From brimmj at ornl.gov Thu Jan 8 16:51:47 2015 From: brimmj at ornl.gov (Michael J. Brim) Date: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 16:51:47 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Deadline approaching - CFP: International Workshop on The Lustre Ecosystem Message-ID: <54AEFBF3.1010506@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 Tue Jan 20 15:15:01 2015 From: brinkman at uni-mainz.de (=?iso-8859-1?Q?Brinkmann=2C_Prof=2E_Dr=2E_Andr=E9?=) Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2015 20:15:01 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Papers: NAS 2015 Message-ID: [Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email.] ***** Call for Papers: NAS 2015 **** 10th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture and Storage (NAS) Boston, Massachusetts, USA, August 6-7, 2015 (http://www.nas-conference.org/) Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committees on Computer Architecture (TCCA), Parallel Processing (TCPP) and Distributed Processing (TCDP). Important Dates: - Paper Submission: April 3, 2015 - Notification: May 20, 2015 - Camera-Ready Copy: June 29, 2015 The International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS) provides a high-quality 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. NAS 2015 will expose participants to the most recent developments in the interdisciplinary areas. Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished work for possible presentation at the conference. Papers should be submitted for double-blind review. The program committee will nominate best papers for recognition in the three conference topic areas. All papers will be evaluated based on their novelty, fundamental insight, experimental evaluation, and potential for long-term impact; new-idea papers are encouraged. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE digital library. Papers are solicited in fields that include, but are not limited to, the following: - Processor, cache, memory system architectures - Parallel and multi-core architectures - GPU architecture and programming - Data-center scale architectures - Architecture for handheld or mobile devices - Accelerator-based architectures - Application-specific, reconfigurable or embedded architectures - HW/SW co-design and tradeoffs - Power and energy efficient architectures and techniques - Effects of circuits and emerging technology on architecture - Cloud and grid computing - Architecture, networking or storage modeling and simulation methodologies - Non-volatile memory technologies - Mobile and wireless networks - Ad hoc and sensor networks - Network security - Network information theory - Software defined networking - Network applications and services - Network architecture and protocols - Virtual and overlay networks - Network modeling and measurement - Storage management - Storage performance and scalability - File systems, object-based storage - Energy-aware storage - SSD architecture and applications - Parallel I/O - Cloud storage - Storage virtualization and security - Software defined storage - Big Data infrastructure - Big Data services and analytics ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE General Chair - Resit Sendag (U of Rhode Island) Program Co-Chairs: - Jun Wang (U of Central Florida) - Iris Bahar (Brown U) Vice Program Chairs: - Networking: Weikuan Yu (Auburn U) and Haiying Shen (Clemson U) - Architecture: Martin Herbordt (Boston U) and Tali Moreshet (Boston U) - Storage: Xiaosong Ma (Qatar Computing Res. Inst. & NC State U) and Ali Butt (Virginia Tech) Local Arrangements Chair: - Ningfang Mi (Northeastern U) Publications Chair: - Gus Uht (U of Rhode Island) Registration Chair: - Yan Sun (U of Rhode Island) Finance Chair: - Yan Luo (U of Massachussetts-Lowell) Industry Liaison Chair: - Ming Zhang (EMC) Publicity Co-chairs: - Chengsheng Xie (Huazhong U Sci. Tech) - Andre Brinkmann (Universitat Mainz) - Ramon Bertran (IBM) - Alper Buyuktosunoglu (IBM) Submission Chair: - Xunchao Chen (U of Central Florida) Web Chair: - Ibrahim Burak Karsli (U of Rhode Island) Steering Committee - Xubin He (Virginia Commonwealth U) - Changsheng Xie(Huazhong U of Sci.Tech) - Andre Brinkmann (U Mainz) - Jian Li (IBM Austin Research Lab) - Tao Li (University of Florida) - Marco D Santambrogio (Politec. Milano) - Hongbin Sun (Xi'An Jiaotong U) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Networking Track - Weikuan Yu, Auburn University (co-chair) - Haiying Shen, Clemson University (co-chair) - Sarp Oral, Oak Ridge National Lab - Shane Canon, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab - Richard Graham, Mellanox - Amith R Mamidala, IBM - Jian Tan, IBM - Ronald Brightwell, Sandia National Lab - Gerald F II Lofstead, Sandia National Lab - Wenjun Wu, Beihang University - Jia Rao, University of Colorado Cold Springs - Seung-Jong Park, Louisiana State University - Xin Yuan, Florida State University - Saad Biaz, Auburn University - Kang Chen, Clemson University - Yaohang Li, Old Dominion University - Shan Lin, Temple University - Chuan Yue, University of Colorado Colorado Springs - Mengjun Xie, University of Arkansas at Little Rock - Lei Yu, Georgia State University - Yang Guo, Bell Labs - Yongning Tang, Illinois State University - Fangzhe Chang, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent - Feng Deng, Clemson University - Weichen Liu, Chongqing University - Zhi Wang, Tsinghua University - Xiaojun Hei, Huazhong University of Science and Technology - Yuan He, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Di Wu, Sun Yat-Sen University - Liudong Xing, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth - Gang Zhou, College of William and Mary - Jiangyi Hu, Devry University - Junwei Cao, Tsinghua University - Wenzhong Li, Nanjing University - Surendar Chandra, EMC Data Protection and Availability Division - Wei Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Yao Liu, SUNY Binghamton - Chiu Tan, Temple University - Kyoungwon Suh, Illinois State University Architecture Track - Martin Herbordt, Boston University (co-chair) - Tali Moreshet, Boston University (co-chair) - Lide Duan , University of Texas at San Antonio - Cesare Ferri , Marvel - Mark Hempstead , Drexel University - Ajay Joshi , Boston University - Dong Li , Qualcomm - Xiaoyao Liang , Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Yan Luo , University of Massachusetts Lowell - Vijay Nagarajan , University of Edinburgh - Gi-Ho Park , Sejong University - Dmitry Ponomarev , SUNY - Kelly Shaw , University of Richmond - Magnus Sjalander, Uppsala University - Bharat Sukhwani, IBM - Radu Teodorescu , Ohio-State University - Jing Wang , Capital Normal University - Jason Xue , City University of Hong Kong - Zhibin Yu , Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology - Jidong Zhai , Tsinghua University - Dongyuan Zhan , AMD - Chuanjun Zhang , Intel - Wei Zhang , Virginia Commonwealth University - Ping Zhou , Intel - Zhichun Zhu , University of Illinois at Chicago Storage Track - Ali Butt, Virginia Tech (co-chair) - Xiaosong Ma, Qatar Computing Research Institute and North Carolina State University (co-chair) - Youngjae Kim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Gary Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Fei Meng, North Carolina State University and PureStorage - Xing Wu, Amazon - Xuanhua Shi, Huazhong University of Science and Technology - Zhe Zhang, Cloudera - Sudharshan Vazhkuda, ORNL - Shuibing He, IIT - Yong Chen, TTU - Suren Byna, LBL - Medha Bhadkamkar, Symantec Research Labs - Avani Wildani, Salk Institute - Min Li, IBM TJ Watson Research Center - Aayush Gupta, IBM Almaden Research Center - Lei Tian, Tintri - Tao Xie, San Diego State University - Song Jiang, Wayne State University - Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota - Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories - Jinho Hwang, IBM Research - Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine - Xiao Qin, Auburn University - Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame - Alan Sussman, University of Maryland - Peter Varman, Rice University - Nitin Agrawal, NEC Labs - Fang Zheng, IBM T.J. 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Brim) Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 09:24:54 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Deadline Fri Jan 23 - CFP: International Workshop on The Lustre Ecosystem In-Reply-To: <54AEFBF3.1010506@ornl.gov> References: <54AEFBF3.1010506@ornl.gov> Message-ID: <54C10836.6050801@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 brimmj at ornl.gov Fri Jan 23 15:49:53 2015 From: brimmj at ornl.gov (Michael J. Brim) Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 15:49:53 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Extended Deadline Mon Jan 26 - CFP: International Workshop on The Lustre Ecosystem In-Reply-To: <54C10836.6050801@ornl.gov> References: <54C10836.6050801@ornl.gov> Message-ID: <54C2B3F1.10702@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: (deadline extended) January 26, 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 brimmj at ornl.gov Tue Jan 27 10:51:43 2015 From: brimmj at ornl.gov (Michael J. Brim) Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2015 10:51:43 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Final Extension - Deadline Fri Jan 30 - CFP: International Workshop on The Lustre Ecosystem Message-ID: <54C7B40F.2040904@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: (FINAL DEADLINE EXTENSION) January 30, 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 erik.riedel at gmail.com Thu Feb 5 23:05:44 2015 From: erik.riedel at gmail.com (Erik Riedel) Date: Thu, 5 Feb 2015 20:05:44 -0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] gotta talk?! wanna share!? Message-ID: <4FF14A73-EC78-4E87-AF0E-6E383AC26535@gmail.com> Reminder - the USENIX Annual Technical Conference (ATC 2015) Call for Practitioners talks deadline has been extended - now 2/17 Details & submit your abstracts at: http://www.usenix.org/atc15/cft If you have any questions about topics or content or format, please contact us. Cheers, Erik & Shan Co-chairs, USENIX ATC 2015 mailto:atc15chairs at usenix.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From taufer at udel.edu Thu Feb 5 11:44:42 2015 From: taufer at udel.edu (Michela Taufer) Date: Thu, 05 Feb 2015 11:44:42 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CALL FOR SC15 WORKSHOPS - Deadline Extended to Feb 14, 2015 Message-ID: <54D39DFA.1020101@udel.edu> CALL FOR SC15 WORKSHOPS - Deadline Extended to Feb 14, 2015 Due to multiple requests we have extended the deadline for SC15 workshop proposals to February 14, 2015. IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: February 14, 2015 (no further extension will be given) Notification: March 27, 2015 SC15 will include nearly 30 full-day and half-day workshops that complement the overall Technical Program events, expand the knowledge base of its subject area, and extend its impact by providing greater depth of focus. Workshop proposals will be peer-reviewed academically with a focus on submissions that will inspire deep and interactive dialogue in topics of interest to the HPC community. Do not miss this great opportunity to submit independently planned full- or half-day workshops at SC15! IMPORTANT INFORMATION Information:http://sc15.supercomputing.org/ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): http://sc15.supercomputing.org/conference-program/technical-program/workshops/workshop-faq Web Submissions:https://submissions.supercomputing.org/ EmailContact:workshops at info.supercomputing.org SC15 Workshop Chair: Michela Taufer, University of Delaware SC15 Workshop vice-Chair: Trilce Estrada, University of New Mexico -- _________________________________________________ Michela Taufer David and Beverly J.C. Mills Career Development Chair Computer and Information Sciences Biomedical Engineering University of Delaware 101 Smith Hall Newark, DE 19716 Phone: (302) 831 0071 Fax: (302) 831 8458 E-Mail: taufer at acm.org URL: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~taufer Global Computing Lab: http://gcl.cis.udel.edu Active Projects and SW Repository: Docking at Home: http://docking.cis.udel.edu ExSciTecH: https://exscitech.org/ QCNExplorer: http://qcnexplorer.org/ GitHub: https://github.com/TauferLab Follow me on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/MichelaTaufer Follow my Group on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/TauferLab __________________________________________________ From brimmj at ornl.gov Mon Feb 9 12:58:28 2015 From: brimmj at ornl.gov (Michael J. Brim) Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2015 12:58:28 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Participation - International Workshop on The Lustre Ecosystem Message-ID: <54D8F544.1050100@ornl.gov> **** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION **** International Workshop on The Lustre Ecosystem: Challenges and Opportunities http://lustre.ornl.gov/ecosystem March 3-4, 2015 Annapolis, Maryland, USA **** IMPORTANT DATES **** Hotel Block Closes: February 10, 2015 (to receive arranged rate) Registration Deadline: February 10, 2015 (to ensure meal availability) **** WORKSHOP REGISTRATION **** Registration for both days of the workshop is FREE, and includes breakfast and lunch each day. To register, visit https://register.ornl.gov/2015/lustreecosystem/ **** HOTEL RESERVATIONS **** A block of rooms for the nights of March 2-3 will be held until February 10, 2015 at the government rate of $100 plus tax. After February 10, rooms may not be available at the government rate. Rooms must be guaranteed via a major credit card. Reservations may be made directly with the Historic Inns of Annapolis by calling +1 800-847-8882 and referencing "Lustre" as the group name. Further information on lodging is available at http://lustre.ornl.gov/ecosystem/lodging.html **** WORKSHOP OVERVIEW **** 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. This workshop will 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. **** WORKSHOP AGENDA **** The first day of the program features a keynote talk from Intel's Eric Barton entitled "From Lab to Enterprise - Growing the Lustre Ecosystem". More information on the keynote is available at http://lustre.ornl.gov/ecosystem/keynote.html The remainder of the first day is devoted to tutorials on managing and monitoring large-scale center-wide Lustre deployments. Tutorials will be presented by staff of the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF) at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After the tutorials, an "Ask the OLCF" Q&A session will be held where attendees can ask additional questions. The technical program, presented on day two of the workshop, will feature talks on various topics including: * Workload Characterization * Adaptability and Scalability of Lustre for Diverse Workloads * Resilience and Serviceability of Lustre * Application-driven Lustre Benchmarking * Performance Monitoring Tools for Lustre The final agenda including technical talks will be posted next week at http://lustre.ornl.gov/ecosystem/agenda.html From taufer at udel.edu Wed Feb 11 18:54:08 2015 From: taufer at udel.edu (Michela Taufer) Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 18:54:08 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] SC15 ALERT: Deadline for workshop proposals rapidly approaching - last day to submit Feb 14, 2015 Message-ID: <54DBEBA0.1080805@udel.edu> Are you ready to engage the SC community in leading in-depth discussions of stimulating topics in HPC? Don't miss the opportunity to submit your workshop proposal to SC15. The deadline for submitting a workshop proposal is rapidly approaching, as the last day to submit is Saturday, February 14, 2015. SC15 will include nearly 30 full-day and half-day workshops that complement the overall Technical Program events, expand the knowledge base of its subject area, and extend its impact by providing greater depth of focus. Workshop proposals will be peer-reviewed academically with a focus on submissions of interest to the HPC community. IMPORTANT DATES Submission Deadline: February 14, 2015 (no further extension will be given) Notification: March 27, 2015 IMPORTANT INFORMATION Information:http://sc15.supercomputing.org/ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ): http://sc15.supercomputing.org/conference-program/technical-program/workshops/workshop-faq Web Submissions:https://submissions.supercomputing.org/ EmailContact:workshops at info.supercomputing.org SC15 Workshop Chair: Michela Taufer, University of Delaware SC15 Workshop vice-Chair: Trilce Estrada, University of New Mexico -- _________________________________________________ Michela Taufer David and Beverly J.C. Mills Career Development Chair Computer and Information Sciences Biomedical Engineering University of Delaware 101 Smith Hall Newark, DE 19716 Phone: (302) 831 0071 Fax: (302) 831 8458 E-Mail: taufer at acm.org URL: http://www.cis.udel.edu/~taufer Global Computing Lab: http://gcl.cis.udel.edu Active Projects and SW Repository: Docking at Home: http://docking.cis.udel.edu ExSciTecH: https://exscitech.org/ QCNExplorer: http://qcnexplorer.org/ GitHub: https://github.com/TauferLab Follow me on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/MichelaTaufer Follow my Group on Twitter at: https://twitter.com/TauferLab __________________________________________________ From CDORON at il.ibm.com Mon Feb 16 08:09:57 2015 From: CDORON at il.ibm.com (Doron Chen) Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2015 15:09:57 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] ACM SYSTOR 2015 - Submission Deadline Approaching: March 5th, 2015 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. Additional details can be found at: http://www.systor.org/2015/cfp.html PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS * Gernot Heiser (NICTA and UNSW, Australia) * Idit Keidar (Technion) GENERAL CHAIR * Dalit Naor (IBM Research) POSTERS CHAIR * David Breitgand (IBM Research) STEERING COMMITTEE HEAD * Michael Factor (IBM Research) STEERING COMMITTEE * Ethan Miller (University of California Santa Cruz) * Liuba Shrira (Brandeis University) * Dan Tsafrir (Technion) * Yaron Wolfsthal (IBM Research) * Erez Zadok (Stony Brook University) PUBLICITY CHAIR * Doron Chen (IBM Research) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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We encourage the submission of high-quality papers reporting original work in theoretical, experimental, and industrial research and development in the following areas: Cloud Computing Novelties in cloud infrastructures, architectures, and models Cloud reliability Private and public clouds Federation of infrastructures, interoperability techniques in heterogeneous cloud environments Security and privacy in the cloud Cloud management HPC in the cloud Big data in the cloud Novel cloud programming models Cloud applications and services (SaaS) Big Data Algorithms, models, and systems Big data architectures and infrastructure Data quality and integration Data management and data life cycle Data mining, information retrieval, and knowledge extraction Security and privacy for big data Big data analytics (visual, text, statistical, but also threat detection) Social media and mobile communication Big data and smart data applications in science and industry Future trends For more details see: http://www.isc-cloudbigdata.com/research-papers.html Regards, Julian Kunkel -- http://wr.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/people/julian_kunkel From CDORON at il.ibm.com Thu Mar 5 07:03:49 2015 From: CDORON at il.ibm.com (Doron Chen) Date: Thu, 5 Mar 2015 14:03:49 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] ACM SYSTOR 2015 - Deadline Extended to March 8th, 2015 Message-ID: [ Apologies if you receive this multiple times ] New paper submission deadline: March 8, 2015 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 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 8, 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. Additional details can be found at: http://www.systor.org/2015/cfp.html PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS * Gernot Heiser (NICTA and UNSW, Australia) * Idit Keidar (Technion) GENERAL CHAIR * Dalit Naor (IBM Research) POSTERS CHAIR * David Breitgand (IBM Research) STEERING COMMITTEE HEAD * Michael Factor (IBM Research) STEERING COMMITTEE * Ethan Miller (University of California Santa Cruz) * Liuba Shrira (Brandeis University) * Dan Tsafrir (Technion) * Yaron Wolfsthal (IBM Research) * Erez Zadok (Stony Brook University) PUBLICITY CHAIR * Doron Chen (IBM Research) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From deelman at isi.edu Mon Mar 9 22:30:40 2015 From: deelman at isi.edu (Ewa Deelman) Date: Tue, 10 Mar 2015 02:30:40 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] SC'15 Call for Technical Papers Message-ID: Submissions are now being accepted for SC'15 Technical Papers. Focus areas this year include: - Algorithms - Applications - Architecture and Networks - Clouds and Distributed Computing - Data Analytics, Visualization and Storage - Performance - Programming Systems - State-of-the-Practice - System Software. Abstracts due (required): April 3, 2015 (firm deadline) Full Papers due: April 10, 2015 (a traditional one week extension will be given until April 17, no further extensions will be granted). Email Contact:papers at info.supercomputing.org Web Submissions:https://submissions.supercomputing.org/ More information about the Technical papers: http://sc15.supercomputing.org/program/technical-papers PDF for the call for Papers: http://sc15.supercomputing.org/sites/all/themes/SC15images/SC15CallforPapersFinal.pdf Ewa Deelman and Jose Moreira SC'15 Technical Papers co-chairs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jaln.liu at ttu.edu Sat Mar 14 12:05:44 2015 From: jaln.liu at ttu.edu (Liu, Jaln) Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 16:05:44 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: P2S2-2015 Workshop with Journal of Supercomputing special issue at ICPP'15 In-Reply-To: <71960AF4-5A8D-4B07-937B-B715C1942844@ttu.edu> References: <71960AF4-5A8D-4B07-937B-B715C1942844@ttu.edu> Message-ID: <410D8D35-54E3-48FD-8F51-C5879A9C083E@ttu.edu> [Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email.] CALL FOR PAPERS =============== The Eighth International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-end Computing (P2S2) September 1st 2015, Beijing, China. To be held in conjunction with ICPP 2015: The 44th International Conference on Parallel Processing. Website: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2/2015/ SCOPE ----- The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in parallel programming models and systems software for high-end computing systems. Please join us in a discussion of new ideas, experiences, and the latest trends in these areas at the workshop. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ The focus areas for this workshop include, but are not limited to: * Systems software for high-end scientific and enterprise computing architectures o Communication sub-subsystems for high-end computing o High-performance file and storage systems o Fault-tolerance techniques and implementations o Efficient and high-performance virtualization and other management mechanisms for high-end computing * Programming models and their high-performance implementations o MPI, Sockets, OpenMP, Global Arrays, X10, UPC, Chapel, Fortress and others o Hybrid Programming Models * Tools for Management, Maintenance, Coordination and Synchronization o Software for Enterprise Data-centers using Modern Architectures o Job scheduling libraries o Management libraries for large-scale system o Toolkits for process and task coordination on modern platforms * Performance evaluation, analysis and modeling of emerging computing platforms PROCEEDINGS ----------- Proceedings of this workshop will be published in CD format and will be available at the conference (together with the ICPP conference proceedings). The accepted papers will be included in and indexed by the IEEE CS digital library. JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE --------------------- The best papers of P2S2-2015 will be included in a Special Issue on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-End Computing of the Journal of Supercomputing, edited by Yong Chen, Pavan Balaji, and Abhinav Vishnu. Submission to this special issue is by invitation only and the submission deadline is tentatively set as Nov, 2015. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ----------------------- Submissions should be in PDF format in U.S. Letter size paper. They should not exceed 10 pages (all inclusive). Submissions will be judged based on relevance, significance, originality, correctness and clarity. Please visit workshop website at: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2/ for the submission link. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper Submission: April 16th, 2015 Author Notification: June 1st, 2015 Camera Ready: June 15th, 2015 Workshop Date: September 1st, 2015 PROGRAM CHAIRS -------------- * Yong Chen, Texas Tech University * Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory * Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PUBLICITY CHAIR --------------- * Jialin Liu, Texas Tech University STEERING COMMITTEE ------------------ * William D. Gropp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign * Vijay Saraswat, IBM Research PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- *Ahmad Afsahi, Queen's University *Patrick Bridges, University of New Mexico *Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory *Daniel Chavarr?a, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory *Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, China *Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago *Christos Kartsaklis, Oak Ridge National Laboratory *Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology *Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories *Xiaoyi Lu, The Ohio State University *Yin Lu, Texas Tech University *Huiwei Lu, Argonne National Laboratory *Miao Luo, The Ohio State University *Rui Mao, Shenzhen University *Chao Mei, Google *Scott Pakin, Los Alamos National Laboratories *Xuanhua Shi, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., China *Bronis de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory *Guangming Tan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China *Lucas Wilson, Texas Advanced Computing Center *Yonghong Yan, Oakland University *Yunquan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences *Ziliang Zong, Texas State University If you have any questions, please contact us at p2s2-chairs at mcs.anl.gov From jaln.liu at ttu.edu Wed Mar 18 17:25:31 2015 From: jaln.liu at ttu.edu (Liu, Jaln) Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2015 21:25:31 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: P2S2-2015 Workshop with Journal of Supercomputing special issue at ICPP'15 Message-ID: <36CA3DDD8E0DB14290DDFF9A6394425142DE3901@centaur07.ttu.edu> [Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email.] CALL FOR PAPERS =============== The Eighth International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-end Computing (P2S2) September 1st 2015, Beijing, China. To be held in conjunction with ICPP 2015: The 44th International Conference on Parallel Processing. Website: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2/2015/ SCOPE ----- The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in parallel programming models and systems software for high-end computing systems. Please join us in a discussion of new ideas, experiences, and the latest trends in these areas at the workshop. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ The focus areas for this workshop include, but are not limited to: * Systems software for high-end scientific and enterprise computing architectures o Communication sub-subsystems for high-end computing o High-performance file and storage systems o Fault-tolerance techniques and implementations o Efficient and high-performance virtualization and other management mechanisms for high-end computing * Programming models and their high-performance implementations o MPI, Sockets, OpenMP, Global Arrays, X10, UPC, Chapel, Fortress and others o Hybrid Programming Models * Tools for Management, Maintenance, Coordination and Synchronization o Software for Enterprise Data-centers using Modern Architectures o Job scheduling libraries o Management libraries for large-scale system o Toolkits for process and task coordination on modern platforms * Performance evaluation, analysis and modeling of emerging computing platforms PROCEEDINGS ----------- Proceedings of this workshop will be published in CD format and will be available at the conference (together with the ICPP conference proceedings). The accepted papers will be included in and indexed by the IEEE CS digital library. JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE --------------------- The best papers of P2S2-2015 will be included in a Special Issue on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-End Computing of the Journal of Supercomputing, edited by Yong Chen, Pavan Balaji, and Abhinav Vishnu. Submission to this special issue is by invitation only and the submission deadline is tentatively set as Nov, 2015. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ----------------------- Submissions should be in PDF format in U.S. Letter size paper. They should not exceed 10 pages (all inclusive). Submissions will be judged based on relevance, significance, originality, correctness and clarity. Please visit workshop website at: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2/ for the submission link. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper Submission: April 16th, 2015 Author Notification: June 1st, 2015 Camera Ready: June 15th, 2015 Workshop Date: September 1st, 2015 PROGRAM CHAIRS -------------- * Yong Chen, Texas Tech University * Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory * Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PUBLICITY CHAIR --------------- * Jialin Liu, Texas Tech University STEERING COMMITTEE ------------------ * William D. Gropp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign * Vijay Saraswat, IBM Research PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- *Ahmad Afsahi, Queen's University *Patrick Bridges, University of New Mexico *Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories *Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory *Daniel Chavarr?a, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory *Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, China *Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago *Christos Kartsaklis, Oak Ridge National Laboratory *Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology *Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories *Xiaoyi Lu, The Ohio State University *Yin Lu, Texas Tech University *Huiwei Lu, Argonne National Laboratory *Miao Luo, The Ohio State University *Rui Mao, Shenzhen University *Chao Mei, Google *Scott Pakin, Los Alamos National Laboratories *Xuanhua Shi, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., China *Bronis de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory *Guangming Tan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China *Lucas Wilson, Texas Advanced Computing Center *Yonghong Yan, Oakland University *Yunquan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences *Ziliang Zong, Texas State University If you have any questions, please contact us at p2s2-chairs at mcs.anl.gov From Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov Tue Mar 24 17:28:11 2015 From: Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov (Tumeo, Antonino) Date: Tue, 24 Mar 2015 21:28:11 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [CFP] - Special issue of PARCO: Theory and Practice of Irregular Applications (TaPIA) - Deadline approaching Message-ID: <387C1D87-97EA-436A-BB9A-4A185D602674@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. 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 Antonino Tumeo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory antonino.tumeo at pnnl.gov John T. Feo, Context Relevant jfeo at contextrelevant.com Oreste Villa, NVIDIA Research ovilla at nvidia.com From parashar at rutgers.edu Fri Mar 27 09:39:50 2015 From: parashar at rutgers.edu (Manish Parashar) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 2015 09:39:50 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] SC'15 Call for Posters (including ACM Student Research Competition Posters) Message-ID: <61B80866-C1BF-426B-A536-92FD6DD72922@rutgers.edu> Call for Poster Submissions SC15, Austin Convention Center, Austin, TX November 15 ? 20, 2015 http://sc15.supercomputing.org Submissions Open: April 01, 2015 Poster Submission Deadline: July 31, 2015 Notification Sent: September 8, 2015 Web Submissions: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/ Email Contact and Questions: posters at info.supercomputing.org SC15 is soliciting submissions for posters that display cutting-edge research and work in progress in high performance computing, storage, networking and analysis. Posters provide an excellent opportunity for short presentations and informal discussions with conference attendees. Posters will be prominently displayed for the duration of the conference, giving presenters a chance to showcase their latest results and innovations. The presented posters will be digitally archived and made publicly available after the conference. A Best Poster Award will be presented based on quality of research work and quality of poster presentation. ACM Student Research Competition (SRC): SC15 will also host the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC). This competition will feature posters from undergraduate and graduate students showcasing original student research. An SRC poster may be authored by exactly one graduate student or up to 2 undergraduate students (optionally with the advisor). Student authors must be active ACM members. The ACM SRC pre-selection will happen during the poster reception and selected poster presenters will be given the opportunity to present their work in short talks on Wednesday. The ACM SRC committee will select a set of winners based on their poster content and presentation style. ACM?s SRC program covers expenses up to $500 for all students invited to the SRC. Embedded Multimedia Content: This year, we are encouraging authors to explore the integration of remotely hosted multimedia elements accessible through embedded QR codes into the poster. The goal of the embedded multimedia elements should be to enhance the presentation of research in the poster. Such elements may include a video narration of the poster by the author, links to results, movies, graphics, datasets, codes, etc. Note that extended versions of the poster or related publications will not be considered as acceptable multimedia elements in this context. The elements will be expected to be accessible using QR readers on smart phones and tablets (such as the reader included in the SC mobile app) during the conference while the poster is displayed. While the use of multimedia is not mandatory, creative multimedia integrations will be considered while evaluating posters for the Best Poster Award. Note that the conference will not provide services or infrastructure for hosting the embedded content. SUBMISSIONS As in past years, SC15 is soliciting two different types of posters: (1) Regular Posters and (2) ACM Student Research Competition Posters. Submissions for either type of poster must include: (1) A 150 word abstract, (2) A draft of the poster, and (3) An up to 800 word extended abstract/summary (including references) in the SC15 technical paper format. There are separate submission forms for the two different types of posters. A poster may only be submitted as one type. Posters are expected to be a single page of A0 paper size in portrait mode (841 ? 1189mm/33.1 x 46.8 in). All posters can be submitted in up to two of the following categories: Algorithms; Applications; Architectures and Networks; Clouds and Distributed Computing; Data Analytics, Visualization and Storage; Performance; Programming Systems; State-of-the-Practice; System Software; and Education. For submission details, see the sample submission forms at the login page of the submission website: https://submissions.supercomputing.org. SC15 Posters Chair Manish Parashar (Rutgers University) SC15 Posters Vice Co-Chairs Dorian Arnold (University of New Mexico) Michela Becchi (University of Missouri - Columbia) -- ========================================================================== Manish Parashar Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 628 RDI2/CAC/Dept. of Computer Science Phone: (848) 445-5388 Rutgers University Fax: (732) 445-0537 110 Frelinghuysen Road Email: parashar at rutgers dot edu Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019 WWW: http://parashar.rutgers.edu =========================================================================== From brinkman at uni-mainz.de Tue Mar 31 05:32:58 2015 From: brinkman at uni-mainz.de (=?utf-8?B?QnJpbmttYW5uLCBQcm9mLiBEci4gQW5kcsOp?=) Date: Tue, 31 Mar 2015 09:32:58 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Extended Deadline: NAS 2015 Message-ID: ***** Call for Papers: NAS 2015 **** ***** Extended Deadline ******** 10th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture and Storage (NAS) Boston, Massachusetts, USA, August 6-7, 2015 (http://www.nas-conference.org/) Sponsored by IEEE Computer Society's Technical Committees on Computer Architecture (TCCA), Parallel Processing (TCPP) and Distributed Processing (TCDP). Important Dates: - NEW Paper Submission deadline (hard): April 17, 2015 - Notification: May 20, 2015 - Camera-Ready Copy: June 29, 2015 The International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage (NAS) provides a high-quality 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. NAS 2015 will expose participants to the most recent developments in the interdisciplinary areas. Authors are invited to submit previously unpublished work for possible presentation at the conference. Papers should be submitted for double-blind review. The program committee will nominate best papers for recognition in the three conference topic areas. All papers will be evaluated based on their novelty, fundamental insight, experimental evaluation, and potential for long-term impact; new-idea papers are encouraged. All accepted papers will be published in IEEE digital library. Papers are solicited in fields that include, but are not limited to, the following: - Processor, cache, memory system architectures - Parallel and multi-core architectures - GPU architecture and programming - Data-center scale architectures - Architecture for handheld or mobile devices - Accelerator-based architectures - Application-specific, reconfigurable or embedded architectures - HW/SW co-design and tradeoffs - Power and energy efficient architectures and techniques - Effects of circuits and emerging technology on architecture - Cloud and grid computing - Architecture, networking or storage modeling and simulation methodologies - Non-volatile memory technologies - Mobile and wireless networks - Ad hoc and sensor networks - Network security - Network information theory - Software defined networking - Network applications and services - Network architecture and protocols - Virtual and overlay networks - Network modeling and measurement - Storage management - Storage performance and scalability - File systems, object-based storage - Energy-aware storage - SSD architecture and applications - Parallel I/O - Cloud storage - Storage virtualization and security - Software defined storage - Big Data infrastructure - Big Data services and analytics ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE General Chair - Resit Sendag (U of Rhode Island) Program Co-Chairs: - Jun Wang (U of Central Florida) - Iris Bahar (Brown U) Vice Program Chairs: - Networking: Weikuan Yu (Auburn U) and Haiying Shen (Clemson U) - Architecture: Martin Herbordt (Boston U) and Tali Moreshet (Boston U) - Storage: Xiaosong Ma (Qatar Computing Res. Inst. & NC State U) and Ali Butt (Virginia Tech) Local Arrangements Chair: - Ningfang Mi (Northeastern U) Publications Chair: - Gus Uht (U of Rhode Island) Registration Chair: - Yan Sun (U of Rhode Island) Finance Chair: - Yan Luo (U of Massachussetts-Lowell) Industry Liaison Chair: - Ming Zhang (EMC) Publicity Co-chairs: - Chengsheng Xie (Huazhong U Sci. Tech) - Andre Brinkmann (Universitat Mainz) - Ramon Bertran (IBM) - Alper Buyuktosunoglu (IBM) Submission Chair: - Xunchao Chen (U of Central Florida) Web Chair: - Ibrahim Burak Karsli (U of Rhode Island) Steering Committee - Xubin He (Virginia Commonwealth U) - Changsheng Xie(Huazhong U of Sci.Tech) - Andre Brinkmann (U Mainz) - Jian Li (IBM Austin Research Lab) - Tao Li (University of Florida) - Marco D Santambrogio (Politec. Milano) - Hongbin Sun (Xi'An Jiaotong U) PROGRAM COMMITTEE Networking Track - Weikuan Yu, Auburn University (co-chair) - Haiying Shen, Clemson University (co-chair) - Sarp Oral, Oak Ridge National Lab - Shane Canon, Lawrence Berkeley National Lab - Richard Graham, Mellanox - Amith R Mamidala, IBM - Jian Tan, IBM - Ronald Brightwell, Sandia National Lab - Gerald F II Lofstead, Sandia National Lab - Wenjun Wu, Beihang University - Jia Rao, University of Colorado Cold Springs - Seung-Jong Park, Louisiana State University - Xin Yuan, Florida State University - Saad Biaz, Auburn University - Kang Chen, Clemson University - Yaohang Li, Old Dominion University - Shan Lin, Temple University - Chuan Yue, University of Colorado Colorado Springs - Mengjun Xie, University of Arkansas at Little Rock - Lei Yu, Georgia State University - Yang Guo, Bell Labs - Yongning Tang, Illinois State University - Fangzhe Chang, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent - Feng Deng, Clemson University - Weichen Liu, Chongqing University - Zhi Wang, Tsinghua University - Xiaojun Hei, Huazhong University of Science and Technology - Yuan He, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Di Wu, Sun Yat-Sen University - Liudong Xing, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth - Gang Zhou, College of William and Mary - Jiangyi Hu, Devry University - Junwei Cao, Tsinghua University - Wenzhong Li, Nanjing University - Surendar Chandra, EMC Data Protection and Availability Division - Wei Zhang, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology - Yao Liu, SUNY Binghamton - Chiu Tan, Temple University - Kyoungwon Suh, Illinois State University Architecture Track - Martin Herbordt, Boston University (co-chair) - Tali Moreshet, Boston University (co-chair) - Lide Duan , University of Texas at San Antonio - Cesare Ferri , Marvel - Mark Hempstead , Drexel University - Ajay Joshi , Boston University - Dong Li , Qualcomm - Xiaoyao Liang , Shanghai Jiao Tong University - Yan Luo , University of Massachusetts Lowell - Vijay Nagarajan , University of Edinburgh - Gi-Ho Park , Sejong University - Dmitry Ponomarev , SUNY - Kelly Shaw , University of Richmond - Magnus Sjalander, Uppsala University - Bharat Sukhwani, IBM - Radu Teodorescu , Ohio-State University - Jing Wang , Capital Normal University - Jason Xue , City University of Hong Kong - Zhibin Yu , Shenzhen Institute of Advanced Technology - Jidong Zhai , Tsinghua University - Dongyuan Zhan , AMD - Chuanjun Zhang , Intel - Wei Zhang , Virginia Commonwealth University - Ping Zhou , Intel - Zhichun Zhu , University of Illinois at Chicago Storage Track - Ali Butt, Virginia Tech (co-chair) - Xiaosong Ma, Qatar Computing Research Institute and North Carolina State University (co-chair) - Youngjae Kim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Gary Liu, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Fei Meng, North Carolina State University and PureStorage - Xing Wu, Amazon - Xuanhua Shi, Huazhong University of Science and Technology - Zhe Zhang, Cloudera - Sudharshan Vazhkuda, ORNL - Shuibing He, IIT - Yong Chen, TTU - Suren Byna, LBL - Medha Bhadkamkar, Symantec Research Labs - Avani Wildani, Salk Institute - Min Li, IBM TJ Watson Research Center - Aayush Gupta, IBM Almaden Research Center - Lei Tian, Tintri - Tao Xie, San Diego State University - Song Jiang, Wayne State University - Abhishek Chandra, University of Minnesota - Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories - Jinho Hwang, IBM Research - Yifeng Zhu, University of Maine - Xiao Qin, Auburn University - Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame - Alan Sussman, University of Maryland - Peter Varman, Rice University - Nitin Agrawal, NEC Labs - Fang Zheng, IBM T.J. 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To effectively manage the data load within a data center, I/O experts must understand how users expect to use these new storage technologies and what services they should provide in order to enhance user productivity. We seek to ensure a systems-level perspective is included in these discussions. In this workshop we bring together I/O experts from data centers and application workflows to share current practices for scientific workflows, issues and obstacles for both hardware and the software stack, and R&D to overcome these issues. A common structure of the talks will be provided to focus on relevant aspects and streamline the discussion. Short scientific papers related to the topic are welcome for submission and will be published under open access. We invite members of data centers interested to give a talk and/or to submit short papers. In this case, send a brief information regarding your ideas to: hpc-iodc-submission at wr.informatik.uni-hamburg.de For more details see: http://wr.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/events/2015/iodc Regards, Julian Kunkel -- http://wr.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/people/julian_kunkel From sc15tutorials at gmail.com Tue Apr 7 23:49:50 2015 From: sc15tutorials at gmail.com (CJ Newburn and Rich Vuduc) Date: Tue, 7 Apr 2015 23:49:50 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for SC15 Tutorials - due Apr 24, auto-extension to May 1 Message-ID: The SC15 Tutorials Committee is soliciting proposals for full-day (six hours) or half-day (three hours) tutorials that cover a wide range of topics. http://sc15.supercomputing.org/program/tutorials DUE: April 24, 2015 11:59pm anywhere on earth NOTE: There is an automatic 1-week extension to May 1, 2015 11:59pm AOE The SC Tutorials program is one of the highlights of the SC Conference series, and it is one of the largest tutorial programs at any computing-related conference in the world. It offers attendees the chance to learn from and to interact with leading experts in the most popular areas of high performance computing (HPC), networking, and storage. For more details, visit the SC15 Tutorials website (above) or email your questions to us at: sc15tutorials at gmail.com -- CJ Newburn (Intel) & Rich Vuduc (Georgia Tech) SC15 Tutorials Co-chairs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jaln.liu at ttu.edu Wed Apr 8 15:41:45 2015 From: jaln.liu at ttu.edu (Liu, Jaln) Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 19:41:45 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] P2S2-2015 Workshop with Journal of Supercomputing special issue at ICPP'15 Message-ID: <36CA3DDD8E0DB14290DDFF9A6394425142DFEB35@centaur07.ttu.edu> [Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email.] CALL FOR PAPERS =============== The Eighth International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-end Computing (P2S2) September 1st 2015, Beijing, China. To be held in conjunction with ICPP 2015: The 44th International Conference on Parallel Processing. Website: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2/2015/ SCOPE ----- The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in parallel programming models and systems software for high-end computing systems. Please join us in a discussion of new ideas, experiences, and the latest trends in these areas at the workshop. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ The focus areas for this workshop include, but are not limited to: * Systems software for high-end scientific and enterprise computing architectures o Communication sub-subsystems for high-end computing o High-performance file and storage systems o Fault-tolerance techniques and implementations o Efficient and high-performance virtualization and other management mechanisms for high-end computing * Programming models and their high-performance implementations o MPI, Sockets, OpenMP, Global Arrays, X10, UPC, Chapel, Fortress and others o Hybrid Programming Models * Tools for Management, Maintenance, Coordination and Synchronization o Software for Enterprise Data-centers using Modern Architectures o Job scheduling libraries o Management libraries for large-scale system o Toolkits for process and task coordination on modern platforms * Performance evaluation, analysis and modeling of emerging computing platforms PROCEEDINGS ----------- Proceedings of this workshop will be published in CD format and will be available at the conference (together with the ICPP conference proceedings). The accepted papers will be included in and indexed by the IEEE CS digital library. JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE --------------------- The best papers of P2S2-2015 will be included in a Special Issue on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-End Computing of the Journal of Supercomputing, edited by Yong Chen, Pavan Balaji, and Abhinav Vishnu. Submission to this special issue is by invitation only and the submission deadline is tentatively set as Nov, 2015. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ----------------------- Submissions should be in PDF format in U.S. Letter size paper. They should not exceed 10 pages (all inclusive). Submissions will be judged based on relevance, significance, originality, correctness and clarity. Please visit workshop website at: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2/ for the submission link. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper Submission: April 16th, 2015 Author Notification: June 1st, 2015 Camera Ready: June 15th, 2015 Workshop Date: September 1st, 2015 PROGRAM CHAIRS -------------- * Yong Chen, Texas Tech University * Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory * Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PUBLICITY CHAIR --------------- * Jialin Liu, Texas Tech University STEERING COMMITTEE ------------------ * William D. Gropp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign * Vijay Saraswat, IBM Research PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- *Ahmad Afsahi, Queen's University *Patrick Bridges, University of New Mexico *Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories *Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory *Daniel Chavarr?a, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory *Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, China *Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago *Christos Kartsaklis, Oak Ridge National Laboratory *Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology *Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories *Xiaoyi Lu, The Ohio State University *Yin Lu, Texas Tech University *Huiwei Lu, Argonne National Laboratory *Miao Luo, The Ohio State University *Rui Mao, Shenzhen University *Chao Mei, Google *Scott Pakin, Los Alamos National Laboratories *Xuanhua Shi, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., China *Bronis de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory *Guangming Tan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China *Lucas Wilson, Texas Advanced Computing Center *Yonghong Yan, Oakland University *Yunquan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences *Ziliang Zong, Texas State University If you have any questions, please contact us at p2s2-chairs at mcs.anl.gov Best Regards, Jialin Liu, Ph.D. Computer Science Department Texas Tech University Phone: 806.742.3513(x241) Office:Engineer Center 304 https://sites.google.com/site/jailinliu/ From ketan at mcs.anl.gov Fri Apr 10 12:18:00 2015 From: ketan at mcs.anl.gov (Ketan Maheshwari) Date: Fri, 10 Apr 2015 11:18:00 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: ERROR 2015 (at eScience), papers due Fri May 15 Message-ID: SUMMARY: CALL FOR PAPERS ERROR 2015, E-science ReseaRch leading tO negative Results at eScience 2015 Munich, Germany, Thursday September 3 2015 Submissions due Fri May 15 2015 http://press3.mcs.anl.gov/errorworkshop DETAILS: Call for papers: 1st Workshop on E-science ReseaRch leading tO negative Results (ERROR) in conjunction with eScience 2015 Munich, Germany, 3 September 2015 http://press3.mcs.anl.gov/errorworkshop Researchers invest a significant amount of time and efforts in their research. Similarly, funders significantly invest to cover the costs of research. New techniques and technologies influence approaches, methods, and scale in a rapidly changing e-science landscape. Researchers must deal with novelty in multiple dimensions, some of which are beyond their control. Consequently, it is likely that some of the obtained results will not be useful : they are negative (deviating from initial hypothesis), abnormal (anomalous to results from similar studies), or otherwise unexpected. Under normal circumstances, such negative results and why they were obtained are seldom discussed, analyzed and published. Useful lessons are thus lost to the community. Yet ignoring such results and the process by which they were obtained poses a risk of repetition. The fact that other researchers likely face the same situations and the same pitfalls further increases the cost of research, a cost that would have been avoided if the negative results were brought forward and discussed in-depth within and across communities. Following is a non-exhaustive list of topics for the workshop: - Unforeseen technology/problem/technique misfits - Institutional policies (on rejected research) - Failures and obstacles faced during a successful research work - Controversial results because of undiscovered technological/technical glitch - Unconventional results which contradict theoretical expectations - Discovery of better approaches after significant efforts spent on research - Inadequate or misconfigured infrastructure - Abnormal and anomalous results - Ongoing research with setbacks and lessons learned - A hypothesis with one or more limiting assumptions - Discovery of unexpected behavior in hardware, networks or platforms - Data size that is too big or too small for the applied technique - Implementation of simulation tools based on incorrect physical observations - Defect in software design, architecture and/or user interface - Software and platform incompatibilities - Zero defect software policy and its implications Keynote Speaker ------------------------- Ioan Raicu, IIT, Chicago Journal Publication Opportunity ------------------------------------------- Selected papers from the workshop will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of *"Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience* *(CCPE)"* journal. Papers will be selected based on scientific rigor, originality, significance and presentation. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. General Chair and Contact ------------------------------------- Ketan Maheshwari, Argonne National Laboratory, ketan at anl.gov Steering Committee --------------------------- Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory Silvia Olabarriaga, University of Amsterdam Justin M. Wozniak, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory Douglas Thain, Notre Dame University Paper Submission Guidelines ---------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit a maximum of 8-page manuscripts describing original and unpublished work surrounding the aforementioned topics. The format of the paper should be of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines. Templates are available from http://www.ieee.org/publications_standards/publications/authors/author_templates.html . Authors should submit a PDF file that will print on a postscript printer to the easychair conference system at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=error2015. The proceedings will be published through the IEEE Digital Library. Important dates --------------------- Paper submission deadline: 15 May 2015 (Fri) Paper acceptance notification: 10 June 2015 Camera ready version: 21 June 2015 Workshop day: 3 September 2015 ---------------- -- Ketan http://www.mcs.anl.gov/~ketan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From becchim at missouri.edu Sun Apr 12 21:40:01 2015 From: becchim at missouri.edu (Becchi, Michela) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 2015 01:40:01 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] SC'15 Call for Posters and ACM Student Research Competition Message-ID: <207590CEE3BFDE41A6E19071F49599985E1B4CEF@UM-MBX-T01.um.umsystem.edu> Call for Poster Submissions SC15, Austin Convention Center, Austin, TX November 15 - 20, 2015 http://sc15.supercomputing.org Submissions Open: April 01, 2015 Poster Submission Deadline: July 31, 2015 Notification Sent: September 8, 2015 Web Submissions: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/ Email Contact and Questions: posters at info.supercomputing.org SC15 is soliciting submissions for posters that display cutting-edge research and work in progress in high performance computing, storage, networking and analysis. Posters provide an excellent opportunity for short presentations and informal discussions with conference attendees. Posters will be prominently displayed for the duration of the conference, giving presenters a chance to showcase their latest results and innovations. The presented posters will be digitally archived and made publicly available after the conference. A Best Poster Award will be presented based on quality of research work and quality of poster presentation. ACM Student Research Competition (SRC): SC15 will also host the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC). This competition will feature posters from undergraduate and graduate students showcasing original student research. An SRC poster may be authored by exactly one graduate student or up to 2 undergraduate students (optionally with the advisor). Student authors must be active ACM members. The ACM SRC pre-selection will happen during the poster reception and selected poster presenters will be given the opportunity to present their work in short talks on Wednesday. The ACM SRC committee will select a set of winners based on their poster content and presentation style. ACM's SRC program covers expenses up to $500 for all students invited to the SRC. Embedded Multimedia Content: This year, we are encouraging authors to explore the integration of remotely hosted multimedia elements accessible through embedded QR codes into the poster. The goal of the embedded multimedia elements should be to enhance the presentation of research in the poster. Such elements may include a video narration of the poster by the author, links to results, movies, graphics, datasets, codes, etc. Note that extended versions of the poster or related publications will not be considered as acceptable multimedia elements in this context. The elements will be expected to be accessible using QR readers on smart phones and tablets (such as the reader included in the SC mobile app) during the conference while the poster is displayed. While the use of multimedia is not mandatory, creative multimedia integrations will be considered while evaluating posters for the Best Poster Award. Note that the conference will not provide services or infrastructure for hosting the embedded content. SUBMISSIONS As in past years, SC15 is soliciting two different types of posters: (1) Regular Posters and (2) ACM Student Research Competition Posters. Submissions for either type of poster must include: (1) A 150 word abstract, (2) A draft of the poster, and (3) An up to 800 word extended abstract/summary (including references) in the SC15 technical paper format. There are separate submission forms for the two different types of posters. A poster may only be submitted as one type. Posters are expected to be a single page of A0 paper size in portrait mode (841 x 1189mm/33.1 x 46.8 in). All posters can be submitted in up to two of the following categories: Algorithms; Applications; Architectures and Networks; Clouds and Distributed Computing; Data Analytics, Visualization and Storage; Performance; Programming Systems; State-of-the-Practice; System Software; and Education. For submission details, see the sample submission forms at the login page of the submission website: https://submissions.supercomputing.org. SC15 Posters Chair Manish Parashar (Rutgers University) SC15 Posters Vice Co-Chairs Dorian Arnold (University of New Mexico) Michela Becchi (University of Missouri - Columbia) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jaln.liu at ttu.edu Thu Apr 16 11:01:56 2015 From: jaln.liu at ttu.edu (Liu, Jaln) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 15:01:56 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] P2S2 with Journal Special Issue on Supercomputing[Extended Deadline] In-Reply-To: <36CA3DDD8E0DB14290DDFF9A6394425142E08175@centaur07.ttu.edu> References: <36CA3DDD8E0DB14290DDFF9A6394425142E08175@centaur07.ttu.edu> Message-ID: <36CA3DDD8E0DB14290DDFF9A6394425142E08272@centaur07.ttu.edu> [Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email.] CALL FOR PAPERS =============== The Eighth International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-end Computing (P2S2) September 1st 2015, Beijing, China. To be held in conjunction with ICPP 2015: The 44th International Conference on Parallel Processing. Website: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2/2015/ JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE --------------------- The best papers of P2S2-2015 will be included in a Special Issue on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-End Computing of the Journal of Supercomputing, edited by Yong Chen, Pavan Balaji, and Abhinav Vishnu. Submission to this special issue is by invitation only and the submission deadline is tentatively set as Nov, 2015. SCOPE ----- The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in parallel programming models and systems software for high-end computing systems. Please join us in a discussion of new ideas, experiences, and the latest trends in these areas at the workshop. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ The focus areas for this workshop include, but are not limited to: * Systems software for high-end scientific and enterprise computing architectures o Communication sub-subsystems for high-end computing o High-performance file and storage systems o Fault-tolerance techniques and implementations o Efficient and high-performance virtualization and other management mechanisms for high-end computing * Programming models and their high-performance implementations o MPI, Sockets, OpenMP, Global Arrays, X10, UPC, Chapel, Fortress and others o Hybrid Programming Models * Tools for Management, Maintenance, Coordination and Synchronization o Software for Enterprise Data-centers using Modern Architectures o Job scheduling libraries o Management libraries for large-scale system o Toolkits for process and task coordination on modern platforms * Performance evaluation, analysis and modeling of emerging computing platforms PROCEEDINGS ----------- Proceedings of this workshop will be published in CD format and will be available at the conference (together with the ICPP conference proceedings). The accepted papers will be included in and indexed by the IEEE CS digital library. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ----------------------- Submissions should be in PDF format in U.S. Letter size paper. They should not exceed 10 pages (all inclusive). Submissions will be judged based on relevance, significance, originality, correctness and clarity. Please visit workshop website at: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2/ for the submission link. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper Submission: April 30th, 2015(Extended Deadline) Author Notification: June 1st, 2015 Camera Ready: June 15th, 2015 Workshop Date: September 1st, 2015 PROGRAM CHAIRS -------------- * Yong Chen, Texas Tech University * Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory * Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PUBLICITY CHAIR --------------- * Jialin Liu, Texas Tech University STEERING COMMITTEE ------------------ * William D. Gropp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign * Vijay Saraswat, IBM Research PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- *Ahmad Afsahi, Queen's University *Patrick Bridges, University of New Mexico *Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories *Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory *Daniel Chavarr?a, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory *Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, China *Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago *Christos Kartsaklis, Oak Ridge National Laboratory *Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology *Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories *Xiaoyi Lu, The Ohio State University *Yin Lu, Texas Tech University *Huiwei Lu, Argonne National Laboratory *Miao Luo, The Ohio State University *Rui Mao, Shenzhen University *Chao Mei, Google *Scott Pakin, Los Alamos National Laboratories *Xuanhua Shi, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., China *Bronis de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory *Guangming Tan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China *Lucas Wilson, Texas Advanced Computing Center *Yonghong Yan, Oakland University *Yunquan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences *Ziliang Zong, Texas State University If you have any questions, please contact us at p2s2-chairs at mcs.anl.gov From CDORON at il.ibm.com Thu Apr 16 13:50:40 2015 From: CDORON at il.ibm.com (Doron Chen) Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2015 20:50:40 +0300 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Posters / Highlight Papers: ACM SYSTOR 2015 Message-ID: [ Apologies if you receive this multiple times ] SYSTOR 2015 May 26-28, 2015 Haifa, Israel Poster submission deadline: April 30, 2015 Highlights paper submission: April 30, 2015 The conference will take place May 26-28, 2015 in Haifa, Israel. http://systor.org/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 SYSTOR is a home for high-quality international systems research of a practical nature and welcomes both academic and industrial contributions. * Posters: authors who wish to present their work as posters are required to submit a one-page PDF with a title and a short (1-paragraph) abstract of their poster, along with a draft poster (formatted for A4) in PDF. Submissions could preferably represent early work that is not yet ready for submission to a refereed conference or journal, or describe a technical (non-marketing) innovation. * 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. Additional details can be found at: http://www.systor.org/2015/cfp.html PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS * Gernot Heiser (NICTA and UNSW, Australia) * Idit Keidar (Technion) GENERAL CHAIR * Dalit Naor (IBM Research) POSTERS CHAIR * David Breitgand (IBM Research) STEERING COMMITTEE HEAD * Michael Factor (IBM Research) STEERING COMMITTEE * Ethan Miller (University of California Santa Cruz) * Liuba Shrira (Brandeis University) * Dan Tsafrir (Technion) * Yaron Wolfsthal (IBM Research) * Erez Zadok (Stony Brook University) PUBLICITY CHAIR * Doron Chen (IBM Research) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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This year, we will also offer a bonus to tutorial presenters who provides a short video preview for publicly promoting their tutorial. For more details, visit the SC15 Tutorials website (above) or email your questions to us at: sc15tutorials at gmail.com -- CJ Newburn (Intel) & Rich Vuduc (Georgia Tech) SC15 Tutorials Co-chairs -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jaln.liu at ttu.edu Thu Apr 23 10:59:08 2015 From: jaln.liu at ttu.edu (Liu, Jaln) Date: Thu, 23 Apr 2015 14:59:08 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] (CFP) P2S2 with special issue on Journal of Supercomputing Message-ID: <36CA3DDD8E0DB14290DDFF9A6394425142E13A6C@centaur07.ttu.edu> [Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email.] CALL FOR PAPERS =============== The Eighth International Workshop on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-end Computing (P2S2) September 1st 2015, Beijing, China. To be held in conjunction with ICPP 2015: The 44th International Conference on Parallel Processing. Website: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2/2015/ SCOPE ----- The goal of this workshop is to bring together researchers and practitioners in parallel programming models and systems software for high-end computing systems. Please join us in a discussion of new ideas, experiences, and the latest trends in these areas at the workshop. TOPICS OF INTEREST ------------------ The focus areas for this workshop include, but are not limited to: * Systems software for high-end scientific and enterprise computing architectures o Communication sub-subsystems for high-end computing o High-performance file and storage systems o Fault-tolerance techniques and implementations o Efficient and high-performance virtualization and other management mechanisms for high-end computing * Programming models and their high-performance implementations o MPI, Sockets, OpenMP, Global Arrays, X10, UPC, Chapel, Fortress and others o Hybrid Programming Models * Tools for Management, Maintenance, Coordination and Synchronization o Software for Enterprise Data-centers using Modern Architectures o Job scheduling libraries o Management libraries for large-scale system o Toolkits for process and task coordination on modern platforms * Performance evaluation, analysis and modeling of emerging computing platforms PROCEEDINGS ----------- Proceedings of this workshop will be published in CD format and will be available at the conference (together with the ICPP conference proceedings). The accepted papers will be included in and indexed by the IEEE CS digital library. SUBMISSION INSTRUCTIONS ----------------------- Submissions should be in PDF format in U.S. Letter size paper. They should not exceed 10 pages (all inclusive). Submissions will be judged based on relevance, significance, originality, correctness and clarity. Please visit workshop website at: http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/p2s2/ for the submission link. IMPORTANT DATES --------------- Paper Submission: April 30th, 2015(Extended Deadline) Author Notification: June 1st, 2015 Camera Ready: June 15th, 2015 Workshop Date: September 1st, 2015 JOURNAL SPECIAL ISSUE --------------------- The P2S2-2015 workshop papers will be invited to extend the manuscripts to be considered for a Special Issue on Parallel Programming Models and Systems Software for High-End Computing of the Journal of Supercomputing, edited by Yong Chen, Pavan Balaji, and Abhinav Vishnu. Submission to this special issue is by invitation only and the submission deadline is tentatively set as Nov, 2015. PROGRAM CHAIRS -------------- * Yong Chen, Texas Tech University * Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory * Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory PUBLICITY CHAIR --------------- * Jialin Liu, Texas Tech University STEERING COMMITTEE ------------------ * William D. Gropp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign * Vijay Saraswat, IBM Research PROGRAM COMMITTEE ----------------- *Ahmad Afsahi, Queen's University *Patrick Bridges, University of New Mexico *Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories *Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory *Daniel Chavarr?a, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory *Zhihui Du, Tsinghua University, China *Zhiyi Huang, University of Otago *Christos Kartsaklis, Oak Ridge National Laboratory *Zhiling Lan, Illinois Institute of Technology *Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories *Xiaoyi Lu, The Ohio State University *Yin Lu, Texas Tech University *Huiwei Lu, Argonne National Laboratory *Miao Luo, The Ohio State University *Rui Mao, Shenzhen University *Chao Mei, Google *Scott Pakin, Los Alamos National Laboratories *Xuanhua Shi, Huazhong Univ. of Sci. & Tech., China *Bronis de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory *Guangming Tan, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China *Lucas Wilson, Texas Advanced Computing Center *Yonghong Yan, Oakland University *Yunquan Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences *Ziliang Zong, Texas State University If you have any questions, please contact us at p2s2-chairs at mcs.anl.gov Best Regards, Jialin Liu, Ph.D student. Computer Science Department Texas Tech University Phone: 806.742.3513(x241) Office:Engineer Center 304 https://sites.google.com/site/jailinliu/ From ketan at mcs.anl.gov Thu Apr 30 23:18:03 2015 From: ketan at mcs.anl.gov (Ketan Maheshwari) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 22:18:03 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: APSys 2015, Papers due May 8, Abstract May 3 Message-ID: Dear Storage Research Community, CALL FOR PAPERS APSys 2015, 6th ACM SIGOPS Asia-Pacific Workshop on Systems July 27-28, 2015 Tokyo, Japan. Abstracts due: May 3, 2015 Full papers due: Fri May 8, 2015 For details: http://www.sslab.ics.keio.ac.jp/apsys2015 Best -- Ketan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From parashar at rutgers.edu Thu Apr 30 07:23:43 2015 From: parashar at rutgers.edu (Manish Parashar) Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2015 07:23:43 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] SC'15 Call for Posters (including ACM Student Research Competition Posters) References: <61B80866-C1BF-426B-A536-92FD6DD72922@rutgers.edu> Message-ID: <743BBF72-DBE6-453E-AAA2-17638F2DFCDF@rutgers.edu> Call for Poster Submissions SC15, Austin Convention Center, Austin, TX November 15 ? 20, 2015 http://sc15.supercomputing.org Submissions Open: April 01, 2015 Poster Submission Deadline: July 31, 2015 Notification Sent: September 8, 2015 Web Submissions: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/ Email Contact and Questions: posters at info.supercomputing.org SC15 is soliciting submissions for posters that display cutting-edge research and work in progress in high performance computing, storage, networking and analysis. Posters provide an excellent opportunity for short presentations and informal discussions with conference attendees. Posters will be prominently displayed for the duration of the conference, giving presenters a chance to showcase their latest results and innovations. The presented posters will be digitally archived and made publicly available after the conference. A Best Poster Award will be presented based on quality of research work and quality of poster presentation. ACM Student Research Competition (SRC): SC15 will also host the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC). This competition will feature posters from undergraduate and graduate students showcasing original student research. An SRC poster may be authored by exactly one graduate student or up to 2 undergraduate students (optionally with the advisor). Student authors must be active ACM members. The ACM SRC pre-selection will happen during the poster reception and selected poster presenters will be given the opportunity to present their work in short talks on Wednesday. The ACM SRC committee will select a set of winners based on their poster content and presentation style. ACM?s SRC program covers expenses up to $500 for all students invited to the SRC. Embedded Multimedia Content: This year, we are encouraging authors to explore the integration of remotely hosted multimedia elements accessible through embedded QR codes into the poster. The goal of the embedded multimedia elements should be to enhance the presentation of research in the poster. Such elements may include a video narration of the poster by the author, links to results, movies, graphics, datasets, codes, etc. Note that extended versions of the poster or related publications will not be considered as acceptable multimedia elements in this context. The elements will be expected to be accessible using QR readers on smart phones and tablets (such as the reader included in the SC mobile app) during the conference while the poster is displayed. While the use of multimedia is not mandatory, creative multimedia integrations will be considered while evaluating posters for the Best Poster Award. Note that the conference will not provide services or infrastructure for hosting the embedded content. SUBMISSIONS As in past years, SC15 is soliciting two different types of posters: (1) Regular Posters and (2) ACM Student Research Competition Posters. Submissions for either type of poster must include: (1) A 150 word abstract, (2) A draft of the poster, and (3) An up to 800 word extended abstract/summary (including references) in the SC15 technical paper format. There are separate submission forms for the two different types of posters. A poster may only be submitted as one type. Posters are expected to be a single page of A0 paper size in portrait mode (841 ? 1189mm/33.1 x 46.8 in). All posters can be submitted in up to two of the following categories: Algorithms; Applications; Architectures and Networks; Clouds and Distributed Computing; Data Analytics, Visualization and Storage; Performance; Programming Systems; State-of-the-Practice; System Software; and Education. For submission details, see the sample submission forms at the login page of the submission website: https://submissions.supercomputing.org. SC15 Posters Chair Manish Parashar (Rutgers University) SC15 Posters Vice Co-Chairs Dorian Arnold (University of New Mexico) Michela Becchi (University of Missouri - Columbia) -- ========================================================================== Manish Parashar Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 628 RDI2/CAC/Dept. of Computer Science Phone: (848) 445-5388 Rutgers University Fax: (732) 445-0537 110 Frelinghuysen Road Email: parashar at rutgers dot edu Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019 WWW: http://parashar.rutgers.edu =========================================================================== From CDORON at il.ibm.com Mon May 4 10:27:58 2015 From: CDORON at il.ibm.com (Doron Chen) Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 17:27:58 +0300 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Sign Up Now: ACM SYSTOR 2015, May 26-28, Haifa, Israel Message-ID: [ Apologies if you receive this multiple times ] Call for Participation: SYSTOR 2015 May 26-28, 2015 Haifa, Israel http://systor.org/2015 Registration is now open for SYSTOR 2015, The 8th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference. Sign up through the following link: http://www.systor.org/2015/register.html Registration is free. SYSTOR is a home for high-quality international systems research of a practical nature. 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. Keynote Speakers: * Andrew Baumann (Microsoft Research) * Anat Bremler-Barr (IDC - Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya) * Peter Druschel (Max Planck Institute) Social Events: * Tuesday, May 26th: Poster Session, dinner, and music * Wednesday, May 27th: Trip to Nazareth and Beit She'an Full program: http://www.systor.org/2015/program.html -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bgerofi at riken.jp Mon May 4 15:00:47 2015 From: bgerofi at riken.jp (Balazs Gerofi) Date: Mon, 4 May 2015 21:00:47 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: VHPC '15 held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2015 Message-ID: We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this call for papers. ================================================================= CALL FOR PAPERS 10th Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC '15) held in conjunction with Euro-Par 2015, August 24-28, Vienna, Austria (Springer LNCS) ================================================================= Date: August 25, 2015 Workshop URL: http://vhpc.org Paper Submission Deadline: May 22, 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS Virtualization technologies constitute a key enabling factor for flexible resource management in modern data centers, cloud environments, and increasingly in HPC as well. Providers need to dynamically manage complex infrastructures in a seamless fashion for varying workloads and hosted applications, independently of the customers deploying software or users submitting highly dynamic and heterogeneous workloads. Thanks to virtualization, we have the ability to manage vast computing and networking resources dynamically and close to the marginal cost of providing the services, which is unprecedented in the history of scientific and commercial computing. Docker et al. OS-level virtualization, with its capability to isolate multiple user-space environments allows for their co-existence within the same OS kernel. It promises to provide many of the advantages of machine virtualization with high levels of responsiveness and performance; coupled with lightweight OSs it forms a potent architecture with promise to become a mainstream environment for HPC workloads. Machine virtualization, with its capability to enable consolidation of multiple under-utilized servers with heterogeneous software and operating systems (OSes), and its capability to live-migrate a fully operating virtual machine (VM) with a very short downtime, enables novel and dynamic ways to manage physical servers; I/O Virtualization allows physical network adapters to take traffic from multiple VMs; network virtualization, with its capability to create logical network overlays that are independent of the underlying physical topology and IP addressing, provides the fundamental ground on top of which evolved network services can be realized with an unprecedented level of dynamicity and flexibility; These technologies have to be inter-mixed and integrated in an intelligent way, to support workloads that are increasingly demanding in terms of absolute performance, responsiveness and interactivity, and have to respect well-specified Service- Level Agreements (SLAs), as needed for industrial-grade provided services. The Workshop on Virtualization in High-Performance Cloud Computing (VHPC) aims to bring together researchers and industrial practitioners facing the challenges posed by virtualization in order to foster discussion, collaboration, mutual exchange of knowledge and experience, enabling research to ultimately provide novel solutions for virtualized computing systems of tomorrow. The workshop will be one day in length, composed of 20 min paper presentations, each followed by 10 min discussion sections, and lightning talks, limited to 5 minutes. Presentations may be accompanied by interactive demonstrations. TOPICS Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: - Virtualization in supercomputing environments, HPC clusters, cloud HPC and grids - OS-level virtualization including container runtimes (Docker, rkt et al.) - Lightweight compute node operating systems/VMMs - Optimizations of virtual machine monitor platforms, hypervisors - Hypervisor and network virtualization QoS and SLAs - Cloud based network and system management for SDN and NFV - Management, deployment and monitoring of virtualized environments - Performance measurement, modelling and monitoring of virtualized/cloud workloads - Programming models for virtualized environments - Cloud reliability, fault-tolerance, high-availability and security - Heterogeneous virtualized environments, virtualized accelerators, GPUs and co-processors - Optimized communication libraries/protocols in the cloud and for HPC in the cloud - Topology management and optimization for distributed virtualized applications - Cluster provisioning in the cloud and cloud bursting - Adaptation of emerging HPC technologies (high performance networks, RDMA, etc..) - I/O and storage virtualization, virtualization aware file systems - Job scheduling/control/policy in virtualized environments - Checkpointing and migration of VM-based large compute jobs - Cloud frameworks and APIs - Energy-efficient / power-aware virtualization Important Dates Rolling Abstract registration May 22, 2015 - Full paper submission June 19, 2015 - Acceptance notification October 2, 2015 - Camera-ready version due August 25, 2015 - Workshop Date TPC CHAIR Michael Alexander (chair), TU Wien, Austria Anastassios Nanos (co-chair), NTUA, Greece Balazs Gerofi (co-chair), RIKEN Advanced Institute for Computational Science, Japan PROGRAM COMMITTEE Stergios Anastasiadis, University of Ioannina, Greece Costas Bekas, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Jakob Blomer, CERN Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Roberto Canonico, University of Napoli Federico II, Italy Julian Chesterfield, OnApp, UK Patrick Dreher, MIT, USA William Gardner, University of Guelph, Canada Kyle Hale, Northwestern University, USA Marcus Hardt, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Iftekhar Hussain, Infinera, USA Krishna Kant, Temple University, USA Eiji Kawai, National Institute of Information and Communications Technology, Japan Romeo Kinzler, IBM, Switzerland Kornilios Kourtis, ETH, Switzerland Nectarios Koziris, National Technical University of Athens, Greece Massimo Lamanna, CERN Che-Rung Roger Lee, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Helge Meinhard, CERN Jean-Marc Menaud, Ecole des Mines de Nantes France Christine Morin, INRIA, France Amer Qouneh, University of Florida, USA Seetharami Seelam, IBM Watson Research Center, USA Josh Simons, VMWare, USA Borja Sotomayor, University of Chicago, USA Kurt Tutschku, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden Yasuhiro Watashiba, Osaka University, Japan Chao-Tung Yang, Tunghai University, Taiwan PAPER SUBMISSION-PUBLICATION Papers submitted to the workshop will be reviewed by at least two members of the program committee and external reviewers. Submissions should include abstract, key words, the e-mail address of the corresponding author, and must not exceed 10 pages, including tables and figures at a main font size no smaller than 11 point. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. Accepted papers will be published in the Springer LNCS series - the format must be according to the Springer LNCS Style. Initial submissions are in PDF; authors of accepted papers will be requested to provide source files. 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URL: From ketan at mcs.anl.gov Fri May 8 10:48:06 2015 From: ketan at mcs.anl.gov (Ketan Maheshwari) Date: Fri, 8 May 2015 09:48:06 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] ERROR 2015 at eScience Deadline Extended Message-ID: SUMMARY: CALL FOR PAPERS ERROR 2015, E-science ReseaRch leading tO negative Results at eScience 2015 Munich, Germany, Thursday September 3 2015 Submissions due Fri May 22 2015 http://press3.mcs.anl.gov/errorworkshop DETAILS: Call for papers: 1st Workshop on E-science ReseaRch leading tO negative Results (ERROR) in conjunction with eScience 2015 Munich, Germany, 3 September 2015 http://press3.mcs.anl.gov/errorworkshop A non-exhaustive list of topics for the workshop: - Unforeseen technology/problem/technique misfits - Institutional policies (on rejected research) - Failures and obstacles faced during a successful research work - Controversial results because of undiscovered technological/technical glitch - Unconventional results which contradict theoretical expectations - Discovery of better approaches after significant efforts spent on research - Inadequate or misconfigured infrastructure - Abnormal and anomalous results - Ongoing research with setbacks and lessons learned - A hypothesis with one or more limiting assumptions - Discovery of unexpected behavior in hardware, networks or platforms - Data size that is too big or too small for the applied technique - Implementation of simulation tools based on incorrect physical observations - Defect in software design, architecture and/or user interface - Software and platform incompatibilities - Zero defect software policy and its implications Keynote Speaker ------------------------- Ioan Raicu, IIT, Chicago Journal Publication Opportunity -------------------------------------- Selected papers from the workshop will be invited to submit an extended version to a special issue of "Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience (CCPE)" journal. Papers will be selected based on scientific rigor, originality, significance and presentation. All extended versions will undergo reviews and must represent original unpublished research work. General Chair and Contact --------------------------------- Ketan Maheshwari, Argonne National Laboratory, ketan at anl.gov Steering Committee --------------------------- Daniel S. Katz, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory Silvia Olabarriaga, University of Amsterdam Justin M. Wozniak, University of Chicago and Argonne National Laboratory Douglas Thain, Notre Dame University Paper Submission Guidelines ---------------------------------------- Authors are invited to submit a maximum of 8-page manuscripts describing original and unpublished work surrounding the aforementioned topics. The format of the paper should be of double column text using single spaced 10 point size on 8.5 x 11 inch pages, as per IEEE 8.5 x 11 manuscript guidelines. 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URL: From neelima at hipc.org Sat May 9 04:44:24 2015 From: neelima at hipc.org (Neelima Reddy) Date: Sat, 9 May 2015 16:44:24 +0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] IEEE HiPC 2015 (Bengaluru 16-19 December) CFP - 30 April 2015 Release Message-ID: *IEEE HiPC 2015(Bengaluru, India ? 16-19 December)*30 April 2015 Release ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *22nd IEEE International Conference on High Performance ComputingHiPC 2015* December 16-19, 2015 Park Plaza Bengaluru Hotel Bengaluru (Bangalore), India www.hipc.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *ALERT: Call for Papers Deadline is June 5, 2015-* ----------------------------------------------- *HiPC 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS*------------------------------------------------ *DEADLINE: June 5, 2015*For details on submitting papers to main conference, go to: http://www.hipc.org/hipc2015/papers.php PROGRAM CHAIR ?Sanjay Ranka, University of Florida, USA PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS ?Algorithms: Anne Benoit, ENS Lyon, France ?Applications: Bertil Schmidt, Universit?t Mainz, Germany ?Architecture: Sudhakar Yalamanchili, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA ?System Software: Gagan Agrawal, The Ohio State University, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE ?See list of members at http://www.hipc.org/hipc2015/pc.php IMPORTANT DATES ?May 1, 2015 - Conference Paper Submission Begins ?June 5, 2015 - Conference Paper Submissions Due ?September 4, 2015 - Notification of Acceptance/Rejection ?September 25, 2015 - Camera-Ready Paper Submission CALL FOR PAPERS Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of high performance computing including design and analysis of parallel and distributed systems, embedded systems, and their applications in scientific, engineering, and commercial deployments. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: ? Big Data Processing ? Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing ? Compiler Technologies for High-Performance Computing ? Emerging Applications such as Biotechnology, Nanotechnology. ? Exascale Computing and High-Performance Computing ? High Performance/Scalable Storage Systems ? Hybrid Parallel Programming with GPUs and Accelerators ? Interconnection Networks and Architectures ? Load Balancing, Scheduling and Resource Management ? Operating Systems for Scalable High-Performance Computing ? Parallel and Distributed Algorithms/Systems ? Parallel Languages and Programming Environments ? Power-Efficient and Reconfigurable Architectures ? Resilient/Fault-Tolerant Algorithms and Systems ? Scientific/Engineering/Commercial Applications and Workloads ? Software Support and Advanced Micro-architecture Techniques MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See style templates on the Call for Papers page at http://www.hipc.org/hipc2015/papers.php. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. Manuscripts must be received by June 5, 2015. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper.* Authors are highly encouraged to list the key contributions of their paper as a separate paragraph in the introduction*. Submitted papers must represent *original unpublished research* that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair at the email address below for further information or clarification. Notification of review decisions will be mailed by September 4, 2015. Camera-ready papers are due by September 25, 2015. A published proceedings will be available at the conference. At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. Presentation of an accepted paper at the conference is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in IEEE Xplore. Authors of selected high quality papers in HiPC 2015 will be invited to submit extended version of their papers for possible publication in a special issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. One or more best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. Full information on submission of manuscripts, which will open on May 1, 2015, is available at the conference website http://www.hipc.org. ------------------------------------------------ *HiPC 2015 (Bengaluru, India ? 16-19 December)* ------------------------------------------------ The HiPC annual conference serves as a forum for researchers from around the world to present their current research efforts and findings and acts as a venue for stimulating discussions and highlighting high performance computing (HPC) related activities in Asia. The conference has a history of attracting participation from reputed researchers from all over the world and receives strong industry support from companies operating globally and also established in India. In addition to the two days of industry exhibits, the sponsoring partners to the conference hold industry symposiums to bring together providers and users of HPC in a forum for presenting state-of-the-art in HPC platforms and technologies, for discussing best practices, and for exchanging experiences. *Conference Organization:* General Co-Chairs ?Ramamurthy Badrinath, Ericsson, India ?Rama Govindaraju, Google, USA Vice General Co-Chairs ?Kalyan Chadalavada, NCSA, USA ?Rajeev Muralidhar, Intel, India Steering Committee Chair ?Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA ------------------------------------------------ *HiPC 2015 SPONSORSHIP & INDUSTRY PARTICIPATION* ------------------------------------------------ HiPC 2015 is co-sponsored by ?IEEE Computer Society ?HiPC Education Trust, India ?IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) In cooperation with ?ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) ?ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH) ?FIP Working Group on Concurrent Systems ?Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT) ?National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) The HiPC conference series has a strong relationship with industry, both within India and internationally, including industry involvement in its steering and organizing committees. The conference welcomes (and strongly encourages) industry participation are all levels including in the technical program, the student symposium, and especially in the industry, research and user symposium and vendor exhibition. Details about these and other events and how to participate at HiPC 2015 are available at the conference website at hipc.org . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ...Follow us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/groups/HiPC-53197?gid=53197&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr ...Follow us on Google+ at https://plus.google.com/+HipcOrg/posts ...Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/hipc.conference ...Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/hipcconf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *Best Regards* Dr. B. Neelima Publicity Vice co-chair (India)-HiPC-15 Associate Professor Dept. of CSE NMAMIT, Nitte. 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Posters provide an excellent opportunity for short presentations and informal discussions with conference attendees. Posters will be prominently displayed for the duration of the conference, giving presenters a chance to showcase their latest results and innovations. The presented posters will be digitally archived and made publicly available after the conference. A Best Poster Award will be presented based on quality of research work and quality of poster presentation. ACM Student Research Competition (SRC): SC15 will also host the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC). This competition will feature posters from undergraduate and graduate students showcasing original student research. An SRC poster may be authored by exactly one graduate student or up to 2 undergraduate students (optionally with the advisor). Student authors must be active ACM members. The ACM SRC pre-selection will happen during the poster reception and selected poster presenters will be given the opportunity to present their work in short talks on Wednesday. The ACM SRC committee will select a set of winners based on their poster content and presentation style. ACM's SRC program covers expenses up to $500 for all students invited to the SRC. Embedded Multimedia Content: This year, we are encouraging authors to explore the integration of remotely hosted multimedia elements accessible through embedded QR codes into the poster. The goal of the embedded multimedia elements should be to enhance the presentation of research in the poster. Such elements may include a video narration of the poster by the author, links to results, movies, graphics, datasets, codes, etc. Note that extended versions of the poster or related publications will not be considered as acceptable multimedia elements in this context. The elements will be expected to be accessible using QR readers on smart phones and tablets (such as the reader included in the SC mobile app) during the conference while the poster is displayed. While the use of multimedia is not mandatory, creative multimedia integrations will be considered while evaluating posters for the Best Poster Award. Note that the conference will not provide services or infrastructure for hosting the embedded content. SUBMISSIONS As in past years, SC15 is soliciting two different types of posters: (1) Regular Posters and (2) ACM Student Research Competition Posters. Submissions for either type of poster must include: (1) A 150 word abstract, (2) A draft of the poster, and (3) An up to 800 word extended abstract/summary (including references) in the SC15 technical paper format. There are separate submission forms for the two different types of posters. A poster may only be submitted as one type. Posters are expected to be a single page of A0 paper size in portrait mode (841 x 1189mm/33.1 x 46.8 in). All posters can be submitted in up to two of the following categories: Algorithms; Applications; Architectures and Networks; Clouds and Distributed Computing; Data Analytics, Visualization and Storage; Performance; Programming Systems; State-of-the-Practice; System Software; and Education. For submission details, see the sample submission forms at the login page of the submission website: https://submissions.supercomputing.org. SC15 Posters Chair Manish Parashar (Rutgers University) SC15 Posters Vice Co-Chairs Dorian Arnold (University of New Mexico) Michela Becchi (University of Missouri - Columbia) --- Michela Becchi Assistant Professor Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering 349 Engineering Building West University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 Phone: (573) 882-4499; Fax: (573) 882-0397 Web: http://web.missouri.edu/~becchim Lab Website: http://nps.missouri.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andrew.clashe at gmail.com Fri May 15 12:07:33 2015 From: andrew.clashe at gmail.com (Andrew Clashe) Date: Sat, 16 May 2015 02:07:33 +1000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: IEEE CPSCom 2015 (Cyber, Physical and Social Computing), Dec 2015, Sydney, Australia Message-ID: Call for papers: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Cyber, Physical and Social Computing (CPSCom 2015), 11-13 Dec. 2015, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cpscom2015/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 15, 2015 (extended, firm) Notification: September 25, 2015 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2015 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/cpscom2015/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished 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 Big Data. =========== Introduction As an emerging cross-disciplinary research area, the Cyber Physical System (CPS) is attracting attention worldwide. A Cyber-Physical System is a system featuring a combination of computational and physical elements, all of which are capable of interacting, reflecting and influencing each other. Furthermore, social systems are evolving with cyber systems and physical systems along with the popularity of online social networking. With the advent of ubiquitous sensing and networking, future social networks turn into cyber-physical interactions, which are attached with associated social attributes. The emergence of the cyber-physical-social computing will significantly change the way we see the world. In the mean time, the convergence of the physical, cyber, and social spaces will exhibit a variety of complicated characteristics, which brings more open issues and challenges for research communities. *Scope and Topics* *A. Networks and Networked Systems* where intelligent entities exchange information to achieve improved overall performance for both cyber and physical components. Particular areas of interests include: ? sensor, vehicular, robot, camera, aerial and social smartphone networks ? wireless networking technologies and autonomous ad hoc networks ? internet of things and machine-to-machine communications ? networked infrastructure management with applications such as smart power grids and transportation systems ? network enabled computation, coordination, and actuation ? scalability of complex networks *B. Modelling and Control* where mathematical and computational methods are developed and applied to facilitate innovative design, in-depth analysis, and novel insights of the fundamental principles. Particular areas of interests include: ? control theory with a clear cyber-physical tone such as networked control, distributed optimization, and distributed learning ? autonomy with applications in mobile sensor networks, internet connected cars, etc. ? modelling of tightly integrated physical processes, software, computation platforms, and networks *C. Data Management *where novel methods are developed to reliably gather, store, transfer, and analyse large amount of data and dataflow. Particular areas of interests include: ? data management and processing (e.g. big data, cloud computing) ? location and tracking based services ? smart cameras and computer vision based context management ? web of things. *D. Software and Hardware* where novel designs and implementations of test-beds, platforms, and software will significantly improve the speed, efficiency, and reliability of next generation CPS. Particular areas of interests include: ? embedded systems applications (pervasive computing, real-time control technologies) ? resource-constrained systems (low power, energizing, device miniaturization) ? standards and middleware. *E. Other Emerging Areas *where new challenges, new ideas, and new principles are shaping. For example, ? incentive, security, trust, and privacy issues in CPS ? smart living technologies such as smart city, smart home and office, wearable devices, learning devices, etc. ? social M2M networks, social impact of CPS, creative aspects. 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/cpscom2015/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 Big Data. General Chairs Mo El-Hawary, Dalhousie University, Canada Jian Yang, Macquarie University, Australia Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada General Co-Chairs Jianmin Wang, Tsinghua University, China Zhiwen Yu, Northwestern Polytechnical University, China Ruppa (Tulsi) Thulasiram, University of Manitoba, Canada Program Chairs Wookey Lee, Inha University, Korea Xun Yi, RMIT, Australia Marco D. Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Steering Committee Zhaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China (Chair) Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan (Chair) Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) Feng Xia, Dalian University of Technology, China Wei Li, Beihang University, China Marco D. Santambrogio, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Huansheng Ning, University of Science and Technology Beijing, China Lu Liu, University of Derby, UK Reda Alhajj, University of Calgary, Canada -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From neelima at hipc.org Tue May 19 00:49:11 2015 From: neelima at hipc.org (Neelima Reddy) Date: Tue, 19 May 2015 12:49:11 +0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] IEEE HiPC 2015 CFP - Deadline approaching Message-ID: *IEEE HiPC 2015 (Bengaluru, India **? * * 16-19 December) *15 May 2015 Release ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *22nd IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing HiPC 2015* December 16-19, 2015 Park Plaza Bengaluru Hotel Bengaluru (Bangalore), India www.hipc.org ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ *ALERT: Call for Papers Deadline is June 5, 2015 -* ----------------------------------------------- *HiPC 2015 CALL FOR PAPERS *------------------------------------------------ *DEADLINE: June 5, 2015 *For details on submitting papers to main conference, go to: http://www.hipc.org/hipc2015/papers.php KEYNOTE SPEAKERS ?Trevor Mudge: http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~tnm/trev_test/ ?Raghu Ramakrishnan: https://www.linkedin.com/pub/raghu-ramakrishnan/3/973/5 PROGRAM CHAIR ?Sanjay Ranka, University of Florida, USA PROGRAM VICE CHAIRS ?Algorithms: Anne Benoit, ENS Lyon, France ?Applications: Bertil Schmidt, Universit?t Mainz, Germany ?Architecture: Sudhakar Yalamanchili, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA ?System Software: Gagan Agrawal, The Ohio State University, USA PROGRAM COMMITTEE ?See list of members at http://www.hipc.org/hipc2015/pc.php IMPORTANT DATES ?May 1, 2015 - Conference Paper Submission Begins ?June 5, 2015 - Conference Paper Submissions Due ?September 4, 2015 - Notification of Acceptance/Rejection ?September 25, 2015 - Camera-Ready Paper Submission CALL FOR PAPERS Authors are invited to submit original unpublished research manuscripts that demonstrate current research in all areas of high performance computing including design and analysis of parallel and distributed systems, embedded systems, and their applications in scientific, engineering, and commercial deployments. Topics of interest include but are not limited to: ? Big Data Processing ? Cluster, Cloud, and Grid Computing ? Compiler Technologies for High-Performance Computing ? Emerging Applications such as Biotechnology, Nanotechnology. ? Exascale Computing and High-Performance Computing ? High Performance/Scalable Storage Systems ? Hybrid Parallel Programming with GPUs and Accelerators ? Interconnection Networks and Architectures ? Load Balancing, Scheduling and Resource Management ? Operating Systems for Scalable High-Performance Computing ? Parallel and Distributed Algorithms/Systems ? Parallel Languages and Programming Environments ? Power-Efficient and Reconfigurable Architectures ? Resilient/Fault-Tolerant Algorithms and Systems ? Scientific/Engineering/Commercial Applications and Workloads ? Software Support and Advanced Micro-architecture Techniques MANUSCRIPT GUIDELINES Submitted manuscripts should be structured as technical papers and may not exceed ten (10) single-spaced double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5x11 inch pages (IEEE conference style), including figures, tables, and references. See style templates on the Call for Papers page at http://www.hipc.org/hipc2015/papers.php. Electronic submissions must be in the form of a readable PDF file. Manuscripts must be received by June 5, 2015. All manuscripts will be reviewed by the Program Committee and evaluated on originality, relevance of the problem to the conference theme, technical strength, rigor in analysis, quality of results, and organization and clarity of presentation of the paper.* Authors are highly encouraged to list the key contributions of their paper as a separate paragraph in the introduction*. Submitted papers must represent *original unpublished research* that is not currently under review for any other conference or journal. Papers not following these guidelines will be rejected without review and further action may be taken, including (but not limited to) notifications sent to the heads of the institutions of the authors and sponsors of the conference. Submissions received after the due date, exceeding length limit, or not appropriately structured may also not be considered. Authors may contact the Program Chair at the email address below for further information or clarification. Notification of review decisions will be mailed by September 4, 2015. Camera-ready papers are due by September 25, 2015. A published proceedings will be available at the conference. At least one author of each paper must be registered for the conference in order for the paper to be published in the proceedings. Presentation of an accepted paper at the conference is a requirement of publication. Any paper that is not presented at the conference will not be included in IEEE Xplore. Authors of selected high quality papers in HiPC 2015 will be invited to submit extended version of their papers for possible publication in a special issue of Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. One or more best paper awards will be given for outstanding contributed papers. Full information on submission of manuscripts, which will open on May 1, 2015, is available at the conference website http://www.hipc.org. ------------------------------------------------ *HiPC 2015 (Bengaluru, India ? 16-19 December) * ------------------------------------------------ The HiPC annual conference serves as a forum for researchers from around the world to present their current research efforts and findings and acts as a venue for stimulating discussions and highlighting high performance computing (HPC) related activities in Asia. The conference has a history of attracting participation from reputed researchers from all over the world and receives strong industry support from companies operating globally and also established in India. In addition to the two days of industry exhibits, the sponsoring partners to the conference hold industry symposiums to bring together providers and users of HPC in a forum for presenting state-of-the-art in HPC platforms and technologies, for discussing best practices, and for exchanging experiences. *Conference Organization: * General Co-Chairs ?Ramamurthy Badrinath, Ericsson, India ?Rama Govindaraju, Google, USA Vice General Co-Chairs ?Kalyan Chadalavada, NCSA, USA ?Rajeev Muralidhar, Intel, India Steering Committee Chair ?Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, USA ------------------------------------------------ *HiPC 2015 SPONSORSHIP & INDUSTRY PARTICIPATION * ------------------------------------------------ HiPC 2015 is co-sponsored by ?IEEE Computer Society ?HiPC Education Trust, India ?IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Parallel Processing (TCPP) In cooperation with ?ACM Special Interest Group on Algorithms and Computation Theory (SIGACT) ?ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Architecture (SIGARCH) ?FIP Working Group on Concurrent Systems ?Manufacturers' Association for Information Technology (MAIT) ?National Association of Software and Service Companies (NASSCOM) The HiPC conference series has a strong relationship with industry, both within India and internationally, including industry involvement in its steering and organizing committees. The conference welcomes (and strongly encourages) industry participation are all levels including in the technical program, the student symposium, and especially in the industry, research and user symposium and vendor exhibition. Details about these and other events and how to participate at HiPC 2015 are available at the conference website at hipc.org . ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ ...Follow us on LinkedIn at http://www.linkedin.com/groups/HiPC-53197?gid=53197&trk=myg_ugrp_ovr ...Follow us on Google+ at https://plus.google.com/+HipcOrg/posts ...Follow us on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/hipc.conference ...Follow us on Twitter at https://twitter.com/hipcconf ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Many Regards and Best Wishes Neelima Bayyapu Publicity Vice- Co-Chair, India, HiPC-2015 Assoc. 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The goal is to present existing in-situ infrastructures, reference examples in a range of science and engineering applications, to discuss topics like opportunities presented by new architectures; existing infrastructure needs, requirements, and gaps; and experiences to foster and enable in situ analysis and visualization. The considerable interest in the HPC community regarding in situ analysis and visualization is due to several factors. First is an I/O cost savings, where data is analyzed/visualized while being generated, without first storing to a filesystem. Second is the potential for increased accuracy, where fine temporal sampling of transient analysis might expose some complex behavior missed in coarse temporal sampling. Third is the ability to use all available resources, CPU?s and accelerators, in the computation of analysis products. In Situ processing is still a relatively new idea, and up until recently, most implementations have been ad hoc, proof-of-concept prototypes. However, several in situ infrastructure implementations have emerged. ParaView and VisIt both provide tools for in situ analysis and visualization. ParaView Catalyst can be linked to a simulation, allowing the simulation to share data with Catalyst for visualization. Similar capabilities are available within VisIt with the libsim library. Both Catalyst (through Live) and libsim enable the opposite flow of information, sending data from the client to the simulation, enabling the possibility of simulation steering. ADIOS and GLEAN allow simulations to adopt in situ techniques by leveraging their advanced I/O infrastructures that enable co-analysis pipelines rather than changing the simulator. The non-intrusive integration provide resilience to third party library bugs and possible jitter in the simulation. Participation/Call for Papers We invite short (4-page) papers that identify opportunities, challenges and case studies/best practices for in situ analysis and visualization. These papers could propose actions, or provide position, or experience reports on in situ analysis and visualization. Areas of interest for ISAV, include, but are not limited to: * In situ infrastructures - Current Systems: production quality, research prototypes - Opportunities - Gaps * System resources, hardware, and emerging architectures - Enabling Hardware - Hardware and architectures that provide opportunities for In situ processing, such as burst buffers, staging computations on I/O nodes, sharing cores within a node for both simulation and in situ processing * Examples/Case studies - Best practices - Analysis: feature detection, statistical methods, temporal methods, geometric methods - Visualization: information visualization, scientific visualization, time-varying methods - Data reduction/compression * Simulation - Integration:data modeling, software-engineering - Resilience: error detection, fault recovery - Workflows for supporting complex in situ processing pipelines * Requirements - Preserve important elements - Significantly reduce the data size - Flexibility for post-processing exploration == Submitting Papers == Submissions are limited to 4 pages in the ACM format (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). The 4-page limit includes figures, tables, and appendices, but does not include references, for which you may use up to one additional page. Please submit your paper via the ISAV 2015 EasyChair submission page at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isav2015. == Timelines/Important Dates: == 1 August 2015 Paper submission deadline 1 September 2015 Author notification 15 September 2015 Camera ready copy due mid-October 2015 Final program posted to ISAV web page 16 November 2015 ISAV workshop == Organizers/Program Committee == Organizers E. Wes Bethel, ewbethel at lbl.gov, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Venkatram Vishwanath, venkat at anl.gov, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Gunther H. Weber, ghweber at lbl.gov, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Matthew Wolf, mwolf at cc.gatech.edu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Program Committee Utkarsh Ayachit, Kitware Inc., USA Earl P.N. Duque, Intelligent Light, USA Nicola Ferrier, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Burlen Loring, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Dmitriy Morozov, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Patrick O?Leary, Kitware Inc., USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers, USA Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Alex Sim, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Brad Whitlock, Intelligent Light, USA Kesheng (John) Wu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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This is currently referred to as the Big Data Challenge. The tools and approaches needed to mine, analyze, and visualize data at extreme scales can be fully realized only if we have end-to-end solutions, which demands collective, interdisciplinary efforts. The 5th IEEE Large Scale Data Analysis and Visualization (LDAV) symposium, to be held in conjunction with IEEE VIS 2015, is specifically targeting possible end-to-end solutions. The LDAV symposium will bring together domain scientists, data analysts, visualization researchers, users, designers and artists, to foster common ground for solving both near- and long-term problems. Scope: We are looking for original research contributions on a broad-range of topics related to collection, analysis, manipulation or visualization of large-scale data. We also welcome position papers on these topics. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Data collection, management and curation * Innovative approaches combining information visualization, visual analytics, and scientific visualization * Streaming methods for analysis, collection and visualization * Novel, extreme or innovative methods for understanding and interacting with data * Advanced hardware for data handling or visualization * Distributed, parallel or multi-threaded approaches * MapReduce-based and database-related methods, algorithms or approaches * Hierarchical data storage, retrieval or rendering * Collaboration or co-design of data analysis with domain scientists * Topics in cognitive issues specific to manipulating and understanding large data * Application case studies * Industry solutions for big data * End-to-end system solutions Submission Instructions: Submitted manuscripts may not exceed 8 pages. The manuscripts can be 4-8 pages, with the authors determining length based on the content. The manuscripts should be formatted according to guidelines from IEEE VGTC. Submission site note: Go to the submission site (https://precisionconference.com/~vgtc), log in, go to 'new submissions', and select 'LDAV 2015 Papers'. Proceedings: The proceedings of the symposium will be published together with the VIS proceedings and via the IEEE Xplore Digital Library. Best Paper: The LDAV Program Committee will present a Best Paper award to the authors whose submission is deemed the strongest according to the reviewing criteria. This award will be announced in conjunction with VIS 2015. Important Dates: (Please note the abstract and paper deadlines are firm and no extensions will be granted). Abstract Deadline (firm): June 17, 2015 Paper Submission (firm): June 24, 2015 11:59 PM (AOE) Author Notification: August 13, 2015 Camera-Ready Deadline: August 21, 2015 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From parashar at rutgers.edu Tue Jun 2 06:43:37 2015 From: parashar at rutgers.edu (Manish Parashar) Date: Tue, 2 Jun 2015 06:43:37 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] 2015 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers -- Call for Nominations References: <505B175F-5E59-4EF9-9292-F0F9B660178B@rutgers.edu> Message-ID: 2015 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers (previously Award for Young Achievers in Scalable Computing) The IEEE TCSC annual young achievers in scalable computing award recognizes up to 3 individuals who have made outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field of scalable computing within 5 years of receiving their PhD degree as of January 01 of the year of the award. Nominations: A candidate may be nominated by members of the community. An individual may nominate at most one candidate for this award. Nomination must be submitted via email to tcsc-awards at rutgers.edu. A nomination application (as a single PDF file) should contain the following details: 1. Name/email of person making the nomination (self-nominations are not eligible) 2. Name/email of candidate for whom the award is recommended 3. A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) as to why the nominee is highly deserving of the award. Note that since the award is for outstanding contributions, the statement and supporting letters should address what the contributions are and why they are both outstanding and significant. The nomination should also list the names and email of up to 3 persons who will provide letters supporting the nomination. 4. CV of the nominee 5. Up three support letters from persons other than the nominator ? these should be collected by the nominator and included in the nomination. Important Dates: - Nomination Deadline: July 01, 2015 - Results Notification: August 31, 2015 Award Selection Committee: The award selection committee will consists of: David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia Barbara Chapman, University of Houston, USA Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Rosa M. Badia, BSC, Spain Manish Parashar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA (Chair) Padma Raghavan, Penn State University, USA Note that members of the selection committee cannot be nominators or provide support letters. Award & Presentation Note: Awardees will be presented a plaque and will be recognized by IEEE TCSC in its website, newsletter and archives. The awards will be presented at the SC15 conference that will be held in Austin, TX, USA during November 15 ? 20, 2015. Details of the conference can be found at http://sc15.supercomputing.org/. For more information, please send email to tcsc-awards at rutgers.edu. -- ========================================================================== Manish Parashar Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 628 RDI2/CAC/Dept. of Computer Science Phone: (848) 445-5388 Rutgers University Fax: (732) 445-0537 110 Frelinghuysen Road Email: parashar at rutgers dot edu Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019 WWW: http://parashar.rutgers.edu =========================================================================== From andrew.clashe at gmail.com Fri Jun 5 15:20:14 2015 From: andrew.clashe at gmail.com (Andrew Clashe) Date: Sat, 6 Jun 2015 05:20:14 +1000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: IEEE DSDIS 2015 (Data Science and Data Intensive Systems), Dec. 2015, Sydney, Australia Message-ID: Call for papers: The 2015 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Data Intensive Systems (DSDIS 2015), 11-13 Dec. 2015, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/dsdis2015/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 15, 2015 Notification: September 25, 2015 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2015 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/dsdis2015/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished 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 Big Data. =========== Introduction In parallel with Petrol as a driving resource in this world, Data is becoming an increasingly decisive resource in modern societies, economies, and governmental organizations. Gradually and steadily, it is being world-wide recognised that data and talents are playing key roles in modern businesses. As an interdisciplinary area, Data Science draws scientific inquiry from a broad range of subject areas such as statistics, mathematics, computer science, machine learning, optimization, signal processing, information retrieval, databases, cloud computing, computer vision, natural language processing and etc. Data Science is on the essence of deriving valuable insights from data. It is emerging to meet the challenges of processing very large datasets, i.e. Big Data, with the explosion of new data continuously generated from various channels such as smart devices, web, mobile and social media. Data intensive systems are posing many challenges in exploiting parallelism of current and upcoming computer architectures. Data volumes of applications in the fields of sciences and engineering, finance, media, online information resources, etc. are expected to double every two years over the next decade and further. With this continuing data explosion, it is necessary to store and process data efficiently by utilizing enormous computing power. The importance of data intensive systems has been raising and will continue to be the foremost fields of research. This raise brings up many research issues, in forms of capturing and accessing data effectively and fast, processing it while still achieving high performance and high throughput, and storing it efficiently for future use. Innovative programming models, high performance scalable computing platforms, efficient storage systems and expression of data requirements are at immediate need. DSDIS (Data Science and Data Intensive Systems) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Data Science and Data Intensive Systems as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics A. Data Science Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ? Data sensing, fusion and mining ? Data representation, dimensionality reduction, processing and proactive service layers ? Stream data processing and integration ? Data analytics and new machine learning theories and models ? Knowledge discovery from multiple information sources ? Statistical, mathematical and probabilistic modeling and theories ? Information visualization and visual data analytics ? Information retrieval and personalized recommendation ? Data provenance and graph analytics ? Parallel and distributed data storage and processing infrastructure ? MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark, scalable computing and storage platforms ? Security, privacy and data integrity in data sharing, publishing and analysis ? Big Data, data science and cloud computing ? Innovative applications in business, finance, industry and government cases B. Data Intensive Systems Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ? Data-intensive applications and their challenges ? Scalable computing platform such as Hadoop and Spark ? Storage and file systems ? High performance data access toolkits ? Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability ? Meta-data management ? Remote data access ? Programming models, abstractions for data intensive computing ? Compiler and runtime support ? Data capturing, management, and scheduling techniques ? Future research challenges of data intensive systems ? Performance optimization techniques ? Replication, archiving, preservation strategies ? Real-time data intensive systems ? Network support for data intensive systems ? Challenges and solutions in the era of multi/many-core platforms ? Stream data computing ? Green (Power efficient) data intensive systems ? Security and protection of sensitive data in collaborative environments ? Data intensive computing on accelerators and GPUs ? HPC system architecture, programming models and run-time systems for data intensive applications ? Productivity tools, performance measuring and benchmark for data intensive systems ? Big Data, cloud computing and data intensive systems ? Innovative data intensive applications such as big sensing/surveillance/transport data, big document/accounting data, big online transaction data analysis and etc. 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/dsdis2015/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 Big Data. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia General Chairs Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia General Co-Chairs Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Rui Zhang, The University of Melbourne, Australia Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Program Vice Chairs Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Yong Chen, Texas Tech University, USA Jing He, Victoria University, Australia Workshops Chairs Guangyan Huang Deakin University, Australia Raymond Choo, The University of South Australia, Australia Steering Committee Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA Zhaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jianhui.yue at gmail.com Tue Jun 9 21:55:34 2015 From: jianhui.yue at gmail.com (Jianhui Yue) Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2015 21:55:34 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP The 2015 International Workshop on Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (DISCS-2015) Message-ID: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- The 2015 International Workshop on Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (DISCS-2015) http://ft.ornl.gov/discs-2015/ Sunday, November 15, 2015 Hilton Austin Hotel, Austin TX, USA Held in conjunction with SC15: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis In cooperation with ACM SIGHPC, http://sighpc.org CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Scope of the Workshop * The Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (DISCS) workshop series facilitates dialogue about research aimed at the intersection of data intensive computing and traditional high performance computing (HPC). Traditional HPC systems were designed from a compute-centric perspective, with an emphasis on high floating-point performance. As scientific and analytics applications become more data intensive, there is a need to rethink HPC system architectures, programming models, runtime systems, and tools with a focus on data intensive computing. Industry approaches supporting data intensive applications have been highly successful, leading many in the HPC community to explore ways to apply them. Conversely, the HPC community's expertise in designing, deploying, and using high performance systems is attractive to those in industry. DISCS-2015 will feature a keynote address and presentation of peer-reviewed full and short research papers, with ample opportunity for researchers and developers to discuss recent results and the future challenges of running data intensive applications on traditional HPC systems and latest data-centric computing systems. * Important Dates * Paper Submission: August 21, 2015 Author Notification: September 25, 2015 Camera-Ready Paper Submission: October 10, 2015 Workshop Date: November 15, 2015 * Topics of Interest * Topics for DISCS-2015 include, but 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/GAS/PGAS extensions for data intensive applications o Non-traditional programming languages/methodologies * Runtime systems supporting data intensive applications o Intranode, Internode and Inter-System Communication 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 Data visualization techniques and tools o Computational, mathematical and statistical 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 double-column format of the ACM SIG Proceedings ?Option 1: LaTeX2e ? Strict Adherence to SIGS style? template. Margins and fonts should not be modified from this style. All accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore. See https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=discs2015 for details. * Keynote * Irene M. Qualters will deliver the keynote address for DISCS-2015. Ms. Qualters is the Division Director of Advanced Cyber-infrastructure for the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), and has extensive experience guiding NSF?s national computing infrastructure. Before coming to the NSF, she had a 30-year career in industry, working on compilers, operating systems, and file systems. * Journal Special Issue * The authors of papers presented in the DISCS-2015 workshop will be invited to extend their manuscripts to be considered for a special issue guest of Parallel Computing: Systems & Applications, guest edited by the DISCS-2015 workshop chairs. Details regarding the journal special issue and important submission dates will be available to authors of accepted papers after the workshop. * Workshop Registration * Registration for DISCS-2015 and all other SC15 workshops is handled through the SC15 registration system. Attendees can register for access to SC15 workshops independent of the SC15 Technical Program, or can add workshop registration to their Technical Program registration at a reduced rate. All DISCS-2015 attendees, including presenters, are required to have a valid SC15 workshop registration. Please visit the SC15 Registration Page for more information and to register for SC15 workshops. * Organizers * GENERAL CHAIR Philip Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory PROGRAM CHAIRS Weikuan Yu, Florida State University Shane Canon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory PROCEEDINGS CHAIR Michael Kluge, TU Dresden PUBLICITY CHAIR Jianhui Yue, Auburn University TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Michael Brim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Pietro Cicotti, San Diego Supercomputer Center Shuibing He, Illinois Institute of Technology Mitch Horton, University of Tennessee Knoxville Hyun-Wook Jin, Konkuk University Dries Kimpe, KCG Holdings, Inc Michael Kluge, TU Dresden Quincey Koziol, The HDF Group Joshua Ladd, Mellanox Michael Lang, Los Alamos National Laboratory John Leidel, Texas Tech University Zhuo Liu, Yahoo Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories Sarp Oral, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Balaji Palanisamy, University of Pittsburgh Seung-Woo Son, University of Massachusetts Lowell Jian Tan, Alibaba Wei Tang, Argonne National Laboratory Zhiqi Tao, Intel Corporation Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame Yandong Wang, IBM Bin Wang, Auburn University Belle Xiang, Huawei Weijun Xiao, Virginia Commonwealth University Pengcheng Xiong, Horton Networks Cong Xu, Intel Peixiang Zhao, Florida State University Fang Zheng, IBM STEERING COMMITTEE Yong Chen, Chair, Texas Tech University William D. Gropp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology Rajeev Thakur, Argonne National Laboratory -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gflofst at sandia.gov Wed Jun 10 20:19:09 2015 From: gflofst at sandia.gov (Lofstead, Gerald F II) Date: Thu, 11 Jun 2015 00:19:09 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP 10th Parallel Data Storage Workshop 2015 in Conjunction with Supercomputing 2015 Message-ID: The 10th Parallel Data Storage Workshop (PDSW15), held in conjunction with IEEE/ACM Supercomputing (SC) 2015, Austin, Texas, November 16, 2015 URL: http://www.pdsw.org PDF version of the CFP: http://www.pdsw.org/pdsw15/cfp-pdsw15.pdf Peta- and exascale computing infrastructures make unprecedented demands on capacity, performance, concurrency, reliability, availability, and manageability of storage systems. 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, September 16, 2015 Paper Notification: September 30, 2015 Camera Ready Due: October 9, 2015 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 comprising fresh problems/solutions that 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 1, 2015 WIP Notification: November 6, 2015 WIP Final Submission: November 9, 2015 Program Committee: * Eric Barton, Intel, UK * John Bent, EMC, USA * Ali Butt (Chair), Virginia Tech, USA * Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA * Garth Gibson, Carnegie Mellon University and Panasas Inc., USA * Min Li, IBM Watson, USA * Jay Lofstead (Chair), Sandia National Laboratories, USA * Jeremy Logan, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA * Xiaosong Ma, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar * Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, Santa Cruz, USA * Kathryn Mohror, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA * Robert Ross, Argonne National Laboratory, USA * Karsten Schwan, Georgia Tech, USA * Jin Xiong, ICT, Chinese Academy of Science, China -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From darnold at cs.unm.edu Mon Jun 15 16:19:13 2015 From: darnold at cs.unm.edu (Dorian Arnold) Date: Mon, 15 Jun 2015 14:19:13 -0600 Subject: [Storage-research-list] SC15 Call for Posters Message-ID: (Apologies if you receive this message multiple times.) SC15 is soliciting submissions for posters that display cutting-edge research and work in progress in high performance computing, storage, networking and analysis. Posters provide an excellent opportunity for short presentations and informal discussions with Conference attendees. Posters will be prominently displayed for the duration of the Conference, giving presenters a chance to showcase their latest results and innovations. The presented posters will be digitally archived and made publicly available after the Conference. A Best Poster Award will be presented based on quality of research work and quality of poster presentation. SC15 will also host the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC). This competition will feature posters from undergraduate and graduate students showcasing original student research. A SRC poster may be authored by exactly one student (optionally with the advisor(s)). Student authors must be an active ACM member. The ACM SRC pre-selection will happen during the poster reception and selected poster presenters will be given the opportunity to present their work in short talks on Wednesday. The ACM SRC Committee will select a set of winners based on their poster content and presentation style. Important Dates Submissions Open: April 1, 2015 Submission Deadline: July 31, 2015 Notification Sent: September 8, 2015 Web Submissions: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/ Email Contact and Questions: posters at info.supercomputing.org SC15 Posters Chair Manish Parashar, Rutgers University Posters Vice Chair Dorian C. Arnold, University of New Mexico Michela Becchi, University of Missouri From parashar at rutgers.edu Sat Jun 20 07:09:41 2015 From: parashar at rutgers.edu (Manish Parashar) Date: Sat, 20 Jun 2015 07:09:41 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] 2015 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers -- Call for Nominations In-Reply-To: References: <505B175F-5E59-4EF9-9292-F0F9B660178B@rutgers.edu> Message-ID: 2015 IEEE TCSC Award for Excellence for Early Career Researchers (previously Award for Young Achievers in Scalable Computing) (Apologies if you receive this message multiple times.) The IEEE TCSC annual young achievers in scalable computing award recognizes up to 3 individuals who have made outstanding, influential, and potentially long-lasting contributions in the field of scalable computing within 5 years of receiving their PhD degree as of January 01 of the year of the award. Nominations: A candidate may be nominated by members of the community. An individual may nominate at most one candidate for this award. Nomination must be submitted via email to tcsc-awards at rutgers.edu. A nomination application (as a single PDF file) should contain the following details: 1. Name/email of person making the nomination (self-nominations are not eligible) 2. Name/email of candidate for whom the award is recommended 3. A statement by the nominator (maximum of 500 words) as to why the nominee is highly deserving of the award. Note that since the award is for outstanding contributions, the statement and supporting letters should address what the contributions are and why they are both outstanding and significant. The nomination should also list the names and email of up to 3 persons who will provide letters supporting the nomination. 4. CV of the nominee 5. Up three support letters from persons other than the nominator ? these should be collected by the nominator and included in the nomination. Important Dates: - Nomination Deadline: July 01, 2015 - Results Notification: August 31, 2015 Award Selection Committee: The award selection committee will consists of: David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia Barbara Chapman, University of Houston, USA Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Rosa M. Badia, BSC, Spain Manish Parashar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA (Chair) Padma Raghavan, Penn State University, USA Note that members of the selection committee cannot be nominators or provide support letters. Award & Presentation Note: Awardees will be presented a plaque and will be recognized by IEEE TCSC in its website, newsletter and archives. The awards will be presented at the SC15 conference that will be held in Austin, TX, USA during November 15 ? 20, 2015. Details of the conference can be found at http://sc15.supercomputing.org/. For more information, please send email to tcsc-awards at rutgers.edu. -- ========================================================================== Manish Parashar Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 628 RDI2/CAC/Dept. of Computer Science Phone: (848) 445-5388 Rutgers University Fax: (732) 445-0537 110 Frelinghuysen Road Email: parashar at rutgers dot edu Piscataway, NJ 08854-8019 WWW: http://parashar.rutgers.edu =========================================================================== From Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov Mon Jul 6 13:31:34 2015 From: Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov (Tumeo, Antonino) Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 17:31:34 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [CFP] IA^3 - SC15 Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms Message-ID: <31FC1325-08D4-4CBC-9ABE-F50D154D6ABC@pnnl.gov> ????????? IA^3 2015 - 5th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 Austin, TX 15 November 2015 To be held in conjunction with SC15 To be held in cooperation with SIGHPC ????????? Call for Papers 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, processors-in-memory) *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 *High performance data analytics, including 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. ????????? Important Dates Abstract submission: 17 August 2015 Position or full paper submission: 24 August 2015 Notification of acceptance: 2 October 2015 Camera-ready position and full papers: 9 October 2015 Workshop: 15 November 2015 ????????? Submissions Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ia32015 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. 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. ????????? Organizers Antonino Tumeo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, antonino.tumeo at pnnl.gov John Feo, Context Relevant, marwick4 at aol.com Oreste Villa, NVIDIA Research, ovilla at nvidia.com ????????? Program Committee Scott Beamer, University of California Berkeley, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Vito Giovanni Castellana, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, US Georgi Gaydadjiev, Chalmers University, SWE Maya Gokhale, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US John Leidel, Texas Tech University, US Kamesh Madduri, Penn State University, US Richard Murphy, Micron, US Onur Mutlu, Carnegie Mellon University, US Walid Najjar, University of California Riverside, US Jacob Nelson, University of Washington, US Kunle Olukotun, Stanford University, US Timothy Mattson, Intel, US Gianluca Palermo, Politecnico di Milano, ITA Fabrizio Petrini, IBM TJ Watson, US Keshav Pingali, University of Texas Austin, US S?bastien Rumley, Columbia University, US Erik Saule, University of Carolina Charlotte, US John Shalf, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, US Pedro Trancoso, University of Cyprus, CYP -- Best Regards, Antonino Tumeo Research Scientist High Performance Computing Pacific Northwest National Laboratory antonino.tumeo at pnnl.gov From becchim at missouri.edu Fri Jul 10 14:37:58 2015 From: becchim at missouri.edu (Becchi, Michela) Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 18:37:58 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] SC'15 Call for Posters and ACM Student Research Competition - deadline approaching In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: Call for Poster Submissions SC15, Austin Convention Center, Austin, TX November 15 ? 20, 2015 http://sc15.supercomputing.org Submissions Open: April 01, 2015 Poster Submission Deadline: July 31, 2015 Notification Sent: September 8, 2015 Web Submissions: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/ Email Contact and Questions: posters at info.supercomputing.org SC15 is soliciting submissions for posters that display cutting-edge research and work in progress in high performance computing, storage, networking and analysis. Posters provide an excellent opportunity for short presentations and informal discussions with conference attendees. Posters will be prominently displayed for the duration of the conference, giving presenters a chance to showcase their latest results and innovations. The presented posters will be digitally archived and made publicly available after the conference. A Best Poster Award will be presented based on quality of research work and quality of poster presentation. ACM Student Research Competition (SRC): SC15 will also host the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC). This competition will feature posters from undergraduate and graduate students showcasing original student research. An SRC poster may be authored by exactly one graduate student or up to 2 undergraduate students (optionally with the advisor). Student authors must be active ACM members. The ACM SRC pre-selection will happen during the poster reception and selected poster presenters will be given the opportunity to present their work in short talks on Wednesday. The ACM SRC committee will select a set of winners based on their poster content and presentation style. ACM?s SRC program covers expenses up to $500 for all students invited to the SRC. Embedded Multimedia Content: This year, we are encouraging authors to explore the integration of remotely hosted multimedia elements accessible through embedded QR codes into the poster. The goal of the embedded multimedia elements should be to enhance the presentation of research in the poster. Such elements may include a video narration of the poster by the author, links to results, movies, graphics, datasets, codes, etc. Note that extended versions of the poster or related publications will not be considered as acceptable multimedia elements in this context. The elements will be expected to be accessible using QR readers on smart phones and tablets (such as the reader included in the SC mobile app) during the conference while the poster is displayed. While the use of multimedia is not mandatory, creative multimedia integrations will be considered while evaluating posters for the Best Poster Award. Note that the conference will not provide services or infrastructure for hosting the embedded content. SUBMISSIONS As in past years, SC15 is soliciting two different types of posters: (1) Regular Posters and (2) ACM Student Research Competition Posters. Submissions for either type of poster must include: (1) A 150 word abstract, (2) A draft of the poster, and (3) An up to 800 word extended abstract/summary (including references) in the SC15 technical paper format. There are separate submission forms for the two different types of posters. A poster may only be submitted as one type. Posters are expected to be a single page and must fit on a 4-feet tall x 8-feet wide display board. All posters can be submitted in up to two of the following categories: Algorithms; Applications; Architectures and Networks; Clouds and Distributed Computing; Data Analytics, Visualization and Storage; Performance; Programming Systems; State-of-the-Practice; System Software; and Education. For submission details, see the sample submission forms at the login page of the submission website:https://submissions.supercomputing.org. SC15 Posters Chair Manish Parashar (Rutgers University) SC15 Posters Vice Co-Chairs Dorian Arnold (University of New Mexico) Michela Becchi (University of Missouri - Columbia) --- Michela Becchi Assistant Professor Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering 349 Engineering Building West University of Missouri Columbia, MO 65211 Phone: (573) 882-4499; Fax: (573) 882-0397 Web: http://web.missouri.edu/~becchim Lab Website: http://nps.missouri.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andrew.clashe at gmail.com Tue Jul 14 01:56:17 2015 From: andrew.clashe at gmail.com (Andrew Clashe) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 15:56:17 +1000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: IEEE DSDIS 2015 (Data Science and Data Intensive Systems), Dec. 2015, Sydney, Australia Message-ID: Call for papers: The 2015 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Data Intensive Systems (DSDIS 2015), 11-13 Dec. 2015, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/dsdis2015/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 25, 2015 (firm) Notification: September 25, 2015 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2015 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/dsdis2015/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished 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 Big Data. =========== Introduction In parallel with Petrol as a driving resource in this world, Data is becoming an increasingly decisive resource in modern societies, economies, and governmental organizations. Gradually and steadily, it is being world-wide recognised that data and talents are playing key roles in modern businesses. As an interdisciplinary area, Data Science draws scientific inquiry from a broad range of subject areas such as statistics, mathematics, computer science, machine learning, optimization, signal processing, information retrieval, databases, cloud computing, computer vision, natural language processing and etc. Data Science is on the essence of deriving valuable insights from data. It is emerging to meet the challenges of processing very large datasets, i.e. Big Data, with the explosion of new data continuously generated from various channels such as smart devices, web, mobile and social media. Data intensive systems are posing many challenges in exploiting parallelism of current and upcoming computer architectures. Data volumes of applications in the fields of sciences and engineering, finance, media, online information resources, etc. are expected to double every two years over the next decade and further. With this continuing data explosion, it is necessary to store and process data efficiently by utilizing enormous computing power. The importance of data intensive systems has been raising and will continue to be the foremost fields of research. This raise brings up many research issues, in forms of capturing and accessing data effectively and fast, processing it while still achieving high performance and high throughput, and storing it efficiently for future use. Innovative programming models, high performance scalable computing platforms, efficient storage systems and expression of data requirements are at immediate need. DSDIS (Data Science and Data Intensive Systems) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Data Science and Data Intensive Systems as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics A. Data Science Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ? Data sensing, fusion and mining ? Data representation, dimensionality reduction, processing and proactive service layers ? Stream data processing and integration ? Data analytics and new machine learning theories and models ? Knowledge discovery from multiple information sources ? Statistical, mathematical and probabilistic modeling and theories ? Information visualization and visual data analytics ? Information retrieval and personalized recommendation ? Data provenance and graph analytics ? Parallel and distributed data storage and processing infrastructure ? MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark, scalable computing and storage platforms ? Security, privacy and data integrity in data sharing, publishing and analysis ? Big Data, data science and cloud computing ? Innovative applications in business, finance, industry and government cases B. Data Intensive Systems Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ? Data-intensive applications and their challenges ? Scalable computing platform such as Hadoop and Spark ? Storage and file systems ? High performance data access toolkits ? Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability ? Meta-data management ? Remote data access ? Programming models, abstractions for data intensive computing ? Compiler and runtime support ? Data capturing, management, and scheduling techniques ? Future research challenges of data intensive systems ? Performance optimization techniques ? Replication, archiving, preservation strategies ? Real-time data intensive systems ? Network support for data intensive systems ? Challenges and solutions in the era of multi/many-core platforms ? Stream data computing ? Green (Power efficient) data intensive systems ? Security and protection of sensitive data in collaborative environments ? Data intensive computing on accelerators and GPUs ? HPC system architecture, programming models and run-time systems for data intensive applications ? Productivity tools, performance measuring and benchmark for data intensive systems ? Big Data, cloud computing and data intensive systems ? Innovative data intensive applications such as big sensing/surveillance/transport data, big document/accounting data, big online transaction data analysis and etc. 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/dsdis2015/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 Big Data. Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia General Chairs Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia General Co-Chairs Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Geoffrey Fox, Indiana University, USA Yun Yang, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Rui Zhang, The University of Melbourne, Australia Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Program Vice Chairs Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Yong Chen, Texas Tech University, USA Jing He, Victoria University, Australia Workshops Chairs Guangyan Huang Deakin University, Australia Raymond Choo, The University of South Australia, Australia Steering Committee Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Xian-He Sun, Illinois Institute of Technology, USA Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA Zhaohui Wu, Zhejiang University, China Manish Parashar, Rutgers University, USA Albert Zomaya, University of Sydney, Australia Jinjun Chen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia (Chair) Laurence T. Yang, St Francis Xavier University, Canada (Chair) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ghweber at lbl.gov Tue Jul 14 16:24:02 2015 From: ghweber at lbl.gov (Gunther H. Weber) Date: Tue, 14 Jul 2015 13:24:02 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Extended Deadline: ISAV 2015 conference Message-ID: <0592A45A-075C-4F8D-BA59-342DCF86F138@lbl.gov> Extended Deadline (Paper submission deadline: 16 August 2015; other deadlines: see below) ISAV: In Situ Infrastructures for Enabling Extreme-Scale Analysis and Visualization an SC15 Workshop Monday afternoon 16 November 2015, Austin, TX, USA Event web page: http://vis.lbl.gov/Events/ISAV-2015/ == Scope == This workshop brings together researchers, developers and practitioners from industry, academia, and government laboratories who use in situ methods in extreme-scale, high performance computing. The goal is to present existing in-situ infrastructures, reference examples in a range of science and engineering applications, to discuss topics like opportunities presented by new architectures; existing infrastructure needs, requirements, and gaps; and experiences to foster and enable in situ analysis and visualization. The considerable interest in the HPC community regarding in situ analysis and visualization is due to several factors. First is an I/O cost savings, where data is analyzed/visualized while being generated, without first storing to a filesystem. Second is the potential for increased accuracy, where fine temporal sampling of transient analysis might expose some complex behavior missed in coarse temporal sampling. Third is the ability to use all available resources, CPU?s and accelerators, in the computation of analysis products. In Situ processing is still a relatively new idea, and up until recently, most implementations have been ad hoc, proof-of-concept prototypes. However, several in situ infrastructure implementations have emerged. ParaView and VisIt both provide tools for in situ analysis and visualization. ParaView Catalyst can be linked to a simulation, allowing the simulation to share data with Catalyst for visualization. Similar capabilities are available within VisIt with the libsim library. Both Catalyst (through Live) and libsim enable the opposite flow of information, sending data from the client to the simulation, enabling the possibility of simulation steering. ADIOS and GLEAN allow simulations to adopt in situ techniques by leveraging their advanced I/O infrastructures that enable co-analysis pipelines rather than changing the simulator. The non-intrusive integration provide resilience to third party library bugs and possible jitter in the simulation. Participation/Call for Papers We invite short (4-page) papers that identify opportunities, challenges and case studies/best practices for in situ analysis and visualization. These papers could propose actions, or provide position, or experience reports on in situ analysis and visualization. Areas of interest for ISAV, include, but are not limited to: * In situ infrastructures - Current Systems: production quality, research prototypes - Opportunities - Gaps * System resources, hardware, and emerging architectures - Enabling Hardware - Hardware and architectures that provide opportunities for In situ processing, such as burst buffers, staging computations on I/O nodes, sharing cores within a node for both simulation and in situ processing * Examples/Case studies - Best practices - Analysis: feature detection, statistical methods, temporal methods, geometric methods - Visualization: information visualization, scientific visualization, time-varying methods - Data reduction/compression * Simulation - Integration:data modeling, software-engineering - Resilience: error detection, fault recovery - Workflows for supporting complex in situ processing pipelines * Requirements - Preserve important elements - Significantly reduce the data size - Flexibility for post-processing exploration == Submitting Papers == Submissions are limited to 4 pages in the ACM format (see http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates). The 4-page limit includes figures, tables, and appendices, but does not include references, for which you may use up to one additional page. Please submit your paper via the ISAV 2015 EasyChair submission page at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=isav2015. == Timelines/Important Dates: == 16 August 2015 (was 1 August 2015) Paper submission deadline 16 September 2015 (was 1 September 2015) Author notification 30 September 2015 (was 15 September 2015) Camera ready copy due mid-October 2015 Final program posted to ISAV web page 16 November 2015 ISAV workshop == Organizers/Program Committee == Organizers E. Wes Bethel, ewbethel at lbl.gov, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Venkatram Vishwanath, venkat at anl.gov, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Gunther H. Weber, ghweber at lbl.gov, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Matthew Wolf, mwolf at cc.gatech.edu, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Program Committee Utkarsh Ayachit, Kitware Inc., USA Earl P.N. Duque, Intelligent Light, USA Nicola Ferrier, Argonne National Laboratory, USA Burlen Loring, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Dmitriy Morozov, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Patrick O?Leary, Kitware Inc., USA Manish Parashar, Rutgers, USA Karsten Schwan, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Alex Sim, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA Brad Whitlock, Intelligent Light, USA Kesheng (John) Wu, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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Please visit http://www.hoti.org for more details. Hot Interconnects (HotI) is the premier international forum for researchers and developers of state- of-the-art hardware and software architectures and implementations for interconnection networks of all scales, ranging from multi-core on-chip interconnects to those within systems, clusters, data centers, and clouds. This yearly conference is attended by leaders in industry and academia, creating a wealth of opportunities to interact with individuals at the forefront of this field. This year's Hot Interconnects features keynotes from Oracle's Vice President of Hardware Development Rick Heatherington, and David Meyer, the CTO and Chief Scientist of Brocade Communications. There will be a great lineup of exciting talks, Intel will be discussing their upcoming OmniPath technology, Facebook will discuss their efforts in interconnects and VMWare will talk about NFV. A panel "HPC vs. Datacenter Networks" discussing the intersection of HPC networking technologies and Data center networking from experts in both areas from world-leading companies and institutions will provide a lively debate on what each group can learn from each other and areas in which they are already converging. There will be four technical paper sessions covering the cutting edge in interconnect research and development on cross-cutting issues spanning computer systems, networking technologies, and communication protocols for high-performance interconnection networks. This conference is directed particularly at new and exciting technology and product innovations in these areas. Building on last year's successful technical program comprising keynotes, technical sessions, and panels on networking for data centers and high-performance computing, the 2015 edition of Hot Interconnects will be located at Oracle Agnews Campus in Santa Clara, CA. This year's conference focuses on HPC Interconnects and their use in traditional and non-traditional applications. We hope you can join us. ************************************************************************ ******************************** Wednesday, August 26, 2015 ******************************** -------------- Keynote 1 Commercial Computing Trends and Their Impact on Interconnect Technology Rick Heatherington, Oracle -------------------------- +++ Best Papers +++ - NUMA Aware I/O in Virtualized Systems A. Banerjee, R. Mehta and Z. Shen - The BXI Interconnect Architecture S. Derradji, A. Poudes, J.-P. Panziera and F. Wellenreiter - Exploiting Offload Enabled Network Interfaces S. Di Girolamo, P. Jolivet, K. D. Underwood and T. Hoefler +++ Short Papers +++ - A Brief Introduction to the OpenFabrics Interfaces - A New Network API for Maximizing High Performance Application Efficiency P. Grun, S. Hefty, S. Sur, D. Goodell, R. Russell, H. Pritchard and J. Squyres - UCX: An Open Source Framework for HPC Network APIs and Beyond P. Shamis, M. G. Venkata, M. G. Lopez, M. B. Baker, O. Hernandez, Y. Itigin, M. Dubman, G. Shainer, R. Graham, L. Liss, Y. Shahar, S. Potluri, D. Rossetti, D. Becker, D. Poole, C. Lamb, S. Kumar, C. Stunkel, G. Bosilca and A. Bouteiller +++ Invited Paper +++ Title: TBD - Intel Corp. T. Rimmer et al. +++ Panel +++ HPC vs. Data Center Networks Concentrating on what the HPC and Data center interconnects communities can learn from each other, this panel will have participants from leading HPC and Data center networking companies. +++ Banquet +++ Enjoy an evening banquet at the beautiful Oracle Agnews campus ******************************** Thursday, August 27, 2015 ******************************** -------------- Keynote 2 Recent Advances in Machine Learning and their Application to Networking David Meyer, Brocade -------------------------- +++ Optics and NoC +++ - Design of Cluster-based Architectures for 3D Mesh-based Networks-on-Chip P. Bahrebar and D. Stroobandt - OWN: Optical and Wireless Network-on-Chips (NoCs) for Kilo-core Architectures A. Kodi, A. Sikdar, A. Louri, S. Kaya and M. Kennedy - AMON: Advanced Mesh-like Optical NoC S. Werner and J. Navaridas ++ Efficient Network Design +++ - Impact of InfiniBand DC Transport Protocol on Energy Consumption of All-to-all Collective Algorithms H. Subramoni, A. Venkatesh, K. Hamidouche, K. Tomko and D. Panda - Implementing Ultra Low Latency Data Center Services with Programmable Logic J. Lockwood and M. Monga - Enhanced Overloaded CDMA Interconnect (OCI) Bus Architecture for on- Chip Communication K. Ahmed and M. Farag +++ Invited Talk +++ TBD +++ Invited Talk +++ Bhavesh Davda, VMWare +++ Awards Presentation +++ Best Student Paper Award ***************************** Friday, August 27, 2015 ***************************** ----------------- Morning Tutorials -------------------- Accelerating Big Data Processing with Hadoop, Spark, and Memcached Over High-Performance Interconnects D. K. Panda & X. Lu, Ohio State University ONOS Tutorial Hot Interconnect T. Vachuska, M. Jampani, A. Al-Shabibi & B. O'Connor, ONOS ------------------- Afternoon Tutorials ---------------------- Flow and Congestion Control for High Performance Clouds: How to Design and Tune the Datacenter Fabric & SDN for Big Data M. Gusat, IBM Research, Zurich Laboratory Software-defined Wide-Area Networking: Challenges, Opportunities and Reality I. Monga, Energy Sciences Network & S. Seetharaman, Infinera ------------------------------------------------------------------------ This is a preliminary program; changes may occur. For the most up-to- the-minute details on presentations, schedules, and registration information, please visit our web site: Website: http://www.hoti.org Early Registration: Ends at 11:59 PM (PDT) on Friday July 31st, 2015 Last Day for Refunds: 11:59 PM (PDT) Wednesday August 12, 2015. Press representatives please contact: info at hoti.org Registration fees for Tutorials include tutorial notes, continental breakfast, lunch, and coffee breaks. Registration fees for the conference include web access the conference proceedings. There will be no printed proceedings. The conference registration fee includes a reception on Wednesday night (August 26, 2015), continental breakfasts, lunches and coffee breaks during the two days of the conference (August 26 & 27). ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Hot Interconnects Corporate Sponsors *** Host Sponsor Oracle Corp. Gold Algo-Logic Mellanox Technologies Silver Warthman Associates ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Organizing Committee *** Chair Fabrizio Petrini, IBM T.J. Watson Technical Program Chairs Ada Gavrilovska, Georgia Tech Ryan Grant, Sandia National Laboratories Tutorial Chair Vikram Dham, Kamboi Technologies Publication Chair Luca Valacarenghi, Scuola Superior Sant'Anna Awards Chair Xin Huang, Cyan Finance Chairs Madeleine Glick, University of Arizona Xinyu Que, IBM T.J. Watson Registration Chair Charlie Perkins, Huawei Media Chair Torsten Hoefler, ETH Zurich Local Arrangements Chair Don Draper, Oracle Webmaster Natalia Berezneva ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Steering Committee *** Allen Baum, Mill Computing Keren Bergman, Columbia University Raj Channa, RBC Capital Markets Lily Jow, Hewlett Packard Mark Laubach, Broadcom John Lockwood, Algo-Logic Systems Fabrizio Petrini, IBM T.J. Watson Dan Pitt, Open Networking Foundation ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *** Sister Conferences *** Hot Chips Cool Chips From darnold at cs.unm.edu Sat Jul 25 11:33:21 2015 From: darnold at cs.unm.edu (Dorian Arnold) Date: Sat, 25 Jul 2015 09:33:21 -0600 Subject: [Storage-research-list] SC15 Final Call For Posters (and Deadline Extension) Message-ID: (Apologies if you receive this message multiple times.) Important Dates: Submission Deadline: August 7, 2015 (NEWLY EXTENDED!) Notifications Sent: September 8, 2015 SC15 is soliciting submissions for posters that display cutting-edge research and work in progress in high performance computing, storage, networking and analysis. Posters provide an excellent opportunity for short presentations and informal discussions with Conference attendees. Posters will be prominently displayed for the duration of the Conference, giving presenters a chance to showcase their latest results and innovations. The presented posters will be digitally archived and made publicly available after the Conference. A Best Poster Award will be presented based on quality of research work and quality of poster presentation. SC15 will also host the ACM Student Research Competition (SRC). This competition will feature posters from undergraduate and graduate students showcasing original student research. A SRC poster may be authored by exactly one student (optionally with the advisor(s)). Student authors must be an active ACM member. The ACM SRC pre-selection will happen during the poster reception and selected poster presenters will be given the opportunity to present their work in short talks on Wednesday. The ACM SRC Committee will select a set of winners based on their poster content and presentation style. Web Submissions: https://submissions.supercomputing.org/ Email Contact and Questions: posters at info.supercomputing.org SC15 Posters Chair Manish Parashar, Rutgers University SC15 Posters Vice Chair Dorian C. Arnold, University of New Mexico Michela Becchi, University of Missouri From jianhui.yue at gmail.com Thu Aug 13 23:31:13 2015 From: jianhui.yue at gmail.com (Jianhui Yue) Date: Thu, 13 Aug 2015 22:31:13 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Deadline Extended: The 2015 International Workshop on Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (DISCS-2015) Message-ID: The 2015 International Workshop on Data-Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (DISCS-2015) http://ft.ornl.gov/discs-2015/ Sunday, November 15, 2015 Hilton Austin Hotel, Austin TX, USA Held in conjunction with SC15: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis In cooperation with ACM SIGHPC, http://sighpc.org CALL FOR PAPERS ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- * Scope of the Workshop * The Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (DISCS) workshop series facilitates dialogue about research aimed at the intersection of data intensive computing and traditional high performance computing (HPC). Traditional HPC systems were designed from a compute-centric perspective, with an emphasis on high floating-point performance. As scientific and analytics applications become more data intensive, there is a need to rethink HPC system architectures, programming models, runtime systems, and tools with a focus on data intensive computing. Industry approaches supporting data intensive applications have been highly successful, leading many in the HPC community to explore ways to apply them. Conversely, the HPC community's expertise in designing, deploying, and using high performance systems is attractive to those in industry. DISCS-2015 will feature a keynote address and presentation of peer-reviewed full and short research papers, with ample opportunity for researchers and developers to discuss recent results and the future challenges of running data intensive applications on traditional HPC systems and latest data-centric computing systems. * Important Dates * Paper Submission: August 28, 2015 Author Notification: September 25, 2015 Camera-Ready Paper Submission: October 10, 2015 Workshop Date: November 15, 2015 * Topics of Interest * Topics for DISCS-2015 include, but 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/GAS/PGAS extensions for data intensive applications o Non-traditional programming languages/methodologies * Runtime systems supporting data intensive applications o Intranode, Internode and Inter-System Communication 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 Data visualization techniques and tools o Computational, mathematical and statistical 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 double-column format of the ACM SIG Proceedings ?Option 1: LaTeX2e ? Strict Adherence to SIGS style? template. Margins and fonts should not be modified from this style. All accepted papers will appear in the workshop proceedings in the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore. See https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=discs2015 for details. * Keynote * Irene M. Qualters will deliver the keynote address for DISCS-2015. Ms. Qualters is the Division Director of Advanced Cyber-infrastructure for the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), and has extensive experience guiding NSF?s national computing infrastructure. Before coming to the NSF, she had a 30-year career in industry, working on compilers, operating systems, and file systems. * Journal Special Issue * The authors of papers presented in the DISCS-2015 workshop will be invited to extend their manuscripts to be considered for a special issue guest of Parallel Computing: Systems & Applications, guest edited by the DISCS-2015 workshop chairs. Details regarding the journal special issue and important submission dates will be available to authors of accepted papers after the workshop. * Workshop Registration * Registration for DISCS-2015 and all other SC15 workshops is handled through the SC15 registration system. Attendees can register for access to SC15 workshops independent of the SC15 Technical Program, or can add workshop registration to their Technical Program registration at a reduced rate. All DISCS-2015 attendees, including presenters, are required to have a valid SC15 workshop registration. Please visit the SC15 Registration Page for more information and to register for SC15 workshops. * Organizers * GENERAL CHAIR Philip Roth, Oak Ridge National Laboratory PROGRAM CHAIRS Weikuan Yu, Florida State University Shane Canon, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory PROCEEDINGS CHAIR Michael Kluge, TU Dresden PUBLICITY CHAIR Jianhui Yue, Auburn University TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Michael Brim, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Pietro Cicotti, San Diego Supercomputer Center Shuibing He, Illinois Institute of Technology Mitch Horton, University of Tennessee Knoxville Hyun-Wook Jin, Konkuk University Dries Kimpe, KCG Holdings, Inc Michael Kluge, TU Dresden Quincey Koziol, The HDF Group Joshua Ladd, Mellanox Michael Lang, Los Alamos National Laboratory John Leidel, Texas Tech University Zhuo Liu, Yahoo Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories Sarp Oral, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Balaji Palanisamy, University of Pittsburgh Seung-Woo Son, University of Massachusetts Lowell Jian Tan, Alibaba Wei Tang, Argonne National Laboratory Zhiqi Tao, Intel Corporation Douglas Thain, University of Notre Dame Yandong Wang, IBM Bin Wang, Auburn University Belle Xiang, Huawei Weijun Xiao, Virginia Commonwealth University Pengcheng Xiong, Horton Networks Cong Xu, Intel Peixiang Zhao, Florida State University Fang Zheng, IBM STEERING COMMITTEE Yong Chen, Chair, Texas Tech University William D. 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In addition to the topics listed under Call for Papers, we also welcome submissions that showcase successful stories of applying visualization to large-scale data intensive applications. The poster program will be a great opportunity for the authors to interact with the symposium attendees and solicit feedback. Interested authors should submit a two-page abstract that describes the underlying problem, the proposed method, and preliminary results. Accepted poster abstracts will be included in the symposium proceedings. The format of the abstract will be the same as the format used for the regular paper submission. Poster authors are encouraged, but not required, to include a draft or sketch of the poster layout and content in their submission. This would help reviewers and show that the poster format is used effectively. The draft poster should be in PDF format. The authors should indicate if the poster would be accompanied by an on-site demonstration and/or videos. More information can be found on the IEEE LDAV Website: http://www.ldav.org/call-for-posters.html Sincerely, IEEE LDAV Poster Co-Chairs From Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov Tue Aug 18 17:22:47 2015 From: Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov (Tumeo, Antonino) Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2015 21:22:47 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [CFP] IA^3 - DEALINE EXTENDED - August 31 Message-ID: <757707FA-CEB6-4A76-A61A-436AAAAE6969@pnnl.gov> ????????? IA^3 2015 - 5th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 Austin, TX 15 November 2015 To be held in conjunction with SC15 To be held in cooperation with SIGHPC ????????? Call for Papers 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, processors-in-memory) *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 *High performance data analytics, including 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. ????????? Important Dates Abstract submission: 31 August 2015 11:59 PM PST Position or full paper submission: 31 August 2015 11:59 PM PST Notification of acceptance: 2 October 2015 Camera-ready position and full papers: 9 October 2015 Workshop: 15 November 2015 ????????? Submissions Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ia32015 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. 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. ????????? Organizers Antonino Tumeo, PNNL , antonino.tumeo at pnnl.gov John Feo, PNNL, Northwest Institute for Advanced Computing, john.feo at pnnl.gov Oreste Villa, NVIDIA Research, ovilla at nvidia.com ????????? Program Committee Scott Beamer, University of California Berkeley, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Vito Giovanni Castellana, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, US Georgi Gaydadjiev, Chalmers University, SWE Maya Gokhale, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US John Leidel, Texas Tech University, US Kamesh Madduri, Penn State University, US Richard Murphy, Micron, US Onur Mutlu, Carnegie Mellon University, US Walid Najjar, University of California Riverside, US Jacob Nelson, University of Washington, US Kunle Olukotun, Stanford University, US Timothy Mattson, Intel, US Gianluca Palermo, Politecnico di Milano, ITA Fabrizio Petrini, IBM TJ Watson, US Keshav Pingali, University of Texas Austin, US S?bastien Rumley, Columbia University, US Erik Saule, University of Carolina Charlotte, US John Shalf, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Michela Taufer, University of Delaware, US Pedro Trancoso, University of Cyprus, CYP -- Best Regards, Antonino Tumeo Research Scientist High Performance Computing Pacific Northwest National Laboratory antonino.tumeo at pnnl.gov From ketan at mcs.anl.gov Thu Aug 27 17:05:13 2015 From: ketan at mcs.anl.gov (Ketan Maheshwari) Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 16:05:13 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] ERROR 2015 Workshop at eScience: Call for Participation Message-ID: SUMMARY: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ERROR 2015, Workshop on E-science ReseaRch leading tO negative Results at eScience 2015 Munich, Germany, Thursday September 3 2015 http://press3.mcs.anl.gov/errorworkshop DETAILS: The ERROR workshop aims at providing a forum for researchers who have invested significant efforts in a piece of work that failed to bear the expected fruit. The workshop will provide the community a dedicated and active forum for exchanging cross-discipline experiences in research leading to negative results. The focus is on various aspects of negative results, such as premises and assumptions made, divergence between expected and actual outcomes, possible causes and remedial actions to avoid or prevent such situations, and possible course corrections. Both applications and systems areas are covered, including topics in research methodology, reproducibility, the applications/systems interface, resilience, fault tolerance and social problems in computational science, and other relevant areas. The workshop will feature: -- Keynote Talk by prof. Ioan Raicu -- Four peer reviewed paper talks -- A panel discussion on the topic: "Theory vs. practice in eScience: gaps and gaping holes? Detailed workshop program: http://press3.mcs.anl.gov/errorworkshop/program From gflofst at sandia.gov Thu Sep 3 19:14:14 2015 From: gflofst at sandia.gov (Lofstead, Gerald F II) Date: Thu, 3 Sep 2015 23:14:14 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Final CFP 10th Parallel Data Storage Workshop 2015 in Conjunction with Supercomputing 2015 Message-ID: The 10th Parallel Data Storage Workshop (PDSW15), held in conjunction with IEEE/ACM Supercomputing (SC) 2015, Austin, Texas, November 16, 2015 URL: http://www.pdsw.org PDF version of the CFP: http://www.pdsw.org/pdsw15/cfp-pdsw15.pdf Peta- and exascale computing infrastructures make unprecedented demands on capacity, performance, concurrency, reliability, availability, and manageability of storage systems. 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, September 16, 2015 Paper Notification: September 30, 2015 Camera Ready Due: October 9, 2015 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 comprising fresh problems/solutions that may not be mature or complete yet for paper submission. A 1-page abstract is required as instructed on the workshop web site. 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URL: From jesson.butt at gmail.com Wed Sep 16 12:17:21 2015 From: jesson.butt at gmail.com (Jesson Butt) Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2015 02:17:21 +1000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Poster and Demo: IEEE iThings 2015 (Internet of Things) Message-ID: Call for Poster and Demo: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Internet of Things (iThings 2015), 11-13 Dec. 2015, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/ithings2015/demo.htm Key dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos: 3 October 2015 Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2015 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2015 Submission site: Please email your posters/demos to *confs.aus at gmail.com * with the email subject as "iThings 2015 poster demo submission". Two types of posters and demos: 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to Internet of Things or related topics. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings together with regular research papers. Each accepted poster or demo must register to the main conference with full registration. 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. Both types of posters/demos will be displayed during the conference. =========== Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to iThings 2015. iThings 2015 (Internet of Things) 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 Internet of Things 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: Scope and Topics A. IoT Architectures ? Things-centric, service-centric and data-centric architecture ? CPS and SCADA platforms ? Future Internet and network design for IoT ? Cloud-based IoT ? System security and management ? Data centre design for IoT B. IoT enabling technologies ? Sensing technologies ? Radio frequency identification ? Low power and energy harvesting ? Sensor networks ? Machine-type communication ? resource-constrained networks ? real-time systems ? IoT data analytics ? Embedded software. C. IoT services, applications and standards ? Streaming data management and mining platforms ? Service middleware ? Open service platform ? Semantic service management ? Security and privacy-preserving protocols, ? Design examples of smart services and applications ? IoT application support 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/ithings2015/submission.htm. Chairs: Chang Liu, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Surya Nepal, CSIRO, Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michael.kuhn at informatik.uni-hamburg.de Mon Sep 21 09:41:30 2015 From: michael.kuhn at informatik.uni-hamburg.de (Michael Kuhn) Date: Mon, 21 Sep 2015 15:41:30 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] BigStorage PhD positions (Big Data, Data Science, Storage, HPC and Cloud) Message-ID: <1442842890.2708.36.camel@informatik.uni-hamburg.de> PhD positions available in the H2020 Marie Curie Sklodowska Actions (MCSA) BigStorage project This is a call for PhD positions open worldwide for BigStorage, a European Training Network (ETN) whose main goal is to train future data scientists in order to enable them and us to apply holistic and interdisciplinary approaches for taking advantage of a data-overwhelmed world, which requires HPC and Cloud infrastructures with a redefinition of storage architectures underpinning them ? focusing on meeting highly ambitious performance and energy usage objectives. The BigStorage ETN project is looking for 15 PhD Students to fill exciting opportunities to gain in depth skills cross cutting HPC Data Storage, Big Data and Cloud. Positions are available based in both Academic and Industrial partner institutions in UK, Spain, Germany, France and Greece. If you are interested, please see http://bigstorage-project.eu/ From nikolas.herbst at uni-wuerzburg.de Tue Sep 22 19:02:58 2015 From: nikolas.herbst at uni-wuerzburg.de (Nikolas Herbst) Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 01:02:58 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Papers: ICAC 2016: 13th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing Message-ID: <5601DE22.5020308@uni-wuerzburg.de> Please excuse if you receive multiple copies of this CfP. __________________________________________________________________ ICAC 2016 Call for Papers http://icac2016.uni-wuerzburg.de/ 13th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2016) Wuerzburg, Germany, July 19-22, 2016 In cooperation with USENIX and SPEC ___________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: January 14, 2016 Paper Submission: January 21, 2016 Author Notification: April 15, 2016 Final Manuscript: May 1, 2016 Conference July 19-22, 2016 Doctoral Symposium Submissions: January 31, 2016 ___________________________________________________________________ SCOPE AND TOPICS ICAC is the leading conference on autonomic computing, its foundations, principles, engineering, technologies, and applications. Nowadays, complex systems of all types, like large-scale data centers, cloud computing infrastructures, cyber-physical systems, the internet of things, and similar, are increasingly complex, involving many active, interconnected components requiring careful coordination. Being impossible for a human to manage such systems, the autonomic computing paradigm with its support for self-management capabilities becomes increasingly indispensable for the components of our IT world. The conference seeks latest research advances on science and engineering concerning all aspects of autonomic computing, including but not limited to the following main research topics: * Foundations - Fundamental science and theory of autonomic computing systems and feedback control for software, self-awareness and self-expression - Algorithms, such as AI, machine learning, control theory, operations research, probability and stochastic processes, queueing theory, rule-based systems, biological-inspired techniques, and socially-inspired techniques - Formal models and analysis of self-management, emergent behavior, uncertainty, self-organization, self-awareness, trustworthiness * Resource Management in Data Centers - Hypervisors, operating systems, middleware, and platforms for self-managing data centers and cloud infrastructures - Sensing, energy efficiency, and resource adaptation - Autonomic components, such as multi-core servers, storage, networking, and hardware accelerators - Applications and case studies of end-to-end design and implementation of systems for resource management * Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and Internet of Things (IoT) - System architectures OS, services, middleware, and protocols for CPS and IoT - Energy, real-time, and mobility management - Design principles, methodologies, and tools for CPS and IoT - Self-organization under severe resource constraints - Applications and case studies of autonomic CPS and IoT * Self-Organization and Organic Computing - Self-organization principles and organic computing principles borrowed from systems theory, control theory, game theory, decision theory, social theories, biological theories, etc. - Self-organization, emergent behavior, decentralized control, individual and social/organizational learning, scalability, robustness, goal- and norm- governed behavior, online self-integration for trustworthy self-organizing and organic systems - Infrastructures and architectures for self-organizing systems and organic computing systems - Applications and case studies for self-organization and organic computing * Emerging Computing Paradigms: Cognitive Computing, Self-Aware Computing - Advanced learning for cognitive computing such as meta-cognitive learning, self-regulatory learning, consciousness and cognition in learning, collaborative / competitive learning, and online / sequential learning - Architectures, control, algorithmic approaches, instrumentation, and infrastructure for cognitive computing and self-aware systems - Cognitive computing and self-awareness in heterogeneous and decentralized systems - Applications and case studies for social networks, big data systems, deep learning systems, games, and artificial assistants, cognitive robots, and systems with self-awareness and self-expression * Software Engineering for Autonomic Computing Systems: Architecture, Specifications, Assurances - Design methodology, frameworks, principles, infrastructures, and tools for development and assurances for autonomic computing systems - System architectures, services, components and platforms broadly applicable for autonomic computing system engineering - Goal specification and policies, modeling of service-level agreements, behavior enforcement, IT governance, and business-driven IT management - Applications and case studies for software engineering approaches for autonomic computing systems In addition to fundamental results ICAC is also interested in applications and experiences with prototyped or deployed systems solving real-world problems in science, engineering, business, or society. Typical application areas for ICAC are autonomous robotics, cloud computing, cyber-physical systems, data centers, dependable computing, industrial internet / industry 4.0, internet of things, mobile computing, service-oriented systems, smart buildings, smart city, smart grid / energy management, smart factory, smart user interfaces, space applications, and traffic management. This year a doctoral symposium will be organized as part of ICAC. For more information see http://icac2016.uni-wuerzburg.de/calls/doctoral-symposium/ All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not currently under review. Submissions are required to mark at least one topic area. Papers will be reviewed by at least three PC members including at least two having specific domain expertise concerning the indicated main research topics and judged on originality, significance, interest, correctness, clarity, and relevance to the broader community. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the conference. Papers can be submitted in one of the following three categories with different acceptance criteria for each category: * Full research papers limited to 10 pages (double column, IEEE format) * Experience papers limited to 8 pages (double column, IEEE format) * Short papers limited to 6 pages (double column, IEEE format) Full and experience research papers are strongly encouraged to report on experiences, measurements, user studies, and provide an appropriate quantitative evaluation if at all possible. Short papers can either be work in progress, or position and challenge papers that motivate the community to address new challenges. See the conference website for format instructions. Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through the ICAC?2016 submission site. There will be a BEST PAPER AWARD for the full research paper category and it is panned that a selection of the best papers of the full research paper category will be invited to submit an extended version of their contribution for a ICAC 2016 SPECIAL ISSUE after the conference. ___________________________________________________________________ ORGANIZATION General Chair Samuel Kounev, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Program Committee Co-Chairs Holger Giese, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany Jie Liu, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA Workshop Chair Lydia Chen, IBM Zurich, Switzerland Publicity Co-Chairs Giacomo Cabri, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy Javier Camara, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Nikolas Herbst, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Jianguo Yao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Finance Chair Philippe Lalanda, University of Grenoble, France Proceedings Chair Daniel Gmach, HP Labs, USA Poster and Demo Chair Stephanie Chollet, Grenoble INP Esisar/LCIS, France Local Arrangements and Web Chair Lukas Ifflaender, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Doctoral Symposium Chair Christian Becker, University of Mannheim, Germany Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary, USA ___________________________________________________________________ PROGRAM COMMITTEE http://icac2016.uni-wuerzburg.de/committees/program-committee/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From brimmj at ornl.gov Mon Sep 28 09:18:36 2015 From: brimmj at ornl.gov (Michael J. Brim) Date: Mon, 28 Sep 2015 09:18:36 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] ORNL PostDoc in Multi-Tier Storage Systems for HPC and Big Data Message-ID: <56093E2C.6070606@ornl.gov> Oak Ridge National Laboratory is currently seeking postdoctoral candidates interested in the field of multi-tier data storage systems for high-performance computing and big data workloads. The position sits within the Computer Science Research Group. The Group?s research covers a broad spectrum of areas of computer science associated with high-performance parallel computing and interacts strongly with large-scale applications in several scientific and technical fields, as well with the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility (OLCF, http://olcf.ornl.gov). The successful candidate will carry out research and development on a platform for runtime performance analysis and adaptation of multi-tier data storage systems supporting both HPC and Big Data workloads. As part of the project team, the successful applicant will contribute to the design, implementation, testing, and evaluation of a scalable data service that monitors all the tiers in the storage system and intelligently adapts to improve system-wide I/O performance. Publication of research results in peer-reviewed journals and conference proceedings is expected. For a complete job description and to apply online, visit http://1.usa.gov/1VcJKW1. Technical questions may be directed to: Michael Brim (brimmj at ornl.gov) From andrew.clashe at gmail.com Tue Sep 29 05:52:10 2015 From: andrew.clashe at gmail.com (Andrew Clashe) Date: Tue, 29 Sep 2015 19:52:10 +1000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Final Call for Poster and Demo: IEEE DSDIS 2015 (Data Science and Data Intensive Systems) Message-ID: Final Call for Poster and Demo: The 2015 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Data Intensive Systems (DSDIS 2015), 11-13 Dec. 2015, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/dsdis2015/demo.htm Key dates: *Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos: 3 October 2015* Notification of Acceptance: 7 October 2015 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2015 Submission Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus at gmail.com with the email subject as "DSDIS 2015 poster demo submission". Two types of posters and demos: 1. Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to Internet of Things or related topics. If accepted, the 2-page short paper will be published in the main conference proceedings together with regular research papers. Each accepted poster or demo must register to the main conference with full registration. 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. Both types of posters/demos will be displayed during the conference. =========== Introduction Participants are invited to submit posters and research demos to the conference. DSDIS 2015 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 Internet of Things 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: Scope and Topics A. Data Science Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ? Data sensing, fusion and mining ? Data representation, dimensionality reduction, processing and proactive service layers ? Stream data processing and integration ? Data analytics and new machine learning theories and models ? Knowledge discovery from multiple information sources ? Statistical, mathematical and probabilistic modeling and theories ? Information visualization and visual data analytics ? Information retrieval and personalized recommendation ? Data provenance and graph analytics ? Parallel and distributed data storage and processing infrastructure ? MapReduce, Hadoop, Spark, scalable computing and storage platforms ? Security, privacy and data integrity in data sharing, publishing and analysis ? Big Data, data science and cloud computing ? Innovative applications in business, finance, industry and government cases B. Data Intensive Systems Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ? Data-intensive applications and their challenges ? Scalable computing platform such as Hadoop and Spark ? Storage and file systems ? High performance data access toolkits ? Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability ? Meta-data management ? Remote data access ? Programming models, abstractions for data intensive computing ? Compiler and runtime support ? Data capturing, management, and scheduling techniques ? Future research challenges of data intensive systems ? Performance optimization techniques ? Replication, archiving, preservation strategies ? Real-time data intensive systems ? Network support for data intensive systems ? Challenges and solutions in the era of multi/many-core platforms ? Stream data computing ? Green (Power efficient) data intensive systems ? Security and protection of sensitive data in collaborative environments ? Data intensive computing on accelerators and GPUs ? HPC system architecture, programming models and run-time systems for data intensive applications ? Productivity tools, performance measuring and benchmark for data intensive systems ? Big Data, cloud computing and data intensive systems ? Innovative data intensive applications such as big sensing/surveillance/transport data, big document/accounting data, big online transaction data analysis and etc. Chairs: Deepak Puthal, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, CSIRO, Australia -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From JOELN at il.ibm.com Thu Oct 8 03:28:49 2015 From: JOELN at il.ibm.com (Joel Nider) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 10:28:49 +0300 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP - Systor 2016 Message-ID: <201510080729.t987Tpec000528@d06av06.portsmouth.uk.ibm.com> We invite you to submit your work for presentation at SYSTOR 2016, the 9th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference. The conference will take place June 6?8, 2016 in Haifa, Israel. Full details on the website: http://www.systor.org/2016/index.html SYSTOR organizers aim to provide an excellent international forum for interaction across the systems research community, appealing and useful to academic and industrial researchers, welcoming both students and seasoned professionals. Following this goal, SYSTOR 2016 will host distinguished keynote speakers and offer an interactive poster session as well as social events. SYSTOR promotes experimental and practical computer systems research and welcomes both academic and industrial contributions, including 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 SYSTOR 2016 solicits submissions in four separate categories: Full Papers track - original research, at most 10 pages without the references Short Papers Track - original research, at most 5 pages without the references Highlight Papers Track - papers accepted at top-tier conferences Posters Track - original work presented as poster accompanied by the extended abstract Formatting instructions will be published when submission site is open. Important dates can be found here. From ketan at mcs.anl.gov Wed Oct 7 15:39:47 2015 From: ketan at mcs.anl.gov (Ketan Maheshwari) Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2015 14:39:47 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: CCPE SI on Negative Results Message-ID: OPEN CALL CCPE Special Issue on Negative Results in eScience (ERROR 2015) =========== Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience Special Issue: Negative Results in eScience Editors: Ketan Maheshwari, Silvia Olabarriaga, Daniel S. Katz, Justin M. Wozniak, Douglas Thain =========== Ever-increasing problem and data sizes in e-science endeavours imply that researchers must deal with novelty in multiple dimensions, some of which are beyond their control. A combination of such factors increases the likelihood that some of the obtained results will not be useful in the context of the goals of the original project: the results are negative (deviating from initial hypothesis), abnormal (anomalous to results from similar studies), null (absence of results) or otherwise unexpected. Under normal circumstances, such negative results are never published, and the reasons why they were obtained are seldom discussed and analyzed. Useful lessons might be lost. Documenting and more widely communicating these experiences will benefit the community and help recover some positive return from the expended efforts and cost. The 1st workshop on E-science ReseaRch leading to negative Results (ERROR) workshop was organized in conjunction with the 11th IEEE International Conference on eScience (eScience 2015) to provide a forum for communication of such experiences (http://press3.mcs.anl.gov/errorworkshop). The CCPE Special Issue on "Negative Results in eScience" will combine extended versions of papers presented at the this workshop with other, open submissions. Major topics of interest for this special issue include (but are not limited to) * Unforeseen technology/problem/technique misfits * Institutional policies (on rejected research) * Failures and obstacles faced during a successful research work * Controversial results because of undiscovered technological/technical glitch * Unconventional results which contradict theoretical expectations * Discovery of better approaches after a significant efforts spent on research * Inadequate or misconfigured infrastructure * Abnormal and anomalous results * Ongoing research with setbacks and lessons learned * A hypothesis with one or more limiting assumptions * Discovery of unexpected behavior in hardware, networks or platforms * Data size that is too big or too small for the applied technique * Implementation of simulation tools based on incorrect physical observations * Defect in software design, architecture and/or user interface * Software and platform incompatibilities The papers should be of 10-15 pages following the CCPE submission guidelines. Papers should be submitted via Manuscript Central as "ERROR 2015". Important Links: Submission Guidelines: http://www.cc-pe.net/journalinfo/authors.html#submission Submission Page: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/cpe Current CFP: http://press3.mcs.anl.gov/errorworkshop/ccpe-journal-special-issue-cfp Important dates: * 1 December, 2015: paper submission * 1 February, 2015: announcement of preliminary decisions * 20 February, 2016: submission of revised papers (selected) * 5 March, 2016: announcement of final decisions * 20 March, 2016: upload of camera-ready papers From Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov Wed Oct 14 21:07:44 2015 From: Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov (Tumeo, Antonino) Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2015 01:07:44 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] IA^3 - SC15 Workshop on Irregular Applications - Call for Participation Message-ID: We apologize if you receive multiple copies of this message. ????????? IA^3 2015 - 5th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 Austin, TX Sunday, 15 November 2015 Hilton Hotel, Salon K To be held in conjunction with SC15 To be held in cooperation with SIGHPC ????????? Tentative Program 9:00 ? 9:40 Keynote 1 ? Algorithms - Speaker: Alex Pothen, Purdue University 9:40 ? 9:50 PathFinder: A Signature-search Miniapp and its Runtime Characteristics Aditya Deshpande, Jeffrey Draper, J. Brian Rigdon and Richard Barrett. 9:50 ? 10:00 A GPU-Parallel Construction of Volumetric Tree Mohammad M. Hossain, Thomas R. Kurfess, Richard W. Vuduc and Thomas M. Tucker. 10:00 ? 10:30 Coffee Break 10:30 ? 10:55 Data-centric GPU-based Adaptive Mesh Refinement Mohamed Wahib and Naoya Maruyama. 10:55 ? 11:05 Dynamic Parallelism for Simple and Efficient GPU Graph Algorithms Peter Zhang, Eric Holk, John Matty, Samantha Misurda, Marcin Zalewski, Scott McMillan, Jonathan Chu and Andrew Lumsdaine. 11:05 ? 11:15 Betweenness Centrality on Multi-GPU systems ? Massimo Bernaschi, Giancarlo Carbone and Flavio Vella. 11:15 ? 11:40 Scalable Task-Based Algorithm for Multiplication of Block-Rank-Sparse Matrices Justus Calvin, Cannada Lewis and Edward Valeev. 11:40 ? 12:05 Tensor-Matrix Products with a Compressed Sparse Tensor Shaden Smith and George Karypis. 12:05 ? 12:30 Generalised vectorisation for sparse matrix--vector multiplication Albert-Jan Yzelman. 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch Break 2:00 - 2:40 Keynote 2 ? Architectures ? Speaker: Daniel Sanchez (MIT) 2:40 ? 2:50 GAIL: The Graph Algorithm Iron Law Scott Beamer, Krste Asanovic and David Patterson. 2:50 ? 3:00 Improving Graph Partitioning for Modern Graphs and Architectures Dominique Lasalle, Mostofa Patwary, Nadathur Satish, Narayanan Sundaram, George Karypis and Pradeep Dubey. 3:00 ? 3:30 Coffee Break 3:30 ? 3:55 Hybrid Memory Cube performance characterization on data-centric workloads Maya Gokhale, Scott Lloyd and Chris Macaraeg. 3:55 ? 4:20 PL2AP: Fast Parallel Cosine Similarity Search David C. Anastasiu and George Karypis. 4:20 ? 5:30 Panel Session Moderator: David Haglin (PNNL). Panelists: John Gilbert (UCSB), Jay Rockstroh (Data Vortex), Nuwan Jayasena (AMD), Brad Spiers (Micron), Ruud van der Pas (Oracle), Daniel Sanchez (MIT), Alex Pothen (Purdue) ????????? Organizers Antonino Tumeo, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, antonino.tumeo at pnnl.gov John Feo, Context Relevant, marwick4 at aol.com Oreste Villa, NVIDIA Research, ovilla at nvidia.com -- Best Regards, Antonino Tumeo Research Scientist High Performance Computing Pacific Northwest National Laboratory antonino.tumeo at pnnl.gov From m.musolesi at ucl.ac.uk Sun Oct 18 15:10:09 2015 From: m.musolesi at ucl.ac.uk (Mirco Musolesi) Date: Sun, 18 Oct 2015 20:10:09 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Middleware 2015 - Early Registration Deadline and Program Message-ID: <89023B83-FCE4-41A6-B520-7EEF0FFD076B@ucl.ac.uk> [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call.] Middleware 2015, come join us in Vancouver: December 7-11 The annual ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware conference is a major forum for the discussion of innovations and recent advances in the design, construction and use of middleware systems. Following the success of past conferences in this series, the 16th International Middleware Conference will be held in Vancouver, Canada from December 7th to 11th. The early registration deadline is fast coming up so now is a good time to head on over to the registration page before the price goes up. http://2015.middleware-conference.org/registration-visas/ We have an exciting program arranged for this year's conference. Highlights include key note talks from Victor Bahl, Microsoft Research and Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois as well as workshops, demos, posters and a high quality technical and industrial track. You can see the details at: http://2015.middleware-conference.org/conference-program/ Regards The Middleware 2015 Organizing Team -- Mirco Musolesi Reader in Data Science Department of Geography, University College London Pearson Building Gower Street WC1E 6BT London, United Kingdom Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfamus From jmoreira at us.ibm.com Mon Oct 19 14:00:38 2015 From: jmoreira at us.ibm.com (Jose Moreira) Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2015 14:00:38 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Papers: 3rd Workshop on Parallel Programming for Analytics Applications (PPAA 2016) Message-ID: PPAA 2016 : 3rd Workshop on Parallel Programming for Analytics Applications In conjunction with the 21st ACM SIGPLAN Symposium on Principles and Practice of Parallel Programming (PPoPP 2016) Barcelona, Spain, March 12-16, 2016 http://conf.researchr.org/track/PPoPP-2016/PPAA-2016-papers Important Dates: Sun 6 Dec 2015: Paper submission deadline Fri 8 Jan 2016: Decision on refereed papers Mon 25 Jan 2016: Camera-ready copies due Motivation and Scope: Analytics applications are scaling rapidly in terms of the size and variety of data analyzed, the complexity of models explored and tested, and the number of analytics professionals or data scientists supported concurrently. Consumer behavior modeling, IT infrastructure security and resiliency, and fraud detection and prevention are examples of application areas where the scaling is stressing the computational capabilities of current systems. At the same time hardware systems are embracing new technologies like on-chip and off-chip accelerators, vector extensions to the instruction sets, and solid state disks. New programming methodologies and run-times to support them are emerging to facilitate the development of the new analytics applications, and to leverage the emerging systems. This workshop provides a forum for the applications community, run-time and development-environment community, and systems community to exchange the outlook for progress in each of these areas, and exchange ideas on how to cross leverage the progress. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: System and hardware support for big data analytics Exploitation of GPUs, FPGAs and on-chip vector processing units for analytics applications Efficient exploitation of the memory hierarchy, particularly solid state disks Parallel I/O to support distributed file systems System management issues for attaining the desired levels of reliability and performance for the above Parallel run-times and middleware for analytics Columnar databases, large data warehouses, data cubes and OLAP engines In memory analysis for real-time queries on large data No-SQL databases Graph databases Concurrency in large tabular data analytics Distributed file systems Parallel programming models and languages, and application development frameworks for analytics Application Frameworks for large graph applications Computational models and programming languages for large graph applications Domain specific languages for analytics Parallel algorithms for large graphs and other big data analytics applications Algorithms to exploit the hardware, run-times, middleware and programming models listed above Performance attainable on the hardware, run-times, middleware and programming models listed above Parallelism in Social Media and other big data applications Applications in consumer modeling and customer behavior Financial fraud detection and intrusion detection in IT infrastructure Applications in healthcare and other industries Analytics applications and solutions in homeland security Call for Papers: You are seeking submissions that cover research and/or experience aspects on topics relevant to the workshop. Each submission will be reviewed by the workshop program committee. Selected submissions will be invited to present at the workshop and be published in the workshop proceedings. Submission Guidelines: Submitted papers should be no longer than 8 pages using a 10 point font (single spaced). Authors are encouraged to use the ACM double column format found at?http://www.sigplan.org/Resources/Author/. Papers should be submitted in PDF format and should be legible when printed on a black-and-white printer. To submit, send email to manoj1 at us.ibm.com?and joefon at us.ibm.com?with the paper included as an attachment. Accepted papers will be published in the ACM digital library after the workshop. Jos? E. Moreira Research Staff Member Future POWER Systems Concept Team IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Yorktown Heights NY 10598-0218 phone: 1-914-945-1709, fax: 1-914-945-4425 e-mail: jmoreira at us.ibm.com URL: http://www.research.ibm.com/people/m/moreira -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gflofst at sandia.gov Tue Oct 20 14:04:27 2015 From: gflofst at sandia.gov (Lofstead, Gerald F II) Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2015 18:04:27 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Posters 10th Parallel Data Storage Workshop 2015 in Conjunction with Supercomputing 2015 Message-ID: The 10th Parallel Data Storage Workshop (PDSW15), held in conjunction with IEEE/ACM Supercomputing (SC) 2015, Austin, Texas, 2015 URL: http://www.pdsw.org PDF version of the CFP: http://www.pdsw.org/index.shtml#wipsub 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 Poster/Work In Progress Submissions: Our poster session this year will be in the form of Work In Progress (WIP) presentations. These invited talks are for those that wish to get feedback or engage the community on any relevant topic. To participate, please submit a 1-page (total) abstract to the Work In Progress submission site in either ACM or IEEE format. Submissions will be judged on relevance and accepted on a space available basis. Accepted submissions will be given 5-minute brief talks and have the abstract published on the workshop website. WIP Submission Deadline: November 1, 2015 WIP Notification: November 6, 2015 WIP Final Submission: November 9, 2015 Please direct any questions to Jay Lofstead (gflofst at sandia.gov) and/or Ali Butt (butta at vt.edu). From kuancli at pu.edu.tw Mon Oct 26 17:26:21 2015 From: kuancli at pu.edu.tw (Kuan-Ching Li) Date: Tue, 27 Oct 2015 05:26:21 +0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Book Chapters: Big Data Management, Architecture, and Processing Message-ID: ---------------------- Call for Book Chapters ---------------------- Big Data Management, Architecture, and Processing (Chapman & Hall/ CRC Big Data Series) CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, USA https://sites.google.com/site/bigdata2map/ Important Dates *Proposal Submission: January 15, 2016* -Proposal Acceptance: February 1, 2016 -Sample Chapter (phase I): May 1, 2016 -Sample Chapter (phase II): July 1, 2016 -Complete Chapter Submission (to editors): August 1, 2016 -Submission of Chapters (to publisher): August 25, 2016 -Publication Time: Q4/2016 (tentative) Data are being generated at exponential rate all over the world, and organizations are storing and processing exponentially increasing amounts of data. Recently, they have to re-think about and figure out how to do this efficiently and effectively. Through evolving algorithms and analytics techniques, organizations can harness data, discover hidden patterns, and use the derived knowledge to act meaningfully for competitive advantages. Book co-editors intend to invite experts and successful case participating members to contribute discussions on topics for data gathering and management as well as processing. This book intends to bridge the gap between huge amount of data and appropriate computational/management methods for scientific discovery, and to bring together technologies for media/data communication, elastic media/data storage, and cross-network media/data fusion. The book also aims at interesting applications involving Big Data. Topics Topics include, but are not limited to, the follows: * Management - Big Data Design, implementation, evaluation and services, including the development process, use cases, experiments and associated simulations - Big Data as integration of technologies such as SOA, data mining, machine learning, HPC, cloud storage, multi-clouds and internet of things. - Big Data analytics and visualization with new algorithms showing how to achieve significant improvements from existing methods - Query processing and indexing - Data management within and across multiple geographically distributed data centers - Elasticity for data management systems - Self-*, adaptive and energy-efficient mechanisms - Performance evaluation of environments and technologies - Security, privacy, trust, data ownership and risk simulations *Architecture - GPU/Many-core and Heterogeneous Architecture - Energy Efficient Architecture - Node and System Architecture - Packaging, Power and Cooling - Interconnect/Memory Architecture - Single System Image Clusters - Big Data Open Systems - Administration and Maintenance Tools * Processing - Techniques, algorithms and innovative methods of processing, - Business and economic models (quantitative or computational), social network analyses, scientific workflows and business processes, - Adoption cases, frameworks and user evaluations involved with quantitative or computational research methods, - Data-intensive and scalable computing on hybrid infrastructures, - MapReduce based computations, - Many-Task Computing in the Cloud, - Streaming and real-time processing, - Big Data applications, experiences and solutions for specific domains of data science, including security, health, transportation, logistics, e-government, environment, computational physics, astronomy, and others. Proposal submission A proposal for a book chapter is needed from prospective authors before the proposal submission due date, describing the goals and scopes of the proposed chapter. Acceptance of chapter proposals will be communicated to lead authors after a formal double-blind review process. The submission of chapter proposals should be sent directly via email to corresponding editors. Book Editors Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan Hai Jiang, Arkansas State University, USA Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Additional Information Inquiries and chapter proposal submissions can be forwarded electronically by email to kuancli at pu.edu.tw, hjiang at astate.edu or albert.zomaya at sydney.edu.au . -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From elm at soe.ucsc.edu Fri Oct 30 14:06:54 2015 From: elm at soe.ucsc.edu (Ethan L. Miller) Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 11:06:54 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] UC Santa Cruz has Assistant Professor (tenure-track) positions in computer security and privacy Message-ID: We welcome candidates with interests related to computer security and privacy. The storage systems group at UC Santa Cruz has significant research in computer security issues, including security for HPC file systems, secure long-term archival storage, and techniques for searching in encrypted data. There's other research at UCSC in security outside of storage as well; we encourage you to check our Web pages for further details. I'm happy to answer questions anyone might have about the faculty positions. We look forward to your application! ethan ==== The Department of Computer Science at the University of California, Santa Cruz invites applications for two tenure track (Assistant Professor) faculty positions; one in cybersecurity and the other in data privacy. We seek outstanding applicants with appropriate expertise, established records, and exceptional potential for research in the area of cybersecurity or data privacy. In cybersecurity, our focus is toward candidates whose work is in applied areas such as information security, networked system security, secure systems, trustworthy computing, and infrastructure and IoT security. In data privacy, we have a preference for candidates who have expertise in information privacy, privacy in data science, and tools and systems for ensuring data privacy. The successful candidates are expected to develop a research program, advise graduate students in their research area, obtain external funding, develop and teach courses within the undergraduate and graduate curriculum, and perform university and professional service. The candidate must be able to work with students, faculty, and staff from a wide range of social and cultural backgrounds. We are especially interested in candidates who can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through their research, teaching, and/or service. The Computer Science Department has nationally and internationally known research groups in many areas, including data storage systems, database systems, and machine learning. The department is home to the NSF Industry/University Cooperative Research Center (I/UCRC) for Research in Storage Systems. The proximity of the campus to Silicon Valley affords our faculty extensive opportunities for interactions and collaborations with industry. In addition, the university is embarking on a Data Science initiative that will encompass a broad spectrum of research activities in Big Data, including research efforts extending beyond computer science into areas such as applied mathematics & statistics, astronomy, computational biology and biomolecular engineering, economics, ethics and social responsibility, as well as new efforts in areas such as computational social science, the environment and sustainability, and learning analytics. For further information, please see http://apo.ucsc.edu/academic_employment/jobs/JPF00315-16.pdf. The application deadline is December 21, 2015. -- Professor Ethan L. Miller Symantec Presidential Chair in Storage & Security Computer Science Department University of California, Santa Cruz web: http://www.cs.ucsc.edu/~elm/ o: +1 831 459-1222 / m: +1 831 345-4864 GPG keyprint: BD25 BA38 D7CF 09F1 16DE 369D 17A3 B4E3 AFA8 A69C -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From porter at cs.stonybrook.edu Mon Nov 2 19:38:53 2015 From: porter at cs.stonybrook.edu (Don Porter) Date: Mon, 2 Nov 2015 19:38:53 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] VEE '16 Call For Papers Message-ID: <5638021D.80808@cs.stonybrook.edu> ***************************************************************************************************** The 12th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE '16) April 2-3, 2016 http://conf.researchr.org/home/vee-2016 ****************************************************************************************************** Virtualization has a central role in modern systems. It constitutes a key aspect in a wide range of environments, from small mobile computing devices to large-scale data centers and computational clouds. Virtualization techniques encompass the underlying hardware, the operating system, and the runtime system. Although these layers have different design and implementation techniques, the fundamental challenges and insights tend to be similar. The 12th ACM SIGPLAN/SIGOPS International Conference on Virtual Execution Environments (VEE '16) 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 '16 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; managed runtimes and virtual machines; management technologies for virtual environments; performance analysis and debugging for virtual environments; security and virtual environments; virtualization in cloud computing; virtualization technologies applied to specific problem domains such as HPC, realtime, and power management. As usual (since 2008), VEE '16 is co-located with ASPLOS 2016, which will take place in Atlanta, Georgia. VEE '16 will be held concurrently with the ASPLOS 2016 workshops on April 2-3, 2016. [Important Dates] Abstract deadline Monday, November 23, 2015 (11:59PM EST) Full paper deadline Monday, November 30, 2015 (11:59pm, EST) Author response period Tuesday-Wednesday, January 26-27, 2016 Author notification Friday, February 5, 2016 [Program Committee] Jonathan Appavoo, Boston University Tzi-Cker Chieuh, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Taiwan John Criswell, University of Rochester Dilma Da Silva, Texas A&M University Julian Dolby, IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center Bjoern Franke, University of Edinburgh Soo-Mook Moon, Seoul National University Guilherme Ottoni, Facebook Kevin Pedretti, Sandia National Laboratories Don Porter, Stony Brook University (co-chair) Behnam Robatmili, Qualcomm Research Chris Rossbach, VMware Research and The University of Texas at Austin Vivek Sarkar, Rice University (co-chair) Mark Silberstein, Technion---Israel Institute of Technology Mary Lou Soffa, University of Virginia Malgorzata Steinder, IBM Research Priyanka Tembey, VMware Peng Wu, Huawei America Lab [Submission Guidelines] Please submit your paper through https://vee16.hotcrp.com/ after reading the following submission instructions. Submissions must attack an interesting problem and clearly articulate their contribution relative to previous work. Submissions must be in ACM SIGPLAN proceedings format, 10-point type on 11-point leading, 7x9 inch text block, and two columns with .33 inch column separation, and submissions may not exceed 12 pages for full papers and 6 pages for short papers, excluding references. Word and LaTeX templates for this format are available at www.sigplan.org/authorInformation.htm (but please note that 10-point is not the default). Pages must be numbered, and submissions must be in PDF, legible when printed black and white on US Letter and A4 paper. All fonts must be embedded in the submitted PDF. Submissions violating the formatting guidelines may be rejected without review. Reviewing will be double blind, therefore submissions must be anonymous. Author names, affiliations, acknowledgments, and any other hints of identity must not be included in the submission. You should not anonymize your bibliographic references; instead, cite your work in the third person so that your submission is self-contained. Make a good-faith effort to conceal any authorship connection between prior work and yours. Submissions must describe unpublished work that is not currently submitted for publication elsewhere as discussed at www.sigplan.org/Resources/Policies/Republication. Authors of accepted papers will be required to sign an ACM copyright release. The proceedings will be published by ACM. AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.) 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The program addresses research on autonomous systems acting in collaboration with humans, adapting to their environment through sensors, information and knowledge, and forming intelligent systems of systems. Software is the main enabler in autonomous systems, and is an integrated research theme of the program. The graduate within WASP is dedicated to providing the skills needed to analyze, develop and contribute to the interdisciplinary area of autonomous systems and software. Through an ambitious program the graduate school actively supports forming a strong multi-disciplinary and international professional network between PhD students, researchers and industry. The graduate school provides unique opportunities for students who are dedicated to achieving international research excellence with industrial relevance. We are now offering up to 26 PhD student positions at the coordinating universities Chalmers University of Technology, Link?ping University, Lund University, KTH Royal Institute of Technology and Ume? University. The open positions include areas such as software engineering, verification, autonomous vehicles, localization, human-robot/computer interaction, automated transport systems, scalable optimization and control, cloud resource management and control, perception, visual tracking, motion control, cognitive companions, languages for software architectures, link modeling, and semantic structure from motion. For more information on the positions: http://wasp-sweden.se We look forward to your application! For general information on WASP, please contact Lars Nielsen, Director of WASP lars.nielsen at liu.se +46 13 281307 For information about WASP Graduate School, please contact Fredrik Heintz, Director of WASP Graduate School fredrik.heintz at liu.se +46 13 282428 From nikolas.herbst at uni-wuerzburg.de Tue Nov 3 11:03:51 2015 From: nikolas.herbst at uni-wuerzburg.de (Nikolas Herbst) Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 17:03:51 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] 13th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing 2016 - 2nd Call-for-Papers Message-ID: ICAC 2016 2nd Call-for-Papers http://icac2016.uni-wuerzburg.de/ 13th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2016) Wuerzburg, Germany, July 19-22, 2016 In cooperation with USENIX and SPEC CONFERENCE PATRONS SAP, Huawei, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Google, Microsoft WORKSHOPS * 4th International Workshop on Self-aware Internet of Things (Self-IoT) * 2nd Workshop on Distributed Adaptive Systems * 3rd Workshop on Self-Improving System Integration (SISSY) * 11th International Workshop on Models at run.time * 11th International Workshop on Feedback Computing ___________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: January 14, 2016 Paper Submission: January 21, 2016 Author Notification: April 15, 2016 Final Manuscript: May 1, 2016 Conference: July 19-22, 2016 Poster/Demo Proposals Due: March 30, 2016 Workshop Proposals: November 6, 2015 Doctoral Symposium Submissions: January 31, 2016 ___________________________________________________________________ SCOPE AND TOPICS ICAC is the leading conference on autonomic computing, its foundations, principles, engineering, technologies, and applications. Nowadays, complex systems of all types, like large-scale data centers, cloud computing infrastructures, cyber-physical systems, the internet of things, and similar, are increasingly complex, involving many active, interconnected components requiring careful coordination. Being impossible for a human to manage such systems, the autonomic computing paradigm with its support for self-management capabilities becomes increasingly indispensable for the components of our IT world. The conference seeks latest research advances on science and engineering concerning all aspects of autonomic computing, including but not limited to the following main research topics: * Foundations - Fundamental science and theory of autonomic computing systems and feedback control for software, self-awareness and self-expression - Algorithms, such as AI, machine learning, control theory, operations research, probability and stochastic processes, queueing theory, rule-based systems, biological-inspired techniques, and socially-inspired techniques - Formal models and analysis of self-management, emergent behavior, uncertainty, self-organization, self-awareness, trustworthiness * Resource Management in Data Centers - Hypervisors, operating systems, middleware, and platforms for self-managing data centers and cloud infrastructures - Sensing, energy efficiency, and resource adaptation - Autonomic components, such as multi-core servers, storage, networking, and hardware accelerators - Applications and case studies of end-to-end design and implementation of systems for resource management * Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) and Internet of Things (IoT) - System architectures OS, services, middleware, and protocols for CPS and IoT - Energy, real-time, and mobility management - Design principles, methodologies, and tools for CPS and IoT - Self-organization under severe resource constraints - Applications and case studies of autonomic CPS and IoT * Self-Organization and Organic Computing - Self-organization principles and organic computing principles borrowed from systems theory, control theory, game theory, decision theory, social theories, biological theories, etc. - Self-organization, emergent behavior, decentralized control, individual and social/organizational learning, scalability, robustness, goal- and norm- governed behavior, online self-integration for trustworthy self-organizing and organic systems - Infrastructures and architectures for self-organizing systems and organic computing systems - Applications and case studies for self-organization and organic computing * Emerging Computing Paradigms: Cognitive Computing, Self-Aware Computing - Advanced learning for cognitive computing such as meta-cognitive learning, self-regulatory learning, consciousness and cognition in learning, collaborative / competitive learning, and online / sequential learning - Architectures, control, algorithmic approaches, instrumentation, and infrastructure for cognitive computing and self-aware systems - Cognitive computing and self-awareness in heterogeneous and decentralized systems - Applications and case studies for social networks, big data systems, deep learning systems, games, and artificial assistants, cognitive robots, and systems with self-awareness and self-expression * Software Engineering for Autonomic Computing Systems: Architecture, Specifications, Assurances - Design methodology, frameworks, principles, infrastructures, and tools for development and assurances for autonomic computing systems - System architectures, services, components and platforms broadly applicable for autonomic computing system engineering - Goal specification and policies, modeling of service-level agreements, behavior enforcement, IT governance, and business-driven IT management - Applications and case studies for software engineering approaches for autonomic computing systems In addition to fundamental results ICAC is also interested in applications and experiences with prototyped or deployed systems solving real-world problems in science, engineering, business, or society. Typical application areas for ICAC are autonomous robotics, cloud computing, cyber-physical systems, data centers, dependable computing, industrial internet / industry 4.0, internet of things, mobile computing, service-oriented systems, smart buildings, smart city, smart grid / energy management, smart factory, smart user interfaces, space applications, and traffic management. This year a doctoral symposium will be organized as part of ICAC. For more information see http://icac2016.uni-wuerzburg.de/calls/doctoral-symposium/ All papers must represent original and unpublished work that is not currently under review. Submissions are required to mark at least one topic area. Papers will be reviewed by at least three PC members including at least two having specific domain expertise concerning the indicated main research topics and judged on originality, significance, interest, correctness, clarity, and relevance to the broader community. At least one author of each accepted paper is expected to attend the conference. Papers can be submitted in one of the following three categories with different acceptance criteria for each category: * Full research papers limited to 10 pages (double column, IEEE format) * Experience papers limited to 8 pages (double column, IEEE format) * Short papers limited to 6 pages (double column, IEEE format) Full and experience research papers are strongly encouraged to report on experiences, measurements, user studies, and provide an appropriate quantitative evaluation if at all possible. Short papers can either be work in progress, or position and challenge papers that motivate the community to address new challenges. See the conference website for format instructions (http://icac2016.uni-wuerzburg.de/calls/instructions-to-authors/). Papers must be submitted electronically in PDF format through the ICAC?2016 submission site (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=icac2016). There will be a BEST PAPER AWARD for the full research paper category and it is panned that a selection of the best papers of the full research paper category will be invited to submit an extended version of their contribution for an ICAC 2016 SPECIAL ISSUE after the conference. ___________________________________________________________________ ORGANIZATION General Chairs Samuel Kounev, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Program Committee Co-Chairs Holger Giese, Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany Jie Liu, Microsoft Research, Redmond, USA Workshop Chair Lydia Chen, IBM Zurich, Switzerland Publicity Co-Chairs Giacomo Cabri, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy Javier Camara, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA Nikolas Herbst, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Jianguo Yao, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, China Finance Chair Philippe Lalanda, University of Grenoble, France Proceedings Chair Daniel Gmach, HP Labs, USA Poster and Demo Chair Stephanie Chollet, Grenoble INP Esisar/LCIS, France Local Arrangements and Web Chair Lukas Ifflaender, University of Wuerzburg, Germany Doctoral Symposium Chair Christian Becker, University of Mannheim, Germany Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary, USA ___________________________________________________________________ PROGRAM COMMITTEE Tarek Abdelzaher, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Artur Andrzejak, Heidelberg University, Germany Luciano Baresi, DEIB ? Politecnico di Milano, Italy Jacob Beal, BBN Technologies, USA Christian Becker, University of Mannheim, Germany Kirstie Bellman, The Aerospace Corporation, USA Nelly Bencomo, Aston University, UK Giacomo Cabri, Universita di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy Lydia Chen, IBM Zurich, Switzerland Lucy Cherkasova, HP Labs, USA Elisabetta Di Nitto, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Ada Diaconesco, Telecom ParisTech, France Schahram Dustdar, TU Wien, Austria Lukas Esterle, Universitaet Klagenfurt, Austria Kurt Geihs, Universitaet Kassel, Germany Rean Griffith, VMWare, USA Yuan He, Tsinghua University, China Jeff Kephart, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center, USA Xenofon Koutsoukos, Vanderbilt University, USA Michael Kozuch, Intel, USA Philippe Lalanda, University of Grenoble, France Peter Lewis, Aston University, UK Xiaolin Li, University of Florida, USA Marin Litoiu, York University, Canada Xue Liu, McGill University, Canada Chenyang Lu, Washington University at St. Louis, USA Ying Lu, University of Nebraska ? Lincoln, USA Martina Maggio, Lund University, Sweden Sam Malek, George Mason University, USA Julie McCann, Imperial College London, UK Arif Merchant, Google, USA Christian M?ller-Schloer, Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Germany Hausi A. M?ller, University of Victoria, Canada Miroslav Pajic, Duke University, USA Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy Dario Pompili, Rutgers University, USA Eric Rutten, NRIA Grenoble Rh?ne-Alpes, France Hartmut Schmeck, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Onn Shehory, IBM Research Haifa, Israel Mike Smit, Dalhousie University, Canada Christopher Stewart, Ohio State University, USA Ladan Tahvildar, Waterloo University, Canada Sven Tomforde, Universitaet Augsburg, Germany Bhuvan Urgaonkar, Penn State, USA Di Wang, Microsoft Research, USA Danny Weyns, Linnaeus University, Sweden Zheng Zhang, Rutgers University, USA Xiaoyun Zhu, Futurewei Technologies, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From ggrider at lanl.gov Sat Nov 7 15:56:15 2015 From: ggrider at lanl.gov (Grider, Gary Alan) Date: Sat, 7 Nov 2015 20:56:15 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] FW: PLEASE HELP Promoting Community Hub panel discussion In-Reply-To: <298D62F2C46D6F4FA484C00E8FA26F4811763786@ORSMSX103.amr.corp.intel.com> References: <298D62F2C46D6F4FA484C00E8FA26F4811763786@ORSMSX103.amr.corp.intel.com> Message-ID: FYI Storage talk at SC 15 ________________________________ From: Bernhardt, Michael E Sent: Saturday, November 07, 2015 10:02:13 AM To: Settlemyer, Bradley Wade; Grider, Gary Alan Cc: Gorda, Brent; Gilbert, Jay Subject: FW: PLEASE HELP Promoting Community Hub panel discussion PLEASE HELP -- Promoting your Intel SC15 Community Hub panel discussion. We are dealing with a few technical issues (like individual calendar invitations and updating the intel.com site in close to real time..) however, we can?t let that slow us down. Please consider distributing the attached .pdf to your colleagues throughout the community to point them to your panel discussion. Tuesday, November 17th 5:15 pm Accelerating Science with Storage Systems Research Brad Settlemyer, LANL (Moderator) Gary Grider, LANL Rob Ross, ANL, Quincey Koziol, HDF Group Eric Barton, Intel The .pdf has calendar links in the far right column, making it easy for anyone to add a particular session directly to their calendars. You can point your community to the intel.com/sc15 site for more information about our activities at SC15, and to keep an eye on the most recent Community Hub session additions as we will be updating the Hub schedule with more details each day over this next week. (to fill in the holes). Many interesting discussions taking place. Let?s push this information out as far and wide as we can ? and encourage your colleagues to attend sessions at Intel?s SC15 Community Hub. Please let me know if you have any questions. See you at the Hub The Intel SC15 Community Hub Booth #1333 http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/events/community-hub.pdf and for more information on SC15, go to: http://sc15.supercomputing.org/ Mike Bernhardt HPC Community Evangelist Office: (503) 712.0628 Mobile: (503) 804.1714 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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(Weds-Friday): A world class technical program with academic and industry papers covering technologies such as Pub/Sub, Hadoop, Storm, OpenCL and cloud/cluster computing. 27 technical papers in 6 session spread over 3 days. Full program at: http://2015.middleware-conference.org/conference-program/ **Plus Workshops and tutorials (Mon/Tues) including: - Full-day workshop: Workshop on Middleware for Context-Aware Applications in the IoT (M4IOT ?15) - Full-day workshop: Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM ?15) - Tutorial: Building and managing business resiliency on the cloud - International Workshop on Virtualization Technologies (VT ?15) - Tutorial: Improving overall performance and energy consumption of your cluster with remote GPU virtualization Sponsors: IBM, HP, BBN, , Microsoft, SFU, UBC -- Mirco Musolesi Reader in Data Science Department of Geography, University College London Pearson Building Gower Street WC1E 6BT London, United Kingdom Web: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/~ucfamus From brimmj at ornl.gov Wed Nov 25 11:18:44 2015 From: brimmj at ornl.gov (Michael J. Brim) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:18:44 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: 2nd International Workshop on the Lustre Ecosystem Message-ID: <5655DF64.509@ornl.gov> **** CALL FOR PAPERS **** 2nd International Workshop on the Lustre Ecosystem: Enhancing Lustre Support for Diverse Workloads Baltimore, Maryland, USA March 8?9, 2016 http://lustre.ornl.gov/ecosystem **** IMPORTANT DATES **** Note: all submission deadlines are midnight anywhere?on?earth Extended abstracts due: January 15, 2016 Acceptance notification: February 4, 2016 Full papers due: March 14, 2016 Tutorial presentations: March 8, 2016 Technical presentations: March 9, 2016 **** SCOPE and TOPICS **** The Lustre parallel file system has been widely adopted by scientific 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. Traditionally, 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. This workshop series is intended to help explore improvements in the performance and flexibility of Lustre for supporting non?scientific application workloads. The 2015 workshop was the inaugural edition, and the goal was to initiate a discussion on the open challenges associated with enhancing Lustre for diverse applications, the technological advances necessary, and the associated impacts to the Lustre ecosystem. The workshop program featured a day of tutorials and a day of technical paper presentations. 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: * Using Lustre as a Shared Resource * 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 == Richard Mohr, University of Tennessee, USA From Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov Sat Dec 5 15:56:54 2015 From: Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov (Tumeo, Antonino) Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 20:56:54 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP - ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2016 Message-ID: <4D93D3F1-071D-434D-834D-8FBD5640338D@pnnl.gov> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] ================================================================== ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2016 (CF'16) May 16 - 18, 2016, Como, Italy CALL FOR PAPERS www.computingfrontiers.org ================================================================== SCOPE ===== Computing Frontiers represents an engaged, collaborative community of researchers who are excited about transformational technologies in the field of computing. The field of computing requires new breakthroughs to adapt to the ever-changing requirements of society, especially with respect to science. Technology is on the verge of revolutions in memory devices and systems, networks, electronic device production, machine learning, data analytics, cloud computing, techniques to improve power and energy efficiency, and many more areas. New application domains that affect everyday life are constantly emerging. Boundaries between the state-of-the-art and revolutionary innovation constitute the computing frontiers that must be pushed forward to advance science, engineering, and information technology. Early research, using far-reaching projections of the future state of technologies, provides the bases that will allow revolutionary materials, devices, and systems to become mainstream. Revolutionary breakthroughs are enabled through collaborative efforts among researchers of different expertise and backgrounds. Computing Frontiers is a gathering for people to share and discuss such work, and it focuses on a wide spectrum of advanced technologies and radically new solutions relevant to the development of a spectrum of computer systems, from embedded devices to supercomputers and data centers. KEY DATES ========= Submissions deadline: January 15, 2016 Notification: March 11, 2016 Camera-Copy Papers Due: March 25, 2016 TOPICS OF INTEREST ================== We seek contributions that push the envelope in a wide range of computing topics, from more traditional research in architecture and systems to new technologies and devices. We seek contributions on novel computing paradigms, computational models, algorithms, application paradigms, development environments, compilers, operating environments, computer architecture, hardware substrates, memory technologies, and smarter life applications. We are also interested in emerging fields that may not fit within traditional categories. * Algorithms and Models of Computing Approximate and inexact computing, quantum and probabilistic computing * Biological Computing Models Brain computing, neural computing, computational neuroscience, biologically-inspired architectures * Limits on Technology Scaling and Moore's Law Defect- and variability-tolerant designs, graphene and other novel materials, nanoscale design, optoelectronics, dark silicon * Uses of Technology Scaling 3D stacked technology, challenges of manycore designs, accelerators, PCM's, novel memory architectures, mobile devices * Embedded and Cyber-Physical systems Design space exploration, ultra-low power designs, energy scavenging, reactive and realtime systems, reconfigurable and self-aware systems, sensor networks, internet of things, wearables * Big Data Analytics High performance data analytics, machine and deep learning, data search and representation, architecture and system design * Large-scale system design Homogeneous and heterogeneous architectures, runtimes, networking technologies and protocols, Cloud and Grid systems, datacenters, exa-scale computing, power- and energy management * Compiler technologies Novel techniques to push the envelope on new technologies, applications, hardware/software integrated solutions, domain specific languages, advanced analysis, high-level synthesis * Security Methods, system support, and hardware for protecting against malicious code, real-time implementation of security algorithms and protocols, quantum and post-quantum cryptography, advanced persistent threats, cyber and physical attacks and countermeasures * Computers and Society Education, health and cost/energy-efficient design, smart cities, emerging markets * Interdisciplinary Applications Applications that bridge multiple disciplines in interesting ways Computing Frontiers 2016 also encourages Position Papers, Trend Papers, and poster submissions on ???frontier?? topics. SUBMISSION ========== Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cf16 Authors are invited to submit full papers, position papers, trend papers, and poster abstracts to the main conference. Papers must be submitted through the conference paper submission site. Authors will declare in advance to which category they are submitting through the submission site. Full papers are allowed up to eight (8) double-column pages in standard ACM conference format. Authors, however, will be able to buy up to two (2) extra pages at 100 Euro per page. Position and trend papers should be at least two (2) pages and not exceed four (4) pages in the same format. Poster abstracts should be at least two (2) pages and not exceed four (4) pages in the same format. These limits include figures, tables, and references. Our review process is double-blind. Thus, please remove all identifying information from the paper submission (and cite your own work in the third person). Authors of interesting work not mature enough for an oral presentation may be offered the option of presenting their work as posters. Position papers, trend papers, and posters will be published in the proceedings and in the ACM Digital Library (note that authors of these works retain their copyright rights to publish more complete versions later). The best papers from the Computer Frontiers Conference and Workshops will be invited in special issues of IJPP or PARCO. As per ACM guidelines, at least one author of an accepted paper is required to register for the conference. For information on workshop submissions, please see the individual workshop websites. ORGANIZATION ============ Computing Frontiers 2016 Chairs General Chairs: Gianluca Palermo, Politecnico di Milano, IT John Feo, PNNL/NIAC, US Program Chairs: Antonino Tumeo, PNNL, US Hubertus Franke, IBM Research, US Finance Chair: Peter Zinterhof, University of Salzburg, AT Local Arrangements Chair: Vittorio Zaccaria, Politecnico di Milano, IT Workshop Chairs: Francesca Palumbo, University of Sassari, IT Francesco Regazzoni, ALARI, CH Publications Chair: Carlo Galuzzi, Maastricht University, NL Publicity Chairs: Maurizio Palesi, KORE University, IT Jianbo Dong, Institute of Computing Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN Web Chair: Kristian Rietveld, Leiden University, NL Computing Frontiers Steering Committee Monica Alderighi, INAF, IT Claudia Di Napoli, ICAR-CNR, IT Hubertus Franke, IBM, US Diana Franklin, University of California at Santa Barbara, US Georgi Gaydadijev, Maxeler, GB Alexander Heinecke, Intel Parallel Computing Lab, US Paul Kelly, Imperial College, GB Sally A. McKee, Chalmers University of Technology, SE Krishna Palem, Rice University, US / Nanyang Technological University, SG Francesca Palumbo, University of Sassari, IT Valentina Salapura, IBM, US Pedro Trancoso, University of Cyprus, CY Carsten Trinitis, Technische Universit?t M?nchen, DE Eli Upfal, Brown University, US Josef Weidendorfer, Technische Universit?t M??nchen, DE -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jinjun.chen at gmail.com Sun Dec 6 07:21:06 2015 From: jinjun.chen at gmail.com (Jinjun Chen) Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2015 23:21:06 +1100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for papers IEEE Transactions on Big Data Special Issue on Big Data Infrastructure Message-ID: Call for papers: IEEE Transactions on Big Data Special Issue on Big Data Infrastructure Data is becoming an increasingly decisive resource in modern societies, economies, and governmental organizations. Big Data is an emerging paradigm encompassing various kinds of complex and large scale information beyond the processing capability of conventional software and databases. Various technologies are being discussed to support the handling of big data such as massively parallel processing databases, scalable storage systems, cloud computing platforms, Hadoop and Spark. Due to the multisource, massive, heterogeneous, and dynamic characteristics of application data involved in a distributed environment, one of the most important characteristics of Big Data is to carry out computing on the petabyte (PB), even the exabyte (EB)-level data with a complex computing process. Therefore, large-scale scalable Big Data Infrastructure with corresponding programming language support and software models for efficient processing in distributed environments such as cloud is on demand. In this special issue, we invite articles on innovative research to address challenges of Big Data Infrastructure with emerging computing platforms such as heterogeneous clouds, hybrid architectures, Hadoop or Spark with emphasis on addressing real-time requirements imposed by emerging Big Data applications such as sensing data, e-commerce data, business transactions and web logs, and etc. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: - Data sensing and Data fusion - Scalable data storage and computation management for Big Data - Resource scheduling, SLA, Fault tolerance and reliability for Big Data - Multiple source streaming data processing and integration - Virtualisation and visualisation of Big Data - Novel programming models and platforms such as MapReduce or Spark for Big Data - Security and privacy in Big Data processing - Green, energy-efficient models and sustainability issues for Big Data - Innovative Cloud infrastructure for Big Data - Wireless and mobility support in for Big Data - Scalable software platforms for fast Big Data analytics on heterogeneous and hybrid architectures - Big Data applications on heterogeneous architectures such as healthcare, surveillance and sensing, e-commerce, and etc. *Submission Instructions * Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have carefully read the Instructions for Authors for *IEEE Transactions on Big Data *(TBD). The complete manuscript should be submitted through TBD?s submission system . To ensure that you submit to the correct special issue, please select the appropriate section in the drop-down menu upon submission. In your cover letter, please also clearly mention the title of the SI. *Important Dates* - 30/01/2016 Paper submission due - 30/03/2016 1st round review due - 15/05/2016 1st revision due - 15/06/2016 2nd round review due - 15/07/2016 2nd revision due - 30/07/2016 Final due *Guest Editors* A/Prof. Jinjun Chen, Jinjun.Chen at gmail.com, University of Technology Sydney, Australia A/Prof. Honggang Wang, hwang1 at umassd.edu, UMass Dartmouth, USA Prof. Manish Parashar, parashar at rutgers.edu, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Many thanks. ***[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message]*** ------------------------------ Wen Xia , Ph.D. Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China Homepage: http://wxia.hustbackup.cn/ ================= The International Workshop of Software-Defined Data Communications and Storage (SDDCS) 2016 in conjunction with IEEE ICDCS 2016 on June 27, 2016, in Nara, Japan http://stlab.wnlo.hust.edu.cn/csyhua/sddcs2016.htm ******Overview****** The future infrastructures of the data centers and cloud computing are becoming more software defined. Although networking infrastructures consist of communications and storage resources, they are generally studied separately. Hence, applications and platforms have to precisely define the virtual environment in which they wish to run, and the communication performance decreases because we have been ignoring the properties of storage devices. The software-defined methodology offers an opportunity to bridge this gap and to deliver higher and improved performance. The SDDCS workshop provides the forum for researchers of multi-disciplinary fields: networks, systems research which spans data communications, networking, storage systems and devices, as well as the applications, to discuss and exchange idea on how to take this opportunity to bridge the performance gap. SDDCS aims to bring together industry and academia to jointly explore recent progresses related with the potential performance bottleneck and the gap between communications and storage in the software-defined context. We particularly encourage contributions which contain highly original ideas, new approaches, and/or groundbreaking results. *******Topics****** Topics of interest in SDDCS include but are not limited to: ** Software-defined communication protocols ** Software-defined storage devices ** Convergent design for communications and storage ** Non-volatile storage support for network transmission ** Storage deduplication for cloud backups ** Data collection and analytics for system optimization ** Dynamic workload redistribution and scheduling ** Non-volatile devices in network switches ** Cross-layer coordination ** Storage virtualization in network end systems ** Security for SDDCS schemes ** Programmable interfaces for convergent design ** User studies and experiences of real-world applications ******Submission Instructions****** Submitted papers must be no longer than 8 single-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages, including figures, tables, and references; two-column format, using 10-point type on 12-point (single-spaced) leading; and a text block 6.5" wide x 9" deep. Author names and affiliations should appear on the title page. The submitted papers should present original theoretical and/or experimental research in any of the areas listed above that has not been previously published, accepted for publication, or is not currently under review by another conference or journal. ******Important Dates****** Paper submission due: January 20, 2016 Notification to authors: March 5, 2016 Final paper files due: April 5, 2016 ******Workshop Organizer****** Steering Committee: Qing Yang, University of Rhode Island Hong Jiang, University of Texas at Arlington Peng-Jun Wan, Illinois Institute of Technology Xue Liu, McGill University Program Co-chair: Yu Hua, Huazhong University of Science and Technology John C.S. 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Call for papers IEEE Transactions on Big Data Special Issue > on Big Data Infrastructure (Jinjun Chen) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 20:56:54 +0000 > From: "Tumeo, Antonino" > To: "Tumeo, Antonino" > Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP - ACM International Conference on > Computing Frontiers 2016 > Message-ID: <4D93D3F1-071D-434D-834D-8FBD5640338D at pnnl.gov> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message] > > > > ================================================================== > ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2016 (CF'16) > May 16 - 18, 2016, Como, Italy > > CALL FOR PAPERS > > www.computingfrontiers.org< > http://www.computingfrontiers.org/> > ================================================================== > > > > SCOPE > ===== > > Computing Frontiers represents an engaged, collaborative community of > researchers who are excited about transformational technologies in the > field of computing. > > The field of computing requires new breakthroughs to adapt to the > ever-changing requirements of society, especially with respect to > science. Technology is on the verge of revolutions in memory devices > and systems, networks, electronic device production, machine learning, > data analytics, cloud computing, techniques to improve power and > energy efficiency, and many more areas. New application domains that > affect everyday life are constantly emerging. Boundaries between the > state-of-the-art and revolutionary innovation constitute the computing > frontiers that must be pushed forward to advance science, engineering, > and information technology. > > Early research, using far-reaching projections of the future state of > technologies, provides the bases that will allow revolutionary > materials, devices, and systems to become mainstream. Revolutionary > breakthroughs are enabled through collaborative efforts among > researchers of different expertise and backgrounds. > > Computing Frontiers is a gathering for people to share and discuss > such work, and it focuses on a wide spectrum of advanced technologies > and radically new solutions relevant to the development of a spectrum > of computer systems, from embedded devices to supercomputers and data > centers. > > > KEY DATES > ========= > > Submissions deadline: January 15, 2016 > Notification: March 11, 2016 > Camera-Copy Papers Due: March 25, 2016 > > > TOPICS OF INTEREST > ================== > > We seek contributions that push the envelope in a wide range of > computing topics, from more traditional research in architecture and > systems to new technologies and devices. We seek contributions on > novel computing paradigms, computational models, algorithms, > application paradigms, development environments, compilers, operating > environments, computer architecture, hardware substrates, memory > technologies, and smarter life applications. We are also interested in > emerging fields that may not fit within traditional categories. > > * Algorithms and Models of Computing > Approximate and inexact computing, quantum and probabilistic > computing > > * Biological Computing Models > Brain computing, neural computing, computational neuroscience, > biologically-inspired architectures > > * Limits on Technology Scaling and Moore's Law > Defect- and variability-tolerant designs, graphene and other novel > materials, nanoscale design, optoelectronics, dark silicon > > * Uses of Technology Scaling > 3D stacked technology, challenges of manycore designs, accelerators, > PCM's, novel memory architectures, mobile devices > > * Embedded and Cyber-Physical systems > Design space exploration, ultra-low power designs, energy > scavenging, reactive and realtime systems, reconfigurable and > self-aware systems, sensor networks, internet of things, wearables > > * Big Data Analytics > High performance data analytics, machine and deep learning, data > search and representation, architecture and system design > > * Large-scale system design > Homogeneous and heterogeneous architectures, runtimes, networking > technologies and protocols, Cloud and Grid systems, datacenters, > exa-scale computing, power- and energy management > > * Compiler technologies > Novel techniques to push the envelope on new technologies, > applications, hardware/software integrated solutions, domain specific > languages, advanced analysis, high-level synthesis > > * Security > Methods, system support, and hardware for protecting against > malicious code, real-time implementation of security algorithms and > protocols, quantum and post-quantum cryptography, advanced persistent > threats, cyber and physical attacks and countermeasures > > * Computers and Society > Education, health and cost/energy-efficient design, smart cities, > emerging markets > > * Interdisciplinary Applications > Applications that bridge multiple disciplines in interesting ways > > Computing Frontiers 2016 also encourages Position Papers, Trend > Papers, and poster submissions on ???frontier?? topics. > > > SUBMISSION > ========== > > Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=cf16 > > Authors are invited to submit full papers, position papers, trend > papers, and poster abstracts to the main conference. Papers must be > submitted through the conference paper submission site. Authors will > declare in advance to which category they are submitting through the > submission site. > > Full papers are allowed up to eight (8) double-column pages in > standard ACM conference format. Authors, however, will be able to buy > up to two (2) extra pages at 100 Euro per page. Position and trend > papers should be at least two (2) pages and not exceed four (4) pages > in the same format. Poster abstracts should be at least two (2) pages > and not exceed four (4) pages in the same format. These limits include > figures, tables, and references. Our review process is double-blind. > Thus, please remove all identifying information from the paper > submission (and cite your own work in the third person). Authors > of interesting work not mature enough for an oral presentation may be > offered the option of presenting their work as posters. > > Position papers, trend papers, and posters will be published in the > proceedings and in the ACM Digital Library (note that authors of these > works retain their copyright rights to publish more complete versions > later). > > The best papers from the Computer Frontiers Conference and Workshops > will be invited in special issues of IJPP or PARCO. > > As per ACM guidelines, at least one author of an accepted paper > is required to register for the conference. > > For information on workshop submissions, please see the individual > workshop websites. > > > ORGANIZATION > ============ > > Computing Frontiers 2016 Chairs > > General Chairs: Gianluca Palermo, Politecnico di Milano, IT > John Feo, PNNL/NIAC, US > Program Chairs: Antonino Tumeo, PNNL, US > Hubertus Franke, IBM Research, US > Finance Chair: Peter Zinterhof, University of Salzburg, AT > Local Arrangements Chair: > Vittorio Zaccaria, Politecnico di Milano, IT > Workshop Chairs: Francesca Palumbo, University of Sassari, IT > Francesco Regazzoni, ALARI, CH > Publications Chair: > Carlo Galuzzi, Maastricht University, NL > Publicity Chairs: Maurizio Palesi, KORE University, IT > Jianbo Dong, Institute of Computing Technology, > Chinese Academy of Sciences, CN > Web Chair: Kristian Rietveld, Leiden University, NL > > > Computing Frontiers Steering Committee > > Monica Alderighi, INAF, IT > Claudia Di Napoli, ICAR-CNR, IT > Hubertus Franke, IBM, US > Diana Franklin, University of California at Santa Barbara, US > Georgi Gaydadijev, Maxeler, GB > Alexander Heinecke, Intel Parallel Computing Lab, US > Paul Kelly, Imperial College, GB > Sally A. McKee, Chalmers University of Technology, SE > Krishna Palem, Rice University, US / Nanyang Technological University, SG > Francesca Palumbo, University of Sassari, IT > Valentina Salapura, IBM, US > Pedro Trancoso, University of Cyprus, CY > Carsten Trinitis, Technische Universit?t M?nchen, DE > Eli Upfal, Brown University, US > Josef Weidendorfer, Technische Universit?t M??nchen, DE > > -------------- next part -------------- > An HTML attachment was scrubbed... > URL: < > http://lists.ece.cmu.edu/pipermail/storage-research-list/attachments/20151205/7d4e7c43/attachment-0001.htm > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Sun, 6 Dec 2015 23:21:06 +1100 > From: Jinjun Chen > To: storage-research-list at ece.cmu.edu > Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for papers IEEE Transactions on > Big Data Special Issue on Big Data Infrastructure > Message-ID: > CMEkXgw1p7ZYFRq2Q54WZZV__23DhKy6GUkQ at mail.gmail.com> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" > > Call for papers: IEEE Transactions on Big Data Special Issue on Big Data > Infrastructure > > > Data is becoming an increasingly decisive resource in modern societies, > economies, and governmental organizations. Big Data is an emerging paradigm > encompassing various kinds of complex and large scale information beyond > the processing capability of conventional software and databases. Various > technologies are being discussed to support the handling of big data such > as massively parallel processing databases, scalable storage systems, cloud > computing platforms, Hadoop and Spark. Due to the multisource, massive, > heterogeneous, and dynamic characteristics of application data involved in > a distributed environment, one of the most important characteristics of Big > Data is to carry out computing on the petabyte (PB), even the exabyte > (EB)-level data with a complex computing process. Therefore, large-scale > scalable Big Data Infrastructure with corresponding programming language > support and software models for efficient processing in distributed > environments such as cloud is on demand. > > > > In this special issue, we invite articles on innovative research to address > challenges of Big Data Infrastructure with emerging computing platforms > such as heterogeneous clouds, hybrid architectures, Hadoop or Spark with > emphasis on addressing real-time requirements imposed by emerging Big Data > applications such as sensing data, e-commerce data, business transactions > and web logs, and etc. Topics of interests include, but are not limited to: > > > > - > > Data sensing and Data fusion > - > > Scalable data storage and computation management for Big Data > - > > Resource scheduling, SLA, Fault tolerance and reliability for Big Data > - > > Multiple source streaming data processing and integration > - > > Virtualisation and visualisation of Big Data > - > > Novel programming models and platforms such as MapReduce or Spark for > Big Data > - > > Security and privacy in Big Data processing > - > > Green, energy-efficient models and sustainability issues for Big Data > - > > Innovative Cloud infrastructure for Big Data > - > > Wireless and mobility support in for Big Data > - > > Scalable software platforms for fast Big Data analytics on heterogeneous > and hybrid architectures > - > > Big Data applications on heterogeneous architectures such as healthcare, > surveillance and sensing, e-commerce, and etc. > > > > *Submission Instructions * > > Before submitting your manuscript, please ensure you have carefully read > the Instructions for Authors for > *IEEE > Transactions on Big Data *(TBD). The complete manuscript should be > submitted through TBD?s submission system > . To ensure that you submit to > the > correct special issue, please select the appropriate section in the > drop-down menu upon submission. 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Contributions to the technical program, workshops, and tutorials are sought covering a broad range of research, development, and application of high-performance experimental and commercial systems. Topic of interest include, but are not limited to: -- Computer architecture and hardware, including multicore and multiprocessor systems, accelerators, memory, interconnection network and storage and file systems; -- High-performance computational and programming models, including new languages and middleware for high performance computing, auto-tuning and function-specific code generators; -- High performance system software, including compilers, runtime systems, programming and development tools, performance tools, and operating systems; -- Hardware and software solutions for heterogeneity, reliability, and power efficiency; -- Languages, runtimes, and hardware for ?big data? scenarios with a focus on high-performance data analytics, including scalable data structures, dealing with large quantities of unstructured data, online monitoring and I/O, and parallel visualization; -- Computationally challenging scientific and commercial applications, particularly studies and experiences on large-scale systems, and supercomputing on big data problems; -- Large scale installations, including case studies to guide the design of future systems and solutions for efficiently scaling power, performance and reliability; -- Novel infrastructures for internet, grid and cloud computing; -- Performance evaluation studies and theoretical underpinnings of any of the above topics. Of particular interest are papers on any aspects of extreme-scale and heterogeneous supercomputing systems, integrated HPC software stacks, and supercomputing applications in science and engineering. *** Sponsored by ACM SIGARCH General Chairs Dr. Kemal Ebcioglu, Global Supercomputing Prof. Ozcan Ozturk, Bilkent University Program Chairs Prof. Mahmut Kandemir, Pennsylvania State University Prof. Onur Mutlu, Carnegie Mellon University Steering Committee Utpal Banerjee, USA Gianfranco Bilardi, Universita di Padova, Italy Kyle Gallivan, Florida State University, USA Michael Gerndt, Technical University of Munich, Germany James Goodman, USA Michael Gschwind, IBM, USA Manolis Katevenis, FORTH, Greece Allen Davis Malony, University of Oregon, USA Sally A. McKee, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden Avi Mendelson, Technion, Israel Sam Midkiff, Purdue University, USA Jose Moreira, IBM, USA Mario Nemirovsky, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain Alex Nicolau, University of California Irvine, USA Constantine Polychronopoulos, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Lawrence Rauchwerger, Texas A&M University, USA Valentina Salapura, IBM, USA John Sopka, EMC, USA Per Stenstrom, Chalmers University, Sweden Mateo Valero, Technical University of Catalonia, Spain Alex Veidenbaum, University of California Irvine, USA Harry Wijshoff, Leiden University, The Netherlands Program Committee Meenakshi Arunachalam, Intel, USA Yungang Bao, ICT-CAS Marc Casas, BSC, Spain Nil Chatterjee, Nvidia, USA Bruce Childers, University of Pittsburgh, USA Chita Das, Penn State, USA Reetuparna Das, Michigan, USA Luiz DeRose, Cray Inc, USA Evelyn Duesterwald, IBM Research Lieven Eeckhout, Ghent University, Belgium Oguz Ergin, TOBB, Turkey Ananth Grama, Purdue University, USA Sudhanva Gurumurthi, IBM/UVa, USA Hiroshi Inoue, IBM Research Tokyo, Japan Koji Inoue, Kyushu, Japan Engin Ipek, Univ of Rochester, USA Canturk Isci, IBM Research, USA Jose Joao, ARM, USA Adwait Jog, College of W&M, USA Myoungsoo Jung, Yonsei University, Korea Ulya Karpuzcu, Minnesota, USA Omer Khan, UConn, USA Samira Khan, Univ of Virginia, USA Mike Kozuch, Intel, USA Sriram Krishnamoorthy, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory Richard Lethin, Reservoir Labs, USAx Tao Li, Florida, USA Yanjing Li, Chicago, USA Mieszko Lis, UBC, Canada Xiaosong Ma, Qatar Computing Research Institute, Qatar Scott Mahlke, Univ of Michigan, USA Naoya Maruyama, RIKEn, japan Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Tech, Japan Trevor Mudge, Univ of Michigan, USA Dmitry Ponomarev, Univ of Binghamton, USA P. Sadayappan, Ohio State University, USA Xipeng Shen, NCSU, USA Anand Sivasubramaniam, Penn State, USA Lavanya Subramanian, Intel, USA Osman Unsal, BSC, Spain Jeff Vetter, ORNL, USA Yuan Xie, UCSB, USA Pen-Chung Yew, Minnesota University, USA Zheng Zhang, Rutgers University, USA Jishen Zhao, UCSC, USA From rbertra at us.ibm.com Thu Dec 24 12:52:12 2015 From: rbertra at us.ibm.com (Ramon Bertran) Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 17:52:12 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] =?utf-8?q?Call_For_Tutorial_Proposals_-_I?= =?utf-8?b?Q1PigJkxNg==?= Message-ID: <201512241752.tBOHqMa7013542@d03av05.boulder.ibm.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From rbertra at us.ibm.com Thu Dec 24 12:52:20 2015 From: rbertra at us.ibm.com (Ramon Bertran) Date: Thu, 24 Dec 2015 17:52:20 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] =?utf-8?q?Call_for_Workshop_Proposals_-_I?= =?utf-8?b?Q1PigJkxNg==?= Message-ID: <201512241752.tBOHqRsH013778@d03av05.boulder.ibm.com> An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: