-98EC-4D5B-9500-D0B9FE60551A@rutgers.edu> <99D17D7E-34C0-47B7-B641-C756E67D169A@rutgers.edu> <87202061-93AC-4066-89E7-77976097AFAB@rutgers.edu> <79403393-1690-4DCB-855A-1EE231D5ED2B@rutgers.edu> <5D63B8C8-3FD3-4241-9021-CBD7F84DCAA7@rutgers.edu> Message-ID: <814D5AFC-14D5-47D8-99C1-29CC55E9A272@rutgers.edu> -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- =================== BigSystem 2014 =================== International Workshop on Software-Defined Ecosystems (BigSystem 2014) http://2014.bigsystem.org/ (co-located with ACM HPDC 2014, Vancouver, Canada, June 23-27, 2014) With the emerging technology breakthrough in computing, networking, storage, mobility, and analytics, the boundary of systems is undergoing fundamental change and is expected to logically disappear. It is the time to rethink system design and management without boundaries towards software-defined ecosystems, the Big System. The basic principles of software-defined mechanisms and policies have witnessed great success in clouds and networking. We are expecting broader, deeper, and greater evolution and confluence towards holistic software-defined ecosystems. BigSystem 2014 provides an open forum for researchers, practitioners, and system builders to exchange ideas, discuss, and shape roadmaps towards such big systems in the era of big data. Topics of Interest =================== * Architecture of software-defined ecosystems * Management of software-defined ecosystems * Software-defined principles * Software-defined computing * Software-defined networking * Software-defined storage * Software-defined security * Software-defined services * Software-defined mobile computing/cloud * Software-defined cyber-physical systems * Interaction and confluence of software-defined modalities * Virtualization * Hybrid systems, cross-layer design and management * Security, privacy, reliability, trustworthiness * Grand challenges in big systems * Big data infrastructure and engineering * HPC, big data, and computational science & engineering applications * Autonomic computing * Cloud computing and services * Emerging technologies Paper Submission Guidelines =================== Authors are invited to submit technical papers of at most 8 pages in PDF format, including figures and references. Short position papers (4 pages) are also encouraged. Papers should be formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style (double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch page, http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and submitted via EasyChair submission site. No changes to the margins, spacing, or font sizes as specified by the style file are allowed. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, and will be incorporated into the ACM Digital Library. A limited number of papers will be accepted as posters. Selected distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered a special issue in a high quality journal. EasyChair submission site, https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigsystem2014 Important Dates =================== * Papers Due Feb. 15th, 2014 * Notification Mar. 30th, 2014 * Camera-Ready April 15th, 2014 =================== Organization =================== Steering Committee =================== Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne Jeff Chase, Duke Univeristy Jose Fortes, University of Florida Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Chung-Sheng Li, IBM Research Xiaolin (Andy) Li, University of Florida Manish Parashar, Rutgers University General Chairs =================== Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University Manish Parashar, Rutgers University Program Chairs =================== Chung-Sheng Li, IBM Research Xiaolin (Andy) Li, University of Florida Publicity Chairs =================== Yong Chen, Texas Tech University Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University Web Chair =================== Ze Yu, University of Florida Technical Program Committee =================== Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University Henri E. Bal, Vrije University Ilya Baldin, RENCI/UNC Chapel Hill Viraj Bhat, Yahoo Roger Barga, Microsoft Research Micah Beck, University of Tennessee Ali Butt, Virginia Tech Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic University Claris Castillo, RENCI Umit Catalyurek, Ohio State University Yong Chen, Texas Tech University Peter Dinda, Northwestern University Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida Yashar Ganjali, University of Toronto William Gropp, UIUC Guofei Gu, Texas A&M University John Lange, University of Pittsburgh Junda Liu, Google David Meyer, Brocade Rajesh Narayanan, Dell Research Ioan Raicu, IIT Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University Ivan Seskar, Rutgers University Jian Tang, Syracuse University Tai Won Um, ETRI Jun Wang, University of Central Florida Kuang-Ching Wang, Clemson University Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota Dongyan Xu, Purdue University Vinod Yegneswaran, SRI Jianfeng Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences Han Zhao, Qualcomm Research ============================================================= Ivan Rodero, Ph.D. Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2) NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 625 94 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058 Phone: (732) 993-8837 Fax: (732) 445-0593 Email: irodero at rutgers dot edu WWW: http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu/people/irodero ============================================================= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carlosm at soe.ucsc.edu Mon Feb 10 18:11:05 2014 From: carlosm at soe.ucsc.edu (Carlos Maltzahn) Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:11:05 -0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] 3rd CFP: 1st Programmable File Systems Workshop (PFSW at HPDC'14) In-Reply-To: <039F840F-1832-4C32-BC37-5C385E5E6721@cs.ucsc.edu> References: <039F840F-1832-4C32-BC37-5C385E5E6721@cs.ucsc.edu> Message-ID: [Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this email] 1st Programmable File Systems Workshop (PFSW?14) in conjunction with The 23rd International ACM Symposium on High Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC 2014) Vancouver, BC, Canada on June 23-27, 2014 (workshop is one day TBD) http://www.cs.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/PFSW/ WORKSHOP ABSTRACT A major milestone in the evolution of digital computers was the development of the stored-program concept and the design of Turing-complete machines as opposed to fixed-program computers. Yet, we still treat an increasingly important subsystem of computers largely as a fixed-program computer: file and storage systems. Among the key reasons for this history is the justified fear that (1) any interface changes in file and storage systems will make legacy data inaccessible and locks the data to a particular system and (2) programmability will increase the probability of data loss. Yet with the advent of open source file systems a new usage pattern emerges: users isolate subsystems of these file systems and put them in contexts not foreseen by original designers. Examples are: (1) an object-based storage back end gets a new RESTful front end to become a Amazon Web Service's S3 compliant key value store, (2) a data placement function is used as a placement function for customer accounts, and (3) the HDF5 scientific data access library is embedded into parallel storage systems. This trend shows a desire for the ability to use existing file system services and compose them to implement new services ? a desire, however, that is frequently stumped by the difficulty of bringing new services of advanced functionality up to production quality and sufficiently low probability of data loss. At the same time government and industry are heavily investing into the development of new, extremely scalable, and highly efficient, distributed I/O stacks that largely abandon traditional file and storage system interfaces. Designing programmability into file and storage systems has the following benefits: (1) we are achieving greater separation of storage performance engineering from storage reliability engineering, making it possible to optimize storage systems in a wide variety of ways without risking years of investments into code hardening; (2) we are creating an environment that encourages people to create a new stack of storage systems abstractions, both domain-specific and across domains, including sophisticated optimizers that rely on machine learning techniques; (3) we are informing commercial parallel file system vendors on the design of low-level APIs for their products so that they match the versatility of open source storage systems without having to release their entire code into open source; and (4) we are using this historical opportunity to leverage the tension between the versatility of open source storage systems and the reliability of proprietary systems to lead the community of storage system designers. GOAL This one-day workshop focusses on frameworks that allow the programmability of file and storage systems while addressing the risks of data interface change. The workshop aims to serve as a venue for leaders in the file system and storage community to exchange ideas outside the tradition of half a century of classic file and storage systems research which focussed on a small set of unchanging interfaces. PAPER SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 8 pages of double column text using single-spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages (including all text, figures, references, and appendices), as per ACM 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines (document templates can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Electronic submissions in pdf format are received at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pfsw2014 at the submission deadline. TOPICS Addressing programmability of the non-volatile part of the memory hierarchy, the workshop seeks contributions on relevant topics, included but not limited to: - Programming models - Data interface change management and isolation - Interface metadata management and propagation - Compile-time and runtime storage optimization - Data and task placement in large-scale storage stack - Local and distributed performance management and isolation - Nonstop storage system evolution IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers: February 21, 2014, 11:59 PM PST Author notification: March 18, 2014 Camera-ready papers: April 15, 2014 Workshop: One day during June 23-27, 2014 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Carlos Maltzahn - University of California, Santa Cruz Patrick McCormick - Los Alamos National Laboratory PROGRAM COMMITTEE John Bent, EMC Andr? Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg-Universit?t Mainz Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University Phil Carns, Argonne National Laboratory Yong Chen, Texas Tech University Toni Cortes, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya Evan Felix, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Maya Gokhale, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory Dean Hildebrand, IBM Almaden Dries Kimpe, Argonne National Laboratory Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Quincey Koziol, HDF Group Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratory Barney Maccabe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Carlos Maltzahn, University of California at Santa Cruz Adam Manzanares, HGST Pat McCormick, Los Alamos National Laboratory Michael Mesnier, Intel Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Amazon.com Neoklis Polyzotis, University of California at Santa Cruz Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory Sage Weil, Inktank Storage Brent Welch, Google Jon Woodring, Los Alamos National Laboratory -- Carlos Maltzahn Associate Adjunct Professor Computer Science Department University of California, Santa Cruz http://www.cs.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/ Important dates: Submission Deadline: 11:59PM (UTC/GMT+8 hours) May 5, 2014 Authors Notification: June 30, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: July 20, 2014 Submissions: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/submission.htm Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be recommended to special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications; Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------ Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Various technologies are being discussed to support the handling of big data such as massively parallel processing databases, scalable storage systems, cloud computing platforms, and MapReduce. Big data is more than simply a matter of size; it is an opportunity to find insights in new and emerging types of data and content, to make business more agile, and to answer questions that were previously considered beyond our reach. Distributed systems is a classical research discipline investigating various distributed computing technologies and applications such as cloud computing and MapReduce. With new paradigms and technologies, distributed systems research keeps going with new innovative outcomes from both industry and academia. For example, wide deployment of MapReduce is a distributed programming paradigm and an associated implementation to support distributed computing over large datasets on cloud. BDSE (Big Data Science and Engineering) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Big Data and broadly related areas. BDSE 2014 is the next event in a series of highly successful International Conferences, previously held as BDSE2013 (Sydney Australia), BigDataMR-12 (Xiangtan, China November 2012), AHPCN-12 (Bradford, UK, June 2012), AHPCN-11 (Banff, Canada, September 2011), AHPCN-10 (Melbourne, Australia, September 2010), AHPCN-09 (Seoul, Korea, June 2009), AHPCN-08 (Dalian, China, September 2008). Scope and Topics The objective of the conference is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of big data and distributed computing. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: ? Big Data theory, applications and challenges ? Recent development in Big Data and MapReduce ? Big Data mining and analytics ? Big Data Infrastructure and Cloud Computing ? Big Data visualization ? Large data stream processing on cloud ? Large incremental datasets on cloud ? Distributed and federated datasets ? NoSQL data stores and DB scalability ? Big Data sharing and privacy preserving ? Security, trust and risk in Big Data ? Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization ? Extension of the MapReduce programming model ? Distributed file systems for Big Data ? MapReduce for Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA ? MapReduce on heterogeneous distributed environments ? Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization ? Simulation and debugging of MapReduce and Big Data systems and tools ? Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data ? Multiple source data processing and integration with MapReduce ? Storage and computation management of Big Data ? Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing ? Algorithms and theory for distributed systems ? Data management and distributed data systems ? Security, privacy, fault tolerance and reliability in distributed systems ? Mobile systems and development for handheld devices such as mobile phones ? Big data applications Submission Guidelines Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the BDSE2014 submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/submission.htm. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDSE2014 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed) through CPS. Selected papers will be recommended for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. General Chairs Yunhao Liu, Tsinghua University, China Nick Cercone, York University, Canada Benjamin Wah, HKCU, China Program Chairs Jianzhong Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Eiko Yoneki, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Dongshen Li, National University of Defence Technology, China Workshop Chairs Khaled Mohammed Khan, Qatar University, Qatar Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China Simon Fong, University of Macau, China Steering Committee Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (Chair) Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Laurence T. 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URL: From irodero at cac.rutgers.edu Thu Feb 13 00:03:16 2014 From: irodero at cac.rutgers.edu (Ivan Rodero) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2014 00:03:16 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP : ExtremeGreen 2014 Workshop, with CCGrid2014 (due Feb 15) In-Reply-To: <6B61A541-C3A6-4B51-9600-A392C72202A6@rutgers.edu> References: <51EC7783-DCAD-4364-B1DC-576C726BAA31@rutgers.edu> <6F339279-23CD-4553-95DF-B1F906F948E3@rutgers.edu> <0957F75F-5AB9-4144-B62D-87D225B34E42@rutgers.edu> <22CF346C-98EC-4D5B-9500-D0B9FE60551A@rutgers.edu> <99D17D7E-34C0-47B7-B641-C756E67D169A@rutgers.edu> <87202061-93AC-4066-89E7-77976097AFAB@rutgers.edu> <79403393-1690-4DCB-855A-1EE231D5ED2B@rutgers.edu> <5D63B8C8-3FD3-4241-9021-CBD7F84DCAA7@rutgers.edu> <6B61A541-C3A6-4B51-9600-A392C72202A6@rutgers.edu> Message-ID: <7B19F956-BFBE-4CB4-9224-106DC80F83F0@rutgers.edu> =========================== Call for Papers : ExtremeGreen 2014 Workshop : Extreme Green & Energy Efficiency in Large Scale Distributed Systems =========================== May 26-29, 2014 -- Chicago, IL, USA during CCGrid 2014: the 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing http://avalon.ens-lyon.fr/extremegreen Important dates : ? Papers due on : February 15th, 2014 ? Author Notification : March 1st, 2014 ? Final Papers Due : March 14th, 2014 ? ExtremeGreen Workshop: May 26, 2014 Workshop co-chairs: ? Laurent Lefevre, INRIA, Laboratoire LIP, Ecole Normale Superieure of Lyon, France ? Marcos Dias de Assuncao, IBM Research, Brazil ? Wu-Chun Feng, Virginia Tech, USA ? Anne-C?cile Orgerie, CNRS, France ? Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA ? Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University, USA Workshop description : Improving the energy efficiency of large-scale distributed systems (e.g. data centres and Clouds) is a key challenge for both academic and industrial organizations. Although the topic has gained lots of attention over the past years, some of the proposed solutions often seem conservative and not easily applicable to large-scale systems. Their impact at large-scale remains to be proved. Hence, this workshop aims to provide a venue for discussion of ideas that can demonstrate "more than small % solution" to energy efficiency and their applicability to "real world". After the success of ExtremGreen2013 workshop, the ExtremeGreen2014 workshop will focus on scientific and industrial approaches and solutions that could have a large impact in terms of energy savings and energy efficiency. Clean-slate approaches and innovative solutions breaking conventional approaches are welcome. The workshop also welcomes submissions of work-in-progress papers on ideas that can have a large impact on improving the energy efficiency of large-scale distributed systems. The papers must provide preliminary results that demonstrate the originality and possible impact of the proposed solutions. Submissions will be reviewed by an international group of experts in distributed systems and energy efficiency. Topics of interests : ? Green clouds ? Energy efficiency of data centers ? Green Grids ? Green networks for large scale distributed systems ? Energy efficiency of storage solutions ? Energy-aware design and programming ? Energy-efficient hardware and software architectures ? Sustainable solutions in large scale distributed systems ? Energy-efficient resource management tools ? Energy-efficient scalable approaches ? Experimental results of Green solutions Papers submission : Submitted papers must be 8 pages long maximum. Authors must submit their articles through the submission system : https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=extremegreen2014 Program Committee (TBC): ? Cosimo Anglano, Universit?? del Piemonte Orientale, Italy ? Silvia Bianchi, IBM Research, Brazil ? George Bosilca, Innovative Computing Laboratory - University of Tennessee, USA ? Pascal Bouvry, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg ? Georges Da Costa, IRIT/Toulouse III, France ? Bronis De Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA ? Jaafar M. H. Elmirghani, University of Leeds, UK ? Jean-Patrick Gelas, Universite de Lyon / INRIA, France ? Yiannis Georgiou, BULL, France ? Olivier Gluck, Universit?? de Lyon, France ? Zhiyi Huang, Univ of Otago, NEw Zealand ? Thomas Ludwig, University of Hamburg, Germany ? Hiroshi Nakamura, University of Tokyo, Japan ? Marco Netto, IBM Research, Brazil ? Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA ? Jean-Marc Pierson, IRIT, France ? Enrique S. Quintana-Orti, Universidad Jaume I, Spain ? Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University / CAC, USA ? Domenico Talia, University of Calabria, Italy ? Jordi Torres, Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) - Technical University of Catalonia (UPC), Spain ? Xavier Vigouroux, BULL, France ? Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia ============================================================= Ivan Rodero, Ph.D. Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2) NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 625 94 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058 Phone: (732) 993-8837 Fax: (732) 445-0593 Email: irodero at rutgers dot edu WWW: http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu/people/irodero ============================================================= -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From irodero at cac.rutgers.edu Sun Feb 16 09:46:33 2014 From: irodero at cac.rutgers.edu (Ivan Rodero) Date: Sun, 16 Feb 2014 09:46:33 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Bigsystem 2014 at HPDC - Call for Papers (Papers due Feb 28 -- extended) In-Reply-To: <7B19F956-BFBE-4CB4-9224-106DC80F83F0@rutgers.edu> References: <51EC7783-DCAD-4364-B1DC-576C726BAA31@rutgers.edu> <6F339279-23CD-4553-95DF-B1F906F948E3@rutgers.edu> <0957F75F-5AB9-4144-B62D-87D225B34E42@rutgers.edu> <22CF346C-98EC-4D5B-9500-D0B9FE60551A@rutgers.edu> <99D17D7E-34C0-47B7-B641-C756E67D169A@rutgers.edu> <87202061-93AC-4066-89E7-77976097AFAB@rutgers.edu> <79403393-1690-4DCB-855A-1EE231D5ED2B@rutgers.edu> <5D63B8C8-3FD3-4241-9021-CBD7F84DCAA7@rutgers.edu> <6B61A541-C3A6-4B51-9600-A392C72202A6@rutgers.edu> <7B19F956-BFBE-4CB4-9224-106DC80F83F0@rutgers.edu> Message-ID: <83E0FA91-68C8-49CF-95CF-B70E2519CD98@rutgers.edu> =================== BigSystem 2014 =================== International Workshop on Software-Defined Ecosystems (BigSystem 2014) http://2014.bigsystem.org/ (co-located with ACM HPDC 2014, Vancouver, Canada, June 23-27, 2014) With the emerging technology breakthrough in computing, networking, storage, mobility, and analytics, the boundary of systems is undergoing fundamental change and is expected to logically disappear. It is the time to rethink system design and management without boundaries towards software-defined ecosystems, the Big System. The basic principles of software-defined mechanisms and policies have witnessed great success in clouds and networks. We are expecting broader, deeper, and greater evolution and confluence towards holistic software-defined ecosystems. BigSystem 2014 provides an open forum for researchers, practitioners, and system builders to exchange ideas, discuss, and shape roadmaps towards such big systems in the era of big data. Topics of Interest =================== * Architecture of software-defined ecosystems * Management of software-defined ecosystems * Software-defined principles * Software-defined computing * Software-defined networking * Software-defined storage * Software-defined security * Software-defined services * Software-defined mobile computing/cloud * Software-defined cyber-physical systems * Interaction and confluence of software-defined modalities * Virtualization * Hybrid systems, cross-layer design and management * Security, privacy, reliability, trustworthiness * Grand challenges in big systems * Big data infrastructure and engineering * HPC, big data, and computational science & engineering applications * Autonomic computing * Cloud computing and services * Emerging technologies Paper Submission Guidelines =================== Authors are invited to submit technical papers of at most 8 pages in PDF format, including figures and references. Short position papers (4 pages) are also encouraged. Papers should be formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style (double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch page, http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and submitted via EasyChair submission site. No changes to the margins, spacing, or font sizes as specified by the style file are allowed. Accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings, and will be incorporated into the ACM Digital Library. A few papers will be accepted as posters. Selected distinguished papers, after further revisions, will be considered for a special issue in a high quality journal. EasyChair submission site, https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bigsystem2014 Important Dates =================== * Papers Due Feb. 28th, 2014 * Notification Mar. 31st, 2014 * Camera-Ready April 15th, 2014 =================== Organization =================== General Chairs =================== Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University Manish Parashar, Rutgers University Program Chairs =================== Chung-Sheng Li, IBM Research Xiaolin (Andy) Li, University of Florida Steering Committee =================== Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne Jeff Chase, Duke University Jose Fortes, University of Florida Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Chung-Sheng Li, IBM Research Xiaolin (Andy) Li, University of Florida Manish Parashar, Rutgers University Panel Chairs =================== David Meyer, Brocade Kuang-Ching Wang, Clemson University Publicity Chairs =================== Yong Chen, Texas Tech University Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University Web Chairs =================== Ze Yu, University of Florida Technical Program Committee =================== Gagan Agrawal, Ohio State University Henri E. Bal, Vrije University Ilya Baldin, RENCI/UNC Chapel Hill Viraj Bhat, Yahoo Roger Barga, Microsoft Research Micah Beck, University of Tennessee Ali Butt, Virginia Tech Jiannong Cao, Hong Kong Polytechnic U. Claris Castillo, RENCI Umit Catalyurek, Ohio State University Yong Chen, Texas Tech University Peter Dinda, Northwestern University Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida Yashar Ganjali, University of Toronto William Gropp, UIUC Guofei Gu, Texas A&M University John Lange, University of Pittsburgh Junda Liu, Google David Meyer, Brocade Rajesh Narayanan, Dell Research Ioan Raicu, IIT Lavanya Ramakrishnan, LBNL Ivan Rodero, Rutgers University Ivan Seskar, Rutgers University Jian Tang, Syracuse University Tai Won Um, ETRI Edward Walker, Whitworth University Jun Wang, University of Central Florida Kuang-Ching Wang, Clemson University Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota Dongyan Xu, Purdue University Vinod Yegneswaran, SRI Jianfeng Zhan, Chinese Academy of Sciences Han Zhao, Qualcomm Research ============================================================= Ivan Rodero, Ph.D. Rutgers Discovery Informatics Institute (RDI2) NSF Center for Cloud and Autonomic Computing (CAC) Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 625 94 Brett Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8058 Phone: (732) 993-8837 Fax: (732) 445-0593 Email: irodero at rutgers dot edu WWW: http://nsfcac.rutgers.edu/people/irodero ============================================================= From carlosm at soe.ucsc.edu Tue Feb 18 04:49:57 2014 From: carlosm at soe.ucsc.edu (Carlos Maltzahn) Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2014 01:49:57 -0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] 4th CFP: 1st Programmable File Systems Workshop (PFSW at HPDC'14) In-Reply-To: References: <039F840F-1832-4C32-BC37-5C385E5E6721@cs.ucsc.edu> Message-ID: [Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this email] 1st Programmable File Systems Workshop (PFSW?14) in conjunction with The 23rd International ACM Symposium on High Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC 2014) Vancouver, BC, Canada on June 23-27, 2014 (workshop is one day TBD) http://www.cs.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/PFSW/ WORKSHOP ABSTRACT A major milestone in the evolution of digital computers was the development of the stored-program concept and the design of Turing-complete machines as opposed to fixed-program computers. Yet, we still treat an increasingly important subsystem of computers largely as a fixed-program computer: file and storage systems. Among the key reasons for this history is the justified fear that (1) any interface changes in file and storage systems will make legacy data inaccessible and locks the data to a particular system and (2) programmability will increase the probability of data loss. Yet with the advent of open source file systems a new usage pattern emerges: users isolate subsystems of these file systems and put them in contexts not foreseen by original designers. Examples are: (1) an object-based storage back end gets a new RESTful front end to become a Amazon Web Service's S3 compliant key value store, (2) a data placement function is used as a placement function for customer accounts, and (3) the HDF5 scientific data access library is embedded into parallel storage systems. This trend shows a desire for the ability to use existing file system services and compose them to implement new services ? a desire, however, that is frequently stumped by the difficulty of bringing new services of advanced functionality up to production quality and sufficiently low probability of data loss. At the same time government and industry are heavily investing into the development of new, extremely scalable, and highly efficient, distributed I/O stacks that largely abandon traditional file and storage system interfaces. Designing programmability into file and storage systems has the following benefits: (1) we are achieving greater separation of storage performance engineering from storage reliability engineering, making it possible to optimize storage systems in a wide variety of ways without risking years of investments into code hardening; (2) we are creating an environment that encourages people to create a new stack of storage systems abstractions, both domain-specific and across domains, including sophisticated optimizers that rely on machine learning techniques; (3) we are informing commercial parallel file system vendors on the design of low-level APIs for their products so that they match the versatility of open source storage systems without having to release their entire code into open source; and (4) we are using this historical opportunity to leverage the tension between the versatility of open source storage systems and the reliability of proprietary systems to lead the community of storage system designers. GOAL This one-day workshop focusses on frameworks that allow the programmability of file and storage systems while addressing the risks of data interface change. The workshop aims to serve as a venue for leaders in the file system and storage community to exchange ideas outside the tradition of half a century of classic file and storage systems research which focussed on a small set of unchanging interfaces. PAPER SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 8 pages of double column text using single-spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages (including all text, figures, references, and appendices), as per ACM 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines (document templates can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Electronic submissions in pdf format are received at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pfsw2014 at the submission deadline. TOPICS Addressing programmability of the non-volatile part of the memory hierarchy, the workshop seeks contributions on relevant topics, included but not limited to: - Programming models - Data interface change management and isolation - Interface metadata management and propagation - Compile-time and runtime storage optimization - Data and task placement in large-scale storage stack - Local and distributed performance management and isolation - Nonstop storage system evolution IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers: February 21, 2014, 11:59 PM PST Author notification: March 18, 2014 Camera-ready papers: April 15, 2014 Workshop: One day during June 23-27, 2014 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Carlos Maltzahn - University of California, Santa Cruz Patrick McCormick - Los Alamos National Laboratory PROGRAM COMMITTEE John Bent, EMC Andr? Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg-Universit?t Mainz Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University Phil Carns, Argonne National Laboratory Yong Chen, Texas Tech University Toni Cortes, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya Evan Felix, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Maya Gokhale, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory Dean Hildebrand, IBM Almaden Dries Kimpe, Argonne National Laboratory Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Quincey Koziol, HDF Group Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratory Barney Maccabe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Carlos Maltzahn, University of California at Santa Cruz Adam Manzanares, HGST Pat McCormick, Los Alamos National Laboratory Michael Mesnier, Intel Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Amazon.com Neoklis Polyzotis, University of California at Santa Cruz Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory Sage Weil, Inktank Storage Brent Welch, Google Jon Woodring, Los Alamos National Laboratory -- Carlos Maltzahn Associate Adjunct Professor Computer Science Department University of California, Santa Cruz http://www.cs.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From carlosm at soe.ucsc.edu Sat Feb 22 02:33:11 2014 From: carlosm at soe.ucsc.edu (Carlos Maltzahn) Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 23:33:11 -0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Updated CFP (extended deadlines): 1st Programmable File Systems Workshop (PFSW at HPDC'14) In-Reply-To: References: <039F840F-1832-4C32-BC37-5C385E5E6721@cs.ucsc.edu> Message-ID: <9B004ECB-2FBC-4DE9-9EEC-43524917A60F@soe.ucsc.edu> [Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this email] 1st Programmable File Systems Workshop (PFSW?14) in conjunction with The 23rd International ACM Symposium on High Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC 2014) Vancouver, BC, Canada on June 23-27, 2014 (workshop is one day TBD) http://www.cs.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/PFSW/ WORKSHOP ABSTRACT A major milestone in the evolution of digital computers was the development of the stored-program concept and the design of Turing-complete machines as opposed to fixed-program computers. Yet, we still treat an increasingly important subsystem of computers largely as a fixed-program computer: file and storage systems. Among the key reasons for this history is the justified fear that (1) any interface changes in file and storage systems will make legacy data inaccessible and locks the data to a particular system and (2) programmability will increase the probability of data loss. Yet with the advent of open source file systems a new usage pattern emerges: users isolate subsystems of these file systems and put them in contexts not foreseen by original designers. Examples are: (1) an object-based storage back end gets a new RESTful front end to become a Amazon Web Service's S3 compliant key value store, (2) a data placement function is used as a placement function for customer accounts, and (3) the HDF5 scientific data access library is embedded into parallel storage systems. This trend shows a desire for the ability to use existing file system services and compose them to implement new services ? a desire, however, that is frequently stumped by the difficulty of bringing new services of advanced functionality up to production quality and sufficiently low probability of data loss. At the same time government and industry are heavily investing into the development of new, extremely scalable, and highly efficient, distributed I/O stacks that largely abandon traditional file and storage system interfaces. Designing programmability into file and storage systems has the following benefits: (1) we are achieving greater separation of storage performance engineering from storage reliability engineering, making it possible to optimize storage systems in a wide variety of ways without risking years of investments into code hardening; (2) we are creating an environment that encourages people to create a new stack of storage systems abstractions, both domain-specific and across domains, including sophisticated optimizers that rely on machine learning techniques; (3) we are informing commercial parallel file system vendors on the design of low-level APIs for their products so that they match the versatility of open source storage systems without having to release their entire code into open source; and (4) we are using this historical opportunity to leverage the tension between the versatility of open source storage systems and the reliability of proprietary systems to lead the community of storage system designers. GOAL This one-day workshop focusses on frameworks that allow the programmability of file and storage systems while addressing the risks of data interface change. The workshop aims to serve as a venue for leaders in the file system and storage community to exchange ideas outside the tradition of half a century of classic file and storage systems research which focussed on a small set of unchanging interfaces. PAPER SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 8 pages of double column text using single-spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages (including all text, figures, references, and appendices), as per ACM 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines (document templates can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Electronic submissions in pdf format are received at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pfsw2014 at the submission deadline. TOPICS Addressing programmability of the non-volatile part of the memory hierarchy, the workshop seeks contributions on relevant topics, included but not limited to: - Programming models - Data interface change management and isolation - Interface metadata management and propagation - Compile-time and runtime storage optimization - Data and task placement in large-scale storage stack - Local and distributed performance management and isolation - Nonstop storage system evolution IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers: March 21, 2014, 11:59 PM PST Author notification: April 15, 2014 Final versions: May 13, 2014 Workshop: One day during June 23-27, 2014 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Carlos Maltzahn - University of California, Santa Cruz Patrick McCormick - Los Alamos National Laboratory PROGRAM COMMITTEE John Bent, EMC Andr? Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg-Universit?t Mainz Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University Phil Carns, Argonne National Laboratory Yong Chen, Texas Tech University Toni Cortes, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya Evan Felix, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Maya Gokhale, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory Dean Hildebrand, IBM Almaden Dries Kimpe, Argonne National Laboratory Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Quincey Koziol, HDF Group Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratory Barney Maccabe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Carlos Maltzahn, University of California at Santa Cruz Adam Manzanares, HGST Pat McCormick, Los Alamos National Laboratory Michael Mesnier, Intel Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Amazon.com Neoklis Polyzotis, University of California at Santa Cruz Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory Sage Weil, Inktank Storage Brent Welch, Google Jon Woodring, Los Alamos National Laboratory -- Carlos Maltzahn Associate Adjunct Professor Computer Science Department University of California, Santa Cruz http://www.cs.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 495 bytes Desc: Message signed with OpenPGP using GPGMail URL: From zhaom at cis.fiu.edu Thu Feb 27 20:50:58 2014 From: zhaom at cis.fiu.edu (Ming Zhao) Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2014 20:50:58 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] ICAC14 paper submission due on March 5, 2014 (11th International Conference on Autonomic Computing) Message-ID: <20140228015106.15B141476A@cheetah.cs.fiu.edu> ICAC 2014 Call for Papers ------------------------- 11th International Conference on Autonomic Computing June 18-20, 2014 Philadelphia, PA Co-held with the 2015 USENIX Federated Conferences Week (June 17-20, 2014) Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac14 (CFP: https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac14/call-for-papers) * Important Dates Paper submissions due: March 5, 2014, 11:59 p.m. EST (hard deadline, no extensions) Notification to authors: April 9, 2014 Final paper files due: May 20, 2014 * Overview ICAC is the leading conference on autonomic computing techniques, foundations, and applications. Large-scale systems of all types, such as data centers, compute clouds, smart cities, cyber-physical systems, sensor networks, and embedded or pervasive environments, are becoming increasingly complex and burdensome for people to manage. Autonomic computing systems reduce this burden by managing their own behavior in accordance with high-level goals. In autonomic systems, resources and applications are managed to maximize performance and minimize cost, while maintaining predictable and reliable behavior in the face of varying workloads, failures, and malicious threats. Achieving self-management requires and motivates research that spans a wide variety of scientific and engineering disciplines, including distributed systems, artificial intelligence, machine learning, modeling, control theory, optimization, planning, decision theory, user interface design, data management, software engineering, emergent behavior analysis, and bio-inspired computing. ICAC brings together researchers and practitioners from disparate disciplines, application domains and perspectives, enabling them to discover and share underlying commonalities in their approaches to making resources, applications and systems more autonomic. * Topics Papers are solicited from all areas of autonomic computing, including (but not limited to): ** Self-managing components, such as compute, storage, and networking devices, embedded and real time systems, and mobile devices such as smartphones. ** AI and mathematical techniques, such as machine learning, control theory, operations research, probability and stochastic processes, queueing theory, rule-based systems, and bio-inspired techniques, and their use in autonomic computing. ** End-to-end design and implementation of systems for management of resources, workloads, scalability, availability, performance, reliability, power/cooling, and security. ** Monitoring components and platforms for autonomic systems in IT or cyber-physical environments. ** Hypervisors, operating systems, middleware, or application support for autonomic computing. ** Novel human interfaces for monitoring and controlling autonomic systems. ** Goal specification and policies, including specification and modeling of service-level agreements, behavior enforcement, IT governance, and business-driven IT management. ** Frameworks, principles, architectures, and toolkits, from software engineering practices and experimental methodologies to agent-based techniques. ** Automated management techniques for emerging applications, systems, and platforms, including social networks, cloud computing, big data systems, multi-core servers, smart cities, and cyber-physical systems. ** Fundamental science and theory of self-managing systems for understanding, controlling or exploiting emergent system behaviors to enforce autonomic properties. ** Applications of autonomic computing and experiences with prototyped or deployed systems solving real-world problems in science, engineering, business, or society. Applications of autonomic computing and experiences with prototyped or deployed systems solving real-world problems in science, engineering, business, or society. * Paper Submissions ** Regular papers: Full papers (a maximum of 10 pages, excluding references) should be typeset in two-column format in 10-point type on 12-point (single-spaced) leading, with the text block being no more than 6.5" wide by 9" deep. They should be submitted electronically, via the Web submission form, which will be available here soon. Submitted papers must be original work, and must not be under consideration for another conference or journal. Complete formatting and submission instructions can be found here (https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac14/requirements-icac-14-authors). Some submissions will be accepted as short papers or posters. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. USENIX, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. See the USENIX Conference Submissions Policy for details (http://www.usenix.org/conferences/submissions-policy). Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. If you are uncertain whether your submission meets USENIX's guidelines, please contact the program co-chairs, icac14chairs at usenix.org, or the USENIX office, submissionspolicy at usenix.org. At least one author of each accepted full or short paper or poster must present the paper/poster in person at the conference. The accepted papers will be available online to registered attendees before the conference and will also appear in proceedings distributed electronically at the conference. If your accepted paper should not be published prior to the event, please notify production at usenix.org. The papers will be available online to everyone beginning on June 18, 2014. Accepted submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication on the USENIX ICAC '14 Web site; rejected submissions will be permanently treated as confidential. ** Special Tracks To facilitate community collaboration and exchange of ideas in emergent technological areas, ICAC'14 will host two special tracks, each of which will be reviewed by its own subcommittee. *** Smart Cyber-Physical Systems Chair: Ron Ambrosio (rfa at us.ibm.com) Submission instructions to be announced *** MBDS: Management of Big Data System Co-Chairs: Karsten Schwan (karsten.schwan at cc.gatech.edu) Vanish Talwar (vanish.talwar at hp.com) Paper submissions due: March 31, 2014, 11:59 p.m. PDT Submission instructions: https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac14/mbds-management-big-data-systems * Conference Organizers: ** General Chair: Xiaoyun Zhu, VMware ** Program Co-Chairs: Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London Xiaohui (Helen) Gu, North Carolina State University ** Program Vice-Chairs for Management of Big Data Systems: Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology Vanish Talwar, HP Labs ** Program Vice-Chairs for Smart Cyber-Physical Systems: Ron Ambrosio, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center ** Poster Chair: Christopher Stewart, The Ohio State University ** Publicity Co-Chairs: Rui Han, Chinese Academy of Sciences Martina Maggio, Lund University Vartan Padaryan, Russian Academy of Sciences Ming Zhao, Florida International University ** Program Committee: Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano Sara Bouchenak, University of Grenoble Rick Buskens, Google Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne Lydia Chen, IBM Zurich Lucy Cherkasova, HP Labs Ira Cohen, HP Labs Paolo Costa, Microsoft Research Cambridge Dilma Da Silva, Qualcomm Research Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano Renato Figuerado, University of Florida Salima Hassas, University of Lyon Yuxiong He, Microsoft Research Tom Holvoet, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Longbo Huang, Tsinghua University Alex Iosup, Delft University of Technology Vana Kalogeraki, Athens University of Economics and Business Evangelia Kalyvianaki, City University London Yasuhiko Kanemasa, Fujitsu Labs Jeff Kephart, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Fabio Kon, University of Sao Paulo Samuel Kounev, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Diwakar Krishnamurthy, University of Calgary Cristian Lumezanu, NEC Labs Xiaosong Ma, Qatar Research Foundation Julie McCann, Imperial College London Daniel Menasche, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro Arif Merchant, Google Frank Mueller, North Carolina State University Klara Nahrstedt, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Alma Riska, EMC Kai Sachs, SAP AG Hartmut Schmeck, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology Onn Shehory, IBM Research Haifa Kai Shen, University of Rochester Prashant Shenoy, University of Massachusetts Amherst Yasushi Shinjo, University of Tsukuba Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary Christopher Stewart, The Ohio State University Jordi Torres, Barcelona Supercomputing Center and UPC Barcelona Tech Mustafa Uysal, VMware Timothy Wood, George Washington University Ding Yuan, Toronto University Ming Zhao, Florida International University Xiaobo Zhou, University of Colorado??Colorado Springs * More information: ** Web: https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac14 ** CFP: https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac14/call-for-papers ** Email: icac14chairs at usenix.org ** LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/ICAC-Conference-4264583 From jianhui.yue at gmail.com Sat Mar 1 22:21:00 2014 From: jianhui.yue at gmail.com (Jianhui Yue) Date: Sat, 1 Mar 2014 22:21:00 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] =?utf-8?q?Call_for_Papers=3A_THE_9TH_IEEE?= =?utf-8?q?_INTERNATIONAL_CONFERENCE_ON_NETWORKING=2C_ARCHITECTURE?= =?utf-8?b?LCBBTkQgU1RPUkFHRe+8iE5BUyAyMDE077yJ?= Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS ******************************************************************** THE 9TH IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON NETWORKING, ARCHITECTURE, AND STORAGE?NAS 2014? AUGUST 6-8, 2014, TIANJIN, CHINA http://www.nas-conference.org/ ********************************************************************* Overview International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS 2014) will be held on August 6-8, 2014 in Tianjin, China. It will serve as an international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research on networking, high-performance computer architecture, and parallel and Distributed data storage technologies. IMPORTANT DATES - Deadline for Paper Submission: March 21st, 2014 - Notification of Paper Acceptance: May 19th, 2014 - Camera-ready Paper and Author Registration: June 9th, 2014 General Co-Chairs - Guangming Liu, NSCC-TJ, China - Jizhong Han, CAS/IIE, China - Ce Yu, Tianjin U, China Program Co-Chairs - Zhao Zhang, ISU, USA - Songqing Chen, GMU, USA Vice Program Chairs: Networking Track - Yang Guo, Bell Labs, USA - Yonggang Wen, NTU, Singapore Architecture Track - Youtao Zhang, U Pittsburg, USA - Lixin Zhang, CAS/ICT, China Storage Track - Howie Huang, GWU, USA - Yu Hua, HUST, China Publicity Co-Chairs - Diana G?hringer, RUB, Germany - Christian Pilato, Columbia U, USA - Jianhui Yue, U Maine, USA Local Arrangement Chair - Wenrui Dong, NSCC-TJ, China Publication Chair - Wei Zhou, CAS/IIE, China Chair for Industrial Panel and International Forum - Xiangfei Meng, NSCC-TJ, China Reg. and Finance Chair - Xia Zijun, NSCC-TJ, China Steering Committee - Xubin He, VCU, USA - Hong Jiang, UNL, USA - Changsheng Xie, HUST, China - Qing Yang, URI, USA - Andr? Brinkmann, JGU, GER - Jian Li, IBM Research, USA - Tao Li, UFL, USA - Marco Santambrogio, POLIMI, Italy - Hongbin Sun, Xi'An Jiaotong, China TOPICS The topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Cloud and grid computing - Network applications and services - Ad hoc and sensor networks - Networks and protocols - Network architectures - Virtual and overlay networks - Network modeling and measurement - Network security - Mobile and wireless network - Network information theory & network coding - Processor architectures - Parallel architectures - Cache and memory systems - Emerging technology and architecture - GPU architecture and programming - HW/SW co-design&tradeoff - Power and energy efficient architectures and techniques - Storage management - Storage performance and scalability - File systems, object-based storage and block storage - Energy-aware storage - Architecture and applications of solid state disks - Cloud storage - Storage virtualization SUBMISSION NAS 2014 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. All accepted papers will be Included in the IEEE digital library and indexed by EI. CONTACT Please contact Professor Zhao Zhang and Professor Songqing Chen for any questions, or check our conference website at http://www.nas-conference.org for updates. SPONSORS NAS 2014 is sponsored by NSCC-TJ (National Supercomputing Center in Tianjin), Tianjin University, and IEEE. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From yong.chen at ttu.edu Mon Mar 3 11:56:24 2014 From: yong.chen at ttu.edu (Chen, Yong) Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2014 16:56:24 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Student Travel Grant for attending CCGrid 2014 symposium Message-ID: [Apologize for any duplicated post] Dear Colleague, We are glad to announce the availability of a number of student travel grants to assist full-time students to attend the 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2014, http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/CCGrid2014/), May 26-29, in Chicago. If you have students who you?d like to let them apply for the travel grant, or if you know any students who might be interested, please share with them this opportunity. The details of this travel grant opportunity can be found below or online at http://datasys.cs.iit.edu/events/CCGrid2014/call-students.html. Students will need to submit their applications by **March 21st, 2014**. Thank you! Yong Chen Student Award Chair, CCGrid 2014 With the sponsorship of the U.S. National Science Foundation and the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing, a number of student travel grants are available to assist full-time students to attend the 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing (CCGrid 2014). These grants will be distributed after the conference in the form of reimbursements against actual travel, registration and accommodations expenses. If you are interested in applying for a CCGrid 2014 travel grant, please read the requirements and instructions below and visit the application site (https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ccgrid14studenttrave) to submit an application by March 21st, 2014. Requirements: 1. Each applicant needs to submit a CV and a statement with up to 450 words. In the statement, you are expected to describe: 1) your current academic program (undergraduate, Masters, or Ph.D. student), stage of study, and any underrepresented group status (this information is optional and provided voluntarily); 2) the motivation/reason of attending the CCGrid 2014 conference and the needs of the travel support including the dollar amount and brief description of travel assistance requested; and 3) the plan of maximizing the benefit of the travel support. Please limit your statement writing within 450 words. The application deadline is March 21st, 2014. 2. After the conference is completed, all awardees are required to submit a 1-page summary about the conference attendance experience within one week of the conference end date. The reimbursement check will be mailed to you after your summary is received. Submission instructions: 1. Please login EasyChair (please create an EasyChair account if you don?t have one yet) 2. 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URL: From zhaom at cis.fiu.edu Fri Mar 7 22:47:02 2014 From: zhaom at cis.fiu.edu (Ming Zhao) Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 22:47:02 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] FeedbackComputing14 paper submission due on March 25 (9th International Workshop on Feedback Computing) Message-ID: <20140308034711.9D99BDB65@cheetah.cs.fiu.edu> Feedback Computing 2014 Call for Papers June 17th, 2014, Philadelphia, PA, collocating with USENIX ATC and ICAC http://www.usenix.org/conference/feedbackcomputing14 Submission deadline in two weeks! Key Dates: * Paper submissions due: March 25, 2014, 11:59 p.m. PDT * Notification to authors: April 22, 2014 * Final paper files due: May 22, 2014 Overview: The 2014 International Workshop on Feedback Computing will be held in June 2014, as part of USENIX Federated Conferences Week in Philadelphia, PA. The workshop is a unique forum dedicated to advancing feedback system theory and practice in modeling, analyzing, designing, and optimizing computing systems. It represents a timely response to the following two trends: 1. Computing systems are growing larger, smarter, and more complex, embedding in the physical world, human interactions, and societal infrastructure. Systematic and feedback-driven approaches are critical for addressing the dynamic complexity that arises in new fields such as cyber-physical systems, cloud computing, social networks, and mobile applications. 2. Advances in disciplines such as machine learning, mathematical optimization, network theories, decision theories, and data engineering provide new foundations and techniques that empower feedback approaches to address computing systems at scale and to achieve goals such as autonomy, adaptation, stabilization, robustness, and performance optimization. Topics: The Feedback Computing Workshop seeks original research contributions and position papers on advancing feedback control technologies and their applications in computing systems, broadly defined. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Theoretical foundations for feedback computing * New control paradigms and system architecture * Sensing, actuation, and data management in feedback computing * Learning and modeling of computing system dynamics * Design patterns and software engineering * Experiences and best practices from real systems * Applications in domains such as big data, cloud computing, computer networks, cyber-physical systems, data center resource management, distributed systems, mobility, power management and sustainability, real-time systems, and social networks We encourage research papers containing original research results, challenge papers motivating new research directions, and application papers describing experiences from real systems. In addition, the workshop will facilitate discussion and collaborative research among the participants. One Best Paper Award will be announced at the end of workshop to recognize the current best work in feedback computing. Paper Submissions The workshop follows a single-blind review process. Authors are invited to submit three types of papers to emphasize the multiple focuses of this workshop: * Research Papers: Research papers must represent original, unpublished contributions and must not exceed 6 pages in length (excluding references). * Challenge Papers: Challenge paper submissions must motivate research challenges with real systems that can take advantage of feedback computing, and should not exceed 3 pages in length (excluding references). * Application Papers: Application paper submissions must be based on real experience and working systems. All submissions should be formatted as annotated slides??a visual in the upper half of a page and the explanatory text in the lower half??and should not exceed 15 slides in length. Please refer to https://www.usenix.org/conference/feedbackcomputing14/call-for-papers for submission instructions. Committee: General Chair: Jie Liu, Microsoft Research TPC Chairs: Sharad Singhal, HP Labs Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Penn State TPC: Eduardo Tovar, Polytechnic Institute of Porto Pradeep Padala, Vmware Arif Merchant, Google Qian Wang, Penn State Karl-Erik Arzen, Lund University Jeffrey Kephart, IBM Research Mark Squillante, IBM Research Sherif Abdelwahed, Mississippi State University Martina Maggio, Lund University Ming Zhao, Florida International University From carlosm at soe.ucsc.edu Mon Mar 10 20:33:25 2014 From: carlosm at soe.ucsc.edu (Carlos Maltzahn) Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 17:33:25 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Updated CFP (extended deadlines): 1st Programmable File Systems Workshop (PFSW at HPDC'14) In-Reply-To: <9B004ECB-2FBC-4DE9-9EEC-43524917A60F@soe.ucsc.edu> References: <039F840F-1832-4C32-BC37-5C385E5E6721@cs.ucsc.edu> <9B004ECB-2FBC-4DE9-9EEC-43524917A60F@soe.ucsc.edu> Message-ID: <858D0A04-4FE9-4B78-B89F-DED315C30B9B@soe.ucsc.edu> [Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this email] 1st Programmable File Systems Workshop (PFSW?14) in conjunction with The 23rd International ACM Symposium on High Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC 2014) Vancouver, BC, Canada on June 23-27, 2014 (workshop is one day TBD) http://www.cs.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/PFSW/ UPDATES: Submissions: March 21, 2014, Final versions: April 26, 2014 WORKSHOP ABSTRACT A major milestone in the evolution of digital computers was the development of the stored-program concept and the design of Turing-complete machines as opposed to fixed-program computers. Yet, we still treat an increasingly important subsystem of computers largely as a fixed-program computer: file and storage systems. Among the key reasons for this history is the justified fear that (1) any interface changes in file and storage systems will make legacy data inaccessible and locks the data to a particular system and (2) programmability will increase the probability of data loss. Yet with the advent of open source file systems a new usage pattern emerges: users isolate subsystems of these file systems and put them in contexts not foreseen by original designers. Examples are: (1) an object-based storage back end gets a new RESTful front end to become a Amazon Web Service's S3 compliant key value store, (2) a data placement function is used as a placement function for customer accounts, and (3) the HDF5 scientific data access library is embedded into parallel storage systems. This trend shows a desire for the ability to use existing file system services and compose them to implement new services ? a desire, however, that is frequently stumped by the difficulty of bringing new services of advanced functionality up to production quality and sufficiently low probability of data loss. At the same time government and industry are heavily investing into the development of new, extremely scalable, and highly efficient, distributed I/O stacks that largely abandon traditional file and storage system interfaces. Designing programmability into file and storage systems has the following benefits: (1) we are achieving greater separation of storage performance engineering from storage reliability engineering, making it possible to optimize storage systems in a wide variety of ways without risking years of investments into code hardening; (2) we are creating an environment that encourages people to create a new stack of storage systems abstractions, both domain-specific and across domains, including sophisticated optimizers that rely on machine learning techniques; (3) we are informing commercial parallel file system vendors on the design of low-level APIs for their products so that they match the versatility of open source storage systems without having to release their entire code into open source; and (4) we are using this historical opportunity to leverage the tension between the versatility of open source storage systems and the reliability of proprietary systems to lead the community of storage system designers. GOAL This one-day workshop focusses on frameworks that allow the programmability of file and storage systems while addressing the risks of data interface change. The workshop aims to serve as a venue for leaders in the file system and storage community to exchange ideas outside the tradition of half a century of classic file and storage systems research which focussed on a small set of unchanging interfaces. PAPER SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 8 pages of double column text using single-spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages (including all text, figures, references, and appendices), as per ACM 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines (document templates can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Electronic submissions in pdf format are received at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pfsw2014 at the submission deadline. TOPICS Addressing programmability of the non-volatile part of the memory hierarchy, the workshop seeks contributions on relevant topics, included but not limited to: - Programming models - Data interface change management and isolation - Interface metadata management and propagation - Compile-time and runtime storage optimization - Data and task placement in large-scale storage stack - Local and distributed performance management and isolation - Nonstop storage system evolution IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers: March 21, 2014, 11:59 PM PST Author notification: April 15, 2014 Final versions: April 26, 2014 (UPDATED, to ensure ACM Digital Library publication) Workshop: One day during June 23-27, 2014 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Carlos Maltzahn - University of California, Santa Cruz Patrick McCormick - Los Alamos National Laboratory PROGRAM COMMITTEE John Bent, EMC Andre Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg-Universit?t Mainz Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University Phil Carns, Argonne National Laboratory Yong Chen, Texas Tech University Toni Cortes, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya Evan Felix, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Maya Gokhale, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory Dean Hildebrand, IBM Almaden Dries Kimpe, Argonne National Laboratory Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Quincey Koziol, HDF Group Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratory Barney Maccabe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Carlos Maltzahn, University of California at Santa Cruz Adam Manzanares, HGST Pat McCormick, Los Alamos National Laboratory Michael Mesnier, Intel Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Amazon.com Neoklis Polyzotis, University of California at Santa Cruz Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory Sage Weil, Inktank Storage Brent Welch, Google Jon Woodring, Los Alamos National Laboratory -- Carlos Maltzahn Associate Adjunct Professor Computer Science Department University of California, Santa Cruz http://www.cs.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From zhaom at cis.fiu.edu Wed Mar 12 09:50:31 2014 From: zhaom at cis.fiu.edu (Ming Zhao) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 09:50:31 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] ICAC14 Special Tracks CFP (Smart Cyber-Physical Systems & Management of Big Data Systems) Message-ID: <20140312135041.AF2CE11716@cheetah.cs.fiu.edu> ICAC 2014 Special Tracks Call for Papers ---------------------------------------------------- 11th International Conference on Autonomic Computing June 18-20, 2014 Philadelphia, PA Co-held with the 2015 USENIX Federated Conferences Week (June 17-20, 2014) Sponsored by USENIX, the Advanced Computing Systems Association https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac14 (CFP: https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac14/call-for-papers) * Special Tracks Key Information ** Smart Cyber-Physical Systems Co-Chairs: Ron Ambrosio (IBM Research), Sokwoo Rhee, NIST Paper submissions due: March 24, 2014, 11:59 p.m. PDT More info: https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac14/self-cps ** MBDS: Management of Big Data System Co-Chairs: Karsten Schwan (GIT), Vanish Talwar (HP Labs) Paper submissions due: March 31, 2014, 11:59 p.m. PDT More info: https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac14/mbds-management-big-data-systems * Special Track I: Smart Cyber-Physical Systems The increased connectedness of real-time embedded systems and sensors has led to the emergence of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), systems of collaborative computational elements controlling a physical process. Areas such as avionics, smart grids, medical devices, traffic control, automotive are examples of domains where CPS is growing at an exponential pace. Autonomic computing promises to help manage the complexity of these systems in order to meet high-level objectives and policies specified by humans. However, there is still a lack of research on new techniques adapted to the CPS context or on how to adapt and tailor existing research on autonomic computing to the specific characteristics of CPS, such as high dynamicity and distribution, real-time requirements, resource constraints, systems-of-systems, and integration of heterogenous technologies. Following the recent success of the special track on the Internet-of-Things at ICAC '13, ICAC '14 will host this special track on Self-aware Cyber-Physical Systems that aims at drawing the attention of both CPS and autonomic computing communities to the emerging needs and challenges for self-aware CPS. The main goal is to gather different scientific communities from academy and industry under one common objective: realizing plug-n-play, context-aware and autonomous CPS that will be self-configured, self-organized, self-optimized and self-healed without (or with minimum) human intervention. The Self-CPS track welcomes original research papers related to self-management in CPS. Besides theoretical aspects, Self-CPS is also interested in practical results of self-management in CPS applications. ** Topics The non-exclusive list of topics of interest is as follows: ** Software engineering methods for self-adaptive heterogenous CPS, including tools, model-driven methodologies, methodologies for lifecycle management ** Modeling environmental context and user behavior, context-awareness ** Convergence of CPS and cloud computing, autonomic provisioning of CPS services in the cloud ** Control theory methods for CPS, distributed control loops, cooperation and negotiation, multi-agent approaches for autonomic CPS, Event-Condition-Action rules, utility functions ** Tools for performance monitoring, diagnostics and self-healing in CPS ** Autonomic security and privacy, dependability, trust in CPS ** Self-organizing network protocols, ad-hoc routing mechanisms, cognitive networks adapted to resource constrained devices and lossy environments ** Experience in applying autonomic methodologies for CPS in avionics, smart grids, medical devices, traffic control, automotive and all CPS domains ** Paper Submissions Submissions to the Self-CPS track follow the same guidelines as described in the main ICAC '14 Call for Papers; in addition, submissions should be a maximum of 6 pages in length. In order to submit your work to the Self-CPS track, please do so via the Web submission form for this special track, as opposed to the submission form for the general ICAC '14 track. ** Important Dates Paper submissions due: March 24, 2014, 11:59 p.m. PDT Notification to authors: April 9, 2014 Final paper files due: May 20, 2014 * Special Track II: Management of Big Data Systems (MBDS) Data is growing at an exponential rate and several systems have emerged to store and analyze such large amounts of data. These systems, termed "Big Data systems" are fast-evolving. Examples include the NoSQL storage systems, Hadoop Map-Reduce, data analytics platforms, search and indexing platforms, and data streaming infrastructures. These systems address needs for structured and unstructured data across a wide spectrum of domains such as Web, social networks, enterprise, cloud, mobile, sensor networks, multimedia/streaming, cyberphysical systems, and high performance applications including for experiment data generated by high end devices; and for multiple application verticals such as biosciences, healthcare, transportation, public sector, energy utilities, oil and gas, and scientific computing. With increasing scale and complexity, managing these Big Data systems to cope with failures and performance problems is becoming non-trivial. New resource management and scheduling mechanisms are also needed for such systems, as are mechanisms for tuning and support from platform layers. Several open source and proprietary solutions have been proposed to address these requirements, with extensive contributions from industry and academia. However, there remain substantial challenges, including those that pertain to such systems' autonomic and self-management capabilities. The objective of the MBDS track at ICAC '14 is to bring together researchers, practitioners, system administrators, system programmers, and others interested in sharing and presenting their perspectives on the effective management of Big Data systems. The focus of the track is on novel and practical systems-oriented work. MBDS offers an opportunity for researchers and practitioners from industry, academia, and the National Labs to showcase the latest advances in this area and also to discuss and identify future directions and challenges in all aspects on autonomic management of Big Data systems. ** Topics Two types of contributions are solicited on all aspects of Big Data management: (1) short papers and (2) panel presentations. Short papers should be no more than 6 pages, including the abstract, and will appear in the ICAC '14 conference proceedings. Proposed panel presentations require only an abstract. Topics of interest include but are not limited to the following: ** Autonomic and self-managing techniques to deal with failures, load imbalance, etc. ** Application-level resource management and scheduling mechanisms ** System tuning/auto-tuning and configuration management ** APIs and interactions between application- and system-level management or more generally, holistic management across software and hardware ** Performance management, fault management, and power management ** Scalability challenges ** Complexity challenges, as for composite, cross-tier systems with multiple control loops ** Unified/joint management of "data in motion" and "data at rest" ** Dealing with structured or with unstructured data, or both ** Monitoring, diagnosis, and automated behavior detection ** System-level principles and support for resource management ** Implications of emerging hardware technologies such as non-volatile memory ** Domain specific challenges in Web, cloud, social networks, mobile, sensor networks, streaming analytics, and cyber-physical systems ** System building and experience papers for specific industry verticals ** Paper Submissions Submissions to the MBDS track follow the same guidelines as described in the main ICAC '14 Call for Papers; in addition, submissions should be a maximum of 6 pages in length. In order to submit your work to the MBDS track, please do so via the Web submission form for this special track, as opposed to the submission form for the general ICAC '14 track. Questions? Contact the Program Vice-Chairs of the track. ** Important Dates Paper submissions due: March 31, 2014, 11:59 p.m. PDT Notification to authors: April 9, 2014 Final paper files due: May 20, 2014 From Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov Wed Mar 12 14:15:00 2014 From: Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov (Tumeo, Antonino) Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 18:15:00 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [CFP] DEADLINE APPROACHING - JPDC Special Issue on: Architectures and Algorithms for Irregular Applications Message-ID: <17DEA6E8-D717-4AE6-83C1-3B30B92113FE@pnnl.gov> Call for papers Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing: Special Issue on: Architectures and Algorithms for Irregular Applications http://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-parallel-and-distributed-computing/call-for-papers/architectures-and-algorithms-for-irregular-applications/ Motivation There is an emergence of data intensive, irregular applications for knowledge discovery in such diverse fields as cybersecurity, bioinformatics, Computer Aided Design, machine learning, and the semantic analysis of complex social, transportation, and communication networks. Knowledge discovery applications operate on web-scale data sets best represented as graphs using pointer- or linked list based data structures. Consequently, these applications are irregular in both data and control flow. For the most part, they generate concurrent activity per data element and unpredictable, fine-grain communication requests. Since extent supercomputing systems are built with hardware components and software stacks optimized for data locality and regular computation, developing irregular applications for these systems demands a substantial effort and still results in poor execution performance and scalability. New designs are needed to address irregular application challenges impacting all aspects of the computer hardware and software stack, including micro- and system-architectures, runtime systems, compilers, languages, libraries, and algorithms. Only collaborative efforts among researchers with different expertise can lead to significant breakthroughs. The objective of this special issue is to collect the most novel approaches for irregular applications and to establish a foundation on which future solutions can be built. This special issue will catalyze the surging interest in irregular applications. We will accept both novel unpublished work, as well as published, but significantly extended, work. Articles may address any aspect of the hardware and software stack listed above. Call for Papers There is an emergence of data intensive, irregular applications for knowledge discovery in such diverse fields as cybersecurity, bioinformatics, Computer Aided Design, machine learning, and the semantic analysis of complex social, transportation, and communication networks. Knowledge discovery applications operate on web-scale data sets best represented as graphs using pointer- or linked list based data structures. While these applications have a significant degree of latent parallelism, they are difficult to scale on current high-performance computer systems because of their fine-grain, irregular, and unpredictable data accesses. Moreover, their data sets are difficult to partition and generate load imbalances. Current high performance architectures rely on data locality, regular computations, structured data, and assume datasets that are easy to partitioned. Consequently, they do not support the requirements of irregular applications. Addressing these requirements throughout the hardware and software stack of current and future system architectures will become critical to solving the scientific challenges of the next decade. This special issue seeks to explore solutions for supporting efficient design, development, and execution of irregular applications in the form of new features for micro- and system- architectures, runtime systems, compilers, languages, libraries, and algorithms. Topics of interest, of both theoretical and practical significance, include but are not limited to: * Micro- and System-architectures * Network and memory architectures * Manycore, hybrid, heterogeneous and custom architectures (Tilera, GPUs, FPGAs) Modeling, evaluation and characterization of architectures for memory intensive and irregular applications * Innovative algorithmic techniques * Combinatorial (graph) algorithms and their applications Parallelization techniques and data structures Languages and programming models * Library and runtime support * Compiler and analysis techniques * Case studies of irregular applications (e.g. Semantic Graph Databases, Data Mining, Security, Bioinformatics This special issue solicits novel, unpublished work, and previously published, but significantly extended, work. Submission Format The submitted papers must be written in English and describe original research which is not published nor currently under review by other journals or conferences. Author guidelines for preparation of manuscripts can be found at http://www.elsevier.com/journals/journal-of-parallel-and-distributed-computing/0743-7315/guide-for-authors. For more information, please contact Antonino Tumeo (antonino.tumeo at pnnl.gov). Submission Guidelines All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted through Elsevier Editorial System (EES). The authors must select ??Special Issue: AAIA?? when they reach the ??Article Type?? step in the submission process. The EES website is located at:http://ees.elsevier.com/jpdc. Paper submission: November 15, 2013 to March 24, 2014 Acceptance notification: July 26, 2014 Final papers: September 29, 2014 Guide for Authors This site will guide you stepwise through the creation and uploading of your article. The Guide for Authors can be found on the JPDC journal homepage (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/jpdc). Guest Editors: John T. Feo, PNNL Antonino Tumeo, PNNL Timothy G. Mattson, Intel Oreste Villa, NVIDIA Simone Secchi, Universit? di Cagliari -- Best Regards, Antonino Tumeo Research Scientist High Performance Computing Pacific Northwest National Laboratory antonino.tumeo at pnnl.gov From carlosm at soe.ucsc.edu Mon Mar 17 12:59:25 2014 From: carlosm at soe.ucsc.edu (Carlos Maltzahn) Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2014 09:59:25 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Final CFP: 1st Programmable File Systems Workshop (PFSW at HPDC'14) In-Reply-To: <858D0A04-4FE9-4B78-B89F-DED315C30B9B@soe.ucsc.edu> References: <039F840F-1832-4C32-BC37-5C385E5E6721@cs.ucsc.edu> <9B004ECB-2FBC-4DE9-9EEC-43524917A60F@soe.ucsc.edu> <858D0A04-4FE9-4B78-B89F-DED315C30B9B@soe.ucsc.edu> Message-ID: <63BBA9EF-DE6A-420D-A151-2AD9660F09D8@soe.ucsc.edu> [Apologies if you have received multiple copies of this email] 1st Programmable File Systems Workshop (PFSW?14) in conjunction with The 23rd International ACM Symposium on High Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC 2014) Vancouver, BC, Canada on June 23-27, 2014 (workshop is one day TBD) http://www.cs.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/PFSW/ Submissions: March 21, 2014, Final versions: April 26, 2014 WORKSHOP ABSTRACT A major milestone in the evolution of digital computers was the development of the stored-program concept and the design of Turing-complete machines as opposed to fixed-program computers. Yet, we still treat an increasingly important subsystem of computers largely as a fixed-program computer: file and storage systems. Among the key reasons for this history is the justified fear that (1) any interface changes in file and storage systems will make legacy data inaccessible and locks the data to a particular system and (2) programmability will increase the probability of data loss. Yet with the advent of open source file systems a new usage pattern emerges: users isolate subsystems of these file systems and put them in contexts not foreseen by original designers. Examples are: (1) an object-based storage back end gets a new RESTful front end to become a Amazon Web Service's S3 compliant key value store, (2) a data placement function is used as a placement function for customer accounts, and (3) the HDF5 scientific data access library is embedded into parallel storage systems. This trend shows a desire for the ability to use existing file system services and compose them to implement new services ? a desire, however, that is frequently stumped by the difficulty of bringing new services of advanced functionality up to production quality and sufficiently low probability of data loss. At the same time government and industry are heavily investing into the development of new, extremely scalable, and highly efficient, distributed I/O stacks that largely abandon traditional file and storage system interfaces. Designing programmability into file and storage systems has the following benefits: (1) we are achieving greater separation of storage performance engineering from storage reliability engineering, making it possible to optimize storage systems in a wide variety of ways without risking years of investments into code hardening; (2) we are creating an environment that encourages people to create a new stack of storage systems abstractions, both domain-specific and across domains, including sophisticated optimizers that rely on machine learning techniques; (3) we are informing commercial parallel file system vendors on the design of low-level APIs for their products so that they match the versatility of open source storage systems without having to release their entire code into open source; and (4) we are using this historical opportunity to leverage the tension between the versatility of open source storage systems and the reliability of proprietary systems to lead the community of storage system designers. GOAL This one-day workshop focusses on frameworks that allow the programmability of file and storage systems while addressing the risks of data interface change. The workshop aims to serve as a venue for leaders in the file system and storage community to exchange ideas outside the tradition of half a century of classic file and storage systems research which focussed on a small set of unchanging interfaces. PAPER SUBMISSIONS Authors are invited to submit papers with unpublished, original work of not more than 8 pages of double column text using single-spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages (including all text, figures, references, and appendices), as per ACM 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines (document templates can be found at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). Electronic submissions in pdf format are received at https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pfsw2014 at the submission deadline. TOPICS Addressing programmability of the non-volatile part of the memory hierarchy, the workshop seeks contributions on relevant topics, included but not limited to: - Programming models - Data interface change management and isolation - Interface metadata management and propagation - Compile-time and runtime storage optimization - Data and task placement in large-scale storage stack - Local and distributed performance management and isolation - Nonstop storage system evolution IMPORTANT DATES Submission of papers: March 21, 2014, 11:59 PM PST Author notification: April 15, 2014 Final versions: April 26, 2014 (UPDATED, to ensure ACM Digital Library publication) Workshop: One day during June 23-27, 2014 WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS Carlos Maltzahn - University of California, Santa Cruz Patrick McCormick - Los Alamos National Laboratory PROGRAM COMMITTEE John Bent, EMC Andre Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg-Universit?t Mainz Randal Burns, Johns Hopkins University Phil Carns, Argonne National Laboratory Yong Chen, Texas Tech University Toni Cortes, Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya Evan Felix, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Maya Gokhale, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Gary Grider, Los Alamos National Laboratory Dean Hildebrand, IBM Almaden Dries Kimpe, Argonne National Laboratory Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Quincey Koziol, HDF Group Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratory Barney Maccabe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Carlos Maltzahn, University of California at Santa Cruz Adam Manzanares, HGST Pat McCormick, Los Alamos National Laboratory Michael Mesnier, Intel Kiran-Kumar Muniswamy-Reddy, Amazon.com Neoklis Polyzotis, University of California at Santa Cruz Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory Sage Weil, Inktank Storage Brent Welch, Google Jon Woodring, Los Alamos National Laboratory -- Carlos Maltzahn Associate Adjunct Professor Computer Science Department University of California, Santa Cruz http://www.cs.ucsc.edu/~carlosm/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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It will serve as an international forum to bring together researchers and practitioners from academia and industry to discuss cutting-edge research on networking, high-performance computer architecture, and parallel and distributed data storage technologies. Topics (Topics of interest include but are not limited to the list as follow) - Virtual and overlay networks - Network applications and services - Ad hoc and sensor networks - Networks and protocols - Network architectures - Processor architectures - Cache and memory systems - Parallel computer architectures - Impact of technology on architecture - Network information theory & network coding - Network modeling and measurement - Power and energy efficient architectures and techniques - Storage management - Storage performance and scalability - File systems, object-based storage and block storage - Energy-aware storage - Architecture and applications of solid state disks - Cloud storage - Storage visualization - HW/SW co-designs&trade-offs Important Dates - Deadline for Paper Submission: April 4th, 2014 - Notification of Paper Acceptance: May 19th, 2014 - Camera-ready Paper and Author Registration: June 9th, 2014 Submission NAS 2014 invites authors to submit original and unpublished work. All accepted papers will be included in the IEEE digital library and indexed by EI. From mmartimay at gmail.com Tue Mar 25 05:08:38 2014 From: mmartimay at gmail.com (Martina Maggio) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 10:08:38 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for papers Feedback computing 2014 Message-ID: http://feedbackcomputing.org/ Important Dates Paper submissions due: April 10, 2013, 11:59 p.m. PDT Notification to authors: April 26, 2013 Final paper files due: May 24, 2013 Workshop date: June 25, 2013 ======================================== Following the success of the past six FeBID workshops and the newly debuted Feedback Computing Workshop in 2012, the 2013 International Workshop on Feedback Computing will be held in June 2013, as part of USENIX Federated Conferences Week in the heart of the Silicon Valley. Feedback Computing is a unique forum built around advancing feedback system theory and practice in modeling, analyzing, designing, and optimizing computing systems. The creation of this workshop represents the growing use of feedback in a broader agenda and is a timely response to the following two trends: Computing systems are growing larger, smarter, and more complex, embedding in the physical world, human interactions, and societal infrastructure. Systematic and feedback-driven approaches are critical to address the dynamic complexity that arises in new fields such as cyber-physical systems, cloud computing, social networks, and mobile applications. Advances in disciplines such as machine learning, mathematical optimization, network theories, decision theories, and data engineering provide new foundations and techniques that empower feedback approaches to address computing systems at scale and to achieve goals such as autonomy, adaptation, stabilization, robustness, or performance optimization. ======================================== The Feedback Computing Workshop seeks original research contributions and position papers on advancing feedback control technologies and their applications in computing systems, broadly defined. Topic of interests include but are not limited to: Theoretical foundations for feedback computing New control paradigms and system architecture Sensing, actuation, and data management in feedback computing Learning and modeling of computing system dynamics Design patterns and software engineering Feedback computing education and awareness Experiences and best practices from real systems Applications in domains such as distributed systems, cloud computing, data center resource management, real-time systems, cyber-physical systems, social network, and mobility We encourage research paper submissions expressing original research results, challenge paper submissions motivating new research directions, and application paper submissions elaborating experiences from real systems. In addition, the workshop will leverage extended coffee breaks and lunch break to arrange special meetings and to discuss collaborative research agenda built among the participants. ======================================== Authors are invited to submit three types of papers to emphasize the multiple focuses of this workshop: Research Papers: Research paper submissions must represent original, unpublished contributions. All submissions should be typeset in two-column format in 10 point type on 12 point (single-spaced) leading, with the text block being no more than 6.5" wide by 9" deep; submission should not exceed 6 pages in length (excluding references). Manuscript templates are available for download from the USENIX templates page. Challenge Papers: Challenge paper submissions must motivate research challenges with real systems that can take advantage of feedback computing. All submissions should be typeset in two-column format in 10 point type on 12 point (single-spaced) leading, with the text block being no more than 6.5" wide by 9" deep; submission should not exceed 3 pages in length (excluding references). Manuscript templates are available for download from the USENIX templates page. Application Papers: Application paper submissions must be based on real experience and working systems. All submissions should be formatted as annotated slides--a visual in the upper half of a page and the explanatory text in the lower half--and should not exceed 15 slides in length. All papers are to be submitted via the Web submission form as PDF files. The workshop follows a single-blind review process. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. USENIX, like other scientific and technical conferences and journals, prohibits these practices and may take action against authors who have committed them. See the USENIX Conference Submissions Policy for details. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. If you are uncertain whether your submission meets USENIX's guidelines, please contact the program co-chairs, feedback13chairs at usenix.org, or the USENIX office, submissionspolicy at usenix.org. At least one author of an accepted paper is expected to present the paper in person at the workshop. There will not be copyright-transferred formal proceedings for the workshop. The accepted papers will be available online to registered attendees before the conference and will also be distributed via USB drives at the conference. If your accepted paper should not be published prior to the event, please notify production at usenix.org. The papers will be available online to everyone beginning on June 25, 2013. Accepted submissions will be treated as confidential prior to publication on the USENIX Feedback Computing Workshop '13 Web site; rejected submissions will be permanently treated as confidential. One Best Paper Award will be announced at the end of workshop to recognize the current best work in feedback computing. ======================================== From changliu.aus at gmail.com Tue Mar 25 23:07:40 2014 From: changliu.aus at gmail.com (Chang Liu) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 14:07:40 +1100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Workshops - IEEE BDSE 2014 (Big Data Science and Engineering), 24-26 Sept 2014, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China Message-ID: Call for Workshops: The 3rd IEEE International Conference on Big Data Science and Engineering (BDSE2014), 24-26 September 2014, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/workshop.htm Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: April 30, 2014 Workshop Notification: May 10, 2014 Workshop Proposal Submissions: Email to workshop chairs listed below Khaled Mohammed Khan, Qatar University, Qatar, email: k.khan at qu.edu.qa Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China, email: douwc at nju.edu.cn Simon Fong, University of Macau, China, email: ccfong at umac.mo Introduction: BDSE2014 workshops will be held together with BDSE2014 during the same dates and venue. We invite you to submit workshop proposals on any topics related to Big Data to the Workshop Chairs. The purpose of these workshops is to offer to researchers a good opportunity to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself and to obtain feedback from an interested community. Workshops that focus on new and emerging topics, or on applications and industry contributions are particularly encouraged. In general, a workshop takes one day or half day while multiple-day workshops are welcome. A workshop proposal should contain at least: ? Title of workshop: International workshop on ... ? Workshop chairs/organisers: Names, Affiliations, address, e-mail, ? Brief description of the workshop (several hundred words) ? The workshop deadlines and website ? Prior history of this workshop, if any. Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: April 30, 2014 Workshop Notification: May 10, 2014 Each workshop will start to distribute a call for paper after receiving the notification. Papers submitted to each workshop will be reviewed by the program committee and external reviewers of the workshop. Once accepted, each workshop organisers are in charge of: ? Setting up a Web site for the workshop according to the template that will be distributed. ? Establishing own paper submission system. ? Deciding own submission deadlines, but following the same camera-ready deadline and registration deadline as BDSE2014 main conference. ? Ensuring that each paper selected for inclusion in the proceedings will be registered for BDSE2014 at the same registration rates. Each paper must be presented in person by the author, or one of the authors. Proceedings of the BDSE2014 workshops will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, in the same proceedings of BDSE2014, and will be made available to all conference registrants on site. All workshop papers will also be electronically available through IEEE Xplore Digital Database, and professionally indexed through INSPEC and EI Index. Please organize your workshop as early as possible to ensure your effort turn out to be fruitful. In particular we suggest to make explicit the different focus of your workshop, if compared with eventual overlapping conference topics, in order to attract relevant contributions. For further information on preparing a workshop proposal, please contact the Workshops Chairs. Workshop Chairs: Khaled Mohammed Khan, Qatar University, Qatar, email: k.khan at qu.edu.qa Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China, email: douwc at nju.edu.cn Simon Fong, University of Macau, China, email: ccfong at umac.mo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From darrell at soe.ucsc.edu Wed Mar 26 05:06:24 2014 From: darrell at soe.ucsc.edu (Darrell Long) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 10:06:24 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Reviewers Message-ID: <572458E3-BF2C-4DF8-B786-617A0279AD51@cs.ucsc.edu> Dear Colleagues, The papers are in for MASCOTS and we have quite a number in storage and file systems. Since we all care about quality of reviews, I would like to invite you to serve as a reviewer. If you?re interested, please contact me and also the program chair, Salima Benbernou . And of course, we hope to see you in Paris in September! It will be a great conference and the weather in Paris will be great. From jinjun.chen at gmail.com Wed Mar 26 01:11:17 2014 From: jinjun.chen at gmail.com (Jinjun Chen) Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2014 16:11:17 +1100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP - IEEE TCC Special Issue on "Big Data Computing on Clouds" Message-ID: Call for Papers: IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing Special Issue on "Big Data Computing on Clouds". Website: http://www.swinflow.org/si/tccbd.htm. Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size or complexity is beyond the ability of commonly used computer software and hardware tools. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Various technologies are being discussed to support the handling of big data such as massively parallel processing databases, scalable storage systems, cloud computing platforms, and MapReduce. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Besides, Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. Therefore, there is a strong demand to investigate various challenges about how to support Big Data processing by facilitating Cloud Computing potential. This special issue will focus on this challenging topic. *Topics* Original and unpublished high-quality research results are solicited to explore various challenging topics which include, but are not limited to: ? Cloud Architecture for Big Data ? Resource scheduling and SLA for Big Data on Cloud ? Storage and computation management in Cloud for Big Data ? Large-scale data intensive workflow in support of Big Data processing on Cloud ? Multiple source data processing and integration on Cloud ? Virtualisation and visualisation of Big Data on Cloud ? Fault tolerance and reliability for Big Data processing on Cloud ? MapReduce with Cloud for Big Data processing ? Big data application workflow management on Cloud ? Distributed file storage system with Cloud for Big Data ? Inter-cloud technology for Big Data ? Security, privacy and trust in Big Data processing on Cloud ? Green, energy-efficient models and sustainability issues in Cloud for Big Data processing ? Cloud infrastructure for social networking with Big Data ? User friendly Cloud access for Big Data processing ? Innovative Cloud data centre networking for Big Data ? Wireless and mobility support in Cloud data centre for Big Data ? Cloud and Big Data for Smart and Sustainable Cities *Schedule* Submission due date: November 15, 2014 Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2015 Submission of final manuscript: May 15, 2015 Publication date: 2nd Quarter, 2015 (Tentative) *Submission & Major Guidelines* The special issue invites original research papers that make significant contributions to the state-of-the-art in "Big Data Computing on Clouds". The papers must not have been previously published or submitted for journal or conference publications. However, the papers that have been previously published with reputed conferences such as *IEEE BDSE 2014 (Big Data Science and Engineering - http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/ *) could be considered for publication in the special issue if they contain significant number of "new and original" ideas/contributions along with more than 49% brand "new" material. Every submitted paper will receive at least three reviews. The editorial review committee will include well known experts in the area. Submissions must be directly submitted via the IEEE TCC submission web site at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tcc-cs, and must follow instructions for formatting and length listed there. For additional information, please contact Jinjun.Chen at gmail.com. *Selection and Evaluation Criteria* - Significance to the readership of the journal - Relevance to the special issue - Originality of idea, technical contribution, and significance of the presented results - Quality, clarity, and readability of the written text - Quality of references and related work - Quality of research hypothesis, assertions, and conclusion *Editor-in-Chief * Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia *Guest Editors* Jinjun Chen (Contact Person), Jinjun.Chen at gmail.com, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Ivan Stojmenovic, ivan at site.uottawa.ca, University of Ottawa, Canada Irena Bojanova, ibojanova at umuc.edu, University of Maryland University College, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vetter at ornl.gov Thu Mar 27 09:32:53 2014 From: vetter at ornl.gov (Vetter, Jeffrey S.) Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2014 09:32:53 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] SC14 Call for Submissions to Emerging Technologies Track Message-ID: <614353E7E745E3479469A446FD95E75C168B44062F@EXCHMB.ornl.gov> ======================================================================= CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS Emerging Technologies Track at ACM/IEEE SC 2014 New Orleans Convention Center New Orleans, LA November 16-21, 2014 http://sc14.supercomputing.org/program/emerging-technologies Submission Deadline: 31 July 2014 ======================================================================= In the Emerging Technologies Track of the Technical Program, SC14 will provide a showcase for high-risk, high-reward hardware and software technologies that may significantly change the world of HPC in the next ten years. For example, technologies like reconfigurable computing, new SoC designs, alternative programming systems, and novel cooling techniques may offer near-term benefits, while new device technologies, like carbon nanotubes, non-volatile memory, quantum computing, and chip-level optical interconnects offer potentially paradigm-changing benefits over the long- term. The SC14 Emerging Technologies Committee will select these technologies from submissions, based on a peer-review process with a single round of reviews. Successful projects will advocate future technologies with the potential to influence computing and society as a whole. Winners will receive free exhibit floor space in a high visibility location; this location will allow attendees the opportunity to witness technology demonstrations, see presentations, and hold in-depth technical discussions. We invite submissions from industry, academia, and government researchers for this Emerging Technologies Exhibit Showcase. Submissions will be evaluated on several criteria including potential impact on performance, productivity, power, reliability, cost of HPC systems, and novelty. Submissions with exceptional merit may be offered the opportunity to present their work at an Emerging Technology Theatre on the exhibit floor. Submissions are accepted through the submission website (listed below). Each submission should describe the project scope in detail and provide references to external resources (newspaper articles, existing installations, webpages etc.). SUBMISSION WEBSITE: http://sc14.supercomputing.org/program/emerging-technologies SCHEDULE AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: * Submission deadline: July 31, 2014 * Notification of acceptance: August 31, 2014 SUBMISSION FORMAT: Submissions are accepted at the submission website as single PDF of your proposal with a maximum of 4 pages including all important elements as follows: 1. Project description including figures, photos, references. 2. Project relevance to, and potential impact on SC. 3. Facility requirements. Each project needs to describe how much space it would require and how it would use the space provided. Please include your plan and requirements for displays, posters, A/V equipment, standing displays, additional security requirements, and additional equipment requirements, such as exceptional power or networking requirements. 4. Staffing. Would the project be able to have somebody in the booth, perhaps part time? 5. Presentation. Would you be willing to give a talk in the theatre or participate in a panel describing your project? 6. Miscellaneous. Everything that is important to add and does not fit in the other categories. Additional materials, such as prototype photos are encouraged. EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES CHAIRS: Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology Jeffrey Vetter, Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Georgia Institute of Technology TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Sadaf R. Alam, Swiss National Supercomputing Centre Roy Campbell, DoD HPCMP Robert Colwell, DARPA William Harrod, DOE Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research David E. Keyes, King Abdullah University of Science & Technology Volodymyr Kindratenko, NCSA Jesus Labarta, Barcelona Supercomputing Center Michael Mascagni, Florida State University Hiroshi Nakashima, Kyoto University Daniel A. Reed, University of Iowa Joel Saltz, Stony Brook University Please contact us at emerging-technologies at info.supercomputing.org if you have any questions. EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES WEBPAGE: http://sc14.supercomputing.org/program/emerging-technologies # # # From Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov Thu Apr 3 16:43:31 2014 From: Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov (Tumeo, Antonino) Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 20:43:31 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Posters: SEAK workshop @ DAC (Extended deadlines) Message-ID: <5247E198-4BA5-4DFE-A3A8-B2D6412F050A@pnnl.gov> SEAK: DAC Workshop on Suite of Embedded Applications and Kernels http://hpc.pnl.gov/projects/SEAK/ Workshop held in conjunction with DAC - Design Automation Conference http://www.dac.com Sunday, June 1 2014 Moscone Center ------------------------ Call for Posters Evaluating, benchmarking and classifying embedded systems are challenging tasks. By definition, an embedded system is application specific. Furthermore, an embedded system is designed to fit within certain constraints dictated by their target application areas. Aspects such as power consumption, real time awareness, reliability, accuracy of the computation, cost, device and physical size are all metrics under which an embedded system can be classified and that have a direct influence on the overall system performance. All these contrasting metrics define how well an embedded system can address its target application. An additional challenge derives from the fact that modern embedded systems are composed of a multitude of heterogeneous processing elements and components. They include general-purpose processors, digital signal processors, graphic processors, application specific accelerators, reconfigurable logic and more. These components can be either off-the-shelf or custom designed. Embedded systems often present disparate types of memory hierarchies. Also the software toolchain, which includes compilers, synthesizers and optimization tools, may have significant impacts on the metrics. This workshop is related to a new DARPA initiative in this arena called SEAK (Suite of Embedded Applications and Kernels), whose goal is to define a new, open suite of benchmarks, together with a novel methodology to evaluate in terms of performance and power end-to-end embedded systems for DOD?s application areas. The SEAK workshop solicits short abstracts for a poster session, open to academia and industry. Areas of particular interest for this assembly are research topics that identify and analyze novel ideas, rather than providing incremental advances, on the following themes: * Benchmark and micro-benchmark creation, analysis, and evaluation issues * Characterization of relevant workloads for embedded systems * Modeling of application and system behavior * Tools for analyzing power and energy with different granularities and scope from hardware (e.g. component, core, system) or software views (e.g. threads, tasks, processes, etc) or both (end-to-end systems) * Definition, identification of metrics that determine the suitability of an embedded system for its target applications, and their collection methodologies * Characterization of current state-of-the art embedded systems in terms of power and performance ------------------------ Confirmed invited speakers for the workshop include: Joseph Cross (DARPA), Richard Lethin (Reservoir Labs), Jeffrey Smith (BAE Systems), Sek Chai (SRI International), Markus Levy (EEEMBC). ------------------------ Important dates Abstract submission: 22 April 2014 (EXTENDED) Notification of Acceptance: 30 April 2014 (EXTENDED) Workshop: 1 June 2014 ------------------------ Abstract submission guidelines Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=seak2014 All submissions should be maximum 2 pages in double-column, single-spaced letter format, using 10-point size fonts, with at least one-inch margins on each side, including references. The submission can also include a draft of the poster as an additional page. Authors of accepted abstracts will be given a poster board for presenting their work at the workshop. ------------------------ Organizers Adolfy Hoisie, PNNL, USA Darren Kerbyson, PNNL, USA Joseph Cross, DARPA, USA Program Chair Antonino Tumeo, PNNL, USA Program Committee Kevin Barker, PNNL, USA Simone Campanoni, Harvard University, USA Sek Chai, SRI International, USA Roberto Gioiosa, PNNL, USA Richard Lethin, Reservoir Labs, USA Martina Maggio, Lund University, Sweden Joseph Manzano, PNNL, USA Andres Marquez, PNNL, USA David Novo Bruna, EPFL, Switzerland Francesco Regazzoni, Alari, Switzerland Simone Secchi, ARM, UK Jeffrey Smith, BAE Systems, USA Shuaiwen Song, PNNL, USA Nathan Tallent, PNNL, USA -- Best Regards, Antonino Tumeo Research Scientist High Performance Computing Pacific Northwest National Laboratory antonino.tumeo at pnnl.gov From carterka at ornl.gov Thu Apr 3 09:43:07 2014 From: carterka at ornl.gov (Carter, Kate A.) Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2014 09:43:07 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Post-Master's Research Position in Systems Programming Available at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Message-ID: The Extreme Scale Systems Center in conjunction with the Computer Science Research Group in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division, at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory seeks a Post-Master's Research Associate to perform systems programming in the field of high performance file systems and storage. The job will require collaborating with vendors, national laboratories, and universities in building a geographically distributed, fault-tolerant data replication service. The service will leverage experimental hardware and software configurations including storage area networks, parallel file systems, high performance interconnection networks, and wide area networks in order to share large data sets between multiple high performance computing centers. Job Responsibilities Include: * Research, design, and implement techniques for building a fault-tolerant, wide area runtime system. * Research, design, and implement techniques for efficiently and reliably moving large data sets over long fat networks (LFN). * Research, design, and implement software techniques for efficiently creating and interacting with file system metadata. * Assist in publishing articles in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings. Minimum Qualifications Required * Master's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineer, Mathematics or related field * Strong programming skills * Programming in C and/or C++ * Multithreading using POSIX threads Additional desirable skills include experience or familiarity with: * Experience with Python * Network programming using TCP sockets * Linux kernel/driver development * HPC/cluster network fabrics and programming APIs * Parallel and distributed file systems * Big Data programming models and systems such as Hadoop * Performance analysis, measurement, and/or modeling of distributed systems Special Requirement: This position requires access to technology that is subject to export control requirements. Successful candidates must be qualified for such access without an export control license. As a result, U.S. Citizenship or LPR (Lawful Permanent Residence), is required. This position is part of the ORNL Post-Master's Research Participation Program. Applicants should be recent Master's degree recipients or expect to complete all requirements before starting their appointments. Applicants who have already finished their master's degree must be within five years of graduation at the time of application. To learn more about the ORNL Post-Master's Research Participation Program visit, http://www.orau.org/ornl/post-masters/ For further consideration please email a CV to Kate Carter, ORNL Recruiter, at carterka at ornl.gov -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From changliu.aus at gmail.com Wed Apr 9 13:34:51 2014 From: changliu.aus at gmail.com (Chang Liu) Date: Thu, 10 Apr 2014 03:34:51 +1000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: IEEE BDSE2014 (Big Data Science and Engineering), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 24-26 Sept. 2014 Message-ID: Call for papers: The 3rd *IEEE International Conference *on Big Data Science and Engineering (BDSE2014), 24-26 September 2014, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/ Important dates: Submission Deadline: 11:59PM (UTC/GMT+8 hours) May 5, 2014 Authors Notification: June 30, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: July 20, 2014 Submissions: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/submission.htm Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be recommended to special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications; Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------ Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Various technologies are being discussed to support the handling of big data such as massively parallel processing databases, scalable storage systems, cloud computing platforms, and MapReduce. Big data is more than simply a matter of size; it is an opportunity to find insights in new and emerging types of data and content, to make business more agile, and to answer questions that were previously considered beyond our reach. Distributed systems is a classical research discipline investigating various distributed computing technologies and applications such as cloud computing and MapReduce. With new paradigms and technologies, distributed systems research keeps going with new innovative outcomes from both industry and academia. For example, wide deployment of MapReduce is a distributed programming paradigm and an associated implementation to support distributed computing over large datasets on cloud. BDSE (Big Data Science and Engineering) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Big Data and broadly related areas. BDSE 2014 is the next event in a series of highly successful International Conferences, previously held as BDSE2013 (Sydney Australia), BigDataMR-12 (Xiangtan, China November 2012), AHPCN-12 (Bradford, UK, June 2012), AHPCN-11 (Banff, Canada, September 2011), AHPCN-10 (Melbourne, Australia, September 2010), AHPCN-09 (Seoul, Korea, June 2009), AHPCN-08 (Dalian, China, September 2008). Scope and Topics The objective of the conference is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of big data and distributed computing. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: ? Big Data theory, applications and challenges ? Recent development in Big Data and MapReduce ? Big Data mining and analytics ? Big Data Infrastructure and Cloud Computing ? Big Data visualization ? Large data stream processing on cloud ? Large incremental datasets on cloud ? Distributed and federated datasets ? NoSQL data stores and DB scalability ? Big Data sharing and privacy preserving ? Security, trust and risk in Big Data ? Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization ? Extension of the MapReduce programming model ? Distributed file systems for Big Data ? MapReduce for Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA ? MapReduce on heterogeneous distributed environments ? Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization ? Simulation and debugging of MapReduce and Big Data systems and tools ? Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data ? Multiple source data processing and integration with MapReduce ? Storage and computation management of Big Data ? Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing ? Algorithms and theory for distributed systems ? Data management and distributed data systems ? Security, privacy, fault tolerance and reliability in distributed systems ? Mobile systems and development for handheld devices such as mobile phones ? Big data applications Submission Guidelines Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the BDSE2014 submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/submission.htm. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDSE2014 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed) through CPS. Selected papers will be recommended for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. General Chairs Yunhao Liu, Tsinghua University, China Nick Cercone, York University, Canada Benjamin Wah, HKCU, China Program Chairs Jianzhong Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Eiko Yoneki, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Dongshen Li, National University of Defence Technology, China Workshop Chairs Khaled Mohammed Khan, Qatar University, Qatar Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China Simon Fong, University of Macau, China Publication Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Steering Committee Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (Chair) Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Laurence T. 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URL: From faith at tacc.utexas.edu Mon Apr 14 14:43:10 2014 From: faith at tacc.utexas.edu (Faith Singer-Villalobos) Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:43:10 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CALL FOR PAPERS: 2014 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing / Abstracts due: 04.14.14 Message-ID: <9006530F67DFAB409A08E2A0C08F165D310E37CB@EXMBX01.austin.utexas.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Call for Papers 2014 IEEE International Conference on Cluster Computing (Cluster 2014) http://www.cluster2014.org September 22 - 26, 2014 Madrid, Spain ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Important dates: Paper abstracts (required) due: April 24, 2014 Full Papers Due: May 2, 2014 Paper Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- UPDATE : Keynote speakers Robert L. Grossman, University of Chicago and Open Data Group : ? Supporting Big Data with Clusters, Clouds and Commons ? Alex Ramirez, Barcelona Supercomputing Center : ? The Mont-Blanc Approach Towards Exascale ? Dan Stanzione, Texas Advanced Computing Center : ? Wrangler: A New Generation of Data Intensive Cluster Computing ? ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Clusters have become the workhorse for computational science and engineering research, powering innovation and discovery that advance science and society. They are the base for building today's rapidly evolving cloud and HPC infrastructures, and are used to solve some of the most complex problems. The challenge to make them scalable, efficient, and more functional requires the joint effort of the cluster community in the areas of cluster system design, management and monitoring, at hardware, system, middleware, and application level. 2014 Highlight: Cluster Support for Big Data. The evolution of cluster technologies is expected to substantially impact emerging research areas, such as the increasingly important Data Science field. Therefore, we have chosen this year to highlight research topics expected to bring substantial progress in the way clusters can help in addressing Big Data challenges. Specific topics are dedicated to this direction within all conference tracks alongside more traditional topics. In addition, special tutorials and workshops will focus on cluster technologies for Big Data storage and processing. New this year: Student Mentoring Program. Today's Master and PhD students are our future colleagues. The future development of cluster, grid and could computing falls on their shoulders. The Cluster conference is proud to contribute to their education through a specific mentoring program all along the week. This program will include a Poster Master Class delivered by renowned researchers, to improve their poster making and presentation skills. It will also include specific VIP scientific sessions, delivered by first-class lecturers introducing them to their vision of the field, and private question quarters, to give them a chance to ask their questions to plenary speakers after their keynotes. Also, a special ?Looking to my future? session will be organized with cluster-oriented company VIPs to tell students the latest opportunities for positions in this area, and how to earn them. Last by not least, special student socializing events will be organized, and various Best-*-Awards offered. Cluster 2014 is hosted in Madrid, Spain. Attendees will have access to the latest developments in cluster computing technologies and practices. Join the cluster computing community, and discuss new directions, opportunities and ideas that will influence its future. Cluster 2014 welcomes paper submissions on innovative work from researchers and practitioners in academia, government, and industry that describe original research and development efforts in cluster computing. All papers will be evaluated for their originality, technical depth and correctness, potential impact, relevance to the conference, and quality of presentation. Research papers must clearly demonstrate research contributions and novelty, while experience reports must clearly describe lessons learned and demonstrate impact. Major topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Track 1: Cluster Design, Configuration and Administration Chair: Michela Taufer, University of Delaware ? Cluster Architecture for Big Data storage and processing ? Energy-efficient cluster architectures ? Node and system architecture ? Packaging, power and cooling ? Visualization clusters and tiled displays ? GPU and hybrid CPU/GPU clusters ? Interconnect/memory architectures ? Single system image clusters ? Administration and maintenance tools Track 2: Cluster Software, Middleware, Tools Chair: Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology ? Middleware for Big Data management ? Big Data visualization tools ? Performance modeling for Big Data processing ? Performance evaluation, analysis and optimization ? Cloud-enabling cluster technologies and virtualization ? Energy-efficient middleware ? Protocols, libraries, and interfaces ? Lightweight communication protocols ? Security ? Resource and job management ? Scheduling and load balancing ? Reliability and high-availability architecture ? Fault tolerance, checkpointing and recovery ? Cost and performance implications of reliability ? Software environments and tools Track 3: Cluster Storage and File Systems Chair: Michael Sch?ttner, University of D?sseldorf ? Cluster support for Big Data processing ? Cloud storage for Big Data ? Storage support for Data-intensive computing ? Storage cluster architectures ? File systems and I/O libraries Track 4: Cluster Applications Chair: Venkat Vishwanath, Argonne National Laboratory ? Programming models for Big Data processing ? Big Data Application studies on cluster architectures ? HPC Applications ? Programming languages and environments ? Hybrid programming techniques (MPI+OpenMP, MPI+OpenCL, etc.) ? Benchmarking & profiling tools ? Performance prediction & modeling Paper Submission Paper Format: Since the camera-ready version of accepted papers must be compliant with the IEEE Xplore format for publication, submitted papers must conform to the following Xplore layout, page limit, and font size. ? PDF files only are accepted. ? Maximum 9 pages for Technical Papers, maximum 5 pages for Student Papers submitted to the Student Mentoring Track. ? Single-spaced, 2-column numbered pages in IEEE Xplore format (8.5?11-inch paper, margins in inches? top: 0.75, bottom: 1.0, sides:0.625, and between columns:0.25, main text: 10pt ). ? LaTeX and Word Templates are available here: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. ? Only web-based submission is accepted: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecluster2014 Important dates ? Abstracts (required) due: April 24, 2014 ? Full Papers Due: May 2, 2014 ? Paper Acceptance Notification: June 30, 2014 Social Networks ? Twitter: @IEEECluster ? Linkedin: http://www.linkedin.com/groups/IEEE-International-Conference-on-Cluster-7428925 ? Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ieee.cluster Organization Mar?a S. P?rez, UPM, Madrid, General Chair Gabriel Antoniu, INRIA, Rennes, Program Chair Kate Keahey, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Program Co-Chair Jos? M. Pe?a, CeSViMa, Madrid, Financial Chair Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago & Argonne National Laboratory, USA, Workshop Chair Christine Morin, INRIA, Rennes, France, Tutorial Chair Thomas Ludwig, University of Hamburg, Germany, Sponsors/Exhibits Chair Rosa M. Badia, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Barcelona, Spain, Sponsors/Exhibits Chair Andre Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg-Universit?t Mainz, Germany, Posters and panel Chair Luc Boug?, INRIA, Rennes, France, Educational Track Chair Alberto S?nchez, Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Madrid, Spain, Proceedings Chair Faith Singer-Villalobos, Texas Advanced Computing Center, USA, Publicity Chair Junwei Cao, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Publicity Chair Adrien Lebre, INRIA, Nantes, France, Publicity Chair Jay Boisseau, Texas Advanced Computing Center, Texas, USA, Competition Chair Jes?s Montes, CeSViMa, UPM, Madrid, Spain, Local Chair Alexandru Costan, INRIA, Rennes, France, Submission Chair Toni Cortes, BSC, Barcelona, Spain, Advisory Board Angelos Bilas, FORTH, Crete, Greece, Advisory Board Jos? L. V?zquez-Poletti, UCM, Social Network Chair Santiago Gonz?lez-Tortosa, UPM, Social Network Chair Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA, Track Chair (Track 1) Alexandru Iosup, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, Track Chair (Track 2) Michael Sch?ttner, University of D?sseldorf, Germany, Track Chair (Track 3) Venkat Vishwanath, Argonne National Laboratory, Chicago, USA, Track Chair (Track 4) Faith Singer-Villalobos Public Relations, CMD Group Texas Advanced Computing Center The University of Texas at Austin Direct: 512.232.5771 [TACC Website] Connect With TACC -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: image001.png Type: image/png Size: 1666 bytes Desc: image001.png URL: From carterka at ornl.gov Tue Apr 22 11:42:00 2014 From: carterka at ornl.gov (Carter, Kate A.) Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 11:42:00 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Postdoc position available at Oak Ridge National Laboratory Message-ID: Postdoctoral Research Associate position in HPC File Systems and Storage available at Oak Ridge National Laboratory ORNL's computational expertise is built on a foundation of computer science, mathematics, and "big data"-or data science. The projects we undertake run the gamut from basic to applied research, and our ability to efficiently apply the massive computing power available at ORNL across a range of scientific disciplines sets us apart from other computing centers. We have decades of experience in developing applications to support basic science research in areas ranging from chemistry and materials science to fission and fusion, and we apply that expertise to solving problems in a number of other areas. Oak Ridge National Laboratory is home to Titan, a Cray XK7 high-performance computing (HPC) system which debuted atop the list of world's fastest supercomputers in November 2012 with a calculating speed of 17.59 petaflops (quadrillion floating point operations per second). This blazingly fast supercomputer will decrease time to solution, increase complexity of models, and improve realism of simulations of subjects ranging from development of advanced materials to cleaner combustion of fuels. ORNL is also home to Atlas, a Lustre file system used for computational resources. As an extremely high-performance system, Atlas has over 26,000 clients, providing 32 petabytes of disk space and can move data at more than 1 Terabyte per second. HPSS is the archival mass-storage resource at ORNL and consists of robotic tape and disk storage components, Linux servers, and associated software. Incoming data is written to disk and later migrated to tape for long term archival. As storage, network, and computing technologies continue to change, ORNL's storage system evolves to take advantage of new equipment that is both more capable and more cost-effective. The Extreme Scale Systems Center in conjunction with the Computer Science Research Group in the Computer Science and Mathematics Division, at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory has an opening for a Postdoctoral Researcher in the field of high performance file systems and storage. Major Duties/Responsibilities: The job will involve collaborating with vendors, national laboratories, and universities in leveraging experimental hardware and software configurations. Additionally, the job will involve improving the performance and adding new capabilities to existing software packages as well as developing original software packages and benchmarks. Additional job responsibilities include: * Research, design, and implement techniques for building a fault-tolerant, wide area runtime system. * Research, design, and implement techniques for efficiently and reliably moving large data sets over long fat networks (LFN). * Research, design, and implement software techniques for efficiently creating and interacting with file system metadata. * Publish in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings For technical questions please contact Brad Settlemyer, settlemyerbw at ornl.gov. Minimum Qualifications Required Ph.D. in Computer Science, Computer Engineer, Mathematics or related field Strong programming skills Programming in C and/or C++ Multithreading using POSIX threads Additional desirable skills include experience or familiarity with: * Experience with Python * Network programming using TCP sockets * Linux kernel/driver development * HPC/cluster network fabrics and programming APIs * Parallel and distributed file systems * Big Data programming models and systems such as Hadoop * Performance analysis, measurement, and/or modeling of distributed systems Special Requirement: This position requires access to technology that is subject to export control requirements. Successful candidates must be qualified for such access without an export control license. As a result, U.S. Citizenship or LPR (Lawful Permanent Residence) is required. Additional Information: Applicants cannot have received the most recent degree more than five years prior to the date of application and must complete all degree requirements before starting their appointment. This position is a temporary, full-time assignment not to exceed 24 months. Certain exceptions may be considered. For further consideration please email a CV to Kate Carter, ORNL Recruiter, at carterka at ornl.gov Kate Carter Recruiter Computing and Computational Sciences Directorate Oak Ridge National Laboratory 865-310-0553 carterka at ornl.gov -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From changliu.aus at gmail.com Sat Apr 26 20:23:36 2014 From: changliu.aus at gmail.com (Chang Liu) Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2014 10:23:36 +1000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: IEEE BDSE2014 (Big Data Science and Engineering), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 24-26 Sept. 2014 Message-ID: Call for papers: The 3rd *IEEE International Conference *on Big Data Science and Engineering (BDSE2014), 24-26 September 2014, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/ Important dates: Submission Deadline: 11:59PM (UTC/GMT+8 hours) May 5, 2014 Authors Notification: June 30, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: July 20, 2014 Submissions: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/submission.htm Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be recommended to special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications; Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------ Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Various technologies are being discussed to support the handling of big data such as massively parallel processing databases, scalable storage systems, cloud computing platforms, and MapReduce. Big data is more than simply a matter of size; it is an opportunity to find insights in new and emerging types of data and content, to make business more agile, and to answer questions that were previously considered beyond our reach. Distributed systems is a classical research discipline investigating various distributed computing technologies and applications such as cloud computing and MapReduce. With new paradigms and technologies, distributed systems research keeps going with new innovative outcomes from both industry and academia. For example, wide deployment of MapReduce is a distributed programming paradigm and an associated implementation to support distributed computing over large datasets on cloud. BDSE (Big Data Science and Engineering) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Big Data and broadly related areas. BDSE 2014 is the next event in a series of highly successful International Conferences, previously held as BDSE2013 (Sydney Australia), BigDataMR-12 (Xiangtan, China November 2012), AHPCN-12 (Bradford, UK, June 2012), AHPCN-11 (Banff, Canada, September 2011), AHPCN-10 (Melbourne, Australia, September 2010), AHPCN-09 (Seoul, Korea, June 2009), AHPCN-08 (Dalian, China, September 2008). Scope and Topics The objective of the conference is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of big data and distributed computing. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: ? Big Data theory, applications and challenges ? Recent development in Big Data and MapReduce ? Big Data mining and analytics ? Big Data Infrastructure and Cloud Computing ? Big Data visualization ? Large data stream processing on cloud ? Large incremental datasets on cloud ? Distributed and federated datasets ? NoSQL data stores and DB scalability ? Big Data sharing and privacy preserving ? Security, trust and risk in Big Data ? Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization ? Extension of the MapReduce programming model ? Distributed file systems for Big Data ? MapReduce for Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA ? MapReduce on heterogeneous distributed environments ? Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization ? Simulation and debugging of MapReduce and Big Data systems and tools ? Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data ? Multiple source data processing and integration with MapReduce ? Storage and computation management of Big Data ? Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing ? Algorithms and theory for distributed systems ? Data management and distributed data systems ? Security, privacy, fault tolerance and reliability in distributed systems ? Mobile systems and development for handheld devices such as mobile phones ? Big data applications Submission Guidelines Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the BDSE2014 submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/submission.htm. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDSE2014 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed) through CPS. Selected papers will be recommended for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. General Chairs Yunhao Liu, Tsinghua University, China Nick Cercone, York University, Canada Benjamin Wah, HKCU, China Program Chairs Jianzhong Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Eiko Yoneki, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Dongshen Li, National University of Defence Technology, China Workshop Chairs Khaled Mohammed Khan, Qatar University, Qatar Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China Simon Fong, University of Macau, China Publication Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Steering Committee Albert Zomaya,The University of Sydney, Australia Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (Chair) Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Stephen Crago, University of Southern California, USA Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Laurence T. 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Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Various technologies are being discussed to support the handling of big data such as massively parallel processing databases, scalable storage systems, cloud computing platforms, and MapReduce. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Besides, Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. Therefore, there is a strong demand to investigate various challenges about how to support Big Data processing by facilitating Cloud Computing potential. This special issue will focus on this challenging topic. *Topics* Original and unpublished high-quality research results are solicited to explore various challenging topics which include, but are not limited to: ? Cloud Architecture for Big Data ? Resource scheduling and SLA for Big Data on Cloud ? Storage and computation management in Cloud for Big Data ? Large-scale data intensive workflow in support of Big Data processing on Cloud ? Multiple source data processing and integration on Cloud ? Virtualisation and visualisation of Big Data on Cloud ? Fault tolerance and reliability for Big Data processing on Cloud ? MapReduce with Cloud for Big Data processing ? Big data application workflow management on Cloud ? Distributed file storage system with Cloud for Big Data ? Inter-cloud technology for Big Data ? Security, privacy and trust in Big Data processing on Cloud ? Green, energy-efficient models and sustainability issues in Cloud for Big Data processing ? Cloud infrastructure for social networking with Big Data ? User friendly Cloud access for Big Data processing ? Innovative Cloud data centre networking for Big Data ? Wireless and mobility support in Cloud data centre for Big Data ? Cloud and Big Data for Smart and Sustainable Cities *Schedule* Submission due date: November 15, 2014 Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2015 Submission of final manuscript: May 15, 2015 Publication date: 2nd Quarter, 2015 (Tentative) *Submission & Major Guidelines* The special issue invites original research papers that make significant contributions to the state-of-the-art in ?Big Data Computing on Clouds?. The papers must not have been previously published or submitted for journal or conference publications. However, the papers that have been previously published with reputed conferences such as *IEEE BDSE 2014 (Big Data Science and Engineering - http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/ *) could be considered for publication in the special issue if they contain significant number of "new and original" ideas/contributions along with more than 49% brand "new" material. Every submitted paper will receive at least three reviews. The editorial review committee will include well known experts in the area. Submissions must be directly submitted via the IEEE TCC submission web site at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/tcc-cs, and must follow instructions for formatting and length listed there. For additional information, please contact Jinjun.Chen at gmail.com. *Selection and Evaluation Criteria* - Significance to the readership of the journal - Relevance to the special issue - Originality of idea, technical contribution, and significance of the presented results - Quality, clarity, and readability of the written text - Quality of references and related work - Quality of research hypothesis, assertions, and conclusion *Guest Editors* Jinjun Chen (Contact Person), Jinjun.Chen at gmail.com, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Ivan Stojmenovic, ivan at site.uottawa.ca, University of Ottawa, Canada Irena Bojanova, ibojanova at umuc.edu, University of Maryland University College, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Sponsored by Sponsored by IEEE TCSC Technical Area on Big Data and MapReduce http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2014/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The emergence of big data and the potential to undertake complex analysis of very large data sets is, essentially, a consequence of recent advances in the technology that allow this. The development of cloud computing over the last few years represents the single most important contributor to the big data trend, with cloud infrastructure such as compute, storage and analytical tools and apps now widely available. The convergence of big data and cloud computing are having far reaching implications that indeed are changing the world. MapReduce, a widely-adopted parallel and distributed programming paradigm for processing large-scale data sets, becomes much more powerful, scalable, elastic and cost-effective when integrated in cloud systems as it can benefits from the salient characteristics of cloud computing. Based on the MapReduce paradigm and other relevant techniques like HDFS, a series of applications and higher level platforms such as Hadoop, Hive, Twister, Spark, Pregel, to name a few, have been proposed and developed. MapReduce and the emerging tools in cloud are ideal for enterprises with large data centres and scientific communities to address the challenges posed by big data applications. The MapReduce paradigm itself, emerging MapReduce based big data tools and applications, and big data infrastructure such as cloud systems are evolving fast, and therefore need extensive investigations from various research communities. This symposium aims at providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as cloud computing, distributed computing, large-scale data management and database areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about MapReduce, MapReduce based platforms and emerging big data infrastructure. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. This is the third instalment of the symposium, following the successful events of 2013 (Australia) and 2012 (China). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topics: The objective of the symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of MapReduce and big data infrastructure. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: ? Challenges and Opportunities in MapReduce based Big Data Tools and Applications ? Recent Development in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure ? Developing, Debugging and Testing Issues of MapReduce based Big Data Tools ? Performance Tuning and Optimization for MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure ? Benchmarking, Evaluation, Simulation for MapReduce based Big Data Tools ? Iterative / Recursive MapReduce Systems ? Computational Theory for MapReduce based Systems ? Extension of the MapReduce Programming Paradigm ? Distributed File Systems for MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools ? Algorithm Analysis and Design with MapReduce Paradigm ? Resource Scheduling and SLA of MapReduce for Multiple Users ? Heterogeneity and Fault-tolerance in MapReduce based Systems and Big Data Infrastructure ? Privacy, Security, Trust and Risk in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure ? Integration of MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools with Cloud / Grid Systems ? MapReduce in Hybrid / Fabricated / Federated Cloud Systems ? Social Networks Analyses with MapReduce ? Data Mining, Analytics, and Visualization using MapReduce ? Big Stream / Incremental Data Processing using MapReduce ? Big Scientific, Genomic and Healthcare Data Processing with MapReduce ? Industrial Experience and Use Cases of MapReduce based Applications ? Recent Development Open Source Big Data Infrastructure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Guidelines: Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the MR.BDI2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrbdi2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BdCloud 2014 and attend the conference to present the paper. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Publication of paper: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud2014 in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: July 30, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2014 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2014 Registration Due: October 15, 2014 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/workshop.htm Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: May 5, 2014 Workshop Notification: May 10, 2014 Workshop Proposal Submissions: Email to workshop chairs listed below Khaled Mohammed Khan, Qatar University, Qatar, email: k.khan at qu.edu.qa Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China, email: douwc at nju.edu.cn Simon Fong, University of Macau, China, email: ccfong at umac.mo Introduction: BDSE2014 workshops will be held together with BDSE2014 during the same dates and venue. We invite you to submit workshop proposals on any topics related to Big Data to the Workshop Chairs. The purpose of these workshops is to offer to researchers a good opportunity to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself and to obtain feedback from an interested community. Workshops that focus on new and emerging topics, or on applications and industry contributions are particularly encouraged. In general, a workshop takes one day or half day while multiple-day workshops are welcome. A workshop proposal should contain at least: ? Title of workshop: International workshop on ... ? Workshop chairs/organisers: Names, Affiliations, address, e-mail, ? Brief description of the workshop (several hundred words) ? The workshop deadlines and website ? Prior history of this workshop, if any. Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: May 5, 2014 Workshop Notification: May 10, 2014 Each workshop will start to distribute a call for paper after receiving the notification. Papers submitted to each workshop will be reviewed by the program committee and external reviewers of the workshop. Once accepted, each workshop organisers are in charge of: ? Setting up a Web site for the workshop according to the template that will be distributed. ? Establishing own paper submission system. ? Deciding own submission deadlines, but following the same camera-ready deadline and registration deadline as BDSE2014 main conference. ? Ensuring that each paper selected for inclusion in the proceedings will be registered for BDSE2014 at the same registration rates. Each paper must be presented in person by the author, or one of the authors. Proceedings of the BDSE2014 workshops will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, in the same proceedings of BDSE2014, and will be made available to all conference registrants on site. All workshop papers will also be electronically available through IEEE Xplore Digital Database, and professionally indexed through INSPEC and EI Index. Please organize your workshop as early as possible to ensure your effort turn out to be fruitful. In particular we suggest to make explicit the different focus of your workshop, if compared with eventual overlapping conference topics, in order to attract relevant contributions. For further information on preparing a workshop proposal, please contact the Workshops Chairs. Workshop Chairs: Khaled Mohammed Khan, Qatar University, Qatar, email: k.khan at qu.edu.qa Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China, email: douwc at nju.edu.cn Simon Fong, University of Macau, China, email: ccfong at umac.mo -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nazanin.borhan at gmail.com Sat May 10 03:33:28 2014 From: nazanin.borhan at gmail.com (Nazanin Borhan) Date: Sat, 10 May 2014 17:33:28 +1000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: [MR.BDI 2014] The 3rd International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure, 03-05 December 2014, Sydney, Australia Message-ID: [We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] Call for Papers ? Deadline July 30, 2014 The 3rd International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure (MR.BDI 2014) 03-05 December 2014, Sydney, Australia Co-located with the 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BdCloud 2014 ). Sponsored by Sponsored by IEEE TCSC Technical Area on Big Data and MapReduce http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2014/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The emergence of big data and the potential to undertake complex analysis of very large data sets is, essentially, a consequence of recent advances in the technology that allow this. The development of cloud computing over the last few years represents the single most important contributor to the big data trend, with cloud infrastructure such as compute, storage and analytical tools and apps now widely available. The convergence of big data and cloud computing are having far reaching implications that indeed are changing the world. MapReduce, a widely-adopted parallel and distributed programming paradigm for processing large-scale data sets, becomes much more powerful, scalable, elastic and cost-effective when integrated in cloud systems as it can benefits from the salient characteristics of cloud computing. Based on the MapReduce paradigm and other relevant techniques like HDFS, a series of applications and higher level platforms such as Hadoop, Hive, Twister, Spark, Pregel, to name a few, have been proposed and developed. MapReduce and the emerging tools in cloud are ideal for enterprises with large data centres and scientific communities to address the challenges posed by big data applications. The MapReduce paradigm itself, emerging MapReduce based big data tools and applications, and big data infrastructure such as cloud systems are evolving fast, and therefore need extensive investigations from various research communities. This symposium aims at providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as cloud computing, distributed computing, large-scale data management and database areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about MapReduce, MapReduce based platforms and emerging big data infrastructure. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. This is the third instalment of the symposium, following the successful events of 2013 (Australia) and 2012 (China). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Topics: The objective of the symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of MapReduce and big data infrastructure. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: ? Challenges and Opportunities in MapReduce based Big Data Tools and Applications ? Recent Development in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure ? Developing, Debugging and Testing Issues of MapReduce based Big Data Tools ? Performance Tuning and Optimization for MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure ? Benchmarking, Evaluation, Simulation for MapReduce based Big Data Tools ? Iterative / Recursive MapReduce Systems ? Computational Theory for MapReduce based Systems ? Extension of the MapReduce Programming Paradigm ? Distributed File Systems for MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools ? Algorithm Analysis and Design with MapReduce Paradigm ? Resource Scheduling and SLA of MapReduce for Multiple Users ? Heterogeneity and Fault-tolerance in MapReduce based Systems and Big Data Infrastructure ? Privacy, Security, Trust and Risk in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure ? Integration of MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools with Cloud / Grid Systems ? MapReduce in Hybrid / Fabricated / Federated Cloud Systems ? Social Networks Analyses with MapReduce ? Data Mining, Analytics, and Visualization using MapReduce ? Big Stream / Incremental Data Processing using MapReduce ? Big Scientific, Genomic and Healthcare Data Processing with MapReduce ? Industrial Experience and Use Cases of MapReduce based Applications ? Recent Development Open Source Big Data Infrastructure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Guidelines: Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the MR.BDI2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrbdi2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BdCloud 2014 and attend the conference to present the paper. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Publication of paper: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of BdCloud2014 in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: July 30, 2014 Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2014 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2014 Registration Due: October 15, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ General Chairs: Yanpei Chen, Cloudera, USA Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Committee Chairs: Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Suraj Pandey, IBM Australia Research Lab, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Committees: Gunter Saake, University of Magdeburg, Germany Andreas Thor, University of Leipzig, Germany Javid Taheri, University of Sydney, Australia Amund Tveit, Memkite, Norway Soudip Roy Chowdhury, INRIA, Saclay, France Bahman Javadi, University of Western Sydney, Australia Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Chi Yang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Liana Fong, IBM Research, USA Nikzad Babaii Rizvandi, University of Sydney, Australia Shipin Chen, CSIRO, Australia Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy Jun-Ki Min, Korea university of technology, South Korea Ray C.C. 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Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit extended article versions to one of the IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org ================= ============== ICN 2015 | Call for Papers =============== CALL FOR PAPERS, TUTORIALS, PANELS ICN 2015, The Fourteenth International Conference on Networks April 19 - 23, 2015 - Barcelona, Spain General page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/ICN15.html Call for Papers: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/CfPICN15.html Submission page: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/SubmitICN15.html Contributions: - regular papers [in the proceedings, digital library] - short papers (work in progress) [in the proceedings, digital library] - ideas: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library] - extended abstracts: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library] - posters: two pages [in the proceedings, digital library] - posters: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org] - presentations: slide only [slide-deck posted at www.iaria.org] - demos: two pages [posted at www.iaria.org] - doctoral forum submissions: [in the proceedings, digital library] Proposals for: - symposia: see http://www.iaria.org/symposium.html - workshops: see http://www.iaria.org/workshop.html - tutorials: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org] - panels: [slide-deck posed on www.iaria.org] Submission deadline: November 24, 2014 Sponsored by IARIA, www.iaria.org Extended versions of selected papers will be published in IARIA Journals: http://www.iariajournals.org Print proceedings will be available via Curran Associates, Inc.: http://www.proceedings.com/9769.html Articles will be archived in the free access ThinkMind Digital Library: http://www.thinkmind.org Please note the Poster and Work in Progress options. The topics suggested by the conference can be discussed in term of concepts, state of the art, research, standards, implementations, running experiments, applications, and industrial case studies. Authors are invited to submit complete unpublished papers, which are not under review in any other conference or journal in the following, but not limited to, topic areas. All tracks are open to both research and industry contributions, in terms of Regular papers, Posters, Work in progress, Technical/marketing/business presentations, Demos, Tutorials, and Panels. Before submission, please check and conform with the Editorial rules: http://www.iaria.org/editorialrules.html ICN 2015 Topics (topics and submission details: see CfP on the site) 1. Communication theory 2. Communications switching and routing 3. Communications modeling 4. Communications security 5. Computer communications 6. Distributed communications 7. Signal processing in communications 8. Multimedia and multicast communications 9. Wireless communications (satellite, WLL, 4G, Ad Hoc, sensor networks) 10. Next generation networks [NGN] principles 11. Storage area networks [SAN] 12. Access and home networks 13. High-speed networks 14. Optical networks 15. Peer-to-peer and overlay networking 16. Mobile networking and systems 17. MPLS-VPN, IPSec-VPN networks 18. GRID networks 19. Broadband networks 20. Quality of service, service level agreement [QoS/SLA] 21. Reliability, availability, serviceabiliy [RAS] 22. Traffic engineering, metering, monitoring 23. Voice over IP services 24. Performance evaluation, tools, simulation 25. Network, control and service architectures 26. Network signalling, pricing and billing 27. Network middleware 28. Telecommunication networks architectures 29. On-demand networks, utility computing architectures 30. Applications and case studies 31. NGN protocol design and evaluation 32. NGN Standard Activities [ITU, TMF, 3GPP, IETF, etc.] 33. NGN Device Instrumentation 34. Network Management, scheduling and policy 35. NGN policy-based control 36. Networks policy-based management 37. Management of autonomic networks and systems 38. Vehicular Networks Committee: http://www.iaria.org/conferences2015/ComICN15.html ================================================ To stop receiving notices about ICN, please reply with "DROP ICN storage-research-list at ece.cmu.edu" in the subject field. To receive notices about specific topics only, please reply with "TOPIC CHANGE storage-research-list at ece.cmu.edu" in the subject field, and the specific topics in the email body. To stop receiving any notice, please reply with "UNSUBSCRIBE storage-research-list at ece.cmu.edu" in the subject field. From mavega at unex.es Fri May 16 13:40:50 2014 From: mavega at unex.es (Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez) Date: Fri, 16 May 2014 19:40:50 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [Deadline Extended] CFP - IEEE Cluster Workshop: PBio 2014 (proceedings published by IEEE) + Special Issue in Journal CCPE (IF: 0.845, Q2) Message-ID: <53764DA2.7050903@unex.es> Call for Papers --- IEEE Cluster Workshop: 2nd International Workshop on Parallelism in Bioinformatics (proceedings published by IEEE) + Special Issue in the Journal Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (Wiley) (Impact Factor: 0.845, Quartile Q2) --- SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MAY 31, 2014 (EXTENDED) We seek original, high-quality research papers, clearly focused on the application of Parallelism to any possible Bioinformatics problem. In particular, contributions are solicited on, but are not limited to, the following topics: - Cluster computing in Bioinformatics. - Data-intensive Bioinformatics (including Big Data storage and processing). - Parallel and distributed algorithms in Bioinformatics. - Workload partitioning strategies in Bioinformatics. - Memory-efficient algorithms in Bioinformatics. - Parallel tools and applications in Bioinformatics. - Multicore computing in Bioinformatics. - Supercomputing in Bioinformatics. - Cloud/Grid/P2P computing in Bioinformatics. - Volunteer computing in Bioinformatics. - Hardware accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs, etc.) in Bioinformatics. - Green computing in Bioinformatics. - Emerging parallel programming models in Bioinformatics. - Parallel performance evaluation, analysis, and optimization in Bioinformatics. - Parallel visualization, modelling, simulation, and exploration in Bioinformatics. With regard to the Bioinformatics problems, many different alternatives exist: bioinformatics applied to biomedicine; biological sequence analysis, comparison and alignment; motif, gene and signal recognition/discovery; molecular evolution; phylogenetics and phylogenomics; determination or prediction of the structure of RNA and protein; DNA twisting and folding; gene expression and gene regulatory networks; deduction of metabolic pathways; microarray design and analysis; proteomics; functional genomics; molecular docking; design of DNA sequences for DNA computing; etc. All the details (paper format, submission system, important dates, etc.) at: http://arco.unex.es/mavega/pbio2014/ --- Kind regards. ------------------------------------------------- Dr. Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez http://arco.unex.es/mavega ARCO Research Group University of Extremadura Dept. Technologies of Computers & Communications Escuela Politecnica. Campus Universitario, s/n 10003 Caceres. SPAIN Tel: +34-927-25-72-63 Fax: +34-927-25-71-87 ------------------------------------------------- From changliu.aus at gmail.com Sat May 17 21:03:52 2014 From: changliu.aus at gmail.com (Chang Liu) Date: Sun, 18 May 2014 11:03:52 +1000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: IEEE BDSE2014 (Big Data Science and Engineering), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Sept. 2014 Message-ID: Call for papers: The 3rd *IEEE International Conference *on Big Data Science and Engineering (BDSE2014), 24-26 September 2014, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/ Important dates: Submission Deadline: 11:59PM (UTC/GMT+8 hours) May 31, 2014 *(extended, firm)* Authors Notification: June 30, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: July 20, 2014 Submissions: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/submission.htm Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be recommended to special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications; Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------ Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Various technologies are being discussed to support the handling of big data such as massively parallel processing databases, scalable storage systems, cloud computing platforms, and MapReduce. Big data is more than simply a matter of size; it is an opportunity to find insights in new and emerging types of data and content, to make business more agile, and to answer questions that were previously considered beyond our reach. Distributed systems is a classical research discipline investigating various distributed computing technologies and applications such as cloud computing and MapReduce. With new paradigms and technologies, distributed systems research keeps going with new innovative outcomes from both industry and academia. For example, wide deployment of MapReduce is a distributed programming paradigm and an associated implementation to support distributed computing over large datasets on cloud. BDSE (Big Data Science and Engineering) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Big Data and broadly related areas. BDSE 2014 is the next event in a series of highly successful International Conferences, previously held as BDSE2013 (Sydney Australia), BigDataMR-12 (Xiangtan, China November 2012), AHPCN-12 (Bradford, UK, June 2012), AHPCN-11 (Banff, Canada, September 2011), AHPCN-10 (Melbourne, Australia, September 2010), AHPCN-09 (Seoul, Korea, June 2009), AHPCN-08 (Dalian, China, September 2008). Scope and Topics The objective of the conference is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of big data and distributed computing. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: ? Big Data theory, applications and challenges ? Recent development in Big Data and MapReduce ? Big Data mining and analytics ? Big Data Infrastructure and Cloud Computing ? Big Data visualization ? Large data stream processing on cloud ? Large incremental datasets on cloud ? Distributed and federated datasets ? NoSQL data stores and DB scalability ? Big Data sharing and privacy preserving ? Security, trust and risk in Big Data ? Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization ? Extension of the MapReduce programming model ? Distributed file systems for Big Data ? MapReduce for Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA ? MapReduce on heterogeneous distributed environments ? Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization ? Simulation and debugging of MapReduce and Big Data systems and tools ? Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data ? Multiple source data processing and integration with MapReduce ? Storage and computation management of Big Data ? Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing ? Algorithms and theory for distributed systems ? Data management and distributed data systems ? Security, privacy, fault tolerance and reliability in distributed systems ? Mobile systems and development for handheld devices such as mobile phones ? Big data applications Submission Guidelines Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the BDSE2014 submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/submission.htm. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDSE2014 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed) through CPS. Selected papers will be recommended for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. General Chairs Yunhao Liu, Tsinghua University, China Nick Cercone, York University, Canada Benjamin Wah, HKCU, China Program Chairs Jianzhong Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Eiko Yoneki, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Dongshen Li, National University of Defence Technology, China Workshop Chairs Khaled Mohammed Khan, Qatar University, Qatar Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China Simon Fong, University of Macau, China Publication Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Steering Committee Albert Zomaya,The University of Sydney, Australia Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (Chair) Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Stephen Crago, University of Southern California, USA Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Laurence T. 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Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/workshop.htm Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: 20 June 2014 Workshop Notification: 25 June 2014 Workshop Proposal Submissions: Email to workshop chairs listed below Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia, shui.yu at deakin.edu.au Andrew Clashe, UTS, Australia, andrew.clashe at gmail.com Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain, rafaelt.unizar at gmail.com Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, massimo.cafaro at unile.it Workshops will be held together with the main conference during the same dates and venue. We invite you to submit workshop proposals on any topics related to Big Data and Cloud Computing to the Workshop Chairs. The purpose of these workshops is to offer to researchers a good opportunity to present their work in a more focused way than the conference itself and to obtain feedback from an interested community. Workshops that focus on new and emerging topics, or on applications and industry contributions are particularly encouraged. In general, a workshop takes one day or half day while multiple-day workshops are welcome. A workshop proposal should contain at least: ? Title of workshop: International workshop on ... ? Workshop chairs/organisers: Names, Affiliations, address, e-mail, ? Brief description of the workshop (several hundred words) ? The workshop deadlines and website ? Prior history of this workshop, if any. Important dates: Workshop proposal Deadline: 20 June 2014 Workshop Notification: 25 June 2014 Each workshop will start to distribute a call for paper after receiving the notification. Papers submitted to each workshop will be reviewed by the program committee and external reviewers of the workshop. Once accepted, each workshop organisers are in charge of: ? Setting up a Web site for the workshop according to the template that will be distributed. ? Establishing own paper submission system. ? Deciding own submission deadlines, but following the same camera-ready deadline and registration deadline as the main conference. ? Ensuring that each paper selected for inclusion in the proceedings will be registered for main conference at the same registration rates. Each paper must be presented in person by the author, or one of the authors. Proceedings of the workshops will be published by IEEE Computer Society Press, in the same proceedings of main conference, and will be made available to all conference registrants on site. All workshop papers will also be electronically available through IEEE Xplore Digital Database, and professionally indexed through INSPEC and EI Index. Please organize your workshop as early as possible to ensure your effort turn out to be fruitful. In particular we suggest to make explicit the different focus of your workshop, if compared with eventual overlapping conference topics, in order to attract relevant contributions. For further information on preparing a workshop proposal, please contact the Workshops Chairs. Workshop Chairs: Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia, shui.yu at deakin.edu.au Andrew Clashe, UTS, Australia, andrew.clashe at gmail.com Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain, rafaelt.unizar at gmail.com Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy, massimo.cafaro at unile.it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From DEKEL at il.ibm.com Thu May 22 03:37:28 2014 From: DEKEL at il.ibm.com (Eliezer Dekel) Date: Thu, 22 May 2014 10:37:28 +0300 Subject: [Storage-research-list] ACM SYSTOR 2014 - Call for participation Message-ID: Our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this announcement. The 7th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference You are invited to SYSTOR 2014 on June 10 - 12, 2014, at the IBM Research - Haifa auditorium The conference is free but due to limited seating, requires registration. Please register at - http://www.systor.org/2014/register.html. SYSTOR provides a forum for interaction across the systems and storage community: international, academic, and industrial, for both students and more established members. The program includes high-quality experimental and practical research papers encompassing all aspects of computer systems. Keynote speakers o Gustavo Alonso (ETH Zurich) ?The Case for Custom System Development? o Jason Nieh (Columbia University) ?The Dark Side of Google Play? o Larry Rudolph (Two Sigma) ?The Virtualization of the Physical and the Physicalization of the Virtual ? 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In recent years, NVM based storage devices have been gaining popularity as a medium of storage. Flash based SSDs in particular have had a widespread adoption by the industry driven by the need for greater storage performance. NVM storage devices have dramatically different properties than conventional hard disks. Yet, most of these devices are still exposed to operating systems as block-level devices similar to hard disks. There are still several fundamental research issues to be explored on how to efficiently interface with NVM and Flash based storage devices, and the implications of such devices in large scale workload deployments and on emerging workloads such as Analytics applications. The INFLOW Workshop is an attempt to bring top researchers across the World to exchange ideas and discuss recent innovations related to NVM/Flash technologies and their interactions with Operating systems and workloads, and doing this in the context of current enterprises and consumer markets. Checkout the CFP: https://www.usenix.org/conference/inflow14/call-for-papers CFP pdf version : https://www.usenix.org/sites/default/files/inflow14_cfp_050714.pdf Important Dates --------------- Full paper submission due: Tuesday July 1st, 2014 Notification of acceptance: Monday August 18th, 2014 Final papers due: Thursday September 4th, 2014 Conference: Sunday October 5, 2014 Topics ---------- We invite research papers from all areas of Flash SSD and its interactions with operating systems and workloads. Major Areas of interests include, but are not limited to: * Operating systems support for Flash and other NVM technologies * New filesystem / storage software design ideas to support Flash * Virtualization trends for SSD storage * Flash SSD and NVM in Cloud Computing * Applications on NVM/Flash, Mobile Devices, Wearable Computing Devices, etc. * Application/OS optimizations tailored for Flash storage unique properties * Application/OS optimizations for other NVM technologies * Emerging Workloads (BigData, Analytics, Social, etc.) for Flash/NVM * Workload characterization for NVM/Flash devices * SSD caching techniques * Acceleration techniques for Flash Storage and NVM technologies * Hybrid SSD technologies Submission Site: https://papers.usenix.org/hotcrp/inflow14/ ------------------------ Workshop Organizers and Committee: -------------------------------------------------------- Program Co-Chairs Kaoutar El Maghraoui, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Gokul Kandiraju, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center Program Committee Nitin Agrawal, NEC Labs Mahesh Balakrishnan, Microsoft Research Philippe Bonnet, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark Michele M. Franceschini, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center K. Gopinath, Indian Institute of Science, India Haryadi S. Gunawi, University of Chicago Paolo Ienne, EPFL Jihong Kim, Seoul National University, Korea Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, Santa Cruz Arif Merchant, Google Sam H. Noh, Hongik University, Korea Alma Riska, Netapp Steven Swanson, University of California, San Diego Nisha Talagala, Fusion IO Bhuvan Urgaonkar, The Pennsylvania State University Luis Useche, VMware Chuliang Weng, Huawei Shannon Lab ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: inflow14_cfp_050714.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 931673 bytes Desc: not available URL: From changliu.aus at gmail.com Mon May 26 18:03:18 2014 From: changliu.aus at gmail.com (Chang Liu) Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 08:03:18 +1000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Final CFP: IEEE BDSE2014 (Big Data Science and Engineering), Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, Sept. 2014 Message-ID: Final Call for papers: The 3rd *IEEE International Conference *on Big Data Science and Engineering (BDSE2014), 24-26 September 2014, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/ Important dates: Submission Deadline: 11:59PM (UTC/GMT+8 hours) May 31, 2014 *(extended, firm)* Authors Notification: June 30, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: July 20, 2014 Submissions: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/submission.htm Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Selected papers will be recommended to special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications; Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------ Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Various technologies are being discussed to support the handling of big data such as massively parallel processing databases, scalable storage systems, cloud computing platforms, and MapReduce. Big data is more than simply a matter of size; it is an opportunity to find insights in new and emerging types of data and content, to make business more agile, and to answer questions that were previously considered beyond our reach. Distributed systems is a classical research discipline investigating various distributed computing technologies and applications such as cloud computing and MapReduce. With new paradigms and technologies, distributed systems research keeps going with new innovative outcomes from both industry and academia. For example, wide deployment of MapReduce is a distributed programming paradigm and an associated implementation to support distributed computing over large datasets on cloud. BDSE (Big Data Science and Engineering) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Big Data and broadly related areas. BDSE 2014 is the next event in a series of highly successful International Conferences, previously held as BDSE2013 (Sydney Australia), BigDataMR-12 (Xiangtan, China November 2012), AHPCN-12 (Bradford, UK, June 2012), AHPCN-11 (Banff, Canada, September 2011), AHPCN-10 (Melbourne, Australia, September 2010), AHPCN-09 (Seoul, Korea, June 2009), AHPCN-08 (Dalian, China, September 2008). Scope and Topics The objective of the conference is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of big data and distributed computing. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: ? Big Data theory, applications and challenges ? Recent development in Big Data and MapReduce ? Big Data mining and analytics ? Big Data Infrastructure and Cloud Computing ? Big Data visualization ? Large data stream processing on cloud ? Large incremental datasets on cloud ? Distributed and federated datasets ? NoSQL data stores and DB scalability ? Big Data sharing and privacy preserving ? Security, trust and risk in Big Data ? Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization ? Extension of the MapReduce programming model ? Distributed file systems for Big Data ? MapReduce for Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA ? MapReduce on heterogeneous distributed environments ? Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization ? Simulation and debugging of MapReduce and Big Data systems and tools ? Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data ? Multiple source data processing and integration with MapReduce ? Storage and computation management of Big Data ? Large-scale scientific workflow in support of Big Data processing ? Algorithms and theory for distributed systems ? Data management and distributed data systems ? Security, privacy, fault tolerance and reliability in distributed systems ? Mobile systems and development for handheld devices such as mobile phones ? Big data applications Submission Guidelines Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the BDSE2014 submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdse2014/submission.htm. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDSE2014 and attend the conference to present the paper. Publications All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed) through CPS. Selected papers will be recommended for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. General Chairs Yunhao Liu, Tsinghua University, China Nick Cercone, York University, Canada Benjamin Wah, HKCU, China Program Chairs Jianzhong Li, Harbin Institute of Technology, China Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia Eiko Yoneki, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK Dongshen Li, National University of Defence Technology, China Workshop Chairs Khaled Mohammed Khan, Qatar University, Qatar Wanchun Dou, Nanjing University, China Simon Fong, University of Macau, China Publication Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Steering Committee Albert Zomaya,The University of Sydney, Australia Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Runhe Huang, Hosei University, Japan Ian Foster, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia (Chair) Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Stephen Crago, University of Southern California, USA Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Minyi Guo, Shanghai Jiaotong University, China Jie Wu, Temple University, USA Laurence T. 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To give you a highly efficient means to expand your technical breadth, ATC has added a new track: ?Best of the Rest? which reprises the best paper talks from other USENIX and USENIX affiliated conferences in the last year ? all three from SOSP?13, both from Security?13, and one each from NSDI?14, ICAC?14 and LISA?13. Hope to see you at FCW?14, garth gibson (ATC PC co-chair) Begin forwarded message: > From: "Julie Miller" > Subject: Join Us At HotCloud '14 and HotStorage '14 > Date: May 16, 2014 at 2:03:35 PM EDT > To: "GARTH GIBSON" > Reply-To: julie.miller at usenix.org > > > > Dear GARTH, > > Join us in Philadelphia, PA, June 17?18, 2014, for the 6th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing (HotCloud '14) and the 6th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems (HotStorage '14). At these two events, researchers and practitioners from these fields will come together to present, learn, and discuss what's new and what's forthcoming in storage and cloud computing. You can view the schedule for both events via their respective Workshop Program Web pages: > > HotCloud '14 Program: www.usenix.org/hotcloud14/program > HotStorage '14 Program: www.usenix.org/hotstorage14/program > > Want more in-depth training? Sign up for the FCW '14 Training Program > Learn more about Hadoop, Jenkins, Apache CloudStack, site reliability engineering, or security best practices and standards: attend the half- or full-day training courses, and you'll acquire unique skills that you can take back to your workplace. The FCW '14 training program includes the following courses: > > Thursday, June 19 > Hadoop Operations by Jennifer Davis, Chef > Using Apache CloudStack to Build a Big IaaS Cloud by David Nalley, Citrix Systems > Jenkins for Continuous Integration by Joshua Jensen, EMC > > Friday, June 20 > SRE University--Practical Large System Design by Salim Virji, Google > Hands-On Security for System Administrators by Branson Matheson, Blackphone > > DEADLINE EXTENDED! > Register by May 27, 2014, and take advantage of the early bird pricing. Planning to stay in the conference hotel? The hotel reservation discount deadline is also May 27, and rooms are going quickly. Book your room today! > Other events taking place at FCW '14 include: > > USENIX ATC '14: 2014 USENIX Annual Technical Conference > Thursday-Friday, June 19?20 > ICAC '14: 11th International Conference on Autonomic Computing > Wednesday-Friday, June 18?20 > 9th International Workshop on Feedback Computing > Tuesday, June 17 > WiAC '14: 2014 Women in Advanced Computing Summit > Wednesday, June 18 > UCMS '14: 2014 USENIX Configuration Management Summit > Thursday, June 19 > URES '14: 2014 USENIX Release Engineering Summit > Friday, June 20 > Don't miss out on this opportunity to create the conference experience that meets your unique needs. > > Connect with other attendees, check out the registration discounts, and help spread the word about HotCloud, HotStorage, and FCW: > > #fcw14 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 2014 USENIX Federated Conferences Week (FCW '14) > June 17-20, 2014 > Philadelphia, PA > Early Bird Registration Deadline: May 27, 2014 > https://www.usenix.org/conference/fcw14 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ============================================================================= > About this mailing list: > > USENIX never shares, sells, rents, or exchanges email addresses of its members or conference attendees. > > We would like to continue sending you occasional email announcements like this one. However, if you no longer want to receive emails from USENIX, please click the link below. > Opt-Out > > If you have any questions about the mailing list, please email office at usenix.org. We may also be reached via postal mail at: > > USENIX Association > 2560 9th Street, Suite 215 > Berkeley CA 94710 > > Begin forwarded message: > From: "Julie Miller" > Subject: Register Now for USENIX ATC '14 > Date: May 16, 2014 at 2:10:44 PM EDT > To: "GARTH GIBSON" > Reply-To: julie.miller at usenix.org > > > Dear GARTH, > > Join us in Philadelphia, PA, June 19-20, 2014, for the 2014 USENIX Annual Technical Conference. > USENIX ATC '14 will bring together leading systems researchers for cutting-edge systems research and unlimited opportunities to gain insight into a variety of must-know topics. More than 40 papers will be presented at the two-day event, focusing on Big Data, Virtualization, Storage, Hardware and Low-level Techniques, Distributed Systems, Networking, Security and Correctness, and Flash. Read through the full program here. > > > DEADLINE EXTENDED! > Register by May 27, 2014, and take advantage of the early bird pricing. Planning to stay in the conference hotel? The hotel reservation discount deadline is also May 27, and rooms are going quickly. Book your room today! > The 2014 USENIX Women in Advanced Computing Summit (WiAC '14)?which is open to registrants of all genders?will precede USENIX ATC '14 on June 18. The WiAC ?14 program will focus on challenges women face in the professional computing world. > > Other events taking place at FCW '14 include: > > ICAC '14: 11th International Conference on Autonomic Computing > Wednesday-Friday, June 18?20 > 9th International Workshop on Feedback Computing > Tuesday, June 17 > HotCloud '14: 6th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing > Tuesday-Wednesday, June 17-18 > HotStorage '14: 6th USENIX Workshop on Hot Topics in Storage and File Systems > Tuesday-Wednesday, June 17-18 > FCW '14 Training Program > Thursday-Friday, June 19-20 > UCMS '14: 2014 USENIX Configuration Management Summit > Thursday, June 19 > URES '14: 2014 USENIX Release Engineering Summit > Friday, June 20 > Don't miss out on this opportunity to create the conference experience that meets your unique needs. > > Connect with other attendees, check out additional discounts, and help spread the word: > #atc14 > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > 2014 USENIX Federated Conferences Week (FCW '14) > June 17-20, 2014 > Philadelphia, PA > Early Bird Registration Deadline: May 27, 2014 > https://www.usenix.org/conference/fcw14 > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > ============================================================================= > About this mailing list: > > USENIX never shares, sells, rents, or exchanges email addresses of its members or conference attendees. > > We would like to continue sending you occasional email announcements like this one. 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URL: From nazanin.borhan at gmail.com Tue Jun 3 23:35:40 2014 From: nazanin.borhan at gmail.com (Nazanin Borhan) Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2014 13:35:40 +1000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: IEEE BDCloud 2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia Message-ID: [We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] Call for papers: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 25, 2014 Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Cloud computing is positioning itself as an emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can provision and deploy Cloud services via pay-as-you-go pricing models saving huge capital investments in their own IT infrastructures. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. BDCloud (Big Data and Cloud Computing) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ? Fundamentals of cloud computing ? Architectural cloud models ? Programming cloud models ? Provisioning/pricing cloud models ? Data storage and computation in cloud computing ? Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing ? Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data ? Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing ? Access control to cloud computing ? Resource virtualisation ? Monitoring and auditing in cloud ? Scalable and elastic cloud services ? Social computing and impacts on the cloud ? Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud ? Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud ? Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing ? Migration of business applications to cloud ? Energy efficient cloud architecture ? Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing ? Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud ? Green Cloud ? Cloud use case studies ? Big Data theory, applications and challenges ? Big Data mining and analytics on Cloud ? Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing ? Big Data visualization ? Large data stream, incremental datasets on cloud ? Distributed and federated datasets ? NoSQL data stores and DB scalability ? Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust ? Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization ? Distributed file systems for Big Data ? Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA on Cloud ? Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization ? Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems ? Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data ? Storage and computation management of Big Data ? Large-scale workflow management in Big Data ? Data management and distributed data systems ? Big data applications Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia General Chairs Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada General Co-Chairs Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Muhammad Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Young Choon Lee, University of Sydney, Australia Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Program Vice Chairs Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Tao Gu, RMIT, Australia Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Workshops Chairs Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia (shui.yu at deakin.edu.au) Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy (massimo.cafaro at unile.it ) Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain (rafaelt.unizar at gmail.com) Steering Committee Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Shuguang (Robert) Cui, Texas A&M University, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Mahmoud Daneshmand, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, Institut Universitaire de France, France Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Finance Chair Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rothpc at ornl.gov Mon Jun 2 11:24:25 2014 From: rothpc at ornl.gov (Roth, Philip C.) Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2014 15:24:25 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Papers: DISCS-2014 Workshop at SC14 Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 2014 International Workshop on Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (DISCS) http://discl.cs.ttu.edu/discs-2014 November 16, 2014 Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA, USA Held in conjunction with SC14: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis In cooperation with ACM SIGHPC, http://sighpc.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Scope of the Workshop * Existing high performance computing (HPC) systems are designed primarily for workloads requiring high rates of computation. However, the widening performance gap between processors and I/O systems, and trends toward higher data intensity in scientific and engineering applications, suggest there is a need to rethink HPC system architectures, programming models, runtime systems, and tools with a focus on data intensive computing. The 2014 International Workshop on Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (DISCS) provides a forum for researchers interested in HPC and data intensive computing to exchange ideas and discuss approaches for addressing Big Data challenges. * Topics of Interest * The topics of interest for the DISCS-2014 workshop include, but are not limited to: * HPC system architectures for data intensive applications o Data-centric system architectures o I/O systems and architectures o System area networks o Power efficient systems * Programming models supporting data intensive applications o Data-centric programming models o MPI extensions for data intensive applications o GAS/PGAS programming model extensions for data intensive applications o Non-traditional programming languages/methodologies * Runtime systems supporting data intensive applications o Communication systems for supporting data intensive applications o Data compression and de-duplication o Caching and prefetching o Reliability and fault tolerance o Data integrity and consistency * Productivity tools supporting data intensive applications o Data analytic tools o Tracing and trace analysis tools o Data mining and knowledge discovery tools o Computational, mathematical and statistical techniques and tools supporting such techniques o Data visualization techniques and tools supporting such techniques * Submission Instructions * Submissions should be unpublished work and in PDF format on US Letter sized paper (8.5"x11") with not more than 8 pages (all inclusive) formatted according to the IEEE double-column format for Conference Proceedings (IEEEtran template). All accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore. See http://discl.cs.ttu.edu/discs-2014/?q=submissions for details. * Journal Special Issue * The authors of papers accepted to the DISCS-2014 workshop and with relevance to an application will be invited to extend the manuscript for a special issue of the International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications (IJHPCA), guest-edited by the DISCS-2014 workshop chairs. The target submission deadline for the journal papers is January 23, 2015. More details will be posted to the DISCS-2014 web site as they become available. * Important Dates * Paper Submission: August 8, 2014 Author Notification: September 19, 2014 Camera-Ready Copy Due: October 10, 2014 Workshop Date: November 16, 2014 * Organizers * GENERAL CHAIR Yong Chen, Texas Tech University PROGRAM CHAIRS Philip C. Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Weikuan Yu, Auburn University TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Shane Canon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Yuqing Gao, IBM Research Rong Ge, Marquette University Mitch Horton, Georgia Institute of Technology Dries Kimpe, Argonne National Laboratory Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Quincey Koziol, The HDF Group Michael Lang, Los Alamos National Laboratory John Leidel, Texas Tech University Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, Santa Cruz Seung Woo Son, Northwestern University Zhiqi Tao, Intel Corporation Yuan Tian, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Yandong Wang, IBM Research Weijun Xiao, Virginia Commonwealth University Weijia Xu, Texas Advanced Computing Center Hui Zhang, Indiana University STEERING COMMITTEE William D. Gropp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory From zhaom at cis.fiu.edu Thu Jun 5 10:54:07 2014 From: zhaom at cis.fiu.edu (Ming Zhao) Date: Thu, 5 Jun 2014 10:54:07 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] ICAC14 Call For Participation Message-ID: <20140605145433.7726716694@cheetah.cs.fiu.edu> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call For Participation 11th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC '14) June 18-20, 2014 Philadelphia, PA https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac14 Part of USENIX Federated Conferences Week, June 17-20, 2014 https://www.usenix.org/conference/fcw14 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Join me in Philadelphia, PA, June 18-20, 2014, for ICAC '14, the 11th International Conference on Autonomic Computing. ICAC will bring together researchers and practitioners from disparate disciplines, application domains, and perspectives, enabling them to discover and share underlying commonalities in their approaches to making resources, applications, and systems more autonomic. The technical sessions program includes: * Daily Keynote Addresses from Yuanyuan Zhou, University of California, San Diego; Lucy Cherkasova, HP Labs; and Ion Stoica, University of California, Berkeley * Paper presentations on model-driven management and self-adaptation, cloud resource management, network and system management, scheduling and pricing, resource and workload management, and data center energy issues. * Specific tracks - including invited talks, panels, and paper presentations focused on "Self-Aware Cyber-Physical Systems" and "Management of Big Data Systems" See the full program at: https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac14/technical-sessions NEW AT ICAC: Tutorials! The following ICAC '14 tutorials will take place on Tuesday, June 17: * Autonomic Computing and its Applications, Daniel A. Menasce at George Mason University * Autonomic Cloud Workload Optimization: Placement in OpenStack, Iqbal I. Mohomed and Asser N. Tantawi, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center Learn more about the tutorials at: https://www.usenix.org/conference/icac14/tutorials ************************************************** Register today: www.usenix.org/fcw14/register ************************************************** The 9th International Workshop on Feedback Computing will also take place in conjunction with ICAC '14 during USENIX Federated Conferences Week: www.usenix.org/conference/feedbackcomputing14 Connect with other attendees, check out additional discounts, and help spread the word about ICAC, Feedback Computing, and FCW'14: Discounts: https://www.usenix.org/conference/fcw14/registration-discounts Help Promote: https://www.usenix.org/conference/fcw14/help-promote-fcw-14 Facebook: www.usenix.org/facebook YouTube: www.usenix.org/youtube Google+: www.usenix.org/gplus LinkedIn: www.usenix.org/linkedin Instagram: www.usenix.org/instagram Twitter: www.usenix.org/twitter #icac14 From haryadi at cs.uchicago.edu Tue Jun 17 23:10:30 2014 From: haryadi at cs.uchicago.edu (Haryadi Gunawi) Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2014 22:10:30 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Fwd: Call for Papers for SoCC 2014 (ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing) Message-ID: Dear all, (Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.) ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Please find below the Call for Papers for this year?s ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC). SoCC'14 will be held November 3rd-5th in Seattle, Washington, USA. Please consider submitting a paper as well as encouraging submissions from others whom you believe would be similarly interested. Best wishes, Cosmin Arad (SoCC'14 Publicity Chair) ------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Papers Fifth ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing (SoCC) November 3rd-5th 2014, Seattle, Washington, USA Web Site: https://sites.google.com/site/2014socc/ ------------------------------------------------------------ The ACM Symposium on Cloud Computing 2014 (ACM SoCC 2014) will be the fifth in a series of symposia that brings together researchers, developers, users, and practitioners interested in cloud computing. ACM SoCC is the premier conference on cloud computing; it is the only conference co-sponsored by the ACM Special Interest Groups on Management of Data (SIGMOD) and on Operating Systems (SIGOPS). In 2014 SoCC will be held in Seattle, Washington, USA. The scope of SoCC is broad and encompasses diverse systems topics such as software as a service, virtualization, and scalable cloud data services. Many facets of systems and data management issues must be revisited in the context of cloud computing. Suggested topics for paper submissions include but are not limited to: * Administration and Manageability * Data Privacy * Data Services Architectures * Distributed and Parallel Query Processing * Energy Management * Distribution and Cloud Networking * High Availability and Reliability * Infrastructure Technologies * Large Scale Cloud Applications * Multi-Tenancy * Programming Models * Provisioning and Metering * Resource Management and Performance * Scientific Data Management * Security of Services * Service Level Agreements * Storage Architectures * Transactional models and implementations * Virtualization Technologies Paper submission: ** Deadline: July 18 at midnight PDT. ** Notification of acceptance/rejection will occur by September 18. Authors are invited to submit original papers that are not being considered for publication in any other forum. Manuscripts should be submitted in PDF format and formatted in 10-point type using the templates available at https://sites.google.com/site/2014socc/home/call-for-papers. A submission to the symposium may be one of the following types: 1. Research papers: original research work in the broad area of cloud computing. 2. Industrial papers: presentations describing experiences with deployed, state-of-the-art cloud systems. 3. Vision papers: speculative but well-reasoned, thought-provoking essays. All SoCC submissions will be held to a high quality standard, and evaluated based on their originality, technical merit, topical relevance, value to the community, and likelihood of leading to insightful technical discussions at the symposium. Submissions will be kept confidential. Tutorial proposals: Those wishing to give a tutorial at SoCC 2014 should submit a two-page proposal to the program co-chairs via email. -- General Chairs: Ed Lazowska, University of Washington Doug Terry, Microsoft Research Program Chairs: Remzi H. Arpaci-Dusseau, University of Wisconsin-Madison Johannes Gehrke, Microsoft Local Organization Chair: Justin Levandoski, Microsoft Research Steering Committee: Phil Bernstein, Microsoft Research Michael Carey, UC Irvine Joseph M. Hellerstein, UC Berkeley Doug Terry, Microsoft Research Marvin Theimer, Amazon John Wilkes, Google Treasurer: Meg Walraed-Sullivan, Microsoft Research Publicity: Cosmin Arad, Google Webmaster: Sameh Elnikety, Microsoft Research John Wilkes, Google Publication: Shicong Meng, IBM Program committee: Ashraf Aboulnaga (QCRI) Nitin Agrawal (NEC Labs) Lorenzo Alvisi (University of Texas) Shivnath Babu (Duke University) Theo Benson (Duke University) Surajit Chaudhuri (Microsoft Research) Tyson Condie (UCLA) Brian Cooper (Google) Jens Dittrich (Saarland University) Fred Douglis (EMC) Jennie Duggan (MIT) Ali Ghodsi (University of California, Berkeley) Bhaskar Ghosh (LinkedIn) Phil Gibbons (Intel Labs Pittsburgh) Ashvin Goel (University of Toronto) Saikat Guha (Microsoft Research India) Haryadi Gunawi (University of Chicago) Indranil Gupta (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Hakan Hacigumus (NEC Labs) Michael Kaminsky (Intel) Rini Kaushik (IBM) Bettina Kemme (McGill) Masaru Kitsuregawa (National Institute of Informatics) Christoph Koch (EPFL) Donald Kossmann (ETH) Sanjeev Kumar (Facebook) Jinyang Li (New York University) Boon Thau Loo (University of Pennsylvania) Qiong Luo (HKUST) Ashwin Machanavajjhala (Duke University) Ratul Mahajan (Microsoft Research) James Mickens (Microsoft Research) Dhushanth Narayanan (Microsoft Research) Jeff Naughton (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Thu Nguyen (Rutgers University) Pradeep Padala (VMware) Aditya Parameswaran (University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Andrew Pavlo (Carnegie Mellon University) Vijayan Prabhakaran (Datrium) Feng Qin (Ohio State University) Vijayshankar Raman (IBM) Sriram Rao (Microsoft) Berthold Reinwald (IBM) Tom Ristenpart (University of Wisconsin-Madison) Mary Roth (IBM) Donovan Schneider (Salesforce) Karsten Schwan (Georgia Tech) Kai Shen (University of Rochester) Swami Sivasubramanian (Amazon) Dan Tsafrir (Technion) Joe Tucek (HP Labs) Bhuvan Urgaonkar (Penn State) Amin Vahdat (Google) Ymir Vigfusson (Reykjavik University) Guozhang Wang (LinkedIn) Hakim Weatherspoon (Cornell University) Dongyan Xu (Purdue) Kenneth Yocum (Illumina) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nazanin.borhan at gmail.com Fri Jul 4 01:29:45 2014 From: nazanin.borhan at gmail.com (Nazanin Borhan) Date: Fri, 4 Jul 2014 15:29:45 +1000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: IEEE BDCloud 2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia Message-ID: [We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] Call for papers: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 25, 2014 Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Cloud computing is positioning itself as an emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can provision and deploy Cloud services via pay-as-you-go pricing models saving huge capital investments in their own IT infrastructures. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. BDCloud (Big Data and Cloud Computing) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ? Fundamentals of cloud computing ? Architectural cloud models ? Programming cloud models ? Provisioning/pricing cloud models ? Data storage and computation in cloud computing ? Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing ? Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data ? Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing ? Access control to cloud computing ? Resource virtualisation ? Monitoring and auditing in cloud ? Scalable and elastic cloud services ? Social computing and impacts on the cloud ? Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud ? Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud ? Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing ? Migration of business applications to cloud ? Energy efficient cloud architecture ? Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing ? Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud ? Green Cloud ? Cloud use case studies ? Big Data theory, applications and challenges ? Big Data mining and analytics on Cloud ? Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing ? Big Data visualization ? Large data stream, incremental datasets on cloud ? Distributed and federated datasets ? NoSQL data stores and DB scalability ? Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust ? Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization ? Distributed file systems for Big Data ? Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA on Cloud ? Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization ? Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems ? Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data ? Storage and computation management of Big Data ? Large-scale workflow management in Big Data ? Data management and distributed data systems ? Big data applications Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia General Chairs Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada General Co-Chairs Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Muhammad Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Young Choon Lee, University of Sydney, Australia Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Program Vice Chairs Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Tao Gu, RMIT, Australia Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Workshops Chairs Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia (shui.yu at deakin.edu.au) Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy (massimo.cafaro at unile.it ) Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain (rafaelt.unizar at gmail.com) Steering Committee Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Shuguang (Robert) Cui, Texas A&M University, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Mahmoud Daneshmand, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, Institut Universitaire de France, France Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Finance Chair Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From vtarasov at us.ibm.com Wed Jul 9 11:04:28 2014 From: vtarasov at us.ibm.com (Vasily Tarasov) Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 11:04:28 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Release of a MacOS server and FSLHomes deduplication datasets Message-ID: Announcement date: 2014 July 8 Dear All, Stony Brook University, in collaboration with Harvey Mudd College and EMC, are announcing the release of MacOS and FSLHomes deduplication datasets. The MacOS dataset includes over 650 file-system snapshots collected at the FSL lab?s MacOS production server. The dataset contains daily file system scans from 2011 to 2014 and covers over 130TiB of data across over a billion files. The actual anonymized, compressed dataset we are releasing is 1.1TiB in size. The FSLHomes dataset includes over 3,600 per-user file-system snapshots collected at the File-systems and Storage Laboratory (FSL) home-directory server. The dataset contains daily file system scans of user home directories from 2011 to 2014 and covers over 530TiB of data across 1.5 billion files. The actual anonymized, compressed dataset we are releasing is 1.5TiB in size. Along with rich metadata information, the snapshots include the hashes of all chunks in the scanned files. Variable chunking with 2KiB, 4KiB, 8KiB, 16KiB, 32KiB, 64KiB, and 128KiB sizes were used during the snapshots collection. The anonymized traces can be used in a variety of studies related to deduplication system performance, efficiency analysis, and more. Along with the dataset, we are releasing the fs-hasher software package that was used to collect the snapshots; it includes the tools and examples for reading the snapshots. Detailed information, the snapshots themselves, and accompanying software can be found at: http://tracer.filesystems.org/ If you have any questions or comments about this data set, please send them to: fsltraces at fsl.cs.sunysb.edu From dkimpe at mcs.anl.gov Wed Jul 9 21:03:08 2014 From: dkimpe at mcs.anl.gov (Dries Kimpe) Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2014 20:03:08 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP - PDSW 2014 Message-ID: <20140710010308.GG15246@today.lan> The 9th Parallel Data Storage Workshop (PDSW14), held in conjunction with IEEE/ACM Supercomputing (SC) 2014, New Orleans, Louisiana, 2014 URL: http://www.pdsw.org PDF version of the CFP: http://www.pdsw.org/index.shtml#cfp Peta- and exascale computing infrastructures make unprecedented demands on storage capacity, performance, concurrency, reliability, availability, and manageability. This one-day workshop focuses on the data storage and management problems and emerging solutions found in peta- and exascale scientific computing environments, with special attention to issues in which community collaboration can be crucial for problem identification, workload capture, solution interoperability, standards with community buy-in, and shared tools. Addressing storage media ranging from tape, HDD, and SSD, to emerging storage devices like NVRAM, the workshop seeks contributions on relevant topics, including but not limited to: * performance and benchmarking * failure tolerance problems and solutions * APIs for high performance features * parallel file systems * high bandwidth storage architectures * support for high velocity or complex data * metadata intensive workloads * autonomics for HPC storage * virtualization for storage systems * archival storage advances * resource management innovations * incorporation of emerging storage technologies ???????????????????? * workload study from production systems Paper Submissions: The Parallel Data Storage Workshop holds a peer reviewed competitive process for selecting short papers. Submit a not previously published short paper of up to 5 pages, not less than 10 point font and not including references, in a PDF file as instructed on the workshop web site. Submitted papers will be reviewed under the supervision of the workshop program committee. Submissions should indicate authors and affiliations. Final papers must not be longer than 5 pages (excluding references). Selected papers and associated talk slides will be made available on the workshop web site; the papers will also be published in the digital library of the IEEE or ACM. Paper Submission Deadline: 9pm PDT, August 30, 2014 Paper Notification: September 30, 2014 Camera Ready Due: October 10, 2014 Work-in-progress (WIP) Submissions: There will also be a WIP session at the workshop, where presenters give 5-minute brief talks on their on-going work, with fresh problems/solutions, but may not be mature or complete yet for paper submission. A 1-page abstract is required as instructed on the workshop web site. WIP Submission Deadline: November 2, 2014 WIP Notification: November 7, 2014 Program Committee: * Andre Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg-Universit?t Mainz, Germany * Garth Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University and Panasas Inc., USA * Dean Hildebrand, IBM, USA * Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska, USA * Youngjae Kim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA * Dries Kimpe (Chair), Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Xiaosong Ma (Chair), Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar * Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA * Ron Oldfield, Sandia National Laboratories, USA * Narasimha Reddy, Texas A&M University, USA * Robert Ross, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, USA * Matt Tolentino, Intel, USA * Jin Xiong, ICT, Chinese Academy of Science, China From nazanin.borhan at gmail.com Thu Jul 24 22:50:06 2014 From: nazanin.borhan at gmail.com (Nazanin Borhan) Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 12:50:06 +1000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: IEEE BDCloud 2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia Message-ID: [We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] Call for papers: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 25, 2014 Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Cloud computing is positioning itself as an emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can provision and deploy Cloud services via pay-as-you-go pricing models saving huge capital investments in their own IT infrastructures. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. BDCloud (Big Data and Cloud Computing) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ? Fundamentals of cloud computing ? Architectural cloud models ? Programming cloud models ? Provisioning/pricing cloud models ? Data storage and computation in cloud computing ? Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing ? Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data ? Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing ? Access control to cloud computing ? Resource virtualisation ? Monitoring and auditing in cloud ? Scalable and elastic cloud services ? Social computing and impacts on the cloud ? Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud ? Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud ? Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing ? Migration of business applications to cloud ? Energy efficient cloud architecture ? Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing ? Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud ? Green Cloud ? Cloud use case studies ? Big Data theory, applications and challenges ? Big Data mining and analytics on Cloud ? Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing ? Big Data visualization ? Large data stream, incremental datasets on cloud ? Distributed and federated datasets ? NoSQL data stores and DB scalability ? Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust ? Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization ? Distributed file systems for Big Data ? Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA on Cloud ? Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization ? Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems ? Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data ? Storage and computation management of Big Data ? Large-scale workflow management in Big Data ? Data management and distributed data systems ? Big data applications Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia General Chairs Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada General Co-Chairs Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Muhammad Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Young Choon Lee, University of Sydney, Australia Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Program Vice Chairs Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Tao Gu, RMIT, Australia Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Workshops Chairs Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia (shui.yu at deakin.edu.au) Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy (massimo.cafaro at unile.it ) Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain (rafaelt.unizar at gmail.com) Steering Committee Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Shuguang (Robert) Cui, Texas A&M University, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Mahmoud Daneshmand, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, Institut Universitaire de France, France Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Finance Chair Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rothpc at ornl.gov Mon Jul 28 11:57:16 2014 From: rothpc at ornl.gov (Roth, Philip C.) Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2014 15:57:16 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Papers (updated): DISCS-2014 Workshop at SC14 plus special journal issue Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- CALL FOR PAPERS ?????????????????????????????????????? The 2014 International Workshop on Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (DISCS) http://discl.cs.ttu.edu/discs-2014 November 16, 2014 Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, New Orleans, LA, USA Held in conjunction with SC14: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis In cooperation with ACM SIGHPC, http://sighpc.org ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Scope of the Workshop * Existing high performance computing (HPC) systems are designed primarily for workloads requiring high rates of computation. However, the widening performance gap between processors and I/O systems, and trends toward higher data intensity in scientific and engineering applications, suggest there is a need to rethink HPC system architectures, programming models, runtime systems, and tools with a focus on data intensive computing. The 2014 International Workshop on Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (DISCS) provides a forum for researchers interested in HPC and data intensive computing to exchange ideas and discuss approaches for addressing Big Data challenges. * Topics of Interest * The topics of interest for the DISCS-2014 workshop include, but are not limited to: * HPC system architectures for data intensive applications o Data-centric system architectures o I/O systems and architectures o System area networks o Power efficient systems * Programming models supporting data intensive applications o Data-centric programming models o MPI extensions for data intensive applications o GAS/PGAS programming model extensions for data intensive applications o Non-traditional programming languages/methodologies * Runtime systems supporting data intensive applications o Communication systems for supporting data intensive applications o Data compression and de-duplication o Caching and prefetching o Reliability and fault tolerance o Data integrity and consistency * Productivity tools supporting data intensive applications o Data analytic tools o Tracing and trace analysis tools o Data mining and knowledge discovery tools o Computational, mathematical and statistical techniques and tools that support such techniques o Data visualization techniques and tools supporting such techniques * Keynote * Dr. Daniel A. Reed will deliver the keynote address for DISCS-2014. Dr. Reed is the Vice President for Research and Economic Development at the University of Iowa, as well as the University Computational Science and Bioinformatics Chair and Professor of Computer Science and Electrical and Computer Engineering. Dr. Reed has extensive research experience in the areas of high performance computing and data intensive computing, and has served academia, industry, and government organizations as an advisor on technology policy. * Submission Instructions * Submissions should be unpublished work and in PDF format on US Letter sized paper (8.5"x11") with not more than 8 pages (all inclusive) formatted according to the IEEE double-column format for Conference Proceedings (IEEEtran template). All accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore. See http://discl.cs.ttu.edu/discs-2014/?q=submissions for details. * Journal Special Issue * The authors of papers accepted to the DISCS-2014 workshop and with relevance to an application will be invited to extend the manuscript for a special issue of the International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications (IJHPCA), guest-edited by the DISCS-2014 workshop chairs. The target submission deadline for the journal papers is January 23, 2015. More details will be posted to the DISCS-2014 web site as they become available. * Important Dates * Paper Submission: August 8, 2014 Author Notification: September 19, 2014 Camera-Ready Copy Due: October 10, 2014 Workshop Date: November 16, 2014 * Organizers * GENERAL CHAIR Yong Chen, Texas Tech University PROGRAM CHAIRS Philip C. Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Weikuan Yu, Auburn University TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Shane Canon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Dan Feng, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Yuqing Gao, IBM Research Rong Ge, Marquette University Mitch Horton, Georgia Institute of Technology Dries Kimpe, Argonne National Laboratory Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Quincey Koziol, The HDF Group Michael Lang, Los Alamos National Laboratory John Leidel, Texas Tech University Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, Santa Cruz Seung Woo Son, Northwestern University Zhiqi Tao, Intel Corporation Yuan Tian, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Yandong Wang, IBM Research Weijun Xiao, Virginia Commonwealth University Weijia Xu, Texas Advanced Computing Center Hui Zhang, Indiana University STEERING COMMITTEE William D. Gropp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory From Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov Fri Aug 1 15:01:05 2014 From: Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov (Tumeo, Antonino) Date: Fri, 1 Aug 2014 19:01:05 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [CFP] IA^3 2014 - SC14 Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures & Algorithms Message-ID: ???????????????????????????????????????? [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this Call for Papers (CFP).] ???????????????????????????????????????? IA^3 2014 - SC14 Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures & Algorithms http://cass-mt.pnnl.gov/irregularworkshop.aspx New Orleans, LA November 16, 2014 Held in conjunction with SC14 (http://sc14.supercomputing.org) Held in cooperation with SIGHPC (http://www.sighpc.org) ???? THEME ???? Irregular applications span a broad range of applications with unpredictable memory access patterns, control structures, and/or network transfers. They typically use pointer-based data structures such as graphs and trees, often present fine-grained synchronization and communication, and generally operate on very large data sets. They have a significant degree of latent parallelism, which however is difficult to exploit due to their complex behavior. Current high performance architectures rely on data locality and regular computation to tolerate access latencies, and often do not cope well with the requirements of these applications. Furthermore, irregular applications are difficult to scale on current supercomputing machines, due to their limits in fine-grained synchronization and small data transfers. Irregular applications pertain both to well established and emerging fields, such as social network analysis, bioinformatics, semantic graph databases, bioinformatics, Computer Aided Design (CAD) and computer security. Many of these application areas also process massive sets of unstructured data, which keep growing exponentially. Addressing the issues of irregular applications on current and future architectures will become critical to solve the scientific challenges of the next few years. This workshop seeks to explore solutions for supporting efficient execution of irregular applications in the form of new features at the level of the micro- and system-architecture, network, languages and libraries, runtimes, compilers, analysis, algorithms. Topics of interest, of both theoretical and practical significance, include but are not limited to: * Micro- and System-architectures * Network and memory architectures * Heterogeneous, custom and emerging architectures (GPUs, FPGAs, multi- and many-cores) * Modeling, simulation and evaluation of architectures * Innovative algorithmic techniques * Parallelization techniques and data structures * Approaches for managing massive unstructured datasets * Languages and programming models * Library and runtime support * Compiler and analysis techniques * Graph databases Besides regular papers, papers describing work-in-progress or incomplete but sound, innovative ideas related to the workshop theme are also encouraged. We solicit both 8-page regular papers and 4-page position papers. ??????? SUBMISSIONS ??????? Submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ia32014 All submissions should be in double-column, single-spaced letter format, using 9-point size fonts, with at least one-inch margins on each side. The proceedings of the workshop will be published in cooperation with ACM SIGHPC, so authors can use the ACM official templates, available at http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates, to simplify the editing process. Submitted manuscripts may not exceed eight pages in length for regular papers and four pages for position papers including figures, tables and references. For any question, please contact the organizers. ?????????? IMPORTANT DATES ?????????? Abstract submission: 25 August 2014 Full or position paper submission: 1 September 2014 Notification of acceptance: 3 October 2014 Camera-ready papers: 10 October 2014 Workshop: 16 November 2014 ??????? ORGANIZERS ??????? Antonino Tumeo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, antonino.tumeo at pnnl.gov John Feo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, john.feo at pnnl.gov Oreste Villa, NVIDIA Research, ovilla at nvidia.com ???????????? PROGRAM COMMITTEE ???????????? Keren Bergman, Columbia University, USA Jay Brockman, University of Notre Dame, USA David Brooks, Harvard University, USA Bryan Catanzaro, NVIDIA, USA Daniel Chavarria, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Srini Devadas, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA Georgi Gaydadjiev, Chalmers University, SWE Maya Gokhale, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Martha Kim, Columbia University, USA John Leidel, Texas Tech University, USA Kamesh Madduri, The Pennsylvania State University, USA Alessandro Morari, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA Timothy Mattson, Intel, USA Richard Murphy, Micron Technology, Inc., USA Walid Najjar, University of California Riverside, USA Kunle Olukotun, Stanford University, USA Gianluca Palermo, Politecnico di Milano, ITA Fabrizio Petrini, IBM TJ Watson, USA Keshav Pingali, University of Texas, Austin, USA Vivek Sarkar, Rice University, USA Erik Saule, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA John Shalf, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Simone Secchi, ARM, UK Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA Pedro Trancoso, University of Cyprus, CYP Mateo Valero, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, SPA ? Best Regards, Antonino Tumeo Research Scientist High Performance Computing Pacific Northwest National Laboratory antonino.tumeo at pnnl.gov From rothpc at ornl.gov Wed Aug 6 11:08:39 2014 From: rothpc at ornl.gov (Roth, Philip C.) Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2014 15:08:39 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for papers (extended deadline): DISCS-2014 Workshop with special journal issue Message-ID: Hello, Please post the attached call for papers. Updates since the original posting are information about the keynote speaker and a submission deadline extension. Thanks! Phil Roth DISCS-2014 Program Co-Chair -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: DISCS-2014-CFP-revised.txt URL: -------------- next part -------------- An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed... Name: ATT00001.txt URL: From nazanin.borhan at gmail.com Mon Aug 18 01:22:54 2014 From: nazanin.borhan at gmail.com (Nazanin Borhan) Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 15:22:54 +1000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: IEEE BDCloud 2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing), 3-5 Dec 2014, Sydney, Australia Message-ID: Call for papers: Due to requests from other authors, the submission deadline has been extended to August 30, 2014. This is firm, no more extension. The 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 30, 2014 (extended, firm) Notification: September 25, 2014 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2014 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguised papers will be selected for special issues in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. =========== Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Cloud computing is positioning itself as an emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can provision and deploy Cloud services via pay-as-you-go pricing models saving huge capital investments in their own IT infrastructures. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. BDCloud (Big Data and Cloud Computing) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ?? Fundamentals of cloud computing ?? Architectural cloud models ?? Programming cloud models ?? Provisioning/pricing cloud models ?? Data storage and computation in cloud computing ?? Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing ?? Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data ?? Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing ?? Access control to cloud computing ?? Resource virtualisation ?? Monitoring and auditing in cloud ?? Scalable and elastic cloud services ?? Social computing and impacts on the cloud ?? Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud ?? Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud ?? Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing ?? Migration of business applications to cloud ?? Energy efficient cloud architecture ?? Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing ?? Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud ?? Green Cloud ?? Cloud use case studies ?? Big Data theory, applications and challenges ?? Big Data mining and analytics on Cloud ?? Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing ?? Big Data visualization ?? Large data stream, incremental datasets on cloud ?? Distributed and federated datasets ?? NoSQL data stores and DB scalability ?? Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust ?? Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization ?? Distributed file systems for Big Data ?? Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA on Cloud ?? Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization ?? Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems ?? Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data ?? Storage and computation management of Big Data ?? Large-scale workflow management in Big Data ?? Data management and distributed data systems ?? Big data applications Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. Authors of accepted papers, or at least one of them, are requested to register and present their work at the conference, otherwise their papers may be removed from the digital libraries of IEEE CS and EI after the conference. Distinguished papers presented at the conference, after further revision, will be published in special issues of Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience; Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Xiaofang Zhou, University of Queensland, Australia General Chairs Xindong Wu, University of Vermont, USA Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada General Co-Chairs Zahir Tari, RMIT University, Australia Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Muhammad Ali Babar, University of Adelaide, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Young Choon Lee, University of Sydney, Australia Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Program Vice Chairs Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Tao Gu, RMIT, Australia Lizhe Wang, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Workshops Chairs Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia (shui.yu at deakin.edu.au) Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy (massimo.cafaro at unile.it ) Rafael Tolosana, University of Zaragoza, Spain (rafaelt.unizar at gmail.com) Steering Committee Rajkumar Buyya, The University of Melbourne, Australia Shuguang (Robert) Cui, Texas A&M University, USA Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, USA Schahram Dustdar, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Mahmoud Daneshmand, Stevens Institute of Technology, USA Yves Robert, ENS Lyon, Institut Universitaire de France, France Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Andrzej Goscinski, Deakin University, Australia Hai Jin, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, China Anthony D. Joseph, UC Berkeley, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Ivan Stojmenovic, University of Ottawa, Canada Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Local Organization Chair Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Finance Chair Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Web Chair Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From arnold.jones at snia.org Tue Aug 19 09:15:32 2014 From: arnold.jones at snia.org (Jones, Arnold) Date: Tue, 19 Aug 2014 13:15:32 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] DEADLINE EXTENDED - Call for Posters - Storage Developer Conference Message-ID: DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION EXTENDED TO AUGUST 26th Call for Posters We invite the submission of technical posters at Storage Developer Conference (SDC) 2014. Posters will be presented Monday evening during the Plugfest Open House reception. Goal The SDC Poster Session will provide an interaction opportunity for researchers and practitioners to present their new and innovative work-in-progress, and to obtain feedback in an informal setting. It gives conference attendees a forum where they can learn about on-going research projects that might not yet be complete, but whose preliminary results are already interesting. It also provides poster presenters with an excellent opportunity to receive invaluable feedback from knowledgeable sources. Evaluation Poster submissions will be reviewed by members of the SNIA Technical Council. Five student posters will be selected to be presented at SDC. The authors will be granted a complimentary registration to attend SDC, and will be given a display area to present their Posters. Selected candidates will need to arrange their own travel. Submission Presenters are requested to submit their poster using the provided template below via the conference submission website: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sdc2014. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Big Data Storage and Management * New Fundamental Data, Storage and Device Technologies * Storage Workloads Generated by Apps/Hypervisors/Operating Systems * Solid State Storage, Non-volatile Memory, Persistent Memory * Storage for Virtual Platforms * Cloud and Object Storage * File and Block Access Protocols: o SMB2/SMB3, NFS o iSCSI, FC/FCoE, InfiniBand * File Systems * Long Term Preservation * Green and Energy Efficient IT Technologies * High Speed, Low Latency Interconnects * Storage Resource Management * Data Deduplication * Data Backup and Archiving * Storage Security and Identity Management * Scalable and Distributed Storage Systems * Development Techniques and Tools * Leveraging Open Source in Storage Development * Getting the Most from Collaboration Tools * Experiences and Ideas on Rapid Development * Working with and Leading Distributed Teams Poster templates Please use a SDC poster template when creating your poster. The poster templates are available at: http://www.snia.org/posters. SDC will print the selected posters and make them available on easels in the session. As a guide here are a few examples of posters from a different conference: * http://dmtf.org/sites/default/files/svm13postersession_submission_4.pdf * http://dmtf.org/sites/default/files/SVM-Poster-CMWG-2013-v3.pdf Important Dates * Poster Submission: August 26th * Notification of Acceptance: August 31st Arnold Jones Technical Council Managing Director Storage Networking Industry Association Phone: 407.574.7273 Mobile: 407.435.1067 arnold.jones at snia.org _______________________________________ SNIA www.snia.org SNIA has moved! 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This one-day workshop focuses on the data storage and management problems and emerging solutions found in peta- and exascale scientific computing environments, with special attention to issues in which community collaboration can be crucial for problem identification, workload capture, solution interoperability, standards with community buy-in, and shared tools. Addressing storage media ranging from tape, HDD, and SSD, to emerging storage devices like NVRAM, the workshop seeks contributions on relevant topics, including but not limited to: * performance and benchmarking * failure tolerance problems and solutions * APIs for high performance features * parallel file systems * high bandwidth storage architectures * support for high velocity or complex data * metadata intensive workloads * autonomics for HPC storage * virtualization for storage systems * archival storage advances * resource management innovations * incorporation of emerging storage technologies * workload study from production systems Paper Submissions: The Parallel Data Storage Workshop holds a peer reviewed competitive process for selecting short papers. Submit a not previously published short paper of up to 5 pages, not less than 10 point font and not including references, in a PDF file as instructed on the workshop web site. Submitted papers will be reviewed under the supervision of the workshop program committee. Submissions should indicate authors and affiliations. Final papers must not be longer than 5 pages (excluding references). Selected papers and associated talk slides will be made available on the workshop web site; the papers will also be published in the digital library of the IEEE or ACM. Paper Submission Deadline: EXTENDED TO 9pm PDT, September 6, 2014. Paper Notification: September 30, 2014 Camera Ready Due: October 10, 2014 Work-in-progress (WIP) Submissions: There will also be a WIP session at the workshop, where presenters give 5-minute brief talks on their on-going work, with fresh problems/solutions, but may not be mature or complete yet for paper submission. A 1-page abstract is required as instructed on the workshop web site. WIP Submission Deadline: November 2, 2014 WIP Notification: November 7, 2014 Program Committee: * Andre Brinkmann, Johannes Gutenberg-Universit?t Mainz, Germany * Garth Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University and Panasas Inc., USA * Dean Hildebrand, IBM, USA * Hong Jiang, University of Nebraska, USA * Youngjae Kim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA * Dries Kimpe (Chair), Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Xiaosong Ma (Chair), Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar * Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA * Ron Oldfield, Sandia National Laboratories, USA * Narasimha Reddy, Texas A&M University, USA * Robert Ross, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, USA * Matt Tolentino, Intel, USA * Jin Xiong, ICT, Chinese Academy of Science, China * Sudharshan Vazhkudai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory From changliu.aus at gmail.com Sun Aug 31 11:57:28 2014 From: changliu.aus at gmail.com (Chang Liu) Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 01:57:28 +1000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Demo and Poster - BDCloud2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia Message-ID: Call for Poster and Demo: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/demo.htm Important Dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos with display at conference: 5 October 2014 Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2014 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2014 Deadline for web published posters/demos with display at conference: 30 October 2014 Submissions: Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus at gmail.com with the email subject as "BDCloud 2014 demo poster submission". Two types of posters and demos are welcome. Both of them will be displayed during the conference. 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to Big Data and Cloud Computing community. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. --------------- Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to BDCloud2014. BDCloud2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: ? Fundamentals of cloud computing ? Architectural cloud models ? Programming cloud models ? Provisioning/pricing cloud models ? Data storage and computation in cloud computing ? Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing ? Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data ? Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing ? Access control to cloud computing ? Resource virtualisation ? Monitoring and auditing in cloud ? Scalable and elastic cloud services ? Social computing and impacts on the cloud ? Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud ? Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud ? Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing ? Migration of business applications to cloud ? Energy efficient cloud architecture ? Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing ? Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud ? Green Cloud ? Cloud use case studies ? Big Data theory, applications and challenges ? Big Data mining and analytics on Cloud ? Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing ? Big Data visualization ? Large data stream, incremental datasets on cloud ? Distributed and federated datasets ? NoSQL data stores and DB scalability ? Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust ? Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization ? Distributed file systems for Big Data ? Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA on Cloud ? Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization ? Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems ? Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data ? Storage and computation management of Big Data ? Large-scale workflow management in Big Data ? Data management and distributed data systems ? Big data applications Chairs: Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nazanin.borhan at gmail.com Mon Sep 1 19:46:14 2014 From: nazanin.borhan at gmail.com (Nazanin Borhan) Date: Tue, 2 Sep 2014 09:46:14 +1000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Final CFP: [MR.BDI 2014] The 3rd International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure, 03-05 December 2014, Sydney, Australia Message-ID: [We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this CFP.] Call for Papers Due to requests from other authors, the submission deadline has been extended to September 5, 2014. This is firm, no more extension. The 3rd International Symposium on MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure (MR.BDI 2014) 03-05 December 2014, Sydney, Australia Co-located with the 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014 ). Sponsored by Sponsored by IEEE TCSC Technical Area on Big Data and MapReduce http://www.swinflow.org/confs/mrbdi2014/ Key dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: September 5, 2014 (extended, firm) Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2014 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2014 Registration Due: October 15, 2014 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The emergence of big data and the potential to undertake complex analysis of very large data sets is, essentially, a consequence of recent advances in the technology that allow this. The development of cloud computing over the last few years represents the single most important contributor to the big data trend, with? cloud infrastructure such as compute, storage and analytical tools and apps now widely available. The convergence of big data and cloud computing are having far reaching implications that indeed are changing the world. MapReduce, a widely-adopted parallel and distributed programming paradigm for processing large-scale data sets, becomes much more powerful, scalable, elastic and cost-effective when integrated in cloud systems as it can benefits from the salient characteristics of cloud computing. Based on the MapReduce paradigm and other relevant techniques like HDFS, a series of applications and higher level platforms such as Hadoop, Hive, Twister, Spark, Pregel, to name a few, have been proposed and developed. MapReduce and the emerging tools in cloud are ideal for enterprises with large data centres and scientific communities to address the challenges posed by big data applications. The MapReduce paradigm itself, emerging MapReduce based big data tools and applications, and big data infrastructure such as cloud systems are evolving fast, and therefore need extensive investigations from various research communities. This symposium aims at providing a forum for researchers, practitioners and developers from different background areas such as cloud computing, distributed computing, large-scale data management and database areas to exchange the latest experience, research ideas and synergic research and development on fundamental issues and applications about MapReduce, MapReduce based platforms and emerging big data infrastructure. The symposium solicits high quality research results in all related areas. This is the third instalment of the symposium, following the successful events of 2013 (Australia) and 2012 (China). ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Topics: The objective of the symposium is to invite authors to submit original manuscripts that demonstrate and explore current advances in all aspects of MapReduce and big data infrastructure. The symposium solicits novel papers on a broad range of topics, including but not limited to: ? Challenges and Opportunities in MapReduce based Big Data Tools and Applications ? Recent Development in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure ? Developing, Debugging and Testing Issues of MapReduce based Big Data Tools ? Performance Tuning and Optimization for MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure ? Benchmarking, Evaluation, Simulation for MapReduce based Big Data Tools ? Iterative / Recursive MapReduce Systems ? Computational Theory for MapReduce based Systems ? Extension of the MapReduce Programming Paradigm ? Distributed File Systems for MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools ? Algorithm Analysis and Design with MapReduce Paradigm ? Resource Scheduling and SLA of MapReduce for Multiple Users ? Heterogeneity and Fault-tolerance in MapReduce based Systems and Big Data Infrastructure ? Privacy, Security, Trust and Risk in MapReduce and Big Data Infrastructure ? Integration of MapReduce and Emerging Big Data Tools with Cloud / Grid Systems ? MapReduce in Hybrid / Fabricated / Federated Cloud Systems ? Social Networks Analyses with MapReduce ? Data Mining, Analytics, and Visualization using MapReduce ? Big Stream / Incremental Data Processing using MapReduce ? Big Scientific, Genomic and Healthcare Data Processing with MapReduce ? Industrial Experience and Use Cases of MapReduce based Applications ? Recent Development Open Source Big Data Infrastructure ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Submission Guidelines: Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the MR.BDI2014 submission site: https://www.easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mrbdi2014. Papers should be limited up to 8 pages in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All papers will be peer reviewed by two or three pc members. Submitting a paper to the symposium means that if the paper is accepted, at least one author should register to BDCloud 2014 and attend the conference to present the paper. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Publication of paper: All accepted papers will appear in the proceedings published by IEEE Computer Society (EI indexed). Distinguished papers will be invited to special issues of BDCloud2014 in Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, and IEEE Transactions on Cloud Computing. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Important Dates: Deadline for Paper Submission: September 5, 2014 (extended, firm) Notification of Acceptance: September 25, 2014 Camera Ready Copies: October 15, 2014 Registration Due: October 15, 2014 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ General Chairs: Timos Sellis, RMIT University, Australia Yanpei Chen, Cloudera, USA Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Committee Chairs: Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Xuyun Zhang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Suraj Pandey, IBM Australia Research Lab, Australia ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Program Committees: Gunter Saake, University of Magdeburg, Germany Andreas Thor, University of Leipzig, Germany Javid Taheri, University of Sydney, Australia Amund Tveit, Memkite, Norway Soudip Roy Chowdhury, INRIA, Saclay, France Bahman Javadi, University of Western Sydney, Australia Paolo Trunfio, University of Calabria, Italy Chi Yang, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Liana Fong, IBM Research, USA Nikzad Babaii Rizvandi, University of Sydney, Australia Shipin Chen, CSIRO, Australia Roberto Di Pietro, Roma Tre University of Rome, Italy Jun-Ki Min, Korea university of technology, South Korea Ray C.C. 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URL: From calendarsites at insticc.org Wed Sep 17 04:47:08 2014 From: calendarsites at insticc.org (calendarsites at insticc.org) Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2014 09:47:08 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - CLOSER 2015 Message-ID: <00e901cfd254$34ce39d0$9e6aad70$@insticc.org> CALL FOR PAPERS 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science - CLOSER 2015 Website: www.closer.scitevents.org May 20 ? 22, 2015 Lisbon, Portugal Regular Papers Paper Submission: December 16, 2014 Authors Notification: March 11, 2015 Camera Ready and Registration: March 25, 2015 Position Papers Paper Submission: February 3, 2015 Authors Notification: March 12, 2015 Camera Ready and Registration: March 25, 2015 Workshops Workshop Proposal: January 8, 2015 Doctoral Consortium Paper Submission: March 13, 2015 Authors Notification: March 26, 2015 Camera Ready and Registration: April 8, 2015 Special Sessions Special Session Proposal: January 21, 2015 Tutorials, Demos and Panel Proposals March 20, 2015 Sponsored by: INSTICC ? Institute for Systems and Technologies of Information, Control and Communication INSTICC is Member of: WfMC ? Workflow Management Coalition OMG ? Object Management Group Logistics Partner: SCITEVENTS ? Science and Technology Events The 5th International Conference on Cloud Computing and Services Science, CLOSER 2015, focuses on the emerging area of Cloud Computing, inspired by some latest advances that concern the infrastructure, operations, and available services through the global network. Further, the conference considers as essential the link to Services Science, acknowledging the service-orientation in most current IT-driven collaborations. The conference is nevertheless not about the union of these two (already broad) fields, but about Cloud Computing where we are also interested in how Services Science can provide theory, methods and techniques to design, analyze, manage, market and study various aspects of Cloud Computing. KEYNOTE SPEAKERS CLOSER 2015 will have several invited keynote speakers, who are internationally recognized experts in their areas. Their names are not yet confirmed. PUBLICATIONS All accepted papers will be published in the conference proceedings, under an ISBN reference, on paper and on CD-ROM support. SCITEPRESS is a member of CrossRef (http://www.crossref.org/) and every paper is given a DOI (Digital Object Identifier). All papers presented at the conference venue will be available at the SCITEPRESS Digital Library. It is planned to publish a short list of revised and extended versions of presented papers with Springer in a CCIS Series book (final approval pending). The proceedings will be submitted for indexation by Thomson Reuters Conference Proceedings Citation Index (ISI), INSPEC, DBLP, EI (Elsevier Index) and Scopus. AWARDS The awards will be announced and bestowed at the conference closing session. Please check the website for further information: closer.scitevents.org/BestPaperAward.aspx CONFERENCE CHAIR Markus Helfert, Dublin City University, Ireland PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS V?ctor M?ndez Mu?oz, Universitat Aut?noma de Barcelona, UAB, Spain Donald Ferguson, Dell, United States CONFERENCE AREAS: Each of these topic areas is expanded below but the sub-topics list is not exhaustive. Papers may address one or more of the listed sub-topics, although authors should not feel limited by them. Unlisted but related sub-topics are also acceptable, provided they fit in one of the following main topic areas: 1. CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS 2. SERVICES SCIENCE FOUNDATION FOR CLOUD COMPUTING 3. CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS 4. CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLING TECHNOLOGY 5. MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING AND SERVICES AREA 1: CLOUD COMPUTING FUNDAMENTALS ? Cloud Application Portability ? Cloud Computing Architecture ? Cloud Delivery Models ? Cloud Deployment Models: Public/Private/Hybrid Cloud ? Cloud Education ? Cloud Interoperability ? Cloud Risk, Challenges, and Governance ? Cloud Scenarios ? Cloud Standards ? QoS for applications on clouds ? Energy Management ? Resource Management ? Privacy, Security and Trust AREA 2: SERVICES SCIENCE FOUNDATION FOR CLOUD COMPUTING ? Business Process Management and Web Services ? Business Services Realized by IT Services ? Cloud Brokering ? Cloud Cost Analysis ? Cloud Governance ? Enterprise Architectures and Services ? Federated Cloud ? Human Beings in Service Systems ? Industrial Applications of Services Science ? Information and Service Economy ? Internet of Services ? Model-Driven Web Service Engineering ? Semantic Web Technologies ? Service Brokering ? Service Composition and Mashups ? Service Discovery ? Service Innovation ? Service Marketing and Management ? Service Modeling and Specification ? Service Monitoring and Control ? Service Strategy ? Service-Oriented Architecture ? Services Security and Reliability ? Web Services AREA 3: CLOUD COMPUTING PLATFORMS AND APPLICATIONS ? Access Control ? Application Data Migration ? Big Data Cloud Services ? Cloud Application Architectures ? Cloud Application Scalability and Availability ? Cloud Applications Performance and Monitoring ? Cloud Economics ? Cloud Middleware Frameworks ? Cloudsourcing ? Development Methods for Cloud Applications ? XaaS ? Cloud Services AREA 4: CLOUD COMPUTING ENABLING TECHNOLOGY ? API Management ? Cloud Abstraction of Composite IT Systems ? Cloud Composition, Federation, Bridging, and Bursting ? Cloud Ilities (Scalability, Availability,Reliability) ? Cloud Optimization and Automation ? Cloud Resource Virtualization and Composition ? Virtual Infrastructure Management ? VM Live Migration ? Cloud Workload Profiling and Deployment Control ? Distributed Management of Clouds ? High Performance Cloud Computing ? Metering, pricing, and software licensing ? Monitoring of Services, Quality of Service, Service Level Agreements ? Performance Development and Management ? Programming Models, Systems, and Fault-Tolerant Computing ? Security, Privacy, and Compliance Management ? Troubleshooting and Best Practices ? Virtualization Technologies AREA 5: MOBILE CLOUD COMPUTING AND SERVICES ? Cloud-based mobile media systems and social networks ? Engineering Mobile Clouds and Mobile-Based Systems ? Location-based mobile cloud applications and services ? Mobile cloud computing models, infrastructures, and approaches ? Mobile Clouds for E-Commerce Services ? Mobile multimedia content delivery, transferring, and migration ? Mobile Reliability, Availability, Scalability and Performance ? Pervasive Environments ? Quality of service on mobile clouds and applications ? Security Issues in Mobile Systems Software and Hardware ? Smart mobile computing SaaS on clouds PROGRAM COMMITTEE http://closer.scitevents.org/ProgramCommittee.aspx Please check further details at the conference website closer.scitevents.org --- This email is free from viruses and malware because avast! Antivirus protection is active. http://www.avast.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From k.wasielewska at fedcsis.org Sat Sep 20 14:45:20 2014 From: k.wasielewska at fedcsis.org (Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Technologies) Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2014 20:45:20 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] FedCSIS 2015 - Call for Events Message-ID: <541DCB40.6030507@fedcsis.org> CALL FOR EVENTS Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems Lodz, Poland, 13-16 September, 2015 www.fedcsis.org The 2015 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems cordially invites you to consider contributing an Event (conference, symposium, workshop, consortium meeting, research dissemination meeting, special session). The FedCSIS multi-conference consists of a significant number of recurring Events and it welcomes proposals for new Events until October 31, 2014. The Events can run over any span of time within the conference dates; from half-day to three days. Lodz, the third-largest Polish city, located in the central Poland south-west of Warsaw. The former textile industry empire, today is an academic city, desirable location for creative industries, home of modern arts and grand events. The FedCSIS Events provide a platform for bringing together researchers, practitioners, and academia to present and discuss ideas, challenges, and potential solutions on established or emerging topics related to research and practice in computer science and information systems. The Events will be selected based on the scientific/technical interest and/or their relevance to practitioners in their topics, the clarity of the proposal in addressing the requested information, the innovativeness of the Event topics, and the fit with the FedCSIS multi-conference program. The FedCSIS 2014 - held in Warsaw, Poland - attracted 430 papers, of which 150 were accepted as full papers (acceptance rate of approximately 35%). Some events accepted additionally short and position papers. FedCSIS 2014 full and short papers will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library, while position papers in a separate volume of the Annals of Computer Science and Information systems series (publication process will be completed by October 31, 2014). PUBLICATIONS As in previous years, FedCSIS preprints will be published on a USB memory stick given to FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be published in the IEEE Xplore Digital Library proceedings (or as position papers, published in a separate volume), and posted at the conference WWW site. The IEEE DL proceedings will be published with an ISBN and ISSN numbers (and, an IEEE Catalog number), under a nonexclusive copyright. Such copyright implies that Events' organizers can and, indeed, are strongly encouraged to invite extended and revised papers for post-conference publications in high-quality journals, edited volumes, etc. EVENT PROPOSALS Event proposals should include the following information (2 pages maximum): 1. The nature of the Event. 2. The title of the Event, and a clear description of the topic, including a brief justification. 3. The complete contact information of the Event organizers, including a link to their personal websites, and an overview of previous experiences with organization of scientific events. 4. Preliminary list of PC members who have agreed to join. 5. Indication of the expected number of papers/attendees to attend the Event. 6. Information of expected post-Event publications, of extended and revised papers, in high-quality journals, edited volumes, etc. Event organizers should email their proposals (in a single pdf file) by October 31, 2014, to the FedCSIS Secretariat at: secretariat at fedcsis.org More information concerning Event organization can be found at: http://www.fedcsis.org/2015/cfe From changliu.aus at gmail.com Fri Oct 3 05:10:35 2014 From: changliu.aus at gmail.com (Chang Liu) Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 17:10:35 +0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Final Call for Demo and Poster - BDCloud2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing), 3-5 Dec. 2014, Sydney, Australia Message-ID: Final Call for Poster and Demo: The 4th IEEE International Conference on Big Data and Cloud Computing (BDCloud 2014), 3-5 December 2014, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/bdcloud2014/demo.htm Important Dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos with display at conference: 5 October 2014 Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2014 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2014 Deadline for web published posters/demos with display at conference: 30 October 2014 Submissions: Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus at gmail.com with the email subject as "BDCloud 2014 demo poster submission". Two types of posters and demos are welcome. Both of them will be displayed during the conference. 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to Big Data and Cloud Computing community. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings. 2. Web published posters and demos: Submission is a 1-page extended abstract. Such posters/demos will not be included in the conference proceedings, but will be published on the conference website. --------------- Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to BDCloud2014. BDCloud2014 (Big Data and Cloud Computing) is created to provide a prime international forum for both researchers, industry practitioners and environment experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as joint-venture and synergic research and development across various related areas. Topics of interest for posters and demos include, but not limited to: ? Fundamentals of cloud computing ? Architectural cloud models ? Programming cloud models ? Provisioning/pricing cloud models ? Data storage and computation in cloud computing ? Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing ? Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data ? Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing ? Access control to cloud computing ? Resource virtualisation ? Monitoring and auditing in cloud ? Scalable and elastic cloud services ? Social computing and impacts on the cloud ? Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud ? Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud ? Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing ? Migration of business applications to cloud ? Energy efficient cloud architecture ? Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing ? Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud ? Green Cloud ? Cloud use case studies ? Big Data theory, applications and challenges ? Big Data mining and analytics on Cloud ? Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing ? Big Data visualization ? Large data stream, incremental datasets on cloud ? Distributed and federated datasets ? NoSQL data stores and DB scalability ? Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust ? Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization ? Distributed file systems for Big Data ? Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA on Cloud ? Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization ? Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems ? Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data ? Storage and computation management of Big Data ? Large-scale workflow management in Big Data ? Data management and distributed data systems ? Big data applications Chairs: Nazanin Borhan, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov Wed Oct 29 02:13:07 2014 From: Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov (Tumeo, Antonino) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2014 06:13:07 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call For Participation - IA^3 2014 - SC14 Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms Message-ID: <64FB64E2-0C07-42FF-8405-8A4963EBDD3E@pnnl.gov> IA^3 2014 Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://cass-mt.pnnl.gov/irregularworkshop.aspx In cooperation with SIGHPC Held in conjunction with SC14 Sunday, November 16 New Orleans Convention Center Room: 273 8:50 ? 9:00 Welcome 9:00 ? 10:00 Keynote 1: Prof. Onur Mutlu, Carnegie Mellon University Rethinking Memory System Design (for Data-Intensive Computing) Abstract: The memory system is a fundamental performance and energy bottleneck in almost all computing systems. Recent system design, application, and technology trends that require more capacity, bandwidth, efficiency, and predictability out of the memory system make it an even more important system bottleneck. At the same time, DRAM and flash technologies are experiencing difficult technology scaling challenges that make the maintenance and enhancement of their capacity, energy-efficiency, and reliability significantly more costly with conventional techniques. In this talk, we examine some promising research and design directions to overcome challenges posed by memory scaling. Specifically, we discuss three key solution directions: 1) enabling new memory architectures, functions, interfaces, and better integration of the memory and the rest of the system, 2) designing a memory system that intelligently employs multiple memory technologies and coordinates memory and storage management using non-volatile memory technologies, 3) providing predictable performance and QoS to applications sharing the memory/storage system. If time permits, we may also briefly describe our ongoing related work in combating scaling challenges of NAND flash memory. An accompanying short paper, slightly outdated, can be found here: http://users.ece.cmu.edu/~omutlu/pub/memory-scaling_memcon13.pdf Bio: Onur Mutlu is the Strecker Early Career Professor at Carnegie Mellon University. His broader research interests are in computer architecture and systems, especially in the interactions between languages, operating systems, compilers, and microarchitecture. He enjoys teaching and researching problems in computer architecture, including those related to the design of memory/storage systems, multi-core architectures, and scalable and efficient systems. He obtained his PhD and MS in ECE from the University of Texas at Austin (2006) and BS degrees in Computer Engineering and Psychology from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Prior to Carnegie Mellon, he worked at Microsoft Research (2006-2009), Intel Corporation, and Advanced Micro Devices. He was a recipient of the IEEE Computer Society Young Computer Architect Award, Intel Early Career Faculty Honor Award, Faculty partnership Awards from IBM, HP, and Microsoft, a number of best paper awards, and a number of "computer architecture top pick" paper selections by the IEEE Micro magazine. For more information, please see his webpage at http://www.ece.cmu.edu/~omutlu. 10:00 ? 10:30 Break 10:30 ? 11:20 Keynote 2: Prof. Keshav Pingali, the University of Texas at Austin Graph Analytics on the Galois System Abstract: Unstructured data is being generated at a tremendous rate in modern applications as diverse as social networks, recommender systems, genomics, health care and energy management. Networks are an important example of unstructured data and may arise explicitly, as in social networks, or implicitly, as in recommender systems. These networks are challenging to handle; not only are they large-scale but they are constantly evolving, and many applications require difficult prediction tasks to be solved, such as link or ratings prediction. In this talk, we will describe the Galois system, which is a data-centric parallel programming system that provides an easy-to-use programming model for implementing and tuning parallel irregular applications such as graph analytics algorithms. We will present performance numbers for implementations of some of these algorithms on the Galois system from our group and from other groups in academia and industry. Bio: Keshav Pingali is a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Texas at Austin, and he holds the W.A."Tex" Moncrief Chair of Computing in the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) at UT Austin. He was on the faculty of the Department of Computer Science at Cornell University from 1986 to 2006, where he held the India Chair of Computer Science. Pingali's research has focused on programming languages and compiler technology for program understanding, restructuring, and optimization. His group is known for its contributions to memory-hierarchy optimization; some of these have been patented and are in use in industry compilers. Pingali is a Fellow of the ACM, IEEE and AAAS. He was the co-Editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems, and currently serves on the editorial boards of the International Journal of Parallel Programming and Distributed Computing. He also served on the NSF CISE Advisory Committee (2009-2012). 11:20 ? 12:05 Paper Session 1: Applications and algorithms (including short papers) Using Vertex-Centric Programming Platforms to Implement SPARQL Queries on Large Graphs (25 min) Eric L. Goodman (Sandia National Laboratories), Dirk Grunwald (University of Colorado) An Extremely Fast Algorithm for Identifying High Closeness Centrality Vertices in Large-Scale Networks (10 min) Vladimir Ufimtsev (University of Nebraska at Omaha) , Sanjukta Bhowmick (University of Nebraska at Omaha) Heterogeneous Concurrent Execution of Monte Carlo Photon Transport on CPU, GPU and MIC. (10 min) Noah Wolfe (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Tianyu Liu (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), Christopher Carothers (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute), and Xie George Xu (Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) 1:30 ? 3:00 Panel Session: Architectures and Algorithms for Irregular Applications Panelists: Clayton Chandler (DOD), Benoit Dupont de Dinechin (Kalray), Maya Gokhale (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory), Torsten Hoefler (ETH Z?rich), Onur Mutlu (Carnegie Mellon University), Keshav Pingali (the University of Texas at Austin), John Shalf (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) 3:00 ? 3:30 Break 3:30 ? 4:45 Paper Session 2: load balancing Data-Driven Techniques to Overcome Workload Disparity (25 min) Dan Connors (University of Colorado), Skyler Saleh (University of Colorado), Tejas Joshi (University of Colorado), and Ryan Bueter (University of Colorado) Distributed Control: Priority Scheduling for Single Source Shortest Paths without Synchronization (25 min) Marcin Zalewski (Indiana University), Thejaka Amila Kanewala (Indiana University), Jesun Sahariar Firoz (Indiana University), Andrew Lumsdaine (Indiana University) When Merging and Branch Predictors Collide (25 min) Oded Green (Georgia Institute of Technology) 4:45 - 5:35 Paper Session 3: GPU acceleration Fast Triangle Counting on GPU (25 min) Oded Green (ArrayFire), Pavan Yalamanchili (ArrayFire), Llu?s-Miquel Mungu?a (Georgia Institute of Technology) Accelerating Sparse Cholesky Factorization on GPUs (25 min) Steven C. Rennich (NVIDIA), Darko Stosic (NVIDIA), Timothy A. Davis (Texas A&M University) -- Best Regards, Antonino Tumeo Research Scientist High Performance Computing Pacific Northwest National Laboratory antonino.tumeo at pnnl.gov From Bjarne.Steensgaard at microsoft.com Fri Oct 31 10:40:38 2014 From: Bjarne.Steensgaard at microsoft.com (Bjarne Steensgaard) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 14:40:38 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: 11th ACM international conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE'15) Message-ID: The 11th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE'15) brings together researchers and practitioners from different computer systems domains to interact and share ideas in order to advance the state of the art of virtualization and broaden its applicability. VEE'15 accepts both full-length and short papers. Both types of submissions are reviewed to the same standards and differ primarily in the scope of the ideas expressed. Short papers are limited to half the space of full-length papers. The program committee will not accept a full paper on the condition that it is cut down to fit in a short paper slot, nor will it invite short papers to be extended to full length. Submissions will be considered only in the category in which they are submitted. We invite authors to submit original papers related to virtualization across all layers of the software stack down to the microarchitectural level. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - virtualization support for programs and programmers; - architecture support for virtualization; - operating system support for virtualization; - compiler and programming language support for virtualization; - runtime system support for virtualization; - virtual I/O, storage, and networking; - memory management; - management technologies for virtual environments; - performance analysis and debugging for virtual environments; - virtualization technologies applied to specific problem domains such as cloud, HPC, realtime, power management, and security. As usual (since 2008), VEE'15 is co-located with ASPLOS 2015, which will take place in Istanbul, Turkey. VEE'15 will be held concurrently with the ASPLOS 2015 workshops, during March 14-15, 2015. IMPORTANT DATES: Submission Deadline: Tuesday, November 25, 2014 (11:59pm, PST) Author Rebuttal: Friday - Saturday, January 23 - 24, 2015 Author Notification: Wednesday, January 28, 2015 Camera-ready Deadline: Thursday, February 12, 2015 (11:59pm, PST) Conference Saturday - Sunday, March 14 - 15, 2015 Web site: http://vee.sigops.org/vee15 GENERAL CHAIR: Ada Gavrilovska (Georgia Institute of Technology) PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS: Angela Demke Brown (University of Toronto) Bjarne Steensgaard (Microsoft) PROGRAM COMMITTEE: Jonathan Appavoo (Boston University) Haibo Chen (Shanghai Jiao Tong University) Dilma Da Silva (Texas A&M University) Amer Diwan (Google) Daniel Frampton (Microsoft) David Gregg (Trinity College Dublin) David Grove (IBM Research) Vishakha Gupta (Intel) Tomas Kalibera (Purdue University) Kenichi Kourai (Kyushu Institute of Technology) Priya Nagpurkar (IBM Research) Donald Porter (Stony Brook University) Jennifer Sartor (Ghent University) Ravi Soundararajan (VMWare) Gael Thomas (LIP6) Timothy Wood (George Washington University) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mavega at unex.es Fri Oct 31 09:18:31 2014 From: mavega at unex.es (Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez) Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2014 14:18:31 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [Deadline Extended] CFP - IEEE SG-STA 2015 (proceedings published by IEEE) Message-ID: <54538C27.6000808@unex.es> Call for Papers --- IEEE SG-STA 2015: Smart Green Systems, Technologies and Approaches to be held as part of the IEEE International Conference ICIT 2015 (proceedings published by IEEE) --- SUBMISSION DEADLINE: NOVEMBER 21, 2014 (EXTENDED) Energy and its efficient use is a hot topic, becoming more and more important. Many systems, technologies, and approaches are being proposed for making a smart use or green use of energy. These technologies and approaches are being applied to different areas: computing and ICT in general, buildings, cities, etc. On the one hand, green computing is nowadays one of the major challenges for most IT organizations that involve medium and large scale ICT infrastructures like grids, clouds, supercomputers, and clusters. On the other hand, science and technology are being applied in assessing, monitoring, and optimising the environmental performance of existing buildings and cities. Furthermore, smart technologies for renewable energy will also have an important role. The goal of this special session is therefore to bring together researchers in the fields of smart green systems, technologies and approaches, hence establishing a forum for discussing challenges, new ideas, results, applications, and future directions. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): - Green computing and green ICT systems. - Advanced building envelope technologies for HPC. - Smart energy systems for smart buildings or smart cities. - Sustainable building technologies. - Smart technologies for renewable energy. - Energy efficiency in ICT, buildings, and cities. - Energy-aware systems and technologies. - Optimization techniques for efficient energy consumption. - Green software engineering methodologies and tools. - Energy-efficient cloud computing approaches. - Smart energy management, usage, and optimization. - Demand-side management and advance control schemes for smart buildings and cities. - Market development measures, policy making tools and support actions for smart buildings and cities. - Advances in dynamic modelling tools and cross-disciplinary issues. - Commissioning, monitoring technologies, and performance evaluation methodologies in the context of smart buildings and cities. More information about IEEE SG-STA 2015: http://www.icit2015.org/images/site/pdf/SS_22.pdf Submission procedure: All the instructions for paper submission are included in the IEEE ICIT 2015 website: http://www.icit2015.org Web page for submitting your contribution: http://vps.ieee-ies.org/submit-cgi-bin/authorinitialform.pl?event=ICIT15&area=ss22 --- Kind regards. From Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov Sat Nov 1 13:59:08 2014 From: Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov (Tumeo, Antonino) Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2014 17:59:08 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [CFP] - IEEE Computer Special Issue on Irregular Applications Message-ID: [Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email.] IEEE Computer Special issue on Irregular Applications http://www.computer.org/portal/web/computingnow/cocfp8 Full paper submission deadline: 1 February 2015 Publication date: August 2015 Computer seeks submissions for an August 2015 special issue on irregular applications. The broad class of irregular applications is characterized by unpredictable memory access patterns, control structures, and/or network transfers. These applications typically use pointers or linked list?based data structures such as graphs, unbalanced trees, and unstructured grids. Their complex behavior makes it difficult to fully exploit their significant latent parallelism. In addition to performance concerns, dataset size presents a challenge in emerging irregular applications because they often operate on massive amounts of unstructured heterogeneous data that is usually difficult to partition. Current high-performance architectures rely on data locality as well as regular computations, structured data, and easily partitionable datasets; consequently, they do not cope well with the computational and data requirements of irregular applications. Furthermore, scaling on current supercomputing machines is problematic, because of limits associated with fine-grained communication and synchronization. These applications exist in well established and emerging fields such as: CAD; bioinformatics; semantic graph databases; machine learning; analysis of social, transportation, communication, and other types of networks; and computer security. Addressing the many system-related issues posed by irregular applications on current and future system architectures is critical to solving future scientific challenges. This special issue seeks to explore solutions for supporting the efficient design, development, and execution of irregular applications. Practical and theoretical topics of interest include but are not limited to: * Micro- and system-level architectures; * Network and memory architectures; * Many-core, hybrid, heterogeneous, and custom architectures (tiled processors, GPUs, FPGAs); * Modeling, evaluation, and characterization of architectures for memory-intensive and irregular applications; * Innovative algorithmic techniques; * Combinatorial (graph) algorithms and their applications; * Languages and programming models; * Library and runtime support; * Compiler and analysis techniques; and * Case studies of irregular applications (for example, semantic graph databases, data mining, security, bioinformatics). Articles focused on approaches that span multiple levels of the stack ? ideally providing application-specific, end-to?end solutions ? are of particular interest. Articles should provide context for their contributions with respect to existing solutions as well as potential commercial impact. Only technical articles describing previously unpublished, original, state-of-the-art research, and not currently under review by a conference or a journal will be considered. Articles should be understandable to a broad audience of computer science and engineering professionals, avoiding a focus on theory, mathematics, jargon, and abstract concepts. All manuscripts are subject to peer review on both technical merit and relevance to Computer's readership. Accepted papers will be professionally edited for content and style. The guest editors for this special issue are: ? Antonino Tumeo (antonino.tumeo at pnnl.gov), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory; and ? John Feo (john.feo at pnnl.gov), Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Paper submissions are due 1 February 2015. For author guidelines and information on how to submit a manuscript electronically, visit http://www.computer.org/portal/web/peerreviewmagazines/computer. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov Thu Nov 13 13:01:46 2014 From: Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov (Tumeo, Antonino) Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2014 18:01:46 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [CFP] - Special issue of Parallel Computing on: Theory and Practice of Irregular Applications (TaPIA) Message-ID: <5AF1BC54-946D-464C-A3A0-B8999759D58C@pnnl.gov> [Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email.] A broad class of applications is irregular. Irregular applications present unpredictable memory access patterns, control structures, and/or network transfers. They typically use pointer or linked lists-based data structures such as graphs, unbalanced trees, and unstructured grids. They often present fine-grained synchronization and communication, and generally operate on very large data sets. They have a significant degree of latent parallelism, which is however difficult to fully exploit because of their complex behavior. Beside performance, another significant concern for emerging irregular applications is the size of the datasets. In fact, modern irregular applications operate on massive amounts of data, often unstructured, which are very difficult to partition and easily generate load imbalance. Current high performance architectures rely on data locality, regular computations, structured data and easily partitionable datasets. They do not cope well with the requirements of these applications. Furthermore, irregular applications are difficult to scale on current supercomputing machines, because of their limits with fine-grained communication and synchronization. Irregular applications pertain both to well established and emerging fields, such as Computer Aided Design (CAD), bioinformatics, semantic graph databases, machine learning, analysis of social, transportation, communication and other types of networks, and computer security. Addressing the issues of these applications on current and future system architectures will become critical to solve the scientific challenges of the next few years. This special issue seeks to explore solutions for supporting efficient design, development and execution of irregular applications in the form of new features at the level of the micro- and system-architecture, network, languages and libraries, runtimes, compilers, analysis, algorithms. Topics of interest, of both theoretical and practical significance, include but are not limited to: * Micro- and System-architectures * Network and memory architectures * Manycore, hybrid, heterogeneous and custom architectures (Tilera, GPUs, FPGAs) * Modeling, evaluation and characterization of architectures for memory intensive and irregular applications * Innovative algorithmic techniques * Combinatorial (graph) algorithms and their applications * Parallelization techniques and data structures * Languages and programming models * Library and runtime support * Compiler and analysis techniques * Case studies of irregular applications (e.g. Semantic Graph Databases, Data Mining, Security, Bioinformatics) This special issue solicits both novel, unpublished work, and previously published, but significantly extended, approaches. Tentative schedule Submission deadline: March 30 - 2015 First round of reviews and initial notification: June 2015 Revisions and final decisions: August 2015 Publication: November 2015 http://www.journals.elsevier.com/parallel-computing/call-for-papers/parallel-computing-on-theory-and-practice-of-irregular-appli/ Guest Editors John T. Feo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory john.feo at pnnl.gov Antonino Tumeo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory antonino.tumeo at pnnl.gov Oreste Villa, NVIDIA ovilla at nvidia.com From CDORON at il.ibm.com Mon Dec 1 03:15:38 2014 From: CDORON at il.ibm.com (Doron Chen) Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 10:15:38 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Papers: SYSTOR 2015, May 26-28, Haifa, Israel Message-ID: [ Apologies if you receive this multiple times ] Call for Papers: SYSTOR 2015 May 26-28, 2015 Haifa, Israel We invite you to submit original and innovative papers to SYSTOR 2015, The 8th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference. The conference will take place May 26 28, 2015 in Haifa, Israel. http://systor.org/2015 Paper submission deadline: March 5, 2015 SYSTOR has a broad scope, promoting experimental and practical computer systems research encompassing the following topics: * Operating systems, computer architecture, and their interactions * Distributed, parallel, and cloud systems * Networked, mobile, wireless, peer-to-peer, and sensor systems * Runtime systems and compiler/programming-language support * File and storage systems * Security, privacy, and trust * Virtualization * Embedded and real-time systems * Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability * Deployment, usage, and experience * Performance evaluation and workload characterization IMPORTANT DATES * Full & short paper submission: March 5, 2015 * Highlights paper submission: April 30, 2015 * Paper notification: April 5, 2015 * Camera-ready submission: April 17, 2015 * Poster submission: April 30, 2015 * Poster notification: May 11, 2015 SYSTOR is a home for high-quality international systems research of a practical nature and welcomes both academic and industrial contributions. We solicit paper submissions in three separate categories: * Full papers: should report original, previously unpublished high-quality research, and be at most 10 pages of content, including everything except references, which may use additional pages. The program committee will review all submitted papers. Accepted papers will be presented at the conference and included in the conference proceedings, to be published by the ACM. * Short papers: should report original, previously unpublished work for which a full paper may not be suitable. Short paper submissions may report on smaller ideas; unconventional ideas that are still in a preliminary stage of development; interesting negative results; experimental (in)validation of previous findings; controversial positions that challenge common wisdom; and fresh approaches for addressing old problems. Short papers may be at most 5 pages, excluding references. They will undergo the same review process as full papers. If accepted, short papers will be allocated a shorter talk slot during the conference and will also be published in the conference proceedings. * Highlight papers: should contain exciting research results that have been accepted to a recent top-tier systems conference or journal. A small sub-committee will briefly review these submissions and will select the most suitable ones for SYSTOR. The corresponding presentations will then be "replayed" at SYSTOR for the benefit of the local community. A highlight paper submission should include the full citation of the published or accepted paper and a link to it. Accepted submissions will not be published in the proceedings. SYSTOR 2015 will host distinguished keynote speakers, a poster session, and several social events at the conference. Our goal is to provide an excellent forum for interaction across the systems community: international, academic, and industrial, for both students and more established members. 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URL: From jfineman at cs.georgetown.edu Fri Dec 5 11:33:35 2014 From: jfineman at cs.georgetown.edu (Jeremy Fineman) Date: Fri, 5 Dec 2014 11:33:35 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] SPAA 2015 - call for papers Message-ID: <6FDBCC87-FDA8-4E01-946F-EAAA1264A886@cs.georgetown.edu> ====================================================== SPAA 2015 Call for Papers ====================================================== 27th ACM Symposium on Parallelism in Algorithms and Architectures (SPAA 2015) June 13-15, 2015 Portland, Oregon, USA http://www.spaa-conference.org This year, SPAA will be part of the Federated Computing Research Conference (FCRC) General FCRC information is available at http://fcrc.acm.org ====================================================== Important Dates: Submission deadlines: - Abstract: January 14, 11:59pm EST - Full versions: January 16, 11:59pm EST Rebuttal period: March 4-5 Notification: March 23 Camera-ready: April 21 ====================================================== Contributed papers are sought in all areas of parallel algorithms and architectures, encompassing any computation system that can perform multiple operations or tasks simultaneously. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - parallel and distributed algorithms - parallel and distributed data structures - green computing & power-efficient architectures - management of massive data sets - parallel complexity theory - parallel and distributed architectures - multi-core architectures - instruction level parallelism and VLSI - compilers and tools for concurrent programming - supercomputing architecture and computing - transactional memory hardware and software - game theory and collaborative learning - routing and information dissemination - resource management and awareness - peer-to-peer systems - mobile, ad-hoc, and sensor networks - robustness, self-stabilization, and security - synergy of parallelism in algorithms, programming, and architecture Conference presentations will have two formats: Regular presentations will be allotted a 25-minute talk and up to 10 pages in the proceedings. This format is intended for contributions reporting original research, submitted exclusively to this conference. Brief announcements will be allotted a 10-minute talk and a 2-page abstract in the proceedings. This format is a forum for brief communications, which may be published later in other conferences. Every regular paper is eligible for the best paper award. The program committee may decline to make this award or may split the award among multiple papers. Submission: Authors of contributed papers are encouraged to submit their manuscript electronically. To submit electronically, visit http://www.spaa-conference.org for instructions. This is the preferred method of submission. Authors unable to submit electronically should contact the program chair Kunal Agrawal at kunal at wustl.edu to receive instructions on how to proceed. Submissions for regular presentations should include an introduction understandable to a nonspecialist including motivation and previous work, and a technical exposition directed to a specialist. A submission should not exceed 10 double-column pages in 9-point font, including figures, tables, and references. More details may be supplied in a clearly marked appendix to be read at the discretion of the program committee. A submission for brief announcements should be no longer than two double-column pages in 9-point font. Rebuttal Period: There will be a rebuttal period in which the authors can point out misunderstandings or comment on critical questions that PC members may have. The rebuttal period will take place on March 4-5. ====================================================== Program Committee: Umut Acar, Carnegie Mellon University Grey Ballard, Sandia National Labs Petra Berenbrink, Simon Fraser University Dave Dice, Oracle Labs Jeremy Fineman, Georgetown University Pierre Fraigniaud, University of Paris 7 Seth Gilbert, National University of Singapore Rachid Guerraoui, EPFL MohammadTaghi HajiAghayi, University of Maryland Maurice Herlihy, Brown University Martin Hoefer, MPI Saarbr?cken Peter Kling, University of Pittsburgh Bradley Kuzsmaul, MIT Angelina Lee, Washington University in St. Louis Ryan Newton, Indiana University Gopal Pandurangan, University of Houston Michael Spear, Lehigh University Cliff Stein, Columbia University Kanat Tangwongsan, Mahidol University Sivan Toledo, Tel Aviv University Uzi Vishkin, University of Maryland ====================================================== Conference Committee: Program Chair Kunal Agrawal, Washington University in St. Louis General Chair Guy Blelloch, Carnegie Mellon University Secretary Christian Scheideler, University of Paderborn Treasurer David Bunde, Knox College Publicity Chair Jeremy Fineman, Georgetown University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From dhildeb at us.ibm.com Tue Dec 9 16:43:37 2014 From: dhildeb at us.ibm.com (Dean Hildebrand) Date: Tue, 9 Dec 2014 13:43:37 -0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] HPDC'15 Submissions Open Message-ID: **** CALL FOR PAPERS **** The 24th International ACM Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC?15) Portland, Oregon - June 15-19, 2015 http://www.hpdc.org/2015 The ACM International Symposium on High-Performance Parallel and Distributed Computing (HPDC) is the premier annual conference for presenting the latest research on the design, implementation, evaluation, and application of parallel and distributed systems for high-end computing. This year, HPDC is affiliated with the ACM Federated Computing Research Conference, consisting of twelve leading ACM conferences and workshops. HPDC will be held on June 17-19 (Wednesday through Friday) with affiliated workshops taking place on June 15-16 (Monday and Tuesday). **** IMPORTANT DATES **** Abstracts Due: January 12, 2015 (11:59PM Pacific Time) Papers Due: January 19, 2015 (11:59PM Pacific Time) Author Rebuttal: March 4-7, 2015 Author Notifications: March 16, 2015 Final Manuscripts: April 1, 2015 **** SCOPE AND TOPICS **** Submissions are welcomed on high-performance parallel and distributed computing topics including but not limited to: clouds, clusters, grids, big data, massively multicore, and global-scale computing systems. Submissions that focus on the architectures, systems, and networks of cloud infrastructures are particularly encouraged, as are experience reports of operational deployments that can provide insights for future research on HPDC applications and systems. All papers will be evaluated for their originality, technical depth and correctness, potential impact, relevance to the conference, and quality of presentation. Research papers must clearly demonstrate research contributions and novelty, while experience reports must clearly describe lessons learned and demonstrate impact. In the context of high-performance parallel and distributed computing, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Systems, networks, and architectures * Massively multicore systems * Resource virtualization * Programming languages and environments * File and storage systems, I/O, and data management * Resource management and scheduling, including energy-aware techniques * Performance modeling and analysis * Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability * Data-intensive computing * Applications and services that depend upon high-end computing **** PAPER SUBMISSION GUIDELINES **** Authors are invited to submit technical papers of at most 12 pages in PDF format, including figures and references. Papers should be formatted in the ACM Proceedings Style ( http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates) and submitted via the conference web site. No changes to the margins, spacing, or font sizes as specified by the style file are allowed. Accepted papers will appear in the conference proceedings, and will be incorporated into the ACM Digital Library. A limited number of papers will be accepted as posters. Papers must be self-contained and provide the technical substance required for the program committee to evaluate their contributions. Submitted papers must be original work that has not appeared in and is not under consideration for another conference or journal. See the ACM Prior Publication Policy ( http://www.acm.org/publications/policies/sim_submissions) for more details. **** HPDC'15 GENERAL CHAIR **** Thilo Kielmann, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands **** HPDC'15 PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS **** Dean Hildebrand, IBM Research, USA Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, USA **** HPDC'15 PROCEEDINGS CHAIR **** Antonino Tumeo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA **** HPDC'15 PROGRAM COMMITTEE **** David Abramson, The University of Queensland, Australia Dong Ahn, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Gabriel Antoniu , INRIA, France Henri Bal, Vrije Universiteit, Netherlands Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Michela Becchi, University of Missouri, USA John Bent, EMC, USA Greg Bronevetsky, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Ali Butt, Virginia Tech, USA Franck Cappello, Argonne National Lab, USA Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota, USA Andrew A. Chien, University of Chicago, USA Paolo Costa, Microsoft Research Cambridge, UK Kei Davis, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Peter Dinda, Northwestern University, USA Dick Epema, Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Gilles Fedak, INRIA, France Wuchun Feng, Virginia Tech, USA Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida, USA Clemens Grelck, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Adriana Iamnitchi, University of South Florida, USA Larry Kaplan, Cray Inc., USA Kate Keahey, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Dries Kimpe, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Alice Koniges, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA John (Jack) Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA Gary Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Arthur Barney Maccabe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA Naoya Maruyama, RIKEN Advanced Institute for Comp. Science, Japan Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Inst. Technology, Japan Timothy Mattson, Intel, USA Kathryn Mohror, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Bogdan Nicolae, IBM Research, Ireland Sangmi Pallickara, Colorado State University, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Raju Rangaswami, Florida International University, USA Matei Ripeanu, University of British Columbia, Canada Nagiza F. Samatova, North Carolina State University, USA Prasenjit Sarkar, Independent Consultant, USA Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Vasily Tarasov, IBM Research, USA Kenjiro Taura, University of Tokyo, Japan Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame, USA Ana Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands Richard Vuduc, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota, USA Dongyan Xu, Purdue University, USA Rui Zhang, IBM Research, USA **** HPDC STEERING COMMITTEE **** Franck Cappello, Argonne National Lab, USA, and INRIA, France Andrew A. Chien, University of Chicago, USA Peter Dinda, Northwestern University, USA Dick Epema, Delft University of Technology, the Netherlands Renato Figueiredo, University of Florida, USA Salim Hariri, University of Arizona, USA Thilo Kielmann, VU University, Amsterdam, the Netherlands Arthur "Barney" Maccabe, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Matei Ripeanu, University of British Columbia, Canada Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, USA Doug Thain, University of Notre Dame, USA Jon Weissman, University of Minnesota, USA (Chair) Dongyan Xu, Purdue University, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brimmj at ornl.gov Wed Dec 10 17:07:45 2014 From: brimmj at ornl.gov (Michael J. Brim) Date: Wed, 10 Dec 2014 17:07:45 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: International Workshop on The Lustre Ecosystem Message-ID: <5488C431.4030701@ornl.gov> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call.] **** CALL FOR EXTENDED ABSTRACTS **** International Workshop on The Lustre Ecosystem: Challenges and Opportunities http://lustre.ornl.gov/ecosystem March 3-4, 2015 Annapolis, Maryland, USA **** IMPORTANT DATES **** Note: all submission deadlines are midnight anywhere-on-earth Extended abstracts due: January 23, 2015 Acceptance notification: February 11, 2015 Technical presentations: March 4, 2015 Full papers due: March 13, 2015 **** SCOPE and TOPICS **** Large-scale storage systems are often difficult to manage with complicated interactions between expensive storage hardware, high performance interconnection networks, and client computer systems. The Lustre parallel file system has been widely adopted by high-performance computing (HPC) centers as an effective system for managing large-scale storage resources. Lustre achieves unprecedented aggregate performance by parallelizing I/O over file system clients and storage targets at extreme scales. Today, 7 out of 10 fastest supercomputers in the world use Lustre for high-performance storage. Lustre development has focused on improving the performance and scalability of large-scale scientific workloads. In particular, large-scale checkpoint storage and retrieval, which is characterized by bursty I/O from coordinated parallel clients, has been the primary driver of Lustre development over the last decade. With the advent of extreme scale computing and Big Data computing, many HPC centers are seeing increased user interest in running diverse workloads that place new demands on Lustre. In this workshop, we seek contributions that explore improvements in the performance and flexibility of the Lustre file system for supporting diverse workloads. This will be a great opportunity for the Lustre community to discuss the challenges associated with enhancing Lustre for diverse applications, the technological advances necessary, and the associated ecosystem. Specific topics of interest include, but are not limited to: ? Workload Characterization ? Adaptability and Scalability of Lustre for Diverse Workloads ? Resilience and Serviceability of Lustre ? Knowledge Provenance in Lustre ? Application-driven Lustre Benchmarking ? Integrating Big Data Technologies with Lustre ? Performance Monitoring Tools for Lustre **** SUBMISSION GUIDELINES **** Authors should electronically submit extended abstracts of previously unpublished work in PDF format. Abstracts may consist of up to 5 US letter-size (8.5 by 11in.) pages, including figures, tables, and references. Submissions should be formatted in IEEE Computer Society conference proceedings style. Accepted abstracts are expected to be expanded into technical papers of at most 10 pages in length, all-inclusive. Full papers will be due the week following the workshop, and will undergo shepherding in preparation for publication in the workshop proceedings. **** ORGANIZING COMMITTEE **** ==PROGRAM CO-CHAIRS == Neena Imam, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Michael Brim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Sarp Oral, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA == TUTORIALS CHAIR == Jason Hill, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA **** TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE **** Jeremy Archuleta, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Michael Brim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Jason Hill, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Josh Lothian, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Sarp Oral, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Joel Reed, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Rob Ross, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Nathan Rutman, Seagate, USA Stephen Simms, Indiana University, USA Sudharshan Vazhkudai, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Weikuan Yu, Auburn University, USA From brinkman at uni-mainz.de Sat Dec 27 05:26:21 2014 From: brinkman at uni-mainz.de (=?utf-8?B?QnJpbmttYW5uLCBQcm9mLiBEci4gQW5kcsOp?=) Date: Sat, 27 Dec 2014 10:26:21 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Papers: Euro-Par 2015 with Track on Parallel and Distributed Data Management Message-ID: Dear All, I would like to make you aware of the approaching EuroPar 2015 deadline and especially of Track 5: Parallel and Distributed Data Management! Best Regards and a happy new year 2015 Andr? Brinkmann =================================================================== Call for Papers: Euro-Par 2015 21st International European Conference on Parallel and Distributed Computing Vienna, Austria, 24-28 August 2015 [http://www.europar2015.org] Euro-Par is the prime European conference covering all aspects of parallel and distributed processing, ranging from theory to practice, from small to the largest parallel and distributed systems and infrastructures, from fundamental computational problems to full-fledged applications, from architecture, compiler, language and interface design and implementation, to tools, support infrastructures, and application performance aspects. Euro-Par's unique organization into topics provides an excellent forum for focused technical discussion, as well as interaction with a large, broad and diverse audience. Scope ===== We invite submissions of high-quality, novel and original research results in areas of parallel and distributed computing covered by the following topics: 1. Support Tools and Environments 2. Performance Modeling, Prediction and Evaluation 3. Scheduling and Load Balancing 4. Architecture and Compilers 5. Parallel and Distributed Data Management 6. Grid, Cluster and Cloud Computing 7. Distributed Systems and Algorithms 8. Parallel and Distributed Programming, Interfaces and Languages 9. Multicore and Manycore Programming 10. Theory and Algorithms for Parallel Computation 11. Communication, Routing and Networks 12. Numerical Methods and Applications 13. Accelerator Computing More details about the topics can be found on the Euro-Par 2015 Web site. Important Dates =============== - Paper abstracts: 30 January 2015, 23:59 AOE - Full paper submission: 6 February 2015, 23:59 AOE (no extensions planned) - Author notification: 5 May 2015 - Camera ready full papers: 5 June 2015 - Workshop proposals: 1 December 2014 - 30 January 2015 - Workshop paper submission: 22 May 2015 - Early conference registration: from 1 June 2015 Submission Guidelines ===================== Submissions in PDF format should not exceed 12 pages in the Springer LNCS style, which can be downloaded from the Springer Web site. Paper submission is handled electronically (EasyChair). The 12 pages limit is a hard limit. It includes everything (text, figures, references) and will be strictly enforced by the submission system. Complete LaTeX sources must be provided for accepted papers. All submitted research papers will be peer-reviewed. Only contributions that are not submitted elsewhere or currently under review will be considered. Accepted papers will be included in the conference proceedings, published by Springer in the ARCoSS/LNCS series. Authors of accepted papers will have to sign a Springer copyright form. Location ======== Euro-Par 2015 will be held in Vienna, Austria, 24-28 August 2015, at the Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien). It is organized by the Research Group for Parallel Computing. Conference Co-Chairs ==================== - Jesper Larsson Tr?ff, Vienna University of Technology, General Chair - Sascha Hunold, Vienna University of Technology, Workshop Chair - Francesco Versaci, Vienna University of Technology, Proceedings Chair -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: