[Storage-research-list] P2S2 with Journal Special Issue on Supercomputing[Extended Deadline]

[Liu, Jaln]

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CALL FOR PAPERS
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Paper Submission: April 30th, 2015(Extended Deadline)
Author Notification: June 1st, 2015
Camera Ready: June 15th, 2015
Workshop Date: September 1st, 2015


PROGRAM CHAIRS
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* Yong Chen, Texas Tech University
* Pavan Balaji, Argonne National Laboratory
* Abhinav Vishnu, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory

PUBLICITY CHAIR
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* Jialin Liu, Texas Tech University


STEERING COMMITTEE
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* William D. Gropp, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
* Vijay Saraswat, IBM Research


PROGRAM COMMITTEE
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*Ahmad Afsahi, Queen's University
*Patrick Bridges, University of New Mexico
*Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories
*Suren Byna, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
*Daniel Chavarría, 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<http://mcs.anl.gov>