From huaming.wu at fu-berlin.de Wed Jan 3 07:04:25 2018 From: huaming.wu at fu-berlin.de (wu huaming) Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2018 20:04:25 +0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] ACM/SPEC ICPE 2018 Call for Workshops, Posters/Demos, and Wip/Vision Papers Message-ID: <2395A030-6EA8-4439-BE96-F83C37A24ED8@fu-berlin.de> ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- JOINT CALL FOR WORKSHOP PAPERS, POSTERS/DEMOS, AND WIP/VISION PAPERS ICPE 2018 9th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering A Joint Meeting of WOSP/SIPEW sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS and ACM SIGSOFT in Cooperation with SPEC Berlin, Germany April, 9-13, 2018 https://icpe2018.spec.org -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The goal of the International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) is to integrate theory and practice in the field of performance engineering by providing a forum for sharing ideas and experiences between industry and academia. ICPE is a joint meeting of the ACM Workshop on Software and Performance (WOSP) and the SPEC International Performance Evaluation Workshop (SIPEW). The conference brings together researchers and industry practitioners to share and present their experience, to discuss challenges, and to report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on performance engineering. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ POSTERS, DEMOS, AND WIP/VISION PAPERS The following ICPE 2018 tracks with the given submission deadlines are still open: - Poster and Demo Papers Submission: Jan 15, 2018 Notification: Jan 26, 2018 Camera-ready paper submission: Feb 14, 2018 - Work in Progress and Vision Papers Submission: Jan 10, 2018 Notification: Feb 08, 2018 Camera-ready paper submission: Feb 19, 2018 See https://icpe2018.spec.org/call-for-contributions/ for details. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ WORKSHOPS The following workshops are organized in conjunction with ICPE 2017: - 4th Workshop on Performance Analysis of Big data Systems (PABS) - 1st Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance (HotCloudPerf-2018) - Workshop on Challenges in Performance Methods for Software Development (WOSP-C'18) - 7th International Workshop on Load Testing and Benchmarking of Software Systems (LTB 2018) - 4th International Workshop on Energy-aware Simulation and Modelling (ENERGY-SIM) - 4th International Workshop on Quality-Aware DevOps (QUDOS ?18) A brief overview of all workshops is given below. For more information, visit the conference website at https://icpe2018.spec.org/workshops ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4th Workshop on Performance Analysis of Big data Systems (PABS) ABSTRACT We are seeing exponential growth in data generated from various platforms like social media, multimedia, enterprises, internet of things etc. It is becoming increasingly difficult to manage, analyze, visualize, model, store, search big data systems. However, we also witness growth in the complexity, diversity, number of deployments and capabilities of big data processing systems such as Map-Reduce, Spark, HBase, Hive, Cassandra, Big Table, Pregel and Mongo DB. The big data system may use new operating system designs, advanced data processing algorithms, parallelization of application, high performance computing architectures such as GPUs etc. and clusters to improve the performance. Traditional systems are also upgrading themselves to co-locate with popular big data technologies. The workshop on performance analysis of big data systems (PABS) aims at providing a platform for scientific researchers, academicians and practitioners to discuss techniques, models, benchmarks, tools, case studies and experiences while dealing with performance issues in traditional and big data systems. The primary objective is to discuss performance bottlenecks and improvements during big data analysis using different paradigms, architectures and big data technologies. We propose to use this platform as an opportunity to discuss systems, architectures, tools, and optimization algorithms that are parallel in nature and hence make use of advancements to improve the system performance. This workshop shall focus on the performance challenges imposed by big data systems and on the different state-of-the-art solutions proposed to overcome these challenges. The accepted papers shall be published in ACM proceedings and digital library. WORKSHOP WEB SITE INCLUDING A DETAILED CALL FOR PAPERS: http://ripsac.web2labs.net/pabs/ IMPORTANT DATES(Tentative): Paper Submission deadline January 15, 2018 Author Notification February 12, 2018 Camera ready paper deadline February 18, 2018 Workshop date April 09, 2018 SUBMISSION: Submissions describing original, unpublished recent results related to the workshop theme, up to 6 pages in ACM conference format can be submitted through EasyChair paper submission website https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=pabs2018.. All submission will be accepted in pdf format only. While the preferred mode of submission is through the paper submission website but in case of difficulty in online submission, authors may also submit their manuscripts over email to the workshop co-chairs. ORGANIZERS (CHAIRS): Rekha Singhal (TCS Research) Dheeraj Chahal (TCS Research) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 1st Workshop on Hot Topics in Cloud Computing Performance (HotCloudPerf-2018) ABSTRACT Cloud computing is emerging as one of the most profound changes in the way we build and use IT. The use of global services in public clouds is increasing, and the lucrative and rapidly growing global cloud market already supports over 1 million IT-related jobs. However, it is currently challenging to make the IT services offered by public and private clouds performant (in an extended sense) and efficient. Emerging architectures, techniques, and real-world systems include hybrid deployment, serverless operation, everything as a service, complex workflows, auto-scaling and -tiering, etc. It is unclear to which extent traditional performance engineering, software engineering, and system design and analysis tools can help with understanding and engineering these emerging technologies. The community also needs practical tools and powerful methods to address hot topics in cloud computing performance. Responding to this need, the HotCloudPerf workshop proposes a meeting venue for academics and practitioners, from experts to trainees, in the field of cloud computing performance. The workshop aims to engage this community, and to lead to the development of new methodological aspects for gaining deeper understanding not only of cloud performance, but also of cloud operation and behavior, through diverse quantitative evaluation tools, including benchmarks, metrics, and workload generators. The workshop focuses on novel cloud properties such as elasticity, performance isolation, dependability, and other non-functional system properties, in addition to classical performance-related metrics such as response time, throughput, scalability, and efficiency. Each year, the workshop chooses a focus theme to explore; for 2018, the theme is ?Performance in the cloud datacenter.? Articles focusing on this topic are particularly encouraged for HotCloudPerf-2018. The HotCloudPerf workshop is technically sponsored by the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC)?s Research Group (RG), and is organized annually by the RG Cloud Group. HotCloudPerf has emerged from the series of yearly meetings organized by the RG Cloud Group in conjunction with ICPE, since 2013. The RG Cloud Group group is taking a broad approach, relevant for both academia and industry, to cloud benchmarking, quantitative evaluation, and experimental analysis. WORKSHOP WEB SITE INCLUDING A DETAILED CALL FOR PAPERS: https://hotcloudperf.spec.org/ IMPORTANT DATES Abstracts due: Jan 10, 2018 Papers due: Jan 15, 2018 Author notification: Feb 07, 2018 Camera-ready deadline: Feb 18, 2018 Workshop: Apr 09, 2018 SUBMISSION We solicit full papers (max. 6 pages, including floats and references), and short papers describing tools/demos/work-in-progress (2 pages). Articles must use the ACM conference format. ORGANIZERS (CHAIRS): Nikolas Herbst (U. W?rzburg, Germany) Alexandru Iosup (VU Amsterdam, the Netherlands) Web & Publicity Chair: Erwin van Eyk (Platform9 Fission team, USA, and TU Delft, the Netherlands) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Workshop on Challenges in Performance Methods for Software Development (WOSP-C'18) ABSTRACT New challenges to assuring software performance arise as new software development methods emerge. In addition to using middleware and database platforms, new applications may be implemented using environments such as Software as a Service (SaaS) and Service-Oriented Architectures, which are also the key for cloud computing performance modelling. The performance characteristics of these services will inevitably influence the performance and scalability of the applications that use them. The use of DevOps means that new components will be introduced to existing systems while they are running. The new components must allow the performance existing components to continue to be met. In this fourth edition of WOSP-C, we will explore the performance implications of this evolution in architecture and development and their impact on the inclusion and development of performance. We seek to do this by including research and experience papers, vision papers describing new initiatives and ideas, and discussion sessions. Papers describing new projects and approaches are particularly welcome. As implied by the title, the workshop focus is on methods usable anywhere across the life cycle, from requirements to design, testing and evolution of the product. The discussions will attempt to map the future of the field. They may occur in breakout sessions related to topics chosen by the participants. The discussions will be moderated and summaries posted on line for future reference. This is in keeping with the spirit of the first Workshop on Software and Performance, WOSP98, which successfully identified the issues that were current at the time. The acronym WOSP-C reflects this. There will be sessions which combine papers on research/experience/vision with substantial discussion on issues raised by the papers or the attendees. At least a third of the time will be devoted to discussion on identifying the key problems and the most fruitful lines of future research. WORKSHOP WEBSITE INCLUDING A DETAILED CALL FOR PAPERS: http://mifs.uib.cat/wosp-c-18/ IMPORTANT DATES: Submission deadline: January 15, 2018 Notification to authors: February 8, 2018 Camera-ready copy: February 19, 2018 SUBMISSION: 6-page papers in ACM format, describing research results, experience, visions or new initiatives may be submitted via Easychair at https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wospc18. Program Organizing Committee: Catalina M. Llad?, Universitat de les Illes Balears, Spain, Chair Andr? B. Bondi Software Performance and Scalability Consulting LLC, USA Davide Arcelli, University of L?Aquila Olivia Das, Ryerson University, Canada Andr? van Hoorn, University of Stuttgart, Germany Anne Koziolek, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Vittoria de Nitto Person?, Universit? di Roma Tor Vergata, Italy Connie U. Smith, Performance Engineering Services, USA Murray Woodside, Carleton University, Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 7th International Workshop on Load Testing and Benchmarking of Software Systems (LTB 2018) Important Dates ABSTRACT Software systems (e.g., smartphone apps, desktop applications, e-commerce systems, IoT infrastructures, big data systems, and enterprise systems, etc.) have strict requirements on software performance. Failure to meet these requirements will cause customer dissatisfaction and negative news coverage. In addition to conventional functional testing, the performance of these systems must be verified through load testing or benchmarking to ensure quality service. Load testing examines the behavior of a system by simulating hundreds or thousands of users performing tasks at the same time. Benchmarking evaluates a system's performance and allows to optimize system configurations or compare the system with similar systems in the domain. Load testing and benchmarking software systems are difficult tasks, which requires a great understanding of the system under test and customer behavior. Practitioners face many challenges such as tooling (choosing and implementing the testing tools), environments (software and hardware setup) and time (limited time to design, test, and analyze). This one-day workshop brings together software testing researchers, practitioners and tool developers to discuss the challenges and opportunities of conducting research on load testing and benchmarking software systems. WORKSHOP WEB SITE INCLUDING A DETAILED CALL FOR PAPERS: http://ltb2018.eecs.yorku.ca/ IMPORTANT DATES: Research papers: Jan. 13, 2018 Presentation track: Mar. 2, 2018 Paper notification: Feb. 1, 2018 Presentation notification: Mar. 9, 2018 Workshop date: Apr. 9, 2018 SUBMISSION: We solicit the following two tracks of submissions: research papers (maximum 4 pages) and presentation track for industry or experience talks (maximum 700 words extended abstract). Technical papers should follow the standard ACM SIG proceedings format and need to be submitted electronically via EasyChair. Short abstracts for the presentation track need to be submitted as "abstract only" submissions via EasyChair. Accepted technical papers will be published in the ICPE 2018 Proceedings. Materials from the presentation track will not be published in the ICPE 2018 proceedings, but will be made available on the workshop website. Submitted papers can be research papers, position papers, case studies or experience reports addressing issues including but not limited to the following: Efficient and cost-effective test executions Rapid and scalable analysis of the measurement results Case studies and experience reports on load testing and benchmarking Load testing and benchmarking on emerging systems (e.g., adaptive/autonomic systems, big data batch and stream processing systems, and cloud services) Load testing and benchmarking in the context of agile software development process Using performance models to support load testing and benchmarking Building and maintaining load testing and benchmarking as a service Efficient test data management for load testing and benchmarking ORGANIZERS (CHAIRS): Johannes Kro? fortiss GmbH, Germany Cor-Paul Bezemer Queen's University, Canada ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4th International Workshop on Energy-aware Simulation (ENERGY-SIM?18) ABSTRACT The energy impact of IT infrastructures is a significant resource issue for many organisations. The Natural Resources Defence Council estimates that US data centers alone consumed 91 billion kilowatt-hours of electrical energy in 2013 ? enough to power the households of New York twice-over ? and this is estimated to grow to 139 billion kilowatt-hours by 2020. However, this is an underestimation as this figure fails to take into account other countries and all other computer usage. There are calls for reducing computer energy consumption to bring it in line with the amount of work being performed ? so-called energy proportional computing. In order to achieve this we need to understand both where the energy is being consumed within a system and how modifications to such systems will affect the functionality (such as QoS) and the energy consumption. Monitoring and changing a live system is often not a practical solution. There are cost implications in doing so, and it normally requires significant time in order to fully ascertain the long-term trends. There is also the risk that any changes could lead to detrimental impacts, either in terms of the functionality of the system or in the energy consumed. This can lead to a situation where it is considered too risky to perform anything other than the most minor tweaks to a system. The use of modelling and simulation provides an alternative approach to evaluating where energy is being consumed, and assessing the impact of changes to the system. It also offers the potential for much faster turn-around and feedback, along with the ability to evaluate the impact of many different options simultaneously. ENERGY-SIM 2018 seeks original work that is focused on addressing new research and development challenges, developing new techniques, and providing case studies, related to energy-aware simulation and modelling. WORKSHOP WEBSITE INCLUDING A DETAILED CALL FOR PAPERS: http://energy-sim.org/2018proposal Important Dates Abstract deadline: 8th January 2018 Paper deadline: 15th January 2018 Author notification: 4th February 2018 Camera ready deadline: 18th February 2018 SUBMISSION Papers describing significant research contributions of theoretical and/or practical nature are being solicited for submission. Authors are invited to submit original, high-quality papers presenting new research related to energy-aware simulations. The papers that are accepted and presented at the workshop will be published by ACM and disseminated through the ACM Digital Library. It is intended that the best papers will be put forward for a Journal special edition post workshop. Submission will be made via EasyChair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=energysim18 ORGANIZERS (CHAIRS): General Co-Chair - Stephen McGough, Newcastle University, UK General Co-Chair - Matthew Forshaw, Newcastle University, UK Publicity Chair - Mehrgan Mostowfi, University of Northern Colorado, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ 4th International Workshop on Quality-Aware DevOps (QUDOS 2018) ABSTRACT The QUDOS workshop provides a forum for experts from academia and industry to present and discuss novel quality-aware methods, practices and tools for DevOps. DevOps extends the agile development principles to include the full stack of software services, from design to execution, enabling and promoting collaboration of operations, quality assurance, and development engineers throughout the entire service lifecycle. Ultimately, DevOps is a process that enables faster releases of a better product to the end user. DevOps encompasses a set of values, principles, methods, practices, and tools, to accelerate software delivery to the customer by means of infrastructure as code, continuous integration and deployment, automated testing and monitoring, or new architectural styles such as microservices. Software engineering research mainly deals with the development aspects of DevOps, focusing on development methods, practices, and tools, leaving the quality assurance aspects of DevOps behind. Even though development practices such as testing (at all levels) are instrumental in producing quality software, they mostly deal with the functional correctness, while quality assurance deals with a more broadly defined concept of quality, of which functional correctness is just one dimension. However, DevOps needs methods and tools that enable systematic assessment, prediction, and management of software quality in other dimensions as well, including performance, reliability, safety, survivability, or cost of ownership. The QUDOS workshop aims to provide a venue for advances in the state of the art in DevOps quality assurance methods, practices, and tools. To this end, the workshop brings together experts from both academia and industry, working in diverse areas such as quality assurance, testing, performance engineering, agile software engineering, and model-based development, with the goal to identify, define, and disseminate novel quality-aware approaches to DevOps. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Foundations of quality assurance in DevOps: Methodologies; integration with lifecycle management; automated tool chains; architecture patterns; etc. * Architectural issues in DevOps: Scalability and capacity planning; scale-out architectures; cloud-native application design; microservice-based architectures * Quality assurance in the development phase: Software models and requirements in early software development phases; functional and non-functional testing; languages, annotations and profiles for quality assurance; quality analysis, verification and prediction; optimization-based architecture design; etc. * Quality assurance during operation: Application performance monitoring; model-driven performance measurement and benchmarking; feedback-based quality assurance; capacity planning and forecasting; architectural improvements; performance anti-pattern detection; traceability and versioning; trace and log analysis; software regression and testing; performance monitoring and analytics; etc. * Continuous deployment and live experimentation: CI and CD in DevOps; canary releases and partial rollouts; A/B testing; performance and scalability testing via shadow launches * Applications of DevOps: Case Studies in cloud computing, Big Data, and IoT; standardization and interoperability; novel application domains, etc. * All other topics related to quality in DevOps and agile service delivery models WORKSHOP WEB SITE INCLUDING A DETAILED CALL FOR PAPERS: http://2018.qudos-workshop.org/ IMPORTANT DATES: Full paper submission deadline Jan 15, 2017 (AoE) Tool paper submission deadline Jan 15, 2017 (AoE) Paper notification Feb 09, 2018 Camera-ready deadline Feb 18, 2018 Workshop date April 10, 2018 SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers that are not being considered in another forum. We solicit full papers (max 6 pages) and short tool papers (max 2 pages). All submissions must conform to the ACM conference format. Each full paper submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Papers should be submitted via EasyChair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=qudos2018 At least one author of each accepted paper is required to attend the workshop and present the paper. Presented papers will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. ORGANIZERS (CHAIRS): PC Chairs Lubom?r Bulej, Charles University, Czech Republic Antonio Filieri, Imperial College London, United Kingdom Workshop Chairs (Steering Committee) Danilo Ardagna, Politecnico di Milano, Italy Giuliano Casale, Imperial College London, UK Andre van Hoorn, University of Stuttgart, Germany Philipp Leitner, Chalmers | University of Gothenburg, Sweden From gflofst at sandia.gov Thu Jan 4 19:24:54 2018 From: gflofst at sandia.gov (Lofstead, Gerald F II) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 00:24:54 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: 1st Workshop on Infrastructure for Workflows and Application Composition (IWAC 2018) Message-ID: <5F5A09D0-4189-4D22-993B-C5EE0E54BC8D@sandia.gov> Call for Papers: The 1st Workshop on Infrastructure for Workflows and Application Composition (IWAC 2018) will be held in Tempe, Arizona on June 12, 2018. IWAC '18 is associated with the 27th Annual ACM High Performance and Distributed Computing (ACM HPDC 2018) and is sponsored by the ACM. This workshop will be one of the major venues for researchers to present novel approaches, results, and ideas on computing infrastructure to facilitate the performance and functionality of large scale workflows and composite applications. Organizations are increasingly leveraging workflows and composite applications to enrich a large number of workload classes, such as traditional large-scale science applications to big data and machine learning. Additionally, the growing size and complexity of the machines on which these applications run has imposed scalability limits on many applications that use a more traditional "bulk synchronous" compute model. Increasingly, researchers are looking for ways to integrate these technologies from different domains to glean greater insights and to improve performance and resilience for their applications. While advancements have been made in recent years, technologies enabling the full spectrum of application construction environments are largely either missing, primitive, niche, or research prototypes. This workshop contributes by exploring the various technological infrastructure needs to support effective, convenient workflow systems and application composition structures and approaches across a broad spectrum of HPC environments from clusters to supercomputers to cloud systems. Topics of Interest Include: - System software/OS features to enable workflow tools and application composition - Programming support for assembling workflows or connecting application components - Reusable components intended as either "glue'' between workflow components or for analysis or other processing - Front end systems for configuring or controlling workflows - Storage (both disk and in compute area) support for buffering between components - Workflow engines designed to simplify workflow construction for end users - Programming support for addressing data format/contents mismatch - Programming support for resource management - Communication and/or data exchange mechanisms - Application-specific workflow implementations - Other system support for mechanisms to support combining multiple application components into a composite application or workflow Important Dates: Submission Deadline: March 1, 2018 Responses to Authors: April 6, 2018 Camera Ready due: April 20, 2018 Paper Submissions: All manuscripts will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Submissions should be a complete manuscript or, in special cases, may be a summary of relevant work. Manuscript for full paper should be not exceed 5 single-spaced, double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5X11 inch pages (ACM conference style) including everything except references. Papers are to be submitted electronically in PDF format through EasyChair. Submitted papers should not have appeared in or be under consideration for a different workshop, conference or journal. It is also expected that all accepted papers will be presented at the workshop by one of the authors. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwac18 Organiziers and Program Co-Chairs: Jay Lofstead (Sandia National Labs) Jai Dayal (Intel) Program Committee: Gagan Agrawal (OSU) Ilkay Altintas (SDSC) Rosa Badia (Barcelona) Wes Bethel (LBL) Christopher Carothers (RPI) Ewa Deelman (USC ISI) Dmitry Duplyakin (Utah) Rosa Filgueira (British Geological Survey) Henry Gabb (Intel) Balazs Gerofi (Riken) Bingsheng He (Singapore) Shadi Ibrahim (INRIA) Kerstin Kleese van Dam (BNL) Brian Kocoloski (WUSTL) Julian Kunkel (DKRZ) Jack Lange (U Pitt) David Montoya (LANL) Kevin Pedretti (SNL) Tom Peterka (ANL) Matthew Wolf (ORNL) Justin Wozniak (ANL) Andrew Younge (SNL) From juliankunkel at googlemail.com Fri Jan 5 04:32:10 2018 From: juliankunkel at googlemail.com (Julian Kunkel) Date: Fri, 5 Jan 2018 10:32:10 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] HPC I/O in the Data Center Workshop (HPC-IODC 2018) Message-ID: The 4th HPC I/O in the Data Center Workshop (HPC-IODC 2018) in conjunction with ISC High Performance on Thursday June 28th, 2018, in Frankfurt, Germany. URL: http://wr.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/events/2018/iodc ** 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 track ? requesting submissions regarding state-of-the-practice and research about I/O in the datacenter. 2) talks from I/O experts ? you'll need to submit a rough outline for your talk. We will stream the workshop live using YouTube and respond to questions asked in comments. If you are interested to join please send an email to kunkel at dkrz.de 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=hpciodc2018 The HPC-IODC workshop is embedded into a full-day program for I/O that we organize with the team of the Workshop on Performance and Scalability of Storage Sytems (WOPSSS) URL: http://wopsss.org/ We will build a program with a joint morning session with keynote talks and best papers and then diverge into two independent workshops in the afternoon. ** Track: research papers ** The proceedings of the research papers will be published by Springer in the Lecture Notes of Computer Science (LNCS) series. The research track accepts papers covering state-of-the-practice and research dedicated to storage in the datacenter. We accept short papers with up to 12 pages (excl. references) in LNCS format. We will accept more papers in the scope of our topics than can be presented at full length during the workshop. Therewith, we give authors a chance to submit relevant papers but not insist on their participation. Additionally, we can focus on the discussion of controversial topics during the workshop. Paper Deadlines * Submission deadline: 2018-04-12 AoE * Author notification: 2018-04-25 * Pre-final submission: 2018-06-10 (to be shared during the workshop) * Workshop: 2018-06-28 * Camera-ready papers: 2018-07-28 (preliminary date) ** 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 We also accept industry talks, given that they focus on operational issues and omit marketing. 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: 2018-04-13 AoE * Author notification: 2018-04-25 ** Program committee ** * Adrian Jackson (The University of Edinburgh) * Ann Gentile (Sandia National Laboratories) * Bing Xie (Oak Ridge National Lab) * Brad Settleyer (Los Alamos National Laboratory) * Feiyi Wang (Oak Ridge National Lab) * George Markomanolis (King Abdullah University of Science and Technology) * Javier Garcia Blas (University Carlos III of Madrid) * Jay Lofstead (Sandia National Lab) * Jean-Thomas Acquaviva (DDN) * Jim Brandt (Sandia National Laboratories) * Julian Kunkel (DKRZ) * Michael Kluge (TU Dresden) * Rob Ross (Argonne National Laboratory) * Sandro Fiore (CMCC) * Suren Byna (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory) * Sven Breuner (ThinkparQ) * Thomas Boenisch (HLRS) * Tiago Quintino (ECMWF) * Wolfgang Frings (J?lich Supercomputing Center) Kind regards, Julian Kunkel & Jay Lofstead -- http://wr.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/people/julian_kunkel -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gamvrosi at cmu.edu Wed Jan 10 17:38:54 2018 From: gamvrosi at cmu.edu (George Amvrosiadis) Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2018 17:38:54 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Papers: SDDCS 2018, March 25, Williamsburg, VA, USA Message-ID: We invite authors to submit papers to the Fourth Software-Defined Data Computing and Storage workshop (SDDCS) which will be co-located with ACM ASPLOS 2018 and held on March 25, 2018 in Williamsburg, VA, USA. * Overview Data center and cloud computing infrastructure is becoming increasingly software-defined. Although such infrastructure consists of tightly interconnected computing, networking, and storage components, these resources are typically studied independently. For example, studies focused on computing or networking often overlook the properties of storage devices, and vice versa. Overall infrastructure performance often decreases due to miscommunication and misconfiguration of different resources. Software-defined methodologies offer an opportunity to bridge this gap and deliver high performance, efficiency, and reliability. Making any infrastructure "software defined" requires significant community efforts. The SDDCS workshop provides the forum for multidisciplinary research spanning computing architecture, networking, storage systems and devices, as well as applications. SDDCS aims to bring together industry and academia to jointly explore recent progress related to performance bottleneck discoveries and to bridging the gap between computing and storage in the software-defined context. We particularly encourage contributions containing highly novel ideas, new approaches, and/or groundbreaking results. Conference web-site: https://sddcs.github.io/2018/sddcs2018.html * Topics Topics of interest in SDDCS include but are not limited to: - Software-defined memory systems for cloud computing - Software-defined non-volatile devices - Convergent design for computing and storage - Non-volatile storage support for network transmission - Storage deduplication for remote cloud backups - Data collection and analytics for system optimization - Dynamic workload redistribution and scheduling - In-memory processing - Near-data-computing - Cross-layer coordination in data centers - Storage and network virtualization - Security for software-defined schemes - Programmable interfaces for convergent design - User studies and experiences of real-world applications (e.g., graph processing, deep learning, database, etc) * 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. The accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings of ACM ASPLOS 2018 and available in the ACM Digital Library. Selected (extended) papers will b recommended for fast-track processing in ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS). * Important Dates Paper submission due: January 25, 2018, 11:59pm AoE Notification to authors: February 20, 2018 Final paper files due: March 10, 2018 * Submission Site https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sddcs18 * Workshop Organizers General Co-chairs: - Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary - Yu Hua, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Program Co-chairs: - Bo Wu, Colorado School of Mines - Vasily Tarasov, IBM Research Publication Chair: - Xing Lin, NetApp Publicity Chair: - George Amvrosiadis, Carnegie Mellon University Web Chair: - Pengfei Zuo, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Program Committee: - Vaneet Aggarwal, Purdue University - Bharath Balasubramanian, AT&T Labs Research - Feng Chen, Louisiana State University - Chris Gniady, University of Arizona - Song Jiang, University of Texas, Arlington - Mahmut Kandemir, Pennsylvania State University - Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories - Darrell Long, University of California, Santa Cruz - Ao Ma, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Rajesh Panta, AT&T Labs Research - Marco Paolieri, University of Southern California - Lukas Rupprecht, IBM Research - Almaden - Philip Shilane, DellEMC - Emina Soljanin, Rutgers University - Alan Sussman, University of Maryland - Ravi Tandon, University of Arizona - Peter Varman, Rice University - Youjip Won, Hanyang University - Yuan Xie, University of California, Santa Barbara - Ming Zhao, Arizona State University From jain6 at llnl.gov Thu Jan 11 19:56:33 2018 From: jain6 at llnl.gov (Jain, Nikhil) Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2018 00:56:33 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] DAPPER 2018: Call for Papers (Deadline: February 15) Message-ID: *********************************************************************** Call for Papers: https://dapper18.github.io International Workshop on Data Analytics and Parallel Performance (DAPPER '18) Held in conjunction with ISPASS 2018: IEEE International Symposium on Performance Analysis of Systems and Software April 2-4, 2018 Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK Submission deadline: February 15, 2018 (AoE) *********************************************************************** Optimizing high performance computing (HPC)/data centers, and applications running at these centers presents a unique set of challenges, and an opportunity to automate complex optimization tasks. The use of machine learning and statistical techniques to model and characterize performance data is gaining traction in the parallel community. The International Workshop on Data Analytics and Parallel Performance provides a forum for sharing academic and industrial research work focused on applying data analytics to performance analysis, debugging and optimization/tuning of parallel software and systems. # Workshop Topics Authors are invited to submit novel research as well as ongoing work pertaining to: - Deep learning, neural networks - Supervised/unsupervised machine learning - Classification, regression, clustering - Dimensionality reduction - Data-driven modeling applied to - Performance analysis - Debugging, performance debugging - Performance optimization, auto-tuning of/for - Parallel benchmarks, proxy applications, and production codes - Scientific workflows - HPC workloads/Full system - HPC/Data center facilities # Submissions We solicit 8-page full papers as well as 4-page short papers that focus on techniques at the intersection of parallel performance and data analytics. The 8-page full papers should describe original unpublished work, while 4-page short papers can be original unpublished work or ongoing work. Papers must be submitted in PDF format (readable by Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 and higher) and formatted for 8.5" x 11" (U.S. Letter). Submissions are limited to 8 pages in the IEEE format: https://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html, using the conference option. The 8-page limit includes figures, tables, and references. All papers must be submitted through Easychair at: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=dapper18 Accepted submissions will be invited to present a talk at the workshop, and a few selected accepted papers that describe unpublished work will be invited to submit to a special issue of The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications. # Important Dates - Submission deadline: February 15, 2018 (AoE) - Notification of acceptance: March 5, 2018 (AoE) ## Workshop Chairs Abhinav Bhatele, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Marc Casas, Barcelona Supercomputing Center Nikhil Jain, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory --- Nikhil Jain Postdoctoral Fellow, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory nikhil.jain at acm.org, http://nikhil-jain.github.io/ -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gamvrosi at cmu.edu Mon Jan 22 18:51:16 2018 From: gamvrosi at cmu.edu (George Amvrosiadis) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2018 18:51:16 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Papers: MLCS 2018, June 12, Tempe, AZ, USA Message-ID: We invite authors to submit papers to the **First** workshop on Machine Learning for Computing Systems (MLCS) which will be co-located with ACM HPDC 2018 and held on June 12, 2018 in Tempe, AZ, USA. * Overview As the HPC community rapidly approaches the era of exascale machines, the complexity of problems such as monitoring, troubleshooting, and design also increases. Large HPC facilities already produce terabytes of data each day, ranging from low-level hardware telemetry and system logs, to troubleshooting tickets. Current administration tools tend to focus on designing filters for well-defined system events, restricting them to only detect behaviors previously known to be interesting. These tools will never find new, previously unknown modes of behavior automatically, or adapt to changes in the system. Meanwhile, machine learning techniques are uniquely suited for characterizing and extracting knowledge from large and complex datasets. Recently, machine learning techniques are also used to better understand and analyze HPC machines and facilities. Interdisciplinary research at the intersection of machine learning and HPC has already produced advances in memory error mitigation, datacenter cooling, system log analysis, job scheduling, and many other areas. As the machine learning community focuses on human-understandable models, these models become extremely attractive for HPC-related decision support and development of data-driven tools to assist of human experts. Additionally, HPC-related problems are often relevant to open machine learning research areas, such as anomaly detection within near-natural language text in logs, and there is a definite need for collaboration between HPC domain experts and statistical modeling / machine learning experts. For these reasons, we are organizing the 1st Workshop on Machine Learning for Computing Systems (MLCS). MLCS 2018 will provide a much-needed opportunity for cutting-edge research ideas to be shared, and bring together researchers across the disciplines of machine learning, systems design, systems monitoring, HPC resilience, hardware architecture, data science, statistics, and applied mathematics to address a shared goal of better and more efficient use and monitoring of HPC machines and facilities. Conference web-site: https://mlcsworkshop.weebly.com/ * Topics Working from our premise that the deluge of HPC monitoring data necessitates a move toward data-driven intelligent modeling, we solicit contributions including, but not limited to: 1. Use of machine learning or data science to better understand: - Hardware faults and errors - Software errors - Telemetry data (temperature, voltages, cooling apparatus) - Power consumption - Facilities / building control - Job scheduling - Filesystem logs - Network logs - Syslog or console logs - Error detection and correction - Resilience and fault tolerance - Failure troubleshooting / assistance of human experts - Assistance of non-expert users - HPC system security 2. Use of interpretable machine learning models for HPC-related decision support - Including user/human-subject studies 3. Modeling techniques incorporating human expert knowledge along with knowledge extracted from data - Use of these models to evaluate, confirm, or refute human assumptions 4. New or improved machine learning models particularly suited for HPC problems 5. Tools, at any stage of development, using data-driven technologies for some aspect of systems monitoring or design 6. Experience reports detailing successes and failures of machine learning applied to HPC 7.Formulations of unsolved data-related HPC problems with the potential for machine learning - Especially including the public release of HPC-related datasets for use by the community * Submission Instructions We are soliciting full papers, short work-in-progress, experience, or position papers, and poster abstracts: - Submitted full papers must be no longer than 8 single-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages, including figures, tables, and references; in the ACM format (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. - Submitted short work-in-progress, experience, or position papers must be no longer than 4 single-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages, including figures, tables, and references; in the ACM format (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. - Submitted poster abstracts must be no longer than 2 single-spaced 8.5" x 11" pages, including figures, tables, and references; in the ACM format (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. The accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings of ACM HPDC 2018 and available in the ACM Digital Library. * Important Dates: Paper submissions due: April 9, 2018, 11:59pm AoE Notification to authors: May 9, 2018 Final paper files due: May 12, 2018 * Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=mlcs18 * Workshop Organizers Chair: - Elisabeth Baseman, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA Organizing Committee: - George Amvrosiadis, Carnegie Mellon University, USA - Huiping Cao, New Mexico State University, USA Program Committee: - Medha Bhadkamkar, Nimble Storage, USA - Sean Blanchard, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA - John Daly, Department of Defense, USA - Nathan DeBardeleben, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA - Kurt Ferreira, Sandia National Laboratories, USA - Todd Gamblin, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Chuan Hu, Microsoft, USA - Satyajayant Misra, New Mexico State University, USA - Frank Mueller, North Carolina State University, USA - Nicole Nichols, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, USA - Aleatha Parker-Wood, Center for Advanced Machine Learning at Symantec, USA - J. Ray Scott, Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center, USA - Feng Yan, University of Nevada, Reno, USA - Mai Zheng, New Mexico State University, USA From carlosm at ucsc.edu Tue Jan 23 14:00:14 2018 From: carlosm at ucsc.edu (Carlos Maltzahn) Date: Tue, 23 Jan 2018 11:00:14 -0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: P-RECS'18, June 11, 2018, Tempe, AZ, USA Message-ID: # P-RECS '18 Call for Papers First International Workshop on Practical Reproducible Evaluation of Computer Systems. June 11, 2018. In conjunction with HPDC'18 >. In cooperation with SIGHPC (pending). Independent evaluation of experimental results in the area of computer and networking systems is a challenging task. Recreating the environment where an experiment originally ran is commonly considered impractical or even impossible. This workshop will focus heavily on practical, actionable aspects of reproducibility in broad areas of computational science and data exploration, with special emphasis on issues in which community collaboration can be essential for adopting novel methodologies, techniques and frameworks aimed at addressing some of the challenges we face today. The workshop will bring together researchers and experts to share experiences and advance the state of the art in the reproducible evaluation of computer systems, featuring contributed papers and invited talks. ## Topics We expect submissions from topics such as, but not limited to: * Experiment dependency management. * Software citation and persistence. * Data versioning and preservation. * Provenance of data-intensive experiments. * Tools and techniques for incorporating provenance into publications. * Automated experiment execution and validation. * Experiment portability for code, performance, and related metrics. * Experiment discoverability for re-use. * Cost-benefit analysis frameworks for reproducibility. * Usability and adaptability of reproducibility frameworks into already-established domain-specific tools. * Long-term artifact archiving for future reproducibility. * Frameworks for sociological constructs to incentivize paradigm shifts. * Policies around publication of articles/software. * Blinding and selecting artifacts for review while maintaining history. * Reproducibility-aware computational infrastructure. ## Submission Submit via EasyChair >. We look for two categories of submissions: * **Position papers**. This category is for papers whose goal is to propose solutions (or scope the work that needs to be done) to address some of the issues outlined above. We hope that a research agenda comes out of this and that we can create a community that meets yearly to report on our status in addressing these problems. * **Experience papers**. This category consists of papers reporting on the authors' experience in automating one or more experimentation pipelines. The committee will look for submissions reporting on their experience: what worked? What aspects of experiment automation and validation are hard in your domain? What can be done to improve the tooling for your domain? As part of the submission, authors need to provide a URL to the automation service they use (e.g., [TravisCI](https://travis-ci.org ), [GitLabCI](https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-ci/ ), [CircleCI](https://circleci.com ), [Jenkins](https://jenkins-ci.org ), etc.) so reviewers can verify that there is one or more automated pipelines associated to the submission. ### Format Authors are invited to submit manuscripts in English not exceeding 5 pages of content. The 5-page limit includes figures, tables and appendices, but does not include references, for which there is no page limit. Submissions must use the [ACM Master Template](https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template ) (please use the `sigconf` format with default options). ### Proceedings The proceedings will be archived in both the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore through SIGHPC. ### Tools These tools can be optionally used used to automate your experiments: [CWL](http://commonwl.org ), [Popper](https://github.com/systemslab/popper ), [ReproZip](http://reprozip.org ), [Sciunit](http://sciunit.run ), [Sumatra](https://github.com/open-research/sumatra ). ## Important Dates * Submissions due: April 2, 2018 * Acceptance notification: April 30, 2018 * Camera-ready paper submission: May 6, 2018 * Workshop: June 11, 2018 ## Organizers * Ivo Jimenez, UC Santa Cruz * Carlos Maltzahn, UC Santa Cruz * Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories ## Program Committee * Divyashri Bhat, UMass Amherst * Michael Crusoe, Project Lead, Common Workflow Language project * Anja Feldmann, TU Berlin * Todd Gamblin, LLNL * Mike Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories * Torsten Hoefler, ETH Z?rich * Neil Chue Hong, Software Sustainability Institute / University of Edinburgh, UK * Dan Katz, NCSA * Kate Keahey, Argonne National Lab / ChameleonCloud * Ignacio Laguna, LLNL * Arnaud Legrand, B?timent IMAG * Reed Milewicz, Sandia National Laboratories * Robert Ricci, University of Utah / CloudLab * Victoria Stodden, UIUC * Violet R. Syrotiuk, ASU * Michela Taufer, University of Delaware * Michael Zink, UMass Amherst ## Contact Please address workshop questions to >. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From kuancli at gm.pu.edu.tw Tue Jan 23 20:46:47 2018 From: kuancli at gm.pu.edu.tw (Kuan-Ching Li) Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2018 09:46:47 +0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for book chapters "Smart Data: State-of-the-Art and Perspectives in Computing and Applications", Taylor & Francis Message-ID: *** Apologies if multiple copies of this call are received **** ---------------------- Call for Book Chapters ---------------------- Smart Data: State-of-the-Art and Perspectives in Computing and Applications (Chapman & Hall/ CRC Big Data Series) CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group, USA Important Dates * Proposal Submission: February 1, 2018* * Proposal (Acceptance/Rejection): February 15, 2018 * Sample Chapter (Acceptance/Rejection): April 15, 2018 * Complete Chapter Submission (to editors): June 15, 2018 * Submission of Chapters (to publisher): July 1, 2018 * Publication Time: Q4/2018 (estimated) Big Data is being generated around us at 24/7 basis, from daily business, custom use, engineering, science activities, sensory data collected from IoTs and CPS systems, among others. Storing and owing only such massive amount of data is meaningless, as the key point is to identify, locate and extract valuable knowledge from Big Data to forecast and services support, improving quality of service and society?s value. Such extracted valuable knowledge is usually referred to Smart Data that is vital in providing suitable decision in highly on-demand business, science and engineering applications. How to select Smart Data from Big Data, unlocking value in massive datasets? Advanced Big Data modeling and analytics are indispensable for discovering the underlying structure from retrieved data to acquire Smart Data, whereas novel computing theories as well advanced mining and learning techniques are fundamentally important to the search of such intelligent decision and predicative services support. In this book, it is intended to invite scholars, experts and successful case participating members to contribute discussions on topics for smart data mining and management as well as applications. Not only smart data computing algorithms and architectures from the computer point of view, but also smart data applications in business issues aspects, industrial aspects and related areas, it is equally well suitable for data analysts in business and industry. * Topics Topics include, but are not limited to, the following: Track 1: Data Science and Its Foundations - Foundational Theories for Data Science - Theoretical Models for Big Data - Foundational Algorithms and Methods for Big Data - Interdisciplinary Theories and Models for Smart Data - Data Classification and Taxonomy - Data Metrics and Metrology Track 2: Smart Data Infrastructure and Systems - Programming Models/Environments for Cluster/Cloud/Edge/BigData Computing - High Performance/Throughtput Platforms for Smart/Big Data Computing - Cloud Computing, Edge Computing and Fog Computing for Smart/Big Data - System Architecture and Infrastructure of Smart/Big Data - New Programming Models for Smart/Big Data beyond Hadoop/MapReduce - Smart Data Appliance - Smart Data Ecosystems Track 3: Big Data Storage and Management - Smart Data Collection, Transformation and Transmission - Big Data Integration and Cleaning for Smart Data - Uncertainty and Incompleteness Handling in Smart/Big Data - Quality Management of Smart/Big Data - Smart Data Storage Models - Query and Indexing Technologies - Distributed File Systems - Distributed Database Systems - Large-Scale Graph/Document Databases Track 4: Smart Data Processing and Analytics - Smart Data Search, Mining and Drilling from Big Data - Semantic Integration and Fusion of Multi-Source Heterogeneous Big Data - In-Memory/Streaming/Graph-Based Computing for Smart/Big Data - Brain-Inspired/Nature-Inspired Computing for Smart/Big Data - Distributed Representation Learning of Smart Data - Machine Learning/Deep Learning for Smart/Big Data - Applications of Conventional Theories (e.g., Fuzzy Set, Rough Set) in Smart/Big Data - New Models, Algorithms, and Methods for Smart/Big Data Processing and Analytics - Exploratory Data Analysis - Visualization Analytics for Big Data - Smart/Big Data Aided Decision-Marking Track 5: Smart/Big Data Applications - Smart/Big Data Applications in Science, Internet, Finance, Telecommunications, Business, Medicine, Healthcare, Government, Transportation, Industry, Manufacture - Smart/Big Data Applications in Government and Public Sectors - Smart/Big Data Applications in Enterprises - Security, Privacy and Trust in Smart/Big Data - Smart/Big Data Opening and Sharing - Smart/Big Data Exchange and Trading - Data as a Service (DaaS) - Standards for Smart/Big Data - Case Studies of Smart/Big Data Applications - Practices and Experiences of Smart/Big Data Project Deployments - Ethic Issues on Smart/Big Data Applications * Proposal submission A proposal for book chapter is needed from prospective authors before the proposal *submission due date*, describing the objective, scope and structure of the proposed chapter (no more than 5 pages). Acceptance of chapter proposals will be communicated to lead chapter authors after a formal double-blind review process, to ensure relevance, quality and originality. The submission of chapter proposals should be sent directly via email to editors. * Book Editors Kuan-Ching Li, Providence University, Taiwan, kuancli at gm.pu.edu.tw Qingchen Zhang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada, qzhang at stfx.ca Laurence T. Yang, St. Francis Xavier University, Canada, ltyang at gmail.com Beniamino Di Martino, Universita' della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy, beniamino.dimartino at unicampania.it * Additional Information Inquiries and chapter proposal submissions can be forwarded electronically by email, to: Qingchen Zhang (email: qzhang at stfx.ca), cc'ied to kuancli at gm.pu.edu.tw, ltyang at gmail.com and beniamino.dimartino at unicampania.it -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From gamvrosi at cmu.edu Tue Jan 30 17:39:27 2018 From: gamvrosi at cmu.edu (George Amvrosiadis) Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2018 17:39:27 -0500 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [Extended deadline] Call for Papers: SDDCS 2018, March 25, Williamsburg, VA, USA Message-ID: We invite authors to submit papers to the Fourth Software-Defined Data Computing and Storage workshop (SDDCS) which will be co-located with ACM ASPLOS 2018 and held on March 25, 2018 in Williamsburg, VA, USA. * Overview Data center and cloud computing infrastructure is becoming increasingly software-defined. Although such infrastructure consists of tightly interconnected computing, networking, and storage components, these resources are typically studied independently. For example, studies focused on computing or networking often overlook the properties of storage devices, and vice versa. Overall infrastructure performance often decreases due to miscommunication and misconfiguration of different resources. Software-defined methodologies offer an opportunity to bridge this gap and deliver high performance, efficiency, and reliability. Making any infrastructure "software defined" requires significant community efforts. The SDDCS workshop provides the forum for multidisciplinary research spanning computing architecture, networking, storage systems and devices, as well as applications. SDDCS aims to bring together industry and academia to jointly explore recent progress related to performance bottleneck discoveries and to bridging the gap between computing and storage in the software-defined context. We particularly encourage contributions containing highly novel ideas, new approaches, and/or groundbreaking results. Conference web-site: https://sddcs.github.io/2018/sddcs2018.html * Topics Topics of interest in SDDCS include but are not limited to: - Software-defined memory systems for cloud computing - Software-defined non-volatile devices - Convergent design for computing and storage - Non-volatile storage support for network transmission - Storage deduplication for remote cloud backups - Data collection and analytics for system optimization - Dynamic workload redistribution and scheduling - In-memory processing - Near-data-computing - Cross-layer coordination in data centers - Storage and network virtualization - Security for software-defined schemes - Programmable interfaces for convergent design - User studies and experiences of real-world applications (e.g., graph processing, deep learning, database, etc) * 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. The accepted papers will be published in the workshop proceedings of ACM ASPLOS 2018 and available in the ACM Digital Library. Selected (extended) papers will b recommended for fast-track processing in ACM Transactions on Storage (TOS). * Important Dates: Paper submission due: February 1, 2018, 11:59pm AoE Notification to authors: February 20, 2018 Final paper files due: March 10, 2018 * Submission Site: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=sddcs18 * Workshop Organizer General Co-chairs: - Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary - Yu Hua, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Program Co-chairs: - Bo Wu, Colorado School of Mines - Vasily Tarasov, IBM Research Publication Chair: - Xing Lin, NetApp Publicity Chair: - George Amvrosiadis, Carnegie Mellon University Web Chair: - Pengfei Zuo, Huazhong University of Science and Technology Program Committee: - Vaneet Aggarwal, Purdue University - Bharath Balasubramanian, AT&T Labs Research - Feng Chen, Louisiana State University - Chris Gniady, University of Arizona - Song Jiang, University of Texas, Arlington - Mahmut Kandemir, Pennsylvania State University - Scott Klasky, Oak Ridge National Laboratory - Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories - Darrell Long, University of California, Santa Cruz - Ao Ma, University of Wisconsin-Madison - Rajesh Panta, AT&T Labs Research - Marco Paolieri, University of Southern California - Lukas Rupprecht, IBM Research - Almaden - Philip Shilane, DellEMC - Emina Soljanin, Rutgers University - Alan Sussman, University of Maryland - Ravi Tandon, University of Arizona - Peter Varman, Rice University - Youjip Won, Hanyang University - Yuan Xie, University of California, Santa Barbara - Ming Zhao, Arizona State University From benjamin.camus at inria.fr Tue Feb 6 11:57:28 2018 From: benjamin.camus at inria.fr (Benjamin Camus) Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2018 17:57:28 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP - Middleware 2018 Conference In-Reply-To: <313713384.2527694.1517935728802.JavaMail.zimbra@inria.fr> Message-ID: <5269812.2531615.1517936248787.JavaMail.zimbra@inria.fr> [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call] ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2018 Conference - Call for Papers http://2018.middleware-conference.org where and when Rennes, France; Dec 10 - 14, 2018 Dates Abstract Submission May 11 Paper Submission May 18 Author Rebuttal August 2-6 Notification August 24 Final Version Due September 14 Call for Papers The annual ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware conference is a major forum for the discussion of innovations and recent scientific advances of middleware systems with a focus on the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed systems, platforms and architectures for computing, storage, and communication. 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, tutorials 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: * Cloud, fog, edge computing and data centers * Data-intensive computing (big data) and data analytics * Mobile devices and services * Ubiquitous and pervasive computing * Networking, network function virtualization, software-defined networking * Internet applications and multimedia * Internet-of-Things, cyber-physical systems, smart cities * Machine learning Systems and Engineering Issues: * Scalability and performance * Reliability and fault tolerance * Consistency, availability, and replication * Blockchain, Security and privacy * Virtualization, auto-scaling, provisioning, and scheduling * Real-time solutions and quality-of-service * Energy- and power-aware techniques Design Principles and Programming Support: * Programming abstractions and paradigms for middleware * Methodologies and tools for the design, implementation, verification, and evaluation * Event-based, publish/subscribe, and peer-to-peer solutions * Reconfigurable, adaptable, and reflective approaches * Reviews of middleware paradigms, e.g., object models, aspect orientation, etc. Original papers of three types are sought: * Research Papers: These papers report original research on the above topics, and will be evaluated on significance of the problem, novelty of the solution, advancement beyond prior work, sufficient supporting evidence and clarity of the presentation. * Experimentation and Deployment Papers: These papers describe complete systems, platforms, and/or 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. * 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. Submission Guidelines Submitted papers must have at most 12 pages of technical content, including text, figures, and appendices, but excluding any number of additional pages for bibliographic references. Note that submissions must be double-blind: authors' names must not appear, and authors must make a good faith attempt to anonymize their submissions. Submitted papers must adhere to the formatting instructions of the ACM style, which can found on the submission page, and should clearly indicate the paper type on the first page. The Middleware 2018 conference proceedings will be published in the ACM Digital Library. The official publication date will be the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library which may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of the Middleware conference. Note that the official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. Software and Data Artifact Availability for Accepted Papers The authors of accepted papers will be invited to submit supporting materials to be made publicly available as ?source materials? in the ACM Digital Library. The materials will be vetted by the Artifact Availability Evaluation process run by a separate committee. This submission is voluntary but encouraged and will not influence the final decision regarding the papers. Papers that go through the Artifact Availability Evaluation process successfully and are made available in the ACM Digital Library will receive a badge printed on the papers themselves. General chair Guillaume Pierre, Univ. Rennes, France Program Chairs Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University, USA Paulo Ferreira, Univ. Lisbon, Portugal Industry track chairs Lydia Chen, IBM Research, Switzerland Erwan Le Merrer, Technicolor R&D, France Workshops/tutorials chairs Mohammad Sadoghi, UC Davis, USA Spyros Voulgaris, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Doctoral symposium chairs Laurent R?veill?re, Universit? de Bordeaux Lu?s Veiga, Technical univ. Lisbon, Portugal Test-of-Time award chair Nalini Venkatasubramanian , University of California, Irvine, USA Sponsor chair Christine Morin, Inria, France Local arrangements chair David Bromberg, Univ. Rennes, France Proceedings chair Kaveh Razavi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands Communication chair Fran?ois Ta?ani, Univ. Rennes, France Web and social media chair Benjamin Camus, Univ. Rennes / Inria, France Publicity chairs Saurabh Bagchi, Purdue university, USA Benjamin Camus, Univ. Rennes / Inria, France Mina Sedaghat, Ericsson, Sweden Student activities chair Timothy Wood, George Washington University, USA Program Committees Atoll Adya (Google), Sonia Ben Mokhtar (LIRIS-CNRS, France), Primed Bhatotia (University of Edinburgh), Annette Bieniutsa (University of Kaiserslautern), Gordon Blair (Lancaster University, UK), Bj?rn B. Brandenburg (MPI-SWS), Yerom David Bromberg (University of Rennes/IRISA), Roy Campbell (University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, USA), Jeff Chase (Duke University), Dilma De Silva (TAMU), Fred Douglas (Vencore Labs), Aleksandr Dragojevic (Microsoft research), Patrick Eugster (Purdue University, USA), David Eyers (University of Otago, New Zeland), Pascal Felber (University of Neuch?tel, Switzerland), Roy Friedman (Technion, Isarel), Anshul Gandhi (Stony Brook University), Rachid Guerraoui (EPFL, Switzerland), Daniel Hagimont (Universite Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France), Valerie Issarny (Inria, France), Wouter Joosen (KU Leuven, Belgium), Flavio Junqueira (Confluent, USA), Jayaram K. R. (IBM TJ Watson Research Center, USA), Reedier Kapitza (TU Braunschweig, Germany), Fabio Kon (University of S?o Paulo, Brazil), Orran Krieger (Boston University), Jean-Pierre Lozi (Universit? Nice, Sophia Antipolis, France), Diego F. Lugones (Nokia Bell Labs), Dejan Milojicic (Hewlett Packard Labs, USA), Jos? Orlando (Universidade do Minho, Portugal), Marta Pati?o (Technical University of Madrid, Spain), Peter Pietzuch (Imperial Collge, London, UK), Robbert van Renesse (Cornell Univ.), Laurent Reveillere (Bordeaux INP, France), Etienne Rivi?re (Universit? catholique de Louvain), Mohammad Sadoghi (UC Davis), Marc Shapiro (Inria/UPMC-LIP6, France), Thorsten Strufe (Technical Univ.of Dresden), Francois Ta?ani (Universit? de Rennes 1/IRISA/ESIR, INRIA, France), Ga?l Thomas (Telecom SudParis, Paris, France), Luis Veiga (University of Lisbon), Nailing Venkatasubramanian (University of California, Irvine, USA), Spyros Voulgaris (University of Economics and Business (AUEB)), Marko Vukoli? (IBM Research Zurich, Switzerland) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From htor at inf.ethz.ch Mon Feb 12 12:56:21 2018 From: htor at inf.ethz.ch (Torsten Hoefler) Date: Mon, 12 Feb 2018 18:56:21 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [SC18] Call for Papers for the ACM/IEEE International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (Supercomputing 2018) Message-ID: ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ========================================================================== The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis *** Supercomputing SC18 *** Sponsored by ACM and IEEE ------------------------------ ========================================================================== https://sc18.supercomputing.org/program/papers/ ========================================================================== The Papers program at SC is the leading venue for the presentation of the highest-quality original research, groundbreaking ideas, and compelling insights on future trends. The conference is soliciting paper submissions around high performance computing and other neighboring areas. TOPICS OF INTEREST: ------------------- Submissions will be considered on any topic related to high performance computing including, but not limited to, the nine topical areas below. 1. Algorithms: The development, evaluation and optimization of scalable, general-purpose, high performance algorithms. Topics include: --------------- - Algorithmic techniques to improve energy and power efficiency - Algorithmic techniques to improve load balance - Data-intensive parallel algorithms - Discrete and combinatorial problems - Fault-tolerant algorithms - Graph algorithms - Statistical and machine learning algorithms - Hybrid/heterogeneous/accelerated algorithms - Network algorithms - Numerical methods, linear and nonlinear systems - Scheduling algorithms - Uncertainty quantification - Other high performance algorithms 2. Applications: The development and enhancement of algorithms, models, software and problem solving environments for domain-specific applications that require high performance resources. Topics include: --------------- - Bioinformatics and computational biology - Computational earth and atmospheric sciences - Computational materials science and engineering - Computational astrophysics/astronomy, chemistry, and physics - Computational fluid dynamics and mechanics - Computation and data enabled social science - Computational design optimization for aerospace, energy, manufacturing and industrial applications - Computational medicine and bioengineering - Use of uncertainty quantification techniques - Statistical and machine learning applications - Other high performance applications 3. Architecture and Networks: All aspects of high performance hardware including the optimization and evaluation of processors and networks. Topics include: --------------- - Innovative hardware/software co-design - Interconnect technologies (e.g., InfiniBand, Myrinet, Ethernet and Routable PCI), switch/router architecture, network topologies, on-chip or optical networks and network fault tolerance - Software defined networks - Memory systems, novel memory architectures, caches - Parallel and scalable system architectures - Power-efficient, resilient, highly-available, stream, vector, embedded and reconfigurable architectures, and emerging technologies - Processor architecture, chip multi-processors, GPUs, custom and reconfigurable logic - Protocols (e.g., TCP, UDP and sockets), quality of service, congestion management and collective communication 4. Clouds and Distributed Computing: All software aspects of clouds and distributed computing that are related to high performance computing systems, including software architecture, configuration, optimization and evaluation. Topics include: --------------- - Compute and storage cloud architectures including many-core computing and accelerators in the cloud. - Innovative methods for using cloud systems for HPC applications - Workflow, data and resource management including dynamic resource provisioning. - Methods, systems and architectures for data stream processing - Parallel programming models and tools at the intersection of cloud and HPC - Support and tuning of MapReduce/Spark and other cloud data ecosystems on HPC - Scheduling, load balancing, resource provisioning, energy efficiency, fault tolerance and reliability - Self-configuration, management, information services and monitoring - Service-oriented architectures and tools for integration of clouds, clusters and distributed computing - Virtualization and containerization for HPC, virtualized high performance I/O network interconnects, parallel and distributed file systems in virtual environments - Cloud security and identity management 5. Data Analytics, Visualization and Storage: All aspects of data analytics, visualization and storage related to high performance computing systems. Topics include: --------------- - Databases and scalable structured storage for HPC - Data mining, analysis and visualization for modeling and simulation - Ensemble analysis and visualization - I/O performance tuning, benchmarking and middleware - Scalable storage, next-generation storage systems and media - Parallel file, storage and archival systems - Provenance, metadata and data management - Reliability and fault tolerance in HPC storage - Scalable storage, metadata and data management - Storage networks - Storage systems for data intensive computing - Data science - Visualization and image processing 6. Performance Measurement, Modeling, and Tools: Novel methods and tools for measuring, evaluating, and/or analyzing performance. ?Performance? may be broadly construed to include any number of metrics, such as execution time, energy, power, or potential measures of resilience. Submissions in this area are encouraged to show the applicability and reproducibility of their results by means such as sensitivity analysis, performance modeling, or code snippets. Topics include: --------------- - Analysis, modeling, or simulation methods - Empirical measurement techniques on real-world systems - Scalable tools and instrumentation infrastructure for measurement, monitoring, and/or visualization of performance - Novel, broadly applicable performance optimization techniques - Methodologies, metrics, and formalisms for performance analysis and tools - Performance studies of HPC subsystems, such as processor, network, memory and I/O - Workload characterization and benchmarking techniques 7. Programming Systems: Technologies that support parallel programming for large-scale systems as well as smaller-scale components that will plausibly serve as building blocks for next-generation high performance computing architectures. Topics include: --------------- - Programming language techniques for reducing energy and data movement (e.g., precision allocation, use of approximations, tiling) - Solutions for parallel programming challenges (e.g., interoperability, memory consistency, determinism, race detection, work stealing or load balancing) - Parallel application frameworks - Tools for parallel program development (e.g., debuggers and integrated development environments) - Program analysis, synthesis, and verification to enhance cross-platform portability, maintainability, result reproducibility, resilience (e.g., combined static and dynamic analysis methods, testing, formal methods) - Compiler analysis and optimization; program transformation - Parallel programming languages, libraries, models and notations - Runtime systems as they interact with programming systems 8. State of the Practice: All aspects related to novel but at the same time pragmatic practices of HPC that allow for results that are far superior with respect to time-, energy-, or cost-to-solution. These include infrastructure, services, facilities and large-scale application executions. Submissions that develop best end-to-end practices, optimized designs or benchmarks are of particular interest. Although concrete case studies within a conceptual framework often serve as the basis for accepted papers, how the experience generalizes is particularly encouraged. Topics include: --------------- - Bridging of cloud data centers and supercomputing centers - Comparative system benchmarking over a wide spectrum of workloads - Deployment experiences of large-scale infrastructures and facilities - Facilitation of ?big data? associated with supercomputing - Long-term infrastructural management experiences - Pragmatic resource management strategies and experiences - Procurement, technology investment and acquisition best practices - Quantitative results of education, training and dissemination activities - User support experiences with large-scale and novel machines - Infrastructural policy issues, especially international experiences - Software engineering best practices for HPC 9. System Software: Operating system (OS), runtime system and other low-level software research & development that enables allocation and management of hardware resources for high performance computing applications and services. Topics include: --------------- - Alternative and specialized parallel operating systems and runtime systems - Approaches for enabling adaptive and introspective system software - Communication optimization - Distributed shared memory systems - System support for global address spaces - Enhancements for attached and integrated accelerators - Interactions between the OS, runtime, compiler, middleware, and tools - Parallel/networked file system integration with the OS and runtime - Resource management - Runtime and OS management of complex memory hierarchies - System software strategies for controlling energy and temperature - Support for fault tolerance and resilience - Virtualization and virtual machines SCHEDULE AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: ---------------------------------- Submissions open: March 1, 2018 Abstract deadline: March 19, 2018 Submission deadline: March 28, 2018 (NO EXTENSIONS) Reviews sent: May 14, 2018 Resubmissions deadline: May 30, 2018 Notifications sent: June 15, 2018 Major revision deadline: July 13, 2018 Major revision notifications: August 10, 2018 The SC18 proceedings will be published electronically via the ACM and IEEE Digital Libraries. Submitted manuscripts should be formatted using the IEEE Master article template. The maximum length is 10 pages. All papers must be in English. Please visit the SC18 website for further instructions and the submission link. TECHNICAL PAPERS CHAIRS: ---------------- Torsten Hoefler ETH Zurich, Switzerland Todd Gamblin Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory -- ### qreharg rug ebs fv crryF --- http://htor.inf.ethz.ch/ --- Torsten Hoefler | Associate Professor Dept. of Computer Science | ETH Z?rich Universit?tsstrasse 6 | Zurich-8092, Switzerland CAB F 75 | Phone: +41 44 632 68 79 From boukhobza at univ-brest.fr Wed Feb 28 04:12:44 2018 From: boukhobza at univ-brest.fr (Jalil Boukhobza) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 10:12:44 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [CFP] 3rd Workshop On Performance and Scalability of Storage Systems (WOPSSS) Message-ID: <034801d3b074$4b92e790$e2b8b6b0$@univ-brest.fr> CfP 3rd WOPSSS workshop at ISC High Performance Third Workshop On Performance and Scalability of Storage Systems (WOPSSS) Held jointly with ISC, Frankfurt, Germany. June 28th, 2018 http://wopsss.org ** Submission deadline April 20 ** The Workshop On Performance and Scalability of Storage Systems (WOPSSS) aims to present state-of-the-art research, innovative ideas, and experience that focus on the design and implementation of HPC storage systems in both academic and industrial worlds, with a special interest on their performance analysis. The arrival of new storage technologies and scales unseen in previous practice lead to significant loss of performance predictability. This will leave storage system designers, application developers and the storage community at large in the difficult situation of not being able to precisely detect bottlenecks, evaluate the room for improvement, or estimate the matching of applications with a given storage architecture. WOPSSS intends to encourage discussion of these issues through submissions of researchers or practitioners from both academic and industrial worlds. The workshop is held in conjunction with the ISC-HPC during the ISC workshop day. Note that the attendance of ISC workshops requires a workshop pass. See also our last year's workshop web page. WOPSSS is embedded into a full-day program for I/O that we organize with the team of the IODC the HPC I/O in the Data Center Workshop (https://wr.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/events/2018/iodc) We will build a program with a joint morning session with keynote talks and best papers and then diverge into two independent workshops in the afternoon. All accepted papers will be published in the Proceedings by Springer. Extended versions of the best papers will be published in the ACM SIGOPS (http://www.sigops.org/osr.html) journal ** Topics of interest ** included but are not limited to: - Storage systems modeling and analysis tools - Feed-back and empirical evaluation of storage systems - Application I/O characterization - AI workload and storage performance analysis - Parallel I/O and storage systems: consistency, caching, replication, reliability and fault recovery overhead - Network challenges and storage systems: Scalability, QoS, Partitionability - Low latency storage systems usability and analysis: memory-only, Flash, NVRAM, Storage Class Memory - File system design - Cloud and distributed storage ** Important Dates ** Submission deadline April 20 Author notification May 31 Camera Ready June 15 Workshop June 28 ** Submission Guidelines ** Papers need to be submitted via Easychair (http://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=wopsss18) Authors are invited to submit papers are required to be formatted in Springer single column LNCS style (http://www.springer.com/computer/lncs?SGWID=0-164-6-793341-0) and within 10 pages, excluding the references. The submissions are "single-blind", i.e. submissions are allowed to include the author names. ** Organizing committee ** - Jean-Thomas Acquaviva, Research Engineer, DDN, France - Jalil Boukhobza, Associate professor, Univ. Bretagne Occidentale, France - Phlippe Deniel, Head of Storage group, CEA/DIF, France - Massimo Lamanna, Leader - Data and Storage Services Group, CERN, Switzerland - Pedro Javier Garc?a, Associated Professor, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain - Allen D. Malony, Full Professor, University of Oregon, USA ** Publicity Chairs ** - Jesus Escudero-Sahuquillo, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain - Kaoutar El Maghraoui, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, USA ** Program committee (to be completed) ** Julien Bigot, CEA, France, Jason Chun Xue, City University of Hong Kong, Honk Kong, Stefano Cozzini, CNR, Italy, Jesus Escudero-Sahuquillo, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Spain, Maria E. Gomez,Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain Denis Gutfreund, ATOS, France, Florin Isaila, University Carlos III, Spain Julian Kunkel; DKRZ, Germany, Duo Liu, Chongqing University, China, Manolis Marazakis, Forth, Greece, Lars Nagel, Johannes Loughborough University, UK Ramon Nou, BSC, Spain, Juan Piernas C?novas, Universidad de Murcia, Spain, Josef Weidendorfer, TUM, Germany, Soraya Zertal, University of Versailles, France ** Registration & Venue ** The workshop does not have a separate registration site. Attendees need to use the registration system provided by ISC'17 (http://www.isc-hpc.com/registration.html) WOPSSS is organized in conjunction the International Supercomputing Conference (http://www.isc-hpc.com), Frankfurt, Germany. Location **probably** Marriott Hotel, Frankfurt, Germany, Details about the ISC-HPC venue ** Special Journal Issue ** Extended versions of the best papers will be published in the ACM SIGOPS Operating Systems Review (http://www.sigops.org/osr.html) journal -- Jalil Boukhobza Associate Professor (ma?tre de conf?rences HDR) 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 maayan.goldstein at nokia-bell-labs.com Wed Feb 28 07:33:44 2018 From: maayan.goldstein at nokia-bell-labs.com (Goldstein, Maayan (Nokia - IL/Kfar Sava)) Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 12:33:44 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] EXTENDED submission deadline for SYSTOR 2018 - March 3, 2018 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [ Apologies if you receive this multiple times ] The submission deadline to SYSTOR 2018 has been extended till March 3, 2018. The ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR) is an excellent international forum for interaction across the systems research community. The program includes both innovative, peer-reviewed research papers in the broad area of systems and storage, as well as distinguished keynote lecturers, a poster session, and social events. ACM SYSTOR is designed to appeal to academic and industrial researchers and practitioners, welcoming both students and seasoned professionals. We invite you to submit original and innovative papers to SYSTOR 2018, The 11th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference. The conference will take place June 4-6, 2018 in Haifa, Israel. http://www.systor.org SYSTOR has a broad scope, promoting experimental and practical computer systems research encompassing the following topics: * Big data infrastructure * Cloud, datacenter, and distributed systems * Deployment, usage, and experience * Embedded and real-time systems * Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability * File and storage systems * Networked, mobile, wireless, peer-to-peer, and sensor systems * Operating systems, computer architecture, and their interactions * Performance evaluation and workload characterization * Runtime systems and compiler/programming-language support * Security, privacy, and trust * System design or adaptation for emerging storage technologies * Virtualization SYSTOR welcomes academic and industrial papers in systems and storage, broadly construed. SYSTOR encourages submissions that describe results from experimental system prototypes, as well as experience papers describing practical deployments, and valuable lessons learned from them. We solicit paper submissions in five 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 with Extended AbstractTrack - original work presented as poster accompanied by the extended abstract * Informal Student Presentations - informal presentation of research findings, co-located with the poster session Formatting and submission instructions: http://www.systor.org/2018/cfp.html IMPORTANT DATES * Full and Short Papers Track * Paper Submission February 28, 2018 * Acceptance Notification April 15, 2018 * Camera-ready May 6, 2018 * Highlight Papers Track * Extended Abstract Submission March 29, 2018 * Acceptance Notification April 24, 2018 * Posters with Extended Abstract Track * Poster & Abstract Submission March 29, 2018 * Acceptance Notification April 22, 2018 * Camera-ready May 6, 2018 * Informal Student Poster Presentations Track * Poster Submission May 15, 2018 * Acceptance Notification May 22, 2018 SYSTOR 2018 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 Chairs: * Gala Yadgar (Technion, Israel) * Donald E. Porter (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) Program Committee: * Nadav Amit (VMware Research, USA) * Antonio Barbalace (Huawei, Germany) * Angelos Bilas (University of Crete, Grece) * Renata Borovica-Gajic (University of Melbourne, Australia) * Edward Bortnikov (Yahoo! Labs, Israel) * Vijay Chidambaram (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) * Toni Cortes (Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya and Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) * Angela Demke Brown (University of Toronto, Canada) * Fred Douglis () * Yoav Etsion (Technion, Israel) * Boris Grot (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Vishakha Gupta-Cledat (Intel Labs, USA) * Danny Harnik (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) * Joo-Young Hwang (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea) * Michael Kaminsky (Intel Labs, USA) * Orran Krieger (Boston University, USA) * Adam Morrison (Tel Aviv University, Israel) * Sam H. Noh (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Republic of Korea) * Amitabha Roy (Intel Labs, USA) * Larry Rudolph (Two Sigma, USA) * Margo Seltzer (Harvard University and Oracle, USA) * Alexander Shraer (Apple, USA) * Keith H. Smith (NetApp, USA) * Vasily Tarasov (IBM Research - Almaden, USA) * Chia-Che Tsai (University of California - Berkeley, USA) * Xi Wang (University of Washington, USA) * Pete Wyckoff (Nutanix, USA) * Aviad Zuck (Technion, Israel) General Chair: * David Breitgand (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) Posters Chair: * Michael Schapira (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel) Publication Chair: * Ittay Eyal (Technion, Israel) Publicity Chair: * Maayan Goldstein (Nokia, Bell Labs, Israel) Local Arrangements Chair: * Eti Jahr (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) Steering Committee Head: * Dalit Naor (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) Steering Committee: * Michael Factor (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) * Ethan Miller (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) * Liuba Shrira (Brandeis University, USA) * Dan Tsafrir (Technion, Israel) * Erez Zadok (Stony Brook University, USA) From htor at inf.ethz.ch Sat Mar 10 01:05:45 2018 From: htor at inf.ethz.ch (Torsten Hoefler) Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2018 15:05:45 +0900 Subject: [Storage-research-list] ROSS'18 - Runtimes and Operating Systems for Supercomputers, Call for Papers, Crazy Ideas, and Talks Message-ID: <131bf8e2-07e5-24ec-ae1f-fff408901f9d@inf.ethz.ch> ========================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS ========================================================================== International Workshop on Runtime and Operating Systems for Supercomputers *** ROSS 2018 *** In cooperation with ACM SIGHPC ------------------------------ Held in conjunction with HPDC 2018, Tempe, Arizona, USA, June 12, 2018 ========================================================================== http://www.mcs.anl.gov/events/workshops/ross/2018/ ========================================================================== **** Encouraging Wild and Crazy Ideas as Well as Talk submissions **** The complexity of node architectures in supercomputers increases as we cross petaflop milestones on the way towards Exascale. Increasing levels of parallelism in multi- and many-core chips and emerging heterogeneity of computational resources coupled with energy and memory constraints force a reevaluation of our approaches towards operating systems and runtime environments. The ROSS workshop, to be held as a full-day meeting at the HPDC 2018 conference in Tempe, Arizona, USA, focuses on principles and techniques to design, implement, optimize, or operate runtime and operating systems for supercomputers and massively parallel machines. In addition to typical workshop publications, we encourage novel and possibly immature ideas, provided that they are interesting and on-topic. Well argued position papers are also welcome. TOPICS OF INTEREST: ------------------- - OS and runtime system scalability on many-node and multi/many-core systems - management of heterogeneous and reconfigurable compute resources, including FPGAs, GPUs, etc. - distributed/hybrid/partitioned OSes and runtime systems for Supercomputing - system noise analysis and prevention - interaction between middleware, runtime system, and the OS - modeling and performance analysis of runtime systems - OS and runtime considerations for large-volume, high-performance I/O - memory management and emerging memory technologies - the role of OS and runtime system in minimizing power usage SCHEDULE AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: ---------------------------------- Submission deadline: April 2, 2018 (extended) Author notification: April 27, 2018 Final papers due: May 11, 2018 Workshop date: June 12, 2018 The ROSS workshop proceedings will be published electronically via the ACM Digital Library. Submitted manuscripts should be formatted using the ACM Master article template sigconf format (please be sure to use the current version). Extensive documentation can be found at the ACM site (http://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template). The maximum length is 8 pages. All papers must be in English. Please visit the workshop website for further instructions and the submission link. WORKSHOP CHAIRS: ---------------- Kamil Iskra Argonne National Laboratory, USA Torsten Hoefler ETH Zurich, Switzerland PROGRAM COMMITTEE: ------------------ Patrick Bridges, University of New Mexico, USA Ron Brightwell, Sandia National Laboratories, USA Bronis R. de Supinski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA Christian Engelmann, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Roberto Gioiosa, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA Yutaka Ishikawa, RIKEN, Japan Michael Lang, Los Alamos National Laboratory, USA John Lange, University of Pittsburgh, USA Stefan Lankes, RWTH Aachen University, Germany Bernd Mohr, Juelich Supercomputing Centre, Germany Yoonho Park, IBM Research, USA Pascale Rosse-Laurent, Bull, France Jesper Larsson Traeff, Vienna University of Technology, Austria Robert Wisniewski, Intel, USA Contact us at ross2018 at easychair.org if you have any questions. -- ### qreharg rug ebs fv crryF --- http://htor.inf.ethz.ch/ --- Torsten Hoefler | Associate Professor Dept. of Computer Science | ETH Z??rich Universit??tsstrasse 6 | Zurich-8092, Switzerland CAB F 75 | Phone: +41 44 632 68 79 From dayalsoap at gmail.com Fri Mar 16 00:00:12 2018 From: dayalsoap at gmail.com (Jai Dayal) Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 21:00:12 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: 1st Workshop on Infrastructure for Workflows and Application Composition (IWAC 2018) Message-ID: Call for Papers: The 1st Workshop on Infrastructure for Workflows and Application Composition (IWAC 2018) will be held in Tempe, Arizona on June 12, 2018. IWAC '18 is associated with the 27th Annual ACM High Performance and Distributed Computing (ACM HPDC 2018) and is sponsored by the ACM. This workshop will be one of the major venues for researchers to present novel approaches, results, and ideas on computing infrastructure to facilitate the performance and functionality of large scale workflows and composite applications. Organizations are increasingly leveraging workflows and composite applications to enrich a large number of workload classes, such as traditional large-scale science applications to big data and machine learning. Additionally, the growing size and complexity of the machines on which these applications run has imposed scalability limits on many applications that use a more traditional "bulk synchronous" compute model. Increasingly, researchers are looking for ways to integrate these technologies from different domains to glean greater insights and to improve performance and resilience for their applications. While advancements have been made in recent years, technologies enabling the full spectrum of application construction environments are largely either missing, primitive, niche, or research prototypes. This workshop contributes by exploring the various technological infrastructure needs to support effective, convenient workflow systems and application composition structures and approaches across a broad spectrum of HPC environments from clusters to supercomputers to cloud systems. Topics of Interest Include: - System software/OS features to enable workflow tools and application composition - Programming support for assembling workflows or connecting application components - Reusable components intended as either "glue'' between workflow components or for analysis or other processing - Front end systems for configuring or controlling workflows - Storage (both disk and in compute area) support for buffering between components - Workflow engines designed to simplify workflow construction for end users - Programming support for addressing data format/contents mismatch - Programming support for resource management - Communication and/or data exchange mechanisms - Application-specific workflow implementations - Other system support for mechanisms to support combining multiple application components into a composite application or workflow Important Dates: Submission Deadline: April 2, 2018 Responses to Authors: May 6, 2018 Camera Ready due: May 11, 2018 Paper Submissions: All manuscripts will be reviewed by at least three members of the program committee. Submissions should be a complete manuscript or, in special cases, may be a summary of relevant work. Manuscript for full paper should be not exceed 5 single-spaced, double-column pages using 10-point size font on 8.5X11 inch pages (ACM conference style) including everything except references. Papers are to be submitted electronically in PDF format through EasyChair. Submitted papers should not have appeared in or be under consideration for a different workshop, conference or journal. It is also expected that all accepted papers will be presented at the workshop by one of the authors. https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=iwac18 Organiziers and Program Co-Chairs: Jay Lofstead (Sandia National Labs) Jai Dayal (Intel) Program Committee: Gagan Agrawal (OSU) Ilkay Altintas (SDSC) Rosa Badia (Barcelona) Wes Bethel (LBL) Christopher Carothers (RPI) Ewa Deelman (USC ISI) Dmitry Duplyakin (Utah) Rosa Filgueira (British Geological Survey) Henry Gabb (Intel) Balazs Gerofi (Riken) Bingsheng He (Singapore) Shadi Ibrahim (INRIA) Kerstin Kleese van Dam (BNL) Brian Kocoloski (WUSTL) Julian Kunkel (DKRZ) Jack Lange (U Pitt) David Montoya (LANL) Kevin Pedretti (SNL) Tom Peterka (ANL) Lizhe Wang (Chinese Academy of Sciences) Matthew Wolf (ORNL) Justin Wozniak (ANL) Andrew Younge (SNL) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maayan.goldstein at nokia-bell-labs.com Thu Mar 29 03:34:39 2018 From: maayan.goldstein at nokia-bell-labs.com (Goldstein, Maayan (Nokia - IL/Kfar Sava)) Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2018 07:34:39 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Submission deadline for SYSTOR 2018's Posters extended: April 1, 2018 + Keynote speakers announcement Message-ID: [ Apologies if you receive this multiple times ] We are pleased to announce that we will have the honor to host three keynote speakers this year: Margo Seltzer, Radia Perlman, Ant Rowstron. Please see more details here: https://www.systor.org/2018/keynote-speakers.html SYSTOR 2018 Posters submission deadline has been extended to April, 2018. Posters with Extended Abstract Track - original work presented as a poster, accompanied by a one-page extended abstract. Call for Papers: SYSTOR 2018 June 4-6, 2018 Haifa, Israel The ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR) is an excellent international forum for interaction across the systems research community. The program includes both innovative, peer-reviewed research papers in the broad area of systems and storage, as well as distinguished keynote lecturers, a poster session, and social events. ACM SYSTOR is designed to appeal to academic and industrial researchers and practitioners, welcoming both students and seasoned professionals. We invite you to submit original and innovative papers to SYSTOR 2018, The 11th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference. The conference will take place June 4-6, 2018 in Haifa, Israel. http://www.systor.org SYSTOR has a broad scope, promoting experimental and practical computer systems research encompassing the following topics: * Big data infrastructure * Cloud, datacenter, and distributed systems * Deployment, usage, and experience * Embedded and real-time systems * Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability * File and storage systems * Networked, mobile, wireless, peer-to-peer, and sensor systems * Operating systems, computer architecture, and their interactions * Performance evaluation and workload characterization * Runtime systems and compiler/programming-language support * Security, privacy, and trust * System design or adaptation for emerging storage technologies * Virtualization SYSTOR welcomes academic and industrial papers in systems and storage, broadly construed. SYSTOR encourages submissions that describe results from experimental system prototypes, as well as experience papers describing practical deployments, and valuable lessons learned from them. We solicit paper submissions in five 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 with Extended AbstractTrack - original work presented as poster accompanied by the extended abstract * Informal Student Presentations - informal presentation of research findings, co-located with the poster session Formatting and submission instructions: http://www.systor.org/2018/cfp.html IMPORTANT DATES * Full and Short Papers Track * Paper Submission March 3, 2018 * Acceptance Notification April 15, 2018 * Camera-ready May 6, 2018 * Highlight Papers Track * Extended Abstract Submission March 29, 2018 * Acceptance Notification April 24, 2018 * Posters with Extended Abstract Track * Poster & Abstract Submission March 29, 2018 * Acceptance Notification April 22, 2018 * Camera-ready May 6, 2018 * Informal Student Poster Presentations Track * Poster Submission May 15, 2018 * Acceptance Notification May 22, 2018 SYSTOR 2018 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 Chairs: * Gala Yadgar (Technion, Israel) * Donald E. Porter (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) Program Committee: * Nadav Amit (VMware Research, USA) * Antonio Barbalace (Huawei, Germany) * Angelos Bilas (University of Crete, Grece) * Renata Borovica-Gajic (University of Melbourne, Australia) * Edward Bortnikov (Yahoo! Labs, Israel) * Vijay Chidambaram (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) * Toni Cortes (Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya and Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) * Angela Demke Brown (University of Toronto, Canada) * Fred Douglis () * Yoav Etsion (Technion, Israel) * Boris Grot (University of Edinburgh, UK) * Vishakha Gupta-Cledat (Intel Labs, USA) * Danny Harnik (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) * Joo-Young Hwang (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea) * Michael Kaminsky (Intel Labs, USA) * Orran Krieger (Boston University, USA) * Adam Morrison (Tel Aviv University, Israel) * Sam H. Noh (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Republic of Korea) * Amitabha Roy (Intel Labs, USA) * Larry Rudolph (Two Sigma, USA) * Margo Seltzer (Harvard University and Oracle, USA) * Alexander Shraer (Apple, USA) * Keith H. Smith (NetApp, USA) * Vasily Tarasov (IBM Research - Almaden, USA) * Chia-Che Tsai (University of California - Berkeley, USA) * Xi Wang (University of Washington, USA) * Pete Wyckoff (Nutanix, USA) * Aviad Zuck (Technion, Israel) General Chair: * David Breitgand (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) Posters Chair: * Michael Shapira (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel) Publication Chair: * Ittay Eyal (Technion, Israel) Publicity Chair: * Maayan Goldstein (Nokia, Bell Labs, Israel) Local Arrangements Chair: * Eti Jahr (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) Steering Committee Head: * Dalit Naor (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) Steering Committee: * Michael Factor (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) * Ethan Miller (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) * Liuba Shrira (Brandeis University, USA) * Dan Tsafrir (Technion, Israel) * Erez Zadok (Stony Brook University, USA) From carlosm at ucsc.edu Fri Mar 30 14:02:06 2018 From: carlosm at ucsc.edu (Carlos Maltzahn) Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2018 11:02:06 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP P-RECS'18 Submissions due *April 9*, 2018 Message-ID: # P-RECS '18 Call for Papers First International Workshop on Practical Reproducible Evaluation of Computer Systems. June 11, 2018. In conjunction with HPDC'18 >. In cooperation with SIGHPC (pending). Independent evaluation of experimental results in the area of computer and networking systems is a challenging task. Recreating the environment where an experiment originally ran is commonly considered impractical or even impossible. This workshop will focus heavily on practical, actionable aspects of reproducibility in broad areas of computational science and data exploration, with special emphasis on issues in which community collaboration can be essential for adopting novel methodologies, techniques and frameworks aimed at addressing some of the challenges we face today. The workshop will bring together researchers and experts to share experiences and advance the state of the art in the reproducible evaluation of computer systems, featuring contributed papers and invited talks. ## Topics We expect submissions from topics such as, but not limited to: * Experiment dependency management. * Software citation and persistence. * Data versioning and preservation. * Provenance of data-intensive experiments. * Tools and techniques for incorporating provenance into publications. * Automated experiment execution and validation. * Experiment portability for code, performance, and related metrics. * Experiment discoverability for re-use. * Cost-benefit analysis frameworks for reproducibility. * Usability and adaptability of reproducibility frameworks into already-established domain-specific tools. * Long-term artifact archiving for future reproducibility. * Frameworks for sociological constructs to incentivize paradigm shifts. * Policies around publication of articles/software. * Blinding and selecting artifacts for review while maintaining history. * Reproducibility-aware computational infrastructure. ## Submission Submit via EasyChair >. We look for two categories of submissions: * **Position papers**. This category is for papers whose goal is to propose solutions (or scope the work that needs to be done) to address some of the issues outlined above. We hope that a research agenda comes out of this and that we can create a community that meets yearly to report on our status in addressing these problems. * **Experience papers**. This category consists of papers reporting on the authors' experience in automating one or more experimentation pipelines. The committee will look for submissions reporting on their experience: what worked? What aspects of experiment automation and validation are hard in your domain? What can be done to improve the tooling for your domain? As part of the submission, authors need to provide a URL to the automation service they use (e.g., [TravisCI](https://travis-ci.org ), [GitLabCI](https://about.gitlab.com/gitlab-ci/ ), [CircleCI](https://circleci.com ), [Jenkins](https://jenkins-ci.org ), etc.) so reviewers can verify that there is one or more automated pipelines associated to the submission. ### Format Authors are invited to submit manuscripts in English not exceeding 5 pages of content. The 5-page limit includes figures, tables and appendices, but does not include references, for which there is no page limit. Submissions must use the [ACM Master Template](https://www.acm.org/publications/proceedings-template ) (please use the `sigconf` format with default options). ### Proceedings The proceedings will be archived in both the ACM Digital Library and IEEE Xplore through SIGHPC. ### Tools These tools can be optionally used used to automate your experiments: [CWL](http://commonwl.org ), [Popper](https://github.com/systemslab/popper ), [ReproZip](http://reprozip.org ), [Sciunit](http://sciunit.run ), [Sumatra](https://github.com/open-research/sumatra ). ## Important Dates * Submissions due: *April 9*, 2018 * Acceptance notification: April 30, 2018 * Camera-ready paper submission: May 6, 2018 * Workshop: June 11, 2018 ## Organizers * Ivo Jimenez, UC Santa Cruz * Carlos Maltzahn, UC Santa Cruz * Jay Lofstead, Sandia National Laboratories ## Program Committee * Divyashri Bhat, UMass Amherst * Michael Crusoe, Project Lead, Common Workflow Language project * Anja Feldmann, TU Berlin * Todd Gamblin, LLNL * Mike Heroux, Sandia National Laboratories * Torsten Hoefler, ETH Z?rich * Neil Chue Hong, Software Sustainability Institute / University of Edinburgh, UK * Dan Katz, NCSA * Kate Keahey, Argonne National Lab / ChameleonCloud * Ignacio Laguna, LLNL * Arnaud Legrand, B?timent IMAG * Reed Milewicz, Sandia National Laboratories * Robert Ricci, University of Utah / CloudLab * Victoria Stodden, UIUC * Violet R. 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URL: From wuct at cs.sjtu.edu.cn Sun Apr 8 01:22:25 2018 From: wuct at cs.sjtu.edu.cn (Chentao Wu) Date: Sun, 08 Apr 2018 13:22:25 +0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP for NAS 2018 Message-ID: =================================================================== CALL FOR PAPERS =================================================================== The 13th International Conference on Networking, Architecture, and Storage *** NAS18 *** Sponsored by IEEE ------------------------------ =================================================================== http://www.nas-conference.org =================================================================== 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 2018 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 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: ? Accelerator-based architectures ? Ad hoc and sensor networks ? Application-specific, reconfigurable or embedded architectures ? Architecture for handheld or mobile devices ? Architecture, networking or storage modeling and simulation methodologies ? Big Data infrastructure ? Big Data services and analytics ? Cloud and grid computing ? Cloud storage ? Data-center scale architectures ? Effects of circuits and emerging technology on architecture ? Energy-aware storage ? File systems, object-based storage ? GPU architecture and programming ? HW/SW co-design and tradeoffs ? Mobile and wireless networks Network applications and services ? Network architecture and protocols ? Network information theory ? Network modeling and measurement ? Network security ? Non-volatile memory technologies ? Parallel and multi-core architectures ? Parallel I/O ? Power and energy efficient architectures and techniques ? Processor, cache, memory system architectures ? Software defined networking Software defined storage ? SSD architecture and applications Storage management ? Storage performance and scalability ? Storage virtualization and security Virtual and overlay networks SCHEDULE AND SUBMISSION PROCEDURE: ---------------------------------- Submission deadline: May 16, 2018 (AoE) Notification of acceptance: July 6, 2018 Camera-ready Paper: August 6, 2018 Conference: October 11-14, 2018 Please follow this link to submit your paper https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=nas2018 -------------- GENERAL CHAIRS ---------------- Yuanyuan Yang, Stony Brook University, USA Jiwu Shu, Tsinghua University -------------- VICE GENERAL CHAIRS ---------------- Songtao Guo, Southwest University, China -------------- PROGRAM CHARIS --------------- Howie Huang, The George Washington University, USA -------------- VICE PROGRAM CHAIRS ------------- --- Networking Track --- Kartik Gopalan, Binghamton University, USA --- Architecture Track --- Huiyang Zhou, North Carolina State University, USA --- Storage Track --- Alan Sussman, University of Maryland College Park, USA From k.wasielewska at fedcsis.org Sun Apr 8 14:22:20 2018 From: k.wasielewska at fedcsis.org (Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems) Date: Sun, 8 Apr 2018 20:22:20 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] FedCSIS 2018 - CALL FOR PAPERS Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS 2018 Federated Conference on Computer Science and Information Systems (FedCSIS) Poznan, Poland, 9 - 12 September, 2018 www.fedcsis.org Strict submission deadline: May 15, 2018, 23:59:59 pm HST (no extensions) www.fedcsis.org (FedCSIS on www.ieee.org: https://tinyurl.com/FedCSIS2018onIEEE) FedCSIS an annual international multi-conference, this year organized jointly by the Polish Information Processing Society (PTI), Poland Section Computer Society Chapter, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Wroclaw University of Economics, Warsaw University of Technology and Adam Mickiewicz University, in technical cooperation with: IEEE Region 8, IEEE Poland Section, IEEE Computer Society Technical Committee on Intelligent Informatics, IEEE Czechoslovakia Section Computer Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section (Gdansk) Computer Society Chapter, IEEE SMC Technical Committee on Computational Collective Intelligence, IEEE Poland Section SMC Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section Control System Society Chapter, IEEE Poland Section Computational Intelligence Society Chapter, ACM Special Interest Group on Applied Computing, International Federation for Information Processing, Committee of Computer Science of Polish Academy of Sciences, Polish Operational and Systems Research Society, Eastern Cluster ICT Poland, Mazovia Cluster ICT. Please feel free to forward this announcement to your colleagues and associates who could be interested in it. The mission of the FedCSIS Conference Series is to provide a highly acclaimed multi-conference forum in computer science and information systems. The forum invites researchers from around the world to contribute their research results and participate in Events focused on their scientific and professional interests in computer science and information systems. Since 2012, Proceedings of the FedCSIS conference are indexed in the Web of Science, SCOPUS and other indexing services. This includes already Proceedings of FedCSIS 2017. FedCSIS EVENTS The FedCSIS 2018 consists of the following Events, grouped into five conference areas. * AAIA'18 - 13th International Symposium Advances in Artificial Intelligence and Applications --- AIMaViG'18 - 3rd International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Machine Vision and Graphics --- AIMA'18 - 8th International Workshop on Artificial Intelligence in Medical Applications --- AIRIM'18 - 3rd International Workshop on AI aspects of Reasoning, Information, and Memory --- ASIR'18 - 8th International Workshop on Advances in Semantic Information Retrieval --- DMGATE'18 - 1st International Workshop on AI Methods in Data Mining Challenges --- SEN-MAS'18 - 6th International Workshop on Smart Energy Networks & Multi-Agent Systems --- WCO'18 - 11th International Workshop on Computational Optimization --- VICML'18 - 5th Workshop Visual Information Coding Meets Machine Learning: Large-Scale Challenges * CSS - Computer Science & Systems --- 4A'18 - 1st Workshop on Actors, Agents, Assistants, Avatars --- AIPC'18 - 2nd International Workshop on Advances in Image Processing and Colorization --- BEDA'18 - 1st International Workshop on Biomedical & Health Engineering and Data Analysis --- BigDAISy'18 - 1st Workshop on Big Data Analytics for Information Security --- CANA'18 - 11th Workshop on Computer Aspects of Numerical Algorithms --- C&SS'18 - 5th? International Conference on Cryptography and Security Systems --- CPORA'18 - 3rd Workshop on Constraint Programming and Operation Research Applications --- DaSCA'18 - 1st International Symposium on Big Data in Cloud and Services Computing Applications --- LTA'18 - 3rd International Workshop on Language Technologies and Applications --- MMAP'18 - 11th International Symposium on Multimedia Applications and Processing --- WSC'18 - 10th Workshop on Scalable Computing * iNetSApp - International Conference on Innovative Network Systems and Applications --- CAP-NGNCS'18 - 1st International Workshop on Communications Architectures and Protocols for the New Generation of Networks and Computing Systems --- INSERT'18 - 2nd International Conference on Security, Privacy, and Trust --- IoT-ECAW'18 - 2nd Workshop on Internet of Things - Enablers, Challenges and Applications --- WSN'18 - 7th International Conference on Wireless Sensor Networks * IT4MBS - Information Technology for Management, Business & Society --- AITM'18 - 15th Conference on Advanced Information Technologies for Management --- AITSD'18 - 1st International Workshop on Applied Information Technologies for Sustainable Development --- ISM'18 -? 13th Conference on Information Systems Management --- IT4L'18 - 6th Workshop on Information Technologies for Logistics --- KAM'18 - 24rd Conference on Knowledge Acquisition and Management --- TEMHE'18 - 1st Workshop on Technology Enhanced Medical and Healthcare Education * SSD&A - Software Systems Development & Applications --- MDASD'18 - 5th Workshop on Model Driven Approaches in System Development --- MIDI'18- 6th Conference on Multimedia, Interaction, Design and Innovation --- LASD'18 - 2nd International Conference on Lean and Agile Software Development --- SEW-38 & IWCPS-5 - Joint 38th IEEE Software Engineering Workshop (SEW-38) and 5th International Workshop on Cyber-Physical Systems (IWCPS-5) * DS-RAIT'18 - 5th Doctoral Symposium on Recent Advances in Information Technology KEYNOTE SPEAKERS - Mehmet Aksit, Chair Software Engineering, Formal Methods and Tools Group, Department of Computer Science, University of Twente - Jan Bosch, Director of the Software Center, Professor at Chalmers University Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden - W?odzis?aw Duch, Professor at Department of Informatics, and NeuroCognitive Laboratory, Center for Modern Interdisciplinary Technologies, Nicolaus Copernicus University - Rory V. O'Connor, Professor at Dublin City University, Ireland, Head of Delegation (for Ireland) to ISO/IEC JTC1/SC7 PAPER SUBMISSION AND PUBLICATION Papers should be submitted by May 15, 2018 (strict deadline, no extensions). Preprints will be published on a USB memory stick provided to the FedCSIS participants. Only papers presented during the conference will be submitted to the IEEE for inclusion in the Xplore Digital Library. Furthermore, proceedings, published in a volume with ISBN, ISSN and DOI numbers, will posted within the conference Web portal. Moreover, most Events' organizers arrange quality journals, edited volumes, etc., and may invite selected extended and revised papers for post-conference publications (information can be found at the websites of individual events, or by contacting Chairs of said events). IMPORTANT DATES ? Paper submission (strict deadline): May 15 2018 23:59:59 pm HST (there will be no extension) ? Position paper submission: June 12, 2018 ? Authors notification: June 24, 2018 ? Final paper submission and registration: July 03, 2018 ? Final deadline for discounted fee: August 01, 2018 ? Conference dates: September 9-12, 2018 CHAIRS OF FedCSIS CONFERENCE SERIES Maria Ganzha, Leszek A. Maciaszek, Marcin Paprzycki CONTACT FedCSIS at: secretariat at fedcsis.org FedCSIS on Facebook: ??? http://tinyurl.com/FedCSISFacebook FedCSIS on LinkedIN: ??? https://tinyurl.com/FedCSISonLinkedIN FedCSIS on Twitter:??? https://twitter.com/FedCSIS FedCSIS on XING: ??? http://preview.tinyurl.com/FedCSISonXING From toni.collis at chi.scot Mon Apr 9 09:23:57 2018 From: toni.collis at chi.scot (Toni Collis) Date: Mon, 9 Apr 2018 14:23:57 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] WHPC at ISC18 Call for participation and posters Message-ID: <3C3DC765-68E7-4098-A0D2-6D776C26A8BD@chi.scot> Call for early/mid career posters on HPC topics for the 8th International Women in HPC Workshop ================================================================= 8th International Women in HPC workshop Thursday June 28th 2018 ? Frankfurt, Germany Call for posters and participation https://www.womeninhpc.org/whpc-isc18/workshop/ ================================================================= This workshop provides leaders and managers in the HPC community with methods to improve diversity and also to provide early career women with an opportunity to develop their professional skills and profile. Based on popular request topics to be covered this year include: - How to build workplace resilience and maintain well-being, while managing work stress. - Being part of the solution: instructions for advocates and allies. - Best practices from organizations on improving workplace diversity. - Managing the two body problem and achieving effective work-life balance. We will also provide opportunities aimed at promoting and providing women with the skills to thrive in HPC including: - Short talks by women working in HPC on their work. - Pointers on how to handle workplace conflicts and effectively respond to discrimination - Short talks on: best practices from equity frameworks from outside HPC, suggestions and - Challenges for women in HPC related venture capitals, effectively dealing with workplace discrimination, building a successful career, excelling in the workforce, etc. Call for posters: Now Open! Deadline for submissions: April 21st 2018 AOE As part of the workshop, we invite submissions from women in industry and academia to present their work as a poster. This will promote the engagement of women in HPC research and applications, provide opportunities for peer to peer networking, and the opportunity to interact with female role models and employers. Submissions are invited on all topics relating to HPC from users and developers. All abstracts should emphasize the computational aspects of the work, such as the facilities used, the challenges that HPC can help address and any remaining challenges etc. Exclusive to WHPC at ISC18: Successful authors will have the opportunity to present their poster in the main ISC18 conference poster session. For full details please see: https://www.womeninhpc.org/whpc-isc18/workshop/submit/ Workshop Committee - Workshop Chair: Elsa Gonsiorowski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - Co-Chair: Misbah Mubarak, Argonne National Laboratory, USA - Co-Chair: Toni Collis, EPCC, UK and Women in HPC Network, UK - Poster Chair: Jessica Popp, Data Direct Networks, USA - Poster Co-Chair: Weronika Filinger, EPCC, UK - Mentor Chair: Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh, University of Sheffield, UK - Mentor Co-Chair: Gokcen Kestor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From maayan.goldstein at nokia-bell-labs.com Tue May 8 07:00:05 2018 From: maayan.goldstein at nokia-bell-labs.com (Goldstein, Maayan (Nokia - IL/Kfar Sava)) Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 11:00:05 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Full program is now available and registration is open for SYSTOR 2018, June 4-6 In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive this CFP multiple times] Call for Participation: SYSTOR 2018 June 4-6, 2018, Haifa, Israel http://www.systor.org Registration: http://www.systor.org/2018/registration.html The organizing committee is delighted to invite you to the 11th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference, SYSTOR 2018. SYSTOR is a single-track conference that serves as an acclaimed international platform dedicated to the broad area of systems and storage. The SYSTOR'18 technical program features original peer-reviewed research papers, three keynotes delivered by distinguished speakers, highlight papers recently published in top-tier conferences (FAST, INFOCOM, EuroSys, VLDB, APSLOS, and USENIX Security Symposium), and a poster session. We are also proud to host a collocated meetup "Women in Computer Systems" featuring distinguished panelists from both industry and academia. Keynotes: - Ant Rowstron (Microsoft Research, UK), How would you store a zettabyte of cold data? - Margo Seltzer (Harvard University), Automatically scalable computation - Radia Perlman (Dell EMC), How to build an insecure system out of perfectly good cryptography The full program is available at http://www.systor.org/2018/program.html. Program Chairs: . Gala Yadgar (Technion, Israel) . Donald E. Porter (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) Program Committee: . Nadav Amit (VMware Research, USA) . Antonio Barbalace (Huawei, Germany) . Angelos Bilas (University of Crete, Greece) . Renata Borovica-Gajic (University of Melbourne, Australia) . Edward Bortnikov (Yahoo! Labs, Israel) . Vijay Chidambaram (The University of Texas at Austin, USA) . Toni Cortes (Universitat Polit?cnica de Catalunya and Barcelona Supercomputing Center, Spain) . Angela Demke Brown (University of Toronto, Canada) . Fred Douglis () . Yoav Etsion (Technion, Israel) . Boris Grot (University of Edinburgh, UK) . Vishakha Gupta-Cledat (Intel Labs, USA) . Danny Harnik (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) . Joo-Young Hwang (Samsung Electronics, Republic of Korea) . Michael Kaminsky (Intel Labs, USA) . Orran Krieger (Boston University, USA) . Adam Morrison (Tel Aviv University, Israel) . Sam H. Noh (Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology (UNIST), Republic of Korea) . Amitabha Roy (Intel Labs, USA) . Larry Rudolph (Two Sigma, USA) . Margo Seltzer (Harvard University and Oracle, USA) . Alexander Shraer (Apple, USA) . Keith H. Smith (NetApp, USA) . Vasily Tarasov (IBM Research - Almaden, USA) . Chia-Che Tsai (University of California - Berkeley, USA) . Xi Wang (University of Washington, USA) . Pete Wyckoff (Nutanix, USA) . Aviad Zuck (Israel Institute of Technology - Technion, Israel) General Chair: . David Breitgand (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) Posters Chair: . Michael Shapira (Hebrew University of Jerusalem (HUJI), Israel) Publication Chair: . Ittay Eyal (Israel Institute of Technology - Technion, Israel) Publicity Chair: . Maayan Goldstein (Nokia, Bell Labs, Israel) Local Arrangements Chair: . Eti Jahr (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) Steering Committee Head: . Dalit Naor (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) Steering Committee: . Michael Factor (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) . Ethan Miller (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) . Liuba Shrira (Brandeis University, USA) . Dan Tsafrir (Israel Institute of Technology - Technion, Israel) . Erez Zadok (Stony Brook University, USA) From gflofst at sandia.gov Wed May 16 17:30:55 2018 From: gflofst at sandia.gov (Lofstead, Gerald F II) Date: Wed, 16 May 2018 21:30:55 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for submissions Second IO500 list at ISC 2018 Message-ID: <54BBC83F-5939-4D77-BF50-05AE3EB0E8C2@sandia.gov> IO500 Call for Submissions Deadline: 23 June 2018 AoE The IO500 (http://io500.org) is now accepting and encouraging submissions for the upcoming IO500 list revealed at ISC 2018 in Frankfurt, Germany. The benchmark suite is designed to be easy to run and the community has multiple active support channels to help with any questions. Please submit and we look forward to seeing many of you at ISC 2018! Please note that submissions of all size are welcome; the site has customizable sorting so it is possible to submit on a small system and still get a very good per-client score for example. Additionally, the list is about much more than just the raw rank; all submissions help the community by collecting and publishing a wider corpus of data. More details below. Following the success of the Top500 in collecting and analyzing historical trends in supercomputer technology and evolution, the IO500 (http://io500.org) was created in 2017 and published its first list at SC17. The need for such an initiative has long been known within High Performance Computing; however, defining appropriate benchmarks had long been challenging. Despite this challenge, the community, after long and spirited discussion, finally reached consensus on a suite of benchmarks and a metric for resolving the scores into a single ranking. The multi-fold goals of the benchmark suite are as follows: 1. Maximizing simplicity in running the benchmark suite 2. Encouraging complexity in tuning for performance 3. Allowing submitters to highlight their "hero run" performance numbers 4. Forcing submitters to simultaneously report performance for challenging IO patterns. Specifically, the benchmark suite includes a hero-run of both IOR and mdtest configured however possible to maximize performance and establish an upper-bound for performance. It also includes an IOR and mdtest run with highly prescribed parameters in an attempt to determine a lower-bound. Finally, it includes a namespace search as this has been determined to be a highly sought-after feature in HPC storage systems that has historically not been well-measured. Submitters are encouraged to share their tuning insights for publication. The goals of the community are also multi-fold: 1. Gather historical data for the sake of analysis and to aid predictions of storage futures 2. Collect tuning information to share valuable performance optimizations across the community 3. Encourage vendors and designers to optimize for workloads beyond ?hero runs? 4. Establish bounded expectations for users, procurers, and administrators Once again, we encourage you to submit (see https://io500.org/submit), to join our community, and to attend our BoF "The IO-500 and the Virtual Institute of I/O" at ISC 2018 where we will announce the second ever IO500 list. The current list includes results from BeeGPFS, DataWarp, IME, Lustre, and Spectrum Scale. We hope that the next list has even more. We look forward to answering any questions or concerns you might have. Thank you! http://io500.org From Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov Thu May 17 18:36:19 2018 From: Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov (Tumeo, Antonino) Date: Thu, 17 May 2018 22:36:19 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [CFP] IA^3 2018 - 8th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms Message-ID: <193D0D27-4C11-4E36-8E3A-4834E7466A9F@pnnl.gov> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] IA^3 2018 8th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 In Conjuction with SC18 Sponsored by IEEE TCHPC -------------------- Call for Papers -------------------- 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, sparse matrices, deep nets, tables, 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: August 22, 2018 Position or Regular Paper Submission: August 29, 2018 Notification: September 28, 2018 Camera-ready: October 10, 2018 Workshop: November 12, 2018 Submissions Submission site: https://submissions.supercomputing.org Submitted manuscripts may not exceed eight (8) pages in length for regular papers and four (4) pages for position papers including figures, tables and references. Authors of regular papers will be able to provide up to one (1) additional pages for the Artifact Description (AD) appendix and, after paper acceptance, up to two (2) additional pages for the Artifact Evaluation (AE) appendix. The workshop proceedings will be published through IEEE TCHPC and will be included in the IEEE Xplore digital library. The templates are available at: http://www.ieee.org/conferences_events/conferences/publishing/templates.html. -------------------- Artifact Description & Evaluation -------------------- This edition of the workshop invites authors of regular papers to follow a reproducibility initiative like the main SC Conference, with specific appendices for the Artifact Description (AD) and the Artifact Evaluation (AE). Please refer to the SC reproducibility page for further details on the rationale behind AD and AE: https://sc18.supercomputing.org/submit/sc-reproducibility-initiative/. Authors of regular papers will be able to use up to one (1) additional page to provide an Artifact Description (AD) Appendix, describing the details of their software environments and computational experiments to the extent that an independent person could replicate their results. This additional page is voluntary, and must focus only on details on software environments and methods to execute the experiments. It should not add details on the proposed technical approaches. If a paper has no computational results, the appendix only needs to mention that computational results are not part of the paper. Additionally, authors of accepted regular papers will be invited to formally submit their supporting materials to the Artifact Evaluation (AE) process. The process is voluntary, but authors that will participate in the AE will be eligible for the Best Paper Award of the workshop. Supporting materials for the AE include access to the actual software artifact, shared pubblicly (for example, through the CK - Collective Knowledge - https://github.com/ctuning/ck format), and two (2) further additional pages of the paper that details how to reproduce the results of the paper. For details on how to submit supporting materials to the AE process, please refer to: http://ctuning.org/ae/submission.html. Authors participating in the AE will receive an assessment of the artifact, and the related badge on their paper. For any additional question on the AD and the AE please contact the Artifact Evaluation Chair Flavio Vella at flavio at dividiti.com. -------------------- Organizers -------------------- Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), antonino.tumeo at pnnl.gov John Feo (PNNL/NIAC), john.feo at pnnl.gov Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL), vitoGiovanni.castellana at pnnl.gov -------------------- Proceedings Chair -------------------- Marco Minutoli (PNNL and WSU), marco.minutoli at pnnl.gov -------------------- Artifact Evaluation Chair -------------------- Favio Vella (DIVIDITI), flavio at dividiti.com -------------------- Technical Program Committee -------------------- Nesreen Ahmed, Intel, US Kubilay Atasu, IBM Zurich, CH Scott Beamer, LBNL, US Sanjukta Bhowmick, University of Nebraska Omaha, US Erik Boman, SNL, US David Brooks, Harvard University, US Aydin Buluc, LBNL, US Joe Eaton, NVIDIA, US Rajiv Gupta, UC Riverside, US Arif Khan, PNNL, US Farzad Khorasani, Georgia Tech, US Peter M. Kogge, University of Notre Dame, US Manoj Kumar, IBM TJ Watson, US John Leidel, Tactical Computing Labs, US Kamesh Madduri, Pennsylvania State University, US Naoya Maruyama, LLNL, US Miquel Moret?, Bar?elona Supercomputing Center, ES Maxim Naumov, Facebook, US Fanny Nina-Paravecino, Northeastern University, US Sreepathi Pai, Rochester University, US Roger Pearce, LLNL, US Miquel Pericas, Chalmers University of Technology, SE Keshav Pingali, University of Texas at Austin, US Viktor K. Prasanna, University of Southern California, US Jason Riedy, Georgia Tech, US John Shalf, LBNL, US Shaden Smith, Intel, US Edgar Solomonik, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US Bora U?ar, French National Center for Scientific Research, FR Ruud van der Pas, Oracle, NL Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, NL Cheng Wang, Microsoft, US -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Vega-Rodriguez) Date: Sat, 2 Jun 2018 10:57:21 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [Deadline Extended] CFP - PBio 2018, EuroMPI Workshop (In-Cooperation with ACM SIGHPC) + Special Issue in Journal of Supercomputing (Springer, IF: 1.326, Q2) Message-ID: <1b0559b4-dc51-7dc5-498a-40567125f6ce@unex.es> Call for Papers --- PBio 2018, EuroMPI Workshop: 6th International Workshop on Parallelism in Bioinformatics + In-Cooperation with ACM SIGHPC + Proceedings published by ACM Digital Library within its International Conference Proceedings Series (ICPS) + Special Issue in the Journal of Supercomputing (Springer, Impact Factor: 1.326, Quartile Q2, ISSN: 0920-8542) --- SUBMISSION DEADLINE: 15 JUNE 2018 (EXTENDED) http://arco.unex.es/mavega/pbio/2018/ VENUE: Barcelona, Spain, 23 September 2018 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/2018/ --- 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: +34-927-257263 Fax: +34-927-257187 ------------------------------------------------- From glock at lbl.gov Tue Jun 12 14:05:07 2018 From: glock at lbl.gov (Glenn Lockwood) Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2018 11:05:07 -0700 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Papers: PDSW-DISCS'18, November 12, Dallas, TX Message-ID: CALL FOR PAPERS - PDSW-DISCS '18 The 3rd Joint International Workshop on Parallel Data Storage and Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (PDSW-DISCS'18) Monday, November 12, 2018 9:00am - 5:30pm SC'18 Workshop - Dallas, TX http://www.pdsw-discs.org ### IMPORTANT DATES ### Regular Papers and Reproducibility Study Papers: - Submissions due: Sep. 2, 2018, 11:59 PM AoE - Paper Notification: Sep. 30, 2018 - Camera ready due: Oct. 5, 2018 - Slides due: Nov. 9, 2018, 3:00 pm CST Work in Progress (WIP): - Submissions due: Nov. 1, 2018, 11:59 PM AoE - WIP Notification: Nov. 7, 2018 ### WORKSHOP ABSTRACT ### We are pleased to announce that the 3rd Joint International Workshop on Parallel Data Storage and Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (PDSW-DISCS?18) will be hosted at SC18: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. This one day joint workshop combines two overlapping communities 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 traditional simulation workloads as well as data intensive applications. This coming convergence prompted the integration of the PDSW and DISCS workshops into a single entity to address the common challenges. ### TOPICS OF INTEREST ### ** 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 ### SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ### This year, we are soliciting two categories of papers, regular papers and reproducibility study papers. Both will be evaluated by a competitive peer review process under the supervision of the workshop program committee. 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. ### Regular Paper Submissions: We invite regular papers which may optionally undergo validation of experimental results by providing reproducibility information. Papers successfully validated earn a badge in the ACM DL in accordance with ACM's artifact evaluation policy. ### New! Reproducibility Study Paper Submissions: We also call for reproducibility studies that for the first time reproduce experiments from papers previously published in PDSW-DISCS or in other peer-reviewed conferences with similar topics of interest. Reproducibility study submissions are selected by the same peer-reviewed competitive process as regular papers, except these papers undergo validation of the reproduced experiment and must include reproducibility information that can be evaluated by a provided automation service. Successful validation earns the original publication a badge in the ACM DL in accordance with ACM?s artifact evaluation policy. ### Guidelines for Regular Papers and Reproducibility Study Papers: Submit a not previously published paper as a PDF file, indicate authors and affiliations. Papers must be at least 8 pages long and no more than 12 pages long (including appendices and references). Papers must use the IEEE conference paper template available at: https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html Please see the workshop website for more information. Details on reproducibility will be available on the website by July 1, 2018. ### Work-in-progress (WIP) Submissions: There will be a WIP session where presenters provide brief 5-minute talks on their on-going work, with fresh problems/solutions. WIP content is typically material that may not be mature or complete enough for a full paper submission. A one-page abstract is required. ### WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS ### General Chair: ** Kathryn Mohror, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Program Co-Chairs: ** Suzanne McIntosh, New York University ** Raghunath Raja Chandrasekar, Amazon Web Services Reproducibility Co-Chairs: ** Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, Santa Cruz ** Ivo Jimenez, University of California, Santa Cruz Publicity Chair: ** Glenn K. Lockwood, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Web and Proceedings Chair: ** Joan Digney, Carnegie Mellon University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From jmukherj at ucalgary.ca Thu Jun 14 16:38:11 2018 From: jmukherj at ucalgary.ca (Joydeep Mukherjee) Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2018 20:38:11 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] ACM/SPEC ICPE 2019: Call for Contributions In-Reply-To: References: , , Message-ID: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Call for Contributions ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ICPE 2019 10th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering Sponsored by ACM SIGMETRICS, SIGSOFT, and SPEC RG Mumbai, India April 7-11, 2019 Web: https://icpe2019.spec.org/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/ICPEconf/ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ IMPORTANT DATES Research and industrial/experience abstracts submission: Oct 13, 2018 Research and industrial/experience papers submission: Oct 15, 2018 Research and industrial/experience paper notification: Dec 07, 2018 Camera-ready: Feb 15, 2019 Artifact registration: Dec 14, 2018 Artifact submission: Dec 22, 2018 Artifact notification: Feb 08, 2019 Work-in-progress/vision papers submission: Jan 11, 2019 Work-in-progress/vision paper notification: Feb 8, 2019 Camera-ready: Feb 22, 2019 Poster/demo submission: Jan 14, 2019 Poster/demo notification: Jan 28, 2019 Camera-ready: Feb 15, 2019 Workshop Proposals submission: Oct 12, 2018 Workshop Proposals Notification: Oct 29, 2018 Tutorial proposals submission: Jan 14, 2019 Tutorial proposals notification: Jan 28, 2019 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SCOPE AND TOPICS The International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE) is the leading international forum for presenting and discussing novel ideas, innovations, trends and experiences in the field of performance engineering. Modern systems, such as big data and machine learning environments, data centers and cloud infrastructures, social networks, peer-to-peer, mobile and wireless systems, cyber-physical systems, the Internet of Things or more traditional ones such as web-based or real-time systems, rely increasingly on distributed and dynamic architectures and pose a challenge to their end-to-end performance management. ICPE brings together researchers and practitioners to report state-of-the-art and in-progress research on performance engineering of software and systems, including performance measurement, modeling, benchmark design, and run-time performance management. The focus is both on classical metrics such as response time, throughput, resource utilization, and (energy) efficiency, as well as on the relationship of such metrics to other system properties including but not limited to scalability, elasticity, availability, reliability, cost, sustainability, security and privacy. This year's main theme is "performance engineering in the Artificial Intelligence era." We are looking for contributions that use AI techniques to enhance the performance modeling, estimation, and optimization of complex systems. At the same time we are looking for contributions that analyze and improve AI systems. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Performance modeling of software * Languages and ontologies * Methods and tools * Relationship/integration/tradeoffs with other QoS attributes * Analytical, simulation and statistical modeling methodologies * Machine learning and neural networks * Model validation and calibration techniques * Automatic model extraction * Performance modeling and analysis tools Performance and software development processes/paradigms * Software performance patterns and anti-patterns * Software/performance tool interoperability (models and data interchange formats) * Performance-oriented design, implementation and configuration management * Software Performance Engineering and Model-Driven Development * Gathering, interpreting and exploiting software performance annotations and data * System sizing and capacity planning techniques * (Model-driven) Performance requirements engineering * Relationship between performance and architecture * Collaboration of development and operation (DevOps) for performance * Performance and agile methods * Performance in Service-Oriented Architectures (SOA) * Performance of microservice architectures and containers * DevOps and Performance Performance measurement, monitoring and analysis * Performance measurement and monitoring techniques * Analysis of measured application performance data * Application tracing and profiling * Workload characterization techniques * Experimental design * Tools for performance testing, measurement, profiling and tuning Benchmarking * Performance metrics and benchmark suites * Benchmarking methodologies * Development of parameterizable, flexible benchmarks * Benchmark workloads and scenarios * Use of benchmarks in industry and academia Run-time performance management and adaptation * Machine learning and runtime performance decisions * Context modeling and analysis * Runtime model estimation * Use of models at run-time * Online performance prediction * Autonomic resource management * Utility-based optimization * Capacity management Power and performance, energy efficiency * Power consumption models and management techniques * Tradeoffs between performance and energy efficiency * Performance-driven resource and power management Performance modeling and evaluation in different environments and application domains * Web-based systems, e-business, Web services * Big data systems and data analytics * Deep-learning systems systems * Internet of Things * Social networks * Cyber-physical systems * Industrial Internet (Industry 4.0) * Blockchain * Virtualization and cloud computing * Autonomous/adaptive systems * Transaction-oriented systems * Communication networks * Parallel and distributed systems * Embedded systems * Multi-core systems * Cluster and grid computing environments * High performance computing * Event-based systems * Real-time and multimedia systems * Low-latency systems * Peer-to-peer, mobile and wireless systems All other topics related to performance of software and systems. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ SUBMISSION GUIDELINES Authors are invited to submit original, unpublished papers that are not being considered in any other forum. A variety of contribution styles for papers is solicited including: basic and applied research papers for novel scientific insights, industrial and experience papers reporting on applying performance engineering or benchmarks in practice, and work-in-progress/vision papers for ongoing innovative work. Different acceptance criteria apply based on the expected content of the individual contribution types. Authors will be requested to self-classify their papers according to the provided topic areas when submitting their papers. Submissions to all tracks need to be uploaded to ICPE's submission system and conform to the ACM submission format. For detailed submission instructions, please visit: https://icpe2019.spec.org/tracks-and-submissions.html At least one author of each accepted paper is required to register at the full rate, attend the conference and present the paper. Presented papers will appear in the ICPE 2019 conference proceedings that will be published by ACM and included in the ACM Digital Library. Authors of accepted research papers are invited to submit an artifact to the ACM/SPEC ICPE 2019 Artifact Track. If an artifact is accepted, it will receive one of the following badges in the text of the paper and in the ACM Digital Library: i. Artifacts Evaluated - Functional: The artifacts are complete, well-documented and allow to obtain the same results as the paper. ii. Artifacts Evaluated - Reusable: As above, but the artifacts are of such a high quality that they can be reused as is on other data sets, or for other purposes. iii. Artifacts Available: For artifacts made permanently available. This will only be awarded in conjunction with one of the Artifacts Evaluated badges. The highest quality papers, judged by multiple relevant factors, will be recognized with an award. Authors of selected papers will be invited to submit an extended version of their work to a journal. AUTHORS TAKE NOTE: The official publication date is the date the proceedings are made available in the ACM Digital Library. This date may be up to two weeks prior to the first day of your conference. The official publication date affects the deadline for any patent filings related to published work. (For those rare conferences whose proceedings are published in the ACM Digital Library after the conference is over, the official publication date remains the first day of the conference.) ------------------------------------------------------------------------ PROGRAM COMMITTEE (RESEARCH PAPERS) Jose Nelson Amaral, University of Alberta, Canada Cristiana Amza, University of Toronto, Canada Alberto Avritzer, EsulabSolutions, Inc., USA Steffen Becker, University of Stuttgart, Germany Umesh Bellur, IIT Bombay, India Simona Bernardi, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Cor-Paul Bezemer, University of Alberta, Canada Andre Bondi, Software Performance and Scalability Consulting LLC, USA Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK Lucy Cherkasova, ARM Research, USA Vittorio Cortellessa, University of L?Aquila, Italy Vittoria De Nitto Person?, University of Rome Tor Vergata, Italy Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan Hamoun Ghanbari, Amazon, Canada Abel G?mez, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya, Spain Wilhelm Hasselbring, Kiel University, Germany Andr? van Hoorn, University of Stuttgart, Germany Alexandru Iosup, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam and TU Delft, The Netherlands Zhen Ming Jack Jiang, York University, Canada Evangelia Kalyvianaki, University of Cambridge, UK Hamzeh Khazaei, University of Alberta, Canada Samuel Kounev, University of W?rzburg, Germany Anne Koziolek, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany Diwakar Krishnamurthy, University of Calgary, Canada Patrick P. C. Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong Jim Zhanwen Li, AUSTRAC, Australia Yan Liu, Concordia University, Canada Catalina M. Llad?, Universitat Illes Balears, Spain Andrea Marin, University of Venice, Italy Stefano Marrone, Universit? degli Studi della Campania "Luigi Vanvitelli", Italy Daniel Menasce, George Mason University, USA Ningfang Mi, Northeastern University, USA Raffaela Mirandola, Politecnico di Milano, Italy John Murphy, University College Dublin, Ireland Juan F. Perez, Universidad del Rosario, Colombia Diego Perez-Palacin, Linnaeus University, Sweden Dorina Petriu, Carleton University, Canada Evgenia Smirni, College of William and Mary, USA Mark Stoodley, IBM, Canada Nigel Thomas, Newcastle University, UK Mirco Tribastone, IMT Institute for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy Catia Trubiani, Gran Sasso Science Institute, Italy Petr Tuma, Charles University, Czech Republic Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands Enrico Vicario, University of Florence, Italy Murray Woodside, Carleton University, Canada Huaming Wu, Tianjin University, China Feng Yan, University of Nevada, Reno, USA Xiaoyun Zhu, Cloudera, USA ------------------------------------------------------------------------ ORGANIZING COMMITTEE General Chairs *Antinisca Di Marco, University of L'Aquila, Italy *Varsha Apte, IIT Bombay, India Research Program Chairs *Marin Litoiu, York University, Canada *Jos? Merseguer, Universidad de Zaragoza, Spain Industry Program Chair *David Schmidt, HPE, USA Artifact Evaluation Chairs *Matthew Forshaw, Newcastle, UK *Meikel Poess, Oracle, USA Workshop Chairs *Davide Arcelli, University of L'Aquila, Italy *Elena G?mez-Mart?nez, Universidad Aut?noma de Madrid, Spain Tutorials Chair *Radu Calinescu, University of York, UK *Enrico Vicario, University of Florence, Italy Posters and Demos Chair *Tadashi Dohi, Hiroshima University, Japan Work in Progress and Vision Track Chair *Huaming Wu, Tianjin University, China *Mirco Tribastone, IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca, Italy Awards Chairs *Andr? van Hoorn, University of Stuttgart, Germany *Tilmman Rabl, TU Berlin, Germany Finance Chair *Manoj Nambiar, TCS Research, India Publications Chair *Philipp Leitner, University of Gothenburg, Sweden Publicity Chair *Abhay Pendse, Persistent Systems, India *Ana Lucia Varbanescu, University of Amsterdam, Netherland *Nikolas Herbst, University of W?rzburg, Germany Social Media Chair *Vipul Mathur, Peritus AI, India Web Site Chair *Joydeep Mukherjee, York University, Canada Registration Chair *Rupinder Virk, TCS, India Local Arrangements Chair *Shruti Kunde, TCS, India My sincerest apologies if you have received this email before. 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Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience =========== Introduction The IEEE ISPA 2018 (16th IEEE International Symposium on Parallel and Distributed Processing with Applications) is a forum for presenting leading work on parallel and distributed computing and networking, including architecture, compilers, runtime systems, applications, reliability, security, parallel programming models and much more. During the symposium, scientists and engineers in both academia and industry are invited to present their work on concurrent and parallel systems (multicore, multithreaded, heterogeneous, clustered systems, distributed systems, grids, clouds, and large scale machines). The 16th IEEE ISPA follows the tradition of previous successful IEEE ISPA conferences in the years from 2003 to 2017 in Asia, Europe, Australia and North America. It will feature sessions of regular presentations, workshops, tutorials and keynote speeches. IEEE ISPA 2018 is sponsored by the IEEE Technical Committee on Scalable Computing (TCSC) and the IEEE Computer Society. IEEE ISPA is particularly interested in research addressing heterogeneous computing with the use of accelerators, mobile computing, approximate computing, tools and methodologies to improve the quality of parallel programming and applying generic computing approaches to networks, in particular Software Defined networking and its applications. Scope and Topics *(1) Systems and Architectures Track* - Cloud computing and data center technology - Migration of computations - Multi-clouds environments, cloud federation, interoperability - Energy management and Green Computing - Wireless and mobile networks - Internet-Of-Things (IoT) - Social Networks, crowdsourcing, and P2P systems *(2) Technologies and Tools Track* - Building block processors: FPGA, multicore, GPU, NoC, SoC - Parallel and distributed algorithms - Tools/environments for parallel/distributed software development - Novel parallel programming paradigms - Programming models for cloud services and applications - Code generation and optimization - Compilers for parallel computers - Middleware and tools - Scheduling and resource management - Performance simulations, measurement, and evaluations - Reliability, fault tolerance, dependability, and security *(3) Applications Track* - High-performance scientific and engineering computing - Grid and cluster computing - Pervasive and ubiquitous computing - Databases, data mining, and data management - Big data and business analytics - Scientific cloud systems and services - Internet computing and web services - Application scenarios of IoT and ubiquitous computing - Experience with computational, workflow and data-intensive applications - Software Defined Networks and its applications Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/ispa/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. 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URL: From jesson.butt at gmail.com Sat Jun 16 14:47:12 2018 From: jesson.butt at gmail.com (Jesson Butt) Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2018 04:47:12 +1000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: SpaCCS2018 (Security, Privacy and Anonymity), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia Message-ID: Call for papers: The 11th International conference on Security, Privacy and Anonymity in Computation, Communication and Storage (SpaCCS 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/spaccs/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/spaccs/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience =========== Introduction The SpaCCS 2018 conference is the 11th event in the series of conferences which are devoted to security, privacy and anonymity in computation, communication and storage. SpaCCS is now recognized as the main regular event of the world that is covering many dimensions including security algorithms and architectures, privacy-aware policies, regulations and techniques, anonymous computation and communication, encompassing fundamental theoretical approaches, practical experimental projects, and commercial application systems for computation, communication and storage. As applications of computer systems and networks have permeated in every aspect of our daily life, the issues of security, privacy, and anonymity have become increasingly critical. The conference will provide a forum for the world-class researchers to gather and share their research achievements, emerging ideas and trends in the highly challenging research fields. The conference aims at bringing together researchers and practitioners in the world working in the research fields of computation, communication and storage, with regard to security, privacy, and anonymity aspects of computer systems and networks. SpaCCS will focus on three broad areas of computation, communication, and storage, i.e. architectures, algorithms, techniques, and applications for security, privacy and anonymity. * Scope and Topics* Track 1: Security 1.1 Computation (1) Security Model and Architecture (2) Software and System Security (3) Secure Computing Platform (4) Secure Network Computing (5) Security in Cloud Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing (6) Risk Analysis and Management 1.2 Communication (1) Network Security (2) Malware and Botnets (3) Intrusion Detection (4) Security in Web Services (5) Security in Mobile Social Networks (6) Security in Mobile and Wireless Communications (7) Fraud and Cyber-Crime 1.3 Storage (1) Access Control (2) Applied Cryptography (3) Database Security (4) Data Protection and Data Integrity (5) Digital Content Protection and Digital Forensics (6) Information Hiding (7) Security in Big Data and its Applications Track 2: Privacy 2.1 Computation (1) Measuring and Quantifying Privacy (2) Privacy Modelling and Analysis (3) Software and System Privacy (4) Privacy-preserving Computing Platform (5) Privacy-enhanced Network Computing (6) Obfuscation-based Privacy (7) Cryptographic Tools for Privacy (8) Building and Deploying Privacy-enhancing Systems (9) Reliability, Robustness, and Abuse Prevention in Privacy Systems 2.2 Communication (1) Privacy in Web Services (2) Privacy Metrics and Policies (3) Crowdsourcing for Privacy (4) Location and Mobility Privacy (5) Privacy in Cloud and Big Data Applications (6) Privacy in Ubiquitous Computing and Mobile Devices (7) Privacy in Social Networks and Microblogging Systems (8) Privacy-enhanced Access Control, Authentication, and Identity Management 2.3 Storage (1) Data Protection Technologies (2) Differential Privacy (3) Privacy in Big Data and its Applications (4) Policy Languages and Tools for Privacy (5) Privacy and Human Rights (6) Interdisciplinary Research Connecting Privacy to Other Fields (7) Privacy in Cloud Computing and Pervasive/Ubiquitous Computing (8) Information Leakage, Data Correlation and Generic Attacks to Privacy (9) Privacy-Preserving Data Mining, Data Release and Publishing Track 3: Anonymity 3.1 Computation (1) Anonymous Data Mining and Data Sharing (2) Parallelism Exploitation Techniques for Anonymity (3) Anonymity in Big Data Analytics (4) Anonymous Management in Trust Relationships (5) Anonymous Video Analytics Technology (6) Anonymity Metrics, Measures and Evaluations (7) Anonymity Models, Hardware/Device of Anonymity 3.2 Communication (1) Anonymity in Wireless Communication Systems (2) Anonymous Communication Protocols (3) Anonymity in Mobile, Ad Hoc, and Wireless Sensor Networks (4) Anonymous Proxy Software (5) Anonymous Communication and Internet (6) Anonymous Social Networks, Structural k-Anonymity in Social Networks (7) Authentication Protocol Providing User Anonymity 3.3 Storage (1) Distributed Anonymous Information Storage and Management (2) Private and Anonymous Data Storage (3) Anonymity-Preserving Data Collection and Database (4) Anonymity, Pseudonymity & Identity Management (5) Anonymity in Big Data and Cloud Scenarios (6) Anonymity in Health and Medical Databases Submission Guidelines Submitted papers must not substantially overlap with papers that have been published or that are simultaneously submitted to a journal or a conference with proceedings. Papers must be clearly presented in English, must not exceed 14 pages in * Springer LNCS format * (or up to 18 pages with the pages over length charge), including tables, figures, references and appendices. Papers will be selected based on their originality, significance, relevance, and clarity of presentation assessed by at least two reviewers. Submission of a paper should be regarded as a commitment that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register and attend the conference to present the work. All accepted papers will be published by Springer LNCS (EI Indexed). Two outstanding papers will be selected to receive the Best Paper Awards. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/spaccs/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the symposium proceedings. Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. Honorary Chairs Robert Deng, Singapore Management University, Singapore Colin Fidge, Queensland University of Technology, Australia General Chairs Willy Susilo, University of Wollongong, Australia Kui Ren, State University of New York at Buffalo, USA Program Chairs Hua Wang, Victoria University, Australia Ron Steinfeld, Monash University, Australia Tianqing Zhu, Deakin University, Australia Program Vice Chairs Shui Yu, Deakin University, Australia Zeeshan Pervez, University of the West of Scotland, UK Christian Esposito, University of Salerno, Italy Workshop Chairs Arne Wilston, OC Tech, Australia Xuyun Zhang, The University of Auckland, New Zealand -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From andrew.clashe at gmail.com Tue Jun 26 04:25:28 2018 From: andrew.clashe at gmail.com (Andrew Clashe) Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2018 18:25:28 +1000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: IEEE IUCC2018 (Ubiquitous Computing and Communications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia Message-ID: Call for papers: The 17th IEEE International Conference Ubiquitous Computing and Communication (IUCC 2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/iucc/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site:http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/iucc/submission.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience =========== Introduction The technologies of computing and communications have undergone a series of evolutionary innovation over the past decades and improved the quality of human life significantly. Computing and communications in the 21st century faces an ever-increasing number of great challenges and revolutionary developments. Ubiquitous Computing and Communications is a revolutionary paradigm that aims to provide pervasive and reliable computing solutions and communication services anytime and anywhere. This emerging technology is built upon the rapid research and development advances in a wide range of key areas including wireless and sensor networks, mobile and distributed computing, embedded systems, agent technologies, autonomic communication, and information security. Ubiquitous Computing and Communications has drawn significant interests from both academia and industry and continues to attract tremendous research efforts due to its promising new business opportunity in information technology and engineering. The conference offers an important international platform and brings together the scientists, engineers, researchers, and students from academy and industry all over the world to share their latest work, exchange experiences and discuss the state-of-the-art challenges of ubiquitous computing and communications. IUCC 2018 is soliciting original and previously unpublished papers addressing research challenges and advances towards the design, implementation and evaluation of ubiquitous computing and communications technologies, systems and applications. Scope and Topics Track 1: Ubiquitous Computing (1) Autonomic Computing (2) Utility Computing (3) Cloud Computing (4) Mobile Computing (5) Real-Time Computing (6) Grid and Peer-to-Peer Computing (7) Energy-Efficient Ubiquitous Computing (8) Wearable Computers (9) Embedded Computing (10) Parallel and Distributed Computing (11) Information Visualization (12) Modelling and Analysis of Ubiquitous Computing Systems (13) Internet Computing (14) Ambient Intelligence (15) Middleware and Agent Technologies (16) Reliable and Trusted Computing (17) Numerical Algorithms and Analysis (18) Computational Simulation and Analysis (19) Computational Science Track 2: Ubiquitous Communications (1) Autonomic Communications (2) Computer Networking (3) Communication Theory and Protocols (4) Wireless Networks (5) Cognitive Radio (6) Pervasive Embedded Networks (7) Ad Hoc and Sensor Networks (8) RFID (9) Network Middleware (10) Enabling Technologies (e.g., Wireless PANs, LANs, Bluetooth) (11) Location Systems and Technology (12) Multimedia Communication Systems (13) Human-Computer Interaction (14) Mobility Management (15) Future Networks and Protocols (16) Web of Things (17) Big Data (18) Signal Processing for Communications and Networking (19) Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (20) Multimedia Signal Processing Track 3: Ubiquitous System, Services and Applications (1) Context-Aware Applications (2) Resource Management (3) Programming Paradigms for Ubiquitous Computing Applications (4) Smart Home (5) Pervasive Health (6) Ubiquitous Platforms (7) Embedded Systems (8) E-Commerce and E-Learning (9) Multimedia Applications (10) Quality-of-Service (11) Information Security and Privacy (12) Security Issues and Protocols (13) Key Management, Authentication and Authorization (14) Multimedia Information Security (15) Forensics and Image Watermarking (16) Distributed Sensing, Monitoring and Management Systems (17) Wireless Emergency and Security Systems (18) Wireless E-healthcare (19) Software Engineering (20) Biometrics and Human Computer Interaction (21) Multidisciplinary Artificial Intelligence Track 4: Ubiquitous Media and Signal Processing (1) Ubiquitous Media Infrastructure (2) Ubiquitous Sensor Networks / RFID (3) 3G and Advanced Communication Techniques (4) Ubiquitous Applications (5) Ubiquitous Middleware (6) Semantic Web and Knowledge Grid (7) Signal Processing Theory and Methods (8) Signal Processing for Communications and Networking (9) Design and Implementation of Signal Processing Systems (10) Sensor Array and Multichannel Signal Processing (11) Signal Processing Education (12) Audio Signal Processing (13) Speech and Spoken Language Signal Processing (14) Image, Video and Multidimensional Signal Processing 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/2018/iucc/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 Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Jes?s Carretero, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Spain Shonali Krishnaswamy, Swinburne University of Technology, Australia Program Chairs Peter Mueller, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, Switzerland Qun Jin, Waseda University, Japan Indrajit Ray, Colorado State University, USA Workshop Chairs Xiaolong Jin, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China Gregorio Martinez, University of Murcia, Spain -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From D.N.Jha2 at newcastle.ac.uk Thu Jun 28 13:26:11 2018 From: D.N.Jha2 at newcastle.ac.uk (Devki Jha (PGR)) Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2018 17:26:11 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Papers, Special Issue on Software Tools and Techniques for Fog and Edge Computing, Software: Practice and Experience (Wiley Press) References: Message-ID: Special Issue on Software Tools and Techniques for Fog and Edge Computing Software: Practice and Experience (Wiley Press) Call for Papers The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm promises to make ?things? such as physical objects with sensing capabilities and/or attached with tags, mobile objects such as smart phones and vehicles, consumer electronic devices and home appliances such as fridge, television, healthcare devices, as part of the Internet environment. In cloud-centric IoT applications, the sensor data from these ?things? is extracted, accumulated and processed at the public/private clouds, leading to significant latencies. To satisfy the ever increasing demand for Cloud Computing resources from emerging applications such as Internet-of-Things (IoT), academics and industry experts are now advocating for going from large-centralized Cloud Computing infrastructures to micro data centres located at the edge of the network. These micro data centres are often closer to a user (geographically and in access latency) compared to the centralised cloud data centre. The aim of utilizing such edge resources is to off load computation that would have ?traditionally? been carried out at the cloud data centre to a resource that is closer to a user or edge devices. This vision also acknowledges the variation in network latency from an end user to cloud data centre. Whereas the network around a data centre is often high capacity and speed, that near the user device may have variably properties (in terms of resilience, bandwidth, latency, etc.). Referred to as ?fog/edge computing?, this paradigm is expected to improve the agility of cloud service deployments in addition to bringing computing resources closer to end-users. On the one hand, the development of Fog and Edge clouds includes dedicated facilities, operating system, network and middleware techniques to build and operate such micro data centres that host virtualized computing resources. On the other hand, the use of Fog and Edge clouds requires extension to current programming models and propose new abstractions that will allow developers to design new applications that take benefit from such massively distributed systems. The use of this approach also opens up other challenges in: security and privacy (as a user now needs to ?trust? every micro data centre they interact with), support for resource management for mobile users who transfer session from one micro data centre to another, support for ?embedding? such micro data centres into devices (e.g. cars, buildings, etc). The Special issue seeks to attract contributions covering both theory and practice of any of the aforementioned challenges, from the management software stack to domain-specific applications. Topics of interest include (but are not limited to): * Data centers and infrastructures for Fog/Edge Computing * Middleware for Fog/Edge infrastructures * Programming models and runtime systems for Fog/Edge Computing * Scheduling for Fog/Edge infrastructures * Fog/Edge storage * Monitoring/metering of Fog/Edge infrastructures * Fog/Edge Computing applications * Latency/locality-critical applications * Legal issues in Fog/Edge clouds * Security and privacy ? including support for new cryptographic approaches * Modelling Fog/Edge environments ? e.g. using process networks, agent-based models, Peer-2-Peer systems, etc. * Performance monitoring and modelling * Applications of Fog/Edge Computing Special Issue Paper Submission This special issue invites submissions that present novel and innovative ideas. It also welcomes submissions of extended versions of the best selected papers presented in the 2nd IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC 2018 - http://www.cloudbus.org/fog/icfec2018/ The 2nd IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge ... www.cloudbus.org 2nd IEEE International Conference on Fog and Edge Computing (ICFEC 2018) May 3, 2018, Washington DC, USA In conjunction with IEEE/ACM CCGrid 2018 (18th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Cluster, Cloud and Grid Computing) ). All submissions including invited papers will undergo the regular peer review process. We seek submission of papers that present new, original and innovative ideas for the "first" time in SPE. Submission of "extended versions" of already published works (conference papers) is not encouraged unless they contain a significant number of "new and original" ideas/contributions along with more than 50% brand "new" material. If you are submitting an extended version of an already published conference paper, you must submit a cover letter/document detailing (1) the "Summary of Differences" between the SPE paper and the earlier paper, (2) a clear list of "new and original" ideas/contributions in the SPE paper (identifying sections where they are proposed/presented), (3) confirmation of the percentage of new material, and (4) the original conference paper. Otherwise, the submission will be "desk" rejected without being reviewed. While submitting paper to this issue, please select ?Special Issue ? Software Tools and Techniques for Fog and Edge Computing? in the submission system. Regular Issue Submission If you have a paper on cloud computing or IoT which does not match the requirements of the Special Issue, we encourage you to submit it as a regular paper to Software: Practice and Experience. The journal has expanded its coverage to specifically include cloud computing and IoT. 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URL: From andrew.clashe at gmail.com Sat Jun 30 00:01:58 2018 From: andrew.clashe at gmail.com (Andrew Clashe) Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2018 14:01:58 +1000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: IEEE SustainCom2018 (Sustainable Computing and Communications), Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia Message-ID: Call for papers: The 8th IEEE International Conference on Sustainable Computing and Communications (IEEE SustainCom2018), 11-13 Dec. 2018, Melbourne, Australia. Website: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/sustaincom/ Key dates: Submission Deadline: August 31, 2018 (11:59pm UTC/GMT, firm) Notification: September 30, 2018 Final Manuscript Due: October 15, 2018 Submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/sustaincom/submissi on.htm Publication: Proceedings will be published by IEEE CS Press. Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience =========== Introduction Sustainable Computing and Communications refers to principles that embrace a range of policies, procedures, programs, and attitudes that run the length and breadth of any use of information and communication technologies. It is a holistic approach that stretches from power to waste to purchasing to education and is a life-cycle management approach to the deployment of IT across an organization. It includes designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of information and communication systems with minimal or no impact on the environment. SustainCom (Sustainable Computing and Communications) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Sustainable Computing andCommunications as well as innovative applications. Scope and Topics Track 1: Sustainable Computing and Communications ? Theoretical Aspect of Energy, Power, and Temperature ? Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat ? Power-aware Design of Software, Middleware and Systems ? Power-aware Networking ? Real-time systems ? Power-efficient Computing Architectures ? Efficient Circuit Design for Energy Harvesting ? Power Management in Memory, Disk, Storage and other peripheral Devices ? Configurable and Renewable Energy ? Low Power Electronics ? Energy Efficient Network Hardware ? Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols ? Low power Communication Technologies ? Embedded Systems, ASICs and FPGSs ? Power Leakage and Dissipation ? Code Profiling and Transformation for Power Management ? Power-aware Scheduling and Resource Allocation ? Energy-efficient Wireless/Mobile/Sensor Systems and Networks ? Security and Privacy ? Wearable Computing ? Ecological Monitoring, Analytics and Visualization ? Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks ? Green Data Centres and Enterprise Computing ? QoS and Green Computing ? Integration of Smart Appliances ? Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools ? Virtualization Impact for Green Computing ? Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications ? Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms Track 2: Sustainable Systems and Technologies ? Sustainable Architectures for Smart Grids ? Smart Grid Security, Reliability and Load Balancing ? Energy Management Systems (EMS) ? Economic Models of Energy Efficiency ? Energy Monitoring, Profiling and Measurement ? Renewable Energy Systems and Harvesting Energy (e.g. Solar, Wind) ? Greener Systems Planning and Design ? Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption ? Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications ? Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies ? Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption ? Reliability of Power-aware Computers ? Runtime Systems that Assist in Power Saving ? Models for Collective Optimization of Power and Performance ? Monitoring Tools for Power and Performance of Parallel and Distributed Systems ? Use of Sensors for Environmental Monitoring ? Smart Control for Eco-friendly Buildings Track 3: Sustainable Methodologies and Applications ? Smart City (Sustainable Design, Models, Frameworks, Policies and Strategies) ? Smart City (Sustainable Integration and Optimization of Comprehensive Resources and information Flows - energy, emissions, people, goods and services) ? Sustainable Energy Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Delivery ? Smart Buildings and Urban Infrastructures ? Smart Grid for Energy Generation, Transmission, Monitoring and Management ? Open Government, Open Data Policies, Urban-Scale Data Sharing, Information Security and Privacy ? Smart Logistics and Sustainable Supply Chain Management ? Smart People, Smart Living and Smart Citizen Engagement ? Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management ? Smart Energy-efficient Sensor Networks and Internet of Things ? Smart Home, Smart Healthcare and Ageing Population support ? e-Mobility, e-Work and e-Business Applications ? Sustainable Urban Mobility and Smart Vehicle Management ? Smart Resource Support and Demand Management and Optimization ? User-Centred Services and Systems ? Open Big City Data, Cloud Computing, Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services for Sustainability ? Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments ? Mechanisms for Motivating Behavior Change ? Advanced Data Analytics for Smart Cities ? IS Architecture Design and Platform for Sustainability ? Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Sustainability 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/2018/sustaincom/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 Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience. General Chairs Laurent Lefevre, Inria, LIP Lab., ENS Lyon, University of Lyon, France Jianhua Ma, Hosei University, Japan Program Chairs Dakai Zhu, University of Texas at San Antonio, USA Anne-C?cile Orgerie, CNRS, IRISA, France Trung Q. Duong, Queen?s University Belfast, UK -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From mmubarak at anl.gov Tue Jul 3 10:17:35 2018 From: mmubarak at anl.gov (Mubarak, Misbah) Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2018 14:17:35 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Participation: 9th International Women in HPC workshop In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: ================================================================= 9th International Women in HPC workshop Sunday November 11th 2018 Dallas, TX, USA Call for lightning talks https://womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc18/ ================================================================= Women in HPC will once again attend the Supercomputing conference to discuss diversity and inclusivity topics. Activities will bring together women from across the international HPC community, provide opportunities to network, showcase the work of inspiring women, and discuss how we can all work towards improving the under-representation of women in supercomputing. The 9th International Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) workshop at SC18 in Dallas brings together the HPC community to discuss the growing importance of increasing diversity in the workplace. This workshop will recognize and discuss the challenges of improving the proportion of women in the HPC community, and is relevant for employers and employees throughout the supercomputing workforce who are interested in addressing diversity. Sessions include: - How to build workplace resilience and maintain well-being, while managing work stress. - Being part of the solution: instructions for advocates and allies. - Best practices from organizations on improving workplace diversity. - Managing the two body problem and achieving effective work-life balance. Call for virtual posters/lightning talks: Now Open! Deadline for submissions: August 1st 2018 AOE As part of the workshop, we invite submissions from women in industry and academia to present their work as a virtual poster. This will promote the engagement of women in HPC research and applications, provide opportunities for peer to peer networking, and the opportunity to interact with female role models and employers. Submissions are invited on all topics relating to HPC from users and developers. All abstracts should emphasise the computational aspects of the work, such as the facilities used, the challenges that HPC can help address and any remaining challenges etc. For full details please see: https://womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc18/submit/ Workshop Committee - Workshop Chair: Misbah Mubarak, Argonne National Laboratory, USA - Co-chair: Elsa Gonsiorowski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - General Chair: Toni Collis, Appentra S.L., Spain - Poster and Lightning Talk Chair: Weronika Filinger, EPCC, University of Edinburgh, UK - Posters & Lightning Talk Vice Chair: Jessica Popp, Independent Contractor, USA - Mentoring Chair: Gokcen Kestor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Mentoring co-chair: Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh, University of Sheffield, UK Steering and Organisation Committee - Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA - Trish Damkroger, Intel, USA - Kelly Gaither, TACC, USA - Rebecca Hartman-Baker, NERSC, USA - Daniel Holmes, EPCC, UK - Adrian Jackson, EPCC, UK - Alison Kennedy, Hartree Centre, STFC, UK - Lorna Rivera, CEISMC, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Programme Committee (for early career posters) - Mariam Umar, Virginia Institute of Technology, USA - Dana Akhmetova, KTH, Sweden - Ritu Aurora, Univ. of Texas, USA - Jesmin Jahan Tithi, Parallel Computing Lab, Intel Corporation, USA - Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Lois Curfman McInnes, Argonne National Laboratory, USA - Karen D Devine, Sandia National Laboratory, USA - Gokcen Kestor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience =========== Introduction Big data is an emerging paradigm applied to datasets whose size is beyond the ability of commonly used software tools to capture, manage, and process the data within a tolerable elapsed time. Such datasets are often from various sources (Variety) yet unstructured such as social media, sensors, scientific applications, surveillance, video and image archives, Internet texts and documents, Internet search indexing, medical records, business transactions and web logs; and are of large size (Volume) with fast data in/out (Velocity). More importantly, big data has to be of high value (Value) and establish trust in it for business decision making (Veracity). Cloud computing is positioning itself as an emerging platform for delivering information infrastructures and resources as IT services. Customers (enterprises or individuals) can provision and deploy Cloud services via pay-as-you-go pricing models saving huge capital investments in their own IT infrastructures. As estimated by IDC, by 2020, about 40% data globally would be touched with Cloud Computing. Cloud Computing provides strong storage, computation and distributed capability in support of Big Data processing. BDCloud (Big Data and Cloud Computing) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest advances in Big Data and Cloud Computing as well as their synergy. Scope and Topics Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: ? Fundamentals of cloud computing ? Architectural cloud models ? Programming cloud models ? Provisioning/pricing cloud models ? Data storage and computation in cloud computing ? Resource and large-scale job scheduling in cloud computing ? Security, privacy, trust, risk in cloud and big data ? Fault tolerance and reliability in cloud computing ? Access control to cloud computing ? Resource virtualisation ? Monitoring and auditing in cloud ? Scalable and elastic cloud services ? Social computing and impacts on the cloud ? Innovative HCI and touch-screen models and technologies to cloud ? Mobile commerce, handheld commerce and e-markets on cloud ? Intelligent/agent-based cloud computing ? Migration of business applications to cloud ? Energy efficient cloud architecture ? Energy aware data storage and computation in cloud computing ? Energy aware scheduling, monitoring, auditing in cloud ? Green Cloud ? Cloud use case studies ? Big Data theory, applications and challenges ? Big Data mining and analytics on Cloud ? Big Data Infrastructure, MapReduce and Cloud Computing ? Big Data visualization ? Large data stream, incremental datasets on cloud ? Distributed and federated datasets ? NoSQL data stores and DB scalability ? Big Data sharing, security, privacy and trust ? Big Data placement, scheduling, and optimization ? Distributed file systems for Big Data ? Big Data processing, resource scheduling and SLA on Cloud ? Performance characterization, evaluation and optimization ? Simulation and debugging of Big Data systems ? Volume, Velocity, Variety, Value and Veracity of Big Data ? Storage and computation management of Big Data ? Large-scale workflow management in Big Data ? Data management and distributed data systems ? Big data applications Submission Guidelines Submissions must include an abstract, keywords, the e-mail address of the corresponding author and should not exceed 8 pages for main conference, including tables and figures in IEEE CS format. The template files for LATEX or WORD can be downloaded here. All paper submissions must represent original and unpublished work. Each submission will be peer reviewed by at least three program committee members. Submission of a paper should be regarded as an undertaking that, should the paper be accepted, at least one of the authors will register for the conference and present the work. Submit your paper(s) in PDF file at the submission site: http://www.swinflow.org/confs/2018/bdcloud/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. 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URL: From benjamin.camus at inria.fr Tue Jul 17 08:31:50 2018 From: benjamin.camus at inria.fr (Benjamin Camus) Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 14:31:50 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Storage-research-list] Middleware 2018 Conference - Joint Workshops CFP Message-ID: <450243474.9803081.1531830710838.JavaMail.zimbra@inria.fr> [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call] ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2018 Conference - Joint Call for Workshop Papers, Posters and Demos [ http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/workshops/ | http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/workshops/? ] Rennes, France; D ec [ callto:10 - 14, 2018 | 10 - 14, 2018 ] As with previous Middleware conferences, Middleware 2018 will host a number of high quality workshops. Please refer to the workshop websites below for submission deadlines, topics, and contact information. All workshops will be held before the main conference on December 10th (Monday) and 11th (Tuesday). ========================================== ARM: 17th Workshop on Adaptive and Reflexive Middleware ARM aims at providing researchers with a leading edge view on the state of the art in reflective and adaptive middleware, and on the challenging problems that remain unsolved. Deadline for abstract submission: August 10, 2018 Deadline for paper submission: August 20, 2018 Notification of acceptance: September 10, 2018 Camera-ready due: October 12, 2018 More informations at: [ http://cedric.cnam.fr/arm/ | http://cedric.cnam.fr/arm/ ] ========================================== BigStream: 1st International Workshop on Big Data Stream Processing Recent years have witnessed unprecedented amounts of data being generated from different hardware or software in the form of streams of data. This workshop provides a forum for people in both academia and industry to present their most recent work and to foster exchange of new ideas in the area of big data streams. Deadline for paper submission: August 31, 2018 Notification of acceptance: September 28, 2018 Camera-ready due: October 19, 2018 More informations at: [ https://bigstream-workshop.github.io/ | https://bigstream-workshop.github.io ] ========================================== DIDL: 3rd Workshop on Distributed Infrastructures for Deep Learning This workshop focuses on the tools, frameworks, and algorithms to support executing deep learning algorithms in a distributed environment. As new hardware and accelerators become available, the middleware and systems need to be able exploit their capabilities and ensure they are utilized efficiently. Deadline for paper submission: August 31, 2018 Notification of acceptance: September 28, 2018 Camera-ready due: October 19, 2018 More informations at: [ https://didl-conf.github.io/ | https://didl-conf.github.io ] ========================================== M4IoT: 5th International Workshop on Middleware and Applications for the Internet of Things The Internet of Things (IoT) is creating new services and applications across various domains, including smart electricity grids, intelligent transportation, healthcare, smart homes, and energy management. This workshop focuses on (i) the middleware to compose IoT applications, services, and devices; and (ii) the applications built on top of such middleware. Deadline for paper submission: September 12, 2018 Notification of acceptance: October 10, 2018 Camera-ready due: October 19, 2018 More informations at: [ http://www.m4iot.org/ | http://www.m4iot.org ] ========================================== MECC: 3rd Workshop on Middleware for Edge Clouds & Cloudlets The Middleware for Edge Clouds & Cloudlets (MECC) workshop aims to address the increasing need for closer integration between the different tiers on modern cloud computing platforms. Deadline for paper submission: August 31, 2018 Notification of acceptance: September 28, 2018 Camera-ready due: October 15, 2018 More informations at: [ http://mecc2018.dcc.fc.up.pt/ | http://mecc2018.dcc.fc.up.pt ] ========================================== SERIAL: 2nd Workshop on Scalable and Resilient Infrastructures for Distributed Ledgers This workshop investigates system support to foster resilience and scalability of decentralized infrastructures such as distributed ledger ecosystems but also addresses resilience support for more traditional Internet-based services. Deadline for paper submission: August 31, 2018 Notification of acceptance: September 28, 2018 More informations at: [ https://serial18.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de/ | https://serial18.ibr.cs.tu-bs.de ] ========================================== W-GCS: 1st Workshop on GDPR Compliant Systems The goal of this workshop is to provide a common forum to discuss the new research challenges being raised by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in Europe and worldwide. Deadline for paper submission: September 7, 2018 Notification of acceptance: September 21, 2018 Camera-ready due: October 19, 2018 More informations at: [ http://wgcs.inesctec.pt/ | http://wgcs.inesctec.pt ] ========================================== Doctoral symposium The doctoral 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. Deadline for paper submission: September 25, 2018 Notification of acceptance: October 12, 2018 Camera-ready due: October 25, 2018 More informations at: [ http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/call-for-doctoral-symposium-papers/ | http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/call-for-doctoral-symposium-papers/ ] ========================================== Call for Demos and Posters Middleware 2018 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 that 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. Deadline for submission: September 07, 2018 More information at: [ http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/call-for-demos-and-posters/ | http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/call-for-demos-and-posters/ ] -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Special issues: Distinguished papers will be selected for special issues in Information Sciences, Future Generation Computer Systems, Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience =========== Introduction Sustainable Computing and Communications refers to principles that embrace a range of policies, procedures, programs, and attitudes that run the length and breadth of any use of information and communication technologies. It is a holistic approach that stretches from power to waste to purchasing to education and is a life-cycle management approach to the deployment of IT across an organization. It includes designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of information and communication systems with minimal or no impact on the environment. SustainCom (Sustainable Computing and Communications) was created to provide a prime international forum for researchers, industry practitioners and domain experts to exchange the latest fundamental advances in the state of the art and practice of Sustainable Computing andCommunications as well as innovative applications. Scope and Topics Track 1: Sustainable Computing and Communications ? Theoretical Aspect of Energy, Power, and Temperature ? Algorithms for Reduced Power, Energy and Heat ? Power-aware Design of Software, Middleware and Systems ? Power-aware Networking ? Real-time systems ? Power-efficient Computing Architectures ? Efficient Circuit Design for Energy Harvesting ? Power Management in Memory, Disk, Storage and other peripheral Devices ? Configurable and Renewable Energy ? Low Power Electronics ? Energy Efficient Network Hardware ? Energy-Efficient Communication Protocols ? Low power Communication Technologies ? Embedded Systems, ASICs and FPGSs ? Power Leakage and Dissipation ? Code Profiling and Transformation for Power Management ? Power-aware Scheduling and Resource Allocation ? Energy-efficient Wireless/Mobile/Sensor Systems and Networks ? Security and Privacy ? Wearable Computing ? Ecological Monitoring, Analytics and Visualization ? Green Communications Architectures and Frameworks ? Green Data Centres and Enterprise Computing ? QoS and Green Computing ? Integration of Smart Appliances ? Green Software Engineering Methodologies and Tools ? Virtualization Impact for Green Computing ? Case Studies on Green Computing and Communications ? Green Computing Models, Methodologies and Paradigms Track 2: Sustainable Systems and Technologies ? Sustainable Architectures for Smart Grids ? Smart Grid Security, Reliability and Load Balancing ? Energy Management Systems (EMS) ? Economic Models of Energy Efficiency ? Energy Monitoring, Profiling and Measurement ? Renewable Energy Systems and Harvesting Energy (e.g. Solar, Wind) ? Greener Systems Planning and Design ? Virtualization for Reducing Power Consumption ? Evolutionary Algorithms in Energy Applications ? Scheduling and Switching Power Supplies ? Optimization Techniques for Efficient Energy Consumption ? Reliability of Power-aware Computers ? Runtime Systems that Assist in Power Saving ? Models for Collective Optimization of Power and Performance ? Monitoring Tools for Power and Performance of Parallel and Distributed Systems ? Use of Sensors for Environmental Monitoring ? Smart Control for Eco-friendly Buildings Track 3: Sustainable Methodologies and Applications ? Smart City (Sustainable Design, Models, Frameworks, Policies and Strategies) ? Smart City (Sustainable Integration and Optimization of Comprehensive Resources and information Flows - energy, emissions, people, goods and services) ? Sustainable Energy Generation, Transmission, Distribution and Delivery ? Smart Buildings and Urban Infrastructures ? Smart Grid for Energy Generation, Transmission, Monitoring and Management ? Open Government, Open Data Policies, Urban-Scale Data Sharing, Information Security and Privacy ? Smart Logistics and Sustainable Supply Chain Management ? Smart People, Smart Living and Smart Citizen Engagement ? Intelligent Transport Systems and Traffic Management ? Smart Energy-efficient Sensor Networks and Internet of Things ? Smart Home, Smart Healthcare and Ageing Population support ? e-Mobility, e-Work and e-Business Applications ? Sustainable Urban Mobility and Smart Vehicle Management ? Smart Resource Support and Demand Management and Optimization ? User-Centred Services and Systems ? Open Big City Data, Cloud Computing, Internet-Enabled Infrastructures and Services for Sustainability ? Innovation Labs, Experimental Test-Beds and Simulation Environments ? Mechanisms for Motivating Behavior Change ? Advanced Data Analytics for Smart Cities ? IS Architecture Design and Platform for Sustainability ? Case Studies and Innovative Applications for Sustainability 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/2018/sustaincom/submission.htm. Publications Accepted and presented papers will be included into the IEEE Conference Proceedings published by IEEE CS Press. 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URL: From Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov Wed Jul 18 02:34:24 2018 From: Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov (Tumeo, Antonino) Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2018 06:34:24 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [CFP] ACM TOPC: Special Issue on Innovations in Systems for Irregular Applications Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing Special Issue on Innovations in Systems for Irregular Applications http://hpc.pnl.gov/TOPCSI/ Call for Papers Irregular applications occur in many subject matters. They pertain both to well established and emerging fields, such as Computer Aided Design (CAD), bioinformatics, semantic graph databases, machine learning, analysis of social, transportation, communication and other types of networks, and computer security. Irregular applications are inherently parallel, but present unpredictable memory access patterns, control structures, and/or network transfers. They typically operate on large sets of data organized in pointer or linked lists-based structures (such as graphs, sparse matrices, unbalanced trees, unstructured grids), which are difficult to partition on distributed memory systems in a balanced way. They often present fine-grained synchronization and communication. Current high-performance architectures rely on data locality, regular computations, structured data and easily partitionable datasets. Scaling them on parallel systems is even harder, because current limits with fine-grained, unpredictable transactions, and synchronization. Current frameworks and infrastructure that deal with kernels and algorithms that exhibits irregular behaviors are limited in performance and scalability by their execution engines (hardware or softwares). Additionally, while there is an increased need for solutions able to simultaneously deal with regular and irregular workloads with similar efficiency (for example, attributed graphs where graph views co-exists with table views, workflows where combinatorial or graph methods provide pre-processing of data or more computational efficient approaches to solve scientific simulations, workflows integrating machine learning approaches with graph methods), existing systems are unable to provide such integration. Addressing the issues of irregular applications on current and future system architectures, and enabling efficient integration of regular and irregular workloads, will become critical to solve the scientific challenges of the next few years. This special issue seeks to explore solutions for supporting efficient design, development and execution of irregular applications in the form of new features at the level of the micro- and system-architecture, network, languages and libraries, runtimes, compilers, analysis, algorithms. Topics of interest, of both theoretical and practical significance, include but are not limited to: * Micro- and System-architectures, 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) * Workflows combining regular and irregular workloads * 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 * Hardware and software data analytics infrastructures that integrates graph algorithms and machine learning This special issue solicits, in particular, papers discussing approaches that span multiple level of the stack, ideally providing application specific, end-to-end solutions. Papers should identify their contributions with respect to existing solutions. Only technical articles describing previously unpublished, original, state-of-the-art research and not currently under review by a conference or a journal will be considered. Works based on previously published research should provide substantiation new content and clearly identify the novel contribution with respect to previous works. Important Dates *Submission deadline: October 31, 2018 * Target publication date: October 2019 Submissions Instructions and templates for prospective author are provided at the link: https://topc.acm.org/authors.cfm The submission site is accessible from Editorial Manager, at the link: https://www.editorialmanager.com/topc/default.asp Authors must select article type: ?Special Issue: Innovations in Systems for Irregular Applications? in Editorial Manager for the submission to be considered for this special issue. Guest Editors For any questions or additional information regarding this Special Issue, please contact the Guest Editors Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), antonino.tumeo at pnnl.gov Mahantesh Halappanavar (PNNL), mahantesh.halappanavar at pnnl.gov John Feo (PNNL), john.feo at pnnl.gov Fabrizio Petrini (Intel), fabrizio.petrini at pnnl.gov From benjamin.camus at inria.fr Wed Jul 25 10:49:11 2018 From: benjamin.camus at inria.fr (Benjamin Camus) Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2018 16:49:11 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Storage-research-list] Middleware 2018 Conference - Call for Industry Track Papers Message-ID: <1327270651.11841015.1532530151866.JavaMail.zimbra@inria.fr> [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call] ACM/IFIP/USE NIX Middleware 201 8 Conference - Call for Industry Track Papers http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/call-for-industry-track-papers/ Rennes, France; D ec 10 - 14, 2018 Key Dates Paper submissions: August 18, 2018 Reviews due & online discussion: September 24, 2018 Author notification: September 30, 2018 Camera-ready paper: October 27, 2018 Call for Papers The Industrial Track of the Middleware 2018 Conference solicits 6-page papers for presentation during the main conference (single track) and inclusion in the ACM Digital Library. The topics of interest are similar to those in the general conference call for papers. However, the purpose of the Industrial Track is to emphasize the practical issues, observations, and measurements of ?real-world? systems and applications and to disseminate information of particular interest to middleware researchers, architects, developers and administrators. Topics - the topics of the industry track include, but are not limited to: * Experience reports and measurements relating to * Deployments of Internet-scale environments, including grids, datacenters, and other large-scale systems * Cloud computing middleware, for Infrastructure/Platform/Application as a Service Quality of service, quality of user experience * Scalability issues (e.g., observed real-life workloads and applications) * Reliability and availability issues (observed real-life faults, fault models, and recovery mechanisms) * Security issues (e.g., real attacks on deployed platforms and their impacts) * Middleware in big data and machine learning systems and applications * Deployments of embedded systems, sensor networks and Internet of Things * Deployments of blockchain-based middleware and applications * Approaches, mechanisms and tools for * Real-life deployment, e.g., hardware equipment management (installation, updates, replacement), management of data center buildings, network points of presence, ?data center in-a- box? * DevOps, continuous software development, integration, and delivery * Operation and maintenance, e.g., install and upgrade, bug fixes, and backup * Runtime management, e.g., monitoring, alerting, troubleshooting, and remediation * Economic, energy-aware, and environmental analyses (e.g. cost and/or energy impacts of various data center deployment models) * Security management, e.g., intrusion detection, and key management Submission Guidelines A submission must be a single PDF file conforming to the ACM SIGPLAN Conference Format and must not exceed 6 pages (including abstract, figures, tables, and appendices, but excluding references). Submissions must be in English. Submissions that do not adhere to these guidelines or that violate formatting will be declined without review. Reviewing is single-blind; papers must include author names and affiliations. Authors are required to add ?(industry track)? at the end of their paper title. Each submission will be reviewed by at least three members of the Industrial Track Program Committee. Submissions will be evaluated on the basis of originality, importance of contribution, technical soundness, evaluation, quality of presentation and appropriate comparison to related work. The committee as a whole will make final decisions about which submissions to accept for presentation at the conference. Simultaneous submission of the same work to multiple venues, submission of previously published work, or plagiarism constitutes dishonesty or fraud. The conference organizers, like those of other scientific conferences and journals, prohibit these practices and may take actions against authors who have committed them. Papers accompanied by nondisclosure agreement forms will not be considered. If you are uncertain whether your submission meets the guidelines, please contact the program co-chairs. By submitting a paper, you agree that at least one of the authors will attend the conference and present the paper in person. General chair Guillaume Pierre, Univ. Rennes, France Program Chairs Lydia Y. Chen, IBM Research, Switzerland Erwan Le Merrer, Technicolor R&I, France Program Committee Robert Birke, ABB Corporate Research, Switzerland Daniele Bonetta, Oracle, USA Antoine Boutet, INSA-Lyon, France Ruichuan Chen, Bell Labs, Germany Paolo Costa, Microsoft Research, UK Thierry Coupaye, Orange Labs, France Ioana Giurgiu, IBM, Switzerland Vincent Gramoli, NICTA/Data61-CSIRO and University of Sydney, Australia Yuxiong He, Microsoft Research, USA Nicolas Le Scouarnec, Technicolor, France Padmanabhan Pillai, Intel Labs, USA Jan Rellermeyer, TU Delft, Nederlands Christopher Stewart, Ohio State University, USA Maja Vukovic, IBM, USA Chen Wang, VMWare, USA Xiaoyun Zhu, HyperPilot, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From yuw at cs.fsu.edu Tue Jul 24 18:48:03 2018 From: yuw at cs.fsu.edu (Weikuan Yu) Date: Tue, 24 Jul 2018 18:48:03 -0400 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Postdoctoral Researcher Position on Computer Systems at Florida State University Message-ID: <4261AD9A-4C91-4082-AF87-5D877EB1B280@cs.fsu.edu> The Computer Architecture and System Laboratory (CASTL) at Florida State University (http://castl.cs.fsu.edu/) has a position for a postdoctoral researcher on large-scale parallel computing and data analytics systems. Review of applications starts on August 20, 2018. For a complete description, visit http://castl.cs.fsu.edu/doku.php?id=postdoc18 To apply, please send Prof. Weikuan Yu (yuw at cs.fsu.edu) your complete application including cover letter, CV, research statement, and the names of two references. -- Weikuan Yu, Computer Sci. Florida State University +1 850-644-5442 From mmubarak at anl.gov Tue Jul 31 13:24:04 2018 From: mmubarak at anl.gov (Mubarak, Misbah) Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2018 17:24:04 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [Deadline Extension]: 9th International Women in HPC workshop Message-ID: ================================================================= 9th International Women in HPC workshop at SC'18 Sunday November 11th 2018 Dallas, TX, USA Call for lightning talks https://womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc18/ Deadline: 15th August, 2018 ================================================================= Women in HPC will once again attend the Supercomputing conference to discuss diversity and inclusivity topics. Activities will bring together women from across the international HPC community, provide opportunities to network, showcase the work of inspiring women, and discuss how we can all work towards improving the under-representation of women in supercomputing. The 9th International Women in High Performance Computing (WHPC) workshop at SC18 in Dallas brings together the HPC community to discuss the growing importance of increasing diversity in the workplace. This workshop will recognize and discuss the challenges of improving the proportion of women in the HPC community, and is relevant for employers and employees throughout the supercomputing workforce who are interested in addressing diversity. Sessions include: - How to build workplace resilience and maintain well-being, while managing work stress. - Being part of the solution: instructions for advocates and allies. - Best practices from organizations on improving workplace diversity. - Managing the two body problem and achieving effective work-life balance. Call for virtual posters/lightning talks: Now Open! Deadline for submissions: August 15th 2018 AOE As part of the workshop, we invite submissions from women in industry and academia to present their work as a virtual poster. This will promote the engagement of women in HPC research and applications, provide opportunities for peer to peer networking, and the opportunity to interact with female role models and employers. Submissions are invited on all topics relating to HPC from users and developers. All abstracts should emphasize the computational aspects of the work, such as the facilities used, the challenges that HPC can help address and any remaining challenges etc. For full details please see: https://womeninhpc.org/whpc-sc18/workshop/submit/ Workshop Committee - Workshop Chair: Misbah Mubarak, Argonne National Laboratory, USA - Co-chair: Elsa Gonsiorowski, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, USA - General Chair: Toni Collis, Appentra S.L., Spain - Poster and Lightning Talk Chair: Weronika Filinger, EPCC, University of Edinburgh, UK - Posters & Lightning Talk Vice Chair: Jessica Popp, Independent Contractor, USA - Mentoring Chair: Gokcen Kestor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA - Mentoring co-chair: Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh, University of Sheffield, UK Steering and Organisation Committee - Sunita Chandrasekaran, University of Delaware, USA - Trish Damkroger, Intel, USA - Kelly Gaither, TACC, USA - Rebecca Hartman-Baker, NERSC, USA - Daniel Holmes, EPCC, UK - Adrian Jackson, EPCC, UK - Alison Kennedy, Hartree Centre, STFC, UK - Lorna Rivera, CEISMC, Georgia Institute of Technology, USA Programme Committee (for early career posters) - Mariam Umar, Virginia Institute of Technology, USA - Dana Akhmetova, KTH, Sweden - Ritu Aurora, Univ. of Texas, USA - Jesmin Jahan Tithi, Parallel Computing Lab, Intel Corporation, USA - Lavanya Ramakrishnan, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA - Lois Curfman McInnes, Argonne National Laboratory, USA - Karen D Devine, Sandia National Laboratory, USA - Gokcen Kestor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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As home for half of the Square Kilometer Array (SKA) radio telescope and one of the BRICS countries, South Africa is leading the continent on building HPC infrastructure to support commercial and scientific users. This meeting gathers around 450 people largely from the southern African region, but also from the rest of the world (particularly Europe and North America). The audience are largely end-users, but wish to learn about recent developments that can inspire the way they think about IO and storage in their computing work. This is also the event where South Africa selects their highly competitive student cluster competition team. Interacting with these and other student attendees is highly encouraged. Talks are requested that describe recent research advances and newly available tools that can help users with their application IO needs or inspire them to think differently about their data management tasks as part of their work. An abstract must be submitted on the website below to be considered. Selected talks will be 25 minutes with 5 minutes for questions. Submissions from underrepresented groups in the community are strongly encouraged. More information can be found at: http://chpcconf.co.za/ Submissions can be made at the website under the Programme link on the left side. If you have any questions about South Africa, CHPC, or logistical issues, please contact: Jay Lofstead gflofst at sandia.gov From benjamin.camus at inria.fr Thu Sep 13 12:20:09 2018 From: benjamin.camus at inria.fr (Benjamin Camus) Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 18:20:09 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Storage-research-list] Middleware 2018 Conference - Call for Doctoral Symposium Papers and Student Travel Grant applications Message-ID: <1602331622.4277525.1536855609556.JavaMail.zimbra@inria.fr> [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call] ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2018 Conference - Call for Doctoral Symposium Papers and Student Travel Grant applications [ http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/call-for-doctoral-symposium-papers/ | http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/call-for-doctoral-symposium-papers/ ] Rennes, France; Dec [ callto:10 - 14, 2018 | 10 - 14, 2018 ] The annual ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware conference is a major forum for the discussion of innovations and recent scientific advances of middleware systems with a focus on the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed systems, platforms and architectures for computing, storage, and communication. 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, tutorials and workshops. This call is specifically meant for doctoral students: * Call for Doctoral Symposium papers * Call for Student Grant applications Key dates: Doctoral Symposium Paper Submission Deadline: September 25th, 2018 Doctoral Symposium Notification of Acceptance: October 12th, 2018 Doctoral Symposium Camera Ready: October 25th, 2018 Student Grant applications: October 19th, 2018 Call for Doctoral Symposium Papers The doctoral symposium of Middleware 2018 will be held in Rennes, France. 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: 1. Planners: students at an early-stage of their thesis who are focused on crafting their research proposal and completing background research. Position papers in this category should not be longer than 2 pages (including all materials). 2. Finishers: students closer to finishing their thesis or dissertation and thinking about how to present their research, its results, and its impact. Position papers in this category should not be longer than 4 pages (including all materials). 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 2018 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 2018. Contributions to the Middleware 2018 PhD Workshop will appear in a proceedings that supplements the main conference proceedings. Student Travel Grants Middleware 2018 has received generous support from sponsors to provide a limited number of student travel grants to the conference. Travel grants are intended to broaden participation at Middleware. Students participating in the doctoral symposium will be given priority for the grants. Students attending the conference and not presenting a paper at the main conference or workshops are eligible; we encourage such students, including co-authors not presenting the paper, to participate in the conference via poster, demo, and/or doctoral symposium submissions. Student presenters with funding available from their advisors will be given less preference. Middleware also particularly encourages students from traditionally underrepresented groups in computer science to apply. Due to distinct funding origins, the grants are different for: (1) students located in U.S. institutions, and (2) students located elsewhere. Yet, the application process is the same. * U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) will support grants for students located in U.S. institutions. These grants will be in the range of $1000-$1500, based on applicant need and availability of funds. Note that the travel grants will be in the form of a reimbursement after the expenses have been incurred. * Sponsors will support grants for students located in non-U.S. institutions (elsewhere on Earth). These grants will cover the registration and the hotel expenses for the full conference. Note that they will be provided before the conference in the form of a free full conference registration and a pre-paid hotel booking in Rennes for the conference duration. Recipients of these grants are expected to arrange and fund travel themselves. Travel grant applications are due October 19th. To complete the application you must: * Fill out the application form. * Ask your advisor to email a recommendation letter to [ mailto:mw18grants at inria.fr | mw18grants at inria.fr ] . The recommendation letter should include: (1) The applicant?s status in the institution; (2) An explanation of why the applicant would benefit from attending Middleware as well as how he/she could contribute to the conference; and (3) The applicant?s current funding status and why the applicant is in need of the travel grant. If you have any questions about the student travel grants, please email the Student Activities Chair, Timothy Wood for U.S. based students, and Anne-C?cile Orgerie for other locations. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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Information are available at [ http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/registration/ | http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/registration/ ] Early registration deadline: October 31st, 2018 The annual ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware conference is a major forum for the discussion of innovations and recent scientific advances of middleware systems with a focus on the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed systems, platforms and architectures for computing, storage, and communication. 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, tutorials and workshops. Conference Highlights: * High-quality single-track technical program (the list of accepted regular papers is available at [ http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/accepted-papers/ | http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/accepted-papers/ ] ) * Industry track * Keynotes by Anne-Marie Kermarrec et Emin G?n Sirer * Best paper award presentation * High-quality tutorials and workshops * Posters and demos sessions * A doctoral symposium that gives PhD students an opportunity to present and discuss their research with their peers and receive valuable feedback from senior researchers and experts from both industry and academia * Student travel grants Conference Venue The 2018 ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware conference will be held at the IRISA/Inria lab in Rennes, France. Rennes is the historical capital of Brittany. It is located about 350km west of Paris and 110km north of Nantes. The city is only one hour from the seaside and its impressive attractions : * Le Mont Saint-Michel, an iconic abbey built in the heart of an immense bay invaded by the highest tides in Europe * Saint-Malo a famous walled corsair city * Cancale a port city known for its oysters. Organization Committee General chair Guillaume Pierre , Univ. Rennes, France Program chairs Paulo Ferreira, Univ. Lisbon, Portugal Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University, USA Artifact Evaluation Committee Chair Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA Industry track chairs Lydia Chen, IBM Research, Switzerland Erwan Le Merrer, Technicolor R&D, France Workshops/tutorials chairs Mohammad Sadoghi, UC Davis, USA Spyros Voulgaris, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece Posters/demos chairs Ahmed Ali-Eldin, UMass Amherst, USA Piyush Harsh, ZHAW School of Engineering, Switzerland Doctoral symposium chairs Laurent R?veill?re, Universit? de Bordeaux, France Lu?s Veiga, Technical univ. Lisbon, Portugal Test-of-Time award chair Nalini Venkatasubramanian , University of California, Irvine, USA Sponsor chair Christine Morin, Inria, France Local arrangements chair David Bromberg, Univ. Rennes, France Proceedings chair Kaveh Razavi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands Communication chair Fran?ois Ta?ani, Univ. Rennes, France Web and social media chair Benjamin Camus, Univ. Rennes / Inria, France Publicity chairs Saurabh Bagchi, Purdue university, USA Benjamin Camus, Univ. Rennes / Inria, France Mina Sedaghat, Ericsson Research, Sweden Student activities chair Anne-C?cile Orgerie, CNRS, France Timothy Wood, George Washington University, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From bhatele1 at llnl.gov Wed Sep 26 16:44:32 2018 From: bhatele1 at llnl.gov (Bhatele, Abhinav) Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2018 20:44:32 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Last CFP: Fifth International Workshop on Visual Performance Analysis Message-ID: <15EF3178-FBD9-43D1-B3FB-04245F49C1D0@llnl.gov> ========================================================= Call for Papers Fifth International Workshop on Visual Performance Analysis (VPA18) Held in conjunction with SC18: The International Conference on High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis Dallas, TX, USA November 11, 2018 (Sunday) https://vpa18.github.io Submission Deadline (extended): October 1, 2018 ========================================================= Over the last decades an incredible amount of resources has been devoted to building ever more powerful supercomputers. However, exploiting the full capabilities of these machines is becoming exponentially more difficult with each new generation of hardware. To help understand and optimize the behavior of massively parallel simulations the performance analysis community has created a wide range of tools and APIs to collect performance data, such as flop counts, network traffic or cache behavior at the largest scale. However, this success has created a new challenge, as the resulting data is far too large and too complex to be analyzed in a straightforward manner. Therefore, new automatic analysis and visualization approaches must be developed to allow application developers to intuitively understand the multiple, interdependent effects that their algorithmic choices have on the final performance. This workshop will bring together researchers from the fields of performance analysis and visualization to discuss new approaches of applying visualization and visual analytics techniques to large scale applications. Workshop Topics: - Scalable displays of performance data - Case studies demonstrating the use of performance visualization in practice - Data models to enable scalable visualization - Graph representation of unstructured performance data - Presentation of high-dimensional data - Visual correlations between multiple data source - Human-Computer Interfaces for exploring performance data - Multi-scale representations of performance data for visual exploration Paper Submission: We solicit 8-page full papers as well as 4-page short papers or position papers that focus on techniques OR case studies at the intersection of performance analysis and visualization, and either use visualization techniques to display large scale performance data or that develop new visualization or visual analytics methods that help create new insights. Papers must be submitted in PDF format (readable by Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0 and higher) and formatted for 8.5" x 11" (U.S. Letter). Submissions are limited to 8 pages in the IEEE format (https://www.ieee.org/conferences/publishing/templates.html), using the sample-sigconf template. The 8-page limit includes figures, tables, and references. All papers must be submitted through the Supercomputing 2018 Linklings site: http://submissions.supercomputing.org Important Dates: * Submission deadline (extended): October 1, 2018. (AoE) * Notification of acceptance: October 15, 2018 (AoE) * Camera-ready deadline: October 29, 2018 (AoE) Workshop Chairs: Abhinav Bhatele, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Kevin Huck, University of Oregon Kate Isaacs, University of Arizona ____________________________________________________________ Abhinav Bhatele, people.llnl.gov/bhatele Center for Applied Scientific Computing, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory From guillaume.pierre at irisa.fr Tue Oct 2 02:14:11 2018 From: guillaume.pierre at irisa.fr (Guillaume Pierre) Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2018 08:14:11 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] 19th International Middleware 2018 Conference - Call for Participation Message-ID: [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call] ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2018 Conference - Call for Participation http://2018.middleware-conference.org Rennes, France; Dec 10 - 14 , 2018 The registrations for the ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2018 Conference are?now open. Information are available at http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/registration/ Early registration deadline:?October 31st, 2018 The annual ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware?conference is a major forum for the discussion of innovations and recent scientific advances of middleware systems with a focus on the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed systems, platforms and architectures for computing, storage, and communication. 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, tutorials and workshops. *Conference Highlights:* * High-quality single-track technical program (the list of accepted papers is available at http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/accepted-papers/) * Industry track * Keynotes by Anne-Marie Kermarrec et Emin G?n Sirer * Best paper award presentation * Test-ot-Time award presentation * High-quality tutorials and workshops * Posters and demos sessions * A doctoral symposium that gives PhD students an opportunity to present and discuss their research with their peers and receive valuable feedback from senior researchers and experts from both industry and academia * Student travel grants *Conference Venue * The 2018 ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware conference will be held at the IRISA/Inria lab in Rennes, France.?Rennes is the historical capital of Brittany. It is located about 350km west of Paris and 110km north of Nantes. The city is only one hour from the seaside and its impressive attractions : * Le Mont Saint-Michel, an iconic abbey built in the heart of an immense bay invaded by the highest tides in Europe * Saint-Malo a famous walled corsair city * Cancale a port city known for its oysters. *Organization Committee* *General chair* Guillaume Pierre, Univ. Rennes, France *Program chairs* Paulo Ferreira, Univ. Lisbon, Portugal Liuba Shrira, Brandeis University, USA *Artifact Evaluation Committee Chair* Roy Campbell, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA *Industry track chairs* Lydia Chen, IBM Research, Switzerland Erwan Le Merrer, Technicolor R&D, France *Workshops/tutorials chairs* Mohammad Sadoghi, UC Davis, USA Spyros Voulgaris, Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece *Posters/demos chairs* Ahmed Ali-Eldin, UMass Amherst, USA Piyush Harsh, ZHAW School of Engineering, Switzerland *Doctoral symposium chairs* Laurent R?veill?re, Universit? de Bordeaux, France Lu?s Veiga, Technical univ. Lisbon, Portugal *Test-of-Time award chair* Nalini Venkatasubramanian , University of California, Irvine, USA *Sponsor chair* Christine Morin, Inria, France *Local arrangements chair* David Bromberg, Univ. Rennes, France *Proceedings chair* Kaveh Razavi, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, the Netherlands *Communication chair* Fran?ois Ta?ani, Univ. Rennes, France *Web and social media chair* Benjamin Camus, Univ. Rennes / Inria, France *Publicity chairs* Saurabh Bagchi, Purdue university, USA Benjamin Camus, Univ. Rennes / Inria, France Mina Sedaghat, Ericsson Research, Sweden *Student activities chair* Anne-C?cile Orgerie, CNRS, France Timothy Wood, George Washington University, USA -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... 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This one day joint workshop combines two overlapping communities 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 traditional simulation workloads as well as data intensive applications. This coming convergence prompted the integration of the PDSW and DISCS workshops into a single entity to address the common challenges. ### TOPICS OF INTEREST ### ** 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 ### WORK-IN-PROGRESS (WIP) SUBMISSION GUIDELINES ### There will be a WIP session where presenters provide brief 5-minute talks on their on-going work, with fresh problems/solutions. WIP content is typically material that may not be mature or complete enough for a full paper submission. A one-page abstract is required and should be emailed to mcintosh at cs.nyu.edu by the Nov. 1, 2018 deadline. ### WORKSHOP ORGANIZERS ### General Chair: ** Kathryn Mohror, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Program Co-Chairs: ** Suzanne McIntosh, New York University ** Raghunath Raja Chandrasekar, Amazon Web Services Reproducibility Co-Chairs: ** Carlos Maltzahn, University of California, Santa Cruz ** Ivo Jimenez, University of California, Santa Cruz Publicity Chair: ** Glenn K. Lockwood, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Web and Proceedings Chair: ** Joan Digney, Carnegie Mellon University -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From benjamin.camus at inria.fr Fri Oct 5 11:56:48 2018 From: benjamin.camus at inria.fr (Benjamin Camus) Date: Fri, 5 Oct 2018 17:56:48 +0200 (CEST) Subject: [Storage-research-list] Middleware 2018 Conference - Call for Student Travel Grant applications Message-ID: <1943583678.9872166.1538755008244.JavaMail.zimbra@inria.fr> [Please accept our apologies if you receive multiple copies of this call] ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware 2018 Conference - Call for Student Travel Grant applications [ http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/call-for-doctoral-symposium-papers/ | http://2018.middleware-conference.org/index.php/call-for-doctoral-symposium-papers/ ] Rennes, France; Dec [ callto:10 - 14, 2018 | 10 - 14, 2018 ] The annual ACM/IFIP/USENIX Middleware conference is a major forum for the discussion of innovations and recent scientific advances of middleware systems with a focus on the design, implementation, deployment, and evaluation of distributed systems, platforms and architectures for computing, storage, and communication. 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, tutorials and workshops. This call is specifically meant for doctoral students. Student Grant applications deadline: October 19th, 2018 Middleware 2018 has received generous support from sponsors to provide a limited number of student travel grants to the conference. Travel grants are intended to broaden participation at Middleware. Students participating in the doctoral symposium will be given priority for the grants. Students attending the conference and not presenting a paper at the main conference or workshops are eligible; we encourage such students, including co-authors not presenting the paper, to participate in the conference via poster, demo, and/or doctoral symposium submissions. Student presenters with funding available from their advisors will be given less preference. Middleware also particularly encourages students from traditionally underrepresented groups in computer science to apply. Due to distinct funding origins, the grants are different for: (1) students located in U.S. institutions, and (2) students located elsewhere. Yet, the application process is the same. * U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) will support grants for students located in U.S. institutions. These grants will be in the range of $1000-$1500, based on applicant need and availability of funds. Note that the travel grants will be in the form of a reimbursement after the expenses have been incurred. * Sponsors will support grants for students located in non-U.S. institutions (elsewhere on Earth). These grants will cover the registration and the hotel expenses for the full conference. Note that they will be provided before the conference in the form of a free full conference registration and a pre-paid hotel booking in Rennes for the conference duration. Recipients of these grants are expected to arrange and fund travel themselves. Travel grant applications are due October 19th. To complete the application you must: * Fill out the application form. * Ask your advisor to email a recommendation letter to [ mailto:mw18grants at inria.fr | mw18grants at inria.fr ] . The recommendation letter should include: (1) The applicant?s status in the institution; (2) An explanation of why the applicant would benefit from attending Middleware as well as how he/she could contribute to the conference; and (3) The applicant?s current funding status and why the applicant is in need of the travel grant. 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We hope to see you, and your results, there. The benchmark suite is designed to be easy to run and the community has multiple active support channels to help with any questions. Please submit and we look forward to seeing many of you at SC 2018! Please note that submissions of all size are welcome; the site has customizable sorting so it is possible to submit on a small system and still get a very good per-client score for example. Additionally, the list is about much more than just the raw rank; all submissions help the community by collecting and publishing a wider corpus of data. More details below. Following the success of the Top500 in collecting and analyzing historical trends in supercomputer technology and evolution, the http://io500.org was created in 2017 and published its first list at SC17. The need for such an initiative has long been known within High-Performance Computing; however, defining appropriate benchmarks had long been challenging. Despite this challenge, the community, after long and spirited discussion, finally reached consensus on a suite of benchmarks and a metric for resolving the scores into a single ranking. The multi-fold goals of the benchmark suite are as follows: 1. Maximizing simplicity in running the benchmark suite 2. Encouraging complexity in tuning for performance 3. Allowing submitters to highlight their ?hero run? performance numbers 4. Forcing submitters to simultaneously report performance for challenging IO patterns. Specifically, the benchmark suite includes a hero-run of both IOR and mdtest configured however possible to maximize performance and establish an upper-bound for performance. It also includes an IOR and mdtest run with highly prescribed parameters in an attempt to determine a lower-bound. Finally, it includes a namespace search as this has been determined to be a highly sought-after feature in HPC storage systems that has historically not been well-measured. Submitters are encouraged to share their tuning insights for publication. The goals of the community are also multi-fold: 1. Gather historical data for the sake of analysis and to aid predictions of storage futures 2. Collect tuning information to share valuable performance optimizations across the community 3. Encourage vendors and designers to optimize for workloads beyond ?hero runs? 4. Establish bounded expectations for users, procurers, and administrators 10 Compute Node I/O Challenge At SC, we will announce another IO-500 award for the 10 Compute Node I/O Challenge. This challenge is conducted using the regular IO-500 benchmark, however, with the rule that exactly 10 computes nodes must be used to run the benchmark (one exception is find, which may use 1 node). You may use any shared storage with, e.g., any number of servers. When submitting for the IO-500 list, you can opt-in for ?Participate in the 10 compute node challenge only?, then we won't include the results into the ranked list. Other 10 compute node submission will be included in the full list and in the ranked list. We will announce the result in a separate derived list and in the full list but not on the ranked IO-500 list at io500.org. Birds-of-a-feather Once again, we encourage you to submit [1], to join our community, and to attend our BoF ?The IO-500 and the Virtual Institute of I/O? at SC 2018 [2] where we will announce the second ever IO500 list. The current list includes results from BeeGPFS, DataWarp, IME, Lustre, and Spectrum Scale. We hope that the next list has even more. We look forward to answering any questions or concerns you might have. [1] http://io500.org/submission [2] https://sc18.supercomputing.org/presentation/?id=bof134&sess=sess390 From Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov Wed Oct 24 14:02:51 2018 From: Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov (Tumeo, Antonino) Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2018 18:02:51 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [Call for Participation] IA^3 2018 @ SC18 Message-ID: [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] IA^3 2018 8th Workshop on Irregular Applications: Architectures and Algorithms http://hpc.pnl.gov/IA3 12 November 2018 Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center, Dallas, TX Room D172 In Conjuction with SC18 Sponsored by IEEE TCHPC ?????????????????? Workshop program ?????????????????? 9:00 - 9:10 Welcome and Introduction Antonino Tumeo, Vito Giovanni Castellana, John Feo 9:10 - 10:00 Keynote 1 - Chair: Vito Giovanni Castellana (PNNL) Photonic Interconnects for Extreme Scale Computing Madeline Glick (Columbia University) 10:00 - 10:30 Coffee Break 10:30 - 11:45 Session 1: Software optimizations for irregular applications Software prefetching for unstructured mesh applications Hadade, Jones, Wang, Di Mare A Fast and Simple Approach to Merge and Merge Sorting using Wide Vector Instructions Watkins, Green Impact of Traditional Sparse Optimizations on a Migratory Thread Architecture Rolinger, Krieger 11:45 - 12:35 Session 2: Graph Processing There are Trillions of Little Forks in the Road Choose Wisely! -- Estimating the Cost and Likelihood of Success of Constrained Walks to Optimize a Graph Pruning Pipeline -- Tripoul, Halawa, Reza, Sanders, Pearce, Ripeanu Scale-Free Graph Processing on a NUMA Machine Aasawat, Reza, Ripeanu 12:35 - 14:10 Lunch Break (on your own) 14:10 - 15:00 Keynote 2 - Chair: Marco Minutoli (PNNL) Versal: The new Xilinx Adaptive Compute Acceleration Platforms (ACAP) Kees Vissers (Xilinx) 15:00 - 15:30 Coffee Break 15:30 - 16:45 Session 3: Irregular Kernels on GPUs - Chair: TBD Mix-and-Match: A Model-driven Runtime Optimisation Strategy for BFS on GPUs Verstraaten, Varbanescu, de Laat A Block-oriented, Parallel and Collective Approach to Sparse Indefinite Preconditioning on GPUs Thuerck, Naumov, Goesele, Garland High-Performance GPU Implementation of PageRank with Reduced Precision based on Mantissa Segmentation Gru?tzmacher, Anzt, Scheidegger, Quintana-Ort? 16:45 - 17:30 Debate - Moderator: John Feo (PNNL) Panelists: Sanjukta Bhowmick (University of Omaha-Nebraska), Aydin Bolu? (LBNL), Howie Huang (George Washington University), Martin Schulz (University of Munich). From Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov Sat Oct 27 17:27:22 2018 From: Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov (Tumeo, Antonino) Date: Sat, 27 Oct 2018 21:27:22 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [CFP] ACM TOPC: Special Issue on Innovations in Systems for Irregular Applications - 1 month extension Message-ID: <66FD5C68-BA38-4224-B70F-78B83564084C@pnnl.gov> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] !!!! NEWS - DUE TO NUMEROUS REQUESTS, WE WILL BE ACCEPTING SUBMISSIONS UNTIL NOVEMBER 30, 2018 !!! ACM Transactions on Parallel Computing Special Issue on Innovations in Systems for Irregular Applications http://hpc.pnl.gov/TOPCSI/ Call for Papers Irregular applications occur in many subject matters. They pertain both to well established and emerging fields, such as Computer Aided Design (CAD), bioinformatics, semantic graph databases, machine learning, analysis of social, transportation, communication and other types of networks, and computer security. Irregular applications are inherently parallel, but present unpredictable memory access patterns, control structures, and/or network transfers. They typically operate on large sets of data organized in pointer or linked lists-based structures (such as graphs, sparse matrices, unbalanced trees, unstructured grids), which are difficult to partition on distributed memory systems in a balanced way. They often present fine-grained synchronization and communication. Current high-performance architectures rely on data locality, regular computations, structured data and easily partitionable datasets. Scaling them on parallel systems is even harder, because current limits with fine-grained, unpredictable transactions, and synchronization. Current frameworks and infrastructure that deal with kernels and algorithms that exhibits irregular behaviors are limited in performance and scalability by their execution engines (hardware or softwares). Additionally, while there is an increased need for solutions able to simultaneously deal with regular and irregular workloads with similar efficiency (for example, attributed graphs where graph views co-exists with table views, workflows where combinatorial or graph methods provide pre-processing of data or more computational efficient approaches to solve scientific simulations, workflows integrating machine learning approaches with graph methods), existing systems are unable to provide such integration. Addressing the issues of irregular applications on current and future system architectures, and enabling efficient integration of regular and irregular workloads, will become critical to solve the scientific challenges of the next few years. This special issue seeks to explore solutions for supporting efficient design, development and execution of irregular applications in the form of new features at the level of the micro- and system-architecture, network, languages and libraries, runtimes, compilers, analysis, algorithms. Topics of interest, of both theoretical and practical significance, include but are not limited to: * Micro- and System-architectures, 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) * Workflows combining regular and irregular workloads * 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 * Hardware and software data analytics infrastructures that integrates graph algorithms and machine learning This special issue solicits, in particular, papers discussing approaches that span multiple level of the stack, ideally providing application specific, end-to-end solutions. Papers should identify their contributions with respect to existing solutions. Only technical articles describing previously unpublished, original, state-of-the-art research and not currently under review by a conference or a journal will be considered. Works based on previously published research should provide substantiation new content and clearly identify the novel contribution with respect to previous works. Important Dates * Submission deadline: NOVEMBER 30, 2018 (EXTENDED) * Target publication date: October 2019 Submissions Instructions and templates for prospective author are provided at the link: https://topc.acm.org/authors.cfm The submission site is accessible from Editorial Manager, at the link: https://www.editorialmanager.com/topc/default.asp Authors must select article type: ?Special Issue: Innovations in Systems for Irregular Applications? in Editorial Manager for the submission to be considered for this special issue. 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"Effectively responding to discrimination" 11:10 - 11:20 Lucy Nowell - DoE Office of Science "Effective workplace communication" 11:20 - 11:30 Carissa Holohan - Argonne National Laboratory "Coming out as a transgender woman at a major HPC center" Session II: Thriving at Work.. continued (Panel Discussion) 11:30 - 12:30 Christine Cuicchi - Department of Defense (Panel chair and panelist) Panel Discussion: "Best practices from organizations on improving workplace diversity" Ruby Mendenhall - Univ. of Illinois (panelist) Lucy Nowell - Dept. of Energy Office of Science (panelist) Yvonne Yang - Intel Corporation (panelist) Session III: Early career lightning talks 2:00 - 3:00 Weronika Filinger and Gokcen Kestor (Chairs) 3:00 - 3:30 Coffee Break Session IV: Developing workplace resilience & managing stress 3:30 - 4:30 Toni Collis - Appentra Hands on discussion session working through the 'resilience toolkit' 4:30 - 5:20 Toni Collis - Apentra (Panel chair) Panel Discussion: "How to build resilience" Laura Schulz - Leibniz Supercomputing Center (panelist) Maytal Dahan - Texas Advanced Computing Center (panelist) Kaoutar El maghraoui - IBM Research (panelist) Mozhgan Kabiri Chimeh - Univ. of Sheffield (panelist) 5:20 - 5:30 Misbah Mubarak (Argonne) & Toni Collis (Appentra) Workshop Outcomes and closeup Best Regards, Women-in-HPC Workshop Organizing Committee From glock at lbl.gov Mon Nov 5 14:55:23 2018 From: glock at lbl.gov (Glenn Lockwood) Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2018 11:55:23 -0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Participation: PDSW-DISCS'18, November 12, Dallas, TX Message-ID: CALL FOR PARTICIPATION - PDSW-DISCS '18 The 3rd Joint International Workshop on Parallel Data Storage and Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (PDSW-DISCS'18) Monday, November 12, 2018 9:00am - 5:30pm SC'18 Workshop - Dallas, TX http://www.pdsw-discs.org/ ### WORKSHOP ABSTRACT ### The 3rd Joint International Workshop on Parallel Data Storage and Data Intensive Scalable Computing Systems (PDSW-DISCS?18) will be hosted at SC18: The International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage and Analysis. This one day joint workshop combines two overlapping communities to 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. ### PROGRAM ### 9:00am ? 9:10am Welcome & Introduction 9:10am ? 10:00am Keynote: "Architectural Challenges Emerging from the Convergence of Big Data, High-Performance Computing and Artificial Intelligence" Rangan Sukumar, Cray 10:00am ? 10:30am Break 10:30am ? 11:45am SESSION 1 Integration of Burst Buffer in High-Level Parallel I/O Library for Exascale Computing Era Kai-Yuan Hou - Northwestern University Reda Al-Bahrani - Northwestern University Esteban Rangel - Northwestern University Ankit Agrawal - Northwestern University Robert Latham - Argonne National Laboratory Robert Ross - Argonne National Laboratory Alok Choudhary - Northwestern University Wei-keng Liao - Northwestern University Using a Robust Metadata Management System to Accelerate Scientific Discovery at Extreme Scales Margaret Lawson - Sandia National Laboratories, University of Illinois Jay Lofstead - Sandia National Laboratories Evaluation of HPC Application I/O on Object Storage Systems Jialin Liu - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Quincey Koziol - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Gregory F. Butler - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Neil Fortner - HDF Group Mohamad Chaarawi - Intel Corporation Houjun Tang - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Suren Byna - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Glenn K. Lockwood - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Ravi Cheema - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Kristy A. Kallback-Rose - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Damian Hazen - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Mr Prabhat - Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory 11:45am ? 12:30pm WIP SESSION 1 12:30pm ? 2:00pm Lunch 2:00pm ? 2:50pm SESSION 2 Pufferbench: Evaluating and Optimizing Malleability of Distributed Storage Nathanael Cheriere - IRISAENS Rennes Matthieu Dorier - Argonne National Laboratory Gabriel Antoniu - French Institute for Research in Computer Science and Automation (INRIA) Understanding SSD Reliability in Large-Scale Cloud Systems Erci Xu - Ohio State University Mai Zheng - Iowa State University Feng Qin - Ohio State University Yikang Xu - Alibaba Inc Jiesheng Wu - Alibaba Inc 2:50pm ? 3:00pm WIP SESSION 2 3:00pm ? 3:30pm Break 3:30pm ? 4:45pm SESSION 3 Characterizing Deep-Learning I/O Workloads in TensorFlow Wei Der Chien - KTH Royal Institute of Technology Stefano Markidis - KTH Royal Institute of Technology Chaitanya Prasad Sishtla - KTH Royal Institute of Technology Luis Santos - Institute Superior T?cnico Pawel Herman - KTH Royal Institute of Technology Sai Narasimhamurthy - Seagate Systems UK Erwin Laure - KTH Royal Institute of Technology Toward Understanding I/O Behavior in HPC Workflows Jakob Luettgau - German Climate Computing Center, Argonne National Laboratory Shane Snyder - Argonne National Laboratory Philip Carns - Argonne National Laboratory Justin M. Wozniak - Argonne National Laboratory Julian Kunkel - University of Reading Thomas Ludwig - German Climate Computing Center Methodology for the Rapid Development of Scalable HPC Data Services Matthieu Dorier - Argonne National Laboratory Philip Carns - Argonne National Laboratory Kevin Harms - Argonne National Laboratory Robert Latham - Argonne National Laboratory Robert Ross - Argonne National Laboratory Shane Snyder - Argonne National Laboratory Justin Wozniak - Argonne National Laboratory Samuel K. Guti?rrez - Los Alamos National Laboratory Bob Robey - Los Alamos National Laboratory Brad Settlemyer - Los Alamos National Laboratory Galen Shipman - Los Alamos National Laboratory Jerome Soumagne - HDF Group James Kowalkowski - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Marc Paterno - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory Saba Sehrish - Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory 4:45pm ? 5:30pm WIP SESSION 3 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov Tue Nov 6 01:46:23 2018 From: Antonino.Tumeo at pnnl.gov (Tumeo, Antonino) Date: Tue, 6 Nov 2018 06:46:23 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] [Call for Participation] SC18 BOF on HPC Graph Toolkits and GraphBLAS Forum Message-ID: <1E983EE3-BE18-423A-B85C-D743107C0B9B@pnnl.gov> Apologies if you receive multiple copies of this CFP] SC18 BOF on HPC Graph Toolkits and GraphBLAS Forum http://hpc.pnl.gov/BOF/ Tuesday, November 13, 2017 5.15 PM - 6.45 PM Kay Bailey Hutchinson Convention Center Room D166 Dallas, TX Theme Government agencies, industry and academia are demanding a new generation of tools to efficiently solve large scale analytics problems in a variety of business, scientific, and national security applications. This BoF aims at gathering the community of people interested in frameworks and workflows for large scale graph analytics, surveying the current approaches, identifying new challenges and opportunities, and laying a path toward future interoperable infrastructures. As in previous editions, we will invite the GraphBLAS community to participate in a discussion of the current state and evolution of GraphBLAS, with the goal of developing requirements and recommendations for future tools. Organizers: Jos? Moreira (IBM), Antonino Tumeo (PNNL), Aydin Bulu? (LBNL), Mahantesh Halappanavar (PNNL), John Feo (PNNL) Program 5.15 - 5.30 Future directions for the GraphBLAS C API Tim Mattson (Intel) 5.30 - 5.45 GraphBLAS case study and Lessons from the GraphChallenge Tim Davis (Texas A&M), Jeremy Kepner (MIT-LL) 5.45 - 6.00 Towards a Graph Standard Library Andrew Lumsdaine (PNNL) 6.00 - 6.15 HPC Graph Toolkits for the DOE and the DOD Mahantesh Halappanavar (PNNL), John Feo (PNNL) 6.15 - 6.45 Panel: "We can?t define appropriate abstractions for graph libraries, so everyone should do his own custom system" Moderator: Bruce Hendrickson (LLNL) Panelists: David Bader (Georgia Tech), Andrew Lumsdaine (PNNL), Tim Mattson (Intel), Siva Rajamanickam (SNL) From mikael.hansson at umu.se Mon Nov 12 11:27:37 2018 From: mikael.hansson at umu.se (Mikael Hansson) Date: Mon, 12 Nov 2018 17:27:37 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Workshops/Tutorials FAS* 2019/ICAC 2019/SAS 2019 Message-ID: <019b01d47aa4$9ffc3c00$dff4b400$@umu.se> Call for Workshops and Tutorials Call for Workshops and Tutorials @ Foundations and Applications of Self* Systems (FAS* 2019) collocating - The 16th IEEE International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2019) - The 13th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2019) June 16-20, 2019 Umea, Sweden Links: - http://icac2019.cs.umu.se/ - http://saso2019.cs.umu.se/ ============================================================================ ============== =============== Important dates =============== + Workshop proposal submission deadline: December 14, 2018 + Workshop acceptance notification: December 21, 2018 + Workshop call for papers online (at the latest): January 11, 2019 + Tutorial proposal deadline: March 8, 2019 + Tutorial acceptance notification: March 15, 2019 + Workshops and Tutorials dates (tentative): June 16-17, 2019 ============================= About FAS* Workshops and Tutorials ============================= FAS* 2019, to be held in the vibrant Umea, the fastest growing city in Sweden, is soliciting proposals for workshops and tutorials to be co-located with its main conferences, the 16th International Conference on Autonomic Computing (ICAC 2019) and the 13th International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2019). FAS* workshops will provide a meeting for presenting novel ideas in a less formal and possibly more focused way than the conferences themselves. Their aim is to stimulate and facilitate active exchange, interaction, and comparison of approaches, methods, and ideas. To motivate the discussion and participation of all the workshop attendants, we encourage organizers to get away of the typical "mini-conference" format of a workshop, and include more discussion sessions, panels, etc. The workshops/tutorials should be on original and timely topics of relevance to the ICAC and/or SASO communities. We seek proposals from individuals and teams interested in organizing strong workshops and tutorials. Ideally each workshop/tutorial should be a full or half-day. We will interact with workshop organisers in due time to define the schedule of the sessions and coffee breaks as well as room logistics. Please submit your workshop/tutorial proposals as soon as possible. We will try to decide earlier on workshop/tutorial acceptance in order to give the organizers more time to solicit papers. ============================= Requirements for Submission ============================= Proposals for workshops should be organized as preliminary call for papers or call for participation, depending on the intended format of the workshop, with a maximum of two pages and contain the following information: + Title of the workshop/tutorial. + A brief technical description of the workshop/tutorial, specifying the workshop/tutorial goals, the technical issues that it will address, and the relevance of the workshop/tutorial to the main conferences. Please specify, if the workshop is relevant to the ICAC, SASO or both communities. + The names, affiliations, postal addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses of the proposed workshop/tutorial organizing committee. We strongly encourage the organizing committee to consists of at least two people coming from multiple institutions knowledgeable about the technical issues to be addressed. + The primary email address for contacting the organizing committee. + Expected duration of the workshop/tutorial (half or full day). + A brief description of the workshop/tutorial format. For workshops only: + The workshop deadlines, both internal and external, aligned with the guidelines provided as follows. + Description of paper review process and acceptance standards in order to keep the workshop high in quality. Accepted workshop papers will be published in the proceedings and submitted for inclusion to IEEE Xplore (final agreement with IEEE pending but expected). Papers must thus be in the same format as the conference proceedings and may not be more than 6 pages in length. Workshop organisers must ensure that suitable quality measures have been taken. All papers must be reviewed by an International Technical Program Committee with a minimum of 3 reviews per paper. + List of potential program committee members, including their title and affiliations. + List of potential invited speakers, panellists, or disputants. Additionally, the organisers should give further information in the proposal, not suitable for a Call for Papers, including: + Information about previous offerings of the proposed workshop/tutorial: when and where it has been offered in the past, organizers names and affiliations, number of submissions, acceptances and registered attendees. + An expected number of submissions, accepted papers, and attendees (if applicable). Workshop proposals should be sent as simple ASCII text or pdf via email to > ==================================================== Responsibilities of FAS* 2019 Workshop and Tutorial Organizers ==================================================== + Produce a web page and a ?Call for Papers/Participation? for their workshop/tutorial. The call must make it clear that at least one author of each accepted submission must register and present the paper (for workshops). + Provide a brief description of the workshop/tutorial for the conference web page and program. + Advertise the workshop/tutorial (and the main FAS* event) and issuing a call for papers and a call for participation. + Write an organizers? introduction for the workshop/an abstract of the tutorial. + Ensure that the workshop/tutorial organizers and the participants register for the workshop/tutorial and/or the main conference (at least one author must register for the paper to appear in the proceedings). + Commit to meet the following tentative deadlines (these are the latest possible deadlines): Workshop paper submission deadline: March 15, 2019 (strict) Workshop paper acceptance notification: April 15, 2019 Camera-ready papers due: April 20, 2019 Workshop/Tutorial notes submission to workshops and tutorials chairs: April 26, 2019 In addition, workshop organizers will be responsible for the following: + Set up and manage the paper submission site and review process. + Ensure that all workshop papers follow the standard IEEE formatting guidelines and an agreed page limit of 6 pages. A higher page limit and/or additional extra paid pages may be possible subject to the approval by the proceedings chair. + Assist in producing a camera-ready version of the workshop proceedings. Important Notes: + FAS* reserves the right to cancel any workshop/tutorial if the above responsibilities are not fulfilled, or if too few attendees register for the workshop to support its running costs. + Workshops are not automatically endorsed by IEEE or ACM and should not use the names of these organisation in their titles. Please, check for further information on the ICAC/SASO websites. If you have questions about your workshop proposal, do not hesitate to contact the workshop chairs at > and >. If you don't want to receive our emails in the future, please click here to unsubscribe . Best /Mikael Mikael Hansson Publicity Chair, Senior Editor Dept. of Computing Science Ume? 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Name: FAS2019-CFW.txt URL: From jerry.gao at sjsu.edu Fri Nov 16 11:32:49 2018 From: jerry.gao at sjsu.edu (Zeyu Gao) Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2018 08:32:49 -0800 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Papers of IEEE BigDataService 2019 - April 4-9, San Francisco, USA In-Reply-To: References: Message-ID: *We are sorry if you received multiple CFPs for this.* ************************************************************************************************************************************************ *Call for Papers of IEEE BigDataService 2019* *The Fifth IEEE International Conference on Big Data Service and Applications(IEEE BigDataService 2019)* *April 4-9, 2019, San Francisco, USA* *http://big-dataservice.net/* Dears, We're delighted to invite you to submit your original research papers for the IEEE BigDataService 2019 to be held from April 4-9, 2019 in San Francisco, USA. Big-Data computing and services have received significant attention in recent years. The IEEE BigDataService 2019 aims to provide a forum for researchers and practitioners to exchange innovative ideas, latest research results, and practice experiences and lessons learned. Its major objectives include big-data applications in various domains such as healthcare, business and financing, education and learning, social networks and media, urban and environment, sensors and Internet of things as well as technology aspects of big data computing and services such as computing services and architecture, modeling, data mining and analytics. The conference will be co-located with IEEE SOSE 2019 , IEEE Mobile Cloud 2019 , IEEE DAPPCON 2019 and IEEE Artificial IntelligenceTesting 2019 . IEEE BigDataService 2019 will consist of main tracks and special tracks. The conference will include 3 International Workshops of Smart City Big Data Analysis, Big Data in Water Resources, Environment, and Hydraulic from Engineering, and Industry Big Data and Signal Processing. The conference seeks the submission of high-quality papers limited to 10 pages (IEEE format) in length. All accepted papers will be included in the proceedings. Selected papers will be invited for extension and published in journals (SCI-Index). *SUBMISSION WEBSITE:* https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=bds20190 *IMPORTANT DATES* ** Full paper submission: Nov. 30 2018* ** Notification: Jan. 10 2019* ** Final Paper and Registration: Jan. 31 2019* ** Conference: Apr. 4-9 2019* *TOPICS OF INTEREST (INCLUDE BUT NOT LIMITED TO)* *Big Data Foundations* Foundational theoretical or computational models for big data Programming models, theories, and algorithms for big data Standards, protocols, and quality assurance for big data *Big Data Platforms and Technologies* Innovative, concurrent, and scalable big data platforms Data indexing, cleaning, transformation, and curation technologies Big data processing frameworks and technologies Big data services and application development methods and tools Big data quality evaluation and assurance technologies Big data system reliability and availability Open-source development and technology for big data Big Data as a Service (BDaaS) platform and technologies *Big Data Analytics and Services* Algorithms and systems for big data search, analytics and visualization Artificial Intelligence for big data and based on big data Visualization analytics for big data Knowledge extraction, discovery, analysis, presentation, and visualization *Big Data Applications and Experiences* Innovative big data applications and services in industries and domains e.g. healthcare, finance, insurance, transportation, agriculture, education, environment, multi-media, social networks, urban planning, disaster management, security Experiences and case studies of big data applications and services Real-world and large-scale practices of big data *Emerging Topics* Sensor networks and Internet of Things Networking and protocols Smart City *SPECIAL TRACKS* *Special Track on Real-time Big Data Services and Applications* Models, algorithms, and technologies for real-time big data services and applications Experiences, practices and case studies of real-time big data services and applications *Special Track on Big Data Security, Privacy and Trust* Models, algorithms and technologies for big data security and integrity Practical security and privacy technologies and applications for big data *Special Track on Big Data and analytics for Healthcare* Models, algorithms, and technologies of big data for healthcare Big data services and applications for healthcare Experiences, practices and case studies of big data technologies for healthcare Thank you in advance for your high quality contributions. 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Important dates Workshop proposal deadline: Dec 14, 2018 Abstract and paper submission: Feb 01, 2019 Paper submission deadline: Feb 08, 2019 Author notification: April 08, 2019 Camera ready: April 20, 2019 Please see attached announcement for more information on scope and topics. Further information also on http://icac2019.cs.umu.se/ ICAC 2019 is co-located and has some shared activities with The 13th IEEE International Conference on Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing Systems (SASO 2019). -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: ICAC2019_CFP_flyer.pdf Type: application/pdf Size: 328918 bytes Desc: ICAC2019_CFP_flyer.pdf URL: From eran.gilad at oath.com Mon Nov 19 03:27:10 2018 From: eran.gilad at oath.com (Eran Gilad) Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 10:27:10 +0200 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CFP: SYSTOR 2019, June 3-5, Haifa, Israel Message-ID: Call for Papers - The 12th ACM International Systems and Storage Conference (SYSTOR 2019) June 3-5, Haifa, Israel https://www.systor.org/2019 SYSTOR 2019 will take place on June 3-5, at IBM Research Labs, Haifa, Israel. SYSTOR welcomes academic and industrial papers in systems and storage, broadly construed. SYSTOR encourages submissions that describe results from experimental system prototypes, as well as experience papers describing practical deployments, and valuable lessons learned from them. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: * Big Data infrastructure * Cloud, datacenter, and distributed systems * Deployment, usage, and experience * Embedded and real-time systems * Fault tolerance, reliability, and availability * File and storage systems * Networked, mobile, wireless, peer-to-peer, and sensor systems * Operating systems, computer architecture, and their interactions * Performance evaluation and workload characterization * Runtime systems and compiler/programming-language support * Security, privacy, and trust * System design or adaptation for emerging storage technologies * Virtualization SYSTOR 2019 solicits submissions in five separate categories: * Full Papers Track - original research, up to 10 pages. Deadline: March 7, 2019 * Short Papers Track - original research, up to 5 pages. Deadline: March 7, 2019 * Highlight Papers Track - papers accepted at top-tier conferences. Deadline: March 29, 2019 * Posters with Extended Abstract Track - original work presented as a poster, accompanied by an extended abstract in the conference proceedings. Deadline: March 28, 2019 * Informal Student Presentations - informal presentation of research findings, co-located with the poster session. Deadline: May 17, 2019 All details regarding submissions can be found at https://www.systor.org/2019/cfp.html Conference Organizers: Program Chairs: Ashvin Goel (University of Toronto) Adam Morrison (Tel Aviv University, Israel) General Chair: Moshik Hershcovitch (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) Steering Committee Head: Dalit Naor (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) Steering Committee: Michael Factor (IBM Research - Haifa, Israel) Ethan Miller (University of California Santa Cruz, USA) Liuba Shrira (Brandeis University, USA) Dan Tsafrir (Technion, Israel & VMware Research Group, USA) Erez Zadok (Stony Brook University, USA) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: From han.qiu at telecom-paristech.fr Tue Nov 27 12:09:55 2018 From: han.qiu at telecom-paristech.fr (Han Qiu) Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2018 18:09:55 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Storage-research-list] [CFP] CSCloud2019 - 6th IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Cloud Computing Message-ID: <481666272.5199161.1543338595309.JavaMail.zimbra@enst.fr> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IEEE CSCloud 2019 - The 6th IEEE International Conference on Cyber Security and Cloud Computing - June 21?23, 2019 Paris, France http://www.cloud-conf.net/cscloud/2019/cscloud/index.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ INTRODUCTION The increasing demands of Cloud-based technologies have deeply changed people?s daily life, from various kinds of mobile applications to big data based services.One of the most promising trends is the Cloud-based solutions for small enterprises to deploy their business on Cloud servers. However, privacy and security issues along with the widely developed Cloud-based services are always becoming an obstacle for the usage of the Cloud services. IEEE CSCloud 2019 aims to gather recent achievements in cyber security and cloud computing fields. The conference invites those papers that concentrate on new paradigms, algorithms, and applications in cyber security or cloud computing. We also encourage researchers and practitioners to build up the connections between academia and industry. We aim to collect the latest achievements and exchange research ideas in the domains of intelligent data and security at this academic event. TOPIC Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Big data security issues and cyber crime - Social engineering, insider threats, advance spear phishing - Security and fault tolerance for embedded or ubiquitous systems - Security of Web-based applications and services - Cloud users? privacy information protection - Critical infrastructure protection in cloud/fog/edge computing - Cyber issues and solutions in fog/edge computing - Reinforcement learning-based security mechanism - Secure methods for heterogeneous cloud resource sharing - Green cloud computing mechanisms - Cloud-based audio/video streaming techniques - New attack methods and applications - Reinforcement learning-based intelligent agent in cloud computing - Trust management in cloud/fog/edge computing - Trust and reputation systems for cloud-based applications - Emerging attack methods in cloud/fog/edge computing - Digital forensics and privacy issues in cloud computing - Anti-Forensics and Anti-Anti-Forensics Techniques - Cyber monitoring approaches - Data leakage, data protection and database forensics - Identity management and fraud management - Critical issues and solutions of Cyber security in tele-health - Cyber security in mobile embedded systems - New security cloud computing model, framework, and application - Heterogeneous clouds and vulnerabilities PAPER SUBMISSION Prospective authors are invited to submit papers via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeecscloud2019). The submissions should be formatted with the IEEE 8.5 x 11 inches two-column format with 10-12 point font. Detailed formatting and submission instructions are available at the conference website (http://www.cloud-conf.net/cscloud/2019/cscloud/submission.html). IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: February 15, 2019 Notification of acceptance: April 15, 2019 Final manuscript submission: May 15, 2019 For further information, please contact: han.qiu at telecom-paristech.fr. From han.qiu at telecom-paristech.fr Fri Nov 30 04:27:36 2018 From: han.qiu at telecom-paristech.fr (Han Qiu) Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2018 10:27:36 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Storage-research-list] [CFP] IEEE HSPC 2019 - 5th IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Smart Computing Message-ID: <73217862.7019155.1543570056799.JavaMail.zimbra@enst.fr> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IEEE HPSC 2019 - The 5th IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Smart Computing - May 27?29, 2019 Washington DC, USA http://www.cloud-conf.net/datasec/2019/hpsc/index.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ INTRODUCTION High performance and smart computing (HPSC) is getting more and more attention due to the rapid development of computing and communication techniques. From national governments and industry players to consumer level demand, interest in high performance and smart computing has emerged from many different stakeholders. As a promising technology, high performance computing is playing an important role not only in traditional computer science domain but also in new branches such as Internet of Things, unmanned vehicles, and topics in artificial intelligent. Smart computing, as another significant aspect, provides solutions for complicated computing problems. The 5th IEEE International Conference on High Performance and Smart Computing (IEEE HPSC 2019) is a research event cooperated with a number of conferences, such as IEEE BigDataSecurity 2019 and IEEE IDS 2019. This conference provides engineers and scientists in computing domain with an academic forum in which the new research achievements, ideas, and results are shared. The state-of-the-art smart computing applications and experiences in cloud computing and smart computing will be represented in this academic event. IEEE HPSC 2019 is the next edition of a series of successful academic events, including HPSC 2015 (New York, USA), HPSC 2016 (New York, USA), HPSC 2017 (Beijing, China), and HPSC 2018 (Omaha, USA). TOPIC Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - High performance smart computing - High performance distributed computing - Smart digital forensics - Smart Big data security, Database security - Smart social engineering, insider threats, advance spear phishing - Cyber threat intelligence - Security and fault tolerance for embedded or ubiquitous systems - Smart cloud security - Tele-health security - Sensor network security - Embedded networks and sensor network optimizations - Cloud computing and networking models - Heterogeneous architecture for cloud computing - Dynamic resource sharing algorithm for cloud computing - Load balance for cloud computing - Cloud-based audio/video streaming techniques - MapReduce - Visualization - Cloud-based real-time multimedia techniques - Mobile cloud computing - Green cloud computing - Quality of Service (QoS) improvements techniques - Case studies for various applications - Cyber Security in emergent technologies, infrastructures and applications PAPER SUBMISSION Prospective authors are invited to submit papers via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeehpsc2019). The submissions should be formatted with the IEEE 8.5 x 11 inches two-column format with 10-12 point font. Detailed formatting and submission instructions are available at the conference website (http://www.cloud-conf.net/datasec/2019/hpsc/submission.html). IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: January 21, 2019 Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2019 Final manuscript submission: April 5, 2019 For further information, please contact: han.qiu at telecom-paristech.fr. From tom.vierjahn at acm.org Mon Dec 3 15:28:51 2018 From: tom.vierjahn at acm.org (Tom Vierjahn) Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2018 21:28:51 +0100 Subject: [Storage-research-list] Call for Papers: VASPE'19: International Workshop on Visual Analytics in Supercomputing and Performance Engineering 2019 Message-ID: <85D8EE7B-96D3-4B68-9BFB-34088FB7D78D@acm.org> [Apologies if you receive multiple copies] # VASPE'19: International Workshop on Visual Analytics in Supercomputing and Performance Engineering 2019 Mumbai, India, April 2019 Conference website: https://vaspe.gitlab.io Submission link: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vaspe19 Both high performance computing (HPC) and performance engineering (PE) experts are facing the challenge of analyzing, comparing, visualizing, and reasoning about ever increasing volumes of performance-related data. While HPC typically deals with massively parallel simulation codes being executed on supercomputers, PE focuses on distributed, reliable software systems. Due to the scale of performance-related data and the open-ended nature of analyzing it, visualization (VIS) and data analytics are often the only feasible tools to comprehend, debug, and improve the performance behavior of systems and/or codes. This is becoming ever more important, since the scale of performance-related data keeps rapidly growing. However the research communities in HPC, PE, and VIS are mostly disjunct. VASPE '19 aims at gathering experts from (i) the HPC community, (ii) the PE community, and (iii) the VIS community in order to breed cross-community algorithms, techniques, and systems for analyzing and visualizing performance-related data. Workshop Topics Topics include, but are not limited to: * Scalable displays of performance data * Data models to enable scalable visualization * Graph representation of unstructured performance data * Presentation of high-dimensional data * Visual correlations between multiple data source * Human-Computer Interfaces for exploring performance data * Multi-scale representations of performance data for visual exploration * Data analytics of historical performance data * Machine learning or statistical techniques for data exploration ## Call for Papers We solicit 6?8 page full papers and 2?4 page short papers that focus on techniques at the intersection of the three communities HPC, PE, and VIS that either use visualization techniques to display large scale performance data or that develop new visualization or visual analytics methods that help create new insights. We welcome submissions presenting novel and experimental ideas as well as tool descriptions. Papers must be submitted as a PDF file in the ACM Standard proceedings format, and formatted for 8.5" x 11" (U.S. Letter). The 4-page and 8-page limits include figures, tables, and references. Papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee and accepted papers will be published by ACM as part of ICPE 2019 proceedings. Accepted papers will also be presented during the workshop as a paper talk (~20 min) or a lightning presentation (~10 min). All papers must be submitted through EasyChair. Important Dates * Submission deadline: Jan 7, 2019 * Notification of acceptance: Feb 1, 2019 * Camera-ready deadline: Feb 15, 2019 * Workshop: TBD, one day between 6th and 12th April 2019 ## Workshop Chairs Alexandre Bergel, University of Chile Abhinav Bhatele, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Tom Vierjahn, Westphalian University of Applied Sciences Contact: vaspe at googlegroups.com From bhatele1 at llnl.gov Mon Dec 10 11:55:59 2018 From: bhatele1 at llnl.gov (Bhatele, Abhinav) Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2018 16:55:59 +0000 Subject: [Storage-research-list] CfP: International Workshop on Visual Analytics in Supercomputing and Performance Engineering (VAPSE 2019) Message-ID: <48EA3D7D-DCF2-4B09-A7C3-37AFC57C34B2@llnl.gov> ======================================================== Call for Papers International Workshop on Visual Analytics in Supercomputing and Performance Engineering (VAPSE 2019) Held in conjunction with ICPE 2019: 10th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering Mumbai, India April 7-11, 2019 https://vaspe.gitlab.io Submission Deadline: January 7, 2019 ======================================================== Both high performance computing (HPC) and performance engineering (PE) experts are facing the challenge of analyzing, comparing, visualizing, and reasoning about ever increasing volumes of performance-related data. While HPC typically deals with massively parallel simulation codes being executed on supercomputers, PE focuses on distributed, reliable software systems. Due to the scale of performance-related data and the open-ended nature of analyzing it, visualization (VIS) and data analytics are often the only feasible tools to comprehend, debug, and improve the performance behavior of systems and/or codes. This is becoming ever more important, since the scale of performance-related data keeps rapidly growing. However the research communities in HPC, PE, and VIS are mostly disjunct. VASPE '19 aims at gathering experts from (i) the HPC community, (ii) the PE community, and (iii) the VIS community in order to breed cross-community algorithms, techniques, and systems for analyzing and visualizing performance-related data. Workshop Topics: Topics include, but are not limited to: * Scalable displays of performance data * Data models to enable scalable visualization * Graph representation of unstructured performance data * Presentation of high-dimensional data * Visual correlations between multiple data source * Human-Computer Interfaces for exploring performance data * Multi-scale representations of performance data for visual exploration * Data analytics of historical performance data * Machine learning or statistical techniques for data exploration Paper Submission: We solicit 6?8 page full papers and 2?4 page short papers that focus on techniques at the intersection of the three communities HPC, PE, and VIS that either use visualization techniques to display large scale performance data or that develop new visualization or visual analytics methods that help create new insights. We welcome submissions presenting novel and experimental ideas as well as tool descriptions. Papers must be submitted as a PDF file in the ACM Standard proceedings format, and formatted for 8.5" x 11" (U.S. Letter). The 4-page and 8-page limits include figures, tables, and references. Papers will be peer-reviewed by members of the program committee and accepted papers will be published by ACM as part of ICPE 2019 proceedings. Accepted papers will also be presented during the workshop as a paper talk (~20 min) or a lightning presentation (~10 min). All papers must be submitted through EasyChair. All papers must be submitted through easychair: https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=vaspe19 Important Dates: * Submission deadline: Januart 7, 2019 (AoE) * Notification of acceptance: February 1, 2019 (AoE) * Camera-ready deadline: February 15, 2019 (AoE) * Workshop: TBD, one day between 6th and 12th April 2019 Workshop Chairs: Alexandre Bergel, University of Chile Abhinav Bhatele, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Tom Vierjahn, Westphalian University of Applied Sciences Contact: vaspe at googlegroups.com From han.qiu at telecom-paristech.fr Thu Dec 13 11:05:24 2018 From: han.qiu at telecom-paristech.fr (Han Qiu) Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2018 17:05:24 +0100 (CET) Subject: [Storage-research-list] [CFP] IEEE IDS 2019 The 4th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Data and Security Message-ID: <466041417.16749326.1544717124416.JavaMail.zimbra@enst.fr> +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ IEEE IDS 2019 - The 4th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Data and Security - May 27?29, 2019 Washington DC, USA http://www.cloud-conf.net/datasec/2019/IDS/index.html +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ INTRODUCTION Intelligent data and security (IDS) is getting more and more attention due to the rapid development of computing and communication techniques. From national governments and industry players to consumer level demand, interest in high performance and smart computing has emerged from many different stakeholders. As a promising technology, high performance computing is playing an important role not only in traditional computer science domain but also in new branches such as Internet of Things, unmanned vehicles, and topics in artificial intelligent. Smart computing, as another significant aspect, provides solutions for complicated computing problems. TOPIC Topics of particular interest include, but are not limited to: - Security in new paradigms of intelligent data - Cyber hacking, next generation fire wall of intelligent data - Cyber monitoring and incident response in intelligent data - Digital forensics in intelligent data - Big data security, Database security - Intelligent database and security - Intelligent data mining in security, optimization, and cloud computing - Social engineering, insider threats, advance spear phishing - Cyber threat intelligence and implementations - Security and fault tolerance for embedded or ubiquitous systems - Cloud-based intelligent data and security issues - Tele-health security in intelligent data - Sensor network security and solutions - Embedded networks and sensor network optimizations - Cloud computing and networking models - Heterogeneous architecture for cloud-based intelligent data - Dynamic resource sharing algorithm for cloud-based intelligent data - Load balance for cloud-based intelligent data - Cloud-based audio/video streaming techniques - MapReduce techniques in intelligent data - Visualization and optimization in intelligent data - Cloud-based real-time multimedia techniques in intelligent data - Mobile cloud computing and advanced applications - Green cloud computing model, implementation, and framework - Quality of Service (QoS) improvements techniques - Case studies for various applications - Cyber Security in emergent technologies, infrastructures and applications PAPER SUBMISSION Prospective authors are invited to submit papers via Easychair (https://easychair.org/conferences/?conf=ieeeids2019). The submissions should be formatted with the IEEE 8.5 x 11 inches two-column format with 10-12 point font. Detailed formatting and submission instructions are available at the conference website (http://www.cloud-conf.net/datasec/2019/IDS/submission.html). IMPORTANT DATES Paper submission: January 21, 2019 Notification of acceptance: March 15, 2019 Final manuscript submission: April 5, 2019 For further information, please contact: han.qiu at telecom-paristech.fr.