From Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov Mon Jan 4 13:29:49 2016 From: Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov (Tumeo, Antonino) Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2016 18:29:49 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [CFP] ACM Computing Frontiers 2016 and Workshops Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ================================================================== ACM International Conference on Computing Frontiers 2016 (CF'16) May 16 - 18, 2016, Como, Italy CALL FOR PAPERS www.computingfrontiers.org ================================================================== NEW DEC '15: UPDATED TO INCLUDE WORKSHOP INFORMATION 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. WORKSHOPS ========= Computing Frontiers 2016 will feature four Workshops and Special Sessions that focus. Submission of papers to the workshops is handled separately from the main conference. Please refer to the websites of the workshops for more details. ### LP-EMS16 - 2nd Workshop on design of Low Power EMbedded Systems Aim and Scope: Modern cyber-physical and highly networked systems may impose challenging and conflicting requirements. Implementing real-time high-performance systems and minimizing, contemporarily, their power consumption is not straightforward. It implies to devise advanced modelling strategies as well as efficient design automation techniques that have the capacity to optimize complex parallel applications over heterogeneous many-cores platforms. Complexity on algorithmic side and heterogeneity on hardware side are colliding system constraints, which can be tackled by adopting hw/sw co-design solutions and flexible design frameworks. With respect to this context, we expect contributions in different fields of digital signal processing such as: telecommunication, multimedia, medical imaging, computing graphics, biomedical applications... and many others! Papers may include, but are not limited to, the following topics: - High-level synthesis and hw/sw co-design techniques for low-power digital signal/image processing; - Design of self-energy aware systems; - Design space exploration techniques, with special emphasis on power/energy estimations and power minimization methodologies; - Parallel/high throughput processing techniques for low-power digital signal/image processing; - Algorithm-level optimization, low-complexity algorithm for low-power digital signal/image processing; - MPEG Green Metadata; - Dynamic voltage and frequency scaling, hw and sw dynamic power management. Workshop Organizers: Francesca Palumbo, Universita degli Studi di Sassari, PolComIng Maxime Pelcat, INSA de Rennes, IETR Daniel Menard, INSA de Rennes, IETR Workshop website: http://hpc.pnl.gov/LP-EMS16/Home.html Paper Submission Deadline: February 6, 2016 ### Big Data Analytics Managing and processing large volumes of data, or "Big Data" and gaining meaningful insights is a significant challenge facing the distributed computing community; as a consequence, many business are demanding large scale streaming data analytics. This has significant impact in a wide range of domains including health care, bio-medical research, Internet search, finance and business informatics, and scientific computing. Despite considerable advancements on high performance, large storage, and high computation power, there are challenges in identifying, clustering, classifying, and interpreting of a large spectrum of information. The purpose of this workshop is to provide a fertile ground for collaboration between research institutions and industries and in analytics, machine learning, and high performance computing. Topics of interest are: - High performance data analytics - Machine and deep learning - Data search and representation - Architecture and system design - Cloud-based big data solutions - Software infrastructures Workshop Organizers: Roberta Piscitelli, EGI.eu Workshop Website: http://go.egi.eu/BigDAW16 Paper Submission Deadline: February 10, 2016 ### Malicious Software and Hardware in Internet of Things Aim and Scope: Cyber-physical and smart embedded systems, already highly networked, will be even more connected in the near future to form the Internet of Things, handling large amounts of private and safety critical data. The pervasive diffusion of these devices will create several threats to privacy and could open new possibilities for attackers, since the security of even larger portions of the Internet of Things could be harmed by compromising a reduced number of components. The possibility of securely updating devices should be guaranteed and it should be possible to verify and assert the root of trust of components. With respect to this context we expect contributions in different areas of security in Internet of Things. Topics of the workshop include but are not limited to: - Malicious firmware design and detection - Malware in Internet of Things applications - Hardware root of trust - Privacy issues of smart-home systems and complex systems - Hardware Trojans and their effects on systems - Hardware authentication and IP protection - Secure communication and key-management - Implementation attacks and countermeasures - Emerging threats and attack vectors in the Internet of Things - Supply chain security Workshop Organizers: Georg T. Becker, Ruhr-University Bochum Francesco Regazzoni, ALaRI - USI Workshop Website: http://www.alari.ch/mal-iot2016/ Paper Submission Deadline: February 10, 2016 ### Special Session On Funded Projects This year CF will also feature a special session on funded projects at the "frontier" of computing. The special session will include talks from well known principle investigators of collaborative projects all over the world (Europe, America, Asia) dealing with themes such as quantum and post quantum cryptography, high performance computing, data analytics, machine learning, emerging and revolutionary architectures, internet of things, wearables, and biological sensors. 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 Poster Chair: Miquel Moret??, Barcelona Supercomputing Center, ES 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 From brimmj at ornl.gov Wed Jan 6 17:13:46 2016 From: brimmj at ornl.gov (Michael J. Brim) Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 17:13:46 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: 2nd International Workshop on the Lustre Ecosystem Message-ID: <568D919A.4040505@ornl.gov> Deadline is less than two weeks away. Looking forward to your submissions. **** 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 xia at hust.edu.cn Wed Jan 6 02:03:24 2016 From: xia at hust.edu.cn (xia) Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2016 15:03:24 +0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP SDDCS 2016 in conjunction with IEEE ICDCS 2016 References: Message-ID: <201601061503239641334@hust.edu.cn> ***[Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this message]*** ========Call For Paper========= 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. Lui, The Chinese University of Hong Kong -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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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. The workshop content is build on two tracks: 1) research paper presentation ? you'll need to submit a short paper regarding relevant research for I/O in the datacenter. 2) talks from I/O experts ? you'll need to submit a rough outline for your talk. Contributions to both tracks are peer reviewed and require submission of the respective research paper or idea for your presentation via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpciodc2016 ** Track: research papers ** We accept short papers with up to 8 pages (excl. references) in LNCS format. Our targeted proceedings are ISC's post-conference workshop proceedings in Springers LNCS. Paper Deadlines - Submission deadline: 28-02-2016 AoE - Author notification: 23-03-2016 - Workshop: 23-05-2016 - Camera-ready papers: 23-06-2016 ** Track: Talks by I/O experts ** The topics of interest in this track include but are not limited to: - A description of the operational aspects of your data center - A particular solution for certain data center workloads in production If you are interested to participate, please submit a short (1/2 page) abstract of your talk together with a short Bio. Abstract Deadlines: - Submission deadline: 28-02-2016 AoE - Author notification: 23-03-2016 ** Organization ** The workshop is organized by - Julian Kunkel (DKRZ, Germany) - Jay Lofstead (Sandia National Lab, USA) - Colin McMurtrie (CSCS, Switzerland) ** Program Committee ** Our program committee will be announced soon. Kind regards, Julian Kunkel -- http://wr.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/people/julian_kunkel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From nikolas.herbst at uni-wuerzburg.de Mon Jan 18 10:09:32 2016 From: nikolas.herbst at uni-wuerzburg.de (Nikolas Herbst) Date: Mon, 18 Jan 2016 16:09:32 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Paper Deadline Extension: 13th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2016) Wuerzburg, Germany, July 19-22, 2016 Message-ID: <381EEF80-4AC0-4075-8E85-D7719B9D63B5@uni-wuerzburg.de> Please excuse in case you receive multiple copies of this CfP: __________________________________________________________________ ICAC 2016 3rd Call-for-Papers (Deadline Extension) http://icac2016.uni-wuerzburg.de/ 13th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2016) Wuerzburg, Germany, July 19-22, 2016 In cooperation with USENIX, SPEC and VDE ITG 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 * Workshop on Self Organizing Self Managing Clouds (SOSeMC 2016) * International Workshop on Spacecraft Autonomy * International Workshop on Self Adaptivity and Security ___________________________________________________________________ IMPORTANT DATES Abstract Submission: January 21, 2016 AoE (extended) Paper Submission: January 28, 2016 AoE (extended) Author Notification: April 15, 2016 Final Manuscript: May 1, 2016 Conference: July 19-22, 2016 Poster/Demo Proposals Due: March 30, 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 (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 Mueller-Schloer, Leibniz Universitaet Hannover, Germany Hausi A. Mueller, 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 From juliankunkel at googlemail.com Sun Feb 14 11:50:50 2016 From: juliankunkel at googlemail.com (Julian Kunkel) Date: Sun, 14 Feb 2016 17:50:50 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] UPDATED CFP 2nd IODC workshop at ISC High Performance Message-ID: The 2nd HPC I/O in the Data Center Workshop (HPC-IODC 2016) conjunction with ISC High Performance 2016 on Thursday June 23th, 2016, in Frankfurt, Germany. Url: http://wr.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/events/2016/iodc Our keynote talk will be given by Robert Ross with the topic: "Studying I/O in the Data Center: Observing and Simulating I/O for Fun and Profit". Rob Ross from Argonne National Laboratory serves as deputy director of the Scientific Data Management, Analysis, and Visualization Institute. He lead and was involved in many storage projects such as PVFS2, Darshan and CODES, and published more than 100 papers in the area of HPC-I/O. ** Workshop overview ** Managing scientific data at large scale is challenging for scientists but also for the host data center. The storage and file systems deployed within a data center are expected to meet users' requirements for data integrity and high performance across heterogeneous and concurrently running applications. With new storage technologies and layers in the memory hierarchy, the picture is becoming murkier. 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. The workshop content is build on two tracks: 1) research paper presentation ? you'll need to submit a short paper regarding relevant research for I/O in the datacenter. 2) talks from I/O experts ? you'll need to submit a rough outline for your talk. Contributions to both tracks are peer reviewed and require submission of the respective research paper or idea for your presentation via Easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=hpciodc2016 ** Track: research papers ** Due to the request of authors, we increased the page limit from to 10 pages. We accept short papers with up to 10 pages (excl. references) in LNCS format. Our targeted proceedings are ISC's post-conference workshop proceedings in Springers LNCS. Paper Deadlines - Submission deadline: 28-02-2016 AoE - Author notification: 23-03-2016 - Workshop: 23-05-2016 - Camera-ready papers: 23-06-2016 ** Track: Talks by I/O experts ** The topics of interest in this track include but are not limited to: - A description of the operational aspects of your data center - A particular solution for certain data center workloads in production If you are interested to participate, please submit a short (1/2 page) abstract of your talk together with a (very) short Bio. Abstract Deadlines: - Submission deadline: 28-02-2016 AoE - Author notification: 23-03-2016 - Workshop: 23-05-2016 ** Organization ** The workshop is organized by - Julian Kunkel (DKRZ, Germany) - Jay Lofstead (Sandia National Lab, USA) - Colin McMurtrie (CSCS, Switzerland) ** Program Committee ** - Wolfgang Frings (J?lich Supercomputing Center) - Javier Garcia Blas (University Carlos III of Madrid) - Rob Ross (Argonne National Laboratory) - Carlos Maltzahn (University of California, Santa Cruz) - Kathryn Mohror (Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory) - Julian Kunkel (DKRZ, Germany) - Jay Lofstead (Sandia National Laboratory) - Colin McMurtrie (CSCS, Switzerland) Kind regards, Julian Kunkel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mavega at unex.es Thu Feb 18 13:31:49 2016 From: mavega at unex.es (Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez) Date: Thu, 18 Feb 2016 19:31:49 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP - Euro-Par Workshop: PBio 2016 (proceedings published by Springer LNCS) + Special Issue in Journal Cluster Computing (IF: 1.510, Q1) Message-ID: <56C60E15.6050100@unex.es> Call for Papers --- Euro-Par Workshop: 4th International Workshop on Parallelism in Bioinformatics (proceedings published by Springer LNCS) + Special Issue in the Journal Cluster Computing (Impact Factor: 1.510, Quartile Q1) --- SUBMISSION DEADLINE: MAY 6, 2016 http://arco.unex.es/mavega/pbio/2016/ https://europar2016.inria.fr/workshops/ We seek original, high-quality research papers, clearly focused on the application of Parallelism to any possible Bioinformatics problem. In particular, contributions are solicited on, but are not limited to, the following topics: - Parallel and distributed algorithms in Bioinformatics. - Workload partitioning strategies in Bioinformatics. - Memory-efficient algorithms in Bioinformatics. - Parallel tools and applications in Bioinformatics. - Data-intensive Bioinformatics (including Big Data storage and processing). - Multicore computing in Bioinformatics. - Multithreaded computing in Bioinformatics. - Cluster computing in Bioinformatics. - Supercomputing in Bioinformatics. - Cloud/Grid/P2P computing in Bioinformatics. - Volunteer computing in Bioinformatics. - Hardware accelerators (GPUs, FPGAs, etc.) in Bioinformatics. - Heterogeneous computing in Bioinformatics. - Green computing in Bioinformatics. - Mobile computing in Bioinformatics. - Emerging parallel programming models in Bioinformatics. - Parallel performance evaluation, analysis, and optimization in Bioinformatics. - Parallel visualization, modelling, simulation, and exploration in Bioinformatics. With regard to the Bioinformatics problems, many different alternatives exist: bioinformatics applied to biomedicine and drug design; biological sequence analysis, comparison and alignment; motif, gene and signal recognition/discovery; molecular evolution; phylogenetics and phylogenomics; determination or prediction of the structure of RNA and protein; DNA twisting and folding; gene expression and gene regulatory networks; deduction of metabolic pathways; microarray design and analysis; proteomics; functional genomics; molecular docking; design of DNA sequences for molecular computing; etc. All the details (paper format, submission system, important dates, etc.) at: http://arco.unex.es/mavega/pbio/2016/ https://europar2016.inria.fr/workshops/ --- Kind regards. ------------------------------------------------- Dr. Miguel A. Vega-Rodriguez http://arco.unex.es/mavega ARCO Research Group University of Extremadura Dept. Technologies of Computers & Communications Escuela Politecnica. Campus Universitario, s/n 10003 Caceres. SPAIN Tel: +34-927-25-72-63 Fax: +34-927-25-71-87 ------------------------------------------------- From curfman at mcs.anl.gov Fri Feb 19 12:20:49 2016 From: curfman at mcs.anl.gov (McInnes, Lois Curfman) Date: Fri, 19 Feb 2016 17:20:49 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: SC16 tech papers: abstracts due March 27 Message-ID: SC16, the premier annual international Conference on high-performance computing, networking, storage, and analysis, will be held in Salt Lake City, UT, USA, Nov 13-18, 2016. The SC16 Conference Committee solicits submissions of technical papers that introduce new ideas to the field and stimulate future trends on topics related to high-performance computing, including algorithms; applications; architecture and networks; clouds and distributed computing; data analytics, visualization, and storage; performance measurement, modeling, and tools; programming systems; state of the practice; and system software. New this year: Double-blind review: SC16 will use a double-blind review process, which is a change from prior years. Details will appear on the SC16 website by March 1, 2016. Reproducibility initiative: As part of an initiative that aims to increase the level of reproducibility and replicability of results, SC16 invites authors of technical papers to volunteer to publish their methodology, code, and data with the paper, if their paper is accepted to SC16. Details will appear on the SC16 website by March 1, 2016. Important dates: Submissions open: March 1, 2016. Abstracts due (required): March 27, 2016 (firm deadline). Full papers due: April 3, 2016 (a traditional one week extension will be given until April 10, 2016; no further extensions will be granted). More information about SC16 Technical Papers: http://sc16.supercomputing.org/program/technical-papers Email contact: papers at info.supercomputing.org Lois Curfman McInnes (Argonne) and Rich Vuduc (Georgia Tech) SC16 Technical Papers Chair and Vice Chair -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From michael.mesnier at intel.com Sat Feb 20 13:13:09 2016 From: michael.mesnier at intel.com (Mesnier, Michael) Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 18:13:09 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] System Analytics and Characterization (SAC 2016) Message-ID: <8F7EBF915FC57B4990596F12454BB3E56BC5F6CB@ORSMSX107.amr.corp.intel.com> SAC is a new workshop focused on systems and techniques for evaluating big data. It will co-located with SIGMETRICS this year. Below is the call for papers. Please consider submitting your work! https://sites.google.com/site/sacconference2016 Mike Mesnier Intel Labs -------- 1st International Workshop on System Analytics and Characterization (SAC 2016) Co-located with SIGMETRICS 2016 The statistical techniques at the forefront of the big data movement are uniquely suited to the systems community; even modest sized systems can easily produce hundreds of millions of data entries per hour. Efficiently tracking and mining this data has the potential for significant benefits, ranging from performance optimization in data centers to fundamental architectural changes in how we design and organize scalable systems. To apply these techniques successfully, as well as to understand the new challenges in data-driven systems design and administration, we must take a close look at current best practices and explore novel techniques in trace collection, validation, and analysis. Important Dates: Submission Deadline: April 1st, 2016, Anywhere-on-Earth (https://www.timeanddate.com/time/zones/aoe) Author Notification: May 2nd, 2016 Workshop Date: June 18th, 2016 Venue: SAC 2016 is co-located with SIGMETRICS in scenic Antibes Juan-Les-Pins, France: http://www.antibesjuanlespins-congres.com/ Scope: Submissions on applications, results and experiences are of course welcome, but we have a particular interest in submissions with novel applications, new unsolved problems, and 'pie-in-the-sky' ideas to stimulate discussions and new collaborations. Within this scope, topics of interest include, but are not limited to: *Efficient Data Gathering: Possible topics include low-overhead workload collection, sub-sampling, and synthetic workload generation. *Trace Validation and Replay: Possible topics include instrumentation, trace reconstruction, and hint generation. *Characterization and Prediction: Possible topics include novel applications of data mining to system traces and performance analysis, predicting and analysis in real time systems, and workload characterization. *Submission Guidelines: Submissions should take the form of an extended abstract, not to exceed 3 pages in length, in ACM format. For an accepted paper, at least one author must attend. Accepted abstracts will be given a 10-15 minute time slot for presentation, with at least 5 minutes for questions and discussion after each presentation. Come prepared! Submissions under NDA will not be considered. All submissions should be original, unpublished work. Papers will be submitted through Easychair, which will open 2 weeks prior to the submission deadline. Committee: General Chairs Avani Wildani (Emory University, USA) Ian Adams (Intel Research, USA) TPC: Cameron Walker (U Auckland) David L Hart (NCAR) Bill Anderson (NCAR) Tipp Moseley (Google) Mike Mesnier (Intel) Kirk Cameron (Virginia Tech) Hanan Lutfiyya (U Waterloo) Dirk Meister (Pure Storage) Jerzy Proficz (Gda?sk University of Technology) Alma Riska (NetApp ATG) Vasily Tarasov (IBM Almaden) Mary Baker (HP) Geoff Kuenning (Harvey Mudd) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From sunisg123 at gmail.com Mon Feb 22 19:35:39 2016 From: sunisg123 at gmail.com (Sunita Chandrasekaran) Date: Mon, 22 Feb 2016 19:35:39 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] The First Workshop on Mission-Critical Big Data Analytics (MCBDA 2016) Message-ID: ================================================ The First Workshop on Mission-Critical Big Data Analytics (MCBDA 2016) The Mission-Critical Big Data Analytics workshop (MCBDA 2016) is intended to serve as a forum for discussion of all aspects of current research and development in big data analytics, especially in support of mission-critical applications. The big data era has led to a wealth of fundamental and practical research that focuses on solving the challenges involved in analyzing massive volumes of complex data from a variety of sources. Furthermore, there is a growing demand for real-time stream data analytics to support mission-critical applications in military, healthcare, retail, security, and other important sectors. A big data analytics platform is needed that is able to continuously process streaming data from smart sensors, cameras, and other devices and to help make real-time decisions for mission-critical applications. This requirement, in turn, is driving innovation in areas such as computing platform design, programming models, communications, IoT/sensor networks, and algorithms. The objective of this workshop is to bring together researchers to discuss the state of the art and potential innovations in these fields, and to publish findings that address the big data analytics challenges. Authors are invited to submit work that is related to the theme of this conference, as described below. The workshop program will include submitted presentations on cutting edge research topics in big data, keynote speeches, and tutorial sessions with hands-on training. These will be accompanied by a poster session and a demo session where students will present their work. This two-day event will take place on May 16-17, 2016 at Prairie View A&M University. Part of the Texas A&M University System, Prairie View is an HBCU located near Houston, Texas. Topics of Interest Topics of the workshop include, but are not limited to, the following. 1. Architecture a. Big Data Analytics Platforms b. Cloud Computing for Big Data Analytics c. Heterogeneous Cloud Platform with GPU, APU, FPGA d. Dynamic resource provisioning e. Big data storage architecture 2. Programming Models a. New scalable programming models for big data analytics b. Spark / MapReduce Performance characterization and optimization c. Spark / MapReduce on Heterogeneous computing systems d. Extensions of Spark/MapReduce e. Debugging and Performance Tools 3. Algorithms a. Machine Learning algorithms b. Data Mining algorithms c. Statistical methods d. Graph algorithms e. Big data querying and search 4. Applications a. Mission-critical big data analytics applications b. Stream processing/analytics applications c. Data-intensive applications using Spark/MapReduce d. Real-time applications e. Image and video analytics 5. Big Data Collection and Aggregation: a. Big data collection in IoT/sensor networks b. Big data processing schemes in IoT/sensor networks c. Mobile and cloud support for IoT/sensor networks d. Security and privacy in IoT/sensor networks e. Energy efficiency of IoT/sensor networks 6. HPC and Big Data a. Convergence of HPC and Big Data Frameworks b. HPC programming models for Big Data Applications c. Performance optimizations for Big Data Systems and Applications d. Performance Modeling for Big Data Computing e. Scientific Computing with Big Data f. HPC and Big Data Education Important dates ? Paper submission: March 31st, 2016 ? Notification of acceptance: April 20th, 2016 ? Camera-ready paper: April 30th, 2016 ? Workshop: May 16th-17th, 2016 *STEERING COMMITTEE* Cajetan Akujuobi, PVAMU Evelyn Kent, OSD/DOD Jie Liu, Microsoft Research *ORGANIZING COMMITTEE* *General Chairs* Barbara Chapman, Stony Brook University Timothy S. Kroecker, AFRL *Technical Program Chairs* Alex Aved, AFRL Lijun Qian, PVAMU Lei Huang, PVAMU TECHNICAL PROGRAM COMMITTEE Sikha Bagui, University of West Florida, USA Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA Xiaoming Li, University of Delaware, USA Chunhua Liao, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Yongchao Liu, Georgia Tech, USA Mariofanna Milanova, University of Arkansas, USA Shishir Shah, University of Houston, USA Yonghui Wang, Prairie View A&M University, USA Dalei Wu, University of Tennessee, USA Yonggao Yang, Prairie View A&M University, USA *LOCAL ORGANIZATION COMMITTEE * *Yonggao Yang (Publications) * Xiangfang Li (Tutorials) Pamela Obiomon (Student Posters) *John Fuller (Local Arrangements)* *Paul Potier (Industry Contacts)* *Yonghui Wang (Publicity)* *Lin Li (Publicity)* *Suxia Cui (Finances)* *Yuzhong Yan (Registration)* Paper Submission Guidelines Submissions may not exceed 4 pages in PDF format including figures and references, and must be formatted in the 2-column IEEE format. Submitted papers must be original work that has not appeared in, and is not under consideration for, another conference or journal. Work in progress is welcome, but preliminary results should be made available as a proof of concept. Accepted papers will be printed in the conference proceedings. Selected authors will be invited to submit full-length papers for inclusion in a Special Issue of one of the leading journals in this field. Templates are available on the IEEE website: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html Submissions are to be uploaded at EasyChair: http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mcbda2016 Registration The workshop registration fee is $200, including 2 breakfast and 2 lunches. This workshop is FREE for students (registration is required; current student ID is required on site; breakfast and lunch not included). Please register at: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/the-first-workshop-of-mission-critical-big-data-analytics-mcbda-2016-tickets-20587633165 Contact For further information, contact Prof. Lei Huang, Prairie View A&M University: lhuang at pvamu.edu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jdigney at cs.cmu.edu Thu Mar 3 10:23:12 2016 From: jdigney at cs.cmu.edu (Joan Digney) Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 08:23:12 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Fwd: Regarding CFP for NAS 2016 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: <56D856E0.20606@cs.cmu.edu> -------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: Regarding CFP for NAS 2016 Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2016 15:16:37 +0000 From: Gupta, Saurabh To: storage-research-list-owner at ece.cmu.edu Hello, I am serving as the publicity chair for 11th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture and Storage (NAS 2016). I think this CFP may be of interest to the subscriber of *Storage-research-list*. It will great if you could forward the following on your email list. Thank you. -Saurabh Gupta Oak Ridge National Laboratory ===================================================================================== Call for Papers: 11th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture and Storage (NAS 2016) Long Beach, California, USA August 8-10, 2016 Web: http://www.nas-conference.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: April 10, 2016 Notification:May 29, 2016 Camera-Ready Copy: June 26, 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OVERVIEW The International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage 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 2016 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. The program committee will nominate best papers for recognition in each of 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL CHAIR - Zizhong Chen (U of California, Riverside) PROGRAM CHAIRS - Darren Kerbyson (PNNL) - Song Jiang (Wayne State U) VICE PROGRAM CHAIRS Networking: - Ron Brightwell (SNL) - Yu Hua (HUST) Architecture: - Jishen Zhao (UC Santa Cruz) - Reetuparna Das(Uof Michigan) Storage: - Darrell Long (UC Santa Cruz) - Devesh Tiwari (ORNL) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR - Nael Abu-Ghazaleh (UC, Riverside) PUBLICATIONS CHAIR - Bo Wu (Colorado School of Mines) REGISTRATION & FINANCE CHAIR - Fengguang Song (IUPUI) PUBLICITY CHAIRS - Saurabh Gupta (ORNL) - Dongfang Zhao (PNNL) - Jin Wang (Chongqing U of Post & Tel) - Jidong Zhai (Tsinghua U) WEB CHAIR - Chih Hsun Chou (UC, Riverside) STEERING COMMITTEE - Xubin He (Virginia Commonwealth U) - Changsheng Xie (Huazhong U of Sci. 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Call for Papers: 11th IEEE International Conference on Networking, Architecture and Storage (NAS 2016) Long Beach, California, USA August 8-10, 2016 Web: http://www.nas-conference.org/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- IMPORTANT DATES Paper Submission: April 10, 2016 Notification: May 29, 2016 Camera-Ready Copy: June 26, 2016 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- OVERVIEW The International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage 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 2016 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. The program committee will nominate best papers for recognition in each of 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. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- TOPICS OF INTEREST 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- GENERAL CHAIR - Zizhong Chen (U of California, Riverside) PROGRAM CHAIRS - Darren Kerbyson (PNNL) - Song Jiang (Wayne State U) VICE PROGRAM CHAIRS Networking: - Ron Brightwell (SNL) - Yu Hua (HUST) Architecture: - Jishen Zhao (UC Santa Cruz) - Reetuparna Das(Uof Michigan) Storage: - Darrell Long (UC Santa Cruz) - Devesh Tiwari (ORNL) LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS CHAIR - Nael Abu-Ghazaleh (UC, Riverside) PUBLICATIONS CHAIR - Bo Wu (Colorado School of Mines) REGISTRATION & FINANCE CHAIR - Fengguang Song (IUPUI) PUBLICITY CHAIRS - Saurabh Gupta (ORNL) - Dongfang Zhao (PNNL) - Jin Wang (Chongqing U of Post & Tel) - Jidong Zhai (Tsinghua U) WEB CHAIR - Chih Hsun Chou (UC, Riverside) STEERING COMMITTEE - Xubin He (Virginia Commonwealth U) - Changsheng Xie (Huazhong U of Sci. 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URL: From m.musolesi at ucl.ac.uk Sat Mar 12 13:57:47 2016 From: m.musolesi at ucl.ac.uk (Mirco Musolesi) Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2016 19:57:47 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CfP Middleware 2016: ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-posting] Middleware 2016: ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference http://2016.middleware-conference.org/ Where: Trento, Italy When: Dec 12, 2016 - Dec 16, 2016 Dates: Abstract Submission May 13 (Friday) *FIRM DEADLINE* Paper Submission May 20 (Friday) *FIRM DEADLINE* Author rebuttal June 27 - June 29 (Monday-Wednesday) Notification Due Aug 15 (Monday) Final Version Due Sep 7, 2015 Call for Papers: 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. The scope of the conference is the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed system platforms and architectures for computing, storage, and communication environments. Highlights of the conference will include a high quality single-track technical program, invited speakers, an industrial track, panel discussions involving academic and industry leaders, poster and demonstration presentations, a doctoral symposium, and workshops. Topics: Original submissions of research papers on a diversity of topics are sought, particularly those identifying new research directions. The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to: Platforms and Usage Models of Middleware for: * Emerging cloud computing platforms, 5G * Data-intensive computing (Big Data) and data analytics * Mobile devices and services * Ubiquitous and pervasive computing * Internet applications and multimedia * Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, smart cities * Network function virtualization Systems Issues for Middleware * Reliability and fault tolerance * Consistency, availability, and replication * Energy- and power-aware techniques * Virtualization, auto-scaling, provisioning, and scheduling * Real-time solutions and quality of service * Scalability and performance * Security and privacy Design Principles and Programming Support * Event-based, publish/subscribe, and peer-to-peer solutions * Reconfigurable, adaptable, and reflective approaches * Novel programming abstractions and paradigms for middleware * Methodologies and tools for middleware design, implementation, verification, and evaluation * Retrospective reviews of middleware paradigms, e.g., object models, aspect orientation, etc. Original research papers of three types are sought on the above topics. a) Research Papers: Original research papers are sought on the above topics. b) Experimentation and Deployment Papers : These papers describe complete systems, platforms, and papers with comprehensive experimental evaluations of alternative designs and solutions to well-known problems. The emphasis during the evaluation of these papers will be less on the novelty and more on the demonstrated usefulness and potential impact of the contributions, the extensive experimentation involved, and the quality and weight of the lessons learned. c) Big-Ideas Papers: These are papers that have the potential for opening up new research directions. For such papers, the potential to motivate new research is more important than full experimental evaluation, though some preliminary evidence of the effectiveness of the approach or idea is important. The Middleware 2016 conference proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Accepted submissions will be available on the ACM digital library at least one week before the conference. Submitted papers may have at most 12 pages of technical content, including text, figures, appendices, etc. In addition to the 12 pages allowed for technical content, a submission may include any number of additional pages of bibliographic references. Submitted papers should adhere to the formatting instructions of the ACM Style that you can find on the submission page and should clearly indicate their type on their first page. Please note that submissions are single-blind: authors' names should appear. AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date will be 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 the Middleware conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. The Middleware conference adopts a 2-phase review process in which the authors, after receiving a first set of reviews, have the opportunity to respond with a rebuttal to the reviewers? comments. This rebuttal is then visible to the additional reviewers in the second phase, and in general is taken into account into the paper selection process. Organizers: General Chair: Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy Program Co-chairs: Sonia Ben Mokhtar, LIRIS-DRIM, Lyon, France Dejan Milojicic, Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA Technical Program Committee Alvin AuYoung Hewlett Packard Labs, USA Jean Bacon Cambridge University, UK Roberto Baldoni University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy Gordon Blair Lancaster University, UK Sara Bouchenak INSA Lyon, France Y?rom-David Bromberg IRISA, France Abhishek Chandra University of Minnesota, USA Yuan Chen Hewlett Packard Labs, USA Lucy Cherkasova Hewlett Packard Labs, USA Shigeru Chiba The University of Tokyo, Japan Octave Chipara University of Iowa, USA Angelo Corsaro Prismtech Zoran Dimitrijevic Altiscale, Palo Alto, USA Fred Douglas EMC Tudor Dumitras University of Maryland, USA David Eyers University of Otago, New Zeland Pascal Felber University of Neuch?tel, Switzerland Paulo Ferreira INESC ID / University of Lisbon, Portugal Christof Fetzer TU Dresden, Germany Ian Foster Argonne National Laboratory & The University of Chicago, USA Davide Frey INRIA, France Roy Friedman Technion, Israel Gang Huang Peking University, China Beno?t Garbinato Universit? de Lausanne, Switzerland Rachid Guerraoui EPFL, Switzerland Abhishek Gupta Intel Corp. Franz J. Hauck Ulm University, Germany Cheng-Hsin Hsu National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Kevin Huguenin LAAS, CNRS, France Valerie Issarny INRIA, France Arun Iyengar IBM Research Hans-Arno Jacobsen University of Toronto, Canada Mark Jelasity University of Szeged, Hungray R?diger Kapitza TU Braunschweig, Germany Bettina Kemme McGill University, Canada Anne-Marie Kermarrek INRIA, France Fabio Kon University of S?o Paulo, Brazil Young-Woo Kwon Utah State University, USA Danny B. Lange Uber, USA Julia Lawall INRIA, France Doug Lea SUNY Oswego Zhenhua Li Tsinghua University, China David Lomet Microsoft Research, USA Joseph Loyall BBN Technologies Hong Mei Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Peking University, China Alberto Montresor University of Trento, Italy Jeff Morgan Samsung Research America, USA Amy L. Murphy Bruno Kessler Foundation, Italy Mirco Musolesi University College London, UK Gabriel Parmer GDW Fernando Pedone University of Lugano, Switzerland Peter Pietzuch Imperial College London, UK Johan Pouwelse Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Vivien Qu?ma Grenoble INP, France Binoy Ravindran Virginia Tech, USA Laurent R?veill?re Bordeaux INP, France Etienne Rivi?re University of Neuch?tel, Switzerland Luis Rodrigues INESC-ID, IST, U Lisboa, Portugal Romain Rouvoy University of Lille 1 / Inria, France Rick Schlichting AT&T Labs Jatinder Singh University of Cambridge, UK Robert Soul? Universit? della Svizzera italiana, Italy Mike Spreitzer IBM Research, USA Fran?ois Ta?ani Universit? de Rennes 1/ IRISA / ESIR, INRIA, France Eli Tilevich Virginia Tech, USA Peter Triantafillou University of Glasgow , UK Robbert Van Renesse Cornell University, USA Maarten van Steen University of Twente, Netherlands Nalini Venkatasubramanian University of California, Irvine, USA Lu?s Veiga INESC-ID / Instituto Superior T?cnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Steve Vinoski Arista Networks, Nashua, NH, USA Timothy Wood George Washington University, USA -- 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 boukhobza at univ-brest.fr Sun Mar 27 16:14:41 2016 From: boukhobza at univ-brest.fr (Jalil Boukhobza) Date: Sun, 27 Mar 2016 22:14:41 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] TIEEE NVMSA CFP --> April 1: Abstract Submission Deadline Message-ID: <052801d18865$4bef6670$e3ce3350$@univ-brest.fr> Call for Papers The 4th IEEE Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium (NVMSA) Daegu, Korea August 17-19, 2016 https://sites.google.com/a/camelab.org/nvmsa-2016/ Non-Volatile memory (NVM) technologies have demonstrated great potentials on improving many aspects of present and future memory hierarchy, offering high integration density, larger capacity, zero standby power and good resilience to soft errors. The recent research progress of various NVMs, e.g., NAND flash, PCM, STT-RAM, RRAM, FeRAM, etc., have drawn tremendous attentions from both academy and industry. Besides developing robust and scalable devices, the unique characteristics of these NVM technologies, such as read-write asymmetry, stochastic programming behavior, performance-power-nonvolatility tradeoff etc., introduce plenty of opportunities and challenges for novel circuit designs, architectures, system organizations, and management strategies. There is an urgent need of technology invention, modeling, analysis, design and application of these NVMs ranging from circuit design level to system level. IEEE Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium (NVMSA) provides a fantastic opportunity for global nonvolatile memory researchers from different communities to discuss and exchange knowledge, ideas, and insights, and to facilitate the establishment of potential collaborations that can speed up the progress in the design and application of NVMs. An expanded technical program will be offered in NVMSA 2016 for the audience from academy and industry. The organizing committee is soliciting various topics on related to NVMs including (but not limited to): Device/Circuit design of NVMs * Emerging Non-volatile Memory Circuit Design * NVM Device Design * Error correction for NVMs * Nonvolatile Logic Circuit Design NVM Architectures and Systems * Non-volatile Registers * Non-volatile Memory Architectures * Non-volatile Cache Design * NVM-based Neuromorphic Architectures * NVM-based Storage NVM Software * Operating System Support for NVM * Compiler Optimization for NVM * NVM-based File Systems * NVM-based Storage Software * NVM-based Databases * NVM Controller Design NVM Applications * In-memory Computing * NVM for Big Data Analytics * NVM in Mobile Healthcare Applications * NVM in Wearable Applications * NVM and the Internet of Things The topics of NVMSA cover the research and development advances in both mainstream and emerging NVMs. The event is designed to foster interaction and presentation of early results, new ideas and speculative directions. Thus, NVMSA will combine the presentations of the papers accepted from the regular submissions as well as a number of invited talks from researchers in academia, technologists from industry, and case studies on the use of NVMs. Participating authors are invited to submit six-page manuscripts to the conference and all accepted papers will be published in the conference proceeding. Conference content will be submitted for inclusion into IEEE Xplore as well as other Abstracting and Indexing (A&I) databases. The extensions of some selected papers will be published in a special issue of The Journal of Systems Architecture: Embedded Software Design. Important Dates April 1: Abstract Submission Deadline April 14: Paper Submission Deadline June 1: Acceptance notification June 12: Camera ready Associated Conference: The 22nd IEEE International Conference on Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications (RTCSA 2016) From parashar at cac.rutgers.edu Mon Apr 18 11:30:19 2016 From: parashar at cac.rutgers.edu (Manish Parashar) Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 11:30:19 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Applications - ACM/IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship Program / Deadline 05/01/16 References: <1E90C4CD-F8A7-405F-9ECD-83BCB599CD93@rutgers.edu> Message-ID: <98AA3FD6-7E7A-4FBF-8E4C-0D2D08B522FF@cac.rutgers.edu> ACM/IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship Program CALL FOR APPLICATIONS Submissions Due May 1, 2016 The ACM/IEEE-CS George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship honors exceptional PhD students throughout the world whose research focus is on high-performance computing applications, networking, storage, or large-scale data analysis using the most powerful computers that are currently available. The award committee is selected by the two societies and includes past winners as well as leaders in the field. The Fellowship reflects the two societies? (ACM and IEEE-CS) long-standing commitment to workforce diversity. Applications from women, minorities, international students, and all who contribute to diversity are encouraged. Advisees of committee members are not eligible for the award, nor can committee members provide recommendation letters. Award ? $5000 honorarium ? Travel and registration to attend SC16 in Salt Lake City, UT, and be honored at the Awards Session ? Recognition with other HPC award winners on the ACM, IEEE-CS, and ACM SIGHPC websites Selection Criteria Candidates must be enrolled in a full-time PhD program at an accredited college or university and must meet the minimum scholastic requirements at their institution. They are expected to have completed at least one year of study, and have at least one year remaining between the application deadline and their expected graduation. Applications will be evaluated based on the following factors: ? Overall potential for research excellence ? Degree to which technical interests align with those of the HPC community ? Demonstration of current and planned future use of HPC resources ? Evidence of a plan of study to enhance HPC-related skills ? Evidence of academic progress to-date, including presentations and publications ? Recommendations by faculty advisor Submissions: Nominations for the George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship are in the form of self-nominations, submitted using the online nomination form at https://campus.acm.org/public/awards/george_michael_nomination.cfm . Materials must be prepared as specified below. Incomplete or incorrect nominations will be disqualified. ? Name, address, phone number, and email address of nominator (in this case, the candidate is self-nominating). ? Name and contact information for endorser (must be the candidate?s PhD advisor). After the nomination has been submitted, the student will receive an email confirming its receipt, and the advisor will receive an email (from acm-awards at acm.org ) with information and a URL to submit a confidential letter of endorsement (not to exceed 1500 words). Please note that the endorsement must be submitted and confirmed (two-step process). It is the candidate's responsibility to ensure that the advisor submits and confirms the endorsement before the deadline date. Email notification is sent to the student and to the advisor after the endorsement process has been completed. ? Suggested citation if the nomination is selected. This should be a concise statement (maximum of 25 words) describing your research. Note that the final wording for award announcements will be at the discretion of the Award Committee. ? Nomination (PDF not exceeding 5 pages in length, following typical technical paper page standards: 11 pt font, single spaced text, fitting within 7.5? x 10? text area). Note that the research interests should be explained in terms understandable to a non-specialist. Only nominations meeting all requirements, including length limitations, will be considered. 1. Educational Information (use a table listing each item in a separate row) ? name of educational institution ? name of department ? name of department chair ? enrollment basis (either Full Time or Other; explain if Other) ? year and term PhD program was entered ? most recent GPA ? expect graduation date 2. Additional Candidate Information ? primary telephone ? alternate telephone 3. Statement (2 pp max) ? description of candidate?s research and its importance ? progress to date ? how candidate has used HPC in the past ? plans for the remaining year(s) of graduate study 4. Publications, Reports, and Major Presentations ? bibliographic-style listing, including names of all authors in the order they appeared on the title page/slide ? system and environment where performance was measured (1 p max) Submissions close: Sunday, 01 May 2016 Questions Contact: hpc-fellowship-questions at info.supercomputing.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.musolesi at ucl.ac.uk Sat Apr 23 05:52:48 2016 From: m.musolesi at ucl.ac.uk (Mirco Musolesi) Date: Sat, 23 Apr 2016 10:52:48 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] 2nd CfP Middleware 2016: ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference Message-ID: <96806722-A020-4986-B4BF-302D95D6176D@ucl.ac.uk> [Apologies for cross-posting] Middleware 2016: ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference http://2016.middleware-conference.org/ Where: Trento, Italy When: Dec 12, 2016 - Dec 16, 2016 Dates: Abstract Submission May 13 (Friday) *FIRM DEADLINE* Paper Submission May 20 (Friday) *FIRM DEADLINE* Author rebuttal June 27 - June 29 (Monday-Wednesday) Notification Due Aug 15 (Monday) Final Version Due Sep 7, 2015 Call for Papers: 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. The scope of the conference is the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed system platforms and architectures for computing, storage, and communication environments. Highlights of the conference will include a high quality single-track technical program, invited speakers, an industrial track, panel discussions involving academic and industry leaders, poster and demonstration presentations, a doctoral symposium, and workshops. Topics: Original submissions of research papers on a diversity of topics are sought, particularly those identifying new research directions. The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to: Platforms and Usage Models of Middleware for: * Emerging cloud computing platforms, 5G * Data-intensive computing (Big Data) and data analytics * Mobile devices and services * Ubiquitous and pervasive computing * Internet applications and multimedia * Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, smart cities * Network function virtualization Systems Issues for Middleware * Reliability and fault tolerance * Consistency, availability, and replication * Energy- and power-aware techniques * Virtualization, auto-scaling, provisioning, and scheduling * Real-time solutions and quality of service * Scalability and performance * Security and privacy Design Principles and Programming Support * Event-based, publish/subscribe, and peer-to-peer solutions * Reconfigurable, adaptable, and reflective approaches * Novel programming abstractions and paradigms for middleware * Methodologies and tools for middleware design, implementation, verification, and evaluation * Retrospective reviews of middleware paradigms, e.g., object models, aspect orientation, etc. Original research papers of three types are sought on the above topics. a) Research Papers: Original research papers are sought on the above topics. b) Experimentation and Deployment Papers : These papers describe complete systems, platforms, and papers with comprehensive experimental evaluations of alternative designs and solutions to well-known problems. The emphasis during the evaluation of these papers will be less on the novelty and more on the demonstrated usefulness and potential impact of the contributions, the extensive experimentation involved, and the quality and weight of the lessons learned. c) Big-Ideas Papers: These are papers that have the potential for opening up new research directions. For such papers, the potential to motivate new research is more important than full experimental evaluation, though some preliminary evidence of the effectiveness of the approach or idea is important. The Middleware 2016 conference proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Accepted submissions will be available on the ACM digital library at least one week before the conference. Submitted papers may have at most 12 pages of technical content, including text, figures, appendices, etc. In addition to the 12 pages allowed for technical content, a submission may include any number of additional pages of bibliographic references. Submitted papers should adhere to the formatting instructions of the ACM Style that you can find on the submission page and should clearly indicate their type on their first page. Please note that submissions are single-blind: authors' names should appear. AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date will be 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 the Middleware conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. The Middleware conference adopts a 2-phase review process in which the authors, after receiving a first set of reviews, have the opportunity to respond with a rebuttal to the reviewers? comments. This rebuttal is then visible to the additional reviewers in the second phase, and in general is taken into account into the paper selection process. Organizers: General Chair: Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy Program Co-chairs: Sonia Ben Mokhtar, LIRIS-DRIM, Lyon, France Dejan Milojicic, Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA Technical Program Committee Alvin AuYoung Hewlett Packard Labs, USA Jean Bacon Cambridge University, UK Roberto Baldoni University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy Gordon Blair Lancaster University, UK Sara Bouchenak INSA Lyon, France Y?rom-David Bromberg IRISA, France Abhishek Chandra University of Minnesota, USA Yuan Chen Hewlett Packard Labs, USA Lucy Cherkasova Hewlett Packard Labs, USA Shigeru Chiba The University of Tokyo, Japan Octave Chipara University of Iowa, USA Angelo Corsaro Prismtech Zoran Dimitrijevic Altiscale, Palo Alto, USA Fred Douglas EMC Tudor Dumitras University of Maryland, USA David Eyers University of Otago, New Zeland Pascal Felber University of Neuch?tel, Switzerland Paulo Ferreira INESC ID / University of Lisbon, Portugal Christof Fetzer TU Dresden, Germany Ian Foster Argonne National Laboratory & The University of Chicago, USA Davide Frey INRIA, France Roy Friedman Technion, Israel Gang Huang Peking University, China Beno?t Garbinato Universit? de Lausanne, Switzerland Rachid Guerraoui EPFL, Switzerland Abhishek Gupta Intel Corp. Franz J. Hauck Ulm University, Germany Cheng-Hsin Hsu National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Kevin Huguenin LAAS, CNRS, France Valerie Issarny INRIA, France Arun Iyengar IBM Research Hans-Arno Jacobsen University of Toronto, Canada Mark Jelasity University of Szeged, Hungray R?diger Kapitza TU Braunschweig, Germany Bettina Kemme McGill University, Canada Anne-Marie Kermarrek INRIA, France Fabio Kon University of S?o Paulo, Brazil Young-Woo Kwon Utah State University, USA Danny B. Lange Uber, USA Julia Lawall INRIA, France Doug Lea SUNY Oswego Zhenhua Li Tsinghua University, China David Lomet Microsoft Research, USA Joseph Loyall BBN Technologies Hong Mei Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Peking University, China Alberto Montresor University of Trento, Italy Jeff Morgan Samsung Research America, USA Amy L. Murphy Bruno Kessler Foundation, Italy Mirco Musolesi University College London, UK Gabriel Parmer GDW Fernando Pedone University of Lugano, Switzerland Peter Pietzuch Imperial College London, UK Johan Pouwelse Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Vivien Qu?ma Grenoble INP, France Binoy Ravindran Virginia Tech, USA Laurent R?veill?re Bordeaux INP, France Etienne Rivi?re University of Neuch?tel, Switzerland Luis Rodrigues INESC-ID, IST, U Lisboa, Portugal Romain Rouvoy University of Lille 1 / Inria, France Rick Schlichting AT&T Labs Jatinder Singh University of Cambridge, UK Robert Soul? Universit? della Svizzera italiana, Italy Mike Spreitzer IBM Research, USA Fran?ois Ta?ani Universit? de Rennes 1/ IRISA / ESIR, INRIA, France Eli Tilevich Virginia Tech, USA Peter Triantafillou University of Glasgow , UK Robbert Van Renesse Cornell University, USA Maarten van Steen University of Twente, Netherlands Nalini Venkatasubramanian University of California, Irvine, USA Lu?s Veiga INESC-ID / Instituto Superior T?cnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Steve Vinoski Arista Networks, Nashua, NH, USA Timothy Wood George Washington University, USA -- 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 ukarpuzc at umn.edu Wed Apr 20 10:08:31 2016 From: ukarpuzc at umn.edu (Ulya Karpuzcu) Date: Wed, 20 Apr 2016 09:08:31 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] ICS 2016: Call for Participation -- Early Registration Deadline May 9 Message-ID: Apologies if you receive multiple copies! **************************************************************************** CALL FOR PARTICIPATION ICS 2016 International Conference on Supercomputing Istanbul, TURKEY -- June 1-3, 2016 http://ics16.bilkent.edu.tr/ **************************************************************************** EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: May 9, 2016 KEYNOTE SPEAKERS: Yale Patt and Wen-mei Hwu **************************************************************************** ICS'16 registration portal is live NOW. You can take advantage of early bird registration until May. 9! ICS is the premier international forum for the presentation of research results in high-performance computing systems and supercomputing. More specifically, - Computer architecture and hardware - Programming models for high-performance computing and supercomputing - Static and dynamic compilation support - Runtime and system software support - Power/energy management in high-performance computing - Workload characterization - Big data analytics - Parallel and distributed file system design - Reliability, security, robustness issues in high performance systems; - Data structure and algorithm design - Experimental studies of real systems - Let's Meet Where Continents Meet - Ozcan Ozturk On behalf of the ICS 2016 organization team From sunisg123 at gmail.com Mon Apr 25 09:11:48 2016 From: sunisg123 at gmail.com (Sunita Chandrasekaran) Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2016 09:11:48 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Women in HPC at ISC 2016: Call for posters and participation Message-ID: *Women in HPC at ISC 2016: Call for posters and participation* *In collaboration with ISC High Performance 2016* *http://www.womeninhpc.org/women-in-hpc-at-isc-2016/* Women in HPC will attend ISC for a second year in June 2016. Once again we will bring together women from across the international HPC community, providing opportunities to network, showcasing the work of inspiring women and discussing how we can all work towards to improving the under-representation of women in supercomputing. *Workshop* *Thursday 23 June 2016 (Time to be confirmed)* The fourth international Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) workshop, held at ISC 2016, Frankfurt, Germany will once again bring together the HPC community to discuss the growing importance of increasing diversity in the workplace. This workshop aims to recognize and discuss the challenges faced by women, one of many underrepresented groups that exist in HPC, as well as opportunities for broadening participation in HPC fields and activities to encourage women to enter the field with consideration of differing legislation affecting hiring and employment practices among the different countries. *Call for posters: Now Open!* *Deadline for submissions 9 May 2016 AOE* As part of the workshop we will be inviting submissions from female early career researchers to present their work as a poster in a supportive environment that promotes the engagement of women in HPC research and applications, providing opportunities for peer to peer networking and the opportunity to interact with female role models. To submit your work please email your abstract as a word or text document containing the following information to info at womeninhpc.org by 9 May 2016: - Full name of main (presenting) author, short biography (150 words) and photograph for website publicity - Names of any other authors; - Current institution of all authors; - Abstract (up to 250 words) For full details please see: http://www.womeninhpc.org/women-in-hpc-at-isc-2016/workshop/submit *Panel discussion and breakout sessions*We will host a panel discussion and breakout sessions inviting questions and suggestions from the audience on how employers can help diversify the HPC workforce, the obstacles employers face, and sharing best practise across the international community from a variety of HPC employers. *Sign up and take part!* We would like to encourage everyone who has an interest in the equal representation of women to attend, irrespective of their gender. Registration is via ISC-HPC the website. 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(ACM and IEEE-CS) long-standing commitment to workforce diversity. Applications from women, minorities, international students, and all who contribute to diversity are encouraged. Advisees of committee members are not eligible for the award, nor can committee members provide recommendation letters. Award ? $5000 honorarium ? Travel and registration to attend SC16 in Salt Lake City, UT, and be honored at the Awards Session ? Recognition with other HPC award winners on the ACM, IEEE-CS, and ACM SIGHPC websites Selection Criteria Candidates must be enrolled in a full-time PhD program at an accredited college or university and must meet the minimum scholastic requirements at their institution. They are expected to have completed at least one year of study, and have at least one year remaining between the application deadline and their expected graduation. Applications will be evaluated based on the following factors: ? Overall potential for research excellence ? Degree to which technical interests align with those of the HPC community ? Demonstration of current and planned future use of HPC resources ? Evidence of a plan of study to enhance HPC-related skills ? Evidence of academic progress to-date, including presentations and publications ? Recommendations by faculty advisor Submissions: Nominations for the George Michael Memorial HPC Fellowship are in the form of self-nominations, submitted using the online nomination form at https://campus.acm.org/public/awards/george_michael_nomination.cfm . Materials must be prepared as specified below. Incomplete or incorrect nominations will be disqualified. ? Name, address, phone number, and email address of nominator (in this case, the candidate is self-nominating). ? Name and contact information for endorser (must be the candidate?s PhD advisor). After the nomination has been submitted, the student will receive an email confirming its receipt, and the advisor will receive an email (from acm-awards at acm.org ) with information and a URL to submit a confidential letter of endorsement (not to exceed 1500 words). Please note that the endorsement must be submitted and confirmed (two-step process). It is the candidate's responsibility to ensure that the advisor submits and confirms the endorsement before the deadline date. Email notification is sent to the student and to the advisor after the endorsement process has been completed. ? Suggested citation if the nomination is selected. This should be a concise statement (maximum of 25 words) describing your research. Note that the final wording for award announcements will be at the discretion of the Award Committee. ? Nomination (PDF not exceeding 5 pages in length, following typical technical paper page standards: 11 pt font, single spaced text, fitting within 7.5? x 10? text area). Note that the research interests should be explained in terms understandable to a non-specialist. Only nominations meeting all requirements, including length limitations, will be considered. 1. Educational Information (use a table listing each item in a separate row) ? name of educational institution ? name of department ? name of department chair ? enrollment basis (either Full Time or Other; explain if Other) ? year and term PhD program was entered ? most recent GPA ? expect graduation date 2. Additional Candidate Information ? primary telephone ? alternate telephone 3. Statement (2 pp max) ? description of candidate?s research and its importance ? progress to date ? how candidate has used HPC in the past ? plans for the remaining year(s) of graduate study 4. 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The Birds-of-a-Feather (BOF) sessions are among the most interactive, popular, and well-attended sessions of the SC Conference Series. The BOF sessions provide a non-commercial, dynamic venue for conference attendees to openly discuss current topics of focused mutual interest within the HPC community with a deep emphasis on audience-guided discussion, professional networking and grassroots participation. SC16 will continue this tradition with a full schedule of exciting, informal, interactive sessions focused around a variety of special topics of mutual interest. BOF sessions are an excellent opportunity to connect and interact with other attendees with whom you share a mutual interest. SC16 will feature BOF sessions covering a range of topics in the following areas: algorithms, applications, architectures and networks, clouds and distributed computing, data analytics, visualization and storage, education, outreach, performance measurement, modeling and tools, programming models and software systems, as well as the ?state-of-the-practice?. 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The scope of the conference is the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed system platforms and architectures for computing, storage, and communication environments. Highlights of the conference will include a high quality single-track technical program, invited speakers, an industrial track, panel discussions involving academic and industry leaders, poster and demonstration presentations, a doctoral symposium, and workshops. Topics: Original submissions of research papers on a diversity of topics are sought, particularly those identifying new research directions. The topics of the conference include, but are not limited to: Platforms and Usage Models of Middleware for: * Emerging cloud computing platforms, 5G * Data-intensive computing (Big Data) and data analytics * Mobile devices and services * Ubiquitous and pervasive computing * Internet applications and multimedia * Internet of Things, Cyber Physical Systems, smart cities * Network function virtualization Systems Issues for Middleware * Reliability and fault tolerance * Consistency, availability, and replication * Energy- and power-aware techniques * Virtualization, auto-scaling, provisioning, and scheduling * Real-time solutions and quality of service * Scalability and performance * Security and privacy Design Principles and Programming Support * Event-based, publish/subscribe, and peer-to-peer solutions * Reconfigurable, adaptable, and reflective approaches * Novel programming abstractions and paradigms for middleware * Methodologies and tools for middleware design, implementation, verification, and evaluation * Retrospective reviews of middleware paradigms, e.g., object models, aspect orientation, etc. Original research papers of three types are sought on the above topics. a) Research Papers: Original research papers are sought on the above topics. b) Experimentation and Deployment Papers : These papers describe complete systems, platforms, and papers with comprehensive experimental evaluations of alternative designs and solutions to well-known problems. The emphasis during the evaluation of these papers will be less on the novelty and more on the demonstrated usefulness and potential impact of the contributions, the extensive experimentation involved, and the quality and weight of the lessons learned. c) Big-Ideas Papers: These are papers that have the potential for opening up new research directions. For such papers, the potential to motivate new research is more important than full experimental evaluation, though some preliminary evidence of the effectiveness of the approach or idea is important. The Middleware 2016 conference proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library. Accepted submissions will be available on the ACM digital library at least one week before the conference. Submitted papers may have at most 12 pages of technical content, including text, figures, appendices, etc. In addition to the 12 pages allowed for technical content, a submission may include any number of additional pages of bibliographic references. Submitted papers should adhere to the formatting instructions of the ACM Style that you can find on the submission page and should clearly indicate their type on their first page. Please note that submissions are single-blind: authors' names should appear. AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date will be 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 the Middleware conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. The Middleware conference adopts a 2-phase review process in which the authors, after receiving a first set of reviews, have the opportunity to respond with a rebuttal to the reviewers? comments. This rebuttal is then visible to the additional reviewers in the second phase, and in general is taken into account into the paper selection process. Organizers: General Chair: Gian Pietro Picco, University of Trento, Italy Program Co-chairs: Sonia Ben Mokhtar, LIRIS-DRIM, Lyon, France Dejan Milojicic, Hewlett Packard Labs, Palo Alto, CA Technical Program Committee Alvin AuYoung Hewlett Packard Labs, USA Jean Bacon Cambridge University, UK Roberto Baldoni University of Rome, La Sapienza, Italy Gordon Blair Lancaster University, UK Sara Bouchenak INSA Lyon, France Y?rom-David Bromberg IRISA, France Abhishek Chandra University of Minnesota, USA Yuan Chen Hewlett Packard Labs, USA Lucy Cherkasova Hewlett Packard Labs, USA Shigeru Chiba The University of Tokyo, Japan Octave Chipara University of Iowa, USA Angelo Corsaro Prismtech Zoran Dimitrijevic Altiscale, Palo Alto, USA Fred Douglas EMC Tudor Dumitras University of Maryland, USA David Eyers University of Otago, New Zeland Pascal Felber University of Neuch?tel, Switzerland Paulo Ferreira INESC ID / University of Lisbon, Portugal Christof Fetzer TU Dresden, Germany Ian Foster Argonne National Laboratory & The University of Chicago, USA Davide Frey INRIA, France Roy Friedman Technion, Israel Gang Huang Peking University, China Beno?t Garbinato Universit? de Lausanne, Switzerland Rachid Guerraoui EPFL, Switzerland Abhishek Gupta Intel Corp. Franz J. Hauck Ulm University, Germany Cheng-Hsin Hsu National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan Kevin Huguenin LAAS, CNRS, France Valerie Issarny INRIA, France Arun Iyengar IBM Research Hans-Arno Jacobsen University of Toronto, Canada Mark Jelasity University of Szeged, Hungray R?diger Kapitza TU Braunschweig, Germany Bettina Kemme McGill University, Canada Anne-Marie Kermarrek INRIA, France Fabio Kon University of S?o Paulo, Brazil Young-Woo Kwon Utah State University, USA Danny B. Lange Uber, USA Julia Lawall INRIA, France Doug Lea SUNY Oswego Zhenhua Li Tsinghua University, China David Lomet Microsoft Research, USA Joseph Loyall BBN Technologies Hong Mei Shanghai Jiao Tong University and Peking University, China Alberto Montresor University of Trento, Italy Jeff Morgan Samsung Research America, USA Amy L. Murphy Bruno Kessler Foundation, Italy Mirco Musolesi University College London, UK Gabriel Parmer GDW Fernando Pedone University of Lugano, Switzerland Peter Pietzuch Imperial College London, UK Johan Pouwelse Delft University of Technology, Netherlands Vivien Qu?ma Grenoble INP, France Binoy Ravindran Virginia Tech, USA Laurent R?veill?re Bordeaux INP, France Etienne Rivi?re University of Neuch?tel, Switzerland Luis Rodrigues INESC-ID, IST, U Lisboa, Portugal Romain Rouvoy University of Lille 1 / Inria, France Rick Schlichting AT&T Labs Jatinder Singh University of Cambridge, UK Robert Soul? Universit? della Svizzera italiana, Italy Mike Spreitzer IBM Research, USA Fran?ois Ta?ani Universit? de Rennes 1/ IRISA / ESIR, INRIA, France Eli Tilevich Virginia Tech, USA Peter Triantafillou University of Glasgow , UK Robbert Van Renesse Cornell University, USA Maarten van Steen University of Twente, Netherlands Nalini Venkatasubramanian University of California, Irvine, USA Lu?s Veiga INESC-ID / Instituto Superior T?cnico, Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal Steve Vinoski Arista Networks, Nashua, NH, USA Timothy Wood George Washington University, USA -- 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 jesson.butt at gmail.com Wed May 25 07:04:01 2016 From: jesson.butt at gmail.com (Jesson Butt) Date: Wed, 25 May 2016 21:04:01 +1000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: IEEE DSS2016 (Data Science and Systems), Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia Message-ID: Call for papers: The 2016 IEEE International Conference on Data Science and Systems (DSS 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/dss/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 25, 2016 Notification: September 25, 2016 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2016 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/dss/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing =========== 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 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. DSS (Data Science and 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 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 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/2016/dss/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 will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing Honorary Chairs Ramamohanarao Kotagiri, The University of Melbourne, Australia Jean-Luc Gaudiot, University of California Irvine, USA Xuemin Lin, University of New South Wales, Australia General Co-Chairs Sartaj Sahni, University of Florida, USA Jian Pei, Simon Fraser University, Canada Joe Dong, University of Sydney, Australia Program Chairs Jinjun Chen, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Michael Sheng, The University of Adelaide, Australia Rajiv Rajan, The University of Newcastle, UK Program Vice Chairs Samee U. Khan, North Dakota State University, USA Vladimir Vlassov, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden Jun Wang, University of Central Florida, USA Workshops Chairs Guangyan Huang, Deakin University, Australia William Liu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand Andrew Clashe, UTS, 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 Stan Matwin, Dalhousie University, Canada 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 k.wasielewska at fedcsis.org Tue May 24 14:15:03 2016 From: k.wasielewska at fedcsis.org (Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems) Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 20:15:03 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] FedCSIS 2016 - CALL FOR POSITION PAPERS Message-ID: <57449A27.7090602@fedcsis.org> Call for Position Papers 2016 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) Gdansk, Poland, 11-14 September, 2016 www.fedcsis.org (FedCSIS on www.ieee.org: http://tinyurl.com/FedCSIS-on-IEEE-2016) The FedCSIS 2016 Federated Conference invites submissions of POSITION PAPERS to its respective events. Position papers must not exceed 8 pages and they should relate to an ongoing research or experience. Position papers will be presented by the authors alongside regular papers. Position papers may be also submitted as DEMO PAPERS and presented as demonstrations of software tools and products. They should describe non-for-profit software tools in a prototype-, alpha-, or beta-version. We invite TWO TYPES OF POSITION PAPERS: EMERGING RESEARCH PAPERS present preliminary research results from work-in-progress based on sound scientific approach but presenting work not completely validated as yet. They must describe precisely the research problem and its rationale. They must also define the intended future work including the expected benefits from solution to the tackled problem. CHALLENGE PAPERS propose and describe research challenges in theory or practice of computer science and information systems. The papers in this category must be based on deep understanding of existing research or industrial problems and should be defining new promising research directions. Paper publication: Position papers will be published as a SEPARATE ELECTRONIC VOLUME (of the Annals of Computer Science and Information Systems series; annals-csis.org), WITH an ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers. These papers will NOT be placed in the IEEE Digital Library and will NOT be submitted to Thomson Reuters Web of Science. However, they will be indexed in the CrossRef, BazEkon, J-Gate, and submitted for indexing to: SCOPUS, Inspec, DBLP Computer Science Bibliography and Google Scholar. Paper submission: Authors should submit a position paper in English, carefully checked for correct grammar and spelling, using the on-line submission procedure. The guidelines for paper formatting provided at the conference website ought to be used for all submitted papers. The required submission format is the same as the camera-ready format. Please check, and carefully follow, the instructions and templates provided. Papers that are out of scope of the selected event, or that contain any form of (self)plagiarism will be rejected without reviews. All position papers will be refereed before inclusion in the conference program. About FedCSIS 2016: FedCSIS 2016 is organized by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI) in technical cooperation with the IEEE Region 8, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Poland (Gdansk) Section Computer Society Chapter, Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, Lodz ACM Chapter, Committee of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, European Alliance for Innovation, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Eastern Cluster ICT and Mazovia Cluster ICT. Chairs of FedCSIS Conference Series Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki Contact FedCSIS at secretariat at fedcsis.org From andrew.clashe at gmail.com Mon May 30 06:08:01 2016 From: andrew.clashe at gmail.com (Andrew Clashe) Date: Mon, 30 May 2016 20:08:01 +1000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: IEEE HPCC2016 (High Performance Computing and Communications), Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia Message-ID: Call for papers: The 18th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/hpcc Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 20, 2016 Notification: September 25, 2016 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2016 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/hpcc/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing =========== Introduction With the rapid growth in computing and communications technology, the past decade has witnessed a proliferation of powerful parallel and distributed systems and an ever increasing demand for practice of high performance computing and communications (HPCC). HPCC has moved into the mainstream of computing and has become a key technology in determining future research and development activities in many academic and industrial branches, especially when the solution of large and complex problems must cope with very tight timing schedules. Among a series of highly successful International Conferences on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), the HPCC 2016 conference is the 18th edition of a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address the resulting profound challenges and to present and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on all aspects of high performance computing and communications. IEEE HPCC 2016 is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Parallel and distributed system architectures 2. Languages and compilers for high performance computing 3. Parallel and distributed software technologies 4. Parallel and distributed algorithms 5. Embedded systems 6. Peer-to-peer computing 7. Cluster computing 8. Web services and Internet computing 9. Cloud computing 10. Utility computing 11. Performance evaluation and measurement 12. Tools and environments for software development 13. Distributed systems and applications 14. High-performance scientific and engineering computing 15. Database applications and data mining 16. Biological/molecular computing 17. Collaborative and cooperative environments 18. Mobile computing and wireless communications 19. Computer Networks 20. Telecommunications 21. Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence 22. Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance 23. Trust, security and privacy 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/2016/dss/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 will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing General Chairs Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada General Co-Chairs Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Nong Xiao, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Geyong Min, The University of Exeter, UK Program Chairs Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Dongsheng Li, National University of Defense Technology, China Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Workshops Chairs Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China Vinh Tung Le, UTS, Australia Steering Committee Chairs Laurence T. 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While inherently parallel, they exhibit highly variable execution performance at a local level due to unpredictable memory access patterns and/or network transfers, divergent control structures, and data imbalances. Moreover, they often require fine-grain synchronization and communication on large-data structures such as graphs, trees, unstructured grids, tables, sparse matrices, deep nets, and their combinations (such as, for example, attributed graphs). 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 reduce 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 machine learning, social network analysis, bioinformatics, semantic graph databases, 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 challenges in science and data analysis 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, including multi- and many-core designs, heterogeneous processors, accelerators (GPUs, vector processors, Automata processor), reconfigurable (coarse grained reconfigurable and FPGA designs) and custom processors * Network architectures and interconnect (including high-radix networks, optical interconnects) * Novel memory architectures and designs (including processors-in memory) * Impact of new computing paradigms on irregular workloads (including neuromorphic processors and quantum computing) * Modeling, simulation and evaluation of novel architectures with irregular workloads * Innovative algorithmic techniques * Combinatorial algorithms (graph algorithms, sparse linear algebra, etc.) * Impact of irregularity on machine learning approaches * Parallelization techniques and data structures for irregular workloads * Data structures combining regular and irregular computations (e.g., attributed graphs) * Approaches for managing massive unstructured datasets (including streaming data) * Languages and programming models for irregular workloads * Library and runtime support for irregular workloads * Compiler and analysis techniques for irregular workloads * High performance data analytics applications, 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. Authors of exciting but not mature enough regular papers may be offered the option of a short 4-page paper and related short presentation. Important Dates Abstract submission: 23 August 2016 Position or full paper submission: 29 August 2016 Notification of acceptance: 3 October 2016 Camera-ready position and full papers: 10 October 2016 Workshop: 13 November 2016 Submissions Submission site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ia32016 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 and available on the ACM Digital Library. 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. Organization Organizers Antonino Tumeo, PNNL, antonino.tumeo at pnnl.gov John Feo, PNNL, Northwest Institute for Advanced Computing (NIAC), john.feo at pnnl.gov Oreste Villa, NVIDIA Research, ovilla at nvidia.com Program Committee Scott Beamer, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Michela Becchi, University of Missouri, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Hubertus Franke, IBM TJ Watson, US John Gilbert, University of California at Santa Barbara, US Maya Gokhale, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, US Vivek Kumar, Rice University, US John Leidel, Texas Tech University, US Kamesh Madduri, Penn State University, US Naoya Maruyama, RIKEN AICS, JP Tim Mattson, Intel, US Richard Murphy, Micron, US Miquel Moret?, UPC-BSC, ES Walid Najjar, University of California Riverside, US Jacob Nelson, University of Washington, US Ozcan Ozturk, Bilkent University, TR D.K. Panda, The Ohio State University, US Jason Riedy, Georgia Institute of Technology, US Daniel Sanchez, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, US Erik Saule, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, US John Shalf, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, US Ruud Van Der Pas, Oracle, US Flavio Vella, University of Rome, IT Other members TBD From m.musolesi at ucl.ac.uk Sun Jun 5 07:31:43 2016 From: m.musolesi at ucl.ac.uk (Mirco Musolesi) Date: Sun, 5 Jun 2016 12:31:43 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Middleware 2016 - Call for Tutorials Message-ID: <28E6F161-65E4-4C65-8911-F04F56F07611@ucl.ac.uk> Middleware 2016 - Call for Tutorials Online version available at http://2016.middleware-conference.org/ 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. Middleware is the software that resides between applications and the underlying architecture and platforms, often with an emphasis on networked computing. The goal of middleware is to facilitate the development of applications by providing higher-level abstractions for better programmability, performance, scalability, security. It is a rapidly evolving and growing field. The Middleware conference traditionally includes tutorials on selected topics given by renowned scientists and practitioners in their fields. Tutorials on both mature and emerging topics are welcomed. Tutorials may be lectures, interactive workshops, hands-on training, or any combination of the above. Exploring diverse ways of interacting with the audience is welcome as are cross-disciplinary topics. Proposals must include: * Title and short outline of the tutorial content (max. 200 words). * Motivation on why the topic is of particular interest at this time. * Information about the presenters (name, affiliation, email address, homepage) and a short description of their expertise, experiences in teaching and in tutorial presentation. * The type of tutorial (e.g., lecture vs. hands-on). * References to previous editions of the tutorial (if applicable) including their date, venue, topics and number of participants and the motivation for the new proposal * Special needs for the tutorial room (please note that our capabilities in fulfilling unusual requests are limited). * Requirements for the attendants (e.g., must bring own laptop or other hardware, familiarity with certain technologies or topics, etc.) * Any constraints on the max number of participants Proposers of accepted tutorials will be asked to provide information of their tutorial for publication on the conference web site. Tutorial proposals should be submitted in PDF format, not exceeding three (3) pages in total, and be sent to: - Guillaume Pierre, IRISA/Rennes 1 University, France (guillaume.pierre at irisa.fr) - Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt University, USA (a.gokhale at vanderbilt.edu) in an email with subject line "[Middleware 2016 ? Tutorial Submission]". IMPORTANT DATES Tutorial proposals due: July 18, 2016 Notification of acceptance/rejection: August 8, 2016 -- 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 m.musolesi at ucl.ac.uk Mon Jun 6 18:12:17 2016 From: m.musolesi at ucl.ac.uk (Mirco Musolesi) Date: Mon, 6 Jun 2016 23:12:17 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Middleware 2016 - Call for Workshops Message-ID: <0FF477EE-D089-447A-9BF4-1950633C29A0@ucl.ac.uk> Middleware 2016 - Call for Workshops online version available at http://2016.middleware-conference.org/workshop/ 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. Middleware is the software that resides between applications and the underlying architecture and platforms, often with an emphasis on networked computing. The goal of middleware is to facilitate the development of applications by providing higher-level abstractions for better programmability, performance, scalability, security. It is a rapidly evolving and growing field. The Middleware conference traditionally includes a number of high quality workshops. We invite experts on related research subjects to submit one-day workshop proposals in scope of Middleware 2016. Proposed workshops can be on any topic related to middleware, but we are particularly interested in new workshops in emerging, new middleware areas. IMPORTANT DATES - Workshop proposal submission deadline June 17, 2016 - Workshop proposal acceptance notification June 24, 2016 - Workshop calls for papers online July 15, 2016 - Approximate workshop paper submission deadline September 9, 2016 - Workshop paper notification October 3, 2016 - Workshop paper camera ready (hard deadline) October 17, 2016 WORKSHOP PROPOSAL SUBMISSION A workshop proposal (not exceeding three pages, 11pt, in PDF format) should include the following information: - The title of the workshop; - The names and e-mail addresses of the organizing committee; - A brief technical description of the workshop topic area; - A short description of the intended format of the workshop (keynote speakers, discussions, ...); - Tentative workshop paper submission and notification deadlines. Note that the latest camera-ready deadline for all workshop papers is October 17, 2016. This is a HARD DEADLINE to allow papers to be published in the ACM digital library. - A brief statement of the relevance of the workshop to Middleware; - A preliminary list of PC members that have accepted to participate in the committee; - A description of the organizers? strategy for attracting submissions and attendees to the workshop, including information about how publicity will be carried to attract world-wide participation. Each workshop will organize its own submissions and reviewing procedures, and it will provide its own web page. A link will be provided to this web page from the Middleware 2016 Web site. Workshop organizers will ensure that all accepted papers are peer reviewed. Moreover, they will organize their schedule so that: (i) the paper submission deadline falls after the main conference?s notification date; (ii) authors are notified no later than October 10, 2016; and (iii) authors submit their that camera-ready papers no later than October 17, 2016. Accepted papers should be no longer than 6 pages in the standard ACM format. Workshop organizers are responsible for preparing the papers for their workshops in the format required by ACM. As in previous years, the Middleware conference organisers will provide companion proceedings including all workshop papers, which will be available in the ACM Digital Library. This is subject to the availability of camera-ready version by October 17, 2016. Workshop proposals must be sent to both of the following addresses: - Anir?ddh? Gokh?l?, Vanderbilt University, USA (a.gokhale at vanderbilt.edu) - Guillaume Pierre, IRISA/Rennes 1 University, France (guillaume.pierre at irisa.fr) -- 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 nikolas.herbst at uni-wuerzburg.de Thu Jun 9 10:00:58 2016 From: nikolas.herbst at uni-wuerzburg.de (Nikolas Herbst) Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2016 16:00:58 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CALL-FOR-PARTICIPATION: 13th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2016) Wuerzburg, Germany, July 18-22, 2016 Message-ID: <2ECF859B-E76C-4CFA-BA41-B01A5320E5BD@uni-wuerzburg.de> ICAC 2016 CALL-FOR-PARTICIPATION http://icac2016.uni-wuerzburg.de/ 13th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2016) Wuerzburg, Germany, July 18-22, 2016 In cooperation with USENIX, SPEC and VDE ITG CONFERENCE PATRONS SAP, Huawei, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Google, Microsoft, IBM EARLY REGISTRATION DEADLINE: June 30, 2016 PROGRAM A preliminary version is available at http://icac2016.uni-wuerzburg.de/program/ KEYNOTES * Prof. Betty HC Cheng: Addressing Assurance for Self-Adaptive Systems in the Face of Uncertainty * Prof. Karl H. Johansson: Cyber-physical control of road freight transport * Dr. Yixin Diao: Building Autonomic Systems for IT Service Management * Prof. Klaus Schilling: ROSETTA: the challenge of escorting a comet and landing on its surface Details can be found at http://icac2016.uni-wuerzburg.de/program/key-notes/ WORKSHOPS * 2nd Workshop on Distributed Adaptive Systems (DAS 2016) * 3rd Workshop on Self-Improving System Integration (SISSY 2016) * 11th Workshop on Models at run.time (MRT 2016) * 11th Workshop on Feedback Computing (FC 2016) * 1st Workshop on Self Organizing Self Managing Clouds (SOSeMC 2016) * Annual Meeting of the SPEC RG DevOps Performance Working Group Details can be found at http://icac2016.uni-wuerzburg.de/workshops/ 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. 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 From m.musolesi at ucl.ac.uk Mon Jun 27 05:55:50 2016 From: m.musolesi at ucl.ac.uk (Mirco Musolesi) Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2016 10:55:50 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CfP ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference Doctoral Symposium Message-ID: [Apologies for cross-posting] Middleware 2016: ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference Doctoral Symposium http://2016.middleware-conference.org/call/doctoralsymposium/ Dates: Paper Submission: September 26, 2016 Notification of Acceptance: October 10, 2016 Camera ready: October 17, 2016 All deadline times are 23:59 UTC/GMT-12h Call for Submissions: Following the tradition of past editions, the symposium provides an international forum that gives PhD students an opportunity to present and discuss their research with their peers and with a panel of expert mentors from the middleware field. The symposium is open to PhD students at any stage of their studies. Applicants will be divided into two groups: * Planners: students at an early-stage of their thesis who are focused on crafting their research proposal and completing background research. * Finishers: students closer to finishing their thesis or dissertation and thinking about how to present their research, its results, and its impact. The symposium will provide an informal and welcoming atmosphere in which students from both groups will have the opportunity to discuss their planned goals, their progress and achievements, the key research challenges to overcome, as well as software and tools they are developing. As part of the symposium, the participating students will receive valuable feedback from senior researchers and experts from both industry and academia. The symposium will also be an opportunity for meeting and sharing experiences with other PhD students who are addressing similar topics or are at a similar stage in their doctoral work. All PhD students carrying out research on middleware topics are invited to submit a position paper to the doctoral symposium. Papers will be peer-reviewed by the symposium?s committee of selected mentors. The criteria for accepting papers includes the extent of the contribution of the work to the field, the originality of the problem, and the overall quality of the position paper. Position papers should fit within the topics of Middleware 2016 Call for Papers. Accepted position papers will be presented during the doctoral symposium, as well as in a poster session during the main program of Middleware 2016. Contributions to the Middleware 2016 PhD Workshop will appear in a proceedings that supplements the main conference proceedings. The Middleware 2016 Doctoral Symposium will accept papers in two categories. All papers should be formatted according to the ACM guidelines. Students should pay careful attention to which category is appropriate for the stage of their research and adhere to the instructions for the proper category. Students in the early stages of the PhD research (i.e., likely within the first 1-2 years of the research portion of the degree) should submit within the Planners group. Position papers in this category should not be longer than 2 pages (including all materials). Students nearing the end of their PhD research (i.e., have one or more publications complete, have concrete results to discuss) should submit within the Finishers group. Position papers in this category should not be longer than 4 pages (including all materials). See the Middleware 2016 Doctoral Symposium website for more guidance on the formatting and content of the submission. Middleware 2016 Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs: Pascal Felber, Universit? de Neuch?tel, Switzerland Christine Julien, The University of Texas at Austin, USA -- 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 boukhobza at univ-brest.fr Thu Jun 30 04:28:07 2016 From: boukhobza at univ-brest.fr (Jalil Boukhobza) Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2016 10:28:07 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [EWiLi'16] Deadline July 11th, Embedded Operating System Workshop held in conjunction with ESWEEK Message-ID: <008f01d1d2a9$546b9e20$fd42da60$@univ-brest.fr> **************************************************************************** *************** Call For Papers EWiLi'16, the 6th Embedded Operating System Workshop held in conjunction with ESWEEK October 6th, PITTSBURGH, PA, USA Submission deadline: 11 July 2016 http://syst.univ-brest.fr/ewili2016 **************************************************************************** *************** Aim and Scopes EWiLi, the embedded operating system workshop, aims at presenting state-of-the-art research, experimentations, significant and original realizations that focus on the design and implementation of embedded operating systems in both academic and industrial worlds. Expected contributions include but are not limited to the following topics, but should all consider embedded operating systems : - Reconfigurable architectures - Heterogeneous MPSOC and Multicore - Sensor networks - Multimedia systems - Cyber physical systems - Internet of things - Methods, software and tool chains - Model-driven Engineering - Data management and memory hierarchy optimization - Real-time, concurrency, scheduling and temporal performance - File systems, storage, and I/Os in embedded operating systems - Debug and profiling - Energy and power optimization - Performance evaluation and optimization - Safety and security concerns - Case studies and application projects - Embedded operating systems and education Submissions & publication Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ewili16 Papers should not exceed 6 pages in ACM SIG format (see http://sigbed.seas.upenn.edu/submit.html ) All accepted papers will be published in the ACM SIGBED Review (ISSN: 1551-3688) Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems. Important dates: Submission deadline: 11 July 2016 Notifications to authors: 19 August 2016 Camera ready versions: 19 September 2016 Steering committee (to be completed): Jalil BOUKHOBZA (Associate professor, Lab-STICC/University of Western Brittany, France) Marco Dominico SANTAMBROGIO (Polytech. Milano, Italy) Frank SINGHOFF (Professor, Lab-STICC/University of Western Brittany, France) Contact: boukhobza at univ-brest.fr Publicity chairs Giuseppe LIPARI (Univ. Lilles, France) Duo Liu (Chongqing Univ., China) Program committee (to be completed/confirmed) Mario ALDEA-RIVAS (Univ. de Cantabria, Spain) S?bastien BILAVARN (LEAT/Univ. Nice, France) Gedare BLOOM (Howard University, USA) Julien BOIBESSOT (Armadeus Systems, France) Jalil BOUKHOBZA (Lab-STICC/Univ. Western Brittany, France) Eric GRESSIER (CNAM Paris, France) Emmanuel GROLLEAU (LIAS, ISAE-ENSMA, France) Dionisio DE NIZ (SEI, Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Jean Philippe DIGUET (Lab-STICC/ Univ. Of South Brittany, France) Henrique DOMINGOS (FCT/Univ. Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Pierre FICHEUX (Openwide, France) Ann GORDON-ROSS (Univ. of Florida, USA) Henry HOFFMANN (University of Chicago, USA) Michael HUEBNER (Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany) J?r?me HUGUES (ISAE, France) Mathieu JAN (CEA, France) Patrice KADIONIK (ENSEIRB, France) Mouloud KOUDIL (ESI, Algeria) John KUBIATOWICZ (Univ. of California Berkeley, USA) Giuseppe LIPARI (Univ. Lilles, France) Duo Liu (Chongqing Univ., China) Manolis MARAZAKIS (ICS FORTH, Greece) Pierre Olivier (Virginia Tech, USA) Laurent PAUTET (Telecom Paris-Tech, France) Luis Miguel PINHO (CISTER/ISEP, Portugal) Juan Antonio de la PUENTE (DIT-UPM, Spain) Jos? RUFINO (FCUL, Portugal) Jos? RUIZ (AdaCore, France) Marco D. SANTAMBROGIO (Polytech. Milano, Italy) Eric SENN (Lab-STICC/Univ. of South Brittany, France) Joel SHERRILL (OAR Corporation, USA) Frank SINGHOFF (Lab-STICC/Univ. Western Brittany, France) Frank SIQUEIRA (Univ. Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil) Zili SHAO (Polytechnic Univ. Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Oleg SOKOLSKY (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Jon SOLWORTH (University of Illinois, USA) John WILLIAMS (ex. PetaLogix/Xilinx, Australia) -- Jalil Boukhobza Associate Professor Lab-STICC Lab./ Dept. of Computer Science University of Western Brittany, 20 Av. Le Gorgeu - CS 93837 29238 Brest Cedex 3 Tel: +33 2 98 01 69 73 Fax: +33 2 98 01 80 11 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jalnliu at lbl.gov Fri Jul 1 13:39:00 2016 From: jalnliu at lbl.gov (Jialin Liu) Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2016 10:39:00 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] (CFP) PDSW-DISCS 2016, The 1st Joint International Workshop on Parallel Data Storage and Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems Message-ID: [Apologies if you got multiple copies of this email] **** CALL FOR PAPERS **** The 1st Joint International Workshop on Parallel Data Storage and Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (PDSW-DISCS?16) Held in conjunction with SC16: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis, Salt Lake City, UT, and in cooperation with SIGHPC. Monday, November 14, 2016 http://www.pdsw-discs.org We are pleased to announce that the first Joint International Workshop on Parallel Data Storage and Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (PDSW-DISCS?16) will be hosted at SC16: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. The objective of this one day joint workshop is to combine two overlapping communities and to better promote and stimulate researchers? interactions to address some of the most critical challenges for scientific data storage, management, devices, and processing infrastructure for both traditional compute intensive simulations and data-intensive high performance computing solutions. Special attention will be given to issues in which community collaboration can be crucial for problem identification, workload capture, solution interoperability, standards with community buy?-in, and shared tools. Many scientific problem domains continue to be extremely data intensive. Traditional high performance computing (HPC) systems and the programming models for using them such as MPI were designed from a compute-centric perspective with an emphasis on achieving high floating point computation rates. But processing, memory, and storage technologies have not kept pace and there is a widening performance gap between computation and the data management infrastructure. Hence data management has become the performance bottleneck for a significant number of applications targeting HPC systems. Concurrently, there are increasing challenges in meeting the growing demand for analyzing experimental and observational data. In many cases, this is leading new communities to look towards HPC platforms. In addition, the broader computing space has seen a revolution in new tools and frameworks to support Big Data analysis and machine learning. There is a growing need for convergence between these two worlds. Consequently, the U.S. Congressional Office of Management and Budget has informed the U.S. Department of Energy that new machines beyond the first exascale machines must address both the traditional simulation workloads as well as data intensive applications. This coming convergence prompts integrating these two workshops into a single entity to address the common challenges. The scope of the proposed joint PDSW-DISCS workshop is summarized as: ? Scalable storage architectures, archival storage, storage virtualization, emerging storage devices and techniques ? Performance benchmarking, resource management, and workload studies from production systems including both traditional HPC and data-intensive workloads. ? Programmability, APIs, and fault tolerance of storage systems ? Parallel file systems, metadata management, and complex data management, object and key-value storage, and other emerging data storage/retrieval techniques ? Programming models and frameworks for data intensive computing including extensions to traditional and nontraditional programming models, asynchronous multi-task programming models, or to data intensive programming models ? Techniques for data integrity, availability and reliability especially ? Productivity tools for data intensive computing, data mining and knowledge discovery ? Application or optimization of emerging ?big data? frameworks towards scientific computing and analysis ? Techniques and architectures to enable cloud and container-based models for scientific computing and analysis ? Techniques for integrating compute into a complex memory and storage hierarchy facilitating in situ and in transit data processing ? Data filtering/compressing/reduction techniques that maintain sufficient scientific validity for large scale compute-intensive workloads ? Tools and techniques for managing data movement among compute and data intensive components both solely within the computational infrastructure as well as incorporating the memory/storage hierarchy Paper Submissions: http://www.pdsw-discs.org/ Paper (in pdf format) due Wednesday, Sept. 7, 2016, 11:59PM AoE Notification: Friday, Sept. 30, 2016 Camera ready due: Friday, Oct. 7, 2016 Slides due before workshop: Sunday, Nov. 13, 2016, 5:00 pm PDT Paper Submission Details: The PDSW-DISCS 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. 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 libraries of the IEEE and ACM. Work-in-progress (WIP) Submissions: http://www.pdsw-discs.org/ There will also be a WIP session at the workshop, where presenters give 5-minute brief talks on their on-going work, with fresh problems/solutions, but may not be mature or complete yet for paper submission. A 1-page abstract is required as instructed on the workshop web site. WIP Submission Deadline: Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016 WIP Notification: Monday, Nov. 7, 2016 General Co-Chairs: Garth Gibson (Carnegie Mellon University) Yong Chen (Texas Tech University) Program Co-Chairs: Shane Canon (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) Dean Hildebrand (IBM Research) From andrew.clashe at gmail.com Sat Jul 2 10:39:07 2016 From: andrew.clashe at gmail.com (Andrew Clashe) Date: Sun, 3 Jul 2016 00:39:07 +1000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: IEEE HPCC2016 (High Performance Computing and Communications), Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia Message-ID: Call for papers: The 18th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/hpcc Key dates: Submission Deadline: July 20, 2016 Notification: September 25, 2016 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2016 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/hpcc/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing =========== Introduction With the rapid growth in computing and communications technology, the past decade has witnessed a proliferation of powerful parallel and distributed systems and an ever increasing demand for practice of high performance computing and communications (HPCC). HPCC has moved into the mainstream of computing and has become a key technology in determining future research and development activities in many academic and industrial branches, especially when the solution of large and complex problems must cope with very tight timing schedules. Among a series of highly successful International Conferences on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), the HPCC 2016 conference is the 18th edition of a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address the resulting profound challenges and to present and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on all aspects of high performance computing and communications. IEEE HPCC 2016 is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Parallel and distributed system architectures 2. Languages and compilers for high performance computing 3. Parallel and distributed software technologies 4. Parallel and distributed algorithms 5. Embedded systems 6. Peer-to-peer computing 7. Cluster computing 8. Web services and Internet computing 9. Cloud computing 10. Utility computing 11. Performance evaluation and measurement 12. Tools and environments for software development 13. Distributed systems and applications 14. High-performance scientific and engineering computing 15. Database applications and data mining 16. Biological/molecular computing 17. Collaborative and cooperative environments 18. Mobile computing and wireless communications 19. Computer Networks 20. Telecommunications 21. Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence 22. Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance 23. Trust, security and privacy 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/2016/dss/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 will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences, IEEE Transactions on Emerging Topics in Computing General Chairs Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada General Co-Chairs Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Nong Xiao, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Geyong Min, The University of Exeter, UK Program Chairs Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Dongsheng Li, National University of Defense Technology, China Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Workshops Chairs Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China Vinh Tung Le, UTS, Australia Steering Committee Chairs Laurence T. 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Besides a rich technical programme (including invited talks, regular papers, and presentations), MEMICS also offers friendly social activities and exciting opportunities for meeting like-minded people. Topics: MEMICS submissions are traditionally invited from all areas of computer science (such as parallel and distributed computing, computer networks, modern hardware and its design, non-traditional computing architectures, information systems and databases, multimedia and graphics, verification and testing, computer security, as well as all related areas of theoretical computer science). In line with the tradition of MEMICS, several areas are, however, given a special focus each year (which is reflected, e.g., in the choice of the invited speakers). In 2016, these areas are: * Logic and decision procedures * Formal methods for complex and cyber-physical systems * Valued structures * Quantum information processing * High-performance and cloud computing and their applications Nevertheless, as stated above, submissions from any other area of computer science are welcome. There will be three invited talks by distinguished researchers from the different areas of interest of the workshop as a part of the programme. The invited speakers are: * Armin Biere (Johannes Kepler University in Linz, Austria) * Roland Meyer (Technische Universit?t Kaiserslautern, Germany) * Luca Bortolussi (University of Trieste, Italy) Submissions: Students are invited to submit a regular paper, a presentation, or a poster. A regular paper is a previously unpublished original work, not exceeding 12 pages in the LNCS style. Simultaneous submissions of regular papers to other conferences with proceedings are not allowed. A presentation, submitted in the form of a one-page abstract, summarizes recent outstanding work that has been accepted to a leading computer science conference or published in a recognised scientific journal. A poster presents an ongoing work. Detailed instructions are available at the web page http://www.memics.cz/ . In previous years, accepted regular papers appeared (depending on their quality) either in local proceedings, or in a Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) volume dedicated to MEMICS post-proceedings. This year we expect the same schema, LNCS post-proceedings are currently under negotiation. Local proceedings containing accepted regular papers and presentation abstracts will be available at the workshop in printed and/or electronic form. Submissions and dates: All submissions will be handled by the Easychair conference system. * July 24, 2016 (AoE): abstracts of regular papers * July 31, 2016 (AoE): full regular papers * August 28, 2016 (AoE): posters and one-page abstracts of presentations * September 8, 2016: notification of acceptance * September 15, 2016: final camera-ready versions of all accepted submissions Venue: The workshop will be held in the historical town of Telc, which is situated at the south-west tip of Moravia, half-way between Prague and Vienna. The historical centre of the town has retained its unique shape over the centuries and was included in the list of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in 1992: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tel? The MEMICS 2016 workshop is organised jointly by: * Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University * Faculty of Information Technology, Brno University of Technology * Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University General Chair * Jan Bouda, Masaryk University Programme Committee Chairs * Lukas Holik, Brno University of Technology * Jan Kofron, Charles University * Jan Strejcek, Masaryk University Programme Committee * Jiri Barnat, Masaryk University * Ezio Bartocci, Vienna University of Technology * Armin Biere, Johannes Kepler University * Luca Bortolussi, University of Trieste * Jan Bouda, Masaryk University * Martina Dankova, University of Ostrava * Frederic Dupuis, Masaryk University * Piotr Gawron, Polish Academy of Sciences * Dana Hlinena, Brno University of Technology * Antti Hyvarinen, University of Lugano * Martin Kalina, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava * Stanislav Krajci, Pavol Jozef Safarik University in Kosice * Jan Kretinsky, Technical University of Munich * Erwin Laure, KTH Royal Institute of Technology * Vaclav Matyas, Masaryk University * Ludek Matyska, Masaryk University * Roland Meyer, University of Kaiserslautern * Miguel Navascues, Austrian Academy of Sciences * Marcin Pawlowski, University of Gdansk * Igor Peterlik, Inria Nancy ? Grand Est * Philipp Ruemmer, Uppsala University * David Safranek, Masaryk University * Peter Vojtas, Charles University * Vit Vondrak, VSB ? Technical University of Ostrava * Mario Ziman, Slovak Academy of Sciences Organising Committee Chair * Jan Sebastian Novotny, Masaryk University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From boukhobza at univ-brest.fr Mon Jul 11 16:13:25 2016 From: boukhobza at univ-brest.fr (Jalil Boukhobza) Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2016 22:13:25 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for participation at NVMSA 2016, Aug 17-19, 2016, Daegu, Korea In-Reply-To: <31274795-DC4E-4D2F-A131-E238E70B0657@ajou.ac.kr> References: <31274795-DC4E-4D2F-A131-E238E70B0657@ajou.ac.kr> Message-ID: <000801d1dbb0$ae7930c0$0b6b9240$@univ-brest.fr> ???????????????????????????????????????????? The organizing committee of NVMSA 2016 is delighted to invite you to participate in the 5th Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium (NVMSA). We would like to encourage you to participate and share your ideas and accomplishment with other conference participants. CALL FOR PARTICIPATION NVMSA 2016 The 5th Non-Volatile Memory Systems and Applications Symposium (NVMSA 2016) https://sites.google.com/a/camelab.org/nvmsa-2016/ August 17-19, 2016, Daegu, South Korea ???????????????????????????????????????????? * SCOPE: The topics of NVMSA 2016 cover the research and development advances in both mainstream and emerging NVMs. The event is designed to foster interaction and presentation of early results, new ideas and speculative directions. Thus, NVMSA will combine the presentations of the papers accepted from the regular submissions as well as a number of invited talks from researchers in academia, technologists from industry, and case studies on the use of NVMs. Please check the full program made available on the conference websites at https://sites.google.com/a/camelab.org/nvmsa-2016/program for details about the presentations, poster, and keynotes. * VENUE: NVMSA 2016 will be held at the Daegu Gyeongbuk Institute of Science and Technology (DIGST). For more information of DIGST, please follow this link at https://sites.google.com/a/camelab.org/nvmsa-2016/venue * REGISTRATION: NVMSA this year will share the registration system with RTCSA (Embedded and Real-Time Computing Systems and Applications). For the registration of NVMSA-2016, please click the following link at http://rtcsa.cjint.kr/index.php?gt=registration To clarify the venue you want to attend, please select ?NVMSA2016? in the field, explained by ?Please advise which conference you are going to register:? * VISA INFORMATION: If you need an invitation letter for VISA application, please fill in the following form and send it to Prof. Min-Soo Kim at mskim at dgist.ac.kr. * ACCOMMODATION INFORMATION: For all participants of RTCSA 2016, the organizing committee is pleased to offer sufficient rooms in the campus and downtown listed below with special rates. If you would like to make a reservation, please fill up the Reservation Request Form and send it to the RTCSA 2016 Secretariat via email or fax (rtcsa2016 at gmail.com/ +82-53-746-9007). Rooms will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis, early reservation is recommendable. Reservation should be made before July 29, 2016 and early reservation is highly recommended. More detailed information can be found at https://sites.google.com/a/camelab.org/nvmsa-2016/hotel-and-visa-info ???????????????????????????????????????????? Technical Program ???????????????????????????????????????????? August 17 (Wed) RTCSA/NVMSA Joint Keynote 1 (9:00-10:00) Session 1 (10:30-12:00) Paper presentations 1.1 Jie Guo, Chuhan Min, Cai Tao, Hai Li and Yiran Chen, ObjNandSim: Object-based NAND Flash Device Simulator, University of Pittsburgh and Jiangu University 1.2 Mohsen Imani, Abbas Rahimi, Yeseong Kim and Tajana Rosing, A Low-Power Hybrid Magnetic Cache Architecture Exploiting Narrow-Width Values, University of California San Diego and University of California Berkeley 1.3 Yejia Di, Liang Shi, Congming Gao, Kaijie Wu, Jason Chun Xue and Edwin H.M. Sha, Minimizing Cell-to-Cell interference by Exploiting Differential-bit Impact Characteristics of Scaled MLC NAND Flash Memories, Chongqing University and City University of Hong Kong Session 2 (13:00-15:00) Invited talks I Neuromorphic approaches based on Flash and ReRAM 2.1 Jongho Lee, Neuromorphic devices and circuits based on charge storage memory, Seoul National University 2.2 Hyunsang Hwang, ReRAM-based Analog Synapse for Neuromorphic System, POSTECH 2.3 Yiran Chen, Designing an eNVM-enabled Neuromorphic Computing Framework: A Holistic View, University of Pittsburgh Session 3 (15:30-17:00) Invited talks II Recent advances in non-volatile memory applications 3.1 Jason Xue, Mapping Cache Aware I/O Scheduling for Flash Based Storage Systems, City University of Hong Kong 3.2 Yongpan Liu, A 65nm ReRAM-Enabled Nonvolatile Processor with 6? Reduction in Restore Time and 4? Higher Clock Frequency Using Adaptive Data Retention and Self-Write-Termination Nonvolatile Logic, Tsinghua University 3.3 Guangyu Sun, Potential Usage of Racetrack Memory in the Memory Hierarchy, Peking University Session 4 (17:00-18:00) Poster presentations Poster presentations by all 13 regular papers August 18 (Thu) Session 5 (9:00-10:30) Paper presentations 5.1 Edwin H.-M. Sha, Yang Jia, Xianzhang Chen, Qingfeng Zhuge, Weiwen Jiang and Jiejie Qin, The Design and Implementation of an Efficient User-Space In-memory File System, University of Texas at Dallas and Chongqing University 5.2 Hu Wan, Youyou Lu, Yuanchao Xu and Jiwu Shu, Empirical Study of Redo and Undo Logging in Persistent Memory, Capital Normal University and Tsinghua University 5.3 Seunghoe Kim and Woongki Baek, HAPT: Hardware-Accelerated Persistent Transactions, UNIST Session 6 (11:00-12:30) Invited talks III Software for Non-volatile Memory 6.1 Dongkun Shin, Improving Spatial Locality in Flash Storage Accesses by Address Remapping, SKKU 6.2 Youjip Won, HEAPO: light weight NVM management layer, Hanyang University 6.3 Sam H. Noh, Experimental Evaluation on the Effect of Non-Volatile Memory Latency on Application Performance, UNIST August 19 (Fri) NVMSA/RTCSA Joint Keynote 2 (9:00-10:00) Sangyeun Cho, All-Flash Data Centers, VP Samsung Electronics Session 7 (10:30-12:30) Paper presentations 7.1 Chi Zhang, Wonsun Ahn, Youtao Zhang and Bruce Childers, Live Code Update for IoT Devices in Energy Harvesting Environments, University of Pittsburgh 7.2 Chao Wu, Cheng Ji, Liang Shi and Jason Xue, Dynamic Merging/Splitting for Better Responsiveness in Mobile Devices, City University of Hong Kong and Chongqing University 7.3 Qingrui Liu and Changhee Jung, Transparent Consistency-Aware Checkpointing for Energy-Harvesting Intermittent Systems, Virginia Tech 7.4 Wonil Choi, Jie Zhang, Shuwen Gao, Jaesoo Lee, Myoungsoo Jung and Mahmut Kandemir, An In-Depth Study of Next Generation Interface for Emerging Non-Volatile Memories, Pennsylvania State University, Yonsei University, and Intel Session 8 (13:30-15:00) Invited talks IV Industrial Storage and Main Memory Solutions 8.1 Kun Tang, Storage Infrastructure and Medium, Huawei 8.2 Yi Liu, The Improvements in NAND Flash Endurance via Block Classification, Huawei 8.3 Hyungdong Lee, TBD, SK Hynix Session 9 (15:30?17:00) Paper presentations 9.1 Hung-Sheng Chang, Yuan-Hao Chang, Yuan-Hung Kuan, Xiang-Zhi Huang, Tei-Wei Kuo and Hsiang-Pang Li, Pattern-Aware Write-Back Strategy to Minimize Energy Consumption of PCM-based Storage Systems, National Taiwan University, Academia Sinica, and Macronix International 9.2 Taejin Kim, Sungjin Lee, Jisung Park and Jihong Kim, Efficient Lifetime Management of SSD-based RAIDs Using Dedup-Assisted Partial Stripe Writes, Seoul National University and Inha University 9.3 Arezki Laga and Jalil Boukhobza, Lynx: A Learning Linux Prefetching Mechanism For SSD Performance Model, KoDe Software and Universite de Bretagne Occidentale From boukhobza at univ-brest.fr Wed Jul 13 17:06:37 2016 From: boukhobza at univ-brest.fr (Jalil Boukhobza) Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2016 23:06:37 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [EWiLi] Submission deadline extended Message-ID: <052f01d1dd4a$72c38670$584a9350$@univ-brest.fr> **************************************************************************** ************** News: - Deadline extension: Abstract submission deadline : 25th of July Paper submission deadline : 1st of August - We are very glad to announce our keynote speaker: Pr. Daniel Moss? from the University of Pittsburgh with a talk related to energy saving issues. **************************************************************************** *************** Call For Papers EWiLi'16, the 6th Embedded Operating System Workshop held in conjunction with ESWEEK October 6th, PITTSBURGH, PA, USA EXTENDED DEADLINE: Abstract submission deadline : 25th of July Paper submission deadline : 1st of August http://syst.univ-brest.fr/ewili2016 **************************************************************************** *************** Aim and Scopes EWiLi, the embedded operating system workshop, aims at presenting state-of-the-art research, experimentations, significant and original realizations that focus on the design and implementation of embedded operating systems in both academic and industrial worlds. Expected contributions include but are not limited to the following topics, but should all consider embedded operating systems : - Reconfigurable architectures - Heterogeneous MPSOC and Multicore - Sensor networks - Multimedia systems - Cyber physical systems - Internet of things - Methods, software and tool chains - Model-driven Engineering - Data management and memory hierarchy optimization - Real-time, concurrency, scheduling and temporal performance - File systems, storage, and I/Os in embedded operating systems - Debug and profiling - Energy and power optimization - Performance evaluation and optimization - Safety and security concerns - Case studies and application projects - Embedded operating systems and education Submissions & publication Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ewili16 Papers should not exceed 6 pages in ACM SIG format (see http://sigbed.seas.upenn.edu/submit.html ) All accepted papers will be published in the ACM SIGBED Review (ISSN: 1551-3688) Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems. Important dates: Abstract submission deadline : 25th of July Paper submission deadline : 1st of August Notifications to authors: 29 August 2016 Camera ready versions: 19 September 2016 Steering committee (to be completed): Jalil BOUKHOBZA (Associate professor, Lab-STICC/University of Western Brittany, France) Marco Dominico SANTAMBROGIO (Polytech. Milano, Italy) Frank SINGHOFF (Professor, Lab-STICC/University of Western Brittany, France) Contact: boukhobza at univ-brest.fr Publicity chairs Giuseppe LIPARI (Univ. Lilles, France) Duo Liu (Chongqing Univ., China) Program committee (to be completed/confirmed) Mario ALDEA-RIVAS (Univ. de Cantabria, Spain) S?bastien BILAVARN (LEAT/Univ. Nice, France) Gedare BLOOM (Howard University, USA) Julien BOIBESSOT (Armadeus Systems, France) Jalil BOUKHOBZA (Lab-STICC/Univ. Western Brittany, France) Eric GRESSIER (CNAM Paris, France) Emmanuel GROLLEAU (LIAS, ISAE-ENSMA, France) Dionisio DE NIZ (SEI, Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Jean Philippe DIGUET (Lab-STICC/ Univ. Of South Brittany, France) Henrique DOMINGOS (FCT/Univ. Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Pierre FICHEUX (Openwide, France) Ann GORDON-ROSS (Univ. of Florida, USA) Henry HOFFMANN (University of Chicago, USA) Michael HUEBNER (Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany) J?r?me HUGUES (ISAE, France) Mathieu JAN (CEA, France) Patrice KADIONIK (ENSEIRB, France) Mouloud KOUDIL (ESI, Algeria) John KUBIATOWICZ (Univ. of California Berkeley, USA) Giuseppe LIPARI (Univ. Lilles, France) Duo Liu (Chongqing Univ., China) Manolis MARAZAKIS (ICS FORTH, Greece) Pierre Olivier (Virginia Tech, USA) Laurent PAUTET (Telecom Paris-Tech, France) Luis Miguel PINHO (CISTER/ISEP, Portugal) Juan Antonio de la PUENTE (DIT-UPM, Spain) Jos? RUFINO (FCUL, Portugal) Jos? RUIZ (AdaCore, France) Marco D. SANTAMBROGIO (Polytech. Milano, Italy) Eric SENN (Lab-STICC/Univ. of South Brittany, France) Joel SHERRILL (OAR Corporation, USA) Frank SINGHOFF (Lab-STICC/Univ. Western Brittany, France) Frank SIQUEIRA (Univ. Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil) Zili SHAO (Polytechnic Univ. Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Oleg SOKOLSKY (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Jon SOLWORTH (University of Illinois, USA) John WILLIAMS (ex. PetaLogix/Xilinx, Australia) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Nominations: A candidate must be nominated by member(s) of the community. An individual may nominate at most one candidate for this award. The nomination must be submitted via email to tchpc-awards at rid2.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 have provided letters supporting the nomination. 4. CV of the nominee 5. Up to three letters of support from persons other than the nominator ? these should be collected by the nominator and included in the nomination. Important Dates: - Nomination Deadline: August 15, 2016 - Results Notification: September 15, 2016 Award Selection Committee: The award selection committee consists of: David Abramson, University of Queensland, Australia Tracy Camp, Colorado School of Mines, USA Karen Devine, Sandia National Laboratory, USA Satoshi Matsuoka, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Japan Manish Parashar, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA Sartaj Sahni, Univ. of Florida, USA Burkhard Stiller, University of Zurich, Switzerland 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 Computer Society TCPP and TCCC websites, newsletters and archives. The awards will be presented at the SC16 conference that will be held in Salt Lake City, UT, USA during November 13 ? 18, 2016. Details of the conference can be found at http://sc16.supercomputing.org/. For more information, please send email to tchpc-awards at rdi2.rutgers.edu. -- ========================================================================== Manish Parashar Office: CoRE Bldg, Rm 628 RDI2/OARC/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 toni.collis at ed.ac.uk Fri Jul 22 05:39:11 2016 From: toni.collis at ed.ac.uk (Toni Collis) Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2016 10:39:11 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] EuroMPI 2016 Additional Events: Tutorials/Workshop and Careers in HPC Message-ID: <36CAF76A-531D-4EB9-A0D0-372C61FABF2B@ed.ac.uk> ******************************************************************************** * EuroMPI 2016 Additional Events: Tutorials/Workshop and Careers in HPC * * Organised by EPCC at The University of Edinburgh * In cooperation with ACM SIGHPC. * Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom, 25-28 September 2016 * * http://www.eurompi2016.ed.ac.uk ******************************************************************************** ** Workshops and Tutorials at EuroMPI: Register Now The aim of the EuroMPI conference is to bring together all of the stakeholders involved in developments and applications related to the Message Passing Interface (MPI). As part of this, the conference has strong programme of tutorials on Sunday 25th September. Two tutorials are being presented covering novel topics of interest to EuroMPI attendees: * Machine Learning at Scale - Tom Ashby, IMEC, Belgium, & Tom Vander Aa, Exascience Lab at IMEC, Belgium. This tutorial aims to give the HPC audience insight into the needs and opportunities for using HPC tools for machine learning on large data sets. * Survival in an MPI World - George Bosilca, Innovative Computing Laboratory, University of Tennessee. In this tutorial, we will present a holistic approach to fault tolerance by introducing multiple fault management techniques, while maintaining the focus on User Level Failure Mitigation (ULFM), a minimal extension of the MPI specification to introduce resilience in applications. Full details of the tutorials are available at: http://www.eurompi2016.ed.ac.uk/tutorials ** Careers in HPC: An Evening With Interesting People Organised by Women in HPC, but open to all Sunday, 25 September 2016 from 15:30 to 21:30 Held in collaboration with EuroMPI 2016 and hosted by WHPC, we invite you to join us to learn about creating impact from your work and how to develop your career in scientific software engineering. Finish the evening by meeting leading experts from the MPI community from around the world over dinner. This session will be followed a special networking evening designed to provide you with key skills to develop your career and meet experts from the HPC and MPI community. This event, hosted by Women in HPC, but open to everyone will host a panel discussion on creating impact from your work: insight into the UK academic funding landscape, as well as a discussion on the opportunities available for careers for Research Software Engineers. 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Expected contributions include but are not limited to the following topics, but should all consider embedded operating systems : - Reconfigurable architectures - Heterogeneous MPSOC and Multicore - Sensor networks - Multimedia systems - Cyber physical systems - Internet of things - Methods, software and tool chains - Model-driven Engineering - Data management and memory hierarchy optimization - Real-time, concurrency, scheduling and temporal performance - File systems, storage, and I/Os in embedded operating systems - Debug and profiling - Energy and power optimization - Performance evaluation and optimization - Safety and security concerns - Case studies and application projects - Embedded operating systems and education Submissions & publication Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ewili16 Papers should not exceed 6 pages in ACM SIG format (see http://sigbed.seas.upenn.edu/submit.html ) All accepted papers will be published in the ACM SIGBED Review (ISSN: 1551-3688) Special Interest Group on Embedded Systems. Important dates: Abstract submission deadline : 25th of July Paper submission deadline : 1st of August Notifications to authors: 29 August 2016 Camera ready versions: 19 September 2016 Steering committee (to be completed): Jalil BOUKHOBZA (Associate professor, Lab-STICC/University of Western Brittany, France) Marco Dominico SANTAMBROGIO (Polytech. Milano, Italy) Frank SINGHOFF (Professor, Lab-STICC/University of Western Brittany, France) Contact: boukhobza at univ-brest.fr Publicity chairs Giuseppe LIPARI (Univ. Lilles, France) Duo Liu (Chongqing Univ., China) Program committee (to be completed/confirmed) Mario ALDEA-RIVAS (Univ. de Cantabria, Spain) S?bastien BILAVARN (LEAT/Univ. Nice, France) Gedare BLOOM (Howard University, USA) Julien BOIBESSOT (Armadeus Systems, France) Jalil BOUKHOBZA (Lab-STICC/Univ. Western Brittany, France) Eric GRESSIER (CNAM Paris, France) Emmanuel GROLLEAU (LIAS, ISAE-ENSMA, France) Dionisio DE NIZ (SEI, Carnegie Mellon University, USA) Jean Philippe DIGUET (Lab-STICC/ Univ. Of South Brittany, France) Henrique DOMINGOS (FCT/Univ. Nova de Lisboa, Portugal) Pierre FICHEUX (Openwide, France) Ann GORDON-ROSS (Univ. of Florida, USA) Henry HOFFMANN (University of Chicago, USA) Michael HUEBNER (Ruhr-University of Bochum, Germany) J?r?me HUGUES (ISAE, France) Mathieu JAN (CEA, France) Patrice KADIONIK (ENSEIRB, France) Mouloud KOUDIL (ESI, Algeria) John KUBIATOWICZ (Univ. of California Berkeley, USA) Giuseppe LIPARI (Univ. Lilles, France) Duo Liu (Chongqing Univ., China) Manolis MARAZAKIS (ICS FORTH, Greece) Pierre Olivier (Virginia Tech, USA) Laurent PAUTET (Telecom Paris-Tech, France) Luis Miguel PINHO (CISTER/ISEP, Portugal) Juan Antonio de la PUENTE (DIT-UPM, Spain) Jos? RUFINO (FCUL, Portugal) Jos? RUIZ (AdaCore, France) Marco D. SANTAMBROGIO (Polytech. Milano, Italy) Eric SENN (Lab-STICC/Univ. of South Brittany, France) Joel SHERRILL (OAR Corporation, USA) Frank SINGHOFF (Lab-STICC/Univ. Western Brittany, France) Frank SIQUEIRA (Univ. Federal de Santa Catarina, Brasil) Zili SHAO (Polytechnic Univ. Hong Kong, Hong Kong) Oleg SOKOLSKY (University of Pennsylvania, USA) Jon SOLWORTH (University of Illinois, USA) John WILLIAMS (ex. PetaLogix/Xilinx, Australia) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.musolesi at ucl.ac.uk Thu Sep 1 09:18:26 2016 From: m.musolesi at ucl.ac.uk (Mirco Musolesi) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 14:18:26 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2016: Colocated Workshops CfPs (with Extended Deadlines) Message-ID: [Apologies for crossposting] ???? ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2016: Colocated Workshops CfPs Workshop Chairs: Aniruddha Gokhale, Vanderbilt University, USA Guillaume Pierre, IRISA, Universit? de Rennes 1, France ???? 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. The scope of the conference is the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed system platforms and architectures for computing, storage, and communication environments. Middleware 2016 is hosting a series of exciting workshops as listed below. Please refer to the websites of the workshops for more information. Please contact the workshop organisers for any questions about the specific workshop. Please note that some deadline have been *extended*. MECC: 1st Workshop on Middleware for Edge Clouds & Cloudlets http://mecc2016.dcc.fc.up.pt/ Organizers: Rolando Martins (rmartins at dcc.fc.up.pt) and Herv? Paulino (herve.paulino at fct.unl.pt) Submission deadline: September 3rd 2016 MOTA: 1st International Workshop on Mashups of Things and APIs http://www.mota.ws/ Organizers: David Bermbach (db at ise.tu-berlin.de), David Eyers (dme at cs.otago.ac.nz) and Erik Wittern (witternj at us.ibm.com). Submission deadline: September 4th 2016 ARM: 15th Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware http://arm2016.unine.ch/ Organizers: Etienne Rivi?re (etienne.riviere at unine.ch) and Ruediger Kapitza (kapitza at ibr.cs.tu-bs.de) Submission deadline: September 2nd 2016 M4IoT: 3rd Workshop on Middleware for Context-Aware Applications in the IoT http://lii-enac.fr/event/m4iot16/ Organizers: Danny Hughes (danny.hughes at cs.kuleuven.be), Chantal Taconet (chantal.taconet at telecom?sudparis.eu), S?bastien Leriche (sebastien.leriche at enac.fr) and Tha?s Vasconcelos Batista (thais at ufrnet.br) Submission deadline: September 9th 2016 SmartCities: 2nd International Workshop on Smart Cities: People, Technology and Data https://www.ht.sfc.keio.ac.jp/iwsc16/ Organizers: Rodger Lea (rodgerl at ece.ubc.ca), Takuro Yonezada (takuro at ht.sfc.keio.ac.jp) Submission deadline: September 5th 2016 SysTEX: 1st Workshop on System Software for Trusted Execution https://systex.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/index.html Organizers: Pascal Felber, Christof Fetzer, R?diger Kapitza, Peter Pietzuch (primary contact: rrkapitz at ibr.cs.tu-bs.de) Submission deadline: September 2nd 2016 -- 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 m.musolesi at ucl.ac.uk Thu Sep 1 09:57:16 2016 From: m.musolesi at ucl.ac.uk (Mirco Musolesi) Date: Thu, 1 Sep 2016 14:57:16 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Middleware 2016: ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference Doctoral Symposium Message-ID: <65DB7E68-A701-47DE-955A-D0CB5E9416C2@ucl.ac.uk> [Apologies for crossposting] Middleware 2016: ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware Conference Doctoral Symposium http://2016.middleware-conference.org/call/doctoralsymposium/ Dates: Paper Submission: September 26, 2016 Notification of Acceptance: October 10, 2016 Camera ready: October 17, 2016 All deadline times are 23:59 UTC/GMT-12h Call for Submissions: Following the tradition of past editions, the symposium provides an international forum that gives PhD students an opportunity to present and discuss their research with their peers and with a panel of expert mentors from the middleware field. The symposium is open to PhD students at any stage of their studies. Applicants will be divided into two groups: * Planners: students at an early-stage of their thesis who are focused on crafting their research proposal and completing background research. * Finishers: students closer to finishing their thesis or dissertation and thinking about how to present their research, its results, and its impact. The symposium will provide an informal and welcoming atmosphere in which students from both groups will have the opportunity to discuss their planned goals, their progress and achievements, the key research challenges to overcome, as well as software and tools they are developing. As part of the symposium, the participating students will receive valuable feedback from senior researchers and experts from both industry and academia. The symposium will also be an opportunity for meeting and sharing experiences with other PhD students who are addressing similar topics or are at a similar stage in their doctoral work. All PhD students carrying out research on middleware topics are invited to submit a position paper to the doctoral symposium. Papers will be peer-reviewed by the symposium?s committee of selected mentors. The criteria for accepting papers includes the extent of the contribution of the work to the field, the originality of the problem, and the overall quality of the position paper. Position papers should fit within the topics of Middleware 2016 Call for Papers. Accepted position papers will be presented during the doctoral symposium, as well as in a poster session during the main program of Middleware 2016. Contributions to the Middleware 2016 PhD Workshop will appear in a proceedings that supplements the main conference proceedings. The Middleware 2016 Doctoral Symposium will accept papers in two categories. All papers should be formatted according to the ACM guidelines. Students should pay careful attention to which category is appropriate for the stage of their research and adhere to the instructions for the proper category. Students in the early stages of the PhD research (i.e., likely within the first 1-2 years of the research portion of the degree) should submit within the Planners group. Position papers in this category should not be longer than 2 pages (including all materials). Students nearing the end of their PhD research (i.e., have one or more publications complete, have concrete results to discuss) should submit within the Finishers group. Position papers in this category should not be longer than 4 pages (including all materials). See the Middleware 2016 Doctoral Symposium website for more guidance on the formatting and content of the submission. Middleware 2016 Doctoral Symposium Co-Chairs: Pascal Felber, Universit? de Neuch?tel, Switzerland Christine Julien, The University of Texas at Austin, USA -- 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 andrew.clashe at gmail.com Wed Sep 7 08:08:22 2016 From: andrew.clashe at gmail.com (Andrew Clashe) Date: Wed, 7 Sep 2016 22:08:22 +1000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Poster and Demo: IEEE HPCC 2016 (High Performance Computing and Communications) Message-ID: Call for Poster and Demo: The 18th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/hpcc/poster.htm Key dates: Deadline for proceedings published posters/demos: 28 September 2016 (11:59pm HST) Notification of Acceptance: 3 October 2016 Final versions of proceeding published posters/demos: 15 October 2016 Submission Please email your posters/demos to confs.aus at gmail.com with the email subject as "HPCC 2016 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 High Performance Computing and Communications 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 HPCC 2016. HPCC 2016 (High Performance Computing and Communications) 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 High Performance Computing and Communications 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: Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Parallel and distributed system architectures 2. Languages and compilers for high performance computing 3. Parallel and distributed software technologies 4. Parallel and distributed algorithms 5. Embedded systems 6. Peer-to-peer computing 7. Grid and cluster computing 8. Web services and Internet computing 9. Cloud computing, Utility computing 10. Big Data, Data Science, Data Analytics, Business Analytics on HPC 11. Performance evaluation and measurement 12. Tools and environments for software development 13. Distributed systems and applications 14. High-performance scientific and engineering computing 15. Database applications and data mining 16. Biological/molecular computing 17. Collaborative and cooperative environments 18. Mobile computing and wireless communications 19. Computer Networks 20. Telecommunications 21. Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence 22. Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance 23. Trust, security and privacy Chairs: Vinh Tung Le, University of Technology Sydney, Australia Rajiv Ranjan, Newcastle University, UK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Proceedings published posters and demos: Submission is a 2-page short paper describing the post/demo content, research, relevance and importance to Data Science and Systems 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 DSS 2016. DSS 2016 (Data Science and Systems) 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 Data Science and Systems 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 ? 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 Systems ? 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, Privacy and Trust in Data ? 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 Health, Energy, Cybersecurity, Transport, Food, Soil and Water, Resources, Advanced Manufacturing, Environmental Change, and etc. Chairs: Mianxiong Dong, Muroran Institute of Technology, Japan William Liu, Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From m.musolesi at ucl.ac.uk Tue Sep 13 06:01:05 2016 From: m.musolesi at ucl.ac.uk (Musolesi, Mirco) Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2016 10:01:05 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Middleware 2016 - Call for Demos and Posters - DEADLINE EXTENDED Message-ID: <145B8E46-89BF-4EB8-9F94-C7C6E14F8508@ucl.ac.uk> [Apologies for Crossposting] Middleware 2016 - Call for Demos and Posters Middleware 2016 will provide a forum for live software demonstrations of middleware applications, systems, and tools. Demos could take a wide and open-ended variety of forms. Typical examples include: (i) presentation of an application which leverages advanced middleware concepts, (ii) working through coding of an example on a novel middleware platform, or (iii) real-time visualizations of middleware system metrics under simulated workloads. Although the form may vary, demo presenters should take advantage of not being constrained by the format of a traditional slide presentation. Demos are encouraged for both early prototypes and mature technology. Posters will provide an opportunity for conference attendees to learn about innovative work in progress and to preview late-breaking research results. Poster sessions will provide an informal setting for presenters to communicate ideas or results and also to collect feedback from attendees. Demo or poster contributions are solicited in all areas of middleware research and applications. For a list of applicable topics, please consider those from the call for papers. Important Dates Poster/Demo Submission ***September 19, 2016*** [EXTENDED] Notification of Acceptance October 3, 2016 Camera Ready October 17, 2016 Submit your posters and demos through EasyChair. (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=middleware2016_posters). If you encounter any problems, please notify the Demo and Poster chairs: Octav Chipara (octav-chipara at uiowa.edu) and Gianpaolo Cugola (gianpaolo.cugola at polimi.it). The authors of accepted demos and posters must prepare a single slide that provides an overview of their work which will be presented during the ?1-minute madness? session that precedes the demo and poster session. Demo Submissions Submissions describing live demos should be at most 3 pages PDF using the ACM proceedings format (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). The first two pages will include a description of the demo that will be included in the Middleware proceedings. The last page will outline aspects of the demo that will be considered during evaluation, but will not appear in the proceedings. Pages 1 and 2 should include the following: ? title of the demo (including beginning with ?Demo Abstract:?) ? authors, affiliation, and contact information (no need to include complete affiliation details addresses, web sites, ...), ? a description of the problems addressed, ? research and technical approach, ? related work with bibliography. Page 3: This page should contain any additional information that will be used only to evaluate your demonstration proposal: it will not be part of the proceedings. For example, you may detail what you will show during the demo, provide links to additional online material related to your demo, e.g., videos, etc. You may also use this space to outline any special requirements you have for the demonstration, e.g., unusual space needs, exclusive access to a wireless channel, etc. The format of this page is at your discretion. Poster Submissions Submissions describing posters should be at most 2 pages PDF using the ACM proceedings format. The submission should include: ? title of the poster (beginning with ?Poster Abstract:?) ? authors, affiliation, and contact information (no need to include complete affiliation details addresses, web sites, ...) ? a description of the problems addressed ? research and technical approach ? any preliminary results ? related work with bibliography ? 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 m.musolesi at ucl.ac.uk Sun Oct 2 17:00:08 2016 From: m.musolesi at ucl.ac.uk (Musolesi, Mirco) Date: Sun, 2 Oct 2016 21:00:08 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Middleware 2016 - Call for Participation Message-ID: 17th International Conference on Middleware 2016 -- December 12-16 Registration is open for this years ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware conference to be held in Trento, Italy. Early registration closes on October 31! http://2016.middleware-conference.org/registration Travel grants are also available, thanks to generous donations of our supporters (EMC2, IBM Research, RedHat, Raytheon BBN): http://2016.middleware-conference.org/grants The main conference will be held on December 14-16 (Wed-Fri) and includes a world-class technical program with academic and industry papers covering technologies including, among others, publish/subscribe, SGX, Storm, cloud computing, software-defined storage, distributed stream processing, and virtualization. See the accepted papers at http://2016.middleware-conference.org/program/accepted_papers The pre-conference program, on December 12-13 (Mon-Tue), includes a rich program with exciting workshops and tutorials: http://2016.middleware-conference.org/program/workshops/ - 15th Workshop on Adaptive and Reflective Middleware (ARM) - 3rd Workshop on Middleware for Context-Aware Applications in the IoT (M4IoT) - 1st Workshop on Middleware for Edge Clouds & Cloudlets (MECC) - 1st Workshop on Mashups of Things and APIs (MOTA) - 2nd Workshop on Smart Cities: People, Technology and Data (SmartCities) - 1st Workshop on System Software for Trusted Execution (SysTEX) http://2016.middleware-conference.org/program/tutorials/ - Sensor Cloud: A Cloud of Wireless Sensors (S.K. Madria, Missouri Univ. of Science and Technology, USA) - Middleware for Indoor Location-Based Services (D. Miorandi, U-Hopper, Italy) - Gossip as a framework (A. Montresor, Univ. of Trento, Italy) Middleware 2016 website: http://2016.middleware-conference.org ? 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 Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov Sat Oct 29 13:06:36 2016 From: Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov (Tumeo, Antonino) Date: Sat, 29 Oct 2016 17:06:36 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Participation - IA^3 2016 hms Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] IA^3 2016 - Sixth Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 November 13 2016 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM Room 251-D Salt Lake City, UT To be held in conjunction with SC16 To be held in cooperation with SIGHPC Theme Irregular applications occur in many subject matters. While inherently parallel, they exhibit highly variable execution performance at a local level due to unpredictable memory access patterns and/or network transfers, divergent control structures, and data imbalances. Moreover, they often require fine-grain synchronization and communication on large-data structures such as graphs, trees, unstructured grids, tables, sparse matrices, deep nets, and their combinations (such as, for example, attributed graphs). 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 reduce 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 machine learning, social network analysis, bioinformatics, semantic graph databases, 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 challenges in science and data analysis 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. Preliminary Program 9:00 - 9:10 Welcome and Introduction 9:10 - 9:50 Keynote 1 - Software High Level Abstractions and Automatic Optimization Techniques for the programming of Irregular Algorithms Prof. David Padua (UIUC) 9:50 - 10:00 Session 1: Parallel Graph Algorithms Fast Parallel Cosine K-Nearest Neighbor Graph Construction David Anastasiu and George Karypis 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break 10:30 - 11:10 Session 2: Compilers and Irregular Applications 10:30 - 10:50 Compiler Transformation to Generate Hybrid Sparse Computations Huihui Zhang, Anand Venkat and Mary Hall 10:50 - 11:10 An OpenCL Framework for Distributed Apps on a Multidimensional Network of FPGAs Abhijeet Lawande, Alan George and Herman Lam 11:10 - 10:50 Session 3: Irregular Algorithms on GPUs 11:10 - 11:30 An Optimized Multicolor Point-Implicit Solver for Unstructured Grid Applications on Graphics Processing Units Mohammad Zubair, Eric Nielsen, Justin Luitjens and Dana Hammond 11:30 - 11:40 Dynamic Load Balancing for High-Performance Graph Processing on Hybrid CPU-GPU Platforms Stijn Heldens, Ana Lucia Varbanescu and Alexandru Iosup 11:40 -11:50 A Fast Level-Set Segmentation Algorithm for Image Processing Designed For Parallel Architectures Julian Gutierrez, Fanny Nina Paravecino and David Kaeli 11:50 - 12:30 Session 4: Sparse Matrices and Tensors 11:50 - 12:10 Optimizing Sparse Tensor Times Matrix on Multi-core and Many-core Architectures Jiajia Li, Yuchen Ma, Chenggang Yan and Richard Vuduc 12:10 - 12:20 Performance Evaluation of Parallel Sparse Tensor Decomposition Implementations Thomas Rolinger, Tyler Simon and Christopher Krieger 12:20 - 12:30 HISC/R: An Efficient Hypersparse-Matrix Storage Format for Scalable Graph Processing Robert Kirchgessner, Giovanni De La Torre, Alan George and Vitaliy Gleyzer 12:30 - 2:00 Lunch Break (on your own) 2:00 - 2:40 Keynote 2 - Architectures Dr. Paolo Faraboschi (HPE) 2:40 - 3:00 Session 5: Emerging Architectures 2:40 - 3:00 Highly Scalable Near Memory Processing with Migrating Threads on the Emu System Architecture Timothy Dysart, Peter Kogge, Martin Deneroff, Eric Bovell, Preston Briggs, Jay Brockman, Kenneth Jacobsen, Yujen Juan, Shannon Kuntz, Richard Lethin, Janice McMahon, Chandra Pawar, Martin Perrigo, Sarah Rucker, John Ruttenberg, Max Ruttenberg and Steve Stein 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break 3:30 - 4:00 Session 6: Irregular Algorithms on Novel Processors 3:30 - 3:50 Parallel Interval Stabbing on the Automata Processor Indranil Roy, Ankit Srivastava, Matt Grimm and Srinivas Aluru 3:50 - 4:00 Implementation and evaluation of data-compression algorithms for irregular-grid iterative methods on the PEZY-SC processor Naoki Yoshifuji, Ryo Sakamoto, Keigo Nitadori and Jun Makino 4:00 - 4:20 Session 7: Runtimes and Irregularity 4:00 - 4:10 Fine-grained parallelism in probabilistic parsing with Habanero Java Matthew Francis-Landau, Bing Xue, Vivek Sarkar and Jason Eisner 4:10 - 4:20 Optimized Distributed Work-Stealing Vivek Kumar, Karthik Murthy, Vivek Sarkar and Yili Zheng 4:20 - 5:30 Debate - Moderator: Andrew Lumsdaine (PNNL) Panelists: Torsten Hoefler (ETH), Timothy Mattson (Intel), Alessandro Morari (IBM), David Padua (UIUC), others TBA Organizers Antonino Tumeo, PNNL, antonino.tumeo at pnnl.gov John Feo, PNNL, Northwest Institute for Advanced Computing (NIAC), john.feo at pnnl.gov Oreste Villa, NVIDIA Research, ovilla at nvidia.com From MOSHIKH at il.ibm.com Tue Nov 29 05:48:44 2016 From: MOSHIKH at il.ibm.com (Moshik Hershcovitch) Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2016 12:48:44 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [SYSTOR 2017] Call for Papers: SYSTOR 2017, May 22-24, Haifa, Israel Message-ID: Hi, I wish to promote our upcoming SYSTOR 2017. I would like to send the Call for papers to your mailing list. Thanks, Moshik Hershcovitch Subject: [SYSTOR 2017] Call for Papers: SYSTOR 2017, May 22-24, Haifa, Israel Call for Papers: SYSTOR 2017 May 22-24, 2017 Haifa, Israel We invite you to submit original and innovative papers to SYSTOR 2017, The 10th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference. The conference will take place May 22-24, 2017 in Haifa, Israel. http://systor.org/2017 Paper submission deadline: February 22, 2017 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 and short paper submission: February 22, 2017 * Paper acceptance notification: March 29, 2017 * Poster submission: March 22, 2017 * Poster acceptance notification: April 5, 2017 * Highlights paper submission: March 29, 2017 * Camera-ready submission: April 26, 2017 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 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 and submission instructions: http://www.systor.org/2017/cfp.html SYSTOR 2017 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. PROGRAM COMMITTEE CHAIRS * Peter Desnoyers (Northeastern University) * Eyal de Lara (University of Toronto) GENERAL CHAIR * Doron Chen (IBM Research) PUBLICATION CHAIR * Aviad Zuck (Technion) POSTERS CHAIR * Adam Morrison (Tel-Aviv University) PUBLICITY CHAIR: * Moshik Hershcovitch (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) * Dalit Naor (IBM Research) * Erez Zadok (Stony Brook University) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andrew.clashe at gmail.com Sun Dec 4 01:06:07 2016 From: andrew.clashe at gmail.com (Andrew Clashe) Date: Sun, 4 Dec 2016 17:06:07 +1100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for participation: IEEE HPCC2016 (High Performance Computing and Communications), Dec. 2016 Message-ID: Call for participation: The 18th IEEE International Conference on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC 2016), 12-14 Dec. 2016, Sydney, Australia. Website: www.swinflow.org/confs/2016/hpcc Introduction With the rapid growth in computing and communications technology, the past decade has witnessed a proliferation of powerful parallel and distributed systems and an ever increasing demand for practice of high performance computing and communications (HPCC). HPCC has moved into the mainstream of computing and has become a key technology in determining future research and development activities in many academic and industrial branches, especially when the solution of large and complex problems must cope with very tight timing schedules. Among a series of highly successful International Conferences on High Performance Computing and Communications (HPCC), the HPCC 2016 conference is the 18th edition of a forum for engineers and scientists in academia, industry, and government to address the resulting profound challenges and to present and discuss their new ideas, research results, applications and experience on all aspects of high performance computing and communications. IEEE HPCC 2016 is sponsored by IEEE, IEEE Computer Society, and IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC). Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: 1. Parallel and distributed system architectures 2. Languages and compilers for high performance computing 3. Parallel and distributed software technologies 4. Parallel and distributed algorithms 5. Embedded systems 6. Peer-to-peer computing 7. Cluster computing 8. Web services and Internet computing 9. Cloud computing 10. Utility computing 11. Performance evaluation and measurement 12. Tools and environments for software development 13. Distributed systems and applications 14. High-performance scientific and engineering computing 15. Database applications and data mining 16. Biological/molecular computing 17. Collaborative and cooperative environments 18. Mobile computing and wireless communications 19. Computer Networks 20. Telecommunications 21. Pervasive/ubiquitous computing and intelligence 22. Autonomic, reliability and fault-tolerance 23. Trust, security and privacy 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/2016/hpcc/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 will be selected for special issues in Journal of Network and Computer Applications, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Computer and System Sciences General Chairs Jack Dongarra, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA Albert Zomaya, The University of Sydney, Australia Laurence Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada General Co-Chairs Rajkumar Buyya, University of Melbourne, Australia Nong Xiao, Sun Yat-Sen University, China Geyong Min, The University of Exeter, UK Program Chairs Carson Leung, University of Manitoba, Canada Dongsheng Li, National University of Defense Technology, China Yang Xiang, Deakin University, Australia Workshops Chairs Massimo Cafaro, University of Salento, Lecce, Italy Wei Zheng, Xiamen University, China Vinh Tung Le, UTS, Australia Steering Committee Chairs Laurence T. 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